US11516952B2
A tape erroneous mounting detection system includes sensors provided to the plurality of tape feeders, a reader configured to read identification information from a recording part which is provided to a reel, and a memory part configured to store part verification information. The tape erroneous mounting detection system also includes a part verification part configured to determine whether or not the tape is mounted on the tape feeder at the set position, and to perform verification updating processing, and a tape erroneous mounting detection part configured to perform erroneous mounting detection processing where the tape erroneous mounting detection part identifies the tape feeder on which the tape is mounted based on the tape presence or absence information and the output from the sensor, and the tape erroneous mounting detection part detects that the tape mounted on the tape feeder is erroneously mounted.
US11516948B2
A system includes a vessel, a cooling fluid in the vessel, and at least one power magnetics assembly in the vessel and immersed in the cooling fluid. The system further includes at least one heat sink having a surface in contact with the cooling fluid in the vessel and at least one power semiconductor device mounted on the at least one heat sink. The cooling fluid may be electrically insulating and the vessel may be sealed.
US11516947B2
The present invention refers to an air-cooled motor controller for controlling electric motors, comprising a heat-sink and a variable fan for cooling passive and active components of the motor controller by means of an air stream generated by the fan. The invention is directed towards a fan control means and a coupled fan control method for controlling the speed of the fan of the motor controller in response to the losses in both passive and active devices inside the motor controller.
US11516943B2
The present disclosure is directed to a direct liquid cooling system for cooling of electronic components and configured to maintain a predetermined thermostable environment for the electronic components. The system includes a reservoir and a rack removably placed in the reservoir and securely containing electronic components to be cooled. The system also includes a dielectric coolant which is configured to flow upward in parallel streams between the electronic components and a pump that facilitates continuous pumping of the dielectric coolant thereby forcing the dielectric coolant upwards through the electronic components and overflowing the dielectric coolant within the reservoir. A heat exchanger is also provided and coupled with the reservoir via an outlet pipeline. Additionally, a controller is provided to monitor the temperature of the dielectric coolant and adjust the flow of the coolant.
US11516941B2
A system includes an enclosure having an air inlet end and an air outlet end, air movers positioned near the air outlet end, a first data connector positioned near the air outlet end between the air movers, a heat-generating electrical component positioned immediately between the data connector and the air inlet end, a first heat sink positioned immediately between at least one of the air movers and the air inlet end, and a first conductive pipe thermally coupled between the heat-generating electrical component and the first heat sink.
US11516935B2
A method for maintaining continuity of a network signal path extending along a backplane includes providing a bypass signal circuit compatible with the network signal path and being electrically connected in series with the first and second portions of the network signal path. The bypass signal circuit includes a normally open circuit portion and an electrical contact movable with respect to the bypass signal circuit. An electrical contact is mechanically moved out of contact with the bypass signal circuit and moved mechanically into contact with the bypass signal circuit in response to the function module being detached from or attached to the function module electrical connector and not in response to an electrical control signal.
US11516933B2
A mounting structure of a leg member includes a bottom plate constituting a housing and a leg member. A first female screw hole is formed on the bottom plate. The leg member includes a leg member main body and a support column. The support column has a first male screw member and a shaft member. In case the first male screw member is screwed into the first female screw hole and passes from a bottom surface side to a top surface side of the bottom plate, the shaft member is loosely fitted in the first female screw hole and the first male screw member is locked to the top surface.
US11516925B2
The present disclosure provides a package stack structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The method is characterized by stacking coreless circuit portions on the board of an electronic component to reduce the overall thickness of the package stack structure.
US11516924B2
A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board assembly includes providing a circuit board, positioning a plurality of components including at least one thermally-sensitive component having a maximum temperature threshold on the circuit board, positioning a customized protective heat shield on the thermally-sensitive component, exposing the circuit board (having the thermally-sensitive component disposed thereon and the customized protective heat shield disposed on the thermally-sensitive component) to a high-temperature environment wherein temperatures exceed the maximum temperature threshold of the thermally-sensitive component, and removing the customized protective heat shield from the thermally-sensitive component. Customized protective heat shields are also provided.
US11516921B2
A reel-to-reel lamination method to laminate a metal foil or circuitry pattern on the fly. The method includes applying a UV laminate or thermoset laminate to the metal foil or the circuitry pattern reel to reel, and then apply a UV radiation or heat to the laminate. There can be an optional enclosure connected to a suction source. The enclosure can have a flexible bladder that physically compresses the laminate.
US11516918B2
An air-quality detection apparatus is disclosed. The air-quality detection apparatus includes a casing body including a bottom and a side wall extending upwards from the circumference of the bottom, a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed horizontally above the bottom, a temperature/humidity sensor mounted on the bottom surface of the first PCB, a second PCB disposed horizontally above the first PCB, and a CO2 sensor mounted on the second PCB.
US11516904B2
Provided are flexible hybrid interconnect circuits and methods of forming thereof. A flexible hybrid interconnect circuit comprises multiple conductive layers, stacked and spaced apart along the thickness of the circuit. Each conductive layer comprises one or more conductive elements, one of which is operable as a high frequency (HF) signal line. Other conductive elements, in the same and other conductive layers, form an electromagnetic shield around the HF signal line. Some conductive elements in the same circuit are used for electrical power transmission. All conductive elements are supported by one or more inner dielectric layers and enclosed by outer dielectric layers. The overall stack is thin and flexible and may be conformally attached to a non-planar surface. Each conductive layer may be formed by patterning the same metallic sheet. Multiple pattern sheets are laminated together with inner and outer dielectric layers to form a flexible hybrid interconnect circuit.
US11516903B2
Electronic device includes a housing including a conductive portion extended from at least a portion of a lateral surface of the electronic device to an inner space of the electronic device; an antenna module accommodated in the housing, the antenna module including a PCB including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, one or more antenna elements disposed at the first side of the PCB, and a wireless communication circuit disposed at the second side of the PCB and configured to transmit and/or receive a radio signal through at least one antenna element of the one or more antenna elements; and a conductive member accommodated in the housing and including a supporting portion and a connecting portion extended from the supporting portion and connected to the conductive portion of the housing, the supporting portion configured to support the antenna module such that the first side of the PCB faces in a direction toward the lateral surface of the electronic device, and the connecting portion including a hole through which a fastening member is disposed to fasten the conductive member to the conductive portion of the housing. Heat generated by the antenna module is to be transferred to the conductive portion of the housing.
US11516902B2
A method is for closed-loop control of an X-ray pulse chain generated via a linear accelerator system. In an embodiment, the method includes modulating a first electron beam within a first radio-frequency pulse duration, wherein the first multiple amplitude X-ray pulse is produced on modulating the first electron beam; measuring time-resolved actual values of the first multiple amplitude X-ray pulse; adjusting at least one pulse parameter as a function of a comparison of the specified multiple amplitude X-ray pulse profile and the measured time-resolved actual values; and modulating a second electron beam within a second radio-frequency pulse duration as a function of the at least one adjusted pulse parameter for production of the second multiple amplitude X-ray pulse, so the X-ray pulse chain is controlled.
US11516898B2
A thyristor regulation circuit for a high-voltage light-emitting diode (LED) strip light includes: a live wire input terminal, a neutral wire input terminal, a full-bridge rectifier module, a first group of LED circuit modules, a second group of LED circuit modules, a third group of LED circuit modules, a first thyristor chip, a second thyristor chip and a third thyristor chip. The LED strip light includes a plurality of minimum LED strip light units, the minimum LED strip light units are arranged in parallel, and each of the minimum LED strip light units includes the thyristor regulation circuit for a high-voltage LED strip light. In the thyristor regulation circuit, an external bulky power supply is omitted, and an LED strip light is directly connected to the mains electricity for use, thereby reducing the installation difficulty; and the present disclosure is compatible with existing thyristor dimming circuits.
US11516889B2
An electrically heated aerosol generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes at least one electric heater for heating the aerosol-forming substrate to form the aerosol. The heater includes a heating element of a first cross section electrically connected to a plurality of elongate support elements. Each support element has a cross section greater than the first cross section. At least one of the support elements is integrally formed with the heating element.
US11516888B2
The present invention relates generally to a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire and far-infrared radiation thermal wire thereby, more particularly, a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire and far-infrared radiation thermal wire manufactured thereby, in which electric power is supplied with a predetermined resistance value. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire comprise steps of: making microfine wire that emits far-infrared radiation as it generates heat according to the resistance value when electricity is flowed in; making one strand of thermal wire by bundling many strands of the microfine wire that are in contact of each other; and making two or more groups each of the groups having different resistance value and comprising one or more microfine wires that have identical resistance value in order to make the bundle into an effective geometric structure that well radiates electric dipole radiation while emitting far-infrared radiation.
US11516885B2
An electric heating device comprises a housing with a partition wall which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one PTC heating element with a heater casing protrudes in the direction toward the heating chamber. The at least one PTC element and conductor tracks are supported in the heater casing in an insulated manner. The heater casing is sealed against the partition wall by way of a seal arranged in a receptacle of the partition wall circumferentially surrounding the heater casing. A press ring is arranged in the receptacle and surrounds the heater casing circumferentially, securing the seal in the receptacle. A method of forming such an electric heating device also is disclosed.
US11516881B2
An object is to provide a slice management system capable of assigning slices to a plurality of business operators. In a parent SMF 100, a slice management table 103 can manage resources of a slice managed by a child SMF 100a or the like, and a communication unit 101 can notify the child SMF 100a or the like of the resources. The child SMF 100a or the like receives the resources and stores the resources in the slice management table 106. Therefore, the child SMF 100a or the like can manage the resources of the slice managed by the child SMF 100a or the like, and the child SMF 100a can independently enable the management of the resources.
US11516879B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor for processing a radio signal received through the transceiver or a radio signal to be transmitted through the transceiver. The processor accesses a channel according to according to a priority of data to be transmitted to the base communication terminal by the wireless communication terminal.
US11516878B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first UE (User Equipment) to indicate a network node for releasing SLRB (Sidelink Radio Bearer) or SL-DRB (Sidelink-Data Radio Bearer). In one embodiment, the method includes transmitting a first RRC (Radio Resource Control) message to a network node for requesting sidelink resource, wherein the first RRC message includes a PFI (PC5 QoS Flow Identifier) of a PC5 QoS (Quality of Service) flow in a first list of PC5 QoS flows. The method also includes receiving a second RRC message from the network node, wherein the second RRC message configures a SLRB and maps the PC5 QoS flow to the SLRB. The method further includes transmitting a third RRC message to the network node if the PC5 QoS flow is deactivated or released, wherein the PFI of the PC5 QoS flow is removed from a second list of PC5 QoS flows included in the third RRC message.
US11516868B2
A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives an RRC (Radio Resource Control) connection reconfiguration message including configuration information of a measurement reference signal for a radio link quality in radio link monitoring (RLM), and a control section that controls an RLM behavior concerning the RLM during an RRC connection reconfiguration based on the RRC connection reconfiguration message.
US11516864B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus relating to local area data network connectivity. In certain aspects, a method for use by a network device includes determining a set of available local area data networks (LADNs) for a user equipment (UE) based on a subscription of the UE to a set of data network names (DNNs) corresponding to the set of available LADNs and sending the UE information indicative of the set of available LADNs and a location of availability corresponding to each of the LADNs of the set of available LADNs.
US11516857B2
Provided are a method and device for performing wireless communication in an unlicensed band. The method, for performing wireless communication in an unlicensed band by a terminal, may include: receiving configuration information relating to a synchronization signal block (SSB) burst set in an unlicensed band; receiving transmission interval information in which an SSB is transmitted in the SSB burst set on the basis of a listen-before-talk (LBT) result with respect to the unlicensed band; and detecting the SSB in the SSB burst set on the basis of the transmission interval information.
US11516856B2
A method and apparatus for communication in a network of WLAN overlapping basic service set (OBSS) are disclosed. A station or an access point may indicate its interference reporting and inter-BSS coordination capabilities in a message. At least one of quality of service (QoS) settings, transmission opportunity (TXOP), restricted access window (RAW) or beacon subinterval schedules, or traffic indication map (TIM) or uplink access window assignment may be coordinated. The station may receive a request for interference measurements on the basic service set (BSS) of the station or neighboring BSSs that the station can overhear. The station may transmit an interference measurement report to an access point. The coordination may be performed based on the interference measurement report. Furthermore, STAs may transmit channel or sector preferences to APs and receive channel or sector assignments.
US11516852B2
Embodiments of this application provide a method, the method includes: sending, by the RRC entity, a first RRC message to a lower-layer entity, and receiving, by the MAC entity, a first RRC message from an upper-layer entity, where the first RRC message includes to-be-transmitted data; determining, by the MAC entity, a first random access preamble if a data amount supported by a coverage level of the communications apparatus meets a size of the first RRC message, where the first random access preamble is used to indicate that the first RRC message is to be sent in a random access process.
US11516850B2
In the embodiments of the present invention, UE can complete, by using only two interaction steps instead of six steps in the prior art, a process of sending a data packet to an eNodeB. Even a random access process in the six steps in the prior art includes four interaction steps, and by contrast, in the embodiments, signaling that needs to be consumed on an eNodeB when the UE sends data can be significantly reduced. This is relatively suitable for a scenario in which small data or occasional data is sent.
US11516843B2
This application provides a communications method, which includes: performing, by a network device, LBT on a first carrier, and determining a time offset when the LBT is completed, where the first carrier is used to send a first SS Burst Set, and the time offset is a time offset of an actual transmission time of the first SS Burst Set on the first carrier relative to a configured transmission time of the first SS Burst Set; sending, by the network device, the time offset to a terminal; and receiving, by the terminal, the time offset, and performing rate matching on the first carrier based on the time offset. Thus, the terminal may determine the actual transmission time of the first SS Burst Set based on the time offset, to perform the rate matching and accurately parse downlink data, thereby improving reliability of a communications system.
US11516841B2
An apparatus (e.g., an access point (AP) establishes a plurality of links comprising a primary link and at least a secondary link. The apparatus transmits a management frame on the primary link to indicate a multi-link capability of the AP. The apparatus configures the secondary link for one or more non-AP stations (STAs), which are capable of operating on the primary link and the secondary link, with multi-link capability and operating parameters through an association procedure on the primary link.
US11516837B2
Channel state feedback is provided from a UE to a base station as a first, detailed or a second, less detailed type of channel state feedback information. Initially it is determined whether the UE has received an uplink grant from the base station or not. If the UE has received an uplink grant, a first type of channel state feedback information is transmitted to the base station on the granted resource. If, however, the UE has not received an uplink grant, a second type of channel state feedback information is transmitted to the base station. Different types of channel state feedback information enables a UE and an associated to base station to use available resources more efficiently, when requesting for and delivering channel state feedback information.
US11516834B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of an offset value from a first modulation and coding scheme relating to a first code rate for a payload data transmission. The UE may determine, for a transmission of uplink control information, a second modulation and coding scheme, relating to a second code rate, that is different from the first modulation and coding scheme based at least in part on the offset value. The UE may transmit the uplink control information using the second modulation and coding scheme based at least in part on determining the second modulation and coding scheme. In some aspects, a UE may segment uplink control information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11516833B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for communicating, by a relay node, in a time division multiplexing (TDM) mode, with a parent node via a parent link configured between the relay node and the parent node and with a child node via a child link configured between the relay node and the child node, identifying a TDM alignment conflict between a first transmission scheduled for the parent link and a second transmission scheduled for the child link, and transmitting a conflict indication (e.g., a cancellation message or an interruption message) to the parent node or the child node.
US11516831B2
Provided are a method and device for determining an application delay value of a minimum scheduling offset limit in a wireless communication system. In the method, when DCI including information notifying a change in a minimum scheduling offset limit value in slot n of a scheduling cell is received, the changed minimum scheduling offset limit value is applied in slot n+X of the scheduling cell. Here, the X value may be determined on the basis of two parameters such as Y and Z, wherein the Y value is a minimum scheduling offset limit value applied to a scheduled cell scheduled by the DCI, and the Z value is a value determined in advance according to a subcarrier interval of the scheduling cell. In addition, the Z value may be increased by 1 according to the temporal position at which the DCI is received in the slot n.
US11516821B2
Apparatus and methods for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) are provided. In an aspect, the UE receives a downlink communication from a base station, the downlink communication including an update to at least one semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) or configured grant (CG) parameter. The downlink communication also indicates whether to use a first action time or a second action time for the update to take effect. The UE determines the action time for the at least one SPS or CG parameter update to take effect based on the downlink communication. The UE then applies the update to the at least one SPS or CG parameter for communications of the UE beginning at and following the action time.
US11516817B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a memory configured to store an indication that the apparatus requires reliable and/or low-latency access to a network, and at least one processing core configured to process an access opportunity pattern, received in the apparatus from a network node, the access opportunity pattern comprising access opportunities provided by a subset of a cluster of cells, detectable by the apparatus, and to trigger for the apparatus reliable and/or low-latency access to the network by selecting from the pattern an access opportunity according to the received access opportunity pattern.
US11516804B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for indicating to a spectrum access system communication preferences of a base station and/or of a network operator. Different methods may be used to indicate the communication preferences, including a dedicated type parameter transmitted with spectrum allocation requests from the base station, a rule-based system where the spectrum access system accesses communication preferences of the base station and/or network operator through an identifier corresponding to a rule definition, or the like. The spectrum access system may assign a channel to the network operator based on its communication preferences, such as to determine a channel assignment to correspond to a channel aligned with a raster of communications to be used by the network operator. If the channel is not aligned, then the base station may shift a center frequency of the channel so that the channel aligns with the raster of communications.
US11516803B2
Methods and devices configured to perform wireless communications, the methods and devices configured to monitor a frequency band for one or more other Radio Access Technologies (RATs); determine one or more periods of a reduced interference with the one or more other RATs in one or more frequencies of the monitored frequency band; and communicate a first signal during the one or more periods in the more or more frequencies, and communicate a second signal in the frequency band based on the communication of the first signal.
US11516795B2
A method for managing a wireless communication between user equipment (UE) by a UE in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), a first signalling message to configure a report of assistance information for the wireless communication related to a vehicular service; transmitting, to the BS, the assistance information based on the first signalling message, wherein the assistance information comprises at least one of a period and timing offset of a data arrival and a data size; receiving, from the BS, a second signalling message comprising at least two semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configurations for the wireless communication based on the assistance information; and performing the wireless communication with radio resources corresponding to the at least two semi-persistent SPS.
US11516793B2
Provided are a base station, user equipment and wireless communication methods related to DCI design for blind detection. A base station comprises: circuitry operative to align, for each DCI of a first group of DCIs, one of the size of the DCI of the first group and the size of a selected DCI of a second group of DC's with the other, if the size of the DCI of the first group is different from the size of each DCI of the second group of DCIs, wherein the selected DCI of the second group is a DCI whose size is closest to the size of the DCI of the first group among DC's of the second group having sizes larger than the size of the DCI of the first group or a DCI whose size is closest to the size of the DCI of the first group among DCIs of the second group having sizes smaller than the size of the DCI of the first group; and a transmitter operative to transmit the first group of DCIs and the second group of DCIs after the size alignment by the circuitry to a user equipment, wherein the size alignment is based on a rule which is known by the base station and the user equipment beforehand.
US11516790B2
To provide a wireless communication apparatus that makes it possible to perform wireless communication more efficiently by switching setting or the like for transmission or reception in accordance with whether the wireless communication is non-orthogonal multiple access or orthogonal multiple access. [Solution] There is provided a wireless communication apparatus including: a communication section that performs wireless communication; and a control section that selects setting to be used for transmission control or reception control by the communication section in accordance with whether the wireless communication is non-orthogonal multiple access or orthogonal multiple access.
US11516788B2
To appropriately communicate a control channel even when communication is performed by applying a different control channel configuration from those of legacy LTE systems, one aspect of the terminal includes: a receiving section that receives a downlink control channel; and a processor that determines a number of downlink control channel candidates to be monitored within a slot based on a rule that uses a maximum number of downlink control channel candidates.
US11516785B2
Example channel transmission methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining search spaces of at least two downlink control channels by a first network device. The first network device separately determines in the search spaces resources occupied by the at least two downlink control channels. Resource scheduled by the at least two downlink control channels belong to one carrier. The first network device obtains the at least two downlink control channels by using the resources. With the embodiments of the present invention, data on one carrier can be scheduled through a plurality of downlink control channels.
US11516784B2
Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system. A method includes receiving a configuration of a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells being associated with one or more transport blocks; arranging HARQ-ACK bits for the plurality of cells, based on an order of cell indexes and an order of transport block indexes; encoding the arranged HARQ-ACK bits; and transmitting, to a node B, the encoded arranged HARQ-ACK bits in the PUSCH. 2 HARQ-ACK bits for a cell configured with 2 transport blocks are included in the arranged HARQ-ACK bits. The arranged HARQ-ACK bits are encoded by a (32, O) block code in case that a number of the arranged HARQ-ACK bits is 3, O being the number of the arranged HARQ-ACK bits.
US11516774B2
Provided are wireless communication methods for D2D communication and UEs therefor. A wireless communication method involves transmitting either a first DCI or a second DCI based on whether a first UE and a second UE are to be in a communication type of groupcast or unicast. In the wireless communication methods, the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the UE ID of the second UE if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of unicast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the group ID if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of groupcast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI.
US11516765B2
A base station determines a window of time for arrival of uplink signals, wherein the window of time includes a start based on a first expected time of arrival for a first uplink signal from a first UE and an end based on a second expected time of arrival for a second uplink signal from a second UE. The base station detection detects a false base station, such as a L1 man-in-the-middle false base station, based on an uplink signal being received outside of the determined window of time for the arrival of uplink signals.
US11516760B2
This application provides a method and an apparatus for determining an effective time of a timing advance (TA). The method includes: determining a first subcarrier spacing from M subcarrier spacings, where the M subcarrier spacings are subcarrier spacings of L carriers used by a terminal device, and L≥M≥2; and determining an effective time of a timing advance (TA) of each of the L carriers based on the first subcarrier spacing.
US11516751B2
Method and arrangements, e.g. a device, relating to provision of adjustments of power spectral densities associated with a reference signal sequence in a wireless communication network. A single reference signal sequence is assigned to simultaneous transmissions of a plurality of physical channels, each physical channel occupying a different frequency region of a frequency range, each physical channel having different characteristics. An adjustment of a Power Spectral Density, PSD, of the single reference signal sequence is provided in each physical channel of the physical channels in the frequency region occupied by the physical channel.
US11516726B2
Provided are a data transmission method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The data transmission method includes: when it is determined that a terminal device is successfully handed over to a target network device, forwarding data to the target network device.
US11516717B2
Apparatus and methods related to acquiring service on mobile computing devices (MCDs) are provided. An MCD can determine whether the MCD is connected to a wireless network. After determining that the MCD is not connected to the wireless network, the MCD can determine a scanning context that includes a mobility attribute and/or a location attribute. Based on the scanning context, the MCD can determine frequencies associated with the wireless network and scanning rates for scanning the frequencies, where each frequency can be associated with a respective scanning rate. The MCD can scan one or more of the frequencies at one or more respective scanning rates for a signal that enables the MCD to attempt connection with the wireless network.
US11516713B2
A wireless device may support a plurality of channel state information (CSI) processes. The wireless device may send an indication of a number of supported CSI processes to a first base station. The first base station may send to the wireless device a handover command, instructing the wireless device to handover to a second base station. The handover command may comprise configuration parameters for CSI processes associated with the second base station. The configuration parameters may be based on the number of CSI processes supported by the wireless device.
US11516710B2
This disclosure invention relates to a method of operating a network node in a cellular telecommunications network, wherein the cellular telecommunications network further includes a first base station and a first User Equipment (UE), and the first UE is connected to the first base station by a first and second connection having resources associated with a first and second subscription, respectively, the method including determining that the first connection and second connection relate to the first and second subscription respectively; determining that the first connection and second connection relate to the first UE; monitoring a first resource usage of one or both of the first and second connections with the first UE; and initiating a handover of one or both of the first and second connections based on the first resource usage.
US11516703B2
Embodiments provide a transfer method for transferring data of variable length using a fixedly specified number of sub-data packets to which the data of variable length is distributed.
US11516702B2
The present disclosure disclosed a method of determining a buffer status report (BSR). The method comprises obtaining, by a user equipment (UE) from a buffer, data item to be sent; determining, by the UE, a size of the data item to be sent; determining, by the UE, a minimum number of required logical channel groups (LCGs) based on the data item to be sent; and determining, by the UE, at least one BSR with flexible length based on the size of the data item to be sent and the minimum number of the required LCGs. Information of the at least one BSR with flexible length includes the minimum number of the required LCGs, LCG identifiers (LCG IDs) respectively associated with the minimum number of the required LCGs, and at least one buffer area corresponding to the LCG IDs.
US11516701B2
A method for receiving a backoff value at a wireless station is presented. A traffic indication map is received at the station, wherein a backoff number is implicitly assigned to the station based on a position of the station within the traffic indication map. The backoff value is determined by multiplying the backoff number by a predetermined time value.
US11516685B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for switching between full duplex and half duplex in wireless nodes. A wireless node may measure self-interference for one or more transmitter-receiver beam pairs. Based on the self-interference measurements, the wireless node may communicate on a beam pair in full duplex or half duplex. A duplex mode may be determined based on self-interference, as well as, optionally with other metrics such as rate and latency. A wireless node may switch between full duplex and half duplex based on the duplex mode determination. In addition, suitable beam pairs may be selected, along with associated duplex modes.
US11516681B2
SeNBs generate first identification information for specifying wireless access networks on the basis of system information provided in a notification from a relay communication device, wirelessly transmit the first identification information to UE, and notifiy an MeNB of second identification information for specifying wireless resources, utilization of which is permitted, via the relay communication device. The MeNB sets, in a signal directed to an SeNB selected from the SeNBs in the first identification information received from the UE, the first identification information of the SeNB, sets the second identification information of the selected SeNB in the signal directed to the UE, and transmits the signal to the relay communication device. The relay communication device transfers the signal received from the master base station to the SeNB in accordance with the first identification or the second identification information set in the signal. The SeNB wirelessly transmits the signal transferred from the relay communication device and directed to the UE.
US11516680B2
Some aspects described herein relate to receiving, in a configuration, a slot format indication, wherein the slot format indication includes directional information indicating spatial directions associated with communications based on the slot format, determining, for a slot indicated by the slot format indication and based on the directional information, the spatial direction, and communicating, within the slot and based on the spatial direction, with one or more nodes.
US11516673B2
Devices, systems and methods are provided to implement key generation for secure pairing between first and second devices using embedded out-of-band (OOB) key generation and without requiring the devices to have input/output (IO) capability to enter authentication information. Bluetooth Smart or Low Energy (BLE) OOB pairing option can be used for pairing medical devices with added security of OOB key generation. The OOB key generation comprises providing first and second devices with the same predefined credential and secure hashing algorithm, and making input of the hashing algorithm of the first and second devices the same. The first device transmits unique data to second device (e.g., via BLE advertising) to share and compute a similar input. The first and second devices use the credential and shared data with the hashing function to generate a key that is the same at each of first and second devices.
US11516668B2
Described herein are embodiments that provide out-of-band authentication for vehicular communications using Joint Automotive Radar Communications (“JARC” if singular, “JARCs” if plural). A method includes receiving, by a directional radio of a connected vehicle, a directional communication having a payload that includes the first temporary identifier and sensor data for a purported transmitter of the directional communication. The method includes initiating, by the directional radio and a radar of the connected vehicle, a set of JARCs with the purported transmitter to determine an authenticity status of the first temporary identifier. The method includes executing a vehicular action for the payload of the directional communication responsive to the authenticity status.
US11516667B2
Methods, systems, and devices for communications are described. A device or a group of devices may generate data. The group of devices may receive a group profile from a node that identifies the devices to be included, and the group profile may include a function to be evaluated at each of the devices. The node may also provision evaluation parameters which may allow the device to provide authenticated aggregate data to a requesting third party, without sharing the data between the devices and without sharing the data with the node, thus concurrently maintaining individual data privacy and data provenance.
US11516666B1
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an access controlling network architecture may include: a processor in communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium storing application program instructions that when executed, cause the processor to: generate an expected access control digital key for authenticating a computing device that is operationally linked to access-restricted digital resource for accessing; record the expected access control digital key in a computer memory associated with the access controlling platform; cause to display the expected access control digital key at the computing device; receive a mobile originating communication, having: a particular access control digital key and an identity linked to the computing device; perform a confirmation of the particular access control digital key with the expected access control digital key; transmit, when the confirmation is successful, an access authentication indicator; configured to cause to unlock the at least one access-restricted digital resource for accessing.
US11516663B2
A user equipment (UE) including: a processor; a transceiver; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, controls the processor to: receive a communication request to communicate with a remote system; instantiate, in response to receiving the communication request, a UE virtual machine instance on the UE; generate a root certificate for the UE virtual machine instance; execute, on the UE virtual machine instance, an application for processing the communication request; transmit, through the transceiver and to an attestation server, the root certificate to attest to the execution of the application within the UE virtual machine instance; establish a communication link between the application and the remote system; and communicate, via the transceiver, with the remote system across the communication link.
US11516662B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for performing authenticated actions when Internet connectivity is not available. An application executed in a first computing device determines that an authenticated action is requested to be performed. The application determines that Internet connectivity is unavailable to the first computing device. The application initiates the authenticated action using a communication channel that connects the first computing device to a second computing device. The Internet is inaccessible through the communication channel.
US11516660B2
Systems, devices, and methods for access control via a mobile device are described herein. One method includes receiving location information associated with a mobile device in a facility, determining that the mobile device is within a particular distance of an area of the facility based on the location information, determining whether a user of the mobile device is allowed access to the area, and allowing access to the area via a relay associated with the area responsive to a determination that the user is allowed access.
US11516656B2
A terminal device includes a signal reception unit that receives signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission devices, and analyzes the contents of data contained in the signals; and a control unit that performs control to select one transmission device from the plurality of transmission devices that have transmitted signals containing identical data, and causes the signal reception unit to continuously receive a signal being transmitted from the selected transmission device when the number of received signals containing identical data is equal to or larger than a prescribed number.
