US11331420B2
The present invention provides a supplemental nutrition apparatus. The supplemental nutrition apparatus may comprise a reservoir coupled to and in fluid communication with a fluid passageway, wherein the fluid passageway is configured to communicate fluid from the reservoir to a fluid passageway outlet, and a support element configured to engage a user, to at least partially support the fluid passageway, and to position the fluid passageway outlet proximate to the user's nipple.
US11331414B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing inorganic nanoparticle-gelatin core-shell composite nanoparticles, comprising: dissolving gelatin in a aqueous solution (in which inorganic nanoparticles are dispersed in) to obtain the gelatin-contained aqueous solution, dropwise adding a polar organic solvent to obtain a suspension of inorganic nanoparticle-gelatin core-shell composite particles of nanometer size or submicrometer size, then adding a cross-linking agent thereto to cross-link the gelatin components of the composite particles, followed by washing step to finally obtain inorganic nanoparticle-gelatin core-shell composite micro/nano-particles with inorganic nanoparticles as the core and gelatin as the shell. The present invention firstly provides a process for preparing the core-shell composite nano-scaled particles with inorganic nanoparticles as the core and gelatin as the shell by using a co-precipitation method which is simple and convenient, and beneficial for applying to industrial mass production.
US11331412B2
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a composition, wherein the composition is a porous scaffold, wherein the pores of the scaffold are from 1 to 500 microns, the composition comprising: a) a cross-linkable protein selected from the group consisting of collagen and gelatin; b) a cross-linker which induces cross-linking of the cross-linkable protein; and c) a liquid.
US11331406B2
A medical dressing is described having a substrate with a first chemical compound, said substrate having a first surface, wherein said medical dressing further includes an adhesive layer having a skin-facing surface to adhere said medical dressing to a dermal surface, wherein at least a portion of said skin-facing surface has a coating with a second chemical compound. Also described is a method of manufacturing such a medical dressing.
US11331405B2
An electronically-activated, self-molding and re-shapeable load-bearing support structure system is provided that includes a first composite structure. The first composite structure includes a first layer of a first thermally-responsive polymer; one or more first heating elements positioned adjacent to the first layer on a first heating element side; a second layer of the first thermally-responsive polymer positioned adjacent to the first heating elements on a second heating element side; a temperature sensor communicating with at least the first layer or the second layer of the first thermally-responsive polymer; one or more electrical connectors electrically communicating with the heating elements; and an electrical controller detachably connectable to at least one of the electrical connectors of the composite for providing an electrical current to the heating elements. A method of molding the load-bearing support structure system is also provided.
US11331404B2
A disinfection system of a contact lens comprising immersing the contact lens in a disinfecting solution containing hydrogen peroxide in a concentration of 1 to 10% and neutralizing the hydrogen peroxide in the disinfecting solution through contact with a metal catalyst, where the disinfecting solution contains an organic carboxylic acid or a salt of the organic carboxylic acid, the organic carboxylic acid having a structure in which a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group are bonded to one carbon atom; the disinfecting solution is adjusted to have a pH of 6 to 8; and the disinfecting solution after the neutralization is adjusted to have an osmotic pressure of 250 to 350 mOsm.
US11331397B2
The present disclosure relates to a light emitting device. The light emitting device includes: a device housing having a structure with an open bottom; and a sterilization module installed in the device housing and emitting ultraviolet light for sterilization. Here, the sterilization module emits the ultraviolet light for sterilization to the open bottom of the device housing.
US11331395B2
Aspects of the invention described herein include a hydrogel prodrug and methods of making a hydrogel prodrug for drug delivery. Also contemplated are methods of treating, inhibiting, ameliorating or inhibiting a disease or disorder. Without being limiting, the methods for treatment can be directed to a cancer, HIV, a virus, pain, a bacterial infection, a neurological disorder, hemorrhaging, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, Alzheimer's, or inhibiting a fungal growth in a subject in need.
US11331383B2
The present invention provides an attenuated African Swine Fever (ASF) virus which lacks a functional version of the following genes: multigene-family 360 genes 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 13L and 14L; and multigene-family 505 genes 1R, 2R, 3R and 4R. The invention further provides an attenuated African Swine Fever (ASF) virus which Lacks a functional version of the DP148R gene. The present invention also provides a vaccine comprising such an attenuated virus and its use to prevent ASF. Further, the invention relates to intranasal administration of an attenuated ASF virus.
US11331379B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating pancreatic beta cell function through modulation of adipsin activity and/or expression. Also provided are methods for preventing, treating, diagnosing, and prognosing metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, in a subject through modulation or detection of adipsin activity and/or expression.
US11331374B2
The embodiments include methods of treating prostate cancer by administering to a low grade unifocal prostate cancer tumor a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of pharmaceutically active ingredient capable of inducing necrosis of a low grade unifocal prostate cancer tumor, wherein administration reduces cancer incidence, cancer grade, and cancer progression (worsening) in the entire hemi-prostate where the initial focus was located and treated.
US11331369B2
The present invention provides cyclic depsipeptides of Formula (1), stereoisomers thereof, and veterinary acceptable salts thereof wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, L1, and L2, are as defined herein. The present invention also contemplates compositions and methods of treatment as an endoparasiticide with a Formula (1) compound.
US11331356B2
A preparation containing the mycoparasitic microorganism Pythium oligandrum for the treatment of dermatophytoses and yeast infections on the skin and mucous membranes obtained from a dry mixture containing 0.1 to 99.9% weight mycoparasitic microorganism Pythium oligandrum and 0.1 to 99.9% auxiliary substances, containing at least one component from a group comprising adsorbent, buffer, moisturizer, deodorant and aroma. This preparation contains 1 to 10×106, with preference of 10 to 50, viable cells of the Pythium oligandrum microorganism per 1 ml of aqueous suspension at the site of applying the preparation, whereby the viable cells of the Pythium oligandrum microorganism comprise dormant oospores, encysted zoospores and viable coenocytic mycelium. Different application methods of using the preparation are claimed. Exemplary embodiments show the viability of cells using genetic tests and practical tests conducted under the supervision of dermatologists, stomatologists and veterinarians.
US11331349B2
The invention provides a method for the treatment or prevention of GI tract dysbiosis in a subject, said method comprising administering an effective amount of a non-viable Methylococcus capsulatus or a lysate of Methylococcus capsulatus to said subject. The invention further provides a method for the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition selected from small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), small intestine fungal overgrowth syndrome (SIFO), GI tract cancers, breast cancer, neurological disorders, malnutrition, chronic fatigue syndrome, autism, cardiovascular diseases and GI tract infections in a subject with GI tract dysbiosis, said method comprising administering an effective amount of a non-viable Methylococcus capsulatus or a lysate of Methylococcus capsulatus to said subject. A non-viable Methylococcus capsulatus or a lysate of Methylococcus capsulatus for use in said methods is further provided.
US11331341B2
Techniques regarding a chemical composition that can be utilized within one or more combination therapies to treat a microbial infection are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a chemical composition that includes a first triblock polymer comprising a quaternary ammonium functionalized polycarbonate block and exhibiting anticancer activity via a lytic mechanism. The chemical composition can also include a second triblock polymer comprising a guanidinium functionalized polycarbonate block and exhibiting anticancer activity via a translocation mechanism.
US11331339B2
The present invention discloses a compound composition with function of promoting bone and joint health and an application thereof. In the present invention, glucosamine is combined with collagen, chondroitin sulfate and traditional Chinese medicine extract to prepare the compound composition with function of promoting bone and joint health. The compound composition can shorten onset time. At the same time, the traditional Chinese medicine extract for treating the bone and joint problems is added, to reduce the market impact of adding only modern joint health ingredients. Moreover, the compound composition disclosed by the present invention can be used as a dietary supplement or health food raw material for preventing or treating moderate to mild osteoarthritis. Thus, the compound composition disclosed by the present invention is suitable for promotion and application.
US11331333B2
Provided is a method of preventing, treating or delaying progression of a disease involving aberrant fibroblast proliferation. The method involves using a compound that reduces the level of tyrosine phosphatase activity effected by the protein EYA1A in the parenchymal organ, a nucleic acid ligase IV inhibitor, or an antisense oligonucleotide against the p53-binding protein 1 (53BP1).
US11331332B2
The present disclosure provides methods of treating subjects having increased lipid levels and/or increased triglyceride levels, methods of identifying subjects having an increased risk of developing an increased lipid level and/or increased triglyceride level, methods of detecting human Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein Cleavage-Activating Protein (SCAP) variant nucleic acid molecules and variant polypeptides, and SCAP variant nucleic acid molecules and variant polypeptides.
US11331329B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for utilizing oligosaccharides, such as isolated human milk oligosaccharides, to attenuate a respiratory pathogen infection and/or to promote recovery from a respiratory pathogen infection in the respiratory system and/or the GI tract of a subject.
US11331328B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for selectively killing senescent cells, wherein the selective killing of senescent cells delays aging and treats age-related disorders.
US11331325B2
A drug delivery system for oral administration of hydrophobic drugs with enhanced and extended absorption and improved pharmacokinetics is provided. In one embodiment, formulations comprising testosterone and testosterone esters, e.g., testosterone palmitate, are disclosed. Methods of treating a hormone deficiency or effecting male contraception with the inventive formulations are also provided.
US11331323B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising an NSAID such as meloxicam and/or rizatriptan in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability or pharmacokinetics of the NSAID for the treatment of pain such as migraine, arthritis, and other conditions. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating pain, such as migraine, comprising administering meloxicam and rizatriptan to a human being suffering from pain, such as migraine. For migraine, these methods may be particularly useful when the meloxicam and rizatriptan are administered while the human being is suffering from an acute attack of migraine pain or migraine aura. In some embodiments, the combination of meloxicam and rizatriptan may be administered in a manner that results in a Tmax of meloxicam of 3 hours or less.
US11331315B2
The present invention is directed to an aripiprazole oral soluble film and a preparation method thereof. The aripiprazole oral soluble film comprises 10-60% w/w of aripiprazole in a crystalline state and 30-95% w/w of one or more film-forming materials, wherein 90% of the aripiprazole particles have a size of ≤14.3 μm and are uniformly blended in the film without visible undispersed particles. The aripiprazole oral soluble film has excellent bioavailability, uniformity, stability, and palatability. The oral soluble film preparation is prepared by first grinding aripiprazole particles to have desired small particle sizes, then blending the aripiprazole particles with film forming materials in an aqueous solution to a uniform suspension, defoaming the suspension, and coating the suspension on a substrate and drying it to form a film.
US11331303B2
Described herein are methods for treating one or more skin conditions by administering, via the sublingual or buccal route, a composition comprising substituted or unsubstituted diindolylmethane. In particular, methods are provided for improving the bioavailability and pharmacokinetic parameters of substituted or unsubstituted diindolylmethane following a sublingual or buccal administration, relative to an oral administration.
US11331299B2
The present disclosure is drawn to methods of treating diseases or disorders, and uses of preparing medicaments. The methods of administering and/or preparation of medicaments can include the use of a compound of Formula (I) disclosed herein, or a geometric isomer, stereoisomer, and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof.
US11331298B2
Disclosed are powder solid dispersions including quercetin, phospholipids and a very to freely water soluble carrier. Also disclosed are a process for the preparation of the powder solid dispersions and pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmetic compositions including the solid dispersions.
US11331294B2
Disclosed are novel methods for the therapeutic treatment of cancer and angiogenesis. The enzyme Ape1/Ref-1, via its redox function, enhances the DNA binding activity of transcription factors that are associated with the progression of cancer. The present disclosure describes the use of agents to selectively inhibit the redox function of Ape1/Ref-1 and thereby reduce tumor cell growth, survival, migration and metastasis. In addition, Ape1/Ref-1 inhibitory activity is shown to augment the therapeutic effects of other therapeutics and protect normal cells against toxicity. Further, Ape1/Ref-1 inhibition is shown to decrease angiogenesis, for use in the treatment of cancer as well other pathologic conditions of which altered angiogenesis is a component.
US11331292B2
The present invention relates to the use of compound 1-[4-methylthiophenyl]-3-[3,5-dimethyl-4-carboxydimethylmethyloxyphenyl]prop-2-en-1-one (Elafibranor or GFT505) for treating cholestatic diseases, and more specifically PBC and/or PSC.
US11331291B2
A method of treating a triterpene-responsive condition, disease or disorder in a subject by administration of an improved triterpene-based composition is provided. An improved triterpene-based composition comprising at least two or at least three triterpenes present at a molar ratio as described herein is also provided.
US11331277B2
Disclosed herein is a nanoparticle comprising a copolymer comprising a polyethylene glycol polymer, a polyhydroxylated polymer, and a peroxide-sensitive pendant group; a glucose-responsive agent; and a therapeutic agent; wherein the copolymer encapsulates the glucose-responsive agent and the therapeutic agent. Also disclosed herein is a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to a subject comprising administering to the subject a nanoparticle comprising a copolymer comprising a polyethylene glycol polymer, a polyhydroxylated polymer, and a peroxide-sensitive pendant group; a glucose-responsive agent; and a therapeutic agent; wherein the copolymer encapsulates the glucose-responsive agent and the therapeutic agent; and releasing the therapeutic agent from the nanoparticle in the presence of hyperglycemic levels of glucose. In some embodiments, the glucose-responsive agent produces a peroxide when exposed to hyperglycemic levels of glucose, thereby triggering disassembly of the nanoparticle and release of encapsulated therapeutic agent.
US11331265B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method for producing an olive branch extract having a high oleuropein content. The method includes crushing at least a portion of dried olive branch and extracting olive branch extract from the crushed olive branch with an extraction solvent. The olive variety is at least one selected from Lucca, Mission, and Nevadillo Blanco. The added branch amount of olive branch to the extraction solvent is 10% by weight or more, the extraction solvent is 30% to 50% 1,3-butylene glycol, and the extraction is performed at a temperature in a range of 70° C. to 80° C.
US11331259B2
A surfactant composition comprising a sugar-based surfactant comprising a C8-C16 alkyl glucoside, a C8-C16 alkyl polyglucoside, or a combination of a C8-C16 alkyl glucoside and a C8-C16 alkyl polyglucoside; a C8-C18 amphodiacetate; a C8-C16 acyl sarcosinate, a C8-C16 acyl glutamate, a C8-C16 acyl glycinate, or a combination thereof; and optionally a C8-C14 acyl lactylate, wherein the composition is free of sulfated anionic surfactants.
US11331257B2
The present disclosure provides biophotonic topical compositions and methods useful in phototherapy. In particular, the biophotonic topical compositions of the present disclosure are substantially resistant to leaching such that very low amounts of chromophore(s) present in the biophotonic composition leach out of the composition. The biophotonic compositions and the methods of the present disclosure are useful for promoting wound healing and skin rejuvenation, as well as treating acne and various skin disorders.
US11331238B1
A soft, inflatable, single use, repositioning device for ob/gyn/pelvic examination and procedures, more particularly, to single time use and/or partially reusable pillow like device. A flat collapsible/inflatable-expandable, repositioning and lifting apparatus for medical and ob/gyn examination and procedures and, more particularly, to a reposition and lift device, with a single or more than one, inflatable compartment. Various attachments may be provided, such as foot stirrups, sleeves, and handles, and optional accessories, with built in compressed gas cartridge, and/or a reusable pump for air source through connector. The device repositions, orient and raises the patient's lower back and the buttocks from supine, flat position to dorsal lithotomy and Trendelenburg position on a flat hospital bed to carry out an exam or a procedure, without moving a patient to a special exam room or using another table.
US11331233B1
A patient turning device attaches to side rails of a bed on one end in at least two spaced apart locations. Straps of the device are then placed under a patient and/or patient is placed on top of such straps. Between two of the straps are connecting straps extending perpendicular thereto, such as where the first straps are horizontal and the connecting straps are vertical. Connected to some of the vertical and/or horizontal straps are removable windows which are material which fills in at least some of the area between the first straps, connects to at least some of the connecting straps, and are removably and replacably connected to cover (fill in) some of this area between the straps. This allows for access to a patient's back after rotating the patient, in embodiments of the disclosed technology.
US11331228B2
A method for manufacturing an absorbent article, said method comprising guiding a first sheet material along a rotating member, wherein a surface of said rotating member is provided with a pattern with at least one suction zone and at least one non-suction zone; applying an absorbent material on said first sheet material on the rotating member; locally removing the absorbent material applied on at least one attachment portion of the first sheet material located above the at least one non-suction zone, such that at least one remaining portion of the first sheet material located above the at least one suction zone is covered with absorbent material and substantially no absorbent material is present on the at least one attachment portion; applying a second sheet material on top of the absorbent material on the first sheet material.
US11331226B2
A system and method for detecting biofluid is disclosed, specifically utilizing a signaling element and a reader, wherein the signaling element comprises a sensing element, an impedance measuring circuit, an oscillator circuit, an acoustic transducer, and a power supply source, while the reader device comprises a microphone and a processor.
US11331220B2
A laser eye surgery system produces a treatment beam that includes a plurality of laser pulses. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) subsystem produces a source beam used to locate one or more structures of an eye. The OCT subsystem is used to sense the distance between a camera objective on the underside of the laser eye surgery system and the patient's eye. Control electronics compare the sensed distance with a pre-determined target distance, and reposition a movable patient support toward or away the camera objective until the sensed distance is at the pre-determined target distance. A subsequent measurement dependent upon the spacing between the camera objective and the patient's eye is performed, such as determining the astigmatic axis by observing the reflection of a plurality of point source LEDs arranged in concentric rings off the eye.
US11331212B1
A condom product includes a condom. The condom includes a body having an interior surface, an exterior surface, a distal end, and a proximal end having a peripheral edge. The condom is sized such that the interior surface is configured to extend along at least a portion of a head of a penis, but not along a shaft of the penis.
US11331208B2
An inner catheter for deployment of a medical device can include a pusher band having a passage that includes a first portion extending from a first end to a position and a second portion extending from a second end to the position. A cross-sectional area of the second portion can be less than a cross-sectional area of the first portion to form a step. A second end of the first tubular member having first and second ends can be within the first portion of the pusher band, abut the step and be unable to pass through the second portion. A portion of a second tubular member having first and second ends can be within the pusher band, and the second end of the second tubular member can extend away from the second end of the pusher band and be configured to extend through a medical device.
US11331204B2
Methods and tools for hip replacement with superscapsular percutaneously assisted total hip approach
A minimally invasive surgical procedure for replacing a hip joint is provided. A main incision is initiated at a point being a projection of a tip of a greater trochanter and extends proximally about a distance in the range of from 1 cm to 8 cm in line with the femoral axis. An inline capsulotomy is performed, while keeping muscles and posterior capsule intact, to expose the hip joint capsule for accessing the hip joint. The femoral canal is prepared for receipt of a femoral implant. The femoral head is resected and removed out of the acetabulum. A step of acetabular preparation is performed using a retractor comprising two tip rails, each tip rail having a plurality of tines. Related tools, devices, systems and methods are also provided.
US11331196B2
An expandable intervertebral implant, including a support component, an inferior component, including a first proximate end connected to the support component, a first distal end, a first top surface, and a first bottom surface, a superior component, including a second proximate end connected to the support component, a second distal end, a second top surface, and a second bottom surface, and a balloon connected to the first top surface and the second bottom surface and operatively arranged to expand the expandable intervertebral implant.
US11331186B2
A side-deliverable prosthetic heart valve includes an outer frame and a flow control component. The outer frame has a supra-annular region, a subannular region, and a transannular region therebetween. The flow control component is mounted to the outer frame such that at least a portion of the flow control component is disposed in the transannular region. The prosthetic valve has a delivery configuration for side-delivery via a delivery catheter and is expandable when the prosthetic valve is released from the delivery catheter. The subannular region of the outer frame is disposable in a first configuration as the prosthetic valve is seated in an annulus of a native heart valve and is transitionable to a second configuration after the prosthetic valve is seated in the annulus of the native heart valve.
US11331182B2
Disclosed is an accommodating intraocular lens device for treatment of an eye including a stabilization haptic (120) configured to be positioned within a region of an eye and a lens body having a sealed chamber containing a fixed volume of optical fluid. The lens body includes a shape changing membrane (145) configured to outwardly bow in a region surrounding the optical axis of the eye; a shape deformation membrane configured to undergo displacement relative to the first shape changing membrane; and a static element (150). An inner surface of the shape changing membrane, an inner surface of the shape deformation membrane and an inner surface of the static element collectively form the sealed chamber. The lens device also includes a force translation arm (115) having a first end configured to contact an outer surface of the shape deformation membrane of the lens body and a second end configured to engage a ciliary structure of the eye. The force translation arm is configured to move relative to the lens body upon movement of the ciliary structure.
US11331176B2
An extraoral suction device for managing aerosol emissions during dental procedures includes: a conduit; an adapter in fluid communication with the conduit; and a mount for mounting the extraoral suction device to a dental chair. The adapter is configured to be placed in fluid communication with a vacuum source to provide suction to the extraoral suction device. The conduit can be selectively manipulated to assume and maintain a position without support from an individual or designated support structure. A dental professional can thus manipulate the conduit to maintain a position in front of the oral cavity of a patient seated in the dental chair to direct aerosols emitted from the oral cavity of the patient into the extraoral suction device instead of the surrounding environment. The extraoral suction device can thus be combined with a dental chair and vacuum source to provide an improved dental chair system for dental procedures.
US11331175B2
A dental floss insertion device for inserting an end of a length of dental floss into an enclosed oral space. The device may include a body and a tip attached to the body and cooperating with the body to define a floss guide path. A first roller may be positioned on a first side of the guide path and a second roller may be positioned on a second side of the guide path. The second roller may be moveable toward and away from the first roller to open and close a nip that receives the length of floss, thereby allowing a user to apply a compressive force on a piece of floss located between the first and second rollers while simultaneously rolling the second roller to advancing the end of the length of floss along the guide path, through the distal orifice, and into an enclosed oral space.
US11331171B2
A dental implant system including a dental implant (1) and an associated implant analog (50), the implant extending along a longitudinal axis (L1) from an apical end (101) to a coronal end (102) and having an external surface for anchoring and osseointegrating in bone, a coronal end portion (105) having abutment connection geometry for cooperating with an abutment which can be seated in one or more defined positions on the implant, the abutment connection geometry having a coronally facing abutment contact surface (128) which extends around the full circumference of the implant, and in use directly contacts the abutment and provides a stop defining the axial location of the abutment relative to the implant, the coronal end portion further having a coronally facing prosthesis contact surface (129) located radially beyond the abutment contact surface, the prosthesis contact surface being a continuous surface extending around the full circumference of the implant.
US11331164B2
Method and/or apparatus embodiments can provide a virtual orthodontic base, adapted to each virtual 3D dental model of the teeth (e.g., upper and lower jaw). The virtual orthodontic base should match each 3D model (e.g., size), conform to prescribed dimensional requirements and still be rapidly calculated. The 3D virtual teeth model can be provided or reconstructed (e.g., from a laser scanning, intra oral camera scanning or x-ray scan of a plaster, a negative impression (e.g., alginate or silicon) of a patient's dentition or directly from the patient's mouth).
US11331154B2
A surgical system includes a link of a manipulator arm and a telescoping cannula mount assembly. The link includes a curved end. The telescoping cannula mount assembly is positioned in the curved end of the link. The telescoping cannula mount assembly includes a curved cannula mount arm. In a first state, the curved cannula mount arm is parked within the curved end of the link. In a second state, the curved cannula mount arm extends from the curved end of the link and is locked in an extended position. The telescoping cannula mount assembly also includes a mechanical arm retraction system. The mechanical arm retraction system couples the curved cannula mount arm to the curved end of the link. The mechanical arm retraction system is configured to automatically move the curved cannula mount arm from the second state to the first state.
US11331153B2
A medical robot system, including a robot coupled to an effectuator element with the robot configured for controlled movement and positioning. The system may include a transmitter configured to emit one or more signals, and the transmitter is coupled to an instrument coupled to the effectuator element. The system may further include a motor assembly coupled to the robot and a plurality of receivers configured to receive the one or more signals emitted by the transmitter. A control unit is coupled to the motor assembly and the plurality of receivers, and the control unit is configured to supply one or more instruction signals to the motor assembly. The instruction signals can be configured to cause the motor assembly to selectively move the effectuator element and is further configured to (i) calculate a position of the at least one transmitter by analysis of the signals received by the plurality of receivers; (ii) display the position of the at least one transmitter with respect to the body of the patient; and (iii) selectively control actuation of the motor assembly in response to the signals received by the plurality of receivers.
US11331148B2
A number of low-profile metallic customized, patient-specific orthopaedic surgical instruments are disclosed.
US11331146B2
A method for improving the development of an initial surgical plan includes receiving input information, developing an initial surgical plan based upon the input information, and allowing a user to customize the initial surgical plan by providing input related to modifications to the initial surgical plan. The method further includes storing information related to the modifications to the initial surgical plan and using the stored information to develop a subsequent initial surgical plan based on the modifications.
US11331145B2
The device comprises: —an outer tubular structure (21) having a closed terminal end; —an inner tubular structure (23), positioned in the outer tubular structure, and having a side wall with a terminal end and defining an inner volume, configured to receive a light guide (27); in which between the outer tubular structure (21) and the inner tubular structure (23) a first gap (25) for circulation of a coolant is formed; At least a portion of the external tubular structure (21) or the internal tubular structure (23) is diffusing to an electromagnetic radiation propagating in the light guide (27).
US11331144B2
A surgical instrument includes a light guide configured to convey light energy, a lens configured to focus the light energy into a light beam, a mounting tube, a jaw assembly coupled to the mounting tube, and a handle assembly. The jaw assembly includes a first jaw member non-movably secured to the mounting tube, a second jaw member movably secured to the mounting tube, and a window secured to the first jaw member and forming a tissue contacting surface. The window is oriented in a plane oblique to a longitudinal axis of the mounting tube and forms a liquid-tight seal between tissue and the lens. The handle assembly is coupled to the jaw assembly to move the second jaw member between an open position in which the second jaw member is spaced part from the window and a closed position.
US11331140B2
Cardiac ablation catheters include an outer balloon positioned at a distal end of the catheter and configured to have an inner balloon disposed therein. The outer balloon is inflated with a first fluid that has a temperature less than 100 degrees Celsius, while the inner balloon is inflated with heated vapor. An area of contact between the two balloons, comprising a surface area less than the total surface area of either balloon, creates a hot zone for ablating cardiac tissue through the transfer of thermal energy from the contact area to the cardiac tissue.
US11331139B2
Methods and devices are disclosed herein for therapeutically treating atrial tissue to lessen the effects of mechanical stress on atrial tissue, where reducing mechanical stress in the portion of atrial tissue reduces formation of at least one arrhythmia substrate. In one example, the devices and methods are suitable for minimally invasive surgery. More particularly, methods and devices described herein permit creating an ablation pattern on an organ while reducing excessive trauma to a patient.
US11331136B2
An electrode for use on a medical device is disclosed. The electrode may have a main body of electrically conductive material extending along an axis and may have a proximal end and a distal end. The electrode may also include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tracking coil disposed in the body. The MRI tracking coil may comprise electrically insulated wire. A catheter including an electrode, as well as a method for determining the location of an electrode, are also disclosed.
US11331135B2
An energy delivery probe is provided that may include any of a number of features. One feature of the energy delivery probe is that it can apply energy to tissue, such as a prostrate, to shrink, damage, denaturate the prostate. In some embodiments, the energy can be applied with a vapor media. The energy delivery probe can include a vapor delivery member configured to extend into a transition zone prostate tissue. A condensable vapor media can be delivered from the vapor delivery member into the transition zone tissue, wherein the condensable vapor media can propagate interstitially in the transition zone tissue and be confined in the transition zone tissue by boundary tissue adjacent to the transition zone tissue. Methods associated with use of the energy delivery probe are also covered.
US11331128B2
Devices, systems, and methods for bone stabilization, especially ulna head stabilization. The stabilization system may include a bone plate having an elongated portion extending along a longitudinal axis between a proximal end and a distal end. The bone plate defines a plurality of through holes extending through the elongated portion. A plurality of fasteners are configured to extend through one or more of the plurality of through holes in the bone plate and configured to secure the bone plate to the bone. The proximal end of the elongate portion has an arcuate configuration.
US11331121B2
Embodiments of medical devices and methods are disclosed. The medical devices typically comprises a needle with a rigid proximal shaft, a flexible distal shaft and a distal tip. The distal tip includes an electrode for delivering energy to puncture a tissue. In some embodiments, the distal shaft comprises a superelastic material. In other embodiments, the distal shaft is comprised of both a superelastic material and a non-superelastic material.
US11331119B2
Medical systems and methods for making and using medical systems are disclosed. Example medical systems may include an atherectomy system configured to engage and remove plaque from walls in vessels of a vascular system. The atherectomy system may include a drive shaft, a rotational tip coupled to an end of the drive shaft, a drive mechanism coupled to the drive shaft to rotate the rotational tip, and control configurations to control settings of operational modules of the atherectomy system. The control configurations may be configured to change settings of multiple operational modules of the atherectomy system in response to a single actuation of an actuator to facilitate use of the atherectomy system in a vasculature of a patient.
US11331117B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a tissue extraction device may include a bag having an interior and a plurality of cutters elements extending along an interior surface of the bag. The cutters can be offset to facilitate collapsing of the bag prior to introducing the bag into a patient.
US11331112B2
A surgical guide system comprises a guide body having a receiver and a reference plate joined by a connecting arm, a portion of the receiver and a portion of the reference plate intersecting a guide axis, the guide body operable for at least one bone to be interposed between the receiver and reference plate. The guide body further comprising a shuttle cable configured on the reference plate for engagement with a surgical tool A method includes positioning the surgical guide system on at least one bone, the bone the having a first side and a second side, guiding a surgical tool through a hole in the at least one bony structure, engaging a portion of the shuttle cable, and retrieving a first end of the shuttle cable through the hole.
US11331105B2
A device for reducing pulsatile pressure within a vessel to treat heart disease, such as pulmonary hypertension, includes a compliant body structured to expand and contract upon changes in pressure within the vessel, a reservoir structured for holding a fluid therein, and a conduit extending between and fluidly coupling the reservoir and the compliant body, wherein the device includes a graphene-polymer composite designed to resist diffusion of the fluid through the device.
US11331104B2
An example system for detecting leakage around an occlusive implant disposed in the left atrial appendage includes an elongate shaft having a port disposed at a distal end region thereof and a first sensor disposed adjacent the elongate shaft. The elongate shaft is configured to be positioned adjacent the occlusive implant such that the first sensor is positioned on a first side of the occlusive implant and the port is positioned on a second side of the occlusive implant. Further, the first sensor is configured to measure a first parameter and the first parameter is utilized to determine a fluid leak between the occlusive implant and a tissue wall defining the left atrial appendage.
US11331091B2
Disclosed is a method of unilateral biportal endoscopy and a surgical instrument set used in the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of unilateral biportal endoscopy which separately secures a working portal for surgical instruments and an endoscopic portal for an endoscope, thereby providing a more accurate spinal surgery, and to a surgical instrument set which can be effectively applied to the method.
US11331086B2
Provided is a biopsy apparatus including an ultrasound probe; a biopsy needle located at a side of the ultrasound probe and including an electromagnetic (EM) sensor; a tracker configured to obtain position and movement direction information of the biopsy needle; and a controller configured to receive, from the tracker, the position and movement direction information of the biopsy needle, and to determine an operation mode, based on the position and movement direction information.
