US11427292B2
A lifting spindle arrangement is disclosed for a retractable thruster unit of a marine vessel, the lifting spindle having a lower end and an upper end and being supported at its lower end to a lower support structure by a lower support assembly and at its upper end to an upper support structure by an upper support assembly. The lifting spindle is provided at its both ends with a locking member for such a connection to the support structures such that each end of the lifting spindle may freely move in an axial direction away from the opposite end of the lifting spindle.
US11427265B2
A modular gate combined with multiple functions which can be easily employed with existing tailgates without any hardware or mounting modifications to existing truck beds. There is provided a modular tailgate system having a tailgate portion in combination with a plurality of functions. The modular tailgate system integrates any combinations of at least two of the plurality of features without affecting existing body sides and/or existing truck beds. Integrated features include a multi-functional gate (e.g., swing, drop, etc), storage (e.g., normal, sealed, refrigerated, heated, etc), step(s), lighting (e.g., ingress/egress, bed interior, removable, trailer hitch, parking, etc), bed extension(s), power (e.g., 12 v and/or 110 v), tie downs (e.g., ratchets, anchors, etc), sawhorse, magnet(s), table(s), bench(es), seat(s), net(s), any other predetermined desired function, etc., and combinations thereof.
US11427260B2
A reinforcement is formed into an elongated shape, and includes a reinforcement body in which a housing part opened toward an outer peripheral side is formed and a covering part attached to close an opening of the housing part. A module component which is an electrical component or a wiring component may be housed in the reinforcement while being attached to the covering part.
US11427258B2
A fender mounting structure of a vehicle includes: a fender mounting bracket assembly; and a support bracket assembly that includes an inner flange formed toward inside and an outer flange formed outside in a width direction of the vehicle. In particular, the support bracket assembly is mounted through the inner flange on an outer side of a fender apron upper member along the width direction and disposed along the width direction between the fender apron upper member and a mount end of a fender panel. The fender mounting bracket assembly is mounted on the outer flange of the support bracket assembly and connected to the mount end of the fender panel.
US11427245B2
An actuator of a steering system having a housing (2), a spindle drive arranged in the housing (2) which includes an axially movable spindle (5) that engages with a spindle nut (6) mounted in a fixed position. The spindle has at least one fastening end (8, 9), and at least one bearing journal (10, 11) arranged and able to move in the housing (2). The journal is connected to the at least one fastening end (8, 9) of the spindle (5), with at least one joint connection component (3, 4) which is arranged outside the housing (2) and is connected to the at least one bearing journal (10, 11). The at least one bearing journal (10, 11, 110) has a constriction (10v, 11v) that forms a flexible zone (122).
US11427243B2
An outer column includes first tightened surfaces arranged in a pair of clamped portions, second tightened surfaces arranged at a portion below the first tightened surfaces and with high rigidity in the width direction, and third tightened surfaces arranged in a portion above the first tightened surfaces and with high rigidity in the width direction. A pair of support plate portions of an upper bracket each has reinforcing portions arranged in both end portions in the front-rear direction, extending in the vertical direction, and each having a free end in the upper-end portion, and a stepped portion arranged in the intermediate portion in the front-rear direction, and having a concave shape on the width direction outside, a convex shape on the width direction inside, and an inside surface in the width direction facing and capable of being brought into contact only with the third tightened surfaces.
US11427239B2
A method validates an obstacle identification system. In order to be able to demonstrate that obstacles are identified by an obstacle identification system at least as reliably as by a driver, it is provided that, in order to form driving scenarios, stochastic combinations of prespecified distributions of submodules are provided. The provided combinations are subjected first, for carrying out a simulation study, to simulation by a simulator and second to automatic processing by an obstacle identification algorithm of the obstacle identification system, and a result of a simulation study, which is carried out by the simulator, and a result of the automatic processing are automatically tested for agreement.
US11427238B2
A system, method, and computer program product for determining ancillary subdivision/districts may include obtaining route data associated with one or more vehicle network operators operating one or more subdivisions/districts over which the vehicle group may travel, determining an ancillary subdivision/district of the one or more subdivisions/districts that are not included in the route data by any of the one or more vehicle network operators, receiving route data for the vehicle network operator associated with the ancillary subdivision/district, and communicating with one or more wayside interface units in the ancillary subdivision/district based on the route data.
US11427233B2
A particularly flexible method for automatically calibrating a wheel sensor includes using the wheel sensor to determine that a calibration must be carried out. The wheel sensor determines a point in time suitable for carrying out the calibration and the calibration itself is carried out by the wheel sensor at the determined point in time. A wheel sensor for carrying out the method is also provided.
US11427228B2
A monorail vehicle includes two bogie assemblies supporting different ends of a chassis. Each bogie assembly includes guide wheels rotatably connected to a bogie frame, a wheel assembly for rolling along a top of a guide beam, and a drive unit. The drive unit includes an electric motor attached to the bogie frame via a mounting flange that is located within a first lateral half of the body, a brake unit, and a planetary gear assembly coupled to a rotor of the electric motor. The planetary gear assembly is located on a first side of the electric motor and the wheel assembly is mounted to an output of the planetary gear assembly. The drive unit is attached whereupon the wheel assembly may be dismounted from the drive unit in a direction of a second lateral half of the body without dismounting the drive unit from the bogie frame.
US11427224B2
Systems and methods for generating a virtual environment in a flock of vehicles are provided. In this method a reflector is utilized to define a coverage area. Sensory data from autonomous vehicles within this coverage area is collected, along with non-vehicle data. Then a virtual environment may be replicated using the data at a local computational device on each of the vehicles via the transmission of messages through the reflector. Each vehicle can use this data to make decisions regarding movements, as well as having the traffic patterns optimized based upon an objective. When traffic flow is being optimized it is also possible to assign weights to the vehicles to provide them preferential treatment in the traffic flow model. The traffic flow model that is generated may be a fluid dynamics model, or may be based upon deep learning techniques. The objective for the model is generally to maximize total vehicle throughput in order to reduce overall traffic congestion.
US11427219B2
A method for controlling vehicle system of a vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises determining an expected path of the vehicle, determining a vehicle trajectory for the determined expected path, and determining at least one required control parameter value of a driver assistance system based on the determined vehicle trajectory. Further, the method comprises comparing the at least one required control parameter value to a predefined threshold scheme associated with the driver assistance system, and sending a signal to a Human Machine Interface, HMI, of the vehicle based on the comparison. Then, the method comprises receiving a feedback signal originating from a user of the vehicle, and controlling the driver assistance system based on the comparison and the received feedback signal.
US11427218B2
A laser range finder projects light while changing a direction in a horizontal direction at a predetermined angle with respect to a vertical direction to also receive reflected light of the light, and detects a direction and a distance in which the light is reflected from an obstacle or the like, according to a difference time between a time of light projection and a time of light reception. A normal direction of a flat plane forming a road surface is detected on the basis of a polarized image. The laser range finder projects light such that the light has a predetermined angle with respect to the vertical direction so as to be orthogonal to the normal direction of the flat plane forming the road surface. The laser range finder can be applied to in-vehicle systems.
US11427209B2
Methods and systems are provided for updating a relevant vehicle parameter in a vehicle so as to improve accuracy of a vehicle velocity determination. In one example, a method comprises integrating signals of a longitudinal acceleration sensor to obtain a first vehicle velocity and obtaining a second vehicle velocity from a wheel speed sensor between a first and a second reference point, and updating the relevant vehicle parameter as a function of a difference between a slope associated with the first vehicle velocity and another slope associated with the second vehicle velocity. In this way, accuracy of vehicle speed determination via one or more wheel speed sensors may be improved.
US11427207B1
A system may include sensors that may acquire health data related to an individual. The system may also include a processor that may receive trip data associated with a current location of the individual and a destination location for the individual, traffic condition data associated with routes between the current location and the destination location, and weather related data associated with the routes. The processor may also receive the health data from the sensors and determine whether the individual is associated with a driver assessment score above a threshold based on the trip data, the traffic condition data, the weather data, the health data, or any combination thereof. The processor may then send an activation signal to a vehicle control system in response to the driver assessment score being above the threshold, such that the activation signal may enable the vehicle control system to control operations of a vehicle.
US11427205B2
Provided is a vehicle stop support system for supporting vehicle stop in an emergency condition. The vehicle stop support system detects a physical abnormality of a driver; sets a stop point; and controls a vehicle to travel to the stop point and stop at the stop point. The system is operable to: calculate, with respect to each of a plurality of stop point candidates, a first index value which increases with an increase in a lateral acceleration, a second index value which increases with an increase in rear-end collision risk, a third index value based on the detected abnormality, and a gross index value, wherein the gross index value is obtained by subjecting the first, second, and third index values to weighting, and summing the resulting weighted index values; and then set one of candidates which is smallest in terms of the gross index value, as the stop point.
US11427204B2
A method for mitigating powertrain abuse on a grade can include determining the grade a machine is on, the machine including an impeller clutch located between an engine and a powertrain so as to connect and disconnect engine power from the powertrain; and if the grade is over a threshold, a controller ignores any operator input to the impeller clutch such that machine speed retarding is utilized to keep the machine at a proper speed.
US11427201B2
A vehicle includes active grill shutters and a controller. The active grill shutters are configured to open to increase a drag on the vehicle and to close to decrease the drag on the vehicle. The controller is programmed to, in response to regenerative braking via an electric machine and an absence of friction braking, transition or maintain the active grill shutters to or in a closed position. The controller is further programmed to, in response to friction braking, transition or maintain the active grill shutters to or in the open position.
US11427197B2
A lane departure preventing device includes at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to: when there is a likelihood that a vehicle will depart from a traveling lane, calculate a prevention yaw moment, and control a brake actuator such that the prevention yaw moment is applied to the vehicle; acquire a lateral acceleration; determine whether the lateral acceleration is greater than an ideal value by a predetermined value; control the brake actuator such that the braking force matches a target braking force required to apply the prevention yaw moment to the vehicle, when the lateral acceleration is not greater than the ideal value by the predetermined value; and control the brake actuator such that the braking force is less than the target braking force, when the lateral acceleration is greater than the ideal value by the predetermined value.
US11427196B2
Systems and methods for causing a vehicle to avoid an adverse action are described. In one aspect, a sensor on first vehicle may determine the existence and location of lane markers or objects, and use that information to cause a second vehicle to avoid exiting its lane or colliding with an object. Data transmitted from a first vehicle to a second vehicle may be used to determine a path for the second vehicle, such that it avoids an adverse action. This data may include information used to determine a pose of the second vehicle, kinematics of the second vehicle, determine dimensions of the second vehicle, and potential adverse actions. This data may be transmitted while the vehicles are platooning.
US11427191B2
A vehicle can traverse an environment along a first region and detect an obstacle impeding progress of the vehicle. The vehicle can determine a second region that is adjacent to the first region and associated with a direction of travel opposite the first region. A cost can be determined based on an action (e.g., an oncoming action) to utilize the second region to overtake the obstacle. By comparing the cost to a cost threshold and/or to a cost associated with another action (e.g., a “stay in lane” action), the vehicle can determine a target trajectory that traverses through the second region. The vehicle can traverse the environment based on the target trajectory to avoid, for example, the obstacle in the environment while maintaining a safe distance from the obstacle and/or other entities in the environment.
US11427189B2
An autonomous vehicle configured for active sensing may also be configured to weigh expected information gains from active-sensing actions against risk costs associated with the active-sensing actions. An example method involves: (a) receiving information from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, (b) determining a risk-cost framework that indicates risk costs across a range of degrees to which an active-sensing action can be performed, wherein the active-sensing action comprises an action that is performable by the autonomous vehicle to potentially improve the information upon which at least one of the control processes for the autonomous vehicle is based, (c) determining an information-improvement expectation framework across the range of degrees to which the active-sensing action can be performed, and (d) applying the risk-cost framework and the information-improvement expectation framework to determine a degree to which the active-sensing action should be performed.
US11427178B2
An HV-ECU calculates requested output torque Tec based on requested power and compares the requested output torque with controlled upper limit torque Teth. When requested output torque Tec has attained to controlled upper limit torque Teth, the HV-ECU restricts output torque of engine to controlled upper limit torque Teth and calculates actual output torque Ter at that time. Then, the HV-ECU calculates a difference (differential torque ΔTe) between controlled upper limit torque Teth and actual output torque Ter. The HV-ECU learns controlled upper limit torque Teth based on differential torque ΔTe.
US11427177B2
A variety of methods, controllers and electric machine systems are described for pulse control of electric machines (e.g., electric motors and generators). To improve the energy conversion efficiency of the machine, pulse control involves determining if the machine should operate in a continuous mode or pulse mode, and if the latter, defining a magnitude, duty cycle, and frequency for the pulses. One or more tables, indexing by a wide range of speeds and torque requests, is/are used to define the pulsing frequency or a pulsing frequency pattern.
US11427176B2
A remotely actuated vehicle pedal depression apparatus includes a handheld unit operatively coupled to a distal unit. Manual compression of an actuator disposed on the handheld unit effectuates extension of an extendable member forwardly from an anterior member disposed on the distal unit. Distal unit may be positioned in a footwell of an automobile to effectuate depression of a targeted pedal while a user performs observational diagnostics on the automobile without the assistance of another person.
US11427169B2
Various examples of a controller, method and system for determining positions of a tractor-trailer vehicle train are disclosed. In one example a tractor controller is manually-initiated or a user-initiated tractor controller and includes an electrical control port for receiving an electrical start signal, and a communications port for receiving data. A processing unit of the tractor controller includes control logic and is in communication with the electrical control port. The control logic is capable of receiving, in response to the electrical start signal, a data signal at the communications port which includes a GPS signal and a unique identification which corresponds to the towed vehicle. At a predetermined response time, the tractor controller determines the position of the towed vehicle in the tractor-trailer vehicle train based on the data received from the towed vehicles.
US11427168B2
The present invention pertains to a brake system for a vehicle, in particular a wheeled vehicle, comprising a control unit configured to operate the brake system in an automatic retarding control mode and in a brake assist mode, a brake pedal valve, and at least one brake valve unit for actuating a brake actuator. The break valve unit comprises a brake valve for applying pressurized fluid to the brake actuator in response to a control pressure applied to a hydraulic actuator of the brake valve, a blocking valve for controlling application of pressurized fluid from the brake pedal valve to the hydraulic actuator of the brake valve, and a brake pressure control valve for controlling application of pressurized fluid to the hydraulic actuator of the brake valve.
US11427160B2
Disclosed is a method of wireless communication between a vehicle base station and a transponder, the method comprising: i) driving first and second antennae on the vehicle by the vehicle base station using first driving currents, the first antenna being separated from the transponder by a portion of a vehicle in which the vehicle base station resides; ii) detecting three separate mutually orthogonal vector components of the respective fields emitted by the first and second antennae and received at the transponder; iii) calculating superposition factors for the first and second antennae based upon the separate vector components; iv) concurrently driving the first and second antennae using the same phase, respectively using the first driving currents multiplied by the calculated superposition factors; v) detecting three mutually orthogonal vector components of a superposed signal including signals from both antennae received at the transponder; vi) determining whether two of the three detected vector components are above a threshold noise level; vii) if fewer than two of the three detected vector components are above the threshold noise level, repeating step iv) with one of the first and second antennae being driven by the first driving current multiplied by the calculated superposition factors and by an adjustment factor; and viii) if two of the three detected vector components are above the threshold noise level, authenticating the transponder in response to the detected superposed vector components being within an error-based range of the sum of the separate vector components for each of the first and second antennae as multiplied respectively by the superposition factors for the first and second antennae.
US11427159B2
An antenna driving apparatus drives an antenna by applying to the antenna a drive voltage having a rectangular waveform switching between a high voltage value and a low voltage value in a predetermined cycle. The antenna driving apparatus includes a high-voltage side switch, a low-voltage side switch, a duty ratio acquisition unit, a drive voltage application unit and a duty ratio switching unit. The duty ratio acquisition unit acquires a set value of a duty ratio as a time ratio at which the drive voltage is at the high voltage value in the rectangular waveform. The drive voltage application unit applies to the antenna the drive voltage by repeating execution of turning the high-voltage side switch into the nonconductive state. The duty ratio switching unit alternately executes switching of the duty ratio between a first duty ratio and a second duty ratio.
US11427157B2
A vehicle access system includes an identification device with a first transceiver, a short-range transceiver and a processor configured to control the first transceiver and the short-range transceiver to activate the first transceiver only when a distance measurement between the identification device and a vehicle is within a predefined range as determined utilizing the short-range transceiver.
US11427156B2
A method for generating an output for controlling a vehicular function of a vehicle includes providing (i) a vehicular sensing device having at least one illumination source operable to backlight a plurality of icons, each icon representative of a respective vehicle function, and (ii) a plurality of sensors, each sensor having a respective field of sensing associated with a respective icon of the plurality of icons. With the vehicular sensing device disposed at a vehicle, and with the at least one illumination source activated to backlight the plurality of icons, the backlit icons are viewable at an exterior portion of the vehicle, and the sensors sense movement of a person's hand or foot in a field of sensing of one of the sensors, and a controller generates an output to control the vehicular function that is represented by the respective backlit icon associated with that sensor.
US11427147B2
Disclosed is a driver airbag apparatus for a vehicle configured to be deployed from the region behind a steering wheel, having at the center portion thereof an obstacle, toward the region in front of the steering wheel while avoiding the obstacle. The driver airbag apparatus includes an airbag housing disposed behind the steering wheel, an airbag cushion accommodated in the airbag housing and configured to be deployed by gas injected thereinto toward the region in front of the steering wheel through a space between the obstacle and the steering wheel, and a housing cover coupled to the airbag housing so as to cover an opening in the airbag housing and configured to be ruptured by the deployment pressure of the airbag cushion so as to open the airbag housing to a limited angle toward the region in front of the steering wheel.
US11427139B2
A routing structure for routing an electric wire to a vehicle seat includes: a first cushion portion attached to the vehicle seat; and the electric wire fixed to the first cushion portion.
US11427134B2
A working vehicle may be provided that detects obstacles around a self-traveling tractor in a wide range, with reduced erroneous detection. A tractor may include a vehicle body including a front wheel and a rear wheel; a rear wheel fender covering the front and top of the rear wheel; a rear stay in a shape that extends along the rear wheel fender, a rear first obstacle sensor provided at the front of the rear stay; and a rear second obstacle sensor provided at the rear of the rear stay.
US11427133B2
A ladder rack with improved utility may feature a rugged single body construction with multiple bends forming a pocket between two arms. The ladder rack is mountable upon a surface, such as a vehicle roof, and contains a portion of a ladder within it. The ladder is secured transversely within the pocket as the opening is smaller than the width of a ladder rail and the use of two ladder racks, since one arm projects around a ladder rail, will secure against translational movement along the car's length if positioned to abut ladder rungs. An optional S-bend can be utilized to further control of the ladder in stowage and in securing against movement in transit.
US11427131B2
The invention relates to an accessory, with a base (11) and an adjustment part (12), movable in translation and/or in rotation relative to the base, that is movable along a path between a first end position and a second end position and can be locked in at least one position with a locking device (13) with first locking formations that are associated with the adjustment part (12) and second locking formations that are associated with the base (11), with a control system with a first controller associated with the adjustment part (12) and a second controller associated with the base (11), with which controller the locking device (13) is adjustable between a catch position and a release position depending on the position of the adjustment part (12). The special feature consists in that the one set of controller comprises a first switching element (21) on a first end region of the path and a second switching element (22) on a second end region, wherein a movable setting device (37) of the other set of controller can be actuated by of the switching element (21, 22) in such a way that locking formations that are in an operative connection with the setting device (37) are movable between a catch position and a release position.
US11427127B2
A vehicular rearview mirror control system includes a rearview mirror assembly having a variable reflectance electro-optic mirror reflective element. An electronic control unit receives image data captured by a rear backup camera of the vehicle. The electronic control unit, responsive to processing a first subset of received image data captured by the rear backup camera, determines ambient light rearward of the equipped vehicle. The electronic control unit, responsive to processing a second subset of received image data captured by the rear backup camera, determines glare light emanating from a headlight of another vehicle following the equipped vehicle. The first subset of received image data is different than the second subset of received image data. The electronic control unit generates an output to control dimming of the mirror reflective element of the rearview mirror assembly responsive to a determined location of the determined glare light.
US11427123B2
This vehicle lamp system, which is used together with a vehicle control unit that controls the travel state of a vehicle and a mode determination unit that can determine an automatic driving mode of another vehicle, comprises a lamp mounted on the vehicle, and a lamp control unit which, depending on the mode signal outputted by the mode determination unit, controls the lamp in different ways (for example, displaying an arrow with road surface rendering).
US11427115B2
A method for cancelling seat vibration includes receiving, from an accelerometer, a plurality of accelerometer measurements and applying a first filter to the plurality of accelerometer measurements to remove accelerometer measurements of the plurality of accelerometer measurements having a frequency above a first threshold frequency. The method also includes applying a second filter to an output of the first filter to remove accelerometer measurements of the output of the first filter having a frequency above a second threshold frequency and applying a third filter to an output of the second filter to generate an accelerometer measurement output having a center frequency corresponding to a resonant frequency of the vibration of the at least one component of the seat. The method also includes determining an absolute magnitude value of the accelerometer measurement output and selectively controlling a motor based on the absolute magnitude value of the accelerometer measurement output.
US11427114B2
Disclosed herein is a car seat comprised of a base and a shell. The base includes a receiving portion and a backing portion. The seat shell includes a seat back and a seat bottom having a lower portion. The seat bottom interfaces with the receiving portion of the base. The seat shell is removably attached to the base and rotatable with respect to the base. The seat shell is selectively positionable between a plurality of orientations. A recline mechanism is configured to permit the seat shell to recline with respect to the base. The seat shell is selectively reclinable between a plurality of recline positions. The seat shell includes handles configured to independently unlock rotation of the seat shell with respect to the base. The lower portion of the seat shell includes an aperture configured to receive at least a portion of a projection of the base therethrough.
US11427109B1
A truck seat adapter which is designed to be positioned between the floor of the driver's compartment and the seat base of a driver's seat to enable the seat to be positioned rearwardly of the factory installed position to provide additional leg room for the driver or the passenger. The positioning of the adapter plate for the driver's seat enables the seat to be positioned so as to not interfere with the closing of the driver's door. In a second embodiment, the positioning of the adapter plate for the passenger's seat enables the seat to be positioned so as to not interfere with the closing of the passenger's door.
US11427095B2
A wireless charging system for electric vehicles includes an AC-to-DC converter connectable to an electric AC grid; a DC-to-AC converter interconnected with the AC-to-DC converter; a first inductive coil interconnected with the DC-to-AC converter and for inductively coupling to a second inductive coil for power transfer via an air gap; a first housing, in which the AC-to-DC converter is arranged; a second housing, in which the DC-to-AC converter and the inductive coil are arranged; and a cable for interconnecting the AC-to-DC converter and the DC-to-AC converter outside of the first housing and second housing.
US11427089B2
An electric axle is configured to selectively enable an electric motor to power a pair of drive shafts of a vehicle. The electric axle includes a planetary gearset configured to drivably couple an electric motor with first and second drive shafts coaxially arranged. The planetary gearset including a ring gear. A housing at least partially surrounds the planetary gearset and is configured to be grounded to the vehicle. A clutch is configured to selectively ground the ring gear with the housing to enable an electric motor to power the first and second drive shafts. The electric axle may include a second planetary gearset, namely a differential planetary gearset. The differential planetary gearset may include a carrier that is shared or common amongst the planetary gearset and the differential planetary gearset.
US11427080B2
A power transmission device of a four-wheel drive electrically driven vehicle comprises a transverse engine that is supported on one right side surface of two side surfaces of the gear case, and a motor that is supported on the other left side surface of the two side surfaces of the gear case. The power transmission device includes a transfer case that is supported by a gear case and the distributes power from a power source between the left and right front wheels and the left and right rear wheels. The transfer case wraps around from the side surface to a rear surface of the gear case, as seen from above, and outputs power to the left and right rear wheels from the rear surface side of the gear case.
US11427076B1
A portable fuel tank that is configured to be operably secured to an apparatus having a combustible engine so as to provide fuel for the operation thereof. The portable fuel tank includes a body having walls, top and a bottom integrally formed to create an interior volume for receiving and storing fuel. The body has a one-way valve secured to the top thereof. A fuel cap is hermetically sealed to the body and includes a fuel pickup line operably coupled thereto. The fuel transfer line is fluidly coupled to the machine having the combustible engine and includes a one-way valve and a quick connect assembly. Locking tabs are provided to secure a first portable tank to a second portable tank. A mateable fastener is formed in the body of the tank and is configured to be releasably secured to a mateable fastener on the machine.
US11427073B2
A diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) cap assembly for a vehicle includes: a body having a first opening and a second opening arranged at an opposite side of the first opening, the second opening configured to be opened and closed; a flange portion protruding radially outward between the first opening and the second opening of the body, and having a plurality of through holes and a flange gasket configured to be sealably coupled to a mounting subject on which the flange portion is mounted; and a membrane member coupled to the flange portion, and configured to cover the plurality through holes and allow air flow.
US11427070B1
A driveline for a military vehicle includes a driver. The driver includes a housing, a motor/generator, and a clutch. The housing includes an engine mount configured to couple to an engine and a backing plate configured to couple to a transmission. The motor/generator is disposed within the housing and configured to couple to an input of the transmission. The clutch is disposed within the housing and coupled to the motor/generator. The clutch is configured to selectively couple an output of the engine to the motor/generator. The clutch is spring-biased into engagement with the engine and pneumatically disengaged by an air supply selectively provided thereto.
US11427069B2
A vehicle drive device that includes a rotary electric machine that serves as a driving force source for wheels; a first rotation member coupled to a rotor of the rotary electric machine; and a fluid coupling that is disposed on an axial first side, which is one side in an axial direction with respect to the rotary electric machine, and that has a rotation housing.
US11427067B2
To provide a vehicle drive device capable of efficiently driving a vehicle by using in-wheel motors without falling into the vicious cycle between enhancement of driving via the motors and an increase in vehicle weight. The present invention is a vehicle drive device that uses in-wheel motors to drive a vehicle and includes in-wheel motors (20) that are provided in wheels (2b) of a vehicle (1) and drive wheels, in which the in-wheel motors generate the maximum output power in a high revolutions range equal to or more than a predetermined number of revolutions that is more than zero.
US11427060B2
A canister comprising: (a) a space configured to receive a tonneau cover so that the tonneau cover is stored within the canister; and (b) one or more track guides that guide the canister relative to a roller track, a bed of a vehicle, a rail extension, a cap, or a combination thereof; and wherein the one or more track guides assist the canister in being inserted into or removed from the bed of the vehicle.
US11427052B2
A glass panel apparatus is provided. The glass panel apparatus includes an outer glass pane comprising a low-e coating on a side facing the inner glass pane, an inner glass pane comprising a low-e coating on a side facing the outer glass pane, a gap between the inner glass pane and the outer glass pane, the gap comprising a vacuum, and a heating element configured to heat the inner glass pane.
US11427025B2
A display that exhibits improved anti-counterfeiting effects. The display includes an uneven-structure-forming layer having an uneven structure on one surface and a reflecting layer that covers at least part of an unevenly structured surface. In the display, the uneven-structure-forming layer includes a first region group including a plurality of first regions, each first region including a flat part and a plurality of convexities or a plurality of concavities, the top surface of each of the convexities or the bottom surface of each of the concavities is substantially parallel to a surface of the flat part; distances between the centers of adjacent convexities or concavities are not equal; the convexities have a uniform height, or the concavities have a uniform depth; the first region group is formed, with the first regions arrayed inside at a regular pitch.
US11427022B2
The present invention relates to a method for applying an image onto a recording medium, using an aqueous ink jet coating, wherein the aqueous ink jet coating includes a cationic polymer and an anionic surfactant. The present invention further relates to a method for preparing such aqueous ink jet coating composition.
US11427014B2
Various embodiments disclose a method for operating a printer apparatus. The method comprising monitoring a utilization rate of each heating element in a first set of heating elements defined by a print head arrangement. Further, the method comprises generating a utilization dataset based upon monitoring of the utilization rate of each heating element in the first set of heating elements print head arrangement. Furthermore, the method includes analyzing the utilization dataset to identify one or more overutilized heating elements of the first set of heating elements. Additionally, the method includes identifying a second set of heating elements defined by the print head arrangement. The second set of heating elements comprises a portion of the first set of heating elements exclusive of the one or more overutilized heating elements. The method further includes processing a print job. The processed print job utilized the second set of heating elements during printing.
US11427008B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge a liquid, and a discharge receptacle configured to receive the liquid discharged from the head at an installation position. The discharge receptacle includes a liquid holder configured to receive the liquid discharged from the head, and a support configured to detachably support the liquid holder. At least a part of the support is displaceable to a detachment position at which the liquid holder is detachable from the support, and the detachment position is lower than the installation position.
US11427004B2
A liquid discharge apparatus is provided, which comprises a conveyer, a rotatable support mechanism which supports a medium, a head, and a maintenance mechanism which has a cap configured to cover nozzles of the head. The support mechanism is configured to rotate about a rotation shaft to a first rotation position and a second rotation position at which a rotation end is separated further from the head as compared with a situation provided at the first rotation position. The maintenance mechanism is configured to move to a waiting position which is positioned oppositely to the rotation shaft of the support mechanism with respect to the rotation end of the support mechanism and a maintenance position which is positioned between the head and the support mechanism disposed at the second rotation position and at which the cap covers the nozzles.
US11427002B2
The liquid absorbing structure includes: a liquid absorber having a fiber and a water-absorbent resin capable of absorbing liquid; and a container having a supply port through which the liquid is supplied and a storage space in which the liquid absorber is stored. The liquid absorber contains a first liquid absorber and a second liquid absorber that are different in density of at least one of the fiber and the water-absorbent resin. The first liquid absorber and the second liquid absorber are disposed at different positions in the container.
US11427000B2
There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a channel unit; a piezoelectric actuator; and a protective member. Pressure chambers form pairs of the pressure chambers arranged in a second direction. Each of the pressure chamber pairs includes a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber that communicate with an identical nozzle via a communication channel. The protective member includes first partition walls joined to a surface at a first side in a first direction of the piezoelectric actuator and separating accommodating spaces from each other. Each of the first partition walls is provided between the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber, which belong to different pressure chamber pair, in the second direction. Each of the first partition walls is not provided between the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber, which belong to an identical pressure chamber pair, in the second direction.
US11426997B2
A method of ink jet printing comprising a step of printing a primer onto a media sheet is disclosed. This method comprises a step of printing with ink onto the media sheet so as to form an image superposed on the primer, the step of printing with ink being carried out with a print head having an array of nozzles staggered in several rows, while performing a relative scan movement of the print head and the media sheet in a transport direction normal to the rows. The primer is printed on the media sheet non-uniformly in a pattern that corresponds with a pattern in which the nozzles of the print head are staggered.