US11516644B2
A communication device may execute a wireless communication of object data with a mobile device via a first target network using a second type of interface after executing a sending process of sending a wireless setting, for causing the mobile device to belong to the first target network, to the mobile device using a first type of interface in a case where the communication device is determined as currently belonging to the first target network. The communication device may execute the wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device via a second target network using the second type of interface after executing a specific process of causing both the communication device and the mobile device to belong to the second target network in a case where the communication device is determined as currently not belonging to the target network.
US11516643B1
Software and computer processor implemented system and method of providing customized automated responses to different types of incoming electronic messages from various contact sources, particularly useful for preventing distracted driving or distractions at a place of work or at a place of rest and relaxation. Here the invention's software, often in the form of an app, runs on a smartphone or other computerized device configured to automatically connect to various devices, such as automobile associated Bluetooth peripherals or WiFi access points/routers. When operating, the app causes active connections to automatically trigger auto response mode in response to incoming messages. Optionally, different automated responses to be assigned to different connected device identification codes or different incoming message originators. Various prioritization schemes, such as last active connection dominates, and various ways in which different contact specific automated responses may interact with various device specific automated responses, are also discussed.
US11516641B2
A method performed by a Radio Access Management Function (RAMF) for handling connectivity to a data network is disclosed. The RAMF receives, from a UE, a request associated with connectivity to the data network for an application having a subscription ID. The RAMF selects, based on at least a part of the subscription ID, which Session Management Function the request should be forwarded to, and forwards the request to the selected Session Management Function.
US11516631B2
Various examples and schemes pertaining to on-demand network configuration of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) user equipment (UE) autonomy in New Radio (NR) mobile communications are described. An apparatus implemented in a first user equipment (UE) receives a signaling from a network node of a wireless network. Based on the signaling, the apparatus operates simultaneously in a network-controlled mode and an autonomous mode such that: (a) the first UE operates in the network-controlled mode with respect to resource allocation on a first sidelink with a second UE, and (b) the first UE operates in the autonomous mode with respect to resource allocation on a second sidelink with the second UE or a third UE.
US11516624B2
An indoor location positioning system comprises at least one processor, Wi-Fi scanners, and a RSSI fingerprint database. The Wi-Fi scanners and the RSSI fingerprint database works with the processor. The Wi-Fi scanners are positioned at locations within an environment that is partitioned into interconnected zones. The Wi-Fi scanners receive anonymous probe messages from Wi-Fi devices that are present in the environment during a calibration phase of the indoor location positioning system. The RSSI values are collated to create RSSI fingerprints corresponding to the different locations respectively. One or more of the Wi-Fi scanners are used as anchor scanners to counter the difference in transmit power levels of different Wi-Fi devices that result in different RSSI fingerprints for the different types of Wi-Fi devices, wherein the RSSI value at each anchor scanner is subtracted from the RSSI values at rest of the Wi-Fi scanners to generate the RSSI fingerprint.
US11516614B2
The invention provides a method for generating output filters to a plurality of loudspeakers at respective positions for playback of a plurality of different input signals in respective spatially different sound zones by means of a processor system. The method comprising computing spatio-temporal correlation matrices in response to spatial information, e.g. measured transfer functions, and in response to desired sound pressures in the plurality of sound zones. Joint eigenvalue decomposition of the spatial correlation matrices are then computed, or at least an approximation thereof, to arrive at eigenvectors accordingly. Next, variable span filters a reformed from a linear combination of the eigenvectors in response to a desired trade-off between acoustic contrast and acoustic errors in the sound zones. Finally, output filter for each of the plurality of loudspeakers, for each of the plurality of input signals, in accordance with the variable span filters. The method is applicable also for optimization in one zone, e.g. for room equalization.
US11516604B2
A system for evaluating a seal between an earphone of a hearing device and an ear canal that includes a first microphone positioned outside the ear canal, a second microphone positioned inside the ear canal, and a controller. The controller is configured to measure a sound level at one or more test frequencies using the first microphone, measure a sound level at the one or more frequencies using the second microphone, calculate a difference between the sound levels measured using the first and second microphones at each of the one or more test frequencies, and determine a measurement of an ear seal based on the calculated one or more differences.
US11516602B2
Embodiments of the present invent include a method of controlling unwanted vibration in a tympanic lens, wherein the tympanic lens comprises a perimeter platform connected to a microactuator through at least one biasing element, the method comprising the step of: damping the motion of the at least one biasing element. In embodiments of the invention, the at least one biasing element is a spring. In embodiments of the invention, the at least one bias spring is coated in a damping material.
US11516601B2
A hearing assistance device is discussed that has one or more accelerometers, a user interface, and optionally a left/right determination module is configured to receive input data from the one or more accelerometers from user actions causing control signals as sensed by the accelerometers to trigger a program change for an audio configuration for the device selected from a group consisting of a change in amplification/volume control, a change in a mute mode, a change of a hear loss profile loaded into that hearing assistance device, and a change in a play-pause mode.
US11516600B2
A hearing aid is configured to be worn in and/or at an ear of a user, and comprises a) an input transducer for converting an input sound to an electric input signal representing sound, b) an output transducer for converting a processed electric output signal to an output sound, c) a signal processor operationally coupled to the input and output transducers and configured to apply a forward gain to the electric input signal or a signal originating therefrom, wherein the input transducer, the signal processor and the output transducer forming part of a forward path of the hearing aid. The hearing aid further comprises d) a feedback control system for compensating for acoustic or mechanical feedback of an external feedback path from the output transducer to the input transducer, wherein the feedback control system comprises i) a feedback estimation unit for providing a feedback estimate signal of said external feedback path, ii) a combination unit located in the forward path for combining the electric input signal or a signal derived therefrom and the feedback signal detected by said estimation unit, to provide a resulting feedback corrected signal, iii) a correlation detection unit configured to determine a correlation measure between said feedback corrected signal and said output signal, said correlation detection unit further configured to provide a processed version of said correlation measure.
US11516598B2
A hearing device configured to be worn at an ear of a user may include a sensor unit configured to provide sensor data, the sensor unit comprising a biometric sensor configured to provide biometric data included in the sensor data; and a processor configured to determine a physiological parameter from the sensor data, the physiological parameter indicative of a physiological property of the user. The processor is configured to determine whether the physiological parameter fulfills a condition, and provide, depending on whether the physiological parameter fulfills the condition, output data based on the sensor data, the output data including at least part of the biometric data and/or information derived from at least part of the biometric data different from the physiological parameter.
US11516595B2
An integrated structure of a MEMS microphone and an air pressure sensor, and a fabrication method for the integrated structure, the structure including a base substrate; a vibrating membrane, back electrode, upper electrode, and lower electrode formed on the base substrate, as well as a sacrificial layer formed between the vibrating membrane and the back electrode and between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; a first integrated circuit electrically connected to the vibrating membrane and the back electrode respectively; and a second integrated circuit electrically connected to the lower electrode and the upper electrode respectively, wherein a region of the base substrate corresponding to the vibrating membrane is provided with a back cavity; the sacrificial layer between the vibrating membrane and the back electrode is hollowed out to from a vibrating space that communicates with the exterior of the integrated structure, and the sacrificial layer between the upper electrode and the lower electrode is hollowed out to form a closed space; and the integrated circuits are formed on a chip, thereby reducing the interference of connection lines on the performance of a microphone, reducing the introduction of noise, reducing the size of a product and reducing power consumption.
US11516589B2
A sounding device includes a positioning bracket, a vibration system including diaphragm and voice coil, and a magnetic circuit system including yoke fixed to the positioning bracket and magnet. The yoke includes yoke body fixed to the magnet, yoke sidewall bending and extending from periphery of the yoke body to the diaphragm, and yoke extension portion bending and extending from the yoke sidewall to the positioning bracket. The positioning bracket includes positioning bracket body and positioning slot formed by depression from one side of the positioning bracket body close to the yoke to the diaphragm. One side of the yoke extension portion close to the diaphragm abuts against a bottom surface of the positioning slot. One end of the yoke extension portion away from the yoke sidewall is fixed to the positioning bracket. The sounding device has a simple structure, high strength, easy assembly and positioning, and high reliability.
US11516588B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a sound generation device and a portable terminal. The sound generation device comprises a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system, the vibration system and the magnetic circuit system being mounted and fixed to an housing. The housing comprises a first shell and a second shell that are connected and fixed together, the vibration system comprises a first diaphragm and the magnetic circuit system comprises a magnetic yoke, and wherein the first diaphragm is mounted on one surface of the first shell far away from the second shell, and the magnetic yoke and the second shell are injection molded as an integrated part. In the sound generation device of the present invention a conventional plastic housing is split into two shells, by fixing the magnetic yoke to the second shell by injection molding so that the magnetic yoke and the second shell become an independent part which is integrally arranged, it can reduce the assembling process of the Magnetic yoke and the housing, improve the assembling efficiency and connecting strength of the sound generation device, and can provide a bigger space for the magnetic circuit system and improve the product performance.
US11516586B2
An audio configuration method establishes an audio connection between an audio source and multiple audio sinks and determines an audio context of an audio application generating audio content. The audio connection includes multiple components of latency and at least one latency component is configured based on the audio context. The transport may include a group of synchronized isochronous streams and may be associated with a transport latency indicative of time required to deliver packets to the audio sinks and a presentation latency indicative of time required for the audio sinks to render packets. The transport latency may reflect a flush timeout parameter used to extend the lifetime of a packet in exchange for longer transport delay. The flush timeout parameter may be configured in accordance with an audio context of the audio application. Applications with low latency tolerance might perform better with a lower flush timeout and vice versa.
US11516567B2
A microphone head device includes a base unit, a microphone head unit and a connecting rod unit. The microphone head unit is disposed on the base unit, and includes a microphone head seat and a dynamic subunit mounted on the microphone head seat. The dynamic subunit includes a mounting seat, a first magnetic member disposed on the mounting seat, a coil surrounding the first magnetic member, and a vibrating plate disposed over the first magnetic member and connected to the coil. The connecting rod unit extends in an up-down direction through the first magnetic member, the mounting seat and the microphone head seat such that the first magnetic member, the mounting seat and the microphone head set are separably secured.
US11516566B2
A speaker box includes a housing, a speaker unit and a flexible circuit board. The housing includes a base defining a through hole, and a cover. The flexible circuit board includes an end received in the housing and an opposite end exposed to outside of the housing. The flexible circuit board includes a first surface facing the cover and a second surface opposite to the cover. A first pad and a second pad are disposed at the second surface. The flexible circuit board includes a first mounting part, a second mounting part and a bending part. The first pad is arranged on the first mounting part and configured to be electrically coupled to the speaker unit. The second pad is arranged on the second mounting part and configured to be electrically coupled to external circuits. The second pad is exposed to outside of the housing via the through hole.
US11516559B2
A system for serial communication may include a first device and a plurality of devices on a series connection. The first device may have a master circuit and the plurality devices may have a slave circuit. The master circuit may enable the first device to communicate with the plurality devices having the slave circuit on the series connection. The master circuit may enable the first device to send a command frame on the series connection. The command frame may include an execution mode command and a plurality of commands. The second devices may execute the commands within the command frame at or after the end of the command frame based on the execution mode command indicating a synchronous mode of command execution; and may execute the commands within the command frame at the ends of individual ones of the commands based on the execution mode command indicating a non-synchronous mode of command execution.
US11516543B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to assign viewers to media meter data are disclosed. An apparatus includes memory, and a processor to execute instructions to: determine first probabilities for first panelists in a first household based on a first number of minutes of first media presented by a first media presentation device monitored by a first meter, determine second probabilities for second panelists in a plurality of second households based on a second number of minutes of second media presented by second media presentation devices monitored by a plurality of second meters, compare the first probabilities and the second probabilities to identify a candidate household from the plurality of second households to associated with the first household, and impute respective portions of the first number of minutes to corresponding ones of the first panelists when monitored behavior of the candidate household matches monitored behavior of the first household.
US11516531B2
The present disclosure provides user interface methods of and systems for displaying at least one available action overlaid on an image, comprising displaying an image; selecting at least one action and assigning a ranking weight thereto based on at least one of (1) image content, (2) current device location, (3) location at which the image was taken, (4) date of capturing the image; (5) time of capturing the image; and (6) a user preference signature representing prior actions chosen by a user and content preferences learned about the user; and ranking the at least one action based on its assigned ranking weight.
US11516527B2
The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.
US11516525B2
Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses.
US11516523B2
Embodiments herein provide for inserting advertisements into content. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for insertion of an advertisement into content from an endpoint device. The content is delivered to the endpoint device with advertising signaling in the content. The method also includes comparing policy information to advertising signaling information, in the request, of a content provider providing the content, identifying a tier of service (TOS) of the endpoint device, and determining whether the advertisement can be inserted into the content. If the advertisement can be inserted into the content, the advertisement is selected according to the TOS of the endpoint device and inserted into the content.
US11516522B1
Ad break boundaries, which identify start and end points of a commercial break, are identified by detecting the absence of voices and/or facial images of one or more primary cast members of a currently scheduled program.
US11516517B2
A computerized system operable to provide multiple video streams of an event. In an ideal embodiment, the system provides live and dynamic streaming of an event such as a sporting event, concert, march, rally, and the like, to allow viewers to watch video of the event from nearly any angle and vantage point.
US11516512B2
Methods and systems for performing in-loop luma mapping with chroma scaling are described. One of the methods includes receiving a chrome block and a luma block associated with a picture. The method also includes determining luma scaling information associated with the luma block. The method also includes determining a luma scaling factor of the luma block based on the luma scaling information. The method also includes determining the chroma scaling factor based on a value of the luma scaling factor. The method also includes processing residuals of the chroma block using the chroma scaling factor.
US11516511B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving a residual sample for a current block on the basis of a transform coefficient, wherein the step of deriving the transform coefficient can comprise the steps of: determining whether a sub block transform for performing a transform by dividing a coding unit is applied to the current block; determining whether a multiple transform selection (MTS), for which a plurality of transform kernels are used, is applied to the current block; and setting the size of a transform block to which the transform is to be applied, on the basis of whether the sub block transform is applied to the current block and whether the multiple transform selection is applied to the current block.
US11516503B2
An encoding apparatus, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: perform intra-screen prediction encoding on an image of a region of a still image cut out from a first decoded image corresponding to a screen image before a predetermined region is switched from a video to a still image, generate a second decoded image obtained by decoding information for which the intra-screen prediction is performed, and when a first screen image after the predetermined region is switched from a video to a still image is received, perform inter-screen prediction encoding on an image of a region of a still image cut out from the first screen image after switching to a still image, by referring to the generated second decoded image.
US11516500B2
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 fill all history-based candidates in a history-based motion vector predictor candidate list with at least predetermined motion vector and reference index; a merging candidate list generation unit configured to generate a merging candidate list including at least a motion vector and a reference index of a block neighboring a coding target block as a merging candidate; a history-based merging candidate addition unit configured to add a history-based candidate included in the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list to the merging candidate list as a merging candidate and output a second merging candidate list; and a merging candidate selection unit configured to select a merging candidate from the second merging candidate list as a selection merging candidate, wherein the coding information storage unit adds the selection merging candidate to the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list as a history-based candidate and outputs the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list.
US11516495B2
A system for broadcasting that includes a watermark payload.
US11516478B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for and a method of coding machine vision data by using prediction, and for improving the efficiency of encoding the data used for machine vision, provides an apparatus for Video Coding for Machines (VCM) which sets reference data according to a correlation between the data, generates, based on the reference data, prediction data for original data having a high correlation with the reference data, and generates residual data between the prediction data and the original data, and provides a coding method performed by the apparatus for VCM.
US11516475B2
Image encoding/decoding method and device for performing PROF, and method for transmitting bitstream
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure is performed by an image decoding apparatus. The image decoding method comprises deriving a prediction sample of a current block based on motion information of the current block, deriving a reference picture resampling (RPR) condition for the current block, determining whether prediction refinement with optical flow (PROF) applies to the current block based on the RPR condition, and deriving a refined prediction sample for the current block by applying PROF to the current block.
US11516464B2
This disclosure discloses a method for obtaining a candidate motion vector list, an apparatus, an encoder, and a decoder. The method for obtaining a candidate motion vector list comprises: when a first candidate picture block is encoded/decoded and an inter prediction mode is used, determining whether a reference picture of the first candidate picture block is the same as a reference picture of a current block; and constructing a candidate motion vector list of the current block based on a determining result; when the reference picture of the first candidate picture block is different from the reference picture of the current block, the MV of the first candidate picture block is not used to construct the list. Implementing this disclosure can reduce complexity of a motion information derivation process, and improve coding efficiency.
US11516454B2
Provided is a method for transmitting metadata for omnidirectional content including a plurality of viewpoints. The method comprises identifying the metadata for the omnidirectional content including the plurality of viewpoints; and transmitting the identified metadata, wherein the metadata includes information about an identifier (ID) of a viewpoint group including at least one viewpoint of the plurality of viewpoints, and wherein the at least one viewpoint in the viewpoint group shares a common reference coordinate system.
US11516450B1
A method of regional color processing based on video content and a system using the same are provided, comprising: step 1: dividing a data area; step 2: denoising pixel video data; step 3: generating a representative value of small block; step 4: detecting a video scene type; step 5: smoothing of the representative value of the small block; step 6: dark block fading processing; step 7: HDR custom compensating/definition restoring; and step 8: generating a representative value of the large block. It divides the video source data into small blocks or large blocks according to the rendering granularity of the ambient light, and implements algorithms such as noise reduction, smooth processing and adaptive compensation according to the video format and content, and the lighting rendering can follow the video signal in real time, which can effectively reduce the sudden change of rendering light and bring users more soothing experience.
US11516439B1
The invention discloses a method and a system for achieving a unified flow control system for multiple camera devices. The system provides inline and offline streams to share resources by converting the streams into one another. The resource sharing is performed by using different time interval to process inline and offline streams. The system also includes a STALL & REDO operation to keep whole image un-broken and shut down the write stream from ISP right away.
US11516428B2
The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
US11516417B2
There is provided an imaging device, comprising differential amplifier circuitry comprising a first amplification transistor and a second amplification transistor; and a plurality of pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel, wherein the first pixel includes a first photoelectric converter, a first reset transistor, and the first amplification transistor, and wherein the second pixel includes a second photoelectric converter, a second reset transistor, and the second amplification transistor, wherein the first reset transistor is coupled to a first reset voltage, and wherein the second reset transistor is coupled to a second reset voltage different than the first reset voltage.
US11516413B2
The present invention relates to an optical biometric sensor (100) comprising: an image sensor (302) comprising an array (301) of photodetectors (304), wherein for acquiring sensing signals, the image sensor is controllable to sequentially start exposure of subsets (306, 308, 309) of photodetectors; and a timing circuitry (310) configured to control the start of exposure of a subset of photodetectors based on a present data transfer capacity on a data transfer bus (312) configured to transfer data indicative of the acquired sensing signals from the optical biometric sensor to a host device (314).
US11516412B2
An image processing method, an image processing apparatus, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The image processing method includes the following. A background image and a portrait region image of a current user that a preset parameter of the background image matching the preset parameter of the portrait region image are acquired. The portrait region image and the background image are merged to obtain a merged image.
US11516410B2
A computing device is described. In an example implementation, the computing device includes a housing including a display screen on a front surface, the housing and display screen being collectively positionable in a plurality of physical orientations, an input device that includes a first selection mechanism and a second selection mechanism, the first selection mechanism being actuatable to adjust a setting of an output of an application displayed on the display screen, the second selection mechanism being actuatable to adjust the setting of the output of the application displayed on the display screen, and an orientation sensor configured to determine which physical orientation of the plurality of physical orientations that the display screen is positioned in, and change a first input polarity of the first selection mechanism to correspond to the determined physical orientation of the display screen.
US11516396B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a gimbal assembly is described for use with an image capturing device. The gimbal assembly includes a motor assembly, a first housing defining an internal compartment that is configured and dimensioned to receive the motor assembly, and a second housing that is mechanically connected to the motor assembly such that actuation of the motor assembly causes relative rotation between the first and second housings. The first housing includes a first guide that is configured and dimensioned to support transmission media adapted to communicate electrical and/or digital signals. The second housing defines a channel that is configured and dimensioned to receive the first guide such that the first guide extends into the second housing through the channel. The transmission media is supported on the first guide such that the first guide routes the transmission media from the first housing into the second housing.
US11516395B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a display device, a sensor, and a processor. The display device receives an image data. The display device includes a display panel and displays an image related to the image data on the display panel. A reference image point of the image is displayed on a first location on the display panel. The sensor detects a movement status of the electronic apparatus when the electronic apparatus shakes to generate at least one movement parameter. The processor calculates compensation data according to the at least one movement parameter and size information of the display panel. When the display device receives the compensation data, the display device displays the image by shifting the reference image point of the image from the first location to a second location on the display panel to display according to the compensation data.
US11516392B2
An implantable system includes an implanted camera that captures images. An analytics engine analyzes the images to determine whether any objects or aspects of the captured image is considered an unviewable element. Upon determining that an unviewable element is present, the analytics engine causes an occlusion device to occlude the unviewable element from the user's view. The occlusion can also affect the ability of the camera to continue to see the unviewable element.
US11516385B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to blending different types of images captured by different types of cameras employing different sensing modalities based on a dynamic weighting. The dynamic weighting is calculated based on a dynamic quality proxy that serves as an approximation of image quality that may change from image to image. In one example, a first image of a scene is received from a first camera. A dynamic quality proxy is received. A second image of the scene is received from a second camera with a different sensing modality than the first camera. A composite image blended from the first and second images in proportion to a dynamic weighting that is based on the dynamic quality proxy is output.
US11516381B2
A display device for displaying an image and a method by which the display device operates to display an image are provided. The display device may include a display configured to output a screen image, an image sensor configured to acquire an image signal, a bending detection sensor configured to detect a bending motion or a bent state of the display device, and a control unit configured to control the display to display an image, which is generated based on the image signal, in a region according to a position at which the display is bent on the screen image if the bending detection sensor detects the bending motion or a bent state.
US11516378B2
Apparatus and methods employing a PDAF optical system are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels include a set of pixels configurable to be imaging pixels or focus pixels. The image sensor is configured to generate image data of a scene based on received light at the plurality of pixels. The example apparatus also includes a processor coupled to the image sensor. The processor may be configured to receive first image data of a first frame of the scene, determine at least one region of interest or region of non-interest of the first frame, select, based on the determined at least one region of interest or region of non-interest, a subset of the set of pixels to be focus pixels, and cause the selected subset of the set of pixels to operate as focus pixels.
US11516367B2
A reading device includes a visible light source to irradiate a subject with light having a visible wavelength; an invisible light source to irradiate the subject with light having an invisible wavelength; first and second image sensors to receive reflected light from the subject being irradiated with the light having the visible wavelength and the light having the invisible wavelength, and circuitry. The first image sensor generates visible image data containing a first invisible component, and the second image sensor generates invisible image data of a second invisible component. The circuitry removes the first invisible component contained in the visible image data using the invisible image data. The circuitry multiplies the invisible image data with the correction coefficient that absorbs an individual variation in removal of the first invisible component, and the correction coefficient is generated based on the visible image data and the invisible image.
US11516366B2
An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an original, a transmission unit configured to transmit image data to an external apparatus, a printing unit configured to print an image, a display unit configured to display the image, and a control unit configured to suspend a job executed by the printing unit in response to a selection of a key for suspending a currently executed job, display a list of jobs on the display unit, and cancel a job selected by a user from the displayed list of the jobs. The control unit displays a list of transmission jobs for the transmission unit to transmit the image data generated when the reading unit reads the original in response to the selection of the key during display of a main menu screen for accepting a selection of a function to be used.
US11516363B2
An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object, a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a shifting unit configured to shift, if the detection unit detects an object, a power state of the image forming apparatus from a first power state to a second power state different from the first power state, and shift, if the reception unit receives an operation of a user, the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state.
US11516362B1
A method for preparing a select graphic for printing using a digital printing device includes receiving the select graphic, at least one position for printing the select graphic, and a select spot color name for the select graphic, wherein the select spot color name represents a tone printable using at least one colorant of the digital printing device; generating a select spot color separation for the select graphic using a halftone screen to produce the tone represented by the security spot name, wherein the halftone screen is selected for printing the select graphic without a discernible dot pattern upon unmagnified viewing; and preparing raster data incorporating the select spot color separation for printing the select graphic at the at least one position on the item.
US11516359B2
Provided are systems and methods for identifying, isolating, and/or aligning sheets. An identification system can facilitate accurate identification of a sheet by (i) vacating one or more components of the system that are not the sheet from a zone of detection, and/or (ii) determining a reference axis of the sheet. An isolation system can facilitate accurate isolation of a sheet by (i) providing targeted air flow, and/or (ii) introducing a wave into the sheet. Identification systems and/or isolation systems described herein may facilitate isolation of sheets that were previously fastened together by one or more fasteners. An alignment system can facilitate accurate alignment of a first sheet at an upstream location relative to a second sheet at a downstream location via machine learning.
US11516358B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. the apparatus comprises a sheet feeding unit to supply a plurality of types of sheets; an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet; a detection unit to detect an image formed on the sheet; and a controller that causes correction information for each sheet type to be saved in a storage, and under set conditions, causes a specified type of sheet to be supplied by the sheet feeding unit, causes a chart for gradation correction to be formed by the image forming unit, and causes the correction information to be generated based on image information for which the formed chart for gradation correction was detected by the detection unit, and saves the correction information in the storage.
US11516356B2
In a normal mode that is a mode when a user performs a printing work, a wireless operation unit shifts to a second mode when the wireless operation unit is not operated for a first predetermined time in a first mode. In a maintenance mode when a repairman performs a maintenance work, the wireless operation unit does not shift to the second mode even if the wireless operation unit is not operated for the first predetermined time in the first mode. In addition, in the maintenance mode, if the remaining amount of a battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount in the first mode, the wireless operation unit does not shift to the second mode, and if the remaining amount of the battery is less than the predetermined amount, the wireless operation unit shifts to the second mode.
US11516354B2
An example device includes an imaging portion, an audio portion and at least one acoustic isolation feature. The audio portion is integrally coupled to the imaging portion. The audio portion is to provide an audio output. The at least one acoustic isolation feature is to facilitate acoustic separation of the imaging portion and the audio portion.
US11516347B2
Systems and methods are described to enable a device of a user to automatically join an ongoing conference, where the device is not currently joined to the conference. A first audio signature is generated based on voices of users already in the conference, and a second audio signature is generated based on an audio signal captured by a microphone of the device associated with the first user when the device associated with the first user was not joined to the conference. The first audio signature and the second audio signature are compared, and in response to determining that first audio signature matches the second audio signature, the device associated with the first user is joined to the conference.
US11516336B2
A disclosed example includes providing vibration information to a model, the vibration information corresponding to a first vibration measured at a first mobile device when the first mobile device is in a state of non-use by a user, the model based on a plurality of vibration patterns that correspond to second vibrations measured by second mobile devices in different environments; identifying, using the model, one of the vibration patterns that corresponds to the vibration information; determining an environment of the first mobile device based on the one of the vibration patterns; and instructing the first mobile device to modify a functionality of the first mobile device based on the environment.
US11516335B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating a personalizable user interface (UI) component layout on a curved screen on a mobile electronic communication device, the curved screen having a front screen display surface and a plurality of edge screen display surfaces. In an example, the described technique entails detecting that a device user has opened an application on the mobile electronic communication device, determining whether the application opened by the user supports placement of UI components on edge screen display surfaces, and determining a coverage area on the front screen display surface and the edge screen display surfaces areas when the application supports placement of UI components on edge screen display surfaces, and estimating a user hand size based on the determined coverage area, and placing one or more UI components on an edge screen display surface to be reached by the user based on the estimated hand size.
US11516332B2
A watch phone and a method for handling an incoming call using the watch phone are provided. In the watch phone, a display device includes a touch screen panel and a display, turns off the touch screen panel in a watch mode, turns on the touch screen panel in an idle mode or upon receipt of an incoming call, and displays at least two areas for call connection and call rejection, upon receipt of the incoming call. A single mode selection key selects one of the watch mode and the idle mode. A controller performs control operations so that the touch screen panel is turned off in the watch mode and is turned on in the idle mode or upon receipt of the incoming call, and connects or rejects the incoming call, when the at least two areas for call connection or call rejection, which are displayed upon receipt of the incoming call, are pointed to or dragged to.
US11516324B2
A hinge structure for a mobile communication terminal that is foldable in two opposite directions is provided. The hinge structure for a mobile communication terminal having a flexible display panel installed therein is foldable inward and outward in a fully unfolded state such that the flexible display panel is disposed inside and outside and a screen on which an image such as a moving image is displayed is invisibly disposed inside or visibly disposed outside in a state in which the mobile communication terminal is folded.
US11516320B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for processing packets transmitted within a network in accordance with a network protocol. The technique includes determining a first expected length of a value field included in a type-length-value (TLV) element within a first frame of a first packet received over the network, wherein the first expected length is based on a type field included in the TLV element. The technique also includes processing a first portion of the value field based on the expected length of the value field in accordance with a first specification for a first version of the network protocol, without processing a second portion of the value field beyond the expected length of the value field.
US11516319B2
According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a controller and a plurality of devices serially connected to the controller by a communication path. Each device has a different identifying address from each other device. The communication path connects the controller to the plurality of devices in a loop. The communication path is configured to transmit a communication frame as a differential serial signal. The communication frame includes a plurality of packets. Each packet in the plurality of packets has a fixed data length. Each device is configured to insert data into, and extract data from, a packet in the communication frame.
US11516304B2
Aspects discussed herein relate to providing alerts to a community of devices located in or near a geographic are such as a building or property. The alerts override any alert-inhibiting state of the mobile device to deliver audio, visual, and/or haptic alerts in emergency situations. The communication and emergency alert system may be used to communicate with many different communities of people. Moreover, certain individuals may be members of more than one community at the same time, and the communities themselves may change over time based both on the user's preferences and on their physical locations. A variety of application programming interfaces can be provided to allow third-party applications to generate, transmit, and display alerts that override any alert-inhibiting state of a mobile device.