US11331081B2
Provided is a medical imaging apparatus including a storage configured to store training data and an optimization coefficient; at least one processor configured to identify at least one image feature value from an input medical image, and to identify a value of at least one parameter of the medical imaging apparatus, based on the at least one image feature value and the optimization coefficient, by using a neural network processor; an output interface configured to output a resultant image generated based on the value of the at least one parameter; and an input interface configured to receive a first control input of adjusting the value of the at least one parameter, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the optimization coefficient by performing training using the training data and the first control input.
US11331080B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus 1 includes a transducer array 2, a transmission unit 3 that transmits an ultrasonic pulse FP and an ultrasonic pulse SP having phases inverted from each other on the scanning line from the transducer array 2 multiple times, a reception unit 4 that acquires reception signals from an output signal of the transducer array 2, a quadrature detection unit 5 that performs quadrature detection on the reception signals to acquire IQ signal strings, a tissue velocity detection unit 6 that detects a velocity of a tissue in a subject based on the IQ signal strings, a phase correction unit 7 that corrects phases of the IQ signal strings, a pulse inversion addition unit 8 that adds IQ signals corresponding to the ultrasonic pulse FP and IQ signals corresponding to the ultrasonic pulse SP using the corrected IQ signal strings to acquire added signals, and an image generation unit 10 that generates an ultrasound image from the added signals.
US11331078B2
A system and method include storage of an echo signal power spectrum of a reference phantom for a fundamental frequency band and an echo signal power spectrum of the reference phantom for a harmonic frequency band, acquisition of an echo signal power spectrum of a region of tissue for the fundamental frequency band and an echo signal power spectrum of the region of tissue for the harmonic frequency band, determination of a first backscatter coefficient based on the echo signal power spectrum of the region of tissue for the fundamental frequency band and the echo signal power spectrum of the reference phantom for the fundamental frequency band, determination of a second backscatter coefficient based on the echo signal power spectrum of the region of tissue for the harmonic frequency band and the echo signal power spectrum of the reference phantom for the harmonic frequency band, and determination of a non-linearity of the region of tissue based on the first backscatter coefficient and the second backscatter coefficient.
US11331071B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for pulmonary vein isolation lesion evaluation that advantageously determine lesion durability.
US11331068B2
In an X-ray inspection, a detection unit with a detector is provided. The detection unit detects transmitted amounts of the X-rays generated by an X-ray generator and transmitted through the object in each of n-number X-ray energy bins (n is a positive integer of 2 or more) which are set in advance to the X-rays, and outputs detection signals corresponding to the transmitted amounts. An information acquisition unit acquires, based on the detection signal, information showing a thickness t of the object and an average linear attenuation coefficient μ in a transmission direction of fluxes of the X-rays, in each of the energy bins. A pixel data calculation unit calculates, based on the acquired information, pixel data composed of pixel values each obtained by multiplying addition information by the thickness t. Addition information is obtained by mutual addition of the average linear attenuation coefficients μ in the respective energy bins.
US11331067B2
The present invention relates to a device for controlling a position of an anti-scatter grid in an X-ray image acquisition system, the device (10) comprising: a measurement unit (12); a control unit (14); and a shifting unit (16); wherein the measurement unit (12) is configured to determine an X-ray beam focus position (37) of an X-ray radiation source of the X-ray image acquisition system with respect to an X-ray detector of the X-ray image acquisition system; wherein the control unit (14) is configured to generate a shifting signal based on a displacement (18) between the X-ray beam focus position (37) and a grid focus position (35) of the anti-scatter grid; and wherein, based on the shifting signal, the shifting unit (16) is configured to shift an anti-scatter grid of the X-ray image acquisition system in at least one direction to align the anti-scatter grid with the X-ray beam focus position (37), provides an improved anti-scatter grid for X-ray acquisition systems. The invention provides the use of an improved anti-scatter grid (26) for X-ray acquisition systems (20).
US11331066B2
A system includes a storage device storing a set of instructions and at least one processor in communication with the storage device, wherein when executing the instructions, the at least one processor is configured to cause the system to determine a first scan area on a scanning object. The system may also acquire raw data generated by scanning the first scan area on the scanning object and generate a positioning image based on the raw data. The system may also generate a pixel value distribution curve based on the positioning image, and determine a second scan area on the scanning object based on the pixel value distribution curve. The system may also scan the second scan area on the scanning object.
US11331064B2
An apparatus and method are described using a forward model to correct pulse pileup in spectrally resolved X-ray projection data from photon-counting detectors (PCDs). To calibrate the forward model, which represents each order of pileup using a respective pileup response matrix (PRM), an optimization search determines the elements of the PRMs that optimize an objective function measuring agreement between the spectra of recorded counts affected by pulse pileup and the estimated counts generated using forward model of pulse pileup. The spectrum of the recorded counts in the projection data is corrected using the calibrated forward model, by determining an argument value that optimizes the objective function, the argument being either a corrected X-ray spectrum or the projection lengths of a material decomposition. Images for material components of the material decomposition are then reconstructed using the corrected projection data.
US11331053B2
Systems, devices, and methods for determining a user's lung capacity may employ a sound-producing breathing device and a recording device such as a microphone included in a user electronic device (e.g., smart phone or tablet computer). A user may inhale or exhale through the sound-producing breathing device, thereby producing a sound that is received by the microphone and communicated to a processor. The processor may analyze the received sound recording to determine one or more sound intensity values over, for example, the duration of the received sound and/or points in time within the sound recording. The sound intensity values may then be used to determine the user's lung capacity.
US11331046B2
A pulse oximeter includes one or more processor and one or more memory storing instructions. When the instructions are executed by the one or more processor, the one or more processor causes the pulse oximeter to acquire a first signal corresponding to an intensity of first light having a first wavelength and a second signal corresponding to an intensity of second light having a second wavelength, set a presumptive value of an arterial oxygen saturation, acquire an arterial blood component signal and a venous blood component signal corresponding to the presumptive value from the first signal and the second signal, acquire an index value corresponding to a phase difference between the arterial blood component signal and the venous blood component signal, and calculate the arterial oxygen saturation based on a variation of the index value associated with a change of the presumptive value.
US11331043B2
An physiological measurement device provides a device body having a base, legs extending from the base and an optical housing disposed at ends of the legs opposite the base. An optical assembly is disposed in the housing. The device body is flexed so as to position the housing over a tissue site. The device body is unflexed so as to attach the housing to the tissue site and position the optical assembly to illuminate the tissue site. The optical assembly is configured to transmit optical radiation into tissue site tissue and receive the optical radiation after attenuation by pulsatile blood flow within the tissue.
US11331035B2
A medical device is configured to deliver an electrical stimulation pulse to a heart of a patient, determine a pre-stimulation cardiac event amplitude prior to delivering the electrical stimulation pulse and adjust a cardiac event sensing threshold according to a first post-stimulation decay sequence in response to the electrical stimulation pulse delivery. The first post-stimulation decay sequence is controlled by a sensing module of the medical device according to a first set of sensing control parameters including at least one sensing control parameter based on the pre-stimulation cardiac event amplitude.
US11331031B2
A physiological data collection device obtains physiological data from a subject interface on a subject. The physiological data collection device includes a data connector such as a USB connector for connecting directly to a computer. When the physiological data collection device is connected to the computer, the physiological data is uploaded to a remote data processing center for computer-based analysis and review by a medical professional. A report can be provided to the subject based on the analysis and review. When the subject interface is physically connected to the physiological data collection device, the data connector is prevented from being connected to an external device such as the computer.
US11331025B2
Disclosed herein are a drowsy-driving prevention method and a drowsy-driving prevention system that execute artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and/or machine learning algorithms in a 5G environment connected for Internet of Things in order to control a stimulation unit and a measurement unit. The drowsy-driving prevention method may include a stimulating step, a measuring step, and a determining step. A stimulation unit outputs a stimulus in order to stimulate a sensory organ of a driver, and then a measurement unit measures a biometric signal of the driver from the time when the stimulus is outputted. Upon determining that the biometric signal of the driver is not a response to the stimulus, the stimulation unit may output the stimulus again.
US11331011B2
A system, for the transcutaneous measurement of a substance concentration, preferably alcohol, in blood, includes a light source (1); a detector device (15); an optical device (7, 7′), with an inlet (5), an outlet (49) and an exit opening (35); and a contact surface element (37) with a contact surface (41). Measuring radiation emitted by the light source (1) reaches the inlet (5) and exits the exit opening (35), to the contact surface (41). The optical device (7, 7′) focuses measuring radiation at a measuring point (39) at a predefined distance from the contact surface (41). The optical device (7, 7′) is configured such that scattered radiation generated in the measuring point (39) and entering into the exit opening (35) is focused at an outlet point (19) at the outlet (49). The detector device (15) is arranged to detect the scattered radiation focused at the outlet point (19).
US11331007B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for monitoring a workout and for generating improved interfaces for the same. One example user interface detects when a workout of a particular type is started and begins generating activity data related to workout metrics associated with the type of workout selected. Using determined current values for the workout metrics, the example user interface displays a pro-view display that includes indicators for the workout metrics associated with the selected workout type. The pro-view display also includes a focus indicator that highlights a selected indicator representative of a focused workout metric. The focus indicator is movable among the indicators representative of the workout metrics based on user input. Upon detection of a gesture, the example user interface transitions to a simple-view display that includes an indicator representative of the focused workout metric. The simple-view display includes indicators for less than all of the workout metrics associated with the selected workout type. The example user interface receives input to change the focused workout metric in the simple-view display. The example user interface also receives a gesture to transition the simple-view display back to the pro-view display.
US11330995B2
The present invention images a heartbeat strength representing the strength of pulsations (beats) on a map as a new dynamics index different from the conventional waveform numerical value. A computation section according to the present invention obtains, from time-course changes of the blood flow map obtained as a result of computation of blood flow speed, a signal intensity at a fundamental frequency determined from time-series blood flow data within a predetermined region, and calculates a heartbeat strength which represents the strength of heartbeats on the basis of the signal intensity. A display section images and displays the heartbeat strength calculated by the heartbeat strength computation section. Also, the display section displays the heartbeat strength calculated by the heartbeat strength computation section by superimposing the heartbeat strength on a combined map created by averaging a plurality of blood flow maps arranged in a chronological order.
US11330991B2
A method for calibrating a blood pressure measurement device includes obtaining first blood pressure measurement information and a current confidence coefficient corresponding to the first blood pressure measurement information, determining the first blood pressure measurement information as blood pressure calibration information in response to the blood pressure measurement device comprising the historical calibration parameter list, and the current confidence coefficient being greater than or equal to a preset confidence coefficient or the historical confidence coefficient, and updating the historical calibration parameter list based on the first blood pressure measurement information and the current confidence coefficient.
US11330985B2
The present application describes techniques to image biological tissue to determine biological information of an imaged tissue sample such as changes in hemoglobin concentrations, blood flow rate (pulse), and/or spatio-temporal features. Embodiments include illuminating the tissue sample with light in the near-infrared (NIR) spectrum, which is minimally absorbed but scattered through the tissue sample. By detecting the NIR light that is attenuated through, transmitted through, and/or reflected off the tissue to be imaged, the resulting NIR intensity signals may be further analyzed to provide this data. Embodiments include using multiple NIR light sources having varying wavelengths to obtain changes in the oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin concentrations of the imaged tissue region. The tissue sample may be imaged over a time period, and the NIR images may be viewed statically or in real time after post-processing analyses have been performed.
US11330984B2
A sensing system includes a sensor including a flexible substrate and a graphene oxide sensing element deposited on the flexible substrate. The graphene oxide sensing element has first and second sides. First and second electrical connectors coupled to the first and second sides of the graphene oxide sensing element, respectively. A power source is coupled to the first and second electrical connectors of the sensor and is adapted to apply a constant voltage to the sensor. The sensing system also includes a measurement element measuring a current in the graphene oxide sensing element due to the constant voltage and a calculation element calculating an electrical resistance of the graphene oxide sensing element based on the electrical current and the constant voltage and calculating a condition at a location of the sensor based on a relationship between the electrical resistance and the condition for the graphene oxide sensing element.
US11330973B2
An endoscopic system includes a single-use portion and a multiple-use portion. The two portions can be mated and un-mated. The single-use portion includes an elongated cannula that has a bendable section near its distal end providing a “steerable” distal tip. The imaging system includes at least two separate cameras and two separate light sources. The camera and light sources are configured to simultaneously image a target object. By employing different illuminations, different filters and manipulating the spectral responses, different characteristics of the target object can be captured. According to some embodiments, a system processor can coordinate the cameras, the light sources and combine the resulting images to display to an operator an enhanced combined image the object.
US11330971B2
An endoscope system, wherein a processor reads out light distribution information which is information indicating a relationship between an arrangement of an image pickup device and a distribution of illumination light emission positions and which includes information about a light distribution angle of illumination light and the number of illuminating portions, a part of parameters of a light adjustment parameter and a parameter flag from an endoscope, and controls amounts of light of the illuminating portions by selecting the part of the parameters with priority over the light adjustment parameters at time of selecting the light adjustment parameter based on the light distribution information, if it is specified by the parameter flag that the part of the parameters are used for the light adjustment.
US11330970B2
A flexible high resolution endoscope is provided herein. The endoscope comprises: a plurality of optical fiber bundles; a plurality of lenses in a one-to-one relationship with the plurality of optical fiber bundles; and, a plurality of cameras in a one-to-one relationship with the plurality of optical fiber bundles, each respective optical fiber bundle, of the plurality of optical fiber bundles, having a respective lens, of the plurality of lenses, located at a respective distal end, and a camera, of the plurality of cameras, located at a respective proximal end, the plurality of optical fiber bundles being coupled together at a common distal end, and otherwise being uncoupled from one another, a bending radius of the endoscope defined by a largest respective bending radius of each of the plurality of optical fiber bundles.
US11330962B2
An endoscope system has an oxygen saturation calculation unit that calculates the oxygen saturation of an observation object, and includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a preliminarily captured image that is an image of the observation object, a correction unit that corrects an LUT that the oxygen saturation calculation unit uses for the calculation of the oxygen saturation, using the preliminarily captured image, a determination unit that determines a success or failure of the correction, and a warning unit that performs warning in a case where a determination result obtained by the determination unit is a failure.
US11330956B2
A water-conducting household appliance includes a moving component, an electric motor for moving the component, a load apparatus configured to apply a resistance to counter movement of the component as a function of a position of the moving component, and a control apparatus for actuating the electric motor. The control apparatus is configured to detect a drive current drawn which is drawn by the electric motor and is a function of the resistance applied by the load apparatus and to ascertain the position of the moving component as a function of the detected drive current.
US11330954B2
Steam cleaning spray nozzle systems and methods of use are described herein. The spray nozzle includes a substantially rigid conduit a support member in fluid communication with a steam source. A portion of the conduit is angled. During use, sufficient eccentric force is produced by the steam to rotate the support member such that steam is ejected from the substantially rigid conduit at an oblique angle relative to the center to of the substantially rigid conduit.
US11330953B2
An autonomous mobile cleaning robot can include an outer shell and a bumper. The outer shell can include a rim extending around at least a portion of a periphery of the outer shell and can include a first feature connected to the rim. The bumper can be connected to the outer shell and can movable with respect to the outer shell when the bumper is connected to the outer shell. The bumper can include a second feature connected to the inner surface.
US11330949B2
A cordless surface cleaning apparatus is disclosed that includes a compact storage configuration to allow the surface cleaning apparatus to have a small, compact footprint relative to an in-use configuration. The storage configuration therefore allows for storage in locations otherwise unsuitable for other surface cleaning apparatuses, e.g., upright vacuum cleaners, and so on. For instance, a surface cleaning apparatus configured in accordance with aspects disclosed herein may have a footprint with an overall width that allows the same to be hidden between an open door and an adjacent wall or other similarly narrow space such as a small closet. Moreover, the surface cleaning apparatus may include an aesthetically pleasing, minimalist design in addition to a small footprint, which allows the surface cleaning apparatus to be placed at a conspicuous location, such as against a wall, without becoming obtrusive or otherwise disruptive to the surrounding environment.
US11330939B2
A cutting board apparatus is provided. The cutting board apparatus assists users with disabilities that would impede their ability to slice cutting articles. Additionally, the cutting board apparatus provides a safe cutting platform for new and inexperienced users. The cutting board apparatus contains a cutting board base, at least one hinge, and at least one cutting article holder. Each of the cutting article holders is hingedly connected adjacent to the cutting board base through one of the at least one hinge. The user can place a cutting article along the cutting board base. The user can then rotate the cutting article holder adjacent to the cutting article, where the cutting article holder will secure the cutting article in place atop the base. The user can then use any type of cutting implement to perform slicing operations without having their assist hand close to the cutting article.
US11330931B2
The present invention pertains in general to an apparatus and method for the drying and activating of infusing material, and the infusing, agitation and dispensation of oils in a controlled manner to produce a desired potency of an infusion while remaining below an identified maximum temperature threshold.
US11330929B2
The present application discloses an automated kitchen system comprising: a ingredient containers each configured to contain or store food ingredients; caps configured to close on the ingredient containers; a storage apparatus; a cap opening apparatus; a first transfer apparatus configured to move a capped ingredient container to the cap opening apparatus; a cyclic transport apparatus; a transfer apparatus configured to move an ingredient container from the location of cap opening apparatus; and a plurality of cooking systems, etc.
US11330923B2
The present disclosure provides a collapsible and locking clothes hanger for one-handed individuals. In at least one embodiment, a collapsible clothes hanger comprises a central hook portion including a hook element and a helical torsion spring, a first hanger arm and a second hanger arm, the helical torsion spring adapted to bias the first and the second hanger arms into an expanded position, each of the first and the second hanger arms moveable to a collapsed position, with the first hanger arm including a sliding component moveable between a first position and a second position, the sliding component including a first catch, the second hanger arm including a second catch, the first catch securely engaging the second catch in the first position, the first catch disengaging the second catch in the second position to move the first and the second hanger arms from the collapsed position to the expanded position.
US11330922B2
Disclosed is a plate cover system having a plurality of plate covers that can be configured to stack upon each other in a protracted configuration and/or or a collapsed configuration. In one embodiment, a first plate cover can be used to support a second plate cover by placing the second plate cover on top of the first plate cover, wherein a volume of space exists between the first plate cover and the second plate cover. The system can be transitioned between the protracted configuration and the collapsed configuration by slidably engaging channels disposed on sidewalls of the plate covers. Some embodiments include a rotation retention mechanism for securing the plate covers in place when in a protected or a collapsed configuration.
US11330908B1
A modular attachment system may be provided with the ability to rapidly interchange different peripherals and accessories at different points where modular receivers have been installed. One or more modular receivers may include one or more quick-connect receptacles adapted to receive corresponding one or more quick connectors of one or more peripheral adapters to quickly connect and disconnect the modular peripheral adapters to facilitate rapid reconfiguration of chairs, desks, tables, or other furniture for different applications. A variety of peripherals and accessories can be attached to one or more modular peripheral adapters to create peripheral assemblies that can be rapidly interchanged by rapid connection to or disconnection from any installed modular housings to reconfigure furniture for different applications. The modular receivers may be attached to a desk, table, or other furnishings or manufactured as a part of office, computer, or gaming chairs, desks, tables, or other furnishings.
US11330891B2
A kit for applying makeup includes a tool having a handle and an eyecup attached to the handle. A plurality of guide attachments are configured to releasably engage the eyecup, each defining a different contoured edge. A method of applying makeup includes selecting a guide attachment based upon a contoured edge of the guide attachment, engaging the guide attachment with an eyecup of a tool, positioning the tool relative to a first eye such that the contoured edge of the guide attachment is positioned adjacent to a crease of an eye socket between a top of an eyelid and a bottom of a brow bone of the first eye, and applying makeup to the first eye following the contoured edge of the guide attachment such that the makeup is applied to the first eye as an arc shaped similar to the contoured edge of the guide attachment.
US11330889B2
Devices for treating a subject's skin or lips and more particularly to device that enhances absorption of treatment media into tissue for cosmetic and therapeutic purposes.
US11330886B2
A gel polish curing assembly includes a housing that has a top wall, a bottom wall and a perimeter wall extending between the top and bottom walls. The perimeter wall includes a back wall, a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall. A front side of the housing is open. A plurality of light emitters is mounted within the housing. At least some of the light emitters are positioned on a bottom side of the top wall and are directed downwardly toward the bottom wall. The light emitters emits light having a wavelength that is between 340 and 380 nanometers.
US11330880B2
The present invention proposes a self-standing housing body solving a typical program and stably standing as a penholder. Specifically, the self-standing housing body according to the present invention is a self-standing housing body including a housing portion having a main housing space surrounded by a bottom surface and side surfaces standing from the bottom surface, and a lid portion having a sub-housing space surrounded by an upper surface and side surfaces standing from the upper surface. An upper side of one side surface of the housing portion and a lower side of one side surface of the lid portion form a joint portion, and about the joint portion as a rotation axis, the lid portion is rotatably joined to the housing portion. When the lid portion is rotated approximately 180° relative to the housing portion and the side surface of the lid portion substantially contacts the side surface of the housing portion, the upper surface of the lid portion and the bottom surface of the housing portion are substantially flush with each other. An upper end portion of the side surface of the housing portion does not reach the upper surface.
US11330872B2
A belt has a belt buckle and a belt strap. The belt can be part of a modular belt system that provides multiple straps and/or multiple buckles that can be assembled in different combinations. Preferably, the assembly of a custom belt can be accomplished in an in-store or point-of-sale environment. In some implementations, the strap can be coupled to the buckle without sewing or other processes that require expensive machinery and/or are time consuming. In some implementations, the strap is threaded to the buckle.
US11330870B2
Described are methods for the manufacture of a shoe, an apparatus to perform such method, as well as a shoe manufactured by such method. According to certain examples, the method for the manufacture of a shoe includes providing a three-dimensionally pre-shaped first shoe component and processing the three-dimensionally pre-shaped first shoe component, wherein the processing includes an individually controllable succession of processing steps.
US11330867B2
A shoe lace replacement overlay system, including a shoe, wherein the shoe includes a shoe base, a shoe lace region, a notch area such that the notch area includes an elastic member, and first shoe replacement overlay attachments; and a shoe lace replacement overlay having a top side and a bottom side, wherein the top side of the shoe lace replacement overlay includes a shoe lace replacement overlay base having a first edge and a second edge, a plurality of eyelet strips, a plurality of eyelets, an elastic member located substantially between the plurality of eyelet strips, and wherein the bottom side of the shoe lace replacement overlay includes second shoe replacement overlay attachments such that the first shoe replacement overlay attachments and the second shoe replacement overlay attachments interact with each other in order to retain the shoe lace replacement overlay on the shoe lace region.
US11330859B2
A foldable shoe includes a first sole section to be located under the ball of a wearer's foot including a first outsole portion and a first toothed. The foldable shoe further includes a second sole section that is separate from the first sole section and is to be located under the heel of a wearer's foot, the second sole section including a second outsole portion and a second footbed. An upper section extends from the first sole section, and a hinge is connected to the first sole section and the second sole section and is configured to fold the foldable shoe from a first position, to be worn, to a second position, for storage.
US11330855B2
A method of applying artificial lashes includes obtaining a set of clusters of artificial hairs that form a set of lash fusions connected to a base so as to form a set of lash extensions. The set of clusters may be heat fused at its root to form the base. The method may further includes applying an adhesive to enable the set of lash extensions to be affixed to natural eyelashes, and arranging the base of the set of lash extensions proximate to a proximate end portion of a natural upper eyelash of a subject such that the set of lash extensions extends from the proximate end portion toward a distal end portion of the natural upper eyelash. The method may also include affixing the lash extensions to the natural upper eyelash of the subject such that the lash extensions adhere to the natural upper eyelash via the adhesive.
US11330834B2
A method of manufacturing a flavor source includes: a step A of adding a basic substance to a tobacco raw material; a step B of heating the tobacco raw material added with the basic substance and releasing an inhaling flavor component into a vapor phase from the tobacco raw material; a step C of collecting the inhaling flavor component released into the vapor phase in the step B; a step D of washing a tobacco residue being the tobacco raw material obtained after the inhaling flavor component is released in the step B, with a washing solvent; a step E of pulverizing or cutting the tobacco residue obtained after being washed in the step D; and a step F of adding the inhaling flavor component collected in the step C to the tobacco residue obtained after pulverized or cut in the step E.
US11330827B2
A method for producing herb cheese, in particular for producing hard cheese, which is enriched with herbs, spices or the like, with the herbs introduced by machine. For this purpose, raw cheese mass having about 80% milk removed is filled into cheese molds, which are preferably arranged in a vat of a cartridge press, and subsequently pressed. At the same time, respectively, herbs, spices or the like are introduced uniformly into the cheese molds parallel to the raw cheese mass.
US11330818B2
Methods and systems for temperature-controlled, on-site generation of peracids, namely peroxycarboxylic acids and peroxycarboxylic acid forming compositions are disclosed. In particular, methods for using an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system overcome the limitations of temperature on the kinetics of the peracid generation and/or peracid decomposition inside an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system. The methods include the controlling of the temperature of at least one raw starting material, namely water, to improve upon methods of on-site generation of peracids. The methods allow for the generation of user-selected chemistry without regard to the ambient temperatures of the raw starting materials and/or the biocide formulator or generator system.
US11330803B2
The disclosed technology includes a pet collar that can be configured to determine its geolocational position and evaluate that position with respect to the geo-fence of a predetermined, geo-fenced “safe” zone. If the collar determines that its position is inside a safe zone but is near the geo-fence, the collar may be configured to provide a warning correction. If the collar determines that it is outside a predetermined safe zone, the collar can also be configured to provide a stronger correction to discourage the pet from continuing away from the safe zone. The collar may also be configured to guide the pet back to the safe zone such as by varying the strength and/or type of correction provided based at least in part on the distance of the collar from the geo-fence.
US11330795B2
A feeding device including a base with at least one leg extending downwardly from the base to support the base above a surface; a feeding chamber defined in the base; and a plurality of obstructions extending upwardly into the feeding chamber. A removable liner may be nestingly engaged with the base. The liner may include a second feeding chamber and the plurality of obstructions extending upwardly into the second feeding chamber. The method of feeding an animal may include arranging pieces of food within a feeding chamber according to a random distribution pattern; placing the feeding chamber within reach of an animal to be fed; and obstructing the animal from simultaneously locating all pieces of food within the feeding chamber while feeding using obstructions arranged in a pattern.
US11330792B1
A tile has interlockable edges for forming a mat assembly customizable for different cat litter box arrangements. The tile includes a rectangular base; prongs; and respective peripheral walls protruding away from the base at its sides. The base also includes: primary male interlocking edge structure on first and third sides, each capable of respectively interlocking with primary female interlocking edge structure on the second and fourth sides, to inhibit relative movement therebetween in a first direction; secondary male interlocking edge structure on the first and third sides, each capable of respectively interlocking with secondary female interlocking edge structure on the second and fourth sides, to inhibit relative movement in a second direction; and tertiary female interlocking edge structure on the first and third sides, each capable of respectively interlocking with tertiary male interlocking edge structure on the second and fourth sides, to inhibit relative movement in a third direction.
US11330786B1
The invention relates to the alfalfa variety designated H0316ML103. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the alfalfa variety H0316ML103. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the alfalfa variety H0316ML103 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing alfalfa plants by crossing the alfalfa variety H0316ML103 with itself or another alfalfa variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11330781B1
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated LAF7581, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line LAF7581 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line LAF7581, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line LAF7581, and plants produced according to these methods.
US11330771B2
The present invention relates to an intelligent gardening system, for monitoring and controlling gardening apparatuses in a gardening area, including: multiple sensors that collect environmental information of the gardening area; one or more gardening apparatuses that perform gardening work according to a control instruction; and a control center that generates the control instruction based on the environmental information; wherein the sensors, the gardening apparatuses and the control center communicate with each other to form an Internet of Things.
US11330768B2
Systems and methods are described for generating low altitude clouds saturated with moisture above bodies of water including oceans, lakes, reservoirs, and rivers to generate rain down wind of the location of rain cloud generation.
US11330755B2
An agricultural implement including a central chassis member having a support structure with support arms connected to the support structure for movement between a working position and a transport position, the support arms having operating elements defining a working width between the operating elements and the main chassis member. The support arms are adjustable in the working position between a length corresponding to minimum working width and a length greater than the minimum working width. In the transport position a distance between the operating elements and the main chassis member is less than the minimum working width. A first stop defines the position of the minimum working width and a second stop arranged vertically with respect to the first stop retains the support arm in the transport position when the distance between the operating elements and the main chassis member is less than the minimum working width.
US11337346B2
An electronic device module includes a first substrate, at least one electronic device mounted on a lower surface of the first substrate, a second substrate mounted on a lower surface of the first substrate to electrically connect the first substrate to an external source of power, a connecting conductor bonded to a lower surface of the second substrate, and a sealing portion sealing the electronic device, the second substrate, and the connecting conductor, wherein a mounting height of the second substrate is configured to be lower than a mounting height of the electronic device.
US11337345B2
Provided are a magnetic field shield sheet for a wireless charger, a method of manufacturing the sheet, and a receiver for the wireless charger by using the sheet. The sheet includes at least one layer thin magnetic sheet made of an amorphous ribbon separated into a plurality of fine pieces; a protective film that is adhered on one surface of the thin magnetic sheet via a first adhesive layer provided on one side of the protective film; and a double-sided tape that is adhered on the other surface of the thin magnetic sheet via a second adhesive layer provided on one side of the double-sided adhesive tape, wherein gaps among the plurality of fine pieces are filled by some parts of the first and second adhesive layers, to thereby isolate the plurality of fine pieces.
US11337338B2
An electronic assembly includes a printed wiring board (PWB), and a stiffener secured to the PWB. The stiffener includes one or more tray sections. One or more electronic modules is secured respectively to the one or more tray sections of the stiffener.
US11337333B2
A cooling unit can be downsized. Air is taken in through an intake port, and heat is discharged from a heat source through an exhaust port. A heat transport unit, forming a part of a cooling fan or is substantially in contact with it, has a first region which has one end facing the heat source and another end having a through hole which air taken in or air to be discharged passes through, and in which air passes through the through hole to perform heat exchange with the air in an inner wall of the through hole. The cooling fan has an intake opening and an exhaust opening. The through hole has an intake through hole and/or an exhaust through hole. Air passes through the intake port, the intake through hole, the intake opening, the exhaust opening, the exhaust through hole, and the exhaust port in this order.
US11337329B2
The front of a rack-mounted 2 RU (Rack Unit) chassis includes bays that receive replaceable components, such as storage drives. Two rear slots of such chassis each receive hot-swappable 1 RU servers that couple to a midplane of the chassis. When a server is removed from its slot while the server in the other slot remains operational, the airflow output of the operational server escapes via the empty slot rather than cooling the components in the front-facing bays. Embodiments provide a single-blade air damper that blocks airflow via an empty chassis slot. The single-blade air damper is connected to spring assemblies on both chassis sidewalls. The spring assemblies are maintained in unstable states when servers are installed in both slots of the chassis. Upon a server being removed from a slot, the spring assemblies transition to stable states that position the single-blade air damper to block airflow via the empty slot.
