US11244823B2
Semiconductor device structures having dielectric features and methods of forming dielectric features are described herein. In some examples, the dielectric features are formed by an ALD process followed by a varying temperature anneal process. The dielectric features can have high density, low carbon concentration, and lower k-value. The dielectric features formed according to the present disclosure has improved resistance against etching chemistry, plasma damage, and physical bombardment in subsequent processes while maintaining a lower k-value for target capacitance efficiency.
US11244821B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for preparing an isolation area of a gallium oxide device, the method comprising: depositing a mask layer on a gallium oxide material; removing a preset portion region of the mask layer; preparing an isolation area in a position, corresponding to the preset portion region, on the gallium oxide material by using a high-temperature oxidation technique, with the isolation area being located between active areas of the gallium oxide device; and removing the remaining mask layer on the gallium oxide material. In the disclosure, the isolation area is prepared by using the high-temperature oxidation technique, which prevents damage to the gallium oxide device during the preparation of the isolation area, thereby achieving isolation between the active areas of the gallium oxide device.
US11244806B2
A charged particle beam device includes a lens barrel having a charged particle source, a sample chamber in which a sample to be irradiated with a charged particle beam is provided, and a heat emission type electron source disposed in the sample chamber and maintained at a lower potential than that of an inner wall of the sample chamber, in which the inside of the sample chamber is cleaned by electrons (e−) emitted from the heat emission type electron source after a heating current is generated by applying a voltage from an electron source power supply. The heat emission type electron source is maintained at a lower potential than that of the inner wall of the sample chamber by applying a negative voltage to the heat emission type electron source using a bias power supply. A magnitude of the negative voltage applied to the heat emission type electron source is preferably about 30 to 1000 V, particularly preferably about 60 to 120 V.
US11244805B2
A positioning system for an electron microscope includes a first carriage comprising a holder for holding a workpiece and a second carriage. The first carriage being coupled to one or more first drive units configured to position the workpiece along first, second, and third axes, and along a first tilt axis. The second carriage housing the one or more first drive units and being coupled to one or more second drive units configured to position the workpiece along a second tilt axis.
US11244794B2
An automatic transfer switch includes a first phase switch component having a first plurality of cassettes, and at least one outer bus component disposed at an outer side of the first phase switch component. The automatic transfer switch additionally includes a first plate which is disposed on the outer side of the first phase switch component at a terminal end of the first phase switch component. The first plate is structured to increase impedance on an outer bus component of the first phase switch component to rebalance current along the first phase switch component.
US11244792B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer that is in contact with the dielectric layer, and an ion conductor that is liquid at room temperature. The solid electrolyte layer includes a conductive polymer. The ion conductor includes a solvent, an acid component, and a base component. The content proportion of the solvent in the ion conductor is more than 10% by mass and less than or equal to 60% by mass. The total content proportion of the acid component and the base component in the ion conductor is more than or equal to 40% by mass and less than 90% by mass. A melting point of the ion conductor is lower than or equal to −10° C.
US11244790B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes an element laminate having a first end face and a second end face, a first external electrode on the first end face, and a second external electrode on the second end face. In the element laminate, a first layer and a second layer are stacked. The first layer has a valve-action metal substrate, a dielectric layer on a surface thereof, and a solid electrolyte layer on the dielectric layer. The second layer contains a metal foil. The first layer and the second layer are bonded by an adhesive layer containing a conductive adhesive layer and an insulating adhesive layer that surrounds an outer perimeter of the conductive adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes a notched part that extends from the first end face or the second end face to the conductive adhesive layer.
US11244783B2
A stacking inductor device includes a first inductor unit and a second inductor unit disposed above first inductor unit. First inductor unit includes a first and a second wire. First wire is disposed on a first side of first inductor unit. Second wire is disposed on a second side of first inductor unit. A first opening of second wire is disposed on a first side of stacking inductor device. Second inductor unit includes a third and a fourth wire. Third wire is disposed on a first side of second inductor unit, and first side of second inductor unit corresponds to first side of first inductor unit. A second opening of third wire is disposed on a second side of stacking inductor device. Fourth wire is disposed on a second side of second inductor unit, and second side of second inductor unit corresponds to second side of first inductor unit.
US11244778B2
An R-T-B based permanent magnet wherein R is one or more rare earth elements, T is Fe and Co, and B is boron. The R-T-B based permanent magnet includes M, C and N, wherein M is two or more selected from Cu, Ga, Mn, Zr, and Al, and includes at least Cu and Ga. A total content of R is ≥29.0 and ≤33.5 mass %, Co content is ≥0.10 and ≤0.49 mass %, B content is ≥0.80 and ≤0.96 mass %, a total content of M is ≥0.63 and ≤4.00 mass %, Cu content is ≥0.51 and ≤0.97 mass %, Ga content is ≥0.12 and ≤1.07 mass %, C content is ≥0.065 and ≤0.200 mass %, N content is ≥0.023 and ≤0.323 mass %, and Fe is a substantial balance.
US11244770B2
A method of decontaminating a metal surface located on a component within a nuclear plant, in particular within the cooling system of a nuclear power plant, which is covered with a metal oxide layer containing radioactive substances, the method including a decontamination step in which a metal oxide layer pretreated in an oxidation step is contacted with an aqueous solution of an organic acid to dissolve the metal oxide layer, forming a decontamination solution containing the organic acid, metal ions and the radioactive substances, and passing the decontamination solution over an ion exchanger to immobilize metal ions and radioactive substances. An oxidant selected from oxygen, air, hydrogen peroxide and ozone is dosed into the decontamination solution to control the dissolution rate of the metal oxide layer. The method is particularly suitable for large-scale system decontamination and ensures high process stability.
US11244768B2
The method includes assessing operational characteristics of the fuel assembly, the assessing including determining if the fuel assembly is to be placed in a controlled location in the reactor core, a controlled location being positioned adjacent to a control blade that is to be utilized, and configuring the sidewalls of the outer channel by making at least a first select sidewall of the outer channel a reinforced sidewall, the remaining sidewalls of the outer channel, other than the at least a first select sidewall, being non-reinforced sidewalls. The entirety of the reinforced sidewall as a whole is at least one of thicker and made from a material that is more resistant to radiation-induced deformation as compared to an entirety of the non-reinforced sidewalls.
US11244763B2
Systems and methods are provided for predicting metastasis of a cancer in a subject. A plurality of data elements for the subject's cancer is obtained, including sequence features comprising relative abundance values for gene expression in a cancer biopsy of the subject, optional personal characteristics about the subject, and optional clinical features related to the stage, histopathological grade, diagnosis, symptom, comorbidity, and/or treatment of the cancer in the subject, and/or a temporal element associated therewith. One or more models are applied to the plurality of data elements, determining one or more indications of whether the cancer will metastasize. A clinical report comprising the one or more indications is generated.
US11244756B1
Computer implemented systems and methods are provided for requesting and monitoring optimal patient transport. In embodiments, a system for monitoring optimal patient transport may comprise at least one processor configured to receive transfer request data from an initial user for a patient and determine relevant patient and relevant patient data based on the transfer request data. The at least one processor may be configured to transmit a transfer request to one or more transport providers, receive and store one or more transportation quotes from one or more transport providers through a bid process that is set for a specific time interval, and analyze received one or more transportation quote with previously stored transportation quotes. The at least one processor may further determine winning transport provider and pending transport data, and generate instructions to display a user interface depicting a first representation of a pending transport at a first time.
US11244752B2
Systems and methods for recommending foods to a user based on health data, includes a database, a memory and a processor. The database stores user health data for each user within a plurality of users, including vitals, genotypic and phenotypic data, user food preference data and foods data that includes macronutrient and micronutrient data for foods that may be recommended to a user. The memory stores program instructions, including program instructions that are capable of (i) classifying user health data into predetermined diet types and micronutrient recommendations, (ii) filtering the food data to determine available foods for a user; (iii) a ranking available meals for the user based on the micronutrient recommendations and the food data, and (iv) translating micronutrient recommendations and/or food data for the available foods for the user into specific food recommendations for the user.
US11244751B2
An athlete tracking system and method for tracking an athlete during training sessions. The system includes a mobile tracking device wearable around a portion of the athlete's head, and a training log server for maintaining an athlete profile that includes a training record updatable by the athlete and a training plan supplied by a coach.
US11244744B2
This invention provides, inter alia, a complement-inhibitor-based treatment plan coupled with a risk evaluation and management strategy (“REMS”) and a safety support program (“SSP”) for reinforcing the REMS. The REMS and SPP are implemented using one or more computer devices with software tools programmed to enforce conditions of the REMS and/or prompt follow-ups by registered nurses enrolled in the SSP. The software tool(s) determines whether a prescriber requesting the complement inhibitor has agreed to abide by the REMS, and can prompt a provider of the complement inhibitor to provide updated educational materials to the prescriber at predetermined times or intervals, to monitor the prescriber for compliance with the REMS, and/or to monitor patients for signs of adverse events. Using exemplary embodiments described herein, a risk of adverse events (especially, but not limited to, meningococcal infections) can be managed and an incidence of the adverse events can be reduced.
US11244740B1
A first sequence of operations corresponding to an error recovery process of a memory sub-system is determined. A value corresponding to an operating characteristic of the memory sub-system is determined. The value is compared to a threshold level corresponding to the first sequence of operations to determine whether a condition is satisfied. In response to satisfying the first condition, a second sequence of operations corresponding to the error recovery process is executed.
US11244736B2
Provided herein is a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device may include a plurality of memory cells; a peripheral circuit configured to verify a program operation on the plurality of memory cells using a first verify voltage; and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to suspend the program operation in response to a suspend command and verify the program operation on the plurality of memory cells using a second verify voltage in response to a resume command input after the suspend command. The second verify voltage may have a lower voltage level than the first verify voltage.
US11244732B2
A method for calibrating read threshold voltages includes receiving, from at least one memory die, a number of page bits corresponding to a number of read operations performed on a page associated with the at least one memory die. The method further includes determining voltage bins for each bit of the number of page bits. The method further includes determining, for each voltage bin, a bit error rate. The method further includes adjusting read threshold voltages associated with the at least one memory die using the bite error rate for each voltage bin.
US11244730B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a semiconductor memory and a controller. The semiconductor memory includes first blocks including a memory cell capable of storing data of one bit, a second block including a memory cell capable of storing data of two or more bits. The semiconductor memory stores first data in a first latch circuit, and second data in a second latch circuit, and writes the first data into one of the first blocks in page units, and the second data into one of the first blocks in page units. The semiconductor memory writes data of at least two pages into the second block, using the first data stored in the first latch circuit and the second data stored in the second latch circuit.
US11244724B2
A memory device includes a controller circuit, a first stage circuit, and a second stage circuit. The controller circuit outputs a first global pre-charge control signal, a second global pre-charge control signal, and a first local pre-charge control signal. The first stage circuit pre-charges a first global match line according to the first global pre-charge control signal, and to compare search data with first data, in order to determine whether to adjust a first level of the first global match line. The second stage circuit selectively pre-charges a second global match line according to the first level and the second global pre-charge control signal, and determines whether to compare the search data with second data according to a second level of the second global match line and the first local pre-charge control signal, in order to adjust the second level.
US11244723B1
The invention is directed to a device for high-dimensional encoding of a plurality of sequences of quantitative data signals. The device comprises a plurality of input channels for receiving the plurality of sequences of quantitative data signals and an encoding unit. The encoding unit is configured to perform a temporal high-dimensional encoding of n-grams of the plurality of sequences of quantitative data signals; thereby creating a plurality of temporally encoded hypervectors for the plurality of input channels. The encoding unit is further configured to perform a spatial high-dimensional encoding of the plurality of temporally encoded hypervectors, thereby creating a temporally and spatially encoded hypervector. The device further comprises a configuration controller. The configuration controller is adapted to configure the high-dimensional encoding in dependence on one or more hyperparameter values.
US11244713B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a memory array with variable page sizes are described. The page size may be dynamically changed, and multiple rows of the memory array may be accessed in parallel to create the desired page size. A memory bank of the array may contain multiple memory sections, and each memory section may have its own set of sense components (e.g., sense amplifiers) to read or program the memory cells. Multiple memory sections may thus be accessed in parallel to create a memory page from multiple rows of memory cells. The addressing scheme may be modified based on the page size. The logic row address may identify the memory sections to be accessed in parallel. The memory sections may also be linked and accessing a row in one section may automatically access a row in a second memory section.
US11244710B2
Design and operation of a processing device is configurable to optimize wake-up time and peak power cost during restoration of a machine state from non-volatile storage. The processing device includes a plurality of non-volatile logic element arrays configured to store a machine state represented by a plurality of volatile storage elements of the processing device. A stored machine state is read out from the plurality of non-volatile logic element arrays to the plurality of volatile storage elements. During manufacturing, a number of rows and a number of bits per row in non-volatile logic element arrays are based on a target wake up time and a peak power cost. In another approach, writing data to or reading data of the plurality of non-volatile arrays can be done in parallel, sequentially, or in any combination to optimize operation characteristics.
US11244709B2
Embodiments provide a write operation circuit, a semiconductor memory, and write operation method. The write operation circuit includes: a data determination module that determines whether to flip an input data of the semiconductor memory depending on the number of high data bits in the input data so as to generate a flip flag data and a first intermediate data; a data buffer module that determines whether to flip a global bus according to a second intermediate data, where the second intermediate data is an inverted data of the first intermediate data; a data receiving module that decodes the global bus data according to the flip flag data and writes the decoded data into a memory bank of the semiconductor, where the decoding including determining whether to flip the global bus data; and a precharge module that sets the initial state of the global bus to low.
US11244700B2
A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer provided on the substrate, and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer and having a L10 structure and a (001) orientation. The magnetic layer has a granular structure in which an organic compound having a methylene skeleton or a methine skeleton is arranged at grain boundaries of magnetic grains.
US11244695B2
According to the present disclosure, noises generated by electronic devices are measured in order to determine an electronic device which generates a noise by an electronic device located near a user in response to a noise management command generated by the user, and the operation of the electronic devices is controlled so that the measured noises are maintained as an appropriate noise, thereby maintaining the noises of the electronic devices at an appropriate level.
US11244686B2
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for processing a speech are provided. The method can include: acquiring, in response to determining at least one speech interaction device in a target speech interaction device set receiving an input speech, a speech feature of the input speech received by a speech interaction device of the at least one speech interaction device; and selecting, based on the speech feature of the input speech received by the speech interaction device in the at least one speech interaction device, a first speech interaction device from the at least one speech interaction device to process the input speech. Some embodiments realize the selection of a targeted speech interaction device.
US11244681B1
A system and a method for automating drive-thru orders are provided. In particular, a bridge board is provided that can integrate existing drive-thru hardware with computer devices executing machine learning models to detect and analyze speech from a drive-thru. The system and method employ vehicle tracking to account for vehicle behavior during its time at the drive-thru as well as enhanced vehicle analytics. Additionally, the system and method employ tools for assessing customer speed-of-service. Cameras and vehicle image analysis are used to link drive-thru and/or on-line food/beverage orders with vehicles entering the eatery property to accelerate food/beverage delivery to vehicle occupants.
US11244677B2
The disclosure relates to the technical field of lifting mechanisms, and in particular to a voice control system and a method for moving columns, comprising a lifting mechanism, a controller, a storage module, and a voice collection module. The lifting mechanism, the storage module and the voice collection module are all electrically connected to the controller. A control word and at least two wake-up words are stored in the storage module. The system further includes a selection module for selecting the wake-up word and a display module for displaying the current wake-up word. Both the selection module and the display module are electrically connected to the controller. The likelihood of unwanted triggering can be decreased by the voice control system and method.
US11244673B2
Streaming machine learning unidirectional models is facilitated by the use of embedding vectors. Processing blocks in the models apply embedding vectors as input. The embedding vectors utilize context of future data (e.g., data that is temporally offset into the future within a data stream) to improve the accuracy of the outputs generated by the processing blocks. The embedding vectors cause a temporal shift between the outputs of the processing blocks and the inputs to which the outputs correspond. This temporal shift enables the processing blocks to apply the embedding vector inputs from processing blocks that are associated with future data.
US11244659B2
A method apparatus, and computer program, the method comprising: storing mediated reality content and associated information relating to a first real space in which the mediated reality content has been displayed; selecting the mediated reality content for display in a second real space; obtaining information relating to the second real space; and using the information relating to the first real space and the information relating to the second real space to adapt the mediated reality content for display in the second real space.
US11244658B1
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a flexible display; at least one sensor configured to sense changes in a size of a viewable portion of the flexible display; at least one processor operatively connected to the flexible display and the at least one sensor; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when being executed, cause the at least one processor to perform a plurality of operations comprising: displaying a first screen on the flexible display; sensing a change in the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display through the at least one sensor; displaying a list comprising at least one selectable item in at least a partial region of the flexible display during the changing of the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display; detecting that the changing of the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display has stopped; in response to detecting the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display has stopped, displaying the first screen corresponding to the viewable portion of the flexible display with the changed size; and in response to returning of the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display to an original size without completing the change in the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display, displaying a second screen corresponding to a selectable item while the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display changes, among items included in the list, on the viewable portion of the flexible display having the original size.
US11244656B2
In the use of a display of a converter, method for operating a converter, and converter, the converter having an address code switch, in particular on its housing, and in an actuation of the address code switch and during a subsequent, predefined period of time, a respective value corresponding to the respective switch position of the address code switch is displayed by the display. Operating information of the converter is displayed in all other cases.
US11244651B2
Disclosed is a color gamut matching method. The method includes: obtaining image data to be matched of a source terminal; establishing a preliminary matching relationship between the image data to be matched and image data to be output of a display terminal according to color gamut data coordinates of the source terminal and color gamut data coordinates of the display terminal; obtaining preliminary image data to be output of the display terminal according to the preliminary matching relationship; and accurately matching the preliminary image data to be output of the display terminal according to a 3D look-up table to obtain accurate image data to be displayed of the display terminal. Further disclosed are a color gamut matching device, a display terminal and a readable storage medium. The present disclosure can solve the color distortion of the display color gamut and improve the display effect of the display.
US11244650B2
The invention comprises a system of client-server visualization with hybrid data processing, having a server digital data processor, that allows for server side rendering and processing image data, and client digital data processors simultaneously connected to the server, which receives messages from the clients, creates rendered images of data sets or other data processing results and sends those rendered images and results to the clients for display or further processing. Performing certain image rendering operations on either the server or the client according to which is better suited for the tasks requested by the user at any point in time, and possibly adjusting this division of work dynamically, improves rendering speed and application responsiveness on the clients.
US11244649B2
Techniques are described for calibrating a device having a first sensor and a second sensor. Techniques include capturing sensor data using the first sensor and the second sensor. The device maintains a calibration profile including a translation parameter and a rotation parameter to model a spatial relationship between the first sensor and the second sensor. Techniques include determining a calibration level associated with the calibration profile at a first time. Techniques include determining, based on the calibration level, to perform a calibration process. Techniques include performing the calibration process at the first time by generating one or both of a calibrated translation parameter and a calibrated rotation parameter and replacing one or both of the translation parameter and the rotation parameter with one or both of the calibrated translation parameter and the calibrated rotation parameter.
US11244621B2
A differential input circuit and a driving circuit including the same are provided. The differential input circuit transforms an analog voltage signal corresponding to a sensing line on an OLED panel to a pair of differential input signals being output to a gain amplifier. The differential input circuit includes a sampling circuit and a scaling circuit. The sampling circuit receives the analog voltage signal and a reference voltage through a first scaling path and a second scaling path, respectively. The scaling circuit includes a first scaling path and a second scaling path. The first scaling path and the second scaling path collectively generate the pair of differential input signals, based on a first shift voltage, a first scaled voltage, a second shift voltage, and a second scaled voltage. The first shift voltage is less than the second shift voltage.
US11244620B2
A light-emitting display device includes first and second sub pixels each of which includes a driving transistor including first and second electrodes and a gate electrode, and being configured to control an electric current flowing from the first electrode to the second electrode according to a data voltage applied to a gate electrode, a light-emitting element connected to the second electrode, and a first capacitor disposed between a first sub supply voltage line to which a first supply voltage is applied and the second electrode. The first sub supply voltage line is disposed to overlap the second electrode. A capacitance of a first capacitor of the first sub pixel versus a capacitance of a first capacitor of the second sub pixel is selectively determined to correspond to an amount of the overlap between the first sub supply voltage line and the second electrode.
US11244616B2
A display panel and an image data compensation method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a first data driving module and a second data driving module. The first data driving module is configured to provide image data signals for a first display area and perform De-Mura compensation. The second data driving module is configured to provide image data signals for a second display area and perform De-Mura compensation. The first data driving module is configured to obtain image data of the second display area after De-Mura compensation, and adjust image data of a first compensation area adjacent to the second display area in the first display area. The second data driving module is configured to obtain image data of the first display area after De-Mura compensation, and adjust image data of a second compensation area adjacent to the first display area in the second display area.
US11244613B2
A method of manufacturing a display unit in which the method includes: forming a transistor on a substrate, in which a first direction to be scanned by an ion implantation apparatus intersects with a second direction to be scanned by an Excimer Laser Anneal apparatus; and forming a display element.
US11244611B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit and a method of driving the same, and a display device. A pixel circuit, including: a light emitting device; a driving sub-circuit configured to drive the light emitting device, the driving sub-circuit including a driving transistor configured to generate a driving current flowing through the light emitting device so that the light emitting device emits light; and a reset sub-circuit configured to reset a voltage between a gate electrode and a second electrode of the driving transistor.
US11244607B2
The present disclosure provides a protection circuit for protecting a light emitting element, a pixel unit including the protection circuit, a display panel, and a driving method of the protection circuit. The protection circuit for protecting the light emitting element includes: a bonding protection sub-circuit including a sacrificial metal region, configured to electrically couple the sacrificial metal region to an anode pad and a cathode pad on the backplane for bonding the light emitting element during a period of bonding the light emitting element to the backplane.
US11244605B2
A method of fabricating an image generator for use in a display, the method comprising: fabricating a plurality of discrete ILED array chips comprising a plurality of ILED emitters configured to produce light having the same wavelength, and wherein each of the plurality of ILED array chips is configured to produce light having one of a plurality of wavelengths; positioning the plurality of discrete ILED array chips on a carrier substrate such that a plurality of ILED emitters from adjacent chips form a pixel of a display; and bonding a first surface of the plurality of ILED array chips to a driver backplane such that electrical contacts of the plurality of ILED array chips are in electrical communication with the driver backplane, wherein the driver backplane comprises electronics for driving the ILED array chips.
US11244604B2
A pixel compensation circuit is provided. The pixel compensation circuit includes a detecting circuit, a repairing circuit, a compensating circuit, and a light-emitting device. The detecting circuit is electrically coupled with the repairing circuit, the compensating circuit, and the light-emitting device. The compensating circuit is configured to provide a fixed current to the light-emitting device. The detecting circuit is configured to detect a current flowing through the light-emitting device. The repairing circuit is configured to determine a compensation current according to the current detected by the detecting circuit and input the compensation current into the light-emitting device. A display substrate and a display device are further provided.
US11244601B2
A display device includes pixels, each including a first transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode coupled to a first node, a first power line, and a second node, respectively, a second transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode coupled to a scan line, the first node, and a third node, respectively, a third transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode coupled to a control line, the third node, and the second node, respectively, a first capacitor including first and second electrodes coupled to the first node and an initialization line, respectively, a second capacitor including first and second electrodes coupled to the third node and a data line, respectively, and a light-emitting diode including an anode and a cathode coupled to the second node and a second power line.
US11244598B2
The present application discloses pixel circuit including a current-control circuit coupled respectively to a first data-signal terminal, a first voltage terminal, a first scan-signal terminal, and a first output node. The current-control circuit is configured to output a driving current to the first output node based on a first data signal and a first voltage signal in response to a first scan signal. The pixel circuit further includes a timing-control circuit coupled respectively to a second data-signal terminal, a second scan-signal terminal, multiple modulation-signal terminals, the first output node, and a second output node. The timing-control circuit is configured to select one modulation signal based on a second data signal in response to a second scan signal and to output the driving current from the current-control circuit via the second output node to a light-emitting device based on the modulation signal.
US11244584B2
The present invention relates to a technology for a sensor network, machine to machine (M2M) communication, machine type communication (MTC), and the Internet of things (IoT). The present invention can be utilized for intelligent services (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) based on the technology. The present invention relates to an efficient image processing method and device for virtual reality content, and according to one embodiment of the present invention, the image processing method for projecting an image of virtual reality content comprises the steps of: acquiring a first planar image projected by dividing a front part and a rear part of a spherical image for expressing a 360-degree image; generating a second planar image projected by sampling the first planar image on the basis of a pixel position; and encoding the second planar image.
US11244583B1
A signpost system includes a signpost assembly, comprised of a vertical post and horizontal bar; hinge assemblies, which hingedly connect portions of the vertical post, such that the vertical post is foldable; sign hooks, each slidably attachable to the horizontal bar, such that varyingly sized signs can be hung from the horizontal bar; a post support assembly, which is detachably insertable into a ground surface; and a removable step bar, which can aid in the insertion of the post support assembly into the ground; whereby the post support assembly is insertable into the vertical post, such that signpost assembly is secured in an upright position by the post support assembly when inserted into the ground surface.
US11244582B2
A flexible display device and a method for changing shape of the flexible display device are provided. The flexible display device includes a flexible display panel and a shape memory structure on the flexible display panel and including a shape memory component. The shape memory component includes a first memory layer, a first thermal insulation layer and a second memory layer stacked sequentially in a direction away from the flexible display panel, the first and second memory layers each have shape memory function, the first memory layer has a first memory shape and the second memory layer has a second memory shape different from the first memory shape. The shape memory structure is configured to switch shape of the shape memory component between the first and second memory shapes by controlling temperatures of the first and second memory layers, thereby driving the flexible display panel to change shape.
US11244580B2
A seal assembly includes a first component housing molded on a first component. The first component housing has at least two oppositely facing first component vertical openings. A plurality of locking grooves are defined on a lower surface of the first component housing. The seal assembly further includes a second component housing molded on a second component. The second component housing adapts into a tail element emerging from the second component housing. The tail element slides through the at least two oppositely facing first component vertical openings to urge the second component housing inside the first component housing.
US11244578B2
A simulation device includes an outer frame and an inner frame. The outer frame is fixed to a floor surface and the inner frame is slideably interfaced to the outer frame. The inner frame has an inner frame axis. A hydraulic cylinder is interfaced between the outer frame and the inner frame. Operation of the hydraulic cylinder slides the inner frame with respect to the outer frame along the inner frame axis. A yaw platform is interfaced to the inner frame at one end at a pivot and at a distal opposing end by two or more bearings. The yaw platform has a yaw platform axis. Operation of a yaw motor or a yaw hydraulic ram interfaced between the yaw platform and the inner frame causes the yaw platform to change an angle between the inner frame axis and the yaw platform axis, providing simulation of yaw (loss of control).
US11244574B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product controls operations of an aerial drone within a predetermined airspace. One or more processors detects that the aerial drone has entered a predetermined airspace, and also determines a physical size of the aerial drone. In response to detecting that the aerial drone has entered the predetermined airspace, one or more processors directs the aerial drone to alter a velocity of the aerial drone based on its physical size.
US11244551B2
A point detector (1) for a fire alarm system. The point detector (1) includes a fan (2) configured to aspirate air from a surrounding environment; and an inlet (3) in flow communication with the fan (2); the inlet (3) is configured to split the incoming flow into multiple streams (4); and each stream (4) of the multiple streams (4) is configured to be in flow communication with a respective sensing device (6).
US11244545B2
An integrated system includes a system user interface (SUI) that provides an iconic, at-a-glance representation of integrated security system status. The SUI is for use across all client devices including mobile or cellular telephones, a mobile portal, a web portal, and a touchscreen device. The SUI includes a number of display elements presented across all types of client devices for monitoring status of the integrated security system. The display elements of the SUI include an orb icon, text summary, security button, device warnings, system warnings, interesting sensors, and quiet sensors. The SUI thus provides system status summary information agnostically across all clients. Additionally, the SUI provides consistent iconography, terminology, and display rules across all clients as well as consistent sensor and system detail across clients.
US11244543B2
A self-checkout (SCO) station for a retail store has a reconfigurable bagging section that receives items scanned by a user. The SCO station determines whether the user does or does not require the SCO station to operate in a mode that complies with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If so, the SCO station automatically reconfigures the bagging section to ensure that the user is able to reach all items in the bagging section.
US11244539B2
A game may be played in accordance with a variety of different strategies. For example, a game may have an aggressive strategy, a passive strategy, an optimal strategy, and so on. In some embodiments, a player may delegate one or more gaming decisions to an automated process that makes decisions according to one or more gaming strategies.
US11244537B2
A computer implemented method of providing a plurality of customized display presentations for sports contests. The method includes receiving a first set of sports data from a statistics server at a gaming server, the sports data associated with a sporting event occurring in real time, the sporting event being one of a plurality of sporting events associated with the sports contents. The method also includes generating a customized presentation for each respective user account of a plurality of user accounts; identifying a respective user device associated with each generated customized presentation for the respective user accounts; and sending each of the customized presentations to the respective identified user devices.
US11244536B2
A gaming machine for providing a game to a player is described herein. The gaming machine displays a primary game including a plurality of reels and spins and stops the reels to display the outcome of the primary game. The gaming machine detects a first triggering condition appearing in the outcome of the primary game and responsively initiates a bonus award game upon detecting the first triggering condition, and detects a second triggering condition appearing in the outcome of the primary game and responsively initiates a free game feature upon detecting the second triggering condition.
US11244527B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward systems and methods relating to security screening. For example, a screening system includes a chamber configured to accommodate a user to be screened, and a chamber scanner. The chamber scanner is configured to scan the user to identify whether the user is carrying an undivested item that needs to be divested. The chamber is configured to release the user to proceed from the chamber to a secure area, upon confirmation that no undivested items are to be divested.
US11244520B2
The system for collecting and analyzing data relating to safety and comfort criteria of an aircraft comprises an acquisition unit for acquiring basic aircraft information before a flight of the aircraft and values of flight parameters during the flight, the basic information and the flight parameter values forming a first set of digital data, a measurement unit for measuring values of environmental parameters during the flight and for storing, in a suitable digital format, a second set of digital data representative of the environmental parameter values, an analysis unit for analyzing the first and second sets of digital data, and radio communication systems for transmitting sets of digital data between the different units, the system allowing for a rapid collection and analysis of the digital data.
US11244517B2
Provided are a device and a method of generating printing information. The method includes acquiring at least one image part by splitting a basic image acquired based on a user input; determining a target article corresponding to the basic image from a three-dimensional (3D) article list stored in a database (DB) by using the at least one image part; providing a graphical user interface (GUI) capable of editing a shape of the target article according to a user input; and editing the shape of the target article, based on a user input via the GUI, and generating printing information used to 3D print the edited target article.
US11244511B2
The present application provides a method of displaying virtual content. The method includes: capturing a first image including a first marker; determining a display region corresponding to a first interaction device based on the first marker in the first image and displaying the first virtual object; displaying second virtual object corresponding to the first virtual object. The first marker is arranged on the first interaction device. A first display position of the first virtual object in a virtual space corresponds to the display region. A second display position of the second virtual object in the virtual space corresponds to a predefined superimposing region, and the second virtual object is at least a part of the first virtual object.