US11426994B2
A device and a method for the decoration of objects to be decorated, wherein the object is held by a holding device. In a first step decorative material is applied to a transfer medium by a printing device. In a second step adhesive is applied to the transfer medium provided with the decorative material or to the object, and in a third step the transfer medium is pressed onto the object by a pressing device and at the same time the adhesive is cured by a curing device.
US11426992B2
An apparatus and method for leveling a bonding device and anvil in an assembly via a closed-loop control system is provided. The assembly includes an anvil, a bonding device positioned adjacent the anvil and configured to interact with the anvil to form the bonds on the web, and an actuator that enables adjustment of an orientation between the bonding device and the anvil. The assembly also includes a closed-loop control system configured to control operation of the actuator, with the closed-loop control system configured to monitor an operational parameter of the assembly indicative of interaction of the bonding device with the anvil, determine whether the bonding device is parallel or substantially parallel with the anvil based on the operational parameter, and when the bonding device is not parallel or substantially parallel with the anvil, cause the actuator to adjust the orientation between the bonding device and the anvil.
US11426990B2
The optical assembly comprises: a first optical film having a first surface; an adhesive disposed on the first surface of the first optical film, wherein the adhesive comprises a photo-curable portion and a thermally-curable portion mixed with the photo-curable portion, wherein the weight ratio of the thermally-curable portion of the adhesive to the adhesive is less than 5%; and a second optical film comprising a photo-curable material, wherein the adhesive is bonded to the second optical film through the bonding between the photo-curable portion of the adhesive and the photo-curable material of the second optical film.
US11426985B2
A window module including a window, a first print layer, an ink layer, and a protective layer covering the ink layer. The protective layer includes a polymer resin polymerized from monomers including a first monomer which is an acrylic monomer substituted with a hydroxy group, a second monomer having an epoxy group, and at least one of a third monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a fourth monomer which is an acrylic monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted bicyclic alkyl group, and thus, has excellent durability, chemical resistance, and abrasion resistance.
US11426979B2
Thin-film devices, for example electrochromic devices for windows, and methods of manufacturing are described. Particular focus is given to methods of patterning optical devices. Various edge deletion and isolation scribes are performed, for example, to ensure the optical device has appropriate isolation from any edge defects. Methods described herein apply to any thin-film device having one or more material layers sandwiched between two thin film electrical conductor layers. The described methods create novel optical device configurations.
US11426977B2
Disclosed are a method for producing a laminate including a step of laminating a resin impregnated fiber reinforced composition layer on a metal member, wherein the method includes a step of forming a resin coating on the metal member and a step of laminating a resin impregnated fiber reinforced composition layer containing a resin impregnated fiber reinforced composition containing (I) 20 to 80% by mass of a polymer having a melting point and/or a glass transition temperature of 50 to 300° C., and (C) 20 to 80% by mass of a reinforcing fiber (provided that the sum of the component (I) and the component (C) is taken as 100% by mass) via the above resin coating; and a laminate obtained by the method.
US11426975B2
In a thickness range of which center is a ¼ thickness from the surface of a base steel sheet, a volume fraction of a ferrite phase is 0% to less than 50%, a volume fraction of the total of a hard structure composed of one or more of a bainite structure, a bainitic ferrite phase, a fresh martensite phase, and a tempered martensite phase is 50% or more, a volume fraction of a retained austenite phase is 0-8%, and a volume fraction of the total of a pearlite phase and a coarse cementite phase is 0-8%, at an interface between a plating layer and the base steel sheet, a Fe—Al alloy layer is provided, the Fe—Al alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.1-2.0 μm and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in the width direction of the steel sheet being within 0.5 μm.
US11426966B2
A bendable panel comprising a substrate layer, wherein the panel is provided with a mechanism enabling the panel to bend. The mechanism enabling the panel to bend is at least one groove or cut, and the depth of the groove or cut is no longer than the panel thickness. The substrate layer is prepared by the following materials with the following mass ratio: 100 parts of PVC resin or PVC powder, 30-55 parts of a styrene based elastomer, 150-300 parts of stone powder, sawdust or rock, 1-10 parts of an additive, and 1-4 parts of an elastomer coupling agent. The panel may be bent during the installation, and several panels can be seamlessly installed.
US11426961B2
Disclosed is a pressure roll and a method for pressing a tire layer on a tire building drum in a pressing direction, wherein the pressure roll includes a shaft and a plurality of discs, wherein each disc has an interior part and an exterior part, wherein each interior part is provided with a recess for receiving the shaft, wherein the recess is larger than the shaft in the pressing direction for allowing movement of the disc with respect to said shaft in the pressing direction, wherein the pressure roll includes for each disc one or more actuators for individually moving the disc, wherein one actuator is arranged for moving the respective disc with respect to the shaft in the pressing direction and the same or another actuator is arranged for moving the respective disc with respect to the shaft in a retraction direction opposite to the pressing direction.
US11426955B2
A method of forming a laminate charge, and a forming tool and apparatus for forming a laminate charge is disclosed. In a forming step, a suction force is generated between a forming tool and an impermeable sheet which causes the impermeable sheet to press the laminate charge against a male corner of the forming tool and into a female corner of the forming tool. The male corner of the forming tool is positioned between first and second parts of the laminate charge, and the female corner of the forming tool is positioned between second and third parts of the laminate charge. During the forming step, gas is injected between the forming tool and part of the laminate charge to create a gas cushion between the forming tool and the third part of the laminate charge. This gas cushion inhibits the third part of the laminate charge from becoming clamped against the forming tool as the laminate charge is pressed into the female corner of the forming tool.
US11426953B2
A fiber composite laying device for producing a fiber composite scrim for forming a fiber composite component has a laying head which is designed or configured to continuously supply a reinforcement fiber band, a compaction roller which is designed or configured to receive the supplied reinforcement fiber band, lay the band on a laying surface and press the band onto the laying surface at an average compaction pressure, and pressure sensors which are arranged on the compaction roller and are designed or configured to detect a local compaction pressure on the laid reinforcement fiber band.
US11426946B2
An ultrasonic welding system. The system includes an ultrasonic transducer assembly having a horn and a first transducer and a second transducer arranged to impart ultrasonic energy into the horn. The horn has a first part-interfacing surface and a second part-interfacing surface opposite the first part-interfacing surface. An actuator assembly is operatively coupled to the ultrasonic transducer assembly and configured to cause rotation of the horn. A controller is configured to: cause the actuator assembly to rotate the horn so that the first part-interfacing surface applies the ultrasonic energy to a first part along an entire length of the first part-interface surface while a first ultrasonic energy is applied through the horn via the first transducer to cause the first part-interfacing surface to vibrate back and forth along its entire length as the first ultrasonic energy is applied by the first transducer to the horn.
US11426922B2
Systems and methods for simultaneously forming and filling a container are provided where a pressure source is accelerated from an initial state to attain a predefined process speed while applying pressure to a volume of fluid. The volume of fluid is fluidly coupled to a preform upon attaining the predefined process speed, the pressure source directs at least a portion of the volume of fluid into the preform and stretching the preform to form the container, where the container includes at least the portion of the volume of fluid. The volume of fluid is fluidly decoupled from the container and the pressure source is then decelerated from the predefined process speed toward the initial state.
US11426920B2
Provided is an apparatus for expanding plastics material parisons into plastics material containers by a liquid medium with at least two transforming stations which fill and expand the plastics material parisons with the liquid medium with at least one common delivery device, which delivers the liquid medium to both transforming stations, wherein the transforming stations in each case have filling devices which fill the liquid medium into the plastics material parisons. According to the embodiments these transforming stations and/or filling devices in each case have a throttle device which are suitable and intended for changing the volume flow of the liquid entering the plastics material parisons.
US11426909B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for producing a fluid line (7) with a connecting element formed on an end portion of the fluid line (7), wherein the connecting element comprises a coupling part (8) and a connector (70) which connects to the coupling part (8) toward the end of the fluid line.
US11426907B2
Disclosed is a mold assembly comprising: a cavity forming an inner space to be filled with resin containing metallic particles, and having a protruding part corresponding to a hole of a molded object; a first gate disposed at any one side of the cavity so as to inject the resin into the inner space; and a second gate disposed at another side of the cavity, and injecting the resin, which flows in a second direction intersecting with a first direction, into the inner space so as to change the arrangement of the metallic particles such that a weld line, formed according to the orientation of metallic particle in the first direction, is blurred in an area at which the flow of the resin is separated by the protruding part and then comes back together.
US11426905B2
A method of forming a retaining device with hooks, wherein: a molding strip is provided that presents an inside face and an outside face, and that has a plurality of cavities, each cavity defining a stem extending from the outside face towards the inside face and including an end forming a head that extends from the stem towards the inside face of the molding strip; and the molding strip is positioned on rotary drive means, comprising at least two rollers, the inside face of the molding strip being arranged to bear against the drive means.
US11426894B2
An automated lift machine that feeds strips of staples into an automated stapling machine that can be used in a production line. The lift machine includes a lifter subassembly and a pusher subassembly, and a magazine for holding multiple strips of staples that are stacked on top of one another. A lift fork extends under of the legs of the second staple strip from the bottom, then lifts up all of the stacked staples in the magazine except for the bottom-most staple strip. After that occurs, the pusher forces the bottom-most staple strip from beneath the stacked staples in the magazine, then pushes that strip toward an exit position, into the feeder for the automated stapling machine. The pusher retracts and the lift fork gently lowers the stacked staples in the magazine until they bottom out, after which the lift fork retracts from the stack.
US11426883B2
According to one embodiment, a gripping tool includes a gripper, a sensor, a pump unit, and a controller. The gripper is flexible and has a granular material provided in an interior of the gripper. The sensor is connected to the interior. The sensor detects a pressure or a flow rate of a gas. The pump unit is connected to the interior. The controller performs at least a first operation of causing the gripper to contact a workpiece and causing the gripper to operate, and a second operation of separating the gripper from the workpiece and causing the gripper to operate. In at least a portion of the second operation, the controller sets a pressure of the interior to be different from a pressure external to the gripper.
US11426880B2
A gripper assembly is disclosed. The gripper assembly includes a stage, a mounting platform, and a plurality of the flexible gripper elements. The flexible gripper element is configured to grip an object. The flexible gripper elements are supported by a first end piece, where the first end piece is attached to the mounting platform. The mounting platform is connected to the stage, where the stage is moveable. The flexible gripper element includes a hollow section that is selectively pressurizable. The hollow section includes one or more zones, where each zone includes chambers which are pressurizable by a fluid input. The selective pressurization of the hollow section allows the flexible gripper element to grip the object.
US11426874B2
Methods and systems for insertion mounting workpieces are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes acquiring a position of the second fitting part of the receiving component, moving the first fitting part of the workpiece towards the second fitting part of the receiving component until the workpiece is in contact with the receiving component, and rotating the workpiece while pressing the workpiece towards the receiving component. The implementation of the present disclosure may be applied for various types of workpieces and receiving components and may overcome minor deviations of positions between the workpiece and the receiving component during the insertion operation, thereby improving the efficiency of the insertion operation.
US11426870B2
There is provided a robot control apparatus that controls a vertical articulated robot and is suitable for direct teaching. In the apparatus, an axis setting section sets operation axes and control axes from among the axes subjected to angle control, when performing the direct teaching of changing a position of the arm tip, while retaining a posture thereof at a target posture. The operation axes can be dominant factors when determining the position of the arm tip and are allowed to freely move according to an external force, and the control axes can be dominant factors when determining the posture of the arm tip and are controlled by an angle control section. When performing the direct teaching, the angle control section receives an input of current angles of the operation axes and the target posture to calculate command angles of the respective control axes according to inverse kinematics calculation.
US11426866B2
A robot that includes a base that is provided with a flat installation surface member that is disposed on an installation target surface and a columnar member that extends upward from the installation surface member; and a first arm, one end of which is supported so as to be rotatable about a first horizontal axis located above the columnar member of the base and that has a motion range below the first horizontal axis. The columnar member has a length that is equal to or longer than the length of the first arm and has a uniform transverse sectional area that is the same as the first arm.
US11426863B2
The present invention provides a four-chain six-degree-of-freedom hybrid mechanism. The four-chain six-degree-of-freedom hybrid mechanism comprises a fixed platform, a sliding rail mounted on the fixed platform, two sliding blocks, a mobile platform and four linear actuator chains connecting the mobile platform with a first sliding block and a second sliding block. The mobile platform is square-shaped. In the four linear actuator chains, the first linear actuator chain and the third linear actuator chain have the same structure while the second linear actuator chain and the fourth linear actuator chain have the same structure. The mobile platform can achieve six degrees of freedom. The four linear actuator chains coordinate to drive so as to achieve two translational degrees of freedom and two rotational degrees of freedom; the first sliding block and the second sliding block coordinate to drive so as to achieve the other translational and rotational degrees of freedom.
US11426859B2
A tool storage device system includes a base and a tool storage container removably coupled to the base. The tool storage container slides in a first direction relative to the base to attach the tool storage container to the base, and the tool storage container slides in a second direction, opposite the first direction, relative to the base to remove the tool storage container from the base.
US11426852B2
A hammer drill comprises a drive mechanism including a spindle, a first ratchet coupled for co-rotation with the spindle, a second ratchet rotationally fixed to the housing, and a hammer lockout mechanism adjustable between a first mode and a second mode. The hammer drill further comprises a clutch adjustable between a first mode and a second mode. The hammer drill further comprises a detent radially movable between a locking position and an unlocking position, and a collar movable between a first rotational position in which the hammer lockout mechanism is in the first mode and a second rotational position in which the hammer lockout mechanism is in the second mode. In the first mode the detent is positioned such that the spindle is moveable relative to the housing. In the second mode the detent is positioned such that the spindle is prevented from moving relative to the housing.
US11426851B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a combustion powered fastener driving tool including a fuel cell receiver configured to receive and engage a fuel cell metering valve of a fuel cell, the fuel cell metering valve configured to dispense a dose of fuel from the fuel cell.
US11426839B2
A hand tool includes a body provided with a mounting portion. The mounting portion includes six first recessed portions, six second recessed portions, and six locking faces. Each of the first recessed portions includes two grooves. Each of the second recessed portions includes two first arcuate faces and a second arcuate face. Each of the locking faces has a planar shape and is arranged between two of the second recessed portions. Each of the first recessed portions is arranged on one of the locking faces. The locking faces define an imaginary hexagonal portion having six sides coinciding with the locking faces respectively. The mounting portion of the body is mounted on a screw member. The screw member has six ribs received in the second recessed portions. Each of the ribs rests on one of the first arcuate faces.
US11426833B2
The present invention provides a cross-axis and cross-point modal testing and parameter identification method for predicting the cutting stability, which is used to improve the accuracy of existing prediction methods of cutting stability. The method firstly installs a miniature tri-axial acceleration sensor at the tool tip, and conducts the cross-axis and cross-point experimental modal tests respectively. The measured transfer functions are grouped according to different measuring axes, and the dynamic parameters are separately identified from each group of transfer functions. Then, the contact region between the cutter and workpiece is divided into several cutting layer differentiators. After that, together with other dynamic parameters, all the parameters are assembled into system dynamic parameter matrices matching with the dynamic model. Finally, dynamic parameter matrices including the effects of cross-axis and cross-point model couplings are obtained. Moreover, the acceleration sensor in the method only needs to be installed once.
US11426828B2
A method for assembling a dual-head pulling rod involves attaching pulling heads to two ends of a rod body through threaded connection using a system that includes a foundation, on which a rod dispensing device, an inclined guiding plate, a conveying flap, a head dispensing device, a head mounting unit, a clamping device, an assembling device and a V-shaped output channel are provided. The inclined guiding plate is inclined and uses its ramp to guide a rod body falling thereon. The conveying flap is swingable between an input position and an output position. The conveying flap at the input position receives the rod body coining from the inclined guiding plate and outputs the rod body to the clamping device.
US11426821B2
The present disclosure relates to a metal-cored welding wire, and, more specifically, to a metal-cored aluminum welding wire for arc welding, such as Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW). A disclosed metal-cored aluminum welding wire includes a metallic sheath and a granular core disposed within the metallic sheath. The granular core includes a first alloy having a plurality of elements, wherein the first alloy has a solidus that is lower than each of the respective melting points of the plurality of elements of the first alloy. The granular core comprises aluminum metal matrix nano-composites (Al-MMNCs) that comprise an aluminum metal matrix and ceramic nanoparticles.
US11426818B2
A technique to additively print onto a dissimilar material, especially ceramics and glasses (e.g., semiconductors, graphite, diamond, other metals) is disclosed herein. The technique enables manufacture of heat removal devices and other deposited structures, especially on heat sensitive substrates. It also enables novel composites through additive manufacturing. The process enables rapid bonding, orders-of-magnitude faster than conventional techniques.
US11426815B2
A welding torch maintenance apparatus and a welding tip changer are described. The welding torch maintenance apparatus and the welding tip changing apparatus each comprise a first gripping means for fastening the welding torch/diffuser so that the nozzle/welding tip is aligned with the rotational axis, a second gripping means for holding the nozzle/welding tip, the second gripping means rotates about the rotational axis to remove the nozzle/welding tip, and moves along the rotational axis. A drive means is provided for rotating the second gripping means, and a lift system is provided for moving the second gripping along the rotational axis. The welding torch maintenance apparatus further includes a cleaning means which enters the nozzle at the distal end and cleans an interior of the nozzle.
US11426805B2
An apparatus for precision shaving is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an endmill cutter, a base frame, and a motor adjacent to the base frame and having a shaft on one end. A coupler is positioned between the shaft and the endmill cutter. A positioning slide is housed within the base frame and a coupler frame and a first gear are fastened to the positioning slide. A second gear is adjacent to the first gear, the second gear having a set of first teeth and a set of second teeth positioned opposite the set of first teeth. The set of first teeth and the set of second teeth are separated by a gap.
US11426800B2
A portable apparatus for configuring a wheel associated with a track is provided. The apparatus is in a fixed position with respect to a rail associated with the track when in operation. The apparatus includes a tool configured to engage the wheel, a position system for positioning the cutting tool in at least two axis, and a computer control. The computer control is coupled to control the positioning system. The positioning system is controlled so that the wheel is configured in accordance with a profile.
US11426796B2
A metal shaped article production method includes a shaping data input step, a step of forming a constituent material layer using a constituent material, a step of forming a support material layer using a support material, a step of cutting a cut face in the constituent material layer of a stacked body formed by performing the constituent material layer forming step and the support material layer forming step, a step of degreasing a thermoplastic resin contained in the stacked body for which the cut face cutting step was performed, and a step of sintering metal particles by heating the stacked body, wherein in the support material layer forming step, the support material layer is formed so that a support face comes into contact with a face to be supported at an opposite side to the cut face at a position of the constituent material layer based on the shaping data.
US11426792B2
A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional target object may include forming a shell from loose machining powder using an additive manufacturing process and subjecting the shell to a densification process to form a target object. The shell may define an enclosure that contains additional machining powder. The densification process may include causing metallurgical bonding between the shell and additional machining powder contained in the enclosure defined by the shell and shrinking and/or distorting the shape of the shell to conform the target object to a three-dimensional model for the target object. The shell may include a plurality of layers and/or parts that differ at least in respect of density. The plurality of layers and/or parts may be configured based at least in part on the shrinking and/or distorting to the shape of the shell needed to conform the target object to the three-dimensional model for the target object.
US11426785B2
A method for manufacturing a gear toothing on a metallic workpiece and a tool device for calibration of a gear toothing inlet and/or a gear toothing outlet of a gear of the metallic workpiece. The method includes producing the gear toothing by forming manufacturing and performing a compression process to calibrate a gear toothing inlet and/or a gear toothing outlet of the gear toothing, wherein a gear tooth shape and a gear tooth length are adjusted during the compression process. The tool device includes a workpiece location for accommodating the workpiece, an axially movable die selectively engageable with the gear toothing, the die supporting the gear toothing and predefining the gear tooth shape to be adjusted on the gear toothing inlet and/or on the gear toothing outlet, and at least one axially movable compression ring which calibrates the gear toothing inlet and/or gear toothing outlet by a compression process.
US11426783B2
While the loading member supporting mechanism moves the loading member from the workpiece set state to the workpiece retracted state and returns to the workpiece set state again, the displacement drive unit and the rotation drive unit perform an operation of disposing the workpiece holding portion arranged at the processing position to the replacement position and an operation of disposing the workpiece holding portion disposed at the replacement position to the processing position in a trajectory in which the loading member does not interfere with the shoe.
US11426779B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a pipe including a large-diameter portion, a small-diameter portion, and a reduced diameter portion connecting the large-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion, the method comprising: forming a metal plate member into a U-shaped member having a U-shaped cross section; and forming the U-shaped member into a shape of the pipe. The U-shaped member includes: a curved portion facing an opening between both edges of the U-shaped cross section; and two facing side walls continued from the curved portion. An opening degree of the two facing side walls in a portion to form the small-diameter portion is larger than an opening degree of the two facing side walls in a portion to form the large-diameter portion.
US11426778B2
A method for tension control in a band-shaped material between two tension points, in particular between two adjacent roll stands, wherein at least one of the tension points has a rotary drive as an actuator. In order to make known tension controls of this type more effective and faster the controller output signal is varied in connection with the conversion thereof into the actuating signal for the rotary drive, at least temporarily, in dependence on a variable representing the band-shaped material.
US11426768B2
A method for sorting products and sorting apparatus with a flow of granular products moving in an inspection zone, in which a light beam is moved over the product flow to generate a reflected stream of light. At least one detector unit is provided to detect light reflected by the products to generate detection signals. This detector unit cooperates with a control unit to sort the products by these detection signals. The detector unit contains at least two sensors that are provided one after the other in the reflected stream of light so that a sensor is placed upstream of a downstream sensor. Each sensor detects a different part of the reflected stream of light.
US11426766B2
Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.
US11426760B2
A powder film forming method includes the steps of: filling an opening with a powder, the opening being formed in a screen plate; and forming the powder film by generating an electric potential difference between the screen plate and a substrate so as to cause the powder, which is filling the opening, to move to the substrate.
US11426757B1
A caulking tool configured to be frictionally attached to a user's finger during use. The caulking tool in one example having; a convex caulk spreader comprising a pliable spreader surface configured to spread caulk smoothly between a first wall surface and a second wall surface to which the caulk is adhered. In one example junction between a first wall surface and a second wall surface will be in a corner junction between the two wall surfaces. In one example the caulking tool comprises a finger tube fixed to the caulk spreader. The finger tube may be cast with the spreader surface and thus forms a monolithic, single component without seams therebetween. The finger tube in one example having an inner surface configured to frictionally engage the outer surface of a user's finger. In one example the inner surface of the finger tube is tapered from a first longitudinal end to a second longitudinal end.
US11426756B2
A process for in-line extrusion of polymeric coatings onto roofing shingles during manufacturing includes moving a web of shingle substrate material in a downstream direction and extruding a liquefied coating of polymeric material onto at least one surface of the moving web to form a thin film. The liquefied coating may be a molten polymeric material that forms a thin film on a back surface of the shingle material to prevent sticking and eliminate the need for a traditional back dusting with material such as powdered stone. The polymeric film further may be applied to the substrate material in lieu of a saturation coating of asphalt, thus reducing cost and weight while providing a comparable moisture barrier and a lighter more flexible shingle.
US11426754B2
A fluid feed ring (5), a substrate coating apparatus (1) and a method are provided for coating a substrate (2) with a catalyst component. The fluid feed ring (5) comprises an annular body (40) having an inner face (45) bounding a central bore of the fluid feed ring. A fluid feed port (47) receives the liquid and a plurality of outlet apertures (50) on the inner face of the annular body discharge the liquid onto a piston face (23) of the substrate coating apparatus (1). A distribution channel (51) extending at least part-way around the annular body (40) provides fluid communication between the fluid feed port (47) and the plurality of outlet apertures (50).
US11426753B2
Subject matter of the present invention is a method of applying coating layers (9) to a substrate (1, 11, 21, 31), wherein the substrate (1, 11, 21, 31) is drawn through a coating chamber (2) containing a pressurized coating agent (3) being liquefied or softened by means of a thermal exposure, wherein the substrate (1, 11, 21, 31) is drawn through a drawing tool (8), wherein the coating agent (3) serves as a lubricant between the drawing tool (8) and a surface of the substrate (8) and wherein at the same time the coating layer (9) is applied to the surface of the substrate (8). Subject matter of the invention is also a corresponding apparatus for applying a coating layer (9) to a substrate (1, 11, 21, 31). By means of the invention coating layers can be applied to a substrate in an efficient and economical way.
US11426750B2
Application of liquid material is carried out without causing variations in discharge amount even on a stage under heating while temperature of a liquid material is adjusted by a temperature control device. A liquid material discharge device includes a discharge port, a liquid chamber in communication with the discharge port, and a temperature control device adjusting a temperature of the liquid chamber, the liquid material discharge device discharging the liquid material from the discharge port while a workpiece and the discharge port are moved relative to each other. The liquid material discharge device also includes a coolant flow path through which a coolant for heat exchange with the temperature control device flows, and a discharge control device controlling a discharge operation. An application device including the liquid material discharge device and an application method using the application device are also provided.
US11426748B1
A refillable sprayer with explosion-proof effect has a first shell, a second shell, and a retaining ring. The first shell has a first body and a first mesh body. The first body is made of plastic. The first mesh body is made of metal, is covered by the first body, and has multiple first through holes. The second shell is detachably connected to the first shell and has a second body and a second mesh body. The second body is made of plastic. The second mesh body is made of metal, is covered by the second body, and has multiple second through holes. The retaining ring is made of metal and is sleeved on a connecting position where the second shell is connected to the first shell.
US11426747B2
A hand-held battery operated sprayer with a rotatable spray lance includes a spray lance assembly and a spray chamber. A motor, a pump, a shutoff valve, a suction hose assembly, a pump inlet hose, a pump outlet hose, a battery pack, and a conductor are disposed in the spray chamber. Water sequentially passes the suction hose assembly, the shutoff valve, the pump inlet hose, the pump, and the pump outlet hose, and flows out of the spray chamber. A rotary axle base is disposed at the front end of the spray chamber. A right-angled rotating shaft is movably connected in the rotary axle base. The rotating shaft is connected to the spray lance assembly. The pump outlet hose can reach a nozzle of the spray lance assembly through the rotating shaft.
US11426742B2
A spray nozzle comprising a housing including a primary passage defining a primary axis, a series of secondary passages configured to provide swirl to a fluid passing therethrough circumferentially positioned around the housing, a series of standoffs circumferentially spread around an outer surface of the housing and located downstream along the primary axis of the series of swirling passages, wherein each of the swirling passages corresponds to a respective standoff of the series of standoffs, in order to control the swirl of the fluid.
US11426736B2
Disclosed is a gripping device for a container intended for a biological analysis, including an annular part of X axis, elastically deformable gripping fins extending radially inwardly from the annular part, the fins being capable of being deformed when a container is introduced into the annular part, the fins being evenly distributed over the circumference. Each fin has a so-called upper surface and an opposite so-called lower surface, the lower surface being intended to come into contact with the container, the lower surface having a concave zone, or vice versa.
US11426732B2
Flow cell devices, cartridges, and systems are described that provide reduced manufacturing complexity, lowered consumable costs, and flexible system throughput for nucleic acid sequencing and other chemical or biological analysis applications. The flow cell device can include a capillary flow cell device or a microfluidic flow cell device.
US11426725B2
A flow cell having at least one reservoir region containing a liquid reagent. The reservoir region is delimited by a carrier element introduced into an opening in the flow cell together with the reagent, wherein the carrier element seals off the reservoir region from the outside in a fluid-tight manner, and has a vessel and/or capillary structure holding the liquid reagent on the carrier element.
US11426713B1
The present application discloses a monolithic catalyst with the function of selective adsorption-catalytic oxidation of organic waste gas and a preparation method and application thereof. The present application adopts a double coating design. A first coating is a molecular sieve primer coating. A second coating is an active component coating, which uses a neutral silica sol, so as to protect the activity and effectiveness of a noble metal and a catalytic promoter on the molecular sieve.
US11426712B2
Disclosed are a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst, a preparation method therefor and use thereof in a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction. Wherein the catalyst comprises: an active component, being at least one selected from VIIIB transition metals; an optional auxiliary metal; and a nitride carrier having a high specific surface area. The catalyst is characterized in that the active metal is supported on the nitride carrier having the high specific surface, such that the active component in the catalyst is highly dispersed. The catalyst has a high hydrothermal stability, an excellent mechanical wear resistance, a high Fischer-Tropsch synthesis activity and an excellent high-temperature stability.
US11426708B2
A method and catalyst for forming higher carbon number products from carbon dioxide is provided. An exemplary catalyst includes red mud including iron and aluminum, and impregnated potassium.
US11426707B2
Novel porous materials comprising nanoparticles, use in chromatographic separations, processes for its preparation, and separations devices containing the chromatographic material are described by the instant invention. In particular, the disclosure describes porous inorganic/organic hybrid particles embedded with nanoparticles selected from oxides or nitrides of the following: silicon carbide, aluminum, diamond, cerium, carbon black, carbon nanotubes, zirconium, barium, cerium, cobalt, copper, europium, gadolinium, iron, nickel, samarium, silicon, silver, titanium, zinc, boron, and mixtures thereof.
US11426703B2
A methane conversion device comprises a reaction chamber; a sensor for detecting the presence of methane; blowing means for directing external gasses Into the reaction chamber when the sensor detects the presence of methane above a predetermined threshold; conversion means that are configured to oxidise methane; and positioning means for positioning the device on an animal.
US11426693B2
A purification system having pipelines arranged at different levels in a height direction is disclosed. The purification system can include: a first purifier and a second purifier disposed side by side symmetrically; an air input pipeline, an air output pipeline and a waste nitrogen input pipeline, wherein the air input pipeline, the air output pipeline and the waste nitrogen input pipeline are disposed at different heights, the gap between pairs of pipelines being determined so as to facilitate overhaul of three-stem valves, a value W being smaller than a value W when the air input pipeline, the air output pipeline and the waste nitrogen input pipeline are arranged in parallel on the ground, and the purification system further comprises: a three-stem valve platform formed by a framework structure in a number of levels, to facilitate overhaul of the three-stem valves.
US11426690B2
An air filter medium reduces a decrease in collection efficiency in the case where a main collection layer and a pre-collection layer having a lower collection efficiency than the main collection layer are used. An air filter medium that collects dust in gas includes a main collection layer and a pre-collection layer that has a lower collection efficiency of NaCl particles having a particle size of 0.3 μm than the main collection layer, is disposed on an upstream side of an air flow with respect to the main collection layer, and has water repellency.
US11426689B2
An improved device for collecting particulate matter suspended in the ambient air is disclosed comprising a container extending between an open first end and a closed second end defining a container interior. A container output communicates with a container interior located proximate the closed second end of the container. A filter cassette comprising a collection filter is permanently affixed to a filter holder. A retainer having a retainer input retains the filter cassette between the retainer input and the container output. An output connector connects the container output to a low pressure source for drawing ambient air into the retainer input for enabling the collection filter to collect particulate matter suspended in the ambient air entering the retainer input. Preferably, the filter holder and the filter are disposable.
