US11533830B2
A cooling arrangement for an electronic device comprises a primary cooling device and a secondary cooling device. The primary cooling device includes a fluidic input line receiving a cooling fluid from a cooling fluid source and a fluidic output line returning the cooling fluid toward a drain. The primary cooling device is thermally connected to the electronic device, receives the cooling fluid from the fluidic input line and transfers heat from the electronic device to the cooling fluid before returning the cooling fluid via the fluidic output line. A flow detection device monitors a flow of the cooling fluid in the primary cooling device. The secondary cooling device is thermally connected to the electronic device. A processor activates the secondary cooling device to absorb and dissipate heat from the electronic device when the flow detection device detects a lack of flow of the cooling fluid in the primary cooling device.
US11533828B2
Disclosed herein are cooling systems, methods of making cooling systems, and methods of cooling using cooling systems. A cooling system includes a compression container with a coolant that includes a fluid. A valve is arranged on the compression container through which the coolant is released from the compression container. The cooling system further includes a component positioned to receive droplets of the coolant. The component has a surface with a three-dimensional topography that includes a plurality of pillars and a plurality of trenches. The component is an electronic component or a photoelectronic component.
US11533823B2
A mobile device case is described. The mobile device case includes a housing configured to retain a mobile device and an active cooling system integrated into the housing. The active cooling system configured to use vibrational motion to cool a surface of the mobile device.
US11533821B2
A data center, a rack information handling system (RIHS) delivery kit, and a method provide for removing an RIHS from and delivering an RIHS to a data center. The data center includes an enclosure having a raised floor and a lateral opening. The lateral opening has a bottom edge that is aligned with the raised floor in order to transfer a rack information handling system (RIHS) through the lateral opening for a selected one of: (i) removing the RIHSs from the raised floor; and (ii) delivering the RIHS to the raised floor. The data center includes a pallet interface coupled to or integrated into an exterior edge of the raised floor and vertically presented to abut and engage a lateral edge of a roll-off rack shock pallet that supports the RIHS during transport.
US11533819B2
A method for manufacturing a stack structure comprises: providing a lead frame having a metal frame, at least two metal plate portions and a plurality of connection ribs, the connection ribs each comprises a first end, a second end and a connection portion; directly mounting electronic components for constructing two modules on the metal plate portions; packaging the electronic components of the first module, the first ends of the metal connection components which are electrically connected to the first module and the first ends of the part of the connection ribs which are electrically connected to the first module are packaged therein; removing the metal frame and part or whole of the connection ribs, the remaining connection ribs forms pins; and bending the metal connection component so that the two modules connected by the metal connection components are stacked one upon the other, to form the stack structure.
US11533818B2
Sensor assemblies are provided for use in modeling water systems. These sensor assemblies can be used as sensor fish. These assemblies can include a circuit board supporting processing circuitry components on either or both opposing component support surfaces of the circuit board and a housing above the circuit board and the components, with the housing being circular about the circuit board in at least one cross section, and wherein the supporting surfaces of the circuit board are substantially parallel with the plane of the housing in the one cross section. Methods for emulating interaction of entities within water systems are provided. The methods can include introducing a sensor assembly into a water system. The sensor assembly can include: a circuit board supporting processing circuitry components on either or both of opposing component support surfaces of the circuit board; a housing about the circuit board and the components, the housing being circular about the circuit board in at least one cross section; and wherein the support surfaces of the circuit board are substantially parallel with the plane of the housing in the one cross section.
US11533811B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, multiple side wires, and a protection structure. The substrate has a first main surface, a side surface, and a first multi-turning surface connected between the first main surface and the side surface. The first multi-turning surface includes multiple first turning surfaces with differing normal directions. The side wires are disposed on the substrate. Each of the side wires extends from the first main surface over the first multi-turning surface to the side surface. The protection structure is disposed on the substrate and includes a wire protection part covering the side wires. The wire protection part has a first thickness at the side surface, a second thickness at the first main surface, and a third thickness at at least one of the first turning surfaces. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness, and the second thickness is greater than the third thickness.
US11533808B2
A display device includes a display panel, a first circuit board, a control unit disposed on the first circuit board, a second circuit board, and a coupling film which electrically couples the control unit and the second circuit board to each other. The coupling film includes a first coupling part including a first region attached to the first circuit board, and a second region overlapping the display panel when viewed in a thickness direction of the display panel, a second coupling part including a third region attached to the second circuit board, and a fourth region overlapping the display panel when viewed in the thickness direction of the display panel, and a third coupling part coupled to each of the second region and the fourth region to electrically couple the first coupling part and the second coupling part to each other.
US11533807B2
A flexible circuit (FC) and a method of forming the FC each include providing a first dielectric layer, applying a plurality of conductive circuit traces that are substantially parallel to each other to the first dielectric layer, providing a second dielectric layer atop the first dielectric layer and the plurality of conductive circuit traces to form a third dielectric layer having the plurality of conductive traces disposed therein and being configured to support and insulate the plurality of conductive traces, and forming a plurality of channels extending at least partially through a thickness of the third dielectric layer, wherein the plurality of channels are arranged between the plurality of conductive circuit traces and substantially parallel thereto and are configured to provide increased flexibility of the FC.
US11533806B2
A filter includes a first input/output electrode and the second input/output electrode, and is arranged on a first main surface of a mounting substrate. The mounting substrate includes a first land electrode, a second land electrode, a ground terminal, and a plurality of via conductors. The first land electrode is connected to the first input/output electrode. The second land electrode is connected to the second input/output electrode. The ground terminal is located closer to a second main surface side than the first main surface in a thickness direction of the mounting substrate. The plurality of via conductors is arranged between the first main surface and the second main surface, and is connected to the ground terminal. The plurality of via conductors is located between the first land electrode and the second land electrode in a plan view from the thickness direction of the mounting substrate.
US11533805B2
A clamp configured to be coupled to a printed circuit board to cool and compress one or more electrical connections subject to repeated power and thermal cycling. A first conductive column of the clamp is configured to compress a first electrical connection between a first power device lead and a first printed circuit board trace of the printed circuit board, and draw thermal energy away from the first power device lead. The first conductive column extends from a load spreading plate. The load spreading plate is an insulator that electrically isolates a fastener extending therefrom from the first conductive column. The fastener is configured to cooperate with the circuit board to connect the clamp to the circuit board, compress the load spreading plate against the first conductive column to compress the first electrical connection, and connect the clamp to ground.
US11533800B2
An illumination source includes a laser driver unit configured to emit a plasma sustaining beam. An ingress collimator receives the plasma sustaining beam and produces a collimated ingress beam. A focusing optic receives the collimated ingress beam and produce a focused sustaining beam. A sealed lamp chamber contains an ionizable media that, once ignited, forms a high intensity light emitting plasma having a waist size smaller than 150 microns. The sealed lamp chamber further includes an ingress window configured to receive the focused sustaining beam and an egress window configured to emit the high intensity light. An ignition source is configured to ignite the ionizable media, and an exit fiber is configured to receive and convey the high intensity light. The high intensity light is white light with a black body spectrum, and the exit fiber has a diameter in the range of 200-500 micrometers.
US11533794B2
A resistor bypass circuit for a series lighting circuit includes a plurality of serially connected light sources and a bypass resistor being connected in parallel with at least one of the respective light sources, each respective light source being low wattage and being capable operating on a one hundred percent duty cycle as desired.
US11533785B2
An electrical heating device comprises: a first electrode layer (13), made of electrically conductive material; a second electrode layer (14), made of electrically conductive material; and a heating layer, made of a material having a PTC effect, wherein the first electrode layer (13) and the second electrode layer (14) face one another, with at least one part of the heating layer that is set between the first electrode layer (13) and the second electrode layer (14), in contact with them. At least one region (21) of the at least one from among the first electrode layer (13), the second electrode layer (14), and said at least one part of the heating layer has a plurality of electrically non-conductive sites (30a, 30b, 30c), which are prearranged for bringing about: —an emission of heat by the heating device (10) in said at least one region (21) that is different from the emission of heat by the heating device (10) in at least one other region (22) of the at least one from among the first electrode layer (13), the second electrode layer (14), and said at least one part (15′) of the heating layer (15); and/or —an emission of heat by the heating device (10) at the first electrode layer (13) that is different from the emission of heat by the heating device (10) at the second electrode layer (14).
US11533784B2
The present invention provides single units that contain a large lower chamber, and one or more display shelves above this chamber on the inside of the unit. A roller grill or other large appliance may be provided in the lower chamber, or the chamber may be left open to display large food products or other items. The shelves may be heated for keeping foods displayed on the shelves warm; however, the shelves need not be heated for food products that do not need to be kept warm. Heating elements, lights and sensors may be adjusted using electronic controls to provide optimum temperatures inside the various chambers of the display units. Display units of the present invention allow store owners to utilize the space above a roller grill or other appliance to merchandise additional food products as opposed to requiring a separate food merchandiser to occupy additional valuable counter space. The performance of the roller grills of the present invention is improved over stand-alone roller grills, thereby reducing the potential for lost sales due to food not being sufficiently heated.
US11533779B2
Signal transmission method, signal detection method and apparatuses thereof and communication system
A signal transmission method, signal detection method and apparatuses thereof and communication system. The signal transmission apparatus includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a synchronization signal (SS) block to a user equipment within a time window of a predetermined position in an SS block transmission period. Hence, UE cell search and measurement time is reduced, complexity at the UE is lowered, power consumption of the UE is lowered, cell handover is sped up, communication interruption is avoided, and currently at least one of existing problems is solved.
US11533774B2
Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWPs)) are described. A wireless device may perform failure event detection, such as radio link monitoring (RLM) and/or beam failure detection (BFD), jointly or separately for multiple active resources (e.g., BWPs) based on one or more criteria.
US11533773B2
A first base station receives, from a second base station, a first message comprising a context of a wireless device. The first base station sends a radio resource control (RRC) message to the wireless device. The first base station determines that reception of the RRC message by the wireless device has failed. The first base station sends, to the second base station and based on the determining, a second message indicating that a connection setup with the wireless device has failed.
US11533772B2
Aspects described herein relate to communicating, based on a first subscription, with a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) over a bandwidth part (BWP) in a set of one or more configured BWPs, tuning a transceiver away from the BWP to a second frequency to communicate, based on a second subscription, with a second RAT for a period of time, tuning, after the period of time, the transceiver back to a selected BWP to communicate with the first RAT, and handling BWP parameters during or based on the tune away or tune back.
US11533758B2
Systems and techniques for transmitting and receiving uplink data between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system. In sonic implementations, a user equipment may transmit an uplink data signal of a predetermined symbol duration N times repeatedly before signal synchronization with a base station, where N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2.
US11533748B2
A wireless device may determine that a reference signal associated with a first control resource set (coreset) pool index overlaps in time with a downlink signal associated with a second coreset pool index. Based on the first coreset pool index and the second coreset pool index being the same, the wireless device may receive the reference signal with a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state of the downlink signal.
US11533735B1
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating transmission arrangements for device group communication sessions are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a transmission ordering of at least a portion of multiple devices in a designated group with respect to transmitting data packets during at least a portion of a communication session, wherein the transmission ordering comprises device identifiers, attributed to at least a portion of the multiple devices, assigned to sequential transmission slots; determining a scheduled distribution of multiple data packet types transmitted by at least a portion of the multiple devices across the sequential transmission slots, wherein the scheduled distribution comprises an identification of a respective one of the multiple data packet types assigned to each of the sequential transmission slots; and participating in the communication session in accordance with (i) the transmission ordering and (ii) the scheduled distribution of the multiple data packet types.
US11533730B2
This application provides a network connection configuration method and an apparatus. The method is as follows: After a terminal device obtains network configuration information of an application in the terminal device, the terminal device sends the network configuration information to a core network control plane network element, so that the core network control plane network element may determine a network connection that is of the application and is between the terminal device and the data network and that meets the network configuration information.
US11533726B2
System and method for collection, control and wireless transmission of environmental and other data. Nodes may wirelessly connect to other nodes to relay node specific information, collected sensor data or commands to and from other nodes and gateway nodes linked to a central database. Nodes in gateway mode may be capable of aggregating and relaying commands and data between other nodes and a centralized database. Nodes may bypass other nodes and/or gateway nodes and communicate directly with the central database via satellite or cellular link. Nodes may be self-contained devices, inclusive of a wind or solar power source and a battery, eliminating the need for an external power source. Nodes may be configured independently or as a system to monitor and control various types of equipment including utility lines or water systems or used to collect environmental data. Nodes may communicate on different channels/frequencies based on systematic or pseudo-random changes.
US11533717B2
In a data transmission method, a terminal device receives control information, and receives data of a transport block (TB) on a first time-frequency resource; and the terminal devices obtains m code block (CB) groups in the TB, where m is a positive integer, m=min(NCB_re,NGroup_max), NCB_re is a quantity of CBs in the TB, NGroup_max is a maximum value of a quantity of CB groups, each of the m CB groups includes at least one CB, NCB_re is determined based on a TB size TBS and a maximum value of a data size of a CB, and the TBS is determined based on the control information.
US11533716B2
A network node, wireless device and methods for short transmission time interval, sTTI, resource allocation in a communication network are provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to determine a downlink control information, DCI, message. The DCI message includes a bit field of at least two bits. Each bit corresponds to a group of at least one short Control Channel Element, sCCE, of a configured sPDCCH region. The processing circuitry is configured to transmit the DCI message to a wireless device. The bit field indicates whether the group of at least one sCCE is used for data transmission to the wireless device.
US11533713B2
A method for operating a UE comprises receiving configuration information including a list of CCs and a set of TCI states; receiving, based on the configuration information, a TCI state update via a medium, wherein: the TCI state update is common for a first subset of CCs, the first subset of CCs includes n≤N CCs, and N=a number of CCs in the list of CCs; and for each CC(i) in the first subset of CCs, determining a beam based on the TCI state update, and applying the beam for a reception of a downlink control channel or a downlink data channel associated with the CC(i), wherein i is an index and takes a value from {1, 2, . . . , n}, wherein the beam is determined based on a spatial quasi-co-location property used to receive or transmit a source RS indicated via the TCI state update.
US11533706B2
Disclosed are a method for paging, and an access network device, a terminal device and a core network device. The method comprises: a first access network device acquiring a tracking area list of a terminal device; and the first access network device determining, according to the tracking area list, a target paging area of the first access network device initiating paging to the terminal device.
US11533700B2
Wireless positioning accuracy of a user equipment (UE) is impacted by locations of the transmit/receive points (TRPs) and UE for wireless positioning. To improve the accuracy of estimated locations, a geometric dilution of precision (GDOP) may be determined for different groups of candidate TRPs, with the GDOP indicating a potential positioning error associated with the group of candidate TRPs. A UE may determine GDOPs for different combinations of candidate TRPs. One or more devices of a wireless network (e.g., a location server and/or a UE for positioning) may select or exclude one or more candidate TRPs from being used for wireless positioning of a UE based on the determined GDOPs. Exclusion or selection of candidate TRPs for wireless positioning may also be based on quality measurements of PRSs (such as an RSRP or SNR) or a time duration associated with measuring the PRSs from the candidate TRPs to be selected.
US11533699B2
Disclosed is a method of acquiring position information of a vehicle by a V2X communication device of a vehicle through V2I communication. Specifically, the method of acquiring position information of the vehicle includes receiving a first V2I message including position information, transmission power information, and coverage information of a first road side unit (RSU) from the first RSU; acquiring reception power of the first V2I message; and acquiring region information of the vehicle based on the reception power and the coverage information, wherein the region information indicates based on (1) the vehicle being located within the coverage of the first RSU or (2) a specific region within the coverage of the first RSU.
US11533698B2
A computer-implemented method includes first collecting, from wireless devices at known locations in a venue, first ultra wideband (UWB) location measurements obtained using a first location technique based on first UWB transmissions made by a mobile device at a first rate. The method also includes second collecting, from the wireless devices, second UWB location measurements obtained using a second location technique based on second UWB transmissions made by the mobile device at a second rate. The method further includes detecting that the mobile device is in a first UWB coverage hole for the venue with respect to the first UWB location measurements based on a first UWB coverage hole criterion. The method also includes, based on detecting, increasing the second rate relative to the first rate to obtain additional second UWB location measurements using the second location technique to compensate for the first UWB coverage hole.
US11533693B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate in comparison to the 4G communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for a terminal to establish synchronization with another terminal in a network supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication is provided. The method includes scanning, at the terminal, for synchronization signals from at least one base station, acquiring, when a synchronization signal is received from a base station, synchronization with the base station based on the synchronization signal, measuring power of the synchronization signal received from the base station, and transmitting, when data to be transmitted are generated in idle mode and the received signal power is less than a received signal power, a synchronization signal as a synchronization relaying terminal.
US11533692B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which synchronization of one or more direct communications links between a user equipment (UE) and one or more other UEs is provided by one or more sidelink synchronization signals. The sidelink synchronization signals may include a first sidelink synchronization signal that provides a relatively coarse synchronization (e.g., providing rough timing information about the start of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, without providing any information identifying the source of the signal) that may be used to identify a search space for a second sidelink synchronization signal that provides relatively fine synchronization (e.g., identifying more precisely the OFDM symbol boundaries) and an identifier of the device that is transmitting the sidelink synchronization signals.
US11533689B2
A system and method for controlling dynamic transmit power in a mesh network are disclosed. Distributed power transmit management methodology that implements transmission power management based on a comparison of signal to noise ratios from received beacon packets is used on a peer-to-peer basis. Embodiments work to keep all nodes accessible, dynamically adaptable to constant changes in the network, maximize frequency reuse, and reduce power requirements to maximize network performance while minimizing interference.
US11533686B2
A method for controlling uplink transmission includes: determining an uplink resource ratio of user equipment in a preset high-power mode; determining power adjustment information if the uplink resource ratio is greater than or equal to a preset uplink proportion threshold corresponding to the preset high-power mode; and sending the uplink resource ratio and the power adjustment information to the user equipment such that the user equipment, when transmitting uplink information according to the uplink resource ratio in the preset high-power mode, controls the uplink transmission power according to the power adjustment information.
US11533685B2
Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods related to handling wake-up behavior for power saving, including during discontinuous reception (DRX) operation are provided. For example, a method of wireless communication can include receiving a default wake-up configuration associated with a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation; monitoring, during a wake-up signal (WUS) occasion, for a WUS; determining whether the WUS was received during the WUS occasion; and performing physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring based on the default wake-up configuration and whether the WUS was received during the WUS occasion.
US11533678B2
A radio access network (RAN) control unit for determining a functional operation of a dynamic small cell, in particular an unplanned small cell, a nomadic node or a relay, in a radio communication network is disclosed. The radio communication network includes at least one network slice associated with at least one user equipment (UE) and at least one radio channel connecting the at least one UE to the radio communication network. The RAN control unit includes a processor configured to determine a functional operation of the dynamic small cell (DSC) based on information based on channel measurements of the at least one radio channel and/or requirement information of the at least network one slice, and/or estimated or measured performance of the RAN, and/or location information of the DSC.
US11533676B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal transmission method, system, device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: determining data to be transmitted by a unit in air conditioning units; and transmitting, by the unit, the data to be transmitted to other units through a designated power line in multiphase power lines, wherein the designated power line is any power line in the multiphase power lines, and the designated power line is a power line shared by all units in the air conditioning units.
US11533673B1
A method and device are disclosed from the perspective of a relay UE. In one embodiment, the relay UE establishes a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a network node. The relay UE also transmits a Layer 2. Identity (L2ID) of the relay UE to the network node. Furthermore, the relay UE receives a local UE Identity (ID) for a remote UE and a L2ID of the remote UE from the network node. In addition, the relay UE establishes a PC5 connection with the remote UE. The relay UE further receives a first RRC Reconfiguration Complete message from the remote UE. The relay UE also transmits the first RRC Reconfiguration Complete message to the network node, wherein the first RRC Reconfiguration Complete message is included in an adaptation layer Protocol Data Unit (PDU) for transmission and the local UE ID for the remote UE is included in a header of the adaptation layer PDU.
US11533672B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for hop-count indication in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. An IAB-node may adopt and indicate multiple values for hop-count. The hop-count may be conveyed by a number of different reference signals and channels. A resource pattern and/or a slot pattern may also be associated with the hop-count to simply signaling. By associating the patterns with the hop-count, an IAB-node may be able to infer the resource pattern used by another IAB-node.