US11337327B2
A connector for surface mounting with a solder reflow process with closely-spaced solder masses on mounting ends of reference contacts. The solder masses on the reference contacts may fuse for enhanced shielding. The mounting ends of signal and reference contacts may be positioned in rows, configured such that the solder masses of the reference contacts may shield solder masses attached to signal contacts in adjacent rows. The mounting ends of the signal contacts may be disposed in pockets in a surface of the connector housing. In some embodiments, solder balls may be fused to an edge of the signal contact, with the length of the edge extending beyond locations at which the solder ball is fused to. The edge may extend through a wall of the pocket, so as to set a desired impedance in the mounting region of the connector.
US11337322B2
The present disclosure provides a height and angle-adjustable foldable computer bracket, including a bottom plate, a support plate, and expansion and retraction brackets connected between the bottom plate and the support plate. First connecting lugs are respectively arranged at the top of the bottom plate and the bottom of the support plate. Second connecting lugs are arranged at two ends of the expansion and retraction brackets. Shaft holes are formed in the first connecting lugs and the second connecting lugs. A rotating shaft structure is mounted between each first connecting lug and the corresponding second connecting lug. Engaging teeth are formed in the shaft holes. The rotating shaft structure includes: a rotating shaft with the engaging teeth, a limiting shaft with the engaging teeth, and a returning piece.
US11337309B2
Disclosed herein is a method of forming vias in electrical laminates comprising laminating a sheet having a layer comprising a crosslinkable polymer composition to a substrate wherein the crosslinkable polymer composition has a viscosity at lamination temperatures in the range of 200 Pa-s to 100,000 Pa-s, forming at least one via in the crosslinkable polymer layer by laser ablation; and after the forming of the at least one via, thermally curing the crosslinkable polymer layer. According to certain embodiments the cross linkable polymer composition has a viscosity at lamination temperature of at least 5000 Pa-s. This method yields good lamination results, good via profiles, and good desmear results when such compositions are used and the via is laser ablated before cure.
US11337307B2
To provide a highly reliable lighting-emitting device that hardly causes defects in case a wiring board is bent, while realizing high brightness by increasing a mounting density of surface-mounted LEDs on a wiring board that is rounded into a truncated cone shape or a cylinder shape, the light-emitting device comprises: the wiring board, a plurality of sets of pads arranged in a line along a circumferential direction of the wiring board, and a plurality of surface-mounted LEDs respectively fixed to the pads. The device satisfies y≤−1.04x+1.80, where (L) is a length of the circumference of the wiring board with the pads, (y) (y=s/L) is a ratio of a total sum (s) of the lengths in the circumferential direction of the pads relative to the circumferential length (L), and (x) is a curvature of the wiring board where the pads are arranged.
US11337293B2
An extreme ultraviolet light generation system includes: a chamber; a target generation unit; a laser system configured to output a first pre-pulse laser beam, a second pre-pulse laser beam, and a main pulse laser beam so that fluence of the first pre-pulse laser beam is 1.5 J/cm2 to 16 J/cm2 inclusive at a position where a target is irradiated with the first pre-pulse laser beam; and a control unit configured to control the laser system so that a first delay time from a timing of irradiation of the target with the first pre-pulse laser beam to a timing of irradiation with the second pre-pulse laser beam and a second delay time from the timing of irradiation of the target with the second pre-pulse laser beam to a timing of irradiation with the main pulse laser beam have a following relation: the first delay time
US11337291B2
The invention is a smart light bulb device with a control system that is screwed into an existing light bulb socket. The smart light bulb device is powered via a light switch from a building's electrical system and is controlled by the control system that adjusts light output. The smart light bulb device also includes a processor, non-transitory memory for data storage, at least one input device, a network device, a wireless transmitter and receiver, and an antenna. In some embodiments, the input device is a motion sensor that turns on the light based on motion. In another embodiment, toggling the light switch on or off sends a signal to the controller to turn on or off the light or may also select a lighting scene based on the number of toggles. Individual smart bulbs and a network of multiple smart light bulb devices may be controlled by a mobile device.
US11337285B2
An OLED driving system and an OLED driving method according to the present invention include: storing usage information representing an accumulated actual usage time of an OLED lighting device with respect to each of a plurality of electric current ranges different from one another in a usage information storage part; updating the accumulated actual usage time by adding an actual usage time of the OLED lighting device to the accumulated actual usage time stored in the usage information storage part and represented as the usage information with respect to a specific electric current range corresponding to an electric current value of an electric power output to the OLED lighting device; and storing the updated accumulated actual usage time.
US11337280B2
A wireless power transfer system includes an induction heating cooking apparatus including a heating coil that produces a high-frequency magnetic field, a power reception device including a power reception coil that receives power from the heating coil, a first communication device provided on the power reception device to transmit a communication signal, a second communication device provided above the induction heating cooking apparatus to receive the communication signal from the first communication device, and a notification unit that indicates whether the power reception coil is located within a predetermined region that is set in advance with respect to the heating coil, when the second communication device receives the communication signal from the first communication device.
US11337279B2
A method for sensing a container includes: charging an induction heating circuit; sensing a current applied to the induction heating circuit, converting a current value of the current into a first voltage value; comparing the first voltage value with a resonance reference value; generating a resonance of the current; sensing a resonant current generated in the induction heating circuit; converting the resonant current into a second voltage value; comparing the second voltage value with a count reference value; generating one or more output pulses; comparing a count of the one or more output pulses with a reference count, or comparing an on-duty time of the one or more output pulses with a reference time; and based on (i) the comparison of the count with the reference count or (ii) the comparison of the on-duty time with the reference time, determining whether an object is present on a working coil.
US11337269B2
A cell processing method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The cell processing method includes: sending MAC CE signaling to a terminal device, wherein the MAC CE signaling is used to activate an SCell; activating a downlink SP RS based on the MAC CE signaling; sending the downlink SP RS to the terminal device according to a transmission time of the downlink SP RS, wherein the downlink SP RS is used by the terminal device to activate the SCell.
US11337266B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing radio link monitoring (RLM) and radio link failure procedures in multiple-TRP (mTRP) communications, wherein the first TRP is part of a first cell group comprising the first TRP and one or more additional TRPs. The techniques include a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising establishing a plurality of radio links between the UE and a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second TRP, determining an RLM resource of a first radio link of the plurality of radio links, monitoring the first radio link according to the determined RLM resource, detecting an RLF of the first radio link, determining that the first TRP is associated with the RLF of the first radio link based on the RLM resource of the first radio link, and transmitting an RLF notification indicating the RLF of the first radio link.
US11337260B2
A user equipment (UE) can determine that a thermal condition or a battery condition is satisfied with regard to the UE, wherein the UE is associated with a 4G/Long Term Evolution (4G/LTE) connection and a 5G/New Radio (5G/NR) connection; determine whether the 5G/NR connection is to be activated or deactivated based on the thermal condition or the battery condition; transmit a tracking area update request based on determining that the thermal condition or the battery condition is satisfied; transmit capability information, wherein, when the 5G/NR connection is to be activated, the capability information indicates a 5G/NR capability of the UE, and wherein, when the 5G/NR connection is to be deactivated, the capability information does not indicate the 5G/NR capability of the UE; and deactivate or activate a 5G/NR modem of the UE based on determining that the thermal condition or the battery condition is satisfied.
US11337256B2
A method of operating an infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications system to support first and second random access procedures is provided, wherein a number of subcarriers used for an uplink message of the second random access procedure is smaller than a number of subcarriers used for a corresponding uplink message of the first random access procedure. The method comprises transmitting, to at least one communications device, a scheduling message comprising an indication of a first set of radio resources comprising a plurality of subcarriers to be used for a random access procedure message for the first random access procedure, determining a second set of radio resources to be used for a random access procedure message for the second random access procedure, and monitoring for a random access procedure message from the at least one communications device on the second set of radio resources.
US11337251B2
There is provided a terminal apparatus to transmit a first random access preamble using a first precoding, monitor a random access response corresponding to the first random access preamble, increment a value of a counter in a case that a reception of the random access response is not successful, and transmit a second random access preamble using a second precoding, if the value of the counter does not reach a predetermined value in a case that the value of the counter is incremented.
US11337244B2
Provided are a scheduling subband allocation method and apparatus, and a device and a readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) sent by a base station, and determining scheduling subbands in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and establishing a correspondence between precoding indications in the DCI and the scheduling subbands in the PUSCH according to at least one parameter of the total number of the scheduling subbands in the PUSCH or the total frequency domain distance of the scheduling subbands in the PUSCH and according to the total number of the precoding indications in the DCI.
US11337239B2
Provided are a method for a user equipment (UE) to transmit a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus supporting the same. The method may include: receiving information on priorities of semi persistent scheduling (SPS) configurations, from a base station; selecting a first carrier among the multiple carriers, based on the information on priorities of the SPS configurations; allocating a resource of the selected first carrier to a logical channel with the highest priority; and transmitting the MAC PDU, by using the resource of the selected first carrier.
US11337238B2
The present invention is provided with: a radio resource control layer processing unit (16) configured to configure the number of PDCCH candidates configured in a dedicated control resource set, based on RRC signaling; a receiver (10) configured to monitor the multiple PDCCH candidates in the dedicated control resource set; and a decoding unit configured to decode the PDCCH candidates. a first number of the PDCCH candidates are monitored in the dedicated control resource set in a time period in which a common control resource set is not configured, a second number of the PDCCH candidates are monitored in the dedicated control resource set in a time period in which the common control resource set is configured, and a third number of the PDCCH candidates are monitored in the common control resource set. The sum of the second number and the third number is equal to the first number.
US11337237B2
The present disclosure provides a method (200) in an access device for transmitting scheduling commands. The method (200) includes: transmitting (210) a scheduling command for scheduling a downlink data transmission in a first subframe where the downlink data transmission occurs; and transmitting (220) a replica of the scheduling command in each of one or more further subframes different from the first subframe.
US11337234B2
Facilitating frequency selective scheduling in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) with multiple transmission points is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise facilitating an activation of a frequency selective scheduling based on identification of control channel elements used for a downlink control channel. The operations also can comprise instructing a user equipment device to report a subband channel quality indicator and a subband precoding matrix index based on a result of an evaluation of a metric determined based on channel conditions. Further, the operations can comprise scheduling the user equipment device with a subband based on the subband channel quality indicator and the subband precoding matrix index reported by the user equipment device.
US11337232B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in wireless communication. In one embodiment, the UE first receives a first signaling, then receives a second signaling, and finally receives a first radio signal on target time-frequency resources; wherein the target time-frequency resources comprise time-frequency resources among second time-frequency resources other than first time-frequency resources, and the second signaling is used for determining whether the target time-frequency resources comprise the first time-frequency resources and the second time-frequency resources. The present disclosure makes effective use of the remaining time-frequency resources that transmit control information in a time interval less than 1 millisecond, thus improving resource utilization.
US11337227B2
Techniques for distributed network connectivity monitoring of provider network edge location resources from cellular networks are described. A central service transmits test suites of commands to agents executed by test devices, which can execute the commands to test network characteristics between the test devices and target locations via one or multiple cellular communications networks. Results of the testing are sent back to the central service for processing, and the resultant metrics can be used for intelligent latency-based routing of clients, latency-based placement of resources, and/or performance monitoring of deployed resources.
US11337223B2
Provided are a method and base station for avoiding inter-cell interference. The method includes: determining a target time period when inter-cell interference may occur; adjusting a time-frequency resource range allocated individually by base stations based on a target band width part (BWP) to target user equipment (UE) in the target time period to determine a reallocated time-frequency resource range, the base stations including a first base station and a second base station involved in the inter-cell interference, the second base station being adjacent to the first base station; determining target scheduling-configuration information for avoiding the inter-cell interference according to the reallocated time-frequency resource range; and scheduling first target UE on the target BWP according to the target scheduling-configuration information. With the method for avoiding inter-cell interference, the inter-cell interference can be effectively reduced or eliminated, and user experience of a 5G network device can be improved.
US11337218B2
[Problem] The delivery of content to a terminal apparatus using a directional beam is achievable more suitably. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication, and a control unit configured to control in such a way as to deliver content subjected to multicast from an upper node to a terminal apparatus using at least a part of a plurality of directional beams allocated to the terminal apparatus from the directional beams used for the wireless communication.
US11337217B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method, device and system for controlling an air interface resource and relates to the field of communications, which improves air interface resource utilization. The method includes: when a core network device or user equipment detects that service data is not transmitted over a communication channel between the two devices by using an air interface resource, switching a first frequency of sending a hello packet to a peer device to a second frequency, and sending a frequency switching message to instruct the peer device also to switch the first frequency of sending a hello packet to the second frequency, so that when the hello packet is not detected within a packet detection period, an access network device releases an air interface resource occupied by a first communication channel.
US11337198B2
The present application provides a wireless communication method, a network device, and a terminal device. The network device may configure, in a time slot, a time-domain position of a first resource transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), so that the terminal device may accurately receive the PDCCH over the first resource, thereby meeting different PDCCH transmission delay requirements. The method comprises: sending first configuration information to a terminal device, the first configuration information indicating a time domain position of a first resource in each of at least one time slot, wherein the first resource is used for transmitting a PDCCH; and sending the PDCCH to the terminal device over the first resource.
US11337195B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment determine that a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) communication, scheduled by an uplink grant, and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) communication, corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication scheduled by a downlink grant, are scheduled to overlap in one or more symbols; determine a threshold time based at least in part on an earliest scheduled starting time of the PUSCH communication or the PUCCH communication; selectively multiplex the PUSCH communication and the PUCCH communication based at least in part on whether the uplink grant, the downlink grant, and the PDSCH communication are received before the threshold time; and transmit the PUSCH communication, the PUCCH communication, or both the PUSCH communication and the PUCCH communication based at least in part on the selective multiplexing. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11337192B2
A method and apparatus for communicating with a network in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives information on transmission direction of a plurality of time intervals in a first component carrier (CC) and a second CC from the network, and communicates with the network via a virtual carrier, which is either any one of the first CC or the second CC at each of the plurality of time intervals, based on the information. The second CC is shifted in time relative to the first CC by a specific time interval.
US11337187B2
A user terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives a downlink signal using multiple cells and a transmitter that periodically transmits multiple channel state information using a predetermined transmission time unit length. The user terminal also includes a processor that controls transmission of the channel state information by configuring a transmission period and timing of the multiple channel state information per cell based on a notification from a higher layer.
US11337183B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for signaling aggregated control information in a wireless communication network. A frame format may include an aggregated control (A-Control) field. In one aspect, the A-Control field may be variable-length to support signaling multiple types of control information. In some implementations, an access point may manage multiple links (multi-link). The A-Control field may be structured to include multi-link control information. This disclosure includes multiple options for extending an A-Control field. Furthermore, a receiving device may acknowledge the A-Control field using various techniques disclosed herein.
US11337170B2
The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting and receiving data based on a grid of a common resource block (RB) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method performed by a user equipment includes receiving a synchronization block from a base station; receiving, from the base station, first offset information representing an offset between a lowest subcarrier of a lowest resource block of the SSB and a first reference point based on a specific subcarrier spacing; receiving, from the base station, control information including information on the specific subcarrier spacing and information on a difference between a subcarrier spacing based reference point, to which the SSB is received, and the first reference point; and configuring a grid of a common resource block based on the first offset information and the control information.
US11337160B2
Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuity may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
US11337155B2
A method includes generating, at a server, an event policy for controlling one or more wireless beacon devices in a network; detecting an event in the network; determining whether the event matches the event policy; when the event matches the event policy, generating programming information for configuring the one or more wireless beacon devices; and forwarding the programming information via one or more wireless access points to the one or more wireless beacon devices for configuring the one or more wireless beacon devices based on the programming information.
US11337140B2
A communication device that establishes a short-range wireless communication link with a fixed wireless access (FWA) user equipment (UE) or a mobile UE that is in a specified proximal range of the communication device. The FWA UE or the mobile UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state over LTE network, is determined. The communication device detects whether a first new radio (NR) carrier is assigned to the FWA UE or the mobile UE without using the communication device. A carrier measurement is determined for NR is established at the FWA UE (or mobile UE) by an LTE-enabled base station in the RRC connected state. The communication device controls assignment of a second NR carrier to the FWA UE or the mobile UE for non-standalone initial access to a beam of RF data signals in the second NR carrier at the FWA UE or the mobile UE.
US11337127B2
A method for performing a handover analysis is provided. The method can include obtaining base station location information for a plurality of base stations that provide a wireless network for communication with a moving vehicle, obtaining position and velocity information for the moving vehicle, and generating at least one handover metric computed from the position and velocity information and the base station location information, for use in determining a target base station to be used when performing a handover procedure to transition communication with the moving vehicle from the current base station to the target base station. This enables a variety of handover metrics to be generated that take into account the deployment of the wireless network, which can be useful in systems such as Air to Ground (ATG) systems where the moving vehicles have a relatively high velocity, and the base stations may be relatively far apart.
US11337125B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. The present disclosure relates to a method for a terminal in a communication system and a device for performing same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a higher layer device, information indicating packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) data recovery; identifying first data associated with transmission for the PDCP data recovery, from data which have been stored in a signaling radio bearer (SRB) before the information is received; and transmitting the first data to a lower layer.
US11337122B2
A switch method, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The method a terminal receiving a switch command sent by a network-side device through a source cell, wherein the switch command comprises access bandwidth information; and the terminal accessing a target cell on a determined partial bandwidth according to the access bandwidth information, so that the terminal switches from the source cell to the network-side target cell.
US11337119B2
Systems and methods for Next Generation to Long Term Evolution (LTE) fallback are provided. An exemplary method includes detecting a request to set up a voice call originating from or terminating at a user equipment that is connected or configured to connect to a Next Generation mobile network; transitioning, in response to the request to set up the voice call, the user equipment from having a Next Generation mobile network connection with the Next Generation mobile network to having an LTE network connection with an LTE network, the detecting and the transitioning performed without call setup being performed for the voice call via the Next Generation mobile network; and performing call setup for the voice call via the LTE network connection with the LTE network.
US11337113B2
A method and system for controlling apportionment of uplink data flow of a UE having a first connection with a first access node and a second connection with a second access node. An example system could operate to determine an uplink data apportionment, defining what portion of the uplink data flow the UE should provide on the first connection versus what portion of the uplink data flow the UE should provide on the second connection, where determining the uplink data apportionment is based on (i) a comparison of uplink power headroom of the UE on the first connection with uplink power headroom of the UE on the second connection and/or (ii) a comparison of uplink noise on the first connection with uplink noise on the second connection. Further, the example system could then cause the UE to operate in accordance with the determined uplink data apportionment.
US11337112B2
The present disclosure provides a method (200) in a terminal device for load balancing across Band-Width Parts, BWPs, in a carrier. The method (200) includes: determining (210) a set of random access capable BWPs in the carrier; and selecting (220) a camping BWP for the terminal device randomly from the set of random access capable BWPs.
US11337109B2
The present disclosure provides a method performed at UE, comprising: receiving a UL grant from a base station, wherein the UL grant comprises information related to uplink resources allocated to the UE by the base station; obtaining a priority order, configured for the UE by the base station based on at least one of an uplink resource type, an uplink resource scheduling mode, and an uplink resource transmission mode, of a plurality of logical channels to which the uplink resources allocated in the UL grant are applicable; if a BSR carried in a MAC CE does not comprise buffer status information of a logical channel having a highest priority, then setting a priority of the MAC CE carrying the BSR to be lower than a priority of data from the logical channel having the highest priority; and according to the set priority order of the data and the MAC CE, sequentially assembling the data and the MAC CE into a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) for transmission on the allocated uplink resources. The present disclosure further provides corresponding UE, a corresponding base station, and a computer-readable medium.
US11337105B2
A first user equipment (UE) device receives a configuration for a first timer from a base station that is serving the UE device. The first UE device also receives a recommended bitrate from the base station. The recommended bitrate is to be used for a Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) call or a Video over Long-Term Evolution (ViLTE) call between the first UE device and a second UE device. The first UE device activates the first timer in accordance with the configuration. The first UE device is prohibited from transmitting a bitrate query to the base station while the first timer is running. Upon receiving a recommended bitrate that is below a Guaranteed Bit Rate for the call between the first UE device and the second UE device, the first UE device stops the first timer and transmits a bitrate query to the base station.
US11337104B2
An electronic device may include: a communication processor; and an application processor configured to transmit data to be transmitted through first cellular communication and/or second cellular communication to the communication processor, wherein the communication processor includes: a PDCP configured to support a split bearer for transmitting split data; a first RLC configured to split data received from the PDCP; and a second RLC configured to split data received from the PDCP, wherein the PDCP is configured to split data received from the application processor into data units having a preset size, identify a data processing rate of the first RLC and a data processing rate of the second RLC, and distribute the data units to the first RLC and the second RLC, based on the data processing rate of the first RLC and the data processing rate of the second RLC.
US11337101B2
A method for managing a virtual radio access network which serves a radio cell is provided. The method includes selecting, based on a radio access technology of the radio cell, a construction scheme for the virtual radio access network in a repository. Further, the method includes querying, from the repository, at least one software component associated to the construction scheme. The software component represents a virtualized network function of the virtual radio access network. The method additionally includes setting up, using the software component, the virtualized network function on a runtime platform according to the construction scheme.
US11337100B1
According to an aspect, a method in the radio head comprises receiving a reference signal from a terminal device, and computing a channel estimate on the basis of the reference signal and transferring the channel estimate with a first precision level to the network node over a link between the radio head and the network node. The first precision level defines a first number of bits carrying the channel estimate, then the method determines to change the precision level and, in response to the determining, transfers the channel estimate or a further channel estimate with a second precision level to the network node. The second precision level defines a second number of bits carrying the channel estimate or the further channel estimate, the second number being different from the first number.
US11337096B2
Presented here is a method to predict whether a user of a wireless telecommunication network will report a problem associated with the wireless telecommunication network. A processor can obtain multiple key performance indicators (KPIs) describing a user experience with the wireless telecommunication network. The processor can calculate at least a daily value of each KPI according to a rule specific to the KPI. The processor can create an image representing a color-coded value of each KPI, where a first axis of the image identifies the KPI, and where a second axis of the image represents the daily value of the KPI. The processor can predict whether the user of the wireless telecommunication network will report the problem by providing the image to a machine learning model and receiving a prediction from the machine learning model whether the user of the wireless telecommunication network will report the problem.
US11337095B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a request that the UE report a predicted future channel state information measurement. Upon receiving the request, the UE may measure, during a first time period, a channel to obtain measured channel state information. The UE may then determine the predicted future channel state information for a second time period based on the measured channel state information. In some case, the second time period may be subsequent to the first time period. Upon determining the predicted future channel state information measurement, the UE may transmit, to the base station, a channel state information report. In some aspects, the channel state information report may be indicative of the predicted future channel state information measurement.
US11337094B2
An interference measurement reporting method, device, and system related to the field of communications technologies are disclosed. The method includes after receiving first information sent by a second device, sending, by a first device, at least one reported value to a third device. The first information is used to indicate an interference measurement resource to the first device. And the reported value is obtained based on an interference measurement result that is located on a portion the resource. Because the reported value is obtained based on the interference measurement performed on a specific resource of which the first device is notified previously, when the technical solution is applied to cross interference measurement, for example, inter-UE interference measurement, the first device can report accurate information about inter-UE interference status to a base station.
US11337084B2
A control apparatus for a gateway functioning as the endpoint of a core network in a mobile communication system is provided. The gateway includes a first server configured to receive data from a user apparatus and one or more second servers configured to transfer the data received by the first server to an external network. The control apparatus performs an operation of changing performance of the one or more second servers, an operation of monitoring a processing status of the one or more second servers, and an operation of selecting, from the one or more second servers in accordance with the processing status of the one or more second servers, a second server as a transfer destination of the data received from the user apparatus by the first server.
US11337076B2
A security platform of a data network is provided that includes security services for computing devices in communication with the data network. The security platform may apply a security policy to the computing devices when accessing the Internet via a home network (or other customer network) and when accessing the Internet via a public or third party network. To provide security services to computing devices via the home network, the security platform may communicate with a security agent application executed on the router (or other gateway device) of the home network. In addition, each of the devices identified by the security profile for the home network may be instructed or otherwise be provided a security agent application for execution on the computing devices. The security agent application may communicate with the security platform when the computing device connects to the Internet over a third party or public access point.
US11337065B1
A method for edge network authentication and access, implemented by an edge server, including receiving user equipment (UE) information from an application client executed on a UE to establish a connection between the edge server and the UE, verifying whether the UE has authorization to the local access point name (APN) based on the UE information, generating a session key when the UE has authorization to the local APN, sending the session key to the UE, receiving a request to access content of an application on a content server from the UE, decrypting the information to obtain a key, comparing the key with the application key to validate the UE, verifying identifiers of the UE when the UE is valid, identifying the application on the content server to obtain the content based on the request, encrypting and sending a session identifier to the UE based on a new application key.
US11337050B2
A method for receiving a discovery reference signal (DRS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system for supporting an unlicensed band, includes receiving the DRS in at least one subframe included in a discovery measurement timing configuration (DMTC) period, and receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) configuration, wherein the MBSFN configuration is not applied to the at least one subframe.
US11337047B1
A system for autonomously monitoring and managing consumer device assets includes a plurality of consumer device assets registered with a remote computer server platform. The remote computer server platform is configured to execute software applications for monitoring and managing the consumer device assets. The consumer device assets communicate operational status information and consumer usage information to the remote computer server platform automatically as a result of pre-programmed conditions and/or instructions received from the remote computer server platform. The remote computer server platform monitors the consumer device assets by processing the operational status information and consumer usage information automatically according to preprogrammed conditions. Based upon the results of processing at least some of the received consumer usage information, the remote computer server platform manages the consumer device assets by communicating management instructions that cause the stored data content files of one or more assets to be automatically modified.
US11337046B2
A method and an apparatus for use in a communication network are provided. First protocol elements are acquired from a user plane of a first network entity of the communication network, the first network entity having a split network function into the user plane and a control plane. Second protocol elements are acquired from the control plane of the first network entity, and third protocol elements are generated from the first and second protocol elements for a second network entity of the communication network, the second network entity being separate from the first network entity.
US11337044B2
A device obtains a list of a plurality of user devices from a first network device and receives a message intended for a destination user device from a second network device. The device obtains information indicating that the destination user device can receive messages that conform to a particular format from a third network device and converts the message to the particular format. The device determines a reachability of the destination user device based on the list of the plurality of user devices, after converting the message, and sends the message to the destination user device via the first network device based on the reachability. The device receives a delivery message from the destination user device and sends a notification message indicating successful delivery of the message to the second network device based on the delivery message.
US11337039B2
A communication network enabling a plurality of user devices to access communication services, the communication being a private communication or a communication within a multimedia group to which at least one user device of the plurality of user devices is affiliated, the communication network including at least one dedicated signalling group making it possible to announce to at least one user device of the plurality of user devices affiliated to the dedicated signalling group the availability of at least one service for the dedicated signalling group.
US11337036B1
Disclosed is a system and method to present events relevant to the user on a map. The system obtains an indication of a user's location, and a predetermined threshold indicating a distance between the user and an event. The system obtains events that are relevant to the user. Based on the user's location, and the predetermined threshold, the system determines a second set of events based on the events, where an event in the second set of events is within the predetermined threshold away from the user's location.
US11337033B2
In various aspects, a system that comprises requesting a positioning measurement data set from one or more network node devices; receiving the positioning measurement data set from the one or more network node devices; in response the receiving the positioning measurement data set, determining a time of arrival value for each positioning measurement data of the positioning measurement data set; generating a positioning measurement report comprising a group of positioning measurement report elements determined as having fulfilled a predetermined criterion; and transmitting the positioning measurement report, wherein the positioning measurement report comprises a first portion and a second portion.
US11337025B2
A game sound localization processing section localizes the sound image of a game sound. A game sound output section supplies localized game sound data to speakers. An agent sound localization processing section localizes the sound image of an agent sound at a second localization position that is different from a first localization position where the sound image of the game sound is localized. An agent sound output section supplies localized agent sound data to the speakers.
US11337023B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for generating and presenting virtual audio for mixed reality systems. A method may include determining a collision between a first object and a second object, wherein the first object comprises a first virtual object. A memory storing one or more audio models can be accessed. It can be determined if the one or more audio models stored in the memory comprises an audio model corresponding to the first object. In accordance with a determination that the one or more audio models comprises an audio model corresponding to the first object, an audio signal can be synthesized, wherein the audio signal is based on the collision and the audio model corresponding to the first object, and the audio signal can be presented to a user via a speaker of a head-wearable device. In accordance with a determination that the one or more audio models does not comprise an audio model corresponding to the first object, an acoustic property of the first object can be determined, a custom audio model based on the acoustic property of the first object can be generated, an audio signal can be synthesized, wherein the audio signal is based on the collision and the custom audio model, and the audio signal can be presented, via a speaker of a head-wearable device, to a user.
US11337017B2
Example techniques may involve performing aspects of a spatial calibration. An example implementation may include detecting a trigger condition that initiates calibration of a media playback system including multiple audio drivers that form multiple sound axes, each sound axis corresponding to a respective channel of multi-channel audio content The implementation may also include causing the multiple audio drivers to emit calibration audio that is divided into constituent frames, the multiple sound axes emitting calibration audio during respective slots of each constituent frame. The implementation may further include recording the emitted calibration audio. The implementation may include causing delays for each sound axis of the multiple sound axes to be determined, the determined delay for each sound axis based on the slots of recorded calibration audio corresponding to the sound axes and causing the multiple sound axes to be calibrated.
US11337014B2
An earpiece for a hearing device includes: an ear canal part to be introduced into an ear canal of a user, the ear canal part comprising a first contact surface configured to contact a superior part of the ear canal of the user; a primary sensor, where the primary sensor is configured to measure signals from a skin surface of the user; and a support structure comprising a first part and a second part, wherein the first part of the support structure is attached to the ear canal part, wherein the second part of the support structure is attached to the primary sensor, and wherein the second part of the support structure is configured to position the primary sensor in an inferior concha cava of the user; wherein the support structure is configured to apply a force to press the primary sensor towards the skin surface of the user.
US11337010B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for altering the epoxy wettability of a surface of a MEMS device. Particularly applicable to flip-chip bonding arrangements in which a top surface of a MEMS device is adhered to a package substrate. A barrier region is provided on a top surface of the MEMs device, laterally outside a region which forms, or overlies, the backplate and/or the cavity in the transducer substrate. The barrier region comprises a plurality of discontinuities, e.g. dimples, which inhibit the flow of epoxy.
US11337009B2
A piezoelectric MEMS microphone is disclosed. The microphone includes a base having a cavity; a piezoelectric diaphragm; a fixation beam connecting with the piezoelectric diaphragm; and a support beam connecting with the base and the fixation beam. The piezoelectric diaphragm has a number of diaphragm sheets fixed by the fixation beam, each diaphragm sheet having a fixed end and a free end. The fixed end is connected with the fixation beam, and the free end extends from the fixed end to two sides and is suspended above the cavity. Compared with the related art, mechanical strength of the diaphragm sheet is improved, and the output intensity of the signal is improved.