US11426676B2
Gas/liquid separation column, containing a device for dispensing a liquid, intended for a gas/liquid separation column, comprising: a plate, in which several orifices are arranged, through which the liquid is able to leave the dispensing device; a plurality of stacks extending from the plate, each stack being configured to be followed by the gas; a plurality of plugging means respectively arranged at one end of one of the stacks, each plugging means having a gutter shape allowing a first portion of the liquid to be collected; a plurality of troughs for directly collecting a second portion of the liquid, at least one part of the orifices being distributed in the base of said troughs, each plugging means comprising a first open longitudinal end and a second closed longitudinal end.
US11426674B2
A breakable shell defining an enclosure within which a toy is contained. The breakable shell has a plurality of plastic shell pieces able to self-retain together to define the enclosure. The shell, when dropped from a sufficient height on a solid surface will break apart by the shell pieces all disconnecting from each other thereby revealing the toy.
US11426671B2
A stackable track assembly and method for stacking a booster and/or track frame is disclosed. The stackable track assembly includes a base, a track portion disposed in the base, and a frame extending out of the base and laterally across the top of the base. The stackable track assembly further includes a tab and slot for laterally coupling two track assemblies. The stackable track assembly further includes a receiving member and engagement member for vertically and/or laterally coupling two track assemblies. In some implementations, the track assembly may include a booster for accelerating a toy vehicle.
US11426669B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a model car body, including preparing a steel mold comprising a core plate with an inner core, a top plate and at least two side plates; attaching at least one pre-fabricated plastic block to a side of the inner core of the core plate; combining the core plate, the top plate and the at least two side plates with each other, wherein a cavity is formed among the top plate, the side plates, the inner core of the core plate and the at least one pre-fabricated plastic block; injecting melted plastic material into the cavity, wherein the melted plastic material is filled with the cavity and the at least one pre-fabricated plastic block is encased by the melted plastic material; solidifying the melted plastic so as to form the model car body, wherein the at least one pre-fabricated plastic block is integrated with the plastic model car body; separating the core plate, the top plate and the at least two side plates from each other; and releasing the model car body with the at least one pre-fabricated plastic block from the mold.
US11426666B2
The present system relates to a toy and play system that provides 360-degree play surfaces along with extendable play areas. Multiple embodiments of the toys may be arranged proximal to one another to create an extended play environment. The toys may be manipulated from a closed orientation to an open orientation that provides for horizontal and vertical play while maintaining stability of the toy.
US11426665B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor a computer to implement a content providing method in conjunction with a computer system may be provided. The content providing method may include providing a game program comprising a game module and a simulation module to a user terminal, the simulation module having same input and output functions as those of the game module, receiving play results comprising first output information of the game module and second output information of the simulation module from the user terminal, the play results are generated by the user terminal while not communicating with a server, and determining whether the a game play at the game module is played fairly based on the first output information of the game module and the second output information of the simulation module.
US11426656B2
A computer-implemented method for online game streaming is provided, which includes receiving a request from a remote client to access a user account. The user account identifies information regarding the user and digital content available for the user to access from the remote client. The request is received over an Internet connection at a hosting service that includes one or more servers and the digital content including a video game. The method includes receiving selection of the game by the hosting service from the remote client and initiating a data rate test of the remote client. The data rate test identifies a maximum available data rate between the remote client and one or more servers of the hosting service. The data rate test includes gradually increasingly the data rate and then gradually decreasing the data rate to identify an active data rate for streaming interactive content of the video game.
US11426655B2
The present invention relates to a method for playing on a player of a client device (11) a content streamed in a network (1), said content consisting of a sequence of segments available in a plurality of quality levels, the player being configured so as to choose the quality level of the segments as a function of at least one parameter representative of a segment reception rate, according to an Adaptive BitRate, ABR, logic of the player; the client device (11) comprising a first buffer (M1) for storing segments in a format adapted for transferring within the network (1), the method being characterized in that it comprises performing by a processing unit (110) of the client device (11): (a) receiving from the player a request for a current segment at a first quality level; (b) estimating, for a second quality level, an optimal response delay such that providing the requested current segment at the expiration of said optimal response delay will cause the player to request according to its ABR logic a next segment at said second quality level, as a function of a model trained from a database of training examples each associating a vector of measured parameters representative of a segment reception rate with the corresponding quality level subsequently chosen by the player according to its ABR logic; (c) providing the requested current segment from the first buffer memory (M1) at the expiration of said estimated optimal response delay.
US11426654B2
The subject disclosure relates to the de-interleaving of captured game data for the creation of separate video data and statistical metadata repositories. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for capturing gameplay data based on live gameplay in a game environment, the gameplay data comprising video data and statistical metadata based on player interactions with the game environment, de-interleaving the video data and the statistical metadata, storing the video data to a first database, and storing the statistical metadata to a second database, the first database being different from the second database. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11426651B1
A lap joystick controller for use in controlling the action of a computer game or a flight simulator. It is designed for placement on a chair between the user's legs, held firmly in place by a set of rubber bottom legs, a base flange that extends underneath the users legs and crouch, and the front, left and right side walls of the joystick controller's housing body. An internal weighted plate helps secure the device when it is used on a tabletop. It has a vertically adjustable joystick mounted in a horizontal lower panel that abuts a vertically angled upper panel that houses numerous switches, buttons and knobs. At the top end of the controller and the upper panel, is a rotary control housing that extends beyond the left and right sides of the controller's housing body. On the ends of this is interchangeably mounted, a throttle lever and a rotary knob. This controller closely approximates the much more expensive flight simulator chair.
US11426649B2
A system and method of shuffling decks of cards is disclosed including verifying that the shuffled deck of cards has the same number of cards as the deck of cards had had when a manual verification process was performed at the initiation of use of the deck of cards. Using the measured weight of the deck of cards after completion of shuffling, the number of cards in the shuffled deck of cards is verified. A cut card may be introduced to reduce the possibility of exposing the hole card to view. Two decks of cards may be used in sequence so that a first deck of cards is being used to play the game of cards while the second deck of cards is being shuffled and verified.
US11426647B2
Splitboard binding systems including a binding that may be attached to either a left or right gliding board in a ski mode or to both gliding boards in a snowboard mode. The binding includes left and right bottom rails attached to the bottom surface of a base plate, which define channels for slidable attachment to “pucks” disposed on the gliding board in snowboard mode. Each rail has a circular bore at a forward end for attachment to a counterpart pivot pin on a ski mode toe bracket in a ski mode by a sideways movement. A securing lever is disposed on an upper surface of the toe bracket. When the securing lever is rotated into a securing position, an end of the securing lever prevents removal of the pivot pin from the rail bore. Rotating the securing lever to a removal position allows the binding to be removed.
US11426629B2
The invention relates to field of connected sport and specifically a method for quantifying sporting activity implemented by a communication system including: a proximity beacon associated with sports equipment, measuring equipment and a communication node, the method including: (a) communicating between the measuring equipment and the beacon in order to recover a first data packet comprising an identifier relating to a sporting activity associated with the sports equipment; (b) transmitting, to the node, a second data packet comprising the identifier; (c) at the node, determining parameterisation data of the measuring equipment according to the identifier; (d) transmitting, to the measuring equipment, a third data packet 230 comprising said parameterisation data; and (e) at the parameterised measuring equipment, quantifying the sporting activity.
US11426621B2
Exercise apparatuses are described herein. An example embodiment of an exercise apparatus includes a first shaft, a first frame, a first handle, a second frame, a second handle, a second shaft, and a third shaft. The first frame is attached to the first shaft. The first handle is rotatably attached to the first frame such that the first handle can rotate relative to the first frame. The second frame is attached to the first shaft. The second handle is rotatably attached to the second frame such that the second handle can rotate relative to the second frame. The second shaft is attached to the first frame and the third shaft is attached to the second frame.
US11426612B2
An oxygen supply system providing an adequate oxygen supply mode in an aircraft. A preventive oxygen supply system includes an oxygen source, a preventive oxygen dispensing unit connectable to the oxygen source, a cabin altitude detection device, and a preventive oxygen control device provide at least the following modes: a pre-wear mode providing no oxygen of the oxygen source to the preventive oxygen dispensing unit but normal cabin air; a pre-oxygenation mode providing a predetermined rate of oxygen of the oxygen source to the preventive oxygen dispensing unit sufficient for generating a pre-oxygenation condition of the user; and a decompression mode providing high concentrated oxygen of the oxygen source to the preventive oxygen dispensing unit sufficient for ensuring a minimum oxygenation of the user. The preventive oxygen control device automatically switches to the decompression mode in case a predetermined cabin altitude threshold is detected by the cabin altitude detection device.
US11426601B2
A system and method for ultraviolet light-mediated hand sanitization and hands-free selection of content presented by a hand sanitizer station. The method includes detecting, using a sensor, an initiation event; responsive to the detection of the initiation event, activating an ultraviolet light source and sanitizing a surface of an object within a compartment adjacent to the ultraviolet light source; and visually presenting a graphic element associated with content on a display for presentation to a user, the display communicatively coupled to the ultraviolet light source.
US11426596B2
In some examples, a coil electrode assembly includes a coil electrode including a plurality of windings and extending from an electrode proximal end to an electrode distal end, the coil electrode defining an electrode lumen from the electrode proximal end to the electrode distal end. The coil electrode assembly further includes an insulative tube extending within the lumen of the coil electrode such that the coil electrode extends along an outer surface of the insulative tube. The coil electrode is partially embedded within the insulative tube when the insulative tube is in an expanded state to maintain a spacing between the windings.
US11426590B2
A leadless pacemaker device for providing an intra-cardiac pacing includes processing circuitry configured to generate ventricular pacing signals for stimulating ventricular activity at a ventricular pacing rate, a first sensor configuration receiving a first sense signal, and a second sensor configuration receiving a second sense signal. The processing circuitry derives, in a first sensing state, atrial events from the first sense signal for controlling the ventricular pacing rate based on the atrial events. The processing circuitry switches, based on at least one switching criterion, from the first sensing state to a second sensing state in which the processing circuitry derives atrial events from the second sense signal. The second sense signal is received by the second sensor configuration for detection of atrial events and the second sensor configuration is a motion sensor or a sound sensor. A method for operating the pacemaker device is also provided.
US11426583B2
Apparatus and methods for managing pain uses separate varying electromagnetic fields, with a variety of temporal and amplitude characteristics, which are applied to a particular neural structure to modulate glial and neuronal interactions as a mechanism for relieving chronic pain. In another embodiment, a single composite modulation/stimulation signal which has rhythmically varying characteristics is used to achieve the same results as separate varying electromagnetic fields. Also, disclosed is an apparatus and method for modulating the expression of genes involved in diverse pathways including inflammatory/immune system mediators, ion channels and neurotransmitters, in both the Spinal Cord (SC) and Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) where such expression modulation is caused by spinal cord stimulation or peripheral nerve stimulation using the disclosed apparatus and techniques. In one embodiment of multimodal modulation therapy, the prime signal may be monophasic, or biphasic, in which the polarity of the first phase of the biphasic prime signal may be either cathodic or anodic while the tonic signal may be either monophasic, or biphasic, with the polarity of the first phase of the biphasic tonic signal being either cathodic or anodic.
US11426581B2
A bilateral hearing implant system has a left side and a right side. Left and right side filter bank pre-processors preprocess left and right microphone signals to generate band pass signals for each side. A bilateral signal processing arrangement processes the band pass signals in a time sequence of stimulation frames. The signal processing module includes a bilateral channel selection module synchronously selects for each stimulation frame a set of stimulation channels for each side based on spectral content of the band pass signals. Left and right side signal processing submodules process for each stimulation frame a limited subset of each side band pass signals corresponding to the selected stimulation channels to generate electrical stimulation signals.
US11426571B2
The present invention relates to a microneedle array and a method for manufacturing the same, the microneedle array comprising: a support; and a plurality of microneedles loaded with a solid-phase formulation which protrude from the upper portion of the support, wherein a liquid-phase formulation is applied or added dropwise onto an area of the upper portion of the support in which the microneedles are not formed, or in a case where one or more holes are formed in the support, the liquid-phase formulation is released, through the holes, onto the area of the upper portion of the support in which the microneedles are not formed.
US11426568B2
A kit for treating vaginal dryness is provided. The kit comprises a hand held applicator and a dispenser or receptacle storing a vaginal care composition.
US11426567B2
Embodiments herein relate to an implantable device comprising a casing, a semi-permeable membrane plug at or near a first end of the casing, a piston, beads, and an opening for release of the beads from the implantable device within a body of a human or an animal; wherein the implantable device is configured to be implanted within the body of the human or the animal during delivery of the beads into the body of the human or the animal; wherein the beads comprise a core and a shell with the core being enclosed by the shell and the beads contain a drug; and wherein the implantable device is configured to produce a desired flow rate of elution of the drug from the implantable device when the implantable device is implanted within the body of the human or the animal.
US11426562B2
Devices and methods for providing an internal balloon sheath are disclosed. One device includes a sheath for insertion through an arteriotomy of a patient. The sheath comprises a tubular sheath body having a longitudinal axis, an open proximal end, an open distal end, an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a lumen between the proximal and distal ends for passage of a catheter device. The sheath also comprises an inflatable balloon disposed within the lumen. The inflatable balloon is configured to occupy a longitudinal space in the lumen between the inner surface of the sheath body and the catheter device when the catheter device is disposed within the sheath and the balloon is inflated, and fluidically seal the lumen.
US11426554B2
A blower unit for use as part of an integrated blower/humidification system is described. The blower unit has an outer casing, which encloses and forms part of the blower unit, the casing including an air inlet vent. The blower unit further includes a humidifier compartment for receiving a humidifier unit with a separate gases inlet and outlet, the compartment having a heater base for heating the contents of the humidifier unit. The compartment also has a blower inlet port which aligns with the humidifier unit inlet in use, the blower providing a gases path through the casing between the inlet vent and the inlet port. The blower unit also includes a fan for providing a pressurised gases stream along the gases path, and a power supply unit for powering the fan. The gases path is routed over the power supply unit in order to provide a cooling air flow.
US11426549B2
An endotracheal tube insertion apparatus configured to assist in the proper placement of an endotracheal tube during patient intubation. The present invention includes an external member wherein the external member has a housing with an arcuate formed bottom surface configured to be superposed a patient's neck during intubation. The external member includes a proximity sensor and a magnet. The endotracheal tube insertion apparatus further includes an insertion member that is elongated in form and has movably coupled thereto an end member. The end member is positioned so as to extend beyond the end of the endotracheal tube. The end member includes a proximity tag member and a magnet member wherein the magnet member is configured to be attracted to the magnet located in the external member so as to guide the endotracheal tube to the correct location. A plurality of lights further provides visual confirmation of the proper location.
US11426545B2
A vaporizer device is described in which a first air pathway extends from an inlet to a heating element. The heating element is configured to heat air from the first air pathway to produce heated air. A second air pathway extends from the heating element to a mouthpiece and is configured to carry the heated air. The first air pathway is configured to bring the air into thermal contact with at least one component in the second air pathway which absorbs heat from the heated air to heat air in the first air pathway and thereby reduce the energy needed to heat the air.
US11426542B2
A nebuliser device with a vibrating mesh, for administering medicaments, includes a casing, a nozzle, a nebuliser and a chamber that houses a medicament. The chamber housing a medicament is a disposable capsule forming an independent body that can be extracted from the casing of the device. The disposable capsule includes a connector for attaching to the nebuliser and to the casing. The connector allow the disposable capsule to be coupled to the nebuliser device or uncoupled therefrom.
US11426539B2
An inhaler housing with a receiving portion adapted to at least partially receive a container containing a medicament, and a dispensing portion through which the medicament is dispensed. The receiving portion and the dispensing portion are movable relative to one another between a storage condition, in which the receiving portion and the dispensing portion at least partially overlie one another and, a use condition. The dispensing portion and the receiving portion are configured to move between the storage condition and the use condition using both a sliding movement and a pivoting movement.
US11426537B2
The present application relates to an electronic vaporizer and an electronic vaporizer device. An electronic vaporizer comprises: a tube body; a storage compartment, storing a vaporizable substance; a heating component, comprising a heating body and a heating element, wherein the heating body is disposed below the storage compartment to be in contact with the vaporizable substance, and configured to vaporize the vaporizable substance after being heated; and the heating element is configured to generate heat after being powered; and a printed circuit board (PCB) module, disposed below the heating body, and electrically connected to the heating element, wherein the storage compartment, the heating component, and the PCB module are all disposed in the tube body, and the PCB module is configured to electrically connect to an external power supply pin to supply power to the heating element.
US11426533B2
Embodiments of a retractable syringe assembly are provided that include a dual syringe barrel configuration. One or more embodiments include reuse prevention features and features that prevent premature activation of the retraction mechanism. Methods for aspirating and expelling liquid from medical devices are also provided.
US11426524B2
A dosing device for an injection device, the dosing device including an actuating element for adjusting and/or dispensing a dose from the injection device, a thrust element for generating a forward movement for discharging a dose and a coupling to which the actuating element and the thrust element are coupled such that a rotational movement of the actuating element is transmitted directly to the thrust element and an axial movement of the actuating element is different than an axial movement of the thrust element.
US11426518B2
An inventive drug delivery system includes a reservoir that holds a drug to be administered. A drug applicator injects or infuses the drug, and a pump generates a flow of the drug from the reservoir to the drug applicator. A control system has a pressure sensor that measures pressure signals indicative of resistance against the flow of the drug and a processor is in communication with the pressure sensor. The control system detects with the pressure sensor a pressure signal indicative of the resistance against the flow of the drug while the drug is being administered and compares the measured pressure signal to a reference value. The control system also generates display data and provides it to an output device when the measured pressure signal exceeds the reference value. The display data includes a scheduled test reminder for a glucose level test that is communicated to an output device.
US11426517B2
An elastic physiological patch includes a patch assembly and an implant assembly. The patch assembly includes an electronic device, and a soft patch body defining a chamber for receiving the electronic device. The implant assembly is mountable to the electronic device and includes an implant which is capable of being driven to partially pass through the patch body and which is adapted to be implanted in the skin of a subject. The implant and the patch body cooperatively seal the chamber.
US11426512B2
A system for delivery of a volume of infusible fluid. The system includes a controller configured to calculate a trajectory for delivering infusible fluid, the trajectory comprising at least one volume of fluid, and determine a schedule for delivering the at least one volume of fluid according to the trajectory, wherein the schedule comprising an interval and a volume of infusible fluid for delivery. The system also includes a volume sensor assembly for determining the at least one volume of fluid delivered, wherein the controller recalculates the trajectory based on the volume of fluid delivered.
US11426510B2
A medical device includes: a hollow body part formed in a predetermined bent shape; a head part provided at a tip portion thereof with a discharge port for discharging cleaning water and detachably coupled to a front end of the body part; a connection part connected to a shower hose and a rear end of the body part and provided with a control valve for controlling water supply, a water flow rate and a water pressure; a water purification tube built in the body part and provided with leakage preventing grilles at both ends thereof; and a purified water discharge part provided inside the head part and configured to remove foreign substances in the water by using a filter.
US11426503B2
Techniques and systems for determining an arteriovenous (AV) fistula maturation in a patient may include detecting a first series of oxygen saturation levels of the patient at a central venous catheter (CVC) associated with a first series of hemodialysis treatments prior to the AV fistula implantation are described. The AV fistula may then be implanted in the patient. A second series of oxygen saturation levels of the patient at the CVC associated with a second series of hemodialysis treatments may be detected. The second series of oxygen saturation levels may be compared to a stable threshold mature AV fistula oxygen saturation level. Among other determinations from the comparison, in response to one or more of the second series of oxygen saturation levels meeting or exceeding the stable threshold mature AV fistula oxygen saturation level, determining the AV fistula is mature. Other embodiments are described.
US11426488B2
The invention discloses micron-nano pore gradient oxide ceramic films with biological activity, which are prepared by the following methods: The surface structures are biomedical engineering materials; Inorganic precursor coating solutions or the organic precursor coating solutions are prepared with or without micron and nanopore additives; The surface structures of the substrate are treated in the following steps: (1) The surfaces of the substrate are coated by the inorganic precursor coating solutions or the organic precursor coating solutions with or without micron and nanopore additives; (2) The substrate with coatings are dried, sintered, naturally cooled, and cleaned. (3) The biomedical engineering materials with the micron-nanopore gradient oxide ceramic films, especially biomimetic micro-nanoporous gradient alumina film, yttrium partially stabilized zirconia film, and alumina doped yttrium partially stabilized zirconia films in this invention greatly improve biocompatibility and biological activity.
US11426487B2
The present invention relates to implants comprising a deformable body formed of a polymer comprising functional groups capable of cross-linking to form a cross-link; said body provided in a first configuration which is cross-linked to a second configuration upon application of a selected stimuli; wherein said selected stimuli causes said cross-linking of said functional groups.
US11426484B2
Absorbable monofilament fibers and self-retaining sutures with high tensile strengths have been developed. The straight pull tensile strengths of the absorbable self-retaining sutures closely approximate, equal or exceed the average minimum knot-pull tensile standards set by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). These higher strength absorbable self-retaining sutures can therefore be used either without needing to oversize the suture for a given procedure, or by oversizing the self-retaining suture by no more than 0.1 mm in diameter. In one embodiment, the absorbable self-retaining sutures are made from poly-4-hydroxybutyrate or copolymers thereof. Methods for producing absorbable self-retaining sutures that have high tensile strengths and pronounced sheath-core structures wherein the sheath is harder than the core are also provided. The self-retaining sutures may be made by spinning and orienting a monofilament fiber of poly-4-hydroxybutyrate or copolymer thereof and inserting retainers in monofilament fibers.
US11426482B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for cleaning and sterilizing fluids and other materials. In one implementation, one or more emitters are submerged within a fluid and emit electromagnetic waves having a variable frequency. The frequency of the electromagnetic waves is swept across a frequency range to neutralize bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens in the fluid. The emitters may be submerged within a fluid reservoir and/or within the interior of an enclosed fluidic path (e.g., a pipe). Solid materials may be sterilized by immersing the solid materials within the fluid of such a fluid reservoir. In another implementation, electromagnetic waves may be applied to one or more wires that are wrapped around an exterior wall of a pipe. The frequency of the electromagnetic waves may be varied across a frequency range, resulting in scale and other materials being cleaned from the interior wall of the pipe.
US11426480B2
A disinfectant device including a pouch, the pouch including a first layer of material coupled to a second layer of material and defining a compartment therebetween. At least one dry reactant is retained within the compartment, the at least one dry reactant producing chlorine dioxide gas when exposed to water. A wick is at least partially disposed within the compartment. At least one from the group consisting of the first layer of material and the second layer of material define an array of ports along a periphery of the pouch and an array of fluid conduits, the array of fluid conduits being proximal to the array of ports, offset from the array of ports, in fluid communication with the wick, the compartment, and the array of ports.
US11426474B2
A light emitting device which inactivates microorganisms is disclosed. The light emitting device may include a flexible light emitting layer emitting a light; and a transparent or translucent layer over the flexible light emitting layer. The light may travel through and exit an exterior surface of the transparent or translucent layer, creating an exiting light. The exiting light exiting the transparent or translucent layer may have at least a portion thereof having a wavelength in a range of 380 to 420 nanometers, and may disinfect the exterior surface of the transparent or translucent layer. The light emitting device may be used alone to create a self-disinfecting high touch surface, e.g., on a door, or may be shaped to mate with other structure to create a disinfecting high touch surface.
US11426464B2
Methods and compositions related to the engineering of a protein with L-cyst(e)ine degrading enzyme activity are described. For example, in certain aspects there may be disclosed a modified cystathionine-γ-lyase comprising one or more amino acid substitutions and capable of degrading L-cyst(e)ine. Furthermore, certain aspects of the invention provide compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer with L-cyst(e)ine using the disclosed proteins or nucleic acids.
US11426461B2
The invention relates to a method for preventing dengue disease and hepatitis A in a subject or subject population by simultaneously administering a unit dose of a dengue vaccine composition and a hepatitis A vaccine on the same day. The unit dose of a dengue vaccine composition includes constructs of each dengue serotype, such as TDV-1, TDV-2, TDV-3 and TDV-4, at various concentrations in order to improve protection from dengue infection.
US11426457B2
The invention provides a vaccine composition comprising a flavivirus peptide comprising one or more CD8+ T cell C1 epitopes, wherein the peptide is attached to a nanoparticle.
US11426453B2
The invention relates to a recombinant Mycobacterium cell for use as an immunotherapeutic agent in the treatment of cancer, particularly in the treatment of solid tumors. More particularly, the invention relates to the immunotherapy of bladder carcinoma.
US11426448B2
Provided herein is technology relating to compositions comprising sonic hedgehog protein and therapeutic uses thereof. In particular, the technology relates to compositions comprising a hedgehog protein and one or more peptide amphiphiles for use in methods of treating or preventing stress urinary incontinence and/or erectile dysfunction in a subject.
US11426441B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a protein phosphatase 1 inhibitory peptide for treating vascular diseases. The composition of the present invention inhibits protein phosphatase 1 (PP1)-mediated dephosphorylation to suppress abnormal proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), and activates eNOS of vascular endothelial cells (VECs) to induce the recovery from dysfunction, and thus can be favorably used in the treatment of vascular diseases including pulmonary hypertension.
US11426432B2
The present invention relates to a method for growing, rapidly and massively ex vivo, cells collected from a living subject to provide a safe and effective pharmaceutical preparation for biological tissue repair/regeneration. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for growing cells in a sample collected from a living subject by culturing the cells in a medium containing allogeneic (including autogenic) serum. Preferably the allogeneic serum has been determined as being negative for a serum tumor marker and/or an infectious factors, and the amount of the anticoagulant (e.g., heparin, a heparin derivative, or a salt thereof) added to the collected sample is less than 5 U/mL with respect to the volume of the sample or the amount of the anticoagulant in the medium at the start of culture is less than 0.5 U/mL. The present invention further relates to use of the method.
US11426430B2
The invention relates to an in vitro method to generate T cell progenitors, comprising the step of culturing CD34+ cells in a medium containing TNF-alpha and/or an antagonist of the Aryl hydro-carbon/Dioxin receptor, in particular StemRegenin 1 (SR1), in presence of a Notch ligand and optionally a fibronectin fragment.
US11426422B2
Provided are methods for the treatment of insulin resistance and insulin receptor diseases with SHP2 inhibitors, such as allosteric inhibitors of SHP2 and RNAi or siRNA that target SHP2 expression. Compositions and methods for delivery of SHP2 inhibitors, such as liver-targeting liposomes or nanoparticles, are also provided.
US11426421B2
Provided are a composition for preventing or improving inflammation, the composition including an extract of a seed of soybean Glycine max (L.) Merrill cultivar SCEL-1, and a method of preventing occurrence of inflammation in a subject or improving inflammation in a subject, the method including injecting the composition to a subject.
US11426413B2
Stable oral liquid compositions including chlorpromazine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate of chlorpromazine, and methods of administering the compositions, are disclosed.
US11426407B2
The present invention features a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, W, X, Y, Z, n, o, p, and q are defined herein, for the treatment of CFTR mediated diseases, such as cystic fibrosis. The present invention also features pharmaceutical compositions, method of treating, and kits thereof.
US11426406B2
Provided herein are methods of treating a lysosomal storage disorder (LSD) in a subject and methods of promoting lysosomal clearance in one or more cells of a subject.
US11426405B2
The methods described herein include methods for the treatment of subjects who have Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) or a Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), e.g., polycythaemia vera (PV) or essential thrombocythaemia (ET), using inhibitors of JAK-STAT signaling.
US11426401B2
Dosage forms, drug delivery systems, and methods related to sustained release of dextromethorphan or improved therapeutic effects are disclosed. Typically, bupropion or a related compound is orally administered to a human being to be treated with, or being treated with, dextromethorphan.
US11426399B2
Methods and compositions for treating and/or preventing aging-related conditions are described. The compositions used in the methods include inhibitors or antagonists of leukotriene A4 hydrolase (“LTA4H”) with efficacy in treating and/or preventing aging-related conditions such as neurocognitive disorders.
US11426398B2
Compositions containing a combination of nicotinamide riboside and pterostilbene for treating skin disorders, and methods of treating skin disorders using these compositions and their equivalents are described. The skin disorders that are treated using these compositions or methods include sun exposure-related skin disorders, inflammatory skin disorders, autoimmune disease-related skin disorders and cancer-related skin disorders. In one embodiment, the compositions containing a combination of nicotinamide riboside and pterostilbene are prepared as oral formulations.
US11426397B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein L, R4, R5, R8, R10, R11, X1, X2, X3, X9, X12, and Z are defined in the specification. This disclosure also relates to materials and methods for preparing compounds of Formula 1, to pharmaceutical compositions which contain them, and to their use for treating diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with GPR6.
US11426393B2
The present disclosure relates to HIF-1α prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors, compositions which comprise the HIF-1α prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors described herein and to methods for controlling, inter alia, Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), heart failure, ischemia, and anemia.
US11426392B1
Compositions for treatment or prevention of viral infections, such as influenza A and B, coronaviruses, including but not limited to COVID-19 and any variant thereof, and rhinoviruses, along with related treatment methods. Certain compositions according to preferred embodiments may comprise chlorpheniramine and albuterol administered by inhalation in nebulized form.
US11426385B2
Provided are methods and compositions for prolonging survival and/or reducing or inhibiting tumor growth in a cancer subject receiving a regimen of one or more chemotherapeutic agents, an inhibitor of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEHi) and a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that inhibits one or more enzymes selected from the group consisting of cyclo-oxygenase (“COX”)-1, COX-2, and 5-lipoxygenase (“5-LOX”). The methods and compositions decrease toxicity and/or adverse side effects in subjects receiving a regimen of one or more chemotherapeutic agents.
US11426384B2
The present invention relates to a method of preventing and/or treating chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
US11426383B2
The present invention relates to a controlled release formulation comprising the active compounds tesofensine and a beta blocker, such as metoprolol or carvedilol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The invention further relates to use of the controlled release formulation in a method of treatment of diabetes, obesity, or an obesity associated disorder.
US11426360B2
Methods and compositions are described for use in encouraging angiogenesis and skin healing as may be utilized in wound treatment as well as in encouragement of angiogenesis in disease. Compositions include an effective amount of a natural pimarane diterpenoid extract of Hymenocrater elegans, or a derivative, analogue, or homolog thereof. Compounds based upon this natural extract have been found to be highly effective in vascular formation and skin closure while exhibiting low toxicity.