US11533650B2
An eNodeB or other cell access point device can receive demand data from mobile devices served by the cell. The demand data can represent an estimate of demand over a future period for network resources (e.g., bandwidth). The cell can aggregate this demand data and determine price data for the time period or for various intervals of the time period, then transmit the price data to the mobile devices. The price data can operate as a collaborative approach to scheduling traffic. For example, data (e.g., delay tolerant data) can be shifted (e.g., delayed for a few seconds) based on an examination of the price data in conjunction a determined priority of the data. Such can be applicable to data traffic not traditionally thought of as delay tolerant such as streaming video or web browsing, and can be accomplished without negatively impacting the quality of service or experience of the client.
US11533646B2
A measurement reporting method and a device are provided. The measurement reporting method applied to a terminal includes: triggering a measurement reporting in a case that the terminal satisfies a preset measurement reporting event, wherein the preset measurement reporting event is related to current state information of the terminal.
US11533632B2
A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band.
US11533627B2
A management device for managing a radio access network includes: a RAN slice management unit configured to manage a slice of the radio access network; a radio resource management unit configured to abstract and manage a radio resource possessed by a radio base station included in a radio network; an optical resource management unit configured to abstract and manage an optical resource possessed by an optical communication device included in an optical network; and a base station resource management unit configured to abstract and manage a base station resource possessed by a base station device included in a base station network. When a slice generation request is received from a higher-level management device, the RAN slice management unit determines an abstracted radio resource, an abstracted optical resource and an abstracted base station resource to be assigned to a slice, based on requested performance of the slice.
US11533623B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating detection of false base stations based on signal times of arrival are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication of a UE includes receiving a signal from each of one or more neighboring base stations. The example method also includes determining a system timing associated with the wireless communications network based on a respective time of arrival at which each signal is received from the neighboring base stations. The example method also includes receiving a signal from an FBS, the FBS signal being associated with a PCI different than the PCIs associated with the signals received from each of the neighboring base stations. Additionally, the example method includes identifying a presence of the FBS based on a difference between the system timing and a time of arrival at which the signal is received from the FBS.
US11533619B1
In some embodiments, an exemplary access controlling network architecture may include: a computer platform configured to: receive, from an online entity, an action performance request; request, from an access controlling platform, an expected access control digital key to be presented to the online entity; receive the expected access control digital key; instruct to display the expected access control digital key at a computing device; cause a mobile originating communication, having the expected access control digital key and an identity linked to the computing device; determine a lack of a receipt of the access authentication indicator associated with the online entity from the access controlling platform; and perform, due to, for example, the online entity being a BOT, one of: modifying a visual schema of the online entity, disabling the online entity, or suspending one of: a performance of the online entity or the performance of the action by the online entity.
US11533618B2
Systems and methods are described for providing a security code to a second device. A first device receives a textual representation of a security code that is required for authorization of a second device with a remote application server. The first device checks if the textual representation of the security code is accessed during a predefined time period. If not, the first device also checks if the second device is within an output range of the first device. If so, the first device outputs an audio representation of the security code.
US11533610B2
Embodiments of this application provide a key generation method, applied to a scenario in which a base station is divided into a centralized unit and a distributed unit and a control plane and a user plane of the centralized unit are separated. And the control plane entity of the centralized unit obtains a root key, generates a user plane security key based on the root key, and sends the first user plane security key to the user plane entity of the first centralized unit. According to this application, key isolation between different user plane entities is implemented. Further, in an actual operation, the control plane entity or the user plane entity of the centralized unit may be flexibly selected to generate the user plane security key.
US11533607B2
This Application sets forth techniques for cloud-based cellular service management for a set of associated mobile wireless devices, including maintenance of information for one or more subscriber identity modules (SIMS) and/or electronic SIMs (eSIMs) used by the set of mobile wireless devices.
US11533606B2
A method and an apparatus for managing a mobility pattern of a terminal are disclosed, to flexibly configure and manage a mobility pattern of a terminal based on an actual application scenario of the terminal, and optimize network performance. The method is: obtaining, by a control plane function (CPF) entity, mobility pattern related information of a terminal; determining, by the CPF entity, a first mobility pattern of the terminal based on the mobility pattern related information of the terminal; and sending, by the CPF entity, the determined first mobility pattern to a radio access network (RAN) node, where the first mobility pattern is used by the RAN node to determine a second mobility pattern of the terminal.
US11533601B2
A network node obtains (302) a message to be transmitted as a public warning system notification to multiple UEs, via one or more SIBs, and obtains (304) area information corresponding to the message. The area information indicates an area for which the message is relevant. The network node determines (306) how many SIBs are needed for transmitting the area information and segments (308) the message into a plurality of segments, based on how many SIBs are needed for transmitting the area information. The network node transmits (310) the message and the area information via SIBs, such that a segment of the message is included in each SIB and such that each portion of the area information included in a SIB is accompanied by a segment of the message. A UE receives the SIBs and assembles the message and area information, displaying the message if it is relevant.
US11533597B2
The present embodiment relates to a machine-to-machine communication (M2M) technique, and to a method for a receiver processing a request message sent by a transmitter, and a device therefor. One embodiment provides a method and a device for an M2M device processing a message, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from another M2M device, a request message including an operation parameter, a receiving-side parameter, a transmitting-side parameter and a request identification parameter; processing, according to an operation indicated by the operation parameter, a resource being processed including attribute information for indicating resource information; and transmitting a response message including response information for the request message.
US11533595B2
A method, apparatus and system for operating functions at mobile network nodes is provided. Locations of target devices to be serviced by network functions, and locations of moving network nodes potentially hosting the network functions are determined. The network functions are then caused to operate at one or more of the network nodes during a specified time. These network nodes are selected to be proximate to the target devices during the specified time. The selecting is based on locations of the target devices and on locations of the network nodes. A virtual function can be deployed on a satellite network in such a manner that the function stays close to a target device, even though the satellites may move out of overhead position.
US11533560B2
A device renders enhanced audio based on properties of an audio rendering system. For example, audio rendering system information of an audio rendering system associated with the device is used to determine an audio enhancement optimized for the audio rendering system. The OS of the device (e.g., a mobile phone) is queried to determine the audio rendering system information. The audio rendering system information is used to determine an audio enhancement, such as by querying a database storing associations between rendering system information and audio enhancements. The audio enhancement may include, for example, one or more types of audio processing (e.g., subband spatial processing, crosstalk processing, etc.) and particular parameters for the audio processing. The audio enhancement is applied to an audio signal to generate an enhanced audio signal that is provided to the audio rendering system.
US11533555B1
Various implementations include systems for processing microphone audio signals for a wearable audio device. In particular implementations, a method for processing signals includes: capturing an internal signal with an inner microphone configured to be acoustically coupled to an environment inside an ear canal of a user; extracting a low frequency audio signal from the internal signal; capturing an external signal with an external microphone configured to be acoustically coupled to an environment outside the ear canal of the user; extracting a high frequency audio signal from the external signal; and mixing the high frequency audio signal with the low frequency audio signal.
US11533549B2
An intelligent subsystem coupled with a system-on-chip (comprising a microprocessor/graphic processor), a radio transceiver, a voice processing module/voice processing algorithm, a foldable/stretchable display, a near-field communication device, a biometric sensor and an intelligent learning algorithm is disclosed. The intelligent subsystem can respond to a user's interests and/or preferences. Furthermore, the intelligent subsystem is sensor-aware or context-aware.
US11533547B2
A solution is provided that can be used in a communication node. A case is provided that supports a card module. The card module includes a circuit board with a front edge and a rear edge and includes a chiclet mounted adjacent the front edge. A housing can be pressed onto the circuit board and chiclet and be retain the housing in place. A transformer box is provided is provided on the circuit board between the housing and the rear edge. A POE card can be mounted on the circuit board between the transformer box and the housing.
US11533542B2
An exemplary embodiment provides clarifying supplemental information to a user who has become confused about a currently presenting media content event.
US11533538B2
A method of per subscription event filtering is provided for an event recordation and distribution system. The method includes receiving an event from the event recordation and distribution system, determining that an event consumer that is a subscriber of an event stream of the event has specified filter logic for the event stream, and forwarding the event to an event consumer in response to the event meeting requirements of the specified filter logic.
US11533537B2
An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: a reaction determiner that determines, on a basis of reaction information of a viewer who views a program, an attitude of the viewer toward the program; and an environment provider that provides the viewer with a viewing environment that is identical to a viewing environment provided to a viewer group having an attitude that is identical to the attitude of the viewer towards the program.
US11533527B2
Systems and methods are configured to manage streaming video content. A first time length specification for a content pod is accessed. If a determination is made that a response to a request for ancillary content of a duration corresponding to the first time length of the content pod includes ancillary content of insufficient duration to populate the first time length of the content pod, the content pod time length is reduced. Ancillary content items associated with the response to the request are streamed to a user device as part of a streaming channel comprising primary content having scheduled start times. A primary content item, having a scheduled start time, is streamed to the user device after the items of ancillary content, and earlier than the scheduled start time of the item of primary content.
US11533525B2
Example embodiments provide systems and methods for crowdsourced skipping of media content portions. In an example method, a plurality of content tags are received from a plurality of media content devices over a communication network. Each of the plurality of content tags may designate a location within a media content item. The content tags are processed to generate aggregated content tags for the media content item. The aggregated content tags may designate one or more portions of the media content item for modified playback. The aggregated content tags for the media content item are transmitted over the communication network to a first media content device separate from the plurality of media content devices.
US11533524B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including monitoring a video session to determine key performance indicators for cross-layer interactions between a network providing video session video data and user equipment receiving the video session video data, wherein the key performance indicators include a transmission control protocol congestion window size that corresponds to a video chunk requested by the user equipment, and a radio access network throughput of a download of the video chunk requested by the user equipment, and determining a quality of service for the user equipment during the video session according to a residual length of content in a playback buffer for the user equipment based on the transmission control protocol congestion window size, and the radio access network throughput. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11533517B1
A system and method reconstruct multiple videos from multiple perspectives of an event into a continuous stream of the event viewable from different angles. The perspective sources may be received from different computing devices controlled by different parties. The source streams may be parsed for metadata and content perspective. The system may analyze different sources for an angle and rank the source streams based on quality and/or other metadata factors. The highest ranking source streams for a timestamp may be combined to generate a final streaming output of the event which can be displayed from different angles. Some embodiments may display the event in a continuous three-dimensional output based on the different angles of the source streams.
US11533516B2
To enable a good HDR image or video coding technology, being able to yield high dynamic range images as well as low dynamic range images, we invented a method of encoding a high dynamic range image (M_HDR), comprising the steps of: converting the high dynamic range image to an image of lower luminance dynamic range (LDR_o) by applying a) scaling the high dynamic range image to a predetermined scale of the luma axis such as [0,1], b) applying a sensitivity tone mapping which changes the brightnesses of pixel colors falling within at least a subrange comprising the darker colors in the high dynamic range image, c) applying a gamma function, and d) applying an arbitrary monotonically increasing function mapping the lumas resulting from performing the steps b and c to output lumas of the lower dynamic range image (LDR_o); and outputting in an image signal (S_im) a codification of the pixel colors of the lower luminance dynamic range image (LDR_o), and outputting in the image signal (S_im) values encoding the functional behavior of the above color conversions as metadata, or values for the inverse functions, which metadata allows to reconstruct a high dynamic range image (Rec_HDR) from the lower luminance dynamic range image (LDR_o).
US11533514B2
An encoding method according to the present disclosure includes: inputting three-dimensional data including three-dimensional coordinate data to a deep neural network (DNN); encoding the three-dimensional data by the DNN to generate encoded three-dimensional data; and outputting the encoded three-dimensional data.
US11533513B2
A method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising a video picture that includes multiple sub-pictures and multiple video blocks, and a coded representation of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that a boundary between any two sub-pictures is also a boundary between two video blocks.
US11533506B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. In some embodiments, the processing circuitry determines a first sub-partition and a second sub-partition of the current block based on the decoded prediction information, and then reconstructs the first sub-partition and the second sub-partition of the current block based on at least a neighboring sample of the current block that is out of a neighboring area of at least one of the first sub-partition and the second sub-partition.
US11533482B2
An encoder partitions into blocks using a set of block partition modes. The set of block partition modes includes a first partition mode for partitioning a first block, and a second block partition mode for partitioning a second block which is one of blocks obtained after the first block is partitioned. When the number of partitions of the first block partition mode is three, the second block is a center block among the blocks obtained after partitioning the first block, and the partition direction of the second block partition mode is same as the partition direction of the first block partition mode, the second block partition mode indicates that the number of partitions is only three. A parameter for identifying the second block partition mode includes a first flag indicating a horizontal or vertical partition direction, and does not include a second flag indicating the number of partitions.
US11533480B2
An apparatus and a method filters reconstructed images, in particular, video images, with adaptive multiplicative filters. The apparatus and method groups the multiplier coefficients of the filter into at least two groups; determines the value of each multiplier coefficient in a first group so as to be allowed to assume any value in a first set of allowed values of multiplier coefficients, determines the value of each multiplier coefficient in a second group so as to be allowed to assume any value in a second set of allowed values of multiplier coefficients, and filters the set of samples of an image with the filter. At least one of the first and second sets has at least one value that is not in the other set.
US11533472B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for video processing. The method includes deriving a total number by summing a number of reference picture list structures in sequence parameter set (SPS) and one; allocating memory for the total number of reference picture list structures in response to a reference picture list structure being signaled in a picture header of a current picture or a slice header of a current slice; and processing a current picture or a current slice using the allocated memory.
US11533468B2
An electronic device includes an image sensor, a projector, an adjustable mount, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to: receive at least one image of an environment around the electronic device from the image sensor; determine a face pose of a viewer based on the at least one image; determine characteristics of a projection surface based on the at least one image; control the projector to project a plurality of images onto the projection surface, the images determined based in part on the face pose of the viewer and the characteristics of the projection surface, wherein the images are configured to be perceived as a three-dimensional (3D) object image when viewed through 3D glasses; and control the adjustable mount to adjust a position or an orientation of the projector based in part on a change in the face pose of the viewer.
US11533453B2
A system comprising a mirror having a first side and second side, the mirror permitting a first portion of light incident on the first side to transmit therethrough and permitting a second portion of the incident light to reflect therefrom; an electronic display positioned adjacent to the second side of the mirror such that the electronic display is at least partially visible through the first side of the mirror responsive to the electronic display being at least partially activated; one or more sensors positioned generally about a periphery of the mirror configured to detect a presence and relative location of an object positioned adjacent to the first side of the mirror; a light source configured to emit light and at least partially aid in illuminating the object responsive to the object being adjacent to the first side of the mirror; and a camera configured to detect the object.
US11533452B2
A vehicular multi-camera vision system includes a plurality of cameras and an electronic control unit (ECU). The cameras are disposed at a vehicle and have respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle. The cameras are operable to capture image data. The cameras are connected with the ECU via respective coaxial cables. Each respective coaxial cable (i) carries captured image data from the respective camera to the ECU, (ii) carries camera control data from the ECU to the respective camera and (iii) connects a DC power supply of the ECU to the respective camera. The camera control data is carried by the respective coaxial cable from the ECU to the respective camera at a control data carrier frequency that is lower than an image data carrier frequency at which image data captured by the respective camera is carried by the respective coaxial cable from the respective camera to the ECU.
US11533438B2
A computer-implemented system and method of configuring a path of a virtual camera. The method comprises receiving user steering information to control the path of the virtual camera in a scene; determining a primary target based upon a field of view of the virtual camera; and estimating a future path and a corresponding future field of view of the virtual camera, based on the received steering information. The method further comprises determining a secondary target of the scene proximate to the estimated future path of the virtual camera based on a preferred perspective of the secondary target; and configuring the path to capture the secondary target from the preferred perspective.
US11533434B2
Systems and methods are described for providing co-presence in an augmented reality environment. The method may include receiving a visual scene within a viewing window depicting a multi-frame real-time visual scene captured by a camera onboard an electronic device associated with the augmented reality environment, identifying a plurality of elements of the visual scene, detecting at least one graphic indicator associated with at least one of the plurality of elements, detecting at least one boundary associated with the at least one element, and generating, in the viewing window and based on the detection of the at least one graphic indicator, Augmented Reality (AR) motion graphics within the detected boundary. In response to determining that content related to the at least one element is available, the method may include retrieving the content and visually indicating an AR tracked control on the at least one element within the viewing window.
US11533430B2
An image capturing device includes an imaging device to capture a first image, and circuitry to receive a second image from another image capturing device, the second image having an angle of view wider than that of the first image, and control a display to sequentially display the first image and the second image.
US11533429B2
A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Generating the prediction image includes: obtaining, from motion information in the syntax information, a motion vector candidate group including a motion vector of a block adjacent to a current block to be decoded; deriving a prediction motion vector from the motion vector candidate group based on selection information extracted from the motion information; and determining a prediction block for the current block to be decoded, using a final motion vector derived by adding the prediction motion vector to a differential motion vector extracted from the motion information.
US11533425B2
An image processing apparatus that can easily change the categories of the main object, comprises, an object detection unit for detecting an object categorized as one of at least two categories from an image, a setting unit for setting a first category as a priority category on an object having a predetermined priority among one of the objects detected by the object detection unit; and a region designation unit for designating a predetermined region on an object on a display screen, wherein the setting unit can change the priority category from the first category to a second category different from the first category when the predetermined region of the object designated by the region designation unit is the second category.
US11533424B2
An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set an imaging condition under which an imaging apparatus captures a video, a region determination unit configured to determine a detectable region in which a detection target is detectable in the video, based on the imaging condition, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a desired detection condition under which a user desires detection for the detection target to be executed, and a condition determination unit configured to determine a detection condition under which the detection target is detected from the video, based on the desired detection condition and the detectable region determined based on at least one imaging condition.
US11533423B2
A method for contrast-based autofocus of an image capture device. The method includes obtaining sensor data representative of an image captured by the image capture device, wherein the sensor data comprises pixel values from respective sensor pixels of an image sensor of the image capture device. A subset of the pixel values is dynamically selected to generate selected sensor data representative of the subset of the pixel values. The selected sensor data is processed to generate contrast data representative of a contrast-based characteristic of at least a portion of the image. The contrast data is processed to determine a focus setting for the image capture device.
US11533421B2
A portable remote controlled video production apparatus and method are provided, as is a teleprompter/Interrotron integrated with a camera. A computer is mounted in a rigid cage, the computer having a local portion of remote access remote control software. A camera is fixedly mounted in the cage in communication with the computer; either the camera or the computer have camera control software running thereon. A monitor is fixedly mounted in the cage in front of the camera and parallel to the lens axis; the monitor is in communication with the computer. A beamsplitter is fixedly mounted in the cage in front of the lens reflecting light from the monitor towards a front of the cage. The camera and computer are controllable remotely via a remote portion of the remote access remote control software running on a remote computer communicating with the local portion of the remote access remote control software.
US11533420B2
The present disclosure includes a server apparatus, a recording method, a non-transitory computer-readable, and a system. In one example, the server apparatus includes a recording unit and a controller. The controller is configured to receive image data of a subject from a camera, control the recording unit to record the image data of the subject that is received from the camera, monitor the image data of the subject to determine whether the image data of the subject that is received from the camera is abnormal, and responsive to determining that the image data of the subject that is received from the camera is abnormal, control the recording unit to perform recording end processing on the image data of the subject that has already been recorded.
US11533419B2
An imaging apparatus including: an image sensor unit; and a camera unit from which the image sensor unit is detachable, in which the image sensor unit includes at least an image sensor and a first storage unit in which first correction data are stored, the camera unit includes at least a control unit, and the control unit performs an update determination process for determining whether or not the first correction data stored in the first storage unit have been updated.
US11533418B2
Disclosed are an imaging module, a camera assembly and an electronic apparatus. The imaging module includes: a housing; a reflective element, an image sensor, a lens assembly, a moving element, and a drive mechanism all disposed in the housing. The housing has a light inlet; the reflective element is configured to redirect incident light from the light inlet to pass through the lens assembly and reach the image sensor; the moving element is disposed between the reflective element and the image sensor; the lens assembly is fixed to the moving element; the drive mechanism is configured to drive the moving element to move along an optical axis of the lens assembly; the imaging module further comprises a module circuit board fixed to the housing; wherein the module circuit board comprises a reinforcement plate communicating with a ground pin of the module circuit board such that the housing is grounded.
US11533415B2
An image capture device includes a housing; a lens cover disposed on the housing; a lens disposed within the housing beneath the lens cover; a lens cavity defined between the lens and the lens cover; a battery cavity defined within the housing; a lens vent fluidly coupling the lens cavity and the battery cavity; a battery disposed within the battery cavity; and a desiccant patch coupled to a side of the battery. Moisture introduced into the battery cavity by the battery, the lens cavity, or the lens vent is absorbed by the desiccant patch.
