US11417093B1
Techniques are described for capturing an image of a document or other type of physical object, and presenting the image in a user interface (UI) with an overlay that includes context information regarding the document or other physical object in the image. An application running on a portable computing device receives an image of the document that is captured using a camera of the device. The application may perform an initial analysis to identify one or more data elements present in the document, such as certain words, phrases, paragraphs, and so forth. The data elements can be uploaded to a remote service that analyzes the data elements and returns context data which is presented as an overlay to the image of the document. The context data can then be presented in an overlay to the presented image of the physical object.
US11417091B2
A shared augmented reality system can support the sharing of video captured by a local user, using a head mounted display (HMD), with a remote user. The remote user may add augmented reality annotations (markings, notes, drawings) to certain objects within the environment captured within the video, where the annotations track the movement of those objects within the shared video. An HMD may not, however, provide a convenient interface for performing certain user-interface intensive tasks, which might be better performed on an additional device such as a mobile phone, tablet, or computer. During a shared augmented reality session, the additional device can be configured to communicate with a HMD such that certain tasks can be performed by the user through the additional device, and other tasks can be performed or experienced through the HMD. The additional device, the HMD and the remote user's device can communicatively coordinate during the session.
US11417089B2
A vegetation index calculation apparatus (10) is provided with a learning model generation unit (11) that generates a learning model, by using an image of a crop targeted for calculation of a vegetation index and an image of plants other than the crop to learn a feature amount of the image of the crop, an image acquisition unit (12) that acquires an aerial image of a target region where the crop is being grown, a specification unit (13) that applies the aerial image acquired by the image acquisition unit (12) to the learning model generated by the learning model generation unit (11), and specifies the image of the crop in the aerial image acquired by the image acquisition unit (12), and a vegetation index calculation unit (14) that calculates the vegetation index of the crop, using the image of the crop specified by the specification unit (13).
US11417086B2
A system for personalizing augmented reality for individuals that is easy to use. There is a central server with instructions for selecting or creating a personally meaningful multimedia object. A sound wave and an image of the sound wave are generated from the object. A tattoo of the generated image is applied as a tattoo, either permanently or temporarily, to a person. Automatically generating, assigning and storing a unique identifier from an uploaded image of the tattoo, the generated image, and the multimedia object to the central server. Capturing an image of the tattoo on the person using a smart device, where the smart device has instructions to determine the unique identifier from an image captured by the smart device. Retrieving and downloading, aligning and overlaying the stored multimedia where it is played back.
US11417083B2
In an image processing apparatus, an image obtaining unit obtains, from a vehicular camera, an image captured by the vehicular camera based on a predetermined imaging condition. An image processing unit executes an image-processing task of the image. A histogram generation unit generates a histogram based on the luminance values of the pixels included in the road-surface region in the image. The histogram graphically represents a frequency of each of the luminance values of the pixels included in the road-surface region in the image. A histogram determination unit determines whether the histogram has first and second separate crests. A change unit changes, upon determination that the histogram has first and second separate crests, at least one of 1. The imaging condition of the vehicular camera 2. The image-processing task to be executed by the image processing unit.
US11417077B2
Systems and methods for aligning digital image datasets to a computer model of a structure. The system receives a plurality of reference images from an input image dataset and identifies common ground control points (“GCPs”) in the reference images. The system then calculates virtual three-dimensional (“3D”) coordinates of the measured GCPs. Next, the system calculates and projects two-dimensional (“2D”) image coordinates of the virtual 3D coordinates into all of the images. Finally, using the projected 2D image coordinates, the system performs spatial resection of all of the images in order to rapidly align all of the images.
US11417076B2
An example device for processing image data includes a memory configured to store an image; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: process the image to identify a pilot signal in the image indicating a portion of the image, the pilot signal forming a boundary around the portion and having pixel values defined according to a mathematical relationship with pixel values within the portion such that the pilot signal is not perceptible to a human user and is detectable the device; determine the portion of the image using the pilot signal; and further process the portion to attempt to detect one or more contents of the portion without attempting to detect the one or more contents of the image in portions of the image outside the portion.
US11417074B2
Example systems disclosed herein are to process image frames with a reverse image search engine to generate corresponding search results pages, capture screenshots corresponding respectively to the search results pages, generate base query records corresponding to respective ones of the screenshots that have respective textual information that matches a base search term, the respective ones of the base query records including the base search term and at least portions of the respective textual information from the corresponding screenshots, determine an object search term based on a frequency analysis of the textual information included in the base query records, generate object query records corresponding respectively to ones of the base query records that have respective textual information matching the object search term, and identify a first object depicted in the video based on at least one criteria applied to the object query records.
US11417073B2
Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory media of the various embodiments enable generating at least one hierarchical-level-of-detail (LOD) data structure in order to visualize and traverse measurement data associated with a three-dimensional (3D) model. In various embodiments, generating at least one hierarchical LOD data structure may include establishing a background grid comprising a mathematical grid structure defined in a common coordinate system, building a layout comprising an intermediary data structure, computing measurement data for each tile based at least in part on the height data samples, and storing at least a portion of the computed measurement data for each tile in a metadata file.
US11417072B2
A system and method of selecting personal protection equipment (PPE) for a worker. The system identifies sets of PPEs and simulates a fitting of the identified PPE sets to the worker. Fitting includes, for each of the identified PPE sets, selecting a three-dimensional computer model for each article of the PPE set, placing the computer model of each of the PPE articles of the PPE set being fitted on a computer model representing the worker, identifying collisions between the computer models as placed, and taking an action based on the identified collisions.
US11417071B1
Virtual tools are used to manipulate aspects of a three-dimensional medical image volume. The virtual tools are geo-registered with the image volume. Presentation of the image volume is manipulated by an image processor in response to use of the virtual tools. The virtual tools may be used to facilitate analysis of the image volume. The virtual tools may include: a virtual focal point pen; a virtual 3D cursor; a virtual transport viewer; a virtual pedestal; a virtual knife; a virtual catheter; a virtual road sign; a virtual ablation tool; a virtual table; a virtual contrast tool; and virtual icons.
US11417070B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to activate a camera integrated into the information handling device; obtaining, using the activated camera, two-dimensional image data of an object; transforming the two-dimensional image data of the object into three-dimensional image data of the object; and utilizing the three-dimensional image data of the object in at least one of: an augmented reality application and a virtual reality application. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11417069B1
An object and camera localization system and localization method for mapping of the real world. The mapping can be done in real-time or near real-time to the detection of the real objects by a camera device which is used to capture one or more images of an object. The localization method can be used to generate an object label of the object and a bounding box of the object in the image. The localization method can be used to generate anchor points in real world coordinates of the real 3D space of the object, a cuboid of the object, and a centroid of the cuboid. A virtual 3D map can be generated that which includes the location and pose of the real object in the real-world coordinates.
US11417067B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for synthesizing an environment based on an image. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In various implementations, a method includes determining an engagement score that characterizes a level of engagement between a user and a representation of a subject included in an image. In some implementations, the method includes, in response to the engagement score satisfying an engagement threshold, obtaining stored information regarding the subject, and synthesizing an environment based on the image and the stored information regarding the subject.
US11417066B2
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating electronic commerce in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting, by a mobile device, presence of the physical product or the real life service; and presenting, on the mobile device, information to conduct the transaction of a physical product or a real life service via the augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting one or more targets in the augmented reality platform using a select area in a perspective of a user, the perspective being captured by a mobile device; and prompting the user to choose an object of interest from the one or more detected targets.
US11417062B2
In an image including a continuous visual field of 360 degrees, such as a celestial sphere image, in a case where a partial region is displayed as an output target region, transition from a certain output target region to the other output target region is realized smoothly and with natural feeling, without having visually uncomfortable feeling. For this reason, a transition source output target region and a transition destination output target region are specified, in an output target region which is a partial region of the entire image, which is an image having a continuous visual field of 360 degrees in at least one direction. Then, a visual field transition path from the specified transition source output target region to the specified transition destination output target region is automatically determined.
US11417060B2
In one implementation, a method involves tessellating a surface of a 3D object by identifying vertices having 3D positions. The method transforms the 3D positions into positions for a first sphere-based projection for a left eye viewpoint and positions for a second sphere-based projection for a right eye viewpoint. Transforming the 3D positions of the vertices involves transforming the vertices based on a user orientation (i.e., camera position) and differences left and right eye viewpoints (e.g., based on interaxial distance and convergence angle). The method further renders a stereoscopic 360° rendering of the 3D object based on the first sphere-based projection for the left eye viewpoint and the second sphere-based projection for the right eye viewpoint. For example, an equirectangular representation of the first sphere-based projection can be combined with an equirectangular representation of the second sphere-based projection to provide a file defining a stereoscopic 360° image.
US11417059B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for reading input data into a geometry shader by rebuilding an index buffer. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises constructing T-vectors for one-element ranges of the index buffer by defining each T-vector as a 4-component vector, calculating T-vectors for ranges [0; i] for all vertices of the index buffer by prefix scanning, for each vertex and for each primitive featuring the vertex, determining if the primitive is complete, and for each complete primitive, calculating an offset in an output index buffer using a component of the T-vector used to indicate, for the vertex, a number of complete primitives inside the range and a component that indicates a number of vertices since a last primitive restart, and writing an index value in an output index buffer, and reading input data into the geometry shader in accordance with the written index values.
US11417057B2
A computer implemented method of creating a simulated realistic virtual model of a geographical area for training an autonomous driving system, comprising obtaining geographic map data of a geographical area, obtaining visual imagery data of the geographical area, classifying static objects identified in the visual imagery data to corresponding labels to designate labeled objects, superimposing the labeled objects over the geographic map data, generating a virtual 3D realistic model emulating the geographical area by synthesizing a corresponding visual texture for each of the labeled objects and injecting synthetic 3D imaging feed of the realistic model to imaging sensor(s) input(s) of the autonomous driving system controlling movement of an emulated vehicle in the realistic model where the synthetic 3D imaging feed is generated to depict the realistic model from a point of view of emulated imaging sensor(s) mounted on the emulated vehicle.
US11417055B1
A system, method or compute program product for integrating two or more displays. One of the systems includes a stereoscopic first display; a monoscopic second display; and one or more computers configured to perform operations including receiving first data representing a 3D scene including at least one virtual 3D object, receiving second data related to the at least one virtual 3D object, obtaining third data representing the position and/or orientation of the second display relative to position and/or orientation of the first display, based on the first data, rendering the 3D scene including the at least one virtual object as a stereoscopic image on the stereoscopic first display, and based on the second data, rendering a 2D object on the monoscopic second display with the rendering varying based on the position and orientation of the second display relative to the first display provided by the third data.
US11417054B1
In one embodiment, a method includes displaying, for one or more displays of a virtual VR device, a first output image comprising a passthrough view of a real-world environment. The method includes identifying, using one or more images captured by one or more cameras of the VR display device, a real-world object in the real-world environment. The method includes receiving a user input indicating a first dimension corresponding to the real-world object. The method includes automatically determining, based on the first dimension, a second and third dimension corresponding to the real-world object. The method includes rendering, for the one or more displays of the VR display device, a second output image of a VR environment. The VR environment includes a MR object that corresponds to the real-world object. The MR object is defined by the determined first, second, and third dimensions.
US11417052B2
Systems and methods of generating ground truth datasets for producing virtual reality (VR) experiences, for testing simulated sensor configurations, and for training machine-learning algorithms. In one example, a recording device with one or more cameras and one or more inertial measurement units captures images and motion data along a real path through a physical environment. A SLAM application uses the captured data to calculate the trajectory of the recording device. A polynomial interpolation module uses Chebyshev polynomials to generate a continuous time trajectory (CTT) function. The method includes identifying a virtual environment and assembling a simulated sensor configuration, such as a VR headset. Using the CTT function, the method includes generating a ground truth output dataset that represents the simulated sensor configuration in motion along a virtual path through the virtual environment. The virtual path is closely correlated with the motion along the real path as captured by the recording device. Accordingly, the output dataset produces a realistic and life-like VR experience. In addition, the methods described can be used to generate multiple output datasets, at various sample rates, which are useful for training the machine-learning algorithms which are part of many VR systems.
US11417037B2
A method for generating a data visualization is provided. The method includes displaying a representation of a portion of detected data from a substrate to a user. The method further includes generating a data quality value for the portion of detected data and displaying, along with the representation of the portion of detected data, an indication of data quality value for the portion of detected data. The method further includes selecting, by the user, a quality value threshold, and displaying an adjusted indication of data quality value for the portion of detected data meeting the quality value threshold.
US11417028B2
Provided are an image processing method, apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes: collecting at least one image within a field of view of an image collection device in real time through the image collection device of a terminal device; determining whether a first image includes at least one character based on the collected first image; under a situation that the collected first image includes the character, outputting prompt information to a user; receiving a setting instruction input by the user; and improving sharpness of the character according to the setting instruction to obtain a second image, and compressing and storing the second image.
US11417025B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a background image that does not include a detection target, a detection target image that is an image of the detection target, and label information that indicates the detection target of the detection target image. The processor performs trapezoid correction on the background image, generates a composite image by superimposing the detection target image on the background image subjected to the trapezoid correction, and generates learning data based on the composite image and the label information.
US11417024B2
A system and method for encoding a digital image may include obtaining image data of the digital image, wherein the image data comprises a plurality of image pixels, selecting a plurality of sample pixels from the plurality of image pixels, clustering the plurality of sample pixels based on an influence function to generate a plurality of hue clusters, classifying the image pixels to the plurality of the hue clusters, and assigning hue values of the hue clusters to the plurality of the image pixels.
US11417018B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of calibrating a camera for a vehicle, comprising: obtaining attitude angle information of the vehicle by using a traveling direction of the vehicle obtained based on a satellite signal, and a vertical direction from ground obtained based on a high definition map; obtaining attitude angle information of the camera mounted on the vehicle by matching an image captured by the camera to the high definition map; and obtaining coordinate system transformation information between the vehicle and the camera by using the attitude angle information of the vehicle and the attitude angle information of the camera.
US11417010B2
Methods for detecting areas of localized tilt on a sample using imaging reflectometry measurements include obtaining a first image without blocking any light reflected from the sample and obtaining a second image while blocking some light reflected from the sample at the aperture plane. The areas of localized tilt are detected by comparing first reflectance intensity values of pixels in the first image with second reflectance intensity values of corresponding pixels in the second image.
US11417002B2
An image recognition system includes a processing module, a sensor module, and a database. The sensor module is electrically connected to the processing module. The database is electrically connected to the processing module. The sensor module configured for capturing at least one image. The at least one image is stored in the database. The processing captures a contour of an object from the at least one image and separates the contour of the object into a plurality of portions. A plurality of arrangements is defined between the portions of the contour of the object. The processing module determines a state of the contour of the object based on the arrangements.
US11417000B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first classification unit configured to classify each of a plurality of pixels included in a three-dimensional medical image using a first classifier for classifying each pixel into a plurality of classes including a class representing a first target region, a determination unit configured to determine an image region including the first target region and a second target region from the three-dimensional medical image based on a first classification result, a second classification unit configured to classify each of a plurality of pixels included in the determined image region using a second classifier for classifying each pixel into a plurality of classes including at least either one of a class representing the first target region and a class representing the second target region, and an integration unit configured to integrate the first and the second classification results to acquire a third classification result.
US11416992B2
A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a plurality of valve leaflets of a heart valve from image data of a subject. The processing circuitry measures, with respect to at least one valve leaflet of the valve leaflets, a length of a region at which the valve leaflet is in contact with another valve leaflet, in a predetermined reference direction. The processing circuitry controls a display to display a distribution of the length at each of a plurality of positions on the valve leaflet.
US11416987B2
An automated screening system using retinal imaging to identify individuals with early-stage Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and identify individuals at risk for developing late AMD.
US11416983B2
A client and server are provided with the same digital image of a slice of a biological material, which has been applied with a staining substance. The server is used for pre-processing the digital image and provides results of the pre-processing to the client in turn of a request. The server is configured to classify each pixel of the digital image, wherein the pixel is classified as stained, The client is configured to determine the region of interest at the digital image, and request data related to the classification of the pixels at the region of interest at the server. The server can provide the classification results related to the classification of the pixels at the region of interest at the digital image to the client.
US11416981B2
A method for detecting damage and determining a type of damage and a degree or severity of damage to a component of a transmission. The method includes providing a first image of a portion of the component in a reference state and detecting a further image of the portion of the component after intended use. The further image of the portion of the component is detected in an installed state of the component. The method further includes determining, by comparing the further image with the first image, that the component is damaged, determining, by matching the further image against data of a damage database, a type of damage, and outputting the determined type of damage and a degree or severity of damage. The first image, the further image, and the data of the damage database are photographs.
US11416978B2
An image processing apparatus acquires a first image which captures a scene including an object from a first viewpoint position and a second image which captures a scene including the object from a second viewpoint position, and associates a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the first image with a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the second image. The image processing apparatus determines a partial region in the second image corresponding to a give region in the first image based on the association, generates a synthesized image by replacing an image of the given region using an image of the determined partial region, and superimposing variation data on the synthesized image.
US11416964B2
The present invention provides a method and device for adjusting resolution of a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) apparatus. Wherein, the method comprises the steps of: determining saliency information of display contents in multimedia information; adjusting, according to the saliency information, resolution corresponding to each display content in the multimedia information; and, displaying the resolution-adjusted multimedia information. In the present invention, by determining saliency information of display contents in multimedia information, the resolution corresponding to the display contents is adjusted, which enable the resolution of the display contents to be matched with the saliency of the display contents, and accordingly, the resolution-adjusted multimedia information is displayed without the need of displaying the complete multimedia information in a higher resolution and a higher frame rate. In this way, computation amount for a device is greatly reduced, so that requirement for device hardware is reduced and device cost is reduced, and displaying efficiency is improved whilst at the same time ensuring good displaying effect.
US11416961B2
A method includes determining that a new draw call is received; comparing a state identity (ID) of a graphics state stored in the ring storage with a state ID of a graphics state associated with the new draw call; determining if the ring storage has available space to store the graphics state associated with the new draw call; storing the graphics state associated with the new draw call in the ring storage, based on determining that the ring storage has available space; determining a location of a first valid and non-default entry and a last valid and non-default entry of the graphics state associated with the new draw call stored in the ring storage; and collecting data from one or more valid entries of the graphics state associated with the new draw call stored in the ring storage to complete a task associated with the new draw call.
US11416960B2
A binning subsystem of a GPU includes a storage subsystem, a shader core to output first data via a first path, a selector to receive the first data via the first path, and to receive second data from the storage subsystem via a second path. The storage subsystem includes a binner unit and a control logic unit. The control logic unit causes the selector to transfer the first data or the second data to the binner unit. The binner unit may transfer binner output data to the shader core via a third path. The binner unit may transfer the binner output data to one or more subsequent stages of a graphics pipeline via a fourth path. The binner unit may transfer the binner output data to the storage subsystem via a fifth path. The control logic unit may control the binner unit such that the binner unit can be used for general purpose computation.
US11416955B2
A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment including one or more processing circuits including processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations. The operations include obtaining an objective function that defines a cost of operating the building equipment and performing maintenance on the building equipment as a function of operating decisions and maintenance decisions for the building equipment for time steps within a time period. The operations include performing an optimization of the objective function to generate a maintenance and replacement strategy for the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period. The operations include estimating a savings loss predicted to result from a deviation from the maintenance and replacement strategy. The operations include adjusting an amount of savings expected to be achieved by energy conservation measures for the building equipment based on the savings loss.
US11416952B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling a comparison of energy costs for a current and a previous billing cycle are described. In one embodiment, current billing data and previous billing data are received. A variable having a different value for the current billing than for the previous billing data is identified. A value of the variable in the current billing data is modified with a value of the variable in the previous billing data to determine a hypothetical energy cost for the current billing cycle based on the value of the variable in the previous billing data. A cost difference between the total cost of energy for the current billing cycle and the hypothetical energy cost is determined, and a personalized data structure for an energy user is generated. The data structure includes an individual contribution of the modified value of the variable toward the cost difference.
US11416950B2
An apparatus for manufacturing customized cosmetics according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may manufacture customized cosmetics in consideration of an individual skin characteristic and external environment information by combining a dosage form reference component corresponding to a skin state measured by subdividing a face of a user according to each predetermined region and an auxiliary dosage form reference component corresponding to the external environment information.
US11416949B2
A system, method, and computer program product for providing personalized coordinated shopping among multiple participants in a network marketplace. Social group interactions are extended to shopping, to enhance the scope and efficiency of commerce. A shopping group comprising selected members of a social group includes an authorized purchaser and a number of shoppers who are not authorized to make purchases. A non-authorized purchaser selects desired items and sends a purchase approval request to the authorized purchaser, including a personalized video message describing and supporting the request. The personalized video message is sent to the authorized purchaser by communication means selected according to determined current availability, including via review of a social calendar. The authorized purchaser may approve, decline, or request further information from the requester, upon reviewing the purchase request. The authorized purchaser may modify the requested transaction, including the item actually purchased, the seller, and its shipping data.
US11416943B2
An accident liability tracking system includes a processing device programmed to receive, from an image capture device, an image representative of an environment of the host vehicle, to analyze the image to identify a target vehicle in the environment of the host vehicle, and determine one or more characteristics of a navigational state of the target vehicle. The device is further programmed to compare the characteristics of the navigational state of the target vehicle to at least one accident liability rule, store one or more values indicative of potential accident liability on the part of the identified target vehicle based on the comparison of the characteristics of the navigational state of the identified target vehicle to the at least one accident liability rule, and output the one or more values, after an accident between the host vehicle and a target vehicle, for determining liability for the accident.
US11416933B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to implementation of a recursive hierarchic blockchain for event validation and processing. A computing platform may receive event data from first and second data sources. The computing platform may store, in a first distributed ledger, an event record for each event from the first data source and may store, in a second distributed ledger, an event record for each event from both data sources. In response to determining that a validation condition for a current block of the second distributed ledger has been satisfied, the computing platform may compute a hash and generate a numeric representation of the first distributed ledger. In a new block of the second distributed ledger, the computing platform may store the hash and the numeric representation. The computing platform may write, to the new block of the second distributed ledger, additional event data from both data sources.
US11416909B1
A shared “universal” virtual shopping cart (“the cart”) may be provided by a host to enable information sharing between multiple disparate electronic marketplaces provided by various merchants. The host may obtain user information via the cart to improve interactions with a user. The host may recommend an item to the user that is offered at a lower price and related to an item retained in the user's cart. The host may also recommend items based on a user's purchase history, such as complementary items (e.g., up-sell items) and items other users may recommend. In some aspects, the host may compile best selling lists based on data from multiple electronic marketplaces. The host may also perform user specific operations such as indicate an item in a cart is a duplicate of a previous purchase and monitor a price and/or available quantities of an item in the cart.
US11416906B2
A system for replacing an original hose assembly of a work machine with a replacement hose assembly includes at least a computing device, a database, and a server. The server is associated with the database and includes a processor configured via computer-executable instructions to perform a method of identifying the replacement hose assembly. The method includes prompting a user to select hose attributes associated with a hose of the original hose assembly. Based on the selected hose attributes, a replacement hose may be identified. The method further includes prompting the user to select coupling attributes associated with a coupling of the original hose assembly. Based on compatibility with the identified replacement hose and the selected coupling attributes, a replacement coupling may be identified. The method further includes generating a bill of materials for the replacement hose assembly and displaying the bill of materials.
US11416901B2
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for development and use of a medical form. One example system receives a request on a first computer to create the medical form. The medical form includes user selected fields corresponding to patient information. The system further receives signals on the first computer, where the signals describe form fields for the medical form. The system communicates the medical form from the first computer to the first tablet device for display on the first tablet device. The system receives form values, wherein at least some of the form values correspond to information about an appointment. Responsive to receiving a completion signal, the system generates a clinical narrative for the appointment using the completed form values.
US11416898B2
A method of producing and financing a predetermined project is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method comprises the steps of selecting a project and developing a budget for the project, and developing a marketing plan which is comprised of a plurality of advertising buys, each of the plurality of advertising buys being targeted toward a corresponding one of a plurality of advertisers. Further, there is a set of advertising materials that are targeted toward a corresponding one of the plurality of advertisers. The subject matter of the selected project relates to the interests of at least one of the plurality of advertisers, the cost of developing the marketing plan and the set of advertising materials not exceeding the developed budget. The next step presents to at least one of the plurality of advertisers the cost of the budget and the advertising material of at least one of the plurality of advertising buys, each of the plurality of advertising buys may require a predetermined number of impressions to be completed. Further, if the at least one advertising buyer purchases the at least one advertising buy, the advertising materials are produced and placed on a media property. For at least one of the plurality of advertising buys, the number of impressions to which at least one user is exposed on the on media property are counted, thereby completing the one advertising buy when the counted number of impressions equals its buy's predetermined number of impressions. Finally, the revenue from the completed advertising buy is collected and the selected revenue produced by the completed advertising buy is placed into a media production fund.
US11416889B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for a micro commerce ad. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to display an advertisement in a banner ad that is displayed in a banner ad slot of a publisher webpage. The advertisement includes an offering for a product and/or a service presented to a visitor and receivable by the visitor in response to the visitor providing feedback within the advertisement. The code is executable by the processor to receive the feedback from one or more input fields presented within the banner ad for receiving the contact information. The code is executable by the processor to provide the offering to the visitor within the banner ad in response to receiving the feedback from the visitor without redirecting the visitor away from the publisher webpage.
US11416874B1
A compliance management system generates an enterprise data schema based on a compliance regulation. The system monitors interactions over a network with resources subject to the compliance regulation to generate interaction data sets. The system processes the interaction data sets against the enterprise data schema to categorize at least some of the interactions to trigger events associated with the categories, generate corresponding to the events, and track a compliance metric for each of the tasks generated. The system updates the enterprise data schema based on the compliance metric and the interaction data sets.
US11416872B2
Various embodiments are described herein for methods, devices and systems that can be used to track at least one emission type generated, directly or indirectly, by an entity. In one example embodiment, the system includes an emission tracking device coupled to the entity, where the emission tracking device receives a first emission data received at a first time and a second emission data received at a second time after implementation of one or more emission reduction steps. The system further includes an external processor in communication with the emission tracking device, where the external processor is configured to analyze the first emission data to determine an emission baseline, analyze the second emission data to determine a second emission output value, and determine an emission offset measurement corresponding to the at least one emission type based on the emission baseline and the second emission output value.
US11416868B1
A method and system of delegating control to a surrogate for a primary account holder so that the surrogate can control access to funds in a joint account by a secondary account holder when the primary account holder is unavailable. The surrogate's ability to approve or deny the secondary account holder's requests for funds is limited by rules established by the primary account holder. The system includes a secure management account system that implements communications between the surrogate's personal device, the primary account holder's personal device, the secondary account holder's personal device and the financial institution holding the joint account.
US11416864B2
A method, system, and computer program product for fraud management with a shared hash map. A shared hash map may include a plurality of identifiers mapped to a plurality of buckets by at least one hash function. One or more buckets of the plurality of buckets may include at least one blockchain. The at least one blockchain may include fraud data associated with one or more fraudulent transactions. A method may include storing the shared hash map, receiving an update to the shared hash map, and providing a copy of the shared hash map. A method may include storing a local copy of the shared hash map, receiving transaction data associated with a transaction, accessing fraud data in the local copy of the shared hash map, and determining an authorization or a denial of the transaction based on the fraud data.
US11416863B2
A computing system includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable storage media communicatively connected to the one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, causes the one or more processors to receive a request from a user device to initiate an electronic transaction to a beneficiary, identify a risk associated with the beneficiary, calculate a risk score for the electronic transaction based on the risk, transmit a notification to the user device, wherein the notification causes display of one or more mitigation activities for reducing the risk, receive data from the user device associated with the one or more mitigation activities, compare the data with information corresponding to the beneficiary stored in a data store, recalculate the risk score based on the comparison, and transmit an electrical signal to the user device to cause the display of a result of the recalculation.
US11416856B2
An arbitraged enhanced payment processing system in association with a distributed enhanced payment processing system includes a merchant point of sale (POS) terminal system and a remote payment management system. The POS terminal system initiates a transaction that includes receiving a payment amount, a purchaser account identifier, a virtual electronic payment indicator, and a merchant ID via a payment client. Subsequently, the POS terminal system outputs the transaction to the remote payment management system which generates a token for the transaction. The payment management system then provides the purchaser account identifier, a merchant account identifier, and the payment amount to a payment processing servicer. Upon receiving a payment processing servicer response, the payment management system outputs the response and token to the POS terminal system.
US11416855B2
Methods, apparatus and computer software are provided for authorizing an EMV transaction between a user device and a point of sale terminal, particularly, but not exclusively, in situations where a secure element is not made available for the deployment of a payment application on the user device. The payment application is instead deployed to a processing environment that is outside of any secure element on the user device. The payment application is associated with a certificate and a corresponding hash. The hash is adapted to be generated on the basis of an application expiration date parameter, which is adapted to comprise data indicative of an expiration date of day level granularity associated with the certificate. During processing of the EMV transaction, the point-of-sale terminal verifies the hash, thereby establishing the authenticity of the application expiration date, and hence the validity of the certificate.
US11416853B1
A system and method to conduct secure electronic financial transactions are provided. The system includes one or more processors and one or more memories having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a first payment source account held by an account holder and a second account held by the account holder; receive transaction data associated with a transaction initiated by the account holder with a merchant using the first payment source account, the transaction having a transaction amount; request via a first network a first transfer of the transaction amount from the first payment source account within a predetermined time; perform a pre-authorization charge of the second account in a pre-authorized amount; transfer the transaction amount to pay the merchant; and if the first transfer is not completed within the predetermined time, request via the second network a second transfer of the pre-authorized amount from the second account; and release the pre-authorization charge of the second account if the transaction amount was successfully transferred from the first account within the predetermined time.
US11416852B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for secure transmission of account information messages. One method comprises receiving account information; providing a notification to a third party regarding the account information; receiving a first request for information regarding the notification from the third party; providing a response to the third party regarding the first request; receiving data from the third party; using the data to generate a message including details about the account, wherein at least some of the details about the account are encrypted; receiving a second request for information regarding the notification from the third party; and providing the message to the third party.
US11416851B2
A terminal receives card details for a payment card to process payment for a transaction. The card and transaction details are sent to an intermediate server. The card details are identified as being associated with a card issuer associated with a first currency while the terminal is associated with a second different currency from the first currency. A currency conversion entity selection request is sent to the card issuer. The card issuer requests a consumer select a currency conversion entity for payment at the terminal. A mobile device of the consumer generates encoded data representing: a selected currency conversion entity, the card details, and the transaction details. The encoded data is processed to verify and process payment for the transaction with the selected currency conversion entity preventing any override by a merchant to use a different currency conversion entity at the terminal.
US11416846B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing gift transactions, related to retaining a social and gratitude-based experience surrounding giving and receiving gifts, monitoring gift recipients on-premises at merchants and providing gift-related notifications, and managing funds in a gift that the recipient does not redeem. A system configured to practice a first method receives an object associated with a gift, receives a tag associated with the object, and transmits the object to the giver. A system configured to practice a second example method uses face identification at the merchant to identify a recipient of a gift. The system can transmit a reminder to the recipient regarding the gift. In a third example method, the system creates a gift and notifies the recipient of the gift. If the recipient never redeems the gift, then the giver is not charged for the gift and no transaction occurs.
US11416845B2
A method and system for managing payment transactions for a merchant using a computing device coupled to a memory device is described. Each transaction is initiated by a consumer using a payment card. The method includes receiving a registration request from a candidate merchant for enrollment within a manager module wherein the registration request includes registration data associated with the candidate merchant, executing a primary approval process using at least some of the registration data, and transmitting an account request message requesting an opening of a merchant account for the candidate merchant with an acquiring bank upon approval. The method further includes receiving, in real-time, merchant account data associated with the candidate merchant from the acquiring bank upon approval by a secondary approval process wherein the candidate merchant becomes a registered merchant upon the secondary approval. The method further includes managing a first payment transaction submitted by the registered merchant.
US11416841B2
Using multimedia messaging service (“MMS”) messaging to facilitate a transaction for purchasing electronic content on a wireless device is disclosed. Initially, an indication that a user of the wireless device has selected to purchase the electronic content from among a plurality of electronic content available for purchase is received from a wireless device over a wireless network. An MMS message including payment information for the purchase of the selected electronic content is then received from the wireless device. The purchase of the selected electronic content is authorized based on the payment information included in the MMS message and the wireless device is then enabled to download the selected electronic content in response to the authorization of the purchase of the selected electronic content.