US11426357B2
A method for forming encapsulated gold nanoparticles mixes mangiferin into a liquid medium to form a reducing agent solution. Gold salts are mixed into the reducing agent solution. Reaction of the gold salts is permitted, in the absence of any other reducing agent, to form a nanoparticle solution of stabilized, biocompatible gold nanoparticles coated with mangiferin. The gold salts can consist of AuCl4, or can consist of radioactive gold salts. A cancer therapy method injects a solution of mangiferin encapsulated gold nanoparticles directly into a solid tumor. A solution consisting of an aqueous or alcoholic medium and mangiferin encapsulated gold nanoparticles is provided. The mangiferin encapsulated gold nanoparticles can have core sizes of ˜5-20 nm and total sizes of ˜20-120 nm.
US11426348B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to compositions of multivesicular liposomes (MVLs) and commercial manufacturing processes for making bupivacaine MVLs.
US11426337B2
An antiperspirant and deodorant composition comprising a hydroxyapatite multi-substituted with at least two cations selected among aluminium, zinc, magnesium, zirconium, titanium, copper, silver or iron.
US11426333B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid hair cosmetic composition comprising—based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition—about 30.0 to about 60.0% by weight of at least one polyhydric alcohol, and optionally: about 0.1 to about 15.0% by weight of at least one cationic surfactant, about 0.1 to about 20.0% by weight of at least one saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched C8-C30 alcohol and/or a saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched C8-C30 carboxylic acid and/or a salt of a saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched C8-C30 carboxylic acid, and about 0.1 to about 40.0% by weight of at least one polysaccharide, as well as production and application methods and uses thereof.
US11426331B2
The present invention relates to a pacifier for infants used to comfort infants. More specifically, a silicone tube body (10), into which or from which air can be injected or discharged such that an infant feels the silicone tube body like a breast of the infant's mother when touching the silicone tube body, is coupled for use to a nipple-shaped nipple unit (50) by a secure coupling unit (30), and thus, due to the infant's touching of the silicone tube body, not only emotional security as if the infant were in the bosom of the infant's mother can be provided but also the development of the infant's brain can be beneficially stimulated, in comparison with traditional plastic pacifiers. Particularly, the nipple unit is not only simply coupled but also hermetically coupled by the secure coupling unit to a coupling ring formed at the front of the silicone tube body, and the silicone tube body has a valve through which air is smoothly injected or discharged, and thus the product not only can be assembled and taken apart for use but also provides great confidence and convenience of using air injection. In addition, when air is injected into the silicone tube body, the tube body is inflated not upward but downward so as to be prevented from blocking out the forward field of view of the infant sucking on the pacifier, and thus psychological security is more greatly provided for the infant.
US11426325B2
A pool or spa system includes networked pool or spa devices that can be dynamically configured with network address by a controller. The controller can transmit a device discovery request on a network and can receive a discovery response from pool or spa devices that require a network address. The system determines and assigns the network addresses for the pool or spa devices based on unique device identifiers associated with the responding pool or spa devices. The network addresses assigned to the pool or spa device are transmitted to the pool or spa device to be used by the pool or spa devices to communicate with the controller over the network. The system can be used to discover and assign addresses to various types of pool or spa devices, such as pumps, underwater lights, chlorinators, water feature controllers, remote controllers, and/or other types of devices.
US11426321B2
A physiotherapeutic device is disclosed. In an embodiment a physiotherapeutic device includes an arm trainer configured to rotationally move arms of a patient, the arm trainer having a first axis and a leg trainer configured to rotationally move legs of the patient, the leg trainer having a second axis, wherein the first and second axes comprise an adjustability in height, wherein a distance of the first axis to the second axis is constant, wherein the arm and leg trainers are adjustable in height so that an adjustment in height results in different exercising positions.
US11426320B2
Modules for housing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment including a system to measure and record administration of one or more IV medications or fluids for IV administration.
US11426311B2
Disclosed is a disposable absorbent article with a chassis body having a first end margin and a second end margin longitudinally spaced from the first end margins. The article further includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent composite disposed between the topsheet and backsheet. The absorbent composite includes a first fabric, a second fabric, and absorbent particles disposed between the first and second fabric. The first fabric is intermittently attached to the second fabric to define a plurality of containers situated therebetween, each containing an aggregate of absorbent particles. The absorbent composite includes regions of such absorbent particles aggregates, including a primary region having containers of a first size and a secondary region having a plurality of containers of a second size.
US11426298B2
An apparatus and methods tissue restoration are provided. The apparatus may include a catheter shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal tip and a translucent first distal balloon positioned on a translucent distal segment of the catheter shaft inside of and concentric with a second distal balloon proximal to the distal tip in fluid communication with a drug source via a first lumen, the first distal balloon may include first and second outer surfaces, and longitudinal and circumferential channels. A first light fiber and a second light fiber each positioned in the catheter shaft and extending through the translucent distal segment. The drug source provides at least one drug to the first distal balloon via the first lumen.
US11426295B2
A tubular medical instrument which can be easily ejected from a transfer device and accurately placed in a case the tubular medical instrument is released from the transfer device and placed at an affected area is provided. A tubular medical instrument includes ends portions, and a central portion, wherein each of the end portions is a region including one axial end of the tubular medical instrument and having a length of 10% with respect to an axial length L1 of the tubular medical instrument, the central portion is a region including an axial center of the tubular medical instrument and having a length of 10% with respect to the axial length L1 of the tubular medical instrument, and a ratio (difference V/difference W) is 3 or more.
US11426291B2
A tool for use with an orthopaedic implant includes: a tubular assembly including a tubular passage having a first end and a second end, the first end including a means for attachment to an implant body; a plug; and a plunger coupled to the plug. The tubular passage is configured to receive, via the second end, a material agent and the plunger coupled to the plug. The plunger is configured to slide through the tubular passage for expelling the material agent from the tubular passage into a load bearing member via the at least one first opening. The plunger is configured to rotate within the tubular passage for coupling the plug with the first opening to seal the first opening against expulsion of the material agent from the load bearing member via the first opening.
US11426284B2
An improved modular rotational device includes a first and second threaded coupler for affixation along the stem of an endoprosthetic device, for example, a humeral prosthesis or a femoral prosthesis. The rotational device axis of rotation is coaxial with the stem, and its axis of rotation is located in close proximity to the intramedullary stem of the prosthesis or in close proximity to the distal articulation of the prosthesis. A housing has a proximal and distal end with an axial bore therethrough for receiving an elongated stem of the device. A lobe ring may be utilized to limit the axis of rotation of the device. Additional endoprosthetic devices may be attached to male or female threaded couplers, or to Morse tapers. A plurality of suture attachments facilitates attachment of soft tissue thereto.
US11426283B2
A modular humeral implant for an inverted shoulder prosthesis includes a humeral stem having, on the one hand, a diaphyseal keel of elongate shape, extending along a diaphyseal axis and shaped to be engaged in a medullary cavity of a humerus, and, on the other hand, a metaphyseal portion. A humeral spacer is mounted on the metaphyseal portion of the humeral stem and has a lower face facing the metaphyseal portion, the lower face having a peripheral portion projecting laterally from the metaphyseal portion and covered at least partially with a porous or rough metal surface coating promoting an osseointegration. A humeral insert is fastened on the humeral spacer and has a hemispherical cup shaped to receive a glenosphere of a glenoid implant.
US11426276B2
Delivery devices for delivery of a stented prosthetic heart valve. Various delivery devices include an outer sheath assembly including an outer sheath connected to a capsule that is advanced proximally to retain the prosthetic valve, which is secured over an inner shaft assembly of the delivery device. The delivery device further includes a bumper to provide a smooth transition of the capsule over the prosthetic valve during loading and recapture procedures. The bumper is expandable from a first position to a second position in which a distal end of the bumper is expanded to increase its diameter. The bumper can be biased in the second, expanded position so that the bumper automatically transitions to the expanded position upon retraction of the outer sheath.
US11426275B2
A prosthetic heart valve includes a collapsible and expandable stent and a plurality of commissure features disposed on the stent. A collapsible and expandable valve assembly includes a plurality of leaflets connected to the plurality of commissure features, each commissure feature including a body having a proximal end and a distal end. A plurality of eyelets is arranged in rows and columns on the body for distributing load from the plurality of leaflets.
US11426263B2
The invention relates to a holding system having a holding device (1) and an abutment blank (6), to a method for retaining and machining an abutment blank (6), and to a holding device (1) for retaining an abutment blank (6) having an implant interface (8) and a retainer segment (7) spaced apart from the implant interface (8), comprising a recess (3) in a basic body (2) for forming a frame having interior contact surfaces. One of the contact surfaces is spaced apart from the opposite contact surface such that a processing space (30) is formed, into which the abutment blank (6) to be machined extends. One of the contact surfaces has at least one retaining receptacle (5), which preferably is a tapped blind hole, and which corresponds to the retainer segment (7), preferably in a friction-locking manner, such that the retainer segment (7) of the abutment blank (6) is retained in the retaining receptacle (5) in a rotationally secure manner and is oriented in a predetermined position.
US11426261B2
The present invention relates to a fixture for insertion into a bore hole arranged in bone tissue, comprising a threaded leading portion and a threaded trailing portion located coronally of the leading portion, wherein the threading of the leading portion has at least one first thread spiral, wherein the threading of the trailing portion has at least one more thread spiral than the threading in the leading portion, wherein the threading of the trailing portion and the threading of the leading portion have the same or substantially the same lead, wherein the profile of at least one of the thread spirals in the trailing portion is, at least along a portion of its length, substantially the same as the profile of the outermost parts of said first thread spiral in the leading portion, and wherein the at least one thread spiral in the trailing portion having substantially the same profile as the outermost part of said first thread spiral in the leading portion is arranged to follow the spiral path of that thread spiral.
US11426259B2
The present disclosure includes computing device related, systems, and methods for identifying force placed on a tooth are described herein. One method includes receiving initial orthodontic data (IOD) including teeth data; creating a virtual set of teeth from the IOD; receiving dental appliance information including at least one of dental appliance material properties and characteristics; virtually placing a dental appliance, formed from the dental appliance information, onto the virtual set of teeth; and determining one or more forces applied to the teeth based on information from the IOD and dental appliance information.
US11426250B2
A force measuring apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a force concentrator. The force concentrator is configured to attach to a loadbearing medical device and to produce a transverse force related to an eccentric axial force applied to the loadbearing medical device. A bending stiffness of the force concentrator is different from a bending stiffness of the loadbearing medical device.
US11426249B2
Medical devices, medical procedure trays, kits and related methods are provided for use to perform medical procedures that require access to the interior of a bone. The devices, trays and methods allow multiple use of non-sterile medical devices with sterile medical devices for performing medical procedures requiring sterile conditions.
US11426247B2
The application provides a method, system for registration of a bone, and a trackable element, it is configured to obtain a mark point information which can be obtained from a certain operation performed by a distal end of a trackable element on a surface of the bone when a switch of the trackable element meets a setting condition corresponding to the operation; and to perform a virtual reconstruction of the surface of the bone according to the obtained mark point information and an image data of the bone which is obtained in advance. As a result, a precise registration of the patient's physical space coordinate system and image space coordinate system can be achieved, during which only one operator is enough for completing the registration. Therefore, operations with high accuracy and convenience are ensured, which can significantly improve the registration efficiency, and the operating experience of operators.
US11426243B2
Technologies for monitoring impaction and predicting impaction state during an orthopaedic surgical procedure include one or more impaction sensors that generate sensor data. The surgical procedure includes impaction of an orthopaedic implement such as a surgical instrument or a prosthetic component. An impaction analyzer generates an impaction state prediction with a machine learning model based on the sensor data. The impaction state prediction may include an unseated state, a seated state, and a fracture state. An impaction state user interface outputs the impaction state prediction. A model trainer may train the machine learning model with labeled sensor data.
US11426232B2
The disclosed technology is directed to a treatment instrument that comprises a sheath main body having opposed respective distal and proximal end regions. The sheath main body includes an outer diameter such that the sheath main body capable of being fit into the channel for insertion of the treatment instrument of the endoscope. The sheath main body includes a lumen extending along a longitudinal axis in the distal end region. A wire-shaped incising portion is configured to engage with the sheath main body so as to protrude from an outer circumferential surface of the sheath main body in the distal end region and extending along the longitudinal axis of the sheath main body. The wire-shaped incising portion is used to incise a tissue. A wire is attached to at least a portion of the sheath main body and having a region in which the wire has different bending resistances.
US11426231B2
An arthroscopic or other medical device includes an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a working end. At least one electrode for treating tissue is located at the working end of the shaft, and a fluid outflow path extends proximally from the working end through a first channel portion in the shaft. A handpiece is coupled to the proximal end of the shaft and has a body with a second channel portion formed along an axis therein. The second channel is receives a heated or other outflow from a proximal end of the first channel in the shaft, and the second channel runs along an axis of the handpiece. A thin wall sleeve is located in the handpiece so that it surrounds at least a portion of the second channel. The thin wall sleeve is surrounded by an air gap or otherwise provides a thermal barrier between an exterior surface of the thin wall sleeve and an inner surface of the body of the handpiece in order to limit heat transfer from the heated or other fluid outflow through the second channel.
US11426210B2
Bone anchor assemblies and related methods are disclosed herein that can provide for improved fixation of a primary bone anchor. A bone anchor assembly can include a wing with a distal portion that can define a plurality of auxiliary bone anchor openings. Each auxiliary bone anchor opening can receive an auxiliary bone anchor that can augment fixation of a primary bone anchor of the bone anchor assembly. The plurality of auxiliary bone anchor openings can be oriented such that, when the wing is coupled to a primary bone anchor assembly of a vertebral level in a first configuration, at least one auxiliary bone anchor can be driven to extend across a facet plane of the vertebral level and, when coupled in a second configuration, each auxiliary bone anchor received within the wing can be driven to conform to the vertebral level.
US11426209B2
A spinal implant includes a first member having an inner surface defining an implant cavity and at least one mating element. A second member includes a head and a shaft configured to penetrate tissue. The head includes at least one mating element engageable with the at least one mating element of the first member and a part. A third member includes an inner surface engageable with the part such that the members comprise a bone fastener having a selected movement. Systems, instruments and methods are disclosed.
US11426202B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that comprise an introducer apparatus for facilitating subcutaneous implantation of a medical device. In certain instances, the apparatus may include a housing, an inserter configured to pass the medical device through the housing, and a tunneler configured to form a subcutaneous pocket for the medical device.
US11426184B2
A surgical kit and method for milling a bone, the surgical kit including: a rotatable milling tool including a receiving bore with an abutment portion; a positioning pin insertable in the bone for guiding the milling tool along a milling axis and towards the bone, the positioning pin including a pin shaft receivable in the receiving bore and a pin depth determination element, the pin shaft being abuttable against the abutment portion of the milling tool; and a bone milling guide positionable at a predetermined location on the bone for guiding the positioning pin when the positioning pin is inserted into the bone, the bone milling guide including a pin shaft guiding channel for receiving the pin shaft and a guide depth determination element cooperable with the pin depth determination element to provide an indication that the positioning pin is inserted in the bone at a predetermined depth.
US11426180B2
A surgical system for penetrating and determining a characteristic of tissue. An instrument generates rotational torque, and a drill bit tool body extends along an axis between a distal end to engage tissue and a proximal end to couple to the instrument. An emitter operatively coupled to the instrument emits light. A detector operatively coupled to the instrument detects light. An emission lightguide within the tool body transmits light emitted by the emitter toward the tissue as the instrument rotates the tool body. A detection lightguide within the tool body is spaced from the emission lightguide and transmit light reflected by the tissue toward the detector as the instrument rotates the tool body. The emitter emits light into the emission lightguide along the axis, and the detector detects light reflected from the tissue exiting the detection lightguide transverse to the axis when the tool body is coupled to the instrument.
US11426179B2
A method of assembling an orthopaedic surgical instrument may include selecting a surgical reamer for use in resecting a portion of a patient's bone. The method may also include aligning an outer sleeve of a stem trial component with a distal end of a shaft of the surgical reamer. The method may also include advancing the outer sleeve into engagement with the distal end of the reamer shaft. The method may also include advancing a central rod of the stem trial component along a passageway defined in the outer sleeve into engagement with the distal end of the reamer shaft. The method may also include threading the central rod into the distal end of the reamer shaft to couple the stem trial component to the surgical reamer for use in resecting the portion of the patient's bone.
US11426176B2
An endoscopic surgical apparatus is configured to be loaded with a replaceable cartridge. The cartridge is loaded with a single-file line-up of a series of endoscopic clips. The endoscopic surgical apparatus is furthermore configured to apply (ie., dispense) each clip serially in the line-up, one clip at a time, wherever and whenever the user (eg., surgeon) chooses.
US11426175B2
An expansile member that may be used on a delivery device or may be used for occlusive purposes within the vasculature.
US11426173B2
Methods and devices for performing transjugular carotid flow reversal are provided. A flow reversal sheath is advanced through a transjugular carotid fistula. An occlusion balloon is inflated, causing carotid inflow to be diverted through the sheath and through a flow reversal region positioned in the jugular vein. After reversal of blood flow, a carotid intervention is performed.
US11426172B2
Devices and methods are described for occluding the left atrial appendage (LAA). The device excludes the LAA from blood flow to prevent blood from clotting within the LAA and subsequently embolizing, particularly in patients with atrial fibrillation. The implantable device is delivered via transcatheter delivery into the LAA and secured within the LAA. The implant comprises an expandable and compliant frame and an expandable and conformable tubular foam body. The device may have a thromboresistant cover at a proximal end. The frame may have recapture struts inclining radially outwardly from a central hub. The frame may have axially extending side wall struts, with adjacent pairs of side wall struts joined at one or more apexes. Anchors extend from the frame and into the foam to engage tissue.
US11426148B2
An exemplary ultrasound biopsy device includes a probe and a holster. The probe is insertable into the holster to form a completed assembly. To assemble the probe to the holster, the probe is initially slid laterally onto the holster and then slid forward to latch the probe into engagement with the holster. The holster is coupled to a vacuum control module by one or more conduits and a power cable. The conduits and/or power cable may be retracted into the vacuum control module. The probe of the biopsy device includes a blade assembly at the distal end. The blade assembly comprises a blade that snaps onto a nosecone via a pair of resilient notched ends. A frictional fitting needle cover can be inserted over the needle and blade assembly to protect the user from the sharp blade.
US11426141B2
A system for performing an interventional procedure comprises an interventional instrument and a control system. The control system comprises a processor and a memory comprising machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the control system to receive a model of an anatomic structure, record a target location for a target structure identified in the model, determine a planned deployment location for the interventional instrument to perform the interventional procedure on the target structure, receive sensor data including an intraoperative image of the target structure from a sensor system disposed at least partially within the anatomic structure, and identify, based on the intraoperative image of the target structure from the sensor system disposed at least partially within the anatomic structure indicating a different target location than the recorded target location, a revised deployment location for the interventional instrument to perform the interventional procedure on the target structure.
US11426136B2
According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic system is used with an operation apparatus for operating, from a position separated from an object, a device inserted inside the object, and includes an imaging apparatus, an designation receiving circuit, a first display, and a second display. The imaging apparatus performs X-ray imaging of the object. The designation receiving circuit receives designation of a position on medical data from a first user who operates the device. The first display is disposed at a position visible from the first user, and displays a first image according to the designation of the position. The second display is disposed at a position visible from a second user who performs positioning of the imaging apparatus, and displays a second image different from the first image according to the designation of the position.
US11426133B2
Some medical procedures may be assisted by an electromagnetic fiducial element assembly that is affixed to the body of a patient. The electromagnetic fiducial element assembly has a flexible substrate and an affixation mechanism such as an adhesive arranged to removably affix the electromagnetic fiducial element assembly to the body of a patient. The assembly also includes a housing coupled to the flexible substrate that partially or fully contains a first trackable electromagnetic element. A medically imagable structure is integrated with the electromagnetic fiducial element assembly. In the medical procedures, a medical image of a portion of the patient's body is captured, and a representation of the medically imagable structure is visually apparent in the medical image. When a medical device having a second trackable electromagnetic element is advanced into the body of the patient, the medical device, the first and second trackable electromagnetic elements are tracked with a sensor device and an image representing the medical device is formed in the captured medical image.
US11426122B2
A glove is described to simultaneously, non-invasively, and continuously, over a period of time, monitor physiological parameters (e.g., blood pressure, blood glucose, oxygen saturation level, electrical activity of the heart, and/or heart rate) of a patient. A computing server that is either communicatively coupled to the glove or is a part of the glove uses the monitored physiological parameters to determine whether the patient has a physiological condition (e.g., hypotension, hypertension, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, hypoxia, hyperoxia, arrhythmia, a strong form of tachycardia, a mild form of tachycardia, and/or bradycardia). Related apparatuses, systems, methods, techniques and articles are also described.
US11426104B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for estimating blood analyte levels using a noninvasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) based physiological monitor. An algorithm correlates OCT-based estimated blood analyte data with actual blood analyte data determined by other methods, such as invasively. OCT-based data is fit to the obtained blood analyte measurements to achieve the best correlation. Once the algorithm has generated sets of estimated blood analyte levels, it may refine the number of sets by applying one or more mathematical filters. The OCT-based physiological monitor can be calibrated using an Intensity Difference plot or the Pearson Product Moment Correlation method.
US11426097B1
An example breath collection and sampling device disclosed herein comprises a cartridge housing having a breath capture module, and a rotary valve operatively coupling a mouthpiece with the breath capture module. The rotary valve can have an open position where breath of a user can pass through the rotary valve, across capture sites of the breath capture module, and into a vacuum port, and a closed position for sealing the breath capture module from fluid passing through the rotary valve, while allowing the breath capture module to be exposed to a reagent for subsequent analysis of contents within the captured breath.
US11426094B2
Methods for reconstructing images of a subject from data acquired with a medical imaging system, such as a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system, are described. In general, the image reconstructions implement a primal-dual optimization strategy that, in each iteration, stochastically updates a dual variable.
US11426088B2
Provided are a system and method of generating an aggregated stability map of one or more rotational sources associated with a heart rhythm disorder. In accordance therewith, a plurality of rotational area profile maps is accessed for a plurality of analysis intervals. Each of the profile maps includes rotation intensity values for a plurality of locations associated with rotation of the one or more rotational sources. An aggregated stability map is generated based on the profile maps, wherein the stability map includes a plurality of locations. Each location includes a rotation intensity value based at least on a filter number of highest rotation intensity values from corresponding locations of the profile maps, the filter number being automatically determined from a plurality of filter numbers such that the plurality of profile maps as filtered includes a predetermined number of rotation intensity values in excess of a threshold intensity value.
US11426087B2
The invention describes a measuring system for the continuous non-invasive determination of blood pressure at one or more fingers. The fingers chosen for measurement and the adjacent parts of the palm rest on a supporting surface of a housing, which has the shape of a computer mouse. Inside the housing of the “CNAP Mouse”, i.e. underneath the supporting surface for the hand, the pressure generating system is located. The finger sensors are mounted on the supporting surface for the hand. The forearm and the back of the hand are left free and may be used to place intra-venous or intra-arterial access elements. Since the hand will rest on the supporting surface motion artefacts are largely avoided. Tilting or turning of the sensors is hardly possible since the fit of the sensors and thus the coupling of light and pressure are optimized.
US11426081B2
An apparatus and method for characterizing a region of interest (ROI) including measuring position and orientation data within the ROI; and generating a geometric data set to include one or more of: length, bifurcation location, angle and curvature characteristics of the ROI. Also, sequentially taking an image of a tool within the ROI; comparing tool dimensions with ROI dimensions; and estimating diameter, length, take-off angle, and/or tortuosity characteristics based on the comparisons.
US11426080B2
Methods and systems of monitoring and controlling thermal therapy treatments. One method includes determining, with an electronic processor, a propagation constant for a plurality of waveports. The method also includes modeling an object within an imaging cavity using a sparse mesh model. The method also includes determining a simulated impedance of the object based on the model of the object. The method also includes calibrating the simulated impedance with a theoretical impedance numerically calculated for the object. The method also includes determining a distribution of an electric field and a distribution of a magnetic field for a mode in a conformal modeled waveport based on the calibrated impedance and the model of the object. The method also includes exciting the plurality of waveports to generate the determined distribution of the electric field and the distribution of the magnetic field.
US11426076B2
A contactless system for assessing and/or determining hemodynamic parameters and/or vital signs is featured. The system includes one or more contactless light sources configured to emit light incident on a moving living subject at one more wavelengths absorbed by one or more chromophores associated with spontaneous hemodynamic oscillations in a predetermined area of the living subject. The system includes a camera subsystem including one or more cameras configured to receive reflected light from the predetermined area of the moving living subject and configured to track motion of the predetermined area of the living subject within a field of view of the camera subsystem and configured to generate a time sequence of images of the predetermined area of the living subject. A controller is coupled the one or more light sources and the camera subsystem and is configured to acquire the time sequence of images and configured to generate one or more non-contact PPG waveforms and to assess and/or and determine one or hemodynamic parameters and/or vital signs from the one or more non-contact PPG waveforms. One or more polarizers are preferably each coupled to one of the one or more light sources are preferably configured to polarize the light to a polarized state such that the polarized light in the polarized state diffuses into the tissue in the predetermined area at a predetermined depth range and the polarized light is maintained in the polarized state at the predetermined depth range. A detector polarizer is preferably coupled to each of the one or more cameras and is configured to discriminate the light maintained in the polarized state and at the predetermined depth range and configured to generate the time sequence of images of the predetermined area with improved signal quality of the resulting non-contact PPG waveform.
US11426075B1
Embodiments related to methods of use of an image analysis system for identifying residual cancer cells after surgery are disclosed. In some embodiments, the image analysis system collects a surgical site image and indicates on a display one or more locations of the identified cancer cells. In some embodiments, the method for identifying residual cancer cells comprises determining and selecting a portion of the surgical site image responsive to an intensity parameter; modifying the selected portion of the surgical site image to determine one or more groups of residual cancer cells based on size; and identifying at least one of the one or more groups of residual cancer cells from the modified portion of the surgical site image using a local-based threshold.
US11426069B2
Provided are methods and system for assessing a human subject's neurological and/or psychological status. The methods entail displaying visual tests to a human subject, wherein each of the visual tests includes a visual target signal, optionally with visual cue signals, for eliciting visual and, optionally, body part, movements by the subject. Following the display, the movements are then detected. The latency and/or correctness of such movements can then be used to assess the subject's neurological and/or psychological status. Also provided are methods and systems for assessing performance validity.
US11426066B2
A selection for an acuity test chart is received in distributed Web content that correlates to a distance between an end user and a display of the test chart. A selection also is received of a trio of lines of different widths in a set of lines defining one of twelve radially equidistant radii of equal length extending from a common vertex in an astigmatism clock chart. An astigmatism fan chart also is generated and presented in the Web content utilizing three of the trio of lines in the selection and including twelve repeating sequences of three radially equidistant radii of different widths corresponding to the different widths of the utilized three of the trio of lines. One of the radii is selected and a prescription computed including the visual acuity value, a cylinder value deriving from the selected trio, and an axis value deriving from the selected radii.
US11426057B2
A video endoscope including an elongate shaft having a distal end and a proximal end; a tubular sleeve arranged in the shaft so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the shaft; a connector arranged at the proximal end of the shaft; an objective arranged at the distal end of the shaft; at least one image sensor arranged in the shaft so as to be proximal to the objective, the at least one image sensor being surrounded by the tubular sleeve; a flexible signal line connecting the at least one image sensor to the connector; and a fastener for detachable fastening the flexible signal line.
US11426056B2
Embodiments described herein provide various examples of displaying an endoscope video of an endoscope resolution on a display having a screen resolution lower than the endoscope resolution. In one aspect, a process of displaying the endoscope video on the display can begin by displaying a portion of the endoscope video having the same resolution as the screen resolution on the display. While displaying the portion of the endoscope video, the process detects a surgical tool present in an off-screen portion of the endoscope video not visible on the display, and therefore not visible to the user. The process further analyzes the off-screen portion of the endoscope video including the detected surgical tool. The process subsequently generates an alert when a risk of the detected surgical tool is identified.
US11426053B2
Processing logic makes a comparison between first image data and second image data of a dental arch and determines a plurality of spatial differences between a first representation of the dental arch in the first image data and a second representation of the dental arch in the second image data. The processing logic determines that a first spatial difference is attributable to scanner inaccuracy and that a second spatial difference is attributable to a clinical change to the dental arch. The processing logic generates a third representation of the dental arch that is a modified version of the second representation, wherein the first spatial difference is removed in the third representation, and wherein the third representation comprises a visual enhancement that accentuates the second spatial difference.
US11426049B2
A multi-surface spray mop system having a spray mop and mop stand. The mop having an elongated segmented body with at least an upper pole section and a lower pole section releasably coupled. The mop stand supports and maintains the spray mop in an upright position above a floor surface by maintaining the center of gravity of the spray mop within a base of a support area defined by the mop supporting stand.
US11426047B2
A floor cleaner including a base movable over a surface to be cleaned, a suction nozzle provided on the base having a suction inlet, a body portion having a fluid dispensing member selectively removable from the body portion, the body portion being pivotally mounted to the base movable between an upright storage position and an inclined floor cleaning position, a suction source in fluid communication with the suction nozzle, and a reservoir configured to provide solution. The fluid dispensing member includes a grip, a dispensing nozzle in fluid communication with the reservoir, and an actuator. The fluid dispensing member is configured to deliver solution from the reservoir through the dispensing nozzle upon user actuation of the actuator, independent of function of the base and body of the floor cleaner.
US11426045B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing having an elongate axis (H) and supports a suction source, and a dirt separation device having an elongate axis (A). The dirt separation device includes a separator for separating dirt from dirt-laden air, and a dirt collection chamber for receiving separated dirt. The dirt separation device or a part of the dirt separation device is releasably connected to the housing. A passage member that transports dirt-laden air to the dirt separation device has an elongate axis (B). The dirt separation device is pivotally moveable relative to the housing to effect release of the dirt separation device.
US11426018B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are presented for a buildable drinking straw. A segment of a drinking straw is hollow. A segment has a narrow end and a wider end. A wider end of a segment of a drinking straw is opposite a narrow end of the segment of the drinking straw and has a wider diameter than the narrow end of the segment of the drinking straw so that the segment of the drinking straw tapers in diameter from the wider end to the narrow end of the segment of the drinking straw.
US11426013B2
A pusher tray assembly configured to hold products includes a pusher tray including a floor, a bottom surface, a front wall, at least one sidewall, and at least one back wall, where the floor is configured to hold the products thereon; a pusher paddle having a front face and a back face; an engagement mechanism arranged on a lower side of the pusher paddle and configured to secure the pusher paddle to the floor; a channel arranged in the floor and configured to receive the engagement mechanism; a spring configured to urge the pusher paddle and the products towards the front wall; and an inventory control bar configured to at least partially cover the products, where the pusher tray that includes a transparent material.
US11426012B2
A child play yard includes a frame, a floor coupled to a lower portion of the frame, and a mattress configured to be removably coupled to the floor. The mattress includes a lower side to which is coupled a clip assembly including a base and a leg pivotally coupled to the base. The leg includes a detent extending therefrom. The floor includes a retention assembly having a first aperture through which the leg of the clip assembly passes and a second aperture through which the detent passes when the mattress is coupled to the floor.