US11244509B2
In a method for increasing accuracy of augmented reality information presented to a user navigating a real-world mapped environment, a specific object within a field of view of a camera of the user's mobile device is identified, at least by predicting an object type by a machine learning model processing images captured by the camera, and identifying a node that corresponds to the object type within a map database representing the mapped environment. A location associated with the node is retrieved from the map database, and is used to update or confirm one or more estimated locations of the mobile device. Digital information is caused to be superimposed on a real-world view presented to the user via a display of the mobile device, the digital information being selected based at least in part on the updated or confirmed one or more estimated locations of the mobile device.
US11244502B2
Techniques are disclosed for generation of 3D structures. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes initializing systems configured to provide rules that specify edge connections between vertices and parametric properties of the vertices. The rules are applied to an initial set of vertices to generate 3D graphs for each of these vertex-rule-graph (VRG) systems. The initial set of vertices is associated with provided interaction surfaces of a 3D model. Skeleton geometries are generated for the 3D graphs, and an associated objective function is calculated. The objective function is configured to evaluate the fitness of the skeleton geometries based on given geometric and functional constraints. A 3D structure is generated through an iterative application of genetic programming techniques applied to the VRG systems to minimize the objective function. Receiving updated constraints and interaction surfaces, for incorporation in the iterative process.
US11244485B2
A display system comprises a wearable display device for displaying augmented reality content. The display device comprises a display area comprising light redirecting features that are configured to direct light to a user. The display area is at least partially transparent and is configured to provide a view of an ambient environment through the display area. The display device is configured to determine that a reflection of the user is within the user's field of view through the display area. After making this determination, augmented reality content is displayed in the display area with the augmented reality content augmenting the user's view of the reflection. In some embodiments, the augmented reality content may overlie on the user's view of the reflection, thereby allowing all or portions of the reflection to appear to be modified to provide a realistic view of the user with various modifications made to their appearance.
US11244467B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a recording medium that can estimate a three-dimensional position of a targeted point more accurately. The information processing apparatus includes: a targeted point estimation unit configured to identify probability maps indicating existence probabilities of a targeted point in a plurality of projection directions, on the basis of an input image; and a synthesis unit configured to identify a three-dimensional position of the targeted point on the basis of the probability maps in the plurality of projection directions.
US11244466B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated capacity management using artificial intelligence techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining image data pertaining to occupancy of a confined space; determining a level of occupancy in the confined space and one or more types of entities occupying the confined space by processing the image data using a first set of one or more artificial intelligence techniques comprising at least a first machine learning model; automatically determining one or more capacity management parameters with respect to the confined space by analyzing the determined level of occupancy and the one or more determined types of entities using a second set of one or more artificial intelligence techniques comprising at least a second machine learning model; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on the one or more determined capacity management parameters.
US11244462B2
A monitoring apparatus obtains image data captured by an image capturing apparatus, generates a background image based on the image data, performs detection processing of a moving object using the image data and the background image, and sets a wait time from a start of generation of the background image to a start of the detection processing based on a condition concerning the detection processing.
US11244456B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for clinical trial assessment of skin disease treatment. The disclosure includes obtaining a series of digital images over a period of time, wherein each digital image includes an affected area of the subject; identifying characteristic morphologies and lesions in the affected area of the subject in each of the digital images; classifying each of the detected and segmented morphologies and lesions into one or more identified categories for each of the digital images; assigning a global score to each of the digital images based on a count of the detected and segmented characteristic morphologies and lesions in each of the one or more identified categories; analyzing the global scores of each of the digital images; and making an assessment of the clinical trial based on the analysis of the global scores of each of the digital images.
US11244455B2
A discriminator includes a common learning unit and a plurality of learning units that are connected to an output unit of the common learning unit. The discriminator is trained, using a plurality of data sets of a medical image and an image data of a first disease region, such that information indicating the first disease region is output from a first learning unit in a case in which the medical image is input to the common learning unit. The discriminator is trained, using a plurality of data sets of a medical image and an image data of a second disease region having at least one of a medical causal relationship or an anatomic causal relationship with the first disease, such that information indicating the second disease region is output from a second learning unit in a case in which the medical image is input to the common learning unit.
US11244454B2
A method for evaluating a gastrointestinal tract may include characterizing one or more disease parameters using objective measures obtained from imaging data of a gastrointestinal tract. The one or more disease parameters reflect a measure of at least one of lesions, ulcers, bleeding, stenosis, and vasculature. The method may also include using the one or more characterized disease parameters to classify a disease state.
US11244453B2
Systems and method are described for determining a malignancy of a nodule. A medical image of a nodule of a patient is received. A patch surrounding the nodule is identified in the medical image. A malignancy of the nodule in the patch is predicted using a trained deep image-to-image network.
US11244450B2
Systems and methods for completing a morphological characterization of an image of a placenta and providing suggested pathological diagnoses are disclosed. A system includes programming instructions that, when executed, cause processing devices to execute commands according to the following logic modules: an Encoder module that receives the digital image of the placenta and outputs a pyramid of feature maps, a SegDecoder module that segments the pyramid of feature maps on a fetal side image and on a maternal side image, a Classification Subnet module that classifies the fetal side image and the maternal side image, and a convolutional IPDecoder module that localizes an umbilical cord insertion point of the placenta from the classified fetal side image and the classified maternal side image. The localized umbilical cord insertion point, segmentation maps for the classified fetal side and maternal side images are provided to an external device for determining the morphological characterization.
US11244449B2
An image processing method includes: obtaining a first image, identifying a facial region in the first image, and determining keypoint information related to the facial region, where the keypoint information includes keypoint information of the facial region and external edge keypoint information, and a region corresponding to the external edge keypoint information includes the facial region and is larger than the facial region; and determining a plurality of deformation regions based on the keypoint information related to the facial region, and performing image deformation processing on the facial region based on at least part of the plurality of deformation regions to generate a second image.
US11244445B2
According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire information on an accuracy of a trained model that outputs information on a lesion included in data related to a medical image based on inputted data related to the medical image. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to determine a data collection condition for the medical image in a medical image diagnostic apparatus based on the information on the accuracy.
US11244441B1
A control system and method for a robotic palletizer. The control system and method include or are implemented by a home screen displaying a plurality of application icons. The applications each provide a quick access to control features and methods. The control system includes methods and components for planning and/or monitoring a product pallet configuration by the palletizer. Animation and/or other virtual depiction of the palletization is displayed through a graphical user interface for the palletizer. The animation and/or other virtual depiction can illustrate the conveyor palletization before or during the palletization and/or provide an augmented confirmation overlaying a video feed of a palletization of a plurality of products.
US11244439B2
Aspects of the present disclosure related to a computer system and method for analyzing whether a package has been opened. The system includes a memory and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory and can be configured to receive an image corresponding to a wrapped package. The one or more processors can also be configured to generate a set of feature values based on a visual representation of the wrapped package in the image. The one or more processors can also be configured to apply the set of feature values to at least one model that is trained based at least in part on a set of images that include the wrapped package having the status, to determine the status of the wrapped package.
US11244436B2
A printed circuit board inspection apparatus can inspect a mounting state of a component by generating depth information on the component by using a pattern of light reflected from the component mounted on a printed circuit board received by an image sensor, generating two-dimensional image data for the component by using at least one of light of a first wavelength, light of a second wavelength, light of a third wavelength, and light of a fourth wavelength reflected from the component received by a first image sensor, inputting the depth information and the two-dimensional image data for the component into a machine learning-based model, obtaining depth information with reduced noise from the machine learning-based model, and using the noise-reduced information.
US11244430B2
Fill techniques as implemented by a computing device are described to perform hole filling of a digital image. In one example, deeply learned features of a digital image using machine learning are used by a computing device as a basis to search a digital image repository to locate the guidance digital image. Once located, machine learning techniques are then used to align the guidance digital image with the hole to be filled in the digital image. Once aligned, the guidance digital image is then used to guide generation of fill for the hole in the digital image. Machine learning techniques are used to determine which parts of the guidance digital image are to be blended to fill the hole in the digital image and which parts of the hole are to receive new content that is synthesized by the computing device.
US11244429B2
A method of providing a sharpness measure for an image comprises detecting an object region within an image; obtaining meta-data for the image; and scaling the chosen object region to a fixed size. A gradient map is calculated for the scaled object region and compared against a threshold determined for the image to provide a filtered gradient map of values exceeding the threshold. The threshold for the image is a function of at least: a contrast level for the detected object region, a distance to the subject and an ISO/gain used for image acquisition. A sharpness measure for the object region is determined as a function of the filtered gradient map values, the sharpness measure being proportional to the filtered gradient map values.
US11244420B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising an interconnect fabric comprising one or more fabric switches, a plurality of memory interfaces coupled to the interconnect fabric to provide access to a plurality of memory devices, an input/output (IO) interface coupled to the interconnect fabric to provide access to IO devices, an array of multiprocessors coupled to the interconnect fabric, scheduling circuitry to distribute a plurality of thread groups across the array of multiprocessors, each thread group comprising a plurality of threads and each thread comprising a plurality of instructions to be executed by at least one of the multiprocessors, and a first multiprocessor of the array of multiprocessors to be assigned to process a first thread group comprising a first plurality of threads, the first multiprocessor comprising a plurality of parallel execution circuits.
US11244417B2
According to an embodiment, a digital imaging apparatus includes: a camera module and a controller. The controller detects, on a basis of data of a captured image captured by the camera module, whether or not there is a distance difference between an object and a background included in the captured image. The controller adds, where it has been detected that there is the distance difference, authentication information to the data of the captured image, and stores, in a memory, the captured image to which the authentication information has been added.
US11244415B2
Disclosed are a personal intellectual property (IP) protection system and method. That is, according to the present invention, when writing a contract between individuals online, by providing a smart contract function based on a blockchain, transactions between individuals are safely conducted while protecting personal information.
US11244410B2
Systems and methods for determining how to dispatch power to a property from a generator are provided. According to certain aspects, a controller associated with the generator may retrieve or access a set of data indicating time of use rates associated with utility power, performance characteristics of the generator, and/or energy usage data. Based on the data, the controller may determine a set point corresponding to when it may be beneficial to dispatch generator power to the property instead of utility power. At the set point, the controller may facilitate supplementing power from utility power with power from the generator. Additionally, the controller may collect usage and performance data associated with dispatch of the generator power.
US11244409B2
Establishing online social communications for enterprises whilst beneficial to them in terms of revenue, customer retention etc. require skills and time, both of which the enterprises personnel do not possess. The inventors have established an inventive turn-key software application that allows an enterprise to create invitation only private groups on mobile device platforms and monetize aspects of this online private group through direct payments to the club owner. An individual, a group, a society, a business or enterprise irrespective of whether they are active on other social networks can exploit the inventive turn-key software application augmenting their business with clear visibility of the return on investment. As such the inventive turn-key software application provides an effective “one-stop shop” for those looking to establish and build their brand on mobile technology.
US11244405B2
The present disclosure is directed to conducting electronic transactions via a computer network. A server receives data packets carrying data identifying a merchant category, an electronic account maintained and configured on the server, and a first monetary amount of a first electronic transaction. A first device generates the data packets at the merchant to conduct the electronic transaction. A policy engine selects a first purse of a plurality of purses allocated to the electronic account based on a policy applied to the data. The first purse may be configured as a benefits purse. The server obtains the first monetary amount of the electronic transaction from the first purse. The policy engine applies a second policy to the data to determine a reimbursement amount based on the first monetary amount of the transaction, and electronically provides the reimbursement amount to a different second purse of the electronic account.
US11244395B2
A preferred embodiment of the invention allows the designation and manipulation of multiple value unit wallets that allow an end user to designate which types of value units in a transaction product account may be implemented on a per-transaction basis such that a person may perform a transaction in one value unit and settle it using another. The creation of the transaction product specifically may decrease the fees associated with value unit exchange. In addition, the value unit conversion and utilization product is contemplated to have multiple interfaces where a person may select alternate sequences of value unit withdrawal such that an end user may prioritize the different types of value units that are withdrawn from an account during a transaction.
US11244389B2
A system for communicating property data includes one or more interfaces operable to receive lien data including an identification of a lien on a property, an identification of the holder of the lien, a balance of debt associated with the lien, and a repayment schedule for the amount of debt associated with the lien; and lien authentication data including one or more from the set comprising: a copy of an agreement memorializing the lien, a property title memorializing the lien, and a government record memorializing the lien; one or more memories operable to store the received lien data and the received lien authentication data; and one or more processors operable to: determine, based on the received lien authentication data, that the received lien data is valid, and determine, based on the received lien data, that the received balance of debt associated with the lien needs to be updated.
US11244386B1
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention generate a model for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that a stated income is faulty. In one embodiment, the method includes, for example, receiving information representative of at least one borrower; receiving a first income value for the at least one borrower; and receiving a second value for the at least one borrower, such that the second income value verifies the first income value. Moreover, the method includes determining one or more parameters for the model based on the received information, the received first income value, and the received second income value, such that the one or more parameters enable the model to provide the one or more scores.
US11244385B1
A system for providing coaching includes a system that creates a user-specific coach to assist a user in achieving one or more goals, such as, e.g., a financial goal. The coach is generated based on one or more traits of the user to increase the likelihood that the user will relate and respond to communications from the coach in a manner that enables the user to achieve his/her goal. The traits used by the system to create the coach can include traits input directly by a user, as well as user traits deduced by the system by monitoring various types of user behavior, including the user's usage of computing devices, habits, etc. The system also adapts the coaching provided by the coach in response to trends noted by the coaching system as the system is used by the user as well as others.
US11244382B1
Auto-generation of multi-merchant interactive image collections is described. A plurality of interactive images associated with multiple merchants can be accessed. An interactive image of the plurality of interactive images can depict one or more items offered for sale by a merchant and individual items of the one or more items can be associated with individual selectable controls. A selectable control can enable a customer to view item information associated with an individual item with which the selectable control is associated. A subset of interactive images of the plurality of interactive images can be included in an interactive image collection. The subset of interactive images can be associated with two or more merchants. The subset of interactive images can be presented via a display of a device to enable the customer to add at least the individual item to a virtual cart via an interaction with the selectable control.
US11244380B2
Provided is a method of providing a creative work transaction service for increasing capitalization and accessibility of creative works. The method includes receiving registration of creative work data including a profile, a creative work image, creative work description information, and creation process content from at least one creator terminal, registering the creative work image among the registered creative work data in an image archive and uploading the creative work image to a page for sharing, controlling a payment interface to be executed in a user terminal when an event of using the creative work image is received from the user terminal, and transmitting the creative work image to the user terminal when a payment is finished through the payment interface in the user terminal.
US11244375B2
Gift givers typically find the process of selecting a personalized gift for a gift recipient to be time consuming with a low likelihood that the selected gift will be positively received by the recipient. The present disclosure describes analyzing a gift recipient's transaction history using machine learning techniques. Based on the analysis, one or more gift recommendations are provided to the gift giver. The one or more gift recommendations may comprise links to purchase products associated with the one or more gift recommendations. Additionally or alternatively, the one or more gift recommendations may comprise information about where the product may be purchased. This may improve the overall accuracy of the gift giving process, while reducing the stress surrounding gift giving. Additionally, the commercial opportunities of businesses may be expanded by partnering with sites that host the analysis.
US11244372B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for remotely determining a suitable item are provided. Aspects include registering a plurality of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Aspects also include receiving sensor data from the plurality of IoT devices. The sensor data is associated with a plurality of owned objects in a vicinity of the plurality of IoT devices. Aspects also include creating an owned object registry based on the sensor data. The owned object registry includes physical attributes of each of the plurality of owned objects. Aspects also include determining an object of interest based on monitoring of a user's interactions with a website. Aspects also include determining a degree of suitability between the object of interest and one or more of the plurality of owned objects based on the owned object registry. Aspects also include transmitting a notification of the degree of suitability to a user device for display.
US11244369B1
A method for automating design center product selection includes maintaining a design center database based on input from a builder, the design center database including a options available; providing a buyer interface accessible from a computing device, the buyer interface; receiving one or more selections from the buyer through the buyer interface; creating a purchase order based on a finalized selection from the buyer; creating a summary document accessible to the buyer and to the builder, the summary document having selection photos of a home with the selected options; and assigning a unique identifying code to each of the options, the unique identifying code further being associated with the selected options on the summary document.
US11244361B2
A facility for valuing a distinguished home located in a distinguished geographic area is described. The facility receives home attributes for the distinguished home. The facility obtains valuation for the distinguished home by applying to the received home attributes evaluation model for homes in the distinguished geographic area that has been trained using selling price and home attribute data from homes recently sold in the distinguished geographic area. The facility reports the obtained valuation for the distinguished home.
US11244357B2
A method of serving targeted content messages for display in a website accessed in a browser program of a networked computer communicatively connected to a network at a network address for communications, delivers uniquely targeted content messages displayed in websites viewed in web browsers. The method includes placing a script device in a website file, processing the website file, together with the script device by a particular web browser on download of the website file, including by determining the network address of the networked computer, determining an identifier of the website file, and sending an artifact representing the network address and the identifier over the network to a server computer. The method also includes detecting the network address and the identifier by the server computer, querying a database for a database article related to the network address and the identifier, constructing a script program stored in memory of the server computer for the particular browser and website file, and constructing an ad device stored in memory of the web browser device from the script program. The method further includes calling the server computer by the ad device by communication of an identifier representing an action of the web browser device, receiving the identifier by the server computer, querying the database for a select message artifact related to the script program, the identifier, the website file, and the web browser, and responding by the server computer to the web browser with the select message artifact. A message represented by the select message artifact is displayed in the website then viewed in a browser window of the web browser. Messages can be prioritized and are uniquely targeted in content, based on real-time activities of the web browser.
US11244355B2
Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. The wireless signals may be received by mobile devices. A remote server may communicate with the mobile device and provide the mobile device with up-to-date content associated with the POP displays. A geographic location of the mobile device may be assessed and used to determine if the mobile device is at an acceptable location for displaying the up-to-date content.
US11244344B2
The disclosed systems and methods aid advertisers in improving the calculation of the return on investment (ROI) for online marketing. The systems and methods allow advertisers to calculate the ROI of the online marketing of one or a plurality of advertisements by tracking the user identifier of the user devices used to interact with online marketing materials (e.g., online advertisement) and then, once a purchase is made, reconciling which marketing materials the customer interacted leading up to the purchase.
US11244341B2
A method of facilitating access to a promotional offer, the method comprising: receiving at a server system a page request from a client device; and sending program code executable in a browser application to the client device in response to the page request, the program code being executable to display at least one promotional offer and a promotional code, to provide a flash object at a display position of the promotional code and, in response to selection of the flash object, to cause the promotional code to be copied to a user-accessible memory of the client device and to open a new browser display of the browser application.
US11244337B2
Provided is a computer-implemented process for determining offers for a geofenced geographic area. After a mobile user device traverses a geofence, merchants associated with a geofence having a geofence identifier are identified. Candidate offers associated with the merchants are identified and ranked according to ranking criteria. The ranked candidate offers are transmitted to a mobile user device. The ranked candidate offers are cached on the mobile user device and presented to the user via an offers notification. The user may view and redeem an offer by selecting the offers notification.
US11244331B2
Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to run, within an active memory: a data collection module aggregating a plurality of domain name data; a profile generation module generating a domain name profile from the domain name data comprising attributes associated with a first domain name; a graph generation module defining domain names sharing attributes with the domain name, a second domain name in the domain names sharing a greatest number of attributes with the first domain name and closest, in proximity within a generated graph, to the first domain name; and a domain name strategy suggestion module rendering a user interface comprising a user interface control that identifies a referral to an administrator for the second domain name and provides, within the user interface control, a link for contacting the administrator.
US11244329B2
Metric forecasting techniques in a digital medium environment are described. A time series interval is identified by an analytics system that is exhibited by input usage data. The input usage data describes values of a metric involved in the provision of the digital content by a service provider system. A determination is then made by the analytics system as to whether historical usage data includes the identified time series interval. A forecast model is then selected by the analytics system from a plurality of forecast models based on a result of the determination and the identified time series interval. Forecast data is then generated by a forecast module of the analytics system. The forecast data is configured to predict at least one value of the metric based on the selected forecast model, a result of the determination, and the input usage data.
US11244325B2
A system and method for managing media advertising enterprise data. An enterprise data management (EDM) module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records. A scoring function with respect to each record can be computed based on the rules to determine the highest priority. The rules in association with the scoring function can be stored locally in an EDM database. A matching process can then be performed to accurately match similar records regardless of manual input, location, and format of the records in a distributed system. Each record can then be assigned with a parent enterprise advertiser. Such an optimization mechanism can interactively manage and report records at the enterprise level in a simple and efficient manner.
US11244318B2
Method for processing a transaction, the method comprising automatically requesting a transfer from a source account to a destination account via a communication link, receiving the transfer, adjusting destination account data associated with the destination account by increasing a balance of the destination account by an amount of the transfer, receiving transaction data from a merchant indicating an attempted transaction, the transaction data including a transaction amount and data identifying the destination account, and processing the attempted transaction.
US11244314B2
Methods and systems are presented for enabling an online service provider to process transaction requests according to a dual control workflow using multiple transaction processing systems that are only configured to process transaction requests according to a single control workflow. A dual control module is implemented between an interface server and the transaction processing systems. The dual control module may intercept transaction requests from the interface server. The dual control module may withhold transaction requests from being sent to any one of the transaction processing systems until a set of criteria is satisfied according to the dual control workflow. The dual control module may obtain approvals and/or denials from designated approvers. Once the set of criteria is satisfied for a transaction request, the dual control module may forward the transaction request to one of the transaction processing systems for processing.
US11244310B2
An example method of reimbursing pharmacy-related transactions includes receiving first data describing a transaction between a patient and a pharmacy. The transaction includes dispensing of a medication. A reimbursement data packet is determined based on the first data. The reimbursement data packet includes second data describing a reimbursement claim to be submitted to a payer system for the transaction. The reimbursement data packet is transmitted from the computer system to a plurality of other computer systems. A response is received from each of the other computer systems. Each response indicates whether a respective one of the other computer systems determined that the reimbursement claim is valid. A determination is made that the reimbursement claim is valid based on the responses. An entry describing the transaction and reimbursement claim is added to a ledger, and the reimbursement claim is submitted for fulfillment.
US11244304B2
A computer-based method for collecting digital wallet data from a digital wallet transaction initiated by a user is provided. The method includes receiving registration data for a user in response to the user registering into a digital wallet application, wherein the registration data includes demographic data and device registration data including a device identifier used for identifying the user device when in communication with another computing device. The method also includes storing the registration data within at least one memory device and receiving digital wallet data as part of a digital wallet transaction initiated by the user using the digital wallet application on the user device, wherein the digital wallet data includes transaction data, device communication data, and biometric data. The method further includes comparing the digital wallet data to the registration data and linking the digital wallet data within the at least one memory device to the registration data.
US11244295B2
A method of a payment for an Internet of Things (IoT) device is provided. The method includes steps of: a payment supporting server (a) on condition that the payment supporting server has registered certificates of the IoT device, a service providing device, and a digital wallet in a first blockchain, manages their transaction IDs, has registered a representative hash value in a second blockchain, manages their transaction IDs, and manages link information between the IoT device and the digital wallet, confirming validity of a billing transaction, and (b) acquiring identification information on the digital wallet; and (c) paying the billing detail using the digital wallet, registering its payment result in the first blockchain, registering in the second blockchain, if one anchoring condition is satisfied, a first representative hash value, and transmitting the payment result to the service providing device, the IoT device, and the digital wallet.
US11244291B2
A method for allocating virtual articles comprises: receiving at least two acquisition requests directed at a virtual article packet, and respectively recording receiving times of the acquisition requests, wherein the virtual article packet comprises one or more virtual article sub-packets; allocating acquisition sequence numbers respectively to the acquisition requests according to a sequential order of the receiving times of the acquisition requests; and allocating the virtual article sub-packets according to the acquisition sequence numbers for the acquisition requests corresponding to the acquisition sequence numbers, and sending virtual articles in the virtual article sub-packets to users corresponding to the acquisition requests.
US11244287B2
A method for proactively providing information to a user about an event involving the user includes receiving user input indicating a request to display a search page and displaying the search page in response to the user input. In addition, event information may be automatically obtained and displayed on the search page in response to the user input. Some examples of event information that may be provided include participant information about a participant in the event other than the user, file information about a file that is relevant to the event, and conversation information about a conversation that is relevant to the event.
US11244280B2
An approach is provided for using a machine learning model to reduce food waste. Estimation models for food items are created by using a machine learning model. The estimation models have prediction functions specifying timelines during which the food items are not spoiled and are in a condition for consumption. Prediction function solutions are generated for a food item inventory to indicate menu items for respective time periods. Each menu item includes food item(s) which are in condition for consumption based on the estimation models. Menu recommendations corresponding to the time periods are generated. Each menu includes menu item(s) indicated by the prediction function solutions. The menu recommendations reduce a waste of the food items through spoilage by increasing a likelihood of consumption of the food items within the respective timelines.
US11244279B2
Modifying item packaging according to determined replenishment times. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for modifying item packaging is described herein. An order is received from a user for an item. An exhaustion time for the item is calculated according to an inventory database for the user. An initial replenishment time for the item is calculated. A package quantity is calculated according to the exhaustion time, shipment time, initial replenishment time, and inventory database.
US11244265B2
A maintenance operation support device includes a procedure information outputter configured to output procedure information representing an operation procedure of maintenance operations for a facility, the procedure information being obtained by combining action definition information for defining actions of a setting tool that adjusts or sets the facility and operation definition information for defining operations to be instructed to a maintenance operator who performs the maintenance operations for the facility.
US11244238B2
Search query result set count estimation is described. A system parses data set query that includes first query attribute and second query attribute. The system identifies first hierarchy of connected nodes including a first node representing a first query attribute, and a second hierarchy of other connected nodes including a second node representing a second query attribute. The system identifies a directed arc connecting first correlated node in first hierarchy to second correlated node in second hierarchy. The system identifies cross-hierarchy probabilities of correlations between values of a first attribute represented by the first correlated node and values of a second attribute represented by the second correlated node. The system outputs query result set estimated count generated from cross-hierarchy probabilities, probabilities that values of first attribute are associated with values corresponding to first node, and probabilities that values of second attribute are associated with values corresponding to second node.
US11244235B2
A data analysis device that analyzes data having a record including an objective variable and a plurality of explanatory variables includes a node generating unit that generates a node specified by a condition of the explanatory variable on the basis of the objective variable and the explanatory variable of the record and associating the record with the node, an evaluation value generating unit that generates a proportion of the number of records whose target value is the objective variable among a plurality of records associated with the node as an evaluation value, and a parameter extracting unit that selects a node on the basis of the evaluation value and extracts and outputs the condition of the explanatory variable related to the selected node.
US11244232B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating relationship recommendations. One of the methods includes: determining, by a computing device, parameter entities that comprise event entities associated with node entities; constructing, by the computing device, a knowledge graph based on relationships between the parameter entities and predetermined operator entities; extracting, by the computing device, a newly added relationship from the knowledge graph based on an inference rule; and providing, by the computing device, a relationship recommendation corresponding to the newly added relationship.
US11244231B2
Various examples generally relate to knowledge graphs including entities and links associated with semantic triples including subject-predicate-object. Various examples specifically relate to quantum-machine learning of knowledge graphs. Further examples relate to a quantum-machine-assisted inference on knowledge graphs.
US11244230B2
IoT Big Data information management and control systems and methods for distributed performance monitoring and critical network fault detection comprising a combination of capabilities including: IoT data collection sensor stations receiving sensor input signals and also connected to monitor units providing communication with other monitor units and/or cloud computing resources via IoT telecommunication links, and wherein a first data collection sensor station has expert predesignated other network elements comprising other data collection sensor stations, monitor units, and/or telecommunications equipment for performance and/or fault monitoring based on criticality to said first data collection sensor station operations, thereby extending monitoring and control operations to include distributed interdependent or critical operations being monitored and analyzed throughout the IoT network, and wherein performance and/or fault monitoring signals received by said first data collection sensor station are analyzed with artificial intelligence, hierarchical expert system algorithms for generation of warning and control signals.
US11244225B2
Implementing a neural network can include receiving a macro instruction for implementing the neural network within a control unit of a neural network processor. The macro instruction can indicate a first data set, a second data set, a macro operation for the neural network, and a mode of operation for performing the macro operation. The macro operation can be automatically initiated using a processing unit of the neural network processor by applying the second data set to the first data set based on the mode of operation.
US11244224B2
A first observation window in a first time series is identified. The first observation window is preceded by a first portion of the first time series. A neural network is trained using the first portion of the first time series and the first observation window, and weights are extracted from the middle layers of the neural network. A first feature vector is generated based on the weights. A second observation window in a second time series is identified, where the second observation window is preceded by a first portion of the second time series. A second feature vector associated with the second observation window is determined. The second feature vector is based at least in part on the first set of weights. A similarity between the first and second observation windows is determined based on comparing the first feature vector and the second feature vector.
US11244219B2
The present disclosure discloses an electronic tag and a control method thereof. The electronic tag comprises: a power supply module configured to supply power to the electronic tag; a display module configured to display a display screen required by the electronic tag; an electronic tag circuit configured to control the electronic tag to operate in a state that the electronic tag is powered by the power supply module; and a switch circuit configured to disconnect the power supply module from the electronic tag circuit when the display screen does not need to be updated.
US11244218B1
The present disclosure provides a polarized Raman spectrum-based nano barcode smart label, including: a substrate and a nanoparticle coding layer that is provided on the substrate and can be coded by polarized Raman spectrum coding, wherein the nanoparticle coding layer that can be coded by polarized Raman spectrum coding is a mixed layer including a plurality of nanomaterials having different Raman characteristic peaks; under different polarization detection states, the Raman characteristic peaks can exhibit coding characteristics that are totally different from those under a non-polarization detection state and are distinguished from those of a conventional Raman peak position, so as to achieve spectral characteristics for multiple coding. During use of the smart label of the present disclosure, a corresponding nano barcode detection system is used to detect a brand label provided with the encoded nanoparticles to obtain coding information of the brand label.
US11244209B2
Visibility of a license plate and color reproducibility of a vehicle body are improved in a monitoring camera. A vehicle body area detection unit detects a vehicle body area of a vehicle from an image signal. A license plate area detection unit detects a license plate area of the vehicle from the image signal. A vehicle body area image processing unit performs processing of the image signal corresponding to the detected vehicle body area. A license plate area image processing unit performs processing different from the processing of the image signal corresponding to the vehicle body area on the image signal corresponding to the detected license plate area. A synthesis unit synthesizes the processed image signal corresponding to the vehicle body area and the processed image signal corresponding to the license plate area.
US11244203B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for automatically generating structured training data based on an unstructured document are provided. Aspects include receiving an unstructured document and a corresponding structured document that includes labeled portions. Aspects also include generating a parsed document that has one or more extracted objects by applying a parsing tool to the unstructured document. Aspects also include identifying one or more matching extracted objects by applying a matching algorithm to the structured document and the parsed document. Each matching extracted object is an extracted object of the parsed document that corresponds to a labeled portion of the structured document. Aspects also include annotating a region of the unstructured document that corresponds to the bounding box of the respective matching extracted object with a respective label of the corresponding labeled portion of the unstructured document.