US11337007B2
The present invention relates to a voice coil plate having a multi-patterned coil for a slim speaker, the voice coil plate enabling weight reduction, impedance value reduction and inductance value enhancement; and a slim flat speaker enabling weight reduction, impedance value reduction and inductance value enhancement. In one embodiment, the voice coil plate comprises: a base substrate; and a voice coil formed on one surface of the base substrate comprising: a first pattern part arranged along a first direction; and a second pattern part arranged along a second direction different from the first direction. The first pattern part comprises a plurality of first patterns spaced apart at predetermined intervals, and the second pattern part comprises a plurality of second patterns spaced apart at predetermined intervals. At least two of the second patterns, among the plurality of second patterns, are connected in parallel to one of the first patterns.
US11337006B2
Disclosed is a microspeaker for use in a microspeaker box filled with porous particles. The microspeaker includes a frame having one surface as an open surface, a magnetic circuit including a yoke coupled to the frame, a magnet attached to the yoke, and a plate attached to the magnet, a voice coil configured to vibrate by mutual electromagnetic force with the magnetic circuit, a diaphragm allowing the voice coil to be attached thereto and configured to vibrate by the voice coil to generate sound, and a mesh coupled to the open surface of the frame.
US11337004B2
A speaker device includes: a diaphragm that radiates sound; an edge arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm; an attachment part facing an outer peripheral region of the edge; and a connecting member held between the outer peripheral region of the edge and the attachment part. A width of the connecting member is greater than a width of the outer peripheral region of the edge.
US11337001B2
A signal processor for a sound reproduction system which is arranged to perform processing of a sound recording so as to provide input signals for an array of distributed loudspeakers, such that the sound field generated by the loudspeakers results in cross-talk cancellation in respect of multiple listener positions at substantially all frequencies reproduced by the loudspeakers, and wherein the sound field so generated is an approximation of a sound field produced by an Optimal Source Distribution, OSD.
US11336997B2
A correlation function having a clear peak is generated even in an environment in which an ambient noise level is high. A correlation function generation apparatus (100) includes a plurality of input signal obtaining units (101), a changing unit (102), a cross-spectrum calculator (103), a variance calculator (104), and a correlation function calculator (105). The input signal obtaining unit (101) obtains a wave generated by a wave source as an input signal. The transformer (102) obtains a plurality of frequency domain signals by transforming a plurality of input signals obtained by the plurality of input signal obtaining units. The cross-spectrum calculator (103) calculates a cross-spectrum based on the plurality of frequency domain signals. The variance calculator (104) calculates the variance of the cross-spectrum. The correlation function calculator (105) calculates and generates a correlation function based on the cross-spectrum and the variance.
US11336995B2
A system includes a micro-mobility device that is configured to support a user on a mechanical structure of the micro-mobility device and a directional acoustic radiating device carried by the mechanical structure of the micro-mobility device and comprising a first acoustic driver that is acoustically coupled to a first passive directional device so as to radiate acoustic energy into the first passive directional device. The first passive directional device comprises an opening in a perimeter of the first passive directional device that extends along a length of the first passive directional device and through which acoustic energy is radiated to an environment to provide a direction of maximum radiation of the first passive directional device.
US11336992B2
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a two-way loudspeaker design that forces a condensed geometry between low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) drivers and then “floats” a midrange waveguide in front of the LF driver. This is a hybrid design meant to benefit from the close proximity of acoustic centers without introducing a central axis obstruction for the LF driver. In addition, the LF and HF waveguides and associated acoustic elements are used to redirect very low frequency energy not supported adequately by the LF waveguide to exit freely using other paths.
US11336985B2
An in-ear listening device having a device housing including a speaker housing and an elongated tube protruding away from the speaker housing, an audio port formed through the speaker housing, a speaker disposed in the speaker housing and aligned to emit sound through the audio port, a microphone port formed through the elongated tube, a microphone disposed in the elongated tube and operatively coupled to receive sound through the microphone port, a rechargeable battery and a wireless antenna disposed within the device housing, wireless circuitry coupled to the wireless antenna and configured to input and output radio frequency signals for wireless communications, a user-interface touch control disposed on the device housing and operable to control a function of the earbud, and battery charging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery and positioned within the device housing and operable to charge the rechargeable battery when coupled to receive power from an external power source.
US11336984B2
A headphone system including a headphone in wireless communication with a remote-controller to be used in combination for direct communication between a first-user and a second-user. The remote-controller remotely controls functions of the headphone to interrupt a current audio output of the headphone being delivered from an audio-delivering-device. The remote-controller includes an integrated microphone and receive an audio message. Audio from the microphone is effectively instantly delivered to at least one speaker of the headphones via a wireless channel.
US11336979B2
A voice assistance device (1) for motor vehicles, which can be arranged in the interior of the motor vehicle, has a display (2), which is configured on the front of the voice assistance device (1), at least one microphone (3), which is disposed in or on the display (2), and a loudspeaker, by means of which audio signals of the voice assistance device (1) can be output into the interior of the motor vehicle. In order to achieve the best possible sound in the interior of the motor vehicle, the invention proposes that the loudspeaker has a sound outlet opening (4) which is arranged on the front side of the voice assistance device (1) comprising the display (2) and the microphone (3).
US11336978B2
The present disclosure relates to loudspeaker devices and configurations. In at least one embodiment, a loudspeaker includes a housing structure having a multi-sided cross-sectional profile, a first speaker configuration coupled to a first face of the housing structure, and a second speaker configuration coupled to a second face of the housing structure. The first face of the housing structure and the second face of the housing structure may be adjacent to each other, and the first face of the housing structure and the second face of the housing structure may be substantially planar, in one or more examples. The loudspeaker may further comprise a controller configured to rotate the housing structure. For example, the housing structure may be rotated about a central axis of the housing structure. Further, the housing may be an elongated triangular structure in at least one example.
US11336976B2
A vehicle headrest includes an electro-acoustic transducer and an acoustic enclosure that supports the electro-acoustic transducer. A unitary foam member is coupled to the acoustic enclosure. The foam member has regions of contrasting firmness including a first region having a first firmness and a second region having a second firmness that is greater than the first firmness. The second region defines a speaker grille that is configured to overlie the electro-acoustic transducer.
US11336965B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a video bitstream, a network device and a readable storage medium. The method includes: parsing a bitstream to be extracted, and acquiring parameter information about an extractable sub-bitstream from a data unit of the bitstream to be extracted; determining a picture type parameter value of a random access picture in the sub-bitstream according to the parameter information; and configuring, in a process of extracting the sub-bitstream from the bitstream to be extracted, a picture type parameter value in a data unit of the sub-bitstream according to the picture type parameter value of the random access picture.
US11336964B2
A media system, receives a received sequence of media content, for presentation at the media system and generates a comparison fingerprint of the received sequence of media content. The comparison fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the received sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for identification of additional content to a server system. The request is based at least in part on the comparison fingerprint. The media system receives a response to the request, including information enabling additional content to be selected for display at the media system based at least in part on the identification of the received sequence of media content, and presents a displayed sequence of media content that includes at least a portion of the received sequence of media content and at least a portion of the additional content.
US11336953B2
The present application discloses a video processing method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium. The method comprises: a system playing module acquiring a video file to be played and sent by a target client; determining whether playing of the video file is supported; if not, parsing the video file to acquire an audio stream and a video stream in the video file; configuring an audio decoder identifier for the audio stream, and configuring a video decoder identifier for the video stream; and sending to an FFmpeg module the video stream, the audio stream, the video decoder identifier, and the audio decoder identifier, such that the FFmpeg module decodes the video file to acquire audio playing data and video playing data, wherein the audio playing data and the video playing data can be played by an audio and video output module of an electronic device.
US11336952B2
A mobile device responds in real time to media content presented on a media device, such as a television. The mobile device captures temporal fragments of audio-video content on its microphone, camera, or both and generates corresponding audio-video query fingerprints. The query fingerprints are transmitted to a search server located remotely or used with a search function on the mobile device for content search and identification. Audio features are extracted and audio signal global onset detection is used for input audio frame alignment. Additional audio feature signatures are generated from local audio frame onsets, audio frame frequency domain entropy, and maximum change in the spectral coefficients. Video frames are analyzed to find a television screen in the frames, and a detected active television quadrilateral is used to generate video fingerprints to be combined with audio fingerprints for more reliable content identification.
US11336946B1
User interfaces having navigation bars are rendered on displays by streaming devices or smart applications operating on the displays. The navigation bars include selectable elements corresponding to applications that are preferred or designated users, as well as promoted applications, or utility applications. Placing a cursor or selection element over one of the elements for an application within the navigation bar causes selected content to be displayed above the navigation bar, along with discrete tiles including images associated with the application below the navigation bar. Moving the cursor above or below the navigation bar allows a user to activate the selected content or select one of the discrete tiles. Icons within the navigation bar may be displayed to a user in a predetermined order, at random, or in an order selected by the user.
US11336937B2
A reception apparatus includes receiver and processing circuitry. The receiving circuitry is configured to receive a broadcast stream. The processing circuitry is configured to extract a service list table (SLT) from the broadcast stream. The SLT includes service information for each of a plurality of services in the broadcast stream. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the broadcast stream includes a digital rights management (DRM) service that is supported by the reception apparatus based on service category information in the service information for the plurality of services in the broadcast stream. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire DRM-related information, which is associated with the reception apparatus and delivered in the DRM service, based on a determination that the broadcast stream includes the DRM service that is supported by the reception apparatus.
US11336925B2
A content delivery network includes an overlay network having a plurality of cache servers. Each cache server configured to receive a request from a personal content server to register with the content delivery network, receive a request from a mobile capture device to establish communication with the personal content server, and establish a communication path through the overlay network between the mobile capture device and the personal content server. Each cache server is further configured to transfer content from the mobile capture device along the communication path to the personal content server.
US11336921B2
A method is provided for determining a context-index when performing Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) for video compression or decompression includes initializing to an initialized value each of a plurality of context-indexes of chosen syntax elements associated with a given block (e.g., a macroblock). The context-index of dependent neighboring blocks of the given block is evaluated. The dependent neighboring blocks are blocks that have a context-index that depends on coding of a current bin position. The context-index of the dependent neighboring blocks is updated if and only if their context-index changes from the initialized values.
US11336919B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus and a method that can suppress an increase in the memory capacity necessary for an orthogonal transform and an inverse orthogonal transform. A submatrix as part of a transform matrix in a first size is used to derive a transform matrix in a second size that is a size smaller than the first size. The derived transform matrix is used to apply an inverse orthogonal transform to coefficient data in which a predicted residual of an image is orthogonally transformed. In this way, an image is generated. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, or the like.
US11336918B2
A video decoder can be configured to determine a threshold number of regular coded bins for a first decoding pass; for a first set of coefficients, context decode syntax elements of a coefficient group until the threshold number of regular coded bins is reached; and in response to reaching the threshold number of regular coded bins, for a second set of coefficients, bypass decode additional syntax elements, wherein to bypass decode the additional syntax elements the video decoder, for a coefficient of the second set of coefficients, derives a value for a Rice parameter based on a sum of absolute values of neighboring coefficients to the coefficient; determine values for the first set of coefficients of the transform unit based on the context decoded syntax elements; and determine values for the second set of coefficients of the transform unit based on the additional syntax elements.
US11336914B2
Techniques are described for history-based candidate list operations in video coding for determining motion information for a current block. In one example, a device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store a history-based candidate list and a video decoder. The video decoder is configured to construct the history-based candidate list by storing, in the memory, motion information of reconstructed blocks into the history-based candidate list as candidates of the history-based candidate list, identify a subset of candidates of the history-based candidate list, generate a candidate list based on the identified subset of candidates of the history-based candidate list, and reconstruct a current block based on the generated candidate list.
US11336910B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing split and parallelized encoding or transcoding of audio and video. In various embodiments, a computing system might split an audio-video file that is received from a content source into a single video file and a single audio file. The computing system might encode or transcode the single audio file. Concurrently, the computing system might split the single video file into a plurality of video segments. A plurality of parallel video encoders/transcoders might concurrently encode or transcode the plurality of video segments, each video encoder/transcoder encoding or transcoding one video segment of the plurality of video segments. Subsequently, the computing system might assemble the plurality of encoded or transcoded video segments with the encoded or transcoded audio file to produce an encoded or transcoded audio-video file, which may be output to a display device(s), an audio playback device(s), or the like.
US11336893B2
An example device for coding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine a size of a dimension of a current block of the video data; calculate a context for entropy coding a last significant coefficient coordinate along the dimension, wherein to calculate the context, the one or more processors are configured to: calculate a context shift value according to ((log 2TrafoSize+1)>>2)<<1, wherein log 2TrafoSize represents a logarithmic value of the size of the dimension, ‘>>’ represents a bitwise right shift operator, and ‘<<’ represents a bitwise left shift operator; and calculate the context using the context shift value; and entropy code the last significant coefficient coordinate using the calculated context.
US11336875B2
The wavelength conversion element according to the present disclosure includes a wavelength conversion layer which has a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface, and which includes a scattering element no higher than 5% in volume ratio, and which is configured to convert light in a first wavelength band into light in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band, and a plurality of protruding parts which is disposed so as to be opposed to the first surface, and which includes a first protruding part and a second protruding part adjacent to each other. A height of the plurality of protruding parts is no smaller than 1 μm, and a distance between a vertex of the first protruding part and a vertex of the second protruding part in a direction along the first surface is no smaller than 3 μm.
US11336855B2
An analog-digital converter that includes voltage acquisition circuitry that acquires a voltage value of an analog signal in a settling period, calculation circuitry that calculates a predicted convergence voltage value of the analog signal based on the voltage value of the acquired analog signal, reference signal generation circuitry that generates a ramp wave reference signal based on the predicted convergence voltage value, comparison circuitry that compares the voltage value of the analog signal with the ramp wave, measurement circuitry that measures a time period from a generation of the reference signal to a time before the voltage value of the analog signal intersects with the ramp wave of the reference signal, and addition circuitry that derives a convergence voltage value of the analog signal by adding a voltage value corresponding to the measured time period and a voltage value based on the predicted convergence voltage value.
US11336841B2
A controller for a vehicle includes: a disaster determining section that determines presence or absence of damage caused by a disaster; and an activating section that activates a capturing section mounted on the vehicle. An information processing system is an information processing system that includes plural vehicles and a server. The vehicle activates the capturing section mounted on the vehicle at the time of the disaster, and sends a video image captured by the capturing section and location information to the server. The server accumulates the video images sent from the plural vehicles, and associates the video images with map information.
US11336830B2
Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFLW and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFLT,min in one zoom state to EFLT,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFLTmin>1.5×EFLW and wherein EFLTmax>1.5×EFLTmin.
US11336826B2
A method and an apparatus for focusing are provided. The method includes: determining that imaging mode switches from a third imaging mode to a fourth imaging mode, wherein the third imaging mode comprises a mode in which a non-depth camera is used to take a picture, and the fourth imaging mode comprises a mode in which a depth camera is used to take a picture; creating a third feature template, wherein the third feature template is used to record depth information of a target object; and searching for an image of the target object according to the third feature template in the fourth imaging mode.
US11336818B2
A method of controlling a camera is provided, the method being applicable to a terminal device, the terminal device including a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) collecting circuit, and the method includes: obtaining event data collected by the DVS collecting circuit, while the terminal device performs photographing with a camera component in the terminal device; identifying an action of a designated face region of a control object within a collection range of the DVS collecting circuit according to the event data; and upon identification of a target action of the designated face region, controlling the camera component to perform a target operation corresponding to the target action.
US11336815B2
A focusing control device that moves a position of a focus lens included in an imaging lens along an optical axis direction. The device comprises a processor configured to execute a process. The process comprises receiving an input of a captured image obtained by imaging an optical image passed through the imaging lens including the focus lens; performing one processing of first processing that includes deriving a contrast value of an image within a distance measurement area which changes according to the movement of the position of the focus lens for each of a plurality of the distance measurement areas, specifying a peak of the contrast value based on the contrast value for each of the plurality of distance measurement areas, and specifying, as a focusing position, the position of the focus lens corresponding to the specified peak of the contrast value, or second processing that includes specifying the peak of the contrast value based on an added value obtained by adding the contrast values derived from the plurality of distance measurement areas and specifying, as the focusing position, the position of the focus lens corresponding to the specified peak of the contrast value; performing control such that the one processing is switched according to an amount of change of a position of an image of a subject corresponding to a change of an image magnification of the imaging lens, and moving the focus lens to the specified focusing position.
US11336806B2
A display screen includes a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel in the plurality of pixels includes at least one light-emitting element; and a plurality of light sensors, wherein each light sensor in the plurality of light sensors is disposed adjacent to a corresponding light-emitting element of a pixel in the plurality of pixels and is configured to convert received light into an electrical signal corresponding to a portion of an image.
US11336795B2
This disclosure relates to advanced signal processing technology including signal encoding and image processing. One implementation describes an encoding system including a masking module. The masking module scales or eliminates signal encoding adjustments based on an image's luminance or chrominance values. Of course, other implementations, combinations and claims are also provided.
US11336783B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first controller, a selection section, and a second controller. The first controller performs control in which a second operation screen is displayed on a terminal apparatus that is connected to the image forming apparatus in a manner communication is possible, the second operation screen being generated on the basis of a first operation screen of the image forming apparatus. The selection section selects either one of a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which an operation from the first operation screen is acceptable, the second mode being a mode in which remote control from the second operation screen is acceptable. The second controller performs control in which, if the second mode is selected by the selection section, a display state of the second operation screen is prohibited from being changed in accordance with an operation occurred in the image forming apparatus other than an operation from the second operation screen.
US11336774B2
An information processing apparatus configured to, on the basis of submitted data, generate a quality report for a printed material inspected by an inspection apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a first specifying unit that, when the submitted data is a new version and an old version of the submitted data is present, specifies a difference by comparing the new version of the submitted data with the old version of the submitted data; a second specifying unit that, on the basis of the difference, specifies an inspection for which an inspection result will be affected by the difference; and a creation unit that creates a quality report which makes it possible to distinguish, among inspection results received from the inspection apparatus, an inspection result for the inspection that will be affected from another inspection result.
US11336773B1
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for scheduling a call to be automatically initiated between users. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device associated with a first user, a request for a call to be automatically initiated, at a scheduled time, between the first device and a second device corresponding to a second user; providing, to the second device and in response to the receiving, an invitation to participate in the call; receiving, from the second device and in response to the providing, an acceptance of the invitation; and providing for automatically initiating the call between the first device and the second device at the scheduled time.
US11336772B1
A call handler in a contact center is configured to temporarily derogate the skill level of one or more agents in a group having a common skill. During the time period of derogation, incoming calls will be routed to agents with the highest skill level, such that the normally lower skill level agents will be selected to receive calls. If there are more than one agent meeting this criteria, then the agent that has been waiting the longest to receive a call is selected. This allows the lower skill level agents to gain experience in handling calls and improving their call handling capabilities. After a set threshold, the derogation of the agents is terminated, and their skill level is restored to the pre-derogation level. In this manner the lower skill level agents are given limited opportunities for improvement by handling calls.
US11336768B2
This Application discloses the display of stored information when creating a electronic command for use with mobile smartphones and other computer-enabled telephones. A software app recognizes input from the user (such as the initial digits of a phone number) that identifies the organization to be called, and accesses stored representations of information along with corresponding IVR phone tree information and user display preferences. The app then presents a representation of all or part of the retrieved information on a display using the user's language preferences. The user can then respond to the representation by providing selective inputs that cause the synthesis all or part of the commands needed to navigate to the desired destination. Once a command sequence has been synthesized, the user may provide additional input that the system interprets as an instruction to open a phone call and invoke the assembled commands.
US11336766B1
Disclosed is a telephone call-back device that can provide a means for the recipient of a robocall incoming phone call to take action. The telephone call-back device includes an activation device, a call source utility, and a call-back utility. The activation device is a button or switch that a user can activate when they receive a robocall. Once the activation device is activated, the call source utility identifies a source phone number of the robocall incoming phone call. The call-back utility initiates one or more robo call-back outgoing phone calls to be sent to the source phone number. The call-back utility can be programmed to try to send many robo call-back outgoing phone calls to the source phone number to try to swamp the phone number with robo call-back outgoing phone calls.
US11336762B2
An electronic device comprises: a first plate configured to face one surface of the electronic device; a second plate configured to face in a direction opposite to the first plate; a side bezel structure connected to the first plate and the second plate and configured to surround the side of the electronic device; and a printed circuit board mounted in the electronic device and configured to be connected to the side bezel structure, wherein the printed circuit board comprises: a ground area; a first conductive pad, disposed in one area of the printed circuit board, and configured to couple the side bezel structure and the printed circuit board; and a second conductive pad electrically connected to the ground area and disposed between the first conductive pad and the ground area, wherein the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad may be disposed at an interval through which a current, having a voltage equal to or greater than a threshold voltage between the first conductive pad and a second electrode, may flow.
US11336758B2
Disclosed is a field device adapter for HART communication with a field device. The field device adapter includes an adapter housing with an adapter chamber; arranged in the adapter chamber, an adapter electronics, which is adapted wirelessly to receive a second radio signal and by means of the second radio signal to control a circuit for shunting the communication resistor in such a manner that at least one communication resistor is selectively switchable in and out per radio, so that in a shunted condition a first radio signal received by the adapter electronics can be converted into a, preferably HART based, two conductor signal and modulated via the tapping point onto the loop current.
US11336753B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a receiver configured to receive a plurality of first frames transmitted by spatial multiplexing; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame containing check results indicating whether the first frames are successfully received and first information specifying at least one communication device. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of third frames transmitted by spatial multiplexing from a communication device having transmitted the first frame the check result of which represents failure and the communication device specified in the first information.
US11336750B1
A system enables client to convert a command, which specifies applying a search pattern to a data object that is stored by server, into a remote procedure call, which specifies applying the search pattern to the data object that is stored by server, and to use a network connection between client and server to send the remote procedure call to server, in response to receiving the command. The system reads the data object from server, in response to receiving the remote procedure call. The system generates a match result by applying the search pattern to the data object. The system uses the network connection between client and server to send the match result to client as a part of a response to the remote procedure call, thereby enabling client to convert the response to the remote procedure call into a response, which comprises the match result, to the command.
US11336742B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media may be configured for improved predictive content caching. A system may determine a value that is a function of one or more rates at which a portion of a content item is being consumed and based on this value, may also calculate a projected position after a predetermined time period. By comparing the projected position to a dynamically adjustable threshold position for requesting a new portion of the content item, a determination may be made as to when to retrieve and/or cache a new portion of the content item.
US11336734B1
A system and methods are provided for aggregating communication connections. Multiple users connect to a system (e.g., a web-based system) that hosts an application or service for exchanging communications. Users who exchange communications among themselves may be considered “associates.” When one user who is on-line with the application sends a communication through the system for an associate, the system determines whether the associate is on-line or off-line. If the associate is off-line, the system crafts and sends toward the associate a notification regarding the communication, including an address of the communication server to which the one user is connected. When the associate's device receives the notification, the application may attempt to connect to the specified address. In this way associated users' connections will aggregate or gravitate toward the same communication server, thereby eliminating the latency and cost of exchanging users' communications between multiple communication servers.
US11336725B2
According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a plurality of virtual machines, a storage unit, a transfer unit, and a descriptor output unit. The storage unit includes a multicast storage area specified for each multicast group and storing a multicast frame addressed to virtual machines belonging to a multicast group. The transfer unit writes the multicast frame into a multicast transfer virtual storage area mapped to the multicast storage area. The descriptor output unit outputs a descriptor of the multicast frame to the virtual machines belonging to the multicast group. The virtual machine includes a descriptor receiving unit and a reading unit. The descriptor receiving unit receives the descriptor. When the descriptor is received by the descriptor receiving unit, the reading unit reads the multicast frame from the multicast storage area specified based on the descriptor.
US11336723B1
Updates for clients accessing a data volume across fault tolerance zones may be replicated. Requests to write or read a block of a logical volume with replicas located in different fault tolerance zones may be sent to the different replicas. Responses for the different requests may be evaluated to determine whether quorum is satisfied for the write or read of the block of the logical volume. For writes that satisfy quorum, a request to commit the write may be sent to the replicas of the logical volume.
US11336705B2
Systems and methods of content sharing on a display are provided by establishing connections between a receiver, moderator client device and a plurality of member client devices via a local network that includes at most one node in the communication pathway between any two endpoints in the network, such as a display and one of the plurality of member client devices. The moderator client device transmits a request to promote a first one of the plurality of member client devices to the receiver, which then receives and transmits to the display content from the first one of the plurality of member client devices. The moderator client device also may monitor the screen displays of the plurality of member client devices; enable the receiver to simultaneously show on the display content from two or more of the plurality of member client devices; request transfer of data from the plurality of member client devices to the moderator client device; or delegate moderator authority or control to a subset of the member client devices.
US11336704B1
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to host a composite window collection for a group of collaborators. The composite window collection includes individual windows controlled by individual collaborators and the group of collaborators observe the composite window collection from different computers connected via a network. A composite window collection session recording is formed. The composite window collection session recording is augmented with metadata to form a collaboration recording. Storage rules are applied to the collaboration recording. A request for the collaboration recording is received from a user. The user is prompted for metadata filtering criteria. A filtered collaboration recording is constructed in accordance with the metadata filtering criteria. The filtered collaboration recording is supplied to the user.
US11336696B2
A system to control access to domains, servers, or content, among other things. There may be individualized or global policies. Policy servers or other devices may interface with databases, DNS servers, firewalls, programmable virtualized routers, or dynamic host configuration protocol servers, among other devices to dynamically update various policy enforcement elements.
US11336694B2
Techniques for hierarchical security policies are disclosed. A first network configuration is received, where the first network configuration includes a plurality of subnets and a plurality of security zones. An updated network configuration is generated based on the first network configuration by generating, for a first security zone of the plurality of security zones, a first master class, and generating, for each respective subnet of the plurality of subnets, a respective bridge domain. For each respective bridge domain, a respective local endpoint group (EPG) corresponding to the first security zone is created, and the first master class is assigned to the respective local EPG. Finally, one or more contracts are generated for the first master class based on the first network configuration.
US11336693B2
Systems and methods for applying an application layer policy to a transport layer security request are provided. A device, intermediary to one or more clients and one or more servers, can receive a transport layer security (TLS) request to establish a TLS connection between a client of the one or more clients and a server of the one or more servers. The TLS request can include an application layer request to a resource of the server. The device can apply an application layer policy to the application layer request of the TLS request. The device can determine, responsive to applying the application layer policy, whether to one of accept or reject at least the application layer request of the TLS request.
US11336692B1
Server Name Indication (SNI) hostname extraction to populate a reverse Domain Name System (DNS) listing to protect against potentially malicious domains. In some embodiments, a method may include detecting a Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake between a first client application and a first server application, extracting an SNI hostname and an Internet Protocol (IP) address from the TLS handshake, populating the reverse DNS listing with the SNI hostname as a domain paired with the IP address, detecting communication between a second client application and the IP address, accessing the reverse DNS listing to determine the domain paired with the IP address, determining that the domain is a potentially malicious domain, and in response to determining that the domain is a potentially malicious domain, performing a remedial action to protect against the potentially malicious domain.
US11336689B1
Disclosed is phishing classifier that classifies a URL and content page accessed via the URL as phishing or not is disclosed, with URL feature hasher that parses and hashes the URL to produce feature hashes, and headless browser to access and internally render a content page at the URL, extract HTML tokens, and capture an image of the rendering. Also disclosed are an HTML encoder, trained on HTML tokens extracted from pages at URLs, encoded, then decoded to reproduce images captured from rendering, that produces an HTML encoding of the tokens extracted, and an image embedder, pretrained on images, that produces an image embedding of the image captured. Further, phishing classifier layers, trained on the feature hashes, the HTML encoding, and the image embedding, process the URL feature hashes, HTML encoding and image embeddings to produce a likelihood score that the URL and the page accessed presents a phishing risk.
US11336688B2
Systems and methods are described for providing calendar-based simulated phishing attacks to users of an organization. Initially, a context is identified for a calendar-based simulated phishing attack directed towards a user. An electronic calendar invitation for the calendar-based simulated phishing attack is then generated using the context. Thereafter, the electronic calendar invitation may be communicated to an electronic calendar of the user.
US11336687B2
Embodiments describe monitoring network activity and behavior of authorized clocks to identify suspicious activity, and in response, removing a clock for an authorized clock list. In one embodiment, a network monitor detects changes in profiles corresponding to the authorized clocks such as a disconnecting from a port, changing a network location, unexpected changes in the clock signal, changes to the clock ID or MAC address, and the like. If the network monitor deems these changes suspicious, it removes the clock from the authorized clock list. When the current master clock fails, the PTP endpoints select a new master clock only if that clock is included in the authorized clock list. In this manner, the network monitor can constantly update the authorized clock list to ensure it contains only clocks that have not been tampered with or replaced with rogue clocks.
US11336685B1
A cloud-native global file system, in which one or more filers are associated with a volume of a versioned files system in a private, public or hybrid cloud object store, is augmented to include a rapid ransomware recovery service. Upon detecting a ransomware attack associated with one or more files or directories of the volume, read and write access to the volume is restricted. A recovery filer is then activated or designated in the cloud. A restore operation is then initiated at the recovery filter. Following completion of the restore operation, a new clean (healthy) snapshot of the volume is then created using the recovery filer For any filer other than the recovery filer, a determination is made whether the filer has completed a merge operation with respect to the new clean snapshot. If so, read and write access to the volume is re-enabled from that filer.
US11336677B2
Determining an entity's cybersecurity risk and benchmarking that risk includes non-intrusively collecting one or more types of data associated with an entity. Embodiments further include calculating a security score for at least one of the one or more types of data based, at least in part, on processing of security information extracted from the at least one type of data, wherein the security information is indicative of a level of cybersecurity. Some embodiments also comprise assigning a weight to the calculated security score based on a correlation between the extracted security information and an overall security risk determined from analysis of one or more previously-breached entities in the same industry as the entity. Additional embodiments include calculating an overall cybersecurity risk score for the entity based, at least in part, on the calculated security score and the weight assigned to the calculated security score.
US11336667B2
Users often have multiple resource (e.g., devices, accounts, authorizations, permissions, etc.) that utilize or leverage a credential that may become compromised. A stolen mobile device may allow unauthorized access to the device to make and receive calls and potentially expose other resources (e.g., emails, text messages, accounts, etc.). Maintaining all these accounts is cumbersome and error prone. Having a ledger indicating resources that are blocked is provided. Copies of the ledger are maintained by other entities and updates exchanged therebetween. As a result, parties can be quickly notified when a resource should be blocked, or unblocked, if blocking is no longer warranted.
US11336666B2
Conventional email filtering services are not suitable for recognizing sophisticated malicious emails, and therefore may allow sophisticated malicious emails to reach inboxes by mistake. Introduced here are threat detection platforms designed to take an integrative approach to detecting security threats. For example, after receiving input indicative of an approval from an individual to access past email received by employees of an enterprise, a threat detection platform can download past emails to build a machine learning (ML) model that understands the norms of communication with internal contacts (e.g., other employees) and/or external contacts (e.g., vendors). By applying the ML model to incoming email, the threat detection platform can identify security threats in real time in a targeted manner.