US11416830B2
Methods and systems are provided for automatically creating and displaying an action plan generated from an action plan template. An action plan template is created by a template owner, who can then add tasks to the action plan template until all tasks to be included as part of the template have been created. After it has been published, action plan owners can use it during an action plan creation process. An action plan owner can select a particular target record to be associated with a new action plan and specify other action plan details. An application platform can then automatically populate the new action plan with information indicating: a name of the action plan owner, a plurality of tasks a corresponding task owner who is assigned to each task, and a corresponding task deadline that was automatically calculated for each task by the action plan creation module.
US11416820B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for remotely automating changes to third party applications from within a primary application are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve maintaining in the primary application, a table having rows, columns, and cells at intersections of the rows and columns, wherein the primary application is configured to enable the construction of automations defined by conditional rules for altering internal information in the primary application and external information in the third party applications; receiving an automation definition conditional on specific information input into at least one specific cell in the table of the primary application, wherein the automation definition is constructed using internal blocks and external blocks, the external blocks having links to the external third party applications; monitoring the at least one specific cell of the primary application for an occurrence of the specific information.
US11416814B1
This disclosure describes a device and system for verifying the content of items in a bin within a materials handling facility. In some implementations, a bin content verification apparatus may pass by one or more bins and capture images of those bins. The images may be processed to determine whether the content included in the bins has changed since the last time images of the bins were captured. A determination may also be made as to whether a change to the bin content was expected and, if so, if the determined change corresponds with the expected change.
US11416812B2
Provided is a delivery assistance device enabling shortening of the time required for delivery in purchase of an item by online shopping. This delivery assistance device is provided with: management means for managing stock information about stock of an item held by each of a plurality of traveling vehicles; first reception means for receiving current position information indicating a current position of the traveling vehicle; first transmission means for transmitting the stock information to a customer terminal; second reception means for receiving order information and delivery address information; specification means for specifying a traveling vehicle arriving earliest at the delivery address; and second transmission means for transmitting the order information to the specified traveling vehicle, wherein the management means updates the stock information about stock of an item held by the specified traveling vehicle, based on the order information.
US11416800B2
Systems, method and computer program products for presenting to a user a visualization of a vehicle dealer performance assessment based on dealer location and vehicle sales transaction data, where the assessment is based on geographically normalized metrics. Dealer location data and historical vehicle sales transaction data is collected by a in a vehicle data system from external data sources. Distances from dealers to geographical regions of interest are determined, and differences between these distances are normalized to produce competition zone indices for the geographical regions. The competition zone indices are then used to aggregate the geographical regions into different competition zones in which dealers of interest have corresponding levels of competitive advantage or disadvantage, normalized according to typical distances associated with transactions in the respective geographical regions.
US11416791B2
Systems and methods for optimizing user task schedules in a customer relationship management (CRM) platform is disclosed. The system may optimally input tasks into time slots in a user schedule to generate the optimized user task schedule. The system may generate a plurality of user task schedules and calculate a total task win probability for each of the user task schedules. The system may comprise the total task win probabilities and select the user task schedule having the greatest total task win probability. The system may also perform a genetic processing analysis of the user task schedules to further optimize task placement in the user task schedule.
US11416784B2
A system and method is disclosed for automated remote transactions between a vehicle and a lodging system. The system may enable the vehicle to initiate an automated remote transaction to the lodging system to book an accommodation and complete a remote payment. The lodging system may transmit available accommodations to the vehicle. The vehicle may respond with a booking request comprising an accommodation selection and vehicle identifying data and the lodging system may communicate the vehicle identifying data to a payment network to authorize the remote transaction. In response to authorizing the remote transaction, the lodging system may complete the booking request with the vehicle.
US11416775B2
Techniques for training robust machine learning models for adversarial input data. Training data for a machine learning (ML) model is received. The training data includes a plurality of labels for data elements. First modified training data is generated by modifying one or more of the plurality of labels in the training data using parameterized label smoothing with a first optimization parameter. The ML model is trained using the first modified training data. The training includes updating a first one or more model weights in the ML model, and generating a second optimization parameter suitable for use in future parameterized label smoothing for future training of the ML model
US11416771B2
Mechanisms are provided for identifying risky user entitlements in an identity and access management (IAM) computing system. A self-learning peer group analysis (SLPGA) engine receives an IAM data set which specifies user attributes of users of computing resources and entitlements allocated to the users for accessing the computing resources. The SLPGA engine generates a user-entitlement matrix, performs a machine learning matrix decomposition operation on the user-entitlement matrix to identify excessive entitlement allocations, and performs a conditional entropy analysis of the user attributes and entitlements in the IAM data set to identify a set of user attributes for defining peer groups. The SLPGA engine performs a commonality analysis of user attributes and entitlements for each of one or more peer groups defined based on the set of user attributes, and identifies outlier entitlements based on the identification of the excessive entitlement allocations and results of the commonality analysis.
US11416769B2
Approaches presented herein enable intelligent service request classification and assignment learning. More specifically, a request comprising a free form text or spoken description is received from a user. The request description is parsed and classified by a regression-based classifier. The regression-based classifier classifies based on, for example: the description itself; the requestor's history of requests, and/or supplemental demographics about a requestor. Optionally, a user may verify the classification or select from a plurality of returned classifications. A service provider or administrator confirms that a classification is correct. If not, the incorrectly classified request is queued. If so, the correctly classified request is added to a set of training data to be used in classifying future requests.
US11416766B2
In an approach to detecting the transmission of messages, analyzing said messages, calculating a message risk score and transmitting a warning notification, one or more computer processors detect transmission of a message from a user to a selected recipient. The one or more computer processors extract message information from the detected message. The one or more computer processors retrieve one or more historical conversations between the user and the selected recipient of the detected message. The one or more computer processors determine a risk score corresponding to sending the detected message to the selected recipient based on applying the extracted message information and the retrieved historical conversations to a cognitive model.
US11416757B2
An example system includes a processor to receive input data comprising noisy positive data and clean negative data. The processor is to cluster the input data. The processor is to compute a potential score for each cluster of the clustered input data. The processor is to iteratively refine cluster quality of the clusters using the potential scores of the clusters as weights. The processor is to train a classifier by sampling the negative dataset uniformly and the positive set in a non-uniform manner based on the potential score.
US11416751B2
An input dataset is sorted into a first version of data and a second version of data. The first version of data is associated with a first period of time and the second version of data is associated with a second period of time. The second period of time is a shorter period of time than the first period of time. A first set of one or more machine learning models is generated based on the first version of data. A second set of one or more machine learning models is generated based on the second version of data. The first set of one or more machine learning models and the second set of one or more machine learning models are combined to generate an ensemble model. A prediction based on the ensemble model is outputted. The prediction indicates abnormal behavior associated with the input dataset.
US11416747B2
A method of classifying three-dimensional (3D) data includes receiving three-dimensional (3D) data and processing the 3D data using a neural network that includes a plurality of subnetworks arranged in a sequence and the data is processed through each of the subnetworks. Each of the subnetworks is configured to receive an output generated by a preceding subnetwork in the sequence, process the output through a plurality of parallel 3D convolution layer paths of varying convolution volume, process the output through a parallel pooling path, and concatenate output of the 3D convolution layer paths and the pooling path to generate an output representation from each of the subnetworks. Following processing the data through the subnetworks, the method includes processing the output of a last one of the subnetworks in the sequence through a vertical pooling layer to generate an output and classifying the received 3D data based upon the generated output.
US11416741B2
A technique for constructing a model supporting a plurality of domains is disclosed. In the technique, a plurality of teacher models, each of which is specialized for different one of the plurality of the domains, is prepared. A plurality of training data collections, each of which is collected for different one of the plurality of the domains, is obtained. A plurality of soft label sets is generated by inputting each training data in the plurality of the training data collections into corresponding one of the plurality of the teacher models. A student model is trained using the plurality of the soft label sets.
US11416737B2
A neural processing unit (NPU), a method for driving an artificial neural network (ANN) model, and an ANN driving apparatus are provided. The NPU includes a semiconductor circuit that includes at least one processing element (PE) configured to process an operation of an artificial neural network (ANN) model; and at least one memory configurable to store a first kernel and a first kernel filter. The NPU is configured to generate a first modulation kernel based on the first kernel and the first kernel filter and to generate second modulation kernel based on the first kernel and a second kernel filter generated by applying a mathematical function to the first kernel filter. Power consumption and memory read time are both reduced by decreasing the data size of a kernel read from a separate memory to an artificial neural network processor and/or by decreasing the number of memory read requests.
US11416734B2
An integrated sensing system to perform multi-modality sensing of an environment. The integrated sensing system includes a first sensing element that generates a first modality sensing output of the environment, a first edge artificial intelligence (AI) engine that controls the first sensing element and generates a first data analysis result based on the first modality sensing output, a second sensing element that generates a second modality sensing output of the environment, a second edge AI engine that controls the second sensing element and generates a second data analysis result based on the second modality sensing output, and a computer processor that generates, using a central AI algorithm, a classification result of the environment based on the first data analysis result and the second data analysis result, where the computer processor is directly coupled to the first edge AI engine and the second edge AI engine.
US11416732B2
A system for simulating human-like affect-driven behavior includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing software code providing a virtual agent. The hardware processor executes the software code to identify a character assumed by the virtual agent and having a personality, a target state of motivational fulfillment, a baseline mood, and emotions. The software code identifies current physical and motivational fulfillment states, and currently active emotions of the character, and determines a current mood of the character based on the baseline mood and the currently active emotions. The software code further detects an experience by the character and plans multiple behaviors including a first behavior based on the experience and the current physical state, the second behavior based on the experience, the personality, the current mood, and the currently active emotions, and a third behavior based on the target and current states of motivational fulfillment.
US11416731B2
A method and an arrangement for detecting and counting articles are disclosed, performing the steps of: providing a detecting station arranged along a passageway for the articles, the detecting station being adapted to establish at least a scanning radiation beam at a cross section of the passageway; passing articles past the detecting station, the detecting station detecting an article upon sensing at least a partial interruption of the scanning radiation beam; and obtaining a count of the detected articles through the passageway, wherein the detecting station include first and second detecting assembly arranged at a predetermined distance from each other along the direction of travel of the articles, which first and second detecting assembly establish a respective scanning radiation beam on a first, respectively second scanning plane at a corresponding cross section of the passageway, and wherein at least a first predetermined reference section of the articles is detected at each scanning plane; a travelling speed of each article is calculated based on the time used by the at least one reference section of the article to travel the predetermined distance between the first and the second scanning planes; at least a second predetermined reference section of the articles, which is separate from the first reference section, is detected at least at one of the first and second scanning plane; and a count of the articles is obtained by calculating a length thereof from the calculated travelling speed and by calculating the time used by the article to cross at least one of said first and second scanning plane.
US11416723B2
An image processing apparatus configured to generate, using a target image data, multiple pieces of partial print data respectively for multiple partial printings such that, in a particular case where the color difference indicated by the evaluation value of the each of the partial images is larger than a particular reference value, a controller causes the image processing apparatus to identify, using the difference information, compensation target pixels including a pixel causing the color difference from among multiple pixels within the particular partial image, perform, using the difference information, a compensating process of converting a color of the compensation target pixel to a color of which color difference is small, and generate the partial print data using the particular partial image data to which the compensating process has been applied.
US11416718B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of computer, and discloses an item identification method and device based on vision and gravity sensing. The method comprises: identifying a collected item image, and acquiring a plurality of visual identification results corresponding to N times of pick-up and put-back behaviors, wherein each visual identification result corresponds to one time of pick-up and put-back behavior; acquiring a weight identification result corresponding to each weight change of M times of weight changes of items supported on a support; judging whether a total weight change value corresponding to M times of weight changes is consistent with the total weight value of the pick-up and put-back items corresponding to N times of pick-up and put-back behaviors or not; and if not, perfecting each visual identification result according to the M weight identification results to obtain the sum of identification items corresponding to N times of pick-up and put-back behaviors. The device comprises a visual identification module, a weight identification module, a judgment module and an obtaining module. Through the technical solution, the accuracy of the item identification is improved.
US11416704B2
Machine learning analysis of mass spectrometry spectra from human sweat samples is used to determine characteristics of interest such as age, ethnicity, gender drug use and disease state directly from the m/z data. This avoids the difficult problem of performing a full chemical analysis of human sweat samples to determine the characteristics of interest.
US11416696B2
A base station or handheld device can be equipped with a latch system or a multi-hinge arrangement for electrical contacts. The latch system can be adjustable between different latching configurations in which the base station and handheld device are retained together by different degrees. The multi-hinge arrangement can provide rotation about multiple axes to provide rolling contact between electrical contacts of the base station and the handheld device.
US11416689B2
The invention refers to a natural language processing system configured for receiving an input sequence ci of input words (v1, v2, . . . vN) representing a first sequence of words in a natural language of a first text and generating an output sequence of output words (, , . . . ) representing a second sequence of words in a natural language of a second text and modeled by a multinominal topic model, wherein the multinominal topic model is extended by an incorporation of language structures using a deep contextualized Long-Short-Term Memory model.
US11416684B2
Techniques are described for intelligently identifying concept labels for a set of multiple documents where the identified concept labels are representative of and semantically relevant to the information contained by the set of documents. The technique includes extracting semantic units (e.g., paragraphs) from the set of documents and determining concept labels applicable to the semantic units based on relevance scores computed for the concept labels. The technique includes determining an initial set of concept labels for the set of documents based on the applicable concept labels. The technique further includes obtaining a reference hierarchy associated with the reference set of concept labels and determining a final set of concept labels for the set of documents using a reference hierarchy, the initial set of concept labels, and the relevance scores. The technique includes outputting information identifying the final set of concept labels for the set of documents.
US11416676B2
Text messages are used to interact with objects in a spreadsheet. For example, text messages may be used to enter/receive data in the spreadsheet. One or more text messages may be associated with a spreadsheet. Text messages may be associated with cells, tables, charts and other objects of the spreadsheet. When the spreadsheet receives a text message, the text message is parsed and information that is contained within the text message is used to interact with one or more objects within the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet may also generate and send text messages that provide information about the spreadsheet and/or request information to be entered within the spreadsheet. For example, the spreadsheet may send out an update of one or more values/objects within a spreadsheet and/or send a request within a text message requesting information to update a table.
US11416669B2
System and method of providing layout information for generated images based on a hybrid application
One or more non-transitory computer readable recording mediums configured to store an application program including instructions, which when executed by an information processing device that has a display part, causes the information processing device to transmit, to a server device, identification information of an object when the object displayed on a screen is selected. The information processing device is further configured to receive layout information relating to arrangement of the object from the server device. The information processing device is further configured to display the object on a screen displayed on the display part by executing a native program included in the application program. The information processing device is further configured to display, when the layout information is received, an object based on the layout information instead of the object displayed by the native program, using a web browser embedded in the application program.
US11416667B2
Systems and methods are provided for modular loading of information on a user interface, comprising receiving, by a mobile service gateway, a request for access to a mobile application platform from a user device, transmitting, to an internal application programming interface (API) gateway, a request for a page layout associated with the mobile application platform, receiving, from the API gateway, the page layout associated with the mobile application platform, receiving one or more modules, assigning the one or more modules to the page layout, and displaying the one or more modules on the mobile application platform. The one or more modules may be developed using a fluent interface that is configured to extract data associated with a request for the one or more modules. Each module may be developed based on the extracted data.
US11416657B2
A computer-implemented method of simulating a vertically-oriented current distribution of current flowing through a plurality of layers of one or more three-dimensional conductors embedded in a shielded multi-layered dielectric includes the steps of dividing portions of the circuit into subsections, the portions containing z-directed current into rectangular prisms; independently modeling a current distribution within each subsection, and, specifically, within the rectangular prisms, independently modeling a basis function of linearly changing or uniform current along the z-axis; independently determining the fields resulting from such assumed basis functions; determining a voltage induced by such determined fields, corresponding to a transfer impedance or transfer admittance of the subsection; and calculating a current distribution in one or more conductors according to the transfer impedance or transfer admittance of each subsection and an assumed voltage across each subsection.
US11416654B2
An analysis apparatus is provided. The analysis apparatus includes a model deriver configured to generate an analytic model for predicting a result of a numerical analysis performed multiple times iterations for a component by using a plurality of analytic data used for the numerical analysis for the component, and a model analyzer configured to predict the result of the numerical analysis performed multiple times iterations for a design target component by using the analytic model.
US11416653B2
Systems and methods for generating a numerical model of the human head are provided. A numerical model may be created by generating a data array in a magnetic resonance modeling system, each cell of the array corresponding to a location in the head. The cells may be grouped into one or more regions, each group corresponding to a segment of the head. The cells of the array may be populated with values corresponding to tissue properties relevant to MR imaging. Tissue property values may be selected for each region based on one or more probability distributions. For each region and each tissue property, a value may be selected based on a corresponding probability distribution. Selected tissue property values may be input into cells in the array corresponding to the region with which the probability distribution is associated. The numerical model may be used as an input to an MRI simulator.
US11416649B2
A method of classifying design criteria includes receiving design criteria for a product part. The criteria comprise one or both of performance and manufacturing criteria. The design criteria are sorted into different classes of one or both of one or more objective functions and one or more constraints based on when they can be satisfied or optimized. Constraint violations are determined. A design workflow is produced to generate one or more designs of a part to comply with one or more of satisfying constraints and optimizing objective functions.
US11416647B2
A method of generating a tessellated output file comprising receiving a computer-aided design (CAD) model file defining a CAD model including a plurality of vertices, a plurality of curves, a plurality of surfaces, and at least one volume; generating base polygon data defining the CAD model for additive manufacturing, the base polygon data including a plurality of connected polygons, each polygon including a plurality of nodes, a plurality of edges, and a face; generating data for a vertex metadata container including a listing of CAD model vertices and one polygon node associated with each CAD model vertex; generating data for a curve metadata container including a listing of CAD model curves and at least one polygon edge associated with each CAD model curve; and generating data for a surface metadata container including a listing of CAD model surfaces and at least one polygon face associated with each CAD model surface.
US11416646B2
An apparatus for designing a structural product includes memory to store computer-readable program code for an integrated development environment to establish a digital thread in a lifecycle of the structural product, and processing circuitry to execute the computer-readable program code. The apparatus is thereby caused to generate a graphical user interface from which the integrated development environment is accessible to cause the apparatus to generate an electromagnetic effects (EME) model of the structural product from authoritative data including a solid model of the structural product, and parameterize the EME model with one or more electrical properties. The apparatus is caused to produce a computational electromagnetics (CEM) model of the structural product from the parameterized EME model, perform a CEM analysis from the CEM model to generate a corresponding solution is generated, and post-process the corresponding solution.
US11416643B2
Provided are embodiments for a system for designing a layout for a smoke detection system, the system include a storage medium, the storage medium being coupled to a computing engine. The computing engine is configured to receive one or more inputs, model transport and dispersion of smoke in an environment based on the one or more inputs, wherein the model is based on a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) function, and detect the smoke using a plurality of probes. The computing engine is also configured to define a layout of the smoke detectors based on the smoke detectors being able to detect the smoke in the environment, and provide a map of the smoke detectors for the layout. Also provided are embodiments for a method to design a layout for a smoke detection system.
US11416641B2
The technology disclosed teaches incident-driven and user-targeted data loss prevention that includes a CASB controlling exfiltration of sensitive content in documents stored on cloud-based services in use by organization users, by monitoring manipulation of the documents. CASB identifies the cloud-based services that the particular user has access to and at least one document location on the cloud-based services to inspect for sensitive documents, in response to receiving an indication that user credentials have been compromised. The CASB performs deep inspection of documents identified as stored at the location and detects at least some sensitive documents. Based on the detected sensitive documents, the CASB determines data exposure for the organization due to the compromised credentials of the particular user. The disclosed technology also teaches controlling infiltration of contaminating content on cloud-based services in use by users of an organization by monitoring content deposited to the cloud-based services.
US11416626B2
A method comprises: maintaining a database (120, 130) of access control events; dividing a portion (138) of the database into shares (140A, 140B, 140C); passing the respective shares to respective third party servers (44A, 44B, 44C); processing the shares in the respective third party servers; passing output of the processing to a further server (40) in common; and processing the output on the further server.
US11416625B2
Systems and methods for protecting cryptographic keys stored in a non-volatile memory. An example method may comprise: storing a device root key in a non-volatile memory; storing a volatile key in a volatile memory; storing a masked cryptographic key in the non-volatile memory, wherein the masked cryptographic key is produced by combining a cryptographic key and the device root key; storing a masked device root key in the non-volatile memory, wherein the masked root key is produced by combining the device root key and the volatile key; and erasing the device root key from the non-volatile memory.
US11416623B2
A computer-implemented method for generating penetration tests automatically includes parsing an existing system test case, and identifying a particular program call in the system test case. The particular program call can require a particular data access authorization. The method further includes, in response to the system test case including the particular program call, generating a penetration test using a predetermined attack vector. The method further includes executing the penetration test and detecting an unauthorized access being performed during the penetration test. Further, the method includes responsively, sending a notification that identifies the particular program call.
US11416621B2
Methods, systems, and devices for authenticating software images are described. Software images may include different portions (e.g., different versions, different users) that may be authenticated using hashes associated with an underlying data structure of the portion of the software image. In some examples, hashes (e.g., first hashes) associated with the software image may be generated and stored using a tree structure, such that a previous hash may be used when calculating a hash associated with a new portion of the software image. To authenticate a portion of the software image, a command may be issued, and a second hash may be calculated using the current data structure of the software image. The second hash may be compared to the associated first hash, and the software image may be authenticated based on the hashes matching.
US11416610B2
A threat information evaluation apparatus that evaluates threat information includes an allocation unit that allocates threat information in an input threat information list to a security operator or an evaluation unit, and an evaluation unit that evaluates the threat information allocated to the evaluation unit. The allocation unit calculates an estimation accuracy on the basis of evaluation performed by the evaluation unit and evaluation determined by the security operator, and allocates the threat information on the basis of the estimation accuracy.
US11416602B2
An embodiment of a method of providing identity services includes: receiving identity data for an individual for which the identity provider has provided an identity; generating a transaction to store an identifier representing the identity data in a data structure on a blockchain of a distributed system; sending the transaction to at least one node of the distributed system; and generating an identity token incorporating the identifier representing the identity data. An embodiment of a method of verifying an identity includes: receiving data extracted from the identity token, wherein the extracted data includes an identifier representing the identity data; determining whether a data structure containing the extracted identifier representing the identity data is stored on a blockchain of a distributed system; and outputting an indication of a validity of an identity associated with the identity data based on the determination.
US11416598B2
Implementations of data security technologies are disclosed. In an implementation, a plurality of feature points of a user-selected image are determined. A first plurality of interactive operations performed on at least a portion of the plurality of feature points by a user are detected during lock screen passcode set up of a mobile computing device. The first plurality of interactive operations are stored. The user-selected image is displayed on a lock screen when the mobile computing device is in a locked state. A second plurality of interactive operations on a touchscreen of the mobile computing device are detected when the mobile computing device is in the locked state, and the mobile computing device is unlocked if the second plurality of interactive operations match the first plurality of interactive operations.
US11416587B1
A data security server or system may be installed or placed into network to perform data security and network monitoring and analysis functions. The data security server may operate an isolated computing instance or engine, such as a software container engine. A computing resource service provider may send commands to the data security server to provision a variety of data security and monitoring applications in isolated software containers of the data security server. The data security server, via the data security and monitoring applications, may obtain copies of traffic going into and out of the network, and analyze the traffic to produce security data. The security data may be uploaded to the service provider for storage and retrieval.
US11416583B2
Provided are techniques for automated software application license usage. Global detection results that indicate, for each of a plurality of end user computers, one or more installed software applications, one or more running software applications, and a user account. Unique pairs are identified using the global detection results, wherein each pair of the unique pairs comprises a software application name for a software application and a user name for a user. For a unique pair, a query is run against a user registry to get a list of user groups that the user name is a member of, a user group is selected that corresponds to the software application name, and a number of users in the selected user group is designated as a license demand for authorized users for the software application. Then, based on the global detection results and the license demand, one or more recommendations are provided.
US11416580B2
An apparatus to facilitate matrix multiplication operations. The apparatus comprises multiplication hardware to operate in a dot product mode, wherein a multiplication stage included in the multiplication hardware is configured as a dot product of a number of bit vectors (N) to perform N×N multiplication operations on a plurality of multiplicands and perform addition operations on results of the N×N multiplication operations.
US11416577B2
A declarative mechanism is used to manage large documents within a repository. The large documents are sectioned into subdocuments that are linked together by a parent document. The combination of the parent document and subdocument is referred to as a compound document. There are multiple options for configuring rules to break up a source document into a compound document and naming the subdocuments. The compound documents may be queried using statements that treat the compound document as a single XML document, or the parent document of a subdocument may be queried and treated independently. Access control and versioning can be applied at the finer granularity of the subdocument.
US11416564B1
Embodiments disclose a system that allows for improved generation of web requests for scraping that, because of the nature of the requests and time and manner they are sent out, appear more organic, as in human generated, than conventional automated scraping systems. The system then manages how a client request to scrape a target website is made to the site, masking the request in a manner that makes it appear to the Web server as if the request is not generated by an automated system. In this way, by appearing more organic, Web servers may be less likely to block requests from the disclosed system or may take longer to block requests from the disclosed system. By avoiding Web servers blocking requests and extending the lifetime of IP proxies before they are blocked, embodiments can use a limited IP proxy address space more efficiently.
US11416563B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a query language for selecting and addressing resources are disclosed. Records are stored in a data store. The records comprise attribute data descriptive of resources managed by a provider network. The data store is queried to select one or more records matching one or more values of the attribute data. The query is expressed using a query language. A resource group is determined based (at least in part) on the query. The resource group comprises one or more resources corresponding to the one or more records selected by the query.
US11416554B2
A method of generating search results, comprising; receiving, by a computing system, an instruction to generate search results relating to a SKU stored in a database; extracting, by the computing system, a context based on information relating to the SKU; generating, by the computing system, a dynamic search string, by: generating a key based on the instruction; identifying a dictionary based on the context, the dictionary containing a plurality of dictionary term; and generating the dynamic search string by determining the dictionary term corresponding to the key; searching, by the computing system, using the dynamic search string, in content data; returning results from the content data matching the dynamic search string; and generating for display on a client device, the results.
US11416553B2
Technology is described for using spatial analysis of data objects associated with a multi-dimensional virtual environment to organize computational units in a distributed computing system. The data objects may be grouped together using spatial location information and collections of data objects may be treated as processing partitions (i.e., sub-divisions of the entire group of data objects). A mapping may be created between the data objects and processing partitions for processing applications which process data objects assigned to a processing partition. The processing partitions may be defined, in part, according to how the data objects are grouped together spatially. The processing partitions may be load-balanced across hardware hosts in the distributed computing system.
US11416552B2
A graph updating device includes: a K neighbor vertex search unit that searches for a K neighbor vertex set of an added vertex in a neighbor graph on the basis of the neighbor graph and an object added to the neighbor graph as an added vertex and outputs the K neighbor vertex set; a vertex selection unit that selects a vertex candidate set on the basis of the neighbor graph, the added vertex, and the K neighbor vertex set of the added vertex and outputs the vertex candidate set, the vertex candidate set being a set of vertices that is present in the neighbor graph and possibly contains the added vertex in a K neighbor vertex set thereof; and a neighbor graph updating unit that reconstructs a K neighbor vertex set related to all vertices of the neighbor graph using K neighbor vertex sets of respective vertices of the vertex candidate set and adds the K neighbor vertex set of the added vertex to the reconstructed K neighbor vertex set to generate an updated neighbor graph.
US11416549B2
A computer implemented method of storing a data object in a computer memory, wherein the data object is stored at a location in an object store as a portion of the memory, the location being determined by a hashing process based on a generated hash key, the memory further storing: a set of binary words in which each bit of each word identifies an occupancy state of a location in the object store such that an occupancy state of all locations is stored in the set of binary words; and a truncated hash key set storing, for each occupied location in the object store, a truncated hash key for a data object stored at the location, wherein the hashing process uses linear probing in which an occupancy of the location in the object store for storage of the data object is determined, wherein the occupancy is determined by reference to the set of binary words, and the linear probing further determines identity of the data object and an object stored in an occupied location, the identity being determined based on a comparison of the hash key for the data object and a truncated hash key for the occupied location.
US11416547B2
A method is provided for selecting a query execution plan, including: receiving an XML document including a plurality of root nodes and a plurality of leaf nodes; determining root-to-leaf paths based on the plurality of root nodes and the plurality of leaf nodes; generating a prime number for each unique root-to-leaf path; calculating a number of instances in which each prime number appears; generating an XML synopsis based on the prime numbers and the number of instances; determining a comparison between a query tree pattern and the XML synopsis; determining a type of the query tree pattern; calculating for each query tree pattern plan, a selectivity estimate based on the comparison and the type of the query tree pattern; determining an optimal query execution plan based on the selectivity estimate; and selecting the optimal query execution plan for performing a query of the XML document based on the determination.
US11416540B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting recommended content based on social cues are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for presenting recommended content is provided comprising: receiving a query associated with a user; generating a list of relevant media content items based on the query; selecting items for presentation to the user based on social relevance scores based on social connections of the user that have consumed a relevant item and contextual relevance scores for each item; causing the selected items to be presented to the user; and indicating that a particular item was consumed by a particular social connection.
US11416535B2
A user interface (UI) for visualizing search data provides techniques for grouping and organizing aggregate data that shows the categories of topics included in search queries from a large number of individual users. Raw search queries are categorized into one of a number of topical categories. The search queries are assigned to a geographic location based on geolocations of computing devices generating the search queries. The UI presents a map that shows the number of search queries per topical category for each geographic location displayed in the current UI view. As a result of this UI design, a user can easily understand the interaction between geographic location and frequency of search query topics. Trends in the geographic distribution of searches and in the categories of topics searched are also easily understood from this UI design by changing the time range of the search queries displayed.
US11416529B2
A computer-implemented method, computerized apparatus and computer program product for minimum coordination passage scoring. Given a candidate passage in a document collection potentially matching a query received, a set of overlapping terms between the candidate passage and the query is determined. For each overlapping term in the set, a first measure of a weight of the term in the query, a second measure of a weight of the term in the candidate passage, and a third measure of a specificity of the term in the document collection are calculated. a function of the first and second measure is evaluated to obtain a value reflecting a condition on the relation therebetween. A minimum coordination score representing a relative similarity between the candidate passage and the query is determined based on the value and the first, second and third measures obtained for each of the overlapping terms.
US11416522B2
In various embodiments, a device classification service obtains data indicative of device attributes of a plurality of devices. The device classification service forms, based on the obtained data indicative of the device attributes, a concept graph that comprises nodes that represent different sets of the device attributes. The device classification service determines, by analyzing the concept graph, a relevance score for each of the device attributes that quantifies how relevant that attribute is to classifying a device by its device type. The device classification service uses the relevance scores for the device attributes to cluster the plurality of devices into device type clusters by their device attributes.
US11416518B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for employing machine learning concepts to accurately predict categories for unseen data assets, present the same to a user via a user interface for review, and assign the categories to the data assets responsive to user interaction confirming the same.
US11416514B2
Systems and methods for preparing and analyzing data related to geo-spatial properties. A system generates from a first data source, based on an ontology, a geographic dataset including first data objects representative of first data from the first data source and at least one geo-spatial reference based on respective location information from the first data source that corresponds to the first data. The system can also generate a vector map data tile layer based on the ontology using the geographic dataset and including vector map data tiles, having map geometry data linked to the first data objects by a geo-spatial reference, and corresponding to a portion of a geographic area represented by the vector map data tile layer. In response to requests from the front-end system application for first data related to a geo-spatial feature, tiles can be provided and first data corresponding to selected geo-spatial references can be displayed.
US11416513B2
A method includes receiving a query that identifies an entity, obtaining a first set of entity records responsive to the query, wherein each record of the first set of entity records comprises one or more visual objects responsive to the query, obtaining a second set of entity records responsive to the query, wherein each record in the second set of entity records includes an entity score describing the entity that is associated with a period of time when the one or more visual objects were generated, executing computer program code correlating the first set of entity records with the second set of entity records, executing computer program code that uses the second set of entity records with which the first set of entity records is correlated to enhance the first set of entity records, and generating visual snapshot rendering data based on the enhanced first set of entity records.
US11416509B2
In some aspects, a computing system can receive, from a client device, a request to perform an analytical operation that involves a query regarding a common entity type. The computing system can extract a query parameter having a particular standardized entity descriptor for the common entity type and parse a transformed dataset that is indexed in accordance with standardized entity descriptors. The computing system can match the particular standardized entity descriptor from the query to records from the transformed dataset having index values with the particular standardized entity descriptor. The computing system can retrieve the subset of the transformed dataset having the index values with the particular standardized entity descriptor. In some aspects, the computing system can generate the transformed dataset by performing conversion operations that transform records in a data structure by converting a set of different entity descriptors into a standardized entity descriptor for the common entity type.