US11244197B2
A multimodal remote sensing image matching method and system integrate different local feature descriptors for automatic matching of multimodal remote sensing images. First, a local feature descriptor, such as the Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG), the local self-similarity (LSS), or the Speeded-Up Robust Feature (SURF), is extracted for each pixel of an image to form a pixel-wise feature representation map. Then, the three-dimensional Fourier transform (namely 3D FFT) is used to establish a fast matching similarity metric in a frequency domain based on the feature representation map, followed by a template matching scheme to achieve control points (CP) between images. In addition, the novel pixel-wise feature representation technique named channel features of orientated gradients (CFOG), which outperforms the pixel-wise feature representation methods based on the traditional local descriptors (e.g., HOG, LSS and SURF) in both matching performance and computational efficiency.
US11244188B2
This disclosure relates to improved techniques for performing computer vision functions, including common object detection and instance segmentation. The techniques described herein utilize neural network architectures to perform these functions in various types of images, such as natural images, UAV images, satellite images, and other images. The neural network architecture can include a dense location regression network that performs object localization and segmentation functions, at least in part, by generating offset information for multiple sub-regions of candidate object proposals, and utilizing this dense offset information to derive final predictions for locations of target objects. The neural network architecture also can include a discriminative region-of-interest (RoI) pooling network that performs classification of the localized objects, at least in part, by sampling various sub-regions of candidate proposals and performing adaptive weighting to obtain discriminative features.
US11244185B2
An image search device includes an extractor configured to acquire an entire image including an area image that is an image of a target object and extract one or more combinations of the area image and attribute information from the entire image on the basis of color, an information storage unit configured to search for the area image combined with the designated attribute information from the extracted one or more combinations of the area image and the attribute information, and an interface configured to output a search result.
US11244184B2
The system and method for hyperspectral target identification provides for sue of a sensor array such that for a 2 by 2 pixel, each pixel is set to a different wavelength by employing a band pass filter, so that one can determine whether a cluster set is of a natural object or a man-made object. Using ratios of the collected energy within the partitioned sub-bands one can make near real-time declarations about targets and in some cases, friend or foe determinations.
US11244171B2
A method for detecting a double-parked vehicle includes identifying a parking region in video data received from an image capture device monitoring the parking region. The method includes defining an enforcement region at least partially surrounding the parking region. The method includes detecting a stationary vehicle in the enforcement region. The method includes determining the occurrence of an event relative to the stationary vehicle. In response to the determined occurrence of the event, the method includes classifying the stationary vehicle as being one of double parked and not double parked.
US11244168B2
A method of highlighting an object of interest comprises providing a digital image, determining a region of interest in the digital image covering an object of interest in the digital image having a person identifier, masking all image data in the digital image in a surrounding area to the region of interest, within the detected region of interest, determining a region of exclusion covering an object of exclusion in the digital image having another person identifier, and forming an output image comprising image data from the digital image of the region of interest, wherein the region of exclusion thereof is masked, and comprising the masked image data of the surrounding area. A device for performing the method is also disclosed. The method may be performed on an image sequence, for example in the form of a surveillance video.
US11244161B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system manage tree risk. The method includes receiving images corresponding to a geographic area. The method includes determining whether a first tree captured in at least one of the images has a condition exhibiting a tree risk that poses a hazard above an acceptable threshold. As a result of the first tree having the condition above the acceptable threshold, the method includes generating a notification identifying the first tree and a location of the first tree. The method includes transmitting the notification to a team equipped to remediate the condition of the first tree.
US11244144B2
The present invention provides an age recognition method, a computer program and an electronic device. The method comprises: acquiring a face image to be recognized; extracting face characteristic points in the face image to be recognized, and characteristic point coordinates of the face characteristic points in the face image to be recognized; extracting face global features from the face image to be recognized according to the characteristic point coordinates; extracting face local features from the face image to be recognized according to the face characteristic points; and determining an age recognition result corresponding to the face image to be recognized according to the face global features, the face local features and an age recognition model obtained by pre-training.
US11244140B2
An electronic apparatus and a texture recognition device are described that relate to image recognition technologies. The texture recognition device includes a sensing layer, a transparent contact layer, a light shielding layer, and a plurality of light sources. The sensing layer includes a plurality of photosensitive units distributed in an array; the transparent contact layer is disposed on a side of the sensing layer; the light shielding layer is disposed between the sensing layer and the transparent contact layer, and including a plurality of light transmission portions arranged in an array; and the light sources are distributed in an array on a side of the light shielding layer close to the transparent contact layer, and light emitted by the light sources is reflected by the transparent contact layer and transmitted to the photosensitive units by passing through the light transmission portions.
US11244136B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a fingerprint sensor disposed on the display panel and configured to capture a fingerprint image and to generate fingerprint sensing data; and a fingerprint sensor controller configured to generate a compensation characteristic function of each pixel of the fingerprint sensor using a plurality of test patterns, to extract a coefficient of the compensation characteristic function of each pixel and to compensate the fingerprint sensing data using the coefficient of the compensation characteristic function.
US11244135B2
An electronic circuit including a touch control circuit, a fingerprint sensing circuit and a switch circuit is provided. The touch control circuit is configured to receive touch sensing signals from a panel and determine a touch area according to the touch sensing signals. The fingerprint sensing circuit is configured to receive fingerprint sensing signals corresponding to at least one fingerprint image from fingerprint sensors disposed in the panel via fingerprint sensing lines. The switch circuit is coupled to the fingerprint sensing circuit. The switch circuit is configured to be coupled to a part of the fingerprint sensing lines that is selected to form a fingerprint sensing zone for a fingerprint sensing operation according to the determined touch area. Each of the fingerprint sensing lines is selectable to be a boundary of the fingerprint sensing zone. An electronic device and a method for sensing at least one fingerprint image are also provided.
US11244132B2
A barcode scanner system includes a scan unit which includes, on one surface thereof, a scan module for scanning a barcode and has, on the other surface thereof, a structure for coupling to a body unit; and the body unit which has one surface having a shape corresponding to the coupling structure of the scan unit, and includes a display module, a communication module, an operation module, and a fingerprint recognition module. The body unit recognizes fingerprint information of the user through the fingerprint recognition module, and transmits the fingerprint information to a server to perform authentication. When a user input to the operation module occurs after authentication completion information is received from the server, a barcode scan is performed, and the scanned barcode information is transmitted to the server. Barcode information and user information identified through recognition of the fingerprint information are matched and stored in the server.
US11244109B2
An information processing device specifies a plurality of cooccurrence words common to first and second words, and determines synonymity or relevancy about the first word and the second word based on cooccurrence indices between the specified cooccurrence words and each of the first and second words. More specifically, the information processing device selects, from among the specified cooccurrence words, one cooccurrence word in which at least one of cooccurrence indices between the specified cooccurrence word and the first and second words does not exceed a preset first threshold, and obtains a difference in cooccurrence index between each selected cooccurrence word and each of the first and second words, if the difference exceeds a preset second threshold, the information processing device determines the first and second words as relevant word candidates, and if the difference does not exceed the second threshold, the information processing device determines them as synonym candidates.
US11244107B1
A method of an electronic apparatus for providing information related to a fulfillment center, wherein the method includes confirming data request information for requesting data related to the fulfillment center, acquiring first data corresponding to the data request information from at least one other apparatus connected to the electronic apparatus, and generating second data by processing the first data based on template information corresponding to the data request information.
US11244090B2
Systems and methods decouple model components from a model execution style for which the model components are created, and the model components may be utilized in parent models having different execution styles. A model component may be partitioned into executable entities, and the entry points of the executable entities and their call styles may be identified. An adaptation layer that includes access points for the entry points may be constructed. The model component, including the adaptation layer, may be included in the model, and connection elements of the parent model may be connected to the access points of the adaptation layer. The execution call styles associated with the connection elements of the parent model may be bound to the execution call styles of the entry points as originally designed. The adaptation layer may manage translation of call styles and may coordinate scheduling of data communication with the model component.
US11244079B2
Provided is a method for masking a sensitive signal by injecting noise into planes of a printed circuit board (PCB). The method comprises detecting, by a secondary integrated circuit (IC), a noise signal on a shared plane of a PCB that includes the secondary IC. The noise signal may be analyzed to determine the characteristics of the noise signal. A masking signal may be generated based on the characteristics. The masking signal may then be injected onto the shared plane.
US11244072B2
In various embodiments, a Data Model Adaptive Execution System may be configured to take one or more suitable actions to remediate an identified risk in view of one or more regulations (e.g., one or more legal regulations, one or more binding corporate rules, etc.). For example, in order to ensure compliance with one or more standards related to the collection and/or storage of personal data, an entity may be required to modify one or more aspects of a way in which the entity collects, stores, and/or otherwise processes personal data (e.g., in response to a change in a legal or other requirement). In order to identify whether a particular change or other risk trigger requires remediation, the system may be configured to assess a relevance of the risk posed by the risk and identify one or more processing activities or data assets that may be affected by the risk.
US11244071B2
Computer systems and methods for: (1) analyzing electronic correspondence associated with a data subject (e.g., the emails within one or more email in-boxes associated with the data subject); (2) based on the analysis, identifying at least one entity that that the data subject does not actively do business with (e.g., as evidenced by the fact that the data subject no longer opens emails from the entity, and/or has set up a rule to automatically delete emails received from the entity); and (3) in response to identifying the entity as an entity that the data subject no longer does business with, at least substantially automatically populating and/or submitting a data subject access request to the entity (e.g., to delete all personal information being processed by the entity).
US11244069B2
A method and system for controlling distribution of information items of a subject is proposed. The method and system comprises verifying compliance of a combination of new information items (to be received by a target computing system) and available information items (already available to the target computing system) with one or more sharing rules; a receipt of the new information items by the target computing system is controlled according to a result of this verification.
US11244065B2
A method of controlling use of network-connectable devices is provided. First network requests from a first user device executing a first operating system are monitored, and applications operating in the foreground on the first user device during the first network requests are monitored. A model is trained based on the first network requests and based on the applications respectively operating in the foreground on the first user device during the first network requests. Second network requests from a second user device executing a second operating system are monitored, and the model is applied to the second network requests from the second user device to determine a particular application operating in the foreground on the second user device. A function of the second user device is restricted based on the determining of the particular application operating in the foreground on the second user device.
US11244061B2
A centralized framework for managing the data encryption of resources is disclosed. A data encryption service is disclosed that provides various services related to the management of the data encryption of resources. The services may include managing application policies, cryptographic policies, and encryption objects related to applications. The encryption objects may include encryption keys and certificates used to secure the resources. In an embodiment, the data encryption service may be included or implemented in a cloud computing environment and may provide a centralized framework for effectively managing the data encryption requirements of various applications hosted or provided by different customer systems. The disclosed data encryption service may provide monitoring and alert services related to encryption objects managed by the data encryption service and transmit the alerts related to the encryption objects via various communication channels.
US11244058B2
An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor. The memory stores a plurality of conversion rules. The processor receives a first log from a server. The first log indicates that the server attempted to install a software patch. The processor converts, based on the plurality of conversion rules, the first log into a different format to produce a second log and extracts a plurality of words from the second log. The processor also determines, based on the extracted words, that the software patch install failed and determines, based on the extracted words, a cause for the software patch install failure. The processor further determines a series of steps to remedy the cause and perform the series of steps to remedy the cause.
US11244053B2
A method of determining that a subject electronic device 1021 . . . N is counterfeit. The method involves delivering the web page component to a subject device 1021 . . . N in response to a request. The web page component is adapted to retrieve actual values of a plurality of attributes from the subject device 1021 . . . N. Reference values of the plurality of attributes are retrieved from a device property store 110 and the method determined that the subject device 1021 . . . N is counterfeit when at least one of the actual values of the plurality of attributes is different to the reference value of that attribute.
US11244052B2
The host computer securitization architecture, which comprises: an offline source server, an offline provisioning server configured to connect with a portable mobile securitization server via a wired communication, an administration server configured to monitor and interact with at least one portable mobile securitization server, at least one portable mobile securitization server configured to connect via a wired communication to a host computer, said portable mobile securitization server comprising: a connector to mechanically connect and establish a removable wired communication between the mobile server and the host computer, a first wired bidirectional communicator with the host computer, a second of bidirectional communicator with a data storage peripheral or a data network and a unit securing the communication between the host computer and the data storage mobile server or the data network, this communication being established between the first and the second communicator, a blockchain comprising a block identifying each source-code, provisioning, administration and portable mobile securitization server.
US11244036B2
An authentication system that executes user authentication processing in accordance with an authentication request includes at least one first device. The first device has a biological information acquiring unit that is configured to acquire biological information of a user, and a first authentication unit that outputs an authentication result of which the user is authenticated, based on the biological information. The authentication system includes a second device that is configured to communicate with the first device. The second device has an information acquiring-storing unit that is able to store identification information of the first device beforehand, a determination unit that is configured to determine whether the first device is registered, and a second authentication unit that is configured to perform user authentication, in accordance with an authentication result output by the first authentication unit, when the determination unit determines that the first device is registered.
US11244030B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to maintain content rights parameters associated with media content and a user where the content rights parameters include limits to distribution of the media content to a plurality of communication devices associated with the user and where a portion of the plurality of communication devices use different communication protocols from another portion of the plurality of communication devices, monitor for access to the media content by one communication device of the plurality of communication devices of the user, and obtain rights control data that is adapted to allow for presentation of the media content by the one communication device of the user where the rights control data is generated based on the content rights parameters. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11244025B2
A computer-implemented method for updating data pipelines may include (i) identifying at least one file that defines a series of transformations for data that passes through a data pipeline, for an application, that reads from at least one input table and writes to at least one output table, (ii) designating as a development version of the data pipeline at least one additional file that comprises a modified version of the file (iii) creating an additional version of the output table, (iv) detecting an execution of the additional file, and (v) directing output data written by the file to the additional version of the output table instead of the output table in response to both detecting the execution of the additional file and determining that the additional file is designated as the development version. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11244019B2
A method is disclosed in which information based at least partially on a search query information being associated with a user and/or a group of users is obtained. Personal information associated with the user and/or the group of users is extracted from the obtained information. At least one user profile is created based at least partially on the extracted personal information. One or more pieces of attribute information are determined for enriching the personal information of the created user profile. Further, the determined one or more pieces of attribute information are allocated to the user profile and/or to personal information included in the user profile. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
US11244014B2
The subject matter discloses a method for exploring the most relevant data items, or pieces of information from data sources of various forms and sizes, using the accumulated formalized and clustered behavior of previous users combined with an effective analysis and learning system. According to some embodiments, users are presented with data items that may interest them and are encouraged to rank these data items in order to improve the system's suggestions. The system may also pose the user a selection of questions, meant to further discern the user's preferences.
US11244001B2
The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for retrieving a similar virtual material appearance from a database. The method comprises providing a database including virtual material appearances associated to an appearance signatures computed from values representing at least one of a structure, a reflection and a color of the associated virtual material appearance. The method further comprises providing a first appearance signature associated to a first virtual material appearance. The method further comprises identifying one or more virtual material appearances similar to the first virtual material appearance by comparing the first appearance signature with appearance signatures respectively associated to virtual material appearances in the database. The method improves retrieval of virtual material appearances.
US11243999B2
A method for automated routing of pictures taken on mobile electronic devices to a digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.
US11243998B2
In certain embodiments, a neural network may be trained to associated context information with multimedia items. In some embodiments, context predictions for multimedia items may be obtained via a neural network. A first multimedia item and a first task related to a first context prediction for the first multimedia item may be presented on a user interface. A user response to the first task may be obtained via the user interface. Based on the user response to the first task, prediction feedback related to the first context prediction or the first multimedia item may be provided to the neural network to cause the neural network to be updated based on the prediction feedback.
US11243993B2
A document relationship analysis system. Aspects of the system include ingesting, discovering, recommending, analyzing, and exporting documents of interest. The system dynamically searches large or streaming datasets using a tiered, multi-step approach that includes discovery techniques and recommender components to filter and refine these larger datasets to smaller datasets of documents of interest. The system dynamically selects and renders an appropriate visualization for result datasets based on predetermined measures that allow for facilitate analysis of the documents of interest.
US11243991B2
A mechanism is provided to implement a chatbot application for providing contextual help recommendations based on conversational context and interaction patterns. The chatbot application receives a query from a user and applies natural language processing (NLP) to the query to determine an objective of the query and a confidence of the objective. Responsive to determining the confidence of the objective is below a predetermined threshold, the chatbot application automatically generates a first set of recommendations to the user based on the conversation context and activates a contextual help recommendation button to indicate to the user that the first set of recommendations are available to be viewed.
US11243990B2
Systems, methods and apparatuses are disclosed to cluster a plurality of documents located in any number of local and/or remote systems and applications. Preprocessed text is generated for each document, and a hash and a feature vector are determined based on the preprocessed text. A set of clusters is retrieved, wherein each cluster is associated with a hash list and a cumulative feature vector. Each of the documents may then be associated with a cluster by comparing the hash of the document to the hash lists of the clusters and/or by determining similarities between the feature vector of the document and the cumulative feature vectors of the clusters.
US11243986B1
A method for determining an intervention response category for provisioning workflows. The method determines provisioning features of a provisioning step. The method performs outlier detection to identify and remove outliers from non-intervention data to produce a non-intervention normal data set. The method performs iterative grouping on the non-intervention normal data set to determine significant variables in the provisioning features. The method performs response mapping of provisions using results of the iterative grouping including a significance of errors and a presence of errors in the non-intervention normal data and partial intervention data to categorize the provisions into a response category.
US11243984B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing access to changed states in a data source to front-ends and back-ends in a data orchestration system. When displaying a scene including transformed data, a data orchestration system may receive a change to the data source from the data repository or a client viewing the data. The data orchestration system may transform data based on configured data pipelines and propagate the changed state to all viewing clients and to the backend data repository. By managing the connections, pipelines, operators, data sources, clients, backends, and other components, the data orchestration system may provide intelligent data solutions and advanced analytic capabilities across the entirety of an organization's data landscape.
US11243980B2
One embodiment provides for monotonic transactions in a multi-master database with loosely coupled nodes including performing, by a processor, a read transaction protocol including: performing, by the processor, a read transaction protocol including issuing read transactions at any one of the nodes; attempting to return rows that are known to be replicated by at least a read quorum of the nodes; and for timing-out of the attempting to return rows known to be replicated by at least the read quorum of the nodes based on the special-node being non-responsive: selecting a new special-node from the nodes; and repeating attempting to return rows that are known to be replicated by at least the read quorum of the nodes.
US11243977B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, system, and other techniques for shared, trusted token generation for a token-bucket flow control policy implemented in a distributed ledger. Tokens may be generated by blocks in the distributed ledger, which may be a blockchain system. Trusted execution hardware may be used as a proof algorithm to ensure that a token exists, and that client has legitimately acquired or accumulated the token prior to using it to submit a transaction.
US11243976B2
A system and computerized method for monitoring and analyzing animal related data. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor and memory operable to identify a parameter related to animal management for species in a biological environment, aggregate animal related data from different sources about the parameter of the species, identify a baseline for the parameter, correlate the animal related data against the baseline to obtain correlated data, and analyze said correlated data to assess said animal management.
US11243970B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure a method of database connection management includes measuring a pattern of database connection use between a database and a client application. The pattern may include a number of database connections used by the client application under multiple conditions and a number of database connections in a connection pool under the plurality of conditions. The method may include identifying a first condition under which an increase in the number of database connections in the connection pool results in a decrease in connection delay. In response to existence of the first condition, the method may include adding a new database connection to the connection pool such that the new database connection is available to the client application in advance of a connection request for the new database connection.
US11243962B2
A storage system includes a plurality of storage devices in a storage chassis and configured to store objects, an Ethernet switch in the storage chassis, a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) connected to the storage devices, and a memory connected to the BMC. The plurality of storage devices include a query storage device and a candidate storage device, and the storage devices are connected to each other via the Ethernet switch in the storage chassis. The memory or the query storage devices is configured to store metadata corresponding to the objects stored in the candidate storage device.
US11243960B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to interface among repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities configured to access datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform to implement computerized tools to facilitate expedited queries based on query results generated by disparate computing and database architectures, according to at least some examples. For example, a method may include generating multiple results of queries, storing the multiple results of queries in a memory, and linking each of the multiple results of queries to a portion of data stored in a graph. The method can include receiving data representing a query and accessing data representing quiescent data values to form a query result.
US11243956B1
Databases may enforce foreign key constraints for efficient materialized view updates. A materialized view may be created for a database. Updates to the database may be received and performed according to a foreign key constraint enforced with respect to the updates. An update to the materialized view may be performed to make the materialized view consistent with the updates to the database. Performance of a join operation to update the materialized view that would return a result violating the foreign key constraint may be excluded from the update to the materialized view.
US11243955B2
The present invention may receive the question, a plurality of the candidate answers, and a plurality of documents associated with the plurality of candidate answers in the natural language. Then the present invention may tokenize the question, the plurality of the candidate answers, and the plurality of the documents into a corresponding n-gram sequence. The present invention may map n-gram elements from the tokenized question to the n-gram elements of the plurality of the tokenized candidate answers and the plurality of the tokenized documents using the latent token representation technique. The present invention may score the plurality of tokenized candidate answers based on the latent token representation technique. Then, the present invention may determine the precise answer based on the plurality of scored candidate answers.
US11243952B2
Expedition of retrieval of data from a database and loading of the retrieved data in an associated application. A cache table within the database is provided that associates a session identifier (i.e., a data record identifier) with a sequence identifier. As data records are received into the database, a sequencer is triggered that generates a sequence identifier for the data record and an entry is created in the cache table that associates the sequence identifier with the session identifier. Data is retrieved from the database and populated within the application, by (i) accessing the sequencer within the database to determine the last-in-time sequence identifier, (ii) accessing the cache table to determine a range of cache table entries based on the last-in-time sequence identifier, and (iii) retrieving the data records in the applicable data tables based on the associated session identifiers in the cache table entries.
US11243944B2
A computer-implemented method of answering questions comprises: receiving, by one or more processors, a query; based on the query, generating, by the one or more processors, a matrix; based on the matrix, modifying, by the one or more processors, a dynamic memory; based on the matrix, determining, by the one or more processors, a first response from the dynamic memory; based on the matrix, determining, by the one or more processors, a second response from a database; based on the first response and the second response, determining, by the one or more processors, a third response; and in response to the query, providing, by the one or more processors, the third response.
US11243939B1
A journaled database system may comprise data nodes that collectively maintain a collection of data and provide clients with read and write access to the collection. Correlated classification functions may be associated with read and write operations, such that items affected by a write operation are classified similarly to items accessed during a read operation. Read and write signatures may be formed based on the classification. Conflicts may be detected by comparing the read and write signatures for equivalent or overlapping classifications.
US11243930B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for storing data in a bucket of a plurality of buckets. A spare bucket may be reserved in the plurality of buckets. A copy of the data may be stored in the spare bucket. A pointer to the data in the bucket and a pointer to the copy of the data in the spare bucket may be updated based upon, at least in part, storing the data in the bucket and storing the copy of the data in the spare bucket.
US11243894B2
A method of protecting software for embedded applications against unauthorized access is disclosed. Software to be protected is loaded into a protected memory area and access to the protected memory area is controlled by sentinel logic circuitry. The sentinel logic circuitry allows access to the protected memory area only either from within the protected memory area or from outside of the protected memory area but through a dedicated memory location within the protected memory area. The dedicated memory location then points to protected address locations within the protected memory area.
US11243890B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to verifying compressed data. Compressed data files can be read from a global cache for a storage device into a local buffer. A data verification level of a plurality of data verification levels can be selected to perform on the compressed data files. An amount of data blocks of each data file can be decompressed based on the determined data verification level. An integrity of the compressed data files verified using the decompressed data blocks.
US11243889B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for a cache architecture. An example apparatus that includes a cache architecture according to the present disclosure can include an array of memory cells configured to store multiple cache entries per page of memory cells; and sense circuitry configured to determine whether cache data corresponding to a request from a cache controller is located at a location in the array corresponding to the request, and return a response to the cache controller indicating whether cache data is located at the location in the array corresponding to the request.
US11243888B2
A data storage apparatus includes storage divided into unit physical regions and having data stored therein, a buffer memory having buffer memory regions loaded with a map table comprising map data respectively indicating connection information between logical addresses of a host and start physical addresses for the unit physical regions, and a controller configured to: control data input and output to and from the storage according to a request of a host, to read, based on a map table address corresponding to a logical address included in the request, the map data for the logical address from the buffer memory, and to remap the map data by merging source map data of a buffer memory region having a number of errors equal to or greater than a threshold value with victim map data of a buffer memory region having a number of errors less than the threshold value.
US11243886B2
A memory module comprises a volatile memory subsystem configured to coupled to a memory channel in computer system and capable of serving as main memory for the computer system, a non-volatile memory subsystem providing storage for the computer system, and a module controller coupled to the volatile memory subsystem, the non-volatile memory subsystem, and the C/A bus. The module controller is configured to control intra-module data transfers between the volatile memory subsystem and the non-volatile memory subsystem. The module controller is further configured to monitor C/A signals on the C/A bus and schedule the intra-module data transfers in accordance with the C/A signals so that the intra-module data transfers do not conflict with accesses to the volatile memory subsystem by the memory controller.
US11243884B2
A method of prefetching target data includes, in response to detecting a lock-prefixed instruction for execution in a processor, determining a predicted target memory location for the lock-prefixed instruction based on control flow information associating the lock-prefixed instruction with the predicted target memory location. Target data is prefetched from the predicted target memory location to a cache coupled with the processor, and after completion of the prefetching, the lock-prefixed instruction is executed in the processor using the prefetched target data.
US11243881B2
An apparatus including (i) a processor including a plurality of main buffer on board (BOB) memory controllers (MCs) and a secure engine, (ii) a plurality of simple BOB MCs, (iii) a secure delegator, and (iv) a plurality of memory modules. The secure delegator coupled to a first main BOB MC and a first simple BOB MC creates a secure channel. A second main BOB MC coupled to a second simple BOB MC creates a non-secure channel. The plurality of main BOB MCs, the secure engine and the secure delegator are provided within a trusted computing base (TCB) of the apparatus and the plurality of simple BOB MCs and the plurality of memory modules are provided outside the TCB. The secure delegator is configured to: (i) secure communication between the first main BOB MC and the secure delegator, and (ii) perform Path ORAM accesses to the plurality of memory modules.
US11243879B2
Non-volatile devices may be configured such that a clear operation on a single bit clears an entire block of bits. The representation of particular data structures may be optimized to reduce the number of clear operations required to store the representation in non-volatile memory. A data schema may indicate that a data structure of an application may be optimized for storage in non-volatile memory. A translation layer may convert an application level representation of a data value associated with the data structure to an optimized storage representation of the data value before storing the optimized storage representation of the data value in non-volatile memory.
US11243876B2
Techniques for accessing off-heap memory are disclosed. The system may receive a memory segment layout definition for a memory segment in a physical memory of a machine. The memory segment layout definition defines a number of elements and a number of sub-elements in each element of the plurality of elements. The system may allocate the particular memory segment in the physical memory and may store a reference to a position of a sub-element. The system may receive a request to access a first sub-element of a particular element of the plurality of elements. Based on the request, the system may identify the memory segment corresponding to the plurality of elements, identify the particular element of the plurality of elements, identify the first sub-element of the plurality of elements based the position of the first sub-element, and execute an Input or Output (IO) operation corresponding to the request.
US11243868B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method, computer system and computer program product for application containerization. According to the computer-implemented method, an application to be containerized can be traced. Information obtained in the tracing can be analyzed to determine one or more features of the application. An image template for the application can be created based on the one or more features. Then, a container image for the application can be built based on the image template.
US11243867B1
Techniques for modifying a user interface in which respective elements are presented if the criteria for those elements are satisfied include receiving criteria and element characteristics for a new or modified user interface element. The criteria for the new or modified element are compared to criteria for existing elements to determine other elements that could be presented contemporaneously if a request satisfying multiple sets of criteria is received. For each element with corresponding criteria, the characteristics of the element are compared to those of the new or modified user interface element to determine whether the sets of characteristics are mutually exclusive. If the characteristics are mutually exclusive, a conflict exists and information regarding the author of the existing element and the goal or rationale associated with the element may be provided to the user attempting to modify the user interface.
US11243865B2
An information processing system according to the present invention includes: an analysis device; and a control device. The analysis device performs first operations. The first operations includes: executing analysis, based on an analysis rule with respect to data to be input as an object of analysis; outputting an analysis result; managing the analysis rule; The analysis device store the analysis rule; and analysis state information indicating a state of the analysis to be generated or referred to by the first processor. The control device performs second operations. The second operations includes: monitoring a usage status of the first memory storing the analysis state information; acquiring and managing an evaluation result with respect to the analysis result; and controlling the analysis rule via the analysis device, based on a usage status of the first memory storing the analysis state information and the evaluation result.
US11243862B2
A data processing method includes a step of obtaining scores of time-series data by comparing the time-series data with reference data in order to process time-series data acquired in a substrate processing apparatus having one or more processing units, a step of classifying the scores into a plurality of levels, and a step of displaying an evaluation result screen including a graph showing an occurrence rate of each level of the scores, the number of occurrences of each level, and a graph showing temporal change in the number of occurrences of a worst level of the scores when substrates have been processed through a predetermined method with respect to the processing units. Accordingly, a data processing method through which a state of the substrate processing apparatus can be easily ascertained is provided.
US11243861B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for intercepting telemetry events obtained during operation of an application and analyzing the telemetry events are provided. The telemetry events are intercepted at the library level by interposing on application calls to a native library. The telemetry events are collected and transmitted to a platform that analyzes the collected events and presents information based on the analysis.
US11243860B2
A computerized apparatus for presenting vibration data that is read under different conditions as a single trend line on a chart. A sensor measures vibration and produces vibration data. A memory stores the vibration data, an indicator of the condition under which the vibration data was produced, and a type associated with the vibration data. A processor reads the vibration data, the condition, and the type from the memory, and selectively plots the vibration data on the trend line when the type of the vibration data matches a given value, even though the condition might be different from data point to data point on the trend line. The processor selectively creates a flag indicating a condition change, and an interface presents a plot of the trend line, and the flag when a condition change occurs between data points.
US11243859B2
A baseboard management controller (BMC) may be configured to enable a communication interface from the BMC to a host processor on a host computing device and provide input to the host processor via the communication interface. The input causes at least one diagnostic operation to be performed on the host computing device. The BMC may collect host information in response to the diagnostic operation(s) being performed. The BMC may report the host information to another entity and/or store the host information in persistent memory within the BMC. In some embodiments, the input may be provided to the host processor in response to receiving a signal from a fabric controller. In some embodiments, the input may be provided to the host processor in response to detecting an anomaly associated with the host computing device. The BMC may take at least one action to mitigate the anomaly.
US11243845B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for data backup. The method comprises selecting, from a service store, a backup service for an application. The method further comprises setting, for the application, configuration information associated with the selected backup service. Additionally, the method further comprises in response to the backup service being enabled, deploying a backup service agent corresponding to the backup service to a source node associated with the application based on the configuration information, such that data of the application is backed up from the source node to a target node via the backup service agent.