US11336650B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for producing access control list caches including effective information access permissions across disparate storage devices may include (i) receiving, at a computing device, an instruction to prepare an access control list (ACL) cache and (ii) performing a security action. The security action may include (A) recursively parsing, at the computing device, at least one respective ACL for information stored on at least two disparate storage devices, (B) identifying, at each step of recursion, each direct user and each indirect user having information access permissions in at least one of the respective ACLs, (C) determining, for each unique user in the respective ACLs, per-control point effective permissions, and (D) storing the per-control point effective information access permissions in the ACL cache. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11336647B2
Embodiments improve error detection and recovery in media access control security sessions. A MACsec session is torn down after three liveness time intervals elapse without receiving a MACsec key exchange protocol data unit (MKPDU) from a remote peer. This delay between a cessation of effective network communication over the MACsec session and the expiration of the three “liveness” intervals results in increased packet loss and an increased network convergence time as a network continues to route/forward data over the MACsec session for a period of time after the MACsec session has entered secure block mode. To solve this problem, embodiments define a new alarm, called a MACsec link alert, which is raised earlier than a MACsec session timeout generated by traditional embodiments. The MACsec link alert is raised, by at least some embodiments, after a failure to successfully receive an MKPDU from the remote peer after a single MACsec “liveness” timeout interval elapses.
US11336643B2
An anonymized biometric representation of a target individual is used in a computer based security system. A detailed input biometric signal associated with a target individual is obtained. A weakened biometric representation of the detailed biometric signal is constructed such that the weakened biometric representation is designed to identify a plurality of individuals including the target individual. The target individual is enrolled in a data store associated with the computer based security system wherein the weakened biometric representation is included in a record for the target individual. In another aspect of the invention, a detailed input biometric signal from a screening candidate individual is obtained. The detailed biometric signal of the screening candidate is matched against the weakened biometric representation included in the record for the target individual.
US11336639B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for managing a need-to-know domain name system may include (i) intercepting, by an agent of the computing device, network traffic received on the computing device, (ii) generating, by the agent, a one-time password based on a unique identifier of the agent of the computing device, (iii) wrapping, by the agent, the network traffic with the one-time password, and (iv) pushing, by the agent, the wrapped network traffic to a cloud server using a local domain name system (DNS) of the agent of the computing device, wherein the local DNS comprises a private domain name unpublished in a global DNS. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11336638B2
Apparatus and method for automated email and password creation and curation across multiple websites
A machine has a network interface circuit for connection with a network. A processor is connected to the network interface circuit. A memory is connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to maintain primary contact information for a user, content delivery preferences for the user, and resource access credentials for the user, where the resource access credentials include an automatically generated user name and password to automatically access a resource connected to the network. Transaction details from the resource connected to the network are received. The content delivery preferences are applied to the transaction details to form a transaction record for the user. The transaction record is supplied to the user utilizing the primary contact information.
US11336635B2
Provided are a system and method for authenticating a device through an Internet of Things (IoT) cloud by using a hardware security module. The system includes an IoT device connectable to a cloud which provides an IoT service and a security module connected to the IoT device and configured to generate a pair of public and private keys for authenticating the IoT device. The IoT device transmits a certificate generation request including the public key and a device identifier to an authentication server through the cloud in order to generate a device certificate.
US11336633B2
Method, system, and programs for performing two-factor authentication for a controlled access application via one or more third-party host verification servers. An example method includes receiving a request to a controlled access application after a user has successfully logged into an enterprise system with a first Identifier (ID) factor, the controlled access application requiring additional authentication with a second ID factor, obtaining first information to complete the second ID factor, at least some of the first information being obtained from the user, and generating a first web form using the first information. The method also includes submitting the first web form to a host verification server, receiving an indication of successful verification from the host verification server; and initiating, in response to receiving the indication of successful verification, access to the controlled access application.
US11336625B2
Technologies for accelerated QUIC packet processing include a computing device having a network controller. The computing device programs the network controller with an encryption key associated with a QUIC protocol connection. The computing device may pass a QUIC packet to the network controller, which encrypts a payload of the QUIC packet using the encryption key. The network controller may segment the QUIC packet into multiple segmented QUIC packets before encryption. The network controller transmits encrypted QUIC packets to a remote host. The network controller may receive encrypted QUIC packets from a remote host. The network controller decrypts the encrypted payload of received QUIC packets and may evaluate an assignment function with an entropy source in the received QUIC packets and forward the received QUIC packets to a receive queue based on the assignment function. Each receive queue may be associated with a processor core. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11336621B2
A hardware device with embedded software, for detecting Wi-Fi network attacks, including random access memory storing operating software for the device, Flash or EEPROM memory storing Wi-Fi network attack rules and attack data, a Wi-Fi interface monitoring and intercepting Wi-Fi packets and Wi-Fi frames transmitted to and from a mobile station being protected by the device, embedded operating software analyzing sequences of Wi-Fi packets and frames intercepted by the Wi-Fi interface to detect an attempted Wi-Fi network attack, based on the attack rules and the attack data stored in the Flash or EEPROM memory, and sending a notification message to the mobile station when an attempted Wi-Fi network attack is detected, a processor running the embedded operating software, and a power supply supplying power to the processor, to the random access memory, to the Flash or EEPROM memory, and to the Wi-Fi interface.
US11336618B2
A security apparatus includes a receiver that receives a frame front at least one network, a parameter storage that stores at least one examination parameter defining a content of an examination on a frame, and processing circuitry that performs operations. The operations include judging whether a predetermined condition is satisfied for the frame received by the receiver. When the predetermined condition is satisfied, updating the stored at least one examination parameter, and when the predetermined condition is not satisfied, not updating the stored at least one examination parameter. The operations also include executing an examination, based on the stored at least one examination parameter, as to whether the frame received by the receiver is an attack frame, and performing a process depending on a result of the execution of the examination such that an influence of an attack frame on at least one electronic control unit is suppressed.
US11336615B2
Round-trip times (RTT) values are estimated between meshed data centers serving an internet domain and a local domain name server (LDNS) associated with the data centers. A method initializes a shared database with proactively estimated RTTs and uses distributed DNS reflection to improve the accuracy of an estimated RTT value and update the shared database. RTTs may be proactively estimated by using pings, queries, or local DNS reflection. In local DNS reflection, a reflector sends a request to a collector in the same data center via the LDNS, and the collector measures the RTT. In distributed DNS reflection, a reflector in a first data center sends a request to a collector in a second data center via the LDNS. The collector calculates the latency, retrieves the (first) RTT between the first data center and the LDNS, and calculates the (second) RTT between the second data center and the LDNS by doubling the difference between the latency and half the first estimated RTT.
US11336613B2
Mechanisms for controlling traffic to an Internet of Things (IoT) device are provided, the mechanisms comprising: identifying a first IoT device having an Internet Protocol (IP) address and a Media Access Control (MAC) address; sending a first Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) broadcast on a local area network (LAN) indicating that the IP address of the first IoT device is to be associated with a MAC address of a router on the LAN; receiving first traffic on the LAN; extracting the IP Address of the first IoT device from the first traffic; determining that the first traffic is allowed; and forwarding the first traffic to the first IoT device by inserting the MAC address of the first IoT device in the first traffic and re-broadcasting the first traffic.
US11336612B2
Provided is a method by which a cross chatbot gateway allows an event to be shared between chatbotsu, and the method includes the steps of: receiving an event message from a first chatbot communicating with a first chatting server using a first chatting protocol, wherein the event message includes destination information and event information of a first user, who is a chatting counterpart of the first chatbot; and transmitting the event information to a second chatbot communicating with a second chatting server using a second chatting protocol, on the basis of the destination information.
US11336611B2
A first electronic device of the present invention comprises at least one communication circuitry, at least one display, at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor operatively coupled with the at least one communication circuitry and the at least one display. The processor is configured to (1) access to a first server for a navigation service through an application for the navigation service linked with a first account for accessing to a second server, (2) receive a user input through the application, (3) transmit, via the first server to a second electronic device of a second user that is authenticated through the application linked with a second account for accessing to the second server, a message, (4) periodically transmit, via the first server to the second electronic device, information, and (5) display a positional relationship between the two electronic devices over an electronic map.
US11336608B2
Techniques are described herein for managing email traffic and reducing the flow of incoming messages by providing alternate communication service between a sender of an email and a recipient of the email. The techniques include detecting a new email initiated via an email client from a sender's user device, the new email being addressed to a recipient's email address that is associated with a recipient's email account. The techniques also include triggering the email client to display an option for an alternate communication service to communicate with a recipient associated with the recipient's email address based at least on communication settings associated with the recipient's email account. The techniques further include receiving, from the sender's user device, a selection for the alternate communication service to communicate with the recipient.
US11336607B2
Provided is a method of providing a function of managing a VIP message. The method includes transmitting and receiving messages from a plurality of clients; setting at least one of the plurality of clients to a specific person; extracting messages transmitted by a specific person among the transmitted and received messages as VIP messages; combining the extracted VIP messages; and providing the combined VIP messages through a combined chat room.
US11336604B2
A computing device can receive communications sent using one or more communication modalities. The communications can be determined to be a single interaction. A communication object can be generated for the single interaction with a structure being consistent across different communication modalities. A policy can be identified that defines which communication objects to review. The communications can be reviewed along with one or more additional communications similar to the communication object.
US11336600B2
The subject technology provides a messaging application in which an image can be captured and supplemented with supplemental content such as stickers, animations, etc., from within an active messaging thread. In this manner, a user participating in a messaging conversation with a remote user can add stickers, animations, and/or adaptive content to an image captured by the user, without having to locally cache/store the captured image before editing and without having to leave the messaging conversion (or the messaging application) to access an image editing application.
US11336583B2
A computing resource service provider may provide computing instances organized into logical groups, such as auto-scale groups. Computing instances assigned to an auto-scale group may be associated with one or more load balancers configured to direct traffic to the computing instances. Furthermore, customers of the computing resource service provider may add or remove load balancer from the auto-scale groups. A background process may be used to add and remove computer instances of the auto-scale group from the load balancers customers are attempting to have added or removed.
US11336580B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer program products for transmitting data. A method comprises determining, at a source node, a traffic type of a packet to be sent to a destination node, the source node and the destination node having therebetween a plurality of network paths for different traffic types. The method further comprises including a mark indicating the traffic type in the packet. In addition, the method further comprises sending the packet including the mark to the destination node such that the packet is forwarded along one of the plurality of network paths specific to the traffic type. Embodiments of the present disclosure can transmit data using different network paths based on different traffic types of data so as to optimize network performance for different network requirements.
US11336576B2
A resource management system for a virtual machine computing environment includes a software component that optimizes capacity between server clusters or groups by monitoring the capacity of server clusters or groups and automatically adding and removing host systems to and from server clusters or groups. The software component may be implemented at a server cluster management level to monitor and execute host system moves between server clusters and/or at a higher level in the resource management hierarchy. At the higher level, the software component is configured to monitor and execute host system moves between sets of server clusters being managed by different server cluster management agents.
US11336574B2
A system and method are disclosed for using segment routing (SR) in native IP networks. The method involves receiving a packet. The packet is an IP packet and includes an IP header. The method also involves updating the packet. Updating the packet involves writing information, including a segment routing segment identifier, to the destination address of the packet.
US11336571B2
Embodiments include methods of controlling a client layer of a multi-layer communication network that also includes a server layer. Such methods include receiving, at a client physical network controller (PNC), an indication of at least one characteristic associated with one or more paths between server network nodes in the server layer. The indication is received from a multi-domain service controller (MDSC) in the multi-layer communication network, and the server layer is controlled by a server PNC. Such methods include, based on the at least one characteristic, computing one or more paths in the client layer that facilitate protection and/or restoration for the one or more paths in the server layer. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a MDSC, as well as client PNCs and MDSCs configured to perform such methods.
US11336567B2
Techniques for defining a service flow definition among container pods that provide services in a network. The techniques may include an orchestrator of a computer network platform of the network determining which container pods need to communicate with which container pods. The service flow definition thus indicates needed paths between the container pods. In configurations, a cluster topology may be determined where the cluster topology indicates corresponding nodes of the network in which each container pod is located, as well as end points of the network with which the corresponding nodes communicate. Based at least in part on the service flow definition and the cluster topology, corresponding route distribution policies may be determined for the end points. The corresponding route distribution policies may be applied to the end points.
US11336556B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a first edge device in a first datacenter that implements a centralized routing component of a logical router that spans multiple datacenters and handles data traffic between a logical network implemented across the multiple datacenters and external networks. From a second edge device in a second datacenter, the method receives via routing protocol a route having a particular routing protocol tag. When the first datacenter is a primary datacenter for the logical router such that all data traffic between the logical network and the external networks is handled by one or more centralized routing components implemented at the first datacenter, the method uses the routing protocol tag to determine whether to advertise the received route to the external networks.
US11336555B2
The invention relates to a network segmentation effectiveness attestation system and method. The method may comprise receiving a list of internet protocol (IP) addresses for information technology (IT) assets within a defined scope, and executing a plurality of segmentation scans from outside a cardholder data environment (CDE) using a plurality of software agents. The software agents may be deployed and orchestrated across multiple network tiers. The method may also comprise receiving, automatically interpreting, and certifying results from the segmentation scan, automatically generating a report from the results of the segmentation scan, and automatically posting the report for authorized users to access.
US11336553B2
Disclosed is a system and method for the dynamic monitoring of network health characteristics via a visualization platform. The platform receives collected information regarding network health characteristics and applies a rule set defining at least one threshold to classify each of the network health characteristics for each network component over a time period. The classifications can be represented visually on a graphical user interface to a network administrator, allowing the administrator to quickly discern which aspects of the network are operating properly and which aspects are not.
US11336551B2
Methods and apparatus for identification and characterization of latency in a content delivery network. In one embodiment, interaction of users with content is recorded via collection of tuning records; the latency is then utilized to adjust the timing on the tuning records to account for lapses in time for sending these between entities of the network and the user devices, and for processing occurring at the devices. The latency is determined by taking into account a device specific latency component, and a network latency component. The network latency component is determined in one variant by sending a message to the device from the network requesting a response. Once the timing of the tuning records is adjusted, these tuning records may be relied upon as being accurate on a second-by-second basis. Accordingly, tuning records may be obtained and analyzed for content which lasts for a very short period of time.
US11336549B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a network controller, network characteristics from a network component. The network characteristics are associated with one or more nodes of a network. The method also includes analyzing, by the network controller, the network characteristics to generate configuration parameters for the one or more nodes of the network. The method further includes communicating, by the network controller, the configuration parameters to the one or more nodes of the network.
US11336539B2
A support ticket summarizer, similarity classifier, and resolution forecaster are described. A system trains a machine learning model to identify topic sequences for support ticket communications, identify topic sequences that are classified as similar, and predict subsequent topics for multiple support ticket communications, in response to receiving the support ticket communications. The machine learning model receives a communication for a support ticket, and then identifies a sequence of topics for the communication for the support ticket. The machine-learning model identifies historical sequences of topics, for historical support tickets, which are classified as similar to the sequence of topics. The machine-learning model uses the historical sequences of topics to predict at least one subsequent topic for the sequence of topics. The system outputs the at least one subsequent topic.
US11336537B2
Disclosed are various examples for client device migration. In one example, a migration service identifies migration data to migrate a client device from a first management service to a second management service. The migration service transmits a management data request to the first management service, and temporarily stores management data retrieved based on the request. The management data indicates an organizational group. The migration service creates the organizational group with the second management service to facilitate migration of the client device to the second management service.
US11336536B1
Technologies for implementing edge intelligence for utility communication networks are provided. For example, a system includes a mesh network and a utility fog configured to manage the mesh network. The utility fog includes a secure utility system configured for executing a private utility application and a first edge intelligence device configured for executing a first subset of software applications. Each software application is configured to manage endpoints in the mesh network or process data collected by the mesh network. The mesh network includes the endpoints and an edge intelligence device configured for executing a second subset of the software applications that is different from the first subset of software applications.
US11336533B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for providing a visualization of a topology for a logical network implemented in a physical network. The method identifies a set of logical elements of the logical network. For each logical element, the method identifies a set of one or more physical elements in the physical network that implements the logical element. Multiple physical elements are identified for at least one of the logical elements. Through a user interface (UI) the method displays a visualization that includes (1) the set of logical elements, (2) connections between the logical elements, (3) the sets of physical elements that implement each logical element in the set of logical elements, and (4) correlations between each logical element and the set of physical elements that implements the logical element. Each logical element and each physical element is represented by a node in the visualization.
US11336532B1
In an example, a method includes receiving source data that includes multiple nodes arranged in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) in which each child node of a set of child nodes has multiple incoming edges. The method includes converting the DAG to a tree in which each of the nodes has no more than one incoming edge. The method includes displaying, based on the tree, a graphical diagram with graphical objects that represent nodes of the source data, including displaying a different child graphical object for each child node of the set of child nodes in a corresponding intersection area of two corresponding container graphical objects, the corresponding intersection area representing a corresponding intersection area node in the tree.
US11336522B2
NFC communications from a mobile phone to an information handling system initiates an inventory by a management controller of the information handling system. The inventory is provided to the mobile telephone with a second NFC communication so that an end user can see a visual depiction of the interior of the information handling system before opening the chassis of the system.
US11336516B1
A method in a virtual private network (VPN) service environment, the method including receiving, from a user device, device information indicating parameters associated with the user device during an established VPN connection, determining, based at least in part on the device information, a VPN server for providing one or more VPN services to the user device during the established VPN connection, determining, based at least in part on the device information and server information associated with the VPN server, respective durations of time associated with performing each of a plurality of processes related to configuring the VPN connection, configuring a progress indicator configured to indicate an amount of time remaining to configure the VPN connection, and transmitting, to the user device, information associated with the progress indicator to enable display of the progress indicator on a screen associated with the user device. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11336515B1
Presented herein are systems and methods to enable simultaneous interoperability with policy-aware and policy-unaware data center sites. A multi-site orchestrator (MSO) device can be configured to obtain configuration information for each of a plurality of different data center sites. The data center sites may include one or more on-premises sites and one or more off-premises sites, each of which may include one or more policy-aware sites and/or one or more policy-unaware sites. The MSO can selectively use namespace translations to create a unified fabric across the different data center sites, enabling one or more hosts and/or applications at a first of the data center sites to communicate with one or more hosts and/or applications at a second of the data center sites, regardless of the sites' respective configurations.
US11336508B2
A network interface apparatus includes a host interface for connection to a host processor and a network interface, which includes multiple distinct physical ports. Processing circuitry associates each of a plurality of virtual entities running on the host processor with a respective one of the physical ports, so that while both of the first and second physical ports are operational, the processing circuitry transmits data packets on behalf of first and second virtual entities, using assigned upper-layer addresses, through associated first and second physical ports. In response to an indication that the first physical port has ceased to operate, the processing circuitry transmits the data packets on behalf of the first virtual entity through the second physical port without changing the upper-layer addresses.
US11336501B2
[Task] There is provided a signal generation apparatus and a signal generation method capable of performing mutual switching between a PAM N signal having n values and a PAM M signal having m values (m
US11336498B2
A transmitter includes a mapping circuit and a framing circuit. The mapping circuit is configured to combine and map a first data sequence and a second data sequence onto orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers which include first subcarriers and second subcarriers. The framing circuit is configured to generate an OFDM signal from the OFDM subcarriers. The mapping circuit is configured to: map first data included in the first data sequence and second data included in the second data sequence onto the first subcarriers; and map the second data onto the second subcarriers. The first data are not mapped on the second subcarriers.
US11336494B2
A method and apparatus for generating a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) which operates in a new radio access technology (RAT) generates a signal for a numerology based on a center frequency of a carrier, and transmits the generated signal. The center frequency of the carrier is based on a largest subcarrier spacing that a network supports.
US11336487B1
A system and method for optimizing a channel sounding procedure of a multi-link device (MLD) is disclosed. The improved channel sounding procedure disclosed herein involves an MLD requesting channel sounding information from a group of receivers on a first channel representing a first physical frequency, but receiving channel sounding information from a subgroup of the receivers on one or more other channels representing different physical frequencies. In this manner, the channel sounding procedure on a specific link of an MLD is optimized by offloading some of the sounding process to a different radio link that is also operational for the MLD as part of the same association context.
US11336486B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a set of central controllers that manages forwarding elements operating in a plurality of datacenters. The method receives a configuration for a bridge between (i) a logical L2 network that spans at least two datacenters and (ii) a physical L2 network. The configuration specifies a particular one of the datacenters for implementation of the bridge. The method identifies multiple managed forwarding elements that implement the logical L2 network and are operating in the particular datacenter. The method selects one of the identified managed forwarding elements to implement the bridge. The method distributes bridge configuration data to the selected managed forwarding element.
US11336483B2
Directional wireless drop systems are provided. These systems include a tap unit that is connected to a communications line of the broadband network; a cable modem unit connected to the tap unit; a plurality of wireless routers connected to the cable modem unit; and a directional antenna unit that is connected to at least a first of the wireless routers. Each wireless router is associated with a respective one of a plurality of subscriber premises that are served by the directional wireless drop system and is configured to communicate with at least one device that is located at the respective one of plurality of subscriber premises.
US11336482B2
Techniques are described for policy driven on-demand tunnel creation and deletion between end points in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) having a hub-and-spoke topology. A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that facilitates cloud-based services of a service provider network that sets up the SD-WAN is configured to determine whether a tunnel between end-points is to be created or deleted based on information indicative of the traffic, such as amount, time, application generating the traffic, and the like, between end-points.
US11336470B2
An operation method of a first end node of an Ethernet-based vehicle network is provided. The operation method includes detecting a local event and transitioning an operation state of a physical layer (PHY) of the first end node from a sleep state to a wake-up state. A pseudo PHY identifier (ID) is configured as a PHY ID of the first end node in response to the first end node operating in the wake-up state. A first beacon including the pseudo PHY ID is then transmitted and the first beacon indicates that the first end node operates in the wake-up state.
US11336466B1
A method, in a provisioning server, of provisioning a printer, includes: receiving a provisioning request from the printer, the provisioning request containing (i) a printer identifier, and (ii) an account identifier associated with the printer; obtaining, from a digital certificate issuer, a unique string; sending the unique string to the printer; receiving from the printer, in response to sending the unique string, a certificate signing request containing (i) the printer identifier, (ii) the account identifier, and (iii) an authentication token including the unique string signed with a private key of the printer; validating the certificate signing request; passing the validated certificate signing request to the digital certificate issuer; receiving, from the digital certificate issuer, a digital certificate encoding the printer identifier and the account identifier; and providing the digital certificate to the printer for storage.
US11336465B2
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods; computer-implemented systems; and non-transitory, computer-readable media, for sending cross-chain messages. One computer-implemented method includes storing an authenticable message (AM) associated with a first account to a blockchain associated with the first blockchain network, where the AM is generated based on a protocol stack comprising an outer-layer protocol, a middle-layer protocol, and an inner-layer protocol, the outer-layer protocol comprises an identifier (ID) of an originating blockchain network and the middle-layer protocol, the middle-layer protocol comprises information of the sending account and the inner-layer protocol, the inner-layer protocol comprises an ID of a destination blockchain network, information of a receiving account associated with the destination blockchain network, and message content. The AM and location information is transmitted to a relay to be forwarded to the second account associated with the second blockchain network.
US11336462B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for quantum computing (QC) detection. An example method includes generating QC detection data. The example method further includes generating a pair of asymmetric cryptographic keys comprising a public cryptographic key and a private cryptographic key, generating encrypted QC detection data based on the pair of asymmetric cryptographic keys, and destroying the private cryptographic key. The example method further includes monitoring a set of data environments for electronic information related to the encrypted QC detection data. Subsequently, the example method may include generating a QC detection alert control signal in response to detection of the electronic information related to the encrypted QC detection data.
US11336451B2
Examples of a method and apparatus for cross-chain resource transmission are described. The cross-chain resource transmission includes sending from a first account of a first blockchain to another blockchain. One example of the method is executed by the first blockchain and includes: initiating, by the first account, a first transaction used for cross-chain resource transmission, to decrement a first resource balance of the first account by a first quantity and save first data obtained through a consensus into the first blockchain based on execution of the first transaction, where the first data includes an authenticable message; and sending the first data and first location information to the relay end, which is used to send the authenticable message to the second blockchain, where a second resource balance of the second account is incremented by a second quantity.
US11336450B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to delivering an entitlements model that scales to both mid-frequency and low-latency use cases. The innovative solution may be distributed in nature and able to operate in low priority threads alongside the main logic of the software. An embodiment of the present invention may be implemented as a software module with APIs for ease of adoption.
US11336446B2
The present invention is an platform and/or agnostic authentication method and system operable to authenticate users, data, documents, device and transactions. Embodiments of the present invention may be operable with any client system. The authentication method and system are operable to disburse unique portions of anonymous login related information amongst multiple devices. These devices and the disburse unique portions of anonymous login information are utilized by the solution to authenticate users, data, documents, device and transactions. Login-related information is not stored in any portion of the solution, users and devices are anonymously authenticated. The solution also permits a user to access secured portions of the client system through a semi-autonomous process and without having to reveal the user's key.
US11336444B2
Disclosed herein are a hardware security module, a device having the hardware security module, and a method for operating the device. The method for verifying integrity of executable code in a device includes dividing, by a Micro-Control Unit (MCU), executable code into multiple blocks, generating, by the MCU, hash values corresponding to the blocks resulting from the division, storing, by a Hardware Security Module (HSM), the generated hash values, calculating, by the MCU, at least one hash value, among hash values of the multiple blocks when the executable code boots, and comparing, by the HSM, the calculated hash value with a hash value corresponding to the calculated hash value, among the hash values stored in the HSM.
US11336442B2
Traditional key generation methods in a noisy network often assume trusted devices and are thus vulnerable to many attacks including covert channels. The present invention differs from previous key generation schemes in that it presents a mechanism which allows secure key generation with untrusted devices in a noisy network with a prescribed access structure.
US11336425B1
Digital n-state switching devices are characterized by n-state switching tables with n greater than 4. N-state switching tables are transformed by a Finite Lab-transform (FLT) into an FLTed n-state switching table. Memory devices, processors and combinational circuits with inputs and an output are characterized by an FLTed n-state switching table and perform switching operations between physical states in accordance with an FLTed n-state switching table. The devices characterized by FLTed n-state switching tables are applied in cryptographic devices. The cryptographic devices perform standard cryptographic operations or methods that are modified in accordance with an FLT. One or more standard cryptographic methods are specified in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publications. Security is improved by at least a factor n2.
US11336422B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for data transmission. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a network device is provided. According to the method, a target RS port group is determined from a plurality of RS ports for transmitting a RS. The RS ports are associated with at least one network device. Then, a configuration of the target RS port group is transmitted to the terminal device.
US11336421B2
The present invention pertains to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of receiving a downlink (DL) control channel in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including resource block (RB) allocation information; receiving a subframe having a plurality of physical RBs; and monitoring a plurality of downlink control channel candidates in a physical RB set corresponding to the RB allocation information from the plurality of physical RBs to detect a downlink control channel allocated to a communication device, wherein the plurality of downlink control channel candidates do not continuously exist in a virtual RB set corresponding to the physical RB set.
US11336418B2
The present invention discloses a data transmission method and apparatus. The method comprises: determining on a terminal side whether there is an overlap between a transmission time of an uplink channel which transmits using a first transmission time interval length and a transmission time of an uplink channel which transmits using a second transmission time interval length; when there is an overlap, then selecting a part of the uplink channel for transmission according to a predetermined rule, and abandoning the remaining uplink channel for transmission or puncturing the transmission of the remaining uplink channel. On a network side, determining that the terminal selects one type of uplink channel for transmission according to the predetermined rule, and abandons another type of uplink channel for transmission or punctures the transmission of another type of uplink channel. With the present invention, correct transmission of the terminal can be achieved even when channels with different transmission time intervals overlap.
US11336416B2
Methods and apparatuses in a communication system, are provided. The solution comprises controlling (300) a connection to a user terminal having connections to more than one cell for carrier aggregation, controlling (302) transmission of signalling to the user terminal to use maximum allowable number of bits of hybrid automatic request feedback in transmission of positive and negative acknowledgements to more than one aggregated cell, controlling (304) reception of feedback bits from the user terminal, the feedback bits comprising positive and negative acknowledgements related to user terminal connections with the more than one aggregated cell, decoding (306) and processing feedback bits related to the connections controlled by the apparatus and transmitting (308) feedback bits related to other connections to respective cell.
US11336415B2
A system and method for multiplexing traffic. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may receive a first signal over first resources assigned to carry a first downlink transmission from a base station, and receive a first downlink control indication (DCI) message from the base station. The first DCI message may include a pre-emption region (PR) indication and a PR bitmap, and the PR indication may indicate a location of a time-frequency region. The PR bitmap may include bits associated with different portions of the time-frequency region, and each of the bits in the PR bitmap may indicate whether a preemptive downlink transmission is present in the corresponding portion of the time-frequency region.
US11336413B2
A method and a device, which: receive, from a base station through a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) symbol, a DMRS set according to a specific pattern by the base station, wherein the DMRS is transmitted in a specific antenna port and positioned on one or two time axis symbols, which are the same as at least one other DMRS transmitted in another antenna port; and decode data by using the DMRS.
US11336412B2
Examples synchronization signal configuration methods and apparatus are described. One example method is applied to a relay network including a first node and a second node, and the first node is a parent node of the second node. The example method includes sending synchronization signal configuration information by the first node to the second node, where the synchronization signal configuration information is used to indicate M first synchronization signal time-frequency positions and N second synchronization signal time-frequency positions in a candidate synchronization signal time-frequency position set. The first synchronization signal time-frequency position is used by the second node to send a first synchronization signal, the second synchronization signal time-frequency position is used by the second node to receive or detect a second synchronization signal, the candidate synchronization signal time-frequency position set includes W synchronization signal time-frequency positions, and W≥(M+N).
US11336409B2
An apparatus and method for allocating time-frequency resource, comprising: allocating a first group-specific data time-frequency resource to data sequences associated to UEs comprised in a first UE group of the plurality of UE groups; and allocating a second group-specific data time-frequency data resource to data sequences associated to UEs comprised in a second UE group of the plurality of UE groups; wherein the first and the second group-specific data time-frequency resources at least partly overlap in time domain.
US11336400B2
A base station may cancel or delay (e.g., pre-empt) a transmission from a wireless device by sending a pre-emption indication to the wireless device. Based on receiving the pre-emption indication, the wireless device may cancel the transmission, store an indication associated with the cancelled transmission, and/or store the cancelled transmission in a data buffer. The base station may request transmission of the data unit (e.g., at a later time) by transmitting another indication.
US11336399B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may transmit a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) communication using a first code block order for code blocks of the HARQ communication; detect a trigger to retransmit the HARQ communication based at least in part on transmitting the HARQ communication; reorder the code blocks of the HARQ communication based at least in part on detecting the trigger to retransmit the HARQ communication; and retransmit the HARQ communication using a second code block order based at least in part on reordering the code blocks of the HARQ communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11336397B2
A HAQR feedback method includes: receiving data transmitted from a transmitting end in a unit of a transmission block (TB), which includes a plurality of resource units; generating HARQ feedback information based on the resource units according to a pre-configured HARQ feedback policy, and returning the HARQ feedback information to the transmitting end, wherein the amount of feedback information units of the HARQ feedback information is smaller than the amount of the resource units contained in the TB.
US11336396B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a minimum storing area per data in a HARQ buffer on the basis of a TTI length; storing data for transmission of a wireless signal in the HARQ buffer on the basis of the minimum storing area per data; and transmitting the data in the HARQ buffer during a first TTI, wherein, when the data is retransmitted data, the minimum storing area per data is based on the length of a second TTI used for initial transmission of the data, and the length of the second TTI is different from the length of the first TTI.