US11416506B2
Facilitating temporal data management for anomalous state detection in data centers is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise performing a process of extraction, transformation, and loading of data from log files into a telemetry data store. The data can be loaded into the telemetry data store as telemetry data. The operations also can comprise dividing the telemetry data into first telemetry data and second telemetry data. The first telemetry data can comprise telemetry data that does not satisfy a defined quality level. The second telemetry data can comprise telemetry data that satisfies the defined quality level. Further, the operations can comprise removing the first telemetry data from the telemetry data store and outputting the second telemetry data based on a request for the second telemetry data.
US11416502B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for mining offline resources. The method includes: acquiring at least two pieces of user search log information; acquiring a user demand characteristic set according to a search formula included in the user search log information, the user demand characteristic set including a keyword set; and matching the user demand characteristic set with a defined offline resource set, to acquire offline resource information corresponding to the user demand characteristic set.
US11416495B2
Embodiments minimize downtime involved in moving a PDB between CDBs by allowing read-write access to the PDB through most of the moving operation, and by transparently forwarding connection requests, for the PDB, from the source CDB to the destination CDB. The files of a source PDB are copied from a source CDB to a destination CDB, during which the source PDB may be in read-write mode. The source PDB is then closed to write operations so that changes to the source PDB cease. Another round of recovery is performed on the PDB clone, which applies all changes that have been performed on the source PDB during the copy operation and the PDB clone is opened for read and write operations. Forwarding information is registered with the source location, which information is used to automatically forward connection requests, received at the source location for the moved PDB, to the destination location.
US11416491B1
A method and a content management system (CMS) that enable storage and retrieval of structured content are disclosed. In one example, CMS includes means for configuring a content project. The content project includes a content model, and the content model defines a plurality of content types for the content project. The CMS includes a plurality of content entries defined according to the content types. Each content entry is structured in accordance with a given content type from which the content entry is defined. Multiple content entries are defined from a given content type. The CMS includes at least one tag configured to be set in association with any of the plurality of content entries. The method includes means for exposing a content delivery API (CDA) configured to enable, through a single API call to the CDA that references the tag, retrieval of the content entries across the plurality of content types that have the tag set in association therewith.
US11416489B2
According to embodiments, a database server instance may generate group-by placement (GBP) states that define potential GBP transformations for a query in which some aggregate tables are included in the GBP view and other aggregate tables are not. Such states are referred to herein as relaxed-C states. To rewrite a query based on a selected relaxed-C GBP state such that the rewritten query is semantically equivalent to the original query, any arithmetic expression within an aggregate expression of the query is normalized into terms, and the query rewrite is implemented on a term-specific basis. Specifically, aggregate function-specific query modification rules are applied to each term of the normalized arithmetic expression. The applied query modification rules dictate what is included in the GBP view and what is included in the outer portion of the rewritten query to ensure that the rewritten query is semantically equivalent to the original query.
US11416488B2
This disclosure proposes systems, methods, and apparatus that identify raw SQL queries that are likely to cause a double counting error, and if such a SQL query is identified, then convert the raw SQL query into SQL queries that account for and avoid double counting. In some embodiments, this process uses queries and subqueries that refer back to a common table expression (CTE) in order to reduce code length and increase query execution speed.
US11416480B2
A retrieval method including outputting a first retrieval result to a result area, the first retrieval result being obtained by referring to a first database based on a first retrieval query entered into a retrieval area, outputting a second retrieval result and the first retrieval result in the result area, the second retrieval result being obtained by referring the first database based on a second retrieval query in response to acquiring a delimiter character and the second retrieval query entered next to the first retrieval query in the retrieval area.
US11416472B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for generating medical research reports automatically collect data from a plurality of separate health data storage systems, standardize the received data to support at least a requested report type, apply one or more machine-learning quality control check to identify potentially inaccurate data included within the received data, and to generate the requested report based at least in part on the standardized, refined data. Moreover, one or more recommended additional reports supported by the refined data set is identified and recommended to a user based at least in part on user attributes and reports initially requested.
US11416471B2
Improved techniques and systems for storage, delivery and acquisition of digital assets stored in cloud data storage. Cloud data storage can be provided by a cloud data repository that is capable of storing digital data for various users. A given user can access cloud data storage from any of his/her authorized client devices via a network. A given client device can access not only locally stored digital assets but also remotely stored digital assets from cloud data storage. In one embodiment, downloads of digital assets resident in cloud data storage to client devices can be managed in view of available network performance. As one example, digital assets of differing quality levels can be downloaded in a manner dependent on network performance. As another example, locally stored digital assets of reduced quality can be upgraded (e.g., replaced) by higher quality versions in a manner dependent on network performance.
US11416470B2
Systems and methods provide multi-version concurrency control of database records with uncommitted transactions. The system and methods may include receiving a query regarding a transaction counter number. When a transaction header identifying data is updated with the assigned transaction counter number, the updated transaction header may be used in identifying data as an instance of multiversion concurrency control information by the received query. A key lookup may be performed, and when the key lookup encounters an uncommitted row for a transaction number, a corresponding transaction header identifying data to identify a data array element to determine whether the transaction number is committed, and determining the transaction counter number when the transaction number is committed. The transaction counter number may be stamped on the row version record when it is determined that the row is committed.
US11416468B2
A computer-implemented method for managing an index table associated with a data table includes obtaining an index entry associated with a key in the data table. The computer-implemented method further includes determining whether an index page associated with the index entry is in a buffer pool, wherein the buffer pool includes a plurality of index pages loaded from the index table and at least one temp index. The computer-implemented method further includes adding, in response to determining that the index page associated with the index entry is not in the buffer pool, the index entry into the at least one temp index. The computer-implemented method further includes consolidating the at least one temp index into the index table.
US11416457B2
Bias correcting system for small number estimators. A computer system includes a distinct value estimator configured to estimate a number of distinct values in a data set. The computer system includes a bias table for the estimator. The bias table includes entries with values corresponding to biases caused by the distinct value estimator correlated to values corresponding to numbers estimated. The entries in the table are optimized by having a set of entries with an optimized number of biases in the entries. The biases in the entries are associated with predetermined confidence intervals. The system includes a bias corrector configured to correct the number of distinct values in the multiset data estimated by the distinct value estimator set using values from the bias table to produce a corrected value. The system includes a user interface coupled to the bias corrector configured to output the corrected value to a user.
US11416447B2
In some examples, a computer system may receive a data object including object data. For example, the system may be one of three or more systems and each system may be located at a different respective geographic location. The system may determine a value representative of the object data content. The system may further determine a plurality of chunks by dividing the object data into a plurality of data chunks based on a total number of the systems and determining a parity chunk for the plurality of data chunks. The system may determine a respective role value corresponding to each of the systems, and may send individual ones of the chunks to respective ones of the systems based on the role value and the value representative of the object data content. In some examples, each system may perform data deduplication independently of the other systems based on received chunks.
US11416446B2
Support is provided for remote monitoring and management of non-standard devices of an IHS (Information Handling System) that are not supported by a remote management interface, such as the Redfish management interface. The IHS may be configured for remote management of a non-standard device as part of the manufacture of the IHS. Software for management of the non-standard device is validated against a checksum stored to the IHS during its manufacture to confirm the software for managing the non-standard device has not been altered. If the software is validated, the software is used to initialize a plugin for management of the non-standard device. Data collected by the plugin from monitoring of the non-standard device is provided to a remote access controller of the IHS and the remote access controller issues commands to the non-standard device via the plugin.
US11416445B2
In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method and system for implementing a dynamic content type (DCT) in a content management system. More specifically, embodiments of the technology relate to using a DCT in order to change and/or extend the functionality of the content management system.
US11416442B2
An integrated circuit includes a memory configured to store a plurality of functions; a mapping interface configured to perform a mapping from a received first signal to a first function of the plurality of functions; and a state machine configured to, in response to said mapping, execute the first function; wherein the integrated circuit is arranged to, in dependence on the execution of the first function at the state machine, modify said mapping between the first signal and the first function so as to re-map the first signal to a second function of the plurality of functions such that, on receiving a subsequent first signal, the state machine is configured to execute the second function.
US11416436B2
A device is provided having a communication interface and a Fountain code decoding unit, set up to reconstruct a configuration data record from a plurality of data packets received via the communication interface, wherein the device is set up to configure or to reconfigure itself using the reconstructed configuration data record.
US11416434B2
An information handling system includes a host bus adaptor (HBA) that receives a secured media device, and a processor that executes an operating system. In response to the operating system being booted, the baseboard management controller detects a hot plug insertion of the secure media device into the information handling system. The baseboard management controller retrieves a key for the secured media device. In response to the retrieving of the key, the baseboard management controller unlocks the secured media device. The baseboard management controller triggers an enumeration of the secured media device. In response to the trigger, a host bus adaptor driver of the processor enumerates the secured media device.
US11416433B2
The performance of a wireless dock can be enhanced when a USB mass storage device is connected to the wireless dock. Filter drivers can be loaded on the USB stacks of a computing device and the wireless dock to perform functionality for reducing the number of communications that are sent over a wireless network when a USB mass storage device is connected to the computing device via the wireless dock. This reduction in the number of communications can be accomplished without jeopardizing data integrity or compliance with governing protocols.
US11416432B2
A high speed intelligent network recorder for recording a plurality of flows of network data packets into and out of a computer network over a relevant data time window is disclosed. The high speed intelligent network recorder includes a printed circuit board; a high speed network switching device mounted to the printed circuit board; and an X column by Y row array of a plurality of intelligent hard drives with micro-computers mounted to the printed circuit board and coupled in parallel with the high speed network switching device.
US11416427B2
Information processing is disclosed. For instance, a first polling interval between a current polling operation and a previous polling operation is polled, the first polling interval indicating a time period from an end of the previous polling operation to a start of the current polling operation. An execution status of the current polling operation is obtained, the execution status indicating whether an object to be polled for the current polling operation is obtained. Further, based on the first polling interval and the execution status, a second polling interval is determined between the current polling operation and the next polling operation, the second polling interval indicating a time period from an end of the current polling operation to a start of the next polling operation. In this way, the solution can provide a stable and efficient adaptive polling.
US11416426B2
A memory device includes an input/output circuit configured to receive a status read command from a memory controller, a toggle counter configured to count a number of toggles of a signal received from the memory controller, and a status register configured to store status information of the memory device and configured to output the status information to the input/output circuit. The memory device also includes a status output controller configured to determine whether the number of toggles counted by the toggle counter corresponds to a reference number of toggles and configured to control the status register to transmit the status information to the memory controller through the input/output circuit, in response to the status read command.
US11416421B2
A context-based protection system uses tiered protection structures including master protection units, shared memory protection units, a peripheral protection units to provide security to bus transfer operations between central processing units (CPUs), memory array or portions of arrays, and peripherals.
US11416419B2
A method and apparatus of protecting a memory from a write attack includes dividing a cacheline of memory into a plurality of sub-blocks. A codeword is generated from at least one sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks and a complement of the at least one sub-block. One of the generated codewords is selected, wherein the selected codeword is used for storage in memory.
US11416418B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing user authorizations for blockchain-based services. One of the methods includes: at a service platform, receiving, from a computing device associated with a user, an encryption key and data for storage on a blockchain, wherein the data includes public data and private data, and the encryption key encrypts the private data; storing the encryption key and an identifier (ID) of the data in a cache storage dedicated to storing smart contract data for executing a smart contract; and invoking an application programming interface (API) to enable a blockchain node to initiate a consensus algorithm to record the data and the ID of the data on a blockchain.
US11416417B2
A method is provided that includes reading data in a storage medium, detecting, during the reading of the data in the storage medium, by a controller a change in an encryption/decryption scheme used to read and write the data in the storage medium, in response to detecting the change in encryption/decryption scheme in the data, causing, by the controller, a logical block address to return an indication of being written in zeros when a physical block address associated with the logical block address encrypted using an first encryption/decryption scheme, and causing, by the controller, a write channel to write zeroes using a second encryption/decryption scheme to the physical block address.
US11416413B1
This disclosure provides techniques hierarchical address virtualization within a memory controller and configurable block device allocation. By performing address translation only at select hierarchical levels, a memory controller can be designed to have predictable I/O latency, with brief or otherwise negligible logical-to-physical address translation time. In one embodiment, address transition may be implemented entirely with logical gates and look-up tables of a memory controller integrated circuit, without requiring processor cycles. The disclosed virtualization scheme also provides for flexibility in customizing the configuration of virtual storage devices, to present nearly any desired configuration to a host or client.
US11416412B2
A method of managing data in a storage device is provided. The storage device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips each including a plurality of pages. A first data object is received from an external host device. The first data object has an unfixed size and corresponds to a first logical address which is a single address. Based on determining that it is impossible to store the first data in a single page among the plurality of pages, a buffering policy for the first data object is set based on at least one selection parameter. While mapping the first logical address of the first data object and a first physical address of pages in which the first data object is stored, a first buffering direction representing the buffering policy for the first data object is stored with a mapping result.
US11416411B2
Methods and apparatus relating to predictive page fault handling. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a virtual address that triggered a page fault for a compute process, check a virtual memory space for a virtual memory allocation for the compute process that triggered the page fault and manage the page fault according to one of a first protocol in response to a determination that the virtual address that triggered the page fault is a last page in the virtual memory allocation for the compute process, or a second protocol in response to a determination that the virtual address that triggered the page fault is not a last page in the virtual memory allocation for the compute process. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11416404B2
There is provided a data processing apparatus comprising table circuitry to store a table that indicates, for a program counter value of an instruction that performs a memory access operation at a memory address, one or more offsets of the memory address and an associated confidence for each of the one or more offsets. Prefetch circuitry prefetches data based on each of the offsets in dependence on the associated confidence. Each of the offsets of the memory address is dynamically determined.
US11416390B2
A first object at a memory address is identified. A first index location in a bitmap that corresponds to that memory address is calculated. A bit is set at the first index location. A pointer to a child object within the first object is detected. A memory address of that child object is identified using the pointer. A second index location in the bitmap that corresponds to that memory address is calculated. A bit is set at the second index location. A bit is also set at a third index location, which is adjacent to the first index location.
US11416368B2
A system can monitor applications and analyze the metrics to determine if one or more of the applications are regressing or performing as expected. The metric analysis includes performing a first short term data analysis and, if data is not as expected, a second short term analysis based on machine learning-based pattern recognition machines. If the short-term analysis finds the metrics aren't as expected, a long-term analysis is performed. The long-term analysis can compare chunks of streaming metric data to cached metric blocks and historical data, and can include a concept drift analysis.
US11416357B2
In general, the invention relates to a method for managing data. The method includes detecting a fault domain failure in a fault domain of a plurality of fault domains, and in response to the detecting, initiating a rebuilding of data in a spare fault domain of using checkpoint metadata and slice metadata, wherein the data is a copy of data that was stored in the fault domain and wherein the spare fault domain is not one of the plurality of fault domains.
US11416353B2
An information handling system includes a memory device having a voltage regulator enabled by a command from a processor. The memory device provides an indication to a logic device that the voltage regulator successfully powered up the memory device. A failure to provide the indication within a time duration indicates that the voltage regulator failed to successfully power up the memory device. The logic device determines that the processor issued the first command, sends a second indication to the processor indicating that the first voltage regulator successfully powered up the first memory device when the first indication is received within the first time duration after determining that the processor issued the first command, and sends a third indication to the processor that the first voltage regulator failed to successfully power up the first memory device when the first indication is not received within the first time duration after determining that the processor issued the first command.
US11416335B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an input/output (I/O) gating circuit and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array is coupled to word-line and bit-lines and is divided into sub array blocks. The error correction circuit generates parity data based on main data using an error correction code (ECC). The control logic circuit controls the error correction circuit and the I/O gating circuit based on a command and address. The control logic circuit stores the main data and the parity data in (k+1) target sub array blocks in the second direction among the sub array blocks, and controls the I/O gating circuit such that a portion of the (k+1) target sub array blocks store both of a portion of the main data and a portion of the parity data.
US11416334B2
An apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU) core and a cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core. The cache subsystem includes a first memory, a second memory, and a controller coupled to the first and second memories. The controller is configured to receive a transaction from a master, the transaction directed to the first memory and comprising an address; re-calculate an error correcting code (ECC) for a line of data in the second memory associated with the address; determine that a non-correctable error is present in the line of data in the second memory based on a comparison of the re-calculated ECC and a stored ECC for the line of data; and in response to the determination that a non-correctable error is present in the line of data in the second memory, terminate the transaction without accessing the first memory.
US11416327B2
An information handling system may include at least one processor, and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The information handling system may be configured to: detect a problem during a boot of the information handling system; transmit telemetry data associated with the problem to at least one remote telemetry server, wherein the at least one remote telemetry server is configured to analyze the telemetry data and other telemetry data from other information handling systems; receive resolution instructions from the at least one remote telemetry server; and implement a resolution of the detected problem based on the resolution instructions.
US11416322B2
A method and associated systems use DVFS performance-scaling technology to satisfy quality-of-service performance requirements when recovering a job that had been scheduled to run on a failed virtual machine. A Buffer Time specifies a duration of time remaining, at the time of failure, for the job to complete in order to satisfy the quality-of-service requirements. Depending on relative durations of time required to repair the failed virtual machine, to perform the job on an unscaled active-mode virtual machine, and to transfer the job to another virtual machine, the system determines whether to repair the failed virtual machine or to transfer the job. If the latter, the system then determines whether to select a destination virtual machine provisioned on a DVFS-compliant platform and, if so, the system scales the DVFS-compliant platform's performance to a level sufficient to complete the job within the Buffer Time.
US11416317B2
Embodiments are directed to managing operations over a network. An event associated with network operations may be provided. A hash function may generate key values that correspond to words included in message information associated with the event. A message vector may be generated based on the key values such that each component in the message vector that corresponds to a key value is set to one. Group vectors may be determined such that each group vector is associated with an event group. Similarity scores may be generated for the group vectors based on the message vector and the group vectors such that each group vector corresponds to a separate similarity score. If the similarity scores exceed a threshold, the event may be associated with event groups associated with a group vector that correspond similarity score that exceeds the threshold.
US11416311B2
Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can reduce scheduling delays due to concurrent processing requests, as may involve VSyncs in multi-streaming systems. The software synchronization signals can be staggered relative to each other by offsetting an initial synchronization signal. These software synchronization signals can be readjusted over time such that each synchronization signal maintains the same relative offset, as may be with respect to other applications or containers.
US11416307B2
A device and method for automatically allocating computing resources is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a task from a client, the task including a plurality of instances and a resource description manifest representing resource needs of the plurality of instances; determining an initial computing resource allocation of a cluster of machines based on the resource description manifest, wherein the initial computing resource allocation is determined based on the resource needs included in the resource description manifest; determining that the resource description manifest indicates a request to utilize an actual computing resource allocation in excess of the initial computing resource allocation; configuring a plurality of actual computing resources to process the plurality of instances, wherein the plurality of actual computing resources are configured to utilize resources in excess of the initial computing resource allocation; and executing the plurality of instances using the plurality of actual computing resources.
US11416300B2
A system comprising an accelerator circuit comprising an accelerator function unit to implement a first function, and one or more device feature header (DFH) circuits to provide attributes associated with the accelerator function unit, and a processor to retrieve the attributes of the accelerator function unit by traversing a device feature list (DFL) referencing the one or more DFH circuits, execute, based on the attributes, an application encoding the first function to cause the accelerator function unit to perform the first function.
US11416296B2
Selecting an optimal combination of cloud resources within budget constraints, by a processor. All possible combinations for cloud resource bundles are computed which are available for allocation. The possible combinations are filtered according to predetermined criteria. The filtered possible combinations are divided into a first set that satisfies an overall workload demand for resources and a second set that partially satisfies the overall workload demand for resources. A level of goodness may be calculated for one or both of the first and second sets, and resources may be allocated from the first or second set to a cluster according to the calculated level of goodness. In some embodiments, the level of goodness may be defined based on the relative desirability (i.e., a user's preference) of aspects such as compute power, cost of resources, and the distribution or co-location of respective resources of the cloud resource bundles.
US11416295B2
Technologies for providing efficient data access in an edge infrastructure include a compute device comprising circuitry configured to identify pools of resources that are usable to access data at an edge location. The circuitry is also configured to receive a request to execute a function at an edge location. The request identifies a data access performance target for the function. The circuitry is also configured to map, based on a data access performance of each pool and the data access performance target of the function, the function to a set of the pools to satisfy the data access performance target.
US11416287B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a coroutine framework for processing parallel tasks, a device, a medium and an unmanned vehicle. The method includes: switching a current coroutine to a target coroutine in response to a task switching instruction, in which, the coroutine is created at a user layer for processing a task, and the coroutine at the user layer is executed by a thread at a kernel layer; and saving context of a task processed by the current coroutine, and reading context of a task processed by the target coroutine, such that the thread at the kernel layer corresponding to the target coroutine processes the task based on the context of the target coroutine when executing the target coroutine.
US11416286B2
Aspects of the technology described herein can facilitate computing on transient resources. An exemplary computing device may use a task scheduler to access information of a computational task and instability information of a transient resource. Moreover, the task scheduler can schedule the computational task to use the transient resource based at least in part on the rate of data size reduction of the computational task. Further, a checkpointing scheduler in the exemplary computing device can determine a checkpointing plan for the computational task based at least in part on a recomputation cost associated with the instability information of the transient resource. Resultantly, the overall utilization rate of computing resources is improved by effectively utilizing transient resources.
US11416278B2
During operation, the system obtains hypervisor data for a set of virtual machines, wherein the hypervisor data was received from one or more hypervisors while the set of virtual machines was running on the hypervisors. The system also obtains operating system data for the set of virtual machines, wherein the operating system data was received from a set of operating systems while the set of operating systems was running on the set of virtual machines. Next, the system correlates hypervisor data for a virtual machine with corresponding operating system data for the virtual machine. Finally, the system presents the correlated hypervisor data and operating system data for the virtual machine to a user.
US11416276B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are set forth for receiving an image definition from a client device, the image definition identifying one or more packages to be deployed within an image, each of the one or more packages including an exploration and production computer program, automatically building an image using the image definition, the image including the one or more packages, and deploying an operating environment including an instance of the image.
US11416267B2
An accelerator loading apparatus obtains an acceleration requirement, where the acceleration requirement includes an acceleration function of a to-be-created virtual machine and acceleration performance of the to-be-created virtual machine. The accelerator loading apparatus determines a target accelerator that meets the acceleration function of the to-be-created virtual machine and the acceleration performance of the to-be-created virtual machine. The accelerator loading apparatus determines an image corresponding to the target accelerator, and sends an image loading command to a target host in which the target accelerator is located, where the image loading command is used to enable the target host to load the image for the target accelerator based on the image loading command.
US11416258B2
A method for debugging a processor which is executing vertices of a software application is described. Each vertex is assigned to a programming thread of the processor. The processor has debug hardware for raising exceptions in certain break conditions. The method comprises inspecting a vertex identifier, comparing the vertex identifier and raising an instruction exception event for the programming thread if the vertex identifier assigned to the thread matches the vertex break identifier in the debug hardware. Exceptions are raised based on identified vertices, rather than just individual instructions or instruction addresses.
US11416257B2
Branch prediction in an instruction using a tag orientation predictor (TOP) is described. When a branch instruction is hotly mis-predicted by a hybrid branch predictor, the branch is tracked over a longer time period using the TOP. Once the TOP has collected enough data to confidently predict a branch prediction, the TOP is used to override a branch prediction from the hybrid predictor when the TOP branch prediction.
US11416254B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing zero cycle load bypass operations are described. A system includes a processor with at least a decode unit, control logic, mapper, and free list. When a load operation is detected, the control logic determines if the load operation qualifies to be converted to a zero cycle load bypass operation. Conditions for qualifying include the load operation being in the same decode group as an older store operation to the same address. Qualifying load operations are converted to zero cycle load bypass operations. A lookup of the free list is prevented for a zero cycle load bypass operation and a destination operand of the load is renamed with a same physical register identifier used for a source operand of the store. Also, the data of the store is bypassed to the load.
US11416248B2
An apparatus and method for compressing floating-point values. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: instruction fetch circuitry to fetch instructions from a memory, the instructions including floating-point instructions; execution circuitry to execute the floating-point instructions, each floating-point instruction having one or more floating-point operands, each floating-point operand comprising an exponent value and a significand value; floating-point compression circuitry to compress a plurality of the exponent values associated with a corresponding plurality of the floating-point operands, the floating-point compression circuitry comprising: base generation circuitry to evaluate the plurality of the exponent values to generate a first base value; and delta generation circuitry to determine a difference between the plurality of exponent values and the first base value and to generate a corresponding first plurality of delta values, wherein the floating-point compression circuitry is to store the first base value and the corresponding first plurality of delta values as a plurality of compressed exponent values.
US11416233B1
Embodiments of systems and methods for verification of software packages prior to deployment on an Information Handling System (IHS) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) having computer-executable instructions for creating a partition having a unique name in response to a request from the IHS. The BMC then transmits the unique name to the IHS, and exposes the created partition to the IHS in which a software upgrade package image is copied to the partition when the exposed partition becomes available to the IHS. The BMC may then deploy the software package on the BMC, wherein the software package comprises executable instructions for operating the BMC.
US11416219B2
Disclosed is a true random number generator and a method for generating a true random number. The true random number generator includes a sampling circuit and a random number generating circuit. The sampling circuit is configured to sample N voltage(s) of N capacitors according to a clock signal and thereby generate N sample value(s), in which the N is a positive integer. The random number generating circuit is configured to generate a random number according to at least a part of the N sample value(s).
US11416216B2
Semantic consolidation of data is disclosed. One example is a system including a data processor, a semantic relations module, and a consolidation module. The data processor identifies at least two data objects, each data object including a plurality of data elements. The semantic relations module identifies, via a processor, semantically similar data elements of the plurality of data elements. The consolidation module merges the identified semantically similar data elements via the processor, and generates a consolidated data object based on the merged data elements.
US11416213B2
An electronic device includes a microphone, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores an application for monitoring user information, and the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to record a plurality of parameters associated with the user information in the application when a predefined event occurs to record a first parameter and the first parameter is not recorded in the application, to output a message for obtaining the first parameter, to receive a user response associated with the first parameter, to transmit data associated with the user response to an external server, to receive a first response from the external server, and to record the first parameter in the application by allowing the electronic device to have information about sequences of states of the electronic device. The first response includes information about sequences of states of the electronic device for recording the first parameter in the application.
US11416212B2
Techniques and architectures may be used to provide an environment for a speech-based intelligent user assistant (IUA) having a flexible operating system that is based, at least in part, on the context of interaction of a user of a computing system with the computing system. Such a flexible operating system may allow for non-obtrusive communication of the IUA with the user. Thus, for example, a user may communicate with the IUA without interrupting their other activities on the computer, such as playing a video game.
US11416210B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include managing playback devices with limited capabilities and playback devices with advanced capabilities by way of a control device. In some embodiments, the control device may control a first playback device by way of a legacy control application including a first control interface comprising first playback controls operable to control the first playback device in performing a set of legacy playback functions. The mobile device may control a second playback device by way of a production control application including a second control interface comprising second playback controls operable to control the second playback device in performing a set of production playback functions.
US11416205B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow activation of, and intuitive interactions with, a companion-display mode for an electronic device. An example method includes: receiving an instruction to operate the first electronic device in a companion-display mode in which user interfaces generated by a second electronic device are displayed at the first electronic device. In response to receiving the instruction to operate in the companion-display mode, the method also includes: concurrently displaying, on the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device: a user interface generated by the second electronic device; and a plurality of user interface objects, including a first user interface object associated with a first function of a plurality of functions for controlling the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device while it is operating in the companion-display mode, and a second user interface object associated with a second function of the plurality of functions.
US11416200B2
The disclosure relates to a display method and a display system. The display method includes: connecting a plurality of display devices in series with each other, the plurality of display devices including a main display device and at least one slave display device, the main display device having EDID; setting the connection order of the display device; correspondingly changing the EDID of the main display device according to the connection order of the display device; configuring the main display device to receive the display image according to the changed EDID; and configuring the display device to perform an image segmentation operation on the display image according to the connection order to respectively display multiple segmented regions of the display image.
US11416199B2
A system for displaying information is intended to be incorporated in a motor vehicle including at least a dashboard, a central console, a display screen on the central façade and a front windscreen. The display system includes a manual or automatic selection device for selecting among at least three display modes each containing information, being progressively off-centre with respect to the vehicle.
US11416195B2
The present invention relates to method and system for providing series of serialized unique information on a substrate together with product related information. The method comprising steps of: printing a first product relevant information on the substrate using a first set of printer device (15); storing said first product relevant information a data storage device (20); providing said series of serialized unique information from a source of serialized unique information, using a second set of printer device (30) or marking device on the substrate; storing information about the serialized unique information to a data storage device (20); printing a second set of product related information on the substrate using a printer device (42); and analysing the printed serialized unique information and the first and the second set of product related information on the substrate when formed to a package.
US11416182B2
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of performing appropriate processing under a predetermined usage agreement. To this end, the information processing apparatus repeatedly communicates with a server saving agreement information and obtains the agreement information in a case where the information processing apparatus is in a second state in which a predetermined service is available. In this case, the information processing apparatus switches from the second state to a first state in which the predetermined service is unavailable based on a time and date at which the communication with the server fails.
US11416176B2
Systems and methods for distributed storage and processing systems using storage controllers for load sharing are described. A host processor may receive a function request that corresponds to a plurality of compute tasks, such as map compute tasks targeting data in local storage. The host processor may fetch the data from local storage devices through storage controllers. At least one storage controller, such as a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) interface controller, may be configured to execute overflow tasks for the function request. Another storage controller may be configured for executing other processing and management activities, such as reduce compute tasks.
US11416165B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of implementing a neural network using in-memory, bit-serial, mathematical operations performed by a pipelined SRAM architecture (bit-serial PISA) circuitry disposed in on-chip processor memory circuitry. The on-chip processor memory circuitry may include processor last level cache (LLC) circuitry. The bit-serial PISA circuitry is coupled to PISA memory circuitry via a relatively high-bandwidth connection to beneficially facilitate the storage and retrieval of layer weights by the bit-serial PISA circuitry during execution. Direct memory access (DMA) circuitry transfers the neural network model and input data from system memory to the bit-serial PISA memory and also transfers output data from the PISA memory circuitry to system memory circuitry. Thus, the systems and methods described herein beneficially leverage the on-chip processor memory circuitry to perform a relatively large number of vector/tensor calculations without burdening the processor circuitry.
US11416156B2
A system, method, and machine-readable storage medium for restoring a data object for a specified active time period are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, by a storage device from a client, a request specifying an active time period for a data object to remain stored on an accessible tier. The method also includes determining, by the storage device, that the active time period has elapsed. The method further includes responsive to a determination that the active time period has elapsed, sending, by the storage device, a request to a server storing the data object to move the data object from the accessible tier to an archive tier. Data objects that are stored on the accessible tier are accessible by the client, and data objects that are stored on the archive tier are inaccessible by the client.
US11416155B1
Disclosed are systems and method for managing blocks of data and metadata. In an exemplary aspect, a method comprises receiving, by a first virtual block device on a computing device, a request from a file system. In response to identifying an indication that the request for a block of data, the method comprises accessing, by the first virtual block device, at least one backing block device dedicated to storing data to perform a requested operation on the block of data. In response to identifying an indication that the request for metadata, the method comprises instructing a second virtual block device to perform the requested operation on the metadata of the file system, wherein the second virtual block device accesses at least another one backing block device dedicated to storing metadata to perform the requested operation on the metadata of the file system and caches the metadata in Random Access Memory.
US11416151B2
An efficient mapping information management technology for non-volatile memory is disclosed. When a host requests to access data of a first logical address, a microprocessor of a controller of the non-volatile memory loads a first sub-mapping table from the non-volatile memory to a volatile memory. The microprocessor loads hierarchical pointer tables related to the first logical address into the volatile memory. Among the hierarchical pointer tables, each higher-level pointer table lists non-volatile memory physical addresses of lower-level pointer tables. A non-volatile memory physical address of the first sub-mapping table is obtained from a first pointer table according to a first index, for the microprocessor to load the first sub-mapping table from the non-volatile memory into the volatile memory for mapping information of the first logical address, and the first pointer table is in the lowest level among the hierarchical pointer tables loaded in the volatile memory.