US11426005B2
A sleep apparatus includes: a mat main body portion configured to support a user in a supine state; and a tilting mechanism that, at the mat main body portion, periodically tilts a body of a user left and right, by alternately raising a right side supporting portion, which includes portions supporting a right-side hipbone and a right-side shoulder blade of a user, and a left side supporting portion, which includes portions supporting a left-side hipbone and a left-side shoulder blade of a user.
US11426004B1
Modular seat assembly having a female connector that is positioned and configured to releasably connect to a corresponding male stud connector on an adjacent seat module. Each female connector includes a plate comprising a raised portion defining an upper opening leading to a downwardly angled channel extending at about 20 degrees to about 70 degrees from a vertical axis into a horizontal portion, such that each male stud connector is slidably and releasably connectable to each corresponding female connector, and such that the channel and the horizontal portion have a width that is narrower than a head of the male stud connector, but wider than a neck of the male stud connector; and wherein said male stud connector is configured to be guided downward by said channel and then loosely contained within said horizontal portion.
US11426002B2
A combination chair and backpack arrangement. The arrangement includes the folding chair, wherein the folding chair includes a foldable frame, a back support panel, a seat panel, at least one backpack coupler, and at least one harness coupler; the backpack, wherein the backpack comprises at least one pouch, at least one coupler releasably coupleable to the backpack coupler, and at least one harness coupler; and a harness arrangement, wherein the harness arrangement includes a first end coupled to the backpack and a harness coupler selectively coupleable to the at least one harness coupler associated with the backpack and the at least one harness coupler associated with the folding chair; wherein when harness coupler of the harness arrangement is coupled to the at least one harness coupler associated with the backpack, the backpack is carriable independently of the folding chair, and the backpack and the harness arrangement forms a closed loop; and when the harness coupler of the harness arrangement is coupled to the at least one harness coupler associated with the folding chair, the folding chair and the backpack are carriable together.
US11425982B1
An interactive health, beauty, wellness, and lifestyle tablet device and steamer having a housing and a water basin coupled to the housing. The device can further include a fluid atomizer coupled to the housing, configured to atomize fluid from the water basin, and an interactive display coupled to the housing. Here, the interactive display is configured to receive input from a user. In addition, the housing can also include a lighting unit disposed around the interactive display, and also a heating or cooling element disposed therein. The housing of the device may also include a receptacle for receiving a capsule or container and a tube for releasing and dispensing the contents of the capsule or container, among other features.
US11425979B2
A portable hand held hair dryer operable in a mode of operation to draw air through hair into the hair dryer. The hair dryer having at least one cyclone operable to separate water from the air flowing therethrough and an exterior separated water storage tank.
US11425976B1
The disclosure includes a money clip comprising a chassis defining a first side, and a second side located opposite the first side, and a curved member mechanically coupled to the second side of the chassis adjacent a top portion, the curved member configured to curve around the top portion to the first side of the chassis. The money clip may also comprise a stretchable band configured to wrap around the chassis, a first portion of the stretchable band located between the first side of the chassis and the curved member and a second portion of the stretchable band located on the second side of the chassis. The money clip may be configured to receive at least one personal card and/or at least one paper bill between the curved member and the first side of the chassis, and between the stretchable band and the second side of the chassis.
US11425975B1
A walking cane system including of a remote control device having a user interface and a first transmission system; and a walking cane having a shaft configured with a proximal end and a distal end, a handle coupled to the proximal end of the shaft, a base coupled to the distal end of the shaft, one or more elongated members housed within the shaft, a second transmission system, and a motor system; wherein the actuation of remote control device causes the walking cane to raise itself into a vertical, upright orientation.
US11425974B2
The present disclosure provides a ring adjuster. The ring adjuster includes an adjuster main body, at least one locking structure, a first side wall and a second side wall. The adjuster main body is arc-shaped, the first side wall and the second side wall are connected with two opposite sides of the adjuster main body respectively. The adjuster main body includes an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface is configured to contact with a user's finger, the outer surface is configured to contact with a ring. The locking structure crosses the first side wall and the second side wall such that a locking chamber is formed between the outer surface and the locking structure to contain the ring.
US11425969B2
A magnetic buckle including a buckle base assembly and a locking assembly is disclosed. A first magnet and an adjustable lock hole are disposed on buckle base assembly, a lock tongue and a second magnet are disposed on locking assembly, two moving portions are disposed at the buckle base assembly respectively, and two unlocking portions are disposed within the buckle base assembly. When the lock hole is close to the lock tongue, the first magnet attracts the second magnet to guide the lock tongue into the lock hole to achieve locking. When the moving portions are pressed toward each other, the unlocking portions move toward the lock tongue to separate the parts of the lock tongue combined with the buckle base assembly for reducing an attractive force between the first magnet and the second magnet, so as to facilitate separation between the buckle base assembly and the locking assembly.
US11425968B2
A closure device includes a first closure part which includes a base body and at least one closure element rotatably arranged on the base body about an axis of rotation. The at least one closure element includes a base body and at least one first locking portion arranged on the base body, and at least one second closure part which includes a base element and at least one second locking portion arranged on the base element. The first closure part and the at least one second closure part can be placed against each other along a placement direction.
US11425967B2
The invention relates to a method for the production of a shoe (1), especially of a sports shoe. To provide an effective and cost-efficient method for the shoe production, the invention comprises the steps: a) Production of a shoe upper (2) and of a shoe sole (3); b) Joining of the shoe upper (2) and the shoe sole (3) and inserting the joined shoe upper (2) and the shoe sole (3) into a flexible container element (4) which can be closed in an air-tight manner; c) Air-tight closing of the container element (4) and evacuating of the container element (4), so that the container element (4) presses together the joined shoe upper (2) and the shoe sole (3) within the container element (4); d) Connecting the shoe upper (2) and the shoe sole (3) within the container element (4) with another; e) Venting of the container element (4) and taking out the connected shoe upper (2) and shoe sole (3).
US11425966B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a device for adapting a footwear to the specific deformations of the foot of a user, including creating 3D scans of the foot in weight bearing and non-weight bearing positions, as well as of the footwear; determining rubbing areas between the foot and the footwear by means of superimposing the scanned 3D image of the footwear and the scanned 3D images of the weight bearing and the non-weight bearing foot; obtaining a final out-of-phase 3D image of the non-weight bearing foot, wherein the rubbing areas in this image are moved out of phase until they reach an intermediate position selected between a minimum and a maximum limit; printing the part of the heel and the part of the forefoot from the final out-of-phase 3D image. Finally, fitting a flexible element for joining together the part of the heel and the part of the forefoot.
US11425964B2
A shoe may include an upper and a sole structure. The upper may include a shell and first, second, third, and fourth sets of tensile restraints. Each of the sets may have one or more tensile restraints extending over and/or through a corresponding portion of the shell. The shell may be engaged with the sole structure and define an interior void configured to receive insertion of a user's foot. The first, second, third, and fourth sets of tensile restraints may be configured so that, upon securing of one or more structures to tighten the upper and connect the sets of tensile restraints, two linear axes of tension with anchors located in the forefoot and heel region extend diagonally across the article from one side to the other.
US11425963B2
An article of footwear includes an upper, a midsole connected to the upper, and an outsole connected to the midsole. The midsole includes a lattice structure comprising a network of laths forming a plurality of cell units, the plurality of cell units arranged in a plurality of layers on the midsole. The cell units in an upper layer are stacked upon the cell units in a lower layer and separated by a set of vertices common to cell units in both the upper layer and the lower layer.
US11425959B2
Golf shoes having improved constructions are provided. The golf shoes include upper, midsole, and outsole sections. The upper may be made of a soft, breathable leather material. The midsole includes an upper region formed from a first material such as a foamed ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA); and a lower region formed from a second material such as a foamed ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), wherein the materials have different hardness levels. A fiber-reinforced composite plate such as, for example, a carbon fiber plate is disposed in the midsole. The outsole contains different traction members arranged in a precise geometric structure that helps provide improved stability and traction.
US11425947B2
A sleeve for a garment, comprising: a front panel attached to a back panel along respective first and second side edges thereof, the back panel having upper and lower vents formed proximate an elbow portion thereof; and, upper and lower flaps formed on the back panel above and overlapping the upper and lower vents, respectively; wherein the upper and lower flaps are moveable between a closed position when the sleeve is straight through the elbow portion and an opened position when the sleeve is bent at the elbow portion to thereby allow increased airflow through the upper and lower vents when the garment is in use.
US11425939B2
A garment, in particular a swim nappy, with an improved fit and formed from one or more substantially impermeable panels (6, 7, 8, 9) intended, in use, to cover a wearer's body between the waist and thighs. A top edge of the rear of the garment extends beyond the top edge of the front of garment in use so that the garment extends further up the wearer's back than the wearer's front. The top edge of the back of the garment may be convex, and the top edge of the front of the garment may be concave. The top edge of the garment may be formed by a waist band.
US11425933B2
Disclosed is a child-resistant case for storing vaporizer pen components, such as, cartridges, batteries, and chargers.
US11425926B2
The method for manufacturing an inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate comprises the steps of providing a tobacco containing slurry, providing an inductively heatable continuous sheet-like material and joining the tobacco containing slurry and the inductively heatable continuous sheet-like material to form an inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate. A further step comprises drying the inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate while transporting the inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate on a conveyor device.
US11425914B2
A device for orienting wound dough products includes a first conveyor belt circulating with a first conveying speed and transporting a wound dough product having an end protruding from a circumference of the dough product. A second conveyor belt receives the wound dough product from the first conveyor belt and circulates with a second conveying speed which is different from the first conveying speed. The difference between the first conveying speed and the second conveying speed sets the wound dough product received from the first conveyor belt in a desired rolling motion on the second conveyor belt, wherein after the wound dough product has reached a defined end position in which the end of the wound dough product abuts on the second conveyor belt, the rolling motion of the wound dough product stops.
US11425906B2
This invention relates in part to soybean event pDAB8264.44.06.1 and includes a novel expression cassettes and transgenic inserts comprising multiple traits conferring resistance to glyphosate, aryloxyalkanoate, and glufosinate herbicides. This invention also relates in part to methods of controlling resistant weeds, plant breeding and herbicide tolerant plants. In some embodiments, the event sequence can be “stacked” with other traits, including, for example, other herbicide tolerance gene(s) and/or insect-inhibitory proteins. This invention further relates in part to endpoint TaqMan PCR assays for the detection of Event pDAB8264.44.06.1 in soybeans and related plant material. Some embodiments can perform high throughput zygosity analysis of plant material and other embodiments can be used to uniquely identify the zygosity of and breed soybean lines comprising the event of the subject invention. Kits and conditions useful in conducting these assays are also provided.
US11425905B2
An antimicrobial preventive netting is disclosed that includes one or more photosensitizers that are capable of generating a cloud of singlet oxygen on each surface and openings through the netting in response to incident light. A depth of the singlet oxygen cloud may be less than 0.7 centimeters from a netting surface. The netting may be supported by screens, enclosures or headgear. The netting can be made by dipping or soaking the netting in a solution of one or more photosensitizers.
US11425902B2
An aqueous agricultural composition includes a pesticide, water, and a co-polymer. The co-polymer is the reaction product of an acrylamide monomer and a macromonomer. The acrylamide monomer and the macromonomer react together in the absence of an anionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomer including an acidic group chosen from —COOH, —SO3H, —PO3H2 and associated salts. The disclosed aqueous agricultural composition may be incorporated into agricultural spray operations and demonstrates effective reduction of driftable droplets.
US11425896B2
An open-loop or closed-loop control system for an agricultural utility vehicle includes a distributor linkage for dispensing fertilizer, plant protection agent, or seed, and has a center part and two lateral extension arms connected by joints to the center part with a plurality of linkage sections (4) which can be folded relative to one another in a transport position and folded out relative to each other in a working position. The control system also has at least one sensor and a data processing unit configured such that signals of the sensor are processed so as to generate a control signal for the hydraulic device, and the hydraulic device can be controlled in order to set damping of vibrations occurring on the distributor linkage in a direction of travel.
US11425894B2
A method for incubating an aquatic species includes introducing fertilized eggs of the aquatic species into a screened incubation container, introducing the screened incubation container into a vessel of an incubation module, circulating clean oxygenated water through the incubation module vessel, transferring successfully fertilized eggs from the incubation module vessel to an upweller of a hatching module, circulating clean oxygenated water through the upweller, transferring larvae that swim out of the upweller into a tray of a larvae holding module, circulating clean oxygenated water through the larvae holding module, transferring larvae that grow into a juvenile growth stage from the larvae holding module to a tray of a juvenile holding module, circulating clean oxygenated water through the juvenile holding module, and releasing juveniles from the juvenile holding module after a predefined growth period or after the juveniles grow to a predetermined size.
US11425889B2
Disclosed herein is a rodent and human behavioral test for evaluating visual dysfunctions associated with the retinal changes in Alzheimer disease progression. In one example, the inventors developed a maze that tests rodent's ability to identify (1) specific contrasts, (2) specific colors, (3) certain items in the visual field, and (4) other ‘non-typical’ peripheral and night vision functions associated with AD. For instance, the inventors developed a maze the tests the rodents ability to avoid certain colors or contrasts gradients. The maze may include certain rooms with specific visual markers (e.g., colors, contrasts, objects or other visual features) that also contain shock plates.
US11425888B2
An animal farm system includes a barn, animal related structures within the barn, such as a feeding alley and/or a milking system, and an autonomous vehicle arranged to perform an animal related action and move about in the barn. The vehicle includes a control unit to move the vehicle about, a position determining system for determining a position of the vehicle in the barn, a sensor system to determine a value of a parameter related to a position of the vehicle with respect to the barn or an object therein, such as the at least one structure therein, and a vehicle communication device. The control unit further is arranged to contain barn map information, and receive motion control and navigation information via the vehicle communication device.
US11425887B1
A collapsible game feeder apparatus having a feed cavity supported by three or more collapsible leg members wherein the leg members include a fixed member with respect to the feed cavity and a collapsible member that collapses about a pivot point with respect to the fixed member. The fixed member extends below a feed distributor when the apparatus is configured in the collapsed mode such that the feed distributor is protected from the ground and general stresses and strains. The game feed may also be provided with one or more straps enabling easy transportation by a single user to and from remote game areas.
US11425877B2
A soybean cultivar designated 95130328 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 95130328, to the plants of soybean cultivar 95130328, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 95130328, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 95130328. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 95130328. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 95130328, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 95130328 with another soybean cultivar.
US11425874B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011107. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011107, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011107 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011107.
US11425870B1
An apparatus for attaching vegetative propagules to a longline that may include a clip portion having a curved area sized to receive a stem of a vegetative propagule and having an opening to the curved area smaller than the curved area to secure the vegetative propagule in the curved area; a tapered barrel that is inserted into a longline; and a rigid connection by a tower between the clip portion and the tapered barrel. Also disclosed is a macroalgae farm including the apparatus for attaching vegetative propagules to a longline.
US11425868B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, and/or manufacture adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method configured for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, installing a support system for a green wall, the support system comprising a plurality of trays that are configured to interface with a securement system.
US11425861B2
Method for harvesting and processing water hyacinths, characterized in that the following steps are performed: a) the water hyacinths growing in an aquatic medium are cut; b) the water hyacinths are collected on board a barge at berth (1); c) the collected water hyacinths are transferred onto draining racks (2) near the quayside; d) the drained hyacinths are washed with clean water; e) the washed water hyacinths are drained on vibrating belts (7) in order to remove some of the excess water; f) the water hyacinths are dried on a dryer (8) at a temperature of between 50 and 100° C. for 5 to 17 h; g) the water hyacinths and their seeds are steam-sterilised at a temperature of between 80 and 100° C. in order to sterilise them; h) the sterilised water hyacinths and seeds are ground in order to make profitable use thereof.
US11425857B2
A work machine having an autonomous travel function may include: a cutting section that cuts a work target of the work machine; an image-capturing section that captures an image of the work target cut by the cutting section; and a judging section that judges a state of the cutting section based on the image captured by the image-capturing section. The judging section may judge whether maintenance of or a check on the cutting section is necessary or not based on a result of judgment about the state of the cutting section.
US11425855B2
An agricultural machine includes a seeding system comprising a plurality of planting units, each planting unit configured to meter and deliver seed and a control system configured to obtain a seed planting model that identifies a plurality of seed planting locations on a worksite, identify a machine path on the worksite, identify, based on the machine path, a set of the seed planting locations for each of the planting units, and control each planting unit to deliver seeds to the set of seed planting locations identified for the planting unit.
US11425854B2
A multiple variety planter has a direct vacuum system that allows for planting multiple varieties of seed while reducing occurrences of mis-planting events or planting inconsistencies such as multiples and skips by providing highly controllable seed meter vacuum performance characteristics that are controllable on a row-by-row basis. The direct vacuum system may include a vacuum unit at each row unit of the planter to apply a vacuum pressure to a seed meter at the row unit. Each vacuum unit may be individually and variably controlled to apply different vacuum pressures based on which seed variety is being planted with the respective seed meter at a given time.
US11432450B2
A component determination system for determining, in a case when a first component to be mounted on a board by a first mounting operation and a second component mounted on the board by a second mounting operation have a particular corresponding relationship, whether a combination of the first component and the second component mounted is permissible, the component determination system including: a first characteristic information acquiring section configured to acquire first characteristic information of the first component for which the first mounting operation has been completed; a second characteristic information acquiring section configured to acquire second characteristic information of the second component prepared prior to the second mounting operation; and a combination determining section configured to determine whether to allow the combination of the first component and the second component based on the acquired first characteristic information and the acquired second characteristic information.
US11432448B2
A method of forming an electronic device is described which comprises a stack of electronic components wherein each electronic component comprises a face and external terminations. A component stability structure is attached to at least one face. A circuit board is provided wherein the circuit board comprises circuit traces arranged for electrical engagement with the external terminations. The component stability structure mechanically engages with the circuit board and inhibits the electronic device from moving relative to the circuit board.
US11432440B2
A power conversion apparatus includes an electric component, a housing, and a flow channel formation unit. The electric component configures at least a part of a power conversion circuit. The housing stores the electric component, and the electric component is fixed to the housing. The flow channel formation unit forms a refrigerant flow channel through which a refrigerant flows, and is thermally connected to the electric component. The flow channel formation unit is a member different from the housing, and an elastically deformable spacer is provided between the flow channel formation unit and the housing.
US11432437B2
A power conversion device includes: a main body including a substrate to which a power conversion unit and a coil are provided; and a first heat dissipation portion which holds the substrate and dissipates heat of the substrate, wherein the substrate is formed by one sheet, the coil is formed integrally with the substrate, the first heat dissipation portion is fixed to a substrate first surface of the substrate, a heat dissipation second surface of the first heat dissipation portion has a coil cooling portion opposed to and abutting on a part where the coil is formed, of the substrate.
US11432435B2
The present invention includes a lateral support member for a server computer constructed to permit advantageous airflow. The present invention can be operated to shunt organized airflow into multiple computer cases and/or organized airflow from multiple computer cases to a dedicated heat reservoir.
US11432431B1
A two-phase cooling apparatus for an information handling system, including a container holding dielectric fluid, the dielectric fluid having a vapor-fluid boundary within the container, the container further containing a printed circuit board (PCB) including computing components, with the dielectric fluid surrounding the PCB and the computing components, the dielectric fluid decreasing a temperature of the PCB by removing heat from the PCB in the form of vaporization; a pump positioned within the container, the pump capturing a portion of vapor of the dielectric fluid, at the vapor-fluid boundary, that results from the vaporization of the dielectric fluid; and a diffuser positioned within the container and coupled to the pump to introduce the captured vapor into the dielectric fluid.
US11432420B2
An insulating piece for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing component and a second housing component. The first housing component includes at least one hook portion connected to the second housing component. The insulating piece includes a first covering portion, a second covering portion and at least one concave structure. The first and second covering portions extend in different directions. The concave structure is connected between the first and second covering portions. The concave structure and the second housing component form an accommodating space therebetween to accommodate the hook portion. The first and second covering portions cover inner sides of the first and second housing components respectively.
US11432415B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device, including a housing and a flexible display apparatus. The housing includes a first frame, a second frame, and a hinge connected between the first frame and the second frame. The flexible display apparatus is arranged on the first frame, the second frame, and the hinge. The flexible display apparatus includes a supporting piece and a flexible display screen arranged on the supporting piece. The flexible display screen includes a bendable area, and an elastic adhesive is arranged between a back surface of the flexible display screen in the bendable area and the supporting piece, and the elastic adhesive is located at or near a position between an outer side of the flexible display screen and a corresponding outer side of the supporting piece. The present disclosure also provides a flexible display apparatus of the electronic device.
US11432410B2
A portable communication device includes: a foldable housing, a flexible display accommodated in the housing and including a first display area that remains substantially flat in a state in which the housing is folded and a second display area that is bendable as the housing is folded, a support located between the flexible display and the housing and including a first area corresponding to the first display area and having a first flexibility and a second area corresponding to the second display area and having a second flexibility greater than the first flexibility, wherein an opening is formed in the first area, and a sensing module accommodated in the housing and including a light receiving sensor at least partially aligned with the opening to sense light passing through the opening.
US11432406B2
A package substrate and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The package substrate includes a substrate and an electronic component. The substrate includes a cavity. The electronic component is disposed in the cavity. The electronic component includes a first region and a second region, and an optical recognition rate of the first region is distinct from that of the second region.
US11432405B2
A package substrate is disclosed. The package substrate includes a substrate core, a cavity below the substrate core that extends from a surface of a first resist layer to a bottom surface of the package substrate, and a first terminal and a second terminal in the first resist layer. The package substrate also includes one or more passive components that are coupled inside the cavity to the first terminal and the second terminal.
US11432403B2
A printed circuit board includes: a first insulating substrate having a mounting hole that penetrates through the first insulating substrate from a first surface to a second surface; a second insulating substrate including a connection portion; a first electrode provided on the second surface and disposed at an edge of the mounting hole; a second electrode provided on the connection portion and joined to the first electrode; and an electronic component provided on the second surface. A center of mass of the second insulating substrate is disposed on the first surface of the first insulating substrate. A center of mass of the electronic component is disposed on the second surface of the first insulating substrate. The electronic component has a weight equivalent to a weight of the second insulating substrate.
US11432379B2
An electromagnetic cooking device and method of controlling the same is provided herein. The cooking device has a cavity in which a liquid is placed and a plurality of RF feeds configured to introduce electromagnetic radiation into the cavity for heating the liquid. A controller is provided and is configured to: analyze forward and backward power at the plurality of RF feeds to calculate efficiency; determine and monitor a coefficient of variation of the efficiency; detect a specified temperature of the liquid based on changes in the coefficient of variation; and adjust a power level of the electromagnetic radiation in response to detection of the specified temperature.
US11432376B2
A heating device for off-vehicle information acquisition means, which has high heating efficiency, which is thin, and which has a high degree of freedom for layout of a heating element is provided. A heating device (100), which is arranged inside a vehicle, heats a window glass portion (Wa) located in an information acquisition path (5) of an off-vehicle information acquisition means (50) for acquiring information outside the vehicle. The heating device (100) comprises a hood (10) provided inside the vehicle below the information acquisition path (5) of the off-vehicle information acquisition means (50) and a heating element (20) provided on the surface of the hood (10) or inside the hood (10) and having a PTC heater layer (21).
US11432375B2
A window for resistive heating and a camera apparatus including a window for resistive heating. The window includes a transparent member having an outer edge, wherein the transparent member is made of a first material, wherein the first material is a low conductivity material; and at least one set of two conductive pads disposed on the outer edge of the transparent member and electrically coupled to at least one source of electricity, wherein each conductive pad is made of a second material, wherein matter disposed on the transparent member is removed via resistive heating when electricity is conducted from the at least one source through the at least one set of two conductive pads and the transparent member.
US11432367B2
Hybrid self-organizing networks. One example system includes a cellular network and a mobile satellite network. The cellular network includes a cellular base station configured to perform at least one cellular interference mitigation measure. The cellular network is configured to provide wireless communications in a first frequency band within a first deployed area. The mobile satellite network includes a mobile satellite network terminal configured to perform at least one satellite interference mitigation measure. The mobile satellite network is configured to provide wireless communications in the first frequency band within a second deployed area separated from the first deployed area by a first standoff distance. Performance of one or both of the at least one cellular interference mitigation measure and the at least one satellite interference mitigation measure results in a second standoff distance that is less than the first standoff distance.
US11432356B2
Disclosed by the embodiments of the present invention are a method for transmission control, a device, equipment and a storage medium; the method may comprise: a first node device controlling a switch state of a data transmission duplication mode; and the first node device sending a notification message to a second node device, wherein the notification message is used to indicate that the data transmission duplication mode is turned on or that the data transmission duplication mode is turned off. Thus, under the condition that the two node devices control data transmission duplication by means of a node device a radio resource control (RRC) message and a medium access control (MAC) message respectively, the modes of the two node devices controlling the duplication data transmission of a carrier are coordinated, thereby avoiding the occurrence of a control conflicts.
US11432355B2
In a control plane connection management method, a core network function entity determines, based on a service requirement of a service, information about a first connection requirement for a control plane connection of a terminal. The first connection requirement is for activating the control plane connection between the terminal and an access and mobility management function entity. The core network entity constructs a first control plane requirement message that contains identifier information of the terminal and the information about the first connection requirement. The core network entity then sends the first control plane requirement message to the access and mobility management function entity to instruct the access and mobility management function entity to activate the control plane connection of the terminal.
US11432344B2
Synchronization signal block (SSB) multiplexing and remaining material system information (RMSI) monitoring in new radio unlicensed (NR-U) networks are disclosed. For SSB multiplexing, a user equipment (UE) receives an SSB configuration for a discovery signal detection window having a plurality of communication slots, wherein, based on the SSB configuration, UE identifies random access resource and time and frequency locations to monitor remaining minimum system information (RMSI) configured for each SSB. The UE further receives an SSB transmission indicator that reflects a listen before talk (LBT) result, which it may use with the SSB configuration to map one or more SSB for rate matching in selected slots. The UE can then rate match any data transmissions around the identified SSBs in those identified slots regardless of LBT result. The UE may further leverage the SSB configuration and indication of LBT result to monitor SSB transmissions for control resource set (CORESET) transmissions.
US11432342B2
A method for transmitting a signal, a terminal device, and a network device are provided, which can reduce a signal transmission delay. The method includes determining, by a terminal device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used for indicating an association relationship between a first uplink transmission opportunity used for uplink transmission and a first downlink transmission opportunity used for downlink transmission. The method also includes sending, by the terminal device, the first indication information to a network device in a time unit corresponding to the first uplink transmission opportunity.
US11432332B2
Methods, systems, and devices for increasing physical random access channel (PRACH) capacity using orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) in wireless communications systems are described. A base station may transmit a PRACH configuration that indicates PRACH resources for system access, for example, in a system information block (SIB). A user equipment (UE) may receive the PRACH configuration, and may identify PRACH resources that support OCCs for system access. For example, PRACH configurations with small time domain spacing between PRACH resources may support OCCs. The UE may determine whether to transmit random access (RACH) preamble messages using OCCs in the PRACH resources, and may transmit a RACH preamble message to the base station based on the determination. In some cases, the base station may additionally indicate PRACH resources not configured for OCCs, and the UE may determine which set of resources to transmit in based on one or more parameters.
US11432331B2
A system information transmission method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving request information for requesting target Other System Information sent by a terminal; configuring a random access message 2 or a random access message 4 for the terminal based on the request information; and sending the random access message 2 or the random access message 4 to the terminal.
US11432318B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer programs for scheduling a transmission. A method implemented at a terminal device comprises receiving, from a network device, a scheduling configuration for a device to device, D2D, transmission of the terminal device; receiving, from the network device, an uplink scheduling grant for a cellular uplink transmission in a same time resource overlapping with the D2D transmission; determining a scheduling priority for the D2D transmission relative to the cellular uplink transmission based on at least one of: a first comparison between an associated priority of the scheduling configuration and a first priority threshold, and a transmission restriction; and performing at least one of the D2D transmission and the cellular uplink transmission based on the determined scheduling priority. With embodiments of the disclosure, D2D transmission and cellular uplink transmission from a terminal device can he well coordinated.
US11432311B2
A resource allocation method and apparatus, and a system include sending, by a network device, first information to a user equipment, where the first information is for indicating uplink resources corresponding to autonomous uplink transmission performed by the user equipment, and sending, by the network device, second information to the user equipment, where the second information is for indicating a resource that is in the uplink resources and that is used by the user equipment to perform autonomous uplink transmission.
US11432295B2
A communication method and a communications apparatus are provided. The method includes determining, by an access network device, resource configuration information, where the resource configuration information indicates a resource used to transmit control information, and the resource indication uses a unit of a resource block group RBG. The method further includes sending, by the access network device, the resource configuration information to the terminal. The method includes receiving, by the terminal, the resource configuration information from the access network device. The method further includes transmitting, by the terminal, control information by using the resource indicated by the resource configuration information.
US11432290B2
To facilitate signal alignment for an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node, a system can determine a subset of beams that can be used for communication transmissions. Based on a signal quality associated with the subset of beams, the system can indicate that the subset of beams is to be used for the communication transmission. Consequently, the subset of the beams or another subset of the subset of the beams can be utilized for the communication transmission based on the signal quality of the beams.
US11432277B2
Aspects described herein relate to determining a beta offset for determining a number of shared channel resources to be used to transmit uplink control information, where a downlink control information indicating a resource grant for the shared channel resources does not include at least an indication of selection of a dynamic beta offset. A shared data channel including the uplink control information can be generated based at least in part on the beta offset, and transmitted over the shared data channel resources.
US11432273B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide control information sending methods, control information receiving methods, and devices. The sending method may include determining, by an access network device, a control channel candidate set corresponding to a terminal device, where the control channel candidate set includes at least one control channel candidate, the at least one control channel candidate includes at least one control channel element, the control channel candidate set is contained in at least one control channel element set, a quantity of control channel elements contained in the control channel element set is greater than or equal to a quantity of control channel elements corresponding to a maximum aggregation level supported by the terminal device. The sending method may further includes sending, by the access network device, control information to the terminal device by using at least one control channel candidate in the control channel candidate set. The control information sending method of the embodiments of the present invention can satisfy requirements of new generation radio communications systems.
US11432269B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a mechanism for flexible control information reporting within a wireless communication network by mapping a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes to respective locations in a payload format of an uplink control channel. In response to receiving a request to transmit acknowledgment information corresponding to one or more selected HARQ processes, the acknowledgment information corresponding to the one or more selected HARQ processes may be included in the respective locations of the payload of a current uplink control channel based on the mapping. A remaining portion of the payload of the current uplink control channel may be flexibly utilized for other control information.