US11243843B2
A method and system for optimizing backup and backup discovery operations using change based metadata tracking (CBMT). Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail eliminating the storage and subsequent transmission of redundant asset metadata information to a central coordination point during backup discovery operations, which may strain central coordination point resources, as well as client device resources. Accordingly, rather than re-sharing the same asset metadata information every time a backup discovery initiates, the client device tracks, maintains, and transmits only changes in asset metadata, thereby conserving resource utilization.
US11243842B2
A streaming distributed decentralized database task system can perform multiple tasks on clusters of nodes without overloading the clusters' computational resources, such as disk, memory, processors, and network bandwidth. A cluster master can manage a job and add items to node queues. A node manager accepts or rejects queue items based on streaming task limits that are applied at the node level.
US11243838B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods and apparatuses for correcting errors in data stored in a solid state device. The solid state device may have a plurality of bits stored in multi-level memory cells. The method may include identifying one or more errors in a plurality of memory cells. The method may further include converting the erroneous cells to erasures. The method may further include correcting the one or more erasures.
US11243836B2
A processing device comprising compression circuitry to: determine a compression configuration to compress source data; generate a checksum of the source data in an uncompressed state; compress the source data into at least one block based on the compression configuration, wherein the at least one block comprises: a plurality of sub-blocks, wherein the plurality of sub-block includes a predetermined size; a block header corresponding to the plurality of sub-blocks; and decompression circuitry coupled to the compression circuitry, wherein the decompression circuitry to: while not outputting a decompressed data stream of the source data: generate index information corresponding to the plurality of sub-blocks; in response to generating the index information, generate a checksum of the compressed source data associated with the plurality of sub-blocks; and determine whether the checksum of the source data in the uncompressed format matches the checksum of the compressed source data.
US11243834B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method. In at least some examples, the method includes receiving logs of a computer system, wherein a log comprises information regarding an operation of the computer system. The method also includes performing a course analysis of the logs to identify invariants, parameters, and gray area terms included in the logs, wherein gray area terms are terms included in the logs that are undefined between identifications of invariant or parameter by the course analysis. The method also includes performing a fine analysis to identify each of the gray area terms as either an invariant or a parameter to generate first log parsing templates, wherein the fine analysis is a sequence labeling analysis. The method also includes performing a similarity analysis to combine similar templates from among the first log parsing templates to form second log templates.
US11243831B2
In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of memory components and a processing device that is operatively coupled with the plurality of memory components. The processing device includes a host interface, an access management component, a media management component (MMC), and an MMC-restart manager that is configured to perform operations including detecting a triggering event for restarting the MMC, and responsively performing MMC-restart operations that include suspending operation of the access management component; determining whether the MMC is operating, and if so then suspending operation of the MMC; resetting the MMC; resuming operation of the MMC; and resuming operation of the access management component.
US11243829B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: dynamically obtain a plurality of metadata from a global memory of a storage system; dynamically predict anticipated metadata based on the dynamically obtained metadata, wherein anticipated metadata is relevant to anticipated input/output (I/O) operations of the storage system; and dynamically instruct the storage system to load anticipated metadata into the global memory.
US11243828B2
A semiconductor system according to an embodiment includes: a semiconductor system including a normal memory cell array and a redundancy memory cell array for repairing a defective cell among memory cells within the normal memory cell array, and configured to output to an external a fail flag generated according to a number of fail bits within read data output from the redundancy memory cell array; and a host configured to store an address corresponding to the read data into a selected register group from among a plurality of register groups, the selected register group being matched to the fail flag.
US11243826B2
The described technology relates to a publish-subscribe message framework in which an application, decomposed to a plurality of processing stages, is run by executing respective processing stages of the application asynchronously and simultaneously with each other. Communications between the respective processing stages may exclusively be in accordance with the publish-subscribe execution model. The described publish-subscribe framework provides for processing stages to be executed in a multi-process and/or multi-threaded manner while also enabling the distribution of the processing stages to respective processing resources in a multi-processor/multi-core processing environment. An example electronic exchange application and a corresponding example exchange gateway application are described.
US11243821B1
It is possible to make data for manufacturing devices available in a standard format using an adapter that would automatically interrogate the device and use the information gained from the machine to generate a data translation file. The data translation file could subsequently be used by an agent to interpret a data stream provided by the adapter for the manufacturing device.
US11243816B2
A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining an intermediate computer code object including a set of instructions corresponding to a task to be performed. The intermediate computer code object—being machine independent—further includes for each of the at least one set of instructions one or more metadata descriptors representative of at least a complexity measure of the task to be performed. The method also comprises executing the intermediate computer code object on a computing platform comprising at least two different execution units having a different memory with a different memory location. This executing comprises selecting for each of the at least one set of instructions a target execution unit from the plurality of execution units. This selecting takes the one or more metadata descriptors and a decision rule into account, wherein the decision rule relates the plurality of complexity measures to a performance characteristic of the plurality of execution units.
US11243809B2
A hardware state machine connected to a processor, the hardware state machine configured to receive operational codes from the processor; a multiplexer connected to the processor, the hardware state machine and a checksum circuit, the multiplexer configured to receive data from the processor; and a transmit circuit connected to the multiplexer, the transmit circuit configured to receive data from the multiplexer for transmission to a far end device, wherein the hardware state machine is further configured to, responsive receiving one or more operational codes from the processor: cause the checksum circuit to alter a checksum value of a first data packet being transmitted by the transmit circuit; and cause the transmit circuit to preempt transmission of the first data packet and begin transmitting a second data packet once the checksum value so altered has been transmitted from the transmit circuit.
US11243804B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods to implement time to live for memory access by processors. For example, a processor has a register configured to store a parameter specifying a time duration indicative of the desired time to live. A memory system has multiple components with different latencies for memory access. When the memory controller of the processor sends a command to the memory system to load an item from a memory address, the memory system can fail to provide, to the processor within the time duration, the item from the memory address currently being hosted in a first component. In response, the memory controller can send a signal to abort the command; and the memory system can select a second component having a memory access latency shorter than the first component, and change the hosting of the memory address from in the first component to in the second component.
US11243803B2
Computerized robotic process automation (RPA) methods and systems that increase the flexibility and lower the cost with which RPA systems may be deployed are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an RPA system and method avoids the need for preinstalled RPA software on a device employed by a user to create and/or execute software robots to perform RPA. In another embodiment, an RPA system and method provides a capability to execute software robots that may have been encoded in one or more programming languages to execute on an operating system different than that employed by a server of the RPA system.
US11243794B2
Techniques are described for optimizing the allocation of computing resources provided by a service provider network—for example, compute resources such as virtual machine (VM) instances, containers, standalone servers, and possibly other types of computing resources—among computing workloads associated with a user or group of users of the service provider network. A service provider network provides various tools and interfaces to help businesses and other organizations optimize the utilization of computing resource pools obtained by the organizations from the service provider network, including the ability to efficiently schedule use of the resources among workloads having varying resource demands, usage patterns, relative priorities, execution deadlines, or combinations thereof. A service provider network further provides various graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to help users visualize and manage the historical and scheduled uses of computing resources by users' workloads according to user preferences.
US11243773B1
A computer system, includes a store queue that holds store entries and a load queue that holds load entries sleeping on a store entry. A processor detects a store drain merge operation call and generates a pair of store tags comprising a first store tag corresponding to a first store entry to be drained and a second store tag corresponding to a second store entry to be drained. The processor determines the pair of store tags an even-type store tag or an odd-type store tag. The processor disables the odd store tag included in the even-type store tag pair when detecting the even-type store tag pair, and wakes up a first load entry dependent on the even store tag and a second load entry dependent on the odd store tag based on the even store tag included in the even-type store tag pair while the odd store tag is disabled.
US11243770B2
An instruction stream includes a transactional code region. The transactional code region includes a latent modification instruction (LMI), a next sequential instruction (NSI) following the LMI, and a set of target instructions following the NSI in program order. Each target instruction has an associated function, and the LMI at least partially specifies a substitute function for the associated function. A processor executes the LMI, the NSI, and at least one of the target instructions, employing the substitute function at least partially specified by the LMI. The LMI, the NSI, and the target instructions may be executed by the processor in sequential program order or out of order.
US11243768B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to processing logic for performing function operations. In one example, and apparatus includes an execution unit within a processor to execute a code block, power management hardware coupled to the execution unit, wherein the power management hardware is to monitor a first execution of the code block, store a micro-architectural context of the processor in a metadata block associated with the code block, the micro-architectural context including performance data resulting from the first execution of the code block, the performance data comprising power and energy usage data, and power management related parameters, read the associated metadata block upon a second execution of the code block, and tune the second execution based on the performance data stored in the associated metadata block to increase efficiency of executing the code block.
US11243765B2
Apparatus and method to transform complex data including a processor that comprises: multiplier circuitry to multiply packed complex N-bit data elements with packed complex M-bit data elements to generate at least four real products; adder circuitry to subtract a first real product from a second real product to generate a first temporary result, subtract a third real product from a fourth real product to generate a second temporary result, add the first temporary result to a first packed N-bit data element to generate a first pre-scaled result, subtract the first temporary result from the first packed N-bit data element to generate a second pre-scaled result, add the second temporary result to a second packed N-bit data element to generate a third pre-scaled result, and subtract the second temporary result from the second packed N-bit data element to generate a fourth pre-scaled result; and scaling circuitry to scale the pre-scaled results.
US11243764B1
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, a device and a computer program product for code deployment are proposed. In the method, a deployment strategy for deploying code into a plurality of computing environments and respective amounts of resources provided by the plurality of computing environments are obtained. At least one code segment of the code to be deployed in a corresponding computing environment comprised in the plurality of computing environments is determined based on the deployment strategy and the respective amounts of resources. An amount of resources provided by the corresponding computing environment is sufficient to run the at least one code segment. The at least one code segment is deployed into the corresponding computing environment.
US11243757B2
A method, and systems and articles of manufacture for performing the method, may be provided for use in an information handling system comprising one or more processors and a memory system communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The method may include enumerating memory modules of the memory system and installing a concurrent firmware protocol to each of the memory modules, wherein the concurrent firmware protocol is configured to individually execute an update routine on each of the memory modules. The update routine may be configured to, on each memory module, store a to-be-applied firmware update in a protected non-volatile region of the memory module and pull the to-be-applied firmware update from the protected non-volatile region of the memory module and perform a self-update of firmware for the memory module.
US11243745B2
A family of piece tree data structures and related algorithms are described, for buffering editable text in a digital memory. A piece tree includes one or more string buffers and a tree, such as a balanced binary tree. Tree nodes identify respective substrings in the buffer(s), and correspond to edits of the content loaded into a text editor. Specific changes in data structures and the impact of those changes on performance relative to other buffering structures are discussed, including reduced memory usage, faster file loading, and the impact of accumulated edit operations. Offsets of text items such as line breaks are tracked, permitting optimizations for locating them in a text. Benchmark testing results are presented. Source code editors provide examples, but the piece tree buffering structures and their related traversal, (re)configuration, and other algorithms can be part of text editors in a variety of application or subject matter areas.
US11243739B2
A computer program product and method for sending sensor data, the computer program product including a set of non-transitory computer readable instructions stored on a memory and executable by a processor, the set of non-transitory computer readable instructions arranged to: obtain gesture data from at least one sensor of a first wearable audio device; determine a first gesture from the gesture data; and, assign the first gesture to a device-agnostic gesture comprising at least one of: an Augmented Reality (AR) input variable, an affirmative input variable, or a negative input variable.
US11243727B2
A printing apparatus performs conversion processing that converts input data corresponding to a page into image data, executes a predetermined operation for transition of a printhead to a printing standby state, in a case where image data is delayed, performs holding processing that holds the image data in a data memory, and performs retaining processing until an amount of image data held in the data memory exceeds a predetermined amount. The printing apparatus also outputs the image data in the data memory in a case where the amount of image data held in the data memory exceeds the predetermined amount, and executes printhead printing based on the output image data. In a case where input data still remains, the conversion processing for the remaining input data is performed concurrently with the printing based on the output image data.
US11243725B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program for a terminal device. The terminal device includes a storage, an operation unit, a display, and a controller. The program, when executed by the controller, causes the terminal device to perform, based on receiving an input from a user via the operation unit, sending a signal to image processing devices, including a particular image processing device, that are on the same network as the terminal device; receiving responses to the signal from the image processing devices; and based on receiving a response to the signal from the particular image processing device that is identified by device identification information stored in the storage, displaying, in the display, a device list listing device information of the particular image processing device in an emphasized manner.
US11243719B2
According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a non-volatile memory, an interface circuit, a first control circuit, a wireless transmitting and receiving circuit, and a second control circuit. The interface circuit is electrically connected to the host device and is capable of communicating the host device. The first control circuit performs control of writing write data received from the host device via the interface circuit into the non-volatile memory. The wireless transmitting and receiving circuit is capable of wirelessly communicating with a wireless device. The second control circuit determines whether or not the write data include a predetermined type of data based on measurement data of the write data, and stops wireless communication performed by the wireless transmitting and receiving circuit if it is determined that the write data include the predetermined type of data.
US11243715B2
A memory controller for processing a flush request includes: a request message controller configured to generate a command or control signal in response to a request of a host, a delay time determiner configured to, when the request is a current flush request, generate delay information based on a number of write requests between a last received flush request before the current flush request and the received flush request and a response message controller configured to generate a flush response corresponding to the received flush request message based on the delay information.
US11243711B2
A data storage device stores data in non-volatile memory. In one approach, a method includes: storing software in a compressed format in a first mode (e.g., an SLC mode) in a non-volatile memory; exposing, while the software is stored in the first mode, the non-volatile memory to a temperature greater than a predetermined threshold; determining that the temperature of the non-volatile memory has fallen below the predetermined threshold; and in response to determining that the temperature of the non-volatile memory has fallen below the predetermined threshold: decompressing the stored software, and storing the decompressed software in a second mode (e.g., TLC mode) in the non-volatile memory. The second mode has a storage density higher than the first mode.
US11243703B2
Implementations of the disclosure describe an expandable index including pages that may store object records. The index may be divided into buckets, and each bucket may be associated with pages from a pool of unused pages shared by the buckets. A table or log may be used to maintain a dynamic list of all unused pages. It may also maintain a list of pages currently associated with buckets. As pages are linked to or unlinked from a bucket, the table or log may be updated to reflect that a page has been linked to a bucket or that a page that is no longer linked to a bucket belongs to the pool of unused pages. As additional storage media are added to the system, additional pages may be added to the pool of the expandable index for use by existing buckets without changing the number of buckets of the index.
US11243697B1
Technology for choosing a design for a computer data storage system having a prescribed reliability. The selection of a “matching storage system,” matching the prescribed reliability is based on computation of first and second reliability indicators.
US11243694B2
Provided is a method of completing object IOs, the method including receiving a first set of object IOs for a target storage device, dispatching the first set of object IOs to a first buffer of a first zone, the first buffer being configured to function as a first log buffer, concatenating the first set of object IOs to form a first object group in the first buffer, logging the first object group to a log device, modifying a function of the first buffer from the first log buffer to a first flush buffer, and transferring the first object group to the target storage device.
US11243684B2
The present invention relates to an enhanced control of a measurement device displaying a signal waveform of a measurement signal. For this purpose, the waveform of the measurement signal is displayed on a touch-screen. The touch-screen receives multi-digit touch gestures comprising at least two touch gestures. The touch gestures of the multi-digit touch gesture are analyzed in order to determine simultaneously an operation and a range of the measurement signal on which the determined operation has to be applied. In this way, the control of the measurement device can be simplified.
US11243683B2
A computer-implemented method for executing a default action on a touchscreen device is provided. The method includes receiving a touch input from a user on a touchscreen device and determining a context associated with the touch input. The context is associated with one or more actions including a default action. The method also includes determining that the received touch input comprises a default gesture, and performing the default action associated with the determined context. The default gesture may be a two-finger double-tap gesture. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11243675B1
A system and method for modifying the appearance of graphical elements in an application (“app”) to promote cross-brand synergy for a company is described. In one embodiment, the app displays a top-level banner menu that includes a plurality of selectable icons. Each selectable icon serves as a link to a landing page for a specific product group (“brand”) of the company. When the user initially accesses the app, each of the selectable icons appear greyed-out. When a user selects one of the icons in order to navigate to the landing page for the corresponding product group, the app responds by altering the appearance of that icon from a greyscale to a chromatic format. In some cases, the color applied to the icon corresponds to the color associated with the selected brand.
US11243662B2
A method for arranging components in a two-dimensional area includes a component preparation module for providing a set of components for arrangement, determining rectangular covers for each component, and ordering components according to a predefined order preference, and a core layout module for mapping components in order to positions in the arrangement with a first width and in a first direction, including: a row module for positioning components in order in a first full row across the first direction of the first width aligning one of the top or bottom sides of the covers of adjacent components until the next component does not fit in the first width, and a sub-row module for positioning components in any available space within the height of the first full row to form one or more sub-rows in the first direction and extending a distance less than the first width.
US11243661B1
Technologies and techniques for providing navigation within a workspace on a processing device for electronic healthcare record systems are disclosed. Systems, apparatus, and methods disclosed provide generation of a workspace to be displayed for the processing device, which receives data relating to the workspace and at least one toolbar to be displayed with the workspace. A toolbar manager is used is process the received data related to the workspace and the at least one toolbar in order to generate at least one toolbar. The toolbar is configured according to a particular domain and includes one or more areas selectable for expanding the toolbar within the workspace to display information relevant to the particular domain.
US11243660B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for displaying an application, and a storage medium. The method includes detecting a start of a target sliding operation by a user on a terminal; in response to detecting the start of the target sliding operation, displaying an application list on a current display interface of the terminal, the application list including an application identification of at least one application installed on the terminal; acquiring an end position of the target sliding operation on the application list; determining an application indicted by a first application identification displayed at the end position as a target application selected by the user; and displaying an application interface of the target application on the current display interface.
US11243654B2
A method of enhancing user interaction with content displayed on a display of a touch screen device is provided. The method includes displaying at least one enhanced cursor within a viewable area of the display, the at least one enhanced cursor having a predefined action associated therewith, and receiving a selection of the at least one enhanced cursor. The method also includes detecting movement of the selected at least one enhance cursor onto displayed content, and executing the predefined action on the content. The method may further include detecting a subject matter of content being displayed on a display of a device coupled to the processor. Furthermore, a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for execution by a processor that cause the processor to perform the provided method may also be provided.
US11243650B2
This disclosure relates to a method, system, and computer program product for accessing remote desktop applications. In one implementation, a computer-implement method is provided. According to the method, a split view of a window of an application running on a host device is determined at the host device, wherein the split view comprises a plurality of sub-windows, and each of the sub-windows provides a view of a portion of the window. Information about the sub-windows is sent to a client device in communication with the host device. Frame buffer data of at least one of the sub-windows is transmitted to the client device in response to receiving a selection of the at least one sub-window from the client device.
US11243648B2
The present disclosure provides a touch panel, an array substrate and a display device. The touch panel includes a touch control electrode unit including a first electrode and a second electrode which are insulated from each other, and the second electrode surrounds the first electrode. In the touch panel in which the second electrode surrounds the first electrode in the touch control electrode unit, since the first electrode and the second electrode are provided independently, touch control driving and sensing are performed on the first electrode and the second electrode respectively when the touch panel is being touched.
US11243646B2
A display device displays an image and also detects a touch by a user. The display device includes a plurality of touch detection electrodes, a conductive member, and a floating electrode. The plurality of touch detection electrodes are disposed overlapping a display region in a plan view, and the conductive member is disposed in a position closer to a surface touched by the user than the plurality of touch detection electrodes. The floating electrode is disposed in a position closer to the surface touched by the user than the plurality of touch detection electrodes, and overlaps at least a part of each of the plurality of touch detection electrodes in the plan view.
US11243644B2
A touch display device comprises a touch panel including a plurality of touch electrodes; and a touch driving circuit configured to sense one or more of the plurality of touch electrodes, wherein the touch driving circuit has an operation period including a plurality of touch intervals that includes a first sensing interval and a second sensing interval, and the first sensing interval includes at least a first time division sensing interval and the second sensing interval includes at least a second time division sensing interval, and wherein the touch driving circuit is configured to detect a pen signal output from a first pen through one or more touch electrodes of the plurality of touch electrodes during the first time division sensing interval, and detect a pen signal output from a second pen through one or more touch electrodes of the plurality of touch electrodes during the second time division sensing interval.
US11243642B2
It is disclosed a capacitive touch sensor (10) comprising a support layer (1) and a plurality of sensing elongated elements (2) coupled to said support layer (1), said plurality of sensing elongated elements (2) comprising a plurality of electrically resistive elongated elements (2r), wherein said plurality of electrically resistive elongated elements (2r) comprises a first set (2rx) of electrically resistive elongated elements (2r) electrically connected to a first common node (Nx) configured to be electrically connected to a first input (INx) of a detection device (5), said detection device (5) being configured to provide an output signal (S_OUT) comprising a first output value (OUTx) that is a function of the capacitance value (CRx) of said first set (2rx) of electrically resistive elongated elements (2r). An article comprising the capacitive touch sensor (10) and a method for detecting a touch event on a support layer (1) are also disclosed.
US11243621B1
Embodiments exemplify an ambidextrous multifunctional personal protection finger-mounted keyring ergonomic microbial surface contact mitigation stylus tool, grasped by a user to mitigate hand contact with surfaces, and electrically interact with a capacitive device touchscreen. The stylus tool can also effect force transmission and motion to a movable surface, and can include a rigid elongated stem having a proximal end with at least a transverse aperture that supports a removably and pivotably docked ring can be used as a rotationally locking keyring and the fulcrum of a third-class lever. The stylus tool can further include a compliantly coupled and ejectable cap on the stem distal end, and a mechanism that includes an ergonomic actuator to removably separate, without the user hand touching the cap, eject the disposable and replaceable cap from the stem by axially sliding thereon, and optionally activating a capacitive device touchscreen.
US11243617B2
A system and method for transmitting an input value to a computing device are included herein. The method includes detecting sensor data in a stylus. The method also includes detecting a gesture event with the stylus. In addition, the method includes generating an input value based on the sensor data and the gesture event. Furthermore, the method includes sending the input value from the stylus to a computing device.
US11243599B2
A semiconductor device connectable between a first power-supply line connected to a power source and through which power is continuously supplied to a first circuit, and a second power-supply line that is not directly connected to the power source and is connected to a second circuit, includes a first switch connectable between the first and second power-supply lines and turned on in response to a signal for supplying power to the second circuit, a second switch connectable between the first and second power-supply lines and having a current supply capability higher than the first switch, and a control circuit configured to turn on the second switch when the first switch is turned on and a voltage applied to the second power-supply line has reached a threshold.
US11243594B2
An electronic device including a PDIC, a charging IC, and a processor. The PDIC determines whether an external device is connected to the USB port, through a first pin of a USB port. The charging IC outputs a first voltage, which is a voltage obtained by boosting a voltage provided by a battery, to the external device through a second pin, when the external device is connected to the USB port. The processor is configured to determine whether the external device connected to the USB port is a first external device having a specified VID and a specified PID, through a third pin of the USB port, and to transmit a first signal, which controls the charging IC to output a second voltage having a magnitude less than the first voltage, to the charging IC when the first external device is connected to the USB port.
US11243584B2
A component-level cooling system for cooling components in a chassis includes a fan in a housing positioned on a circuit board. The housing has a fan inlet on a side, a first fan outlet on one end and a second fan outlet on a second end opposite the first end. The first fan outlet may direct a first airflow in a first direction to a vent on a first panel of the chassis. The second fan outlet may direct a second airflow in a second direction opposite the first direction. A duct comprises a duct inlet for receiving the second airflow, an elbow for redirecting the second airflow in a third direction to avoid the second airflow from colliding with a main airflow to reduce acoustic noise, and a duct outlet located to avoid heated air exiting the duct from re-entering the fan inlet.
US11243577B2
The present disclosure relates to a flexible display device including a first body; a second body configured to be relatively movable with respect to the first body; a flexible display disposed on a front surface of the first body and a rear surface of the second body, and configured to vary in size of areas that are exposed to the front surface of the first body and to the rear surface of the second body as the first body and the second body are relatively moved; and a rear window unit detachably coupled to the rear surface of the second body, and configured to cover the flexible display exposed to the rear surface of the second body.
US11243574B2
The disclosure provides a flexible display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a flexible display device. A flexible display panel according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a flexible substrate comprising a display area and a non-display area, the non-display area is provided with a bendable area; a display element arranged in the display area of the flexible substrate; a flexible element arranged in the bendable area of the flexible substrate; a backside protection film arranged on a side of the flexible substrate away from the display element; the backside protection film is provided with a groove; a length direction of the groove is parallel to a direction of a bending axis of the bendable area.
US11243571B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides an electronic device including a main body, a flexible screen, and a processor, the main body being a reel structure; the flexible screen being selectively in a first state wound inside the main body and a second state being released from the main body, the processor being configured to control the flexible screen to be changed between the first state and the second state in response to operation instructions applied on the main body or the flexible screen.
US11243563B2
The description relates to devices and progressive forces between device portions. In one example, an extent of compression of a compressible material component can affect magnetic attraction between the device portions.
US11243556B2
A knob assembly for a gas valve of a cooking appliance and a method of assembling said knob assembly is provided. The knob assembly can include a knob configured to engage a valve stem of the gas valve and a lock assembly including a locking element and a locking plate. The locking element can include at least one cam element that can be engaged by at least one projection carried by the locking plate. The locking plate can be configured to rotate relative to the locking element between a first position in which the at least one projection engages the at least one cam element and a second position in which the at least one projection is disengaged from the at least one cam element, and wherein in the first position the at least one cam element inhibits actuation of the gas valve by the knob.
US11243554B1
Techniques for providing temperature trim codes to multiple reference circuits of an integrated circuit are provided. In an example, a string of primary latch circuits can provide a set of pre-defined temperature trim codes to a multiplexer in response to a token of a series of tokens. The multiplexer can provide two trim of the trim codes to an interpolator based on a temperature reading of the integrated circuit. The interpolator can provide an interpolated trim code and the trim code can be distributed to a reference circuit based on the token.
US11243548B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for identifying autonomous vehicles that are causing traffic congestion due to anticipation of a pick-up event. The method includes one or more processors obtaining data of one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle. The method further includes obtaining video data of a location that includes the autonomous vehicle. The method further includes determining a route of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the video data of the location that includes the autonomous vehicle. The method further includes determining whether the autonomous vehicle is performing a traffic infraction based at least in part on the route of the autonomous vehicle.
US11243545B1
Methods for detecting an alignment of a robot with a virtual line, including: transmitting, with at least one transmitter of the robot, a first signal; receiving, with a first receiver and a second receiver of a device, the first signal; detecting, with the device, that the robot is aligned with the virtual line when the first receiver and the second receiver of the device simultaneously receive the first signal; transmitting, with at least one transmitter of the device, a second signal indicating that the robot is aligned with the virtual line; receiving, with at least one receiver of the robot, the second signal; actuating, with a processor of the robot, the robot to execute a movement upon receiving the second signal; and marking, with the processor of the robot, the location of the device in a map of an environment of the robot.
US11243536B2
Disclosed is an operation method of a vehicular electronic device, including receiving at least one image data from at least one camera installed in a vehicle, by at least one processor, generating a common feature map based on the image data using a convolutional neural network (CNN), by the at least one processor, and providing the common feature map to each of an object detection network, a bottom network, and a three dimensional network, by the at least one processor.
US11243531B2
A paving system includes a paving machine, a plurality of locational or positional sensor units coupled to or in communication with the paving machine, and a controller in communication with the plurality of sensor units. The controller is configured to select locational or positional information from one or more active sensor units of the plurality of sensor units and automatically navigate the paving machine.
US11243527B2
A production process control method includes acquiring first recorded production process information, extracting second production process information from the first recorded production process information, establishing a matching model for correlating a first satisfied parameter with a second satisfied parameter, establishing a production capability prediction model for predicting production capability, inputting a first production parameter into the matching model to obtain a value of a second production parameter for producing a preset workpiece, inputting the value of the first production parameter and the value of the second production parameter into the production capability prediction model to calculate a complex production capability index (CPK) value, determining whether the CPK value reaches a preset capability standard, and setting the value of the first production parameter and the value of the second production parameter when the CPK value reaches the preset capability standard. The second production process information meets a preset quality standard.
US11243526B2
A plurality of basic simulations independent of one another are carried out, which determine respective remaining service life predictions for the machine. The remaining service life predictions and characteristic data are fed to a neural network, which outputs weights for the remaining service life predictions. A final prediction is calculated from the remaining service life predictions by weighting the remaining service life predictions relative to one another. A hybrid model is produced, which results from the combination of the basic simulations with the neural network. The remaining service life can be predicted not only for a small number of machines for which a specific simulation model has been manually created. The hybrid model enables condition monitoring for any further types and configurations of machines that merely belong to the same machine class. The basic simulations can therefore also be applied to previously unknown machines.
US11243524B2
A system and method for unsupervised root cause analysis of machine failures. The method includes analyzing, via at least unsupervised machine learning, a plurality of sensory inputs that are proximate to a machine failure, wherein the output of the unsupervised machine learning includes at least one anomaly; identifying, based on the output at least one anomaly, at least one pattern; generating, based on the at least one pattern and the proximate sensory inputs, an attribution dataset, the attribution dataset including a plurality of the proximate sensory inputs leading to the machine failure; and generating, based on the attribution dataset, at least one analytic, wherein the at least one analytic includes at least one root cause anomaly representing a root cause of the machine failure.
US11243521B2
Methods and systems for data collection in an industrial environment with haptic feedback and data communication and bandwidth control are disclosed. A system can include a data collector to collect data based on a selected data collection routine, a data storage to store a plurality of collector routes and data, a data acquisition circuit to interpret the data and determine an occurrence of an anomalous condition, a data analysis circuit to evaluate a data communication constraint and adjust a volume of data communicated between the input channels and the data storage, wherein the data analysis circuit determines an aggregate rate of data being collected, and, if the aggregate rate exceeds a current bandwidth allocation rate, request an increase to the current bandwidth allocation rate, and a haptic user device for generating a haptic stimulation in response an occurrence of a specified anomalous condition.
US11243520B2
A human-machine interface (HMI) system comprises a local operation device, a display device, a HMI display control device and a communication control device. The local operation device generates a local operation signal. The display device shows a display image corresponding to a display signal. The HMI display control device generates the display signal according to the local operation signal or a remote operation signal. The communication control device comprises a wireless communication connection port for connecting with a remote operation device. The communication control device transmits the local operation signal to the HMI display control device, transmits the display signal to the display device, and selectively transmits the display signal to the remote operation device. The communication control device outputs the remote operation signal to the HMI display control device when the communication control device determines itself receives the remote operation signal but does not receive the local operation signal.
US11243519B2
A method for computer-aided processing of state messages in an automation installation, wherein state messages are generated by components and detected with their generation points in time, where causative states present at the generation point of the state message or beforehand in other components are determined for a multiplicity of state messages of a respective component and the current state in the generated state message, where the propagation time between occurrence of the respective causative state and the generation point of the state message is calculated for each causative state, where groups are formed from the causative states, where in a respective group all causative states have at least the common feature that they were determined for the same current state in the respective component, and where at least one statistical parameter is determined from the propagation times which belong to the causative states of the same group and stored.