US11416147B2
A method for protecting data in a storage system is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes detecting, by a first rack power controller, first battery-on status associated with a first uninterruptible power supply. The method further detects, by a second rack power controller, second battery-on status associated with a second uninterruptible power supply. The method communicates, from the first rack power controller to the second rack power controller, the first battery-on status. The method then triggers, by the second rack power controller, a dump of modified data from memory to more persistent storage upon detecting both the first battery-on status and the second battery-on status. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11416146B1
A memory structure with input-aware maximum multiply-and-accumulate value zone prediction for computing-in-memory applications includes a memory array, an input-aware zone prediction circuit and an analog-to-digital converter. An input-aware maximum partial multiply-and-accumulate value voltage generator is configured to generate a maximum partial multiply-and-accumulate value according to at least one input value. A prediction-aware global reference voltage generator is configured to generate a plurality of global reference voltages, a maximum reference voltage and a selected minimum reference voltage. A maximum partial multiply-and-accumulate value zone detector is configured to generate a zone switch signal by comparing the maximum partial multiply-and-accumulate value and the global reference voltages. The analog-to-digital converter is configured to convert an analog multiply-and-accumulate output value of the memory array to a digital multiply-and-accumulate output value according to the maximum reference voltage, the selected minimum reference voltage and the zone switch signal.
US11416144B2
A storage system and related method are for operating solid-state storage memory in a storage system. Zones of solid-state storage memory are provided. Each zone includes a portion of the solid-state storage memory. The zone has a data write requirement for the zone for reliability of data reads. The storage system adjusts power loss protection for at least one zone. The adjusting is based on the data write requirement for the zone and responsive to detecting a power loss.
US11416135B2
A constrained communication system may receive from a first user a plurality of constraints for a first constrained communication. A first constrained communication record is created based on the plurality of constraints. A first communication is generated based on the first constrained communication record. The first communication is provided to a second user. The second user provides response data and the underlying constrained communication is updated based on the response data.
US11416114B2
A mobile terminal and a control method therefor are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a body, an input unit configured to receive user input, a display coupled to the body to vary a display region viewed from a front face of the body according to switching between an enlarged display mode and a reduced display mode, and a controller. The controller receives a first signal in a state in which at least two applications are being executed in split regions of the display, controls output of an icon according to the first signal, controls selection of at least one region among the split regions based on a second signal for the icon, and controls a function of an application which is being executed in a selected region based on a third signal for the icon.
US11416109B2
A chat robot may be used to facilitate interaction with a user in the determination of whether to initiate and process a data subject access request (DSAR). At a DSAR submission webpage, the chatbot may interact with a user to determine the information the user is in need of and/or the actions that the user may take. The chatbot may provide the information desired by the user, avoiding the processing overhead of submission and fulfillment of a DSAR. The chatbot may also facilitate completion of a DSAR on behalf of the user when needed.
US11416101B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a housing including a first plate facing a first direction, the first plate including a fingerprint sensing area, a second plate facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side member interposed between the first and second plates, a touch screen display interposed between the first and second plates and having at least a portion exposed through the first plate of the housing, a fingerprint sensor interposed between the touch screen display and the second plate, and a processor connected to the fingerprint sensor. The processor may determine whether the fingerprint sensing area is contaminated and determine whether to register a fingerprint image captured by the fingerprint sensor based on whether the fingerprint sensing area is contaminated. In addition, it is possible to implement other various embodiment understood through the disclosure.
US11416098B2
A touch panel, a driving method thereof and a touch device are provided. The touch panel includes a plurality of electrode groups and a plurality of signal lines. In a first direction, the plurality of electrode groups are sequentially arranged and include a head electrode group arranged foremost; the plurality of signal lines include at least a first signal line and a second signal line; the head electrode group includes a first head electrode, a fourth head electrode, and a second head electrode and a third head electrode which are between the first head electrode and the fourth head electrode; the first head electrode and the fourth head electrode are electrically connected with the first signal line; the second signal line is only electrically connected with the second electrode alone.
US11416094B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display area in which an image is displayed and a peripheral area disposed outside of the display area, and a touch sensor disposed on the display panel. The touch sensor includes a plurality of sensor electrodes formed in a repeated arrangement of sensor patterns that forms a touch active area, a plurality of sensor wirings connected to the sensor electrodes and disposed outside of the touch active area, and at least one insulating layer overlapping the display area and the peripheral area. At least a portion of the sensor electrodes is formed over the display area and the peripheral area.
US11416093B2
A touch sensor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a substrate layer, sensing electrodes that are formed on the substrate layer, and a black matrix that is formed on the same layer as the sensing electrodes or on a lower portion of the sensing electrodes. It may be possible to prevent excessive thermal damage to the sensing electrode which may occur during forming the black matrix after the sensing electrode is formed.
US11416079B2
A method including capturing a series of image frames of a hand. The method includes generating a map of hand landmarks for each in the series of image frames. The method includes determining whether the maps of hand landmarks include at least: (i) a first map that matches a first reference map of hand landmarks representing a hand in substantially a start position of a snap motion and (ii) a subsequent, second map that matches a second reference map of hand landmarks representing a hand in a progressed (e.g., intermediate or end) position of a snap motion. The method includes determining that a finger-snap gesture is detected in response to determining that the first map and second map were generated from image frames captured within a snap time limit; and executing an action corresponding to a determination that a finger-snap gesture is detected in the series of image frames.
US11416077B2
A controller is configured to be coupled to a millimeter-wave radar mounted on a device, where the millimeter-wave radar includes a field of view in a direction away from the device. The controller is configured to: detect a presence of an object in a first range zone of a plurality of range zones of the field of view, where each range zone of the plurality of range zones respectively corresponds to different distance ranges relative to the device, and where each range zone is associated with a respective command database; determine a gesture signature based on detecting the presence of the object in the first range zone of the field of view; and cause execution of a command chosen from the respective command database associated with the first range zone as a function of the gesture signature.
US11416076B2
A finger-mounted device may include finger-mounted units. The finger-mounted units may each have a body that serves as a support structure for components such as force sensors, accelerometers, and other sensors and for haptic output devices. The body may have sidewall portions coupled by a portion that rests adjacent to a user's fingernail. The body may be formed from deformable material such as metal or may be formed from adjustable structures such as sliding body portions that are coupled to each other using magnetic attraction, springs, or other structures. The body of each finger-mounted unit may have a U-shaped cross-sectional profile that leaves the finger pad of each finger exposed when the body is coupled to a fingertip of a user's finger. Control circuitry may gather finger press input, lateral finger movement input, and finger tap input using the sensors and may provide haptic output using the haptic output device.
US11416075B1
A wearable device equipped with sensors or transducers capable of detecting a vibration propagating through two different mediums. In some embodiments, the two mediums are air and a surface contacted by a user. In such an embodiment, the sensors or transducers include a microphone and an accelerometer. In some embodiments, the device may perform some or all of the signal processing and/or logic used to determine that a contact occurred and the location of the contact using a processor programmed with a set of computer-executable instructions. In some embodiments, the device may transmit data or signals to a processor located in a different device, such as a mobile phone or artificial reality headset, for signal processing and/or the execution of logic.
US11416062B2
This disclosure disclose a terminal control method and a terminal. The method may include: when detecting that the front-facing camera is in a low power consumption mode, sending, by the second processor, a first message to the first processor, where the first message indicates that the front-facing camera is in the low power consumption mode; after receiving the first message, controlling, by the first processor, the front-facing camera to collect a low-power-consumption-mode image in the low power consumption mode; receiving, by the first processor, the low-power-consumption-mode image and identifying whether there are a predetermined quantity of consecutive low-power-consumption-mode images that include preset characteristic information, where the preset characteristic information is characteristic information indicating that a user currently needs to use the terminal; and adjusting, by the first processor, brightness of a screen of the terminal according to an identification result.
US11416061B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a terminal control method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: when a screen of a terminal is switched from a screen-on state to a screen-off state, detecting whether an enabling condition of a power saving mode is satisfied; and if the enabling condition of the power saving mode is satisfied, performing a power saving operation, where the power saving operation is used to reduce power consumption that occurs when an application program in the terminal runs in a background. In the embodiments of the present invention, power consumption in a screen-off state is reduced as much as possible without affecting normal use of a user.
US11416052B2
A power supply apparatus is electrically connected with a load and one of a second substrate, a third substrate and a fourth substrate each of which has a first locking portion. The power supply apparatus comprises a first substrate, a power distribution circuit and a position board. The first substrate comprises a first coupling portion and a second coupling portion. The power distribution circuit is disposed at the first substrate, receives the external electric power and converts it into a supplying power. The position board comprises a second locking portion that is coupled to the second coupling portion of the first substrate when the power supply apparatus is electrically connected with one of the second substrate and the third substrate. The first locking portion of one of the second substrate, the third substrate and the fourth substrate is coupled to the first coupling portion of the first substrate.
US11416048B2
First event information that is associated with an event that corresponds to a temperature of a memory sub-system is received. Whether the first event information associated with the event that corresponds to the temperature of the memory sub-system satisfies a first threshold condition is determined. Responsive to determining that the first event information associated with the event that corresponds to the temperature of the memory sub-system satisfies the first threshold condition, a thermoelectric component (TEC) is caused to change from an inactive state to an active state by decreasing a temperature at a bottom surface of the TEC that is coupled to the memory sub-system as a temperature at a top surface of the TEC increases.
US11416044B2
Brackets are provided for coupling a replaceable expansion card to an Information Handling System (IHS). The brackets include a riser card portion that receives a riser card that couples the expansion card to a motherboard connector of the IHS. The riser card includes pins that couple to the motherboard connector and a connector that receives the expansion card. The riser card portion of the bracket includes a first channel that receives the riser card orthogonal to the expansion card. A card-receiving portion of the bracket receives the expansion card that includes pins that couple to the riser card connector when the expansion card is inserted in the card-receiving portion. The card-receiving portion of the bracket also includes a second channel that receives the expansion card and restricts vertical movement of the installed expansion card and also restricts vertical movement of the riser card when coupled to the expansion card.
US11416038B2
A film wrapping display includes a panel that is transparent to light and is configured to display information on one surface of the panel, and a film adhered to cover the one surface of the panel on which the information is displayed. The film is adhered to the other surface of the panel opposite to the one surface in addition to the one surface of the panel. An edge of the film is positioned at the other surface while the film covers an outermost periphery of the panel and extends around to the other surface.
US11416036B2
The present disclosure discloses an electronic device. The electronic device includes a housing, a reel and a flexible display screen assembly. The housing includes a first portion and a second portion configured to move relative to each other. The reel is rotatably arranged to the first portion. The flexible display screen assembly has an end connected to the second portion and another end coupled to the reel. The reel is configured to rotate to release the flexible display screen assembly when the first portion and the second portion move away from each other.
US11416032B2
A flexible display apparatus includes a display panel, a case and a plurality of driving circuits. The display panel is configured to display an image. The display panel includes a first display part, a second display part and a hinge display part. The hinge display part is interposed between the first and second display parts. The hinge display part is configured to be foldable. The case is configured to cover the display panel. The case forms a hinge thickness with the hinge display part and it also forms a peripheral thickness at an end of the case facing away from the hinge display part. The peripheral thickness is greater than the hinge thickness. The driving circuits are disposed between a rear surface of the first display part and the case. Therefore, thickness of the display panel is decreased and its portability is improved.
US11416030B2
Disclosed herein are example edge-to-edge display devices and related methods. An example display device includes a display screen and a backlight including a light guide frame defining a cavity therein. The example display device includes an integrated circuit coupled to the display screen. The example display device includes a flexible printed circuit in communication with the integrated circuit and including an electrical component coupled thereto. The electrical component is at least partially disposed in the cavity of the light guide frame.
US11416026B2
The various embodiments disclosed in the present document relate to wearable electronic devices. A wearable electronic device can be provided, according to various embodiments of the present document, comprising: a housing for accommodating electronic components; at least one band; and a connector, a relative position of which can be adjusted with respect to the band, wherein the connector comprises: a connector housing; a spur gear engaged with at least a portion of the band; a wheel disposed inside the connector housing, coaxial with the spur gear, and at least partially exposed to the outside of the connector housing; a circular plate coaxial with the wheel and of which at least a portion is inserted into a circular recess formed in the wheel; and a first pawl of which at least a portion is inserted into a recess guide channel formed in the circular plate and which engages along the inner circumferential surface of the circular recess. In addition, various other embodiments can be implemented.
US11416014B2
A triggered sink circuit for a linear voltage regulator, such as low-dropout voltage regulator (LDO), is disclosed. The triggered sink circuit is activated only when needed to sink current from an output in response to a transient load change. The triggered sink circuit includes a large sink transistor that when activated drains current from the output of the LDO to quickly restore an output voltage back towards a regulated value, thereby improving a load transient response to the load change. The improved load transient response prevents the output transistor of the LDO from being completely deactivated to restore regulation. Accordingly, the LDO's response to a subsequent load transient can be improved.
US11416011B2
A pressure-type flow rate control device includes a restriction part; a control valve provided upstream of the restriction part; an upstream pressure sensor for detecting pressure between the restriction part and the control valve; and an arithmetic processing circuit connected to the control valve and the upstream pressor sensor. The device is configured to perform flow rate control by controlling the control valve according to an output of the upstream pressure sensor. The arithmetic processing circuit performs an operation of closing the control valve in order to reduce a flow rate of a fluid flowing through the restriction part, and performs an operation of closing the control valve by feedback control in which a target value is an exponential function more gradual than the pressure drop characteristic data when a gas flows out of the restriction part.
US11416008B2
A computing system for landing and storing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can be configured to receive aircraft data, passenger data, or environment data associated with a VTOL aircraft and determine a landing pad location within a landing facility based on the aircraft data, passenger data, and/or environment data. The landing facility can include a lower level and an upper level. The lower level can include a lower landing area and a lower storage area. The upper level can include an upper landing area. At least a portion of the upper level can be arranged over the lower storage area. The landing pad location can include a location within the lower landing area or the upper landing area of the landing facility. The computing system can communicate the landing pad location to an operator or a navigation system of the VTOL aircraft.
US11416002B1
An apparatus includes a video capture device and a processor. The video capture device may be mounted at a low position. The video capture device may be configured to generate a plurality of video frames that capture a field of view upward from the low position. The processor may be configured to perform video operations to generate dewarped frames from the video frames and detect objects in the dewarped frames, extract data about the objects based on characteristics of the objects determined using said video operations, perform path planning in response the extracted data and generate a video stream based on the dewarped frames. The video operations may generate the dewarped frames to correct a distortion effect caused by capturing the video frames from the low position. The path planning may be used to move the apparatus to a new location. The apparatus may be capable of autonomous movement.
US11415997B1
A driving simulation system may perform simulations using one or more of a virtual driving simulator or a log-based driving simulator. A log-based simulator may replay data from logs to test whether a control algorithm is successfully capable of navigating a scenario. However, when such log-based simulations are invalid (e.g., based on the results of the simulations or evaluations of conditions of the simulation), a virtual simulation may be generated for the vehicle control system during which new log data may be captured. Such a virtual simulation may comprise sensor simulations and more sophisticated object control for ensuring convergence to a scenario to be tested. The new log data may be used for additional log-based simulations, thereby improving the durability and flexibility for testing and/or validation, while reducing the computational overhead of driving simulation scenarios.
US11415996B2
The invention relates to a positioning system for a mobile unit with a reference localization unit, through which a first reference position can be captured at a first point in time and a second reference position of the mobile unit can be captured at a later second point in time; a capturing unit, through with movement data of the mobile unit can be captured; and a computing unit, through which a calculated second position of the mobile unit can be determined at the second point in time by means of a neural network based on the first reference position and the captured movement data. At least one parameter of the neural network can thereby be adjusted based on a comparison of the second reference position with the calculated second position. The invention further relates to a method for operating a positioning system for a mobile unit, in which a first reference position of the mobile unit is captured at a first point in time. Furthermore, movement data from the mobile unit is captured, and a calculated second position of the mobile unit is determined at the second point in time by means of a neural network based on the first reference position and the captured movement data. A second reference position of the mobile unit is captured at the second point in time, wherein a parameter of the neural network is adjusted based on a comparison of the second reference position with the calculated second position.
US11415995B2
A control device includes an electronic control unit executes steering control for avoiding a collision with an object that has a possibility of colliding with a host vehicle. The electronic control unit sets a timing when the host vehicle is predicted to pass the object as an end timing of the steering control when the steering control is performed. The electronic control unit determines whether or not a deviation possibility is present when the electronic control unit assumes that the steering control ends at the end timing. The deviation possibility is a possibility of the host vehicle deviating from a current traveling lane accompanying an end of the steering control. The electronic control unit performs reduction processing that reduces the deviation possibility when the electronic control unit determines that the deviation possibility is present.
US11415978B2
Systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. An expert graphical user interface showing representations of components of an industrial machine to which sensors are attach is disclosed. The user interface may enable a user to select at least one of the components resulting in a search of a database of industrial machine failure modes for modes that correspond to the selected component. The corresponding failure mode may be presented to the user. The selection of the component may cause a controller to reference and implement a data collection template for configuring the system to automatically collect data from sensors associated with the selected component to detect at least one of the corresponding failure modes.
US11415976B2
A diagnosis device includes a first acquiring unit acquires, from a target device, context information corresponding to a current operation; a second acquiring unit acquires detection information output from a detecting unit that detects a physical quantity that changes according to operations performed by the target device; a first transmitting unit transmits the acquired context information to a learning device; a second transmitting unit transmits the acquired detection information to the learning device; a third acquiring unit acquires a model corresponding to the transmitted context information, from the learning device that determines whether any pieces of context information are identical or similar to each other and combines models generated from pieces of the detection information corresponding to the pieces of identical or similar context information; and a first determining unit determines whether an operation performed by the target device is normal by using the detection information and the model.
US11415975B2
According to embodiments, a system, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided to receive time series data associated with one or more sensors values of a piece of machinery at a first time period, perform a non-linear transformation on the time-series data to produce one or more nonlinear temporal embedding outputs, and projecting each of the nonlinear temporal embedding outputs to a different dimension space to identify at least one causal relationship in the nonlinear temporal embedding outputs. The nonlinear embeddings are further projected to the original dimension space to produce one or more causality learning outputs. Nonlinear dimensional reduction is performed on the one or more causality learning outputs to produce reduced dimension causality learning outputs. The learning outputs are mapped to one or more predicted outputs which include a prediction of one or more of the sensor values at a second time period.
US11415968B2
Methods aim to reduce and/or eliminate the need for shims in manufacturing assemblies, such as in manufacturing of aircraft wings. Exemplary methods include predicting a set of predicted manufacturing dimensions within a range of predetermined allowances for a first part, manufacturing the first part, scanning the first part to determine a set of actual manufacturing dimensions for the first part, and at least beginning manufacturing a second part before the scanning the first part is completed. The second part may be manufactured based on the set of predicted manufacturing dimensions for the first part. Once the scan of the first part is completed, the set of predicted manufacturing dimensions may be compared to a set of actual manufacturing dimensions to check for any non-compliant deviances between the predicted and actual manufacturing dimensions. Repairs and local re-scans may be performed in the areas of the non-compliant deviances, which may streamline manufacturing.
US11415967B2
A method for assembling a cooling apparatus having a cabinet which houses an inner casing defining at least one compartment for the storage of products to be cooled and one or more objects configured to be connected to the inner casing. The method includes: providing the inner casing; automatically univocally identifying the model of the inner casing among various known inner casing models by using a detecting device and performing a step of connecting the one or more objects to the inner casing based on the model of inner casing identified in the identifying step.
US11415963B2
Systems and methods for providing power search and harvesting in a drone device provide execution of one or more tasks, wherein one of the tasks has a higher priority than the remaining tasks. A power mode is determined for executing the highest priority task by sequentially determining whether the highest priority task can be executed in one of a plurality of execution scenarios including from a charging pad associated with the drone, from another location using energy harvested from an existing energy source, from another location using energy harvested from an energy source enabled by the drone, or from another location using battery power alone. The highest priority task is executed in keeping with the first usable execution scenario found during the sequential determination.
US11415959B2
A method for generating a movement path of a tool configured to utilize a virtual path to generate a correct path that fits an allowable error is provided. The method includes a receiving step implemented by receiving the virtual path and a precision data; an auxiliary point establishing step implemented by adding a plurality of auxiliary points in a plurality of arc sections; a moving and detecting step implemented by controlling the tool to sequentially move to a plurality of predetermined points and the auxiliary points according to the virtual path; and a calculating step implemented by amending the predetermined points or the auxiliary points in the virtual path if a difference between a real-time position coordinate and corresponding one of the predetermined points or the auxiliary points is greater than the allowable error to generate the correct path.
US11415958B2
A data extracting apparatus comprises: a processor configured to execute a program; and a storage device configured to store the program, the data extracting apparatus being configured to access: configuration information that defines a work environment including a group of sensors; and a data extraction rule, which is used for extraction from the configuration information, and is defined for each event that indicates one of a change and abnormality of the work environment, and the processor being configured to execute: detection processing of detecting a specific event based on sensor data from the group of sensors; extraction processing of extracting related data related to the specific event from specific configuration information corresponding to an acquisition time of the sensor data out of the configuration information, based on a specific data extraction rule corresponding to the specific event; and output processing of outputting the related data.
US11415957B2
A ladder display system includes: a first controller having a first ladder program; and a second controller having a second ladder program that performs input/output processing with the first ladder program. An input/output signal table generating unit generates an input/output signal table relating an input/output signal of the first ladder program to an input/output signal of the second ladder program. An external reference execution unit specifies a signal of the second ladder program and requests transmission of at least a part of the first ladder program. A ladder program output unit transmits at least a part of the first ladder program including a signal corresponding to the specified signal to the second controller. A ladder program display unit displays at least the part of the first ladder program output by the ladder program output unit on the second controller.
US11415955B2
A system for updating a device in a building management system (BMS). The system includes a third-party device and a device manager of a control network. The device manager updates the third-party device and includes a processing circuit that determines that the third-party device has been discovered on the control network. The processing circuit further populates a template with a set of received data from the third-party device and maps the third-party device with control network based on the populated template of received data. The processing circuit further configures the third-party device to operate in the control network, wherein configuring the third-party device comprises transforming a data exchange format of the third-party device.
US11415951B2
Devices, systems, and methods to selectively emit scent control material responsive to local conditions of a scent control device. The local conditions may dictate the effectiveness of a given set of output parameters of a scent control device. The scent control device accepts as input, one or more conditional inputs carrying information about the local conditions around the scent control device, such as weather conditions, elevation, barometric pressure, or functional status of the scent control device. Operational programs corresponding to the conditional inputs may be automatically selected based on the combination of conditional inputs to cause the output parameters of the scent control device to match or take into account the local conditions. The scent control device then outputs scent control material such as ozone at a rate effective to control one or more scents to a level that is not perceivable by animals or humans.
US11415938B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detector that detects a direction of movement of a user relative to an image formed in an air, and a controller that controls formation of the image based on the detected direction.
US11415933B2
A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.
US11415928B2
An image forming apparatus includes a feeding device to feed residual toner, discharged from an image forming portion, toward a first collecting container and a second collecting container selectively. The feeding device includes an aggregate feeding passage to aggregate the residual toner discharged from a first or second image forming portion and feed the residual toner in an aggregate feeding direction traversing an up down direction. A vertical conveyance passage is provided along the up down direction and connected to the aggregate feeding passage, and a lateral feeding passage is connected to the vertical conveyance passage and capable of feeding the residual toner in a lateral feeding direction traversing the up-down direction. The feeding device feeds the residual toner in the lateral feeding passage toward the first collecting container and the second collecting container.
US11415925B2
A sheet conveyance device includes a sheet receiving part, a first discharge part, a sheet conveyance path, an escape conveyance path, a branch guide, an escape tray, a second discharge part, and a first sheet detection part. When a device failure occurs, the branch guide switches the conveyance direction such that the sheet remaining on the sheet conveyance path is discharged on the escape tray by the second discharge part, through the escape conveyance path sequentially. Then, the second discharge part stops a discharging of the sheet in a state where the sheet remains in the second discharge part when the sheet is a last sheet to be conveyed to the escape tray. Then, a receiving of a new sheet to the sheet receiving part from the image forming apparatus is inhibited while the first sheet detection part detects the last sheet.
US11415923B2
A transport device includes a transport roller, a nip section, and first and second transport path surfaces. The transport roller transports a transport target material sent from an accommodating unit. The nip section nips the transport target material with the transport roller, and prevents multi-feed of the transport target material. The first transport path surface is disposed upstream of the nip section in a transport direction to face a transport roller side of the nip section. The first transport path surface includes a top portion protruding toward the transport roller side beyond a nip line between the transport roller and the nip section. The second transport path surface is disposed downstream of the nip section in the transport direction to face the transport roller side of the nip section. The second transport path surface includes a top portion protruding toward the transport roller side beyond the nip line.
US11415920B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet, a reading unit for reading the image on the sheet and an inspection unit for inspecting whether an image formation failure has occurred by comparing the image read by the reading unit with a reference image registered in advance. The image forming apparatus executes the inspection with the inspection unit in a first inspection mode or a second inspection mode. The first inspection mode is a mode in which the inspection unit executes the inspection on all sheets on which the image is formed by the image forming unit. The second inspection mode is a mode in which the inspection unit executes the inspection on some of the sheets on which the image is formed by the image forming unit, and the inspection unit does not execute the inspection on the other sheets.
US11415916B1
An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a fuser, a first sensor, and a processor. The image former is configured to form an image on a recording medium. The fuser is configured to fix the image on the recording medium. The first sensor is configured to detect a temperature of the fuser. The processor is configured to cause the recording medium to be supplied to the fuser after warming up the fuser to a warm up temperature. The processor is also configured to supply power to the fuser after causing the recording medium to be supplied to the fuser, an amount of the supplied power being based on the temperature detected before starting the warming up.
US11415909B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor that forms a toner image; a light emission element that exposes the photoreceptor; at least one light emission controller that controls light emission of the light emission element; and a hardware processor that transmits a signal including a control parameter for controlling the light emission element with respect to the light emission controller, wherein the light emission controller stops light emission control over the light emission element according to communication that receives the signal including the control parameter from the hardware processor.
US11415908B2
A light source according to the present invention is for an exposure device of a multifunction peripheral and includes a multi-beam light source. Two laser diodes included in the multi-beam light source are individually driven by a laser driver. Reference signals Vref1 and Vref2 used to control the light emitting power of the laser diodes are individually generated by two reference signal generation circuits. The reference signals Vref1 and Vref2 are each generated by processing including digital calculation, and at least one of the reference signals Vref1 and Vref2 includes a component for correcting the relative output difference of the laser diodes.
US11415903B2
A polyester resin, including: (a) a constitutional unit derived from at least one tetravalent carboxylic acid selected from Compounds (A) and (B); a constitutional unit derived from a bisphenol A-alkylene oxide adduct; and a constitutional unit derived from an aliphatic alcohol having a boiling point of lower than or equal to 290° C., where the polyester resin is free of a constitutional unit derived from a monovalent carboxylic acid, an acid value of the polyester resin is 8 to 55 mg KOH/g, and an amount of the tetravalent carboxylic acid is 1 to 30 mol % when an total amount of the tetravalent carboxylic acid, and other polyvalent carboxylic acid excluding the Compounds (A) and (B) is set to 100 mol %, where X1, X2, X3 and X4 each independently represent a trivalent organic group, and Z1 and Z2 each independently represent a single bond or a divalent organic group, wherein tetravalent carboxylic acid is, for example, 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride, 2,2′,6,6′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride, 4,4′-oxydiphthalic dianhydride, 9,9-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl) fluorene dianhydride, and/or 4,4′-(4,4′-isopropylidenediphenoxy) diphthalic anhydride.
US11415902B2
A toner comprising a resin that contains an amorphous segment and a crystalline segment as a binder resin, wherein a proportion of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter of a resin component is from 40% by mass to 80% by mass; in differential scanning calorimeter measurement of the tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter, where a temperature of a maximum endothermic peak is denoted by Tm [° C.] and an endothermic quantity is denoted by H(I) [J/g], the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: 55.0≤Tm≤80.0 (1) 10.0≤H(I)≤80.0 (2).
US11415895B2
An arrangement of a microlithographic optical imaging device includes first and second supporting structures. The first supporting structure supports at least one optical element of the imaging device via an active relative situation control device of a control device. The first supporting structure supports the second supporting structure via supporting spring devices of a vibration decoupling device. The supporting spring devices act kinematically parallel to one another. Each supporting spring device defines a supporting force direction and a supporting length along the supporting force direction. The second supporting structure supports a measuring device of the control device. The measuring device is connected to the relative situation control device. The measuring device outputs to the relative situation control device measurement information representative for the position and/or the orientation of the at least one optical element in relation to a reference in at least one degree of freedom in space.
US11415879B1
A reticle enclosure includes a base including a first surface, a cover including a second surface and coupled to the base with the first surface facing the second surface. The base and the cover form an internal space that includes a reticle. The reticle enclosure includes restraining mechanisms arranged in the internal space and for securing the reticle, and structures disposed adjacent the reticle in the internal space. The structures enclose the reticle at least partially, and limit passage of contaminants between the internal space and an external environment of the reticle enclosure. The structures include barriers disposed on the first and second surfaces. In other examples, a padding is installed in gaps between the barriers and the first and second surfaces. In other examples, the structures include wall structures disposed on the first and second surfaces and between the restraining mechanisms.
US11415876B2
The present disclosure relates to a fabrication method of a photomask. The method of fabricating a photomask provides for a layout of patterns to be designed. The layout of patterns may be formed on a wafer on which chips are formed. The layout of patterns are corrected to provide a layout of a photoresist pattern serving as an etching mask for forming the patterns on the wafer while generating a flare map of the patterns. An optical proximity correction (OPC) may be performed at a chip level on the corrected layout of patterns to perform a secondary correction of the layout of patterns. A second OPC may be performed at a level of a shot which includes a plurality of ones of the chips by reflecting the flare map on the second corrected layout of patterns to a third corrected layout of patterns.
US11415875B2
A mask blank in which a phase shift film provided on a light-permeable substrate includes at least a nitrogen-containing layer and an oxygen-containing layer, the nitrogen-containing layer is made from a silicon nitride-based material and the oxygen-containing layer is made from a silicon oxide-based material, wherein, when the nitrogen-containing layer is subjected to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain a maximum peak PSi_f of photoelectron intensity of a Si2p narrow spectrum and the light-permeable substrate is subjected to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain a maximum peak PSi_s of photoelectron intensity of a Si2p narrow spectrum, the numerical value (PSi_f)/(PSi_s), which is produced by dividing the maximum peak PSi_f in the nitrogen-containing layer by the maximum peak PSi_s in the light-permeable substrate, is 1.09 or less.
US11415858B2
A photoelectric display unit including a bottom electrode layer, a photoelectric conversion layer and a top electrode layer is provided. The photoelectric conversion layer is disposed between the bottom electrode layer and the top electrode layer, and includes a first extrinsic semiconductor layer, an intrinsic semiconductor layer and a second extrinsic semiconductor layer. The intrinsic semiconductor layer is disposed between the first extrinsic semiconductor layer and the second extrinsic semiconductor layer. The intrinsic semiconductor layer includes a semiconductor material with a range of a band gap of 1.7 ev˜3.2 ev.
US11415854B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel having gate bus lines extending along a row direction and source bus lines extending along a column direction; and a gate bus line driving circuit and a source bus line driving circuit. The pixels are disposed in a pixel array region, which includes: a first region where arbitrary displaying takes place; and a second region where exclusively black displaying takes place, the second region adjoining the first region along the column direction. The gate bus lines include a first group of gate bus lines disposed in the first region and a second group of gate bus lines disposed in the second region. The second group of gate bus lines include a first gate bus line connected to the gate bus line driving circuit and second gate bus lines connected to the first gate bus line via an interconnect.
US11415853B2
An array substrate and a display panel are provided. In the array substrate, the first data line is electrically connected to a blue pixel electrode, the second data line is electrically connected to a non-blue pixel electrode. A first horizontal distance is defined as a distance between the blue pixel electrode and the first data line electrically connected thereto, and a second horizontal distance is defined as a distance between the non-blue pixel electrode and an adjacent data line, or a distance between the blue pixel electrode and an adjacent second data line. The first horizontal distance is greater than the second horizontal distance.
US11415851B2
Provided is a display device. The display device comprises: a substrate including a display area having a plurality of pixels and a non-display area, a plurality of data lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a first direction, a plurality of first gate lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of second gate lines extending along the first direction from one end of the display area to a line contact portion contacting each of the plurality of first gate lines, and a plurality of off voltage lines extending in a direction opposite to the first direction from the other end of the display area opposite to one end of the display area to a periphery of the line contact portion and insulated from the plurality of second gate lines.
US11415850B2
A display device includes the following elements: a scan line lengthwise in a first direction; two data lines each lengthwise in a second direction; a transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode; and a sub-pixel electrode including a first stem, a second stem, a connector, a first protrusion, and a second protrusion. The first electrode is connected to one of the two data lines. The gate electrode is connected to the scan line. The first stem is lengthwise in the first direction and is connected through the second stem and the connector to the second electrode. The second stem is lengthwise in the second direction. The connector overlaps the second electrode. The first protrusion and the second protrusion respectively protrude from two sides of the connector, respectively overlap the two data lines, and are lengthwise in the first direction.