US11336384B2
Transmitting, by the network device, the configuration information to a user equipment, wherein the configuration information is used to instruct the user equipment to use a measurement set to measure a synchronization signal, wherein the measurement set is used by a user equipment in a connected state to measure a synchronization signal, the measurement set is a first synchronization signal block (SS block) set, and the first SS block set includes a number of SS blocks smaller than a number of SS blocks included in a second SS block set which includes an SS block used by the user equipment in an idle state to measure the synchronization signal; or the measurement set is a signal set, and the signal set includes a part of signals in Y SS blocks, and Y is a positive integer.
US11336382B2
A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a demodulation reference signal; and a processor that controls reception of the demodulation reference signal based on a parameter related to mapping of the demodulation reference signal, wherein when the parameter is configured to a specific value, a specific multiplexing method for the demodulation reference signal is supported. In other aspects, another terminal is also disclosed.
US11336370B1
An integrated transmitter chip comprising: at least one input port disposed at a first end; a first variable power divider optically connected to a first input port of the at least one input port, the first variable power divider being tunable to a first splitting ratio; a second and a third variable power dividers each optically connected to the first variable power divider, the second and the third variable power dividers being tunable to a second and a third splitting ratios; and a first and a second optical channels being optically branched from the second variable power divider, and a third and a fourth optical channels being optically branched from the third variable power divider; wherein an optical signal being launched into the first input port and having an input power is caused to be split by the first variable power divider into a first and a second optical signals.
US11336366B2
In response to a determination that network communication traffic at a network node relates to an emergency communication, a network controller can be operable to analyze a network condition associated with the network node. Based on an analysis of the network condition, the network controller can facilitate an adjustment to a partition of an integrated access and backhaul link. The network controller can further be operative to determine whether an operator policy is applicable to the adjustment of the partition. Additionally, the network controller can be operable to facilitate the selection of a path to route the emergency communication based upon the network condition and the operator policy.
US11336364B1
Satellites provide communication between devices such as user terminals and gateways to other networks, such as the Internet. Non-geosynchronous orbit satellites move relative to terrestrial user terminals, passing in and out of communication over time. To maintain ongoing communication, a handover takes place in which the responsibility to maintain communication with a particular user terminal passes from one satellite to another. To minimize disruption due to the handover, satellite motion and availability of communication resources are allocated in advance. Participating devices such as the user terminal, current satellite, and next satellite, are provided with details of the handover in advance. As a result, interruption in communication due to a handover from one satellite to another is substantially reduced.
US11336362B2
A repeater system includes a first repeater device to receive a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal from a first network node, and a second repeater device to receive a second beam of RF signal from the first network node. The first repeater device synchronizes and controls the second repeater device to concurrently provide the first beam and the second beam of RF signal to a second network node. A plurality of measurements associated with network nodes and repeater devices is acquired. A plurality of signal parameters is selected at the first and second repeater devices for a first beam and a second beam of RF signal, respectively, such that a cross-leakage of first beam on the second beam of RF signal and vice-versa at the second network node is reduced and the gain and a phase of first beam and the second beam of RF signal is adjusted.
US11336361B2
Reducing the effects of path loss in millimeter wave (mmWave) directional communications by performing channel measurements estimating non-line of sight (NLOS) blockages, to determine angle-of-departure (AoD) and angle-of-arrival (AoA) and gain of identified paths so that directional antennas can be reconfigured to overcome unfavorable propagation conditions and reduce path losses.
US11336356B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.
US11336355B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel quality indicator (CQI)-based downlink buffer management as well as mitigating throughput loss in dual connectivity with multi-SIM. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes communicating with a first network on a first channel using a first technology, determining whether a tune-away associated with the first technology will occur, and outputting, for transmission to the first network on a second channel using a second technology, a channel quality indicator (CQI) report corresponding to the second channel if the tune-away will occur, wherein the CQI report indicates a lower CQI for the second channel than a current CQI for the second channel.
US11336347B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide techniques for determining a device's beam correspondence status. As used herein, a device is considered to have “beam correspondence” when the device's TX and RX antennas satisfy a calibration criteria. In one example, a device's TX and RX antennas satisfy the calibration criteria when a difference between quality parameters corresponding to reference signals transmitted and received using corresponding TX and RX beams is less than a threshold. In another example, a device's TX and RX antennas satisfy the calibration criteria when a list of indices ranking the device's TX beams matches a list of indices ranking the device's RX beams. The lists of indices may be derived by transmitting and receiving references signals according to the devices RX and TX beams, and then generating list of indices based on quality parameters of the respective RX and TX beams.
US11336342B2
Radio apparatuses and methods for MIMO matrix phasing that may be used to toggle and/or weight the amount of MIMO processing based on the detected level of isolation between different polarizations of the system. Also described herein are apparatuses including auto-range and/or auto-scaling of a signal strength indicator to aid in precise alignment of the apparatus. Any of these apparatuses and methods may also include dynamic power boosting that adjusts the power (e.g., power amplifier) for an RF apparatus based on the data rate. These apparatuses may include a housing enclosing the radio device that includes a plurality of pin elements that may act as heat transfer pins and a ground pin for making a ground connection to the post or pole to which the devices is mounted.
US11336341B2
An apparatus includes a first communication device with multiple antennas, operably coupled to a processor and configured to access a codebook of transformation matrices. The processor generates a set of symbols based on an incoming data, and applies a permutation to each of the symbols to produce a set of permuted symbols. The processor transforms each of the permuted symbols based on at least one primitive transformation matrix, to produce a set of transformed symbols. The processor applies, to each of the transformed symbols, a precode matrix selected from the codebook of transformation matrices to produce a set of precoded symbols. The codebook of transformation matrices is accessible to a second communication device. The processor sends a signal to cause transmission, to the second communication device, of multiple signals, each representing a precoded symbol from the set of precoded symbols, each of the signals transmitted using a unique antenna from the plurality of antennas.
US11336332B2
A device for a handle of a motor vehicle door. The device includes, integrated into the door, a primary module that supplies power by inductive coupling to a secondary module integrated into the handle. The primary module includes a primary coil and the secondary module having a secondary coil positioned facing the primary coil. The secondary coil also serves as a repeater for contactless communication between the primary module and a terminal. If the handle is retractable, the device also allows the position of the handle during its movement between a deployed position and a retracted position to be estimated.
US11336329B2
A terminal apparatus includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) parameter and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including a downlink control information (DCI) format and scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The transmitter is configured to transmit the PUSCH with frequency hopping within one slot. The RRC parameter indicates one or a plurality of frequency offset values. The PUSCH includes a first frequency hop and a second frequency hop within the one slot. In a case that a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with or other than a temporary cell-radio network temporary identifier (TC-RNTI) is added to the DCI format, a frequency offset between the first frequency hop and the second frequency hop is based on a size of an initial uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) or the RRC parameter, respectively.
US11336327B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described for enabling base stations (121, 122) to coordinate for canceling cross-link interference (380). The techniques and apparatuses described herein overcome challenges that a single base station (121) might otherwise face in trying to compensate a reception (131) by the base station (121) for cross-link interference (382) from a transmission (132) by another base station (122). The techniques and apparatuses described herein enable the base stations (121, 122) to form coordination sets to exchange information to enable the base stations (121, 122) to accurately reconstruct cross-link interference (380) and ultimately cancel the cross-link interference (380) to improve link quality.
US11336326B2
A communications apparatus includes a phase correction unit, a first radio frequency channel, a first analog bridge, a second radio frequency channel, and a second analog bridge. A first signal is sent to a first input end using the first radio frequency channel, and is divided into at least two channels of first sub-signals by using the first analog bridge. The at least two channels of first sub-signals are respective output from at least two first output ends to at least two first antenna arrays. Similarly, a second signal is divided into at least two channels of second sub-signals by using the second analog bridge, and the at least two channels of second sub-signals are output to at least two second antenna arrays. A first channel of first sub-signal and a first channel of second sub-signal are coupled to the phase correction unit by using a coupler.
US11336324B2
A high-frequency module includes a transmission signal amplifier that outputs a transmission signal to an antenna terminal side; a reception signal amplifier that amplifies a reception signal supplied from an antenna terminal; a switch that selectively connects the antenna terminal to either an output of the transmission signal amplifier or an input of the reception signal amplifier; and a directional coupler that is provided on a transmission signal path and detects a signal level of the transmission signal. The transmission signal amplifier is controlled by a first control signal supplied from a first control circuit. The reception signal amplifier is controlled by a second control signal supplied from a second control circuit. The switch is controlled by a switch control signal supplied from the first control circuit. The directional coupler is controlled by a coupler control signal supplied from the first control circuit.
US11336319B2
A circuit arrangement including one or more processors configured to: detect a presence of one or more human object proximities based on sensor data; identify one or more coverage sectors of one or more antenna arrays, operably coupled to the one or more processors, in response to the detected presence of the one or more human object proximities; determine whether radio waves within the one or more identified coverage sectors satisfy a transmit power criteria; select one or more candidate coverage sectors of the one or more antenna arrays based the one or more identified coverage sectors; and determine at least one radio link quality for the radio waves of the one or more candidate coverage sectors.
US11336316B2
An apparatus comprising: a sampler for over-sampling an input signal to produce a sampled input signal; a delta-sigma modulator for modulating the sampled input signal to produce a modulated signal; and a filter for filtering the modulated signal, the filter comprising: a conductive patch and a ground plane separated by a dielectric wherein the ground plane comprises a band-gap periodic structure.
US11336314B2
A radio frequency, RF, transmitter, comprises a digitally controlled oscillator, DCO, configured to generate an RF signal; and digital modulation circuitry connected to the DCO for modulation of the RF signal, and driven by an RF clock signal derived from the RF signal, wherein the digital modulation circuitry comprises a module configured to apply a compensation for modulation jitter due to the modulation circuitry being driven by the RF clock signal and a compensation for DCO non-linearity.
US11336311B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including an antenna module comprising a plurality of radio frequency (RF) chains, and a processor configured to control the antenna module, wherein each of the RF chains comprises an amplifier that amplifies power and a power detector, and wherein the antenna module further comprises a switching circuit that selectively switches between a first path and a second path, the first path being a connection through which an RF signal converted in the antenna module is transmitted to the power detector causing the RF signal to be detected, and the second path being a connection through which the RF signal is transmitted to the amplifier causing the power detector to detect an RF signal of the amplifier.
US11336303B2
A digital system, components and method are configured with nonvolatile memory for storing digital data using codewords. The data is stored in the memory using multiple bits per memory cell of the memory. A code efficiency, for purposes of write operations and read operations relating to the memory, can be changed on a codeword to codeword basis based on input parameters. The code efficiency can change based on changing any one of the input parameters including bit density that is stored by the memory. Storing and reading fractional bit densities is described.
US11336298B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a memory device are described. An error correction bit flipping scheme may include methods, systems, and devices for performing error correction of one or more bits (e.g., a flip bit) and for efficiently communicating error correction information. The data bits and the flip bit (e.g., an error corrected flip bit) may be directly transmitted (e.g., to a flip decision component). The flip bit may be transmitted to the flip decision component over a dedicated and/or unidirectional line that is different from one or more other lines that carry data bits (e.g., to the flip decision component).
US11336296B2
The present technology includes a controller and a memory system including the same. The controller includes a memory interface configured to receive a codeword from a memory device, and an error correction circuit configured to: perform an error correction decoding operation on the codeword received from the memory interface, compare a number of unsatisfied check nodes (UCNs) detected in the error correction decoding operation with a reference number, perform or stop the error correction decoding operation on the codeword according to a result of comparing the number of UCNs and the reference number, and output a retransmission request signal of the codeword to the memory interface in response to the result, wherein the memory interface requests the codeword to the memory device in response to the retransmission request signal.
US11336287B1
An integrated circuit can include a data processing engine (DPE) array having a plurality of tiles. The plurality of tiles can include a plurality of DPE tiles, wherein each DPE tile includes a stream switch, a core configured to perform operations, and a memory module. The plurality of tiles can include a plurality of memory tiles, wherein each memory tile includes a stream switch, a direct memory access (DMA) engine, and a random-access memory. The DMA engine of each memory tile may be configured to access the random-access memory within the same memory tile and the random-access memory of at least one other memory tile. Selected ones of the plurality of DPE tiles may be configured to access selected ones of the plurality of memory tiles via the stream switches.
US11336286B2
A method includes detecting an open in a first IO element of a first bank of IOs and not in a second bank of IOs. The first and second banks of IOs are in a channel of a first die. The method includes shifting a first connection between the first IO element and a first core fabric of the first die to second connection between a second IO element and the first core fabric. The second IO element is in the first bank of IOs. The method includes shifting a third connection between a third IO element and a second core fabric of a second die to fourth connection between a fourth IO element and the second core fabric. The third and fourth IO elements are in a third bank of IOs of the second die. The method includes not shifting connections in the second and fourth banks of IOs.
US11336282B2
A device includes a power gating signal generation circuit, a clock interrupt signal generation circuit, and a shift clock generation circuit. The power gating signal generation circuit configured to generate a power gating signal based on a mode entry signal and a mode exit signal to perform a power gating operation. The clock interrupt signal generation circuit configured to generate a clock interrupt signal based on the mode entry signal and the power gating signal to perform a clock interrupt operation. The shift clock generation circuit configured to generate a shift clock signal supplied to an internal circuit based on the power gating signal and the clock interrupt signal.
US11336280B2
A half-bridge control circuit comprises an input terminal, an output terminal for providing a pulsed signal to a half-bridge driver circuit configured to drive two electronic switches connected between two supply terminals, and a feedback terminal for receiving a feedback signal indicative of the instantaneous voltage value at a switching node between the two electronic switches. A selector circuit provides a digital feedback signal. A subtractor generates an error signal by subtracting the digital feedback signal from the reference signal. An integrator generates an integration signal by integrating the value of the error signal. A down-scale circuit generates a reduced resolution integration signal by discarding one or more least significant bits of the integration signal. A sampling circuit generates a sampled integration signal by sampling the reduced resolution integration signal. A pulse generator circuit generates the pulsed signal as a function of the sampled integration signal.
US11336279B2
A device includes a heterojunction device, a unipolar power transistor operatively connected in series with said hetero junction device; an external control terminal for driving said unipolar power transistor and said heterojunction device; and an interface unit having a plurality of interface terminals. A first interface terminal is operatively connected to an active gate region of the heterojunction device and a second interface terminal is operatively connected to said external control terminal. The heterojunction device includes a threshold voltage less than a threshold voltage of the unipolar power transistor, wherein the threshold voltage of the heterojunction device is less than a blocking voltage of the unipolar power transistor.
US11336274B2
The present disclosure mainly provides a clamping circuit, coupled to a first end and a second end of a switching transistor through a first node and a second node, comprising: an RCD circuit, comprising a first resistor and a first capacitor connected in parallel between the second node and a third node, and a diode having a negative electrode coupled to the third node; and a first stabilivolt diode, having a negative electrode coupled to the first node and a positive electrode coupled to a positive electrode of the diode at a fourth node.
US11336268B2
Integrated circuit, comprising at least one ring oscillator including a succession of inverters looped back to form the ring, the at least one oscillator being intended to operate at a desired output frequency and configured so that the inverter transistors operate in or near their temperature inversion zone.
US11336265B2
Several embodiments of electrical circuit devices and systems with clock distortion calibration circuitry are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an electrical circuit device includes an electrical circuit die having clock distortion calibration circuitry to calibrate a clock signal. The clock distortion calibration circuitry is configured to compare a first duty cycle of a first voltage signal of the clock signal to a second duty cycle of a second voltage signal of the clock signal. Based on the comparison, the clock distortion calibration circuitry is configured to adjust a trim value associated with at least one of the first and the second duty cycles of the first and the second voltage signals, respectively, to calibrate at least one of the first and the second duty cycles and account for duty cycle distortion encountered as the clock signal propagates through a clock tree of the electrical circuit device.
US11336253B2
An amplifier circuit includes a first port, a second port, a reference potential port, and an RF amplifier device having a first terminal electrically coupled to the first port, a second terminal electrically coupled to the second port, and a reference potential terminal electrically coupled to the reference potential port. The RF amplifier device amplifies an RF signal across an RF frequency range that includes a fundamental RF frequency. An impedance matching network is electrically coupled to the first terminal and the first port. The impedance matching network includes a baseband termination circuit that presents low impedance in a baseband frequency region, a fundamental frequency matching circuit that presents a complex conjugate of an intrinsic impedance of the RF amplifier device in the RF frequency range, and a second order harmonic termination circuit that presents low impedance at second order harmonics of frequencies in the fundamental RF frequency range.
US11336252B2
A filter (10) includes two capacitors (C1a and C1b) that are connected in series on a path connecting an input terminal (101a) and an output terminal (102a), an inductor (L2) that is connected in parallel with a series circuit including the two capacitors (C1a and C1b), and a parallel-arm resonator (P1) that is connected between the ground and a node (N) between the two capacitors (C1a and C1b) on the path.
US11336249B2
A multilayer filter may include a plurality of dielectric layers stacked in a Z-direction. A first conductive layer may overlie one of the dielectric layers, and a second conductive layer may overlie another of the dielectric layers and be spaced apart from the first conductive layer in the Z-direction. A first via may be connected with the second conductive layer at a first location. A second via may be connected with the second conductive layer at a second location that is spaced apart in a first direction from the first location. The first conductive layer may overlap the second conductive layer at an overlapping area to form a capacitor. At least a portion of the overlapping area may be located between the first location and the second location in the first direction. The second conductive layer may be free of via connections that intersect the overlapping area.
US11336247B1
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a series or source feedback is provided to a solid-state power amplifier to achieve improved amplifier output power, good impedance match, and low voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). In an embodiment, an inductive element is coupled to the source of the power amplifier transistor to serve as a series or source feedback for the transistor. In an embodiment, a high-impedance transmission line such as a microstrip or coplanar waveguide is provided as an inductive element coupled to the source of the transistor. In an embodiment, a series or source feedback is provided to each amplifier in a multistage amplifier circuit.
US11336243B2
A receiver topology for supporting various combinations of interband carrier aggregation (CA) signals, intraband non-contiguous CA and non-CA signals having different combinations of signals aggregated therein.
US11336242B2
A communication circuit, including a first supply modulator configured to provide a first supply voltage; a first power amplifier configured to generate a first output signal by amplifying a first input signal corresponding to a first operation frequency band; a second power amplifier configured to generate a second output signal by amplifying a second input signal corresponding to a second operation frequency band; and a switching circuit configured to selectively provide the first supply voltage from the first supply modulator to the second power amplifier based on a first switching signal according to an operation mode.
US11336226B2
Techniques are described that enables controlling the TNULL characteristic of a self-compensated oscillator by controlling the magnitude and direction of the frequency deviation versus temperature, and thus, compensating the frequency deviation.
US11336221B2
A solar array includes a solar module and a support structure for the solar module. The support structure includes a support member. The solar module is mounted on the support structure such that the solar module is positioned at least partially above the support member. The solar array also includes a wire receiver for securing wires to the solar module or the support member. The wire receiver includes a wire insert slot sized for receiving wires, a wire transition slot connected to the wire insert slot, and a catch adapted to inhibit movement of the wires. The wire insert slot and the wire transition slot are sized and arranged for the wires to be inserted into the wire insert slot and positioned around the catch.
US11336210B2
A vibration type actuator including vibrating elements and a contact element that is brought into contact with each other in a first direction. The vibration of the vibrating elements includes vibration in a first vibration mode in the first direction and vibration in a second vibration mode in a second direction intersecting the first direction. In the vibrating elements, a minimum value of a resonance frequency in the second vibration mode is greater than or equal to a maximum value of a resonance frequency in the first vibration mode, and a ratio of a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the resonance frequency in the second vibration mode to the minimum value of the resonance frequency in the second mode is less than or equal to a predetermined value.
US11336207B2
Disclosed is a high-power sliding-mode triboelectric generator including a substrate; a positive electrode formed on the substrate; a positively charged body provided on the positive electrode and formed to be tilted at a predetermined angle from the substrate; a negatively charged body located to be opposite to the positively charged body and formed to be tilted at the same angle as in the positively charged body; a negative electrode provided on the negatively charged body and configured to support the negatively charged body; and at least one spacer formed between the positively charged body and the negatively charged body, is formed of an elastic body, and configured to maintain an interval between the positively charged body and the negatively charged body.
US11336206B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable mediums, and power conversion systems with a controller configured to provide modulated inverter switching control signals at a first switching frequency in response to an inverter current being greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold, the second threshold being greater than the first threshold. The controller is further configured to provide the inverter switching control signals at a second switching frequency in response to the inverter current being greater than the second threshold, and to provide the inverter switching control signals at a third switching frequency in response to the inverter current being less than the first threshold, where the second switching frequency is less than the first switching frequency and the third switching frequency is greater than the first switching frequency.
US11336194B1
Disclosed herein is a DC-AC converter, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the DC-AC converter comprises a transformer, a pulse generator, a pulse modulator, a switching element, and an analog low pass filtering stage. Further, the pulse generator is configured for generating pulses characterized by a pulse frequency. Further, the pulse modulator is configured for generating a pulse density modulated signal based on modulating the pulses using a sine wave signal of a fundamental frequency. Further, the switching element is connected in series with a primary winding of the transformer. Further, the switching element is configured to be switched between an on state and an off state based on the pulse density modulated signal. Further, the analog low pass filtering stage is configured for generating an AC voltage of the fundamental frequency based on attenuating higher frequency components of an unfiltered AC voltage at a secondary winding of the transformer.
US11336192B2
A three-phase power apparatus with bidirectional power conversion applied to charge a battery of an electric vehicle. The three-phase charging apparatus includes an AC-to-DC conversion unit, a first DC bus, a first DC-to-DC conversion unit, a second DC bus, and a second DC-to-DC conversion unit. The first DC bus is coupled to the AC-to-DC conversion unit. The first DC-to-DC conversion unit includes an isolated transformer, a resonant tank, a first bridge arm assembly, and a second bridge arm assembly. The first bridge arm assembly is coupled to the first DC bus and a primary side of the isolated transformer. The second bridge arm assembly is coupled a secondary side of the isolated transformer. The second DC bus is coupled to the second bridge arm assembly. The second DC-to-DC conversion unit is coupled to the second DC bus and the battery.
US11336191B1
A power supply device with low loss includes an input switch circuit, a transformer, a first capacitor, an output stage circuit, and a detection and control circuit. The input switch circuit generates a switching voltage according to an input voltage. The output stage circuit generates an output voltage. The output stage circuit includes a first rectifying switch element and a second rectifying switch element. The detection and control circuit detects a first output current flowing through the first rectifying switch element so as to generate a first control voltage, and it detects a second output current flowing through the second rectifying switch element so as to generate a second control voltage. The first rectifying switch element is selectively closed or opened according to the first control voltage. The second rectifying switch element is selectively closed or opened according to the second control voltage.
US11336187B2
A resonant switching converter can include: a voltage switching circuit configured to receive a first input voltage, and to generate a second input voltage of a resonant branch coupled to the voltage switching circuit; where when the voltage switching circuit is in a first operating state, the second input voltage provided to the resonant branch is less than the first input voltage; and where when the voltage switching circuit is in a second operating state, the input voltage provided to the resonant branch is zero.
US11336178B2
A power converter is disclosed. The power converter includes a Single-Input-Multiple-Output (SIMO) device includes a first transistor connected to an input and a first end of an inductor, a second transistor connected to a second end of the inductor and a first output, and a third transistor connected to the second end of the inductor and a second output. The power converter also includes a controller connected to the SIMO device and is configured to maintain a minimum inductor current through the inductor between charging cycles and to cause the minimum inductor current to transition to a charging inductor current during a charging cycle. The charging inductor current is based on a difference between an output voltage signal and a target voltage signal.
US11336176B1
An internal voltage generation circuit may include an oscillation circuit, a signal generation circuit, and a pumping circuit. The oscillation circuit may generate an oscillation signal. The signal generation circuit may generate first and second pumping driving signals on the basis of the oscillation signal. The pumping circuit may generate a pumping voltage through a pumping operation on the basis of the first and second pumping driving signals.
US11336171B2
The present invention discloses a converter with cold start-up and a cold start-up method for modular power converters that allows converter operation tests to be carried out without a connection to the AC grid. For that purpose, the control module powers the power converter modules, disconnects the power converter from the AC grid, selects a power converter module as the AC-source module and configures a voltage and a frequency for the AC-source module, selects the power for the other power converter modules and sets starting conditions. Previously, the control module is powered by an AC source that can be internal or external, such as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or a DC source (photovoltaic field), via a DC-AC transformer.
US11336165B2
A linear motor system has multiple modular track sections joined end-to-end to form a track along which movers may be displaced by the control of magnetic fields generated by coils disposed in each track section. A curved track section is provided that includes a curved portion, an integral straight portion, and a fit spline transition between the curved portion and the straight portion. The integration of the straight portion smooths the transition between the curved and straight areas of the track, and allows for improved performance.
US11336163B2
An apparatus is provided for forming an axial flux permanent magnet synchronous motor. The apparatus includes a stator assembly including a plurality of stator poles spaced about a stator shaft, each comprising a winding. Adjacent pairs of stator poles have a spacing in a circumferential direction approximately equal to or greater than a width of the stator pole. A rotor assembly includes a plurality of rotor poles of alternating magnetic polarity arranged for electrically communicating with the windings of the stator assembly. The ratio of stator poles to rotor poles may be less than 4:6 or, more specifically, less than or equal to about 1:2.
US11336159B2
The manufacturing method of a rotor includes: a step of preparing a plate that is composed of an austenitic material and that has a projected portion and a part with a width in a rotational axis direction smaller than a width of the projected portion in the rotational axis direction; and a step of forming a welded portion across the projected portion of the plate and a rotation transmitting member by emitting an energy beam on at least a part of the projected portion to melt at least a part of the projected portion.
US11336143B2
A stator assembly for use in a motor includes an annular stator and a circuit board. The stator having an annular shape is centered on a central axis extending vertically. The circuit board is above the stator in an axial direction. The stator includes a stator core, an insulator, a conductive wire, and a terminal pin. The stator core includes teeth. The insulator covers at least a portion of the stator core. The conductive wire is wound around the teeth via the insulator to define a coil. The terminal pin extends axially upward from an upper surface of the insulator and is connected to an end portion of the conductive wire. The circuit board includes a solder portion on an upper surface. The solder portion enables electrical connection with the terminal pin and is covered with a coating layer.
US11336140B2
The invention mainly concerns a coiling procedure of a stator for a multiphase electrical rotating machine: the said stator comprising grooves, each intended to take up an uneven number of conductors of a coil, the said coil comprising two systems, each comprising one group of conductors (C1-C3, C1′-C3′) respectively, the said procedure comprises stages of installation of the conductors (C1-C3, C1′-C3′) into the said grooves, repeated in order to form a coil comprising several turns (S1-S9) completed alternately according to a first direction of rotation (K1) and according to a second direction of rotation (K2) opposite the first direction of rotation, with the characteristic that at least two changes of direction of rotation (CH1-CH8) from one turn to the other are carried out in different angular zones.
US11336135B2
Disclosed is a motor rotor structure including a rotor core. A plurality of radial slots each are in the rotor core along a circumferential direction, and a first flux barrier slot is provided between every two adjacent radial slots. Two kinds of permanent magnets having different coercivities mounted in each radial slot. The two kinds of permanent magnets having different coercivities are distributed along a radial direction of the rotor core. The two kinds of permanent magnets having different coercivities are both magnetized along a tangential direction of the rotor core. A second flux barrier slot is provided between the two kinds of permanent magnets having different coercivities.
US11336132B2
An electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, a stator having a stator core and a plurality of teeth annularly arranged on the stator core about the axis of rotation, a plurality of electromagnetic coils, and a base plate. Each coil of the plurality of electromagnetic coils may be mounted on a separate tooth of the plurality of teeth. The base plate may be located adjacent to the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core. The base plate may have a first side and an opposing second side. The first side may be in thermal contact with the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core. A liquid-coolant channel may be defined on the second side of the base plate such that as the coils and the stator core heats during operation, the base plate is configured to transfer the heat to a liquid coolant in the liquid-coolant channel to dissipate heat from the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core.
US11336129B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a charging circuit that includes a charging coil located proximate to a surface of the charging device, a pulse generating circuit, and a controller. The pulse generating circuit may be configured to provide a pulsed signal to the charging circuit, where each pulse in the pulsed signal includes a plurality of cycles of a clock signal that has a frequency greater or less than a nominal resonant frequency of the charging circuit. The controller may be configured to detect a change in resonance of the charging circuit based on a difference in response of the charging circuit to first and second pulses transmitted in the pulsed signal. The controller may be further configured to determine that a chargeable device has been placed in proximity to the charging coil based on the difference in responses.
US11336126B2
A transmitter of a wireless power transfer and data communication system comprising a transmitter system including a transmitter housing, one or more high-power laser sources, a laser controller, one or more low-power laser sources, one or more photodiodes, a beam steering system and lens assembly, and a safety system. High-power and low-power beams are directed to corresponding receivers and transceivers of a transceiver system inside a remote receiver system by the controller and the beam steering system and lens assembly. Low-power beams include optical communication to the transceiver system. The photodiodes of the transmitter system receive optical communication from the transceiver system. Low-power beams are co-propagated with and in close proximity to high-power beams substantially along an entire distance between the transmitter housing and the receiver system. The safety system instructs the controller to reduce the high-power sources in response to detected events.
US11336125B2
Methods and devices addressing power tracking of transmission systems using antenna arrays are disclosed. The disclosed teachings may be implemented on a channel element to channel element basis, are adaptive and can be implemented on short time durations such as time slots. Power efficiency can be improved when applying the described methods to the design of systems with antenna arrays.
US11336124B2
A method of transmitting a signal by a wireless power transmitter in a wireless charging system, wireless power transmitter, and a wireless power receiver are provided. The method includes receiving, from a wireless power transmitter, a first beacon power for a first duration time in every first period; receiving, from the wireless power transmitter, a second beacon power for a second duration time in every second period; if the wireless power receiver determines that an extension of the second beacon power is required, generating load changes while receiving the second beacon power for the second duration time; in response to the generated load changes, continually receiving, from the wireless power transmitter, the second beacon power until a predetermined third duration time, wherein the predetermined third duration time is determined before the second beacon power is transmitted by the wireless power transmitter; and transmitting an advertisement signal to the wireless power transmitter while receiving the second beacon power for the predetermined third duration time.
US11336113B2
An electric power system is disclosed herein. The electric power system may manage and store electric power and provide uninterrupted electric power, derived from a plurality of electric power sources, to an electric load. The electric power system may contain an energy storage unit and generator assembly. The electric power system may connect to a power grid and renewable energy sources, and may charge the energy storage unit using the power grid, renewable energy sources, and/or generator assembly. The electric power system may be configured to determine load power usage and environmental factors to automatically and continuously modify a charging protocol to, for example, provide high efficiency and/or self-sufficiency from the power grid. The electric power system may operate entirely off-grid and may provide electricity to the load without interruption to power.
US11336110B2
A rechargeable battery using a solution of an aluminum salt as an electrolyte is disclosed, as well as methods of making the battery and methods of using the battery.