US11516301B2
A method comprising obtaining, from a master user, a device usage allocation applicable to two or more devices, the two or more devices being associated with another user, the another user being different from the master user, obtaining an aggregate measure of device usage associated with the two or more devices, if the aggregate measure of device usage associated with the two or more devices satisfies a condition relative to the device usage allocation, managing an activity of the two or more devices, and sending a notification to at least one of the two or more devices, the notification for presentation to the another user through a user interface of the at least one of the two or more devices.
US11516300B2
A system, method and program for localizing web page interfaces via asynchronous data and automatic binding. The system, method and program employ a terminal for use with a communication network. The terminal comprises a server that is configured to bind web page core data representing a web page with locale data local to the terminal to create web page data. The locale data pertains to a location in which the terminal is disposed. The server is further configured to bind different locale data with the web page core data to create modified web page data.
US11516294B2
A switch device includes: a switch unit configured to relay an Ethernet frame between a plurality of function units installed in a vehicle; a monitoring unit configured to monitor predetermined data in the Ethernet frame; and a specification unit configured to specify a protocol being used by a target function unit which is a function unit serving as a transmission source of the Ethernet frame, based on a monitoring result of the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit performs an operation monitoring process of selectively monitoring an operation of the target function unit according to the target protocol that is the protocol specified by the specification unit.
US11516288B2
The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for synchronizing a content library between a content management system and client devices. Each content item in a user's content library is stored on the content management system and a record of each change to the content library is recorded in a content journal. A client device transmits a synchronization request that a portion of the content journal representing unsynchronized changes be processed to update the content library on the client device. The synchronization request includes a content library identifier and a content journal number identifying the content entry in the content journal last processed by the client device. Synchronization commands are sent based on the content entries not processed by the client device. Updated synchronization data representing the processed content entries is sent to the client device after synchronization is completed.
US11516269B1
A method of diagnosing anomalous patterns from metrics data associated with a microservices-based application comprises aggregating a plurality of ingested spans into a plurality of streams of metric data. The method also comprises performing computations on a stream of metric data from the plurality of streams of metric data to identify an anomalous pattern. Further, the method comprises generating an alert in response to the anomalous pattern and querying a data set using metadata associated with the alert to retrieve additional information pertaining to the anomalous pattern.
US11516261B2
A network operator can partition network elements, including elements of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) or Policy and Charging Rules Functions (PCRFs) into groups reserved for specific types of subscribers. When a user equipment (UE) registers with an IMS, elements of the IMS can contact a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) to determine a subscriber type associated with the UE. Based on the UE's subscriber type, an IMS element can determine an application server or other IMS element to contact about the UE based on identifying application servers or IMS elements that are also associated with the same subscriber type as the UE. Similarly, an IMS element can determine a PCRF to contact about the UE based on identifying a PCRF that is associated with the same subscriber type as the UE.
US11516258B2
The present disclosure is a method for managing capabilities of network security functions (NSF) by a security controller in a security management system.
US11516250B2
A method for managing local ports in a packet-oriented data network is proposed, wherein packets are assigned to a selected local port, and assignment of a local port is controlled based on observation of transmission on the network. The invention also relates to a local port managing device, a packet-oriented data network, a digital storage media, and a computer program product.
US11516246B2
A system for providing secure browsing via a transparent network proxy is disclosed. The system may receive, from a client, a request to access a resource. The request may include an identifier that may be utilized to locate the resource. Once the request is received, the system may determine if the resource is not trusted, such as if the identifier is determined to be unknown or suspicious. If the resource is determined to not be trusted by the system, the system may forward the request to a virtual machine manager that may select a browser virtual machine from a pool of browser virtual machines. After the browser virtual machine is selected, the browser virtual machine may stream a rendering of the resource to the client based on the request. The rendering of the resource may be provided in lieu of the actual resource.
US11516243B2
A trust broker is disclosed for a data confidence fabric. The trust broker evaluates the trustworthiness of data flowing through a network that includes a data confidence fabric. The trust broker evaluates a baseline confidence score and generates a workorder to improve the baseline confidence score in a measurable way. The trust broker may implement the workorder and ensure that the trust improves in the data confidence fabric.
US11516242B2
A segmentation server configures and distributes rules for enforcing a segmentation policy that includes one or more virtual patches. The rules including the virtual patches are enforced by distributed enforcement modules that may execute on host devices or on network devices upstream from the host devices. An enforcement module enforces the rules using traffic filters that filter traffic based on network layer data. To implement a virtual patch, the traffic filters are configured to redirect traffic to or from an application being patched to a transparent application proxy. The transparent application proxy implements an application layer filter that filters traffic based on application layer data to block specific types of traffic associated with a vulnerability addressed by the virtual patch.
US11516240B2
In some implementations, a system may obtain a first model that is trained to identify feature data associated with a client system using one or more services of a service platform. The system may train, based on the feature data, a second model to identify anomalies associated with devices accessing the one or more services in association with a client identifier of the client system. The system may receive access data associated with an acting device accessing a service of the service platform. The system may determine, using the second model, that the acting device accessing the service corresponds to potential anomalous activity based on the access information. The system may obtain, from a verification device, a verification that the acting device accessing the service is anomalous activity. The system may perform, based on obtaining the verification, an action associated with the acting device.
US11516236B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for detection and mitigation of malicious encryption. A security agent on an infected computing device may monitor data writes to disk, memory, or network transmission buffers for strings that may represent encryption keys or moduli. The security agent may apply one or more techniques to decode and parse the string to either identify or extract the keys, or rule out the string as containing an encryption key or modulus. If a key is identified, or its presence cannot be excluded, then the security agent may generate an alert and take mitigation actions.
US11516235B2
A system and method for detecting bots. The method includes receiving a request to access a server, the request is being received from a client device, and responsive to the request, causing the client device to download a script code file to the client device. The script code file, when executed, collects a profile, and the profile includes a plurality of parameters. The method also includes receiving the created profile, generating a score based on the plurality of parameters to identify a bot, and initiating a mitigation action based on the identified bot.
US11516226B2
Systems and methods for analyzing network traffic are provided. An exemplary system may include a plurality of network nodes distributed in multiple geographical regions. The plurality of network nodes may be configured to collect mass scanning network traffic data. The system may also include at least one processor. The processor may be configured to receive, from a first network node, a first network scanning request from a source scanner. In response to the reception of the first network scanning request, the processor may also be configured to transmit, via a second network node, a second network scanning request to the source scanner. The processor may further be configured to determine, based on feedback from the source scanner, whether the source scanner is compromised.
US11516224B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing event risk score generation operation. The event risk score generation operation includes identifying an anomalous event from a plurality of events enacted by the entity; generating a first event risk severity score based upon the anomalous event; generating a second event risk severity score based upon a historical entity risk function, the historical entity risk function providing an indication of historical security risk of the entity; generating an entity risk severity score for the entity, the generating using the historical entity risk function and the event risk severity score; performing a risk-adaptive prevention operation, the risk-adaptive prevention operation using the entity risk severity score, the risk-adaptive prevention operation adaptively responding to mitigate risk associated with the anomalous event.
US11516217B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for blockchain-based service processing. One of the methods includes receiving a service processing request by a first service processing platform from a first user. The first service processing platform is one of a plurality of service processing platforms that access a blockchain network, and service data of the first user is shared between the plurality of service processing platforms over the blockchain network. In response to a determination that the service processing request involves a second service processing platform of the plurality of service processing platforms, it is determined whether the service processing request is permitted to be executed. In response to determining that the service processing request is permitted to be executed, the service processing request is executed over the blockchain network.
US11516216B2
A credentials store definition identifying a remote credential store is received. The credential store definition includes access information to enable access to the remote credentials store. A credentials object is created in an internal database based on a credentials object definition. The credentials object identifies a security credential to retrieve from the remote credentials store to access an external resource. At runtime, a request to access the external resource is received, and based on receiving the request, the security credentials identified by the credentials object are retrieved from the remote credential store using the access information. The retrieved security credential is provided to a processing component to access the external resource.
US11516214B2
A system for user authentication includes an authenticated device with a restricted-access function that a user is able to access in response to verification of an identity of the user by the authenticated device and a proximate device with a restricted-access function that the user is able to access in response to the proximate device receiving authentication data that includes the identity of the user from the authenticated device. The authenticated device is operable to identify an absence of intent of the user to access the restricted-access function of the proximate device, and in response to identifying the absence of intent to access the restricted-access function of the proximate device, emit a locking signal such that, in response to detecting the locking signal, the proximate device enters a locked state and the restricted-access function of the proximate device is inaccessible to the user.
US11516211B2
A system for providing a service may include a user device executing an application. The application may have an authorization token associated therewith to authenticate a given user to the service. The system may also include a server executing the service, and a virtual assistant to receive a request to access the service via the virtual assistant and communicate the request to the server. The server may determine whether the token has been obtained thereat based upon the identifier. When the token has been received by the server, the server may determine whether the token has expired, and when not expired, the server may process the request. When the token has not been received by the server, the server may obtain the token from the user device, and process the request based upon obtaining the token from the user device.
US11516207B2
A method for facilitating a provision of a certificate that securely verifies an identification of an application is provided. The method includes: validating a bootstrap identity that identifies the application at a time of invocation; generating a first token that is signed with a first private key and transmitting the signed first token to the application; receiving, from an external server, a request for a public key to be used for verifying the first private key; and transmitting the requested public key to the external server in order to prompt the external server to provide the certificate to the application. When prompted to provide the certificate to the application, the external server generates a second token that is signed with a second private key and transmits the certificate in conjunction with the signed second token to the application. The private keys are never shared with the application.
US11516203B2
Systems and methods for embodiments of artificial intelligence systems for identity management are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of an identity management system may provide identity management in association with cloud services used by an enterprise and, in particular, may provide identity management in association with cloud based services that may be accessed through federated access providers.
US11516202B2
Disclosed are various approaches for facilitating single sign-on (SSO) for third-party services that are accessible through messages (e.g., email) received by a user. A user can receive a message that includes an embedded URL or link that opens in a third-party service that requires authentication. Instead of requiring the user to enter authentication credentials for accessing the third-party service, a tunnel service can be used to intercept requests for authentication and redirect the requests to an identity manager that can issue a SSO token following an authentication of the user and device. Upon supplying the third-party service with the SSO token, the user can access the content associated with the third-party service without entering authentication credentials.
US11516200B2
Techniques are described for controlling data and resource access. For example, methods and systems can facilitate controlled token distribution across systems and token processing in a manner so as to limit access to and to protect data that includes access codes.
US11516198B2
There is a technique that displays a QR code in which a URL of an error information site is embedded on a display in a case where an error occurs in a printer or the like and allows an access to the error information site by a mobile terminal capturing the QR code. However, on a condition that the size of the display is small, there is a case where it is not possible to display the QR code in which the URL of the error information site is embedded. In an electronic device mounting a display, an access code indicating first resource specification information for redirect is created and the created access code is displayed on the display. Then, the first resource specification information has a data amount corresponding to an access code of a size than can be displayed on the display.
US11516195B2
To provide a terminal device that can share a session key for use in encryption communication with multiple terminal devices at a certain timing without relying on an existing server device. The terminal device includes: a list/request sending unit that, when the terminal device operates as an owner device, generates a key distribution request, signs the key distribution request, and transmits the key distribution request to a key distribution management device; a participation request sending unit that, when the terminal device operates as a general device, generates a participation request, signs the participation request, and transmits the participation request to the key distribution management device; a session key generating unit that executes an authentication-based multipoint key distribution algorithm of server-client type in cooperation with another terminal device participating in the session and with the key distribution management device to generate a session key; and a post-confirmation unit that, when the session key has been normally generated, transmits a success notice to the key distribution management device and receives a collective notice from the key distribution management device.
US11516194B2
Disclosed herein are an in-vehicle network apparatus and method. The in-vehicle network apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program is configured to verify the integrity of software stored in advance in the executable memory, to generate a key table by sharing authentication information with a communication target, and to exchange an encrypted message with the communication target using the key table.
US11516184B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for preserving source host context when firewall policies are applied to traffic in an enterprise network fabric. A data packet to a destination host from a source host can be received at a first border node instance in an enterprise network fabric as part of network traffic. The data packet can include a context associated with the source host. Further, the data packet can be sent to a firewall of the enterprise network fabric and can be received at a second border node instance after the firewall applies a firewall policy to the data packet. The data packet can then be selectively encapsulated with the context associated with the source host at the second border node instance for applying one or more policies to control transmission of the network traffic through the enterprise network fabric.
US11516181B2
A non-transitory, processor-readable medium includes code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a method. The method includes receiving, from a traffic filter at a boundary of a network, a network communication and determining the network communication is a first anomalous communication associated with a service that does not exist within the network, uses a non-readable character set, or includes a malicious payload. The method further includes, at least partially based on the determining, generating a first rule, at least partially based on an analysis of a subset of partial or exact fingerprints of the first anomalous communication. The first rule is communicated to the traffic filter for the traffic filter to filter, from network communications external to the network, a second anomalous communication.
US11516175B2
A method and system for facilitating managing digital content is provided. Further, the method comprises receiving digital content, a supplemental content identifier, and a plurality of target identifiers corresponding to a plurality of target consumer devices from the one source user device, identifying a plurality of destination servers associated with the plurality of target identifiers, identifying a supplemental content based on the supplemental content identifier, processing the digital content based on a plurality of platform characteristics corresponding to the plurality of destination servers embedding the supplemental content in the digital content, generating the supplemental content in the digital content, generating a plurality of digital content based on the processing, transmitting, the plurality of digital content to the plurality of destination servers, and authenticating a consumer with the of destination servers based on a credentials.
US11516171B1
Systems and methods for co-present digital messaging may include (1) providing a group of users with access to a digital messaging thread that enables the users to exchange messages, (2) detecting a co-present moment in which two or more of the users are accessing the digital messaging thread at the same time, and (3) displaying a digital streak indicator proximate each message posted to the digital messaging thread during the co-present moment to visually identify the messages posted to the digital messaging thread during the co-present moment. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11516169B2
Systems, methods, and computer media for manipulating electronic messages are provided herein. A system for editing electronic messages can include at least one processor, and an application. The application can be configured to, by the at least one processor, send an electronic message from a sender to a recipient, edit the message after it has been sent to the recipient to create an edited message, retain a relative location of the message in the recipient's inbox while the edited message is created, send the edited message from the sender to the recipient, and place the edited message in the relative location of the message in the recipient's inbox.
US11516165B2
Methods and systems for revoking electronic messages. One method includes storing, for each of a plurality of forwarded messages, a record in a data store, each record including a link to an original message for the forwarded message, and receiving a request to revoke a forwarded message. In response to receiving the request, the method includes identifying an original message the forwarded message via a record stored in the data store and notifying, with an electronic processor, a user associated with the original message of the request to revoke the forwarded message. In response to receiving an instruction revoking the original source message from the user, the method includes identifying each forward of the original message via records stored in the data store and revoking the original message and each message associated with each record stored in the data store including a link to the original message.
US11516155B1
A method for ranking messages of conversation graphs in a messaging platform includes classifying messages of a conversation graph into a plurality of sections based on content quality of the messages, where the plurality of sections include a first section and a second section. The first section has messages from the conversation graph determined as higher quality than messages of the second section. The method includes determining a plurality of predictive outcomes for each of a plurality of messages of the conversation graph using predictive models, ranking the messages of the first section based on the predictive outcomes for the messages of the first section, and transmitting at least a subset of the messages of the first section to be rendered on a client application according to the rank.
US11516148B2
Various embodiments are directed to techniques for dynamically adjusting a maximum rate of throughput for accessing data stored within a volume of storage space of a storage cluster system based on the amount of that data that is stored within that volume. An apparatus includes an access component to monitor an amount of client data stored within a volume defined within a storage device coupled to a first node, and to perform a data access command received from a client device via a network to alter the client data stored within the volume; and a policy component to limit a rate of throughput at which at least the client data within the volume is exchanged as part of performance of the data access command to a maximum rate of throughput, and to calculate the maximum rate of throughput based on the stored amount.
US11516141B2
A method for controlling a bandwidth over a communication link connecting first and second client network elements. The first element is configured to send to the second element data traffic including at least a best effort traffic flow of packets. The method includes: at the first element, marking a number of best effort packets with a control code, the control code taking values within a predetermined ordered control sequence of values, and sending the marked packets to the second element through the link; at the second element, checking the control code of each marked best effort packet and, in case of detection of a missing value of the control code, sending to the first element a packet containing a feedback code indicative of an adjustment of the bandwidth; and, at the first element, upon reception of the feedback code, adjusting the bandwidth.
US11516125B2
Example methods and computer systems for packet handling for active-active stateful service insertion are disclosed. One example may involve a computer system detecting a packet addressed from a source address to a service endpoint address. Based on configuration information associated with the service endpoint address, the computer system may identify a first active logical service router (SR) and a second active logical SR that are both associated with the service endpoint address and configured to operate in an active-active mode. The first active logical SR may be selected over the second active logical SR by mapping tuple information to the first active logical SR. The computer system may generate an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the packet with an outer header addressed to an outer destination address associated with the first active logical SR and send the encapsulated packet towards the first active logical SR for processing according to a stateful service.
US11516120B2
In one embodiment, a method is performed. A spine node in communication with a network may determine a subtree of a shadow cone of the spine node. The subtree may comprise a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links connecting pairs of the nodes. The spine node may determine a disaggregated route to a first leaf node to which a disaggregated prefix may be attached. The disaggregated route may be propagated to the plurality of the nodes of the subtree.
US11516117B2
A method for transmitting a packet on a logical port comprising two or more physical ports comprises receiving a packet of a class of service; storing the packet in a memory; maintaining a lookup table relating a plurality of identifiers to at least one physical port; storing a pointer to the stored packet in the memory in a single pointer list for the class of service along with a selected one of the identifiers; and copying the stored packet to one or more physical ports corresponding to the selected identifier for transmission on at least one of the physical ports. In one implementation, a plurality of the physical ports are grouped into a logical port, and the received packet is processed to determine its logical port and its class of service.
US11516110B2
A method for obtaining a cross-domain link. The method includes: a control device sends a first message to a forwarding device in an internet protocol (IP) domain, where the first message is used to instruct the forwarding device to search for a device adjacent to the forwarding device in an optical domain; the control device receives a second message from an optical network element adjacent to the forwarding device in the optical domain, where the second message includes a first identifier identifying the optical network element, a second identifier identifying a port communicating with the forwarding device and being on the optical network element, and a media access control (MAC) address of the forwarding device; and obtains the cross-domain link between the forwarding device and the optical network element based on the first identifier, the second identifier, and the MAC address of the forwarding device.
US11516107B2
In some examples, aggregation-based speed testing may include ascertaining, by a test speed analyzer, a test speed that corresponds to a maximum specified data transfer rate for a data transmission link. A test range generator may determine a maximum specified port speed of a test port of a device connected to the data transmission link. The test range generator may determine whether the maximum specified port speed is less than the test speed, and if so, divide the test speed into a plurality of test ranges. A total value of the test ranges may be equal to the test speed. A test performer may perform tests corresponding to the test ranges, and obtain intermediate test results. A test result generator may generate, based on aggregation of the intermediate test results, an aggregated test result that represents an actual speed associated with the data transmission link.
US11516105B2
A message batching configuration may be determined for transmitting a message to recipients. The message batching configuration may include two or more message batches, a respective recipient count for each message batch, a respective time delay between each message batch, and a performance metric for evaluating the message. The message is transmitted in accordance with the message batching configuration. The transmission of subsequent message batches is halted when it is determined that the designated performance metric fails to meet a designated performance metric threshold.
US11516096B2
Software performance can be automatically managed in a distributed computing environment. In one example, a system that can receive metrics information describing resource usage by a first instance of a service in a distributed computing environment. The system can also determine a quality-of-service (QoS) constraint for the service. The system can then modify a definition file based on the metrics information and the QoS constraint, the definition file being configured for deploying instances of the service in the distributed computing environment. The system can deploy a second instance of the service in the distributed computing environment using the modified definition file. As a result, the second instance can more closely satisfy the QoS constraint than the first instance.
US11516095B2
A network function virtualization (NFV) compute element installs an image supporting a virtualized network function (VNF) on the element. The image includes instructions/data to initiate a TCP connection between the element and a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller upon reboot of the element. Upon rebooting, the element establishes, as client in accordance with the instructions/data, a TCP connection with the controller. The element then accepts, as a cryptographic network protocol server, a connection via the TCP connection from the controller as a client in accordance with the instructions. Next, the element accepts, as a network management protocol server, a connection via the cryptographic network protocol connection from the controller as network management protocol client. The element receives, from the controller over the network management protocol connection, commands regarding the status of the rebooted element, and then transmits, to the controller over the network management protocol connection, responses to the commands.
US11516089B2
Methods and systems for network verification are described. An input binary decision diagram (BDD) is defined to represent an input header space to query for a network property of interest. The input BDD is provided as input to a device-level BDD representing a source device in a logical topology representing connections among devices of the network. Each device in the network is represented by a respective device-level BDD in the logical topology. An output BDD is calculated, representing an output header space outputted by a destination device in the logical topology. The output BDD is calculated by sequentially applying, to the input BDD, each device-level BDD in a logical path from the source device to the destination device. The output BDD is then reported, and the reported output BDD is compared with an expected output BDD, to verify the network property of interest.
US11516081B2
A communication device is disclosed including a communication unit configured to receive a message including an SCG configuration, wherein the communication unit transmits a message, which does not include the SCG configuration, to another communication device and causes the another communication device to perform full configuration. In other aspects, another communication device and a communication method are also disclosed.
US11516079B1
A network initialization communication storage system includes a host device coupled to a storage system and an initialization issue analysis system via a network. The host device includes an initialization subsystem coupled to each of a plurality of ports. During network initialization of the host device via the storage system, the initialization subsystem identifies network initialization communications transmitted via the port(s) and the network, filters the network initialization communications to remove a subset of network initialization information and provide filtered network initialization communications, and transmits the filtered network initialization communications for storage in a remote access controller subsystem in the host device. In the event the network initialization of the host device fails, the initialization issue analysis system retrieves the filtered network initialization communications from the remote access controller subsystem, and uses them to identify at least one issue with the network initialization of the host device via the storage system.
US11516074B2
The present disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media implementing techniques for providing split control of an execution environment. According to aspects of the disclosure, a first entity may be configured to exert control over presentation related aspects (e.g., the look and feel) of services provided by a second entity, while the second entity may exert control over backend processing and execution of the services. To facilitate the different portions of the split control, one or more servers may be configured to provide a first execution layer, a second execution layer, and a second execution layer control panel. The first execution layer may perform operations for executing the provisioning of the service. The second execution layer may perform operations for presenting the computing/execution environment for providing the service, and the second execution environment control panel may provide the first entity to customize/modify presentation related aspects of the computing/execution environment.
US11516070B1
Techniques described herein relate to a method for diagnosing and remediating service failures. The method includes identifying, by a diagnostic and remediation manager, a diagnostic event associated with a service of services; generating a dependency directed acyclic graph (DAG) associated with the service; generating health vectors associated with each node of the dependency DAG; updating the dependency DAG using the health vectors to generate an unhealthy subgraph; and remediating the service based on the unhealthy subgraph.
US11516068B2
Embodiments are directed to an overlay network for an industrial Internet of Things. The overlay network has multiple main components: (1) a security component, such as a cloaked network, (2) a digital twin component that operates as digital simulations of the physical devices, (3) a communications mesh, and (4) a resource provisioning matrix for adjusting the resources used by the digital twin. The overlay network is a virtual network that is Software Defined—it sits on top of the existing Internet physical hardware of servers, routers, etc. The overlay network is sometimes referred to herein as a Software Defined Secure Content/Context Aware Network (SD-SCAN).
US11516067B1
A method includes determining, by a controller device that manages a plurality of network devices, device characteristic information for a network device of the plurality of network devices and selecting, by the controller device, one or more sensors from a plurality of sensors based on the device characteristic information for the network device. The method further includes outputting, by the controller device, an instruction to cause the network device to generate the one or more selected sensors at the network device and receiving, by the controller device, sensor information from the one or more selected sensors generated at the network device.
US11516064B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit a request, for an uplink transmission or a downlink transmission, for data aided phase tracking reference signals (PT-RSs); and communicate the uplink transmission or the downlink transmission based at least in part on the request. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11516060B2
A method for operating a device includes determining adaptation criteria for a waveform to be transmitted by a transmitting device over a communications channel towards a receiving device, and adjusting a generalized multi-carrier multiplexing parameter (GMMP) of the waveform in accordance with the adaptation criteria. The method also includes transmitting an indicator of the adjusted GMMP to at least one of the transmitting device and the receiving device.
US11516057B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a baseband processor having a preamble generation circuit to generate a preamble for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission, the preamble generation circuit to generate the preamble having a first portion comprising a first plurality of symbols and a second portion comprising a second plurality of symbols, where the preamble generation circuit is to generate at least some of the second plurality of symbols having at least one frequency disruption between successive symbols of the second portion; a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) coupled to the baseband processor to convert the first plurality of symbols and the second plurality of symbols to analog signals; a mixer coupled to the DAC to upconvert the analog signals to radio frequency (RF) signals; and a power amplifier coupled to the mixer to amplify the RF signals.
US11516050B2
Technologies are disclosed for monitoring network traffic using traffic mirroring. According to some examples, traffic mirroring allows customers to monitor traffic at different sources within a VPC. For example, a source may be any Elastic Network Interface (ENI) in their VPC, including elastic network interfaces (ENIs) on virtual machine instances, Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateways, Load Balancers, VPC endpoints, Internal Gateways, Transit Gateways, and more. Filters can be utilized to determine the network traffic to mirror. A customer may also configure to monitor real-time traffic with a monitoring appliance of their choice. With traffic mirroring, data traffic may be identified and sent to one or more target devices. Customers may monitor traffic within a VPC for content inspection, forensic analysis, troubleshooting, record keeping, and the like. Using traffic mirroring, customers can replicate VPC traffic, along with full payload data, without installing and managing agents on virtual machine instances.
US11516042B2
In-vehicle detection system includes nonvolatile memory, a controller (SoC) that reads and writes data from and in nonvolatile memory, and detector that outputs detection information to SoC. SoC changes a control signal of nonvolatile memory in accordance with the output of detector.
US11516039B2
An embodiment of the present invention comprises: a communication module for communicating with at least one external device; a microphone for receiving a user utterance; a memory for storing performance mode information having been configured in the electronic device; and a processor electrically connected to the communication module, the microphone, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, through the microphone, a second user utterance associated with task execution; transmit first data associated with the second user utterance to an external device; receive, from the external device, second data associated with at least a part of processing of the first data; identify a first work load allocated to the electronic device at the time of receiving the second data; and compare a second work load required for processing the second data and the first work load, so as to control the performance mode. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.
US11516036B1
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for quantifying meeting effectiveness. A method for quantifying meeting effectiveness may comprise: (a) receiving calendar data related to a meeting; (b) generating a feedback survey based on the calendar data for collecting user feedback data, wherein the feedback survey is presented to a user on an electronic device; (c) generating, using a trained machine learning algorithm, a meeting score indicative of an effectiveness of the meeting based on the meeting data and the user feedback data, and (d) displaying the meeting score within a graphical user interface (GUI) on the electronic device.
US11516033B1
Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, at a server, from a cluster of nodes on an edge network in communication with the server, a resource consumption data of a service hosted on the edge network, determine, based on a metering policy, a unit of measurement, and calculate a resource consumption quantity according to the unit of measurement.
US11516028B2
Any electrically conductive materials, such as capacitors, resistors, on-chip resistors or wires can be used to create a temperature sensing security token. A temperature sensing security token may include a first resistor having a first side connected to a voltage source, a second resistor having a first side connected to the voltage source, an analog comparator having a first input connected to a second side of the first resistor and a second input connected to a second side of the second resistor and an output that represents at least one bit of a key, and an analog to digital converter having an input connected to the second side of the first resistor wherein an output of said analog to digital converter is related to temperature by a temperature coefficient of resistivity of the first resistor. The first resistor and the second resistor may have the same nominal resistance. The first resistor, the second resistor and the analog to digital comparator may be encased in the same package. The package may be configured to inhibit inspection and discovery of components contained in said package. A processor may be connected to a key register and to a temperature table wherein said processor may be configured to store the key bits in the key register and is configured to store data corresponding to temperature. The processor may be configured to store a time stamp associated with an entry in the temperature table. A communications interface may be connected to the processor.
US11516026B2
A security device generates a key based on a physically unclonable function (PUF). The security device includes a physically unclonable function (PUF) block, an integrity detector, and a post processor. The PUF block outputs a plurality of first random signals and a plurality of corresponding first inverted random signals each having a logic level opposite to that of each of the plurality of corresponding first random signals. The integrity detector determines data integrity of the plurality of first random signals by using the plurality of first random signals and the plurality of corresponding first inverted random signals. The post processor generates a first row key that includes validity signals satisfying the data integrity.
US11516012B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a hardware accelerator to execute cryptography operations including a Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) operation and an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) operation. The hardware accelerator may include a multiplier circuit comprising a parallel combinatorial multiplier, and an ECC circuit coupled to the multiplier circuit to execute the ECC operation. The ECC circuit may compute a prime field multiplication using the multiplier circuit and reduce a result of the prime field multiplication in a plurality of addition and subtraction operations for a first type of prime modulus. The hardware accelerator may execute the RSA operation using the multiplier circuit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11516007B2
An entangled links mechanism to establish and maintain bipartite temporal intimacy between pairs of computers, using an idempotent, reversible token method which presents no observable external “change” until a communication of information needs to occur between the computers, and which maintains the potential for “bounded (or unbounded) reversibility” in case the intended information dispatched by a source computational entity is not captured or properly accepted by a destination computational entity. The mechanism enables distributed computers in a network to remain continuously aware of each other's presence; to communicate on a logically nearest neighbor basis in a secure and reliable manner in which packets passed over these links do not conflict with normal traffic or cause the available resources of the link to be exceeded; and that atomicity, consistency, isolation, and “reversible durability” may be maintained for transactions when perturbations occur.