US11533401B2
A session management function (SMF) sends to a charging function (CHF), a charging policy request message requesting charging policy information for a packet data unit (PDU) session of a wireless device. The SMF receives, by from the CHF, a response message comprising the charging policy information for the PDU session. The charging policy information comprises: a first charging method; and an information element indicating that a first charging rate is applicable for the PDU session. The SMF determines, based on the charging policy information, a charging control rule for the PDU session. The SMF enforces the charging control rule.
US11533390B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for data harmonization in engineering simulation. The method may comprise receiving application preferences defining attributes associated with input data to be delivered to one or more applications from one or more data sources. A first set of attributes may be associated with data to be delivered to a first application. Application preferences may be provided to a handler in communication with the data sources. Raw data received by the handler may arrive in a variety of formats and packet sizes from the one or more data sources. Raw data may be packaged by the handler into one or more data packets having a size or format that satisfies the application preferences. One or more attributes associated with input data to be delivered to the first application may be defined. Packaged data may be transmitted over one or more data transmission channels satisfying the application preferences.
US11533389B2
Methods and systems for implementing private allocated networks in a virtual infrastructure are presented. One method operation creates virtual switches in one or more hosts in the virtual infrastructure. Each port in the virtual switches is associated with a private allocated network (PAN) from a group of possible PANs. In one embodiment, one or more PANs share the same physical media for data transmission. The intranet traffic within each PAN is not visible to nodes that are not connected to the each PAN. In another operation, the method defines addressing mode tables for the intranet traffic within each PAN. The entries in the addressing mode tables define addressing functions for routing the intranet traffic between the virtual switches, and different types of addressing functions are supported by the virtual switches.
US11533377B2
A cloud environment is provided generally having at least one private data center possessing a controller/routing system and nonvolatile mass storage, a plurality of data objects retained in the nonvolatile mass storage, and a public cloud storage service provider linked to the controller/routing system. The public cloud storage service provider possessing a database containing policy decisions and metadata of the plurality of data objects. The private data center is not in possession of the policy decisions and the metadata for the plurality of data objects, rather the public cloud storage service provider is. The private data center in possession of the plurality of data objects, whereas the public cloud storage provider is not. The public cloud storage service provider adapted to be communicatively linked to an end-user computing system by way of the controller/routing system. The data center is independent of the public cloud storage provider.
US11533376B2
Described are examples for providing cell level migration of physical layer processing in a virtualized base station. A system for operating virtualized base stations includes a plurality of physical layer (PHY) servers within a datacenter and a media access control (MAC) server. Each respective PHY server includes: a memory storing instructions and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to perform physical layer radio access network processing for a cell at the respective PHY server. The MAC server includes a memory storing instructions and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to migrate the physical layer radio access network processing for the cell from a first server of the plurality of PHY servers to a second server of the plurality of PHY servers within the datacenter at an inter-slot boundary.
US11533367B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for query-based interest in a simulation are presented. An entity comprising one or more components may be simulated. The entity may be modified to include an interest component indicating, for each component in the one or more components of the entity, a query subscription to an entity database. The query subscription may comprise one or more queries. Each query of the one or more queries may comprise a component value that qualifies another entity for inclusion in a query result, and a frequency for receiving, from the entity database, updates on the query result.
US11533354B1
Once participants participate in a video conference the state of information during that video conference is retained for those participants. At a future time, when those participants again meet in a video conference the state of information that was retained is retrieved and presented for them again in the subsequent video conference based upon their identifiers. Information such as the whiteboard, the chat window, shared files, camera settings, images, background, video recording, etc. are retrieved and automatically presented in the new video conference. Alternatively, a participant may be asked if the state of information from a previous video conference should be retrieved. When a participant joins a conference, the current participants grant permission or not for the current contents to be viewed by the new participant. When a participant leaves the conference, or when they all leave, a triggering condition saves the state. Participants may join in a cross-platform conference and all content from a session in another platform is retrieved. Virtual reality may also be used.
US11533346B2
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for receiving media data. One apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives a media presentation description (MPD) file that includes an essential property descriptor for session-based dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH). The essential property descriptor indicates a session-based description (SBD) file and includes a set of keys for a part of a uniform resource locator (URL) that is used for receiving the media data. The processing circuitry determines a respective value for each of the set of keys based on whether the respective value is included in the SBD file and modifies the URL based on the set of keys and the determined values.
US11533343B2
In one aspect, a network component associated with a private cellular network includes at least one memory having computer-readable instructions stored therein and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to receive, from a user equipment, a request to register with the private cellular network, the user equipment having a unique identifier; determine, at the network component or via cloud-based Evolved Packet Core (EPC) communicatively coupled to the network component, a home EPC associated with the user equipment using the unique identifier of the user equipment; and establish an IP Multimedia Service (IMS) Access Point Name (APN) connection between the user equipment and the home EPC associated with the user equipment, the IMS APN enabling a seamless connectivity of the user equipment to a terminal on a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) system using a native dialer of the user equipment.
US11533335B2
Systems, methods, and devices for performing a layer-2 scan of one or more communication networks to collect detailed information regarding the components/devices attached to the networks at a particular location (e.g., metropolitan area, city, university campus, building, floor within a building, etc.), and using the collected detailed information to generate a device profile for each of the devices attached to the one or more communication networks at the particular location. A server computing device may use the generated device profiles to perform inventory control operations, wireless vendor integration operations and/or security operations. For example, the server may use the device profiles to determine whether a component/device attached to any of the networks is non-benign (e.g., improperly configured, running malware, operated by hacker, spoofing a server, dropping packets, etc.), and initiate a reactive or mitigating action (e.g., quarantine the device, etc.).
US11533334B2
A method of providing infrastructure protection for a network that includes IP addresses as low as a single IP address. An end user sends traffic to an IP address of a projected server publicly available as an anycast address, and sends traffic to the protected network. The traffic is routed via one of several scrubbing centers using the public IP address as anycast address, and the scrubbing center provides infrastructure protection by scanning and filtering the incoming traffic for illegitimate data. After filtering, the legitimate traffic is encapsulated, e.g., via including virtual GRE tunnel information that includes a secret IP address known only to the scrubbing center and the protected server that receives the network traffic. The protected server decapsulates the network packet and responds back to the end user via the scrubbing network.
US11533330B2
Described embodiments provide systems, methods, computer readable media for determining risk metrics. A device may provide a risk model for a network environment. The risk model may include an input level and an output level. The input level may process first datasets each corresponding to a feature and a time window. The first datasets may include factors on access requests. The output level may generate a first aggregate risk metric of a first access request according to the datasets processed by the input level. The device may identify a second dataset corresponding to a second access request over the features and time windows. The device may determine a second aggregate risk metric by applying the second dataset to the risk model. The device may generate a response to the second access request according to an access control policy and the second aggregate risk metric.
US11533320B2
The techniques described herein relate to authorizing networked devices to access protected network zones and/or network resources in a private network. In response to a first access request, a network appliance requests full compliance information from the networked device. The received compliance information is stored in a database. Subsequently, when the compliance information on the networked device changes, the network device sends updated compliance information to the network appliance. The network appliance reevaluates the compliance state of the networked device based on the updated compliance information and the compliance information stored in the database.
US11533315B2
In various aspects, a data transfer discovery and analysis system may query an entity computing system to identify access credentials for third-party computing systems and scan each access credential to determine associated permissions provided by each access credential on the entity computing system. The data transfer discovery and analysis system may further inspect access logs to identify actual data transfers between the entity computing system and third-party computing systems as well as other access activity associated with each of the credentials. The system can generate and store a mapping of all actual data transfers (e.g., based on the access log data) and potential data transfers (e.g., based on particular access permissions) between/among the entity computing system and the third-party computing systems. By analyzing access logs to determine actual data transfers executed under each particular access credential, the data transfer discovery and analysis system can identify unused and/or underutilized access permissions.
US11533310B2
An authentication method and system for mutual authentication between a first entity and a third entity via a second entity, based on an authentication protocol used by the first entity and the third entity. The second entity forwards mutual authentication messages between the first entity and the third entity. An apparatus is configured to perform an authentication method for a mutual authentication between a first entity and a third entity via a second entity, based on an authentication protocol used by the first entity and the third entity, the second entity forwards mutual authentication messages between the first entity and the third entity.
US11533297B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes a server machine configured to establish a secure communication channel with a client machine via renewable tokens. The server machine receives a plurality of messages from a client machine over a secure communication channel, where the plurality of messages includes a first message that includes at least two of user authentication data, entity authentication data, first key exchange data, and encrypted message data. The server machine transmits, to the client machine, a second message that includes a master token comprising second key exchange data associated with the first key exchange data and at least one of a renewal time and an expiration time.
US11533294B2
Described herein are systems and methods to manage blacklists and duplicate addresses in software defined networks (SDNs). In one implementation, a method includes, in a control plane and data plane of an SDN environment, obtaining a blacklist for a logical port in the SDN environment. The method further includes deleting realized address bindings in a realized address list for the logical port that match the one or more address bindings in the blacklist and preventing subsequent address bindings that match the one or more address bindings in the blacklist from being added to the realized address list.
US11533292B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for automating the transfer/syncing of datasets or other artifacts from one security domain (e.g., a low security side environment) to another security domain (e.g., a high security side environment) in a seamless manner that complies with requirements of a data transfer mechanism used to transfer data between the two security domains while ensuring data integrity and consistency between the two security domains.
US11533287B2
A mid-tier messaging system receives a request to initiate a communication session via a first messaging channel that includes a first messaging interface of a first messaging application provided at a user device and a first message provider of a plurality of message providers. The mid-tier messaging system establishes a first session that is mapped to the communication session. The mid-tier messaging system establishes the communication, using the first session, between the first messaging interface and the first message provider. The mid-tier messaging system provides, through the first session, first message communications between the first message provider and the first messaging interface. The mid-tier messaging system seamlessly switches to a second message provider service when the first message provider service cannot service an intent of the first communication session.
US11533284B2
In a message processing device processing a message to be sent from a sender to a user, an acceptor accepts a draft message generated by each of a plurality of senders. A registrant registers, in a database, a parts element satisfying a predetermined requirement from among elements included in the accepted draft message. A specifier specifies a non-parts element not satisfying the requirement from among elements included in the accepted draft message generated by a first sender. A display image generator generates a display image by applying a predetermined drawing engine to the specified non-parts element. A comparison image generator generates a comparison image by applying the drawing engine to an element acquired by expanding the registered parts element. A calculator calculates a degree of similarity between the generated display image and the generated comparison image. A suggester transmits, to the first sender, information prompting replacement of the non-parts element with the parts element related to the comparison image when the calculated degree of similarity exceeds a reference value.
US11533278B2
Techniques are described for triggering conditional automated social posts. According to an embodiment, a set of one or more conditions is received through a user interface by a system executing on one or more computing devices. The system monitors one or more social media channels for target content that has been posted on at least one social media channel of the one or more social media channels. In response to detecting, by the system executing on one or more computing devices, that the target content has been posted on at least one social media channel of the one or more social media channels, the system determines whether the set of one or more conditions are satisfied. In response to determining that the set of one or more conditions are satisfied, the system triggers an action responsive to the target content.
US11533268B2
An example system to schedule service requests in a network computing system using hardware queue managers includes: a gateway-level hardware queue manager in an edge gateway to schedule the service requests received from client devices in a queue; a rack-level hardware queue manager in a physical rack in communication with the edge gateway, the rack-level hardware queue manager to send a pull request to the gateway-level hardware queue manager for a first one of the service requests; and a drawer-level hardware queue manager in a drawer of the physical rack, the drawer-level hardware queue manager to send a second pull request to the rack-level hardware queue manager for the first one of the service requests, the drawer including a resource to provide a function as a service specified in the first one of the service requests.
US11533267B2
In one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a network interface configured to receive over a network a sequence of data packets of a network flow having a defined packet order, wherein the network interface is configured to receive an out-of-order data packet, a timer, and packet processing circuitry configured to activate the timer responsively to receiving the out-of-order data packet.
US11533258B2
Techniques for in-situ passive performance measurement are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a data packet at a first network element, determining whether measurement information is to be collected for the data packet, providing one or more measurement fields for the data packet based on a determination that measurement information is to be collected for the data packet in which at least one measurement field identifies a measurement type, and forwarding the data packet to a second network element. The method further includes determining, by the second network element, the measurement type for the data packet, and performing one or more actions based on the measurement type.
US11533251B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in accordance with example embodiments in order to provide for the efficient, dynamic distribution of traffic in a hybrid network environment based at least in part on reliability probabilities associated with individual subflows within the network. In some example implementations, a traffic distribution entity provides for control over the determination of combined reliability probabilities of multiple potential traffic distribution modes and the selection of a traffic distribution mode that is capable of meeting performance targets, such as those associated with mission-critical operations of cyber-physical systems.
US11533241B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for peer risk benchmarking. Customer data for a first network is obtained, wherein the customer data comprises a role of one or more network devices in the first network and a plurality of risk reports corresponding to the one or more network devices, and wherein each risk report is associated with a particular dimension of a plurality of dimensions of risk for the one or more network devices. A network profile image is generated by processing the plurality of risk reports. A generative adversarial network generates a synthetic network profile image from the network profile image, wherein the synthetic network profile image does not include the customer data. A second network is evaluated using the synthetic network profile image to identify differences between the first network and the second network.
US11533239B2
This application discloses a method for obtaining a network slice. The method includes: receiving, by a control device, a slice request sent by a user, where the slice request includes an identifier, and the identifier is used to identify isolation information of a slice requested by the user; obtaining, by the control device, a network slice based on the identifier and a resource topology, where the resource topology is used to describe a network topology and isolation information of N elements in the network topology, the N elements include at least one of a node and a link, N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the network slice includes a node and a link that are required for implementing the slice.
US11533232B2
Improving wireless service subscriber experiences by dynamically managing wireless communication resources using a big data analytic mechanism is presented herein. A method can include receiving, by a system comprising a processor via a software-based interface of a control plane of a communication network, service data corresponding to a request for a wireless communication service; receiving, by the system via the software-based interface of the control plane, contextual data corresponding to a subscription of the wireless communication service; receiving, by the system via the software-based interface of the control plane, network data corresponding to data packet transmissions of a network device within a data plane of the communication network; and configuring, by the system via the software-based interface of the control plane based on a defined set of policies, the service data, the contextual data, and the network data, a resource of the data plane corresponding to the wireless communication service.
US11533230B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable program instructions executable by a processor of a relay device communicable with a terminal management device and one or more terminal devices. The program instructions are configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the relay device to perform unicast communication with each terminal device, thereby obtaining at least one of a device name and a vendor name of each terminal device as determination information, determine, based on the determination information, whether each terminal device is a supported terminal device to be managed by the terminal management device, and perform unicast communication with one or more individual terminal devices each determined to be the supported terminal device, thereby obtaining terminal information from each supported terminal device, the terminal information regarding each supported terminal device being collected by the terminal management device via the relay device.
US11533228B2
A method for information configuration, an apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program product. By searching for a computing device within a searching range of devices, and sending device configuration information to a searched computing device, the cost of human resources is reduced and the configuration efficiency of computing devices is improved.
US11533226B2
A computing system implementing an application service can receive network data from computing devices of clients of the application service. The system can determine, from the network data, that a network latency for a subset of the computing devices crosses above a latency threshold. Based on determining that the subset of computing devices utilize a common network service provider, the system can transmit a set of configuration signals to the subset of computing devices, which modify a set of default application configurations of the designated application to compensate for the network latency.
US11533214B2
The present disclosure provides an uplink multiple access scheme and technique to enhance the overall spectral efficiency of wireless systems. The scheme and technique exploits an index modulation concept in orthogonal multiple access systems. A first subblock of transmitted data for a user is conventionally modulated, while a second subblock of the data determines the index of the active channel that will be used to communicate the modulated symbol. The scheme and technique enables all available orthogonal resources to be used for an arbitrary number of users as an extra source of information that is used to enhance the overall spectral efficiency in terms of error efficiency and energy efficiency.
US11533212B2
A data modulation and device and demodulation device for the multicarrier system are provided. The data modulation method includes: performing different cyclic shifting on data sequences of L continuous symbols respectively, L≥2; and modulating the cyclically shifted data sequences by use of a waveform function, an independent variable range of the waveform function being greater than or equal to a symbol interval of the L modulated symbols. The technical solution solves the technical problems in which the related art is not compatible with a LTE system or effectively suppressing out-of-band leakage or flexibly adjusting a symbol interval to adapt to different channel environments and exhibits poor demodulation performance, thus achieving effective suppression of the out-of-band leakage, having higher compatibility with the LTE system and improving demodulation performance and flexibility of adjusting a symbol interval by simple cyclic shifting.
US11533209B2
A communication device receives a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU). The PPDU includes i) a PHY preamble and ii) PHY data portion that includes one or more PHY midambles, and the PHY preamble includes i) an indication of a length of the PPDU, and ii) an indication of a periodicity of PHY midambles in the PHY data portion. The communication device calculates a number of PHY midambles in the PPDU using i) the indication of the length of the PPDU, and ii) the indication of the periodicity of PHY midambles. The communication device calculates a reception time for the PPDU using the calculated number of PHY midambles, and processes the PPDU using the calculated reception time.
US11533208B2
A base station and a user equipment of a wireless communication system are disclosed. Each of the base station and the user equipment of the wireless communication includes a communication module; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive signaling information related to the start of uplink (UL) transmission from the base station through the communication module. The processor is configured to determine whether to perform a UL transmission using a partial subframe based on the signaling information. When the processor performs the UL transmission using the partial subframe, the processor is configured to determine a symbol configuration of the partial subframe based on the signaling information and perform, through the communication module, the UL transmission using the partial subframe according to the symbol configuration. At this time, the partial subframe is a subframe which occupies less than 14 symbols.
US11533206B2
A method and transmitter for transmitting an On-Off Keying, OOK, signal which comprises an ON waveform and an OFF waveform forming a pattern representing transmitted binary information as a Manchester code. For one binary value of information to be transmitted, a first set of complex-valued frequency domain symbols is provided to an inverse fast Fourier transformer, or for the other binary value of information to be transmitted, a second set of complex-valued frequency domain symbols is provided to the inverse fast Fourier transformer. The inverse fast Fourier transform is performed to form an orthogonal frequency division multiplex, OFDM representation, including a cyclic prefix, of the OOK signal of information to be transmitted. The OFDM representation is then transmitted.
US11533201B2
Enhanced transmission opportunities are disclosed for sounding reference signals (SRS). The enhancements may provide more flexibility in scheduling SRS transmission and more SRS transmission opportunities. An additional offset may be defined and dynamically communicated to a user equipment (UE) to use either to override or in additional to a semi-statically communicated standard offset when scheduling the SRS transmission opportunity based on an SRS trigger slot or another granted slot. The UE may further treat each combination of timing information as a separate SRS opportunity or may define a window between two signaled timing offsets within which the UE may attempt SRS transmissions.
US11533184B2
A system for generating unique digital certificates is provided that generates computed hashes public keys and compares them. The system method computes a hash of a public key, compares the computed hash of the public key with hashes of public keys previously generated, generates the digital certificate having the public key and a device identifier only if the computed hash of the public key does not match any of the hashes of public keys previously generated, and provides the digital certificate.
US11533176B2
An inner-product functional encryption scheme in which the maximum length of a ciphertext and the maximum length of a secret key are not restricted can be constructed. An encryption device (20) generates a ciphertext ctx in which a vector x is encrypted, using encryption setting information that is of a size depending on the size of the vector x and is generated using as input public information of a fixed size. A key generation device (30) generates a secret key sky in which a vector y is set, using key setting information that is of a size depending on the size of the vector y and is generated using as input the public information. A decryption device (40) decrypts the ciphertext ctx with the secret key sky to calculate an inner-product value of the vector x and the vector y.
US11533159B2
In one implementation, a receiver has a module to calculate the cross-correlation between a portion of a digital representation of a received signal and a reference signal. The receiver also has a module to generate an estimate of a portion of a message potentially included in the digital representation of the received signal and a screening module to determine the likelihood that the received signal includes a message. For a received signal that is determined likely to include a message, the receiver includes a carrier refinement module to shift the frequency of carrier pulses in the digital representation of the received signal toward a desired frequency and to align the phase of carrier pulses in the digital representation of the received signal with a desired phase and a coherent matched filter to recover the message from the digital representation of the received signal.