US11415839B2
A color filter substrate and a method of manufacturing the same and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. A display area is provided with a first spacer, and a non-display area is provided with a second spacer. The non-display area is further provided with a virtual color resist layer. Color of the virtual color resist layer is the same as color of the third color resist layer, and a height of the first spacer is greater than a height of the second spacer.
US11415834B2
A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel; a plurality of light sources configured to emit blue light; a reflective sheet comprising four edge portions, wherein a plurality of holes are disposed on the reflective sheet, the plurality of holes comprises a first hole and a second hole on each of the four edge portions of the reflective sheet, each of the four edge portions comprises an edge of the reflective sheet, the first hole is disposed at a first distance from the edge of the reflective sheet, and the second hole is disposed at a second distance from the edge of the reflective sheet, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance; and a plurality of light conversion dots comprising a plurality of first light conversion dots and a plurality of second light conversion dots.
US11415828B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel that includes a display portion including pixels and a non-display portion including an opening, an illumination device, and a color separation element provided between the display panel and the illumination device. The color separation element includes a first element overlapping the pixel and a second element overlapping the opening, the first element separates illumination light from the illumination device into light of a plurality of colors and irradiates the pixel with the light, and the second element separates illumination light from the illumination device into light of a plurality of colors and irradiates the opening with the light.
US11415826B2
A display device includes a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction. Gate lines each configured to supply gate signals to the pixels are aligned in the row direction. Signal lines each configured to supply pixel signals to the pixels are aligned in the column direction. At least one first semiconductor force sensor is provided in the display region. At least one second semiconductor force sensor is provided in a frame region outside the display region. A detection circuit detects force applied to the display region based on a middle-point voltage between the first semiconductor force sensor and the second semiconductor force sensor.
US11415824B2
A frame for a display tile made of a first material with a first coefficient of thermal expansion and fastened to a first substrate made of a second material with a second coefficient of thermal expansion. The frame is divided into three parts: a first part to be glued by the adhesive to a lateral side of the substrate, a third part to serve as fastening interface to another structure and a second part to isolate the third part from strain in the first part. Grooves are formed in the second part, the grooves being substantially straight and substantially parallel to the first substrate, the frame having at least one opening made in one of the grooves etched in the metal frame to locally adjust the bending stiffness of the metal frame.
US11415822B2
An electro-optical includes, in part, a multitude of phase modulators each of which includes, in part, a p-type semiconductor region, an n-type semiconductor region, and a χ(2) insulating dielectric material disposed between the p-type and n-type semiconductor regions. The electro-optical device may be a phased array in which each phase modulator is associated with a different one of the transmitting elements of the phased array. The χ(2) insulating dielectric material may be an organic polymer. The electro-optical device may further include, in part, a multitude of sensors each associated with a different one of the phase modulators. Each sensor is adapted to receive a phase modulated signal generated by the sensor's associated phase modulator. The electro-optical device may further include, in part, a multitude of amplitude modulators each associated with a different one of the multitude of phase modulators.
US11415821B2
Structures for an electro-optic modulator and methods of fabricating a structure for an electro-optic modulator. The electro-optic modulator has a layer stack arranged over a section of a waveguide core. The layer stack includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer, the second layer, and the third layer are each composed of either copper or indium-tin oxide.
US11415818B2
Apparatuses and systems for wearable devices such as eyewear are described. According to one embodiment, the wearable device includes a frame, onboard electronics components, and an antenna disposed around an eyepiece area of the frame that is configured to hold an optical element. The antenna is configured for inductive coupling. In some embodiments, a switch coupled to the antenna allows selection between circuitry for inductive charging of a battery and near-field communication (NFC) circuitry for communicating data via the antenna.
US11415811B2
The present disclosure provides an optical apparatus including a light source for generating light, where the light includes a first polarized light of a first phase. The optical apparatus further includes an adjustment structure for changing a propagation path of the light. The adjustment structure includes a polarization beam splitting structure for reflecting the first polarized light.
US11415799B2
A display system and a display method therefor, and a vehicle. The display system includes a display device and an image transmission device. The display device is configured to display a plurality of images; the image transmission device is configured to transmit light of at least two images of the plurality of images through different paths and to respectively form at least two virtual images corresponding to the at least two images of the plurality of images, and an imaging position of at least one of the at least two virtual images is variable.
US11415795B2
A lens structure system includes a lens structure and a multi-segmented transducer coupled to the lens structure. The multi-segmented transducer includes segments. Each segment is electrically coupled to a respective first conductor and a respective second conductor.
US11415794B2
A beam scanner for a near-eye display includes a beam-folded pupil relay configured for receiving a light beam reflected from a tiltable reflector and relaying the light beam to an exit pupil while preserving the beam angle of the reflected beam. The beam-folding pupil relay includes a beamsplitter, e.g. a polarization beam splitter configured to redirect the beam to a curved reflector, which sends the beam towards the exit pupil. Polarization of the light beam reflected from the curved reflector may be changed to an orthogonal polarization by a waveplate disposed in an optical path of the light beam between the polarization beam splitter and the curved reflector, enabling the reflected light beam to propagate through the polarization beam splitter towards the exit pupil. A pupil-replicating waveguide may be disposed proximate the exit pupil. A 2D tiltable reflector or a pair of 1D tiltable reflectors may be used.
US11415790B2
A fixed reference edge system that guides a glass slide from a slot of a slide rack onto a scanning stage and guides the glass slide from the scanning stage into the slot of the slide rack. In an embodiment, the fixed reference edge has a first side that is parallel to a side of the slot of the slide rack. The system comprises an assembly that includes a push bar configured to push the slide from the slot onto the scanning stage, and a pull bar configured to pull the slide from the scanning stage into the slot of the slide rack. When the slide is pulled into the slide rack, the long edge of the slide is pressed against the first side of the fixed reference edge to maintain a parallel orientation between the slide and the slot of the slide rack.
US11415783B2
Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for annealing a chalcogenide lens at an elevated temperature to accelerate release of internal stress within the chalcogenide lens caused during a molding process that formed the chalcogenide lens. In particular, the annealing process includes gradually heating the chalcogenide lens to a dwell temperature, maintaining the chalcogenide lens at the dwell temperature for a predetermined period of time, and gradually cooling the chalcogenide lens from the dwell temperature. The annealing process stabilizes the shape, the effective focal length, and/or the modulation transfer function of the chalcogenide lens. Associated optical assemblies and infrared imaging devices are also described.
US11415781B2
The microobjective optical system and the optical device provided in the present disclosure use a catadioptric structure. Specifically, a catadioptric relay lens group and a complex transmissive collimating lens group are combined to effectively correct a higher-order spherical aberration, and control astigmatism, field curvature, and primary and higher-order coma related to a field of view. In a spectrum band ranging from 320 nm to 800 nm, the field of view is larger than 2 mm, a numerical aperture is 1.0, and imaging quality reaches a diffraction limit.
US11415780B2
An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The second lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The third lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and having a convex shape in an off-axial region thereof.
US11415776B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens, arranged sequentially from an object side along an optical axis. The first lens through the fourth lens are spaced apart from each other along the optical axis in a paraxial region. A total focal length f of a lens unit including the first lens through the fourth lens and half (IMG HT) of a diagonal length of an imaging surface of an image sensor satisfy f/IMG HT>4.9. An effective aperture radius of an object-side surface of the first lens and an effective aperture radius of an object-side surface of the second lens are both greater than effective aperture radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of each of the lenses other than the first lens and the second lens.
US11415775B2
The disclosure provides an ultra-wide-angle lens. From an object side to an imaging surface, the ultra-wide-angle lens sequentially includes a first group with a negative refractive power, a second group with a positive refractive power, a stop, a third group with a positive refractive power or negative refractive power, a fourth group with a positive refractive power and filter. The first group includes at least one negative refractive power lens, the second group sequentially includes a negative refractive power lens and a positive refractive power lens. The third group includes a positive refractive power lens and a negative refractive power lens, the positive refractive power lens of the third group and the negative refractive power lens of the third group being bonded together to form an integrated body. The fourth group includes at least one positive refractive power lens.
US11415774B2
An image capturing apparatus that is made compact in the size of an apparatus body, particularly the lateral size thereof, without impairing operability thereof. The image capturing apparatus includes connection terminals for connecting external devices thereto, an air inlet port via which air is drawn in for cooling heat sources of an apparatus body, and an air outlet port via which the air is discharged. A connection terminal arrangement surface and an air outlet port arrangement surface form different surfaces and are inclined at predetermined angles with respect to an optical axis, respectively. The connection terminal arrangement surface and the air outlet port arrangement surface are arranged to be displaced in a left-right direction, as viewed from the side of the image capturing apparatus, and are arranged to overlap each other, as viewed from the front of the image capturing apparatus.
US11415772B2
A motor for driving lenses is provided. The motor includes a case, a yoke fixed in the case, a magnet fixed in the yoke, a carrier equipped with lenses and installed in the magnet such that the carrier moves up and down within the magnet, a coil coupled with the carrier, in which the coil cooperates with the magnet to move up and down the carrier, a spring unit including first and second springs having arc shapes and being separated from each other while forming a ring shape as a whole a spacer supporting the outer peripheral surface of the spring unit, and a terminal provided on the spacer.
US11415762B2
A method of forming an optical bench includes forming a reflector layer over a sloping side of a substrate. The method includes depositing a redistribution layer over the substrate. The method includes disposing an under bump metallization (UBM) layer over the redistribution layer. The method includes forming a passivation layer over the redistribution layer and surrounding sidewalls of the UBM layer. The method includes mounting a first optical component over an uppermost portion of the substrate, wherein the reflector layer is configured to reflect an electromagnetic wave from the first optical component, and the first optical component is mounted outside the trench.
US11415760B2
Narrow width fiber optic connectors having spring loaded remote release mechanisms to facilitate access and usage of the connectors in high density arrays. A narrow width fiber optic connector comprises a multi-fiber connector, wherein a width of said narrow width fiber optic connector is less than about 5.25 mm, a housing configured to hold the multi-fiber connector and further comprising a connector recess, and a pull tab having a ramp area configured to disengage a latch of one of an adapter and an SFP from said connector recess. The pull tab may include a spring configured to allow the latch of one of the adapter and the SFP to engage with the connector recess.
US11415753B2
A optoelectronic assembly is provided including a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) including at least one electronic connection element and plurality of waveguides disposed on a PIC face, a printed circuit board (PCB) including at least one PCB electronic connection element, which is complementary to the at least one electronic connection element of the PIC and the PIC is configured to be flip chip mounted to the PCB, a lidless fiber array unit including a support substrate having a substantially flat first surface and a signal fiber array including a plurality of optical fibers supported on the first surface, and an alignment substrate disposed on the PIC face and configured to align the plurality of optical fibers of the signal fiber array with the plurality of waveguides.
US11415752B2
An optical inspection circuit includes an optical circuit to be inspected formed on a substrate, an input optical waveguide optically connected to the optical circuit, and an output optical waveguide optically connected to the optical circuit. The input optical waveguide is connected with a grating coupler for input. The grating coupler is connected with the input optical waveguide via a spot size conversion unit. The output optical waveguide is optically connected with a photodiode.
US11415750B2
To provide an optical module, an optical wiring board, and a method for manufacturing an optical module that provide the two-dimensional freedom degree of the joint portion between the optical module and the optical fiber even through the OBO method is applied to an optical module mounted via WLP. The optical module includes a board, a plurality of optical input-output portions that change a travel direction of light traveling substantially orthogonally to the board to a direction substantially parallel to the board and change a travel direction of the light traveling substantially parallel to the board to a direction substantially orthogonal to the board, one or more optical waveguides that optically connect the optical input-output portions to each other, and a lid that is attached to the board so as to include the optical input-output portions and the one or more optical waveguides, in which the lid has one or more reflection mirrors that change a travel direction of the light traveling from an outside of a side surface of the lid to an inside of the side surface so as to be directed to the optical input-output portions and change a travel direction of the light output from the optical input-output portions so as to be directed from the inside of the side surface of the lid to the outside of the side surface.
US11415749B2
Optical apparatus and methods of manufacture thereof An optical apparatus (20) for evanescently coupling an optical signal across an (interface (30) is described. The optical apparatus (20) comprises a first substrate (22) and a second substrate (24). The optical signal is evanescently coupled between a first waveguide (26) formed by laser inscription of the first substrate (22) and a second waveguide (28) of the second substrate (22). The first waveguide (26) comprises a curved section (34) configured to provide evanescent coupling of the optical signal between the first and second waveguides (26, 28) via the interface (30).
US11415747B2
Included are an optical waveguide including a first cladding layer formed on a substrate; a core formed on the first cladding layer; and a second cladding layer formed on the first cladding layer so as to cover the core. At least one of the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer is composed of a cladding material of silicon oxide containing deuterium atoms. The number of hydrogen atoms contained in the cladding material is smaller than the number of the deuterium atoms contained in the cladding material.
US11415743B2
A multicore optical fiber includes two or more cores, a common interior cladding surrounding the two or more cores, and a common exterior cladding surrounding the common interior cladding. The common exterior cladding has a lower relative refractive index than the common interior cladding and reduces tunneling losses from the cores. The reduced tunneling loss allows placement of cores closer to the edge of the fiber, thus providing multicore optical fibers having higher core count for a given fiber diameter. Separation between cores is controlled to minimize crosstalk.
US11415742B2
The disclosure provides a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a light guide plate including a light emitting surface, a lateral surface, and a light incident surface disposed correspondingly to the lateral surface. The light emitting surface is connected to the lateral surface and the light incident surface. A light source is disposed correspondingly to the light incident surface and is configured to emit light toward the light incident surface. An optical film is disposed on the light emitting surface. A fixing component is disposed on the light incident surface or the lateral surface and is configured to fasten the optical film on the light emitting surface so that the optical film can be evenly expanded uniformly along a direction parallel to the light source after being heated.
US11415737B2
A light cover for mounting to a downlight trim installed on a ceiling. A light guide plate is mounted to the downlight trim. The downlight trim has an opening therethrough through which the light guide plate extends. The downlight trim projects outward from the light guide plate so that a diffusion plate of the light guide plate extends outward from the downlight trim. The light cover has a circular opening therethrough through which the diffusion plate of the light guide plate extends so as to light up the light cover. The light cover has a collar which extends from an outer front facing surface of the light cover towards the rear facing surface of the light cover.
US11415733B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a polarizing element which has an excellent antireflection function as being applied to an image display device; and a circularly polarizing plate and an image display device, each of which has the polarizing element. The polarizing element of an embodiment of the present invention has an alignment film and an anisotropic light-absorbing film formed using a dichroic substance, in which a degree S of alignment of the anisotropic light-absorbing film is 0.92 or more, and an average refractive index nave at a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm of the alignment film is 1.55 to 2.0.
US11415728B2
A holographic display can include a light source configured to output light; a parallax generator optically coupled to the light source; an optical volume, where the light is perceivable as a three dimensional image within the optical volume; optionally, a flip controller; and, optionally, a viewcone expander.
US11415725B2
An optical system for controlling polarization may include an illumination source to illuminate a surface of a sample, a set of collection optics to collect illumination from the surface of a sample, and a wave plate having a spatially-varying surface profile along a thickness direction positioned at a pupil plane of the set of collection optics, where the spatially-varying surface profile of the wave plate is configured to control polarization rotation as a continuous function of transverse position, and where the spatially-varying surface profile is selected to rotate light scattered from a surface of a sample to a selected polarization angle. The system may further include a linear polarizer oriented to block light with the selected polarization angle, and a sensor to detect illumination transmitted through the linear polarizer.
US11415723B2
A device and method for projecting a light pattern is provided. The device includes a processor system and a housing. A three-dimensional (3D) measurement device is operably coupled to the housing that measures a distance to a surface in an environment. A laser projector is operably coupled to the housing, the laser projector having a light source and a pair of movable mirrors, the light source positioned to emit light onto the pair of movable mirrors. Wherein the processor system is responsive to non-transitory executable computer instructions for: determining 3D coordinates of points on the surface with the 3D measurement device; selecting a pattern; causing the laser projector to emit a beam of light and moving the pair of mirrors to generate the pattern on the surface; and adjusting the pattern based at least in part on the 3D coordinates.
US11415702B2
A terminal to calculate a position and detect spoofing, the terminal includes a receiver of first signals, notably signals of a GNSS type, from first sources, to compute a first information relative to its position, as for instance a pseudo range measurement, an ephemeris, a navigation message, spatial coordinates or temporal coordinates, and to calculate a position; a receiver of a second signal of a non-RF and non-GNSS type from a second source, notably from an optical display, the second signal comprising a second information transmitted using a predetermined encoding format to retrieve said second information; a processing logic configured to detect spoofing by comparing the first and second information. The associated transmitters, authentication server and spoofing detection methods are also provided.
US11415695B2
A Distance Measuring (DM)-system comprising a DM-device comprising a measuring beam unit configured for determining a distance between an object and the DM-device by transmitting a measuring beam, and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) configured for determining an absolute first rotational position of the DM-device with respect to a first axis being parallel to the measuring beam, and an absolute second rotational position of the DM-device with respect to a second axis parallel to the gravity field. The DM-system also includes a computer unit configured for receiving from the DM-device a plurality of measured distance values, an absolute first rotational position of the DM-device at the time of a respective distance measurement, and an absolute second rotational position of the DM-device at the time of a respective distance measurement, and generating a layout by consecutively linking the measured distances based on the plurality of measured distance values.
US11415693B2
An ultrasound system that includes a transducer configured to acquire ensemble channel/echo data and a filter bank configured to receive the echo data from the transducer, wherein the echo data is passed through a plurality of clutter filters within the filter bank to realize a plurality of echo data outputs. A processor calculates a spatial coherence value from each of the plurality of echo data outputs, compares the spatial coherence values of each filter, and selects the filter that yields a best spatial coherence for subsequent velocity estimation used to generate an output image for clinical use, where the best spatial coherence value is a highest and best spatial coherence value among the set of spatial coherence values.
US11415690B2
A method is provided for operating a radar system of a vehicle. The radar system has at least one radar sensor for detecting at least one target outside the vehicle. A prediction of an ego-velocity (vEgo) of the vehicle is performed, so that a prediction result is determined. A classification for classifying the at least one detected target as a stationary target is then performed using the prediction result, so that a classification result is determined. One of at least two estimation methods is then selected for an estimation of the ego-velocity (vEgo), such that the selection is dependent on an evaluation of the classification result.
US11415687B2
System and method for determining whether to perform sensor calibration while minimizing system load
Provided herein is a system and method for calibrating sensors. The system comprises a sensor to capture first data, an analysis engine to determine whether the sensor is to be calibrated, and a communication engine to transmit the first data from the sensor to the analysis engine and transmit information to an error handling module that the sensor is to be calibrated, in response to a determination that the sensor is to be calibrated. The determining is based on a result from a first validation of the first data, which is based on a known parameter of the sensor or historical data.
US11415686B2
A method of modelling a scanning distance sensor determining a set of detections is determined as if obtained by the sensor when scanning a field of view of the sensor, wherein each of the detections corresponds to a different line of sight originating from the sensor and comprises information about the orientation of the respective line of sight and about the distance of a respective target point from the sensor, the target point being the point in space where the line of sight first crosses any of the objects at the respective point in time. The method includes that the set of detections is modified by estimating the effect of sequentially scanning the field of view in discrete time steps on the detections and inversely applying the estimated effect to the set of detections.
US11415682B1
A lidar and optical rangefinder receiver improves signal detection in the presence of varying levels of environmental light and other noise sources. The occurrence of false triggers, due to noise, during periods when no optical pulse is emitted is used to adjust the pulse detection threshold level and simultaneously calibrate the time-of-flight timer. The photodetector's response to ambient light is also used to adjust the threshold level. Example systems include signal detection electronics with dynamic thresholding and real-time calibration of timing electronics, in which the threshold level for signal detection is adjusted in response to both information acquired during calibration cycles and ambient light measured between active rangefinding cycles.
US11415680B2
A computing system may operate a LIDAR device to emit and detect light pulses in accordance with a time sequence including standard detection period(s) that establish a nominal detection range for the LIDAR device and extended detection period(s) having durations longer than those of the standard detection period(s). The system may then make a determination that the LIDAR detected return light pulse(s) during extended detection period(s) that correspond to particular emitted light pulse(s). Responsively, the computing system may determine that the detected return light pulse(s) have detection times relative to corresponding emission times of particular emitted light pulse(s) that are indicative of one or more ranges. Given this, the computing system may make a further determination of whether or not the one or more ranges indicate that an object is positioned outside of the nominal detection range, and may then engage in object detection in accordance with the further determination.
US11415677B2
To compensate for the uneven distribution of data points around the periphery of a vehicle in a lidar system, a light source transmits light pulses at a variable pulse rate according to the orientation of the light pulses with respect to the lidar system. A controller may communicate with a scanner in the lidar system that provides the orientations of the light pulses to the controller. The controller may then provide a control signal to the light source adjusting the pulse rate based on the orientations of the light pulses. For example, the pulse rate may be slower near the front of the lidar system and faster near the periphery. In another example, the pulse rate may be faster near the front of the lidar system and slower near the periphery.
US11415675B2
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit pulses of light and a scanner configured to scan at least a portion of the emitted pulses of light across a field of regard. The field of regard contains all or part of a target located a distance from the lidar system that is less than or equal to a maximum range of the lidar system, and one or more of the emitted pulses of light are scattered by the target. The lidar system also includes a receiver configured to detect at least a portion of the pulses of light scattered by the target. The lidar system further includes a processor configured to determine the distance from the lidar system to the target based at least in part on a round-trip time of flight for an emitted pulse of light.
US11415674B2
A chromatic point sensor (CPS) optical pen provides a signal usable to measure a distance to a surface, and includes an axial chromatic aberration portion arranged to receive source radiation from an aperture, output it toward the surface as a focused measurement beam having axial chromatic dispersion, receive reflected radiation from the surface and focus it proximate to the aperture. The axial chromatic aberration portion includes a first axially dispersive focusing element that receives the source radiation and focuses it at a first focal region, a second axially dispersive focusing element that receives the radiation from the first focal region and focuses it at a second focal region, and a third axially dispersive focusing element that receives the radiation from the second focal region and outputs the measurement beam. Lengths between the first, second and third axially dispersive focusing elements are adjustable (i.e., resulting in an adjustable range).
US11415665B2
An ultra-wideband radar transceiver and an operating method thereof are provided. The ultra-wideband radar transceiver includes a receiving module. The receiving module includes an I/Q signal generator, a first sensing circuit and a second sensing circuit. The I/Q signal generator receives M consecutive echo signals and generates M consecutive in-phase signals and M consecutive quadrature-phase signals accordingly, wherein M is an integer greater than 1. The first sensing circuit is coupled to the I/Q signal generator to receive the M consecutive in-phase signals and is configured to perform integration and analog-to-digital conversion on the M consecutive in-phase signals to generate a first digital data. The second sensing circuit is coupled to the I/Q signal generator to receive the M consecutive quadrature-phase signals and is configured to perform integration and analog-to-digital conversion on the M consecutive quadrature-phase signals to generate a second digital data.
US11415662B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of antennas to communicate with an external electronic device and at least one processor operatively connected to the plurality of antennas. The processor is configured to detect a tracking start event using an external magnetic material positioned at a location adjacent to the electronic device, to track a location of the external electronic device using the plurality of antennas and, while the tracking is performed, to obtain a height value of the external electronic device when an angle between the electronic device and the external electronic device is a specified angle. The processor is further configured to change a specified condition based on the obtained height value, to detect a tracking end event based on the specified condition, and to change an operating mode associated with the electronic device in response to detecting the tracking end event.
US11415659B2
A method is disclosed that includes obtaining a request for determining a position estimate of a certain position. With the request, the certain position of a single apparatus is requested. The method also includes obtaining or determining a deviate information indicative of an offset that is added to the position estimate to be determined. The method further includes determining the position estimate based at least partially on the deviate information and the fingerprint information. The position estimate is indicative of a position with an uncertainty radius. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer readable storage medium and system.
US11415656B2
A medical image processing apparatus of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a data and a g-factor map. The data is generated as a result of a reception by an RF coil. The processing circuitry is configured to determine strength of denoise performed on the data on the basis of the g-factor map and perform the denoise on the data.
US11415654B2
A method of analysing the magnitude of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data is described. The method comprising: using the magnitude only of the multi-echo MRI data of images from the subject, where images are acquired at arbitrarily timed echoes including at least one echo time where water and fat are not substantially in-phase; fitting the magnitude of said multi-echo MRI data to a single signal model to produce a plurality of potential solutions for the relative signal contributions for each of the at least two species from the model, by using a plurality of different starting conditions to generate a particular cost function value for each of the plurality of starting conditions, where said cost function values are independent of a field map term for the MRI data; analysing said cost function values to calculate relative signal separation contribution for each species at each voxel of the images.
US11415647B2
A magnetic field generator includes a refrigerating machine, a cold head, a superconductor which is formed in a cylindrical shape, a cold head extension portion which extends from the cold head and is brought into thermal contact with the superconductor at its extended end; and a vacuum heat insulating container having an internal space in which the cold head, the cold head extension portion, and the superconductor are received. The superconductor has a room temperature bore space, which is formed on its inner peripheral side along an axial direction of the superconductor, and is spatially isolated from the internal space of the vacuum heat insulating container. The room temperature bore space has both ends communicating to an outside of the magnetic field generator.
US11415640B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, apparatuses, and systems of leakage current detection. According to one implementation, a method includes initiating self-test of a resistive isolation detection circuit, the self-test configured to return a reset latched value representative of a state of the resistive isolation circuit, pulsing a latch reset signal to clear the reset latched value and a testing signal to indicate a testing state, and during the testing signal, independently determining, that a leakage current is present between a photovoltaic power conversion device positive channel and earth, and, that a leakage current is present between a photovoltaic power conversion device negative channel and earth. The method also includes operating a safety relay and indication signal responsive to the testing signal and the independent determining.
US11415639B2
A portable intermittent fault detector includes an enclosure that carries electronics and a display. The electronics are selected, arranged, and connected in a manner that minimizes noise, including noise that could interfere with an ability of the portable intermittent fault detector to detect intermittent faults in complex electrical systems. The portable intermittent fault detector also includes a passive heat management system hat conveys heat away from the electronics. In addition, a test module assembly of the portable intermittent fault detector includes an inner assembly with test module boards that are rigidly secured to one another and an outer support that carries the inner assembly in a manner that absorbs impacts and other forces on the portable intermittent fault detector.
US11415634B2
In one aspect the invention provides an assessment apparatus which includes two terminal connectors configured to electrically connect the assessment apparatus to the positive and negative terminals of a battery being assessed. The apparatus also includes a response measurement system configured to measure the terminal voltage and current of the battery when supplied with at least one alternating test current having a frequency less than 1 Hz and/or less than an impedance transition frequency associated with the battery being assessed. Also provided is a processor in communication with the response measurement system and being configured to output a performance assessment indicator for the battery being assessed by calculating at least one impedance for the battery using terminal voltage and current measurements communicated by the response measurement system.
US11415629B2
A relay device may include an armature that moves between a first position that electrically couples the armature to a first contact and a second position that electrically couples the armature to a second contact. The relay device may also include a relay coil that receives a voltage to magnetize the relay coil, thereby causing the armature to move from the first position to the second position. The relay device may also include a drive circuit that couple the voltage to the relay coil, such that the voltage is higher than a rated voltage associated with the relay coil.
US11415618B2
A method for testing a network is disclosed, the network having a number of network sections, in particular in a cable harness having a number of such networks, having the following steps of: recording training measured values for a number of reference networks, wherein the reference networks correspond to the network to be tested, preprocessing the recorded training measured values in order to eliminate data errors in the training measured values, training a first classification system using the training measured values, wherein the first classification system is based on at least one algorithm from the field of machine learning and is designed to classify a network either as fault-free or faulty, training a second classification system using the training measured values, wherein the second classification system is based on at least one algorithm from the field of machine learning and is designed to classify a faulty network section of a network, recording test measured values for the network to be tested, preprocessing the recorded test measured values in order to eliminate data errors in the training measured values, classifying the network to be tested as fault-free or faulty on the basis of the recorded test measured values using the trained first classification system, and classifying the faulty network section of the network to be tested using the trained second classification system if the network (to be tested was classified as faulty by the trained first classification system. The present invention also discloses a corresponding testing device.
US11415617B2
Various approaches can be used to interrogate a surface such as a surface of a layered semiconductor structure on a semiconductor wafer. Certain approaches employ Second Harmonic Generation and in some cases may utilize pump and probe radiation. Other approaches involve determining current flow from a sample illuminated with radiation. Decay constants can be measured to provide information regarding the sample. Additionally, electric and/or magnetic field biases can be applied to the sample to provide additional information.
US11415615B2
Airborne system and method for the characterization and measurement of antennas or radiating systems
An airborne system and method for the characterization and measurement of radiating systems or antennas (5), including: an aerial module (1) including a unit for measuring electromagnetic emissions (11), which captures the electromagnetic field (E) radiated by the radiating system or antenna (5), and a positioning and guiding system (13) with an accuracy equal to or less than 3 cm; and a ground station (2) including a unit (23) for processing the electromagnetic emission measurements, which processes the measurements using a set of algorithms for processing electromagnetic emission measurements (25). Also, a method for measuring and characterizing radiating systems or antennas (5). The invention is suitable for use in sectors that require antennas to be characterized and measured, such as, for example, radar and radio navigation facilities, terrestrial- and satellite-based telecommunications systems, or terrestrial broadcasting facilities.
US11415613B2
An optical waveguide 1, an optical waveguide 2 are formed on a substrate 3 to be crossed with each other, modulator electrodes 11, 12, 13 and 14 are arranged along the optical waveguides 1, 2, and antennas 21, 22, 23, 24 (i.e., square patch antennas having an approximately same shape) are arranged around four corners of the square shape. The modulator electrode 11 is energized from the antenna 21 and the antenna 22, the modulator electrode 12 is energized from the antenna 24 and the antenna 23, the modulator electrode 13 is energized from the antenna 21 and the antenna 24, and the modulator electrode 14 is energized from the antenna 22 and the antenna 23. The light wave propagating through the optical waveguide 1 is modulated by an electric field of Y-direction, and the light wave propagating through the optical waveguide 2 is modulated by an electric field of X-direction.
US11415604B2
Systems, methods, and a computer readable medium are provided herein for providing an indication of a connection terminal on a measurement device for use in performing a test of a target device. The system can include a target device and a measurement device. The measurement device can couple to the target device via a plurality of connection terminals to perform a test of the target device. The measurement device can receive an input identifying a test to be performed on the target device by the measurement device. The measurement device can determine, based on the received input, an indication identifying at least one connection terminal of the plurality of connection terminals to connect to the target device to perform the test. The measurement device can provide the indication of the at least one connection terminal via an indication mechanism associated with the at least one connection terminal.
US11415603B2
A shunt resistor is connected in series to a load. A differential amplifier circuit are inputted a first voltage that is generated at one end of the shunt resistor and a second voltage that is generated at the other end of the shunt resistor. The differential amplifier circuit outputs a third voltage equivalent to a sum of a reference voltage and a voltage obtained by performing differential amplification on the first voltage and the second voltage. A conversion circuit outputs the voltage obtained by performing differential amplification on the first voltage and the second voltage by removing the reference voltage from the third voltage. The voltage is proportional to a load current.
US11415602B2
A method for operating an oscilloscope is described, wherein a waveform axis scale input value is detected. Further, a record length input value is detected. An oscilloscope operating point is determined relative to at least one predetermined operating mode limit. In addition, a method for operating an oscilloscope as well as an oscilloscope are described.
US11415601B2
A resistor having low temperature coefficient of resistance includes a resistive part and two conductive parts connected to opposite sides of the resistive part. One conductive part has a through slot and a sensing portion between the through slot and the resistive part. The through slot has two inter-connected sections. Each section extends and ends with a closed end and has a parallel component, parallel to a main current direction defined on the resistor, and a perpendicular component, perpendicular to the main current direction. Another resistor having low temperature coefficient of resistance includes a resistive part and two conductive parts connected to two sides of the resistive part respectively. Each conductive part has a protrusion block, extending outward perpendicular to a main current direction defined on the resistor, and a sensing portion at the protrusion block.
US11415593B1
A portable air fan measurement tool that is configured to measure air flow and air temperature. The air fan measurement tool includes a base comprising a magnet, the magnet being configured to attach the base to an air fan ring of an air fan. The portable air fan measurement tool also includes a vertical support having a first end configured to engage the base. The portable air fan measurement tool further includes an angular support having a first end configured to engage the vertical support and a horizontal support having a first end configured to engage a second end of the angular support. Moreover, the portable air fan measurement tool includes a boom having a first end configured to engage a second end of the vertical support and a second end of the horizontal support, and a plurality of air fan measurement devices that are disposed on the boom.