US11432267B2
A system for providing a representational state transfer interface over a low-bandwidth medium, comprising a first processor configured to operate using one or more algorithms to provide a hardware management function, the first processor further comprising a data compression algorithm configured to compress message data for transmission over a low-bandwidth wireless medium. A second processor configured to operate using one or more algorithms to respond to queries from the hardware management function of the first processor, the second processor further comprising a data decompression system, wherein the second processor is further configured to operate using one or more algorithms to authenticate a user, and the first processor is further configured to operate using one or more algorithms to provide access to the user.
US11432257B2
A device can receive a proximity message comprising a base station identifier and a network address. The device can determine that the device is within a particular distance of a base station associated with the base station identifier based, at least in part, on the proximity message. In response to a determination that the device is within the particular distance of the base station, the device can display an actionable notification. The device can further determine that an action associated with the actionable notification has been performed. In response to a determination that the action has been performed, the device can send a proximity notification to a server identified by the network address, wherein the proximity notification comprises the base station identifier.
US11432251B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting a primary synchronization signal (PSS) by a base station in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method may comprise the steps of: dividing one symbol into multiple periods; generating multiple sequences for the PSS, the number of which is identical to the number of the multiple periods; and mapping the multiple sequences to the one symbol divided into the multiple periods, and transmitting the multiple sequences.
US11432249B1
An electronic device may include a radio that generates a first maximum power based on a radio-frequency exposure (RFE) budget. The radio may transmit signals subject to the first maximum power during a subperiod of an averaging period and may generate an instantaneous RFE metric value based on an antenna coefficient and the conducted transmit power of the antenna during the subperiod. The radio may generate a consumed RFE value by averaging the instantaneous RFE metric value with previous instantaneous RFE values from the averaging period, may generate a remaining budget based on the consumed RFE value, may generate a second maximum transmit power based on the remaining budget, and may transmit signals during a subsequent subperiod subject to the second maximum power. Time-averaging the RFE metric may serve to optimize performance of the radio relative to scenarios where the radio performs time-averaging of conducted TX power.
US11432242B2
A system information updating method, a user equipment and a base station are provided, the method including: receiving, by the wake-up radio (WUR) interface of the user equipment, a wake-up signal sent by the base station, where the wake-up signal is used to wake up a main radio interface of the user equipment and instruct the main radio interface of the user equipment to receive updated system information, the wake-up signal includes system information (SI) update transmission control information, and the SI update transmission control information includes information required for receiving the updated system information; waking up, by the WUR interface of the user equipment, the main radio interface of the user equipment; and receiving, by the user equipment according to the SI update transmission control information through the woken-up main radio interface, the updated system information sent by the base station.
US11432241B2
A wireless communication system includes a wireless device, an Access Point (AP) device, and a controller. The wireless device includes a first processor having a counter. The controller is configured to send a learn idle time command through the AP device and to the processor. The processor is configured to cease any transmission through the AP device and start the counter after receiving the learn idle time command, and is configured to receive a message indicative of no activity by the wireless device from the AP device, and estimate an AP idle time based on the counter.
US11432240B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may enter a lower power mode of operation, and may receive, from a base station, a non-coherent signal while the UE is operating in the lower power mode. The UE may identify an indication to transition from the lower power mode to a higher power mode of operation based at least in part on receiving the non-coherent signal. The UE may enter the higher power mode based at least in part on identifying the indication.
US11432237B2
This application provides a DRX configuration method, a terminal device, a network device, and a communications system. The DRX configuration method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, N discontinuous reception DRX configurations sent by a network device, where the N DRX configurations respectively correspond to N groups of carriers; and when a DRX status of the terminal device is an active state, if M groups of carriers in the N groups of carriers are activated carriers, monitoring, by the terminal device, a physical downlink control channel on a specified carrier based on M DRX configurations corresponding to the M groups of carriers. In the DRX configuration manner, the terminal device simultaneously uses a plurality of DRX configurations in an overlay manner, thereby meeting quality of service requirements of different services sent by the terminal device. In addition, the terminal device simultaneously uses the plurality of DRX configurations in an overlay manner, so as to reduce unnecessary physical downlink control channel monitoring in a process of monitoring the physical downlink control channel, thereby reducing energy consumption of the terminal device.
US11432235B2
Provided is a wireless communication control method, in which a management server manages line selection of an unlicensed band/licensed band of a UE and manages parameters of the unlicensed band, including a control step of excluding the UE that uses the licensed band from an optimization target in an unlicensed band system and optimizing the parameters of the unlicensed band in consideration of existence of an STA and the UE that uses the unlicensed band, which is caused by the management server. Furthermore, a pattern when a total of a communication capacity in the unlicensed band and a communication capacity in the licensed band after the optimization of the parameters of the unlicensed band becomes high is adopted for the line selection of the UE, and the parameters of the unlicensed band after the optimization of the line selection are set for an AP, the STA, and the UE of the unlicensed band.
US11432233B2
A wireless device determines whether a data session is performance sensitive, and in response to the data session being performance sensitive, selects a data transport node (DTN) and performs the data session using the selected DTN. Whether a data session is performance sensitive may be determined using information on a process associated with the data session, by monitoring the data session, or both. The DTN may be selected from a list of available DTNs according to which DTN will probably provide the highest performance for the data session, or according to which DTN or DTNs will probably provide adequate performance. Micro speed tests, historical performance information, or other criteria may be used to predict the performance of the available DTNs. When multiple DTNs satisfy the selection criteria, a “good neighbor” policy may be used to select the DTN.
US11432228B2
Multi-band signaling is described for reducing signaling overhead in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals on two different communication channels. Peer beacons are sent using directional millimeter-wave (mmW) communications to provide time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer stations. A separate network discovery beacon is sent over a sub-6 GHz communication channel, to provide mesh network profile information that identifies the mesh network to aid network discovery for wireless communication stations wanting to join the mesh network.
US11432226B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for forwarding system information for a remote UE by a relay UE in wireless communication system, the method comprising: establishing a link between a remote UE and the relay UE for communicating between the remote UE and the network via the relay UE; receiving assistance information including a serving cell identity of the remote UE from the remote UE; checking whether a serving cell identity of the relay UE and the serving cell identity of the remote UE are same or not; and forwarding system information block (SIB), which was already received by the relay UE from the network, to the remote UE via the link if the serving cell identity of the relay UE and the serving cell identity of the remote UE are different. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US11432223B2
A method includes determining an estimate of a data packet path time from a first base station 13 to a user equipment (UE), and determining, based at least partially upon a communication received from a second base station 15, an estimate of a data packet path time from the first base station 13 via the second base station 15 to the user equipment (UE) 10. The method includes, based at least partially upon the determined estimates, selecting either the first base station 13 or the second base station 15 to transmit a packet data unit (DPU) (PDU) to the user equipment (UE) 10.
US11432213B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques switching a communication link for wireless systems with multiple parents, such as an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network or other type of network. In some cases, a node determines a partition of a number of desired guard symbols between a first parent node and a second parent node; sends, to the first parent node and to the second parent node, at least one indication of a partitioned number of the desired guard symbols for switching between the first parent node and the second parent node; receives at least one indication of a number of provided guard symbols from the first and second parent nodes; and switches a communication link from the first parent node to the second parent node in accordance with the at least one indication of provided guard symbols by the first parent node and the second parent node.
US11432203B2
A method of managing a mobility state in a mobile telecommunication system, comprising the steps of: assigning a plurality of user equipments (UEs) to a group of UEs, wherein one of the plurality of UEs is a lead UE; determining a group mobility state based on certain parameters received from a base station (BS); and communicating the group mobility state to the other UEs in the group.
US11432192B2
A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that performs, using a first time interval or a second time interval, a receiving process for downlink control information indicating a transmission direction per given time interval and a processor that determines the transmission direction based on the downlink control information. In other aspects, a radio communication method is also disclosed.
US11432188B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may communicate medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (PDUs). The UE and base station may use a set of decoding conditions, or a decoding configuration, to identify a set of code block groups (CBGs) within a packet that include MAC-control elements (CEs). For example, the decoding configuration may indicate a fixed set of CBGs which contain the MAC-CEs within a MAC PDU. In another example, the configuration may specify a limit on the number and/or size of the MAC-CEs within each MAC PDU packet. In any case, the decoding configuration may provide rules known by both transmitting and receiving devices for identifying and decoding CBGs that include MAC-CEs such that MAC-CE information may be applied by the receiving wireless device.
US11432186B2
Embodiments of the application provide a method for transmitting data in a wireless communication network. A device of the network receives a bit sequence of K information bits. The device polar codes the bit sequence to obtain a first encoded sequence, wherein a length of the first encoded sequence is N, and N is greater than or equal to K. The device block interleaves the first encoded sequence to obtain an interleaved bit sequence. The device determines a transmission code rate R. When the transmission code rate R is less than the code rate threshold, the device outputs a second bit sequence. The length of the second bit sequence is M, M is smaller than N. The second bit sequence is punctured from the interleaved bit sequence by removing (N−M) bits from beginning of the interleaved bit sequence.
US11432179B2
An environmental information acquisition method is performed by an environmental information acquisition apparatus that acquires a measurement result of a radio wave environment. The environmental information acquisition method includes distributing software of each radio scheme to one or more base station apparatuses measuring a radio wave environment of the radio scheme based on the software of the radio scheme, instructing the one or more base station apparatuses to measure the radio wave environment, and acquiring the measurement result of the radio wave environment from the one or more base station apparatuses measuring based on the software the radio wave environment in multiple sections set across an area.
US11432175B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a measurement reporting control method and a related product, including: receiving, by a terminal, a preset signaling from a network device, wherein the preset signaling is used to activate or deactivate a measurement reporting function of the terminal; and controlling, by the terminal, reporting of a measurement report according to the preset signaling.
US11432172B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and more specifically, to a technology for establishing an operation and management channel. In a channel establishment method, a base station obtains a connection status of an operation and management channel between a base station and an operation support system OSS server. If the connection status indicates that there is a connection exception on the operation and management channel, the base station obtains a historical channel establishment parameter that is stored in the base station before a current moment and that is used by the base station to establish the operation and management channel with the OSS server.
US11432169B2
A channel sensing method and a communication device are provided. The method is applied to a communication device operating in an unlicensed band. The method includes: determining an energy detection threshold in a spatial-domain transmission direction according to an antenna gain in the spatial-domain transmission direction; wherein the antenna gain includes at least one of an antenna transmission gain and an antenna reception gain.
US11432163B2
Cloud-based systems and methods are provided for assigning shared spectrum resources to secondary users. The methods may comprise receiving, by a central block entity, a request for channel availability from a secondary user to access a shared spectrum in a wireless network, authenticating the secondary user, validating the secondary user, routing the request for channel availability to a managing block entity, receiving available frequency information from the managing block entity, assigning a frequency and an effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) to the secondary user based on the available frequency information from the managing block entity, and transmitting, to the secondary user, a channel availability response based on the assigned EIRP. The managing block entity may be configured to determine available frequency information based on one or more parameters associated with the secondary user. The channel availability response may comprise a frequency on which the secondary user can transmit.
US11432160B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of performing transmission between a base station and a terminal device according to a frame structure over an unlicensed spectrum in a wireless network that supports communications over both a licensed spectrum and the unlicensed spectrum. The method comprises signaling information indicating the frame structure and performing transmission between the base station and the terminal device on an unlicensed carrier in the unlicensed spectrum according to the frame structure. There is also provided the corresponding apparatus.
US11432159B2
The described technology is generally directed towards network slice pre-configuration for cellular communication systems, including 5G and subsequent generation cellular communication systems. Network equipment can be preconfigured to identify whether a network slice identifier included in a network communication belongs to a group of network slice identifiers. If so, the network equipment can process the network communication either according to a network slice rule that corresponds specifically to the network slice identifier, or according to a default group network slice rule for the group to which the network slice identifier belongs. Different groups of network slice identifiers can be associated with different sets of group network slice rules which can be arranged to reduce the work of setting up network slice identifiers in various network slicing scenarios.
US11432147B2
A technique for implementing an untethered access point (UAP) mesh involves enabling AP-local switching at one or more UAPs of the mesh. A system constructed according to the technique may include an untethered access point (UAP), including: a radio; a backhaul service set identifier (SSID) stored in a computer-readable medium; an anchor access point (AAP) selection engine embodied in a computer-readable medium. In operation, the AAP selection engine may use the radio to attempt to associate with the AAP if a beaconed backhaul SSID matches the stored backhaul SSID. A method according to the technique may include beaconing with a backhaul SSID; acting in concert with an upstream switch as an authenticator for a downstream station that responds to the beacon; providing limited local switching functionality for the downstream station.
US11432143B2
In one aspect, a first device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to access a first network connection history for a second device different from the first device. The instructions are also executable to determine in a first instance whether to authenticate the second device based on the first network connection history and to authenticate the second device based on a determination to authenticate the second device.
US11432136B2
A method and device for determining capability of a terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a terminal sends at least one piece of capability indication information to a network, the at least one piece of capability indication information indicating whether the terminal supports measurement for at least one of a first frequency layer or a second frequency layer and reporting of a measurement result.
US11432119B2
Embodiments of a Next Generation Vehicle-to-Everything (NGV) station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The NGV STA may encode a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) in accordance with an enhanced PHY layer protocol. The PPDU may be encoded for transmission in a dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) frequency band. The NGV STA may encode the PPDU to include a preamble, one or more data portions, and one or more midambles. The one or more midambles may occur within the PPDU after the preamble and after at least one of the data portions. The NGV STA may encode a preamble that includes an NGV SIG-A field that indicates: whether the PPDU includes the one or more midambles, and a periodicity of the one or more midambles.
US11432116B2
Provided are a method and device for transmitting data in an Internet of Vehicles system. The method comprises: establishing, by a terminal device, a radio resource connection with a network device belonging to a found service cell, the network device being deployed by a first operator; receiving, by the terminal device, information of a second operator transmitted by the network device, the information of the second operator comprises at least one of identifier information and frequency resource information; receiving, by the terminal device, data transmitted by the first operator, and/or, receiving, by the terminal device, and according to the information of the second operator, data transmitted by the second operator. The invention realizes access by a terminal device, and ensures that the terminal device timely acquires information of other operators in a network, thereby enabling the terminal device to simultaneously transmit data to or receive data from multiple operator networks.
US11432114B1
A data processing apparatus is provided that includes message obtaining circuitry that obtains, for transmission over a first cellular communication channel to an endpoint device, an outgoing SMS message containing an encrypted payload and an identifier corresponding to the endpoint device. Extraction circuitry extracts the encrypted payload from the outgoing SMS message and produces an extracted encrypted payload, and extracts the identifier corresponding to the endpoint device from the outgoing SMS message. Wrap circuitry wraps bytes that make up the SMS message in an outgoing data packet and communication circuitry transmits, to the endpoint device or a server, the outgoing data packet on a second data communication channel. The outgoing data packet is of a type other than an SMS message.
US11432112B2
Methods for creating a location map using antennas in an ultra-wide band (UWB) network including positioning a plurality of stationary antennas in a target environment; determining a position of each of the plurality of stationary antennas relative to one another; obtaining location measurements relative to a mobile device as it moves around the target environment; generating a location map using the location measurements, the location map illustrating a path traveled by the mobile device relative to the plurality of stationary antennas; and displaying the location map including straight line segments corresponding to the path traveled by the mobile device.
US11432108B2
The invention relates to a method to process data packets of a vehicle message received by a privacy gateway (100) from a vehicle (10) via a mobile communications network (20). The method comprises the following steps: The vehicle message transmitted by the vehicle (10) is received. A source IP address in the data packets of the vehicle message is identified. The source IP address in the data packets of the vehicle message is replaced by an IP address of a location collecting entity (50) of the mobile communications network (20). Said mobile communications network collects location information of a plurality of vehicles (10) resulting in an adapted vehicle message with adapted data packets containing the IP address of the location collecting entity as source IP address. Then, the adapted vehicle message is transmitted to a service providing entity (40) which is configured to provide location dependent services for the plurality of vehicles.
US11432106B2
An apparatus receives an indication of a set of geographic zones and a set of control transmission wireless resource units. For each one of the geographic zones, corresponding control transmission wireless resource unit are specified for use while in that the geographic zone. While in a first zone of the geographic zones, a control transmission is transmitted, reserving a first data transmission wireless resource unit for use by the apparatus for sidelink (SL) data communication. The control transmission is performed using control transmission wireless resource units corresponding to the first zone. The data transmission wireless resource unit is selected from a pool of data transmission wireless resource units and each member of the pool of data transmission wireless resource units is available for use across a set of geographic zones. Different members of the pool of data transmission wireless resource units are concurrently.
US11432105B1
A method for facilitating location-based notification display by an application at a mobile device includes, while the application is in a launched state, receiving from the mobile device a location of the mobile device, determining one or more entity locations based on the location of the mobile device, and causing the mobile device to register the one or more entity locations. The method also includes, while the application is in a background state, causing the mobile device to register one or more location-triggered notifications, wherein each location-triggered notification of the one or more location-triggered notifications is associated with a corresponding entity location of the one or more entity locations.
US11432101B2
A determination is made as to whether a computing device is located inside a first geofence of a geofence environment. A first location determination mode available to the computing device for determining a location of the computing device is identified. A second location determination mode available to the computing device for determining a location of the computing device is identified, wherein the second location determination mode consumes less power than the first location determination mode. A selection is made between the first location determination mode and the second location determination mode, based on the determination of whether the computing device is located inside the first geofence. A next location of the computing device is determined using the selected location determination mode, a next location of the computing device.
US11432100B2
A computer-assisted method for spatialized sound reproduction based on an array of loudspeakers, for the purpose of producing a selected sound field at a position of a listener. The method includes iteratively and continuously: obtaining a current position of a listener; determining respective acoustic transfer functions of the loudspeakers at a virtual microphone of which the position is defined dynamically as a function of the current position of the listener, estimating a sound pressure at the virtual microphone; calculating an error between the estimated sound pressure and a target sound pressure; calculating and applying respective weights to the control signals of the loudspeakers as a function of the error and of a weight forgetting factor, the forgetting factor being calculated as a function of a movement of the listener, and calculating the sound pressure at the current position of the listener.
US11432097B2
A device may be configured to play one or more of a plurality of audio streams. The device may include a memory configured to store the plurality of audio streams, each of the audio streams representative of a soundfield. The device also may include one or more processors coupled to the memory, and configured to present a user interface to a user, obtain an indication from a user via the user interface representing a desired listening position; and select, based on the indication, at least one audio stream of the plurality of audio streams.
US11432093B2
A system and method to encode and decode multiple audio signals to provide independent control of the audio signals is provided. A host device may encode the audio signals to enable a complete separation of the constituent audio signals when the mixed stream is decoded on a playback device. The gains of the audio signals may be independently controlled before they are mixed to increase the intelligibility of one audio signal relative to another audio signal at the playback device. The ability to separate the constituent audio signals from the mixed signals at the playback device allows the processing operations performed on the constituent audio signals and the associated path latencies to be independently chosen. In addition, in applications where the mixed stream is transmitted from a single host device to multiple playback devices, the constituent audio signals may be selectively masked on a playback device to increase user privacy.
US11432082B2
A hearing aid is described which incorporates an antenna integrated into the housing that is configured to radiate with linear polarization such that the electric field is perpendicular to the head of a wearer. The described technique results in lower propagation losses from ear to ear and an improvement in ear-to-ear communications using a far-field link (e.g., in the 2.4 GHz band).
US11432077B2
A method transmits a hearing aid setting data set from a first hearing aid to a second hearing aid. By use of an Internet-capable third device, a translation instruction for translating hearing aid setting data contained in the hearing aid setting data set from a platform of the first hearing aid to a platform of the second hearing aid is retrieved from a database. The translation instruction is transmitted to the first or the second hearing aid or to a local fourth device. By the Internet-capable third device, an instruction for transmitting the hearing aid setting data set is output and the hearing aid setting data set is transmitted locally and while bypassing the Internet or a computer network from the first to the second hearing aid. The hearing aid setting data contained in the hearing aid setting data set are translated in the first or the second hearing aid or in the fourth device without access to the Internet or the computer network to the platform of the second hearing aid.
US11432070B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, disclosed is an electronic device that includes a first connector electrically connectable to an external electronic device, a second connector electrically connectable to an external audio plug, a wireless communication circuit, and at least one processor. When the electronic device is connected to the external electronic device through the first connector, the at least one processor may receive a first digital audio signal from the external electronic device through the first connector, convert the received first digital audio signal into a first analog audio signal, and output the converted first analog audio signal through the second connector. When the electronic device is connected to the external electronic device through the wireless communication circuit, the at least one processor may receive a second digital audio signal from the external electronic device through the wireless communication circuit, convert the received second digital audio signal into a second analog audio signal having a sound quality lower than that of the first analog audio signal, and output the converted second analog audio signal through the second connector.
US11432057B2
An optical line terminal (OLT) detects content distribution conditions in terminals, and performs control for performing switching to distribution to each terminal using an individual virtual local area network (VLAN) or distribution to a plurality of terminals by broadcasting using a broadcasting VLAN, in accordance with the detected content distribution conditions. The OLT detects that the number of viewers of a predetermined channel exceeds a predetermined threshold value or is less than the predetermined threshold value, as the content distribution conditions. Further, the OLT performs switching to distribution using a broadcasting VLAN in a case where it is detected that the number of viewers of the predetermined channel exceeds the predetermined threshold value, and performs switching to distribution using an individual VLAN in a case where it is detected that the number of viewers of the predetermined channel is less than the predetermined threshold value.
US11432051B2
A method and system for positioning, viewing, and sharing virtual content is provided. The method includes determining a geospatial position of the mobile device capable of determining its geospatial location. Once the geospatial position is determined content within range of the geospatial location of the mobile device is requested from a content store. A content thumbnail corresponding to the content from the content store is retrieved and then presented on the mobile device.
US11432049B2
Systems and methods are provided for presenting subtitles in association with a composite video. The systems and methods include a facility for uploading a subtitle file having the full subtitles information for the entire composite video. The uploaded subtitle file is then split to generate video content item subtitles files that correspond to video content items in the composite video.
US11432044B2
A media presentation and distribution system is communicatively coupled to a client device, which handles presentation of overlay-graphic items at the client device. The client device receives a media stream from the media presentation and distribution system via a network. The received media stream includes media content and one or more tags. The client device further identifies in the received media content, the one or more tags, which corresponds to the overlay-graphic items. The client device further identifies candidate time-periods in the media content based on the identified one or more tags in the media content. At least one presentation attribute for the overlay-graphic items is identified based on the identified one or more tags in the media content. The client device further presents the overlay-graphic items at the candidate time-periods om the media content based on the identified at least presentation attribute.
US11432040B2
Techniques for a smartphone-based conditional access (CA) system are described. In some embodiments, a headend in the CA system obtains a security profile associated with a pair of receiving devices used by a user, e.g., a first device (e.g., a smartphone) and a second device (e.g., a set-top-box or a TV). The headend dynamically regulates user access to requested media content during each entitlement period by assigning and distributing separate keys to the first and second device based on the security profile. The headend also uses the distributed keys to protect the media content before broadcasting. On the receiving end, one receiving device receives the media content and determines whether it is decryptable by the device. If decryptable, the receiving device (e.g., the set-top-box/TV) decrypts the media content using the keys assigned by the headend. Otherwise, the receiving device forwards the media content to the pairing device for decryption.
US11432032B2
A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
US11432028B2
A system and method for bandwidth management by controlling the bit rate of a signal stream in real time according to available link bandwidth. Applications include multiple-channel video data streams over a limited-bandwidth link such as a Digital Subscriber Line. A video signal is transrated at the head end to multiple streams having different bit rates, by a multirating device which sends the multiple streams over a network, along with metadata containing information about the data structure and parameters of the streams. At the network access edge, a demultirating device uses the metadata to select the stream with the highest video quality whose bit rate does not exceed the available bandwidth of the end-user's access link. This scheme provides multiple unicast signals to different end-users in place of a single multicast signal, supports multiple high-definition channels over a limited bandwidth link, and is compatible with standard encryption methods.
US11432023B2
Provided are a system and method for publishing a disparate live media output stream manifest that includes one or more media segments corresponding to key events. The system comprises one or more processors that generate a programming schedule, based on a synchronization of one or more disparate sub-systems in the system, includes one or more key events that occurred from a starting point until a current live point in a live input stream. Further, a reference clock provides a reference time to synchronize the one or more disparate sub-systems. Based on the programming schedule, one or more processors insert the current live point and one or more media segments corresponding to the one or more key events that occurred prior to the current live point included in a live input stream manifest into a disparate live media output stream manifest, which is further published based on the insertion.
US11432021B2
A system is provided for publishing a disparate per-client live media output stream based on dynamic insertion of targeted non-programming content and customized programming content. The system generates a first programming schedule based on one or more live input stream manifests or one or more pre-encoded media asset manifests selected based on one or more parameters, associated indexed metadata, and first additional content. The first programming schedule defines locations and types of decision points defined by one or more content placement opportunities. Based on schedule of one or more pre-encoded media assets and insertion of decision points, the first programming schedule controls publish of pre-encoded media asset manifests as first disparate live media output stream manifest, which is published for first client device based on insertion of the one or more live input stream manifests or one or more pre-encoded media asset manifests, associated indexed metadata, and first additional content.
US11432020B2
A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: determining whether to divide a current block with quad tree partitioning, and dividing the current block into four partitions based on a vertical line and a horizontal line when it is determined that the current block is divided with the quad tree partitioning.
US11432018B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for encoding or decoding video data. Video data including a chroma component and a luma component is received. A first coding tree structure associated with the luma component and a second coding tree structure associated with the chroma component are determined, wherein the first coding tree structure and the second coding tree structure share a same top level coding tree structure. The video data is decoded based on the first coding tree structure and the second coding tree structure.
US11432016B2
Encoding methods and apparatuses include applying a Cross-Component Adaptive Loop Filter (CCALF) processing on a current picture based on CCALF coefficients signaled in one or more Adaptive Loop Filter (ALF) Adaptation Parameter Sets (APSs) to refine one or more chroma components according to a luma component, signaling two ALF signal flags and two CCALF signal flags in each ALF APS or parsing two ALF signal flags and two CCALF signal flags from each ALF APS, and encoding or decoding the current picture. Values of the two ALF signal flags and the two CCALF signal flags in each ALF APS are not all equal to 0 to ensure none of the ALF APS is an empty APS.
US11432012B2
A method for encoding digital images or video streams, includes a receiving phase, wherein a portion of an image is received; a graph weights prediction phase, wherein the elements of a weights matrix associated to the graph related to the blocks of the image (predicted blocks) are predicted on the basis of reconstructed, de-quantized and inverse-transformed pixel values of at least one previously coded block (predictor block) of the image, the weights matrix being a matrix comprising elements denoting the level of similarity between a pair of pixels composing said image, a graph transform computation phase, wherein the graph Fourier transform of the blocks of the image is performed, obtaining for the blocks a set of coefficients determined on the basis of the predicted weights; a coefficients quantization phase, wherein the coefficients are quantized an output phase wherein a bitstream comprising the transformed and quantized coefficients is transmitted and/or stored.
US11431986B2
Technology for improving coding efficiency by performing a block split suitable for picture coding and decoding is provided. A device includes a coding information storage unit configured to store inter prediction information used in the inter prediction of a coded block in a history-based motion vector predictor candidate list, a spatial inter prediction information candidate derivation unit configured to derive a spatial inter prediction information candidate from inter prediction information of a block spatially neighboring a coding target block and set the spatial inter prediction information candidate as an inter prediction information candidate of the coding target block; and a history-based inter prediction information candidate derivation unit configured to derive a history-based inter prediction information candidate from the inter prediction information stored in the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list and set the history-based inter prediction information candidate as an inter prediction information candidate of the coding target block. The history-based inter prediction information candidate derivation unit compares a predetermined number of inter prediction information elements from latest inter prediction information within the inter prediction information stored in the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list with the spatial inter prediction information candidate and sets the inter prediction information as a history-based inter prediction information candidate when a value of the inter prediction information is different.
US11431981B2
Disclosed is a method of decoding sample adaptive offset type index data from a received stream of encoded video data. The method determines an arithmetically encoded first portion of a sample adaptive offset type index value from the stream of video data, and a bypass encoded second portion of the sample adaptive offset type index value when the first portion indicates that the second portion will be present in the stream of video data. The method decodes the sample adaptive offset type index from a combination of the decoded first and second portions of the sample adaptive offset type index values. The sample adaptive offset type index data is used to select one of a plurality of offsets in digital video decoding. Corresponding methods of encoding are also disclosed.
US11431979B2
Disclosed is a method of decoding sample adaptive offset type index data from a received stream of encoded video data. The method determines an arithmetically encoded first portion of a sample adaptive offset type index value from the stream of video data, and a bypass encoded second portion of the sample adaptive offset type index value when the first portion indicates that the second portion will be present in the stream of video data. The method decodes the sample adaptive offset type index from a combination of the decoded first and second portions of the sample adaptive offset type index values. The sample adaptive offset type index data is used to select one of a plurality of offsets in digital video decoding. Corresponding methods of encoding are also disclosed.
US11431975B2
A video decoding method includes obtaining information indicating a first difference between a maximum size of a coding unit having a 1:4 ratio and a size of a largest coding unit, determining the maximum size of the coding unit of having the 1:4 ratio by using the size of the largest coding unit and the first difference, determining a minimum size of the coding unit having the 1:4 ratio based on a minimum size of a coding unit, determining whether a coding having the 1:4 ratio may be generated by splitting a first coding unit based on the maximum size and the minimum size of the coding unit having the 1:4 ratio, and determining a second coding unit including the coding unit having the 1:4 ratio, from the first coding unit, and decoding the second coding unit.
US11431970B2
An intra prediction device performing intra prediction on a luminance block and a chrominance block includes: a chrominance candidate specifier configured to specify a mode number of an intra prediction mode applied to the luminance block corresponding to the chrominance block as one of candidates for an intra prediction mode to be applied to the chrominance block; and a chrominance prediction mode converter configured to convert the mode number before conversion specified by the chrominance candidate specifier using a conversion table and output a mode number after conversion. In the conversion table, for directional prediction, a given number of mode numbers in ascending order of the mode number among the mode numbers before conversion are associated with a given number of mode numbers in descending order of the mode number among the mode numbers after conversion.
US11431956B2
A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a computer system is provided for handling video streams. The method may include: receiving a 360° video stream, the 360° video stream including a multiple overlay parameter; when the multiple overlay parameter is a first value, determining that overlaying the 360° video stream with two or more overlays is permissible by the user terminal, and displaying, by the user terminal, the 360° video stream with the two or more overlays; and when the multiple overlay parameter is a second value, determining that overlaying the 360° video stream with two or more overlays is not permissible and displaying the 360° video stream with zero overlays or one overlay.
US11431954B2
A display method includes the following operations. Multiple first image data are received by a processor through a graphics card. Multiple first image data are analyzed based on an artificial intelligence model by the processor. Multiple second image data are transmitted to the display by the processor. Multiple second image data include multiple first image data, at least one compensation image data between adjacent two of multiple first image data, or combinations thereof.