US11533157B2
Examples refer to communication networks between user equipment, UEs, and a base station BS. Examples refer to communication devices, such as UE(s) and/or BS(s). Full duplexing communications, FDC, may be used to reduce interferences between different UEs.
US11533154B2
There is provided a method for configuring resource, a user equipment (UE), a network device and a computer storage medium. The method for configuring resource includes receiving first information from a network-side, wherein the first information indicates to the UE configurations of at least one bandwidth part, and activating at least portion of at least one configured bandwidth part, or activating at least portion of the at least one configured bandwidth part through the network-side.
US11533149B2
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives, on a primary cell, an activation command from a base station for activating a secondary cell between the UE and the base station. The UE receives scheduling information of a set of aperiodic TRSs. The UE receives a trigger indicating transmission of the set of aperiodic TRSs. The UE initiates a RF chain of the UE configured for the secondary cell in an interruption period. The UE receives, in response to receiving the trigger and in accordance with the scheduling information, the set of aperiodic TRSs on the secondary cell prior to receiving an initial SSB or an initial periodic TRS after the interruption period. The UE performs time and frequency tracking on the secondary cell based on the set of aperiodic TRSs.
US11533145B2
A method comprising extending a transmission delay caused by a clear channel assessment check delaying a communication between an access point and a user equipment over an unlicensed transmission link beyond a start of an earliest possible subframe/slot with useful data, the transmission delay being extended till a defined period from a start of a subframe/slot.
US11533141B2
Methods and systems are provided to allow signals for multiple service slices using sub-bands that are part of a system bandwidth. In some cases the signals for a given service slice are self-contained within the sub-band in the sense that channels for initial access and ongoing communications are all located within the sub-band. A receiver that is only accessing the given service slice need only be capable of receiving the sub-band. The method may involve, in a first sub-band predefined for a first service slice, transmitting first initial access information for a first service associated with the first service slice. The method further involves, in a second sub-band predefined for a second service slice, transmitting second initial access information for a second service associated with the second service slice. The second sub-band is different from the first sub-band.
US11533138B2
A method and apparatus for processing a data flow, and a computer storage medium are provided. The data flow processing method includes receiving, by an electronic device, first information, where the first information is used to indicate a transmission manner of data flow(s). The method also includes processing, by the electronic device, the data flow(s) based on the first information.
US11533137B2
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may send a grant free transmission comprising a first and a second part, each of which may be associated with a priority. The first part's priority may be higher than the second part's priority. The WTRU may select a first back of value from a first range of back off values. The WTRU may determine whether the grant free transmission was successful. If the grant free transmission was not successful, the WTRU may send a retransmission of the grant free transmission, which may include the first part and may not include the second part. The retransmission may select a second back off value from a second range of back off values, which may be a larger than the first range of back off values. The second back off value may indicate the number of grant free resource to skip prior to sending the retransmission.
US11533131B2
Disclosed are a user equipment of a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method using the same. More specifically, disclosed are a user equipment including a processor configured to receive DCI through a PDCCH indicating PDSCH scheduling information of each cell in one or more cell(s), identify a transmission scheme in each cell based on a DCI format of the DCI, receive a PDSCH of each cell in the one or more cell(s) based on the scheduling information of the PDCCH, generate a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) bit sequence for the one or more cell(s) based on the identified transmission scheme of each cell in response to receiving the PDSCH of each cell, and transmit the generated HARQ-ACK bit sequence and a wireless communication method using the same.
US11533130B2
Coverage of a power-limited mobile terminal is enhanced by sending information relating to a single Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process from the mobile terminal to a base station using several transmission time intervals.
US11533121B2
A method for communicating a data packet, the method includes receiving a data packet that supports a packet wash operation. The method determines whether the data packet can be forwarded along a network path towards a destination node without any modification. If the data packet cannot be forwarded along the network path towards the destination node without modification, the method determines whether conditions are met for performing the packet wash operation on the data packet. If the conditions are met, the packet wash operation is performed to generate a washed data packet. The packet wash operation generates the washed data packet by modifying a size of a payload of the data packet based on a packet wash specification that associates attributes to a plurality of data payload portions of the payload of the data packet. The washed data packet is forwarded along the network path towards the destination node.
US11533117B2
The Digital Time Processing over Time Sensitive Networks (DTP TSN) disclosed herein is contributing methods, systems and circuits for using a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) such as IEEE 1588 for distributing a master time secured by a master unit to slave units by utilizing slave clocks recovered from PTP messages and/or compatible with them data receiver clocks for maintaining a local slave time which is increased to a local master time by adding to it an estimate of a transmission delay derived by processing PTP messages, wherein such distribution of the master time includes filtering out phase noise of a timing referencing signals communicated by PTP messages in order to produce accurate timing implementing signals such as the slave clock, local slave time and local master time.
US11533113B2
Techniques are presented to improve the accuracy of and reduce the time required for calibration of an in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) transmission circuit. A measurement receiver measures the I/Q mismatch, where an RF phase shift is introduced to distinguish between the transmitter and measurement receiver I/Q mismatches. Rather than assuming an amount of introduced phase shift, a measurement is used to estimate the phase shift. This phase estimate is then used to determine and correct the I/Q mismatch in the transmitter and measurement receiver. An iterative process can be used to improve the I/Q correction factors. Using simple signal processing to measure the phase shift during calibration and to perform the image calibration calculations, the phase shifter requirements can be significantly relaxed, resulting in faster design time and reduced design area/cost. This approach results in reduced calibration time, thus contributing to reduced factory production time and enabling faster live mode image calibration.
US11533107B2
Provided is a base station signal monitoring system including: a plurality of optical transmission devices configured to transmit a base station signal; a measuring device configured to measure the base station signal according to a preset method; and a switch device, which is connected to the plurality of optical transmission devices and the measuring device, configured to switch connections between a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports so that the base station signal is transmitted from one of the plurality of optical transmission devices to the other one of the plurality of optical transmission devices or the measuring device.
US11533100B2
System and method incorporating devices wirelessly connected to remote gateway locations or other devices. Remote gateway locations can be located on towers, buildings, silos, trees, utility poles, light poles or any other support structure capable of supporting the equipment used. A wired or wireless backhaul connects each remote gateway to a centralized headend gateway location via Ethernet, fiber, laser, or licensed or unlicensed microwave signals. Devices wirelessly connected to a remote gateway location device then act like a new remote gateway, redistributing signals to the surrounding area for additional CPEs to connect to that CPE. This continues over and over in a self-propagating manner, creating one or more network legs off the original remote gateway device.
US11533094B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing full orthogonality between simultaneously used beams, e.g., in a Multi-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) radio system. In some embodiments, a radio system comprises an antenna system and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to determine an initial set of null locations for a particular beam based on an initial set of beam weighting factors for the particular beam, and change one or more of the initial null locations based on one or more other beams to be used simultaneously with the particular beam, thereby providing a new set of null locations for the particular beam. The processing unit is further adapted to compute a new set of beam weighting factors for the particular beam based on the new set of null locations, and utilize the new set of beam weighting factors to transmit or receive on the particular beam.
US11533089B2
Pre-coding methods are disclosed for a transmitter node and for a receiver node, respectively. The transmitter node and/or the receiver node comprises at least one hardware component causing signal distortion for a forward channel and/or a reverse channel Transmitter node reference signals are transmitted by the transmitter node and received by the receiver node, wherein the transmitter node reference signals result from use of a transmitter node transmission pre-coding setting and an allocated transmission power. The receiver node estimates a forward channel disturbance component (including the signal distortion for the forward channel), selects a receiver node reception pre-coding setting based on the estimated forward channel disturbance component, and updates a receiver node transmission pre-coding setting by using the selected receiver node reception pre-coding setting as receiver node transmission pre-coding setting. Receiver node reference signals are transmitted by the receiver node and received by the transmitter node, wherein the receiver node reference signals result from use of the updated receiver node transmission pre-coding setting. The transmitter node estimates a reverse channel disturbance component (including the signal distortion for the reverse channel), selects a transmitter node reception pre-coding setting based on the estimated reverse channel disturbance component, and updates the transmitter node transmission pre-coding setting by using the selected transmitter node reception pre-coding setting as transmitter node transmission pre-coding setting. Corresponding pre-coding apparatuses, transmitter/receiver nodes, and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11533073B2
The embodiments disclose a method including fabricating a one section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from top to bottom, fabricating a one section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from side to side, fabricating a two-section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from top to bottom, fabricating a two-section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from side to side, wherein phone cases are configured to view front and back foldable phone folded and unfolded screens, and embedding a RFID chip with a unique ID number into a foldable phone cases configured for locating and identifying a user's foldable phone case.
US11533071B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including electronic devices and computer-readable storage media, for adaptively switching wireless connections between antennas of a wearable electronic device and a host electronic device. One device includes a wearable electronic device with a first and second housing, each housing including two or more antennas. The wearable electronic device is configured to establish and monitor a wireless cross-link between two antennas in different housings, or between antennas in one housing and antennas of a host electronic device. The wearable electronic device can monitor the integrity of the wireless cross-link, and establish an updated cross-link in response to the wireless cross-link not meeting a predetermined integrity threshold. The wearable electronic device can monitor a wireless cross-head link between housings of a wearable electronic device at the same time as a wireless cross-body link between the wearable electronic device and the host electronic device.
US11533056B2
A circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC), and an evaluation circuit coupled to the TDC and a phase-locked loop (PLL) external to the circuit.
US11533053B2
Various embodiments relate to an amplitude shift keying (ASK) demodulator for demodulating an input signal, including: a frequency filter configured to receive the input signal, wherein the frequency filter includes adjustable components configured to adjust the frequency response of the frequency filter; a rectifier configured to rectify an output of the frequency filter, wherein the rectifier includes an adjustable current source configured to adjust the current consumption of the rectifier; a reference signal generator configured to produce a reference signal; a current to voltage converter configured to convert the current of the rectified signal to a rectified voltage and to convert the current of the reference signal to a reference voltage; and a comparator configured to compare the rectified voltage to the reference voltage and to produce a demodulated output signal.
US11533052B2
According to a certain embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a circuit block and a clock circuit configured to supply a clock signal to the circuit block at a specific timing. The clock circuit includes an output circuit configured to provide the clock signal to the circuit block, and a control circuit configured to control the timing at which the output circuit provides the clock signal. A threshold voltage of at least a transistor in the output circuit using the clock signal as input/output signals is a first threshold voltage, and a threshold voltage of a transistor configuring the control circuit is a second threshold voltage higher than the first threshold voltage.
US11533051B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes the following configuration. A first transistor has a source and a gate coupled to first and second voltage nodes respectively. A second transistor has a source and a gate coupled to third and second voltage nodes respectively. A third transistor is coupled between the first and second transistors. A fourth transistor has a source coupled to the first voltage node and a gate coupled to a first output node between the second and third transistors. A fifth transistor has a source coupled to the third voltage node, a gate coupled to the gate of the fourth transistor and a drain coupled to a drain of the fourth transistor. A sixth transistor has a gate supplied with a voltage output from a second output node between the fourth and fifth transistors and a source coupled to the first voltage node.
US11533040B2
An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric film, a high acoustic velocity member, a low acoustic velocity film located between the piezoelectric film and the high acoustic velocity member and through which an elastic wave propagates at a lower acoustic velocity than an elastic wave that propagates through the piezoelectric film, and an interdigital transducer electrode including electrode fingers separated from each other and disposed side by side in a first direction. At least one of the electrode fingers includes a first metal layer including first and second main body portions. A recessed portion is located in a central region in the first direction of the electrode finger and is recessed in the thickness direction of the piezoelectric film. A protrusion portion protrudes from at least a portion of the first main body portion in the first direction.
US11533038B2
An elastic wave device includes a substrate, an IDT electrode, a spacer layer, a cover, and a protective layer. The spacer layer is provided on the substrate and surrounds the IDT electrode. The cover is provided on the spacer layer, is spaced apart from the IDT electrode, and includes a first main surface adjacent to the spacer layer and a second main surface facing the first main surface. The protective layer includes a third main surface contacting the second main surface, a fourth main surface facing the third main surface, and a side surface connected to the fourth main surface. In at least portion of the side surface of the protective layer, a portion including an intersection line between the side surface and the fourth main surface is located farther inward than an outer edge of the substrate in plan view in the thickness direction of the substrate.
US11533035B2
An example speaker for providing alerts includes: a housing and a cover forming an integrated unit; a microphone configured to sense an ambient noise level; and a processor configured to adjust a volume of the speaker based upon the ambient noise level. A hinge can be positioned between the housing and the cover to allow the cover to be pivoted relative to the housing from a close position to an open position.
US11533022B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a power amplification apparatus, the apparatus comprising: an input part; a first-1 transformer and a first-2 transformer connected to the input part in parallel; a first amplifier and a second amplifier connected to the first-1 transformer and the first-2 transformer, respectively; a first switch connected to one side of the first-2 transformer; a second-1 transformer and a second-2 transformer connected to the first amplifier and the second amplifier, respectively, and connected to an output part in parallel; and a second switch connected to one side of the second-2 transformer.
US11533014B2
A power converter converts power from a power source into power to be supplied to a motor having n-phase (n is an integer of 3 or larger) windings. The power converter includes an inverter including switches connected to the windings, a controller to control operation of each of the switches, and a failure detector to detect a sign of failure in a drive system ranging from the power source to the motor. When a sign of failure is detected by the failure detector, the controller is configured or programmed to check presence or absence of a failure in the drive system while supplying power to the motor by causing the inverter to perform a failure operation.
US11533008B2
Provided is a method for determining the rotational position of a rotor in a permanent magnet synchronous machine, wherein the stator includes windings for a first, second and third phase, including the steps: applying a first voltage pulse to the first phase, determining respective first measures for the current induced by the first voltage pulse in the second and third phase, selecting a first selected phase depending on the first measures for the current, wherein the first selected phase is either the second or the third phase, applying a second voltage pulse to the first selected phase, determining respective second measures for the current induced by the second voltage pulse in the phases of the stator that are not the first selected phase, and determining the rotational position of the rotor depending on the second measures of the current.
US11533004B2
The present disclosure provides a rotary motor, which includes: a clamping member having a gripping unit installed at an inner circumference of a rotor to grip the rotor during a predetermined time; and a driving member installed at the inner circumference of the rotor and having a rotation unit configured to make an elastic deformation to rotate by a predetermined angle and then return to an original state so that the rotor is rotated.
US11533001B2
A device for harvesting and storing triboelectric charge generated on an exterior surface of a moving vehicle is provided. It is characterised by comprising; a supercapacitor comprised of nano-carbon-containing electrodes; an ionic liquid electrolyte and at least one ion-permeable porous membrane; at least one first element exposed to aerodynamically-induced frictional forces acting thereon and on which the charge is caused to build up and connected to at least one of the electrodes of one polarity; at least one second element having a lower electrostatic potential than the charge-collecting element and connected to at least one of the electrodes of the other polarity; a voltage modification or impedance conversion circuit arranged between the first and/or second elements and the supercapacitor; means to connect the device to an operative component requiring electrical power and a controller for managing the performance of the device and switching between energy-harvesting and energy-utilisation modes. The device is especially use for deployment in the wing of an aircraft to utilised triboelectric charge generated thereon.
US11532998B2
A power supply circuit for measuring transient thermal resistances includes an inverter circuit provided on a primary side of a transformer and controlled by a PWM signal, a rectifier circuit provided on a secondary side of the transformer and including a DC reactor, and a control circuit controlling the PWM signal so as to output a pulsed output current from the rectifier circuit to a semiconductor device to be measured. The control circuit sets a first PWM frequency at rising timing of the output current, and sets a second PWM frequency when a predetermined time t1 elapses from the rising timing of the output current. The control circuit sets the first PWM frequency higher than the second PWM frequency.
US11532993B1
An apparatus for modular AC to AC frequency conversion is disclosed. An input AC source is configured to generate an input AC voltage at a first frequency. At least one primary low frequency (LF) conversion stage is configured to generate a DC voltage, and comprises a first pair of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs). At least one primary high frequency (HF) conversion stage is configured to generate the DC voltage, and comprises a first pair of high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). At least one secondary LF conversion stage is configured to receive the DC voltage and generate an output AC voltage at a second frequency, and comprises a second pair of MOSFETs. At least one secondary HF conversion stage is configured to receive the DC voltage and generate the output AC voltage at the second frequency, and comprises a second pair of HEMTs.
US11532992B2
A synchronous rectifier controller for controlling a rectifier switch is disclosed. The synchronous rectifier controller includes a fully-ON controller and a regulator. Capable of being triggered by a channel voltage of the rectifier switch, the fully-ON controller turns the rectifier switch fully ON for a fully-ON time in view of a predetermined condition. The regulator, disabled during the fully-ON time and enabled after the fully-ON time, turns the rectifier switch ON to regulate the channel voltage within a predetermined voltage range.
US11532990B2
In a start-up control in which primary-side direct-current (DC) terminals and secondary-side DC terminals are charged by an external power supply outside a power conversion device, initially, one-side DC terminals are charged by the external power supply while switching operations of the primary-side bridge circuit and the secondary-side bridge circuit are stopped. Subsequently, a bridge circuit that is connected to the DC terminals not charged by the external power supply stops the switching operation and operates in a diode rectifying mode, while a bridge circuit that is connected to the DC terminals charged by the external power supply performs the switching operation and outputs an AC voltage whose voltage pulse width has been subjected to a variable control so that the voltage pulse width is smaller for a greater voltage difference of the charged DC terminals from the uncharged DC terminals.
US11532982B2
The disclosure provides a power supply and an operation method thereof. The power supply includes a power factor correction (PFC) circuit, a resonant conversion circuit and a dead zone control circuit. The PFC circuit performs power factor correction to output a corrected voltage. The resonant conversion circuit is coupled to the PFC circuit to receive the corrected voltage. The resonant conversion circuit converts the corrected voltage into a converted voltage. The dead zone control circuit is coupled to the resonant conversion circuit to receive the switch voltage. The dead zone control circuit controls the PFC circuit to adjust the corrected voltage. The dead zone control circuit observes the change trend of the falling time of the switch voltage in the deadtime by adjusting the corrected voltage. The dead zone control circuit determines the corrected voltage according to the change trend of the switch voltage.
US11532980B2
A conversion apparatus with overload control includes a primary conversion circuit, a resonant conversion circuit, and a control unit. The control unit controls a voltage value of a DC power source outputted from the primary conversion circuit according to a current signal of an output current of the resonant conversion circuit. When the control unit realizes that the output current exceeds a rated current according to the current signal, the control unit steps up the voltage value of the DC power source.
US11532976B2
A switched reluctance machine exhibiting reduced noise and vibration, the machine comprising at least one rotor arranged to rotate about a central axis, the at least one rotor comprising a set of rotor poles arranged about the central axis; at least one stator positioned concentric to and radially outward from both the central axis and the at least one rotor, the at least one stator having an outer surface and an outer surface active zone; a housing having a sleeve positioned only radially outward from the stator outer surface active zone; at least one housing endplate coupled to an end of said housing; and wherein said stator has no direct connection to said housing.
US11532967B2
An electric motor having a permanent magnet and a compressor including an electric motor are provided. The electric motor may include a stator; and a rotor rotatably disposed and spaced a predetermined gap apart from the stator. The rotor may include a rotational shaft, a permanent magnet arranged concentrically to the rotational shaft, and a permanent magnet support that supports the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet may have a cylindrical shape and be magnetized to have polar anisotropy such that a magnetic field is formed on the magnet's surface facing the gap but is not formed on the magnet's surface opposite to the gap. The permanent magnet support may be configured to form no flux path in the permanent magnet and connect the rotational shaft to the permanent magnet. Thus, the rotor has a reduced weight with consequent suppression of vibration and noise.
US11532962B2
An electrical motor includes a housing, a stator seated in the housing, wherein the stator includes a plurality of stator teeth which extend in the radial direction toward the rotor, a yoke that connects the stator teeth is arranged in such a way that a plurality of first clearances are formed between the housing and the yoke and a plurality of second clearances are formed between the yoke and a free end of the stator teeth, and a coolant guide in contact with at least one axial lateral surface of the yoke, wherein the stator is in interlocking contact with the inner side of the housing.
US11532961B2
A number of illustrative variations may include a rotor core for an electric motor comprising permanent magnets wherein the rotor core comprises lobes of the core material that magnets may be attached to.