US11516005B2
Disclosed is a system for executing a data access transaction. The system comprises a server arrangement, the server arrangement being communicably coupled with at least one requesting device and at least one responding device. The server arrangement is configured to receive from a requesting device and a responding device, a first data and a second data respectively, wherein the first data and the second data are encrypted and temporally defined. Further, the server arrangement receives from the requesting device a metadata of the first data, wherein the metadata is encrypted by the requesting device, determines an encrypted association score by comparing the first data and the second data, wherein the encrypted association score is based on a temporally defined dynamic evaluation component, wherein the temporally defined dynamic evaluation component includes a causality measure, wherein the causality measure is able to identify and exclude spurious correlations between the first data and the second data and provides the encrypted association score to the requesting device and the responding device, wherein each of the requesting device and the responding device partially decrypt the encrypted association score. Further, the server arrangement obtains the partial decryption of the encrypted association score from the responding device and provide the partial decryption to the requesting device, wherein the requesting device fully decrypts the encrypted association score using the partial decryption obtained from the responding device and enables the requesting device to access the second data from the responding device, upon receiving a request for the access to the second data.
US11516002B1
A system and a method for tracking history of a digital object using cryptographic chain. The digital object is encrypted using a cryptographic technique to form a first time travel record of a cryptographic chain. Further, an update in the digital object is detected. Furthermore, an updated digital object is encrypted to form a second time travel record. The first time travel record and the second time travel record are linked to form the cryptographic chain through a composite key. Subsequently, an input from the user is received to identify a change in the digital object. The cryptographic chain is sequentially decrypted based on the input. Finally, a change in the digital object is identified based on a comparison of the first time travel record and the second time travel record, thereby tracking history of the digital object using the cryptographic chain.
US11515999B1
An improved blockchain implementation that reduces application transaction processing bottlenecks for applications that operate on a decentralized network. For example, if an application operating on a decentralized network becomes sufficiently popular, an existing blockchain can be split into the original blockchain and an application-specific chain (or app chain) that includes blocks that only store transactions for the sufficiently popular application. A peer that is not interested in tracking transactions for the sufficiently popular application, however, does not need to track the application-specific chain. Thus, the peer can reduce the number of computational operations that are performed by simply storing block data for blocks in the original blockchain and not for blocks in the application-specific chain.
US11515997B2
A device, system and method for privacy enhanced proximity detection by secure collaboration between a first party without access to user locations and a second party without access to a target user identifier. The second party may receive from the first party a homomorphic encryption public key and homomorphic encrypted target user identifier or masked target location, and may determine an associated homomorphic encrypted target user location. The second party may search a homomorphically encrypt database of user locations and associated user identifiers for homomorphic encrypted proximate user identifiers associated with homomorphic encrypted user locations proximate to the homomorphic encrypted target user location. The second party may send the first user the search result of homomorphic encrypted proximate user identifiers to be decrypted by the first party with a private key to identify proximate user identifiers without knowing their locations.
US11515995B2
Systems and methods for efficient computation of univariate statistical moments. An example method comprises: receiving a plurality of input traces, wherein each trace of the plurality of input traces includes a plurality of sample points; appending, to a trace matrix comprising combinations of pre-determined degrees of the sample points, a plurality of rows representing the plurality of input traces; appending, to a classifier matrix, a plurality of columns representing metadata associated with the plurality of input traces; applying a defined transformation to the classifier matrix to produce a transformed classifier matrix; incrementing an accumulator matrix by a product of the transformed classifier matrix and the trace matrix; computing, using a first subset of elements of the accumulator matrix, a first statistical moment for a first portion of the input traces identified by a first subset of elements of the classifier matrix, wherein the first subset of elements of the classifier matrix is identified by a first classifier value; and computing, by subtracting each element of the first subset of elements of the accumulator matrix from a corresponding sum of elements of the input traces stored by the accumulator matrix, a second statistical moment for a second portion of the input traces identified by a second subset of elements of the classifier matrix, wherein the second subset of elements of the classifier matrix is identified by a second classifier value.
US11515991B2
Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication method related to interference report in full duplex operation. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to form interference information about interference from at least one of the user equipment itself and at least one neighboring user equipment of the user equipment; and a transmitter operative to transmit the interference information to a base station, wherein full duplex operation is performed between the user equipment and at least the base station.
US11515990B2
A wireless device, network node and methods using new radio time division duplex, NR-TDD, are provided. In one embodiment, the network node includes processing circuitry configured to configure placement of downlink control messages over at least two symbols of a NR TDD slot. The at least two symbols are different symbols in the time domain.
US11515987B2
A method pertaining to leftover bits processing for proportional round-robin resource unit (RU) parsing in extreme high-throughput (EHT) systems involves processing a stream of bits to provide processed bits. The method also involves transmitting the processed bits to a station (STA) over a combination of multiple resource units (RUs) assigned to the STA. In processing the stream of bits, the method may involve parsing the stream of bits to the combination of multiple RUs. Moreover, in an event of leftover bits remaining from the parsing, the method may further involve distributing the leftover bits to one or more RUs but not all RUs of the combination of multiple RUs.
US11515986B2
A mechanism is presented for attributing users to one or more of a plurality of sub-bands in a multiple access communications system, wherein in an initial assignment phase, a first user is selected for a sub band, for example on the basis of a user priority. Users having complementary channel gains to that of the first user are identified, and then a second sub-band user maximizing a performance metric reflecting the achieved throughput, and/or fairness across users, is selected to accompany the first user on that sub-band. The initial assignment phase may terminate once all users have been assigned to a sub-band once. After the first phase is complete, the first user for each sub-band may be the user whose achieved total throughput is furthest from a target throughput defined for that user, wherein each user is assigned to the remaining sub-band to which no first user is currently attributed offering the highest channel gain for that user. Mechanisms for determining user priority, making provisional and definitive power allocations, and performance metrics are proposed.
US11515980B1
Disclosed is a positioning method, including: synchronizing, by a mobile terminal, with a network device according to preset configuration information; acquiring, from the configuration information, parameters for determining a time-frequency resource of a sounding reference signal (SRS); determining the time-frequency resource for sending the SRS, and sending, on the determined time-frequency resource, the SRS to a plurality of network devices; receiving, by each of the plurality of network devices, the SRS, determining an arrival time of the SRS and the time-frequency resource occupied, determining, according to the time-frequency resource occupied by the SRS, an identifier of the mobile terminal sending the SRS, and reporting the identifier to a location server; and determining, by the location server, a position of the mobile terminal sending the above SRS according to the arrival time of the SRS.
US11515979B2
A method for receiving a PTRS by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving first information for configuring one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs); receiving second information including threshold value information relating to a frequency density of a PTRS; receiving downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI includes a first field indicating an activated BWP among the one or more BWPs configured on the basis of the first information, and a second field related to a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and receiving the PTRS in the activated BWP, wherein the frequency density of the PTRS is determined by the number of resource blocks associated with each TCI state.
US11515975B2
An arrangement is disclosed where in a multi-carrier communication system, the modulation scheme, coding attributes, training pilots, and signal power may be adjusted to adapt to channel conditions in order to maximize the overall system capacity and spectral efficiency without wasting radio resources or compromising error probability performance, etc.
US11515967B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for performing sidelink communication by a first device is provided. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting at least one PSSCH to at least one reception device by using at least one sub channel and at least one slot in a resource pool; and receiving at least one HARQ feedback for the at least one PSSCH through at least one PSFCH resource from among M PSFCH resources in the resource pool, wherein the resource pool comprises K PSSCH-associated slots and L sub channels, which are associated with the PSFCH resources, M is greater than or equal to K*L, and K, L, and M may be positive integers.
US11515961B2
When encoding a block of data elements in an array of data elements, the data values for data elements in the block are represented and stored in a data packet as truncated data values using a subset of one or more most significant bits of the respective bit sequences for the data values of the data elements. A rounding mode is selected from a plurality of available rounding modes that can be applied when decoding the block of data elements and an indication of the selected rounding mode is provided along with the encoded data packet. The rounding mode is associated with one or more rounding bit sequence(s) that can then be applied to the truncated data values when decoding the data packet to obtain decoded data values for the data elements in the block.
US11515955B2
To provide a demodulation circuit, a processing circuit, a processing method, and a processing device that are capable of implementing more prompt acquisition of alert information. Provided is a demodulation circuit including a demodulation unit configured to demodulate a broadcast signal received by a reception circuit that receives the broadcast signal, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not acquisition of alert information included in the demodulated broadcast signal is necessary according to a set operation mode, on the basis of first alert notification information indicating an update state of the alert information included in the demodulated broadcast signal, and an output processing unit configured to output second alert notification information corresponding to the operation mode from a predetermined terminal to which a processing circuit having a function to acquire the alert information is electrically connected, in a case where acquisition of the alert information is determined to be necessary.
US11515953B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive signaling from a base station and may pass the signaling through one or more low noise amplifiers (LNAs) at a receiver of the UE. The UE may determine a saturation threshold at the one or more LNAs is exceeded. The UE may transmit an indication to the base station that the saturation threshold is exceeded. The base station may send additional signaling to the UE whose content, schedule, or configuration is responsive to the indication that the saturation threshold is exceeded. The UE may process the additional signaling using a digital linearizer at a receive chain of the UE. A base station may indicate an LNA saturation state to a UE in advance. The UE may respond to the indication (e.g., by setting LNA and digital linearizer states to accommodate predicted saturation).
US11515952B1
A testing method for determining radiation performance of a device under test (DUT) is disclosed. The testing method comprises the following steps. The DUT is arranged at a first orientation. A first effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) and a first effective isotropic sensitivity (EIS) of the DUT are measured at the first orientation. The DUT is arranged at a second orientation different from the first orientation, and a second EIRP of the DUT is measured at the second orientation. A second EIS of the DUT is measured at the second orientation according to a correlation between the first EIRP, the first EIS and the second EIRP.
US11515951B2
A system includes a base station, an antenna coupled to the base station, and an antenna line device coupled to the antenna. The antenna line device is Internet Protocol (IP) addressable and is configured to receive a control signal from a controller.
US11515949B2
An estimation method includes: transmitting transmission signals using M transmission antenna elements; receiving reception signals by N reception antenna elements; calculating, from the reception signals, a first matrix whose components are complex transfer functions indicating propagation characteristics between the transmission antenna elements and the reception antenna elements; estimating, using the first matrix, a position and an orientation of a living body relative to an estimation device; when the estimated position is in a first identification region and the estimated orientation is in a predetermined range from a first direction, identifying the living body based on time waveforms of the reception signals and a first training signal which is obtained in advance in the first identification region and corresponds to the living body; and adding, as an identification region for identifying the first living body identified, a new identification region based on an estimated position of the first living body identified.
US11515943B2
This application provides example optical communications apparatuses. One example optical communications apparatus includes a control apparatus and an optical module matching apparatus. The control apparatus can output a first control signal to the control end. An input end of the optical module matching apparatus can connect to a first optical module and receive a first electrical signal output by the first optical module. An output end of the optical module matching apparatus can output a first serial signal. The control apparatus can output a second control signal to the control end. The input end of the optical module matching apparatus can receive a second electrical signal output by the second optical module. The output end of the optical module matching apparatus can output a second serial signal. The first electrical signal and the second electrical signal can have different level types.
US11515940B2
In an optical fiber monitoring system which detects physical disturbance or other parameters such as temperature or strain of a fiber where a monitor signal is transmitted along the optical fiber and analyzed to detect changes which are indicative of an event, a method is provided for periodically checking proper operation of the optical fiber monitoring system. A fiber disturbance actuator periodically causes a pattern of disturbances of a portion of the fiber at a predetermined location thereon where the disturbance is characteristic of the event to be monitored. The monitor signal is analyzed to detect the pattern of changes and in the event that expected changes are not detected, a warning is issued that the intrusion detection system is not properly operating.
US11515936B2
A satellite provides communication between user terminals (UTs) and ground stations that connect to other networks, such as the Internet. Because the satellite is within range of many UTs at any given time, many UTs are in contention to use an uplink to send data to the satellite. Each satellite manages uplink contention by maintaining state data representative of the uplink resources allocated for use. As satellites move, handovers take place, transferring communication services from a first satellite to a second satellite. Before a handover, a first satellite sends state data to a UT. The second satellite is also informed about the UT. After the handover, the second satellite provides the UT with priority access to the uplink to send the state data to the second satellite. The second satellite uses the state data to resume management of the uplink, eliminating the need for time consuming link setup.
US11515934B2
A method and a device for determining sending parameters of a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: determining a pre-estimated signal-to-noise ratio of an uplink on at least one reference position in a cell range corresponding to a satellite beam, determining, according to the pre-estimated signal-to-noise ratio of the uplink, effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) values corresponding to a preset carrier bandwidth of the uplink, determining, according to the EIRP values corresponding to the preset carrier bandwidth of the uplink, a maximum rate supported by the preset carrier bandwidth of the uplink, determining, according to the maximum rate supported by the preset carrier bandwidth of the uplink, a maximum uplink rate supported by the terminal, and determining an uplink sending maximum EIRP value and/or an uplink sending maximum bandwidth of the terminal according to an uplink rate to be supported by the terminal input by a user.
US11515931B2
Wireless communication is provided over an extended distance using a line or a series of drones traveling along a transmission path between a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter sends a data signal to a first drone that is within range of the transmitter. The first drone sends the data signal to an adjacent drone in the line of drones which retransmits the data signal to the next drone in line. The data signal is transmitted between drones until it reaches a final drone within range of the receiver. The final drone transmits the data signal to the receiver. As the drones travel along the transmission path, new drones are launched from a location within range of the transmitter to replace drones that land after transmitting a data signal to the receiver.
US11515925B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method that includes receiving at a user equipment configuration for M active transmission configuration indication states; selecting, according to one or more pre-defined rules, based on the configured M active transmission configuration indication states, a subset of N of the set of M transmission configuration indication states, where N
US11515896B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform iterative correction on a plurality of frames of data read from the non-volatile memory. The iterative correction includes performing a first error correction on each of the frames including a first frame having errors not correctable by the first error correction, generating a syndrome on a set of second frames that include the first frame, performing a second error correction on the second frames using the syndrome, and performing a third error correction on the first frame. Each of the frames includes user data and first parity data used in the first error correction, the first parity data of the first frame also being used in the third error correction.
US11515895B2
The present disclosure discloses a new coding scheme, which is constructed by superimposing together a pair of basic codes in a twisted manner. A SCL decoding algorithm is proposed for the TPST codes, which may be early terminated by a preset threshold on the empirical divergence functions (EDF) to trade off performance with decoding complexity. The SCL decoding of TPST is based on the efficient list decoding of the basic codes, where the correct candidate codeword in the decoding list is distinguished by employing a typicality-based statistical learning aided decoding algorithm. Lower bounds for the two layers of TPST are derived, which may be used to predict the decoding performance and to show the near-ML performance of the proposed SCL decoding algorithm. The construction of TPST codes may be generalised by allowing different basic codes for the two layers.
US11515891B2
A low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder performs check node computations as N different segments of the check nodes which have connections only to a codeword segment of length C/N bits as well as check nodes that have connections across the entire codeword of length C. The decoder can include a controller or other compute hardware to decode the codeword, including to perform computations for separate segments of C/N bits of the codeword. The system can perform computations including adjustment of the decode computations based on an expected error rate for selected segments of the codeword.
US11515890B2
Technologies for applying a redundancy encoding scheme to segmented portions of a data block include an endpoint computing device communicatively coupled to a destination computing device. The endpoint computing device is configured to divide a block of data into a plurality of data segments as a function of a transmit window size and a redundancy encoding scheme, and generate redundant data usable to reconstruct each of the plurality of data segments. The endpoint computing device is additionally configured to format a series of network packets that each includes a data segment of the plurality of data segments and generated redundant data for at least one other data segment of the plurality of data segments. Further, the endpoint computing device is configured to transport each of the series of network packets to a destination computing device. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11515878B1
Various embodiments relate to a level shifter circuit configured to generate a voltage output, including: a first charging path circuit; a second charging path circuit; and an enable circuit configured to enable the first charging path circuit and the second charging path circuit, wherein the voltage output is a combination of the voltage from the first charging path circuit and the second charging path circuit, the first charging path circuit charges up to a voltage limit, and the first charging path circuit charges the voltage output faster than the second charging path circuit.
US11515865B1
A serializer clock delay optimization system comprising a multiplexer configured to receive two or more low-rate data signals and a multiplexer control signal. The multiplexer generates a full-rate data signal by combining the two or more low-rate data signals such that the multiplexer control signal determines sampling time of the low-rate data signals. A data monitor monitors and evaluates the full-rate data signal to generate a quality value representing the quality of the full-rate data signal. The quality of the full-rate data signal is based on the accuracy of the sampling time of the low-rate data signals. A delay controller processes the quality value to generate a delay control signal or value. A delay receives a clock signal and the delay control signal or value. Responsive to the delay control signal or value, the delay modifies the timing of the clock signal to create the multiplexer control signal.
US11515857B2
A third through hole is formed in a crystal resonator plate of a crystal resonator to penetrate between a first main surface and a second main surface. A through electrode of the third through hole is conducted to a first excitation electrode. A seventh through hole is formed in a first sealing member of the crystal resonator to penetrate between a first main surface and a second main surface. The through electrode of the third through hole is conducted to the through electrode of the seventh through hole. The third through hole is not superimposed to the seventh through hole in plan view.
US11515856B2
An acoustic wave device includes a functional electrode provided on a first main surface of an element substrate, extended wiring lines that are electrically connected to the functional electrode and that are adjacent to each other on a second main surface facing away from the first main surface, external terminals that are connected to the extended wiring lines, respectively, and that are provided on the second main surface, a first resin portion that seals the acoustic wave device, and a second resin portion that is provided at a position which is between the element substrate and the first resin portion and which is on the second main surface.
US11515853B2
An equalizer and a method of controlling same are provided. The equalizer includes a memory storing an EQ value set for a plurality of music attributes and storing a general-purpose EQ value; and a processor configured to: obtain an input music signal; calculate a plurality of probability values for the plurality of music attributes by analyzing attributes of the input music signal based on a convolutional neural network; calculate a moderate index between the plurality of probability values; generate an EQ value based on the plurality of probability values and the moderate index; and perform equalizing by applying the generated EQ value to the input music signal.
US11515852B1
Measurement of signal power for variable or time varying signals. A log-linear VGA coupled in a feedback configuration to a difference detector and an integrator, includes a set of amplifier cells selectable by a sliding current generator, producing a sum of outputs. Outputs of the sliding current generator include a first control current provided using a sum of amplified currents, a sequence of intermediate control currents, and a final control current provided using a sum of amplified currents. Control currents to be summed can be differentially amplified or attenuated; attenuators include capacitors to compensate for capacitive loading. Selectable amplifier cells are differentially amplified or attenuated. Isolating switches and canceling stages reduce the effects of leakage between adjacent amplifier cells. The sliding current generator can have boosted current to first and last amplifier cells, providing a more linear-in-dB gain near a relative maximum or minimum.
US11515851B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a travelling wave parametric amplifier comprising a waveguide transmission line comprising therein at least ten Josephson elements, wherein each of the at least ten Josephson element comprises a loop, with exactly one Josephson junction of first size on one half of the loop and at least two Josephson junctions of a second size on a second half of the loop, the second size being larger than the first size, a flux bias line configured to generate a magnetic flux threading each of the at least one loop, and a set of resistors coupled with the flux bias line.
US11515850B2
In a distributed amplifier, a plurality of cascode amplifiers connected in parallel between an input side transmission line and an output side transmission line are provided, a transmission line is connected to an input terminal of an output transistor of each of the amplifiers, and a bias potential is applied from a bias circuit to the input terminal of the output transistor via the transmission line.
US11515849B2
A first correction voltage generation circuit provides a first positive or negative correction voltage for correcting an input voltage. A second correction voltage generation circuit provides a second correction voltage identical in polarity to the first correction voltage in accordance with the first correction voltage. The second correction voltage is generated to have a temperature coefficient reverse in polarity to a temperature coefficient of the first correction voltage.
US11515848B2
Source driver having an output buffer circuit with slew rate compensation and display device thereof
An output buffer circuit includes an operational amplifier configured to generate an amplifier output voltage signal based on an input voltage signal and on a compensation current, a slew rate compensating circuit configured to generate the compensation current to increase a slew rate of the amplifier output voltage signal based on a difference between the input voltage signal and a feedback voltage signal, an output path circuit connected between the operational amplifier and an output pad, the output path circuit configured to transfer the amplifier output voltage signal to generate a pad output voltage signal through the output pad, and a feedback path circuit, the feedback path circuit connected between the slew rate compensating circuit and a feedback input node that is on the output path circuit, the feedback path circuit configured to generate the feedback voltage signal.
US11515847B2
A packaged RF amplifier device includes input and output leads and a transistor die. The transistor die includes a transistor with a drain-source capacitance below 0.1 picofarads per watt. The device also includes a conductive connection between the transistor output terminal and the output lead, and a baseband termination circuit between the transistor output terminal and a ground reference node. The baseband termination circuit presents a low impedance to signal energy at envelope frequencies and a high impedance to signal energy at RF frequencies. The baseband termination circuit includes an inductive element, a resistor, and a capacitor connected in series between the transistor output terminal and the ground reference node. Except for a minimal impedance transformation associated with the conductive connection, the device is unmatched between the transistor output terminal and the output lead by being devoid of impedance matching circuitry between the transistor output terminal and the output lead.
US11515846B2
An in-band extraction unit is configured to extract an in-band from an output signal. An out-band extraction unit is configured to extract at least one pair of out-bands including a low frequency side out-band and a high frequency side out-band from the output signal. An ADC is configured to convert the extracted in-band and out-bands to digital signals. A signal processing unit is configured to process information included in the digital signals converted by the analog to digital converter and adjust an operation of predistorting an input baseband digital signal to generate the output signal.
US11515845B2
Solder bumps are placed in direct contact with the silicon substrate of an amplifier integrated circuit having a flip chip configuration. A plurality of amplifier transistor arrays generate waste heat that promotes thermal run away of the amplifier if not directed out of the integrated circuit. The waste heat flows through the thermally conductive silicon substrate and out the solder bump to a heat-sinking plane of an interposer connected to the amplifier integrated circuit via the solder bumps.
US11515841B2
A dc coupled amplifier includes a pre-driver, and amplifier and a bias control circuit. The pre-driver is configured to receive one or more input signals and amplify the one or more input signals to create one or more pre-amplified signals. The amplifier has cascode configured transistors configured to receive and amplify the one or more pre-amplified signals to create one or more amplified signals, the amplifier further having an output driver termination element. The bias control circuit is connected between the pre-driver and the amplifier, the bias control circuit receiving at least one bias current from the output driver termination element of the amplifier, wherein the pre-driver, the amplifier and the bias control circuit are all formed on a same die.
US11515836B2
A complex energy generation device includes: a heat storage tube having an inlet portion into which heat medium oil flows, and an outlet portion from which the heat medium oil is discharged, the heat storage tube having a slit; a heat-exchange plate having a plurality of insertion holes formed on a lower surface thereof along a longitudinal direction thereof; a plurality of solar modules each including a solar panel having a plurality of solar cells on a front surface of the solar panel, and a heat-exchange panel laminated on a rear surface of the solar panel; and a plurality of heat collection modules each including a heat-exchange block and a heat collection tube.
US11515827B2
A wall-mountable load control device may include an illuminated rotary knob for providing a nightlight feature. The load control device may be configured to control an intensity of a lighting load. The load control device may include a yoke adapted to be mounted to an electrical wall box, an enclosure attached to the yoke, a faceplate attached to the yoke and having an opening, a mounting member attached to the yoke, and/or a potentiometer located within the enclosure and having a shaft extending through an opening in the yoke and the opening of the faceplate. The load control device may include a collar attached to the boss of the mounting member and surrounding the shaft of the potentiometer. The mounting member may be configured to conduct light from at least one light source housed within the enclosure to illuminate the faceplate.
US11515818B2
Reduced computation time for model predictive control (MPC) of a five level dual T-type drive considering the DC link capacitor balancing, the common-mode voltage (CMV) along with torque control of an open-ends induction motor based on determining a reduced set of switching states for the MPC. The reduced set of switching states are determined by considering either CMV reduction (CMVR) or CMV elimination (CMVE). Cost function minimization generates a voltage vector, which is used to produce gating signals for the converter switches. The reduced switching state MPC significantly reduces computation time and improves MPC performance.
US11515809B2
A power conversion device includes three inverters configured to convert DC power of DC buses into single-phase AC power, and a controller configured to control the three inverters so as to generate three-phase AC power. The controller is configured to generate a fundamental wave command for generating one-phase AC power constituting the three-phase AC power, and to generate an adjustment wave command having triple the frequency of the fundamental wave command. Additionally, the controller is configured to output a phase voltage command, in which the adjustment wave command is superimposed on the fundamental wave command, and to determine an initial phase of the adjustment wave command to be offset from an initial phase of the fundamental wave command so as to reduce a voltage ripple occurring in the DC buses at double the frequency of the fundamental wave command.
US11515801B2
A power conversion device which is premised on converting electric power supplied from a power source with use of a magnetic component, includes: a plurality of bus bars configured to supply electric power to a load; current sensor elements which are respectively provided for the plurality of bus bars, and are configured to detect magnetic fluxes generated when electric currents flow through the plurality of bus bars; and a plate-like magnetic shield plate which is arranged on a straight line connecting the magnetic component and the current sensor element, and is configured to shield magnetic fluxes directed from the magnetic component to one or more current sensor elements.
US11515794B2
An apparatus includes a current emulator and a controller. The emulator receives a reference output current value representing a measured average amount of output current delivered by the voltage converter to the load for a first portion of a power delivery cycle during which high side switch circuitry and low side switch circuitry in the voltage converter are activated at different times to produce the output current. The power delivery cycle includes a second portion during which the high side switch circuitry and the low side switch circuitry of the voltage converter are deactivated. Via trial and error, the emulator derives an average output current value delivered to the load for the power delivery cycle based on the reference output current value and repeated adjustments to the estimation of the average output current. The controller controls operation of the voltage converter based on the derived average output current value.
US11515785B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a circuit. In some examples, the circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The first transistor comprises a drain terminal coupled to an input voltage node, a source terminal coupled to a first node, and a gate terminal coupled to a second node. The second transistor comprises a drain terminal coupled to a third node, a source terminal coupled to a fourth node, and a gate terminal coupled to a fifth node. The third transistor comprises a drain terminal coupled to a sixth node, a source terminal configured to couple to a gate terminal of a switching transistor, and a gate terminal coupled to a seventh node. The first capacitor is coupled between the first node and the third node. The second capacitor is coupled between the fourth node and the sixth node.
US11515781B2
A current source inverter, including: a first switching cell including at least first and second power switches coupling a same first input node of the inverter respectively to first and second output nodes of the inverter; and a circuit of protection against a placing in open circuit of an input current source of the inverter.
US11515779B2
Operating an electrical load controller includes, in one aspect, detecting zero-crossings of an AC waveform, determining periods each corresponding to a full cycle of the AC waveform, determining a frequency of the AC waveform based on the determined periods, and controlling a supply of AC power to a load based thereon using the determined frequency to fire a switching circuit of the electrical load controller. In another aspect, a method includes maintaining a minimum on-time for which a control signal to the switching circuit is to remain in an ON state to fire the switching circuit; based on a desired load level setting of the electrical load controller, setting a corresponding control signal turn-on time to turn the control signal to the ON state to conduct the supply of AC power to the load, the control signal turn-on time corresponding to a firing angle of half cycles of the AC power; selecting a control signal turn-off time to turn the control signal to the OFF state, where the selecting is made between (i) a first turn-off time equal to the set turn-on time plus the minimum on-time, and (ii) a second turn-off time equal to a default turn-off time for turning the control signal to the OFF state, the control signal turn-off time corresponding to a second angle of half cycles of the AC power; and controlling the supply of AC power to the load by selectively controlling the switching circuit to conduct the supply of AC power to the load, the controlling the supply of AC power to the load including: based on turning the control signal to the ON state during a half cycle of the AC power at the set control signal turn-on time, holding the control signal in the ON state until the selected control signal turn-off time during the half cycle.
US11515774B2
The present disclosure discloses a vibration motor including a fixing frame, a suspending frame, an iron core, a drive coil, an elastic support and a magnetic steel assembly. The magnetic steel assembly includes a first magnetic steel, a second magnetic steel and a third magnetic steel that are superimposed in order. Polarity directions of the first magnetic steel and third magnetic steel are parallel with a central axis of the drive coil. A side of the first magnetic steel that the side facing the second magnetic steel has the same polarity with a side of the third magnetic steel that the side facing the second magnetic steel. The vibration motor can generate two magnetic loops whose magnetic forces increases drive force of the vibration motor.
US11515772B2
The generator device of electrical energy with permanent magnets, particularly for the supply of electrical loads and/or batteries of vehicles, connectable to at least a driving shaft of a motor, comprises: a rotor element rotating around an axis of rotation; a stator element contained inside the rotor element, or containing the rotor element, and coaxial to the rotor element, the stator element having a plurality of stator slots; a plurality of stator windings of a conductive material arranged at each of the stator slots and connected to a power supply line; a plurality of permanent magnets having a first side associated with the rotor element and a second side facing the stator element; wherein the permanent magnets are associated with the rotor element in a configuration of the Halbach array type to define a magnetic coupling to the stator windings wherein the magnetic field flow at the second side of each of the permanent magnets is substantially greater than the flow of the magnetic field at the first side of each of the permanent magnets.
US11515767B2
An apparatus for pre-assembling a winding for an electric machine stator or rotor includes a plurality of hairpins with two legs having non-circular cross-section, a ring including a plurality of slots and an outer containment ring acting in containment along the perimeter of the ring. An inner cam block and an outer cam block, surrounding and radially facing the inner cam block, are arranged opposite to the exit face of the ring. The cams are adapted to be crossed, in use, by the two legs when they cross the ring at the same time; the cams open into a free circular space between the two cam blocks. A method for pre-assembling a winding set for an electric machine stator or rotor is also provided. Hairpins are inserted in sequence in the slots of the apparatus. A finished winding set positioned in the free circular space is obtained by successive rotations of the ring.