US11243516B2
Various embodiments include an edge device for a network comprising: a connection for one or more production devices; and a processor adapted to run a plurality of microservices each comprising an artifact adapted for accessing an analytics database. The analytics database is shared between microservices. The edge device is adapted to access measurement information pertaining to the one or more production devices. The measurement information is stored in a measurement database that is separate from the analytics database.
US11243513B2
Transport of physical objects is controlled based on scanning of encoded images. In one approach, an encoded image on a physical object is scanned to obtain parameters. The parameters include specifications for a product to be made by a manufacturing process. One or more rules are generated using the parameters and then stored in a database. The database is queried to determine whether the product conforms to the one or more rules. For example, the query may include data regarding characteristics of the final product and/or the manufacturing process. In response to determining that the product conforms to the rules, the product is transported to a distribution facility.
US11243510B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a density-based representation of a modeled object and data specifying a starting element for each of multiple different subsets of elements; processing starting elements having milling depths associated with layers below a top most layer, the processing including, for a current starting element for a current layer, identifying other starting elements that have milling depths associated with a layer above the current layer and are closer to the current starting element than an amount at least equal to a radius of a smallest available milling tool, calculating a maximum angular difference, and moving the milling depth for the element subset of the current starting element to a layer above the current layer, responsive to the maximum angular difference being greater than a threshold, to remove a non-manufacturable corner.
US11243497B2
A cage (5) for separating rolling bodies (2) for a bearing (1), particularly for a timepiece bearing, the cage having first openings (50) for receiving rolling bodies and at least one first contact zone (56) intended to come into contact with a bearing ring and having at least one first hollow formation (52).
US11243495B2
There is provided a spatial light modulator arranged to display a light modulation pattern including a hologram. The spatial light modulator includes a liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulator having a plurality of pixels. The hologram has a plurality of pixels. The spatial light modulator includes a silicon backplane. Each pixel of the spatial light modulator includes a light-modulating element and a respective pixel circuit. Each pixel circuit is embedded in the silicon backplane. Each pixel circuit is arranged to drive the corresponding light-modulating element. Each pixel circuit is further arranged to combine a received pixel value of the hologram with a corresponding pixel value of the light processing function such that the light modulation pattern further includes the light processing function. The light processing function includes a lens function and/or a grating function.
US11243493B2
An image forming apparatus includes a waste toner container installed removably in an apparatus body through an opening and collecting a waste toner discharged from an image forming section in which an image is formed with toner, and an opening/closing cover supported at an edge of the opening and pivoting about an axis line extending in a specific direction, the opening/closing cover pivoting about the axis line and moving between a closed position to close the opening and an open position to open the opening. The waste toner container has an engaged part, and the opening/closing cover has an engaging part that engages with the engaged part. The engaging part engages with the engaged part in the closed position to hold the opening/closing cover in the closed position when the waste toner container is installed in the apparatus body.
US11243488B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus including: a body casing; a toner image forming section including an image carrier and a transferring section; a fixing section; a heater; a temperature sensor; and a controller. In a case that the temperature is higher than a predetermined threshold value, the controller controls the image carrier and the transferring section such that a conveying velocity of the print medium by the image carrier and the transferring section becomes a first conveying velocity. In a case that the temperature is lower than the predetermined threshold value, the controller controls the image carrier and the transferring section such that the conveying velocity of the print medium by the image carrier and the transferring section becomes a second conveying velocity slower than the first conveying velocity.
US11243477B2
The invention relates to a lithographic apparatus comprising: an actuation system for positioning an object; a control unit (CU) for controlling the actuation system; and a cooling system for cooling the actuation system, wherein the actuation system comprises a coil assembly (CA) including one or more coils (CO) as force generating members, wherein the cooling system comprises cooling element (CE) interacting with the coil assembly for cooling the coil assembly, and wherein the control unit is configured to control a temperature of the one or more coils to keep a magnitude of cyclic stress below a predetermined value.
US11243476B2
The invention provides a stage apparatus comprising an object support, a plurality of support members, a gripper and a control unit. The object support comprises a surface for mounting an object on, the surface extending in a plane. The plurality of support members are for supporting the object, and are arranged to receive the object from a gripper and to arrange the object on the surface and/or vice versa. The support members are moveable in at least a first direction which is perpendicular to the plane. The control unit is arranged to receive shape information regarding an out-of-plane-shape of the object, and is arranged to control positions of the support members. The control unit is arranged to tilt the object while supported by the support members by controlling the positions so as to reduce a space consumption of the object in the first direction, based on the shape information.
US11243474B2
This application provides a method for generating an exposure compensation table, a method for photoresist exposure compensation, and an exposure machine. The method for generating an exposure compensation table includes: recording preset exposure parameters and a critical dimension value of a photoresist pattern; and exposing and developing until all preset exposure parameters have been tested.
US11243472B2
A method includes receiving a layout that includes a shape to be formed on a photomask and determining a plurality of target lithographic contours for the shape, wherein the plurality of target lithographic contours includes a first target lithographic contour for a first set of process conditions and a second target lithographic contour for a second set of process conditions, performing a lithographic simulation of the layout to produce a first simulated contour at the first set of process conditions and a second simulated contour at the second set of process conditions, determining a first edge placement error between the first simulated contour and the first target lithographic contour and a second edge placement error between the second simulated contour and the second target lithographic contour, and determining a modification to the layout based on the first edge placement error and the second edge placement error.
US11243468B2
A composition for resist underlayer film formation contains: a compound having a partial structure represented by the following formula (1); and a solvent. In the formula (1): X represents a group represented by formula (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv). In the formula (i): R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group having 7 to 20 carbon atoms provided that at least one of R1 and R2 represents the substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or the substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group having 7 to 20 carbon atoms; or R1 and R2 taken together represent a part of a ring structure having 3 to 20 ring atoms together with the carbon atom to which R1 and R2 bond.
US11243461B2
A reflective mask includes a substrate, a light absorbing layer over the substrate, a reflective layer over the light absorbing layer, and an absorption pattern over the reflective layer. The reflective layer covers a first portion of the light absorbing layer, and a second portion of the light absorbing layer is free from coverage by the reflective layer.
US11243457B2
The utility model discloses a multi-voltage output camera kit handle which comprises a shell, a lithium battery, an intelligent control circuit, a power interface and a power switch. The lithium battery, the intelligent control circuit, the power interface and the power switch are installed on the shell; the shell comprises a lithium battery accommodating cavity and a power interface window; the lithium battery is installed in the lithium battery accommodating cavity; and the power interface is installed at the power interface window; the power interface comprises a charging interface and a discharging interface; the charging interface is used for charging the lithium battery, and the discharging interface is used for discharging different devices; the power switch is used for starting or closing the discharging for different devices; and the power interface, the lithium battery and the power switch are welded on the intelligent control circuit. The utility model can replace an original handle on a kit, occupies no extra space, meets multi-voltage outputs and can supply power for a photographing and video recording unit and the surrounding accessories.
US11243455B2
Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and one or more light path folding elements (e.g., a prism). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements, carrier arrangements, and/or suspension arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Furthermore, some embodiments include position sensor arrangements for position sensing with respect to AF and/or OIS movement.
US11243452B2
An optical unit may include a movable body having a lens and an imaging element; a fixed body configured to support the movable body; a gimbal mechanism configured to oscillatably support the movable body; and a shake correction drive mechanism configured to cause the movable body to oscillate with respect to the fixed body around the two axial lines. The shake correction drive mechanism may include an oscillating magnet, and an oscillating coil to generate an electromagnetic force within a magnetic field of the oscillating magnet. The gimbal mechanism may include an annular movable frame surrounding a periphery of the movable body, and four oscillation support points supporting the movable frame with respect to the movable body and the fixed body on the two axial lines. The movable frame may be arranged outwardly in a radial direction perpendicular to the optical axis from the shake correction drive mechanism.
US11243447B2
An electrochromic (EC) device and method, the EC device including: an optically transparent first substrate; a working electrode disposed on the first substrate and including electrochromic nanoparticles and a flux material having a melting point ranging from about 25° C. to about 500° C.; and an electrolyte disposed on the working electrode. The flux material is configured to prevent or reduce sintering of the nanoparticles at a temperature of up to about 700° C.
US11243430B2
Light flux controlling member, light-emitting device, surface light source device and display device
A light flux controlling member for controlling a distribution of light emitted from a light-emitting element includes an incidence surface configured to allow the light to enter the light flux controlling member; an emission surface configured to emit light; and a reflection part including an inclined surface configured to reflect light entered from the incidence surface, wherein in a cross-section, a region where light emitted from a light emission center of the light-emitting element that is entered from the incidence surface and sequentially reflected by the emission surface and the inclined surface reaches in the emission surface includes a portion where a derivative value of a gradient of a tangent to a given point in the emission surface is 0, or a portion where a sign of the derivative value reverses.
US11243425B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate, a color filter layer, a black matrix and a passivation layer. The color filter layer, the black matrix and the passivation layer are arranged on the base substrate, the color filter layer includes: a plurality of color filter units; a plurality of white filter unit formed by a blank area; a black matrix disposed between the color filter unit and the white filter unit; and a pad layer arranged in the blank area, an orthogonality projection of the pad layer on the base substrate being located in an orthogonality projection of the blank area on the base substrate, and smaller than the orthogonality projection of the blank area on the base substrate.
US11243418B2
An RF frequency tuning-in-silicon photoconductive-switch-based high power microwave system including a cradle; a transmission line proximate the cradle; a photosensitive silicon material switch component also proximate the cradle; a laser light source having a varied illumination incidence location on the photosensitive material; and a laser alignment component providing the location of the illumination incidence location on the photosensitive material; whereby the inductance of the switch varies as a function of the incidence location of the illumination on the photosensitive material.
US11243415B2
A contact lens, system of contact lenses, and a method for detecting eye convergence includes detecting a first inward gaze with first gaze detection circuitry included in a first contact lens disposed on a first eye. A first inward gaze signal is transmitted from the first contact lens to a second contact lens disposed in a second eye in response to detecting the first inward gaze. A second inward gaze is detected with second gaze detection circuitry included in a second contact lens disposed on the second eye. The first inward gaze signal is received by the second contact lens. If the first inward gaze signal is received within a pre-determined time period from detecting the second inward gaze, an optical power for the second eye is adjusted.
US11243414B1
An accommodation remote control includes a housing adapted for wearing on an upper extremity of a user, a range-finding sensor, a wireless transmitter, and a controller. The controller causes the accommodation remote control to perform operations including: emitting a range finding signal from the range-finding sensor to measure a distance between the accommodation remote control and a body part of the user, determining an accommodation value for an ophthalmic device based upon the distance measured with the range-finding sensor, and transmitting an accommodation control signal from the wireless transmitter to adjust an optical power of the ophthalmic device. The accommodation control signal is based upon the accommodation value.
US11243413B2
A rigid corneal contact lens comprises a front-surface optical zone and a back-surface optical zone: the front-surface optical zone comprises a front-surface central zone (1) and a defocusing zone (2) at the periphery of the front-surface central zone (1); the front-surface central zone (1) is spherical; the defocusing zone (2) has a radius of curvature decreasing from the outside of the front-surface central zone (1) continuously and a minimum radius of curvature which ranges from 95% to 50% of the radius of curvature of the front-surface central zone (1). Because of the structure of a human eye, the phenomenon of peripheral hyperopic defocus exist in human eyes, that is, central image points for an image are projected on macula foveal of retina and peripheral image points are projected behind retina. As shown in experimental evidences, peripheral hyperopic defocus is the main cause of myopia development which can be moderated by restraining peripheral hyperopic defocus. In this present disclosure, a rigid corneal contact lens featuring stronger refractive power at the lens's periphery than at the lens's central area contributes to moderating peripheral hyperopic defocus for myopia control.
US11243408B2
A speckle reduction system is provided and includes a speckle reduction component and a control module. The speckle reduction component includes electrode layers and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the electrode layers and configured to receive light from a coherent light source. The control module is configured to (i) supply a first voltage signal having a first voltage to the electrode layers to provide a first speckle pattern output, and (ii) supply a second voltage signal having a second voltage to the electrode layers to provide a second speckle pattern output, wherein the first voltage and the second voltage are greater than zero. The control module is configured to transition between providing the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal in less than at least one of half an integration time of a human eye or 8 milliseconds.
US11243407B2
An illumination system is configured to provide an illumination beam. The illumination system includes at least one light source, a composite unit and an actuator. The at least one light source is configured to provide at least one light beam. The composite unit includes a diffusion surface and an optical surface opposite to each other, wherein the composite unit is disposed on a transmission path of the at least one light beam and configured to enable the at least one light beam to pass through. The actuator is connected to the composite unit for driving the composite unit to move along at least one direction, and the at least one direction is perpendicular to a normal direction of a plane on which the composite unit is located. A projection apparatus including the illumination system is also provided.
US11243405B2
A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold the head-mounted display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use. The positioning and stabilising structure includes a rear support structure adapted to contact posterior regions of a user's head and at least one connector structured and arranged to interconnect the rear support structure to the head-mounted display unit. The rear support structure is in the form of a hoop comprising an occipital portion configured and arranged engage the user's head along a portion of the occipital bone adjacent a junction where the neck muscles attach to the occipital bone in use.
US11243402B2
A mixed reality system including a head-mounted display (HMD) and a base station. Information collected by HMD sensors may be transmitted to the base via a wired or wireless connection. On the base, a rendering engine renders frames including virtual content based in part on the sensor information, and an encoder compresses the frames according to an encoding protocol before sending the frames to the HMD over the connection. Instead of using a previous frame to estimate motion vectors in the encoder, motion vectors from the HMD and the rendering engine are input to the encoder and used in compressing the frame. The motion vectors may be embedded in the data stream along with the encoded frame data and transmitted to the HMD over the connection. If a frame is not received at the HMD, the HMD may synthesize a frame from a previous frame using the motion vectors.
US11243395B2
Several unique configurations for interferometric recording of volumetric phase diffractive elements with relatively high angle diffraction for use in waveguides are disclosed. Separate layer EPE and OPE structures produced by various methods may be integrated in side-by-side or overlaid constructs, and multiple such EPE and OPE structures may be combined or multiplexed to exhibit EPE/OPE functionality in a single, spatially-coincident layer. Multiplexed structures reduce the total number of layers of materials within a stack of eyepiece optics, each of which may be responsible for displaying a given focal depth range of a volumetric image. Volumetric phase type diffractive elements are used to offer properties including spectral bandwidth selectivity that may enable registered multi-color diffracted fields, angular multiplexing capability to facilitate tiling and field-of-view expansion without crosstalk, and all-optical, relatively simple prototyping compared to other diffractive element forms, enabling rapid design iteration.
US11243394B2
A method and corresponding optical device to correct spherical aberration in an optical path caused by an electrically tunable lens (ETL) within the optical path. The method includes placing within the optical path and in working relationship with the ETL an aspherical correction lens dimensioned and configured to reduce spherical aberration in a light beam exiting the ETL.
US11243387B2
Systems and methods for capturing a digital image of a slide using an imaging line sensor and a focusing line sensor. In an embodiment, a beam-splitter is optically coupled to an objective lens and configured to receive one or more images of a portion of a sample through the objective lens. The beam-splitter simultaneously provides a first portion of the one or more images to the focusing sensor and a second portion of the one or more images to the imaging sensor. A processor controls the stage and/or objective lens such that each portion of the one or more images is received by the focusing sensor prior to it being received by the imaging sensor. In this manner, a focus of the objective lens can be controlled using data received from the focusing sensor prior to capturing an image of a portion of the sample using the imaging sensor.
US11243376B2
A lens drive device includes a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a support portion. The movable unit includes a magnet and a lens holder for holding a lens. The fixed unit includes a coil board and a base board. The coil board includes a coil facing the magnet and a coil wiring connected thereto. The base board is disposed opposite to the magnet across the coil board and includes a base wiring and an opening through which the optical axis of the lens passes. The support portion relatively movably connects the movable unit to the fixed unit and supports the movable unit to the fixed unit. A first conductive portion conductively connecting the coil wiring and the base wiring in the fixed unit is disposed away from an opening periphery of the opening to an outside in a radial direction.
US11243371B2
An optical imaging lens may include a first, a second, a third, a fourth and a fifth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the five lens elements, the optical imaging lens may provide improved imaging quality and optical characteristics, increased focal length of the optical imaging lens, improved assembly yield and reduced size of the imaging lens while the optical imaging lens may satisfy (T2+G23+T3+G34+T4+G45+T5)/G12≤2.700, wherein a thickness of the second lens element along the optical axis is represented by T2, a thickness of the third lens element along the optical axis is represented by T3, a thickness of the fourth lens element along the optical axis is represented by T4, a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis is represented by T5, a distance from the image-side surface of the first lens element to the object-side surface of the second lens element along the optical axis is represented by G12, a distance from the image-side surface of the second lens element to the object-side surface of the third lens element along the optical axis is represented by G23, a distance from the image-side surface of the third lens element to the object-side surface of the fourth lens element along the optical axis is represented by G34, and a distance from the image-side surface of the fourth lens element to the object-side surface of the fifth lens element along the optical axis is represented by G45.
US11243370B2
An optical system is provided, including: a base; a first driving module, including: a first holder configured to receive a first optical element and having a first side; a first coil disposed on the first holder; at least one first magnet adjacent to the first coil; and a second driving module, including: a second holder configured to receive a second optical element and having a second side; a second coil disposed on the second holder; and at least one second magnet adjacent to the second coil; wherein the first side is adjacent to the second side, and no magnet is disposed on the first side or the second side.
US11243361B2
In some examples, a mechanical transfer ferrule based optical switch may include an optical fiber tube unit connectable to an end of an optical fiber. The optical fiber tube unit may include a lens to transmit light through the optical fiber. An optical fiber tube unit positioning assembly may include an optical fiber tube unit support detachably connectable to the optical fiber tube unit, and an optical fiber tube unit guide to operatively position the optical fiber tube unit support relative to a multi-fiber connector. The optical fiber tube unit guide may align the optical fiber tube unit and the lens to a specified lens of the multi-fiber connector, and connect the optical fiber to a specified optical fiber channel.
US11243355B2
A system comprising a recirculating loop configured to store an electromagnetic wave signal, the recirculating loop comprising a transmission medium and a plurality of transceivers configured to introduce the electromagnetic wave signal into the transmission medium and retrieve the electromagnetic wave signal from the transmission medium, and a signal conditioning system comprising a plurality of signal conditioners coupled to the transmission medium, the plurality of signal conditioners configured to amplify or regenerate the electromagnetic wave signal traveling in the transmission medium, one or more pump laser sources, wherein at least one of the one or more pump laser sources is configured to provide a pump laser beam to at least two of the plurality of signal conditioners, and one or more control circuits for controlling the plurality of signal conditioners, wherein at least one of the one or more control circuits is configured to control and monitor at least two of the plurality of signal conditioners, is disclosed.
US11243342B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a backlight unit configured to emit light, a display panel positioned in front of the backlight unit; and an optical film positioned in front of the display panel, and the optical film includes a base layer, a first refractive layer positioned in front of the base layer, a second refractive layer positioned in front of the first refractive layer and having a lower refractive index than the first refractive layer, a third refractive layer positioned at the rear of the base layer, and a fourth refractive layer positioned at the rear of the third refractive layer and having a lower refractive index than the third refractive layer.
US11243340B2
A light emitting device of the disclosure includes a first light source and a second light source; a light-guiding plate having a first main surface and a second main surface that face each other, a first end surface facing the first light source, and a second end surface facing the first end surface and the second light source; a prism sheet disposed to face the first main surface; and a reflection sheet disposed to face the second main surface. The light-guiding plate includes a plurality of first slope sections and a plurality of second slope sections both provided on one of the first main surface and the second main surface, in which the plurality of first slope sections are provided to allow the light-guiding plate to be thinner in a first direction that extends from the first end surface to the second end surface, and the plurality of second slope sections are provided to allow the light-guiding plate to be thicker in the first direction, and each provided alternately with each of the first slope sections in the first direction. A proportion of area occupied by the second slope sections increases in a predetermined range from the second end surface, as a distance from the second end surface increases.
US11243337B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to a covering for architectural features, which may include windows, doorways, archways, and the like, where the covering includes a panel made from a light diffusing material. The light diffusing material is designed and engineered to allow a significant amount of light to pass through the material for providing a desired visual effect while having improved dimensional stability. The covering may contain a light diffusing material that extends along a first direction of the covering (e.g., vertically). The light diffusing material may have an openness factor of about 60% or greater and contain pillars extending in the first direction and bridges extending between the pillars. Each pillar may contain at least two yarns, and each bridge may contain at least one yarn.
US11243334B2
An anti-reflection structure having multiple bottomed tubular light absorption units that each have a bottom part having a substantially circular outer edge part and a wall part that is arranged upright along the outer edge part, an opening being formed above the bottom part, the anti-reflection structure satisfying specific conditions.
US11243333B1
Optical structures, such as antireflective structures or Bragg gratings, may include multiple layers of high-index and low-index materials. The low-index materials may be approximately a quarter-wavelength in thickness (e.g., with respect to a center wavelength of incident light) and may include a nanovoided material. The high-index material may have a thickness of a half-wavelength and may include an oxide. The nanovoided material may include about 10% to 90% nanovoids by volume and may have an average index of refraction of about 1.05 to about 1.2. The antireflective structures or Bragg gratings may include multiple layers that can be optimized for layer count, thicknesses, and refractive indices to provide a reflectance below a given threshold for incident light of a given angular range. Various other methods, systems, apparatuses, and materials are also disclosed.
US11243332B2
Implementations are described herein for predicting a future climate condition in an agricultural area. In various implementations, a teleconnection model may be applied to a dataset of remote climate conditions such as water surface temperatures to identify one or more of the most influential remote climate conditions on the future climate condition in the agricultural area. A trained machine learning model may be applied to the one or more most influential remote climate conditions and to historical climate data for the agricultural area to generate data indicative of the predicted future climate condition. Based on the data indicative of the predicted future climate condition, one or more output components may be caused to render output that conveys the predicted future climate condition.
US11243322B2
Seismic survey data is received, indexed into index sets, and each index set partitioned into data blocks. For each particular data block of a particular index set, the particular data block is sliced into frequency slices. For each particular frequency slice of the particular data block, the particular frequency slice is processed to remove random and erratic noise by: forming a Hankel matrix from the particular frequency slice: determining an optimal rank for the Hankel matrix, determining a clean signal and erratic noise from the ranked Hankel matrix, and returning the clean signal and erratic noise for the particular frequency slice. A clean signal is assembled from the index sets.
US11243316B2
A housing for a seismic sensor station has a base and a removable lid, which when assembled together form a shell whereby the base and the removable lid both have a shell side and an exterior side. A sensor spike, protruding outward from the shell, may be attached to the base on the exterior side of the base. The housing is further provided with two cable docking ports, each allowing passage of a fiber optical cable from outside to inside the shell. The two cable docking ports are exclusively provided in the removable lid.
US11243310B2
Each of column signal lines is connected to two or more of P pixels belonging to one of Q pixel columns of pixels. In each of the pixels, a first switch switches connection and disconnection between a light receiver and a first charge storage. A second switch switches connection and disconnection between the first charge storage and a second charge storage. A third switch switches connection and disconnection between the first charge storage and one of column signal lines corresponding to the pixel. The fourth switch switches the connection and disconnection between the second charge storage and the one of the column signal lines corresponding to the pixel.
US11243307B2
A method for processing a signal from a coherent lidar includes a coherent source, the method comprising steps consisting of: generating a first beat signal and a second beat signal, using respectively a first detection assembly and a second detection assembly for a plurality of n time intervals, determining n respective values of spectral density using a transform in the frequency domain of the cross-correlation between the first and second beat signals, determining a mean value of the spectral density using said n values of spectral density, determining a piece of location information on the target using the mean value of said spectral density.
US11243304B2
A method for interpolated virtual aperture array radar tracking includes: transmitting first and second probe signals; receiving a first reflected probe signal at a radar array; receiving a second reflected probe signal at the radar array; calculating a target range from at least one of the first and second reflected probe signals; corresponding signal instances of the first reflected probe signal to physical receiver elements of the radar array; corresponding signal instances of the second reflected probe signal to virtual elements of the radar array; interpolating signal instances; calculating a first target angle; and calculating a position of the tracking target relative to the radar array from the target range and first target angle.
US11243303B2
In a vehicle, a vehicle body-side apparatus is configured to perform a main area determination and an auxiliary area determination. The main area determination determines whether a portable terminal is present in a main area based on a first reception intensity measured by the vehicle body-side apparatus in a wireless signal from the portable terminal. The auxiliary area determination determines whether the portable terminal is present in an auxiliary area based on a second reception intensity measured by a vehicle tire-side apparatus in a wireless signal from the portable terminal.
US11243297B2
A lidar sensor assembly includes a detector array having a plurality of photodetectors. An integrated circuit is bonded to the detector array via a plurality of connection bumps. A reference trace is defined by conductive material on at least one of the integrated circuit and the detector array. A test trace is defined by conductive material on the detector array, at least two of the connection bumps, and conductive material on the integrated circuit. A resistance measuring device is configured to independently measure a reference resistance along the reference trace and a test resistance along the test trace. The assembly also includes a processor in communication with the resistance measuring device. The processor is configured to receive the reference resistance and the test resistance, subtract the reference resistance from the test resistance to produce a bond resistance, and compare the bond resistance to a predetermined resistance value.
US11243295B2
A filter for a micropulse differential absorption LIDAR is provided. The filter comprises an etalon including a free spectral range substantially the same as a difference between a first laser wavelength and a second laser wavelength, the etalon further including a finesse providing substantial background noise suppression and substantially constant transmission of the first laser wavelength and the second laser wavelength over a predetermined range of wavelengths, and a first filter having a first filter bandpass selected to include the first laser wavelength and the second laser wavelength.
US11243293B2
In one embodiment, a method includes processing user interactions with an electronic device based on different processing modules. The electronic device includes one or more radar-based transmitters and receivers. The method transmits radio waves into an area in the vicinity of the electronic device from the transmitters and receives at the receivers the radio waves reflected off one or more objects in the vicinity of the electronic device. The method selects either trilateration processing or imaging process to process the received radio waves based on different requirements for processing user interactions.
US11243285B2
A method is for performing an angiographic measurement of a main measurement region of a patient via a magnetic resonance system. An embodiment of the method includes performing at least one overview measurement to generate overview-measurement data; defining, using the overview-measurement data, the main measurement region and a first measurement region, the first measurement region differing from the main measurement region; performing a first time-resolved measurement in the first measurement region defined to generate first time-resolved measurement data; detecting an injected contrast agent bolus in the first measurement region using the first time-resolved measurement data; determining a flow rate of the injected contrast agent bolus detected; setting at least one measurement parameter of the angiographic measurement according to the flow rate determined; and performing the angiographic measurement of the main measurement region of the patient in the magnetic resonance system using the at least one measurement parameter set.
US11243276B2
A magnetic field detector and associated methods are shown. One example of a magnetic field detector uses spin wave interference to detect information about an external magnetic field.
US11243275B2
A magnetic field sensing device includes first magnetoresistor units, second magnetoresistor units, a first testing conductive line, a second testing conductive line, and a driver. The first magnetoresistor units are arranged in a first direction. The second magnetoresistor units are arranged in the first direction, and the second magnetoresistor units are disposed on a side of the first magnetoresistor units in a second direction. The first testing conductive line is disposed on a side of the first magnetoresistor units in a third direction, and extends in the first direction. The second testing conductive line is disposed on a side of the second magnetoresistor units in the third direction, and extends in the first direction. The driver is configured to make two currents in a same direction and two currents in opposite directions pass through the first testing conductive line and the second testing conductive line at different times, respectively.
US11243274B2
A magnetic sensor system includes two magnetic sensors that detect components in two directions of an external magnetic field, an additional magnetic field generation section, and a signal processing circuit. The additional magnetic field generation section is capable of generating two additional magnetic fields for use in measuring the sensitivities of the two magnetic sensors. The signal processing circuit includes a sensitivity measurement processing section and a detection signal correction processing section. The sensitivity measurement processing section measures the sensitivities based on data concerning changes in the detection signals of the two magnetic sensors when the additional magnetic field generation section is controlled to generate two additional magnetic fields. The detection signal correction processing section performs processing for reducing change components attributable to the two additional magnetic fields on the detection signals of the two magnetic sensors.
US11243268B2
A transformer monitoring system that has one or more monitoring devices coupled to respective distribution transformers, and the monitoring devices each have a network device. The network devices monitor operational data of their respective distribution transformer and perform a monitoring device action based upon the operational data monitored. Further, the monitoring device transmits operational data and data indicative of the monitoring device action via the network device. The system also has a central computing device communicatively coupled to the one or more monitoring devices via the network devices and there is a processor resident on the central computing device that receives the operational data and the data indicative of the monitoring device action, interprets the received data, and performs an action based upon the operational data and the data indicative of the monitoring device action.
US11243259B2
An insulation resistance detection circuit, detection method, and detection apparatus are provided. The circuit includes an alternating-current signal source, a resonant cavity, a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a fourth resistor, a first switch, and a second switch. The alternating-current signal source is sequentially connected to the first resistor, the resonant cavity, the first switch, the second resistor, and the third resistor in series to form a loop. The first resistor is connected to a positive electrode of the alternating-current signal source, and the third resistor is connected to a negative electrode of the alternating-current signal source. One end of the second switch is connected to a negative electrode of a to-be-detected battery, the other end of the second switch is connected to the fourth resistor, and the other end of the fourth resistor is connected to ground.
US11243255B2
A battery device includes a first battery and a second battery connected in series. An electronic device for determining a state of charge of the battery device includes a sense resistor connected in series to the second battery, and a fuel gauge. The fuel gauge is configured to determine the state of charge of the battery device based on a first terminal voltage of the first battery, a first calculation current of the first battery, a second terminal voltage of the second battery, and a measurement current of the second battery measured through the sense resistor. The fuel gauge calculates a second calculation current of the second battery using a battery parameter of an equivalent circuit model, corrects the battery parameter when a difference between the measurement current and the second calculation current is not less than a threshold value, and calculates the first calculation current using the battery parameter or a corrected battery parameter.
US11243249B2
A time and frequency domain signal conditioning device including one or more signal terminals, one or more rails, and a passive signal conditioning means for reducing a switching noise jitter signature present in an output signal of a feedback control loop circuitry with a plurality of noise carrying jittering ramps is disclosed. The passive signal conditioning means including the rails is characterized by a set of specified characteristics to condition pre-existing noise amplitude and slopes of the output signal such that the conditioned output signal cooperates with the feedback control loop circuitry. As a consequence the switching noise jitter signature which is produced by transient noise displacement or noise perturbation in the time domain when the output signal jitters can be reduced in the output of the feedback control loop circuitry.
US11243237B2
In an embodiment a method for determining an electrical parameter includes charging, in parallel, a first capacitor and a second capacitor from a common supply voltage, measuring a first discharge time by discharging the first capacitor using a comparator and a time-to-digital converter that is connected to an output of the comparator and that provides a digital output signal, measuring a second discharge time by discharging the first capacitor a second time or by discharging the second capacitor using the comparator and the time-to-digital converter and determining the electrical parameter from a ratio of the first and second discharge times.