US11336109B2
A dual port battery charging system comprises a charger, a microcontroller, a first switching unit, a second switching unit, a first charging interface and a second charging interface, wherein the microcontroller is coupled with the first switching unit, the second switching unit, the first charging interface and the second charging interface to detect a voltage and a current of a first battery pack or a second battery pack, and the microcontroller can control the first switching unit and the second switching unit to charge the first battery pack and the second battery pack separately or alternately.
US11336107B2
[Object] To achieve both prevention of overcharging of the battery and convenience of the user. [Solution] An information processing device includes: a charged capacity detection unit configured to detect a charged capacity of a battery; a charging control unit configured to control a charging circuit; and a specification unit configured to specify when discharge of the battery starts. The charging control unit performs charging suppression control on the charging circuit such that the battery is charged to a preparatorily charged capacity that is lower than a fully charged capacity of the battery, on the basis of the charged capacity detected by the charged capacity detection unit, the charging of the battery stops when the charged capacity of the battery reaches the preparatorily charged capacity, and the charging of the battery restarts from the preparatorily charged capacity before discharge of the battery starts.
US11336106B2
A charging system includes: an input voltage supply circuit; a control circuit coupled to the input voltage supply circuit, configured to control the input voltage supply circuit to generate an input voltage according to a battery voltage of a target battery; and a charging circuit, coupled to the control circuit, configured to receive the input voltage and to provide a charging current to charge the target battery. The input voltage is generated according to a function that takes the battery voltage as a parameter. The input voltage is positively correlated with the battery voltage, and is greater than the battery voltage.
US11336105B2
A multi-battery charging and discharging device including a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) module, at least two rechargeable batteries, and a plurality of first field-effect transistors. Each rechargeable battery is connected to a pulse width modulation (PWM) power module of the PMIC module through a field-effect switching transistor, terminals for connecting field-effect switching transistors and the PWM power module are separated from each other. Each of the first field-effect transistors is provided in a connection path between each rechargeable battery and a load. The first field-effect transistor is used to control the connection path between the rechargeable battery and the load to be turned on or turned off.
US11336102B2
The present disclosure provides a battery supply circuit, a device to be charged, and a charging control method. The battery supply circuit includes a first cell, a second cell, a switch, a first switching unit and a second switching unit. A first end of the second cell is coupled to a first end of the second switching unit, and a second end of the second cell is coupled to a first end of the switch, a second end of the second switching unit is coupled to a second end of the switch; a first end of the first cell is coupled to the second end of the switch, a second end of the first cell is coupled to a first end of the first switching unit, and a second end of the first switching unit is coupled to the first end of the switch.
US11336101B2
A system for use with a direct current fast-charging (DCFC) station includes a controller and battery system. The battery system includes first and second battery packs, and first, second, and third switches. The switches have ON/OFF conductive states commanded by the controller to connect the battery packs in a parallel-connected (P-connected) or series-connected (S-connected) configuration. An electric powertrain with one or more electric machines is powered via the battery system. First and second charge ports of the system are connectable to the station via a corresponding charging cable. The first charge port receives a low or high charging voltage from the station. The second charge port receives a low charging voltage. When the station can supply the high charging voltage to the first charge port, the controller establishes the S-connected configuration via the switches, and thereafter charges the battery system solely via the first charge port.
US11336091B2
Provided are an energy storage power supply, a parallel control device for energy storage power supplies and a parallel control method for energy storage power supplies. The energy storage power supply includes a battery module; an inverter module electrically connected to the battery module; an output module electrically connected to the inverter module; an detection module electrically connected to the output module; an communication module communicated with another energy storage power supply; an switching module electrically connected to the inverter module or the output module; and a processor module electrically connected to the detection module, the communication module and the switching module, and is configured to control, according to the power of a load detected by the detection module, the switching module to be electrically connected to the inverter module or the output module.
US11336088B2
Provided is a transient voltage suppression device including a power supply terminal, a ground terminal, a Zener diode, a diode string, and an isolation device. The Zener diode is coupled between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal, and a node is between the Zener diode and the power supply terminal. The diode string has a first terminal, a second terminal, and an input/output (I/O) terminal. The second terminal is coupled to the ground terminal. The isolation device is coupled between the node and the first terminal. When an abnormal current flows through the isolation device and an energy of the abnormal current per unit time exceeds a preset value of the isolation device, the isolation device blocks a path of the abnormal current.
US11336085B2
Systems and methods for automatic threshold sensing for UVLO circuits in a multi-battery environment
An under-voltage lockout (UVLO) circuit includes an automatic UVLO threshold configuration. The UVLO circuit may include an over-voltage protection circuit that receives power from a power source, a peak detector that detects a peak voltage output for the power source, a voltage threshold generator that sets a UVLO threshold based on the peak voltage output, and a comparator that compares an instantaneous voltage with the UVLO threshold and configures an operating mode of a device based on the comparison.
US11336080B1
Embodiments of a slotted grommet configured to manage a cable in an electrical cavity are provided. The slotted grommet includes a body structure having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a peripheral surface extending between the first and second surfaces. A first slot is formed in the first surface and extends through the body structure towards the second surface. The first slot defines a chamber having sidewalls in the body structure configured to hold a loop of the cable. The first slot has a first width that is less than a cross-sectional dimension of the cable such that the cable is pinched within the chamber between the first sidewalls to prevent vibration-related chafing of the cable.
US11336078B2
A semiconductor laser diode is specified, the semiconductor laser diode includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active layer which has a main extension plane and which, in operation, is adapted to generate light in an active region and to emit light via a light-outcoupling surface, the active region extending from a rear surface opposite the light-outcoupling surface to the light-outcoupling surface along a longitudinal direction in the main extension plane, the semiconductor layer sequence having a surface region on which a first cladding layer is applied in direct contact, the first cladding layer having a transparent material from a material system different from the semiconductor layer sequence, and the first cladding layer being structured and having a first structure.
US11336073B2
Disclosed herein is a method comprising injecting light of a first wavelength λ1 into a wavelength division multiplexer; injecting light of a second wavelength λ2 into the wavelength division multiplexer; combining the light of the first wavelength λ1 and the light of the second wavelength λ2 in the wavelength division multiplexer to produce light of a third wavelength λ3; and reflecting the light of the third wavelength λ3 in a dual-Brillouin peak optical fiber that is in communication with the wavelength divisional multiplexer; wherein the dual-Brillouin peak optical fiber has at least two Brillouin peaks, such that an amplitude A1 of at least one of said Brillouin peaks is within 50% to 150% of an amplitude A2 of another Brillouin peak 0.5A2≤A1≤1.5A2; wherein the dual-Brillouin peak optical fiber generates a Brillouin dynamic grating that reflects an improved back-reflected Brillouin signal of the combined light.
US11336070B2
A carbon dioxide gas-discharge slab-laser is assembled in a laser-housing. The laser-housing is formed from a hollow extrusion. An interior surface of the extrusion provides a ground electrode of the laser. Another live electrode is located within the extrusion, electrically insulated from and parallel to the ground electrode, forming a discharge-gap of the slab-laser. The electrodes are spaced apart by parallel ceramic strips. Neither the extrusion, nor the live electrode, include fluid coolant channels. The laser-housing is cooled by fluid-cooled plates attached to the outside thereof.
US11336061B2
A switch assembly includes a switch and a connector. The switch and the connector are configured to interlock, wherein the switch includes a connection extending at least partially along a center axis of the switch, and the connection is configured to receive at least a part of the connector. The connection may include at least one slot and at least one wedge-shaped groove which is extending from the at least one slot and tapered in a direction of the center axis. The connector may include at least one corresponding wedge-shaped protrusion. The at least one corresponding wedge-shaped protrusion may include a resilient contact blade which can interlock with the at least one wedge-shaped groove.
US11336056B2
A connector device comprises a connector and a mating connector. Under a mated state where the connector and the mating connector are mated with each other, the mating connector is positioned forward of the connector in a front-rear direction. The connector comprises at least one supporting portion, at least one lock portion and a receiving portion. The mating connector has at least one mating lock portion and an abutment portion. At least one of the lock portion and the mating lock portion has an intersecting surface which intersects with both the front-rear direction and a perpendicular direction. Under the mated state, the abutment portion is positioned forward beyond the receiving portion in the front-rear direction and is brought into abutment against the receiving portion by a rearward force so that a rearward movement of the abutment portion beyond the receiving portion is regulated by the receiving portion.
US11336044B2
A terminal includes a connecting portion to be electrically connected to a mating terminal by being inserted into the mating terminal. The connecting portion has a sliding region configured to slide on the mating terminal and a contact region configured to contact the mating terminal successively from a tip side. An outermost surface in the sliding region includes a copper-tin alloy layer containing copper and tin. An outermost surface in the contact region includes a tin layer containing tin as a main component. A Vickers hardness of the copper-tin alloy layer is higher than a Vickers hardness of the tin layer.
US11336042B2
A connector includes a flat-plate housing made of insulating resin and including a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole, a plurality of contacts held on the housing, and a first hold-down and a second hold-down made of metal and disposed to correspond to a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole, respectively. The housing includes a CPU board opposed surface to be opposed to a CPU board. The first hold-down includes a reinforcing plate part to cover the CPU board opposed surface around the corresponding first positioning hole. The second hold-down includes a reinforcing plate part to cover the CPU board opposed surface around the corresponding second positioning hole.
US11336040B2
A conductive terminal electrically connects a conductor of a conductive wire to a circuit board. The conductive terminal includes a body, a clamping portion having a pair of clamping arms, and a solder portion having a pair of solder lugs. The body has an opening through which the conductive wire is inserted and a passage communicating with the opening, the passage receiving the conductive wire and extending perpendicular to a surface of the circuit board. The pair of clamping arms extend from the opening towards the circuit board and obliquely towards each other so as to clamp the conductor of the conductive wire inserted through the opening. The solder portion has a pair of solder lugs extending perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the passage and soldered to a pair of solder pads on the circuit board.
US11336038B2
A connector suitable for being mounted on a coaxial cable comprising at least one metal braid layer surrounding inner parts of the cable and an outer insulating layer surrounding said at least one metal braid layer and a silicone sleeve arranged around the outer insulating layer wherein the connector comprises a ferrule to be arranged in electrical contact with said at least one metal braid layer, wherein said outer insulating layer of the cable is arranged to be stripped away for the length of said electrical contact, a base arranged cylindrically around said ferrule, and a collar arranged at least partially within said base and comprising a body configurable around the ferrule; wherein the body of the collar has a first outer diameter substantially the same as the diameter of the outer insulating layer of the coaxial cable; and the silicone sleeve is arranged, upon mounting the coaxial cable to the connector, between the base and the body of the collar for applying a pressure force to said at least one metal braid layer of the coaxial cable guided to an outer surface of the collar.
US11336026B2
A radio frequency (RF) system includes an RF integrated circuit (IC) die, and an antenna coupled to the RF IC die. The RF system further includes a reflector layer over the RF IC die, the reflector layer extending over at least a portion of the antenna, a combination of the antenna and the reflector layer having a radiation pattern that comprises a main lobe in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the reflector layer.
US11336025B2
An antenna arrangement is disclosed, comprising a first body comprising a communications device including an antenna for transmitting and/or receiving signals via the antenna, and a second body comprising a conductive parasitic element for electromagnetic coupling with the antenna. The first body is physically separate from, or is removably attachable from, the second body. An associated method of transmitting and/or receiving signals is further disclosed.
US11336024B2
A reflection reducing apparatus includes a dielectric base plane (30), a first patch group, a second patch group, and a ground plate (40). A plurality of first conductive patches (10) each resonate in a first direction (α) and a second direction (β) which are different in resonant length from each other. A plurality of second conductive patches include a first direction-oriented patch (20a) and a second direction-oriented patch (20b) which are different in resonant length from each other. The second conductive patches are arranged along an outer periphery of the first patch group at an interval away from the first patch group.
US11336017B2
An antenna structure associated with a wireless communication device comprised of a plurality of structures configured to enable structural, functional or cosmetic functions associated with the device, is proposed in this disclosure. The antenna structure comprises a first plate comprised of a first set of structures of the plurality of structures of the device and a second, different, plate comprised of a second set of structures of the plurality of structures of the device. The antenna structure further comprises an excitation component coupled between the first plate and the second plate. In some embodiments, the first plate, the second plate and at least a part of the excitation component are configured to form a tank circuit, thereby enabling the antenna structure to radiate at a predefined radiation frequency comprising a resonant frequency associated with the tank circuit.
US11336015B2
Disclosed herein are antenna boards, antenna modules, and communication devices. For example, in some embodiments, an antenna board may include: a substrate including an antenna feed structure; an antenna patch, wherein the antenna patch is a millimeter wave antenna patch; and an air cavity between the antenna patch and the substrate.
US11336011B2
A system includes a distributed ledger storing one or more smart contracts; one or more 5G small cells, each having one or more antennas mounted on a housing, each small cell sending packets of data trackable with the distributed ledger; and a processor to control a directionality of the antennas in communication with a predetermined target using 5G protocols.
US11336008B2
In a transmitting-side control apparatus (30), a transmission control unit (32) controls a radiator (11) to transmit an OAM known signal formed by one common OAM transmission mode at each of transmitting-side relative position candidates. An acquisition unit (33) acquires a feedback signal including information about a use transmitting-side relative position based on a reception strength of the OAM known signal transmitted under the control of the transmission control unit (32). An adjustment unit (34) adjusts a relative position between the radiator (11) and a focal point of a reflecting mirror (12) to the use transmitting-side relative position indicated by the information included in the feedback signal.
US11336007B1
A system of antennas, each having disparity operating frequencies, are incorporated into the same aircraft body panels. HF antennas define loops with large internal areas; additional higher frequency antennas are disposed within that large internal area. The higher frequency antennas are sufficiently different so as to prevent coupling. Antennas operating in the same frequency range, disposed on different parallel surfaces are operated in concert as a steerable array.
US11336003B2
A structure for wireless communication having a plurality of conductor layers, an insulator layer separating each of the conductor layers, and at least one connector connecting two of the conductor layers wherein an electrical resistance is reduced when an electrical signal is induced in the resonator at a predetermined frequency. The structure is capable of transmitting or receiving electrical energy and/or data at various near and far field magnetic coupling frequencies.
US11335994B2
An information handling system (IHS) may include a configuration sensor for sensing a physical configuration of the IHS, a first proximity sensor probe for sensing whether a first biological entity element is proximate to a first antenna, a second proximity sensor probe for sensing whether a second biological entity element is proximate to a second antenna, and a third proximity sensor probe for sensing whether a third biological entity element is proximate to a third antenna. The IHS is adapted to reconfigure use of at least two of the first antenna, the second antenna, and the third antenna in response to the sensing of at least one of the first proximity sensor probe, the second proximity sensor probe, and the third proximity sensor.
US11335988B2
A mechanical means for deploying one of two or more feed sources within a test range is presented. The feed source selected for testing is properly positioned for use within the range by rotating one of two or more arms to an upright and locked position. An arm may further include a rotatable antenna wheel with two or more feed sources thereon whereby a selected feed source is rotated into position via the antenna wheel. The antenna wheel includes a center body, feed sources attached to the center body and aligned along a rotational plane, and a shroud disposed about the center body and feed sources. The antenna wheel may include a cooling system for managing heat generated by the feed sources and electronics therefore. In preferred embodiments, the feed source changer is mounted within the range so that a selected feed source communicates an emitted beam onto a reflector which is redirected as a reflected beam toward a device under test. Concealment panel(s) may be positioned adjacent to the feed source changer to minimize electromagnetic reflections therefrom.
US11335985B2
A tunable microwave system includes at least two elements, each element being chosen from a propagating guide, an evanescent guide, a resonator, and at least one coupling device arranged between the two elements and configured to couple the two elements to each other, the coupling device having a holder having an aperture and having at least one elongate element the shape of which is elongate in a polarization direction contained in a plane of the aperture, the elongate element being securely fastened to the perimeter of the aperture at at least one end, the coupling device being configured to be rotatable about an axis substantially perpendicular to the plane of the aperture so as to modify a value of the polarization direction and so that the coupling between the two elements is dependent on the value of the polarization direction.
US11335983B2
A liquid reserve battery including: a collapsible storage unit having a liquid electrolyte stored therein; a battery cell in communication with an outlet of the collapsible storage unit, the battery cell having gaps dispersed therein; a first pyrotechnic material partially disposed adjacent the collapsible storage unit such that initiation of the first pyrotechnic material provides pressure to collapse the collapsible storage unit to heat and force the liquid electrolyte through the outlet and into the gaps; and a tube disposed in the battery cell, wherein second pyrotechnic material is disposed in the tube, the tube being one of formed of an electrically non-conductive material or covered with an electrically non-conductive material.
US11335977B1
Batteries according to embodiments of the present technology may include a first battery cell including a first current collector. The batteries may include a second battery cell including a second current collector. The second battery cell may be vertically aligned with the first battery cell, and the second current collector may be positioned adjacent the first current collector. The first battery cell and the second battery cell may be electrically coupled together so the first battery cell and the second battery cell transfer current through the cells between the first current collector and the second current collector. The batteries may also include a patterned coupling material disposed between the first battery cell and the second battery cell and joining the first current collector with the second current collector.
US11335973B2
A layered double hydroxide (LDH) separator capable of more effectively restraining short circuiting caused by zinc dendrites. The LDH separator for secondary zinc batteries includes a porous substrate made of a polymer material and a LDH plugging pores in the porous substrate. The LDH separator has a dendrite buffer layer therein, the dendrite buffer layer being at least one selected from the group consisting of: (i) a pore-rich internal porous layer in the porous substrate, the internal porous layer being free from the LDH or deficient in the LDH; (ii) a releasable interfacial layer; which is provided by two adjacent layers constituting part of the LDH separator in releasable contact with each other; and (iii) an internal gap layer free from the LDH and the porous substrate, which is provided by two adjacent layers constituting part of the LDH separator formed apart from each other.
US11335970B2
A battery pack includes a pack case configured to accommodate a cell module assembly in an inner space thereof and having an opening formed at one side, and a pack cover having a degassing port communicating with the inner space and configured to cover the opening of the pack case. The cell module assembly includes a cell fixing frame having an upper plate and a lower plate respectively disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the cell stack and in surface contact with an upper wall and a lower wall of the pack case. At least one of the upper plate and the lower plate includes at least one gas moving route formed by concavely depressing one surface in contact with the upper wall or the lower wall of the pack case along a path toward the degassing port, and at least one hole.
US11335965B2
A heating device for a prismatic battery cell of a high-voltage battery of a motor vehicle includes two sheet-shaped heating elements to be arranged on two opposite lateral outer sides of a cell housing of the battery cell, and two connecting elements to be arranged on a housing cover of the cell housing. The connecting elements are electrically connected to terminals of the two heating elements. The connecting elements are flexibly formed, at least in certain regions, and as a result the heating elements are connected in a hinge-like manner. The heating device can be arranged by arranging the first heating element on the first lateral outer side of the cell housing, swinging the second heating element over the housing cover, and arranging the second heating element on the second lateral outer side on the cell housing.
US11335964B2
A cold plate for a battery module comprising a plurality of cells that produces heat as charging and discharging is disclosed. The cold plate includes a plurality of first fins distributed in a first subarea of the cold plate; and a plurality of second fins distributed in a second subarea of the cold plate; wherein a second fin coverage of the plurality of second fins distributed in the second subarea is smaller than a first fin coverage of the plurality of first fins distributed in the first subarea when an amount of heat absorption of the second subarea from the plurality of cells is greater than an amount of heat absorption of the first subarea from the plurality of cells.
US11335941B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a battery cell, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a battery cell, wherein a pressing jig provided with a semi-elliptical pressing part presses the battery cell to remove air bubbles from the battery cell.
US11335922B2
An energy conversion system includes an energy converter, a cold generator, and a liquid water obtainer. The energy converter is configured to convert energy of a source from one form to another form and generate heat and water vapor. The cold generator is configured to generate cold using the heat generated by the energy converter. The liquid water obtainer is configured to condense the water vapor using the cold to obtain liquid water. Accordingly, the water vapor generated from the energy converter can be cooled efficiently. Therefore, efficiency in obtaining the liquid water can be improved compared with a case where the water vapor is cooled by open air.
US11335919B2
An electrochemical cell stack comprises a plurality of electrochemical cell units, each comprising a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte, and also comprises a plurality of interconnects. An interconnect is disposed between adjacent electrochemical cell units and defines a longitudinal channel having circumferential corrugations defined therearound. A fuel channel is defined between each anode and a respective adjacent interconnect, the fuel channel having fuel inlet and outlet. An oxidant channel is defined between each cathode and a respective adjacent interconnect, the oxidant channel having an oxidant inlet and outlet. The plurality of electrochemical cell units and interconnects include a first electrochemical cell unit, a first interconnect adjacent the first electrochemical cell unit, a second electrochemical cell unit adjacent the first interconnect, and a second interconnect adjacent the second electrochemical cell unit. The second interconnect is rotationally offset from the first interconnect about a longitudinal axis of the fuel cell stack.
US11335918B2
A fuel electrode incorporates a first and second corrugated portion that are attached to each other at offset angles respect to their corrugation axis and therefore reinforce each other. A first corrugated portion may extend orthogonally with respect to a second corrugated portion. The first and second corrugated portions may be formed from metal wire and may therefore have a very high volumetric void fraction and a high surface area to volume ratio (sa/vol). In addition, the strands of the wire may be selected to enable high conductivity to the current collectors while maximizing the sa/vol. In addition, the shape of the corrugation, including the period distance, amplitude and geometry may be selected with respect to the stiffness requirements and electrochemical cell application factors. The first and second corrugated portions may be calendared or crushed to reduce thickness of the fuel electrode.
US11335917B2
An apparatus includes a thermal battery, which includes a housing and one or more battery cells within the housing. Each battery cell includes an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte in each battery cell is configured to be in a solid state when the battery cell is inactive. The apparatus also includes a phase change material around at least part of the housing. The phase change material is configured to conduct external heat into the housing in order to melt the electrolyte in each battery cell and activate the battery cell. The phase change material is also configured to change phase in order to reduce conduction of the external heat into the housing.
US11335914B2
A method of making an interconnect for a solid oxide fuel cell stack includes providing an iron rich material containing at least 25 wt. % iron into channels of a mold, providing a powder containing 4-6 wt. % Fe, 0-1 wt. % Y and balance Cr into the mold over the iron rich material containing at least 25 wt. % iron, compacting the iron rich material containing at least 25 wt. % iron and the powder comprising 4-6 wt. % Fe, 0-1 wt. % Y and balance Cr in the mold to form the interconnect, and sintering the interconnect to form a sintered interconnect having iron rich regions having an iron concentration greater than 10% in ribs of the interconnect.
US11335907B2
A powderous positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery has the general formula Li1+x[Ni1−a−b−cMaM′bM″c]1−xO2−z. M is one or more elements of the group Mn, Zr and Ti. M′ is one or more elements of the group Al, B and Co. M″ is a dopant different from M and M′, and x, a, b and c are expressed in mol with −0.02≤x≤0.02, 0≤c≤0.05, 0.10≤(a+b)≤0.65 and 0≤z≤0.05. The material has an unconstrained cumulative volume particle size distribution value (Γ0(D10P=0)), a cumulative volume particle size distribution value after having been pressed at a pressure of 200 MPa (ΓP(D10P=200)) and a cumulative volume particle size distribution value after having been pressed at a pressure of 300 MPa (ΓP(D10P=300)). When ΓP(D10P=200) is compared to Γ0(D10P=0), the relative increase in value is less than 100%. When ΓP(D10P=300) is compared to Γ0(D10P=0), the relative increase in value is less than 120%.
US11335900B2
A composite nanosheet for the cathode of a lithium-sulfur battery, a preparation method thereof, and an electrode and a battery having the same. The composite nanosheet includes carbon nanotubes which are closely accumulated in a two-dimensional plane and are combined together by carbon derived from nanocellulose. Transition metal compound nanoparticles which are uniformly distributed in the nanosheet composite and are fixed by the carbon derived from nanocellulose. Sulfur adsorbed on the surface of the transition metal compound nanoparticles. The composite organically combines and exerts the respective advantages of porous carbon, carbon nanotubes and nano metal oxides/sulfide by designing and constructing the structure of the cathode material.
US11335899B2
A catholyte-like material including a cathode material and an interfacial additive layer for providing a lithium ion energy storage device having low impedance is disclosed. The interfacial additive layer, which is composed of vapor deposited iodine, is present between the cathode material and an electrolyte layer of the device. The presence of such an interfacial additive layer increases the ion and electron mobile dependent performances at the cathode material interface due to significant decrease in the resistance/impedance that is observed at the respective interface as well as the impedance observed in the bulk of the device. The catholyte-like material of the present application can be used to provide a lithium ion energy storage device having high charge/discharge rates and/or high capacity.
US11335888B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device comprising an a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, an emission device in the display area on the substrate, an encapsulation layer extending from the display area to the non-display area, wherein the encapsulation layer is provided on the emission device, a plurality of pad electrodes in the non-display area on the substrate, and a protection layer provided in the area between each of the plurality of pad electrodes, and configured to protect an insulating layer disposed there below, wherein the encapsulation layer is provided with an opening area configured to expose at least a portion in each of the plurality of pad electrodes and at least a portion of the protection layer.
US11335887B2
A display device according to the present invention includes a display region arranged with a plurality of pixels, and a sealing layer covering the display region, wherein the sealing layer includes an insulation layer having a density pattern, the density pattern is a pattern including a low density region and a high density region, the low density region has the insulation layer with a lower density than an average density within the display region of the insulation layer, and the high density region has the insulation layer with a higher density than an average density within the display region of the insulation layer.
US11335885B2
The display device includes a substrate including a first resin layer, a second resin layer overlapping the first resin layer, and a first inorganic insulating layer between the first resin layer and the second resin layer, and having flexibility, a display region provided on the substrate, a terminal region arranged outside the display region on the substrate, and a bending region arranged between the display region and the terminal region. A thickness of the second resin layer is larger than a thickness of the first resin layer. The substrate includes a first region and a second region. The first resin layer, the first inorganic insulating layer, and the second resin layer are laminated in the first region. The first resin layer and the second resin layer are laminated in the second region and the first inorganic insulating layer is not laminated in the second region.
US11335881B2
A display panel is provided. A side surface of an interlayer insulating layer away from the substrate is partially recessed to a substrate so as to form a first groove. A crack preventing member is filled in the first groove and is connected to the substrate, so a connection of the organic layer to the organic layer is achieved, thereby increasing a bending resistance of the display panel and reducing the risk of film peeling. In addition, a side surface of the interlayer insulating layer disposed between the first groove and the banks away from the substrate is partially recessed to form a second groove, and the first inorganic packaging layer is filled in the second groove. An inorganic layer of the packaging layer is connected to an inorganic layer of an array substrate, thereby increasing a bending resistance of the display panel and reducing the risk of film peeling.
US11335870B2
Provided is a method for preparing a display substrate. The display substrate includes multiple pixel island regions, empty regions and connection bridge regions. The preparation method includes: forming first grooves corresponding to the pixel island regions and second grooves corresponding to the connection bridge regions on a side of a hard underlay substrate; preparing the display substrate on a side of the underlay substrate where the first grooves and the second grooves are formed, wherein the pixel island regions are located in regions where the first grooves are located, the connection bridge regions are located in regions where the second grooves are located, and the empty regions are located in regions other than the first grooves and the second grooves; and separating the underlay substrate from the display substrate to obtain the display substrate.
US11335853B2
A method of manufacturing an OTS device of the invention is a method of manufacturing OTS device including a first conductor, an OTS portion made of chalcogenide, and a second conductor which are layered in order and disposed on an insulating substrate. The manufacturing method includes: a step D of forming a resist so as to coat part of an upper surface of the second conductor; a step E of dry etching a region which is not coated with the resist; and a step F of ashing the resist. In the step E, the second conductor, all of the OTS portion, and an upper portion of the first conductor are removed by an etching treatment once in a depth direction of the region.
US11335838B2
A light emitting device including a contact layer, a blocking layer over the contact layer, a protection layer adjacent the blocking layer, a light emitter over the blocking layer, and an electrode layer coupled to the light emitter. The electrode layer overlaps the blocking layer and protection layer, and the blocking layer has an electrical conductivity that substantially blocks flow of current from the light emitter in a direction towards the contact layer. In addition, the protection layer may be conductive to allow current to flow to the light emitter or non-conductive to block current from flowing from the light emitter towards the contact layer.
US11335831B2
An optical device case (100A) of an embodiment includes: a light-transmitting window member (20A); and a housing (10) which has a space for accommodating a light-receiving element and/or a light-emitting element (OE), wherein the window member (20A) includes a light-transmitting member (22), a polymer film (50) provided on an outer surface of the light-transmitting member (22), the polymer film (50) having a moth-eye structure at its surface, a contact angle of the surface with respect to water being not less than 140°, and a resistance heater (24) provided on an inner surface of the light-transmitting member (22).
US11335822B2
A multijunction solar cell includes a base substrate comprising a Group IV semiconductor and a dopant of a first carrier type. A patterned emitter is formed at a first surface of the base substrate. The patterned emitter comprises a plurality of well regions doped with a dopant of a second carrier type in the Group IV semiconductor. The base substrate including the patterned emitter form a first solar subcell. The multijunction solar cell further comprises an upper structure comprising one or more additional solar subcells over the first solar subcell. Methods of making a multijunction solar cell are also described.
US11335821B2
Low noise silicon-germanium (SiGe) image sensor. In one embodiment, an image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns of a pixel array disposed in a semiconductor substrate. The photodiodes of an individual pixel are configured to receive an incoming light through an illuminated surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a first layer of semiconductor material having silicon (Si); and a second layer of semiconductor material having silicon germanium (Si1-xGex). A concentration x of Ge changes gradually through at least a portion of thickness of the second layer. Each photodiode includes a first doped region extending through the first layer of semiconductor material and the second layer of semiconductor material; and a second doped region extending through the first layer of semiconductor material and the second layer of semiconductor material.
US11335812B2
A novel semiconductor device is provided. A component extending in a first direction, and a first conductor and a second conductor extending in a second direction are provided. The component includes a third conductor, a first insulator, a first semiconductor, and a second insulator. In a first intersection portion of the component and the first conductor, the first insulator, the first semiconductor, the second insulator, a second semiconductor, and a third insulator are provided concentrically. In a second intersection portion of the component and the second conductor, the first insulator, the first semiconductor, the second insulator, a fourth conductor, and a fourth insulator are provided concentrically around the third conductor.
US11335810B2
A transistor includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a drift region having a doped region on the first surface of the substrate and a graded doping region on the doped region, a semiconductor fin protruding from the graded doping region and comprising a metal compound layer at an upper portion of the semiconductor fin, a source metal contact on the metal compound layer, a gate layer having a bottom portion directly contacting the graded doping region; and a drain metal contact on the second surface of the substrate.
US11335800B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer on the substrate, a semiconductor interlayer on top of the epitaxial layer, a gate conductor above the semiconductor interlayer, a gate insulator on the bottom and sides of the gate conductor and contacting the top surface of the semiconductor interlayer, a source region extending into the epitaxial layer, and a drain region extending into the epitaxial layer. The semiconductor device also includes a first polarization layer on the semiconductor interlayer between the source region and the gate conductor and a second polarization layer on the semiconductor interlayer between the drain region and the gate conductor.