US11515753B2
A reduction gearbox which has: an input, which can be coupled to an input shaft, which has an input speed; an output, which rotates at an output speed that is lower than the input speed; and at least one statically arranged component. It is envisaged that an electric generator is integrated into the reduction gearbox, said generator comprising a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor of the electric generator is coupled to the output of the reduction gearbox, and the stator of the electric generator is coupled to a statically arranged component of the reduction gearbox.
US11515752B1
A power tool device comprises a housing, a transmission mechanism installed in the housing, and an adapting mechanism deployed with a tool head, a switch member adopted for manipulating the attachment and detachment between the transmission mechanism and the adapting mechanism in a steady and safety manner. Therefore, that the operator only needs to carry a variety of tool heads and a power tool device is ample enough to deal with most of the situations which makes it much easier for the operators to work in a high flexibility and efficiency fashion.
US11515740B2
A power receiving apparatus includes a measurement unit that measures a first received voltage value from a power transmitting apparatus, which has a detection function for detecting an object as being different from a power receiving apparatus, based on a difference between power transmitted by the power transmitting apparatus and power received by the power receiving apparatus, as well as a first request unit that requests the power transmitting apparatus to adjust the transmitted power, a measurement unit that measures a second received voltage value from the power transmitting apparatus after the requesting, a determination unit that determines whether calibration process regarding the detection function is necessary, based on details of an adjustment of the transmitted power and the difference between the first and second received voltage values, and a request unit that requests the power transmitting apparatus to terminate power transmission and requests the power transmitting apparatus to perform the calibration process if the calibration process is necessary.
US11515732B2
An example method performed by a wireless-power-transmitting device that includes an antenna array is provided. The method includes radiating electromagnetic waves that form a maximum power level at a first distance away from the antenna array. Moreover, a power level of the radiated electromagnetic waves decreases, relative to the maximum power level, by at least a predefined amount at a predefined radial distance away from the maximum power level. In some embodiments, the method also includes detecting a location of a wireless-power-receiving device, whereby the location of the wireless-power-receiving device is further from the antenna array than a location of the maximum power level.
US11515726B1
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for detecting downstream devices connected to an electrical load controlling device. An example embodiment operates by detecting an association signal from a downstream smart device responsive to a downstream smart device detection signal. The example embodiment further operates by determining whether the downstream smart device is coupled to an electrical terminal of an electrical switching device and configured to receive electricity in response to an actuation of the electrical switching device. If so, the example embodiment further operates by generating a control signal configured to instruct the electrical switching device to prevent a deactuation of the electrical switching device and transmitting the control signal to the electrical switching device.
US11515722B2
A modular in vitro diagnostics (IVD) vessel mover system providing redundant power management includes a plurality of modules which are configured to provide storage to one or more IVD samples. Each module comprising a power failover switch which is configured to receive internal power from an internal primary power source and transmit backup power to one or more of the plurality of modules.
US11515711B2
It is desirable to improve the accuracy of voltage control in the grid interconnection device for supplying the power generated by the distributed power source to the interconnection point. Provided is a grid interconnection device for supplying power generated by a distributed power source to an interconnection point, comprising: a calculation unit for calculating voltage at the interconnection point based on output voltage of the grid interconnection device, output current of the grid interconnection device, and an impedance component between the grid interconnection device and the interconnection point; and a control unit for controlling output power from the grid interconnection device, based on voltage at the interconnection point calculated by the calculation unit.
US11515705B2
The present disclosure provides a new and improved method and apparatus of scheduling for a charging infrastructure serving a plurality of electric vehicles. A computer-implemented method for scheduling a charging infrastructure serving a plurality of electric vehicles is provided, in which a prediction for a usage pattern of the charging infrastructure is made with a context based on historical usage patterns of the charging infrastructure and the contexts of the historical usage patterns, and a schedule scheme for deciding a distribution of charging spots of the charging infrastructure among the electric vehicles is determined based on the predicted usage pattern.
US11515694B2
A stiffening member for a protective housing assembly which defines a bore for receiving a utility line. The housing assembly includes a first body member, and a second body member arranged adjacent to one another to define immediately adjacent sections of the bore which surrounds the utility line. The stiffening member includes a first side for engagement with the first body member, and a second side for engagement with the second body member wherein pedestals extend from the first side of the stiffening member in a first direction away from the second side.
US11515692B2
A wire stripping assembly includes a pair of pliers including a pair of handles and a pair of jaws. Each of the jaws has a plurality of cutting slots integrated therein. The cutting slots in each of the jaws forms a hole when the jaws are closed for having a wire positioned therein. The hole formed by each of the cutting slots has a unique diameter with respect to each other. In this way the hole formed by each of the pairs of cutting slots can accommodate a unique gauge of wire with respect to each other. The cutting slots in each of the jaws is positioned on a leading edge of the jaws thereby facilitating the pair of pliers to be pulled toward a user when the user is stripping the insulation from the wire.
US11515687B2
A method for tuning the frequency of THz radiation is provided. The method utilizes an apparatus comprising a spin injector, a tunnel junction coupled to the spin injector, and a ferromagnetic material coupled to the tunnel junction. The ferromagnetic material comprises a Magnon Gain Medium (MGM). The method comprises the step of applying a bias voltage to shift a Fermi level of the spin injector with respect to the Fermi level of the ferromagnetic material to initiate generation of non-equilibrium magnons by injecting minority electrons into the Magnon Gain Medium. The method further comprises the step of tuning a frequency of the generated THz radiation by changing the value of the bias voltage.
US11515686B1
A method is for making a QCL having an InP spacer within a laser core, the QCL to provide a CW output in a high quality beam. The method may include selectively setting parameters for the QCL. The parameters may include a number of the InP spacer, a thickness for each InP spacer, a number of stages in the laser core, and a dopant concentration value in the laser core. The method may include forming the QCL based upon the parameters so that a figure of merit comprises a greatest value for a fundamental mode of operation for the QCL.
US11515681B2
Provided is a laser module that receives a first laser beam and outputs a second laser beam different from the first laser beam, the laser module including an optical system configured to modulate the first laser beam into the second laser beam and output the second laser beam, a first mirror disposed on an optical path of the first or second laser beam defined in the laser module, the first mirror reflecting the first laser beam to the optical system, a first sensor disposed adjacent to the first mirror and configured to sense the first laser beam incident to the first mirror, a second mirror disposed on the optical path to reflect the second laser beam to an outside of the laser module, and a first driver connected to the second mirror and configured to rotate the second mirror.
US11515675B2
The cable assembly includes a first wire assembly. The first wire assembly is connected to a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes a shell and the shell includes an extension. The extension extends away from the rear of the connector. In one embodiment, the extension is integral with the shell. The extension includes one or more openings. The first wire assembly is bent in a controlled manner at first bend. The first opening in the extension maintains the first wire assembly in the bent position to maintain control of the radius in first bend. The radius is controlled to allow the first wire assembly to fit in a small space.
US11515674B2
An electrical connection assembly including two complementary connectors, each including a mutually parallel electrically insulating plates each comprising one face carrying signal transport contacts and an opposite face carrying at least one shielding sheet in such a manner that, when the connectors are connected together, the plates are interleaved between one another so that the contacts are pressed against one another and the shielding sheets are pressed against each other.
US11515668B2
An alignment mechanism for automatic charging, comprising: a first substrate, disposed in a vertical direction; a second substrate, disposed opposite to the first substrate; a first spring, both ends connected to surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate which face each other, respectively; and a limiting assembly, disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein the limiting assembly comprises at least two limiting plates which are disposed parallel to each other and are in a same horizontal plane, and each of the two limiting plates has both ends connected to the first substrate and the second substrate respectively in such a manner that the limiting plate is rotatable in the horizontal plane; and a surface of the second substrate facing away from the first substrate is configured to connect a first connector, which is a connector of a charging device to be charged.
US11515667B2
An electronic module for a modular patient care system is disclosed. The electronic module can include a housing having an attachment side configured to releasably attach to an adjacent electronic module. A latch mechanism can be configured to engage a catch member on the adjacent electronic module to secure the attachment side to the adjacent electronic module. An electrical connector positioned on the attachment side can be configured to electrically connect to an adjacent electrical connector on the adjacent electronic module. A sensor coupled to the housing can be configured to detect movement of the latch mechanism indicative of at least one of engagement or disengagement of the latch mechanism from the adjacent electronic module.
US11515664B2
A magnetic connector has a plug core disposed around a plug contact set and a receptacle core disposed around a receptacle contact set. The plug core defines a generally elongated circular plug core edge. The receptacle core defines a generally elongated concentric-circular receptacle core edge. The receptacle core edge defines an air gap and the plug core defines an anchor configured to insert into the air gap. A coil is disposed around the receptacle core, and the coil, the plug core and the air gap define a magnetic circuit. The coil is electrically energized so as to form a magnetic field within an air gap, lock the anchor within the air gap and lock the plug contact set to the receptacle contact set accordingly.
US11515660B2
A connector assembly includes a connector body defining a plurality of cavities, extending longitudinally through the connector body. The cavities are configured to receive inner terminal housings configured to hold electrical terminals attached to electrical cables disposed within the cavities. The connector assembly further includes a retaining device slidably attached to the connector body and moveable from a pre-staged position to a staged position. The retaining device allows the inner terminal housings to be inserted or removed from the cavities when in the pre-staged position and inhibits the inner terminal housings from being inserted or removed from the cavities when in the staged position.
US11515644B2
Provided is an electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article which has excellent shielding properties and absorbency for electromagnetic waves having a specific frequency. The electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article includes a thermoplastic resin composition including stainless steel fibers, and the content ratio of the stainless steel fibers in the molded article is from 0.5 to 20 mass %. The electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article has a thickness from 0.5 mm to 5 mm, and a shielding property of 10 dB or greater and an absorbency of 25% or greater for electromagnetic waves having any frequency in a frequency domain from 59 GHz to 100 GHz.
US11515641B2
A system for EMNZ metamaterial-based direct antenna modulation. The system includes a signal generator, a metamaterial switch and an antenna. The signal generator may is configured to generate a microwave signal. The metamaterial switch is configured to generate a modulated microwave signal from the microwave signal. The modulated microwave signal is generated by selectively passing the microwave signal through the metamaterial switch. The metamaterial switch includes a first conductive plate and a first loaded conductive plate. The first loaded conductive plate includes a second conductive plate and a first monolayer graphene. The first monolayer graphene includes a first tunable conductivity. The first monolayer graphene is positioned between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. An effective permittivity of the metamaterial switch is configured to be adjusted to a predetermined value. The effective permittivity of the metamaterial switch is adjusted responsive to tuning the first tunable conductivity.
US11515631B2
A wideband/broadband antenna is described, comprising a dielectric substrate with a first surface with an antenna feed with two conductors, comprising a first feed connection and a second feed connection, wherein the second feed connection is or acts as the ground. A first conductive layer extends from the antenna feed in a first direction and is electrically connected to the first feed connection, wherein the first conductive layer extends in a direction away from the antenna feed, and to a first end edge. A second conductive layer extends in a second direction, away from the first conductive layer, and is electrically connected to the second feed connection. A non-conductive zone separates the first and second conductive layers. On a second surface of the substrate there is a third conductive layer which extends from a second end edge in the direction towards the antenna feed, the extent of which at least in part coincides with that of the first conducting layer at the first surface. The first end edge of the first conducting layer and the second end edge of the third conducting layer substantially coincides, and the first and third electrical layers are electrically connected with each other at or near said end edges. Apart from said electrical interconnection at the edges, the layers are electrically separated from each other.
US11515629B2
There are described methods and devices for intra-spacecraft communication in space, the electro-optical device having at least one of transmitting capabilities for converting a first electrical signal into a first optical signal and outputting the first optical signal within a spacecraft, and receiving capabilities for receiving a second optical signal within the spacecraft and converting the second optical signal into a second electrical signal, the electro-optical device having at least one integrated circuit dedicated to at least one of the transmitting capabilities and the receiving capabilities, the at least one integrated circuit configured for operating in an analog mode where configuration voltages for the integrated circuit are provided by analog voltage settings unaffected by radiation.
US11515622B2
Base station antennas are provided herein. A base station antenna includes a multiband beam-former array having a plurality of vertical columns of radiating elements. In some embodiments, at least two of the vertical columns are commonly fed for a first frequency band of the multiband beam-former array that is lower than a second frequency band of the multiband beam-former array. Related methods of operation are also provided.
US11515611B2
Transitional elements to offset a capacitive impedance in a transmission line are disclosed. Described are various examples of transitional elements in a multilayer substrate that introduce a transitional reactance to cancel the transmission line capacitive effects. The transitional elements reduce insertion loss.
US11515607B2
There is provided a battery system including parallel-connected bus bars each connecting the plurality of prismatic battery cells in parallel, and a safety mechanism configured to be capable of interrupting a current path of prismatic battery cells connected in parallel by the parallel-connected bus bars, where the sealing plate of one of the prismatic battery cells convexly deforms due to a rise in an internal pressure of this prismatic battery cell when an abnormality occurs, the sealing plate that has convexly deformed comes into contact with the parallel-connected bus bars to form external short circuitry between the electrode terminals that are positive and negative of one prismatic battery cell connected in parallel to the prismatic battery cell with the abnormality, and external short circuitry activates the safety mechanism that interrupts a current flowing into the prismatic battery cell with the abnormality.
US11515605B2
Provided is a battery module. The battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells each including an electrode terminal; and a bus bar connected to the electrode terminals of the battery cells neighboring each other to electrically connect the battery cells, the bus bar including a first bus bar and a second bus bar that are superposed on each other and include different metals, each of the first and second bus bars making conductive contact with the electrode terminals. Therefore, the thermal and electrical characteristics of the bus bar electrically connecting the neighboring battery cells to each other may be improved while improving weldability between the bus bar and electrode terminals.
US11515603B2
A separator plate arrangement for an electrochemical system, comprising a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet. The first metal sheet has a first circumferential sealing structure for sealing off an electrochemically active region, a first cutout arranged outside of the first circumferential sealing structure, and a first embossed structure arranged outside of the first circumferential sealing structure. The second metal sheet has a second circumferential sealing structure for sealing off an electrochemically active region, a second cutout arranged outside of the second circumferential sealing structure, and a second embossed structure arranged outside of the second circumferential sealing structure.
US11515592B2
A battery module includes a secondary battery, a cooler, and a heat conducting member disposed between the secondary battery and the cooler. The secondary battery has at least one electrode body and a case. The case has an opposite wall facing the cooler. The opposite wall has a recessed groove shaped so as to be depressed toward the inside of the case. The heat conducting member fills a space between the opposite wall and the cooler including the inside of the recessed groove.
US11515588B2
Disclosed are a heating method for a rechargeable battery, a control unit and a heating circuit. The heating method comprises: determining a frequency value of a pulse current for heating the rechargeable battery in response to a heating command of the rechargeable battery; determining a current value of the pulse current according to the frequency value and an acquired state parameter of the rechargeable battery; judging whether the current value satisfies a preset heating demand; if the current value satisfies the heating demand, generating the pulse current under control according to the frequency value; if the current value does not satisfy the heating demand, re-determining the frequency value and the current value of the pulse current. The embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a control unit and a heating circuit.
US11515582B2
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors.
US11515562B2
The present disclosure relates to a pouch casing material including two cups forming an electrode assembly receiving portion and formed integrally in one pouch film. The pouch casing material includes an upper pouch member and a lower pouch member formed integrally with each other, and the connection between the upper pouch member and the lower pouch member does not protrude toward the outside. Thus, the total length of a battery is reduced.
US11515556B1
The presently disclosed subject matter relates generally to a highly ionically conductive solid electrolyte membrane and to batteries comprising such solid electrolyte membrane.
US11515551B2
A fuel cell recovery control system and method are provided to supply hydrogen to the cathode of a fuel cell stack to remove an oxide film formed on a platinum surface of the cathode. The performance of the fuel cell stack is recovered in accordance with the oxide film removal. In addition, electric power generated during the performance recovery of the fuel cell stack is consumed in an inverter and, as such, overcharge of a battery is prevented.
US11515540B2
A graphene foam-protected selenium cathode layer for an alkali metal-selenium cell, comprising: (a) a sheet or a roll of solid graphene foam composed of multiple pores and pore walls containing graphene sheets, wherein the graphene sheets contain a pristine graphene material having less than 0.01% by weight of non-carbon elements or a non-pristine graphene material having 0.01% to 20% by weight of non-carbon elements, wherein said non-pristine graphene is selected from graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene fluoride, graphene chloride, graphene bromide, graphene iodide, hydrogenated graphene, nitrogenated graphene, boron-doped graphene, nitrogen-doped graphene, chemically functionalized graphene, or a combination thereof, wherein the graphene sheets are interconnected or chemically merged together without an adhesive resin; and (b) selenium coating or particles residing in the pores or bonded to the pore walls of the solid graphene foam.
US11515539B2
Various arrangements of an anode-free battery cell are presented herein. The battery cell can include a lithium ion buffer layer that is located between a electrolyte and an anode current collector. Lithium ions may be stored within the lithium ion buffer layer when the battery cell is charged, which can decrease an amount of swelling within the battery cell.
US11515536B2
Provided is a multivalent metal-ion battery comprising an anode, a cathode, a porous separator electronically separating the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte in ionic contact with the anode and the cathode to support reversible deposition and dissolution of a multivalent metal, selected from Ni, Zn, Be, Mg, Ca, Ba, La, Ti, Ta, Zr, Nb, Mn, V, Co, Fe, Cd, Cr, Ga, In, or a combination thereof, at the anode, wherein the anode contains the multivalent metal or its alloy as an anode active material and the cathode comprises a cathode layer of an exfoliated graphite or carbon material recompressed to form an active layer that is oriented in such a manner that the active layer has a graphite edge plane in direct contact with the electrolyte and facing or contacting the separator.
US11515524B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes: a core having a layered structure; and a surface layer on at least one portion of the surface of the core and including an oxide, wherein the oxide includes at least one first element and at least one second element each selected from Ti, Zr, F, Mg, Al, P, and a combination thereof, the first element and the second element being different from one another, the first element included in the positive active material in an amount of about 0.01 mol % to about 0.2 mol % based on a total weight of the positive active material, and the second element included in the positive active material in an amount of about 0.02 mol % to about 0.5 mol % based on a total weight of the positive active material. A rechargeable lithium battery includes the positive active material.
US11515521B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2 and having a smaller particle diameter than the first compound, wherein at least one of the first compound and the second compound includes a core and a surface layer surrounding the core: Lia1Nix1Coy1M11-x1-y1O2, Chemical Formula 1 Lia2Nix2Coy2M21-x2-y2O2, Chemical Formula 2 wherein M1 and M2 are each independently at least one selected from Mn, Al, Cr, Fe, V, Mg, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, W, Cu, Zn, Ga, In, Sn, La, and Ce. The atomic concentration (at %) of nickel (Ni) with respect to the total amount of non-lithium metals is higher in the surface layer than in the core, and an amount of cation mixing is less than or equal to about 3%.
US11515513B2
A display device manufacturing method according to the disclosure includes the steps of forming a first resin layer serving as a first flexible substrate on a first mother substrate, forming a first light-emitting layer on the first resin layer, and forming, on the first light-emitting layer, a first encapsulating layer encapsulating the first light-emitting layer, forming a second resin layer serving as a second flexible substrate on a second mother substrate, forming a second light-emitting layer on the second resin layer, and forming, on the second light-emitting layer, a second encapsulating layer encapsulating the second light-emitting layer, bonding the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate with a buffer sheet interposed between the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate so that the first encapsulating layer and the second encapsulating layer face each other, peeling the first resin layer from the first mother substrate in a state where the first resin layer and the second resin layer are layered with the buffer sheet interposed between the first resin layer and the second resin layer, and bonding a first support film to the first resin layer.
US11515509B2
A virtual image display device including a display panel including a plurality of pixels and configured to display an image, a window disposed on the display panel, and a multi-viewpoint layer provided between the display panel and the window, and including a plurality of lenses.
US11515501B2
A display device includes: a frame that includes a plurality of protrusions; a display panel disposed on the frame that includes a planar portion and a curved portion; a pressure sensing unit disposed between the frame and the display panel that overlaps the curved portion and that includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes disposed in a different layer; and a pressure sensing drive unit connected to the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. Any one of the plurality of second electrodes at least partially overlaps any one of the plurality of first electrodes. At least one of the plurality of protrusions overlaps a region where one of the plurality of first electrodes and one of the plurality of second electrodes overlap each other.
US11515499B2
The disclosure discloses an OLED element, a display panel, and a display device. The OLED element includes an anode, a light-emitting layer, a cathode stacked, and at least one of following components: an electric charge transfer and hole transmission component located between the anode and the light-emitting layer, where the electric charge transfer and hole transmission component includes a first light-induced electron transfer material and a hole transmission material; or an electric charge transfer and electron transmission component located between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, where the electric charge transfer and electron transmission component includes a second light-induced electron transfer material and an electron transmission material.
US11515498B2
An array substrate (100) includes a first type of electroluminescent diode (110). The first type of electroluminescent diode (110) includes a first electrode (111), alight emitting structure layer (112) comprising nanoparticles (114), and a second electrode (113) disposed in a stacked manner. The nanoparticles (114) may be configured to increase luminous efficiency of the first type of electroluminescent diode (110).
US11515497B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a display panel for displaying an image; a support plate provided on one side of the display panel; and a heat sink layer provided below the support plate, wherein the heat sink layer includes a metal alloy having thermal conductivity that is equal to or greater than 150 W/mK and equal to or less than 340 W/mK, and an elastic modulus that is equal to or greater than 100 GPa and equal to or less than 140 GPa.
US11515488B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of organic light-emitting materials, and more particularly, to a thermally activated delayed fluorescence material having red, green, or blue color, a synthesis method thereof, and application thereof. The thermally activated delayed fluorescence material having red, green, or blue color has the following structural formula: the present disclosure provides a novel thermally activated delayed fluorescence material having red, green, or blue color which has a lower singlet triplet energy level difference, a high RISC rate constant (kRISC), and a high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY). It has significant characteristics of a thermally activated delayed fluorescence material and a long service life that can be used in an electroluminescent display and a light-emitting equipment structure which are mass produced.
US11515482B2
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having an anode, a cathode, an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a hole blocking layer disposed between the emissive and the cathode. The emissive layer may include a phosphorescent dopant, where the phosphorescent dopant has an emission in 0.5% doped PMMA (Poly(methyl methacrylate)) thin film with a peak maximum wavelength that is greater than or equal to 600 nm at room temperature. The energy of a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of the phosphorescent dopant may be lower than or equal to −5.1 eV, and the energy of the HOMO of the hole blocking layer is at least 0.1 eV lower than the energy of the HOMO of the phosphorescent dopant.
US11515478B2
The present disclosure relates to a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and an organic light emitting device using the same. The compound is used as a material of an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device.
US11515474B2
A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first dielectric layer, a metal contact, an aluminum nitride layer, an aluminum oxide layer, a second dielectric layer, a metal via, and a memory stack. The first dielectric layer is over the semiconductor substrate. The metal contact passes through the first dielectric layer. The aluminum nitride layer extends along a top surface of the first dielectric layer and a top surface of the metal contact. The aluminum oxide layer extends along a top surface of the aluminum nitride layer. The second dielectric layer is over the aluminum oxide layer. The metal via passes through the second dielectric layer, the aluminum oxide layer, and the aluminum nitride layer and lands on the metal contact. The memory stack lands on the metal via.
US11515461B2
Techniques for trapping quasiparticles in superconductor devices are provided. A superconductor device can comprise a substrate layer. The superconductor device can further comprise a first superconductor layer composed of a first superconductor material, on a first surface of a substrate layer. The superconductor device can further comprise a trapping material buried in the first superconductor layer, wherein the trapping material is formulated to trap quasiparticles.
US11515451B2
A light emitting diode chip having improved light extraction efficiency is provided. The light emitting diode chip includes a substrate, a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a mesa, a side coating layer, and a reflection structure. The first conductivity type semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The mesa includes an active layer and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer. The mesa is disposed on a partial region of the first conductivity type semiconductor layer to expose an upper surface of the first conductivity type semiconductor layer along an edge of the first conductivity type semiconductor layer. The side coating layer(s) covers a side surface of the mesa. The reflection structure is spaced apart from the side coating layer(s) and disposed on the exposed first conductivity type semiconductor layer.
US11515449B2
Semiconductor light emitting devices and methods of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting structure, a first electrode, a first dielectric layer, a second electrode, and a vertical conductive pattern. The light emitting structure includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked, and includes a first opening that penetrates the second semiconductor layer and the active layer, the first opening exposing the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode fills at least a portion of the first opening. The first dielectric layer is on the first electrode. The second electrode is on the light emitting structure and covers the first dielectric layer, the second electrode being electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer. The vertical conductive pattern surrounds outer lateral surfaces of the light emitting structure and is electrically connected to the first electrode.
US11515447B2
The flip-chip light emitting diode structure includes a substrate, a first patterned current blocking layer, a second patterned current blocking layer, a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer. The first patterned current blocking layer is disposed on the substrate. The second patterned current blocking layer is disposed on the first patterned current blocking layer, in which the first patterned current blocking layer and the second patterned current blocking layer are located on different planes, and patterns of the first patterned current blocking layer and patterns of the second current blocking layer are substantially complementary. The first semiconductor layer is disposed on the second patterned current blocking layer. The active layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is disposed on the active layer, in which electrical properties of the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer are different.
US11515446B2
An element includes an electron transportation layer containing nanoparticles, a QD layer containing QD phosphor particles, and a mixed layer sandwiched between the electron transportation layer and the QD layer to be adjacent to these layers. The mixed layer contains QD phosphor particles and nanoparticles.
US11515444B2
Disclosed are a micro light emitting diode substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. At first step, providing a first growth substrate having a first growth surface which is provided with a first color micro light emitting diode unit; at second step, providing a receiving substrate having a receiving surface on which a plurality of receiving pads are arranged at intervals; at third step, fitting the first growth substrate to the receiving substrate such that each first color micro light emitting diode unit at a transfer position is fitted to one receiving pad; at fourth step, fixing the first color micro light emitting diode unit to the receiving surface through the receiving pad; at fifth step, peeling off the first color micro light emitting diode unit from the first growth substrate, to obtain the receiving substrate on which the first color micro light emitting diode unit is fixed.
US11515442B2
An optical semiconductor element having a mesa portion includes a substrate and semiconductor layers on the substrate. The optical semiconductor element further includes a first contact electrode, a second contact electrode on the semiconductor layer, first and second lead-out wires connected to the first and second contact electrodes, respectively, and an insulating film covering at least an upper surface of the semiconductor layer and the second contact electrode. The second lead-out wire is connected to the second contact electrode in an opening of the insulating film. An outer peripheral end of the second contact electrode in at least a portion where the second contact electrode and the second lead-out wire are connected is above and outside an outer peripheral end of a connection portion with the semiconductor layer, and an inner peripheral end is above and inside an inner peripheral end of the connection portion with the semiconductor layer.
US11515432B2
A storage transistor has a tunnel dielectric layer and a charge-trapping layer between a channel region and a gate electrode, wherein the charge-tapping layer has a conduction band offset that is less than the lowering of the tunneling barrier in the tunnel dielectric layer when a programming voltage is applied, such that electrons direct tunnel into the charge-trapping layer. The conduction band of the charge-trapping layer is has a value between −1.0 eV and 2.3 eV. The storage transistor may further include a barrier layer between the tunnel dielectric layer and the charge-trapping layer, the barrier layer having a conduction band offset less than the conduction band offset of the charge-trapping layer.
US11515430B2
A tilted nanowire structure is provided which has an increased gate length as compared with a horizontally oriented semiconductor nanowire at the same pitch. Such a structure avoids complexity required for vertical transistors and can be fabricated on a bulk semiconductor substrate without significantly changing/modifying standard transistor fabrication processing.
US11515422B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate. The gate stack has a conductive structure and a gate dielectric layer, and a top of the gate dielectric layer is higher than a top of the conductive structure. The semiconductor device also includes a protection element over the gate stack. The semiconductor device further includes a spacer extending along a side surface of the protection element and a sidewall of the gate stack.
US11515419B2
A ferroelectric semiconductor device of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel structure, a trench pattern having a bottom surface and a sidewall surface in the channel structure, a dielectric layer disposed on the bottom surface and the sidewall surface of the trench pattern, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer includes a ferroelectric layer pattern and a non-ferroelectric layer pattern that are disposed along the sidewall surface of the trench pattern.
US11515415B2
An integrated circuit includes an N-type laterally diffused metal-oxide semiconductor (NLDMOS) transistor including an active semiconductor substrate region having P-type conductivity. The integrated circuit further includes a buried semiconductor region having N+-type conductivity underneath the active substrate region. The buried semiconductor region is more heavily doped than the active semiconductor substrate region.
US11515411B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first and second semiconductor layers, a nitride layer, and an oxide layer. A direction from the second electrode toward the first electrode is aligned with a first direction. A position in the first direction of the third electrode is between the first electrode and the second electrode in the first direction. The first semiconductor layer includes first to fifth partial regions. The first partial region is between the fourth and third partial regions in the first direction. The second partial region is between the third and fifth partial regions in the first direction. The nitride layer includes first and second nitride regions. The second semiconductor layer includes first and second semiconductor regions. The oxide layer includes silicon and oxygen. The oxide layer includes first to third oxide regions.
US11515410B2
A Group III-V semiconductor structure having a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device has a source and drain recess regions extending through a barrier layer and into a channel layer. A regrown, doped Group III-V ohmic contact layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the source and drain recess regions. A gate electrode is disposed in a gap in the regrown, doped Group III-V ohmic contact layer and on the barrier layer A dielectric structure is disposed over the ohmic contact layer and over the barrier layer and extending continuously from a region over the source recess region to one side of the stem to portion and then extending continuously from an opposite side of the stem portion to a region over the drain recess region, a portion of the dielectric structure being in contact with the stem portion and the barrier layer.