US11431953B2
A processing system having at least one processor may detect a first object in a volumetric video that is a focus of a user viewing a presentation of the volumetric video, detect an obstruction of a view of the user of at least a portion of the first object in the volumetric video, and perform at least one manipulation of the presentation of the volumetric video to the user to mitigate the obstruction of the view.
US11431947B2
An operation method for an information processing device having a display area used to generate a video image projected into a projection target area by a projector is provided. The method includes: in a first mode for generating the video image, specifying a designated part designated by a user in the display area; displaying, in the display area, a first video image showing a first object arranged in the designated part and a second object which moves in the display area and changes on reaching the designated part; and causing the projector to project the first video image into the projection target area; and in a second mode for the projector to project the video image into the projection target area, causing the projector to project a second video image resulting from eliminating the first object from the first video image, as the video image into the projection target area.
US11431932B2
An imaging device with low power consumption is provided. The pixel of the imaging device includes first and second photoelectric conversion elements, and first to fifth transistors. A cathode of the first photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the first transistor. An anode of a second photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the second transistor. Imaging data of a reference frame is obtained using the first photoelectric conversion element, and then imaging data of a difference detection frame is obtained using the second photoelectric conversion element. After the imaging data of the difference detection frame is obtained, a first potential that is a potential of a signal output from the pixel and a second potential that is a reference potential are compared. Whether or not there is a difference between the imaging data of the reference frame and the imaging data of the difference detection frame is determined using the first potential and the second potential.
US11431919B1
A system and method for detecting a flicker frequency, and electronic device including the system are provided. The system includes an optical sensor, a sequence generator, a first and a second computing circuit. The optical sensor converts an incident light into a digital sequence according to a sampling frequency, which is greater than at least twice the flicker frequency. The sequence generator generates a first reference sequence and a second reference sequence that is delayed by a period from the first reference sequence, which are periodic according to the flicker frequency and the sampling frequency. The first computing circuit computes a first and a second correlation coefficient. The second computing circuit computes a detection score that indicates a probability of existence of the flicker frequency according to the first and the second correlation coefficient.
US11431913B2
An apparatus that moves a focus lens, performs a scan operation of sequentially acquiring a focus signal, acquires a focus position of the focus lens based on the focus signal, and includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether an object is blinking at a predetermined period, and a processing unit configured to perform a filtering process in a time axis direction on the acquired focus signal where the object is blinking at the predetermined period.
US11431901B2
An illustrative system constructs a map that associates pixel locations in a panoramic image to camera modules in a set of camera modules. The map may associate a first pixel location in the panoramic image to a first camera module in the set of camera modules and a second pixel location in the panoramic image to a second camera module in the set of camera modules. The second pixel location borders the first pixel location in the panoramic image. The system blends, based on at least one weight, a pixel value of the first pixel location captured by the first camera module with a pixel value of the second pixel location captured by the second camera module to determine a pixel value for a blended pixel in the panoramic image.
US11431896B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for object modeling using augmented reality. An object modeling mode for generating three-dimensional models of objects is initiated by one or more processors of a device. The processors of the device detect an object within a field of view. Based on a position of the object, the processors select a set of movements forming a path for the device relative to the object and cause presentation of at least one of the movements. The processors detect a set of object surfaces as portions of the object are positioned in the field of view. In response to detecting at least a portion of the object surface, the processors modify a graphical depiction of a portion of the object. The processors then construct a three-dimensional model of the object from the set of images, depth measurements, and IMU readings collected during the reconstruction process.
US11431895B2
Embodiments provide a computer-implemented method of recommending camera configuration parameters for taking one or more photographs, the method including: acquiring first spatial dimension data, first temporal dimension data, and first manufacturer dimension data of a particular camera for taking the one or more photographs; inputting the first spatial dimension data, the first temporal dimension data, and the first manufacturer dimension data to a trained machine learning model; recommending, by the trained machine learning model, one or more vantage points for taking the one or more photographs, each vantage point corresponding to a different set of predicted camera configuration parameters; receiving a selection of one of the one or more vantage points from the user; and providing a set of predicted camera configuration parameters corresponding to the selected vantage point.
US11431890B2
Apparatuses and systems for electronic wearable devices such as smart glasses are described. The wearable device can comprise a housing, an image capture component, a locking component, and a control component. The housing defines an imaging aperture. The image capture component is coupled to the housing and aligned with the imaging aperture. The image capture component is configured to capture image data of a field of view aligned with the imaging aperture. The locking component is coupled to the image capture component. The locking component modifies a capture state of the image capture component to selectively enable image capture in response to a selection releasing the locking component. The control component is coupled to the locking component. Interaction with the control component comprises the selection releasing the locking component and triggering modification of the capture state of the image capture component.
US11431886B1
In one embodiment, a method for managing image sensors communicably coupled to an information handling system includes accessing a device inventory storing a list indicating the image sensors; identifying, from the list, an image sensor having a login functionality and a capture functionality, the login functionality causing the image sensor to capture identifying features of a user of the information handling system, the capture functionality causing the image sensor to capture images of the user; accessing a configuration inventory storing configuration policies indicating user permissions associated with the information handling system; determining that the login functionality of the image sensor is permitted based on the user permissions; programmatically enabling the login functionality of the image sensor; determining that the capture functionality of the image sensor is not permitted based on the user permissions; and programmatically disabling the capture functionality of the image sensor.
US11431871B2
A scanner includes a scanning module. The scanning module has a scan channel and a scanning glass. A lower surface of the scanner is defined as a bottom wall of the scan channel. The scanning glass is positioned above the scan channel. A bottom surface of the scanning glass is defined as a top wall of the scan channel. The lower surface of the scanner has an upstream turn connected between an upstream section and a middle section of the lower surface of the scanner, the middle section of the lower surface of the scanner is parallel with the bottom surface of the scanning glass.
US11431868B2
According to the technology of the present disclosure, candidates of a selection-type value included in metadata in a key-value format, which is registered in association with scanned image data, can be appropriately displayed. An information processing apparatus, which assigns metadata in a key-value format to scanned image data obtained by scanning a document, includes: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a character string extracted from the scanned image data; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a template of the metadata; a display control unit configured to display a screen for inputting the metadata; and a setting unit configured to set a value in association with the scanned image data, based on operation by a user via the screen, the value corresponding to a key included in the template of the metadata obtained by the second obtaining unit.
US11431866B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment by the present disclosure includes a storage unit for storing a reading size, an identifying unit for identifying the reading size using a sensor, a reading unit for reading an image of a document, and a setting unit for setting the identifying unit to identify the reading size. In case of the identifying unit identifying the size of the document in a state where the setting unit sets the identifying unit to identify the reading size, the reading unit reads the image of the document based on the size identified by the identifying unit. In case of the identifying unit not identifying the size of the document in the state where the setting unit sets the identifying unit to identify the reading size, the reading unit reads the image of the document based on the size stored in the storage unit.
US11431859B1
Systems and methods relate generally to a document processing device. In an example method thereof, a document processing device is provided having a touch screen panel and configurable for touchless execution of a job. The job is performed with the document processing device with the touchless execution. The touchless execution includes: accessing a slide presentation mode; displaying a sequence of slides on the touch screen panel in the slide presentation mode; detecting paper accessible by a detection sensor of the document processing device; stopping at a slide of the sequence of slides responsive to a detection event of the detection sensor; pausing at the slide responsive to the detection event; and executing the job with the touchless execution responsive to persistence of the detection event by the detection sensor for a set duration during the pause.
US11431848B2
A method includes selecting a customer of a company; constructing a digital footprint of the selected customer. The method includes inputting the digital footprint to an artificial intelligence (AI) engine. The method includes obtaining one or more probability values from the AI engine based on the input digital footprint. The method includes selecting a call driver, from among a plurality of call drivers, as a predicted call driver. The method includes providing the predicted call driver to a call center associated with the company.
US11431844B1
A communication server detects a first communication request from a first caller device to a second caller device. The communication server detects a second communication request from the second caller device to the first caller device. The first communication request and the second communication request both occur within a threshold time period. The communication server establishes, without additional input from the first caller device and the second caller device, an active session in response to the first communication request. The active session is established between the first caller device and the second caller device. The communication server dismisses the second communication request.
US11431842B1
Techniques are described for managing out of service telephone numbers (TNs) before returning them to active service. A telephone number profile score may be calculated for an out of service TN entering an aging protocol, the aging protocol comprising a pre-determined number of days the TN must remain out of service. The out of service TN may then be assigned a profile based on its telephone number profile score, the profile indicative of how quickly the TN will achieve one or more quality thresholds. The number of days from entry into the aging protocol it will take the TN to achieve the one or more quality thresholds based on its assigned profile may be determined. The quality threshold status of the TN may then be updated each time it crosses one of the quality thresholds. Once it completes the aging process, the TN may be placed into an inventory of TNs eligible for active service. Thereafter, the quality threshold status of the TN may continue to be updated each time it crosses one of the quality thresholds.
US11431837B1
A system for managing devices within a restricted area or facility provides for the collection of information from sources, such as commercial carriers, private network carrier, etc., local management systems and area or facility related information and performs a correlation of the information, which may be both current and historical, to determine a status of a device attempting to transmit or receive communicative (voice or text) while within the area or the facility. The system provides for the identification of devices that are unauthorized or contraband devices operating within the area or facility while distinguishing devices that are either authorized to operate within the area or devices that are not registered within the area but are also not to be interfered with.
US11431825B2
Methods and systems are provided for identifying unique devices and/or unique users of a web-based system within constraints of an external application. In some embodiments the process comprises receiving request information from a client device at an application server, using such information to form a device fingerprint, and attempting to match the newly-formed fingerprint with exactly one fingerprint stored in a database of previously-formed fingerprints. Some embodiments utilize a two-stage Locality-Sensitive Hash query technique. The client device fingerprint may be converted into a series of LSH values which may be used to find a matching fingerprint. A first stage may query input LSH values against LSH values in a data store, and a second stage may query LSH values temporarily held in volatile memory, thereby minimizing network traffic and reducing a total process time.
US11431822B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to dynamically discover and host services in fog servers are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a service manager to determine that a received service request from an Internet of things (IoT) device is not able to be performed locally at a first fog server; a first interface to transmit the service request to a fog resource manager; and a second interface to transmit instructions to the IoT device to transmit the service request to a second fog server, a response from the fog resource manager including service data related to the second fog server.
US11431821B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for monitoring downtime of a target machine, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes the following operations: receiving operating state information of the target machine in real time; determining whether the target machine is down according to the operating state information; and sending downtime prompt information to a mobile terminal account of a person responsible for the target machine when the target machine is down.
US11431815B1
Mining proxy acceleration may include receiving, within a mining proxy, packetized data from a mining pool server and determining, using the mining proxy, whether the packetized data qualifies for broadcast processing. In response to determining that the packetized data qualifies for broadcast processing, the packetized data can be modified using the mining proxy to generate broadcast data. The broadcast data can be broadcast, using the mining proxy, to a plurality of miners subscribed to the mining proxy.
US11431814B2
Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to at least receive demographic information from a user, transmit the demographic information to a central facility, cause storage of a consent identifier in a pasteboard of the media device, the consent identifier accessible to a first instrumented application and a second instrumented application executed in a sandbox environment, the consent identifier to indicate to the first instrumented application and the second instrumented application that monitoring is allowed, access the consent identifier from the pasteboard, present media, generate monitoring information if the consent identifier permits collection of monitoring information, not generate monitoring information if the consent identifier does not permit the collection of the monitoring information, and transmit the monitoring information to the central facility.
US11431813B2
A method and system of daily or other periodic creation of a user-sponsored cookie-like packet of encoded and encrypted information containing personal identity details and information use rules which, when the packet is attached to a delivery mechanism such as a browser header record, it is delivered to network-based resource provider platforms. Upon receipt and recognition of the modified header record by a subscribing provider, the cookie-like information packet is decrypted and decoded by application programs revealing personal identity details as well as associated data rules. Data capture rules define how participating resource providers can utilize, share, or sell provided data including rules related to whether captured or acquired data can supplement provided data. Supplemental data may include, but is not limited to, additional personal identity details, online habits, preferences, and other personal information or behaviors which may be analyzed or utilized for commercial and/or non-commercial purposes.
US11431807B2
This application relates to a data transmission method. The method includes a terminal device receives indication information from a policy control function (PCF) network element. The indication information indicates data network access identifier information corresponding to an application. The method also includes the terminal device determines, based on the indication information, a PDU session for transmitting data of the application.
US11431804B2
Embodiments disclosed herein involve a first playback device, associated with a first household, where the first playback device is configured to mirror a playback queue that is associated with a second playback device, where the second playback device is associated with a second household. For instance, a device associated with the first household, such as a controller, may send a command to the first playback device to mirror the playback queue associated with the second playback device. Based on the received command, the first playback device may mirror the playback queue that is associated with the second playback device such that contents of a playback queue that is associated with the first playback device are the same as contents of the playback queue that is associated with the second playback device.
US11431800B2
A computer-implemented method and system of recording an indeterministic transaction on a distributed ledger network is described. The method comprises (a) selecting a transaction from a transaction pool; (b) determining if the transaction comprises a deterministic transaction or an indeterministic transaction, if the transaction comprises the indeterministic transaction, sending the indeterministic transaction to an off-chain controller, marking the indeterministic transaction as a pending indeterministic transaction, attaching an identifier to the pending indeterministic transaction, and proceeding to step (c), if the transaction comprises the deterministic transaction, computing a new state in an update to a ledger, updating a status of a second indeterministic transaction in the off-chain controller if the deterministic transaction comprises a second identifier of the second indeterministic transaction; and proceeding to step (c); (c) determining if a target update time or a maximum update size is reached. Other steps are also described herein.
US11431794B2
In a service deployment method performed by a function management platform that includes a function scheduler and a function executor manager, the function scheduler receives a function call request that carries a function identifier, selects an available host based on resource pool information of a tenant, and sends a function instance creation request to the function executor manager. The function executor manager receives the function instance creation request, selects the host corresponding to the host identifier from the resource pool of the tenant, and creates a function executor corresponding to the function identifier on the host.
US11431788B2
Load balancing across hosts in a computer system is triggered based on pairwise comparisons of resource utilization at different host. A method for load balancing across hosts includes the steps of determining a resource utilization difference between first and second hosts, wherein the first host has a higher resource utilization than the second host, comparing the resource utilization difference against a threshold difference, and upon determining that the resource utilization difference exceeds the threshold difference, selecting a workload executing in the first host for migration to the second host.
US11431787B1
Managing cloud native workloads at an information handling system, including obtaining, for each tab of a plurality of tabs of a web browser executing on an information handling system, parameters associated with execution of the tab of the web browser; determining, for each tab of the web browser, a reactivation probability of the tab based on the parameters of the tab; comparing, for each tab of the web browser, the reactivation probability to a first threshold; determining, based on the comparing, that a first tab of the tabs is associated with a first reactivation probability greater than the first threshold; in response to determining that the first tab is associated with a first reactivation probability greater than the first threshold, assigning the first tab of the web browser to a first grouping; and maintaining execution of the first tab based on the first grouping.
US11431785B2
A system for managing compositions of software components or applications is disclosed. In particular, systems in which the software components or applications communicate with one another using message-oriented middleware are considered. The system is fed by one or more data feeds, and produces a plurality of processed feeds for respective applications. The data items in the input data feeds are processed by the software components or applications which form a data feed processing graph, with each application having a processing path (or egress-rooted tree) which results in the processed feed for that application. Managing such systems is complex. This complexity is tackled by having each component processing a data feed item add an annotation to the data feed item, so that the cumulative annotation which is seen in the processed feed for an application provides a history of the processing carried out on the input data feed(s). At an egress of the processing system, this history can be compared (186) with an application-specific specification. Arranging the management of a data feed processing system in this way simplifies the management of such systems, and hence improves the efficiency of resource utilisation of such systems.
US11431772B2
Described herein is an example apparatus for skipping a portion of content during streaming of the content to a display device, where the portion is of little or no interest to the user. The apparatus includes a memory having a database stored therein. The database stores metadata relating to the content. The metadata includes an index, where the index stores pointers to portions of the content. The apparatus includes a processor that is communicatively coupled to the memory. In operation, the processor streams the content for display on the display device. When the processor determines an end of a teaser portion has been reached in the stream of the content to the display device, it enables a skip command. Responsive to enabling the skip command, the processor receives command input from the user to skip a title sequence/opening credits portion of the content. Then, the processor determines an end to the title sequence/opening credits portion of the content using the metadata, and advances streaming of the content to the determined end of the title sequence/opening credits portion of the content.
US11431769B2
Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content of the one or more group-based communication channels to identify characterizing terms associated with each group-based communication channel. After the content analysis is performed, systems receive search parameters from a potential new member client device for a group-based communication server. Various systems and methods provide selected search results generated based at least in part on a determination that characterizing terms match one or more of the search parameters to the client device. Those selected results comprise a target that is executable by the client device to join the associated group-based communication channel.
US11431762B2
Unexpected call disconnection during normal time is prevented. When a gateway device 1 installed on a POI border receives RTP packets even though reception of RTCP packets is stopped, the gateway device 1 generates RTCP packets and sends out the RTCP packets to the gateway device 1's own network side or the gateway device 1 generates a call control signal showing that media transfer is continued and sends out the call control signal to the gateway device 1's own network side. Thereby, even in the case of performing interruption monitoring of RTCP packets within the gateway device 1's own network, it is possible to prevent unexpected call disconnection during normal time accompanying change in RTCP packet sending-out conditions.
US11431755B1
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for endpoint-based security. An apparatus includes a network module that is configured to receive, at an end user device, a request for content from a network source. An apparatus includes a policy module that is configured to compare a network source of requested content against a policy that is stored on an end user device prior to the content being allowed on the end user device. An apparatus includes an action module that is configured to perform at least one action related to requested content based on a comparison between a network source of the requested content and a policy.
US11431751B2
Potentially malicious uniform resource locators and websites are safely and effectively investigated through live forensic browsing. Live data from an isolated browser feeds a security information and event management (SIEM) tool and other forensic tools during a browsing session, allowing investigators to direct the browsing in response to analysis results. Session data may be translated for SIEM ingestion. Browsing sessions may be manually or automatically customized to obscure their forensic nature, by routing selection, by bandwidth or latency adjustment, or by spoofing externally detectable characteristics such as geolocation, user agent, time zone, and language. Forensic activity by an investigator may also be obscured from discovery by an attacker as a result of spoofing the browser's context, such as plugin status and host machine physical characteristics. Human presence tests relied on by attackers may be satisfied without sacrificing a targeted system's cybersecurity or an investigator's access to forensic tools.
US11431747B2
A system and method is described that sends multiple simulated phishing emails, text messages, and/or phone calls (e.g., via VoIP) varying the quantity, frequency, type, sophistication, and combination using machine learning algorithms or other forms of artificial intelligence. In some implementations, some or all messages (email, text messages, VoIP calls) in a campaign after the first simulated phishing email, text message, or call may be used to direct the user to open the first simulated phishing email or text message, or to open the latest simulated phishing email or text message. In some implementations, simulated phishing emails, text messages, or phone calls of a campaign may be intended to lure the user to perform a different requested action, such as selecting a hyperlink in an email or text message, or returning a voice call.
US11431745B2
Described are examples for curating threat intelligence data including receiving threat intelligence data comprising a list of entities, one or more associations between entities, a reputation score for each entity, and/or a confidence value corresponding to the one or more associations. An updated reputation score for at least one of a first type of entities can be determined based at least in part on the confidence value and/or on determining a reputation score of at least one of a second type of entities to which the at least one of the first type of entities is associated in the one or more associations. The reputation score of the at least one of the first type of entities can be updated, in the threat intelligence data, to the updated reputation score.
US11431744B2
Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic over a network using one or more network monitoring computers. A monitoring engine may be instantiated to perform actions, including: monitoring network traffic to identify client requests provided by clients and server responses provided by servers in response to the client requests; determining request metrics associated with the client requests; and determining response metrics associated with the server responses. An analysis engine may be instantiated that performs actions, including: comparing the request metrics with the response metrics; determining atypical behavior associated with the clients based on the comparison such that the atypical behavior includes an absence of adaption by the clients to changes in the server responses; and providing alerts that may identify the clients be associated with the atypical behavior.
US11431742B2
A DNS evaluation method and apparatus. The method comprises: determining, according to a DNS traffic log, M domain names in a DNS system, and multiple pieces of feature dimension information about each category in pre-set categories corresponding to each of the M domain names, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; determining association identification information associated with each of the M domain names, wherein the association identification information comprises an IP address and/or identity information; determining, according to an association relationship between each of the M domain names and the association identification information, or attribute information about each of the M domain names, a cluster score for each category in the pre-set categories of the DNS system; and determining, according to the cluster score for each category in the pre-set categories of the DNS system, the total system score for the DNS system. Thus, the accuracy of DNS evaluation is improved.
US11431732B2
An instantiated application includes both a runtime instantiation of an application image, and an administrative service operable to install in the instantiated application at least one security module during runtime of the instantiated application in a container. Prior to runtime, a design time agent can access the application image in a repository, examine the application image, and based on the examining, adding at least one security module to the application image prior to instantiation. During runtime, a runtime agent can query parameters of the container, such as static and dynamic variables available on the machine on which the container is running. The runtime agent processes these parameters in conjunction with predefined rules to determine an action such as starting, stopping, adding, and/or changing the security module, such as the method of packet inspection.
US11431729B2
In some aspects, a verification exchange system transforms consumer data (e.g., employment or income data) from different contributor computing systems to a standardized format and stores this standardized data in a consumer-status verification repository. The verification exchange system can selectively provide portions of the consumer data to authorized client system via a security portal to a public network. For example, the verification exchange system can use standardized consumer data to service verification queries requesting confirmation of employment or income level for consumers. The verification exchange system can do so by ensuring that a verifier system from which the query is received has provided a valid credential. In another example, the verification exchange system can restrict access to the standardized consumer data to accessors that are (i) an originating contributor computing system for the employment or income data or (ii) consumers described by the standardized employment or income data.
US11431727B2
Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing security for code between a code generator and a compiler. The code generator generates source code. The code generator generates a first checksum of a file that includes the source code. The code generator provides the first checksum to the compiler via a secure channel. The compiler generates a second checksum of the file that includes the source code. The compiler determines whether to compile the source code based at least in part on whether the first checksum and the second checksum are the same. The first checksum and the second checksum being the same indicates that the source code is to be compiled. The first checksum and the second checksum being different indicates that the source code is not to be compiled.
US11431726B2
Systems and methods for creating a network communication pathway between devices based on type of communication request are disclosed. The system obtains a communication object from a first device to enable communication with a second device. The first device may be a device within an affinity group of the second device, such that the system identifies historic data relating to the affinity group and/or relating to communication attempts from non-subscriber devices found in one or more affinity groups stored within the system. Based on the communication object type, the system identifies whether communication object relates to a question object previously received from the second device and calculates an Expert Attribute Score (EAS) for the first device. The system may evaluate the EAS against a predetermined threshold and transmit the communication object to the second device, if the EAS is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold.
US11431712B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for authenticating passengers and their activity regarding the use of resources on a transport during a trip or session on a transport. A passenger is matched to a name and/or identifier that corresponds to a seat on a transport for a specific flight. Authentication is performed based on various methods, such as set of security questions, biometric recognition, facial recognition, certificate recognition. Passenger data is exchanged with on board and remote systems that include accessibility of the passenger to a set of onboard resources. Passenger activity is monitored as to acceptable use of the resources during the flight or trip.
US11431711B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device and a computer program product for service access. The method comprises receiving, from a requester, a request for accessing a first functional interface of a first service of a plurality of services. The method also comprises, in response to the request, determining a first combined permission of the requester to access a plurality of functional interfaces of the plurality of services. The method further comprises determining a second combined permission of the first service to access the plurality of functional interfaces of the plurality of services. In addition, the method comprises controlling, based on the first and the second combined permissions, access of the requester to the first functional interface. The method can accomplish rapid, safe service calling and improve service accessing efficiency.
US11431709B2
A method comprises an authentication agent receiving a communications protocol message from a login agent of a client attempting to login to a target system. The authentication agent determines a login metric associated with the protocol message. The login metric comprises a latency, network, and/or data entry metric. The authentication agent receives credentials associated with an authentic client of the target system and compares the login metric with a registered metric associated with the authentic client. Based on the login metric comporting with the registered metric, the authentication agent continues login processing or performs a non-comporting metric action. Another method comprises the authentication agent sending a training request to the login agent, receiving a training response, determining a login metric associated with the training response, and recording the login metric among registered metrics of an authentic client. A computing system can implement the methods.
US11431708B2
Methods and systems for improved device authentication and presentation of media content to passengers aboard a transportation apparatus are disclosed. In some aspects, authentication of a device may be simplified based on previous associations made between the device, a user, and travel on a transportation apparatus within a particular time period. In some aspects, passenger selected media content may be prepositioned on stable storage within a transportation apparatus such that the media content may be provided to one or more passengers of the transportation apparatus while the transportation apparatus is in motion, and thus avoid transfer of the media content over an off-board wireless communication link.
US11431702B2
Techniques are provided for using tokenization in conjunction with “behind-the-wall” JWT authentication. “Behind-the-wall” JWT authentication refers to JWT authentication techniques in which the JWT stays exclusively within the private network that is controlled by the web application provider. Because the JWT stays within the private network, the security risk posed by posting the JWT in a client cookie is avoided. However, because JWT is used behind-the-wall to authenticate a user with the services requested by the user, the authentication-related overhead is significantly reduced.
US11431698B2
Systems and methods are provided for a media provider to allow a user to access media objects with a third-party partner that authenticates the user and authorizes the user to access certain media objects. The media provider offers access to media objects, such as video content or audio content. The partner, through a relationship with the media provider, similarly offers access to the media provider's media objects, for example, as a service or benefit to the partner's customers or users. In particular, a partner integration server mediates user authentication and authorization by the partner. The partner integration server also allows the media provider to easily and flexibly to add and integrate additional partners.
US11431692B2
The present disclosure relates to implementations of computing systems. Specifically, the disclosure describes implementations of computing systems that use ternary states for implementing security systems.
US11431687B2
A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme, receiving a query at the data custodian server from a data consumer device concerning a portion of the encrypted data, initiating a secure homomorphic work session between the data custodian server and the data consumer device, generating a homomorphic work space associated with the homomorphic work session, compiling, by the data custodian server, a results set satisfying the query, loading the results set into the homomorphic work space, and building an application programming interface (API) compatible with the results set, the API facilitating encrypted analysis on the results set in the homomorphic work space.
US11431677B2
The method for implementing mechanisms for Layer 7 context accumulation for enforcing Layers 4, 7, and verb-based rules is presented. The method comprises: receiving stream data, and identifying a packet in the stream. If the packet includes Layer 7 headers: for each Layer 7 header: determining content of the packet identified by a Layer 7 header's identifier; and parsing the content to extract firewall input data. If one or more rules at least partially match the firewall input data, determining that a particular rule also includes additional information that cannot be found in the firewall input data; performing a DPI on the content to determine whether at least a portion of the additional information is found in the content; extracting additional input data from the content and adding it to the firewall input data; and applying the rules to the firewall input data to process the packet.
US11431675B2
A system and method are provided for a network device for use with a client device having a hostname and a MAC address. The network device contains a memory that has a second hostname and a second MAC address stored within the memory. The second MAC address corresponds to the second hostname. The memory also contains a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the network device to: receive, from the client device, the hostname and the MAC address; determine whether the MAC address is randomized; provide an instruction to the client device to inform a user of the client device that the client device hostname is registered when the hostname matches the second hostname and the MAC address is randomized.
US11431657B2
A visual trigger node, indicative of a trigger, is displayed on a first display portion. A trigger configuration user interface is also displayed. A property input, indicative of a property that activates the trigger, is detected and code is generated to map the trigger to the property.
US11431656B2
A switch identification method in by a computer includes sending a first packet to a first virtual switch emulating a first physical switch, and identifying a second virtual switch that is an allocation destination to which the first virtual switch allocates the first packet, and referring, to a storage unit that stores a switch correspondence information that associates a second physical switch that is an allocation destination of the first physical switch with the second virtual switch, and identifying the second physical switch that is the allocation destination to which the first physical switch allocates a second packet emulated by the first packet.
US11431653B2
Devices and techniques for packet arbitration for buffered packets in a network device are described herein. A packet can be received at an input of the network device. The packet can be placed in a buffer for the input and a characteristic of the packet can be obtained. A record for the packet, that includes the characteristic, is written into a data structure that is independent of the buffer. Arbitration, based on the characteristic of the packet in the record, can then be performed among multiple packets to select a next packet from the buffer for delivery to an output.
US11431644B2
A method for controlling congestion in a datacenter network or server is described. The server includes a processor configured to host a plurality of virtual machines and an ingress engine configured to maintain a plurality of per-virtual machine queues configured to store received packets. The processor is also configured to execute a CPU-fair fair queuing process to control the processing of the packets by the processor. The processor is also configured to selectively trigger temporary packet per second packet transmission limits on top of a substantially continuously enforced bit per second transmission limit upon detection of a per virtual machine queue overload.
US11431642B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, an event associated with an audio input is detected with a first process. In accordance with a detection of the event, a delay value associated with an electronic device is determined. The delay value corresponds to a time required to determine, with a second process, whether the audio input includes a spoken trigger. In accordance with a determination that the delay value exceeds a threshold, the delay value is broadcast during a first advertising session, and determination is made, during a second advertising session, whether the electronic device is to respond to the audio input. In accordance with a determination that the threshold is not exceeded, a determination is made, during the first advertising session, whether the electronic device is to respond to the audio input or wait for the second advertising session.
US11431639B2
Some embodiments provide a method for processing a packet received by a managed forwarding element. The method performs a series of packet classification operations based on header values of the received packet. The packet classifications operations determine a next destination of the received packet. When the series of packet classification operations specifies to send the packet to a network service that performs payload transformations on the packet, the method (1) assigns a service operation identifier to the packet that identifies the service operations for the network service to perform on the packet, (2) sends the packet to the network service with the service operation identifier, and (3) stores a cache entry for processing subsequent packets without the series of packet classification operations. The cache entry includes the assigned service operation identifier. The network service uses the assigned service operation identifier to process packets without performing its own classification operations.
US11431636B2
A communication system includes a programmable switch configured to perform packet transfer and queuing, a plurality of VNFs configured to execute network functions on packets, and a controller configured to control the programmable switch including a queue distribution unit configured to distribute input packets to any of the plurality of VNFs according to an instruction of the controller with respect to a queue group, the plurality of VNFs each include a load measurement unit configured to measure an amount of consumption of server resources and notify the controller of a load status, and the controller includes a load analysis unit configured to analyze a load of each of the plurality of VNFs based on a certain rule, and a queue control unit configured to change a queue distribution rule.