US11532960B2
Provided is a device for manufacturing a rotor core with less magnetic flux leakage, a method for manufacturing the rotor core, and a rotor structure. Included are a first mold including a fitting recess that fits and holds a laminated iron core in which a magnet is inserted into a magnet insertion hole; a second mold that clamps and seals the laminated iron core together with the first mold; a resin injection unit that is provided to the second mold and injects a resin material in the magnet insertion hole by using a molding machine; and a protrusion that is inserted into the magnet insertion hole by a predetermined insertion amount, and positions and holds the magnet by an end of the magnet being brought into contact with the protrusion, in a state of the first mold and the second mold being clamped.
US11532959B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) that has a motor section for driving the ESP. The motor section has a stator has an inner surface, winding channels disposed axially therein and windings disposed in the winding channels to generate an electromagnetic field when power is supplied to the ESP. The motor section also has a rotor rotatably disposed in the stator. The rotor has permanent magnets or induction windings disposed therein that are responsive to the electromagnetic field to facilitate rotation of the rotor relative to the stator. The motor section also includes a manipulated air gap disposed between the rotor and the stator that the electromagnetic field crosses. The manipulated air gap provides a desired constant radially directed load on the rotor to stabilize the rotor when instability of the motor section occurs. A method of designing and constructing the ESP disclosed herein. To design and construct the ESP, a desired constant radially directed load is determined for an electric submersible pump (ESP) to stabilize the ESP when instability of an electromagnetic field of the ESP occurs. The air gap is manipulated to achieve the desired constant radially directed load or the design of a stator of the ESP is manipulated to achieve the desired constant radially directed load. The ESP can then be constructed.
US11532956B2
A power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a verification load, a control and communications unit, an inverter circuit, a coil, and a shielding. The control and communications unit is configured to provide power control signals to control a power level of a power signal configured for transmission to a power receiver, provide a power request to an external power supply, determine if a power signal at the verification load is compliant with the power request, and, if the power signal at the verification load is compliant with the power request, continue to operate for wireless power transmission. The coil is configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver. The shielding comprises a ferrite core.
US11532951B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a battery and a power management module electrically connected to the battery and configured to manage a charging or a discharging of the battery. The power management module includes a first charging circuit configured to include a first switch group, a first capacitor, and a first inductor, a second charging circuit configured to include a second switch group, a second capacitor, and a second inductor, and a power path distributor configured to distribute power from a first external power supply device or a second external power supply device to the first charging circuit or the second charging circuit.
US11532942B1
This disclosure provides a battery management process and system including a battery including one or more batteries, a powered battery charging system connected to each of the one or more batteries to provide charge or charge balancing power to the one or more batteries, one or more battery sensors configured to monitor each batteries, a battery monitoring unit comprising a processor and memory in communication with the one or more battery sensors, the battery monitoring unit configured to initiate and conduct a charging or balancing process and monitor the battery for an out of tolerance condition, wherein if during charging or balancing an out of tolerance condition occurs in one or more batteries the battery monitoring unit interrupts the charging or balancing, process of the batteries by disconnecting the batteries with the out of tolerance condition from the charging system, the battery monitoring unit provides an alert to an operator to separately interrupt the charging or balancing process to the batteries with the out of tolerance condition via a separate operator controlled switch, and the battery monitoring unit interrupts power to the battery charging system providing power to the batteries with the out of tolerance condition.
US11532935B2
The present disclosure provides a rapid shutdown device for a photovoltaic system, which is connected between a photovoltaic power generation module and a photovoltaic inverter and comprises an input port and an output port. The rapid shutdown device further comprises: a first switch and a second switch; a third switch and a fourth switch; a controller coupled to control terminals of the first switch, the third switch, and the fourth switch, and configured to control on and off of the first switch, the third switch, and the fourth switch, so that the rapid shutdown device operates in a normal state, a bypass state or a shutdown state.
US11532931B2
A clamp-type line post insulator is disclosed. The clamp-type line insulator is provided with a thread clamping device, and comprises: a body, a cable clamp, an insulation unit and an adjustable fixing unit. In the present invention, the body comprises: a receiving recess, a fixing base and a cable groove. Moreover, a pivoting end of the cable clamp pivotally connected to a pivot member that is formed on the fixing base. Particularly, after placing an electrical cable in the cable groove, the cable clamp is rotated by taking the pivot member as an axle center, thereby inserting an engaging end of the cable clamp into the engagement groove to engage with it. By such arrangements, the electrical cable be pressed and fixed in the cable groove by rotating the adjustable fixing unit.
US11532921B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an epitaxial stack disposed on the substrate, a first connection layer between the epitaxial stack and the substrate and a first electrode disposed on the first connection layer. The substrate has a first side surface and a second side surface. The epitaxial stack has a semiconductor structure with a first lateral surface adjacent to the first side surface and a second lateral surface opposing the first lateral surface and adjacent to the second side surface. The first connection layer has a first protruding portion extending beyond the first lateral surface and a second protruding portion extending beyond the second lateral surface. The first electrode is in contact with the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion.
US11532918B2
A detection device for detecting an insertion depth of a terminal of a cable connector inside a housing of the cable connector includes a positioning assembly and a detection assembly. The positioning assembly positions the housing of the cable connector. The detection assembly includes a first driving device, a sensing element mounted on the first driving device and movable by the first driving device, and a displacement sensor mounted on the first driving device and movable in a moving direction of the sensing element by the first driving device. The displacement sensor is connected to the sensing element and senses a displacement of the sensing element.
US11532915B2
An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows.
US11532914B2
An electrical connector suited for being assembled to a circuit board is provided. The electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating body, a first metallic shell sheathing the insulating body to form an insertion space, a second metallic shell superposed on the first metallic shell, and a metallic plate disposed in the insulating body. The second metallic shell has a rear plate opposite to the rear interface, and is not electrically connected to the circuit board. The metallic plate has at least one bending extending out of the insulating body to abut the rear plate, such that the metallic plate and the second metallic shell are electrically conducted.
US11532912B2
A method checks a plug connection, in which a first plug part is connected to a second plug part. The method determines a force-time curve of a force applied by an assembler during an assembly process of a plug connection. In addition, the method determines characteristic values of a plurality of characteristics of the force-time curve. The method also classifies the plug connection by use of a machine-learned classifier on the basis of the characteristic values of the plurality of characteristics.
US11532909B2
A poke-in terminal includes a main body, a tab terminal socket at a mating end, and a wire socket at a terminating end. The tab terminal socket includes walls forming a tab terminal receptacle configured to receive a tab terminal. Upper and lower beam contacts extend into the tab terminal receptacle to interface with the tab terminal. The wire socket includes walls forming a wire receptacle configured to receive a wire. Poke-in retention beams extend into the wire receptacle to interface with the wire when poked into the wire socket. The wire socket includes a wire release element configured to be actuated to release the poke-in retention beams from the wire.
US11532904B2
An electrical connector set includes first and second connectors, in which the first connector has a first connection terminal, a first high-frequency connection terminal transmitting a high frequency signal, and a first external grounding member surrounding the first high-frequency connection terminal, the second connector has a second connection terminal, a second high-frequency connection terminal, and a second external grounding member surrounding the second high-frequency connection terminal. At a time of fitting, the second external grounding member is located on an inner side of the first external grounding member, the first and second connection terminals are located on an outer side of the first external grounding member, the second external grounding member is closed in a peripheral shape to surround the first and second high-frequency connection terminals, and first and second mounting parts are located on an inner side of the second external grounding member.
US11532901B2
In an electrical device, a terminal block includes a mounting hole portion formed so as to be opened in a bottom surface and a mounting bore which is formed so as to be opened in a top surface, and connects the mounting hole portion and an outside of the top surface to each other, the swing-side interlock connector includes a swing-side housing which is mounted inside the mounting hole portion, and protrudes from the mounting bore, a cover is placed on the top surface of the terminal block by fitting a fitting hole to a protruding portion (31a) of the swing-side housing protruding from the mounting bore, and a gap portion which is formed around the protruding portion (31a), and connects the mounting hole portion and the outside of the top surface to each other is covered with the cover as viewed from the side of the housing opening portion.
US11532897B2
A configurable array having a plurality of antenna elements arranged in at least four adjacent groups of array elements on a panel array, the first group of elements having an inter-element spacing based on a transmit signal wavelength, a second group of elements having an inter-element spacing based on a receive signal wavelength, and a third and fourth group of elements having an inter-element spacing based on a wavelength between the transmit signal wavelength and the receive signal wavelength.
US11532896B2
An antenna according to one embodiment comprises: a substrate; a radiator attached to the substrate and radiating an electromagnetic signal; a metal plate antenna disposed to be spaced apart from the radiator in the vertical direction of the radiator; a fixing rod for supporting the metal plate antenna; and a sub patch antenna comprising a first surface attached to the fixing rod and a second surface attached to the substrate, wherein a partial region of the metal plate antenna and a partial region of the radiator overlap in the vertical direction.
US11532890B2
A method for providing frequency selective surface zoning includes selecting a location for positioning a frequency selective surface (FSS) panel along a support arm of a reflector antenna system, and positioning a second feed horn on the support arm on an opposite side of the FSS panel. A number of unit cells are used to populate the FSS panel, and metallic patterns are formed on each unit cell. Multiple zones are subsequently defined on the surface of the FSS panel. Each zone is optimized for a predetermined range of incident angles.
US11532886B2
An antenna device comprising a first antenna, a second antenna and a circuit board. The first antenna includes a first insulating layer, a first signal-feeding line and two first grounding lines. The first signal-feeding line is disposed on a first surface of the first insulating layer. The first grounding lines are disposed on a second surface of the first insulating layer. The second antenna includes a second insulating layer, a second signal-feeding line and two second grounding lines. The second signal-feeding line is disposed on a first surface of the second insulating layer. The second grounding lines are disposed on a second surface of the second insulating layer. The first insulating layer and the second insulating layer intersect at about 90 degrees. The first and second antennas are disposed on a first surface of the circuit board. The first axis and the second axis are adjacent and substantially parallel.
US11532883B2
Techniques are disclosed implementing two alternative approaches for adaptive beamforming for MIMO radar. The first of these includes a “reduced complexity” iterative adaptive approach (RC-IAA) algorithm, which uses two steps including a delay-and-sum beamforming step (DAS-BF) and an IAA step that is applied to the output generated by the DAS-BF step. A second technique is described that includes a “beam space” iterative adaptive approach (BS-IAA) algorithm, which uses three steps including a delay-and-sum beamforming step (DAS-BF), a region of interest (ROI) detection step that is applied to the output generated by the DAS-BF, and an IAA step that is applied to detected ROIs.
US11532882B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, causing a reference antenna element of a first set of antenna elements of a first antenna array to transmit a first signal, determining for each antenna element of a second set of antenna elements of a second antenna array, a receive-related offset, relative to the reference element, based on inter-element propagation delays between the first and second sets of elements, causing each antenna element of the second set of elements to transmit a respective second signal, based on the reference antenna element receiving the respective second signals, calculating a respective transmit-related offset for each antenna element of the second set of antenna elements relative to the reference antenna element based on the inter-element propagation delays, and performing calibration between the first antenna array and the second antenna array based on the respective receive-related and transmit-related offsets. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11532879B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first plate, a second plate facing a direction opposite to the first plate, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the first and second plates and connected to or integrally formed with the second plate. The electronic device further includes a display disposed in the space so as to be visible from outside through at least a part of the first plate, and at least one antenna structure disposed in the space, including a first surface and a second surface facing a direction opposite to the first surface, and including a first area and a second area surrounded by the first area when viewed from above the first surface. The antenna structure may also include a plurality of insulating layers disposed between the first and second surfaces, first conductive patches disposed in the first area, when viewed from above the first surface, and disposed on the first surface or on a first insulating layer closer to the first surface than the second surface, a second conductive patch overlapped at least in part with the second area, when viewed from above the first surface, and disposed on a second insulating layer between the first insulating layer and the second surface, a ground layer disposed on a third insulating layer between the second insulating layer and the second surface or on the second surface, and one or more conductive walls formed along at least a portion of an outer periphery of the first area, when viewed from above the first surface, and extended from the first insulating layer to the ground layer. The electronic device includes at least one wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the second conductive patch and configured to at least one of transmit or receive a signal having a frequency between about 3 GHz and about 100 GHz.
US11532874B2
As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide embodiments of antenna apparatus using monocone antennas for wireless communication.
US11532872B2
A portable electronic apparatus includes a case, a solar cell disposed in the case, a GPS antenna as an antenna section disposed in the case, including a base as a nonconductive member and a conductive body disposed on a surface of the nonconductive member, and adapted to receive a positioning satellite signal, and a circuit board disposed in the case, and electrically connected to the solar cell and the antenna section, and the antenna section overlaps the solar cell in a planar view viewed from a normal direction of light receiving surfaces of the solar cell.
US11532871B2
An antenna assembly and an electronic device are provided. The antenna assembly includes a metal main body, a first metal connecting part, a second metal connecting part, and eight radiating elements disposed on the metal main body. The metal main body includes a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, a third end, and a fourth end opposite to the third end. The first metal connecting part and the second metal connecting part are respectively connected to the third end and the fourth end. The antenna assembly is configured to be operated as an 8×8 5G MIMO antenna system.
US11532868B2
An antenna apparatus comprises a semiconductor die in a molding compound layer, a first through via is between a sidewall of the semiconductor die and a sidewall of the molding compound layer and an antenna structure over the molding compound layer, wherein a first portion of the antenna structure is directly over a top surface of the semiconductor die and a second portion of the antenna structure is directly over a top surface of the first through via.
US11532863B2
A broadband microstrip ferrite circulator or isolator includes a carrier. The broadband microstrip ferrite circulator or isolator further includes a dielectric substrate having an opening therein. The broadband microstrip ferrite circulator or isolator further includes a ferrite disc positioned within the opening of the dielectric substrate. The broadband microstrip ferrite circulator or isolator further includes a conductor having three contacts extending therefrom, the conductor being positioned on the ferrite disc. The broadband microstrip ferrite circulator or isolator further includes a magnet. The broadband microstrip ferrite circulator or isolator further includes a spacer positioned between the conductor and the magnet.
US11532853B2
Provided is a battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolytic solution, and a particle-containing resin layer that contains particles and a resin. A shape of the particles includes a plane, a plane rate of the particles is greater than 40% and equal to or less than 100%, and a refractive index of the particles is equal to or greater than 1.3 and less than 2.4.
US11532852B2
A composite membrane includes: an organic layer including a plurality of through holes; and ion conductive inorganic particles disposed in the plurality of through holes, wherein the ion conductive inorganic particles each include at least one recess, at least one protrusion, or a combination thereof on a surface thereof, and wherein the surface of the ion conductive inorganic particles which comprises the at least one recess, the at least one protrusion, or the combination thereof faces a surface of the organic layer.
US11532851B2
Energy storage devices comprising a solid-state electrolyte/separator are disclosed. The storage device comprises an anode and a cathode, wherein the anode is a Si-dominant electrode, a solid-state separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the separator comprises an inorganic solid-state material. The energy storage devices may also comprise a small amount of standard liquid electrolyte.
US11532850B2
A rechargeable battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an electrode assembly; a case for receiving the electrode assembly; a cap plate combined to an opening of the case to close and seal an inside of the case and including a plurality of vent units; an elevation member penetrated and installed in the cap plate and moving by an internal pressure of the case; and a plurality of vent plates for closing and sealing the respective vent units, wherein the vent plate is connected to the elevation member through a connection member and links to the elevation member.
US11532849B2
A battery module for a motor vehicle has a battery module housing (30) with an insertion opening (32) and at least one battery cell package (40) is arranged in the battery module housing (30). The battery cell package (40) has at least two battery cells (42) arranged parallel to one another and at least one compression pad (44) arranged parallel to the battery cells (42). The battery cells (42) and the at least one compression pad (44) are stacked one on top of the other in any desired order in a thickness direction (D). The battery cell package (40) is inserted in an insertion direction (E) through the insertion opening (32) into the battery module housing (30). The battery cell package (40) also has two insertion auxiliary layers (46) that respectively form outer sides (41) of the battery cell package (40) that are opposite in the thickness direction (D).
US11532836B2
A composite electrolyte including a lithium salt; a solid electrolyte wherein the solid electrolyte is a sulfide solid electrolyte, an oxide solid electrolyte, or a combination thereof; and an ionic liquid, wherein a mixture of the ionic liquid and the lithium salt has a dielectric constant of from about 4 to about 12, and an amount of halogen ions eluted from the composite electrolyte after immersion of the solid electrolyte in the ionic liquid for 24 hours is less than about 25 parts per million by weight, based on the total weight of the composite electrolyte, as measured by ion chromatography.
US11532829B2
A pump for a fuel cell includes a pump portion, a motor, a controller, a housing, and a temperature detector. The controller executes an activation control and a sensorless vector control. In the activation control, the controller executes a cold activation mode process when the outside air temperature is less than or equal to a set temperature. In the cold activation mode process, the controller executes at least one of increasing a value of an activation current supplied to the motor relative to when a normal activation mode process is executed or setting a supply duration of the activation current to the motor to be longer than that of when the normal activation mode process is executed.
US11532814B2
A positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries includes a lithium composite metal compound containing secondary particles that are aggregates of primary particles which are capable of being doped or dedoped with lithium ions and satisfies all of specific requirements (1) to (4).
US11532812B2
An all-solid lithium ion secondary battery includes a pair of electrodes and a solid electrolyte provided between the pair of electrodes. At least one of the pair of electrodes includes an active-material layer and an intermediate layer. An active material constituting the active-material layer has a core-shell structure which has a core region and a shell region and a composition of the intermediate layer is intermediate between the solid electrolyte and the shell region.
US11532809B2
Cathodes are provided, wherein at least one of the cathode's active material, binder, or graphite are in the form of carbon-coated particles. Alternatively, rings of the cathode, or the cathode itself, may be coated with carbon. The coating may be as thin as a single layer of carbon. Electrochemical cells comprising such cathodes are also provided. Methods of preparing such cathodes and electrochemical cells are also provided.
US11532806B2
Preparation, characterization, and an electrochemical study of Mg0.1V2O5 prepared by a novel sol-gel method with no high-temperature post-processing are disclosed. Cyclic voltammetry showed the material to be quasi-reversible, with improved kinetics in an acetonitrile-, relative to a carbonate-, based electrolyte. Galvanostatic test data under a C/10 discharge showed a delivered capacity >250 mAh/g over several cycles. Based on these results, a magnesium anode battery, as disclosed, would yield an average operating voltage ˜3.2 Volts with an energy density ˜800 mWh/g for the cathode material, making the newly synthesized material a viable cathode material for secondary magnesium batteries.
US11532801B2
The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device, particularly to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) including an ETL stack of at least two electron transport layers, wherein the first electron transport layer comprises a first electron transport matrix compound and the second electron transport layer comprises second electron transport matrix compound and a redox n-dopant, and a device comprising the OLED.
US11532798B2
According to one aspect of the invention, a flexible pad for a display device lamination process includes: a generally straight area having an upper surface defining substantially the same height along a first direction and a generally convex shape along a second direction generally perpendicular to the first direction; a first inclined area having a first upper surface inclined along the first direction at a first inclination angle and being generally flat along the second direction; and a second inclined area disposed between the first inclined area and the generally straight area, wherein the second inclined area has a second upper surface inclined along the first direction at a second inclination angle smaller than the first inclination angle.
US11532795B2
A series of thermally stable and highly luminescent cyclometalated tetradentate ligand-containing gold(III) compounds was designed and synthesized. The cyclometalated tetradentate ligand-containing gold(III) compounds can be used as light-emitting material for fabrication of light-emitting devices. The cyclometalated tetradentate ligand-containing gold(III) compounds can be deposited as a layer or a component of a layer using a solution-processing technique or a vacuum deposition process. The cyclometalated tetradentate ligand-containing gold(III) compounds are robust and can provide electroluminescence with high efficiency and brightness. More importantly, the vacuum-deposited OLEDs demonstrate long operational stabilities with half-lifetime of over 29,700 hours at 100 cd m−2.
US11532790B2
A composition which is useful for producing a light emitting device having excellent external quantum efficiency contains two or more compounds represented by the formula (C-1) and a phosphorescent compound, in which at least one of the compounds represented by the formula (C-1) is a compound in which RC is a group represented by the formula (C′-1). Ring R1C and Ring R2C represent an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or an aromatic hetero ring. RC represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a group represented by the formula (C′-1). Ring R3C and Ring R4C represent an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or an aromatic hetero ring. RC′ represents a carbon atom, a silicon atom, a germanium atom, a tin atom or a lead atom.