US11515409B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device with an asymmetric gate structure. The device comprises a substrate; a channel layer, positioned above the substrate; a barrier layer, positioned above the channel layer, the barrier layer and the channel layer being configured to form two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), and the 2DEG being formed in the channel layer along an interface between the channel layer and the barrier layer; a source contact and a drain contact, positioned above the barrier layer; a doped group III-V layer, positioned above the barrier layer and between the drain contact and the source contact; and a gate electrode, positioned above the doped group III-V layer and configured to form a Schottky junction with the doped group III-V layer, wherein the doped group III-V layer and/or gate electrode has a non-central symmetrical geometry so as to achieve the effect of improving gate leakage current characteristics.
US11515408B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a group III-V device including a rough buffer layer. The rough buffer layer overlies a silicon substrate, a buffer structure overlies the rough buffer layer, and a heterojunction structure overlies the buffer structure. The buffer structure causes band bending and formation of a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) in the rough buffer layer. The rough buffer layer includes silicon or some other suitable semiconductor material and, in some embodiments, is doped. A top surface of the rough buffer layer and/or a bottom surface of the rough buffer layer is/are rough to promote carrier scattering along the top and bottom surfaces. The carrier scattering reduces carrier mobility and increases resistance at the 2DHG. The increased resistance increases an overall resistance of the silicon substrate, which reduces substrate loses and increases a power added efficiency (PAE).
US11515405B2
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with a programmable feature such as anti-fuse The method includes forming a semiconductor fin on a buried insulating layer; forming a dummy gate structure on the semiconductor fin; forming a top insulating layer over the semiconductor fin and covering the dummy gate structure; removing the dummy gate structure and concurrently forming a first trench in the top insulating layer; performing an etch process in the first trench to form a tapered pit separating the semiconductor fin; forming a first insulating layer to completely fill the first trench and the tapered pit; and replacing the semiconductor fin with first conductive blocks.
US11515402B2
The present description relates to the fabrication of microelectronic transistor source and/or drain regions using angled etching. In one embodiment, a microelectronic transistor may be formed by using an angled etch to reduce the number masking steps required to form p-type doped regions and n-type doped regions. In further embodiments, angled etching may be used to form asymmetric spacers on opposing sides of a transistor gate, wherein the asymmetric spacers may result in asymmetric source/drain configurations.
US11515401B2
A method of forming a vertical fin field effect device is provided. The method includes, forming a vertical fin on a substrate, forming a masking block on the vertical fin, wherein the masking block extends a distance outward from the vertical fin sidewalls and endwalls, and a portion of the substrate surrounding the masking block is exposed. The method further includes removing at least a portion of the exposed portion of the substrate to form a recess and a fin mesa below the vertical fin, removing a portion of the fin mesa to form an undercut recess below an overhanging portion of the masking block, forming a spacer layer on the masking block and in the undercut recess, and removing a portion of the spacer layer to form an undercut spacer in the undercut recess.
US11515389B2
A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate including an active region; a plurality of conductive structures formed over the semiconductor substrate; an isolation layer filling a space between the conductive structures and having an opening that exposes the active region between the conductive structures; a pad formed in a bottom portion of the opening and in contact with the active region; a plug liner formed conformally over a sidewall of the opening and exposing the pad; and a contact plug formed over the pad inside the opening.
US11515386B2
A display panel, including a main display area and a light-transmitting display area; wherein the main display area surrounds the light-transmitting display area; the display panel includes: a substrate; an organic electroluminescent element array, including a plurality of organic electroluminescent elements disposed on the substrate; the driving circuit array is disposed on the substrate and is adapted to be matched with a high voltage source and a low voltage source for driving each of the organic light-emitting electroluminescent elements; wherein in the light-transmitting display area, the driving circuit array includes a passive driving circuit array; the passive driving circuit array is configured to drive the organic electroluminescent element of the light-transmitting display area to display.
US11515384B2
A display device includes a display region including a plurality of first regions, and a plurality of second regions arranged with a certain gap between the plurality of first regions, wherein each of the plurality of first regions includes a transistor, a first organic layer, a wiring, a first organic insulating layer on the wiring and the transistor, a display element on the first organic insulating layer, a first sealing layer on the display element and stacked in order with a first inorganic insulating layer, a second organic insulating layer and a second inorganic insulating layer, each of the plurality of second regions includes the wiring, a second organic layer on the wiring, a second sealing layer stacked in order with the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer, and a thickness of the second organic layer is smaller than the thickness of the first organic layer.
US11515381B2
A display device including a display panel, a side surface electrode, and a flexible film. The display panel includes a display area, a non-display area defined outside the display area, a pixel disposed in the display area, a signal line connected to the pixel, and a connection pad extending from the signal line and disposed in the non-display area. The side surface electrode is disposed on one side surface of the display panel and contacts one side surface of the connection pad. The flexible film includes a driving pad that contacts the side surface electrode. The connection pad includes a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes and a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer and including a plurality of second electrodes. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer have different rigidities.
US11515370B2
A display device may include a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, and a light-emitting device between the first substrate and the second substrate, an input sensing portion including a sensing electrode on the second substrate and a first pad connected to the sensing electrode, a first circuit film near a side surface of the display panel adjacent to the first pad, the first circuit film including a first contact pad spaced from the first pad, a first conductive layer on the first pad, the first conductive layer being extended to the first contact pad to electrically connect the first pad to the first contact pad, and a protection layer on the first conductive layer.
US11515362B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display area including a conventional display region and a translucent display region; and a non-display area. First sub-pixels, second sub-pixels and third sub-pixels are provided in the conventional display region, the first sub-pixels are arranged in a first density, and the second and third sub-pixels are arranged in a second density. Fourth sub-pixels, fifth sub-pixels and sixth sub-pixels are provided in the translucent display region, the fourth sub-pixel has a same color as the first sub-pixel, the fifth sub-pixel has a same color as the second sub-pixel, and the sixth sub-pixel has a same color as the third sub-pixel. The fourth sub-pixels are arranged in a third density equal to the first density, the fifth and sixth sub-pixels are arranged in a fourth density. The second density is greater than the fourth density.
US11515359B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display panel. The driving circuit layer of the array substrate provided with a first thin-film transistor (TFT) and a second TFT. An exemplified active layer of a P-type TFT is formed by organic conductive polymer material. By using organic conductive polymer materials as the active layer material of the first TFT, the technical problems of the flexibility of the display substrate resulting by the characteristics of the low temperature polysilicon material are solved. The flexibility of the array substrate is enhanced.
US11515343B2
Designs of image sensors including a plurality of first gild structures arranged in row and column directions of a pixel array of imaging pixels and structured to separate the imaging pixels from one another, each of the first grid structures including an air to provide optical isolation between two adjacent imaging pixels and a plurality of second grid structures respectively disposed at each intersection between the row direction and the column direction in which the first grid structures are arranged.
US11515341B2
The present application relates to the field of display technology and, in particular, to an array substrate, a manufacturing method of the array substrate, and a display device. An array substrate comprises: a base substrate having a pixel display area and a gate drive circuit area; a first thin film transistor formed in the pixel display area, the first thin film transistor comprising a first gate insulating layer; a second thin film transistor formed in the gate drive circuit area, the second thin film transistor comprising a second gate insulating layer, where a thickness of the second gate insulating layer is smaller than a thickness of the first gate insulating layer.
US11515325B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device may include a peripheral circuit structure including transistors on a first substrate, and a cell array structure on the peripheral circuit structure, the cell array structure including: a first stack structure block comprising first stack structures arranged side by side in a first direction on a second substrate, a second stack structure block comprising second stack structures arranged side by side in the first direction on the second substrate, a separation structure disposed on the second substrate between the first stack structure block and the second stack structure block and comprising first mold layers and second mold layers, and a contact plug penetrating the separation structure. The cell array structure may include a first metal pad and the peripheral circuit structure may include a second metal pad. The first metal pad may be in contact with the second metal pad.
US11515310B2
A cell array includes a substrate and a conductive line. The substrate has active areas in the substrate. The conductive line is disposed across the active areas and includes work function nodes and line sections which are horizontally and alternately arranged with work function nodes, in which each work function node is between two of the active areas.
US11515303B2
A SGT MOSFET having ESD diode and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The SGT trench MOSFET according to the present invention, has n+ doped shielded electrode in an N channel device and requires only two poly-silicon layers, making the device can be shrunk with reducing shielded gate width for Rds reduction without increasing switching loss and having dynamic switching instability.
US11515292B2
A semiconductor device, having a first semiconductor chip including a first side portion at a front surface thereof and a first control electrode formed in the first side portion, a second semiconductor chip including a second side portion at a front surface thereof and a second control electrode formed in the second side portion, a first circuit pattern, on which the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are disposed, a second circuit pattern, and a first control wire electrically connecting the first control electrode, the second control electrode, and the second circuit pattern. The first side portion and the second side portion are aligned. The first control electrode and the second control electrode are aligned. The second circuit pattern are aligned with the first control electrode and the second control electrode.
US11515289B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package is described. The IC package includes a first die having a first power delivery network on the first die. The IC package also includes a second die having a second power delivery network on the second die. The first die is stacked on the second die. The IC package further includes package voltage regulators integrated with and coupled to the first die and/or the second die within a package core of the integrated circuit package.
US11515284B2
A multifaceted capillary that can be used in a wire-bonding machine to create a multi-segment wire-bond is disclosed. The multifaceted capillary is shaped to apply added pressure and thickness to an outer segment of the multi-segment wire-bond that is closest to the wire loop. The added pressure eliminates a gap under a heel portion of the multi-segment wire-bond and the added thickness increases a mechanical strength of the heel portion. As a result, a pull test of the multi-segment wire-bond may be higher than a single-segment wire-bond and the multi-segment wire-bond may resist cracking, lifting, or breaking.
US11515281B2
There is provided a bonding material which forms a bonding portion between two objects, which material contains (1) first metal particles comprising a first metal and having a median particle diameter in the range of 20 nm to 1 μm, and (2) second metal particles comprising, as a second metal, at least one alloy of Sn and at least one selected from Bi, In and Zn and having a melting point of not higher than 200° C.
US11515264B2
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer is proposed. The method may include reducing a thickness of the semiconductor wafer. A carrier structure is placed on a first side of the semiconductor wafer, e.g. before or after reducing the thickness of the semiconductor wafer. The method further includes providing a support structure on a second side of the semiconductor wafer opposite to the first side, e.g. after reducing the thickness of the semiconductor wafer. Methods for welding a support structure onto a semiconductor wafer are proposed. Further, semiconductor composite structures with support structures welded onto a semiconductor wafer are proposed.
US11515260B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor package includes forming a release layer on a first carrier substrate. An etch stop layer is formed on the release layer. A first redistribution layer is formed on the etch stop layer and includes a plurality of first wires and a first insulation layer surrounding the plurality of first wires. A first semiconductor chip is formed on the first redistribution layer. A solder ball is formed between the first redistribution layer and the first semiconductor chip. A second carrier substrate is formed on the first semiconductor chip. The first carrier substrate, the release layer, and the etch stop layer are removed. The second carrier substrate is removed.
US11515258B2
A method for manufacturing a package substrate, includes: providing a glass frame having a through hole and a chip embedding cavity; fixing an electronic component in the chip embedding cavity; coating a dielectric layer to an upper surface of the glass frame, the through hole and the chip embedding cavity and curing the dielectric layer; photoetching the dielectric layer to form an opening window arranged above the through hole; depositing metal through the opening window and patterning the metal to form a metal pillar and a circuit layer, the metal pillar passing through the through hole, the circuit layer being arranged on the upper surface and/or a lower surface of the glass frame and being connected to the electronic component and the metal pillar; forming a solder mask on a surface of the circuit layer, patterning the solder mask to form a pad connected to the circuit layer.
US11515257B2
An upper surface of a plug (PL1) is formed so as to be higher than an upper surface of an interlayer insulating film (PIL) by forming the interlayer insulating film (PIL) on a semiconductor substrate (1S), completing a CMP method for forming the plug (PL1) inside the interlayer insulating film (PIL), and then, making the upper surface of the interlayer insulating film (PIL) to recede. In this manner, reliability of connection between the plug (PL1) and a wiring (W1) in a vertical direction can be ensured. Also, the wiring (W1) can be formed so as not to be embedded inside the interlayer insulating film (PIL), or a formed amount by the embedding can be reduced.
US11515252B2
A word line layout includes a substrate, a first word line group, a second word line group, and an I-shaped third word line. The first word line group is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of L-shaped first word lines, and each of the first word lines has a first segment and a second segment connected to each other. The second word line group is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of L-shaped second word lines, and each of the second word lines has a first segment and a second segment connected to each other. The first word line group and the second word line group are arranged in juxtaposition and symmetric to each other. The I-shaped third word line is disposed on the outer side of the first word line group and the second word line group.
US11515248B2
Embodiments of a system and methods for localized high density substrate routing are generally described herein. In one or more embodiments an apparatus includes a medium, first and second circuitry elements, an interconnect element, and a dielectric layer. The medium can include low density routing therein. The interconnect element can be embedded in the medium, and can include a plurality of electrically conductive members therein, the electrically conductive member can be electrically coupled to the first circuitry element and the second circuitry element. The interconnect element can include high density routing therein. The dielectric layer can be over the interconnect die, the dielectric layer including the first and second circuitry elements passing therethrough.
US11515237B2
Various embodiments may provide a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package may include a first electrical component, a second electrical component, a first heat sink, and a second heat sink bonded to a first package interconnection component and a second package interconnection component. The first package interconnection component and the second package interconnection component may provide lateral and vertical interconnections in the package.
US11515223B2
A package structure includes a metal member and a resin member. The metal member has an obverse surface facing one side in a first direction. The resin member is disposed in contact with at least a portion of the obverse surface. The obverse surface has a roughened area. The roughened area includes a plurality of first trenches recessed from the obverse surface, each of the first trenches having a surface with a greater roughness than the obverse surface. The plurality of first trenches extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and are next to each other in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The plurality of first trenches are filled up with the resin member.
US11515209B2
An example integrated circuit die includes: lower level conductor layers, lower level insulator layers between the lower level conductor layers, lower level vias extending vertically through the lower level insulator layers, upper level conductor layers overlying the lower level conductor layers, upper level insulator layers between and surrounding the upper level conductor layers, upper level vias; at least two scribe seals arranged to form a vertical barrier extending vertically from the semiconductor substrate to a passivation layer at an upper surface of the integrated circuit die; and at least one opening extending vertically through one of the at least two scribe seals and extending through: the upper level conductor layers, the upper level via layers, the lower level conductor layers, and the lower level via layers.
US11515206B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a gate structure over a fin structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a source/drain structure in the fin structure and adjacent to the gate structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a first contact plug over the source/drain structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a first via plug over the first contact plug. The semiconductor structure also includes a dielectric layer surrounding the first via plug. The first via plug includes a first group IV element and the dielectric layer includes the first group IV element and a second group IV element.
US11515202B2
A method of three-dimensionally integrating elements such as singulated die or wafers and an integrated structure having connected elements such as singulated dies or wafers. Either or both of the die and wafer may have semiconductor devices formed therein. A first element having a first contact structure is bonded to a second element having a second contact structure. First and second contact structures can be exposed at bonding and electrically interconnected as a result of the bonding. A via may be etched and filled after bonding to expose and form an electrical interconnect to interconnected first and second contact structures and provide electrical access to this interconnect from a surface.
US11515197B2
A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an ion-implanted silicon layer disposed in the substrate; a first insulator layer disposed over the ion-implanted silicon layer; an active device disposed over the first insulator layer; and a conductive via configured to penetrate the first insulator layer for coupling the ion-implanted silicon layer and the active device.
US11515194B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a stage including a first section and a second section, pins, a lifter configured to raise and lower the pins, and a controller configured to control the lifter. On the first section, a substrate is placed. On the second section, an edge ring is placed. The second section is provided at a periphery of the first section. Also, at the second section, holes are provided. The pins are provided in the respective holes so as to move up and down through the holes.
US11515188B2
Wafer boat handling device, configured to be positioned under a process chamber of a vertical batch furnace, and comprising a rotatable table comprising a first and a second wafer boat support surface. Each wafer boat support surface is configured for supporting a wafer boat. The rotatable table is rotatable by an actuator to rotate both the first and the second wafer support surfaces to a load/receive position in which the wafer boat handling device is configured to load a wafer boat vertically from the rotatable table into the process chamber and to receive the wafer boat from the process chamber onto the rotatable table, a cooldown position in which the wafer boat handling device is configured to cool down a wafer boat, and a transfer position for transferring wafers to and/or from the wafer boat.
US11515187B2
A vertical batch furnace assembly for processing wafers having a cassette handling space, a wafer handling space, and a first wall and separating the cassette handling space from the wafer handling space. The first wall has at least one wafer transfer opening in front of which, at a side of the first wall which is directed to the cassette handling space, a wafer transfer position for a wafer cassette is provided. The cassette handling space comprises a cassette storage having a plurality of cassette storage positions and a cassette handler configured to transfer wafer cassettes between the cassette storage positions and the wafer transfer position. The cassette handler has a first cassette handler arm and a second cassette handler arm.
US11515183B2
A substrate processing system includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a cooling passage. The first chamber has therein a space for processing a substrate transferred from a first transfer chamber maintained in a vacuum atmosphere. The second chamber is disposed below the first chamber to be vertically aligned with the first chamber and configured to communicate with the first transfer chamber and a second transfer chamber maintained in an atmospheric atmosphere. The second chamber has substantially the same footprint as a footprint of the first chamber. Further, a cooling passage is disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber and configured to allow a coolant to flow therethrough.
US11515182B2
There is provided a drying apparatus for covering an upper surface of the substrate with an uneven pattern formed thereon with a liquid film and subsequently drying the substrate, including: a first heat transfer part whose temperature is adjusted to a first temperature, wherein a first heat is transferred between the first heat transfer part and the substrate by a first temperature difference; a second heat transfer part whose temperature is adjusted to a second temperature different from the first temperature, wherein a second heat is transferred between the second heat transfer part and the substrate by a second temperature difference; and a controller configured to control the first temperature and the second temperature and to control a surface tension distribution of the liquid film so as to control an agglomeration of the liquid film.
US11515173B2
Interconnect devices, packaged semiconductor devices and methods are disclosed herein that are directed towards embedding a local silicon interconnect (LSI) device and through substrate vias (TSVs) into system on integrated substrate (SoIS) technology with a compact package structure. The LSI device may be embedded into SoIS technology with through substrate via integration to provide die-to-die FL connection arrangement for super large integrated Fan-Out (InFO) for SBT technology in a SoIS device. Furthermore, the TSV connection layer may be formed using lithographic or photoresist-defined vias to provide eLSI P/G out to a ball-grid-array (BGA) connection interface.
US11515148B2
Method for producing a semiconductor device, including: producing, on a first region of a surface layer comprising a first semiconductor and disposed on a buried dielectric layer, a layer of a second compressive strained semiconductor along a first direction; etching a trench through the layer of the second semiconductor forming an edge of a portion of the layer of the second semiconductor oriented perpendicularly to the first direction, and wherein the bottom wall is formed by the surface layer; thermal oxidation forming in the surface layer a semiconductor compressive strained portion along the first direction and forming in the trench an oxide portion; producing, through the surface layer and/or the oxide portion, and through the buried dielectric layer, dielectric isolation portions around an assembly formed of the compressive strained semiconductor portion and the oxide portion; and wherein the first semiconductor is silicon, the second semiconductor is SiGe, and said at least one compressive strained semiconductor portion includes SiGe.
US11515139B2
A method for determining a compensation factor parameter, c, for controlling an amount of ions ionised that are injected from an ion storage unit into mass analyser, where c is an adjustment factor that is applied to optimized injection times that are based on an optimized visible charge of a reference sample, the method comprising: detecting at least one mass spectrum for at least one amount of injected ions; determining from the at least one detected mass spectrum, a slope, s(sample), of a linear correlation of a relative m/z shift with visible total charge Qv of detected mass spectra; determining the compensation factor c as c=s(reference)/s(sample) where s(reference) is the slope of a linear correlation between reference-sample relative m/z shift values and reference-sample visible charge values determined from a plurality of mass spectra detected from a plurality of respective pre-selected amounts of a clean reference sample.
US11515138B2
Trapping ions in an ion trapping assembly is described. In one aspect, this is implemented by introducing ions into the ion trapping assembly, applying a first RF trapping amplitude to the ion trapping assembly so as to trap introduced ions which have m/z ratios within a first range of m/z ratios, and cooling the trapped ions. In some aspects, also performed is reducing the RF trapping amplitude from the first RF trapping amplitude to a second, lower, RF trapping amplitude so as to reduce the low mass cut-off of the ion trapping assembly and trapping, at the second, lower RF trapping amplitude, introduced ions having m/z ratios within a second range of m/z ratios. A lower mass limit of the second range of m/z ratios is below the low mass cut-off of the ion trapping assembly when the first RF trapping amplitude is applied.
US11515136B2
A method of spectrometric analysis comprises obtaining one or more sample spectra for an aerosol, smoke or vapour sample. The one or more sample spectra are subjected to pre-processing and then multivariate and/or library based analysis so as to classify the aerosol, smoke or vapour sample. The results of the analysis are used for various surgical or non-surgical applications.
US11515135B1
Systems and methods are described for indirect detection of a missed sample from an autosampler. A method embodiment includes, but is not limited to, drawing a fluid through operation of an autosampler; directing the fluid via a fluid line to a valve of a fluid handling system, the valve including or being adjacent to a sensor to detect a presence or absence of liquid sample; directing the fluid from the valve into a holding line coupled to the valve; determining whether a threshold amount of liquid sample is present in the fluid in the holding line; and when it is determined that liquid sample is present in the fluid in the holding line in an amount less than the threshold amount, transferring a carrier fluid having a marker component to an analytic detector, the marker component present in the carrier fluid in an amount indicative of a missed sample.
US11515132B2
Physical vapor deposition target assemblies and methods of manufacturing such target assemblies are disclosed. An exemplary target assembly comprises a flow pattern including a plurality of arcs and bends fluidly connected to an inlet end and an outlet end.
US11515129B2
An example semiconductor processing system may include a chamber body having sidewalls and a base. The processing system may also include a substrate support extending through the base of the chamber body. The substrate support may include a support platen configured to support a semiconductor substrate, and a shaft coupled with the support platen. The processing system may further include a plate coupled with the shaft of the substrate support. The plate may have an emissivity greater than 0.5. In some embodiments, the plate may include a radiation shied disposed proximate the support platen. In some embodiments, the plate may include a pumping plate disposed proximate the base of the chamber body. In some embodiments, the emissivity of the plate may range between about 0.5 and about 0.95.
US11515116B2
This disclosure describes techniques implemented at least in part by a fuse-monitoring device to detect when a fuse cutout in an electric power system opens to disconnect a device and/or a load from a power line, and provides an indication of a location of the opened fuse cutout to a utility provider. The fuse-monitoring device may be attached to a fuse holder of the fuse cutout, and may include a movement sensor that detects when the fuse holder swings open due to its fuse melting, or blowing. The fuse-monitoring device may send a notification to the utility provider indicating that the fuse holder has swung open. The fuse-monitoring device may include a GPS sensor to determine the location of the fuse cutout, and may also notify the utility provider of the location of the fuse cutout so a line crew can quickly locate the fuse cutout that requires maintenance.
US11515104B2
A microswitch includes a contact chamber that accommodates a contact mechanism that opens and closes an electrical circuit; an enclosure that accommodates the contact chamber; and a pressing component that accepts a pressure external to the enclosure. The pressing component may include an insertion part that is inserted into an insertion hole in the contact chamber and acts on the contact mechanism, the insertion part receiving a pressure external thereto and moving from a first side that is outward of the enclosure to a second side that is inward of the enclosure. The pressing component may include a shielding part that shields the insertion hole from the contact chamber side, the shielding part being larger than the insertion hole in a direction orthogonal to an insertion direction to block the insertion hole.
US11515099B2
A meta-material is disclosed that includes a first layer composed of graphene, and one or more additional layers, each composed of glassy carbon or graphene. A method of producing an engineered material includes depositing a graphene precursor on a substrate, pyrolyzing the graphene precursor to allow the formation of graphene, depositing a glassy carbon precursor the graphene, pyrolyzing to allow the formation of glassy carbon from the glassy carbon precursor, depositing a graphene precursor on the glassy carbon, and pyrolyzing the graphene precursor to allow the formation of graphene.
US11515098B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a valve-action metal substrate including a dielectric layer having pores on at least one main surface thereof, a mask layer made of an insulating material and covering a periphery of the main surface of the valve-action metal substrate, and a cathode layer on the dielectric layer at least within a region surrounded by the mask layer. The cathode layer includes a solid electrolyte layer on the dielectric layer, and the solid electrolyte layer includes a first layer filling the pores of the dielectric layer, a second layer on the dielectric layer and along an outer peripheral portion of the region surrounded by the mask layer, the second layer being made of a material same as or different from that of the first layer, and a third layer covering the second layer and the dielectric layer.
US11515092B2
A multilayer electronic component that includes a plurality of stacked dielectric layers, each of the plurality of stacked dielectric layers having a plurality of crystal grains, at least some of the plurality of crystal grains having a trap portion therein, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ni, Cu, Pt, Sn, Pd and Ag is present locally in the trap portion; and a plurality of internal electrode layers arranged between adjacent dielectric layers of the plurality of stacked dielectric layers.
US11515083B2
Electronic devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery. The devices may include a nanocrystalline foil. The devices may include a wireless charging coil seated on the nanocrystalline foil. The devices may also include an integrated circuit configured to operate the wireless charging coil in a wireless charging transmission mode.
US11515074B2
A magnetic base body comprises multiple metal magnetic grains and bonding parts for bonding the multiple metal magnetic grains, wherein the bonding parts are constituted by an amorphous mixture containing carbon and an oxide of at least one element selected from silicon, aluminum, chromium, magnesium, titanium, and zirconium. A coil component using the magnetic base body can improve mechanical strength while ensuring insulation reliability.
US11515071B2
A drum core includes a core portion that extends in an axial direction, first and second flange portions respectively disposed at first and second ends of the core portion in the axial direction, and first and second terminal electrodes respectively disposed at the first and second flange portions. The first flange portion includes a bottom surface that is substantially parallel to the axial direction and on which the first terminal electrode is disposed, an outer end surface that is substantially perpendicular to the axial direction and that faces outward away from the core portion, and a first ridge portion and a second ridge portion respectively disposed at a first end and a second end of the outer end surface in a width direction substantially parallel to the bottom surface and the outer end surface, and the first ridge portion and the second ridge portion have different shapes.
US11515065B2
An isolator includes a first fluid-carrying member and a second fluid-carrying member; and a resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component located between the first and the second fluid-carrying member. The component conveys fluid flowing from the first fluid-carrying member to the second fluid-carrying member. The isolator further has a reinforcing composite encircling the first fluid-carrying member, the second fluid-carrying member and the component. The reinforcing composite having first fibers extending at an angle of between −30 degrees and +30 degrees to a longitudinal axis (A-A) of the resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component; second fibers interwoven with the first fibers and extending around the first fluid-carrying member, the second fluid-carrying member and the component at an angle of between +60 degrees and +90 degrees and/or between −60 degrees and −90 degrees to the longitudinal axis (A-A); and a resin.
US11515060B2
A communications cable is provided that includes a pair of twisted pair of wires, each coated with a fluoropolymer insulator. The twisted pair of wires is configured to carry a differential signal, such as a differential data signal and/or a differential power signal. The fluoropolymers are highly effective insulators and significantly reduce both the effects of internal and external electromagnetic interference while maintaining low cable attenuation, even when operating within a temperature range of −40° C. to 150° C.
US11515049B2
The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.
US11515039B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a method that predicts an individual survival survival time of a patient. The method includes obtaining clinical data associated with health factors of the patient. The method includes obtaining liquid biopsy data associated with one or more attributes of diseased cells within the patient. The method includes predicting or determining a survival time of the patient using a deep learning model based on the clinical data and the liquid biopsy data. The method includes providing or outputting the survival time.
US11515036B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for secure and seamless set up and modification of bolus calculator parameters for a bolus calculator tool by a health care provider (HCP). In one aspect, a method for enabling HCP set up of a bolus calculator includes providing a server accessible by both an HCP and a patient; upon login by the HCP, displaying, or transmitting for display, a fillable form, the fillable form including one or more fields for entry of one or more bolus calculator parameters; receiving data from the fillable form, the data corresponding to one or more bolus calculator parameters; and upon login by the patient, transmitting data to a device associated with the patient, the transmitted data based on the received data, where the transmitted data corresponds to one or more of the bolus calculator parameters in a format suitable for entry to a bolus calculator.
US11515030B2
An artificial agent based cognitive operating room system and a method thereof providing automated assistance for a surgical procedure are disclosed. Data related to the surgical procedure from multiple data sources is fused based on a current context. The data includes medical images of a patient acquired using one or more medical imaging modalities. Real-time quantification of patient measurements based on the data from the multiple data sources is performed based on the current context. Short-term predictions in the surgical procedure are forecasted based on the current context, the fused data, and the real-time quantification of the patient measurements. Suggestions for next steps in the surgical procedure and relevant information in the fused data are determined based on the current context and the short-term predictions. The suggestions for the next steps and the relevant information in the fused data are presented to an operator.
US11515029B2
Methods for treating and managing pain in a patient with therapeutic neuromodulation and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. Chronic or debilitating pain can be associated, for example, with a disease or condition of the abdominal or reproductive viscera. One aspect of the present technology is directed to methods that at least partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in nerves proximate a target blood vessel of a diseased or damaged organ of a patient experiencing pain. Targeted sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated at least along afferent pathways which can improve a measurable parameter associated with the pain of the patient The modulation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a therapeutic assembly, e.g., a therapeutic assembly configured to use electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the target sympathetic nerve.
US11515027B2
Ambulatory medical devices, which includes ambulatory medicament pumps, and blood glucose control systems that provide therapy to a subject, such as blood glucose control, are disclosed. Disclosed systems and devices can implement one or more features that improve the user experience, such as prompting and/or facilitating the user to order additional infusion sets, sensors, and/or other components to facilitate treatment.