US11335797B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a channel layer disposed on a substrate, a barrier layer disposed on the channel layer, and a nitride layer disposed on the barrier layer. The semiconductor device also includes a compound semiconductor layer that includes an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the lower portion penetrates through the nitride layer and a portion of the barrier layer. The semiconductor device also includes a spacer layer conformally disposed on a portion of the barrier layer and extending onto the nitride layer. The semiconductor device further includes a gate electrode disposed on the compound semiconductor layer, and a pair of source/drain electrodes disposed on opposite sides of the gate electrode. The pair of source/drain electrodes extends through the spacer layer, the nitride layer, and at least a portion of the barrier layer.
US11335780B2
An epitaxial structure includes a substrate, a buffer layer, a back diffusion barrier layer, a channel layer formed on the back diffusion barrier layer, and a barrier layer formed on the channel layer. The buffer layer is formed on the substrate. The back diffusion barrier layer is formed on the buffer layer. The chemical composition of the back diffusion barrier layer is AlxInyGa1-x-yN, wherein 0≤x≤1 and 0≤y≤1. The lattice constant of the back diffusion barrier layer is between 2.9 Å and 3.5 Å. The back diffusion barrier layer is composed of a plurality of regions in the thickness direction, and the aluminum (Al) content and the indium (In) content of the back diffusion barrier layer are changed stepwise or gradually changed stepwise along the thickness direction. The back diffusion barrier layer further includes carbon, and the carbon concentration is changed stepwise or gradually changed stepwise along the thickness direction.
US11335775B2
Some embodiments include a transistor having an active region containing semiconductor material. The semiconductor material includes at least one element selected from Group 13 of the periodic table in combination with at least one element selected from Group 16 of the periodic table. The active region has a first region, a third region offset from the first region, and a second region between the first and third regions. A gating structure is operatively adjacent to the second region. A first carrier-concentration-gradient is within the first region, and a second carrier-concentration-gradient is within the third region. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11335771B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, a semiconductor part therebetween; first and second control electrodes each in a trench at the frontside of the semiconductor part. The semiconductor part includes first to sixth layers. The first and third layers are of a first conductivity type. Other layers are of a second conductivity type. The first layer extends between the first electrode at the backside and the second electrode at the frontside. The second layer is provided between the first layer and the second electrode. The third and fourth layers each are selectively provided between the second layer and the second electrode. The fifth layer is provided between the first layer and the first electrode. The sixth layer is provided between the first layer and the second control electrode. The sixth layer extends along an insulating film between the semiconductor part and the second control electrode.
US11335751B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a data line disposed on the substrate; an another data line disposed on the substrate and adjacent to the data line; a first light emitting diode including a first electrode; and a second light emitting diode including an another first electrode, wherein the first electrode partially overlaps the data line and the another first electrode partially overlaps the another data line.
US11335740B2
A display assembly, an electronic device, and a method for assembling a display assembly are provided. The display assembly includes a flexible screen, a cover plate, and a capacitive fingerprint sensor film. The capacitive fingerprint sensor film is disposed between the cover plate and the flexible screen and covers a display surface of the flexible screen, to sense a fingerprint of a finger in contact with the cover plate.
US11335738B2
A display device includes: a lower substrate including a first area, and a second area surrounding the first area; a display layer including a plurality of display elements at the second area, and having a first hole corresponding to the first area; and an upper substrate covering the display layer. The upper substrate includes a lower surface facing the lower substrate, and the lower surface of the upper substrate has a first groove corresponding to the first area.
US11335730B2
A vertical resistive switching memory device is provided that includes a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) stack embedded in a material stack of alternating layers of an interlayer dielectric material and a recessed electrode material. A selector device encapsulates a portion of the ReRAM stack and is present in an undercut region that is laterally adjacent to each of the recessed electrode material layers of the material stack.
US11335726B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an image sensor having a substrate including a plurality of sidewalls that define a plurality of protrusions along a first side of the substrate. The substrate has a first index of refraction. A photodetector is disposed within the substrate and underlying the plurality of protrusions. A plurality of micro-lenses overlying the first side of the substrate. The micro-lenses have a second index of refraction that is less than the first index of refraction. The micro-lenses are respectively disposed laterally between and directly contact an adjacent pair of protrusions in the plurality of protrusions. Further, the micro-lenses respectively comprise a convex upper surface.
US11335725B2
A method for fabricating an optical sensor includes: forming, over a substrate, a first material layer comprising a first alloy of germanium and silicon having a first germanium composition; forming, over the first material layer, a graded material layer comprising germanium and silicon; and forming, over the graded material layer, a second material layer comprising a second alloy of germanium and silicon having a second germanium composition. The first germanium composition is lower than the second germanium composition and a germanium composition of the graded material layer is between the first germanium composition and the second germanium composition and varies along a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US11335719B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor package and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package may include a semiconductor chip structure, a transparent substrate disposed on the semiconductor chip structure, a dam placed on an edge of the semiconductor chip structure and between the semiconductor chip structure and the transparent substrate, and an adhesive layer interposed between the dam and the semiconductor chip structure. The semiconductor chip structure may include an image sensor chip and a logic chip, which are in contact with each other, and the image sensor chip may be closer to the transparent substrate than the logic chip.
US11335717B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a light-collimating layer. The substrate has a plurality of pixels. The light-collimating layer is disposed on the substrate, and the light-collimating layer includes a transparent material layer, a first light-shielding layer, a second light-shielding layer and a plurality of transparent pillars. The transparent material layer covers the pixels. The first light-shielding layer is disposed on the substrate and the first light-shielding layer has a plurality of holes corresponding to the pixels. The second light-shielding layer is disposed on the first light-shielding layer. The transparent pillars are disposed in the second light-shielding layer.
US11335709B2
Array substrate, display panel, display device, and method for forming array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate and at least one first thin-film transistor on the substrate. the first thin-film transistor includes a first gate electrode; a first gate electrode insulating layer on a side of the first gate electrode facing away from the substrate; a first active layer on a side of the first gate electrode insulating layer facing away from the first gate electrode; a second gate electrode insulating layer on a side of the first active layer facing away from the first gate electrode insulating layer; a second gate electrode on a side of the second gate electrode insulating layer facing away from the first active layer; and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode on the first active layer facing away from the first gate electrode insulating layer.
US11335702B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film, a ferroelectric film, a first seed layer and a control gate electrode. The semiconductor substrate includes a source region and a drain region which are formed on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The insulating film is formed on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate such that the insulating film is positioned between the source region and the drain region in a plan view. The ferroelectric film is formed on the insulating film and includes hafnium and oxygen. The first seed layer is formed on the ferroelectric film. The control gate electrode is formed on the ferroelectric film. A material of the first seed layer includes at least one material of the ferroelectric film and at least one material of the first conductive film.
US11335698B2
A plurality of semiconductor layers have longitudinally a first direction, have a peripheral area surrounded by the plurality of control gate electrodes, and are arranged in a plurality of rows within the laminated body. A controller controls a voltage applied to the control gate electrodes and bit lines. The controller, during a writing operation, applies a first voltage to a first bit line connected to the semiconductor layer positioned in a first row closer to the insulation separating layer, and applies a second voltage larger than the first voltage to a second bit line connected to the semiconductor layer positioned in a second row positioned further from the insulation separating layer with respect to the first row, among the plurality of rows.
US11335693B2
A NOR string includes a number of individually addressable thin-film storage transistors sharing a bit line, with the individually addressable thin-film transistors further grouped into a predetermined number of segments. In each segment, the thin-film storage transistors of the segment share a source line segment, which is electrically isolated from other source line segments in the other segments within the NOR string. The NOR string may be formed along an active strip of semiconductor layers provided above and parallel a surface of a semiconductor substrate, with each active strip including first and second semiconductor sublayers of a first conductivity and a third semiconductor sublayer of a second conductivity, wherein the shared bit line and each source line segment are formed in the first and second semiconductor sublayers, respectively.
US11335692B2
The present disclosure provides a non-volatile flash memory device and a manufacturing method thereof. The non-volatile flash memory device comprises at least a plurality of memory cells in a memory area. The manufacturing method comprises: providing a substrate, and defining the memory area of the non-volatile flash memory device on the substrate; forming a plurality of stack gates of the plurality of memory cells on a substrate corresponding to the memory area, and the top of each stack gate is a memory control gate of the memory cell; etching the memory control gates to reduce the height of the memory control gates with the fluid photoresist filled among the plurality of stack gates of the plurality of memory cells as a mask; and removing the fluid photoresist.
US11335685B2
Disclosed are semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor memory device comprises a first semiconductor pattern that is on a substrate and that includes a first end and a second end that face each other, a first conductive line that is adjacent to a lateral surface of the first semiconductor pattern between the first and second ends and that is perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, a second conductive line that is in contact with the first end of the first semiconductor pattern, is spaced part from the first conductive line, and is parallel to the top surface of the substrate, and a data storage pattern in contact with the second end of the first semiconductor pattern. The first conductive line has a protrusion that protrudes adjacent to the lateral surface of the first semiconductor pattern.
US11335670B2
A manufacturing method of a light emitting diode (LED) package structure includes the following steps. A carrier is provided. A redistribution layer is formed on the carrier. A plurality of active devices are formed on the carrier. A plurality of LEDs are transferred on the redistribution layer. The LEDs and the active devices are respectively electrically connected to the redistribution layer. The active devices are adapted to drive the LEDs, respectively. A molding compound is formed on the redistribution layer to encapsulate the LEDs. The carrier is removed to expose a bottom surface of the redistribution layer.
US11335668B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes stacking semiconductor chips using a thermo-compression bonding (TCB) method, where defects are minimized for increased reliability. The semiconductor package includes an interface chip including a first test pad, a bump pad provided inside the first test pad, and a first through silicon via (TSV) provided between the first test pad and the bump pad; at least one memory chip, which is stacked on the interface chip and includes a second test pad, a dummy pad provided inside the second test pad, and a second TSV provided between the second test pad and the dummy pad; and an adhesive layer provided between the interface chip and the at least one memory chip. wherein no bump is provided on the first test pad and the second test pad.
US11335665B2
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and a die secured to the package substrate, wherein the die has a first surface and an opposing second surface, the die has first conductive contacts at the first surface and second conductive contacts at the second surface, and the first conductive contacts are coupled to conductive pathways in the package substrate by first non-solder interconnects.
US11335656B2
A semiconductor device including a first die and a second die bonded to one another. The first die includes a first passivation layer over a substrate, and first bond pads in the first passivation layer. The second die includes a second passivation layer, which may be bonded to the first passivation layer, and second bond pads in the second passivation layer, which may be bonded to the first bond pads. The second bond pads include inner bond pads and outer bond pads. The outer bond pads may have a greater diameter than the inner bond pads as well as the first bond pads.
US11335655B2
A package structure include a ground plate, a semiconductor die, a molding compound, and an antenna element. The semiconductor die is located over the ground plate. The molding compound is located over the semiconductor die. The antenna element is located in the molding compound and overlaps with the ground plate along a stacking direction of the ground plate, the semiconductor die and the molding compound. The antenna element has a first side levelled with a first surface of the molding compound, and the ground plate is located between the semiconductor die and the antenna element.
US11335652B2
A semiconductor device package that incorporates a waveguide usable for high frequency applications, such as radar and millimeter wave is provided. Embodiments employ a rigid-flex printed circuit board structure that can be folded to form the waveguide while, at the same time, mounting one or more semiconductor device die or packages. Embodiments reduce both the area of the mounted package and the distance signals need to travel between the semiconductor device die and antennas associated with the waveguide.
US11335649B2
Various embodiments of laminated planar bus structures that minimize electromagnetic interference (EMI) and parasitic inductance are described. In one embodiment, a laminated planar bus structure may include a plurality of stacked conductive layers and a plurality of stacked insulation layers. The plurality of stacked conductive layers may include positive and negative conductive layers, and conductive ground layers stacked as outer layers as to enclose vertically the positive and the negative conductive layers. In another embodiment, the laminated planar bus structure may include a middle ground layer stacked in between the positive and the negative conductive layers to provide additional reduction in electric field strength. A laminated planar bus structure that is integrated with other power electronics components is also presented.
US11335648B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes forming a semiconductor chip; providing a printed circuit board; and forming an adhesive layer between a connection surface of the semiconductor chip and the printed circuit board to bond the semiconductor chip with the printed circuit board. The semiconductor chip includes a plurality of cutting tracks intersected with each other to enclose an area having corner regions. The connection surface of the semiconductor chip includes a plurality of conductive bumps and a plurality of first openings are formed in each of the corner regions.
US11335642B2
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a first die comprising a first face and a second face; and a second die, the second die comprising a first face and a second face, wherein the second die further comprises a plurality of first conductive contacts at the first face and a plurality of second conductive contacts at the second face, and the second die is between first-level interconnect contacts of the microelectronic assembly and the first die.
US11335638B2
The present disclosure describes a method for reducing RC delay in radio frequency operated devices or devices that would benefit from an RC delay reduction. The method includes forming, on a substrate, a transistor structure having source/drain regions and a gate structure; depositing a first dielectric layer on the substrate to embed the transistor structure; forming, within the first dielectric layer, source/drain contacts on the source/drain regions of the transistor structure; depositing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer; forming metal lines in the second dielectric layer; forming an opening in the second dielectric layer between the metal lines to expose the first dielectric layer; etching, through the opening, the second dielectric layer between the metal lines and the first dielectric layer between the source/drain contacts; and depositing a third dielectric layer to form an air-gap in the first and second dielectric layers and over the transistor structure.
US11335637B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, a gate structure disposed on the active region, a source/drain region disposed in the active region at a side of the gate structure, a first interlayer insulating layer and a second interlayer insulating layer sequentially disposed on the gate structure and the source/drain region with an etch stop layer interposed therebetween, a first contact plug connected to the source/drain region through the first interlayer insulating layer, a second contact plug connected to the gate structure through the first interlayer insulating layer and the second interlayer insulating layer, a first metal line disposed on the second interlayer insulating layer, and having a metal via disposed in the second interlayer insulating layer and connected to the first contact plug, and a second metal line disposed on the second interlayer insulating layer, and directly connected to the second contact plug.
US11335634B2
A method for forming a chip package structure is provided. The method includes providing a wiring substrate. The method includes sequentially forming a nickel-containing layer and a gold-containing layer over the first pad. The method includes forming a conductive protection layer covering the gold-containing layer over the nickel-containing layer. The method includes bonding a chip to the wiring substrate through a conductive bump and a flux layer surrounding the conductive bump. The conductive bump is between the second pad and the chip. The method includes removing the flux layer while the conductive protection layer covers the nickel-containing layer.
US11335628B2
A semiconductor package includes a lead frame, a semiconductor chip, a plurality of three-dimensional wrings, and a mold resin. The semiconductor chip is mounted on the lead frame. The mold resin covers a part of the lead frame, the semiconductor chip, and a part of each of the plurality of three-dimensional wirings.
US11335624B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a print head discharging a liquid and a control circuit controlling an operation of the print head. the print head includes a connector having a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, and a fourth terminal, a first integrated circuit, a circuit substrate on which the connector and the first integrated circuit are provided and which has first wiring, second wiring, third wiring, fourth wiring, fifth wiring, and sixth wiring, and a first wiring substrate, in which the first wiring electrically couples the first terminal and the first integrated circuit to each other, the fifth wiring electrically couples the first terminal and the first integrated circuit to each other, and the sixth wiring electrically couples the first integrated circuit and the first wiring substrate to each other.
US11335622B2
A die of an integrated circuit and an upper layer of a circuit assembly are thermally connected by applying a thermal interface material (TIM) on the die, such that the TIM is between the die and an upper layer. The TIM comprises an emulsion of liquid metal droplets and uncured polymer. The method further comprises compressing the circuit assembly thereby deforming the liquid metal droplets and curing the thermal interface material thereby forming the circuit assembly.
US11335620B2
Embodiments include a microelectronic device package structure having an inductor at least partially embedded within a substrate. At least one thermal solution structure may be on a surface of the inductor, and may be thermally coupled with the inductor. The one or more thermal solution structures provide a thermal pathway for cooling for the inductor, and extend a thermal time constant of the inductor.
US11335618B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: one or more pads comprising metal on a first substrate surface, the one or more pads to couple with contacts of an integrated circuit die, one or more substrate layers comprising dielectric material, one or more conductive contacts on a second substrate surface, opposite the first substrate surface, the one or more conductive contacts to couple with contacts of a printed circuit board, one or more inductors on the one or more substrate layers, the one or more inductors coupled with the one or more conductive contacts and the one or more pads, and highly thermally conductive material between the second substrate surface and a printed circuit board surface, the highly thermally conductive material contacting the one or more inductors. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11335612B2
A test site and method are herein disclosed for predicting E-test structure (in-die structure) and/or device performance. The test site comprises an E-test structure and OCD-compatible multiple structures in the vicinity of the E-test structure to allow optical scatterometry (OCD) measurements. The OCD-compatible multiple structures are modified by at least one modification technique selected from (a) multiplication type modification technique, (b) dummification type modification technique, (c) special Target design type modification technique, and (d) at least one combination of (a), (b) and (c) for having a performance equivalent to the performance of the E-test structure.
US11335609B2
A micro detector includes a substrate, a fin structure, a floating gate, a sensing gate, a reading gate and an antenna layer. The fin structure is located on the substrate. The floating gate is located on the substrate, and the floating gate is vertically and crossly arranged with the fin structure. The sensing gate is located at one side of the fin structure. The reading gate is located at the other side of the fin structure. The antenna layer is located on the sensing gate and is connected with the sensing gate. An induced charge is generated when the antenna layer is contacted with an external energy source, and the induced charge is stored in the floating gate.
US11335602B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a microelectronic device structure comprising a base structure; a doped semiconductive material overlying the base structure; a stack structure overlying the doped semiconductive material; semiconductive structures extending from within the base structure, through the doped semiconductive structure, and into a lower portion of the stack structure; cell pillar structures horizontally aligned with the semiconductive structures and vertically extending through an upper portion of the stack structure; and digit line structures vertically overlying the stack structure. An additional microelectronic device structure comprising control logic devices is formed. The microelectronic device structure is attached to the additional microelectronic device structure to form an assembly. The base structure and portions of the semiconductive structures are removed. The doped semiconductive material is then patterned to form at least one source structure coupled to the cell pillar structures. Devices and systems are also described.
US11335598B2
Embodiments include an interconnect structure and methods of forming such an interconnect structure. In an embodiment, the interconnect structure comprises a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) and a first interconnect layer with a plurality of first conductive traces partially embedded in the first ILD. In an embodiment, an etch stop layer is formed over surfaces of the first ILD and sidewall surfaces of the first conductive traces. In an embodiment, the interconnect structure further comprises a second interconnect layer that includes a plurality of second conductive traces. In an embodiment, a via between the first interconnect layer and the second interconnect layer may be self-aligned with the first interconnect layer.
US11335596B2
Examples of an integrated circuit with an interconnect structure and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, the method includes receiving a workpiece that includes a substrate and an interconnect structure. The interconnect structure includes a first conductive feature disposed within a first inter-level dielectric layer. A blocking layer is selectively formed on the first conductive feature without forming the blocking layer on the first inter-level dielectric layer. An alignment feature is selectively formed on the first inter-level dielectric layer without forming the alignment feature on the blocking layer. The blocking layer is removed from the first conductive feature, and a second inter-level dielectric layer is formed on the alignment feature and on the first conductive feature. The second inter-level dielectric layer is patterned to define a recess for a second conductive feature, and the second conductive feature is formed within the recess.
US11335590B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor processing approach wherein a wafer twist is employed to increase etch rate, at select locations, along a hole or space end arc. By doing so, a finished hole may more closely resemble the shape of the incoming hole end. In some embodiments, a method may include providing an elongated contact hole formed in a semiconductor device, and etching the elongated contact hole while rotating the semiconductor device, wherein the etching is performed by an ion beam delivered at a non-zero angle relative to a plane defined by the semiconductor device. The elongated contact hole may be defined by a set of sidewalls opposite one another, and a first end and a second end connected to the set of sidewalls, wherein etching the elongated contact hole causes the elongated contact hole to change from an oval shape to a rectangular shape.
US11335585B2
Disclosed is a substrate displacing assembly so as to improve its durability during a semiconductor processing. In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing system, includes, a substrate holder, wherein the substrate holder is configured with a plurality of pins; and a substrate displacing assembly for displacing a substrate on the substrate holder in a first direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate holder through the plurality of pins, wherein the substrate displacing assembly comprises a pair of load forks, a coupler and a driving shaft, wherein the pair of load forks comprises a fork region and a base region, wherein the coupler is mechanically coupled to the base region through at least one first joining screw extending in the first direction, wherein the coupler is further mechanically coupled to the driving shaft through a second joining screw extending in the first direction.
US11335584B2
A method for disassembling a stack of at least three substrates. The invention relates to the techniques for transferring thin films in the microelectronics field. It proposes a method for disassembling a stack of at least three substrates having between them two interfaces, one interface of which has an adhesion energy and an interface of which has an adhesion energy, with less than, the method comprising: 1) implementing a removal of material on the first substrate, in order to expose a surface of the second substrate, 2) transferring the stack onto a flexible adhesive film so that the surface has, with an adhesive layer of the film, an adhesion energy greater than, and 3) disassembling the third substrate at the interface between the second substrate and the third substrate. The method makes it possible to open the stack via the interface thereof with the highest adhesion energy.
US11335571B2
A semiconductor device includes a package substrate, a semiconductor chip and a solder bump. The semiconductor chip is disposed on the package substrate. The package substrate includes a first electrode pad, and a first insulating film formed such that the first insulating film exposes a first portion of a surface of the first electrode pad. The semiconductor chip includes a second electrode pad and a second insulating film formed such that the second insulating film exposes a second portion of a surface of the second electrode pad. The second electrode pad is formed on the first electrode pad through the solder bump. L2/L1 is 0.63 or more in a cross section passing through the first electrode pad, the solder bump and the second electrode pad. A first length of the first portion and a second length of the second portion are defined as L1 and L2, respectively.
US11335569B2
A method of manufacturing a conductive wire structure including following steps is provided. A conductive layer is formed on a substrate. A rectangular ring spacer is formed on the conductive layer by a self-aligned double patterning process. A patterned photoresist layer is formed. The patterned photoresist layer exposes a first portion and a second portion of the rectangular ring spacer. The first and second portions are located at two corners on a diagonal of the rectangular ring spacer. The first and second portions are removed by using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask to form a first spacer and a second spacer. The first spacer and the second spacer are L-shaped. The patterned photoresist layer is removed. A pattern of the first spacer and a pattern of the second spacer are transferred to the conductive layer to form an L-shaped first conductive wire and an L-shaped second conductive wire.
US11335568B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes: forming first and second hard mask layers and a target layer on a substrate; patterning the second hard mask layer to form patterned second hard masks including a second wide mask and second narrow masks; and forming spacers on sidewalls of the second wide mask and the second narrow masks. Then, a photoresist layer is formed to cover the second wide mask and the spacers on the sidewalls of the second wide mask. The second narrow masks and the photoresist layer are removed. And, the first hard mask layer is etched with the spacers and the second wide mask together as a mask to form patterned first hard masks on the target layer, wherein the spacers define a first line width, and the second wide mask and the pair of spacers define a second line width.
US11335563B2
A method for patterning a layer increases the density of features formed over an initial patterning layer using a series of self-aligned spacers. A layer to be etched is provided, then an initial sacrificial patterning layer, for example formed using optical lithography, is formed over the layer to be etched. Depending on the embodiment, the patterning layer may be trimmed, then a series of spacer layers formed and etched. The number of spacer layers and their target dimensions depends on the desired increase in feature density. An in-process semiconductor device and electronic system is also described.
US11335549B2
An excimer lamp, which includes a first lamp cap, a second lamp cap, a first electrode head, a second electrode head, a conductive heat dissipation rod, a light-transparent annular sleeve, and a conductive annular net. The heat dissipation rod and conductive annular net are respectively connected to the first and second electrode heads to excite an excimer gas in the light-transparent annular sleeve. Inside the excimer lamp the, a large amount of heat can be conducted and dissipated through the conductive heat dissipation rod, and then through the heat dissipation of the first lamp cap or by heat conductive annular rings between sections of the lamp. At the same time, the conductive annular nets can also conduct and dispatch a large amount of above mentioned heat; the heat may be further conducted and dispatched through the second lamp cap or through the heat conductive annular rings, if present.
US11335540B2
In one embodiment, an impedance matching network includes a mechanically variable capacitor (MVC), a second variable capacitor, and a control circuit. The control circuit carries out a first process of determining a second variable capacitor configuration for reducing a reflected power at the RF source output, and altering the second variable capacitor to the second variable capacitor configuration. The control circuit also carries out a second process of determining an RF source frequency, and, upon determining that the RF source frequency is outside, at a minimum, or at a maximum of a predetermined frequency range, determining a new MVC configuration to cause the RF source frequency, according to an RF source frequency tuning process, to be altered to be within or closer to the predetermined frequency range. The determination of the new MVC configuration is based on the RF source frequency and the predetermined frequency range.
US11335539B2
A method for optimizing delivery of power to a plasma chamber is described. The method includes dividing each cycle of a low frequency (LF) radio frequency generator (RFG) into multiple time intervals. During each of the time intervals, a frequency offset of a high frequency (HF) RFG is generated for which the delivery of power is maximized. The frequency offsets provide a substantially inverse relationship compared to a voltage signal of the LF RFG for each cycle of the voltage signal. The frequency offsets for the time intervals are multiples of the low frequency. The substantially inverse relationship facilitates an increase in the delivery of power to the electrode. A total range of the frequency offsets from a reference HF frequency over the LF RF cycle depends on a power ratio of power that is supplied by the LF RFG and power that is supplied by the HF RFG.
US11335538B2
The invention relates to a filter unit for filtering multiple pulse signals comprising a number of filter circuits, which are connected in parallel. Each filter circuit comprises an input and an output, wherein the input is configured to receive an amplitude of an input signal and the output is configured to activate an output signal. Each filter circuit has an allocated filter level and further comprises a pulse level detection circuit configured to detect a change of state of a pulse level of the input signal. The change of state comprises a transition from a first pulse level to a second pulse level and if the pulse level corresponds to the allocated filter level of the filter circuit the output of said filter circuit is activated.
US11335535B2
Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus capable of estimating an internal device structure of a sample. The charged particle beam apparatus includes an electron beam optical system, a detector, and a calculator. The electron beam optical system irradiates a plurality of irradiation points on a sample, which are different in position or time, with an electron beam. The detector detects electrons emitted from the sample in response to irradiation of the electron beam by the electron beam optical system. The calculator calculates a dependence relationship between the irradiation points based on the electrons detected by the detector at the plurality of irradiation points.
US11335529B2
A compound field emitter (CFE) includes a first surface possessing a field enhancement factor >1, and a second surface possessing one or both of a field enhancement factor >1, or a low work function, wherein the second surface is coated, formed or applied upon the first surface. The second surface has a characteristic size at least 3 times smaller than the first surface, and the outer surface includes a coating of calcium aluminate 12CaO-7Al2O3.
US11335526B2
A coil carrier for an electromagnetic switch of a starting device including a cavity enclosed by a carrier wall for winding of a coil wire. The carrier wall may extend in an axial direction from a first end wall to a second end wall. The coil carrier may include at least one separating body protruding radially, and extending in a circumferential direction, on a side of the carrier wall facing away from the cavity. The at least one separating body may have a recess which separates a first separating body end of the at least one separating body from a second separating body end of the at least one separating body in the circumferential direction. The at least one separating body may have an axially extending body width that decreases along the circumferential direction.
US11335523B2
A support for a high-voltage electric switch includes a housing, a shaft, and an intermediate member positioned between the housing and the shaft. The shaft extends at least partially through the housing, and the shaft is supported for rotation about an axis. The intermediate member is supported for rotation relative to the shaft and supported for rotation relative to the housing.
US11335504B2
A film capacitor includes a main body portion. A dielectric film of the main body portion includes an insulation margin in a first direction. A first metal film and a second metal film are each separated by first slits which each includes a first end which is at an angle of θ1 to the second side face, and second slits. The second slit is connected at a contact point to the first slit, and includes a second end which is located on a negative side in the first direction relative to the contact point. The second end is positioned in alignment with a first end of a first slit which is continuous with the second slit adjacent thereto on the negative side in the first direction. A value of tan (θ1) is in a range of 0.15 or more and 0.35 or less.
US11335500B2
The invention provides a method and a device for producing a winding element from a supplied wire, in particular from a round copper wire, said method and device allowing the economical and flexible production of a winding element which, when subsequently used in the field of electrical engineering as a coil or inductor fitted in a stator, ensures the highest possible groove filling factor. For this purpose, the wire is wound to a three-dimensional shape and the cross section of the wire is changed simultaneously, as a result of which separate method steps and therefore tool arrangements for three-dimensional winding of the wire as well as the change of the cross-section of the wire can advantageously be dispensed with.
US11335496B2
A coil component includes a body having a bottom surface and a top surface opposing each other in one direction, and a plurality of walls each connecting the bottom surface to the top surface of the body; recesses respectively formed in both front and rear surfaces of the body opposing each other among the plurality of walls of the body and extending up to the bottom surface of the body; a coil portion buried in the body and including first and second lead-out portions exposed to internal walls and lower ledge surfaces of the recesses; first and second external electrodes respectively including connection portions disposed in the recesses and extended portions disposed on the bottom surface of the body, and connected to the coil portion; a shielding layer including a cap portion disposed on the top surface of the body and side wall portions respectively disposed on the plurality of walls of the body; and an insulating layer disposed between the body and the shielding layer and extending onto lower ledge surfaces and internal walls of the recesses to cover the connection portions.
US11335488B1
A magnetic energy system including a pathway having inclined portions of the pathway contiguous with declined portions of the pathway and an object adapted to move on the pathway by descending a declined portion of the pathway under the influence of gravity and ascending the contiguous inclined portion of the pathway under the combined influence of kinetic energy and a magnetic flux field interaction with release of the object from the magnetic flux field interaction at a pathway height equal to or greater than the initial height of the object on the preceding declined portion of the pathway.
US11335485B2
Provided is a multilayer electrical steel sheet having low high-frequency iron loss and high magnetic flux density. The multilayer electrical steel sheet has an inner layer and surface layers provided on both sides of the inner layer, in which the surface layers and inner layer have predetermined chemical compositions, the multilayer electrical steel sheet having: ΔSi of 0.5 mass % or more, ΔSi being defined as a difference between a Si content in the surface layer [Si]1 and a Si content in the inner layer [Si]0 represented by [Si]1−[Si]0; Δλ1.0/400 of 1.0×10−6 or less, Δλ1.0/400 being defined as an absolute value of the difference between a magnetostriction of the surface layer λ1.0/400,1 and a magnetostriction of the inner layer λ1.0/400,0; a sheet thickness t of 0.03 mm to 0.3 mm, and a ratio of a total thickness of the surface layers t1 to t of from 0.10 to 0.70.
US11335481B2
An oxide superconductor of an embodiment includes an oxide superconductor layer having a continuous Perovskite structure containing rare earth elements, barium (Ba), and copper (Cu). The rare earth elements contain a first element which is praseodymium (Pr), at least one second element selected from the group consisting of neodymium (Nd), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), and gadolinium (Gd), at least one third element selected from the group consisting of yttrium (Y), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), and holmium (Ho), and at least one fourth element selected from the group consisting of erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu).