US11532786B2
Technologies for reducing series resistance are disclosed. An example method may comprise: forming a first layer on a temporary substrate; forming a second layer on the first layer; etching the first layer and the second layer to form a trench; electroplating a top electrode via the trench, wherein the top electrode partially formed on a top surface of the second layer; removing the first layer and the second layer; forming a curable layer on the temporary substrate and the top electrode; removing the temporary substrate from the curable layer and the top electrode; forming a cross-point device on the curable layer and the top electrode; forming a bottom electrode on the cross-point device; and forming a flexible substrate on the bottom electrode.
US11532784B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing chamber where a substrate support on which a substrate is placed and a target holder configured to hold a target are disposed, a freezing device disposed with a gap with respect to a bottom surface of the substrate support and having a chiller and a cold heat medium laminated on the chiller, and a rotating device configured to rotate the substrate support. The substrate processing apparatus further includes a first elevating device configured to raise and lower the substrate support, a coolant channel formed in the chiller to supply a coolant to the gap, and a cold heat transfer material disposed in the gap and being in contact with the substrate support and the cold heat medium so as to transfer heat therebetween.
US11532762B2
A solid state imaging apparatus includes an insulation structure formed of an insulation substance penetrating through at least a silicon layer at a light receiving surface side, the insulation structure having a forward tapered shape where a top diameter at an upper portion of the light receiving surface side of the silicon layer is greater than a bottom diameter at a bottom portion of the silicon layer. Also, there are provided a method of producing the solid state imaging apparatus and an electronic device including the solid state imaging apparatus.
US11532751B2
The present disclosure describes various non-planar semiconductor devices, such as fin field-effect transistors (finFETs) to provide an example, having one or more metal rail conductors and various methods for fabricating these non-planar semiconductor devices. In some situations, the one or more metal rail conductors can be electrically connected to gate, source, and/or drain regions of these various non-planar semiconductor devices. In these situations, the one or more metal rail conductors can be utilized to electrically connect the gate, the source, and/or the drain regions of various non-planar semiconductor devices to other gate, source, and/or drain regions of various non-planar semiconductor devices and/or other semiconductor devices. However, in other situations, the one or more metal rail conductors can be isolated from the gate, the source, and/or the drain regions these various non-planar semiconductor devices. This isolation prevents electrical connection between the one or more metal rail conductors and the gate, the source, and/or the drain regions these various non-planar semiconductor devices.
US11532744B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first gate structure disposed over a first backside dielectric feature, a second gate structure disposed over a second backside dielectric feature, a gate cut feature extending continuously from between the first gate structure and the second gate structure to between the first backside dielectric feature and the second backside dielectric feature, and a liner disposed between the gate cut feature and the first backside dielectric feature and between the gate cut feature and the second backside dielectric feature.
US11532741B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buried doped layer formed on the substrate, a trench gate formed on the buried doped layer, a source region formed adjacent the trench gate, an interlayer dielectric layer formed on the trench gate and the source region, a source contact plug formed to extend and connect to the source region, and a drain contact plug, extending and connecting to the buried doped layer, formed deeper than the source contact plug.
US11532733B1
Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes forming a stack of epitaxial layers over a substrate, forming a first fin-like structure and a second fin-like structure from the stack, forming an isolation feature between the first fin-like structure and the second fin-like structure, forming a cladding layer over the first fin-like structure and the second fin-like structure, conformally depositing a first dielectric layer over the cladding layer, depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, planarizing the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer until the cladding layer are exposed, performing an etch process to etch the second dielectric layer to form a helmet recess, performing a trimming process to trim the first dielectric layer to widen the helmet recess, and depositing a helmet feature in the widened helmet recess.
US11532726B2
A VDMOS device and a manufacturing method therefor. The method comprises: forming a groove in a semiconductor substrate, wherein the groove comprises a first groove area, a second groove area and a third groove area communicating with the first groove area and the second groove area, and the width of the first groove area is greater than the widths of the second groove area and the third groove area; forming an insulation layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming a first polycrystalline silicon layer on the insulation layer; removing some of the first polycrystalline silicon layer; the first polycrystalline silicon layer forming in the first groove being used as a first electrode of a deep gate; removing all the insulation layer located on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and some of the insulation layer located in the groove; forming a gate oxide layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming a second polycrystalline silicon layer on the gate oxide layer; removing some of the second polycrystalline silicon layer; and the second polycrystalline silicon layer forming in the groove being used as a second electrode of a shallow gate.
US11532722B2
A thin film structure including a dielectric material layer and an electronic device to which the thin film structure is applied are provided. The dielectric material layer includes a compound expressed by ABO3, wherein at least one of A and B in ABO3 is substituted and doped with another atom having a larger atom radius, and ABO3 becomes A1-xA′xB1-yB′yO3 (where x>=0, y>=0, at least one of x and y≠0, a dopant A′ has an atom radius greater than A and/or a dopant B′ has an atom radius greater than B) through substitution and doping. A dielectric material property of the dielectric material layer varies according to a type of a substituted and doped dopant and a substitution doping concentration.
US11532719B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device over a semiconductor substrate. A first bonding layer is above the semiconductor substrate. One or more nanowires are formed above the first bonding layer to be a channel layer. A gate electrode is around a nanowire, where the gate electrode is in contact with the first bonding layer and separated from the nanowire by a gate dielectric layer. A source electrode or a drain electrode is in contact with the nanowire, above a bonding area of a second bonding layer, and separated from the gate electrode by a spacer, where the second bonding layer is above and in direct contact with the first bonding layer.
US11532717B2
A semiconductor structure includes a metal gate structure comprising a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode, a conductive layer disposed over the metal gate structure, and a contact feature in direct contact with the top portion of the conductive layer, where the conductive layer includes a bottom portion disposed below a top surface of the metal gate structure and a top portion disposed over the top surface of the metal gate structure, and where the top portion laterally extends beyond a sidewall of the bottom portion.
US11532716B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a substrate. A plurality of shallow trench isolation (STI) lines are disposed on the substrate and extend along a first direction. A memory gate structure is disposed on the substrate between adjacent two of the plurality of STI lines. A trench line is disposed in the substrate and extends along a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the trench line also crosses top portions of the plurality of STI lines. A conductive line is disposed in the trench line and used as a selection line to be coupled to the memory gate structure.
US11532708B2
A semiconductor device includes a first field-effect transistor positioned over a substrate, a second field-effect transistor stacked over the first field-effect transistor, a third field-effect transistor stacked over the second field-effect transistor, and a fourth field-effect transistor stacked over the third field-effect transistor. A bottom gate structure is disposed around a first channel structure of the first field-effect transistor and positioned over the substrate. An intermediate gate structure is disposed over the bottom gate structure and around a second channel structure of the second field-effect transistor and a third channel structure of the third field-effect transistor. A top gate structure is disposed over the intermediate gate structure and around a fourth channel structure of the fourth field-effect transistor. An inter-level contact is formed to bypass the intermediate gate structure from a first side of the intermediate gate structure, and arranged between the bottom gate structure and the top gate structure.
US11532700B2
An epitaxial structure includes a substrate, a nucleation layer, a buffer layer, and a nitride layer orderly. The nucleation layer consists of regions in a thickness direction, wherein a chemical composition of the regions is Al(1−x)InxN, where 0≤x≤1. The x value consists of four sections of variation along the thickness direction, in which a first fixed region has a maximum value, a first gradient region gradually changes from the maximum value to a minimum value, a second fixed region has the minimum value, and a second gradient region gradually changes from the minimum value to the maximum value. An absolute value of a gradient slope of the first and second gradient regions is 0.1%/nm to 50%/nm. A surface roughness of the nucleation layer in contact with the buffer layer is greater than that of the buffer layer in contact with the nitride layer.
US11532696B2
Semiconductor devices including a capacitor and methods of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a capacitor that include a lower electrode, an upper electrode on the lower electrode, and a dielectric layer extending between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The lower electrode may include a doped region that contacts the dielectric layer, and the doped region of the lower electrode is configured to increase a capacitance of the capacitor.
US11532693B2
Described examples include a hybrid circuit having a component. The component has a first conductive element on a substrate having a configuration and having a first periphery and having an extension at the first periphery. The component also has a dielectric on the first conductive element. The component also has a second conductive element having the configuration on the dielectric that is proximate to and aligned with the first conductive element, and has a second periphery, the extension of the first conductive element extending past the second periphery.
US11532689B2
A display device includes a first substrate having a display area and a peripheral area, the first substrate including a first inclined surface disposed at an outer portion of the peripheral area and being angled relative to the first substrate in the display area; a pixel structure disposed on the first substrate in the display area; a second substrate disposed on the pixel structure; a first electrode disposed on the first inclined surface and between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second electrode disposed on sides of the first and second substrates, the second electrode being in contact with the first electrode.
US11532685B2
The present invention provides a double-sided display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The double-sided display includes an array substrate, an organic light-emitting functional layer, and a semi-transparent semi-reflective electrode arranged in sequence, and a liquid crystal cell disposed on a side of the semi-transparent semi-reflective electrode close to the organic light-emitting functional layer. One part of light emitted by the organic light-emitting functional layer penetrates through the semi-transparent semi-reflective electrode to display on one side of the double-sided display device, and the other part of the light is reflected toward the liquid crystal unit by the semi-transparent semi-reflective electrode to display on the other side of the double-sided display.
US11532683B2
A transparent emissive device is provided. The device may include one or more OLEDs having an anode, a cathode, and an organic emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. In some configurations, the OLEDs may be non-transparent. The device may also include one or more locally transparent regions, which, in combination with the non-transparent OLEDs, provides an overall device transparency of 5% or more.
US11532674B2
A display device includes a display area including a first light-emitting area and a second light-emitting area; a peripheral area adjacent to the display area; pixels which emit incident light; an encapsulation layer covering the pixels; a first color-converting pattern corresponding to the first light-emitting area and having a refractivity; a transmission pattern corresponding to the second light-emitting area and through which the incident light is transmitted; a low refractivity layer is in the display area and facing the encapsulation layer with each of the first color-converting pattern and the transmission pattern therebetween, the low refractivity layer including: a resin and a hollow particle which define a refractivity lower than the refractivity of the first color-converting pattern; and a first dam structure in the peripheral area and spaced apart from the display area, the first dam structure and the transmission pattern being portions of a same material layer.
US11532672B2
An imaging device includes a first electrode, a charge accumulating electrode arranged with a space from the first electrode, an isolation electrode arranged with a space from the first electrode and the charge accumulating electrode and surrounding the charge accumulating electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer formed in contact with the first electrode and above the charge accumulating electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a second electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion layer. The isolation electrode includes a first isolation electrode and a second isolation electrode arranged with a space from the first isolation electrode, and the first isolation electrode is positioned between the first electrode and the second isolation electrode.
US11532663B2
The disclosure relates to a demodulator including a pinned photodiode, at least one storage node, at least one transfer gate connected between the storage node and the pinned photodiode. The pinned photodiode includes a p-doped epitaxial semiconductor layer, a n-doped semiconductor region formed within the epitaxial semiconductor layer and creating therewith a lower junction and at least one lateral junction substantially perpendicular to the lower junction, a p+ pinning layer formed on top of said semiconductor region. The demodulator further includes a generating unit configured to generate minority and majority carriers at said lateral junction and to form a lateral photodiode.
US11532662B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a front side surface and a back side surface opposite to the front side surface. A photosensitive region of the semiconductor substrate is etched to form a recess. A semiconductor material is deposited on the semiconductor substrate to form a radiation sensing member filling the recess. The semiconductor material has an optical band gap energy smaller than 1.77 eV. A device layer is formed over the front side surface of the semiconductor substrate and the radiation sensing member. A trench isolation is formed in an isolation region of the semiconductor substrate and extending from the back side surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US11532660B2
A photoelectric conversion device including a plurality of substrates in a stacked state, the plurality of substrates including a first substrate and a second substrate electrically connected to each other, the photoelectric conversion device comprising: a memory cell unit including row-selection lines that are to be driven upon selection of a row of a memory cell array and column-selection lines that are to be driven upon selection of a column of the memory cell array; and a memory peripheral circuit unit that includes row-selection line connection portions and column-selection line connection portions so as to drive the row-selection lines and to drive the column-selection lines, wherein a first portion that is at least a part of the memory peripheral circuit unit is formed on the first substrate and the memory cell unit is formed on the second substrate.
US11532652B2
An imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a counter electrode on the first surface; a first electrode on the second surface; a second electrode on the second surface, the second electrode being spaced from the first electrode; and an auxiliary electrode on the second surface between the first electrode and the second electrode. The auxiliary electrode is spaced from the first electrode and the second electrode, where a shortest distance between the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode is different from a shortest distance between the second electrode and the auxiliary electrode.
US11532651B2
The present disclosure relates to an image pickup device and an electronic apparatus that enable warping of a substrate to be suppressed. A first structural body including a pixel array unit is layered with second structural body including an input/output circuit unit and outputting a pixel signal output from the pixel to the outside of the device, and a signal processing circuit; and a signal output external terminal and a signal input external terminal are arranged below the pixel array unit, the signal output external terminal being connected to the outside via a first through-via penetrating through a semiconductor substrate in the second structural body, the signal input external terminal being connected to the outside via a second through-via connected to an input circuit unit and penetrating through the semiconductor substrate. The signal output external terminal is electrically connected to the first through-via via a first rewiring line, the signal input external terminal is electrically connected to the second through-via via a second rewiring line, and a third rewiring line being electrically independent is arranged in a layer in which the first rewiring line and the second rewiring line are arranged. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, the image pickup device, and the like.
US11532648B2
A method of manufacturing a display panel and a display panel are provided. A groove is formed on a buffer layer through performing exposure and etching processes, so as to divide the buffer layer into independent units. A gate insulating layer, a dielectric layer, and a passivation layer are converted from continuous layers to independent layers on the buffer layer. Therefore, heterogeneous interface stress accumulated in the independent unit is reduced, it prevents the deformation of the glass substrate, protects the glass substrate, reduces fragmentation phenomenon, and improves process reliability and yield.
US11532646B2
A display panel, a display device, and a display system are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of conductive portions. Each of the conductive portions is respectively disposed between corresponding metal layers to be electrically connected in the display panel, and is used to electrically connect with the metal layers to be electrically connected. At least two conductive portions are provided between any two of the metal layers to be electrically connected. The at least two conductive portions are used for an electrical connection to realize multi-point connection of different metal layers, which improves a reliability in a conversion of different metal layers.
US11532642B2
The present disclosure relates an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a polysilicon layer arranged on an upper surface of a base substrate. A dielectric layer is arranged over the polysilicon layer, and an active semiconductor layer is arranged over the dielectric layer. A semiconductor material is arranged vertically on the upper surface of the base substrate and laterally beside the active semiconductor layer.
US11532626B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a bottom dielectric feature on a substrate, a plurality of channel members directly over the bottom dielectric feature, a gate structure wrapping around each of the plurality of channel members, two first epitaxial features sandwiching the bottom dielectric feature along a first direction, and two second epitaxial features sandwiching the plurality of channel members along the first direction.
US11532624B2
A semiconductor device may include a plurality of first active fins protruding from a substrate, each of the first active fins extending in a first direction; a second active fin protruding from the substrate; and a plurality of respective first fin-field effect transistors (finFETs) on the first active fins. Each of the first finFETs includes a first gate structure extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the first gate structure includes a first gate insulation layer and a first gate electrode. The first finFETs are formed on a first region of the substrate and have a first metal oxide layer as the first gate insulation layer, and a second finFET is formed on the second active fin on a second region of the substrate, and the second finFET does not include a metal oxide layer, but includes a second gate insulation layer that has a bottom surface at the same plane as a bottom surface of the first metal oxide layer.
US11532621B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a source region and a drain region disposed within an upper surface of a substrate. One or more dielectric materials are disposed within a trench defined by sidewalls of the substrate that surround the source region and the drain region. The one or more dielectric materials include one or more interior surfaces defining a recess within the one or more dielectric materials. A gate structure is disposed over the substrate between the source region and the drain region. The gate structure includes a first gate material over the upper surface of the substrate and a second gate material. The second gate material completely fills the recess as viewed along a cross-sectional view.
US11532620B2
Integrated circuit devices may include a fin-type active area, a semiconductor liner contacting a side wall of the fin-type active area and including a protrusion portion protruding outward from the fin-type active area in the vicinity of an edge of an upper surface of the fin-type active area, and an isolation layer spaced apart from the fin-type active area with the semiconductor liner therebetween. To manufacture the integrated circuit devices, a crystalline semiconductor layer covering the fin-type active area with a first thickness and an amorphous semiconductor layer covering the mask pattern with a second thickness may be formed, an extended crystalline semiconductor layer covering the mask pattern may be formed by crystalizing the amorphous semiconductor layer, and a semiconductor liner including a protrusion portion may be formed from the extended crystalline semiconductor layer and the crystalline semiconductor layer.
US11532617B2
A semiconductor structure includes the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack formed over the first region and the second region of a substrate, respectively. The first and second semiconductor stacks extend in the first direction and are spaced apart from each other in the second direction. Each of the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack includes channel layers and a gate structure. The channel layers are formed above the substrate and are spaced apart from each other in the third direction. The gate structure includes the gate dielectric layers formed around the respective channel layers, and the gate electrode layer formed on the gate dielectric layers to surround the channel layers. The number of channel layers in the first semiconductor stack is different from the number of channel layers in the second semiconductor stack.
US11532614B2
FinFET varactors having low threshold voltages and methods of making the same are disclosed herein. An exemplary FinFET varactor includes a fin and a gate structure disposed over a portion of the fin, such that the gate structure is disposed between a first source/drain feature and a second source/drain feature that include a first type dopant. The portion of the fin includes the first type dopant and a second type dopant. A dopant concentration of the first type dopant and a dopant concentration of the second type dopant vary from an interface between the fin and the gate structure to a first depth in the fin. The dopant concentration of the first type dopant is greater than the dopant concentration of the second type dopant from a second depth to a third depth in the fin, where the second depth and the third depth are less than the first depth.
US11532613B2
A structure and method for cooling a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) are provided. A cooling element is configured for thermal connection to the 3DIC. The cooling element includes a plurality of individually controllable cooling modules disposed at a first plurality of locations relative to the 3DIC. Each of the cooling modules includes a cold pole and a heat sink. The cold pole is configured to absorb heat from the 3DIC. The heat sink is configured to dissipate the heat absorbed by the cold pole and is coupled to the cold pole via an N-type semiconductor element and via a P-type semiconductor element. A temperature sensing element includes a plurality of thermal monitoring elements disposed at a second plurality of locations relative to the 3DIC for measuring temperatures at the second plurality of locations. The measured temperatures control the plurality of cooling modules.
US11532607B2
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) structures are provided. An ESD structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a first epitaxy region with a first type of conductivity over the semiconductor substrate, a second epitaxy region with a second type of conductivity over the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of first semiconductor layers and a plurality of second semiconductor layers. The first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers are alternatingly stacked over the semiconductor substrate and between the first and second epitaxy regions. Each of the first and second semiconductor layers has a first side contacting the first epitaxy region and a second side contacting the second epitaxy region, and the first side is opposite the second side.
US11532602B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a method for manufacturing a display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate having a first wiring, a second substrate having a second wiring, the first substrate, and the second substrate being laminated on each other to form a laminated structure, and a third wiring located on a side surface of the laminated structure, wherein the third wiring connects the first wiring and the second wiring.
US11532592B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a die stack having a first die and a second die disposed above a substrate, and a capacitor die disposed in the die stack between the first die and the second die. The capacitor die includes a plurality of integrated circuit capacitors that are configured to be selectively coupled together to form a desired capacitor value coupled to at least one of the first die and the second die.
US11532591B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a die stack on the substrate, and connection terminals between the substrate and the die stack. The die stack includes a first die having a first active surface facing the substrate, the first die including first through electrodes vertically penetrating the first die, a second die on the first die and having a second active surface, the second die including second through electrodes vertically penetrating the second die, and a third die on the second die and having a third active surface facing the substrate. The second active surface of the second die is in direct contact with one of the first or third active surfaces.
US11532590B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulation substrate including a circuit pattern, semiconductor chips mounted on the circuit pattern, a wire connecting between the semiconductor chips and between the semiconductor chip and the circuit pattern, and a conductive material serving as a conductor formed integrally with the wire.