US11515024B2
The present invention provides a technology that allows a user to more easily record medication information. A blood pressure measurement device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a prescription information acquisition unit configured to acquire prescription information, a preparatory action determination unit configured to determine whether a preparatory action for blood pressure measurement is performed, a blood pressure measurement operation unit configured to perform a blood pressure measurement operation in a case where an operation button is operated with the preparatory action determined to be performed, and a medication recording and processing unit configured to, in a case where the operation button is operated with the preparatory action determined not to be performed, assess that the operation is a medication confirmation operation, and generate and record medication information on the basis of the prescription information thus acquired.
US11515020B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for: receiving an initial portion of an encounter record; processing the initial portion of the encounter record to generate initial content for a medical report; receiving one or more additional portions of the encounter record; and processing the one or more additional portions of the encounter record to modify the medical report.
US11515015B2
A medical device has a sensor interface, a data network interface, a wireless interface, a computer, and a touch-sensitive display unit. The sensor interface detects a sensor signal indicative of at least one physiological parameter of a patient. The computer provides medical data derived from the sensor signal via the data network interface. The wireless interface receives wireless signals indicative of patient identification of a mobile device carried on the patient. The computer selects a patient identifications subset based on the wireless signals as well as determining respective image data sets based on the selected patient identifications and actuates the display unit to display respective image data sets in respective display fields and to derive a selection of a certain image data set based on a signal provided by the display unit, and to provide the identification assigned to the image data set via the data network interface.
US11515009B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method for quantifying a biomarker in a tissue sample of an organism. An image analysis system receives images of a stained tissue sample. Each received digital image depicts the tissue sample region at the end of an exposure interval. The system analyzes the intensity values and exposure intervals of the received digital images for determining the time when the intensity values corresponding to the plurality of exposure intervals ordered according to ascending exposure interval lengths reach a plateau (saturation residence time—SRT). The system determines the amount of a biomarker in the tissue sample and/or predicts a tumor stage and/or a treatment recommendation as a function of the SRT.
US11515005B2
Analysis of genetic disease progression may be provided. Data about a set of molecular status may be received. A dynamic prediction model of molecular interactions may be provided over time. The molecular statuses of the set over time may be determined using the dynamic prediction model. The determined molecular statuses may be clustered by applying an interaction-aware metric for the analysis of the genetic disease progression.
US11515004B2
A method to select a protein target for therapeutic application includes accessing genomic information and protein-protein interaction (PPI) data, computing a thermodynamic measure for each protein node within the network of protein nodes, generating an energy landscape data corresponding to the network of protein nodes and the thermodynamic measure, generating a PPI subnetwork by applying a topological filtration to the energy landscape data of the PPI data, computing a first Betti number for the PPI subnetwork, sequentially removing a protein node(s) from the PPI subnetwork while replacing the previously removed node(s), computing a new Betti number for the PPI subnetwork with the protein node(s) removed, computing a change between the Betti numbers, and determining, based on the change between the Beti numbers, a most significant protein target within the PPI subnetwork.
US11514993B1
Various techniques are provided to implement programmable linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) circuits. In one example, the LFSR circuit includes state storage elements. Each state storage element is configured to store a state signal. The LFSR circuit further includes programmable logic stage circuits each configured to selectively receive an input signal and a set of state signals, determine an output signal based at least on the set of state signals, and provide the output signal. Each programmable logic stage circuit is connected to at least one other programmable logic stage circuit. The LFSR circuit further includes pipeline elements. Each pipeline element is configured to selectively connect at least two programmable logic stage circuits. The LFSR circuit further includes sets of latency balance elements. Related systems and methods are provided.
US11514988B2
A method of operating a controller that controls an operation of a semiconductor memory device including a meta area, a normal area, and a state area, includes sensing a turn-on of a memory system including the controller, checking a last state flag among at least one or more state flags stored in the state area, and determining whether to perform a reclaim operation on meta data stored in the meta area based on the checked state flag.
US11514987B2
Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, might include applying a positive first voltage level to a first node selectively connected to a string of series-connected memory cells while applying a negative second voltage level to a control gate of a transistor connected between the first node and the string of series-connected memory cells, and increasing the voltage level applied to the first node to a third voltage level while increasing the voltage level applied to the control gate of the transistor to a fourth voltage level lower than the third voltage level and higher than the first voltage level.
US11514982B2
A ferroelectric computation unit includes a first ferroelectric switching device that includes a first ferroelectric material portion and generates a digital output signal, and a second ferroelectric switching device that includes a second ferroelectric material portion and generates an analog output signal. An output node of one of the first ferroelectric switching device and the second ferroelectric switching device is electrically connected to a gate electrode of another of the first ferroelectric switching device and the second ferroelectric switching device to provide hybrid response characteristics of stochastic digital switching and analog switching.
US11514978B2
An electronic device includes a flag generation circuit and a delay circuit. The flag generation circuit is configured to generate a flag signal, wherein a level of the flag signal changes based on a first internal command. The delay circuit is configured to generate a delay signal by delaying one of an operation signal and the flag signal by a predetermined period according to whether a predetermined operation is performed.
US11514975B2
An amplifier with an input stage comprising: a first current mirror; a first input differential pair; a first current source; a second current source; a second input differential pair, wherein the first input differential pair and the second input differential pair receive a reference voltage; a second current mirror; and a voltage control transmission circuit. An extra current path in the first current mirror is formed and a current flowing through the extra current path flows through the second current mirror to a ground when the reference voltage is higher than a first predetermined value. Also, an extra current path in the second current mirror is formed and a current flowing through the extra current path in the second current mirror flows to the first current mirror when the reference voltage is lower than a second predetermined value.
US11514972B2
A data processing system may include a plurality of memory modules, a controller, a power supply and a plurality of switches. Each of the memory modules may include a plurality of pages. The controller may control operations of the memory modules. The power supply may provide the memory modules with a power. The switches may be arranged corresponding to each of the memory modules. The switches may be selectively driven in response to a switch drive signal from the controller.
US11514971B2
A memory controller includes a clock signal generator generating a clock signal; a first data receiving circuit receiving a serial signal having a plurality of logic values from a memory, using the serial signal to compensate for a phase error of the clock signal, and generating a phase-compensated clock signal as a first clock signal; and at least one second data receiving circuit receiving data from the memory, receiving the first clock signal from the first data receiving circuit, and using the first clock signal to recover the data.
US11514967B1
A high-density low voltage ferroelectric (or paraelectric) memory bit-cell that includes a planar ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitor. The memory bit-cell comprises 1T1C configuration, where a plate-line is parallel to a word-line, or the plate-line is parallel to a bit-line. The memory bit-cell can be 1TnC, where ‘n’ is a number. In a 1TnC bit-cell, the capacitors are vertically stacked allowing for multiple values to be stored in a single bit-cell. The memory bit-cell can be multi-element FE gain bit-cell. In a multi-element FE gain bit-cell, data sensing is done with signal amplified by a gain transistor in the bit-cell. As such, higher storage density is realized using multi-element FE gain bit-cells. In some examples, the 1T1C, 1TnC, and multi-element FE gain bit-cells are multi-level bit-cells. To realize multi-level bit-cells, the capacitor is placed in a partially switched polarization state by applying different voltage levels or different time pulse widths at the same voltage level.
US11514944B2
The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which the magnetic layer has a timing-based servo pattern, a center line average surface roughness Ra measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 1.8 nm, and an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the magnetic layer is equal to or greater than 5.5.
US11514935B1
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to magnetic recording heads of magnetic recording devices. A read head includes a first reader, an insulating separation layer, and a second reader disposed above the insulating separation layer. The second reader includes a magnetic seed layer and a cap layer. The second reader includes a first upper free layer disposed between the magnetic seed layer and the cap layer, and a second upper free layer disposed between the first upper free layer and the cap layer. The second reader includes a barrier layer. In one implementation the second reader includes an antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer disposed between the magnetic seed layer and the insulating separation layer to pin the magnetic seed layer.
US11514930B1
The present disclosure generally relates to magnetic storage devices, such as magnetic tape drives, comprising a read head. The read head comprises a plurality of read sensors disposed between a lower shield and an upper shield. A plurality of soft bias side shields are disposed adjacent to and outwardly of the plurality of read sensors in a cross-track direction. A plurality of hard bias side shields are disposed on and in contact with the soft bias side shields to stabilize the soft bias side shields. Each of the plurality of soft bias side shields are spaced a first distance from the lower shield and each of the hard bias side shields are spaced a second distance from the upper shield, the first distance being substantially equal to the second distance.
US11514928B2
A device implementing a system for processing speech in an audio signal includes at least one processor configured to receive an audio signal corresponding to at least one microphone of a device, and to determine, using a first model, a first probability that a speech source is present in the audio signal. The at least one processor is further configured to determine, using a second model, a second probability that an estimated location of a source of the audio signal corresponds to an expected position of a user of the device, and to determine a likelihood that the audio signal corresponds to the user of the device based on the first and second probabilities.
US11514924B2
In an aspect, during a presentation of a presentation material, viewers of the presentation material can be monitored. Based on the monitoring, new content can be determined for insertion into the presentation material. The new content can be automatically inserted to the presentation material in real time. In another aspect, during the presentation, a presenter of the presentation material can be monitored. The presenter's speech can be intercepted and analyzed to detect a level of confidence. Based on the detected level of confidence, the presenter's speech can be adjusted and the adjusted speech can be played back automatically, for example, in lieu of the presenter's original speech that is intercepted.
US11514921B2
A system and method to process audio data received over the ARC or eARC interface of HDMI from audio sources are provided. A media device may receive compressed audio data in a number of data formats. The media device may convert between the audio formats provided by the audio sources and the audio formats supported by audio playback devices. The media device may inspect frames of audio data to determine if the frames are to be decoded. The frame may be decoded and subsequently encoded into the data formats supported by the audio playback devices. To reduce latency, the media device may enable a pass-through mode to bypass the decoding of the frames to allow the frames to be decoded at the audio playback devices. A bi-directional loopback application may route audio data received over the ARC or eARC interface from the audio sources to the audio playback devices.
US11514913B2
A technique manages collaborative web sessions (CWS). The technique receives graphical content of a CWS. The technique translates a set of portions of the graphical content into text output. The technique provides the text output to a set of text application services. The set of text application services associate the text output with the CWS.
US11514912B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling verbal interaction with an NLUI application without relying on express wake terms. The NLUI application receives an audio input comprising a plurality of terms. In response to determining that none of the terms is an express wake term pre-programmed into the NLUI application, the NLUI application determines a topic for the plurality of terms. The NLUI application then determines whether the topic is within a plurality of topics for which a response should be generated. If the determined topic of the audio input is within the plurality of topics, the NLUI application generates a response to the audio input.
US11514909B2
Methods and systems for adding functionality to an account of a language processing system where the functionality is associated with a second account of a first application system is described herein. In a non-limiting embodiment, an individual may log into a first account of a language processing system and log into a second account of a first application system. While logged into both the first account and the second account, a button included within a webpage provided by the first application may be invoked. A request capable of being serviced using the first functionality may be received by the language processing system from a device associated with the first account. The language processing system may send first account data and the second account data to the first application system to facilitate an action associated with the request, thereby enabling the first functionality for the first account.
US11514897B2
A method for intent mining that includes: receiving conversation data; using an intent mining algorithm to automatically mine intents from the conversation data; and uploading the mined intents into the conversational bot. The intent mining algorithm may include: analyzing utterances of the conversation data to identify intent-bearing utterances; analyzing the identified intent-bearing utterances to identify candidate intents; selecting salient intents from the candidate intents; grouping the selected salient intents into salient intent groups in accordance with a degree of semantic similarity; for each of the salient intent groups, selecting one of the salient intents as the intent label and designating the others as the intent alternatives; and associating the intent-bearing utterances with the salient intent groups via determining a degree of semantic similarity between the candidate intents present in the intent-bearing utterance and the intent alternatives within each group.
US11514894B2
In some examples, a server may receive an utterance from a customer. The utterance may be included in a conversation between the artificial intelligence engine and the customer. The server may convert the utterance to text and determine a customer intent based on the text and a user history. The server may determine a user model of the customer based on the text and the customer intent. The server may update a conversation state associated with the conversation based on the customer intent and the user model. The server may determine a user state based on the user model and the conversation state. The server may select, using a reinforcement learning based module, a particular action from a set of actions, the particular action including a response and provide the response to the customer.
US11514883B2
An active noise reduction system and method, and a storage medium are provided. In the system, a first signal acquisition circuitry acquires an external noise signal at a noise cancellation spot, and transmits the acquired external noise signal to a noise control system including a first frequency nonlinear transformation circuitry, a first filter circuitry and an inverter. The first frequency nonlinear transformation circuitry receives the external noise signal, and expands at least one target frequency band of the external noise signal based on a frequency nonlinear transformation mapping function to generate a first transformed external noise signal, the first filter circuitry filters the first transformed external noise signal to generate a filtered external noise signal, and the inverter performs inversion on the filtered external noise signal to generate a noise cancellation signal; and the signal output circuitry receives and outputs the noise cancellation signal to cancel an actual noise.
US11514871B2
It is an object to suppress deterioration of characteristics of a transistor in a driver circuit. A first switch for controlling whether to set a potential state of an output signal by being turned on and off in accordance with the first input signal, and a second switch for controlling whether to set a potential state of an output signal by being turned on and off in accordance with the second input signal are included. A first wiring and a second wiring are brought into electrical continuity by turning on and off the first switch or the second switch.
US11514857B2
An organic light emitting diode display with improved aperture ratio includes: a substrate; first and second pixels disposed in a first row of the substrate and third and fourth pixels disposed in a second row adjacent to the first row and respectively disposed in the same columns as the first and second pixels; a scan line and a previous scan line applying a scan signal and a previous scan signal, respectively, to the pixel units; a data line and a driving voltage line applying a data signal and a driving voltage, respectively, to the pixel units; and a common initialization voltage line disposed between the first and second pixels and between the third and fourth pixels, commonly connected to the pixel units, and applying an initialization voltage. One common initialization contact hole connected to all pixels units and one initialization voltage line connected to the common initialization contact hole are surrounded by the pixel units.
US11514856B2
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display substrate, and a display panel are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a data writing sub-circuit configured to write a data voltage into a storage sub-circuit; the storage sub-circuit configured to store the data voltage; a driving sub-circuit electrically connected to a first node and configured to drive a light-emitting component electrically connected to a second node to emit light according to the data voltage; a light-emitting control sub-circuit electrically connected to the first node and the second node, respectively, and configured to achieve to turn on or turn off connection between the driving sub-circuit and the light-emitting component; and a first compensation sub-circuit electrically connected to the first node and the second node, respectively, and configured to compensate a level of the second node according to a level of the first node.
US11514850B1
A display device includes a luminescent array and a column driver. The cathodes of the first row of luminescent devices are coupled to a first word line. The anodes of the second row of luminescent devices are coupled to a second word line. In the mth column of luminescent devices, the anode of a first luminescent device in the first row is coupled to the cathode of a second luminescent device in the second row. The column driver includes a switch and two multiplexers. The switch controls the path between input signal and the mth column of luminescent devices. The first multiplexer provides a first driving signal for charging the parasite capacitor in the switch and the first luminescent device during a first period. The second multiplexer provides a second driving signal for charging the second luminescent device and discharging the parasite capacitor in the switch during a second period.
US11514845B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes, in part, a base substrate, multiple light-emitting elements, multiple pixel circuits, and at least one driver circuit, where the base substrate, multiple light-emitting elements, multiple pixel circuits, and the driver circuit are located on a side of the base substrate and located in a display area. The driver circuit is configured to transmit drive signals to the multiple pixel circuits. The multiple pixel circuits are configured to drive the multiple light-emitting elements. The multiple light-emitting elements include multiple light-emitting element rows. Each of the multiple light-emitting element rows extends along a first direction. The multiple light-emitting element rows are arranged along a second direction.
US11514844B2
A pixel drive circuit includes a data write sub-circuit, an input and read sub-circuit, a drive sub-circuit, and a first output control sub-circuit. The data write sub-circuit is configured to transmit data signals input from a first data voltage terminal at different times to a first node. The input and read sub-circuit is configured to: transmit a signal of a signal transmission terminal to a second node in a write period, and transmit an electrical signal of the second node to the signal transmission terminal in a threshold voltage read period. The drive sub-circuit is configured to output a drive signal. The first output control sub-circuit is configured to: be coupled to an element to be driven, and transmit the drive signal output by the drive sub-circuit to the element to be driven.
US11514837B2
A display device and a driving circuit enable to detect the crack for each display panel block by independently controlling each data driving circuit in case of multi data driving circuit and to provide a display device and a driving circuit enable to detect not only fine cracks but also disconnection by sequentially comparing a voltage of the display panel block with a reference voltage using a plurality of reference resistors.
US11514836B2
A shift register and a display device are provided. A first control device, a second control device and an output device of the shift register all receive a first power signal and a second power signal as working power signals. The first control device controls a signal of a first node and a signal of a second node in response to a first drive signal. The second control device controls the signal of the first node in response to a second drive signal. The output device outputs a third drive signal in response to the signal of the first node or the signal of the second node, and the third drive signal is generated and outputted by utilizing the first drive signal and the second drive signal, and simplifying a circuit configuration of the shift register for generating the third drive signal.
US11514834B2
A tiled display device includes an array of a plurality of display panels. Each of the plurality of display panels includes a plurality of pixels constituting a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns, a data distributor disposed between a first pixel of a first pixel row among the plurality of pixel rows and a second pixel of the first pixel row adjacent to the first pixel in a first direction, and a scan driver disposed between the second pixel and a third pixel adjacent to the second pixel in the first direction.
US11514828B1
Augmented reality headsets. A plurality of tilted pin-mirrors imbedded between an inner surface and an outer surface of a combiner, where the plurality of tilted pin-mirrors are configured to reflect the guided image light towards the eye box, and wherein the plurality of pin-mirrors include one or more gaps between them wherein the one or more gaps allow the passage of an ambient light through the combiner towards the eye box.
US11514819B2
A surgical training model that includes a simulated tissue having a tubular shape that is connected to a tissue holder is provided. A portion of the simulated tissue overhangs the distal end of the tissue holder to simulate a cuff-like entry to the vaginal vault or resected intestine suitable for practicing laparoscopic closure of the vaginal vault, intestine or other organ via suturing or stapling. Two concentric tubular structures are also arranged over the same tissue holder. A second model includes two portions of simulated tissue that are held by two holders such that the simulated tissues are adjacent making the model suitable for practicing different types of anastomosis procedures. A third model includes two holders with a single or double tubular simulated tissue structure connected to and spanning a gap between the holders. The model isolates the step of closing a cylindrical opening for the purpose of repeated practice.
US11514815B1
A system, method, and device for generating a flight training scheme oriented to an individual difference are provided to resolve a problem that a differentiated training scheme applicable to a training state of a trainee cannot be generated quickly. The system includes a first apparatus configured to obtain identity information of a user; a second apparatus configured to store training data of the user; a third apparatus configured to read the corresponding training data of the user based on the identity information of the user, obtain a mastery degree of a training item of the user as well as an emotion class and rating of the user corresponding to the training item, configure the training item based on a training scenario, and generate an initial training scheme; and a fourth apparatus configured to configure a flight training simulation environment based on the initial training scheme.
US11514796B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle pick-up location. An exemplary method may comprise obtaining a user's location and a request by the user for transportation to a destination, determining a vehicle to respond to the request, obtaining the determined vehicle's location, and determining a pick-up location for the vehicle to pick up the user based at least on the user's location, the destination's location, and the vehicle's location.
US11514793B2
A display control apparatus is installed in an own vehicle to display an image on a display device viewed by a passenger of the own vehicle. The display control apparatus includes a boundary acquisition section that acquires positions of boundary portions defining both width-wise ends of a traveling lane in which the own vehicle travels, and an object acquisition section that acquires a position of an object around the traveling lane. The apparatus generates a position image, which is an image representing the positions of the boundary portions and the position of the object, and displays the position image on the display device.
US11514789B2
Systems and methods for providing illumination-based object tracking information within a host vehicle. In some embodiments, the system may comprise a remote object detection module and an illumination display pattern within the vehicle comprising one or more light sources defining a pattern. The illumination display pattern may be configured to dynamically change in accordance with one or more objects being detected and/or tracked by the remote object detection module to convey visible information to vehicle occupants regarding such object(s).
US11514776B1
A system for controlling operation of a ceiling fan is provided. The ceiling fan includes a fan device and a light device, and can be operated via a user operation module that is to be operated by direct operation, or a wireless receiver module that receives a wireless control signal. Within a predetermined control duration from the time of activation, the ceiling fan can, upon receipt of an operation signal from the user operation module or a wireless control signal from the wireless receiver module, switch to operate in a mode where the ceiling fan is controlled via one of the user operation module and the wireless receiver module that corresponds to the signal received thereby.
US11514773B2
The device for monitoring a situation within a volume includes at least one electronic unit containing a plurality of different types of sensors, at least one program for controlling the sensors according to a predefined profile and a program for processing data recorded by the sensors, a device for signaling the detection of data representative of an event within the volume, a remote management unit and device for exchanging data between the electronic unit and the remote management unit defined by a radio transmitter/receiver that includes the electronic unit and the remote management unit. The electronic unit includes a device for manual activation of the radio emitter, defined by a button arranged on a housing for an infrared presence sensor equipped with its lens forming a protuberance on the outer face of the unit. The invention also concerns a method for monitoring a situation within the volume by the device.
US11514772B2
A generator set monitoring and control system includes a generator set located in a first location, an on-site controller located near the first location, and a remote display, located in a second location. The remote display is configured to send instructions to at least one of the generator set and on-site controller, receive genset operation outputs from the on-site controller, and display genset operation outputs.
US11514771B2
A multimodal voltage test device and method of operating is provided. The device includes a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact. A circuit electrically is disposed between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact, the circuit being configured to measure a voltage between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact. A first light source is electrically coupled to the circuit. An audio device is electrically coupled to the circuit, wherein the circuit is configured to cause the first light source to illuminate and to emit a first sound from the audio device in response to the voltage measured by the circuit being equal to or greater than a first threshold.
US11514769B2
The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for detecting an intrusion of a product (e.g., an ATM) via an electronic tattletale. The disclosed embodiments may provide an ATM comprising a housing comprising an interior surface and a substance adhered to the interior surface, the substance comprising a piezoelectric element. The ATM may further comprise a detection circuit coupled to the substance, which may be configured to receive a first response signal generated by the substance and generate an indication of an intrusion into the housing, based on a comparison of the received first response signal to a predefined second response signal.
US11514763B1
An emergency signaling system is disclosed. The system includes a receptacle and a painting device. The painting device is covered in a paint material and stored in the receptacle. The receptacle can be used to launch the painting device onto a surface, such as a roof, in the event that a user needs to signal a search and rescue team or anyone near their present location. The painting device, upon contact with a surface, creates a painted signal. The painted signal can have different shapes according to the shape of the painting device. The painting device can include weight members or flexible frame members to facilitate opening the painting device from a closed or folded configuration to a fully open configuration once the painting device has been launched from the receptacle.
US11514761B2
Multiple different game symbol weighting sets are defined for selection in a given play of a reel-type game. Each game symbol weighting set defines a probability of each reel strip in the reel-type game landing at each particular stop position for that reel strip. By providing multiple different game symbol weighting sets, certain game symbols such as special themed game symbols may be favored for one or more plays of the game to increase the chance of hitting winning symbol combinations using that game symbol.
US11514760B2
An electronic method of gaming comprising an electronic game controller: selecting, for each of at least one display area of a symbol display, a plurality of symbols for display at respective ones of a plurality of display positions arranged in the display area; evaluating the selected symbols to determine whether or not the selected symbols for display at at least two designated display positions are the same; upon determining that the selected symbols for display at at least two designated display positions are the same, applying a modification to each of the selected symbols for display at the at least two designated display positions to form a modified symbol display; and evaluating the modified symbol display to make an award.
US11514756B2
An electronic gaming system is capable of forming a multi-player group to play a game; receiving, from a first gaming device, first game play information for a first game played by a first player member of the multi-player group on the first gaming device; determining that the first game play information comprises a first winning outcome corresponding to a first winning outcome; in response, allocating the first winning outcome among the first and second player members; and notifying a second gaming device of the second player member that the second player member has received the second portion of the first winning outcome.
US11514755B2
A system, and method of operating a system, including a dealer device and at least one player device located at a gaming device. The dealer device configured to allow a dealer to enter funds received from a player to a respective player account, to allow the dealer to finalize wagers and enter an outcome of a game; to calculate a change in the player account based on the outcome of the game. The player device configured to display a player screen including computer generated graphics; to allow each respective player to enter a wager on the game; to display an outcome of the instance of the game; and to display wager and player account data to the player.
US11514750B1
Systems and methods for enabling secure automated production and redemption of predetermined games of chance with multiple play venues or dimensions, wherein such systems and methods can provide, for example, lottery games (e.g., instant tickets), charitable gaming (e.g., raffles, pull-tabs), casino environments (e.g., “Class II” gaming), Internet gaming (e.g., poker, online instant tickets), etc.
US11514745B1
A delivery system applies rules for authorizing transactions to a recipient that are individualized for each recipient. These rules may limit the number of items available for the purchaser to purchase for a recipient, the types of items available for purchase for a recipient, and the price of the items for the recipient. The system automates the delivery of the item to the recipient via a kiosk, such as a vending machine. An identification device of the vending machine identifies the recipient. The vending machine dispenses the items to the identified recipient.
US11514741B2
An access control system includes a plurality of physical access control readers that form a reader network which utilizes a first communication protocol. The system includes a plurality of mobile communication devices each having a first communication interface and a second communication interface. The first communication interface enables the mobile communication devices to access a mobile communication network which utilizes a second communication protocol, and the second communication interface enables the mobile communication devices to communicate with the access control readers. The plurality of physical access control readers exchange status information for the plurality of physical access control readers and for the plurality of mobile communication devices over the reader network.
US11514738B2
Digital pass verification systems and methods are disclosed herein. One or more servers are to distribute instructions on a network. The instructions, when executed, cause a first device carried by a person to at least: access a result of a diagnostic test performed on the person, the result provided by a second device; generate a machine-readable code in response to the result being negative; and display the machine-readable code on a display of the first device to enable the person to gain access to a location.
US11514727B2
A method and system for conducting routine maintenance for an autonomous vehicle. The method includes collecting and calculating internal variables of the autonomous vehicle with a processor, evaluating the internal variables of the autonomous vehicle with the processor, and determining if routine maintenance is necessary. External variables are evaluated to determine optimal times for routine maintenance. The vehicle user is informed if routine maintenance is necessary, and a period of time is proposed for performance of the routine maintenance. The vehicle user is requested to confirm that routine maintenance should be attended to at the proposed time.
US11514722B2
Systems and methods are presented for generating statistics associated with a performance of a participant in an event, wherein pose data associated with the participant, performing in the event, are processed in real time. Pose data associated with the participant may comprise positional data of a skeletal representation of the participant. Actions performed by the participant may be determined based on a comparison of segments of the participant's pose data to motion patterns associated with actions of interests.
US11514721B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to dynamically control a display in response to ocular characteristic measurements of at least one eye of a user.
US11514717B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing a notification that a person is at a particular location. For example, a resident device may receive from a user device an image that shows a face of a first person, the image being captured by a first camera of the user device. The resident device may also receive, from another device having a second camera, a second image showing a portion of a face of a second person, the second camera having a viewable area showing a particular location. The resident device may determine a score indicating a level of similarity between a first set of characteristics associated with the face of the first person and a second set of characteristics associated with the face of a second person. The resident device may then provide to the user device a notification based on determining the score.
US11514705B2
An information processing apparatus is used in contact with a user and includes a processor. In a case where multiple objects as candidates for operation are present in an object image taken by a camera or an object image acquired externally, the processor is configured to detect one or more of the objects present at a center position of the object image as the candidates for operation or detect one or more of the objects superposed on a user image of a part of a body of the user operating the information processing apparatus as the candidates for operation.
US11514702B2
Systems and methods for identifying landmarks of a document from a digital representation of the document. The method comprises accessing the digital representation of the document and operating a Machine Learning Algorithm (MLA), the MLA having been trained based on a set of training digital representations of documents associated with labels. The operating the MLA comprises down-sampling the digital representation of the document, detecting landmarks, generating fractional pixel coordinates for the detected landmarks. The method further determines the pixel coordinates of the landmarks by upscaling the fractional pixel coordinates from the second resolution to the first resolution and outputs the pixel coordinates of the landmarks.
US11514699B2
In an approach for a text block recognition in a document, a processor detects characters in the document using an object detection technique. A processor identifies positions of the detected characters in the document. A processor analyzes semantic connectivity among the detected characters based on the positions and semantic connectivity of the characters. A processor recognizes text blocks of related characters based on the semantic connectivity analysis. A processor outputs the text blocks associated with the related characters.
US11514697B2
Herein is a probabilistic indexing technique for searching semi-structured text documents in columnar storage formats such as Parquet, using columnar input/output (I/O) avoidance, and needing minimal storage overhead. In an embodiment, a computer associates columns with text strings that occur in semi-structured documents. Text words that occur in the text strings are detected. Respectively for each text word, a bitmap, of a plurality of bitmaps, that contains a respective bit for each column is generated. Based on at least one of the bitmaps, some of the columns or some of the semi-structured documents are accessed.
US11514696B2
A display device includes a circuitry configured to perform a search for a plurality of image candidates in an image transformation dictionary part, based on handwritten data, and a display configured to display the plurality of image candidates obtained by the search. At least a portion of the plurality of image candidates displayed on the display represents a different person or an object.
US11514693B2
In some embodiments, reduction of computational resource usage related to image labeling and/or segmentation may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a collection of images may be used to train one or more prediction models. Based on a presentation of an image on a user interface, an indication of a target quantity of superpixels for the image may be obtained. The image may be provided to a first prediction model to cause the prediction model to predict a quantity of superpixels for the image. The target quantity of superpixels may be provided to the first model to update the first model's configurations based on (i) the predicted quantity and (ii) the target quantity. A set of superpixels may be generated for the image based on the target quantity, and segmentation information related to the superpixels set may be provided to a second prediction model to update the second model's configurations.