US11415591B2
A feedback device for use in a gas turbine engine, and methods and systems for controlling a pitch for an aircraft-bladed rotor, are provided. The feedback device is composed of a circular disk and a plurality of position markers. The circular disk is coupled to rotate with a rotor of the gas turbine engine, to move along a longitudinal axis of the rotor, and has first and second opposing faces defining a root surface that extends between and circumscribes the first and second faces. The plurality of position markers extend radially from the root surface and are circumferentially spaced around the circular disk. The position markers have a top surface elevated with respect to the root surface and opposing first and second side surfaces. The side surfaces of the position markers have a curved concave profile extending toward the root surface.
US11415588B2
Automated diagnostic analysis apparatus for analyzing patient specimens may include a probe to aspirate and dispense a bio-liquid. A probe tip on the probe may require replacement after contact with each bio-liquid. The automated diagnostic analysis apparatus may include a probe tip eject device and a waste chute for controlled removal and disposal of the probe tip to mitigate splattering or splashing of any residual bio-liquid in the probe tip as it is removed from the probe. A sloped ramp in the probe tip eject device may engage and remove the probe tip as it rotates through the probe tip eject device. The waste chute may include guides to transfer a removed probe tip directly into a waste bin without any surface contact by the probe tip. Methods of removing and disposing of a probe tip in an automated diagnostic analysis apparatus are described, as are other aspects.
US11415584B2
The therapeutic effect of and/or prognosis after administration of an anti-VEGFR-2 antibody drug, in particular, ramucirumab can be predicted by measuring VEGF-A, VEGF-D, sVEGFR-2, SDF-1α, and/or cNRP1. Provided is a biomarker for predicting the effect of administration of the anti-VEGFR-2 antibody drug, in particular, ramucirumab, and a test method and a test kit using the marker.
US11415581B2
The instant invention provides for a new method of treating colorectal cancer (CRC) and metastases thereof in subjects, and preferably also of other solid cancers and metastases thereof in subjects, wherein said method preferably depends on whether the patient shows certain specific proteins levels in one or more body fluids prior to or during treatment, wherein said treatment comprises the administration of at least one pan αv integrin inhibitor to a patient, a medicament for use in said new methods, and a method of predicting the outcome of a treatment with at least one pan αv integrin inhibitor based on said specific protein levels in one or more body fluids of the patient.
US11415573B2
The present invention relates to the detection or diagnosis of infection or inflammation in a patient. In particular, the invention provides methods that allow the detection of markers in a sample from a patient or subject, such as a blood sample, which will indicate whether the patient or subject has an infection or has an inflammatory response.
US11415569B2
A method for detecting a residual crosslinking aid in a crosslinked resin molded body includes a subject heating step in which a crosslinked resin molded body is heated at a temperature of 500° C. or higher and 700° C. or lower for a time of 3 seconds or more and 30 seconds or less, a subject analysis step in which gas chromatographic analysis is performed on a gas generated in the subject heating step, and a detection step in which an unreacted crosslinking aid is detected on the basis of a peak originating from a residual crosslinking aid in a chromatogram obtained in the subject analysis step.
US11415568B2
Systems and methods for implicit chemical resolution of vacuum gas oils and fit quality determination are disclosed. The systems and methods include utilizing an FT-IR spectrum of an unknown VGO composition, and a database of FT-IR spectra of known VGO compositions, to determine a model of composition for the unknown VGO composition. Additionally, the fit quality for the model of composition is determined by performing a partial least squares analysis on specific spectral regions of interest in the FT-IR spectrum of the unknown VGO composition.
US11415566B2
A method of retrieving a mobile platform from a tank having a hatch and at least partially filled with a non-conductive, energetic substance includes configuring the mobile platform to include at least a retrieval system disposed at least partially on an enclosure. The retrieval system includes at least: a primary tether connected to a buoyant body and to the enclosure, and a secondary tether connected to the buoyant body and to the enclosure. The method further includes: predetermining a buoyant body retrieval zone within the tank, and positioning a released buoyant body within the buoyant body retrieval zone by using the primary tether. The method also includes retrieving the primary tether by using the buoyant body; using the primary tether to release the secondary tether; and inserting a retrieval member through the hatch to retrieve the buoyant body, the primary tether, and/or the secondary tether.
US11415555B2
Aspects of ultrasonic through-wall data communication are described. In some aspects, a sensor device is located in an isolated environment behind a wall. A modulator generates a modulated sensor signal based on the binary sensor signal and a carrier signal. A coaxially aligned pair of electroacoustic transducers that transmits the modulated sensor signal through the wall of the isolated environment. A demodulator demodulates the modulated sensor signal to generate a demodulated binary sensor signal. A sensor data recovery component converts the demodulated binary sensor signal into an image or another sensor parameter.
US11415554B2
An ultrasonic inspection method that includes arranging an ultrasonic transmission element and an ultrasonic reception element symmetrically in relation to a straight line in a diameter direction orthogonal to the cylinder axis of a cylindrical inspection object, the inspection object being interposed between the ultrasonic transmission element and the ultrasonic reception element; transmitting ultrasonic waves from the ultrasonic transmission element at a plurality of positions in the diameter direction; receiving by the ultrasonic reception element the ultrasonic waves transmitted from the ultrasonic transmission element and transmitted through the inspection object by propagating through the inside of the inspection object; and inspecting the inspection object on the basis of a reception signal of the ultrasonic waves received by the ultrasonic reception element.
US11415548B2
A disclosed flat type lamp for a photoionization detector includes: a first plate member having a plate shape and having a first surface on which a plurality of discharge cavities is formed; a second plate member isolating the plurality of discharge cavities from the outside by being disposed and sealed on the first surface of the first plate member; electrodes disposed on the first and second plate members and arranged to face each other; and a discharge gas filled in the plurality of discharge cavities and producing vacuum ultraviolet using electric force that is applied through the electrodes.
US11415539B2
Methods, electrodes, and sensors for pH sensing using pseudo-graphite are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a method may include coating a pseudo-graphite material onto a surface of an electrode substrate to produce a pseudo-graphite surface. The method may also include exposing the pseudo-graphite surface to a sample to detect organic content in the sample.
US11415535B2
The invention relates to a method for non-destructive testing of an insulating sheath (G) of a cable (CB) made of a material of elastomeric polymer. The invention is characterized by a step (E2) of measurement using proton nuclear magnetic resonance on the insulating sheath (G) in order to measure at least a first parameter (P1) characterizing the elastically active chains (A) of the macromolecular network of the elastomeric polymer, comprising the fraction (FCEA) of elastically active chains (A) of the network and/or the average molar mass (Mc) of the elastically active chains (A), and by an assessment step (E3) including a comparison of the first parameter (P1) characterizing the elastically active chains (A) and/or of a second parameter (P2), having been determined from the first parameter (P1) characterizing the elastically active chains (A), with at least one prescribed assessment threshold (S) in order to determine that the cable (CB) is at the end of its life when the first parameter (P1) and/or the second parameter (P2) is/are below the prescribed assessment threshold.
US11415534B2
A method and system for interspersing different wait times in trainlet and partial recovery sequences is provided. The method includes introducing a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tool into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The method also includes applying an NMR pulse sequence to the subterranean formation using the NMR tool, in which the NMR pulse sequence includes at least two different wait times interspersed between successive sequences of radio frequency (RF) pulses. The method also includes measuring one or more echo signals corresponding to a substance in the subterranean formation based on the applied NMR pulse sequence. The method also includes determining a distribution of a characteristic of the substance based on the measured one or more echo signals.
US11415533B2
A method for automatically quantifying an analyte in a measurement sample includes providing a 1D-NMR spectrum and a 2D-NMR spectrum, providing at least one information item in relation to at least one analyte to be quantified, establishing a chemical shift of the NMR signal of the analyte to be quantified from the measured 2D-NMR spectrum using the at least one information item provided, establishing expected peak positions of the NMR signal of the analyte to be quantified, establishing measured peak positions from the measured 1D-NMR spectrum, and establishing disturbance signal peak positions using the expected peak positions and the actual peak positions. The method further includes modelling the 1D-NMR spectrum using the established disturbance signal peak positions using the established chemical shift and using the at least one information item provided, integrating the modelled 1D-NMR spectrum, and quantifying the analyte by internal or external referencing.
US11415531B2
Methods and systems for selecting mode(s) for inspection of specimens are provided. One method includes statistically predicting if data points in a set correspond to defects or nuisances on a specimen. The data points include attribute(s) determined for discrete locations on the specimen from output generated by two or more modes of an inspection system. Events have been detected at the discrete locations with at least one of the modes. The method also includes determining a quantitative measure for each of two or more different combinations of the modes thereby determining different quantitative measures. The quantitative measure for each of the different combinations is responsive to how well one of the combinations detects the defects and minimizes detection of the nuisances. The method further includes selecting one or more of the modes for inspection of specimens of the same type as the specimen based on the determined quantitative measures.
US11415509B2
An integrated device for the detection of cancerous tissue including an optical fiber configured to receive at a first end modulated infrared light and to conduct the modulated infrared light from the first end to a second end; and a plasmonic metasurface, disposed on the second end of the optical fiber, configured to localize evanescent infrared light to sub-100 nanometer distances from the plasmonic metasurface of the optical fiber such that the localized evanescent infrared light penetrates only the membrane portion of a cell held against the second end, wherein the second end is configured to receive reflected light reflected from the membrane portion the cell, the reflected light including spectroscopic information indicative of whether the cell is noncancerous or cancerous.
US11415507B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for determining spectral information of a three-dimensional object, comprising a cavity (110) for location in relation to the object, an imaging light source (120) located in relation to the cavity, wherein the imaging source is controllable to selectively emit light in a plurality of wavelength ranges, structured light source (130) for emitting structured illumination toward the object, wherein the structured light source comprises a plurality of illumination devices arranged around the cavity, one or more imaging devices (140) for generating image data relating to at least a portion of the object, a control unit, wherein the control unit (1100) is arranged to control the structured light source to emit the structured illumination and to control the imaging light source to emit light in a selected one or more of the plurality of wavelength ranges, a data storage unit (1120) arranged to store image data corresponding to the structured illumination and each of the selected one or more of the plurality of wavelength ranges, and processing means (1110) arranged to determine depth information relating to at least a portion of the object in dependence on the image data corresponding to the structured illumination stored in the data storage means.
US11415492B2
Methods, devices, and systems for integrating extraction and purification of bio-sample regions and materials with patient analysis, diagnosis, follow up, and treatment. The invention provides a means to insert disclosed substrates, cartridges, and cartridge-processing instrument or instruments into a standard clinic or pathology laboratory workflow. Specifically, we disclose methods, devices, and systems for inserting standard pathology slides into disclosed cartridges and cartridge-processing instruments, either manually, semi-automatically, automatically, or by robotic means.
US11415487B2
A collection device for collecting a sample dissected or ablated from an object includes a collection container configured to collect the dissected or ablated sample. An electrode pair is arranged on a side of a base of the collection container facing away from the object or on or in the base itself. The electrodes of the electrode pair are arranged concentrically. A voltage supply is configured to apply a voltage to the electrodes of the electrode pair such that a divergent electric field is generated at least in a region of the collection container.
US11415486B2
An equipment monitoring system includes an unmanned vehicle, an alarm circuit remote from the unmanned vehicle, and a vehicle control circuit remote from the unmanned vehicle. The unmanned vehicle can include a communications circuit and a flight controller. The alarm circuit detects a failure condition of a building component and outputs an indication of the failure condition. The vehicle control circuit receives the indication of the failure condition from the alarm circuit; generates, based on the indication of the failure condition, an equipment verification signal that includes an identifier of the building component, a position of the building component, and a test of the building component to be executed; and transmits the equipment verification signal to the flight controller of the unmanned vehicle via the communications circuit of the unmanned vehicle to cause the unmanned vehicle to execute the test of the building component.
US11415485B2
A tire state detection device that includes: a temperature sensor that detects a temperature in a tire air chamber; an acceleration sensor that detects acceleration associated with rotation of a tire; a pressure sensor that detects pressure in the tire air chamber; a storage unit that stores a plurality of maps for calculating a fatigue state of the tire on the basis of the detected temperature, the detected acceleration and the detected pressure; and a tire fatigue index calculation unit that calculates, by referring to each of the plurality of maps, a tire fatigue index from the detected acceleration, the detected temperature, and the detected pressure.
US11415483B2
A diagnostic system and method that (a) that uses models indicative of both successful firing and skips to determine if cylinders of a skip fire controlled internal combustion engine have successfully fired or successfully skipped and (b) uses filtered exhaust gas pressure readings for detecting faults associated with EGR systems and/or turbocharger systems.
US11415480B2
A self-charging sensor (SCS) adapted for use in a toilet or the like. The SCS includes a housing having a rechargeable battery; a turbine module having a multilevel impeller having offset wheels that are adapted to be driven by a fluid flow via an inlet port during an event, wherein a rotation of the impeller causes the turbine module to generate electricity that recharges the rechargeable battery; and a processing module that collects count data associated with the rotation during the event; and an attachment component adapted to seat the housing on an overflow tube.
US11415476B2
A pressure and temperature measuring device with improved fluid flow control having a metal bulb that houses a temperature-sensitive element and a base with an orifice for the passage of fluid and tabs that project from the base, extending outside a plastic body, and an axial seal positioned between the conduit and the orifice; with the base of the metal bulb facing the plastic body, with the conduit and the orifice aligned to allow the passage of fluid, with the axial seal compressed axially.
US11415475B2
An apparatus for indicating the presence of a threshold directional differential pressure between separated adjacent spaces includes a first conduit and an inclined second conduit containing at least one movable element that indicates a threshold pressure difference between the two spaces. The apparatus may provide a compact arrangement while allowing the movable element to have a suitable travel path length within the second conduit. The travel path may include a first stop and a second stop. An imaginary axis or plane passing through a center of a first conduit may intersect the travel path between the first stop and the second stop.
US11415469B2
The edge-cloud collaboration platform for intelligent coking monitoring of cracking furnace tubes includes an edge layer and a cloud layer, which can store and analyze big data, propose suggestions on optimization and improvement, and feed the suggestions back to the edge layer. The edge layer includes an intelligent temperature measuring device for an outer surface of a cracking furnace tube and/or an ethylene DCS/data acquisition device; the cloud layer includes a cracking furnace safety warning device, an intelligent coking diagnosis and prediction device for a cracking furnace tube, a hybrid job scheduling device, a multi-workflow scheduling device, a virtualized resource scheduling device, and a virtual resource optimization device; and the intelligent temperature measuring device for an outer surface of a cracking furnace tube includes an identification device for furnace tube and overlapped tube, and an abnormal data detection device.
US11415467B2
A sleeving apparatus includes a worm gear. The worm gear has a plurality of threads, the worm gear receptive of a bead between adjacent threads of the plurality of threads. A plurality of flexible diaphragms are positioned along the worm gear. Each diaphragm of the plurality of diaphragms is configured to position a wire in alignment with a central bead opening of the bead. With rotation of the worm gear about a worm gear axis, the bead advances onto the wire with the wire passing into the central bead opening. The plurality of diaphragms are configured to allow passage of the bead through each diaphragm of the plurality of diaphragms.
US11415466B2
A temperature measuring device for determining a medium temperature by a temperature of a measuring point on a surface enclosing the medium includes: at least one measuring sensor; at least one reference sensor; and a measured value processing device which is connected via a cable to the at least one measuring sensor and via a cable to the at least one reference sensor. The at least one measuring sensor and the at least one reference sensor are arranged along a main thermal connection path between the surface enclosing the medium and surroundings. The at least one measuring sensor is arranged close to the measuring point. A thermal resistance between a relevant measuring sensor and the at least one reference sensor is smaller than a thermal resistance between a relevant reference sensor and the surroundings.
US11415459B2
The present invention provides a photosensor device, which can cancel a dark current in 1-2 milliseconds. This photosensor device utilizes a small capacitor to quickly accumulate and transform the dark current to a dark-current voltage. Based on the dark-current voltage and an environment temperature, a calibration voltage can be obtained. By cancelling the calibration voltage from the sensed voltage to get a light voltage, which can be amplified to a lux signal. The process is very quick and sensitive, so the photosensor device can be used in an environment under a low luminance.
US11415451B2
Devices, systems, and methods for interacting instrumentation with high and/or low energy systems are disclosed. In some illustrative embodiments, a sensor assembly for level measurement of high and/or low energy systems may comprise an instrumentation head to determine a level of media in a tank; a coupler including a body having a mounting end for connection to equipment of a high or low energy system and a receiving end for receiving connection of the instrumentation head, a coaxial hardline extending between the mounting and receiving ends and including a conduction tip arranged near the mounting end; and a sealing system including a first seal section disposed between the conduction tip and the receiving end of the body.
US11415445B2
A physical quantity measurement device includes a physical quantity detector and a support plate part superposed on a back surface of the physical quantity detector to support the physical quantity detector. The physical quantity detector includes a recessed part on the back surface, and a membrane part defining a bottom surface of the recessed part and being provided with a detection element for detecting a physical quantity of a fluid in a measurement low path. An area of the support plate part covering the recessed part includes a communication hole communicating with the recessed part. A peripheral edge portion of a hole opening, which is an end of the communication hole adjacent to the recessed part, is spaced apart, toward the inside, from a peripheral edge portion of a recess opening, which is an end of the recessed part adjacent to the support plate part.
US11415438B2
A method for identifying sensor drift can include: setting an autocorrelation threshold for a sensor in a long-short term memory (LSTM) model developed based on historical process measurements from an analogous sensor to a sensor; collecting measured data from the sensor; applying the LSTM model to the measured data from the sensor, wherein applying the LSTM model comprises: applying the LSTM model to the measured data from the sensor to yield LSTM predicted data; calculating key performance indicators (KPIs) of the LSTM data based on an accumulated slow drift error (ASDE) model, wherein the KPIs comprise an error, an accumulated prediction error, an accumulated slow-drift error, and an estimated autocorrelation; and identifying sensor drift when the estimated autocorrelation violates the autocorrelation threshold.
US11415433B2
A method for calibrating a sensor with respect to a reference trajectory indicating a number of timely successive data values using an encoder/decoder neural network with an encoder function and a successive decoder function. The method includes training the encoder function and the decoder function of the encoder/decoder neural network with respect to a reference trajectory so that a reconstruction error of the reference trajectory at an input of the encoder function and a reconstructed reference trajectory at an output of the decoder function is minimized; training a calibration vector with respect to a sensor trajectory so that a reconstruction error between an output sensor trajectory and a corresponding reference trajectory is minimized, the output sensor trajectory is obtained by applying the calibration vector on the sensor trajectory and the encoder function and decoder function on the the calibrated sensor trajectory; and applying the calibration vector to calibrate the sensor.
US11415428B2
There is provided an audio information providing system that can solve the problem with the audio lag and includes navigation with higher accuracy. The audio information providing system is an audio guidance system including an audio output device that is worn in the ear of a user and an information processing terminal that is communicatively connected to the audio output device. The audio output device includes: an audio output unit configured to output audio to the ear of the user; and a detection unit configured to detect the direction of the head of the user. The information processing terminal includes: a position information acquiring unit configured to acquire a current position of the user; and a generation unit configured to generate audio data which is used for the audio output unit to output audio guidance for a route to a destination to which the user moves from a direction of the destination relative to the direction of the head of the user on the basis of a relationship among position information of the destination, the current position of the user, and information on the direction of the head of the user.
US11415416B2
This disclosure describes a multiaxis gyroscope comprising a first proof mass quartet centered around a first quartet center point and a second proof mass quartet centered around a second quartet center point. The phase of the primary oscillation of each proof mass in the first proof mass quartet in relation to the first quartet center point is anti-phase in relation to the phase of the primary oscillation of the corresponding proof mass in the second proof mass quartet in relation to the second quartet center point. The phase of the primary oscillation of the first and second proof masses in each proof mass quartet in relation to the corresponding quartet center point is anti-phase in relation to the phase of the primary oscillation of the third and fourth proof masses in the same proof mass quartet in relation to the same quartet center point.
US11415413B2
A carpenter's, mason's, or plumber's level with an elastic, flexible cord for attachment to a plank, pipe, or workpiece is disclosed. The level has a linear, bar-shaped body with a rectangular cross-section, where portions of the body may be hollow or have recessed openings therein. The level has an elastic cord connected to the body, wherein the cord is stretch-wrapped around a plank, pipe or like workpiece to attach the level thereto for angular tilt measurement. A groove, a contour, a notch, a boss, a ridge, a hole, a recess, a hook, or the like can be used to hold or snare the elastic cord when in use and to store the elastic cord on the level body when not in use. The level body has an opening to receive a bubble vial for angular tilt indication.
US11415407B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for frequency-domain optical interferometry imaging. Embodiments of the invention include an apparatus comprising a line-shaping optical element for directing optical radiation into a line illumination, an imaging optical element for receiving optical radiation comprising radiation reflected from a target sample and a reference point associated with the target sample, and a detection unit for measuring common path interferences between a plurality of reflections from the target sample and the reference point. Embodiments of the invention include a method comprising directing radiation into a line illumination, directing the line illumination towards a target sample, receiving radiation reflected from the target sample at a detection unit, and measuring common path interferences between a plurality of reflections at the target sample and a reference point.
US11415406B2
A laser apparatus, a measurement apparatus, and a measurement method are provided in which the laser apparatus outputs a frequency-modulated laser beam with a plurality of modes and includes: an optical cavity that has a gain medium for amplifying a light to be input, and an optical SSB modulator for shifting a frequency of the light amplified by the gain medium: and a control part that controls the optical SSB modulator to shift a frequency of a light to be input to the optical SSB modulator.
US11415405B2
Disclosed herein is a strain gauge including a substrate, with a first Wheatstone bridge arrangement of resistors disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second Wheatstone bridge arrangement of resistors disposed remotely from the first Wheatstone bridge arrangement of resistors. The resistors of the first Wheatstone bridge arrangement are equal in resistance to one another, while the resistors of the second Wheatstone bridge arrangement are unequal in resistance to one another and unequal to those of the first Wheatstone bridge arrangement. The first Wheatstone bridge arrangement of resistors are electrically connected in parallel with the second Wheatstone bridge arrangement of resistors such that each resistor of the first Wheatstone bridge arrangement is electrically connected in parallel with a different resistor of the second Wheatstone bridge arrangement.
US11415401B2
A method of packaging a measuring tape device such that an internal feature of the measuring tape device is exposed may include supporting a housing of the measuring tape device on a base portion of an internal feature exposing holder, and proximate to a backing portion of the internal feature exposing holder, extending a portion of a blade of the measuring tape device from the housing to engage a hook capturing edge of an extension portion, and retaining the housing with the base portion and the backing portion such that a portion of the blade remains exposed.
US11415398B2
A gas favoring boattail projectile has a body, a nose extending from the body as an ogive, a tip upon the nose, a meplat of the tip, a frustum outwardly of the body and opposite the nose, and a base opposite the tip. The frustum also appears as a boattail and the body appears as a cylinder. The projectile has a caliber denoting its widest diameter and serving as the basis for additional dimensions measured from it. The meplat has a proportional relationship to the boattail and the boattail has an angular relationship to the surface of the cylinder. The relationships of specific features of the invention optimize its accuracy on target while remaining within weight and other specified parameters.
US11415394B2
A multi-function dry fire training device to be inserted into the chamber of a firearm, which comprises an illuminator for emitting, upon receiving a command from a controller, a beam of visible or invisible illumination from the barrel of the firearm, the beam being parallel to its central axis; a controller for controlling the functionality of the device including illumination of the illuminator, in response to activation of the firearm trigger; an actuator, being electrically connected to the controller, for activating the controller whenever being struck by the firearm striker and a power source for providing DC power to the controller and illuminator.
US11415362B2
A traveling harness system is provided for an appliance to maintain electrical connections between the appliance and a drawer, while allowing the drawer to move. Wiring harness guides formed in the drawer force the wiring harness to maintain a predictable and desirable loop radius to reduce stress on the wiring harness, which prevents the wiring harness from prematurely wearing.
US11415353B2
An ice cube dispensing unit comprising a housing suitable for containing at least two ice cubes, and a dispensing mechanism arranged at one end of the housing. The dispensing mechanism comprises an opening which is large enough for the ice cubes to pass through, a wall arranged near an edge of the opening, and an ice cube displacing mechanism suitable for displacing the ice cubes out of the housing through said opening. The ice cube displacing mechanism and the wall are arranged such that the ice cubes pass between the wall and the ice cube displacing mechanism on their way out of the housing. The ice cube displacing mechanism is arranged at a distance from the wall such that the minimum distance A between the wall and an outer periphery of the ice cube displacing mechanism is less than the minimum dimension of the ice cubes and either the wall and/or the outer periphery of the ice cube displacing mechanism is displaceable to allow the distance A to increase to allow ice cubes to leave the housing. An invention related to ejecting ice cubes from an ice cube tray and an invention related to filling an ice cube tray with liquid are also disclosed.
US11415350B2
A temperature chamber for conditioning air includes a temperature-insulated space which receives test material, and a temperature control device for controlling the temperature of the test space. The temperature control device allows a temperature in a range of −50° C. to +180° C. to be established within the space, and has a cooling device including a cooling circuit with a refrigerant, a heat exchanger, a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion element. A jet device is connected to a low-pressure side of the cooling circuit downstream of the heat exchanger and upstream of the compressor, a first bypass is connected to a high-pressure side of the cooling circuit downstream of the compressor, and the refrigerant is suppliable to the jet device from the high-pressure side via the first bypass as a driving fluid.
US11415342B2
A multistage compression system uses refrigerant and oil. The multistage compression system includes a low-stage compressor that compresses the refrigerant, a high-stage compressor that further compresses the refrigerant compressed by the low-stage compressor, refrigerant pipes that introduce the refrigerant compressed and discharged by the low-stage compressor into a suction part of the high-stage compressor, an intercooler, and an oil discharge pipe. The intercooler cools the refrigerant discharged by the low-stage compressor before the refrigerant is sucked into the high-stage compressor. The intercooler is disposed between the refrigerant pipes. The oil discharge pipe discharges the oil in the low-stage compressor. The oil discharge pipe connects the low-stage compressor and a portion of the refrigerant pipes. The portion of the refrigerant pipes is on an upstream side of the intercooler.
US11415337B2
A recreational vehicle air conditioner (RVAC) includes a ceiling-mount cover panel and a control box. The control box includes a first box portion and a second box portion. The first box portion is positioned above the ceiling-mount cover panel. The second box portion is connected to the first box portion with a hinge. The second box portion is pivotable between a closed configuration and an open configuration on the hinge. The second box portion is nested with the first box portion in the closed configuration, and the second box portion is pivoted away from the first box portion on the hinge in the open configuration. An electronic control panel is mounted to the second box portion of the control box.
US11415305B2
A luminaire assembly kit, a luminaire and a luminaire installation including a sensor strip (30) comprising a flexible printed circuit board (31) having opposing major surfaces (32, 33) and a plurality of conductive tracks (34) embedded in the flexible printed circuit board (31); a sensor (20); and a driver (22) for said sensor (20). The sensor (20) and the driver (22) are conductively coupled to each other through at least some of said conductive tracks (34) and are mounted on one of said major surfaces (32, 33) at opposing ends of the flexible printed circuit board (31). The luminaire assembly kit or luminaire further comprises a light transmissive body and a frame (11). During assembly a section of the flexible printed circuit board (31) is wrapped around an edge (15) of the light transmissive body such that it is located in between the frame (11) and the light transmissive body.
US11415298B1
A light fixture includes a housing adapted to secure the light fixture to a building. A lamp may be mounted to the housing. The light fixture further includes an actuator configured to move the device to move between a retracted position and an extended position so that the lamp can illuminate an area around the building.
US11415295B2
Disclosed are a lamp for an automobile and an automobile. The lamp for an automobile includes a micro lens array (MLA) module which is provided in front of a light source and into which light is incident. The MLA module includes a light-incident lens array and a light-emitting lens array. At least a portion of optical axes of a plurality of light-incident lenses provided in a first section of the light-incident lens array is aligned with one of optical axes of a plurality of light-emitting lenses provided in an A section of the light-emitting lens array. At least a portion of optical axes of a plurality of light-incident lenses provided in a second section of the light-incident lens array is misaligned with all of the optical axes of a plurality of light-emitting lenses provided in a B section of the light-emitting lens array.
US11415291B2
Provided are a light-emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same. The light-emitting device includes a flexible surface light source curved in a desired shape, a first fixture that includes first and second positioning ribs, and has a first curved surface between the first and second positioning ribs, and a second fixture having a second curved surface. The method includes mounting the surface light source in a flat state on the first positioning rib and the second positioning rib such that the front or rear surface and the first curved surface face to each other across a space, bringing the second fixture close to the first fixture and pushing the surface light source toward the first fixture to curve the surface light source, and fixing the first and second fixtures together with the curved surface light source held therebetween.
US11415290B2
A vehicle lamp includes a mirror, a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a lens. The mirror is capable of rotating a mirror surface around a rotary axis in a vertical direction. The mirror surface extends along the rotary axis. The light-emitting elements are arranged on a lateral side more than the mirror in a vehicle width direction. The lens irradiates a range wider than the mirror with light from the light-emitting elements. The light-emitting elements are disposed apart from each other such that light distribution images of the light reflected by the mirror surface are aligned along the vehicle width direction. The mirror rotates to combine the adjacent light distribution images and form a main light distribution pattern.
US11415281B2
A flickering source of illumination is disclosed. A first, second and third group of LEDs and a control circuit are also disclosed. The control circuit is adapted to control a switch to selectively switch on the first group, the second group, and the third group of LEDs. The flickering source of illumination includes a translucent mineral positioned around the groups of LEDs. The translucent mineral is adapted to allow light emitted by the LEDs to pass through the translucent mineral and illuminate an area adjacent to the translucent mineral. The flickering source of illumination may include a first group of LEDs; a second group of LEDs; and a control circuit. The control circuit may be adapted to control a light output of the first and second groups of LEDs so that the first group of LEDs emits a different color of light than the second group of LEDs. The control circuit may be further adapted to selectively vary a color of the light output of the first group of LEDs and of the second group of LEDs. A translucent mineral positioned around the LEDs is also disclosed. The translucent mineral may be adapted to allow light emitted by the LEDs to pass through the translucent mineral and illuminate an area adjacent to the translucent mineral. The translucent mineral may be selected from a group including a salt rock, quartz, marble and natural stone.
US11415277B2
Provided are a lampshade and a lamp. The lampshade includes a lampshade bottom, a lampshade wall, stop blocks and clamping blocks. An accommodation cavity is formed by an inner surface of the lampshade bottom, an end surface is provided on an outside of the lampshade bottom, and the end surface is arranged around the accommodation cavity. The lampshade wall is arranged on the end surface and is arranged around the accommodation cavity. A platform surface is provided between an inner surface of the lampshade wall and the inner surface of the lampshade bottom. The platform surface is arranged around the accommodation cavity. The stop blocks are both arranged on the inner surface of the lampshade wall and are separately arranged along an arrangement path of the lampshade wall. The clamping blocks are both arranged on the platform surface and are separately arranged along an arrangement path of the platform surface.
US11415269B2
A system and a method for sensing hydrogen charge state of a fuel cell electric vehicle are provided. The system includes an infrared transmission unit that transmits a fuel door sensing infrared signal for sensing a fuel door opened while charging hydrogen and a nozzle sensing infrared signal for sensing a charging station-side hydrogen charging nozzle connected to a hydrogen charging inlet of a vehicle. An infrared reception unit receives the fuel door sensing infrared signal and thereafter, reflected on a fuel door and the nozzle sensing infrared signal transmitted from the infrared transmission unit and thereafter, reflected on the hydrogen charging nozzle. A controller determines that the vehicle is being charged with hydrogen when sensing an open state of the fuel door and a hydrogen charging inlet connection state of the hydrogen charging nozzle.
US11415265B1
A locking system securing an image scanning device to a container includes a first and second compressible material. A first securing plate is disposed between the first and second compressible materials, while a second securing plate is adjacent to the second compressible material on a surface opposite a surface of the second compressible material that is adjacent to the first securing plate. A ball is disposed within curved edges of the first and second securing plates, where the curved edges each curve away from the second compressible material. A shaft extends from the ball to the image scanning device. A fastener is secured through the first and second securing plates, and into the securing surface to lock the ball, and subsequently the shaft and image scanning device, in place. The locking system can be secured to a pitched surface to naturally position the image scanning device perpendicular to level ground.
US11415262B2
An adapter for mounting an instrument or accessory device to microphone stand head includes a conical body having an overall length with a maximum outside diameter and a minimum outside diameter, an elongate mounting post having an overall length, the mounting post contiguously formed to or otherwise fixed to the conical body, the mounting post and conical body aligned to share the same longitudinal center, the mounting post bearing external threading from the free end of the mounting post down the post to some length, and an end cap having a uniform outside diameter and an annular threaded mounting seat provided at proximal center of the threaded end cap, where the mounting seat threads mate with the external threads on the mounting post.