US11532582B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are described herein. The methods include forming a local organic interconnect (LOI) by forming a stack of conductive traces embedded in a passivation material, forming first and second local contacts over the passivation material, the second local contact being electrically coupled to the first local contact by a first conductive trace of the stack. The methods further include forming a backside redistribution layer (RDL) and a front side RDL on opposite sides of the LOI with TMVs electrically coupling the backside and front side RDLs to one another. First and second external contacts are formed over the backside RDL for mounting of semiconductor devices, the first and second external contacts being electrically connected to one another by the LOI. An interconnect structure is attached to the front side RDL for further routing. External connectors electrically coupled to the external contacts at the backside RDL.
US11532580B2
An interconnect structure includes a plurality of first pads, a plurality of second pads, a plurality of first conductive lines in a first layer, a plurality of second conductive lines in a second layer, and a plurality of nth conductive lines in an nth layer. The first pads and the second pads respectively are grouped into a first, a second and an nth group. Each of the first pads in first group is connected to one of the second pads in the first group by one of the first conductive lines. Each of the first pads in the second group is connected to one of the second pads in the second group by one of the second conductive lines. Each of the first pads in the nth group is connected to one of the second pads in the nth group by one of the nth conductive lines.
US11532579B2
A method includes depositing a first dielectric layer covering an electrical connector, depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, and performing a first etching process to etch-through the second dielectric layer and the first dielectric layer. An opening is formed in the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer to reveal the electrical connector. A second etching process is performed to laterally etch the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. An isolation layer is deposited to extend into the opening. The isolation layer has a vertical portion and a first horizontal portion in the opening, and a second horizontal portion overlapping the second dielectric layer. An anisotropic etching process is performed on the isolation layer, with the vertical portion of the isolation layer being left in the opening.
US11532577B2
An embodiment is a method including depositing a first dielectric layer over a molding compound and a chip and patterning a first opening in the first dielectric layer to expose a contact of the chip. A first metallization layer is deposited over the first dielectric layer and in the first opening, where a portion of the first metallization layer in the first opening has a flat top. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the first metallization layer and the first dielectric layer. A second metallization layer is deposited in a second opening in the second dielectric layer, where the second metallization layer does not have a flat top within the second opening.
US11532574B2
Embodiments may relate to a semiconductor package that includes a die and a package substrate. The package substrate may include one or more cavities that go through the package substrate from a first side of the package substrate that faces the die to a second side of the package substrate opposite the first side. The semiconductor package may further include a waveguide communicatively coupled with the die. The waveguide may extend through one of the one or more cavities such that the waveguide protrudes from the second side of the package substrate. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US11532571B2
Vertically-aligned and conductive dummies in integrated circuit (IC) layers reduce capacitance and bias independence. Dummies are islands of material in areas of metal and semiconductor IC layers without circuit features to avoid non-uniform polishing (“dishing”). Conductive diffusion layer dummies in a diffusion layer and conductive polysilicon dummies in a polysilicon layer above the diffusion layer reduce bias dependence and nonlinear circuit operation in the presence of an applied varying voltage. ICs with metal dummies vertically aligned in at least one metal layer above the polysilicon dummies and diffusion dummies reduce lateral coupling capacitance compared to ICs in which dummies are dispersed in a non-overlapping layout by a foundry layout tool. Avoiding lateral resistance-capacitance (RC) ladder networks created by dispersed dummies improves signal delays and power consumption in radio-frequency (RF) ICs.
US11532569B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a first redistribution layer, a second redistribution layer and an interconnecting structure. The first redistribution layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The second redistribution layer is disposed over the first surface of the first redistribution layer, wherein the second redistribution layer has a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to each other, and the third surface facing the first surface. The interconnecting structure is disposed between and electrically connected to the first redistribution layer and the second redistribution layer, wherein the interconnecting structure comprises a conductive post and a conductive bump stacked to each other.
US11532566B2
A target and method for using the same in the measurement of misregistration between at least a first layer and a second layer formed on a wafer in the manufacture of functional semiconductor devices on the wafer, the functional semiconductor devices including functional device structures (FDSTs), the target including a plurality of measurement structures (MSTs), the plurality of MSTs being part of the first layer and the second layer and a plurality of device-like structures (DLSTs), the plurality of DLSTs being part of at least one of the first layer and the second layer, the DLSTs sharing at least one characteristic with the FDSTs and the MSTs not sharing the at least one characteristic with the FDSTs.
US11532563B2
Packages and packaging techniques are described in which a patterned carrier substrate can be used to create a reconstituted fanout substrate with a topography that can accommodate components of different thicknesses. In an embodiment, a wiring layer is formed directly on a multiple level topography of a molding compound layer including embedded components.
US11532549B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a first interconnect dielectric layer arranged over a substrate. A first interconnect conductive structure extends through the first interconnect dielectric layer. A first capping layer is arranged over the first interconnect conductive structure, and a second capping layer is arranged over the first capping layer. The first capping layer includes a first two-dimensional material that is different than a second two-dimensional material of the second capping layer. An etch stop layer is arranged over the first interconnect dielectric layer and the second capping layer. The integrated chip further includes a second interconnect dielectric layer arranged over the etch stop layer and a second interconnect conductive structure extending through the second interconnect dielectric layer and the etch stop layer to contact the first interconnect conductive structure.
US11532546B2
Fringe capacitor arranged based on metal layers with a selected orientation of a preferred direction
A fringe capacitor comprises a plurality of unidirectional metal layers, wherein an orientation of a preferred direction of each of the unidirectional metal layers is in a same direction. First fingers of the fringe capacitor are formed in a first layer of the unidirectional metal layers, the first fingers being interdigitated and having a direction parallel to the orientation of the preferred direction. Second fingers of the fringe capacitor are formed in a second layer of the unidirectional metal layers, the second fingers being interdigitated and having a direction parallel to the orientation of the preferred direction, the first layer and the second layer separated by at least a layer of not having the orientation of the preferred direction and not having fingers of the fringe capacitor.
US11532543B2
A package carrier includes a substrate, at least one interposer disposed in at least one opening of the substrate, a conductive structure layer, a first build-up structure, and a second build-up structure. The interposer includes a glass substrate, at least one conductive via, at least one first pad, and at least one second pad. The conductive via passes through the glass substrate, and the first and the second pads are disposed respectively on an upper surface and a lower surface of the glass substrate opposite to each other and are connected to opposite ends of the conductive via. The conductive structure layer is disposed on the substrate and is structurally and electrically connected to the first and the second pads. The first and the second build-up structures are disposed respectively on the first and the second surfaces of the substrate and are electrically connected to the conductive structure layer.
US11532539B2
Implementations of the semiconductor package may include a first sidewall opposite a second sidewall, and a third sidewall opposite a fourth sidewall. Implementations of the semiconductor package may include a first lead and a second lead extending from the first sidewall and a first half-etched tie bar directly coupled to the first lead. An end of the first half-etched tie bar may be exposed on the third sidewall of the semiconductor package. Implementations of the semiconductor package may also include a second half-etched tie bar directly coupled to the second lead. An end of the second half-etched tie bar may be exposed on the fourth sidewall. An end of the first lead and an end of the second lead may each be electroplated. The first die flag and the second die flag may be electrically isolated from the first lead and the second lead.
US11532533B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a processor die including circuit blocks, the circuit blocks including active devices of a first technology node; a power gating die including power semiconductor devices of a second technology node, the second technology node larger than the first technology node; and a first redistribution structure including first metallization patterns, the first metallization patterns including power supply source lines and power supply ground lines, where a first subset of the circuit blocks is electrically coupled to the power supply source lines and the power supply ground lines through the power semiconductor devices, and a second subset of the circuit blocks is permanently electrically coupled to the power supply source lines and the power supply ground lines.
US11532528B2
An electronic package and a method for manufacturing the electronic package are provided. The method includes forming a slope surface on at least one side surface of at least one of a plurality of electronic components, and then disposing the plurality of electronic components on a carrier structure, such that the two adjacent electronic components form a space by the slope surface. Afterwards, an encapsulation layer is formed on the carrier structure and filled into the space to cover the two adjacent electronic components so as to disperse stress on the electronic components through the design of the space to prevent cracking due to stress concentration.
US11532524B2
A device includes a semiconductor die. The semiconductor die includes a device layer, an interconnect layer over the device layer, a conductive pad over the interconnect layer, a conductive seed layer directly on the conductive pad, and a passivation layer encapsulating the conductive pad and the conductive seed layer.
US11532515B2
A method includes forming a bottom source/drain contact plug in a bottom inter-layer dielectric. The bottom source/drain contact plug is electrically coupled to a source/drain region of a transistor. The method further includes forming an inter-layer dielectric overlying the bottom source/drain contact plug. A source/drain contact opening is formed in the inter-layer dielectric, with the bottom source/drain contact plug exposed through the source/drain contact opening. A dielectric spacer layer is formed to have a first portion extending into the source/drain contact opening and a second portion over the inter-layer dielectric. An anisotropic etching is performed on the dielectric spacer layer, and a remaining vertical portion of the dielectric spacer layer forms a source/drain contact spacer. The remaining portion of the source/drain contact opening is filled to form an upper source/drain contact plug.
US11532514B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The method includes forming a conductive feature over a semiconductor substrate and forming a dielectric layer over the conductive feature. The method also includes forming an opening in the dielectric layer to expose the conductive feature. The method further includes forming a conductive material to overfill the opening. In addition, the method includes thinning the conductive material using a chemical mechanical polishing process. A slurry used in the chemical mechanical polishing process includes an iron-containing oxidizer that oxidizes a portion of the conductive material.
US11532511B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes following operations. A first substrate including a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, and a metallic pad disposed over the first side is received. A dielectric structure including a first trench directly above the metallic pad is formed. A second trench is formed in the dielectric structure and a portion of the first substrate. A sacrificial layer is formed to fill the first trench and the second trench. A third trench is formed directly above the metallic pad. A barrier ring and a bonding structure are formed in the third trench. A bonding layer is disposed to bond the first substrate to a second substrate. A portion of the second side of the first substrate is removed to expose the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer is removed by an etchant.
US11532504B2
A method includes forming a first and a second contact opening to reveal a first and a second source/drain region, respectively, forming a mask layer having a first and a second portion in the first and the second contact openings, respectively, forming a first and a second sacrificial ILD in the first and the second contact openings, respectively, removing the first sacrificial ILD from the first contact opening, filling a filler in the first contact opening, and etching the second sacrificial ILD. The filler protects the first portion of the mask layer from being etched. An ILD is formed in the second contact opening and on the second portion of the mask layer. The filler and the first portion of the mask layer are removed using a wet etch to reveal the first contact opening. A contact plug is formed in the first contact opening.
US11532498B2
A method comprises forming a plurality of interconnect structures including a dielectric layer, a metal line and a redistribution line over a carrier, attaching a semiconductor die on a first side of the plurality of interconnect structures, forming an underfill layer between the semiconductor die and the plurality of interconnect structures, mounting a top package on the first side the plurality of interconnect structures, wherein the top package comprises a plurality of conductive bumps, forming an encapsulation layer over the first side of the plurality of interconnect structures, wherein the top package is embedded in the encapsulation layer, detaching the carrier from the plurality of interconnect structures and mounting a plurality of bumps on a second side of the plurality of interconnect structures.
US11532496B2
A load port includes a first pin projecting on a dock plate and provided on the dock plate so as to be pushed down, and a first detection unit provided on the base portion and configured to detect that the dock plate is located at a first position. The first detection unit includes a movable member capable of displacing in a moving direction of the dock plate, and a first sensor configured to detect the displacement of the movable member. The movable member is arranged at a position to abut against the first pin that is in a pushed down state in a process in which the dock plate moves from a second position to the first position.
US11532494B2
A system and/or method for coating a substrate. The system may include a chuck for holding and rotating the substrate, a dispensing subsystem for dispensing a coating material onto the substrate, and a shield member. The shield member may be movable towards and away from the substrate during the coating procedure. The shield member may have an inverted funnel shape. The shield member may include a central chamber through which a solvent vapor flows and a peripheral chamber that is fluidly separated from the central chamber through which a gas flows. During a coating procedure, the shield member may be moved very close to the substrate and the solvent vapor and gas may flow onto the substrate to create a solvent rich ambient around the substrate and prevent aerosols of the coating material from redepositing onto the substrate after being flung off due to spinning of the substrate.
US11532485B2
In a gate last metal gate process for forming a transistor, a dielectric layer is formed over an intermediate transistor structure, the intermediate structure including a dummy gate electrode, typically formed of polysilicon. Various processes, such as patterning the polysilicon, planarizing top layers of the structure, and the like can remove top portions of the dielectric layer, which can result in decreased control of gate height when a metal gate is formed in place of the dummy gate electrode, decreased control of fin height for finFETs, and the like. Increasing the resistance of the dielectric layer to attack from these processes, such as by implanting silicon or the like into the dielectric layer before such other processes are performed, results in less removal of the top surface, and hence improved control of the resulting structure dimensions and performance.
US11532478B2
A method for activating implanted dopants and repairing damage to dopant-implanted GaN to form n-type or p-type GaN. A GaN substrate is implanted with n- or p-type ions and is subjected to a high-temperature anneal to activate the implanted dopants and to produce planar n- or p-type doped areas within the GaN having an activated dopant concentration of about 1018-1022 cm−3. An initial annealing at a temperature at which the GaN is stable at a predetermined process temperature for a predetermined time can be conducted before the high-temperature anneal. A thermally stable cap can be applied to the GaN substrate to suppress nitrogen evolution from the GaN surface during the high-temperature annealing step. The high-temperature annealing can be conducted under N2 pressure to increase the stability of the GaN. The annealing can be conducted using laser annealing or rapid thermal annealing (RTA).
US11532477B2
A self-assembled nanostructure comprises first domains and second domains. The first domains comprise a first block of a block copolymer material and an activatable catalyst. The second domains comprise a second block and substantially without the activatable catalyst. The activatable catalyst is capable of generating catalyst upon application of activation energy, and the generated catalyst is capable of reacting with a metal oxide precursor to provide a metal oxide. A semiconductor structure comprises such self-assembled nanostructure on a substrate.
US11532476B2
A laser crystallizing apparatus includes a first light source unit configured to emit a first input light having a linearly polarized laser beam shape. A second light source unit is configured to emit a second input light having a linearly polarized laser beam shape. A polarization optical system is configured to rotate the first input light and/or the second input light at a predetermined rotation angle. An optical system is configured to convert the first input light and the second input light, which pass through the polarization optical system, into an output light. A target substrate is seated on a stage and output light is directed onto the target substrate. A monitoring unit is configured to receive the first input light or the second input light from the polarization optical system and measure a laser beam quality thereof.
US11532470B2
A method includes providing a jig including a predetermined center and a magnetron installed on the jig; rotating the magnetron and obtaining a measured first magnetic flux density at the predetermined center of the jig; defining a first area of the magnetron based on the measured first magnetic flux density; rotating the magnetron and measuring a plurality of second magnetic flux densities within the first area of the magnetron; deriving a measured second magnetic flux density among the plurality of second magnetic flux densities; comparing the measured second magnetic flux density with a predetermined threshold; and performing an operation based on the comparison.
US11532465B2
A parallelepipedal low-pressure plasma chamber body of glass is disclosed. The low-pressure plasma chamber may have electrodes at opposing sides of the low-pressure plasma chamber body. Furthermore, the low-pressure plasma chamber may have at opposing sides a door and a rear wall closure. The door and rear wall closure may in each case have at least one media connection in order to achieve a uniform gas flow in the low-pressure plasma chamber. The door may be assembled on the collar of the low-pressure plasma chamber body which extends radially away from the longitudinal axis of the low-pressure plasma chamber body. The low-pressure plasma chamber body is preferably produced using the pressing method or blow-and-blow method, in an analogous manner to industrial glass bottle production.
US11532462B2
Implementations disclosed herein generally relate to systems and methods of protecting a substrate support in a process chamber from cleaning fluid during a cleaning process. The method of cleaning the process chamber includes positioning in the process chamber a cover substrate above a substrate support and a process kit that separates a purge volume from a process volume. The method of cleaning includes flowing a purge gas in the purge volume to protect the substrate support and flowing a cleaning fluid to a process volume above the cover substrate, flowing the cleaning fluid in the process volume to an outer flow path, and to an exhaust outlet in the chamber body. The purge volume is maintained at a positive pressure with respect to the process volume to block the cleaning fluid from the purge volume.
US11532460B2
In some examples, a gas mixer comprises a body and an orbital array of gas inlets for receiving one or more constituents of a mixed gas. A mixed gas outlet emits a mixed gas from the body and is disposed at a center of the orbital array of gas inlets. A central gas mixing point, separate from the mixed gas outlet, comprises an internal volume disposed within the body and is surrounded by the orbital array of gas inlet. The internal volume is in fluid communication with the orbital array of gas inlets via a corresponding array of gas pathways extending from the internal volume to each of the gas inlets. Each gas path length of the respective gas pathways is the same. Control circuitry is configured to control gas flow rate within each of the gas pathways individually.
US11532436B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes an electronic component main body including a first outer electrode disposed on a first side surface of a multilayer body, and a second outer electrode spaced apart from the first outer electrode and disposed on the first side surface, a first metal terminal connected to the first outer electrode, a second metal terminal connected to the second outer electrode, and an exterior material. The first side surface or a second side surface opposes a mounting surface of a mounting substrate, first and second inner electrode layers are disposed perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly to the mounting surface, and a portion of the first side surface, the first and second outer electrodes, and a portion of the first and second metal terminals are covered with the exterior material.
US11532434B2
A ceramic electronic device includes: a multilayer chip having a multilayer structure and a cover layer, the multilayer structure having a structure in which each of dielectric layers and each of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, respective one ends of the plurality of internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to a first end face and a second end face of the multilayer structure, the cover layer being provided on each of an upper face and a lower face of the multilayer structure in a stacking direction of the multilayer structure, a main component of the cover layer being ceramic, wherein in each of two side faces of the multiplayer structure, a color of a first region is different from a color of a second region that is positioned at a height different from the first region in the stacking direction.
US11532429B2
The present disclosure relates to electrical windings for a dry transformer which allows construction of a compact dry transformer even in relatively high voltage classes. For this purpose, the electrical winding has multiple windings of a winding conductor wound to form a coil. The coil has been embedded into a solid insulation body. In some embodiments, a coating of an electrically conductive material, comprising a resin matrix with at least 0.05% by weight of nanoscale filler, has been applied to at least one surface of the insulation body.
US11532426B2
An inductor includes a body, a coil disposed inside the body, and first and second external electrodes disposed on one surface of the body to respectively be connected to both ends of the coil. A recess portion is disposed in a region between the first and second external electrodes on the one surface of the body.
US11532421B2
Embodiment of the present invention includes a magnetic structure and a magnetic structure used in a direct current (DC) to DC energy converter. The magnetic structure has an E-core and a plate, with the plate positioned in contact or in near contact with the post surfaces of the E-core. The E-core has a base, a no-winding leg, a transformer leg, and an inductor leg. The no-winding leg, the transformer leg, and the inductor leg are perpendicular and magnetically in contact with the base. The plate is a flat slab with lateral dimensions generally larger than its thickness. The plate has a plate nose that overlaps a top no-winding leg surface of the no-winding leg with a no-winding gap area to form a no-winding gap with a no-winding gap reluctance. The plate also has a plate end that overlaps a top inductor leg surface of the inductor leg with an inductor gap area to form an inductor gap with an inductor gap reluctance. In some embodiments, e.g., where the duty cycle is less than 50 percent, the inductor gap reluctance will be designed to be less than the no-winding gap reluctance. In these cases, the majority of the magnetic flux that passes through the transformer leg will return through the inductor leg, instead of through the no-winding leg. The inductor and no-winding gap reluctances can he adjusted, so that the electromotive force applied to a charge passing through the inductor will partially cancel the electromotive force applied by the transformer secondary. The gap reluctance ratio can be defined, so that the difference in secondary and inductor electromotive forces is equal to the output voltage defined by an optimal no-ripple duty cycle. In this way no changing current is required through the inductor to create a dI/dt inductive voltage drop across the output inductor. Zero output current ripple is achieved. Various embodiments of the plate, plate shape, and no-winding leg are disclosed. These embodiments allow achieving a high ratio of no-winding gap reluctance to inductor gap reluctance, for practical, affordable magnetic material structures and aspect ratios. A high gap reluctance ratio enables zero output current ripple for the high transformer turns ratios that are needed to achieve high input to output voltage ratios. The embodiments therefore allow achieving low output current ripple for 48 V or higher input voltages, 1 V or lower output voltages, and high output currents.