US11514679B1
Systems and methods for detecting or following a person within an observed area. One example system includes a sensor and a processor configured to: receive, from the sensor, a series of readings indicative of the person in the observed area, wherein the observed area is divided into a plurality of zones; determine a sequential occurrence of each of a plurality of ordered events by applying a detection threshold value to the series of readings, wherein the detection threshold value is lower than a noise threshold of the sensor, and wherein each of the plurality of ordered events is associated with at least one of the plurality of zones; and determine a trigger condition based on the sequential occurrence of each of the plurality of ordered events; and provide an instruction to a fixture based on the trigger condition.
US11514670B2
A method comprises receiving an area of interest (AOI) selection. The method further comprises accessing an AOI device location data for the AOI, the AOI device location data indicating locations of devices over time received within the AOI. The AOI device location data is filtered to only include the device location data that match one or more characteristics. A proximity zone is determined for the for the AOI that includes the area of the AOI. A zone device location data for the proximity zone is determined, which indicates locations of devices over time reported within the proximity zone. The method further comprises normalizing the filtered AOI device location data by computing a ratio of the filtered AOI device location data and the zone device location data to generate an AOI user estimate, and transmitting the AOI user estimate to a client device of a requestor.
US11514664B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US11514658B2
Systems and techniques are provided for modeling three-dimensional (3D) meshes using multi-view image data. An example method can include determining, based on a first image of a target, first 3D mesh parameters for the target corresponding to a first coordinate frame; determining, based on a second image of the target, second 3D mesh parameters for the target corresponding to a second coordinate frame; determining third 3D mesh parameters for the target in a third coordinate frame, the third 3D mesh parameters being based on the first and second 3D mesh parameters and relative rotation and translation parameters of image sensors that captured the first and second images; determining a loss associated with the third 3D mesh parameters, the loss being based on the first and second 3D mesh parameters and the relative rotation and translation parameters; determining 3D mesh parameters based on the loss and third 3D mesh parameters.
US11514653B1
An immersive content presentation system can capture the motion or position of a performer in a real-world environment. A game engine can be modified to receive the position or motion of the performer and identify predetermined gestures or positions that can be used to trigger actions in a 3-D virtual environment, such as generating a digital effect, transitioning virtual assets through an animation graph, adding new objects, and so forth. The use of the 3-D environment can be rendered and composited views can be generated. Information for constructing the composited views can be streamed to numerous display devices in many different physical locations using a customized communication protocol. Multiple real-world performers can interact with virtual objects through the game engine in a shared mixed-reality experience.
US11514649B2
An augmented reality display device includes a near-eye display configured to present imagery to a user eye. A camera is configured to capture light from a real-world environment and produce output useable to contribute to the imagery presented to the user eye via the near-eye display. The camera includes an aperture configured to receive the light from the real-world environment and an image sensor configured to respond to the light received from the real-world environment by generating sensor output signals useable to produce images on the near-eye display depicting the real-world environment. One or more optical elements provide an optical path for light from the aperture to the image sensor, the optical path having a length that is within a threshold of a distance between the user eye and the aperture of the camera.
US11514645B2
Electronic devices and/or operating methods of the electronic device to provide visual localization based on outdoor three-dimensional (3D) map information may be provided. Such electronic devices may be configured to acquire two-dimensional (2D) image information about an outdoor environment, generate 3D map information about the outdoor environment based on the 2D image information, and determine a position of a point in the 3D map information corresponding to a query image.
US11514644B2
Systems and methods for automatically generating a 3D model of a roof of a building are provided. In a described embodiment, the method includes receiving point cloud data comprising a plurality of data points corresponding to height measurements at a given location; processing the point cloud data to identify roof surfaces; generating a 3D model of the roof using the identified surfaces; receiving aerial imagery of the roof; registering the aerial imagery with the point cloud data; and refining the 3D model using the aerial imagery. A corresponding computing system and non-transitory computer readable medium for carrying out the methods are also provided.
US11514637B2
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for implementing automatic level-of-detail for physically-based materials. The method includes the steps of identifying a declarative representation of a material to be rendered, creating a reduced complexity declarative representation of the material by applying one or more term rewriting rules to the declarative representation of the material, and returning the reduced complexity declarative representation of the material.
US11514635B2
Method for generating media content items on demand starts with a processor receiving an animation file including a first metadata based on an animation input. The animation file is associated with a media content identification. The processor generates puppets associated with frames in the animation file using the first metadata. The processor causes a puppet matching interface to be displayed on a client device. The puppet matching interface includes one of the puppets in a first pose. The processor receives a puppet posing input associated with a second pose from the client device. The processor causes the one of the puppets to be displayed in the second pose in the puppet matching interface by the client device. The processor can also generate a second metadata based on the puppet posing input. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11514623B2
A method is for providing a medical image of a patient, acquired via a computed tomography apparatus. An embodiment of the method includes acquiring first projection data of a first measurement region; acquiring second projection data of a second measurement region; registering a reference image to the at least one respiration-correlated image of the patient, wherein the reference image corresponds to the at least one functional image of the patient or is reconstructed under a second reconstruction rule from the second projection data, to produce a deformation model; applying the deformation model to the at least one functional image of the patient; combining the at least one functional image of the patient, deformed by the applying of the deformation model, with the at least one respiration-correlated image of the patient, to produce the medical image of the patient; and providing the medical image of the patient.
US11514619B2
A method, apparatus and computer program for generating or updating a texture atlas are provided. The texture atlas is generated or updated by obtaining a first texture to be stored in the texture atlas, dividing the first texture into a plurality of parts, storing the plurality of parts in a respective plurality of spaces in the texture atlas, such that the plurality of parts of the first texture may be separated by parts of other textures in the texture atlas, and storing texture reconstruction information defining how to combine the plurality of parts to render the first texture. By dividing the first texture into the plurality of parts, it is possible to store the texture in the texture atlas even in cases where the atlas does not have an available space of the same dimensions as the undivided texture.
US11514617B2
A method for providing a virtual environment during movement is provided. The method includes the following operations: capturing a first image associated with an interior space of a housing and also associated with part of an external environment captured outward from the interior space; classifying the first image into a first segment associated with the interior space and a second segment associated with the part of the external environment; estimating a first pose and a second pose of a mobile device associated with respective the housing and the external environment, in which the first pose is estimated by a first localization model based on the first segment, and the second pose is estimated by a second localization model based on a second image associated with the external environment; and displaying virtual objects by the mobile device according to the first and second poses.
US11514615B2
A streaming system includes a streaming server and a client device. The streaming server is configured to train an interactive frame prediction model based on streaming data, a user input and metadata associated with the user input, encode the streaming data by selectively using a predicted frame generated based on the trained interactive frame prediction model and transmit the trained interactive frame prediction model and the encoded streaming data. The client device is configured to receive the trained interactive frame prediction model and the encoded streaming data, and decode the encoded streaming data based on the trained interactive frame prediction model to provide recovered streaming data to a user.
US11514610B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for point cloud compression and decompression. In some examples, an apparatus for point cloud compression/decompression includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines, for each point in a first point cloud, a corresponding point in a second point cloud. The first point cloud is a processed point cloud based on the second point cloud. The processing circuitry determines, for each point in the first point cloud, a corresponding error vector based on the corresponding point in the second point cloud. The processing circuitry determines, for each point in the first point cloud, a corresponding weight factor based on a position of the respective point in the first point cloud. The processing circuitry determines a quality metric for the first point cloud based on the error vectors and the weight factors.
US11514609B2
A detection system method of color balancing an image includes receiving an image of a test area of a pad which includes a color of a reaction between a test substance and at least one reagent on the test area of the pad, an alignment code having detection system identification information, at least one color calibration block indicia for aligning with a camera as the image is being captured, and test identification information for analyzing the test substance during a colorimetric analysis. The method further includes collecting an array of pixels of RGB values for each pixel in the image, evaluating a captured color of the at least one color calibration block in the image, and performing the colorimetric analysis on the reaction between the test substance and the at least one reagent.
US11514607B2
The disclosure provides 3D reconstruction methods and devices. The method includes: obtaining data captured by the camera and data captured by the inertial measurement unit; obtaining a pose of the camera based on the data; obtaining an adjustment value of the pose of the camera and an adjustment value of bias of the inertial measurement unit; updating the pose of the camera based on the adjustment value of the pose of the camera; determining whether the adjustment value of bias of the inertial measurement unit is less than a preset value; in response to the adjustment value of bias of the inertial measurement unit being greater than or equal to the preset value, determining that a current loop for 3-dimensional reconstruction is an error loop; removing the error loop; and constructing a 3-dimensional model for surroundings of the camera based on the updated pose of the camera and remaining loops.
US11514601B2
A working vehicle includes a traveling body including a coupler to which a working device is connected, a marker provided to the working device, a marker detector provided to the traveling body to detect the marker, and a status calculator to calculate a status of the working device based on a detection data detected by the marker detector.
US11514593B2
A method and a device for image processing are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a first image, wherein the first image includes a face; detecting the face and a background region in the first image, establishing a three-dimensional model of the face according to the first image; rotating the three-dimensional model of the face by a first angle; and projecting the three-dimensional model of the face rotated by the first angle to an image coordinate system of the first image and fusing a face region with a processed background region to obtain a second image.
US11514590B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method directed to object tracking using plurality of cameras. The system includes the plurality of cameras disposed around a playing surface in a mirrored configuration, and where the plurality of cameras are time-synchronized. The system further includes logic that, when executed by a processor, causes performance of operations including: obtaining a sequence of images from the plurality of cameras, continuously detecting an object in image pairs at successive points in time, wherein each image pair corresponds to a single point in time, continuously determining a location of the object within the playing space through triangulation of the object within each image pair, determining wall coordinates of a wall that the object is expected to contact based on the continuously determined location of the object and causing rendering of a visual graphic based on the wall coordinates.
US11514587B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for selectively identifying pixel data to provide as an input to an image processing model based on motion data associated with the content of a digital video. For example, systems disclosed herein include receiving a compressed digital video and decompressing the compressed digital video to generate a decompressed digital video. The systems disclosed herein further include extracting or otherwise identifying motion data while decompressing the compressed digital video. The systems disclosed herein also include analyzing the motion data to determine a subset of pixel data from the decompressed digital video to provide as input to an image processing model trained to generate an output based on input pixel data.
US11514567B2
The present invention provides an on-line real-time diagnosis system and method for wind turbine blade (WTB) damage. The system includes a four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a cloud database, and a computer system. The four-rotor UAV captures images of WTBs in real time, and transmits the images to the computer system. The cloud database stores an image library used for a Visual Geometry Group (VGG)-19 net image classification method, where an image in the image library stored in the cloud database is dynamically captured from a network. The computer system is used to perform training by using the image library to obtain an improved VGG-19 net image classification method, and classify, by using the improved VGG-19 net image classification method, the images of the WTBs received from the four-rotor UAV, to obtain a WTB damage diagnosis and classification result and a damage grading result.
US11514566B2
A cigarette filter inspection method of inspecting a solid flavor element to be disposed in a void between two filter plugs placed in outer filter wrapper, and the cigarette filter inspection method includes an illumination step of irradiating the void with illumination light, an imaging step of obtaining an inspection image of a region containing the void, a filler detection step of detecting the flavor element based on contrast between the void and the flavor element in the inspection image, and an inspection step of inspecting the flavor element detected in the inspection image.
US11514559B2
An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.
US11514553B2
There is provided an image processing device for observing an inside of an eye in a wider range. The image processing device includes an integration processing unit that integrates ophthalmologic images acquired by a plurality of types of ophthalmologic image capturing devices by correlating intraocular positions and generates one integrated image indicating intraocular information in a range wider than a range indicated by each of the ophthalmologic images.
US11514551B2
A system may include a graphics processing unit including a command counter. The system may also include a general-purpose processor to: in response to a detection of a timing signal, determine a count value of the command counter included in the graphics processing unit; determine a first threshold range of a plurality of threshold ranges that matches the determined count value of the command counter; select, based on the determined first threshold range, a first configuration profile of a plurality of configuration profiles for the graphics processing unit; and cause the graphics processing unit to use the selected first configuration profile. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11514550B2
An apparatus and method for managing pipes and planes within a virtual graphics processing engine. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: a graphics processor comprising one or more display pipes to render one or more display planes, each of the one or more display pipes comprising a set of graphics processing hardware resources for executing graphics commands and rendering graphics images in the one or more display planes; and pipe and plane management hardware logic to manage pipe and plane assignment, the pipe and plane management hardware logic to associate a first virtual machine (VM) with one or more virtual display planes and to maintain a mapping between the one or more virtual display planes and at least one physical display plane.
US11514546B2
This disclosure covers machine-learning methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that generate a multiplier that efficiently and effectively provides on-demand transportation services for a geographic area. The methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems dynamically adjust the multiplier with machine learners to maintain a target estimated time of arrival for a provider device to fulfill a request received from a requestor device. In some embodiments, the methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems generate a multiplier report comprising a representation of a geographic area and an indication of the multiplier to facilitate inflow and outflow of provider devices within and without the geographic area.
US11514530B2
A method and system is described which attempts to address the technical problems involved in analyzing images using advanced computer systems and making decisions about the future of a damaged automobile based on the images.
US11514518B2
A system and method of an automated agent to automatically implement loan activities includes a data collection circuit structured to receive data related to at least one of a plurality of parties to a loan; a smart contract circuit structured to create a smart lending contract for the loan; and an automated agent circuit structured to automatically perform a loan-related action in response to the received data, wherein the loan-related action is a change in an interest rate for the loan, and wherein the smart contract circuit is further structured to update the smart lending contract with the changed interest rate.
US11514515B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for using reject inference to generate synthetic data for modifying lead scoring models. For example, the disclosed system identifies an original dataset corresponding to an output of a lead scoring model that generates scores for a plurality of prospects to indicate a likelihood of success of prospects of the plurality of prospects. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed system selects a reject inference model by performing simulations on historical prospect data associated with the original dataset. Additionally, the disclosed system uses the selected reject inference model to generate an imputed dataset by generating synthetic outcome data representing simulated outcomes of rejected prospects in the original dataset. The disclosed system then uses the imputed dataset to modify the lead scoring model by modifying at least one parameter of the lead scoring model using the synthetic outcome data.
US11514514B2
Systems and methods for providing a search-directed user interface for online banking applications. An example method may comprise: receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI) session associated with an authenticated user, a search argument comprising a character string; executing, by a processing device, a search query by matching the character string to account data of one or more accounts that the authenticated user is authorized to access, the account data comprising a plurality of data items representing at least one of: financial product types, financial product identifiers, financial transaction types, financial transaction descriptions, financial transaction amounts, portfolio types, accounts, and aggregated financial indicators; and causing a data set produced by executing the search query to be visually represented via the GUI session.
US11514506B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for listing conversion estimation and optimization. A listing conversion estimation and optimization system receives a set of listing data for generating a listing of an item for sale on an online marketplace and determines, based on the set of listing data, a likelihood value indicating the likelihood that the listing will result in a sale within a given time period. The listing conversion estimation and optimization system causes presentation of a graphical indicator representing the likelihood value on the display of the listing user's client device.
US11514503B2
Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant, and receiving an indication of the payment for the first order.
US11514500B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing recommendations to travelers are provided. For example, locational data associated with a device of a user is evaluated to identify a set of location points at which the device was located over time. Location point pairings are generated from the set of location points, where a location point pairing may comprise a departure location point and an arrival location point. The location point pairings are filtered based upon various criteria to remove location point pairings that are not indicative of air flight travel (e.g., a location point pairing not satisfying an air flight speed threshold or an air flight travel distance threshold). The user may be determined as an air flight traveler that has recently used air flight travel to reach a destination location. A recommendation of content for the destination location is provided to the user.
US11514497B2
A method, computer program product, and system to perform a sale transaction are provided. The method includes identifying each item of a plurality of items, based on at least one image of the plurality of items, determining a cost for each item, optionally identifying a person based on an image of the person, adding each of the items and each of the costs to a sale transaction, and charging the person for the sale transaction.
US11514492B1
In general, techniques are disclosed to facilitate communicating within computer networks. For example, a layer three (L3) router including a service card and an interface card may be configured to perform the techniques. The interface card receives a query from a network that sources communications in accordance with a plurality of models. The query may specify a customer device and one of the sourced communications, and request that the service card select one of the models for the specified sourced communication and the specified customer device. The service card further stores data defining a profile for the one of the customer devices. The service card may also, in response to the query, analyze the profile data for the specified customer device to determine the selected one of the models for the specified sourced communication with respect to the specified customer device.
US11514491B2
According to some embodiments, an invoice data store contains electronic records for invoices associated with customers and an enterprise. An electronic invoicing system computer server may receive invoice data (associated with a customer of the enterprise) from remote invoice platforms, and the server may create invoice documents in first and second formats based on information in the invoice data store. It may be determined that the invoice documents represent “work in process” and, as a result, the system may prevent the invoice documents from being transmitted to a customer device. An adjustment to the invoice document in an intermediate format is received and the invoice document in at least one of the first and second format is automatically updated. When it is later determined that the invoice documents no longer represent “work in process,” the system electronically transmits the invoice documents to the customer device.
US11514489B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for targeted document information extraction. An embodiment operates by receiving a document associated with a particular customer of a plurality of customers. It is determined whether to use a global processor or template processor to analyze the document based on whether one or more customer templates are associated with the particular customer. Which of the one or more templates associated with the particular customer correspond to the document is identified. The document is compared to the identified template associated with the customer. Information is extracted from the document based on the identified template and the identified plurality of variations. The extracted information for the document is output.
US11514486B2
A method of displaying a symbol representative of changes in price during a time period, the method includes receiving, for each intra-time period of a plurality of intra-time periods in the time period, intra-time price data including an intra-time open price, an intra-time close price, and an intra-time volume corresponding to the intra-time period, determining, from the received intra-time price data, an open price, which is an intra-time open price of an initial intra-time period and a close price, which is an intra-time close price of a last intra-time period, determining, from the intra-time volume of each of the plurality of intra-time periods, a highest intra-time volume occurring within a first intra-time period and a lowest intra-time volume occurring within a second intra-time period, generating a volume normalization value for the intra-time volume of each of the plurality of intra-time periods using the lowest intra-time volume and the highest intra-time volume, generating, by a charting engine, a candle body from the open price and the close price, wherein a height of the candle body indicates a difference between the open price and the close price, and a width of the candle body indicates a difference between a start time of the time period and an end time of the time period, generating, by a charting engine, in accordance with a selected intra-time volume rendering method, a body fill area from each of the generated volume normalization values of each of the plurality of intra-time periods, and displaying, by the charting engine, the symbol, which includes the candle body and the body fill area within the candle body.
US11514469B2
A method for managing reward value related to a transaction account is described. The method includes receiving a redemption request; generating a reward cost based on at least a conversion rate and a transaction amount; updating a reward value in an account profile to place a hold on an amount of the reward value equivalent to the reward cost; and deducting a deduction amount from the reward value.
US11514464B2
A system is configured to provide a survey interface that collects response data, including both quantitative and qualitative response data, using multiple capture mediums. Mediums used to capture response data include input forms that collect structured response data on particular questions, as well as multimedia input forms that capture and collect free form multimedia response data in video form. This mix of quantitative and qualitative response data is analyzed across multiple modalities and used to develop an indexed response dataset, which may be queried to determine a set of pre-configured insights. An insight interface visualizes these pre-configured insights and accepts additional queries to provide a query interface that draws from the static indexed response dataset to allow for dynamic, conversational querying for additional insights.
US11514462B2
Certain embodiments provide a computer-executed method for generating a future sales estimate for an item. The method includes programmatically accessing, from a dataset via a network device, an inventory residence time period of an item. The method also includes programmatically accessing, from the dataset via the network device, prior performance data associated with the item. The method also includes programmatically executing an inventory valuation engine to generate a future sales estimate for the item based on the inventory residence time period and the prior performance data. The method further includes executing a notification generation engine to adjust a notification policy defining a frequency or other characteristic of electronic marketing communications indicating the item transmitted to consumer devices based on the future sales estimate.
US11514438B1
Techniques are described for generating and presenting a digital document for a transfer. A check service may generate the digital document based on provided check data. The digital document may be stored on a user device and presented to a recipient, for example through the display of the user device. The digital document may also be provided to the recipient in an email or other type of communication. The check service may generate a digital watermark to include on the digital document. The watermark may be unique to the particular document, and may be algorithmically generated based on data that is associated with the particular document, such as a serial identifier, a transaction identifier, an amount, a user identifier of the sender, etc. The digital watermark may be regenerated when the recipient presents the document for payment, to confirm document validity.
US11514435B2
An encrypted payment message is received from a buyer relating to a transaction with a merchant. The payment message is parsed using a first parsing algorithm to obtain merchant identifying information. The merchant identifying information is associated with at least a second parsing algorithm or at least one settlement algorithm. The payment message is parsed using the second parsing algorithm to obtain payment information for the transaction. A first settlement algorithm is applied to the payment information to determine an adjusted interchange rate. The payment information including the adjusted interchange rate is submitted to a third party settlement processor on behalf of the merchant, using a payment algorithm. A second settlement algorithm applied to the payment information determines a buyer rebate which can be submitted to the settlement processor. A transaction result is reported to at least one of the merchant or the buyer.
US11514433B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a computer system, a code request to generate a code, the code request associated with a transaction; selecting, by the computer system, information to include in the code after receiving the code request; generating, by the computer system, the code including the information; providing, by the computer system, the code to a first device associated with the code request; and receiving, by the computer system, the information from a second device after providing the code to the first device.
US11514429B2
A method for providing interaction information, such as, for example, settlement information, by which a device provides the settlement information to a counterpart device, includes displaying an image which relates to an item to be used for performing the interaction, such as, for example, a credit card image of a credit card of a user of the device, on a lock screen of the device, and receiving a touch input from the user with respect to the credit card image. In the method, settlement information which corresponds to the touched credit card image is used for performing a settlement via the device.
US11514421B2
Technology is disclosed for a convenient money transfer without requiring any account login and/or creation activities. The disclosed technology enables a sender to transfer a specified amount of currency to one or more recipients through a payment application while executing an instant message application. The payment application can act as a background process associated with or incorporated in the instant message application, so as to provide the user with a “seamless” user experience. In response to detection of a specified identifier, the technology can provide a user interface to collect a numerical value corresponding to the specified amount of currency, access a list of contacts in a database of the sender's mobile device, and provide the list of contacts to the sender. The technology enables the sender to manually select recipients from the provided list of contacts and can accordingly initiate a payment process based on statuses of selected recipients.
US11514419B2
A method of configuring or changing a configuration of a POS terminal by at least one operator, in which an authorization of the operator by the POS terminal is established, in which after successful authorization of the at least one operator, the at least one operator carries out the configuration or change of the configuration, in which an identification feature for identification of the at least one operator is introduced into the POS terminal, in which this identification feature is used for authorizing the at least one operator. A method of associating a POS terminal with an operator, in which the POS terminal checks the integrity of the identification feature of the operator for identification of the operator, with which the POS terminal is associated.
US11514418B2
Within EMV payment specification, use of an unattended terminal to accept a payment is allowed. Creating a device that has both EMV level 1 (L1) and level 2 (L2) payment components combined with a virtual merchant creates a “card present” transaction for an on-line or e-commerce merchant. This device can be called a personal Point of Sale (pPOS). This specification discloses pPOS devices and methods that can provide for card present e-commerce transactions with a payment kernel that is local and/or remote to a pPOS device. In some embodiments, a pPOS device can include only a secure microcontroller function (MCF) and a secure element, wherein a payment kernel configured to process payment is local, remote, or split between local and remote to the device. In some embodiments, a pPOS device can further include a reader, a sensor switch, and/or a user interface function.
US11514408B2
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a method including receiving, by a waste diversion system and from a source, waste materials, inserting, by the waste diversion system and into the waste materials, one or more markers, generating, by the waste diversion system, finished goods including a portion of the waste materials, and detecting, by the waste diversion system, a portion of the one or more markers corresponding to the portion of the waste materials in the finished goods.
US11514407B2
A deployment manager for managing a deployment includes storage for storing an asset management request and an asset manager. The asset manager obtains the asset management request for an asset of the deployment; in response to obtaining the asset management request: places the asset into a management mode that enables at least one physical component of the asset to be physically managed; manages the asset based on the asset management request while in the management mode; and places the asset into an active mode that disables the at least one physical component of the asset to be physically managed.
US11514404B2
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one more processors and perform: obtaining historical demand data for pickup time slots at a physical store for a first time period; training a machine learning model to create a trained model based on the historical demand data for the pickup time slots over the first time period; generating, using the trained model, a projected demand for future pickup time slots at the physical store for a second time period; generating a time-slot capacity for each of the future pickup time slots at the physical store for the second time period based at least in part on the projected demand; and sending the time-slot capacities for the future pickup time slots to the physical store. Other embodiments are described.
US11514402B2
Techniques for selecting models using greedy search on validation metrics are disclosed herein. A system generates corresponding predictions for a validation dataset using a plurality of prediction models. The system selects one of the prediction models for inclusion in an ensemble set based on the selected prediction model generating more correct predictions for the validation dataset than the other prediction models, and then removes the selected prediction model from the plurality of prediction models to form a reduced plurality of prediction models. The system identifies remaining data records of the validation dataset for which the selected prediction model generated an incorrect prediction, and then selects an additional prediction model from the reduced plurality of prediction models for inclusion in the ensemble set based on a determination that the additional prediction model generated more correct predictions for the remaining data records than the other prediction models in the reduced plurality of prediction models.
US11514401B2
The present disclosure describes a talent-identification system that can be used by companies to assist in the recruitment process for new employees. Additionally, the system can be used by job seekers to determine ideal career fields and industries. The system employs an array of neuroscience-based tests to assess a user's career propensities, after which the system can provide career recommendations to the user or report on employment suitability of the user to a company.
US11514398B2
One variation of a method for deploying fixed cameras within a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate along a set of inventory structures in the store and generate a spatial map of the store during a scan cycle; generating an accessibility heatmap representing accessibility of regions of the store to the robotic system based on the spatial map; generating a product value heatmap for the store based on locations and sales volumes of products in the store; accessing a number of fixed cameras allocated to the store; generating a composite heatmap for the store based on the accessibility heatmap and the product value heatmap; identifying a subset of inventory structures occupying a set of locations within the store corresponding to critical amplitudes in the composite heatmap; and generating a prompt to install the number of fixed cameras facing the subset of inventory structures in the store.
US11514397B2
A computer-implemented system and method is disclosed for inventory management including an inventory machine, a medication tray, and at least one marker. A medication tray includes a plurality of compartments to receive medications and other items, where each compartment is designated as a receptacle for a specific item or type of item. A marker is provided for each item placed in a compartment, and insertion of a medication tray into an inventory machine enables components to scan for markers. The markers are configured to generate identifying data and other data related to an item upon being scanned by an imaging apparatus and processed by a decoder apparatus. The correct/incorrect location of items within a medication tray, among other information, is determined in an automated fashion as part of the computer-implemented inventory management system and method.
US11514380B2
An aspect of the present disclosure facilitates continuing interaction with ongoing transactions in ERP systems. In one embodiment, a system maintains a configuration data specifying transaction types of interest, and a respective set of actions and respective set of data fields associated with each transaction type. The system then monitors transactions performed in an ERP system to identify ongoing transactions of the transaction types. Upon receiving from a user, a request for ongoing transactions of interest, the system sends for display a list of ongoing transactions, a respective set of actions, a respective set of data fields and corresponding current values associated with each ongoing transaction. Upon receiving from the user, data indicating selection of an action associated with a specific ongoing transaction of the list, the system performs the selected action for the specific ongoing transaction in the ERP system.
US11514374B2
Embodiments provide optimized room assignments for a hotel in response to receiving a plurality of hard constraints and soft constraints and receiving reservation preferences and room features. The optimization includes determining a guest satisfaction assignment cost based on the reservation preferences and room features, determining an operational efficiency assignment cost, generating a weighted cost matrix based on the guest satisfaction assignment cost and the operational efficiency assignment cost, and generating preliminary room assignments based on the weighted cost matrix. When the preliminary room assignments are feasible, the preliminary room assignments are the optimized room assignments comprising a feasible selection of elements of the matrix. When the preliminary room assignments are infeasible, embodiments relax one or more constraints and repeat the performing optimization until the preliminary room assignments are feasible.
US11514368B2
Current streaming sample data is received. A current deep learning model is trained based on the current streaming sample data, the training including: obtaining a shallow learning model through training based on historical sample data associated with the current streaming sample data; and initializing parameters of the current deep learning model as the parameters of the shallowing learning model.
US11514361B2
Embodiments for providing automated machine learning visualization. Machine learning tasks, transformers, and estimators may be received into one or more machine learning composition modules. The machine learning composition modules generate one or more machine learning models. A machine learning model pipeline is a sequence of transformers and estimators and an ensemble of machine learning pipelines are an ensemble of machine learning pipelines. A machine learning model pipeline, an ensemble of a plurality of machine learning model pipelines, or a combination thereof, along with corresponding metadata, may be generated using the machine learning composition modules. Metadata may be extracted from the machine learning model pipeline, the ensemble of a plurality of machine learning model pipelines, or combination thereof. An interactive visualization graphical user interface of the machine learning model pipeline, the ensemble of a plurality of machine learning model pipelines, or combination thereof, and the extracted metadata may be generated.
US11514340B2
Methods and systems for selecting a tool for a project is described. In an example, a processor can run a machine learning model to generate a set of requirements to implement a project. The processor can identify a keyword from the set of requirements. The processor can search for the keyword on a search engine. The processor can receive a search result from the search engine corresponding to the keyword. The processor can identify, based on the search result, a tool that can be used to implement the project, where the tool can be in compliance with the set of requirements.
US11514335B2
Embodiments for cause identification in audit data by a processor. A probabilistic logical representation is extracted from text data representing a knowledge domain according to an ontology to identify one or more reoccurring problems of the knowledge domain. A root cause and one or more causal factors of the one or more reoccurring problems is automatically identified using the logical representation such that the identifying associates a confidence level for the root cause and the one or more causal factors.