US11415260B2
Robotic inspection device for tank and pipe inspections includes a housing configured to be positioned on a portion within a flow apparatus. The portion has a wall with a coating on the wall. The coating has a coating thickness. The device has a magnetic transducer mounted to the housing. The magnetic transducer is configured to measure a magnetic flux permeability through the coating on the wall. A computer system is mounted to the housing. The computer system is operatively coupled to the magnetic transducer. The computer system includes one or more processors and a computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving magnetic flux permeability measured by the magnetic transducer at a location on the portion and determining a coating thickness at the location based on the magnetic flux permeability measured at the location.
US11415256B2
An apparatus for the separation or liquefaction of a gas at cryogenic temperatures which comprises an isolated chamber comprises at least one front distillation column operating at cryogenic temperatures and also a pipe for transferring fluid coming from or going to the column, the pipe having a diameter D comprising a bend for changing the direction of flow of the fluid, with profiled deflector vanes placed inside the bend, with their concavity towards the centre of the bend forming a plurality of ducts.
US11415253B2
Devices and assemblies are provided for a quick connect device. In one example, a connector may include a first visual cue for coupling an outer portion to a middle portion and a second visual cue for coupling an inner portion to the middle portion.
US11415246B2
The threaded joint includes a pin and a box. The pin includes a taper male thread part, and the box includes a taper female thread part to be engaged with the taper male thread part. The male thread part is divided into a first region on the free end side of the pin, and a second region on the tubular side of the pin along a tube axis direction. The taper ratio of the first region is greater than the taper ratio of the second region. The taper ratio of the first region is greater than the taper ratio of the female thread part. The taper ratio of the second region is equal to or greater than the taper ratio of the female thread part.
US11415244B2
A method of fabricating a conduit comprises steps of attaching a first tubular-outboard-ply-end of a tubular outboard ply to a first inner collar portion of a first collar with a second weld and attaching a second tubular-outboard-ply end of the tubular outboard ply to a second inner collar portion of a second collar with a fourth weld. The method also comprises steps of inserting a tubular inboard ply into the tubular outboard ply, threadably interconnecting the first inner collar portion and a first outer collar portion of the first collar, and threadably interconnecting the second inner collar portion and a second outer collar portion of the second collar. The method further comprises steps of attaching a corrugated inboard ply to the first outer collar portion with a first weld and attaching a corrugated inboard ply to the second outer collar portion with a third weld.
US11415243B2
The present disclosure is directed to a shroud for a cable hanger which may isolate the metal interfaces between cable hangers and their supporting structures. The present disclosure is also directed to an interference mechanism of the shroud which may minimize or eliminate accidental escape of the hanger from a supporting structure.
US11415242B2
A servo valve comprises a member disposed in a cavity and axially-moveable therein. The member includes first and second sections, a central section located between the first and second sections and first and second transition sections respectively between the first and second sections and the central section, forming respective first and second outer surfaces angled relative to the axis (X). At least one of the transition sections comprises a non-circular cross-section having a concave portion forming at least part of the respective first and second surfaces and being at least partially aligned with and facing the respective first or second nozzle opening such that rotating the member in said cavity varies the level of obstruction of the first or second nozzle openings by the first or second outer surfaces.
US11415235B2
A hydrant valve with an internal automatic shut-off valve. The internal valve blocks communication between a piston chamber and a hydrant chamber when in a closed position. An upper valve opens the internal valve against its biasing force permitting the flow of fluid between the hydrant chamber and the piston chamber. The internal valve closes in response to a disconnection of the upper valve.
US11415234B2
A valve may include a valve body forming a central passage extending from a first side of the valve body to a second side of the valve body. A valve pin may be located within the central passage, where the valve pin includes a sealing head that selectively contacts a valve seat of the valve body to control flow of a fluid through the central passage. A spring may have a first end that is fixed relative to the valve pin. A spring seat may be fixed relative to a second end of the spring, where the spring is fixed relative to a calibration plunger, and where the calibration plunger is secured to a threadless calibration wall of the valve body via an interference fit.
US11415233B2
A dual-disk check valve is disclosed. The dual-disk check valve comprises a housing having at least two inlet ports and an outlet port, at least two adapters securely affixed to both inlet ports, and a valve assembly, which is respectively disposed at each inlet port. The valve assembly at the inlet ports is configured to operate within the housing according to the fluid flow. The valve assembly comprises a disc provided with a spring, which is securely disposed against the respective two inlet ports using seat rings and washers. The disc at one inlet port is adapted for movement between an open position and a closed position, thereby preventing the fluid flow via the inlet port to the outlet port when another inlet port is opened for allowing fluid flow through it. The one inlet port is configured to automatically close when the fluid flows from another inlet port.
US11415229B2
A lifting valve includes a first and a second connection, a passage connecting the first and second connections and surrounded by a valve seat, a closing element that can be brought into sealing contact with the valve seat, and an actuator to bring about the sealing contact. The closing element includes a sealing arrangement comprising a first part, a second part releasably connected to the first part, a first groove formed in the first part, a second groove, and a clamping gap. The second groove and clamping gap are formed between the first and second parts, and a seal comprising a first leg, a second leg, and a third leg is received in the sealing arrangement. The first leg is received in the first groove, the second leg is received in the second groove, and the third leg is received in the clamping gap.
US11415218B2
A working fluid supply device is provided with: a first oil pump and a second oil pump driven by an engine; a third oil pump driven by an electric motor; a first unloading valve configured to shift the second oil pump to a no-load operation state; and a controller configured to control a supply state of working oil to an automatic transmission. The controller sets the supply state to a supply state selected from: a first supply state in which the working oil is supplied only from the first oil pump; a second supply state in which the working oil is supplied from the first oil pump and the third oil pump; a third supply state in which the working oil is supplied from the first oil pump and the second oil pump; and a fourth supply state in which the working oil is supplied from the first oil pump, the second oil pump, and the third oil pump.
US11415216B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling operation of a vehicle includes a controller having a processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory. The vehicle includes a park assembly with a park actuator motor having an actuator shaft. The vehicle has a park mode and an out-of-park mode. The controller is configured to determine if the park actuator motor has reached an out-of-park position when a shift command to the out-of-park mode is received. The controller is configured to obtain and store at least one dynamic parameter associated with the park actuator motor prior to the detent member reaching the out-of-park position. The method includes determining a load factor based on the dynamic parameter over time when at least one of a predefined time threshold and a predefined motor position threshold is reached. Operation of the vehicle is controlled based at least partially on the load factor.
US11415214B2
A shift operation determination apparatus includes: an operation member rotatably attached to the vehicle; a position detection section configured to detect a position of the operation member in a rotation direction; a shift determination section configured to determine, based on the position of the operation member, a shift range selected by the operation member; and a regulation section configured to regulate a rotation of the operation member, the regulation section being configured to regulate the rotation of the operation member when the operation member moves to a second position corresponding to the second range from a first position corresponding to the first range or a third position corresponding to the third range and moves to the third position within a predetermined time after being located at the second position.
US11415205B2
A piece type ball screw in a screw shaft with a spiral external thread groove on an outer peripheral surface, a nut which is fitted onto the screw shaft and has a spiral internal thread groove on an inner peripheral surface, a plurality of balls rotatably arranged in a track path formed between the external thread groove and the internal thread groove, and a piece member which is attached to the nut and connects the internal thread grooves to each other. The piece member includes a piece body in which a return groove connecting the internal thread grooves is formed and a pair of engaging portions which are provided on the piece body, extend in opposite directions in a circumferential direction of the nut, and engage with the internal thread groove of the nut. A joint portion between the piece body and the engaging portion has a fillet shape.
US11415204B2
A linear motion system comprises a guiding member, a moving member, a plurality of rolling members and a preload adjusting module. The moving member is slidably disposed on the guiding member. The moving member and the guiding member together form a circulation path. When the guiding member moves with relative to the moving member, the moving member can generate a linear movement with relative to the guiding member. The rolling members are accommodated in the circulation path. The preload adjusting module is disposed on the moving member, and comprises a preload assembly and a preload regulator. The preload regulator applies a thrust to the preload assembly to adjust a preload value generated by the rolling members and applied to the moving member.
US11415203B2
An actuator for use with an external controller, either alone or in a group including other actuators controlled from the same external controller. The actuator includes a housing for encasing internal components of the device; a motor assembly for creating motion, the motor assembly being disposed within the housing; and a drive assembly for driving a pushrod, the drive assembly being arranged within the housing and slidingly connected to the motor assembly. A remote control communication circuit is electrically connected to the motor. The actuator includes an in line planetary gear and a linear position sensor. The actuator may include a hand held remote controller which utilizes tilt for proportional control, and a distributed network.
US11415202B2
An articulation mechanism for large scale mobile aggregate system equipment. The mechanism includes a screw device that is pivotally secured to an elongated portion of the equipment to drive its movement to and from a collapsed position. The screw device is driven by a screw jack and moved within a housing while the housing itself is pivotally secured to another portion of the equipment. Rollers within the housing may be used to stabilize the lateral movement of the screw device during the opening, closing or self-locking of the elongated portion by the mechanism.
US11415200B2
A torque-variable single-shaft rotary shaft structure with multiple frictional pairs includes a pivot shaft. A first support is secured to a pivot shaft and a second support is disposed on the pivot shaft. An adjustment wheel assembly, a frictional assembly and an elastic assembly are fitted on the pivot shaft. The adjustment wheel assembly and the frictional assembly have a first adjustment wheel and a second frictional member synchronously movable with the first support and a second adjustment wheel and a first frictional member synchronously movable with the second support. When the first and second supports are rotated, the first and second adjustment wheels are driven to contact and abut against each other so as to provide axial action forces. The frictional assembly has multiple first and second frictional members, which are alternately arranged in frictional contact with each other to form multiple frictional pairs.
US11415196B2
A roller chain includes an inner link and an outer link. A bush is projected out of an outer side surface of an inner plate by a predetermined amount and an end surface of a bush being projected is brought into contact with an inner side surface of the outer plate to form a predetermined gap between the outer side surface of the inner plate and the inner side surface of the outer plate. The predetermined gap is within a range of 7 to 18[%] of the distance between the inner side surfaces of the pair of outer plates.
US11415184B2
An axle includes: an electromagnet; a transmission disc provided with a first magnetic suction member; a half shaft fitted in the transmission disc, first and second gaps being arranged circumferentially between the transmission disc and the half shaft; and a transmission assembly arranged between the transmission disc and the half shaft, and provided with a second magnetic suction member, a thickness of the transmission assembly being less than the first gap, and greater than or equal to the second gap. When the electromagnet is powered off, the transmission assembly and the half shaft are relatively stationary, and the transmission assembly is located at the first gap. When the electromagnet is powered on, the first magnetic suction member and the second magnetic suction member are attracted by the electromagnet, and the transmission disc rotates synchronously with the transmission assembly and rotates to the second gap relative to the half shaft.
US11415175B2
A rolling-element bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring having a bore, a bearing interior between by the outer ring and the inner ring, a plurality of rolling elements in the bearing interior, and a cover attached to the rolling-element bearing such that it extends along an end face of the rolling-element bearing and covers the bearing interior, the inner ring, and the bore.
US11415168B2
A sliding bearing having a sealing arrangement for water pumps, configured to radially mount and seal a shaft in a housing between a wet side and a dry side. The sliding bearing and the sealing arrangement include a sliding bearing bushing made of a sintering material for radial mounting of the shaft, and a dry-side shaft seal arranged between the sliding bearing bushing and the dry side. A wet-side shaft seal is arranged between the wet side and the sliding bearing bushing and a lubricant reservoir with a substrate, made of a non-sintered material, which is porous in at least some sections, is arranged at least between the wet-side shaft seal and the sliding bearing bushing. The lubricant reservoir includes, in pores of the substrate, a lubricant insoluble in water. A volume of the lubricant reservoir and a volume of a lubricant filling take up a total volume of spaces between the wet-side shaft seal and the dry-side shaft seal.
US11415161B2
A fastening system including a bolt with a shank defining a bolt axis and a bolt head secured to the shank. The bolt head includes a bolt head body with two channels therein, and two slots aligned with the channels. The channels and the slots extend between oppositely positioned axis-parallel surfaces. The channels are partially defined by internal walls in the bolt head body. The bolt head includes a cap surface transverse to the bolt axis. The system also includes a tool with a blade defining a tool axis, with a tip located at the second end. The tip is receivable in the channels. To rotate the bolt, the tip is positioned in a selected one of the channels, to align the tool axis with the bolt axis. Rotation of the bolt is urged by the tool, when the tool is rotated about the tool axis.
US11415158B2
An expansion bolt comprises a bolt having an end-face anchoring means for the tension-resistant anchoring of the bolt on or in a first assembly part, which bolt has a truncated-cone-shaped cone section and a bolt threaded section in its end section opposite to the anchoring means with a nut screwed thereon, an expansion sleeve having a cylindrical lateral surface and an inner cone contour interacting with the cone section of the bolt, and a clamping device supported on a second assembly part for widening the expansion sleeve and applying an axial clamping force to the assembly parts to be connected together. The cone section of the bolt is tapered in the direction toward its anchoring means and the inner cone contour of the expansion sleeve is tapered in the same direction. The expansion sleeve bears a clamping flange protruding outward in the radial direction on its end opposite to the inner cone contour. The clamping device comprises a clamping ring having an axial passage opening. The expansion sleeve engages through this passage opening, permitting an adjustability of the expansion sleeve in relation to the clamping ring in the axial direction, and protrudes with its clamping flange beyond a peripheral region of the clamping device enclosing the passage opening. The clamping ring also comprises multiple pressure bolts arranged circumferentially distributed, which mesh with their thread in internally threaded holes extending through the clamping ring in the axial direction and act with their bases indirectly or directly against the second assembly part to widen the expansion sleeve and apply an axial clamping force to the assembly parts. Furthermore, a connection assembly having such an expansion bolt is described.
US11415126B2
A piston for a compressor is disclosed. The piston for the compressor compressing and discharging a refrigerant sucked into a cylinder includes a sliding portion disposed in the cylinder and having a suction space to receive the sucked refrigerant, a head portion coupled to the sliding portion, a compression space being formed at a front of the head portion and the suction space being formed at a rear of the head portion, the head portion comprising a suction port communicating the suction space with the compression space, a press-fit cap coupled to the front of the head portion, the press-fit cap comprising a suction hole connected to the suction port, and a first elastic member disposed between the press-fit cap and the head portion. A gas layer is formed between the head portion, the press-fit cap, and the first elastic member.
US11415121B2
A cover for an air compressor or pump includes a main plate body (12) having a first surface and a second surface opposite from the first surface, a plurality of external fins (18) that are formed on the first surface and protrude outwardly from the first surface, and a plurality of internal fins (42) that are arranged proximate the second surface and extend in a direction opposite to a direction in which the plurality of external fins extend. Heat from the air compressor or pump is received by the plurality of internal fins and flows through the main plate body, whereby a temperature of a fluid exiting the air compressor or pump is reduced.
US11415116B2
A deep ocean water extraction apparatus has a collection pool having an outer shell with a maximum diameter, a lesser diameter at a mostly closed bottom, and an open top of a diameter smaller than the maximum diameter, outflow tubes with pumps extending horizontally from an opening through a side wall of the shell, an opening through the bottom covered by a rigid disk having a plurality of tube openings through which descending collection tubes of common length are connected, and flotation elements attached to the descending collection tubes at a plurality of points spaced down the depth of the collection tubes. The apparatus is characterized in that water is pumped out of the collection pool, and common pressure on the surfaces of the collection pool and the surrounding ocean water, causes water to flow up the collection tubes into the collection pool.
US11415115B2
A solar receiver includes a hollow body, which has a longitudinal axis (8.4), a wall (8) surrounding the longitudinal axis (8.4), an opening (9) disposed in the wall (8) for the entry of heat rays, and an end region opposite the opening (9). The wall (8) includes an outer wall (8.1), an inner wall (8.2), and a partition wall (8.3) disposed therebetween. The outer wall (8.1) and the partition wall (8.3) enclose an outer annular space (8.1.1). The inner wall (8.2) and the partition wall (8.3) enclose an inner annular space (8.2.1). The outer annular space (8.1.1) has, in the end region, an inlet (12) for a free-flowing medium. The two annular spaces (8.1.1, 8.2.1) are conductively connected to one another in the region of the opening (9), and the inner annular space (8.2.1) has an outlet (11) for a free-flowing medium in the end region.
US11415112B2
There is provided a method of operating a wind turbine which has at least two rotor blades. A first ice detection method is performed by a first ice accretion detection unit. A first warning signal is output if an ice accretion which exceeds a first threshold value is detected at one of the rotor blades by the first ice detection method. A second ice detection method is performed by a second ice accretion detection unit. A second warning signal is output if an ice accretion which exceeds a second threshold value is detected at one of the rotor blades by the second ice detection method. An enable signal is output if a freedom from ice is detected at the at least two rotor blades by the second ice detection method. Intervention in the operation of the wind turbine is effected by a control unit if the first or second warning signal has been detected. Intervention in the operation of the wind turbine is deactivated by the control unit if the control unit receives an enable signal and has previously received the second warning signal.
US11415105B2
A method of forming a wind turbine blade is provided which includes upper and lower blade mold halves, and a shear web having at least one aperture formed therein. A plurality of bulkheads are attached to the shear web and the shear web can be lifted and rotated, without need for a complex gantry/galactica apparatus, to be placed inside the lower blade mold. The upper mold half can then be closed with the shear web and bulkhead(s) disposed within the blade interior. A heating fluid can be pumped into the interior to pass through the bulkheads, circulating around the shear web and exiting the blade root with the assistance of a sump to pull the cold air outside the blade.
US11415100B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine, to a wind turbine comprising a tower, a nacelle and a rotor, and also to a wind farm. The rotor blade comprises an inner blade section that extends from a rotor blade root in the longitudinal direction of the rotor blade, and a trailing edge segment, arranged on the inner blade section, for increasing the profile depth of the rotor blade along a section in the longitudinal direction of the rotor blade. The rotor blade has a pressure-side surface and a suction-side surface, which are each formed in certain regions by parts of the inner blade section and of the trailing edge segment. One or more air outlets and air inlets extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of the rotor blade are formed on both the pressure-side surface and the suction-side surface of the rotor blade, in the region of the trailing edge segment, said air outlets and air inlets being interconnected in a fluid-guiding manner. At least one covering element overlapping the at least one air outlet and by means of which the air outlet can be closed or opened is arranged on the suction-side surface.
US11415085B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle system (80) configured for injecting an aqueous solution in an air intake line (12) upstream of a combustion chamber (14) of an internal combustion engine, or in the combustion chamber (14) of the internal combustion engine, said vehicle system (80) comprising the following constituents: ⋅a tank (16) to store an aqueous solution; ⋅a pump (18); ⋅an air intake line (12) upstream of a combustion chamber (14) of an internal combustion engine; ⋅one or more injectors (20) configured for injecting aqueous solution in the air intake line (12), in the combustion chamber (14) or both; ⋅a feed line (22) configured in for feeding said injector (20) with aqueous solution pumped by the pump (18). In the vehicle system, at least a portion of at least one of the vehicle system constituents (16, 18, 12, 20, 22) or of a tank (16) component (24) is made of a polymer material. The polymer material—comprises an effective amount of at least one antimicrobial agent, or—has on its surface a surface coating containing at least one antimicrobial agent, the surface coating comprising between 0.001% by weight and 0.25% by weight of the at least one antimicrobial agent.
US11415084B2
A storage container includes an inner tank to store a cryogenic liquid gas and an extraction system to permit extraction of the cryogenic liquid gas by a cryogenic liquid gas consumer. The extraction system includes an extraction line, a consumer line to facilitate extraction of the cryogenic liquid gas by the cryogenic liquid gas consumer, a return line to facilitate return of the cryogenic liquid gas to the inner tank, a heat transmitter to heat the cryogenic liquid gas extracted from the inner tank and transfer the cryogenic liquid gas to a gaseous phase, and a compressor to compress the gaseous cryogenic liquid gas. A first flow of the compressed cryogenic liquid gas is conducted to the cryogenic liquid gas consumer via the consumer line and a second flow of the compressed cryogenic liquid gas is returned to the inner tank via the return line.
US11415080B2
An engine includes an inlet tube introducing air to a combustion process and a first plurality of fuel injectors disposed in the inlet tube and used for scram-jet engine operation. The engine includes a second plurality of fuel injectors used for ram-jet engine operation. The second plurality of fuel injectors is upstream from the first plurality of fuel injectors and is disposed in the inlet tube. The engine includes a combustor swirl zone downstream of and adjacent to the first plurality of fuel injectors.
US11415060B2
There is disclosed an igniter for a gas turbine engine including: a base including a securing assembly configured to be matingly connected to a casing of the gas turbine engine, a glow plug heater rod, the glow plug heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, a flow impeding member extending along the axis and having a distal end spaced from the base and extending axially relative to the axis beyond the rod end, the flow impeding member sized and configured such that the distal end extends into a combustion chamber of the gas turbine engine upon the base connected to the casing.
US11415059B2
A torch ignitor system for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a torch ignitor, the torch ignitor including a combustion chamber oriented about a torch axis, the combustion chamber having axially upstream and downstream ends defining a flow direction through the combustion chamber, along the axis. The torch ignitor includes a cap defining the axially upstream end of the combustion chamber and oriented about the axis, wherein the cap is configured to receive a fuel injector and at least one glow plug. The torch ignitor includes an elbow connected to the downstream end of the combustion chamber for diverting combustion products along an ignition jet flame axis that is off of the torch axis for injection of combustion products into a gas turbine engine combustor. The torch ignitor further includes a tip at a downstream end of the elbow for issuing the injection of combustion products.
US11415056B1
A mobile fracking system and methods may include a gas turbine housed at least partially inside a trailer and an exhaust attenuation system configured to receive exhaust gas from the gas turbine. The exhaust attenuation system may include a lower elongated plenum configured to receive exhaust gas from the gas turbine and an upper noise attenuation system that is movably connected relative to a distal end of the lower elongated plenum.
US11415053B2
An oceanic offshore system and method for generating electric power which comprises a structure positioned at an offshore location. A power generating module is mounted on the structure, the power generating module including a turbine, an electric power generator coupled to the turbine, and a generating source of power fluid for the turbine resulting from the combustion of a fossil fuel. There is a capture system connected to the generating source for transferring carbon dioxide combustion gases to a subsea location for sequestration of CO2.
US11415051B2
A system for lubricating components of a gas turbine engine includes a supply pump to pump lubricant from a reservoir through a supply conduit to lubricated component. An outer body deicing circuit is fluidly coupled in series with the supply conduit. Moreover, a scavenge conduit extends from the lubricated component to the reservoir and a scavenge pump pumps the lubricant from the lubricated component through the scavenge conduit. In addition, a valve is fluidly coupled in series with the supply conduit and the scavenge conduit and a bypass conduit extends from the valve to a location on the supply conduit downstream of the deicing circuit. When the lubricant is supplied to the valve, the valve directs the lubricant flowing through the scavenge conduit into the reservoir. When the supply of lubricant to the valve is halted, the valve directs the lubricant flowing through the scavenge conduit into the bypass conduit.
US11415047B2
A boundary layer turbine (BLT) engine has a housing formed by an outer cylinder a first and a second faceplate, a turbine shaft through the faceplates, a stack of alternating disks and spacers with central holes joined to the turbine shaft leaving an outer combustion zone, an air inlet through the first faceplate, an exhaust port through the second faceplate, a fuel port through the outer cylinder, and an ignition device communicating with the combustion zone. The disks and spacers have openings forming separate intake and exhaust channels parallel to the turbine shaft, one channel channeling air from the air inlet port to spaces between disks, and the other channel channeling exhaust from the combustion zone through the exhaust channel to the exhaust port. Fuel is injected into the combustion zone, the air fuel mixture is ignited, and exhaust products impart torque to the turbine shaft by boundary layer friction.
US11415043B2
The present invention relates to the carbon deposit buildup in the internal combustion engine, or more specifically the removal of such carbon from the induction system, combustion chamber, and the exhaust system. The method is one in which a high volumetric flow rate of chemical/chemical mixes are used to remove a greater amount of carbon from the engine. These preferred chemical/chemical mix flow rates are 6 to 9 Gallons per hour, which is approximately 9 times the volumetric flow rate of the industry standard of 1 gallon per hour.
US11415041B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method of igniting an air/fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine includes receiving an air/fuel mixture into a pre-combustion chamber, the pre-combustion chamber enclosing a portion of an igniter, igniting the air/fuel mixture in in the pre-combustion chamber with the igniter to produce a flame, directing the flame to eject the pre-combustion chamber through a collection of passages in a wall of the pre-combustion chamber, toward a peripheral wall of a main combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, igniting, by the flame, air/fuel mixture in the main combustion chamber adjacent the peripheral wall, and then igniting air/fuel mixture in the main combustion chamber in a central region of the main combustion chamber with a propagating flame front of the ignited air/fuel mixture or a portion of the directed flame adjacent the peripheral wall.
US11415033B2
A method for operating a petrol engine, in which air is introduced into an exhaust tract through which exhaust gas from the petrol engine can flow, bypassing the petrol engine, includes introducing the air into the exhaust tract at a point arranged downstream of a first three-way catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust tract and upstream of a second three-way catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust tract downstream of the first three-way catalytic converter, while the petrol engine is operated with a sub-stoichiometric combustion air ratio, where a desulphurization of the second three-way catalytic converter is effected.
US11415028B2
A hybrid vehicle including an engine, a drive motor, a first oil pump, and a second oil pump is configured to, during forward travel, supply components to be cooled or lubricated with oil discharged from a discharge port of the first oil pump and a discharge port of the second oil pump via an oil passage, while the hybrid vehicle is configured to, during reverse travel, compensate for a driving force by supplying oil discharged from the discharge port of the second oil pump to the discharge port of the first oil pump via the oil passage to cause the first oil pump to operate as a hydraulic motor.
US11415026B2
A system for timing a crankshaft and a camshaft in an internal combustion engine having a cylinder head structure with a timing pin hole and a camshaft cavity. The camshaft has a first opening that extends from an outer annular wall of a first shaft towards a longitudinal axis. A cam bushing having a bushing clearance hole is inserted into the camshaft cavity and the camshaft is assembled with the cam bushing and cylinder head structure to align the bearing clearance hole with first opening of the camshaft. A timing pin is inserted through the timing pin hole, bushing clearance hole, and first opening of the camshaft to position the camshaft in a camshaft timing position. The crankshaft is rotated to a crankshaft timing position either before or after the camshaft is rotated for setting a static timing of the crankshaft and camshaft, and the timing pins are removed.
US11415025B2
A distributor sector of a turbine of a turbomachine, including an outer platform including a downstream cylindrical hook adapted to engage with the turbomachine casing, the hook including a part in which is formed a U-shaped anti-rotation notch including a bottom and two lateral walls extending from the bottom, the notch being at least partially covered by a wear insert inserted in the notch, the insert being removeable.
US11415023B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft comprises: an engine core comprising a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor. The gas turbine engine further comprises a core casing surrounding the engine core. The gas turbine engine further comprises a core cowl surrounding the engine core and the core casing. The gas turbine engine further comprises an engine accessory gearbox driven by a take-off from the core shaft. The gas turbine engine further comprises an oil system having one or more oil pumps powered by the engine accessory gearbox for circulating lubricating oil around components of the engine including the engine accessory gearbox, and having an oil tank for receiving and storing oil scavenged from the engine components before recirculation thereto. The gas turbine engine further comprises an oil fill line which extends from the engine accessory gearbox to an inlet port accessible from the core cowl, the oil tank being fillable from the inlet port via the fill line and the engine accessory gearbox.
US11415012B1
A fluid machine has: first and second walls; a gaspath defined between the first wall and the second wall; a rotor having blades rotatable about the central axis; and a tandem having: a first row of first vanes having first airfoils including first leading edges, first trailing edges, first pressure sides and first suction sides opposed the first pressure sides, and a second row of second vanes downstream of the first vanes and having second airfoils including second leading edges, second trailing edges, second pressure sides and second suction sides opposed the second pressure sides, the first vanes being circumferentially offset from the second vanes; and depressions defined in the first wall, a depression of the depressions located circumferentially between a pressure side of the first pressure sides and a suction side of the second suction sides, the depressions axially overlapping the first airfoils and the second airfoils.
US11415007B2
A gas turbine engine includes a shroud ring, a vane ring, and a secondary flow assembly. The shroud ring extends around an associated turbine wheel and includes a carrier segment and a blade track segment comprising ceramic matrix composite materials. The blade track segment and the carrier segment defining a shroud cavity radially therebetween. The vane ring includes a heat shield comprising ceramic matrix composite materials that forms an outer platform, an inner platform, and an airfoil defining a heat shield cavity radially through the heat shield. The secondary flow assembly includes a recirculating flow circuit having a discharge tube and a vane pressurizing tube; and the secondary flow assembly is configured to cool the blade track segment. The flow circuit is further configured to pressurize the heat shield cavity thereby providing a seal against the gases from the primary gas path entering the heat shield cavity.
US11415005B2
A turbine vane assembly adapted for use in a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of turbine vanes, an outer vane support, and an inner vane support. The plurality of turbine vanes comprise ceramic matrix composite material and are adapted to interact with hot gases flowing through a gas path of the gas turbine engine during use of the turbine vane assembly.
US11415004B2
Disclosed is a superalloy gas turbine engine component including a glass coating. The glass coating is configured for resistance to hot corrosion caused by molten salts of sodium, magnesium, vanadium, and/or sulfur dioxide. The glass coating includes a mixture of two or more metal oxides, which are preferably selected from: barium oxide, silicon oxide, strontium oxide, aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, calcium oxide, cobalt oxide, boron oxide, iron oxide, zirconium oxide, nickel oxide, and titanium oxide. The glass coating is in fully crystalline form and/or a mixture of crystalline and glass phases, and it has a coefficient of thermal expansion of from about 10 to about 18 μm/m-° C. The glass coating has a thickness over the superalloy gas turbine engine component of about 0.5 mils to about 10 mils.
US11415003B2
A method for producing a metal bladed element of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft, includes steps of producing the bladed element, depositing a coating made of wear-proof material on at least one portion of the bladed element and verifying, preferably visually, the conformity of the bladed element. Verifying the conformity of the bladed element includes implementing a verification element on the bladed element. The bladed element is configured according to a conformity threshold value to conceal a non-conformity of the coating, if the non-conformity has at least one dimension less than the threshold value, and to show at least one portion of this non-conformity if the at least one dimension is greater than the threshold value.
US11414999B2
A gas turbine engine component having a cooling passage includes a first wall defining an inlet of the cooling passage, a second wall generally opposite the first wall and defining an outlet of the cooling passage, a metering section extending downstream from the inlet, and a diffusing section extending from the metering section to the outlet. The metering section includes an upstream side and a downstream side generally opposite the upstream side. At least one of the upstream and downstream sides includes a first passage wall and a second passage wall where the first and second passage walls intersect to form a V-shape.
US11414991B2
Provided are a system and a method for monitoring bearing compression rate of a filler in a coal mine gob area. An ground information processing system, a vibration source control system, and a monitoring system are arranged on the ground according to a buried depth of the filler in the gob area. The vibration source control system generates vibration, and transmits a signal to the filler. The monitoring system on the ground receives different reflected waves according to different elasticities of the fillers under different compaction degrees. Final data is transmitted to the ground information processing system for data processing. The monitoring of the filler starts when the filler is filled in the gob area; the filler is gradually compacted. The filler is monitored until the thickness of the filler does not change. Finally, a bearing compression rate formula is utilized to calculate the bearing compression rate of the filler.
US11414989B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide optical methods and systems to evaluate the performance of a demulsifying agent in wellbore fluid. The present embodiments provide an optical system which scans wellbore fluid in order to detect the phase separation caused by a demulsifying agent. Using spectral data, the optical system quantifies the opacity and/or transparency of the different phases in the wellbore fluid in order to evaluate the demulsifying agent.
US11414986B1
Downhole drilling tools and methods for drilling and detecting carbon dioxide leakage in a subsurface reservoir are disclosed. The tools include a cylindrical body; a sensor module including a plurality of sensors including a first conductive electrode, a second conductive electrode, and a plurality of TiO2 nanotubes, and an electric line located between and connecting the first and the second conductive electrodes; and a communication device communicatively connected to the sensor module; wherein the sensor module and the communication device are attached to an outer surface of the cylindrical body.
US11414980B1
A method includes utilizing a charging and communication interface and a sensor system to gather downhole measurements. The method further includes charging and activating the sensor system using the charging and communication interface, installing the sensor system into a nozzle of a drill bit, running the drill bit into a wellbore, conducting measurements using the sensor system, pulling the drill bit out of the wellbore, and contacting the charging and communication interface with the sensor system to retrieve the measurements from the sensor system.