US11431635B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a host computer that executes a set of data compute nodes (DCNs), for identifying a designated router for a multicast group. The method receives a membership request message to join the multicast group from a particular DCN of the set of DCNs, the membership request message including an address associated with the multicast group. The method identifies a logical router gateway from a set of logical router gateways as the designated router for the multicast group, based at least in part on the address associated with the multicast group, where different logical router gateways from the set of logical router gateways are assigned as designated routers for different multicast groups with different associated addresses. The method forwards the membership request message to the identified logical router gateway.
US11431631B2
A multi-access edge computing device configured to be connected to first and second networks with different radio access technologies comprises a routing module, a comparison module and a control module. The control module performs steps when determining a user device connected to the first network intends to switch to the second network, wherein the steps comprise: according to identity information of the user device, looking up a target address in a comparison table in the comparison module, notifying the routing module to temporarily store a data packet corresponding to the user device and the first network, notifying the user device to release an original used address on the first network interface and then assigning the target address identical to the original used address to the second network interface of the user device, and transmitting the temporarily stored data packet to the second network interface of the user device.
US11431615B2
This application provides a multicast data packet processing method and a forwarding device. The method implemented by a first forwarding device includes: establishing a segment routing header SRH-based tunnel with a third forwarding device, wherein the SRH-based tunnel passes through a second forwarding device that does not support bit index explicit replication BIER; generating a first multicast data packet based on a multicast data packet from a multicast source and the SRH-based tunnel, wherein the first multicast data packet includes a first packet header, a second packet header, and the multicast data packet from the multicast source, the first packet header includes an SRH header, and a destination address included in the second packet header is an address of the second forwarding device; and sending the first multicast data packet to the second forwarding device through the SRH-based tunnel.
US11431613B2
In an example, a node in a network includes four ports coupled to respective nodes via respective links. Two of the ports are coupled to respective nodes via respective near links and two of the port are coupled to respective nodes via respective skip links. The node further includes a processor configured to compare first and second data streams, sourced from a self-checking pair of nodes, received in a first direction and to compare third and fourth data streams, sourced from the self-checking pair of nodes, received in a second direction. The processor is configured to relay the second data stream in the first direction and fourth data stream in the second direction and a hop count at the end of the respective data stream that is indicative of integrity of the respective data stream.
US11431600B2
Technologies for monitoring network traffic include a computing device that monitors network traffic at a graphics processing unit (GPU) of the computing device. The computing device manages computing resources of the computing device based on results of the monitored network traffic. The computing resources may include one or more virtual machines to process network traffic that is to be monitored at the GPU of the computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11431596B1
An embodiment provides a method for real-time management of device maintenance utilizing quality metrics defined based upon inputs of the device, the method including: receiving inputs corresponding to a particular device, wherein the particular device provides measurements of a parameter of a fluid; generating, from the inputs, quality metrics for and unique to the particular device; monitoring the particular device while the particular device is deployed, wherein the monitoring occurs in view of the quality metrics; and triggering, responsive to detecting information corresponding to the particular device is violating at least one of the quality metrics, a notification to a user to perform an action corresponding to the particular device.
US11431593B2
A method, system and computer program product for visualizing analysis results of contents. Contents collected from various kinds of communication tools are read into memory. The contents are analyzed to obtain analysis results, where the analysis results include information on user groups, information on topics and degrees of involvement of users with the topic. Furthermore, user objects assigned according to the degree of involvement are dynamically displayed for a designated period of time and for each topic using the analysis results, where the displaying of each of the user objects is modified according to the degree of involvement and the information on a user group. A communication volume object which represents a communication volume between users may be further displayed between the user objects associated with these users and displayed so as to be different depending on the communication volume.
US11431584B2
A system is disclosed for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for network management automation. The GUI is a data view that provides functionality for monitoring and controlling devices in a network using a dynamic golden baseline.
US11431582B2
A computerized method of calculating a score characterizing a computing process executed in a distributed computing system includes: receiving, by a computing device, from a first data store in electronic communication with the computing device, one or more numerical features representing an aspect of execution performance of the computing process; receiving, by the computing device, from a second data store in electronic communication with the computing device, a set of numerical multipliers including a numerical multiplier for each feature, each numerical multiplier based on a significance of the associated execution performance aspect of the computing process to the computing process; and calculating, by the computing device, the score based on a sum of features weighted by their associated numerical multipliers, the score indicating a performance of the computing process.
US11431575B2
A network system includes a storage unit that stores topology information in a graph database in chronological order, the topology information including end point information and connection information of logical resources of the virtual network, end point information and connection information of physical resources of the physical network, and correspondence information between the logical resources and the physical resources; a setting information acquirer that acquires setting information of the virtual network from the orchestrator using a change notification from the orchestrator as a trigger; and a topology information management unit that updates the topology information stored in the graph database of the storage unit on the basis of the acquired setting information.
US11431567B1
Some organizations have a deployed and functional “controllerless” EVPN VxLAN Fabric in their data centers. Eventually, however, the organization may deploy a controller within the network. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes configuring a controller to communicate with each of a plurality of elements in a network; determining, by the controller, an initial operational state of the network; translating, by the controller, the initial operational state of the network to an intent-based configuration; pushing, by the controller, the intent-based configuration to the network to reconfigure each of the plurality of elements in the network in a manner consistent with the intent-based configuration; determining, by the controller and after pushing the intent-based configuration, an updated operational state of the network; and comparing, by the controller, the initial operational state of the network with the updated operational state of the network.
US11431566B2
Some embodiments of a system comprise a plurality of sensor arrays, wherein each sensor array of the plurality of sensors arrays includes multiple sensors, includes a wireless transceiver, includes one or more processors, and is configured to generate sensed data, according to sensor settings, while moving along a path; while moving along the path, transmit data to, and receive data from, other sensor arrays of the plurality of sensor arrays that are also moving along the path; and, while moving along the path, change one or more of the sensor settings based on the received data.
US11431558B2
Data shipper agent management and configuration systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an example method includes enrolling data shipper agents which are installed on edge nodes, receiving selections of one or more tags for the data shipper agents, each of the one or more tags representing one or more services assigned to the data shipper agents, configurations of the services being modifiable through the one or more GUIs using a configuration application programming interface (API), providing the one or more GUIs, receiving configurations for at least one of the modules of one of the data shipper agents through one of the one or more GUIs, and automatically reconfiguring the configurations to other ones of the data shipper agents automatically.
US11431554B2
A method and system for automatic redirection of control channel messages in response to a control channel failure with a target switch in a software defined networking (SDN) network, the automatic redirection occurring before a topology of the SDN network is updated in response to the control channel failure. The method includes determining whether a control channel message is to be sent to an SDN controller, checking availability of the control channel, selecting a backup port to reach the SDN controller in response to the control channel being unavailable, and forwarding the control channel message to the SDN controller via the backup port.
US11431551B2
A multiplexing device including a multistage slave configured to process control data transmitted from a master in an industrial network, a multiprocessing device configured to multiplex the control data transmitted from a first slave of the multistage slave, the first slave being disposed at an upstream side to the master of the multistage slave, and transmit the control data so multiplexed to a second slave of the multistage slave by way of a multiplex communication line, the second slave being situated at a downstream side of the multistage slave, and a control device configured to issue a disconnection command to disconnect a communication between the first slave and the multiprocessing device in response to a disconnection of the multiplex communication line.
US11431550B2
A method for analyzing network incidents within a network and providing prioritized remediation recommendations is disclosed. The method includes: receiving network data and computing a plurality of network incidents from the network data, collecting network incidents related to a particular network issue over a time period and grouping the network incidents according to root-cause symptoms, generating a network incident graph by superimposing groups of network incidents over a network graph, analyzing the network incident graph to identify localized areas with systemic issues; and based on the analysis of the network incident graph, generating and displaying a list of remediation recommendations. Each remediation recommendation includes a systemic issue in the network, a remediation to resolve the issue, and a quantified expected benefit from implementing the remediation.
US11431544B2
A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus (10) comprises an encoder (11) that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator (12) that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator (12) is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector w0 . . . b−1, wherein b=M/4.
US11431525B2
A method and system for processing network traffic data units (NTDUs) is disclosed. The method includes establishing a virtual tunnel between a wireless access point (WAP) and a network device. A NTDU is received by the WAP from a client device, and the virtual tunnel is identified upon which to transmit the NTDU based on a header of the NTDU according to a policy. The policy maps a portion of the header to a plurality of available virtual tunnels. The NTDU is transmitted, via the virtual tunnel, to the network device.
US11431524B2
An Internet of Things (IoT) network system and a networking method thereof are provided. The IoT network system is connected to a wireless access point and includes a plurality of network nodes and an idle node. The plurality of network nodes are communicatively connected to the wireless access point through a tree topology to form a first tree structure. In order to join the IoT network, when communication signal quality of the idle node with respect to the wireless access point is greater than a preset value, the idle node is communicatively connected to the wireless access point to form a root node of a second tree structure. When the communication signal quality of the idle node with respect to the wireless access point is not greater than the preset value, the idle node joins the IoT network by using one of network nodes in the first tree structure as a parent node.
US11431522B2
A method for controlling an electronic device includes: responsive to that a starting operation over a controlled electronic device is detected, a target electronic device at a distance that is within a preset distance away from the controlled electronic device is determined; a working mode of the target electronic device is determined; and responsive to that the working mode of the target electronic device is matched with a first preset working mode, a working mode of the controlled electronic device is adjusted to a second preset working mode to avoid interference from the controlled electronic device to use of the target electronic device.
US11431520B2
A system includes a plurality of first building components, a private local blockchain, a second building component, and a client device. The private local blockchain includes a device ledger indicating each first building component, a transaction ledger maintaining a plurality of blocks corresponding to a transaction between at least two first building components and including at least one first unique identifier of the corresponding first building component and a timestamp of the transaction, a transaction processor that generates at least one block by executing a predetermined hash function using a previous block, and a local rule engine defining rules to evaluate a transaction. The second building component has at least one second unique identifier. The client device provides the at least one second unique identifier to the private local blockchain. The private local blockchain determines whether to add the second building component to the device ledger.
US11431516B2
A network system includes: an electric power system including a first power supply system and a second power supply system; a higher-level device connected to a first power supply of the first power supply system and a second power supply of the second power supply system; a first intermediate device connected to the first power supply of the first power supply system and configured to control supply of an electric power to a first lower-level device; and a second intermediate device connected to the second power supply of the second power supply system and configured to control supply of an electric power to a second lower-level device that is a redundant component for the first lower-level device.
US11431514B1
During provisioning of a biometric device, a hardware root of trust is established between the biometric device and a server. The biometric device includes a cryptographic processor with a first encryption key stored in secure storage. The first encryption key is used to establish a mutually authenticated communication channel with the server. A set of additional encryption keys between the device and the server are established via the communication channel. Biometric data generated by the biometric device is encrypted using the additional keys and digitally signed. The server receives the encrypted and signed data via the communication channel and verifies the signature. Once the signature is verified, the biometric data is then decrypted. The server then processes the decrypted biometric data. Data that does not arrive via the communication channel, that fails the verification, or that fails decryption is deleted or disregarded.
US11431513B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for decentralized authorization of user access requests in a distributed service architecture. A gateway node receives a user access request from a remote computing device. The gateway generates a signed and encrypted access token based upon the user access request using an authorization service node and a key management service node. The gateway transmits the access token, the user access request, and a security certificate received from the authorization service to a security proxy node of a microservice container. The security proxy validates the certificate and the access token. The security proxy decrypts the access token using a public key from the certificate, and determines user authorization to access a service endpoint node based upon the decrypted token. The security proxy transmits the user access request to the service endpoint, which provides the remote device with access to services based upon the user access request.
US11431510B1
A system and method for efficiently managing an executable environment involving multiple code-sign certificate chains. The system and method include receiving, by one or more processors and from a client device, a request for information to verify an authorization of a code bundle, the code bundle associated with a first signed code segment and a second signed code segment. The system and method include generating, by one or more processors, a list of certificates associated with the code bundle. The system and method include transmitting, by the one or more processors and to the client device, a message comprising the list of certificates, the message causing the client device to verify the code bundle based on the list of certificates.
US11431501B2
Embodiments presented herein provide a partner authentication (PA) system that coordinates a network-based authorization process for an application. The PA system exchanges a series of messages with the application seeking an access token for a protected resource, an authorization server associated with the resource, and an agent executing on a device accessed by a user who wants the application to access the resource. The PA system and the agent communicate with the authorization server on behalf of the application throughout the authorization process. At the completion of the authorization process, the PA system receives an access token and a refresh token from the server on behalf of the application and sends a partner authorization (PA) token to the application. When the application seeks access to the resource that is available to authorized parties via the resource server, the application sends the PA token to the PA system and receives the access token in return.
US11431493B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to generate a first key for a first entity. A second key for a second entity can be generated wherein the first entity can authenticate the second entity based on an authentication token generated based on the second key. In some instances, the first entity can be a server and the second entity can be a client.
US11431492B2
Security of network traffic may be increased by utilizing a mutable password to encrypt and decrypt content stored inside an executable utilizing a mutable password (e.g., where a password changes based on an equation when the executable is run). For example, the present password may be associated with a variable, the variable may be modified when the executable is run using the present password, and a subsequent password may be generated based on the modified variable.
US11431482B2
A system and method for securely encrypting and booting a headless appliance. A computerized method is disclosed that includes: providing the network appliance with content encrypted with a secret key; launching the network appliance in a fallback configuration that provides limited operational capabilities; forwarding a request for the secret key to an online service that independently utilizes an identity provider to establish trust with an appliance administrator; receiving the secret key from the online service upon establishment of trust with the appliance administrator; decrypting the content with the secret key received from the online service; and utilizing the content to launch the network appliance in a full configuration.
US11431467B2
A system for time synchronization of a network element including a GNSS receiver operative to receive at least one signal from at least one but less than four GNSS satellites, a locator operative to supply a location of a network element including the GNSS receiver to the GNSS receiver and a time synchronization calculator operative to time synchronize the network element with the GNSS satellites based on the at least one signal and the location.
US11431456B2
A method and apparatus for implementing reference signal transmissions in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes the cell, transmission point (TP), or transmission and reception point (TRP) broadcasting a first RS periodically for measurement, wherein the first RS is transmitted at multiple occasions (or timings) in each period on different beams. The method also includes the cell, TP, or TRP transmitting a second RS to a UE for PDCCH demodulation, wherein the second RS is transmitted on multiple beams in a beam set of the UE in a subframe (or symbol) in which the PDCCH is transmitted.
US11431453B2
This application discloses a reference signal transmission method and an apparatus. A network node sends reference signals by mapping the reference signals to at least one resource unit, where the at least one resource unit includes a plurality of sub-resource units; and the network node receives, from the terminal, measurement information related to part of the plurality of sub-resource units. The terminal selects, based on configuration information of the reference signals, part of the measurement information to report, so that a quantity of channel resources occupied by the measurement information is reduced.
US11431441B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for priority-based channel coding for control information. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may sort control information associated with a first control information type into a first control information group and the control information associated with a second control information type into a second control information group, for example, based on respective priorities associated with the first and second control information types. The WTRU may group one or more bits of the first control information group into a first bit level control information group and a second bit level control information group based on priority. The WTRU may selectively apply a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to the first control information group, the second control information group, the first bit level control information group, and/or the second bit level control information group.
US11431435B2
This document discloses a solution for performing anti-jamming procedures. According to an aspect, a method for a terminal device comprises: receiving a first reference signal allocation from an access node, wherein the first reference signal is unique to the terminal device in a cell managed by the access node; receiving a second reference signal allocation from the access node, wherein the second reference signal is shared with at least one other terminal device in the cell; causing transmission of payload data together with the first reference signal according to a regular transmission pattern; and breaking the regular transmission pattern by transmitting dummy data together with the second reference signal in a time-frequency resource shared with the at least one other terminal device.
US11431424B2
A test device suitable for a predetermined wireless communication protocol includes a remote RF test box and a cloud server. The remote RF test box used to control a DUT to transmit or receive an RF signal includes an RF processing unit and a low-level processor. The RF processing unit receives the RF signal from the DUT, and down-converts the RF signal from the DUT into a baseband signal. The low-level processor converts the baseband signal into a digital signal. The cloud server stores an algorithm corresponding to the predetermined wireless communication protocol, communicates with the remote RF test box through a communication interface, receives and decodes the digital signal, and determines whether the DUT meets the predetermined wireless communication protocol through the algorithm of the predetermined wireless communication protocol.
US11431422B2
A method for calibration, in a serial fronthaul in which a calibration device and L (L is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) access node(s) (AN(s)) are serially connected, may include: transmitting, by the calibration device, to at least part of the L AN(s), a calibration command message indicating calibration of transmission paths; determining, by the calibration device and the at least part of the L AN(s), time delay values and phase characteristic values of the transmission paths of the at least part of the L AN(s); and transmitting, by the calibration device, to the at least part of the L AN(s), a calibration adjustment message indicating calibration of the transmission paths based on the time delay values and the phase characteristic values of the transmission paths of the at least part of the L AN(s).
US11431418B2
A quantum state measurement system includes a quantum state generator that generates an optical photon comprising a quantum state. A spectral converter modifies a spectrum of the optical photon and provides the optical photon comprising the quantum state with the modified spectrum. An optical switch switches the optical photon with the modified spectrum to one of a plurality of outputs. A measurement system determines a fidelity of the quantum state of the optical photon with the modified spectrum. A control system provides an electrical control signal to the quantum state generator in response to the determined fidelity of the quantum state that improves a fidelity of at least some subsequent generated optical photons comprising a quantum state that are generated by the quantum state generator after the optical photon.
US11431417B2
An optical receiver includes a photonic integrator configured to accumulate optical signal energy corresponding to the input optical signal during an integration period, and to produce an output optical signal at an end of the integration period, the output optical signal having a higher intensity than the input optical signal, a shutter operable between a closed position and an open position, the shutter configured to prevent the output optical signal from exiting the photonic integrator when in the closed position and to allow the output optical signal to exit the photonic integrator when in the open position, a synchronizer coupled to the shutter and configured to control the shutter between the open position and the closed position; and a photodetector configured to receive the output optical signal when the shutter is in the open position and to produce an electrical signal corresponding to the output optical signal.
US11431410B2
A free space optical communications transmitter terminal including an optical source arranged to provide a first beam of light encoding information to be communicated; an optical source arranged to provide photons encoding bits of a key of a Quantum Key Distribution protocol; and an optics arrangement. The first beam and the photons are linearly polarised. The optics arrangement is configured to combine the first beam and the photons into a single, second, beam to be transmitted to a receiver terminal; and transform the linear polarisation of the first beam into one of left and right circular polarisation and transform the linear polarisation of the photons into the other of left and right circular polarisation. A receiver terminal receives the second beam, transforms the circular polarisations into orthogonal linear polarisations, and filters out the linear polarisation of the first beam to allow the photons to pass to a single photon detector.
US11431402B2
Disclosed is a method for determining beam search space by a user equipment (UE), including determining a geo-location of a base station and a geo-location of the UE at a current time instance, determining a relative angle of reception from the base station based on the geo-location of the base station and the geo-location of the UE at the current time instance, determining a beam search space comprising a plurality of beams, for measurement, centered at the relative angle of reception, and determining an optimal beam from within the beam search space based on the measurement of the plurality of beams in the beam search space.
US11431399B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for transmitting an uplink signal and a downlink signal. A method for transmitting an uplink signal comprises detecting whether there is a beam failure; if there is a beam failure, determining at least one of whether there is a candidate downlink transmission beam(s) or candidate downlink transmission beam information; and transmitting a beam failure recovery request message to a base station, the beam failure recovery request message being used for informing the base station of at least one of whether there is a candidate downlink transmission beam(s) or candidate downlink transmission beam information. A method for transmitting a downlink signal comprises detecting a beam failure recovery request message, determining at least one of whether there is a candidate downlink transmission beam(s) or candidate downlink transmission beam information in the UE; and transmitting a feedback message corresponding to the beam failure recovery request message.
US11431395B2
A UE determines a PMI, by performing at least the following: determining an intermediate set of vectors from a FD codebook; forming a subset of the intermediate set of vectors; mapping the subset of vectors to a combinatorial indicator; and forming the PMI at least from the combinatorial indicator. The UE sends the PMI toward a wireless network. A base station receives the PMI from the UE. The PMI includes a combinatorial indicator that maps to a subset of vectors from the FD codebook. The base station determines, using at least the received PMI, information from at least the FD codebook to apply to data for transmission toward the UE.
US11431387B2
A broadcast signal transmission occurs concurrently with device-specific, directional transmissions but without substantially interfering with the directional transmissions, based on transmitting the broadcast signal in the null spaces of the directional transmissions. Specifically, transmission of the broadcast signal relies on beamforming precoder values formed from one or more orthonormal basis vectors for the null space of a channel estimate matrix representing the channels between a multi-element antenna array and the wireless devices targeted by the device-specific transmissions. The approach concentrates most of the broadcast signal energy for each subcarrier on a single antenna element for good broadcast-signal coverage while still yielding a beamforming solution that substantially avoids broadcast-signal interference at the devices targeted for directional transmission.
US11431386B1
A method for receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmitted by a user device in a wireless network comprises determining which subcarrier frequencies are allocated to the user device; converting the OFDM signal to a frequency-domain values corresponding to the subcarrier frequencies; and decoding the frequency-domain values to recover data symbols encoded by the user device on the subcarrier frequencies. The decoding employs codes that are inverse to, complex-conjugate of, or complementary to a set of complex-valued codes employed by the user device to shape the OFDM signal into a superposition of cyclic-shifted pulse waveforms, wherein each of the pulse waveforms has one of the data symbols modulated thereon.
US11431385B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) aware sector-carrier allocation. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a network node in a wireless communication system comprises selecting a sector-carrier for a wireless device from among a plurality of sector-carriers in accordance with a MU-MIMO aware sector-carrier allocation procedure that takes into account possible MU-MIMO pairings for the wireless device on the plurality of sector-carriers. The method further comprises providing an indication of the sector-carrier selected for the wireless device to at least one node selected from a group consisting of: another network node and the wireless device. By taking into account possible MU-MIMO pairings for the wireless device when performing sector-carrier allocation, performance of the wireless communication system is improved.
US11431375B2
A transceiver includes a transmitter, a frequency synthesizer coupled to the transmitter, a receiver coupled to the frequency synthesizer and a voltage sensor; and a digital controller coupled to the voltage sensor, the receiver, and the transmitter, wherein based on a DC voltage measurement of an IF signal made by the voltage sensor, a relative phase adjustment occurs of a relative phase associated with a local oscillator (LO) port and a radio frequency (RF) port of the receiver.
US11431370B2
A vehicle reception apparatus can receive a broadcast signal through a receiver, perform data communication for receiving and displaying a broadcast service without transmission loss, and maximize memory efficiently by controlling an encoder and an interface in a vehicle. For example, the vehicle reception apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a broadcast signal, a demodulator configured to extracting a baseband (BB) frame including service data and a BB frame size based on the received broadcast signal, an encoder configured to receive, from the demodulator, the extracted BB frame and the extracted BB frame size, and store the extracted BB frame in a buffer, and an interface configured to receive, from the encoder, the stored BB frame and the BB frame size.
US11431369B2
A multichannel transmission system which includes a calibration functionality that allows precise calibration of the frequency conversion chains and of the multiport amplifier of the system to be performed without interruption of service. The proposed calibration makes it possible to correct the defects over the entire frequency band of the system.
US11431366B2
A data transmission method is applied to a primary base station and includes: when configuring a secondary base station for a terminal, configuring, for the secondary base station, carrier parameters for use by the secondary base station; configuring, for the terminal, an autonomous denial rule used when cross-modulation interference occurs between carriers for use by the secondary base station and a carrier used by the primary base station; sending the carrier parameters and the autonomous denial rule to the terminal so that the terminal determines a carrier used by the secondary base station according to the carrier parameters, determines autonomously denied carriers according to the autonomous denial rule when cross-modulation interference occurs between the carrier used by the secondary base station and the carrier used by the primary base station, and performs data transmission by using carriers other than the autonomously denied carriers.
US11431352B2
An arithmetic encoder for encoding a plurality of symbols having symbol values is configured to derive an interval size information for an arithmetic encoding of one or more symbol values to be encoded based on a plurality of state variable values representing statistics of a plurality of previously encoded symbol values with different adaptation time constants. The arithmetic encoder is configured to map a first state variable value, or a scaled and/or rounded version thereof, using a lookup-table and to map a second state variable value, or a scaled and/or rounded version thereof using the lookup-table, in order to obtain the interval size information describing an interval size for the arithmetic encoding of one or more symbols to be encoded. Further arithmetic encoders, arithmetic decoders, video encoders, video decoder, methods for encoding, methods for decoding and computer programs are also disclosed which are based on the same concept and on other concepts.
US11431346B2
A device is provided comprising a first oscillator based analog-to-digital converter configured to receive an analog input signal and output a first digital signal and a second oscillator based analog-to-digital converter configured to receive an analog reference signal and output a second digital signal. The device further comprises output logic configured to generate a digital output signal based on the first digital signal and the second digital signal.
US11431344B2
An apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes a phase locked loop (PLL) configured to generate a reference signal; a sub-sampling PLL (SS-PLL) connected to the PLL and configured to sub-sample the reference signal; and a first pre-charge circuit connected to a sampling device of the SS-PLL and configured to facilitate frequency locking of the SS-PLL.
US11431343B2
In the oscillator, a quartz crystal resonator and an oscillation circuit formed in an IC incorporating an inductor are electrically coupled to each other with a resonator interconnection disposed on a surface of a substrate to form an oscillation loop. A conductor layer disposed as an intermediate layer of the substrate is disposed so as to overlap the resonator interconnection and not to overlap the inductor incorporated in the IC in a plan view.
US11431340B2
This disclosure relates to a dual power supply detection circuit including first and second input stage field effect transistors, an inverter stage, a feedback stage field effect transistor, and first and second compensation circuits. The inverter stage includes a complimentary pair of transistors, and the complementary pair of transistors includes an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor configured and arranged so that gate lengths of the PMOS and NMOS transistors are different. The disclosure also relates to an integrated circuit including a dual power supply detection circuit.
US11431337B2
A switch circuit is provided. The switch circuit includes a P-type transistor switch and a first P-type control transistor. The P-type transistor switch includes a first control end, a first output end, and a first input end. The first input end receives a first input signal whose logic level is one. The first P-type control transistor is coupled to the first input end and the first control end. The first P-type control transistor includes a second control end. The second control end receives a second input signal whose logic level is zero to turn on the first P-type control transistor. When the first P-type control transistor is turned on, the first input signal is transmitted to the first control end of the P-type transistor switch to turn off the P-type transistor switch.
US11431327B2
Disclosed herein are silicon-on-insulator (SOI) switches and associated control circuits having level shifters configured to provide increased voltages (positive and/or negative) to the switches. The disclosed level shifters can be configured to provide increased voltages and can be used with high-linearity switches and/or can improve the linearity of switches. The improved switch performance can improve front end module performance for applications such as carrier aggregation (CA) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) as well as with protocols such as Long-Term Evolution Advanced (or LTE-A).
US11431325B1
A pulse-width modulation circuit includes an oscillator stage. The oscillator stage includes a first voltage comparator having a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal. A first capacitor is coupled to the first input terminal of the first voltage comparator. A charging path for the first capacitor is coupled between the first capacitor and the output terminal of the first voltage comparator, the charging path having a first resistance. A discharging path for the first capacitor is coupled between the first capacitor and the output terminal of the first voltage comparator, the discharging path having a second resistance that is different from the first resistance. A duty cycle of a clock signal generated by the oscillator stage is determined based on a first RC time constant for charging the first capacitor and a second RC time constant for discharging the first capacitor.
US11431323B2
A signal acquisition circuit for acquiring data of an input signal comprising at least n acquisition units, wherein n is integer greater than one, the n acquisition units comprising k inputs, wherein k is integer greater than one, and wherein at least two inputs are assigned to one channel and the corresponding acquisition units run time interleaved, and at least one trigger unit, wherein the number 1 of the at least one trigger unit is integer and wherein 1 is smaller than k. Further, a single-housed device as well as a method of acquiring data of an input signal are described.
US11431313B2
A resonant element includes first, second, and third plane electrodes, a first via electrode defining a first inductor, a second inductor, and a third inductor. The first via electrode connects the first plane electrode and the second plane electrode, and each of the second inductor and the third inductor connects the first plane electrode and the third plane electrode. The third plane electrode defines a first capacitor together with the second plane electrode, the second inductor includes second via electrodes, and the third inductor includes third via electrodes. Each of the second via electrodes and the third via electrodes is a columnar conductor extending in the extending direction of the first via electrode.
US11431310B2
A multi-path subsystem may include a first processing path, a second processing path, a mixed signal return path, and a calibration engine configured to: estimate and cancel a direct current (DC) offset of the mixed signal return path, estimate and cancel a DC offset between the first processing path and the second processing path, estimate and cancel a phase difference between the first processing path and a sum of the second processing path and the mixed signal return path, estimate and cancel a return path gain of the mixed signal return path, and track and correct for a gain difference between the first processing path and the second processing path.
US11431307B2
Sampler circuitry, having: an input node which receives an input voltage signal; a primary current path connected between high and low voltage supply nodes; a secondary current path connected between high and low voltage supply nodes; current mirror circuitry; and load circuitry having sampler switches which sample a current signal, where the input node is defined along the primary current path, the primary current path configured to carry a primary current dependent on the input voltage signal; the current mirror circuitry includes a primary side and a secondary side, the primary side connected along the primary current path and the secondary side connected along the secondary current path so that a secondary current dependent on the primary current is caused to flow along the secondary current path; and the load circuitry is connected along the secondary current path so that the secondary current at least partly forms the current signal.
US11431296B2
An amplifying circuit is provided. The amplifying circuit includes a bias circuit receiving an operating voltage from a power supply circuit and generating a first bias voltage, a resistance circuit connected between the bias circuit and a gate node and transferring the first bias voltage to the gate node, a start-up circuit generating a high-level start-up voltage and supplying the start-up voltage to the gate node before the operating voltage is supplied, based on a control signal, and an amplifier started-up by receiving the start-up voltage and then receiving the operating voltage and the first bias voltage to amplify a high frequency signal input through the gate node.
US11431292B2
A circuit and method for starting-up a crystal oscillator is described. A crystal resonator is configured to be coupled to a start-up circuit including an H-bridge circuit having a number of switches. A plurality of switch control signals are generated in response to detecting a zero-crossing event of the motional current in the crystal resonator. The switches of the H-bridge circuit are controlled by the switch control signals to apply a voltage to the terminals of the crystal resonator in a first polarity during a first switch control phase and a second opposite polarity during a second switch control phase. During a respective first subphase of the respective switch control phase, the plurality of switches are configured in a first configuration to couple the supply node to a respective crystal resonator terminal. During a respective second subphase of the respective switch control phase the plurality of switches are configured in a second configuration to couple the supply node to the respective crystal resonator terminal. The resistance between the supply node and the respective crystal resonator terminal is larger in the second configuration than the first configuration. A zero-crossing is detected during each respective second sub-phase.