US11243231B2
A probe card includes a circuit board and a probe set. The probe set is electrically coupled to the circuit board. Also, the probe set includes a plurality of probes. Each of the plurality of probes includes a plurality of nanotwinned copper pillars that are arranged in a predetermined crystal orientation. In addition, each of the plurality of probes further includes a tip. The tip substantially and electrically contacts a chip. Such that the circuit board can test the chip via the tip.
US11243229B2
An atomic force microscope includes a cantilever operating in amplitude modulation mode. A controller determines the amplitude of the cantilever oscillation by processing a signal representative of the cantilever motion by square-rooting a signal having a value substantially equal to a sum of a square of the received signal and a squared and phase-shifted version of the received signal. The aforementioned processing, in some implementations is implemented using analog circuit components.
US11243225B2
An acceleration sensor with differential graphene resonant beams includes a substrate, a sensitive mass plate, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a first excitation electrode pair, a first graphene resonant beam, a second graphene resonant beam, a third insulating layer, a second excitation electrode pair, and a vacuum cover. An indirect acceleration-sensitive mode is adopted, so that the sensitive mass block directly senses acceleration to be measured, and converts the acceleration to be measured into a concentrated force to cause axial displacement of the sensitive mass block and then to cause a change in the axial stress of the graphene resonate beams, thereby causing a change in the resonant frequency of the beams.
US11243221B2
A monitoring device of a main spindle rotation speed in a machine tool displays a variation state of the rotation speed by a rotation speed variation unit using a display unit in the machine tool. The monitoring device includes a variation value setting unit, a drawing unit, a first display unit, and a settable range calculating unit. The settable range calculating unit is configured to calculate a settable range of a variation amplitude and a variation cycle based on a calculation formula. The calculation formula includes the variation cycle, a difference between a first rotation speed and a second rotation speed at mutually different timings among the rotation speeds varied relative to a reference rotation speed, an inertia of a rotating body, a rated output of a motor that drives a main spindle, and a usage proportion to the rated output of the motor.
US11243220B2
A device and method for purification of information or particles from a sample and provides a device for performing washing steps in automated analyzer systems, the device comprising a multilayer unit with liquid channel and valves. The multilayer unit may comprise three layer.
US11243219B2
A microfluidic, chip-based assay device has been developed for measuring physical properties of an analyte (particularly, whole blood or whole blood derivatives). The technologies can be applied to measure clotting times of whole blood or blood derivatives, determine the effects of anticoagulant drugs on the kinetics of clotting/coagulation, as well as evaluate the effect of anticoagulant reversal agents. These technologies can additionally be used to optimize the dosage of anticoagulation drugs and/or their reversal agents. The assay is independent of the presence of anticoagulant; clotting is activated by exposure of the blood sample in the device to a glass (or other negatively charged material such as oxidized silicon) surface, which activates the intrinsic pathway and can be further hastened by the application of shear flow across the activating materials surface. The absence of chemical activating agents and highly controlled and reproducible micro-environment yields a point of care universal clotting assay.
US11243214B2
The present invention is directed to the identification of a biomarker specifically located in the plasma membrane of pancreatic beta cells. Based on a set of specific features the biomarker is a unique candidate for imaging and targeting strategies to study the pancreatic beta cell mass in health and disease (T1D, T2D, pancreatic cancers, obesity, islet transplantation, beta cell regeneration).
US11243209B2
A method to calibrate measurements of a test analyte in a test sample including measuring at least one test-light level responsive to reactions of at least one reagent group and at least one reactive test analyte in the test sample and measuring at least one control-light level responsive to reactions of at least one reagent group and at least one control analyte in a control sample. Each control analyte is a known amount of at least one reactive test analyte. The method further includes determining a presence of the reactive test analyte in the test sample based on the measured test-light levels and control-light levels. The reagent group and the reactive test analyte react by attaching to each other.
US11243205B2
The present invention relates generally to a method of prognosing the survival of a patient with a breast neoplasm, more particularly a patient with a breast neoplasm which is estrogen receptor-/progesterone receptor-/HER-2-(“triple-negative”). The method of the present invention more particularly provides a method for prognosing breast cancer patient survival, in particular risk of metastatic spread, by screening for IRF9 expression. In a related aspect, the present invention provides a method of therapeutically or prophylactically treating patients with a triple-negative breast neoplasm, in particular those patients with triple-negative breast neoplasia which is characterised by a poor survival prognosis, still more particularly a high risk of metastatic spread, by upregulating type I IFN levels.
US11243204B2
Disclosed is a method of detecting the presence of antibodies against mycobacterial material in a sample by detecting binding of antibodies in said sample to at least two types of immobilised antigen, which antigens are capable of binding to an antibody which is indicative for the presence of mycobacterial material in a human or animal. Also disclosed is a solid substrate including a combination of said at least two antigens immobilised to said substrate, and to a biosensor having at least two types of immobilised antigen, which antigens are capable of binding to an antibody which is indicative for the presence of mycobacterial material in a human or animal.
US11243202B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide methods for assessing the efficacy of a remote ischemic preconditioning procedure though the measurement of urinary TIMP-2 and IGFBP7 concentrations.
US11243196B2
A system and method for concurrently measuring odorant concentration and also compensating for changes in relative air density when measuring odor intensity levels may be used to provide more accurate and reliable readings from an odorometer. Odorometers typically measure the concentration of a given target gas in a gas-air mixture. Because changes in air density make it difficult to accurately determine how much air is in the gas-air mixture sample, a method of compensating for changes in the air density is able to produce a more accurate concentration reading. By measuring the relative temperature and pressure of the air at calibration and when a particular reading is taken, the final reading can be corrected to account for changes in the air density. By correlating the odor intensity readings with odorant concentration readings a wide array of advantages may be realized.
US11243182B2
A moisture soil probe system includes a probe having a solid rod with a plurality of sensors attached around the outer circumference of the rod in close proximity to the soil being measured, covered by a waterproof coating. A wireless transmitter unit receives a precision GPS timing signal which is propagated to logic and control circuitry associated with each sensor for use in calculating a volumetric moisture content of the soil in proximity to the sensor. The calculated moisture content is transmitted back to the wireless control unit which further transmits the data to a central station.
US11243176B2
The present disclosure provides an automatic exposure control method, including: providing an object to be tested; providing an image sensor, including a photosensitive element array composed of a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in an array, and the photosensitive element array includes at least a plurality of first photosensitive elements and a plurality of second photosensitive elements; turning on the radiation source, and the first readout signals on the first photosensitive elements are read after exposing the area to be tested for the first preset time; continuing the exposure for the second preset time, turning off the photosensitive elements and reading the second readout signals on the second photosensitive elements; acquiring the preset dose threshold of the area to be tested based on the second and first readout signals, and obtaining the remaining time to reach the preset radiation dose to control the exposure of the radiation source.
US11243174B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for contactless determination of at least one dimension of a moving material web, in particular a material web of opaque material, with a background illumination, with optical detection means for detecting at least one current contrast image and with evaluation means, wherein the background illumination is arranged opposite the optical detection means, wherein the material web moves in a plane between the at least one optical detection means and the background illumination, and wherein the current contrast image has at least one piece of information about at least one light intensity laterally adjacent to the material web. Furthermore, the present invention concerns a corresponding process. For simplifying and improving the non-contact determination of the dimension, the present invention proposes to provide a shadowing element and to compare the current contrast image with a reference contrast image, wherein the current contrast image represents a shadowing of the background illumination by the material web and by the shadowing element.
US11243173B2
Disclosed is a stone-block analysis device and method for the evaluation of stone blocks, in particular, concrete blocks to be arranged on a conveying device for conveying the stone blocks with a conveying surface for the stone blocks to be laid on, which extends into a longitudinal direction and into a transverse direction. The stone-block analysis device has at least one first scanner unit for scanning at least one physical characteristic of the stone blocks, an evaluation device for evaluating a signal output by the scanner unit, a control device, and a display device. The scanner unit is spaced away from the conveying surface in a vertical direction, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and transverse direction. In addition to the first scanner unit, which is a point scanner, at least one second scanner unit is provided, which is a line scanner, wherein a height of at least one stone block can be detected by both scanner units.
US11243169B1
A method of detecting one or more heavy metals in a sample solution is provided. The disclosure includes adding a dye to the sample solution having the one or more heavy metals to produce a color mixture. Mesoporous TiO2 NPs are added to the color mixture to preconcentrate metal-dye complex onto the surface of the mesoporous TiO2 NPs. Presence of the one or more heavy metals is detected by change in color within about 30 seconds via a naked eye. The disclosure further includes a method of determining concentration of one or more heavy metals in a sample solution by absorbance.
US11243168B2
A system for analysis of vent gas of a urea plant, comprising: a Raman spectroscope; a sampling conduit that connects the spectroscope to a main pipe of the urea plant configured to convey a sample stream to be analysed to the spectroscope; and a temperature-adjusting device, operated by a temperature controller and acting on at least one thermal treatment portion of the conduit configured to adjust the temperature of the sample stream circulating in the conduit.
US11243166B2
An intraoperative near-infrared-I and near-infrared-II multi-spectral fluorescent navigation system and method of using same includes a light source module for emitting white light and excitation light for illuminating tissue to be tested to generate an emission light. An optical information collection module includes a white light camera for collecting the white light image, and near infrared-I and near infrared-II fluorescence cameras for collecting the near infrared-I and near infrared-II fluorescence images. A central control module is coupled to the light source and the optical information collection modules. An image processing unit pre-processes the white light image, and the near infrared-I and near infrared-II fluorescence images, for de-noising and enhancement. The image processing unit performs a pseudo-color mapping on the images to obtain pseudo-color superimposed images of the near infrared-I and near infrared-II for a surgical region, and completes imaging of the intraoperative near-infrared-I and near-infrared-II multi-spectral fluorescent navigation system.
US11243160B2
Systems and methods for producing a calibration standard for an optical analysis system (e.g., a diagnostic reader) from a live test sample are disclosed. The calibration standard may include an image reproduced on a substrate. The reproduced image may be a replication of a digital image of a live test sample captured using the optical analysis system and then digitally processed to be reproduced on the substrate. The image reproduced on the substrate may include at least one optical feature digitally added to the replication of the digital image of the live test sample. The added optical features may be used to allow for more robust calibration using the calibration standard.
US11243158B2
A method is provided that involves rotational equipment that includes a case and a first rotor blade within the case. During the method, a probe is arranged within the case adjacent the first rotor blade. A magnetic characteristic of the first rotor blade is measured using the probe. Presence of internal corrosion within the first rotor blade is determined based on the measured magnetic characteristic.
US11243140B2
The output profile of light from a multimode optical fiber is determined using a geometrical optics approach where the rays launched into the fiber conform to LP-modes of the fiber. This output profile can then be employed as an input to a second fiber to calculate the transmission losses of a coupler that introduces various coupling inaccuracies, such as lateral offset, axial offset, and angular offset.
US11243138B2
The present invention is directed to an automatic impact inducing device for inducing an impact on an object wherein, in particular on a machine tool.
US11243134B2
An industrial process differential pressure sensing device includes a housing having first and second isolation cavities that are respectively sealed by first and second diaphragms, a differential pressure sensor, a static pressure sensor, an eddy current displacement sensor, and a controller. The static pressure sensor is configured to output a static pressure signal that is based on a pressure of fill fluid in the first isolation cavity. The differential pressure sensor is configured to output a differential pressure signal that is indicative a pressure difference between the first and second isolation cavities. The eddy current displacement sensor is configured to output a position signal that is indicative of a position of the first isolation diaphragm relative to the housing. The controller is configured to detect a loss of a seal of the isolation cavity based on the position signal, the static pressure signal and the differential pressure signal.
US11243126B2
Described herein is a ruggedized microelectromechanical (“MEMS”) force sensor. The sensor employs piezoresistive or piezoelectric sensing elements for force sensing where the force is converted to strain and converted to electrical signal. In one aspect, both the piezoresistive and the piezoelectric sensing elements are formed on one substrate and later bonded to another substrate on which the integrated circuitry is formed. In another aspect, the piezoelectric sensing element is formed on one substrate and later bonded to another substrate on which both the piezoresistive sensing element and the integrated circuitry are formed.
US11243119B2
A sleeve for a probe of an environment-sensing device is provided. The sleeve includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first inner surface, a first outer surface, a first body extending between the first inner surface and the first outer surface, at least one first body channel, and a first-portion projection extending axially along the first portion. The second portion includes a second inner surface, a second outer surface, a second body extending between the second inner surface and the second outer surface, at least one second body channel, and a second-portion receiving channel extending axially along the second portion. The at least one first body channel and at least one second body channel include a filler material. The first portion and the second portion are configured to couple together by mating the first-portion projection with the second-portion receiving channel.
US11243115B2
Systems and methods for determining one or more properties of a sample are disclosed. The systems and methods disclosed can be capable of measuring along multiple locations and can reimage and resolve multiple optical paths within the sample. The system can be configured with one-layer or two-layers of optics suitable for a compact system. The optics can be simplified to reduce the number and complexity of the coated optical surfaces, et al. on effects, manufacturing tolerance stack-up problems, and interference-based spectroscopic errors. The size, number, and placement of the optics can enable multiple simultaneous or non-simultaneous measurements at various locations across and within the sample. Moreover, the systems can be configured with an optical spacer window located between the sample and the optics, and methods to account for changes in optical paths due to inclusion of the optical spacer window are disclosed.
US11243111B2
Disclosed is an integrated physiological signal detection sensor, comprising a movable housing member, a fixed housing member, and a sensing unit circuit board. The movable housing member and the fixed housing member are connected to form an internal space therebetween. The sensing unit circuit board is fixedly installed on the fixed housing member within the space. A piezoelectric film is attached to the sensing unit circuit board. A hollowed-out region surrounds the periphery of the piezoelectric film. A protrusion is provided on the movable housing member at a position corresponding to the piezoelectric film. The sensor of the present invention has advantages of simplified sensor installation, improved signal integrity, and simplified wire routing of an electromagnetic shield layer, thereby eliminating errors caused by sensor installation and improving the accuracy of data detection.
US11243108B2
A radar measuring device for level and/or limit level monitoring is provided, including a radar signal source configured to generate and/or transmit a radar signal, an antenna arrangement configured to direct the radar signal, a plano-convex lens with a plane side configured to face a medium and to focus the radar signal, the radar measuring device being configured such that the plane side rests at least partially on a container surface and such that a contact surface is formed between the plano-convex lens and the container.
US11243105B2
Methods and systems for configuring a fluid flow meter include a processor obtaining a measurement signal recorded by the fluid flow meter. The processor can determine a whitening frequency band. The processor can then construct a whitening filter based on the measurement signal and the whitening frequency band. The processor can then generate a reference signal based on the whitening filter and the measurement signal. The processor can provide the whitening filter and the reference signal for use by the fluid flow meter to measure a time shift between the reference signal and another measurement signal.
US11243100B1
A sensor that that can be, but do not have to be, communicatively coupled with luminaires, includes a sensor module having an electronics board and a battery enclosure. The electronics board includes a sensing component, a controller, and a flex antenna. The battery enclosure is couple with the electronics board and includes a base and a side wall having an outer wall surface. The flex antenna is supported on the outer wall surface such that the flex antenna forms a radially outermost portion of the sensor module, and the flex antenna is conformable to a profile of the outer wall surface. In certain aspects, the sensor module is configured to support a power source on the sensor module. In some cases, the sensor is an indoor sensor.
US11243097B2
A rotary encoder includes a rotor, a stator, and a casting compound. The casting compound has a first surface facing the stator. The first surface has a first predetermined shape and is fixed in relation to the stator. The casting compound has a second surface facing away from the stator, the second surface having a second predetermined shape.
US11243095B2
To reduce the error in a rotational angle detected by a rotational angle detection apparatus, provided is a rotational angle detection apparatus that detects a rotational angle of a magnetic field generation source, including a magnetic field detection apparatus that detects magnetic field components in at least two directions, and outputs resulting detection data; a correction value calculating section that calculates correction values for correcting an angle error of the rotational angle, based on a steady-state error that does not depend on rotation of the magnetic field generation source; and an angle computing section that calculates the rotational angle of the magnetic field generation source based on the detection data and the correction values, and outputs an angle signal indicating the rotational angle.
US11243091B2
A computer-implemented method includes initializing a navigation application on a device, determining a current location of the device, and receiving a destination. The method also includes determining whether a known geographical feature is located on a travel path to the destination. The known geographical feature may be derived from a user profile. The method, in response to determining that a known geographical feature is not located on the travel path to the destination, includes outputting graphical and audio directions to the destination. In response to determining that a known geographical feature is located on the travel path to the destination, a sub-method includes determining whether the device is currently in a known area and outputting graphical and audio directions to the known geographical feature in response to determining that the device is not currently in the known area.
US11243070B2
In the embodiment in association with the present disclosure, an apparatus and method for multilayer thin film thickness measurement using single-shot angle-resolved spectral reflectometry are provided which allow simultaneously obtaining the absolute reflectance and phase data of a measurement object over a broad wavelength range and wide incident angle according to various polarization states by a single-shot measurement.
US11243064B2
A structural unit for a linear actuator has at least one sensor unit. The sensor unit measures at least one deformation characteristic variable of the structural unit. There is also described a linear actuator with such a structural unit.
US11243063B2
The wafer comprises a first line in a first layer of the wafer. The first line has a first terminal connected to the first line. The wafer comprises a second line in the first layer of the wafer. The second line has a second terminal connected to the second line. The second terminal has a probe connected to apply a voltage ramp. The wafer comprises a third line in the first layer of the wafer. The third line has a terminal connected to the third line.
US11243056B2
A munition including: a control surface actuation device including: an actuator having two or more pistons, each of the pistons being movable between an extended and retracted position, the retracted position resulting from an activation of each of the two or more pistons; and a movable rack having a pocket corresponding to each of the two or more pistons, each pocket being engageable with a corresponding portion of each of the two or more pistons, a distance between the pockets being different than a distance between the portions of the two or more pistons, such that activation of the portion into the corresponding pocket sequentially translates the rack; and a control surface operatively connected to the rack such that translation of the rack rotates the control surface.
US11243045B2
A projectile launching apparatus for launching a projectile, such as a pellet, a BB bullet, an arrow, a dart and a paintball includes a linear motion converter driven by a motor, a piston coupled to the linear motion converter and reciprocally movable within a cylinder, a spring assembly and a breech assembly. The piston compresses a gas within the cylinder, after which the compressed gas expands in the barrel of the breech assembly for launching the projectile. Breech assembly includes a breech, a bolt, and bolt barrel cam, which rotate with the gas spring to allow a projectile to enter the breech and then to seal the bolt in the breech before the spring assembly releases its stored energy to launch the projectile.
US11243039B2
An barrel (or barrel section) for a pneumatic gun can comprise a plurality of grooves and ridges arranged in parallel straight lines. The ridges may have a substantially arch-shaped cross-section with a rounded upper surface to provide minimal contact with a projectile such as a paintball being launched through the barrel. The grooves preferably provide channels to permit water and debris to be expelled from the barrel without interfering with the projectile travel. A plurality of apertures may be formed through a sidewall of the barrel along one or more of the grooves to further help expel water and debris, to impart spin to the projectile, and/or to improve a sound signature of the barrel.
US11243038B1
A disrupter cannon includes a barrel for launching a projectile. An insert may be used to launch a projectile of a smaller diameter than the projectile launched through the barrel of the disrupter cannon. An insert includes a bore therethrough, a breech-end portion, and a muzzle-end portion. The breech-end portion includes a channel. An O-ring is positioned in the channel of the breech-end portion. The muzzle-end portion includes one or more channels. A respective O-ring is positioned in each channel of the muzzle-end portion. While the insert is positioned in the barrel, the O-rings are configured to form a seal between an outer surface of the insert and an inner surface of the barrel. The projectile with a smaller diameter is launched through the bore of the insert.
US11243037B2
Methods and apparatus are described for extracting and storing electrical energy from the gaseous discharge of a firearm. In one embodiment a muzzle device is provided comprising of at least one thermoelectric generator which generates electric power, to be stored in a battery, using heat transferred from the gaseous discharge of a firearm to the thermoelectric generator by a heat sink.
US11243033B2
A heat exchanger includes fins and a plurality of pairs of cut-and-raised parts. Each pair of the cut-and-raised parts are positioned on both left and right sides in a width direction on a downstream side in a heating gas flowing direction around an outer circumference surface of each of upstream pipe body parts and face a downstream part on the outer circumference surface with a first gap therebetween. A width between upstream end parts of each pair of the cut-and-raised parts is larger than an outer diameter of each of the upstream pipe body parts. In addition, each pair of the cut-and-raised parts are inclined such that a width between downstream end parts becomes smaller than the width between the upstream end parts. A heating gas passing part having a width narrower than a dimension therebetween is provided in a region between two adjacent upstream pipe body parts.
US11243023B2
An insulation system for an appliance includes a first vacuum insulated structure having a first set of sidewalls that define a first refrigerating compartment, a second vacuum insulated structure having a second set of sidewalls that define a second refrigerating compartment and a medial insulation structure having a rigid perimeter wall. The rigid perimeter wall includes a front portion that defines at least one hinge support adapted to support an appliance door. The rigid perimeter wall defines an insulating cavity that is filled with an insulating material. The first vacuum insulated structure engages a first edge of the perimeter wall and the second vacuum insulated structure engages a second edge of the perimeter wall.
US11243018B2
A method for building an ice structure includes making a plurality of ice logs and attaching the ice logs together to form a support structure. The support structure may be two or more stories high and may be constructed by freezing the ice logs together.
US11243015B2
A refrigeration system includes a high-pressure main header gas line; a low-pressure condensate discharge gas line; a condenser having a first port in gaseous communication with the high-pressure main header gas line; a second port in gaseous communication with the low-pressure condensate discharge gas line; a purge assembly in gaseous communication with the low-pressure condensate discharge gas line, the purge assembly is configured to purge air from the gas channeled through the low-pressure condensate discharge gas line; and an adiabatic air cooling system disposed within the condenser having a plurality of jet nozzles configured to inject a cooling gas within the condenser.
US11243014B2
A cryocooler includes a displacer, a cylinder that forms an expansion space, a Scotch yoke mechanism configured to drive the displacer in a reciprocating manner, a first rod that extends from the Scotch yoke mechanism, a housing that includes an assist chamber, a rotary valve configured to switch between a state in which the expansion space and a discharge side of a compressor are connected and the assist chamber and a suction side of the compressor are connected and a state in which the expansion space and the suction side of the compressor are connected and the assist chamber and the discharge side of the compressor are connected, a motor configured to drive the Scotch yoke mechanism and the rotary valve, and an on-off valve configured to open and close a gas flow path through which the rotary valve and the assist chamber are connected.
US11243012B2
A portable heater shield assembly for directing heat laterally away from a heat source includes a plurality of panels that removably engaging each other to form a disk. Each of the panels is comprised of a heat resistant material. A plurality of brackets is each removably coupled to a heat source having the brackets being vertically oriented. The disk is positionable on top of the brackets when the brackets are removably coupled to the heat source having the disk spaced upwardly from the heat source. In this way the disk directs heat laterally away from the heat source for warming users sitting around the heat source.
US11243008B2
A frame assembly for an air distribution system includes a damper assembly, a louver assembly, and a screen frame. Air flows through the damper assembly and the louver assembly, where the damper assembly terminates in a first flange and the louver terminates in a second flange. The first flange and the second flange are coupled to one another about a screen frame such that the screen frame is captured by abutting the first flange and the second flange.
US11243002B2
A method includes receiving, by a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property, and from a sensor, sensor data, receiving data indicating an operational state of the HVAC system, determining that the HVAC system is providing air to a smart vent device, determining (i) a particular direction for the smart vent device to direct air flowing from the HVAC system and into the room of the property and (ii) a particular flow rate for the smart vent device to provide air from the HVAC system and into the room of the property, and providing, to the smart vent device, instructions to (i) direct air flowing from the HVAC system and into the room of the property in the particular direction and (ii) adjust the flow rate of air flowing from the HVAC system and into the room of the property according to the particular flow rate.
US11243000B2
A hydraulic manifold for a hydraulic heating and/or cooling system includes a feed conduit (212) and a return conduit (216). The feed conduit (212) includes at least one feed connection (258), and the return conduit (216) includes at least one return connection (260), for the connection of a load circuit (228). A load module (204), in which a section of the feed conduit (212) with the feed connection (258), and a section of the return conduit (216) with the return section (260) are formed, includes at least one mixing device with a pump (232) and with a regulating valve (230), to admix fluid from the return connection (260) to a fluid flow from the feed conduit (212) to the feed connection (258). The section of the feed conduit (212) and the return conduit (216) in each case include an additional contact for connection with a further load module.
US11242990B2
A liner cooling structure of a duct assembly reduces pressure loss generated in the compressed air flow for cooling the liner. The duct assembly includes a liner, a transition piece, and a flow sleeve, and the transition piece and the flow sleeve form a transition piece channel through which a main stream of compressed air is introduced to the duct assembly. The liner cooling structure includes a first flow passage through which the main stream of compressed air passes in a first direction; and a second flow passage formed as a plurality of inlet holes in the flow sleeve to communicate with the first flow passage and configured to pass an auxiliary stream of compressed air in a second direction from outside the flow sleeve to inside the flow sleeve, the auxiliary stream joining the main stream such that the second direction forms an acute angle with the first direction.
US11242985B2
A lighting system is provided with a plurality of light fixtures within a room and at least one control system for controlling the plurality of light fixtures within a room. At least one of the light fixtures among the plurality of light fixtures within the room includes a patch panel thereon. The control system is attached to the patch panel on a first side of the patch panel, and a remaining of the plurality of light fixtures in the room are connected to the patch panel on a second side.
US11242977B2
Optical lens and light emitting device designs achieve uniform light distribution without producing a light “hot spot”, with a benefit of reducing the number of light sources needed and overall cost for direct-lit backlight device. The optical lens includes coating portions or structures on the bottom surface thereof, and a backlight device, or other light emitting device, incorporating said lens, to produce a uniform distribution of light at a target surface. The disclosed lens and light emitting device are particularly useful when an extremely wide transfer function of backlight is needed.
US11242976B2
A laser nightlight is disclosed. A laser nightlight includes a base, an electrical prong adapted to be inserted into an electrical outlet wherein the electrical prong is secured to and projects from the base; and a power supply circuit coupled to the electrical prong and contained within the base. A laser mounted within the base and coupled to the power supply circuit is adapted to produce a laser beam through an output. A lens is secured to the base and is positioned to cover the output of the laser. The output of the laser is pointed at a spot on the lens, and a portion of the lens at the spot may be opaque, faceted or cloudy, or may comprise a diffuser. A portion of the lens where the output of the laser points may contain an image and a light pattern corresponding to the image may be produced when the laser beam illuminates the image. The lens may be formed from shatterproof glass, clear glass or quartz. The lens may be sealed to the base. The lens may have a cylindrical length and the output of the laser may be aligned with the lens to produce the laser beam down a central axis of the lens. The laser may produce a red or green laser beam.
US11242974B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a light emitting apparatus comprising a directional LED array and an opaque lens configured to disperse light in an omnidirectional output pattern while maintaining similar light dispersion and heat dissipation performance as that of translucent lenses. In accordance with various aspects of the present disclosure, the desired optical properties of the present light emitting apparatus may be enabled through the use of a lens constructed from a polycarbonate or polycarbonate blend material melt blended with a concentration of organic diffusion particles to comprise a thermoplastic matrix having a desired opacity and optical characteristics.
US11242972B2
A reflector unit may behave as a retroreflector to reflect light of a selected color. The reflector unit may comprise a first reflector having a first color, a second reflector having a second color, and a mask that either allows incoming light to reach the first reflector and not the second reflector or allows incoming light to reach the second reflector and not the first reflector. An active light unit may emit light of a particular color in response to receiving light. In this fashion, the active light unit may simulate the operation of a reflector. The reflector unit and the active light unit may operate on a bi-directional vehicle.
US11242962B2
An inflatable solar-powered light is provided. The solar-powered light includes a bladder and a solar-powered light assembly disposed entirely within the bladder. The solar-powered light assembly includes a solar panel, a rechargeable battery in electrical communication with the solar panel, and at least one light-emitting diode in electrical communication with the rechargeable battery. The bladder is substantially transparent, flexible, inflatable, and collapsible.
US11242948B2
Techniques for implementing a pipeline system including a pipe segment and a potted pipe fitting. The pipe segment includes tubing having an internal pressure sheath layer, a reinforcement strip, and an outer sheath layer. The potted pipe fitting includes an outer fitting body disposed around a portion of the reinforcement strip, an inner fitting body disposed between the portion of the reinforcement strip and the internal pressure sheath layer, in which the inner fitting body directly abuts the internal pressure sheath layer at least up to a point where the reinforcement strip begins to flare away from the internal pressure sheath layer and a potting cavity of the potted pipe fitting is defined at least between an inner surface of the outer fitting body and an outer surface of the inner fitting body, and cured potting material implemented around the portion of the reinforcement strip in the potting cavity.
US11242941B2
A method of adaptively sampling data to determine the start of injection in a solenoid actuated valve of a fluid injector includes, in an operating cycle or portion thereof of the valve, sampling the signal of current through a solenoid of the valve at sampling points having a pre-defined interval therebetween. At each sampling point, determining the value of the first derivative of current and detecting the sampling point at which the first derivative achieves a maximum as the start of injection. Values of the first derivative of the sampling points immediately preceding and immediately following the start of injection are determined. In a subsequent operating cycle, synchronisation of sampling is altered to shift sampling times depending on the values of the first derivative of the sampling points immediately preceding and immediately following the start of injection.
US11242938B2
An internal engagement structure of a housing for a water control valve, the water control valve including the housing and a valve assembly, and the housing contains: a holder and a cover. The holder is configured to accommodate the valve assembly, and the cover is covered on the holder. The holder includes two opposite receiving grooves, two locking recesses formed on two lower ends of the two opposite receiving grooves respectively and communicating with the holder, and two tilted guide faces arranged on two upper ends of the two opposite receiving grooves respectively. The cover includes two opposite retainers extending downward from a bottom thereof and corresponding to the two opposite receiving grooves respectively, two hooks formed on two lower ends of the two opposite retainers respectively, and two cutouts defined above the two hooks respectively and configured to accommodate the two tilted guide faces respectively.
US11242935B2
The flow path switching valve described herein has a valve chamber with three openings and a valve piston disposed in the valve chamber. The valve piston has a flexible diaphragm which at its circumference co-operates sealingly with an inner circumferential wall of the valve chamber. The valve piston is movable between two end positions; in a first end position, it opens a flow path between a first opening and a second opening and blocks a third opening, and in the second end position, it blocks the first opening and opens a flow path between the second opening and the third opening. The wall of the valve chamber is shaped such that in the last phase of the diaphragm movement to the first end position, the sealing contact between the diaphragm and the inner wall is undone in at least part of the circumference.
US11242929B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a piston ring covered with a DLC coating that has excellent wear resistance and shows a low attacking property on a cylinder bore sliding surface. The problem is solved by a piston ring which is used in the presence of an engine lubricating oil and includes a DLC coating on an outer peripheral sliding surface. The DLC coating has an sp2 component ratio of 0.5 to 0.85 as determined from a TEM-EELS spectrum obtained by a combination of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), as well as a coating hardness of 12 GPa to 26 GPa and a Young's modulus of 250 GPa or less as measured by a nanoindentation method.