US11414979B2
A method for providing a well injection program in which an evaluation of plugging of the sandface over time is included to more accurately determine the water treatment facility specifications and well injection parameters for a produced water re-injection well. An artificial produced water is provided which includes both water wet solids and oil wet solids being representative of the treated produced water to be injected, at solids and oil content concentrations magnitudes of order greater than the treated produced water. This allows filtration testing on small injected volumes suitable for standard laboratory equipment. The areal spurt loss and Carter's Leak-Off coefficient are then determinable for use in evaluating the plugging of the sandface over time.
US11414967B2
A dynamic power optimization system and method for electric submersible motors. A system to optimize operation of an electric submersible motor electrically coupled to a variable speed drive controlled by a computer performing dynamically in a loop the steps of obtaining measurement of a pump performance variable and motor current to establish a first data set, making a motor voltage adjustment of a first type including either an increase or a decrease, establishing a second data set after the adjustment, differencing the first data set with the second data set, and making a second adjustment to the motor voltage of the first adjustment type if the current drops and the pump performance variable is maintained within thresholds, or opposite the first adjustment type if the current rises and the pump performance variable is maintained, or if the current drops and the pump performance variable deviates outside the thresholds.
US11414963B2
A wellbore fluid monitoring system can implement a method while drilling a wellbore using a drilling assembly that includes a drill string, a rotary table and a bell nipple below the rotary table. Air flowing in a downhole direction through a portion of an annulus within the bell nipple below the rotary table responsive to a decrease in a liquid level in the portion of the annulus is sensed. The annulus is formed by the drill string and an inner wall of the wellbore. In response to sensing the air flowing in the downhole direction, a flow rate of the air flowing in the downhole direction over a period of time is measured. Based on the flow rate and the period of time, a volume of air flowed in the downhole direction over the period of time is determined. A liquid level relative to the rotary table is determined based on the volume of air flowed in the downhole direction over the period of time.
US11414954B2
Provided is a hydrocarbon well choke system that includes a choke valve and a choke control system adapted to obtain production data from production sensors of the well (e.g., including flowrate, wellhead pressure, wellhead temperature, water cut and gas-oil-ratio (GOR) data obtained by way of respective sensors of the well), generate (based on the data) a well profile that is indicative of the flow of production from the well for different settings of the valve, receive (from a well control system) a target production rate, determine (based on the well profile) whether the rate is obtainable, in response to determining that the rate is obtainable, determine (based on the well profile) a choke setting that corresponds to the rate, and control the choke valve to operate at the setting, and, in response to determining that the rate is not obtainable, communicate (to the well control system) a corresponding alert.
US11414950B2
A well annular pressure control device includes a housing having a through bore and at least two iris valves within the housing. The iris valves comprise a plurality of vanes operable between an open position and a closed position to define an opening. At least one actuator is coupled to the plurality of vanes to move the plurality of vanes between the open position and the closed position.
US11414946B2
Systems and methods for retaining magnetic debris from drilling fluid include an exterior sleeve with an interior space receiving an interior holder. A first end of the exterior sleeve is connectible to drill string to place the interior space in fluid communication with the drill string, and a longitudinal passage between the interior holder and exterior sleeve defines a flow path for drilling fluid from the drill string. Magnetic materials along and/or around the interior holder provide a magnetic field extending into or across the longitudinal passage such that magnetic debris is removable by the magnetic field from the flow path of drilling fluid passing through the longitudinal passage.
US11414945B2
A control line pinching mechanism can include a pinching sleeve, a clamping sleeve, a tubing, a control line, and a pinching block. The clamping sleeve can have a slot. A control line can extend between the tubing and the slot of the clamping sleeve. A pinching block can be disposed within the slot of the clamping sleeve. The pinching sleeve can be movable relative to the slot from a released position to a pinching position in which the pinching sleeve contacts and radially compresses the pinching block against the control line to pinch the control line against the tubing.
US11414932B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a system including an implement (e.g., a steering tool, a drill bit) tetherable to an equipment string (e.g., a drill string), where the implement includes a steering mechanism to steer the equipment string with respect to a wall of a tubular passage (e.g., a borehole). The system can also include a bearing housing for the equipment string (e.g., connectable to a drill pipe of the drill string), where the bearing housing is rotationally coupled with the implement and rotated. The system can further include an actuation mechanism coupleable between the bearing housing and the steering mechanism to actuate the steering mechanism based upon a rotational orientation of the bearing housing with respect to the steering mechanism.
US11414919B2
An insulating glazing unit has at least two glass panes and a circumferential spacer profile between them near their edges, for use in a window, a door, or a façade glazing, and which has in each case a frame, in particular a metallic frame, surrounding the edges of the insulating glazing, wherein at least one RFID transponder is attached to the insulating glazing unit as an identification element, wherein the at least one transponder is arranged on an inner surface of one of the glass panes in the spaced region between the spacer profile and the edge of the glass pane.
US11414918B2
A vacuum insulated door for an appliance includes an outer wrapper that defines an evacuation port. An inner liner is coupled to the outer wrapper defining an insulating cavity therebetween. A base is coupled to the outer wrapper adjacent to the evacuation port. A servicing tube has a connecting end and a servicing end. The servicing tube is in fluid communication with the insulating cavity via the evacuation port. The connecting end is coupled to the base. A handle has first and second ends coupled to the outer wrapper and a center portion therebetween spaced-apart from the outer wrapper. The first end is coupled to the outer wrapper proximate the evacuation port. The servicing tube extends along an inner surface of the handle.
US11414917B2
The invention relates to a profiled plastic section (1) for a metal/plastic composite profiled section (31). The profiled plastic section (1) comprises a first profiled element (2) and at least one second profiled element (3). The first profiled element (2) and the second profiled element (3) together form a latching mechanism (4, 9; 5, 10; 6, 11), by means of which a form-fitting connection can preferably be produced between the first profiled element (2) and the second profiled element (3) in a width direction (x) and in a height direction (y). The first profiled element (2) and the second profiled element (3) overlap preferably over a large area when the form-fitting connection is produced between the first profiled element (2) and the second profiled element (3), and the form-fitting connection can be produced on the cross-sectional plane (x, y) between the first profiled element (2) and the second profiled element (3) by latching the profiled elements (2, 3) of the profiled plastic section (1). The form-fitting connection between the first profiled element (2) and the second profiled element (3) is designed such that a movement of the first profiled element (2) and the second profiled element (3) in a longitudinal direction (z) of the profiled plastic section (1) is allowed when a first metal component (29) is connected to the first profiled element (2) and a second metal component (30) is connected to the second profiled element (3) preferably in a shear-resistant manner. The profiled plastic section (1) can likewise also be designed with more than two profiled elements (2, 3), and the basic principle according to the invention of generating a shear-free plastic/metal composite profiled section (31) can be carried over.
US11414914B2
A fenestration opening is provided with opposing receptors on opposite sides of the fenestration opening. Each of the receptors is configured to capture and opposing end of a glazed panel with a capture feature or features on each receptor that hold the respective end of the glazed panel from moving laterally, in or out of the fenestration opening. The glazed panel is installed by angling the glazed panel with respect to the fenestration opening and inserting one end of the glazed panel into engagement with one of the receptors, then moving the opposite end of the glazed panel so that the panel is aligned between the receptors, and then moving the panel so that the opposite end of the receptor is captured by the opposite receptor.
US11414913B2
A train door control method and system are provided. The train door control method includes: acquiring a first train identifier and a second train identifier when multiple trains park in a platform at the same time, a door of a first train to which the first train identifier belongs being to be opened at a current time point, and a second train to which the second train identifier belongs being a train arranged behind the first train, which enters the platform and parks in the platform; and controlling the opening and closing of the door of the first train and a door of the second train at different time points respectively according to the first train identifier and the second train identifier.
US11414901B2
Disclosed is a system for detecting approach and/or contact of a user and Ultra High Frequency communication with a portable user apparatus, intended to be embedded on board an automotive vehicle, the system including: a device for detecting approach and/or contact, including a sensor for detecting approach and/or contact and an electronic control unit; a conducting metal surface, suitable for the conduction of electric charges; and a communication device, including an Ultra High Frequency antenna emitting an electromagnetic field at an Ultra High Frequency wavelength, and a management unit for managing the emission and reception of data of the antenna. The conducting metal surface takes the form of a continuous path including a plurality of meanders spread over a length at least equal to: L=λ/6 wherein L is a total length of the meanders, and λ is a wavelength of the Ultra High Frequency antenna.
US11414897B2
A door inside release spring for a vehicle door assembly includes a torsional spring body, and a first spring arm extending from a first axial end of the spring body. The first spring arm is configured to be operably connected to an inside release lever to bias a position of the inside release lever. A second spring arm extends from a second axial end of the spring body opposite the first axial end. The second spring arm is configured to be operably connected to a child lock lever to bias a position of the child lock lever.
US11414890B2
A magnetic locking mechanism includes a first housing, a second housing, and an unlocking member. The first housing includes a guiding member including a first through hole. The second housing includes a locking member including a telescopic rod. The unlocking member is configured to adsorb the locking member. When the locking member is moved along the guiding member to a preset position, the telescopic rod protrudes into the first through hole, and the second housing is locked to the first housing. When the unlocking member adsorbs the locking member protruded into the first through hole, the telescopic rod retracts from the first through hole, and the second housing is unlocked from the first housing.
US11414884B2
A portable barrier has a pedestal assembly including (i) a plurality of legs that are movable with respect to each other, the plurality of legs include a first lateral leg and a second lateral leg, and (ii) a first limiter connected to the first lateral leg and the second lateral leg. The portable barrier further has a cover assembly including (i) a plurality of arms that are movable with respect to each other, the plurality of arms include a first lateral arm and a second lateral arm, and (ii) a covering connected to the first lateral arm and the second lateral arm. In addition, the portable barrier has a first side screen connected to the first lateral arm and the first lateral leg, the first side screen defining a side opening. The portable barrier further has a first side opening cover.
US11414882B2
The present invention provides a steel structure cooling tower, including a truss system, a hyperbolic enclosure plate system and an opening-closing system. Hoop trusses and meridional trusses are connected crisscross to form a force transfer structure of the steel structure cooling tower, thereby improving the overall stability of a tower body of the cooling tower and reducing the wind pressure on the tower body. An enclosure plate is mounted on the hoop truss by an enclosure plate bracket assembly, the opening-closing system is laid on the hoop truss, and a wind and rain sensor is installed on a hoop truss on the top of the tower body of the cooling tower. When typhoon rain exceeds a limiting value, an opening-closing posture of the hyperbolic enclosure plate is adjusted, so that the steel structure cooling tower can open the enclosure plate to reduce a wind load acting on the tower body.
US11414874B2
The invention relates to a decorative panel, in particular a floor panel, ceiling panel or wall panel. The invention also relates to a panel covering, such as a floor covering, ceiling covering or wall covering, comprising a plurality of panels according to the invention. The invention further relates to a method of producing a decorative panel according to the invention.
US11414873B2
A wall attachment device for securing a handrail to a supporting wall, the handrail having a first end and a second end, at least one of the first and second ends being hollow and including an inner connecting member extending radially inwardly within the corresponding end, the device comprising: a body sized and shaped to be received in the corresponding end, the body including a planar rear face adapted to be positioned against the supporting wall, a front face opposite the rear face and a lateral face, the body further having at least one fastener opening to receive a fastener for securing the body to the supporting wall; and an outer connecting member extending radially outwardly from the lateral face for securely engaging the inner connecting member of the handrail to thereby attach the corresponding one of the first and second ends of the handrail to the supporting wall.
US11414869B2
The present disclosure relates more particularly to kits and systems of roofing shingles that can provide a variety of shingle coverage thicknesses and patterns while simplifying design and installation. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a roofing system comprising a first array of overlapping first shingles disposed on a roof. The system includes a first number, n>=2, of overlapping horizontally-extending courses of linearly arranged first shingles, with horizontal and vertical offsets between courses. Each first shingle includes a top headlap portion extending from the first lateral edge to the second lateral edge and a bottom tab portion formed of a plurality of tabs extending from the headlap portion toward the bottom edge of the first shingle, the bottom tab portion having an open area that is at least 20% of the total area of the bottom tab portion.
US11414865B2
Insulated wall and roof sheathing systems for use in building construction designed to provide moisture permeable wall panels that protect from bulk water, excess air, and thermal transfer.
US11414863B2
Disclosed invention comprises innovations in the fabrication process and the associated design methodology for producing refined prestressed concrete elements/components. The innovations disclosed are fabrication using multiple stages, the use of ultra high strength materials for only critical subcomponents, utilizing thinner sections made of ultra high strength materials, and a unique method of inducing and controlling camber. The embodiments of this invention enable the accelerated construction of concrete structures that are both durable and cost effective. This disclosure demonstrates the significant improvements to the prior art in the areas of durability, constructability, and cost reduction for prestressed concrete components. The embodiments presented in this disclosure are for bridge superstructure applications.
US11414852B2
Preferred embodiments of the invention provide improved catch basin filter system for maintenance and access. Preferred embodiments are composed of a diversion trough, a hinged pivot weir, weir to trough mounting brackets, under mounts, weir stops, a weir trash screen, a hole in the weir bottom section and a filter basket, wherein: the assembly is affixed to the catch basin chamber wall directly below an above ground access point for ease of maintenance.
US11414850B2
A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device that supplies flush water to the toilet main body, where the tank device includes a storage tank provided behind the toilet main body and above a floor surface, and a water supply device that supplies the flush water to the storage tank, a capacity of an upper part located at a position higher than a middle height position that equally divides the storage tank into two in an up-down direction is greater than a capacity of a lower part located at a position lower than the middle height position, and the storage tank includes a plurality of upper surfaces with height differences, and a water passage port is provided in a manner penetrating a highest surface among the upper surfaces to allow the flush water supplied from the water supply device to flow into the storage tank.
US11414832B2
A work vehicle includes a cab, a driver's seat disposed inside the cab, a first steering device, a second steering device, a seating sensor, and a control unit. The first steering device is disposed in front of the driver's seat. The first steering device is configured to perform a steering operation of the vehicle. The second steering device is disposed to a side of the driver's seat. The second steering device is configured to perform a steering operation of the vehicle. The seating sensor detects whether or not an operator is sitting in the driver's seat. The control unit disables the steering operation with the second steering device when the seating sensor detects that the operator is not sitting in the driver's seat.
US11414819B2
A drain is provided which may be used in a surface including a paver stone. The drain includes a body having an upper wall and a cavity extending from the upper wall. The body further includes a drain opening in fluid communication with the cavity. The body additionally includes a plurality of support members. Each support member at least partially extends into the cavity and includes a support surface, with the support surfaces of the plurality of support members being configured to collectively support a paver stone placed thereon. The drain additionally includes a plurality of retainers selectively engageable with the body to collectively define a paver zone sized to receive the paver stone. The body includes a drainage pathway from a location outside of the paver zone, through the cavity and to the drain opening.
US11414818B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising cellulose fibers and cellulose ester fibers and wet laid articles made from the compositions, as well as wet laid processes to produce these compositions. More specifically, the present invention provided compositions comprising cellulose fibers and cellulose acetate fibers and wet laid articles made from these compositions as well as wet laid processes to produce these compositions. The present invention also relates to developing a composition, process, wet laid product, or articles exhibiting any one of many desired benefits.
US11414811B2
Disclosed are an apparatus for treating laundry with an induction heater and controlling method thereof. In a laundry treating apparatus including an induction heater, the present invention includes a first step of setting a normal dry mode and an abnormal dry mode for controlling the induction heater with a output relatively lower than that of the normal dry mode, a second step of operating the induction heater in the normal dry mode, a third step of determining whether a dry load is a normal load or an abnormal load using at least one of a temperature of a drum and a current of a motor, and a fourth step of if the dry load is determined as the abnormal load, controlling the induction heater in the abnormal dry mode.
US11414805B2
Disclosed is a washing machine having an improved structure of a damper. The washing machine includes a main body in which a tub is installed, a damper provided in the main body to support the tub, and a damper fixing member provided on a bottom plate of the main body to fix the damper, wherein the damper fixing member includes a fixing bolt, a first flange portion formed on at least a portion of the bottom plate to support one side of a lower end of the damper and provided with a through hole through which the fixing bolt passes, and a second flange portion formed to face the first flange portion to support the other side of the lower end of the damper and provided with a coupling portion to which the fixing bolt is fastened, and wherein at least one of the first flange portion and the second flange portion comprises a reinforcing rib to reinforce strength.
US11414803B2
A washing machine includes a drum rotated about a vertical axis, and opened at a top thereof, a ring-shaped balancer coupled to an upper end of the drum, and a container detachably coupled to the balancer to contain laundry. The container includes a container body opened at a top thereof, and containing the laundry therein, and a plurality of threads protruding from an outer surface of the container body, extending long in a vertical direction, and arranged in a circumferential direction. Each of the threads is formed such that heights from valleys to roofs are gradually increased in a direction from bottom to top. The balancer includes engagement grooves formed on a ring-shaped inner circumference thereof to engage with the plurality of threads.
US11414799B2
A feed-dog stabilizing mechanism for a sewing machine essentially includes a support member and a drive source. The support member is disposed below a feed dog and driven to move by the drive source, so that the support member can push against the feed dog, and as a result, the height at which the fabric is bitten by the feed dog can be maintained during the course of fabric feeding to maintain the optimum feeding efficiency.
US11414797B2
A device (1), a sinker arrangement (5) and a method for loop-forming are described. The device (1) may include a cylinder (2) with first grooves (3) for needles (4) accommodated in a first groove (3), whereby the needles (4) include a loop forming section, and a sinker ring (27) with second grooves (15) for the sinker arrangement (5). The sinker arrangement (5) may include an actuating section (12) and a loop forming section (7). The loop forming section (7) includes an opening (11), and the sinker arrangements (5) are accommodated in one single second groove (15). The opening (11) may be delimited in the width direction (x) by two side faces (23) and the loop forming section of the needle (4) is movably disposed between the two side faces (23) of the opening (11).
US11414794B2
Provided is an airbag base fabric that is a woven fabric constituted by a yarn containing polyethylene terephthalate as the main raw material, the yarn constituting the woven fabric having a total fineness of 280 to 500 dtex and a single fiber fineness of 1.0 to 3.9 dtex, the woven fabric having a cover factor of 2400 to 2800, and the D-value calculated from the thickness D1 of a single sheet of the base fabric and the thickness D10 of ten sheets of the base fabric that are stacked together being 0.9 or less, where the D-value is calculated using a formula A below: D=D10/(D1×10). Formula A:
US11414789B2
There is provided a cellulose based fiber made of a i) cellulose dissolving pulp, and ii) a recycled cellulose textile, which is treated to swell the cellulose with a reducing additive and a) bleached with oxygen at alkaline conditions with a pH in the range 9-13.5 and/or b) bleached with ozone at acid conditions below pH 6, wherein the cellulose based fiber is manufactured with one selected from a Viscose process and a Lyocell process. Advantages include that the tensile strength of the fiber is improved and it is possible to manufacture improved cellulose fibers which comprise a fraction of recycled material.
US11414776B2
An electrochemical processing device includes a current supply unit, a jig, and a controller. The current supply unit provides current for an electrochemical process. The jig includes a clamping region for clamping a substrate, a plurality of processing electrodes disposed in the clamping region and connected to the current supply unit, and a plurality of measuring electrodes disposed in the clamping region. The controller is connected to the plurality of measuring electrodes. When the jig clamps the substrate to perform the electrochemical process, the controller provides a measuring current to the measuring electrode to measure the thickness of the metal layer of the substrate.
US11414774B2
The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a display panel which includes forming a pattern of a first electrode layer on a first substrate; coating a nano particle solution on the pattern of the first electrode layer and the first substrate; providing a second substrate formed with a pattern of a second electrode layer, wherein the pattern of the first electrode layer corresponds to the pattern of the second electrode layer; and connecting the pattern of the first electrode layer and the pattern of the second electrode layer to a power supply to perform a patterning treatment on the nano particle solution to make the nano particle solution form a pattern of a nano particle layer.
US11414767B2
The present invention provides a chlorine dioxide manufacturing device that can accurately control the amount of chlorine dioxide produced. The present invention provides a chlorine dioxide gas manufacturing device comprising an electrolysis chamber, a liquid surface level measuring chamber, and a bubbling gas feeding device. The electrolysis chamber and the liquid surface level measuring chamber each comprises an electrolytic solution and a gas, wherein the electrolytic solution comprises an aqueous chlorite solution, and the electrolysis chamber and the liquid surface level measuring chamber are joined to each other above each liquid surface via a gas piping and joined to each other below each liquid surface via an electrolytic solution piping so that the height of the electrolytic solutions contained in each chamber are substantially equal.
US11414757B2
A gas tube, a gas supply system containing the same and a semiconductor manufacturing method using the same are provided. The gas tube includes a porous material body and a resistant sheath surrounding the porous material body. The porous material body has a hollow tube structure and an empty cavity inside the hollow tube structure. The porous material body is hydrophobic and has a plurality of pores therein. The resistant sheath is disposed on the porous material body and surrounds the porous material body. The resistant sheath includes a plurality of holes penetrating through the resistant sheath.
US11414753B2
A processing method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes varying pressure of a processing chamber in a state in which a plasma of a purge gas is formed in the processing chamber, the varying including removing a film deposited in the processing chamber, with the formed plasma.
US11414751B2
Methods of producing a self-aligned structure are described. The methods comprise forming a metal sub-oxide film in a substrate feature and oxidizing the sub-oxide film to form a self-aligned structure comprising metal oxide. In some embodiments, a metal film is deposited and then treated to form the metal sub-oxide film. In some embodiments, the process of depositing and treating the metal film to form the metal sub-oxide film is repeated until a predetermined depth of metal sub-oxide film is formed within the substrate feature.
US11414749B1
Formation of lithium-metal-carbon protecting layer and removal of lithium carbonate on lithium metal
A process for forming a lithium-metal-carbon film on a lithium metal structure. A metal-ligand complex is exposed to the metal ligand, such as for 5-30 seconds in a chemical vapor transfer reactor at a temperature of 100-180° C.
US11414747B2
A sputtering device includes a processing chamber where a substrate is accommodated, and a slit plate that partitions the processing chamber into a first space where a target member is disposed and a second space where the substrate is disposed. The slit plate includes an inner member having an opening that penetrates therethrough in a thickness direction of the slit plate, and an outer member disposed around the inner member. The inner member is attachable to and detachable from the outer member.
US11414746B2
A film forming apparatus includes a base material support mechanism configured to rotate a base material supported by the base material support mechanism about a first axis, and a first cathode portion on which a target in a cylindrical shape containing a film forming material is mounted and configured to rotate the target about a second axis, in a chamber. The second axis is disposed at a position skewed with respect to the first axis.
US11414745B2
A sputtering target-backing plate assembly in which a Si sputtering target is bonded to a backing plate by way of a brazing material, wherein the brazing material has a melting point of 200° C. or higher and a bonding strength of 0.16 kgf/cm2 or higher. An object is to provide a sputtering target-backing plate assembly in which a Si sputtering target is bonded to a backing plate by way of a brazing material, wherein the sputtering target-backing plate assembly has a high bonding strength and is free from separation even under high temperature sputtering conditions such as during high power sputtering.
US11414738B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a stress relieved length of steel having an oxidised surface layer includes: a heating chamber; a reaction chamber coupled to the heating chamber; and a conveying mechanism conveying the length of steel along a path through the heating chamber and reaction chamber. The heating chamber includes a heating apparatus arranged to heat the length of steel in a heating portion of the path. The apparatus further includes a control means including a sealed unit defined by the heating chamber and the reaction chamber and arranged to control both the temperature of the length of steel and the atmosphere to which the length of steel is exposed in an oxidisation portion of the path within the reaction chamber in which the oxidised surface layer is formed. A method of manufacturing a stress relieved length of steel having an oxidised surface layer is also disclosed.
US11414729B2
The present disclosure concerns composite material having improved strength at elevated temperatures. The composite material comprises a matrix of an aluminum alloy (comprising, in weight percent, Si 0.05-0.30, Fe 0.04-0.6, Mn 0.80-1.50, Mg 0.80-1.50 and the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities) as well as particles of a filler material dispersed within the matrix. The matrix can optionally comprise Cu and/or Mo. In some embodiments, the composite material comprises, as a filler material, B4C as well as an additive selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, V, Nb, Zr, Sr, Sc and any combination thereof. The present disclosure also provides processes for making such composite materials.
US11414727B2
A nickel-based superalloy without titanium and a corresponding powder. A process for producing a component, wherein the alloy or the powder is used, in particular for a process for additive manufacture, especially selective laser sintering or selective laser melting. A component having an alloy or produced from the powder or produced by the process.
US11414723B2
In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a pipe bend is disclosed, comprising: heating, with an induction coil, a first annular band of a wall of a first end portion of a moving pipe; directing quenching fluid toward an outer and inner surface of the first annular band; heating a second annular band of a wall of a bend portion of the moving pipe; directing the quenching fluid toward an outer and inner surface of the second annular band; decreasing a speed of the pipe while moving the induction coil from stationary and maintaining a relative speed between the pipe and the induction coil substantially constant; heating a third annular band of a wall of a second end portion of the pipe while moving the induction coil; and directing the quenching fluid toward an outer surface and an inner surface of the third annular band while moving the induction coil.
US11414722B2
A process for manufacturing a cold-rolled steel sheet with a strength of at least 1200 MPa and an elongation at break greater than 10%. A steel is provided having a microstructure comprising 65 to 90% bainite. A semifinished product is cast from the steel and heated to a temperature greater than 1150° C. The semifinished product is hot rolled to obtain a hot-rolled sheet; the coiled and pickled. Cold-rolling occurs with a reduction ratio of between 30 and 80% so as to obtain a cold-rolled sheet; and then reheating occurs at a rate Vc between 5 and 15° C./s up to a temperature T1 between Ac3 and Ac3+20° C. and held at said temperature T1 for a time t1 between 50 and 150 s. The sheet is cooled at a rate VR1 greater than 40° C./s but below 100° C./s down to a temperature T2 between (Ms−30° C. and Ms+30° C.). The sheet is maintained at temperature T2 for a time t2 between 150 and 350 s, and then cooled at a rate VR2 of less than 30° C./s down to an ambient temperature.
US11414720B2
A high-strength steel sheet for warm working having excellent warm workability, and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.05% to 0.20%, Si: 3.0% or less, Mn: 3.5% to 8.0%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% to 3.0%, N: 0.010% or less, one or more selected from Nb: 0.005% to 0.20%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.20%, Mo: 0.005% to 1.0%, and V: 0.005% to 1.0%. The steel sheet has a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 10% to 60% of retained austenite, 10% to 80% of ferrite, 10% to 50% of martensite, and 0% to 5% of bainite, in which a C content in the retained austenite is less than 0.40 mass % and the average crystal grain diameter of the retained austenite, the martensite, and the ferrite is 2.0 μm or less.
US11414715B2
Provided are methods and mRNA expression chips for identifying genes that are defined by certain nitrogen and water content relationships in soil. The genes can be up or down regulated under low nitrogen or arid conditions to increase the yield or biomass of crops.
US11414713B2
Provided herein is a method of detecting an onychomycotic fungus in a sample, wherein the onychomycotic fungus belongs to a secondary clade member including one or more primary clade members. The method may include the steps of i) screening a sample using a first and second sets of secondary clade-specific primers to determine whether a secondary clade member among a plurality of secondary clade members is present or absent in the sample, where the plurality of secondary clade members includes (a) a dermatophyte, (b) a candida, and (c) a saprophyte, and ii) after determining the presence of the secondary clade member, screening the sample to determine whether an onychomycotic fungus is present or absent in the sample using primary clade-specific primers that are specific to a primary clade member that belongs to the secondary clade member. Also provided is a kit that finds use in implementing the present method.
US11414706B2
The invention provides methods and reagents for diagnosing prostate cancer that are based on the detection of biomarkers in the circulating nucleic acids from a patient to be evaluated.
US11414705B2
Provided is a method of diagnosing and/or monitoring mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or concussion in a subject. The method comprises determining a level of at least one miRNA in a saliva sample from the subject. Also provided is a sensor element, a detection system, composition and a kit for diagnosing and/or monitoring TBI, and a method of determining an appropriate treatment for a subject with suspected mTBI or concussion.
US11414696B1
The present disclosure provides a microarray comprising a plurality of probes. Each probe comprises a first oligonucleotide and a second oligonucleotide. The location of each probe on the microarray can be determined by the length of the first oligonucleotide and the length of the second oligonucleotide, thus providing a spatially barcoded microarray. Also provided are the methods of producing such spatially barcoded microarray. Also provided are the method of using such spatially barcoded microarray.
US11414695B2
A method of enriching for a fragment of a genome, as well as corresponding compositions and kits, are provided. In certain embodiments, the method comprises: (a) contacting a sample comprising fragmented DNA with a Cas9-gRNA complex comprising mutant Cas9 protein that has inactivated nuclease activity and a Cas9-associated guide RNA that is complementary to a site in the DNA, to produce a Cas9-fragment complex that comprises a fragment of the fragmented DNA; and (b) isolating the complex. In addition, other methods and compositions for Cas9/CRISPR-mediated nucleic acid manipulation are also provided.
US11414694B2
The present disclosure provides nucleic acid-based nanoswitch catenanes and methods of use. A nanoswitch catenane may include a single-stranded nucleic acid comprising a first and second terminal domain linked to each other to form a host ring by one of a first, second or third switchable bridges, wherein the first switchable bridge is formed in the presence of a reaction agent through the reaction of two cognate functional groups, each linked to a terminal domain of the single-stranded nucleic acid, wherein the second switchable bridge is formed in the presence of a biomolecule of interest through binding of the bio-molecule of interest to two cognate antibodies, each linked to a terminal domain of the single stranded nucleic acid, and wherein the third switchable bridge is a link between two cognate functional groups that breaks in the presence of a dissociation agent. A nanoswitch catenane may also include a circular nucleic acid guest ring catenated with the host ring.
US11414692B2
A method for determining a quantity Ginhib quantifying the inhibitory capacity of a molecule on a type of microorganism includes: preparing a plurality of samples, including microorganisms of the type, a nutrient medium for the microorganism and an initial amount of the molecule per microorganism increasing in a range [Qmin,Qmax] as a function of a classification of the samples; measuring the growth of the microorganisms in the samples as a function of time; and determining the quantity Ginhib as a function of the measurements of the growth. Determination of the quantity Ginhib includes: for each sample, calculating a value reflecting the growth of the microorganism of said type based on measurements of growth; classifying the values calculated for the samples as a function of the classification of the samples; and determining the quantity Ginhib as a function of the variation of the classified values.
US11414691B2
Provided are an organoid having a metastatic property when transplanted into an immunocompetent non-human animal of the same species, a cell strain having a metastatic property when transplanted into an immunocompetent non-human animal of the same species, and a non-human animal including the organoid or the cell strain.
US11414684B2
It has been found that esterification of a hydroxy-fatty acid by a lipase can be coupled with oleate hydratase (OHase) generation of that hydroxy-FA from an unsaturated FA with a cis C9-C10 double bond, e.g. oleic acid, in a single aqueous buffered reaction medium at low temperature, e.g. 30° C. A simple one-pot enzymatic method to produce fatty acid estolides from one or more triglycerides, e.g. starting from a natural plant oil, is thereby enabled in which the same lipase catalyses both the initial hydrolysis of triglyceride and the final esterification step.
US11414678B2
The present invention relates to a modified and optimized sFlt1 nucleic acid for inclusion in a virus vector. Use of such vectors can be used for treatment of ocular disorders causing neovascularization, such as macular degeneration.
US11414677B2
Disclosed herein are methods of performing continuous directed evolution in complex biological systems, including metazoan cells. These methods include the infection of engineered, non-naturally occurring metazoan cells with engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA viruses. The generation of infectious viruses that can infect new cells depends on the evolution of a gene of interest which is driven by an error-prone adenoviral polymerase. Also disclosed herein, are the compositions of engineered, non-naturally occurring metazoan cells and engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA viruses that function as components in the continuous directed evolution methodologies.
US11414672B2
The invention provides corn event MON 87411, and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising event MON 87411. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 87411 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event MON 87411. The invention also provides methods related to event MON 87411.
US11414670B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for altering gibberellin (GA) content in corn or other cereal plants. Methods and compositions are also provided for altering the expression of genes related to gibberellin biosynthesis through suppression, mutagenesis and/or editing of specific subtypes of GA20 or GA3 oxidase genes. Modified plant cells and plants having a suppression element or mutation reducing the expression or activity of a GA oxidase gene are further provided comprising reduced gibberellin levels and improved characteristics, such as reduced plant height and increased lodging resistance, but without off-types.