US11242921B2
A torque converter comprises a cover configured to receive an input torque and an impeller having an impeller shell non-rotatably connected to the cover. A piston is disposed axially between the cover and the impeller. The piston is configured to axially displace to selectively engage a clutch and a seal plate is disposed axially between the piston and the cover. The seal plate is sealed to the cover. A first chamber is formed at least in part by the cover, the seal plate, and the piston. A second chamber is formed at least in part by the piston and the impeller shell.
US11242914B2
A power transmission unit that can prevent unintentional disengagement of a clutch. A first set of teeth formed on an outer circumferential surface of a first rotary member is engaged with a third set of teeth formed on an inner circumferential surface of a second rotary member. A second set of teeth formed on an inner circumferential surface of the first rotary member is meshed with a fourth set of teeth formed on an outer circumferential surface of a third rotary member. A center of engagement between the first set of teeth and the third set of teeth is situated at a point withdrawn from a center of engagement between the second set of teeth and the fourth set of teeth in the direction to disengage the first set of teeth from the third set of teeth.
US11242909B2
According to some embodiments, a vibration-isolating system comprises a case, one or more environmental buffers, a platform suspended within the case by a plurality of wire rope isolators, a crumple zone beneath the platform and configured with one or more shock-absorbing structures, and a container assembly configured on the platform. The container assembly is operable to protect a payload comprising a flexible panel. The container assembly comprises a back panel positioned behind the flexible panel and offset by a first substantially airtight compartment, a front panel positioned in front of the flexible panel and offset by a second substantially airtight compartment, and a stiffener panel positioned in front of the front panel and offset by a third substantially airtight compartment.
US11242900B2
A first engagement member includes a first meshing portion and rotates integrally with a first shaft. A second engagement member includes a second meshing portion configured to mesh with the first meshing portion and rotates integrally with a second shaft. An electric clutch device drives the first engagement member via a pressing member that extends and contracts in response to drive of a clutch actuator. When the electric clutch device is to be engaged, the first shaft command computation unit sets the first shaft rotation speed command value to be smaller than the rotation speed of the second shaft. Further, after the rotation speed of the first shaft matches the first shaft rotation speed command value, the first shaft command computation unit sets the first shaft rotation speed command value to be gradually closer to the rotation speed of the second shaft.
US11242896B2
A constant velocity ball joint uses a star shaped sleeve with a splined connection to its shaft. The sleeve is longitudinally retained on its shaft using a retaining ring in an outwardly facing groove of the shaft. The star shaped sleeve has a 30° assembly assist chamfer angle on one side, as well as a 45° transition chamfer angle and a 65° ramp chamfer angle facing the opposite direction. These angles control the diameter of the retaining ring as it is compressed inward into the groove during assembly and disassembly. The star shaped sleeve can be used in a dynamic length CV joint, with the splines of a configuration that allows longitudinal sliding of the sleeve on the shaft, so the shell of the dynamic length CV joint still can be of the spherical race type.
US11242895B2
A coupling device for the torque-transmitting connection of a transmission with an electric machine, includes a drive element and an output element which are coupled with each other in a torque-transmitting manner. The drive element and the output element are electrically separated from each other by way of an electrical insulator.
US11242880B2
A method and device for attaching and detaching material to a c-channel groove, including attachment and detachment between first and second objects already attached to the groove. The device comprises a coil-shaped element that is resiliently compressible and connected to a desired material. Through biasing, the coil-shaped element is navigable into an aperture of the c-channel groove at a point along the c-channel groove between the ends of the c-channel groove and positionable such that at least a portion of the biased coil-shaped element is in the c-channel groove. Upon restoring the biased coil-shaped element toward a second, larger dimension, it is secured in the c-channel groove and the material connected to the coil-shaped element is attached to the c-channel groove, including between the first object and the second object, if present.
US11242869B2
A pump unit provides a hydraulic pressure for actuating an actuator in the drive train of a motor vehicle, in particular a clutch actuator or gearbox actuator. The pump unit includes a pump, a storage container for hydraulic fluid, and at least one solenoid valve. The solenoid valve is arranged within the storage container such that it is surrounded by hydraulic fluid.
US11242863B2
A fan blade with improved structure includes a hub, a plurality of blades. The hub has a lateral side having two ends, one of which is formed a top side and the other end is extended to form an extended section, and a plurality of connecting slots located on the periphery of the extended section. Each blade has a first end correspondingly engaged in respective connecting slot and a second end. With these arrangements, the fan blade with improved structure can increase structural strength of thin fan blades and be easy to connect the hub to the blades.
US11242862B2
A blower device includes a rotor rotatable about a central axis extending in a vertical direction, an impeller attached to the rotor, and an annular ring centered on the central axis. The rotor includes a rotor cylindrical portion that extends in the axial direction and a flange that extends radially outward from the rotor cylindrical portion. The impeller includes an annular impeller base centered on the central axis. The ring is connected to the impeller base in the axial direction. The flange is held between the impeller base and the ring in the axial direction.
US11242861B2
A split-collar fan orifice apparatus and method are disclosed. The split-collar fan orifice includes a generally semi-annular member having a first end and a second end, the member having an inner surface and an outer surface. The member has a first mating surface on the first end and a second mating surface on the second end. The first mating surface and the second mating surface are different. The split-collar fan orifice further includes a plurality of ribs disposed along the outer surface of the member. The plurality of ribs is configured to provide rigidity to the member. The plurality of ribs includes a first rib and a second rib, and the first rib extends in a first direction and the second rib extends in a second direction.
US11242860B2
A fuel pump includes an output shaft of a motor and an impeller configured to rotate integrally with the output shaft. An outer periphery of the output shaft includes a first flat portion for engaging with the impeller. The impeller includes a through hole at a center thereof, the through hole being larger than an outer diameter of the output shaft and including a second flat portion for engaging with the output shaft. In this fuel pump, when the output shaft and the impeller are arranged coaxially, spots exist which have different lengths of a gap between the first flat portion and the second flat portion in a rotational axis direction of the output shaft.
US11242855B2
At an electric pump, a first gasket is interposed between a stator and a motor housing, and a supporting member, and a second gasket is interposed between the supporting member and a substrate housing. Further, the electric pump has a first snap-fit structure that assembles the stator to the supporting member, a second snap-fit structure that assembles the motor housing the supporting member, and a third snap-fit structure that assembles the substrate housing to the supporting member.
US11242853B2
A pump as provided includes an inlet, an outlet, and a scroll pumping element. The scroll pumping element includes a fixed scroll component having one or more fixed scrolls and orbiting scroll component having one or more orbiting scrolls for fluid pumping. The fixed scroll component and the orbiting scroll component are arranged so as to be capable of providing pressurized fluid to a thrust bearing and prevent contact between the fixed scroll component and the orbiting scroll component.
US11242852B2
An automobile vehicle variable displacement pump includes a pump body having a pump shaft extending through the pump body. A rotor is connected to the pump shaft and co-rotates with the pump shaft. The rotor has multiple radially outwardly directed slots. A vane support ring supports multiple vanes, the vanes individually slidably received in one of the slots of the rotor. A slide is rotatably connected to the pump body having the rotor and the vane support ring positioned within an inner wall of the slide. A bow spring plate defining a biasing member directly contacts the slide to bias the slide to rotate about an arc of curvature.
US11242846B2
A lubricating oil supply apparatus may include a rotational portion that rotates together with a rotational shaft and a fixed portion that maintains a fixed location thereof and supplies oil through a space that circles with respect to a rotational center of the rotational portion, thereby supplying oil regardless of a rotational direction of the rotational shaft.
US11242843B2
Inventive concentrated solar power systems using solar receivers, and related devices and methods, are generally described. Low pressure solar receivers are provided that function to convert solar radiation energy to thermal energy of a working fluid, e.g., a working fluid of a power generation or thermal storage system. In some embodiments, low pressure solar receivers are provided herein that are useful in conjunction with gas turbine based power generation systems.
US11242841B2
A system and method are provided for controlling a wind turbine based on a collective pitch-offset. Accordingly, a wind condition acting on a rotor of the wind turbine is determined, and a first collective pitch angle for the plurality of rotor blades is set, and the wind turbine is operated. A thrust of the rotor based, at least in part, on the wind condition is determined, and an actual collective pitch angle is calculated. A collective pitch offset is determined based on the difference between the first collective pitch angle and the actual collective pitch angle. The collective pitch offset is integrated with at least one pitch setpoint command. The at least one pitch setpoint command is transmitted to a pitch control mechanism of the wind turbine.
US11242837B2
The present invention provides a floating offshore wind turbine capable of suppressing yawing of a nacelle caused by a gyro effect which is a cause of adverse influence of power generating efficiency of a wind turbine and endurance of devices thereof. The floating offshore wind turbine 10 includes a rotor 11 which is rotated by wind, a nacelle 13 in which a rotation shaft 12 of the rotor 11 is accommodated, and a tower 15 including a turning seated bearing 14 which supports the nacelle 13 such that the nacelle 13 can turn with respect to a sea surface P to exert a weathercock effect. The tower is provided with yawing suppressing means 16 which suppresses yawing T of the nacelle 13. According to this, it is possible to suppress the yawing T of the nacelle 13 generated by a gyro effect caused by yawing Ω generated in the floating body 31 by waves of the sea surface P.
US11242831B2
A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a spring, a cup, and a guide. The cup contacts the spring and the valve body to transmit a valve closing elastic force to the valve body, and includes a cylindrical portion having a cylindrical shape. The guide has a sliding surface on which an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion slides so as to guide the movement of the cylindrical portion in an axial direction while restricting the movement of the cylindrical portion in a radial direction. The guide has a recessed surface connected to the sliding surface and recessed to increase a gap between the recessed surface and the cup in the radial direction.
US11242830B2
Provided is a fuel injection valve capable of quickly stopping a position of a movable element at a predetermined position after closing a valve while reducing an impact force of a valve body. Therefore, a valve body 101 includes a sleeve 113. A first movable core 201 (first movable element) lifts the valve body 101 by the attractive force of a magnetic core 107. A second movable core 202 (second movable element) further lifts the valve body 101 by the attractive force of the magnetic core 107 after the first movable core 201 (first movable element) lifts the valve body 101. After the valve body 101 is seated on the seat member 102 and the second movable core 202 (second movable element) is separated from the sleeve 113, a bottom surface 201g of the first movable core 201 (first movable element) collides with a storage bottom surface 111b (collision receiving portion).
US11242823B1
A fuel tank isolation solenoid valve for a vehicle includes: a plunger disposed in the isolation solenoid valve to be vertically moved and has first vent holes for releasing overpressure or over-negative pressure; a valve body disposed in the isolation solenoid valve to be vertically moved and has second vent holes for releasing overpressure or over-negative pressure.
US11242821B2
A turbofan having a nacelle delimiting a duct for a bypass flow and including a fixed structure including a guide vane support with guide vanes, a mobile cowl movable in translation between an advanced position and a retracted position, arms, each one being mobile in rotation on the guide vane support between a stowed position and a deployed position and comprising a distal end and a proximal end, for each pair of adjacent arms, a flexible screen extending angularly between the two arms, and of which an exterior edge is attached to the guide vane support, and wherein the distal end of each arm is fixed along the interior edge, a link rod mounted articulated between the distal ends, actuators to cause the mobile cowl to move, and an operating system which moves each arm. Such an arrangement allows a reduction in weight.
US11242812B2
An engine control method includes: a first fuel supply step of supplying fuel into the combustion chamber using an injector when a spark plug makes flame in the combustion chamber so that an air-fuel mixture is generated at least around the spark plug, the air-fuel mixture having an air-fuel mass ratio A/F or a gas-fuel mass ratio G/F, in which gas includes air, higher than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio; after the first fuel supply step, an ignition step of making the flame in the combustion chamber in the compression stroke using the spark plug; and after the ignition step, a second fuel supply step of supplying the fuel into the combustion chamber in the compression stroke using the injector to increase a fuel concentration of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber.
US11242808B2
A method is provided for determining exhaust mass flow through a diesel particulate filter (DPF) in an engine arrangement including an engine and an exhaust after treatment system (EATS) comprising the DPF. The method comprises determining soot loading and soot distribution in the DPF, measuring pressure drop over the DPF, measuring pressure in the DPF, measuring temperature in the DPF, and determining exhaust mass flow through the DPF as a function of the measured pressure drop, the measured pressure, the measured temperature, and the soot loading and soot distribution. An arrangement is also provided for determining exhaust mass flow through a diesel particulate filter. A method for controlling one or more engine components, and an engine, are also provided.
US11242799B2
The invention relates generally to gas turbine engines used for electrical power generation. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide systems and ways for improving the life and reducing start-up time necessary for bringing gas turbine engines online and up to full power.
US11242791B2
A heat recovery device, including a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure comprising an outer peripheral side wall having one or more planar outer peripheral side surfaces; one or more thermoelectric conversion modules arranged to face the one or more planar outer peripheral side surfaces; a tubular member that circumferentially covers the outer peripheral side surfaces of the honeycomb structure and the one or more thermoelectric conversion modules; and a casing that circumferentially covers the tubular member; wherein the partition walls are mainly configured of ceramics; and wherein the casing has an inflow port and an outflow port for a second fluid having a temperature lower than that of the first fluid, and a flow path for the second fluid is formed circumferentially around the tubular member between an inner surface of the casing and an outer surface of the tubular member.
US11242783B1
A sound deflecting muffler for deflecting and absorbing sound waves associated with exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine includes a casing having a muffler body defining an interior area and defining an inlet opening operatively connected to the internal combustion engine for receiving exhaust gases into the interior area and defining an outlet opening in communication with the interior area for directing the exhaust gases downstream from the interior area. The casing includes a pair of sound baffles that define a flow path for the exhaust gases flowing between the inlet and outlet of the muffler body, each sound baffle being perforated and having an arcuate configuration such that the flow path narrows at a midpoint. A first sound deflector is positioned in the flow path proximate the inlet end so as to deflect a portion of the exhaust gases toward the pair of sound baffles.
US11242781B2
An air exhausting device includes a muffler internally divided into a plurality of chambers by a separator, an inlet pipe that couples an exhaust pipe of an engine to the muffler, and an outlet pipe that is a path to discharge an exhaust gas inside the muffler to outside air. The muffler is configured of an expansion chamber to which a downstream end of the inlet pipe opens, and a resonator chamber communicated with only the expansion chamber via a plurality of resonator pipes. Any of or both of lengths and thicknesses of the plurality of resonator pipes are different.
US11242775B2
A valve timing adjustment device includes a drive-side rotating body that rotates in conjunction with a crankshaft, a driven-side rotating body that rotates integrally with a camshaft, a speed reduction mechanism that transmits rotation while allowing relative rotation between the drive-side rotating body and the driven-side rotating body. The driven-side rotating body includes a fastening portion fastened to the end portion of the camshaft by a center bolt, a bearing portion that is located radially outward of the fastening portion and that axially supports the drive-side rotating body, and a fitting outer surface that is fitted to a regulating member on a side where an outer diameter of an axial contact surface with the other member on one side and the other side in the axial direction of the driven-side rotating body is large.
US11242774B2
A rocker assembly including a rocker shaft having an outer surface, main oil passage, a first radial passage and a second radial and a rocker arm having a first end and an inner cylindrical surface defining a bore, wherein the rocker shaft is received in the bore to pivotably mount the rocker arm onto the rocker shaft. The rocker arm includes a hydraulic lash adjuster mounted within the first end and a first oil passage having an inlet at the inner cylindrical surface and an outlet in fluid communication with the hydraulic lash adjuster. The inner cylindrical surface is spaced apart from the outer surface of the rocker shaft by a radial clearance, and wherein an inlet to the first oil passage and a first outlet of the first radial passage are in a loaded region of the radial clearance.
US11242772B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure can include a system for generating steam. The system can include a direct steam generator configured to generate saturated steam and combustion exhaust constituents. A close coupled heat exchanger can be fluidly coupled to the direct steam generator, the close coupled heat exchanger can be configured to route the saturated or superheated steam and combustion exhaust constituents through an exhaust constituent removal system. The system can include an energy recovery system that reclaims the energy from the exhaust constituents.
US11242770B2
Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to a turbine center frame for a turbine engine through which a flow path extends. The turbine center frame can include an inner wall radially spaced from an outer wall, with the inner and outer walls extending between an inlet and an outlet, and with the outlet downstream of the inlet with respect to the flow path. A set of circumferentially-spaced airfoils can extend between the inner wall and the outer wall.
US11242765B2
A clearance adjusting apparatus disposed in front of a compressor of a gas turbine to axially move a compressor disk back and forth to adjust a tip clearance formed between a compressor blade and a compressor casing is provided. The clearance adjusting apparatus includes a hollow fastening part disposed in front of the compressor casing, a shaft disposed in the fastening part and coupled to a front side of the compressor disk, an adjusting part disposed between the fastening part and the shaft to axially move the shaft back and forth to adjust the tip clearance, and a biasing part disposed on the fastening part to bias the adjusting part back and forth to adjust a position of the adjusting part and the shaft.
US11242762B2
An airfoil piece includes a first vane platform, a second vane platform, and a hollow airfoil section that joins the first vane platform and the second vane platform. The hollow airfoil section includes a collar projection which extends past the first vane platform. The collar projection includes at least one radial tab projecting therefrom. An airfoil assembly and a method of assembling a vane are also disclosed.
US11242757B2
A method for manufacturing a blade or vane assembly having at least one hollow airfoil (10) for a gas turbine, profile sections (A, B, C) of this airfoil being configured (S20) on the basis of a predetermined desired torsion of the airfoil, and the airfoil being manufactured (S30) on the basis of the configured profile sections using an additive manufacturing process (S30).
US11242752B2
The disclosure provides a liquid taking device and a liquid taking method. The liquid taking device comprises a liquid taking bottle, a heavy ball and liquid taking ropes. The liquid taking bottle has a first mouth and a bottom opposite to the first mouth. The heavy ball is arranged in the liquid taking bottle. The liquid taking device can be controlled to reach different depths under the ground by the action of two liquid ropes. When the first mouth of the bottle is placed facing downward, the heavy ball blocks the first mouth of the bottle under its own gravity to prevent liquid leakage; when the first mouth of the bottle is turned upwards under the action of the liquid taking rope, the heavy ball falls onto the bottom of the bottle, such that an external liquid can flow into the liquid taking device, which has a good practical utility.
US11242739B2
Embodiments of treating fluid comprising hydrocarbons, water, and polymer being produced from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation are provided. One embodiment comprises adding a concentration of a viscosity reducer to the fluid to degrade the polymer present in the fluid and adding a concentration of a neutralizer to the fluid to neutralize the viscosity reducer in the fluid. The addition of the concentration of the viscosity reducer is in a sufficient quantity to allow for complete chemical degradation of the polymer prior to the addition of the concentration of the neutralizer in the fluid such that excess viscosity reducer is present in the fluid. The addition of the concentration of the neutralizer is sufficiently upstream of any surface fluid processing equipment to allow for complete neutralization of the excess viscosity reducer such that excess neutralizer is present in the fluid prior to the fluid reaching any of the surface fluid processing equipment.
US11242738B2
A hydrocarbon production apparatus that removes debris from a hydrocarbon fluid is described. The apparatus includes a first conduit, a second conduit, a valve, and at least one baffle. The first conduit includes an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path that extends between the inlet and the outlet. The flow path can receive a flow of a hydrocarbon fluid, which includes debris, from the inlet and direct the hydrocarbon fluid from the inlet to the outlet. The second conduit includes a debris receptacle. The valve is fluidly coupled to the second conduit and can isolate the debris receptacle from the flow path of the first conduit and at least a portion of the second conduit. The at least one baffle is oriented to direct at least a portion of the debris from the flow path of the first conduit to the second conduit.
US11242737B2
The present invention discloses a turbine fracturing equipment, including a transporter, a turbine engine, a reduction gearbox, a transmission mechanism and a plunger pump, wherein an output end of the turbine engine is connected to one end of the reduction gearbox, the other end of the reduction gearbox is connected to the plunger pump through a transmission mechanism; the transporter is used to support the turbine engine, the reduction gearbox, the transmission mechanism and the plunger pump; the transporter includes a chassis provided with a transport section, a bearing section and a lapping section which are connected in sequence; while the turbine fracturing equipment is in a working state, the bearing section can contact with the ground, while the turbine fracturing equipment is in a transport state, the bearing section does not contact with the ground. Beneficial effects: the equipment adopts a linear connection and a special chassis design, so that the center of gravity is double lowered to guarantee its stability and safety, the structure is simpler, the investment and operation costs are decreased, the risk of total breakdown of the fracturing site is reduced, and the equipment has a good transmission performance and is suitable for continuous operation conditions with long time and heavy load.
US11242730B2
The disclosure describes hydrocarbon flowline corrosion inhibitor overpressure protection. Such a protection system includes a fluid flow pathway fluidically coupled to a corrosion inhibitor injection pump that injections corrosion inhibitor into a hydrocarbon carrying flowline. When the injection pump pressure exceeds a threshold flow pressure, the corrosion inhibitor is flowed through a first branch of the fluid flow pathway to relieve the excess pressure. The first branch is fluidically isolated from a second branch. When a rupture disc in the first branch fails, then the corrosion inhibitor is diverted to flow through the second branch and the first branch is isolated from the corrosion inhibitor flow.
US11242727B2
A plugging device, well system and method. In one example, a wrap, band or other type of binding is utilized to secure together multiple fibers, tubes, filaments, films, fabrics or lines of the plugging device. In another example, fibers, tubes, filaments, films, fabrics or lines are fused, adhered or bonded to an outer surface of a body of the plugging device. In other examples, a material of the plugging device may become more rigid or swell in a well. A plugging device may comprise a body loosely enclosed in a bag, wrapper or other enclosure.
US11242716B2
A system and method for mounting a Closed-Mouth Power Tong on a Well Servicing Rig in order is disclosed. The power tong can be operated remotely when making up or breaking out connections on oilfield tubing. The system utilizes an assembly that can lift and lower the tong to the appropriate height as required to engage the threads on the tubing. The assembly is connected to the blowout preventer or wellhead with a quick connect system that is adjustable for various angles so that the tong can be utilized in various positions to run tubing into, or out from, the well center unhindered.
US11242714B2
A method of forming a polycrystalline diamond compact includes forming a polycrystalline diamond material at a temperature and a pressure sufficient to form diamond-to-diamond bonds in the presence of a catalyst; substantially removing the catalyst from a volume of the polycrystalline diamond material from a first surface to a first leach depth; and substantially removing the catalyst from a volume of the polycrystalline diamond material from a second surface to a second, different leach depth. A polycrystalline diamond compact includes a polycrystalline diamond material having a first volume, a second volume, and a boundary between the first volume and the second volume. The first volume includes a catalyst disposed in interstitial spaces between diamond grains. The second volume is substantially free of the catalyst. The boundary's location is selected to control thermal stability and/or impact resistance.
US11242710B1
A barrier employed to keep children and/or pets in or out of certain areas in the house. The barrier includes four panels. Two main panels slide parallel to each other to lengthen or shorten the barrier as a whole. Two side panels stabilize the main panels and extend to the front and rear faces of the main panels to provide a self-supporting in-house barrier. Each of the panels includes a wooden frame. The wood lends less weight, less sharp edges, and more pleasing aesthetics than, for example, a metal gate. Legs are connected to the side panels to further stabilize the side panels and main panels.
US11242706B2
A damping mechanism is provided, including a damper housing, a damping assembly provided within the damper housing, and a damper cover assembly fitted to at least a portion of the damper housing. The damper cover assembly includes a damper cover and at least one connection member attached thereto. A recess is provided on a rearward side of the damper cover, and at least one receptacle is provided, defining an opening on a bottom surface of the damper cover and being adapted to receive and retain therein at least a portion of the at least one connection member of the damper cover assembly. The recess of the damper cover and the connection member of the damper cover assembly are cooperatively adapted to provide a mechanical connection between the damping mechanism and a hinge cup of a hinge assembly in a removable manner.
US11242702B2
A push-pull passage door lock comprising at least one handle, at least one lever, at least one rotating block, a slipping block, a latch bolt and a reset device for resetting the latch bolt. The lever, rotating block and slipping block are located inside the housing. The lever and rotating block are hinged to the housing. The rotating block comprises a rotation portion and a touch portion located at the two sides of an articulated shaft of the rotating block. One end of the lever is connected to the handle and the other end is adjacent the rotation portion. One end of the slipping block is connected to the latch bolt and the other end is adjacent the touch portion. The lever rotates the rotation portion of the rotating block, whereby the touch portion of the rotating block pushes up the slipping block and thereby retracts the latch bolt.
US11242697B2
A road freight transport security system for a vehicle, is described, which comprises a database; and a portable electronic device running a security application. The security application is configured to prompt a user to carry out a plurality of external security checks of the vehicle, provide a facility for the user to confirm completion of those checks, provide a facility for the user to associate one or more photographs, taken by the portable electronic device, with one or more of the checks, and to upload log data to the database, the log data indicating at least a date and time of completion of the checks. A sensor device is also provided, mounted within a freight area of the vehicle, having one or more sensors, and being operable to communicate an alert to the portable electronic device in the event that an anomaly is detected inside the freight area. In this way, real time detection of security breaches within a freight trailer or container may be achieved. The driver is not required to engage directly with an intruder, and is facilitated in reporting the crime and demonstrating that appropriate precautions had been taken. Accordingly, driver safety may be improved and freight thefts and or losses via contamination reduced.
US11242681B2
A construction board includes a foam body having first and second planar surfaces, said foam body including a polyisocyanurate foam matrix defining a plurality of closed cells, said closed cells being at least substantially devoid of hydrocarbon blowing agents, and said foam body being characterized by a density, pursuant to ASTM C303, of at least 2.5 lbs/ft3; and a facer disposed on a planar surface of said foam body, said facer including a glass substrate having an internal planar surface proximate to said foam body and an external planar surface opposite said foam body, a first coating disposed on said external surface, and a second coating disposed on or proximate to said internal surface, where said first coating disposed on said external surface includes an inert filler, and where said second coating disposed on or proximate to said internal surface includes intumescent material.
US11242679B2
A floatable frame structure has concatenated frame modules, each formed of columns arranged substantially vertically. Neighboring columns are interconnected by upper and lower tie bars and form module sections. The connections between the tie bars and columns have rotary joints arranged at upper and lower nodes on the columns. At least one horizontal rotation joint is arranged for each column in the connection to an associated tie bar, and at least one spherical rotary joint or elastic rotary joint is arranged for each tie bar. Each module section is provided with elastic tensile elements secured to diagonally opposite upper and lower nodes, nodes lying diagonally opposite each other in the same horizontal plane and in the same frame module being connected by elastic tensile elements. Some columns form containers with submersible portions with positive buoyancy, and adjacent frame modules sharing at least one column.
US11242674B2
A fast installation mechanism for a faucet includes a locking inner core, a fixing core, and a base. The locking inner core is a tubular member. An external thread is formed on an outer wall of the locking inner core. An upper end of the locking inner core is fixedly connected to a faucet body. A lower portion of the locking inner core is screwed into the fixing core. The base is sleeved on a lower portion of the fixing core. At least two elastic pieces on the fixing core extend out of at least two windows of the base, respectively. The installation is quick and easy, and the operation is convenient.
US11242671B2
Each of left and right direction switching valves includes: a pump port connected to a pump; a first compensation port connected to an upstream side of a corresponding pressure compensation valve; a second compensation port connected to a downstream side of the corresponding pressure compensation valve; a pair of supply/discharge ports connected to a corresponding travel motor; and a communication port. The communication ports of the left and right direction switching valves are connected by a communication line. When a spool shifts from a neutral position by the travel operation device, the pump port communicates with the first compensation port and the second compensation port communicates with one of the supply/discharge ports and the communication port. Each direction switching valve is configured wherein a degree of communication between the second compensation port and communication port increases in a shifting amount of the spool from the neutral position.
US11242668B2
A quick joint of a front loader, the quick joint includes: a coupling member (30) having a hook shape and pivotally connected to a first pivot point (P1) of a boom post (20) through a first pivot shaft (31); a spring member (32) for applying an elastic force in a direction of releasing the coupling member (30) from a coupling target shaft (14) disposed on a boom post support (10) which is attached to a tractor (1); a lock unit (34) having a part making contact with the coupling member (30), and provided with a lock pin (36) for restraining behavior of the coupling member (30) at a coupling position (A1); and a guide slot (38) having an arc shape and formed in the boom post (20) to define a moving path of the lock pin (36) when the lock unit (34) rotates.
US11242663B2
Disclosed embodiments include a suction pile vent plug having a cylindrically-shaped body having a sealing element, a plurality of coupling features, and a handle connected to the cylindrically-shaped body. The sealing element is configured to form a watertight seal with walls of a suction pile vent into which the vent plug is installed. The plurality of coupling features are configured to engage with corresponding coupling features of the suction pile vent. The movable handle is configured to be moved into one or more locked configurations. Disclosed embodiments further include a suction pile vent having a hollow cylindrically-shaped body having coupling features. The coupling features are configured to engage with corresponding coupling features of a suction pile vent plug to thereby mechanically couple the suction pile vent plug to the suction pile vent. Disclosed embodiments further include a fluidic port that fluidically couples a suction pile to a removable fluidic coupling.
US11242657B2
A flap for an asphalt hopper of an asphalt paver includes a sheet of a first material arranged to, in a non-deformed configuration, extend upwards from a base of the asphalt hopper and at least partially enclose one end of the asphalt hopper. The flap further includes a support member of a memory metal material coupled to the sheet. The support member has a deformed configuration and a non-deformed configuration. The support member experiences shape memory effect above a transition temperature that causes the support member in the deformed configuration to transition to the non-deformed configuration in response to heating at or above a transition temperature and also urges the sheet to return to the non-deformed configuration from a deformed configuration.
US11242640B2
A household appliance, such as a fabric treating appliance and/or a dish treating appliance, incorporating both a bulk dispensing system and a single-use dispensing system, with a single-use dispensing cup having an output that is selectively coupled to one of a treating chamber of the appliance or a bulk treating chemistry reservoir of the bulk dispensing system.
US11242639B2
A washing machine including a detergent supply device to supply a detergent together with water to a tub. The detergent supply device includes a detergent housing installed within the main body and a detergent accommodation box movably installed within the detergent housing, and the detergent accommodation box is divided into automatic detergent accommodation parts to accommodate a detergent to be supplied automatically and manual detergent accommodation parts to accommodate a detergent to be supplied manually, and the detergent supply device supplies the detergents through an automatic detergent supply method and a manual detergent supply method.
US11242637B2
A laundry appliance includes a cabinet frame that defines a receiving aperture. A tub is disposed within the cabinet frame. A suspension support includes an engagement portion. The engagement portion includes an ejection surface sloping in a first direction and an assembling surface sloping in a second opposing direction to a retaining notch. A suspension rod extends between the tub and the suspension support and has a hook for selectively engaging the assembling surface in an installed position and selectively engaging the ejection surface in a misaligned position.
US11242632B1
An automatic laundry machine is fashioned as a device having a washing machine and dryer in a single unit, a plurality of washing soap and fabric softener reservoirs, a means for calibrating the weight of a load of wash and automatically dispensing a corresponding amount of washing soap and fabric softener and a mechanical conveyor capable of moving washed clothing from the washing machine component to the drying component. Each component is capable of independent operation.
US11242628B2
A knitted spacer fabric has two transversely spaced knitted layers and first and second spacer yarns extending transversely between and connecting the knitted layers. Both knitted layers are formed by metal braid that is arranged such that laminar electrical and thermal conduction is provided by the metal braid in both knitted layers, and the first spacer yarns are also formed by metal braid.
US11242623B2
The invention relates to a method for thermally stabilizing melt-spun PAN precursors. For this purpose, the invention provides a continuous method for producing a thermally stabilized multifilament thread made of a meltable copolymer of polyacrylonitrile (PAN), wherein a pre-stabilized multifilament thread is thermally stabilized and in the process at least temporarily stretched. The invention additionally relates to a thermally stabilized multifilament thread which can be obtained according to a corresponding method and to a carbon fiber which is made of the correspondingly thermally stabilized multifilament thread.
US11242619B2
A nano-twinned copper layer is disclosed, wherein over 50% of a volume of the nano-twinned copper layer comprises a plurality of columnar crystal grains, the plurality of columnar crystal grains connect to each other, at least 70% of the plurality of columnar crystal grains are formed by a plurality of nano-twins stacking in an orientation of a crystal axis, and an angle included between two adjacent columnar crystal grains is greater 20° and less than or equal to 60°. In addition, a method for manufacturing the nano-twinned copper layer and a substrate comprising the same are also disclosed.
US11242618B2
A silicon carbide substrate capable of stably forming a device of excellent performance, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A silicon carbide substrate is made of a single crystal of silicon carbide, and has a width of not less than 100 mm, a micropipe density of not more than 7 cm−2, a threading screw dislocation density of not more than 1×104 cm−2, a threading edge dislocation density of not more than 1×104 cm−2, a basal plane dislocation density of not more than 1×104 cm−2, a stacking fault density of not more than 0.1 cm−1, a conductive impurity concentration of not less than 1×1018 cm−3, a residual impurity concentration of not more than 1×1016 cm−3, and a secondary phase inclusion density of not more than 1 cm−3.
US11242611B2
A nozzle device includes a nozzle body and at least one second electrode. The nozzle body extends along a longitudinal axis, and has a top surface, a bottom surface for confronting a first electrode of a workpiece, a recess provided in the bottom surface, and a longitudinal channel extending downwardly from the top surface along the longitudinal axis to be in fluid communication with the recess. The longitudinal channel has an upper section and a lower tapered section which is tapered downwardly to form a lower communication port. The least one second electrode is disposed in the recess for being spaced apart from the first electrode.
US11242592B2
A continuous nitriding treatment furnace includes a nitriding chamber, a heater, a first nitriding zone, and a second nitriding zone lower in atmosphere gas temperature than the first nitriding zone by 25° C. to 150° C., the continuous nitriding treatment furnace being configured such that an atmosphere gas in the first nitriding zone flows into the second nitriding zone and being configured to execute a nitriding treatment that forms an iron nitride compound layer composed of an ε phase or of the ε phase and a γ′ phase on a surface of the steel member in the first nitriding zone and precipitates the γ′ phase in the iron nitride compound layer in the second nitriding zone.
US11242591B2
A surface-treated metal plate including: a metal plate; and a nickel-cobalt binary alloy layer formed on the metal plate. When a part having a content ratio of oxygen atoms of 5 atomic % or more as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis is an oxide coating film, the nickel-cobalt binary alloy layer contains the oxide coating film with a thickness of 0.5 to 30 nm on a surface thereof, and when a pressure cooker test including temperature increasing, retention for 72 hours under a water-vapor atmosphere at a temperature of 105° C. and a relative humidity of 100% RH, and temperature decreasing is performed, the amount of increase in the thickness of the oxide coating film is 28 nm or less.
US11242577B2
The present invention relates to a rack steel plate with a thickness up to 177.8 mm by a continuous casting slab, the constituents and mass percentages including C0.11˜0.15%, Si0.15˜0.35%, Mn0.95˜1.25%, P≤0.010%, S≤0.002%, Cr0.45˜0.75%, Mo0.4˜0.6%, Ni1.3˜2.6%, Cu0.2˜0.4%, Al0.06˜0.09%, V0.03˜0.06%, Nb≤0.04%, N≤0.006%, B0.001˜0.002%, the balance is Fe and unavoidable impurity elements. The manufacture method includes, in sequence, KR molten steel pretreatment, converter smelting, LF refining, RH refining, continuous casting through a straight-arc continuous casting machine, shielding the continuous casting slab a cover and slowly cooling, cleaning the continuous casting slab, heating, high-pressure water descaling, control rolling, straightening, slowly cooling, quenching and tempering treatment. The rack steel plate of large thickness in present invention has advantages of high strength, good plasticity and excellent toughness at a low temperature, the process method has advantages of simple process, low cost and efficiently quick etc.
US11242573B2
A system can be used to process liquid materials, such as aqueous-based syrup solutions containing sugar molecules. In some examples, the system includes a processing vessel having multiple individually-controllable temperature zones arranged in series. In operation, an aqueous solution can be introduced into an inlet port of the processing vessel and passed sequentially through the series of temperature zones. Water from the aqueous solution can be evaporated within the initial stage(s) of the processing vessel to form a concentrated solution that is then cooled in subsequent stage(s). Accordingly, a supersaturated solution may be formed from the aqueous solution in the processing vessel that is then solidified to subsequently form a substantially dry solid material (e.g., sugar), still within the processing vessel. The substantially dry solid material can discharge through an exit port of the processing vessel.
US11242572B2
The present disclosure is directed towards a virus, called Cedar Virus, and its methods of use.
US11242560B2
A method of distinguishing nucleotide sequences for different nucleic acid molecules including the steps of (a) mixing a plurality of different nucleic acid molecules with polymerase molecules and nucleotide molecules, wherein the different nucleic acid molecules are attached to a surface in the form of an array of nucleic acid features; (b) determining a transient state of the polymerase molecules at the nucleic acid features; and (c) identifying a subset of nucleic acid features that correctly incorporate the nucleotide molecules based on the transient state of the polymerase molecules at the nucleic acid features, thereby distinguishing the nucleotide sequences for the different nucleic acid molecules.
US11242558B2
The inventions cover systems and methods for generation of emulsions having suitable clarity without requiring refractive index matching between emulsion components. Systems can include: a substrate including a set of openings; a reservoir facing the substrate at a first side and containing a sample fluid configured for droplet formation upon interacting with the set of openings of the substrate; and a collecting container facing the substrate at a second side and containing a set of fluid layers configured with a density gradient and suitable immiscibility characteristics. One or more components of the system(s) can support methods for emulsion generation, in relation to enabling interactions between multiple continuous phases and a dispersed droplet phase to generate clear emulsions. Applications of the inventions(s) can include performance of droplet-based digital PCR in an improved manner (e.g., without requiring implementation of correction factors based upon Poisson statistics).
US11242553B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for identifying, isolating, and/or characterizing microRNAs, their targets, and microRNA response elements, and for predicting their biological function.
US11242551B2
The disclosure pertains to novel eukaryotic cell suitable for recombinant production of a product of interest, wherein the genome of the host cell is altered so that the effect of protein FAM60A is impaired in said cell, e.g. by reducing or eliminating functional expression of gene FAM60A thereby improving the stability characteristics. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides associated technologies wherein such host cells are used in recombinant production technologies.
US11242548B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for improving the yield and production intensity of Gluconobacter oxydans (G. oxydans) sorbose, and belongs to the technical field of fermentation engineering. By knocking out genes related to formation of D-sorbitol or L-sorbose metabolic by-products in G. oxydans, the formation of the by-products is reduced, and the efficiency of transforming D-sorbitol into L-sorbose is improved, thereby improving the yield and production intensity of L-sorbose. A recombinant strain G. oxydan-11 constructed by the present disclosure, compared with a control strain, has an L-sorbose transformation rate of 96.12%, which is 4.47% higher than that of a wild strain, has a production intensity of 14 g/L·h, which is 14.7% higher than that of the wild strain, and has a fructose by-product content of only 5.6 g/L, which is 45.6% lower than that of the wild strain.
US11242540B2
The present invention discloses a genus of insect inhibitory proteins that exhibit properties directed to controlling Lepidopteran and/or Hemipteran crop pests, methods of using such proteins, nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins, methods of detecting and isolating such proteins, and their use in agricultural systems.
US11242537B2
The present invention discloses a method for increasing the sensitivity of a plant to a gibberellin inhibitor. The method for increasing the sensitivity of a plant to a gibberellin inhibitor provided by the present invention comprises the step of introducing an encoding gene of a protein into a recipient plant to obtain a transgenic plant; the transgenic plant has increased sensitivity to the gibberellin inhibitor compared to the recipient plant; the protein is a protein of the following a) or b) or c): a) a protein whose amino acid sequence is set forth in positions 1-821 of SEQ ID NO: 1; b) a protein whose amino acid sequence is set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1; c) a fusion protein obtained by attaching tag(s) to the N-terminus or/and C-terminus of a) or b). The experiments prove that the method for increasing the sensitivity of a plant to a gibberellin inhibitor of the present invention can be used to increase the sensitivity of plants to gibberellin inhibitors, and the plant height of plants can be regulated by the plant height-related protein HRP of the present invention.
US11242536B2
Compositions and methods to produce maize with improved nutritional content are disclosed.
US11242533B2
Described herein are immuno-stimulatory RNA nanostructures (which comprises a single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) molecule, wherein the ssRNA molecule forms at least one paranemic cohesion crossover), as well as compositions and methods of use thereof.
US11242511B2
The disclosure relates to a cytoplasmic protein complex comprising: (a) a first recombinant fusion protein comprising a kinase, fused to a first interaction polypeptide; and (b) a second recombinant fusion protein comprising a domain comprising a reporter phosphorylation site, whereby the domain is fused to a second interaction polypeptide. The disclosure relates further to a method to detect compound-compound-interaction using the cytoplasmic protein complex, and to cells comprising such cytoplasmic protein complex.
US11242509B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions related to the treatment, prevention, and/or amelioration of cancer in a subject in need thereof. In particular aspects, the present technology relates to the use of poxviruses, including a recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus or vaccinia virus with deletion of vaccinia host-range factor C7 (MVAΔC7L and VACVΔC7L, respectively), alone or in combination with immune checkpoint blocking agents, as an oncolytic and immunotherapeutic composition. In some embodiments, the technology of the present disclosure relates to a MVAΔC7L or VACVΔC7L virus further modified to express human Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (Flt3L).
US11242504B2
We have modified a commercially-available adherent cell culture bioreactor, developing a new sampling manifold configuration and new way of taking samples to reduce contamination risk.
US11242501B2
A method of producing beer having a tailored flavour profile is provided comprising the successive steps of: (a) fermenting wort containing fermentable sugars with yeast to produce beer containing 1-10 vol. % ethanol and flavour substances diacetyl; acetaldehyde; dimethyl sulfide; ethyl acetate; isoamyl acetate; ethyl valerate; ethyl hexanoate; iso-amyl alcohol and 2-methylbutan-1-ol; (b) contacting the fermenting wort or beer with porous adsorbent particles, selectively adsorbing the beer flavour esters ethyl acetate, ethyl hexanoate, ethyl valerate and isoamyl acetate; (c) separating the adsorbent particles; (d) desorbing a portion of the beer flavour esters from the adsorbent particles; and (e) adding a fraction of the desorbed beer flavour esters to the flavour adjusted beer or to another beer, wherein the amount of beer flavour esters added is 5-95 wt. % of the amount of beer flavour esters removed by the adsorbent particles.
US11242494B2
A method and system for continuous production of contaminant free and size specific biochar using downdraft gasification of variable quality feedstock. The system and process of the present invention includes the transfer of biochar from a gasifier after gasification to a temperature-controlled cooling screw conveyor, into a drum magnet for ferrous metal removal into multiple diverters to separate and remove ungasified materials and non-ferrous metal contaminants, then transferred into a granulator for grinding and screening the biochar to a pre-selected size. By directly attaching a novel and continuous product treatment process to the biochar stream as it exits the gasifier, the particle size, moisture content, carbon content and yield of a contaminant free biochar product can be narrowly controlled and improved to meet strict product quality specifications required by specialty applications.
US11242491B2
A process for optimising the removal of calcium from a hydrocarbon feedstock in a refinery desalting process, the refinery desalting process comprising the following steps: (a) mixing one or more wash water streams with one or more hydrocarbon feedstock streams; (b) at least partially separating the wash water from the hydrocarbons in a refinery desalter; and (c) removing the separated water and hydrocarbons from the refinery desalter as one or more desalted hydrocarbon streams and one or more effluent water streams; the process optimisation comprising: (i) providing at least one x-ray fluorescence analyser at at least one point in the refinery desalting process; (ii) measuring the concentration of calcium at the at least one point in the process using the at least one x-ray fluorescence analyser; and (iii) optionally adjusting at least one process condition of the refinery desalting process in response to the calcium concentration measurement in step (ii). An apparatus comprises a desalter; a line through which one or more hydrocarbon feedstock streams are passed to the desalter; optionally a line through which one or more wash water streams are passed to the desalter; and one or more x-ray fluorescence analysers configured so as to measure the concentration of calcium in water or hydrocarbons at one or more positions within the apparatus.
US11242490B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing metallurgical coke from non-coking coal. The method comprising, densifying, the non-coking coal to form pellets. The densified pellets will be placed in a microwave oven within plurality of bricks and are subjected for pyrolysis. For carrying our pyrolysis, the pellets are carried out by heating, the pellets in the microwave oven at a predetermined temperature under an inert atmosphere at atmospheric pressure, and then the pellets are cooled in the microwave oven under the inert atmosphere. This process coverts non-coking coal to the metallurgical coke in a quicker time, and without use of any susceptors.
US11242483B2
The present disclosure provides a quantum dot. The quantum dot includes a group III-V quantum dot core, and at least one type of halide ions, acetylacetonate ions, or hydroxyl ions bound to a surface of the group III-V quantum dot core, where the halide ions, the acetylacetonate ions and the hydroxyl ions are bound with group III cations on the surface of the group III-V quantum dot core.
US11242473B2
A conductive adhesive film according to an embodiment includes: an adhesive base layer including first and second major surfaces facing each other; and a plurality of discrete individual particles distributed in the adhesive base layer, wherein outer surfaces of the particles are coated with metal at least in part to form metal coatings, and the metal coatings are connected with one another and are extended between the first and second major surfaces, such that an electrically and mechanically continuous three-dimensional porous network of the metal is formed.
US11242471B2
The present invention relates to a conductive composition containing a conductive metal powder and a resin component, in which the conductive metal powder contains at least a metal flake having a crystalline structure in which a metal crystal grows in a flake shape, and the resin component contains an aromatic amine skeleton.
US11242470B2
The invention includes a hot melt adhesive composition including an olefin polymer and a high melt point hydrocarbon tackifying agent, such compositions unexpectedly provide improved bonding between the layers found in a disposable absorbent article. In particular, such compositions improve the bond between the nonwoven top sheet and the acquisition distribution layer.
US11242465B2
Aqueous inkjet ink compositions, methods of preparing the inkjet ink compositions, inkjet ink cartridges containing the aqueous inkjet ink composition, methods of filling a print cartridge with the aqueous inkjet ink composition, and methods of printing an image on a substrate using the inkjet ink composition are disclosed.
US11242464B2
The present invention relates to an improved method for the partial colouring, in particular for the coloured laser engraving, of plastic parts, in particular thermoplastic plastic parts, more particularly thermoplastic plastic parts, comprising a layer structure, and to the resulting partially coloured, preferably coloured and laser engraved, plastic parts, in particular thermoplastic plastic parts.
US11242462B2
The present invention relates to [1] a method of producing a polymer emulsion for water-resistant coating films with excellent water resistance, including emulsion polymerizing a radical polymerizable monomer (B) in the presence of a compound (A) represented by the following formula (1); and [2] a method of producing a polymer coating film, including a step 1 of emulsion polymerizing a radical polymerizable monomer (B) in the presence of a compound (A) represented by the following formula (1), to obtain a polymer emulsion having an average particle diameter of 30 nm or more and 300 nm or less, and a step 2 of applying the obtained polymer emulsion on a substrate and then drying: wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 16 or more and 24 or less carbon atoms; m represents an average addition molar number of (CH2H2O) and is 0.5 or more and 10 or less; and M represents a cation or a hydrogen atom.
US11242455B2
A tube connector made from a polyamide composition, the polyamide composition including at least one first polyamide A having an average number of carbon atoms per nitrogen atom CA and at least one second polyamide B having an average number of carbon atoms per nitrogen atom CB, wherein CA≤8.5 and CB≥7.5, and wherein CA
US11242453B2
A production method comprising: (a) a step of melt-mixing a base resin containing a chlorinated polyethylene; an organic peroxide, an inorganic filler, and a silane coupling agent, in specific ratios, at a temperature equal to or higher than a decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide, to prepare a silane master batch; (b) a step of mixing the silane master batch obtained in the step (a) with a silanol condensation catalyst, and then forming the resultant mixture; and conducting at least one of the melt-mixing in the step (a) and the mixing in the step (b) is performed in the coexistence of a chloroprene rubber or a polyvinyl chloride; a heat-resistant chlorine-containing crosslinked resin formed body produced by the method, a silane master batch, a mixture and formed body thereof, and a heat-resistant product.
US11242451B2
A melt-formable ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition and a multilayer structure are substantially free from heat coloration. The melt-formable ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition contains: (A) an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer; (B) an alkali earth metal compound; and (C) an iron compound; wherein the iron compound (C) is present in an amount of 0.01 to 20 ppm on a metal basis based on the weight of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition.
US11242445B2
Provided are: a resin additive composition containing a specific metal phosphate, which composition has excellent dispersibility in a resin even when made into a pellet form and exhibits a desired physical property improving effect when incorporated into a resin; and a synthetic resin composition using the same. The resin additive composition contains, with respect to 100 parts by mass of (A) sodium-2,2′-methylene-bis(4,6-di-tert-butylphenyl)phosphate: 25 to 400 parts by mass of (B) a lithium phosphate compound represented by the following Formula (1); and 10 to 300 parts by mass of (C) a fatty acid metal salt represented by the following Formula (2). The component (C) is incorporated in an amount of 10 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of the components (A) and (B).
US11242443B2
A black-color polymer composite film comprising a phthalocyanine compound dispersed in a polymer selected from the group consisting of polyimide, polyamide, polyoxadiazole, polybenzoxazole, polybenzobisoxazole, polythiazole, polybenzothiazole, polybenzobisthiazole, poly(p-phenylene vinylene), polybenzimidazole, polybenzobisimidazole, and combinations thereof, wherein the phthalocyanine compound occupies a weight fraction of 0.1% to 50% based on the total polymer composite weight. Preferably, the phthalocyanine compound is selected from copper phthalocyanine, zinc phthalocyanine, tin phthalocyanine, iron phthalocyanine, lead phthalocyanine, nickel phthalocyanine, vanadyl phthalocyanine, fluorochromium phthalocyanine, magnesium phthalocyanine, manganous phthalocyanine, dilithium phthalocyanine, aluminum phthalocyanine chloride, cadmium phthalocyanine, chlorogallium phthalocyanine, cobalt phthalocyanine, silver phthalocyanine, a metal-free phthalocyanine, or a combination thereof.
US11242431B2
The present invention relates to a heat-curable composition comprising at least one epoxy monomer comprising two or three epoxy groups, which is not a hydrolysis-polymerizable silicon compound, at least one epoxy compound bearing at least one silicon atom having at least one hydrolyzable group directly linked to the silicon atom and at least one epoxy group, and at least one epoxy ring-opening catalyst. The composition comprises at least 50% by weight of compounds having at least one epoxy group, relative to the total weight of polymerizable compounds present in the composition and provides upon pre-curing a tack-free coating that can be removed by treatment with a solution of sodium hydroxide, and upon post-curing a coating that cannot be removed by treatment with a solution of sodium hydroxide.
US11242426B2
A curable composition may include 100 parts by weight of a polyisobutylene-based polymer (A) having 1.2 or more (meth)acryloyl groups per molecule, 15 to 900 parts by weight of a polyisobutylene-based polymer (B) having 0.5 to 1.0 (meth)acryloyl group per molecule, and 0.001 to 50 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the total weight of the polymer (A) and the polymer (B), of a polymerization initiator (C). Each of the polymer (A) and the polymer (B) may have a number average molecular weight of 500 to 500,000 as measured by size exclusion chromatography based on polystyrene standards, and a molecular weight distribution (weight-average molecular weight Mw)/(number-average molecular weight Mn) of 1.0 to 2.0.
US11242411B1
The invention is directed to a simple and economical method for producing nanocrystalline cellulose from microcrystalline cellulose by contacting frozen concentrated sulfuric acid with microcrystalline cellulose, diluting the mixture in water and hair-shaped ice to hydrolyze the microcrystalline cellulose, and separating the NCC. Another aspect of the invention pertains to an apparatus for conducting this method which includes an acid resistant hydrolysis container having a cooling jacket containing a hollow stirrer each of which may be filled with liquid nitrogen.
US11242404B2
Provided herein, inter alia, are isolated antibodies that bind an extracellular domain of a human SIRP-α v1 polypeptide (e.g., the D1 domain), an extracellular domain of a human SIRP-α v2 polypeptide, or both. In some embodiments, the antibodies also bind an extracellular domain of a monkey SIRP-α polypeptide, an extracellular domain of a mouse SIRP-α polypeptide, an extracellular domain of a human SIRP-β polypeptide, and/or an extracellular domain of a human SIRP-γ polypeptide. In some embodiments, the antibodies block or do not binding between an extracellular domain of a human SIRP-α polypeptide and an IgSF domain of a human CD47 polypeptide, while in some embodiments, the antibodies reduce the affinity of a human SIRP-α polypeptide for binding an IgSF domain of a human CD47 polypeptide. Further provided herein are methods, polynucleotides, vectors, and host cells related thereto.
US11242402B2
The present invention is directed to molecules, such as monospecific antibodies and bispecific, trispecific or multispecific binding molecules, including diabodies, BITE® molecules, and antibodies that are capable of specifically binding to “Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase Domain-containing Protein 9” (“ADAM9”). The invention particularly concerns such binding molecules that are capable of exhibiting high affinity binding to human and non-human ADAM9. The invention further particularly relates to such molecules that are thereby cross-reactive with human ADAM9 and the ADAM9 of a non-human primate (e.g., a cynomolgus monkey). The invention additionally pertains to all such ADAM9-binding molecules that comprise a Light Chain Variable (VL) Domain and/or a Heavy Chain Variable (VH) Domain that has been humanized and/or deimmunized so as to exhibit reduced immunogenicity upon administration of such ADAM9-binding molecule to a recipient subject. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions that contain any of such ADAM9-binding molecules, and to methods involving the use of any of such ADAM9-binding molecules in the treatment of cancer and other diseases and conditions.
US11242389B2
Chimeric antigen receptors containing CD19/CD22 or CD22/CD19 antigen binding domains are disclosed. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, antigen binding fragments, and pharmaceutical compositions, relating to the chimeric antigen receptors are also disclosed. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a subject, and methods of making chimeric antigen receptor T cells are also disclosed.
US11242387B2
The invention features methods of diagnosis by assessing B7-H1 expression in a tissue from a subject that has, or is suspected of having, cancer, methods of treatment with agents that interfere with B7-H1-receptor interaction, methods of selecting candidate subjects likely to benefit from cancer immunotherapy, and methods of inhibiting expression of B7-H1.
US11242381B2
The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to ApoC3 (e.g., human ApoC3) and antagonize ApoC3 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
US11242377B2
The present invention provides a chimeric receptor which comprises: a ligand-binding exodomain; and an endodomain which comprises: (i) a cytokine receptor endodomain; and (ii) an intracellular T cell signalling domain.
US11242375B2
Disclosed herein are cells that are immune cells or precursor cells thereof, which cells recombinantly express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a dominant negative form of an inhibitor of a cell-mediated immune response of the immune cell, wherein the CAR binds to a cancer antigen. Also disclosed herein are T cells that recognize and are sensitized to a cancer antigen, which T cells recombinantly express a dominant negative form of an inhibitor of a T cell-mediated immune response. Additionally provided are methods of using such cells to treat cancer in a subject in need thereof.
US11242370B2
The present invention relates to neuregulin (NRG) 4 compounds and methods of treatment with NRG4 compounds.
US11242361B2
The present invention is directed to compounds having the Formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), and (V), compositions thereof, and methods for the treatment of a condition associated with a dysfunction in proteostasis.
US11242360B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of triaryl-organo borates from boronic ester and the use of these substances in photo initiator systems, photopolymer compositions comprising such photo initiator systems, a holographic medium comprising said photopolymer composition and the respective hologram.
US11242358B2
The present invention provides a process for the preparation of metal ion complexes, the process comprising contacting a metal in the form of particles with a chelating agent in solid form and, while the metal is in contact with the chelating agent, contacting the metal and chelating agent with an oxidising agent. The present invention also provides novel metal ion complexes. The invention further provides uses of the metal ion complexes.
US11242357B2
A fused polycyclic heteroaromatic compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an organic thin film, an organic thin film transistor, and an electronic device including the fused polycyclic heteroaromatic compound are provided. The fused polycyclic heteroaromatic compound may have a conjugation structure but reinforce planarity among adjacent rings and have further dense packing and thus much increase charge mobility.
US11242350B2
Described herein are retinoic acid related-related orphan nuclear receptor (ROR) modulators and methods of utilizing ROR-gamma modulators in the treatment of diseases, disorders or conditions. Also described herein are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.
US11242347B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or hydrate thereof, wherein R1 is C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with F, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C3alkoxy; X represents a bond or C1-C3alkylene optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2; R2 is H, OH, ONO, ONO2, C(O)OH, C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, CHO, CN, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl, CR8═N—OR9, CR8═N—NR10R11, CR8═NR12 or CR8═N—ONO2; R3 is C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with F, OH, ONO, ONO2, C1-C3alkoxy, C3-C6cycloalkyl; C3-C6cycloalkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl; R4 is C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C6alkoxy, F, ONO, ONO2; C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl; R5 is H, SO2NR13R14, NHSO2NR13R14; R6 is H or C1-C3alkyl; R7 is H, C1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, C1-C3alkyl substituted with phenyl, benzyl or a heterocyclic ring, wherein said phenyl, benzyl or said heterocyclic ring are independently optionally substituted by C1-C3alkyl, F; R8 is H, CH3 or C2H5; R9: H, C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2, CN, COOH, COOC1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl; R10 and R11 are each independently H, C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2, CN, COOH, COOC1-C3, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl, or together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring, wherein preferably said heterocyclic ring is selected from aziridine, azetidine, pyrollidine, piperidine, morpholine, piperazine and homopiperazine, wherein said heterocyclic ring is optionally substituted with C1-C3 alkyl; R12 is C1-C3 alkyl optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2, CN, COOH, COOC1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl; R13 and R14 are each independently H or C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with F, OH, ONO, ONO2, COOH, C1-C3alkoxy, C3-C6cycloalkyl; or together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring, wherein preferably said heterocyclic ring is selected from aziridine, azetidine, pyrollidine, piperidine, morpholine, piperazine, homopiperazine, 2,5-diazabicyclo[2,2,1]heptane and 3,7-diazabicyclo[3,3,0]octane, wherein said heterocyclic ring is optionally substituted with R15; R15 is C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with halogen, OH, ONO, ONO2, C1-C3alkoxy, C1-C3haloalkoxy, COOR16, NR17R18, C═NR19, or with a tetrazole group which is optionally substituted with C1-C3alkyl; or a heteroaryl ring which is optionally substituted with F, wherein the at least one heteroatom of said heteroaryl ring is nitrogen; R16 is H, or C1-C4alkyl optionally substituted with F, OH, ONO, ONO2, NR17R18, or with a heteroaryl ring, wherein the at least one heteroatom of said heteroaryl ring is nitrogen, and wherein preferably said heteroaryl ring is selected from pyrrolidine, piperidine, piperazine, morpholine, pyrrole, and imidazole, wherein nitrogen atom is directly bound to C1-C4 alkyl; R17 and R18 are each independently H or C1-C4alkyl optionally substituted with ONO, ONO2; R19 is C1-C4alkyl optionally substituted with F, ONO, ONO2; C3-C6cycloalkyl; and their use in methods of treating or preventing a disease alleviated by inhibition of PDE-5 in a human or in a non-human mammal.
US11242332B2
The present invention relates to a process to prepare a benzimidazole derivative useful as a medicament, an intermediate for preparing the medicament, and a process to prepare the intermediate.
US11242327B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of Formulae (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), (Id), (Ie), (If), (Ig), (Ih), (Ik), (Im), (In), (Io), (Ip), (Iq), (Ir), (Is) and (It), methods of synthesizing compounds of Formulae (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), (Id), (Ie), (If), (Ig), (Ih), (Ik), (Im), (In), (Io), (Ip), (Iq), (Ir), (Is) and (It), and methods of using compounds of Formulae (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), (Id), (Ie), (If), (Ig), (Ih), (Ik), (Im), (In), (Io), (Ip), (Iq), (Ir), (Is) and (It) as an analgesic.
US11242320B2
The present invention relates to a novel and improved process for preparation of methyl [2-({[1-(4-chlorophenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl]oxy}methyl)phenyl]methoxycarbamate (Pyraclostrobin) of formula (I) in free form or in agrochemically acceptable salt form useful as a pest control agent starting from methyl [2-({[1-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-H-pyrazol-3-yl]oxy}methyl)phenyl]hydroxycarbamatein simple manner and in high purity and good yield.
US11242319B2
Compounds that modulate the oxidoreductase enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, and compositions containing the compounds, are described herein. The use of such compounds and compositions for the treatment and/or prevention of a diverse array of diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancer- and immune-related disorders, that are mediated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is also provided.
US11242314B2
The present disclosure relates to the methods for the preparation of reactive [F-18]fluoride in a form of [F-18]sulfonyl fluoride suitable for efficient radiolabeling without an azeotropic evaporation step by the use of anion exchange resin and sulfonyl chloride, and its applications in the manufacturing of PET radiopharmaceuticals.
US11242288B2
A sintered Ni ferrite body having a composition comprising, calculated as oxide, 47.0-48.3% by mol of Fe2O3, 14.5% or more and less than 25% by mol of ZnO, 8.2-10.0% by mol of CuO, and more than 0.6% and 2.5% or less by mol of CoO, the balance being NiO and inevitable impurities, and having an average crystal grain size of more than 2.5 μm and less than 5.5 μm.
US11242287B2
Bitumen pellets including a core and a coating layer, in which: the core includes at least one bitumen base, and the coating layer includes at least one fumed silica compound. Process for manufacturing bitumen pellets and also their use as road binder, in particular for the manufacture of bitumen mixes. Process for manufacturing bitumen mixes from bitumen pellets and also a process for transporting and/or storing and/or handling bitumen pellets.
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An optical fiber draw furnace muffle includes a body portion defining a substantially cylindrical cavity extending along a centerline axis of the muffle. A tapered portion has an interior surface which defines a first curved portion with a first radius of curvature and a second curved portion with a second radius of curvature. At least one of the first and second radii of curvature has a radius greater than a radius of the cylindrical cavity.