US11532419B2
A coil component includes: a core having first and second shafts arranged in a line, and first and second opposed members; a case supporting the core and having a housing accommodating the core, and first and second outer walls opposing each other; a coil wound around the first and second shafts; and first and second metal terminals being electrically connected to the coil and being provided at the first and second outer walls, respectively. The first and second opposed members are opposed to each other and sandwich the first and second shafts therebetween.
US11532412B2
The present invention provides a samarium-cobalt magnet and a method for preparing the same. The method comprises mixing an alloy powder with a zirconium powder in an amount of 0.1-0.35 wt % of the weight of the alloy powder to form a mixture. The alloy powder is formed from 10.5-13.5 wt % of samarium, 12.5-15.5 wt % gadolinium, 50-55 wt % of cobalt, 13-17 wt % of iron, 4-10 wt % of copper, and 2-7 wt % of zirconium. The method brings about at low costs a samarium-cobalt magnet having a positive temperature coefficient of remanence.
US11532406B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods of synthesizing 18F-tetrafluoroborate (18F-TFB) via direct radiofluorination on boron trifluoride (BF3) to enhance both labeling yield and specific activity. Uses of 18F-TFB are also contemplated.
US11532401B2
A risk evaluation system is provided with an imager and a controller. The imager takes images at different times of equipment having zones that do not overlap each other, and outputs the images that are taken. The controller detects a contact count of a number of times a living body contacts each of the zones in accordance with the images, decides evaluation information about a contact infection risk in each of the zones in accordance with the contact count, and outputs the evaluation information.
US11532396B2
A method of data collection of stool data via a mobile device operable to enable monitoring of gastrointestinal function. A related method of long-term monitoring of patient gastrointestinal function, using one or more signal processing tools (e.g. machine learning algorithms) for automatically interpreting patient stool data, including real-time patient-assessments, in order to detect an adverse clinical event from patient stool data. A system for facilitating real-time monitoring the gastrointestinal function, the system comprising: a camera on a mobile device, a user interface that facilitates self-monitoring of stool characteristics, so as to create health-monitoring data; mobile device storage, server storage, and remote storage (with at least one communication link between them) for storing some or all of the health-monitoring data; and a processor for interpreting such health-monitoring data for clinical or other health-monitoring application.
US11532392B2
A method for using a meter and a meter (10) adapted to determine an analyte concentration reading, the meter comprising a display (12) adapted to display information to a user of the meter, the display including information directed to a post-meal test-time alarm (22″) that is adapted to remind the user to obtain a post-meal analyte concentration reading, and at least one user input mechanism (15) adapted to allow the user to activate the post-meal test-time alarm.
US11532389B1
A transdermal delivery device for dispensing personalized transdermal dosage formulations from a plurality of reservoirs, and a personalized method for producing the transdermal delivery device. A prescription fill service receives electronic prescription data for a plurality of transdermal dosage formulations to be administered to a given patient. The prescription fill service deposits transdermal dosage formulations in two or more reservoirs of a transdermal device substrate via 3D printing of printable pharmaceutical agent. The electronic prescription data may include transdermal dosage formulations data used to select printable pharmaceutical agent deposited in respective reservoirs. The electronic prescription data further may include medication regimen data for administration of transdermal medications, such as timing data for release of selected transdermal dosage formulations. In an embodiment, a finished transdermal delivery device includes barriers formed at reservoir openings, a controller, and a controlled energy source that degrades the barriers to actuate release of reservoir contents.
US11532387B2
A clinical information extraction and training mechanism is provided for automatically extracting and identifying information in plain text narratives in a set of electronic medical records. The mechanism segments each clinical note in a plurality of clinical notes into one or more identified sections, labels each identified section with an associated tag, and generate a tag data structure utilizing explicitly tagged sequences of sentences and associated tags. The mechanism performs statistical analysis of the identified sections that contain tags identified in the tag data structure to identify one or more valid stop/start conditions; extracts a first set of positive examples of sentences for a selected type of information, and then trains a cognitive system to identify sentences in the plurality of clinical notes that fail to have a tag associated with the selected type using the positive examples of sentences for different types of information.
US11532386B2
Provided are techniques for generating and customizing summarized notes. A template is selected from a plurality of templates based on a context using a machine learning model. The template includes one or more translatable string resources with variables to represent key attributes extracted from historical notes. A summarized note is generated using values of the key attributes for the variables in the translatable string resources of the template.
US11532384B2
An approach is disclosed for storing information tailored to a user and a condition to be accessed offline to fit on a local device. The information is retrieved from a set of online sources by a device. The retrieved information is tailored according to a criteria and the condition to form a curated data. An index is provided to access the curated data. The index is used to answer queries. Responsive to identifying a question without an answer found in the curated data when the device is off-line, searching for the answer when the device is online. Responsive to finding the answer online, pruning the curated data by eliminating lower importance data as needed to store higher importance data based on an availability of space allocated to store the curated data on the local storage device, and updating the curated data stored on the local device.
US11532375B2
A memory device includes a latch circuit suitable for storing an input address as a first latch address in response to a first latch signal, and storing an address, selected between the input address and the first latch address, as a second latch address in response to a second latch signal, a test determining circuit suitable for determining whether a memory cell fail occurs, based on test data, and generating a detection signal corresponding to the determination result, in response to a test mode signal, and a control signal generation circuit suitable for comparing the input address to the first and second latch addresses in response to the detection signal, and selectively enabling the first and second latch signals according to the comparison result.
US11532373B2
Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can perform operations including detecting a read error with respect to data residing in a block of the memory device, wherein the block is associated with a voltage offset bin, determining an order of a plurality of error-handling operations to be performed to recovery data associated with the read error, wherein the order is specified in a metadata table and is based on the voltage offset bin associated with the block, and performing at least one error-handling operation of the plurality of error-handling operations in the order specified by the metadata table.
US11532368B2
A method of adjusting operating conditions includes: a substrate; first conductive layers; a first semiconductor layers facing the first conductive layers; a second semiconductor layer connected to the first semiconductor layers; and an electric charge accumulating layer disposed between the first conductive layers and the first semiconductor layers. At a predetermined timing of a program operation, the second conductive layer which is one of the first conductive layers is supplied with a program voltage or a write pass voltage. The method executes: a first operation that supplies the second conductive layer with the write pass voltage and supplies a third conductive layer which is one of the plurality of first conductive layers with the program voltage; and a second operation that supplies the second conductive layer with a verify voltage and supplies the third conductive layer with a voltage.
US11532364B2
A controller for controlling a memory device including memory cells, the controller includes: a memory suitable for storing offset level information which is determined based on a sample read level according to characteristics of the memory cells and Gaussian modeling of the memory cells; and a processor suitable for generating an estimated read level based on the Gaussian madding and data read from the memory cells, and applying a compensated read voltage to control the memory device to perform read operations of the memory cells, wherein the compensated read voltage is generated by applying the offset level information to the estimated read level.
US11532358B2
Memory devices and systems with automatic background precondition upon powerup, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory array having a plurality of memory cells and a fuse array configured to store precondition data. The precondition data can identify a portion of the memory array, specify a predetermined precondition state, or a combination thereof. When the memory device powers on, the memory device can be configured to automatically retrieve the precondition data from the fuse array and/or to write memory cells in the portion of the memory array to the predetermined precondition state before executing an access command.
US11532356B2
A DPE memristor crossbar array system includes a plurality of partitioned memristor crossbar arrays. Each of the plurality of partitioned memristor crossbar arrays includes a primary memristor crossbar array and a redundant memristor crossbar array. The redundant memristor crossbar array includes values that are mathematically related to values within the primary memristor crossbar array. In addition, the plurality of partitioned memristor crossbar arrays includes a block of shared analog circuits coupled to the plurality of partitioned memristor crossbar arrays. The block of shared analog circuits is to determine a dot product value of voltage values generated by at least one partitioned memristor crossbar array of the plurality of partitioned memristor crossbar arrays.
US11532347B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for performing refresh operations on memory cells. A memory can include a group of memory cells and one or more additional memory cells whose data state is indicative of whether to refresh the group of memory cells. Circuitry is configured to apply a first voltage pulse to the group of memory cells to sense a data state of the memory cells of the group, apply, while the first voltage pulse is applied to the group of memory cells, a second voltage pulse having a greater magnitude than the first voltage pulse to the one or more additional memory cells to sense a data state of the one or more additional memory cells, and determine whether to perform a refresh operation on the group of memory cells based on the sensed data state of the one or more additional memory cells.
US11532345B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for self-referencing sensing schemes are described. A cell having two transistors, or other switching components, and one capacitor, such as a ferroelectric capacitor, may be sensed using a reference value that is specific to the cell. The cell may be read and sampled via one access line, and the cell may be used to generate a reference voltage and sampled via another access line. For instance, a first access line of a cell may be connected to one read voltage while a second access line of the cell is isolated from a voltage source; then the second access line may be connected to another read voltage while the first access line is isolate from a voltage source. The resulting voltages on the respective access lines may be compared to each other and a logic value of the cell determined from the comparison.
US11532336B2
A memory device including: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell rows; an address buffer configured to store addresses of target rows of the plurality of memory cell rows, wherein the addresses of the target rows have been repeatedly accessed; a minimum access output circuit configured to select, when there are a plurality of rows having a same minimum access count among the target rows, any one of the plurality of rows having the same minimum access count as a minimum access row based on a selection command value, and to output an index value of the minimum access row; and a control circuit configured to output a command instructing replacement of an address corresponding to the index value of the minimum access row with an address of an access row and storage of the address of the access row in the address buffer.
US11532322B2
The presently disclosed technology teaches integrating disc drive electronics into a transducer head. Decreased electrical transit times and data processing times can be achieved by placing the electronics on or within the transducer head because electrical connections may be made physically shorter than in conventional systems. The electronics may include one or more of a control system circuit, a write driver, and/or a data buffer. The control system circuit generates a modified clock signal that has a fixed relation to phase and frequency of a bit-detected reference signal that corresponds to positions of patterned bits on the disc. The write driver writes outgoing data bits received from an external connection to off-head electronics directly to the writer synchronized with the modified clock signal. The data buffer stores and converts digital data bits sent from the off-head electronics to an analog signal that is synchronized with the modified clock signal.
US11532321B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device including a disk, a head that writes data with respect to the disk and reads data from the disk, and a controller that overwrites a second track on a first track in a radial direction of the disk, performs first alternative processing of recording a first user sector in a first region when writing of the first user sector available by a user in the first track is disabled, and performs second alternative processing different from the first alternative processing of recording a first parity sector in a second region when writing of the first parity sector acquired by an XOR operation in the first track is disabled.
US11532316B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for decoding an encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The apparatus comprises a core decoder for decoding the encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The core decoder includes a fast Fourier transform, FFT, module implementation based on a Cooley-Tuckey algorithm. The FFT module is configured to determine a discrete Fourier transform, DFT. Determining the DFT involves recursively breaking down the DFT into small FFTs based on the Cooley-Tucker algorithm and using radix-4 if a number of points of the FFT is a power of 4 and using mixed radix if the number is not a power of 4. Performing the small FFTs involves applying twiddle factors. Applying the twiddle factors involves referring to pre-computed values for the twiddle factors. The present disclosure further relates to an apparatus for decoding an encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream, in which the core decoder is configured to decode an LPC filter that has been quantized using a line spectral frequency, LSF, representation from the Unified Audio and Speech stream. Decoding the LPC filter from the Unified Audio and Speech stream comprises computing a first-stage approximation of a LSF vector, reconstructing a residual LSF vector, if an absolute quantization mode has been used for quantizing the LPC filter, determining inverse LSF weights for inverse weighting of the residual LSF vector by referring to pre-computed values for the inverse LSF weights or their respective corresponding LSF weights, inverse weighting the residual LSF vector by the determined inverse LSF weights, and calculating the LPC filter based on the inversely-weighted residual LSF vector and the first-stage approximation of the LSF vector. The present disclosure further relates to corresponding methods and storage media.
US11532313B2
Some implementations relate to performing speech biasing, NLU biasing, and/or other biasing based on historical assistant interaction(s). It can be determined, for one or more given historical interactions of a given user, whether to affect future biasing for (1) the given user account, (2) additional user account(s), and/or (3) the shared assistant device as a whole. Some implementations disclosed herein additionally and/or alternatively relate to: determining, based on utterance(s) of a given user to a shared assistant device, an association of first data and second data; storing the association as accessible to a given user account of the given user; and determining whether to store the association as also accessible by additional user account(s) and/or the shared assistant device.
US11532305B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a memory configured to store at least one instruction; and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to: obtain usage information on an application installed in the electronic apparatus, obtain a natural language understanding model, among a plurality of natural language understanding models, corresponding to the application based on the usage information, perform natural language understanding of a user voice input related to the application based on the natural language understanding model corresponding to the application, and perform an operation of the application based on the preformed natural language understanding.
US11532301B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for inference reduction in natural language processing using semantic similarity-based caching. In various examples, first automatic speech recognition (ASR) data representing a first natural language input may be determined. A cache may be searched using the first ASR data. A first skill associated with the first ASR data may be determined from the cache. In some examples, first intent data representing a semantic interpretation of the first natural language input data may be determined by using a first natural language process associated with the first skill.
US11532284B2
The present embodiment relates to a technology for driving a display device, and provides a technology in which a pixel driving device determines whether or not an overcurrent flows through a driving voltage line, and, if it is determined that an overcurrent flows therethrough, controls pixel data or an analog voltage output to a pixel so as to reduce a driving current.
US11532279B2
An OLED display device includes display panel and a panel driver. The panel driver receives input image data at an input frame frequency and determines whether the input image data represent a still image. When the input image data do not represent the still image, the panel driver drives the display panel at a first output frame frequency substantially equal to the input frame frequency. When the input image data represent the still image, the panel driver drives the display panel at a second output frame frequency lower than the input frame frequency for a low frequency driving time and drives the display panel at a third output frame frequency higher than the second output frame frequency for a high frequency insertion time determined by one of a panel characteristic of the display panel and a representative gray level of the input image data, after the low frequency driving time.
US11532277B2
A display panel includes a second display region and a first display region which are arranged side by side in a direction in which data signal lines extend, and a source driver is provided at one edge of the second display region. Switches are provided between data signal lines in the first display region and data signal lines in the second display region, and the switches are turned off when an on-level scanning signal is applied to a scanning signal line in the second display region. A period during which the on-level scanning signal is applied to each scanning signal line in the second display region is shorter than a period during which the on-level scanning signal is applied to each scanning signal line in the first display region.
US11532274B2
A driving backplane includes: a base, and first, second and third insulating layers, pixel driving circuits, data lines and first power supply voltage lines that are disposed on the base. The pixel driving circuit is electrically connected to a data line and a first power supply voltage line. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, and a first conductive pattern located on a side, away from the base, of a gate of the driving transistor and a gate of the first switching transistor. The first conductive pattern is electrically connected to the gate of the driving transistor through a first via, and to a second electrode of the first switching transistor through a second via. An orthogonal projection of the first conductive pattern on the base is located within an orthogonal projection of the first power supply voltage line on the base.
US11532262B2
A display driver includes first and second level shifters, respectively receiving a digital signal's most significant bit (MSB) and the digital signal's non-MSB. The first level shifter includes a first input terminal, a first output terminal via which a signal input to the first input terminal is output, a second input terminal, and a second output terminal via which a signal input to the second input terminal is output. The second level shifter includes a third input terminal, a third output terminal via which a signal input to the third input terminal is output, a fourth input terminal, and a fourth output terminal via which a signal input to the fourth input terminal is output. The first input terminal receives an inverted MSB, the second input terminal receives the MSB, the third input terminal receives the non-MSB, and the fourth input terminal receives the inverted non-MSB.
US11532258B2
A display device for displaying an image, includes: a data line driver which includes a buffer configured to supply a reference voltage to a load including pixels and a boost circuit configured to supply a charging voltage to the load including the pixels; and a calibration unit which controls the boost circuit to supply the charging voltage to the load for a driving time and controls the driving time according to a difference between a target voltage and a voltage formed after charge sharing is performed in the load to which the charging voltage is supplied.
US11532255B2
A display device comprises a display substrate, first interconnections, second interconnections, a driving circuit and a polarizing plate. The display substrate includes a bend portion which is curved with respect to an axis parallel to a first direction. The first interconnections extend in the first direction and are on the display substrate. The second interconnections are on the display substrate, connected to the first interconnections and extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The driving circuit is electrically connected to the first interconnections and the second interconnections and provides driving signals to the first interconnections and the second interconnections. The polarizing plate is on the display substrate and overlaps the first interconnections and the second interconnections.
US11532250B2
Information processing device, information processing method, screen, and information drawing system
There is provided an information processing device including an information acquisition unit that acquires information from an information providing device that provides the information related to quantitative numerical values to be grasped by the medical practitioner involved with a medical practice, an image data generation unit that generates image data related to the acquired information, and a control unit that controls an installation position of a light source irradiating drawing light having illuminance visually recognizable under a shadowless lamp or an operation state of an optical system that scans an irradiation position of the drawing light so as to draw the image data.
US11532244B2
Ultrasound (US) simulation systems and methods are provided, which utilize computer tomography (CT) data to generate US simulation images, offline or online. Systems and methods repeatedly derive and display consecutive US simulation images that correspond to consecutively-derived corresponding US slices (according to the changing locations and orientations of a dummy US transducer mimicking the US transducer with respect to a physical patient model)—that define geometrically US simulation regions. The US simulation images are at least partly derived from CT data using a CT to US conversion model. Acoustic parameters (e.g., tissue density, acoustic attenuation and impedance) are calculated and integrated per pixel, along beams in the US slice, to form the US image. Additional modelling may be used to calculate reflection and scattering and their effects on the image pixels, and enhancements such as animation and flow data may be added.
US11532236B2
A method for policy-based traffic encounter assessment to detect and avoid traffic includes determining, by a processor, an ownship predicted trajectory of an aircraft. The aircraft is the ownship. The method also includes determining a traffic predicted trajectory of one or more other aircraft in the vicinity of the ownship. The one or more other aircraft includes traffic. The method also includes assessing an encounter between the ownship and the traffic, wherein assessing the encounter between the ownship and the traffic includes applying an encounter assessment policy to the traffic predicted trajectory and the ownship predicted trajectory. The method further includes generating encounter assessment data in response to assessing the encounter between the ownship and the traffic. The encounter assessment data is used to at least detect and avoid the traffic by the ownship.
US11532222B2
Disclosed are a safety service system and a method thereof. The safety service system comprises: a collection unit for collecting position information and image information related to a protected person who is registered by a protector; and a service providing unit for providing the position information and the image information to one or both of the protector and a security company upon detection of a signal that the protected person is in danger.
US11532220B2
A method of capturing instrument data using a communications device includes sending an actuation signal to a camera to take a photograph of at least one instrument, one of either transmitting or receiving a trigger message between the communications device and the at least one instrument, storing the photograph in a memory on the communications device, determining associated information for the photograph, and transmitting the photograph, associated information and user information to a network. A communications device has a camera having an actuator, at least one communications link, a memory, and a processor configured to execute instructions that cause the processor to: send an actuation signal to the camera to take a photograph of an instrument when a user activates the actuator; send a trigger message to the instrument to save instrument data; store the photograph in the memory with associated information about the photo including user information; and transmit at least the photo, associated information, and the user information to a remote location.
US11532214B2
A bonus round of a video keno game may consist of a series of bonus game instances. During a bonus game instance, a game controller may identify a set of bonus game pieces and select a set of bonus outcome identifiers from a bonus outcome pool. A win amount may be determined based on the number of matches between the set of bonus outcome identifiers and the set of bonus game pieces. The bonus outcome identifiers may include persistent identifiers and non-persistent identifiers. Persistent identifiers may be removed from the bonus outcome pool for subsequent bonus game instances in the series. Additionally or alternatively, the bonus game pieces corresponding to the persistent identifiers may continue to be matches for the subsequent bonus game instances in the series.
US11532212B2
An electronic gaming device, including a display, a game controller with a processor, and memory, implements a feature having multiple instances. During the feature, for each instance, multiple symbols are selected from a set of symbols, which includes special symbols having associated values, and the selected symbols are displayed in a symbol array. A current value that is persisted across instances of the feature is also displayed. For an instance, a determination is made as to whether at least one selected special symbol has an associated value that is greater than the current value. If at least one selected special symbol has an associated value that is greater than the current value, the current value is replaced with the largest value associated with the at least one selected special symbol. A player is awarded an amount for the current value when all instances of the feature have been completed.
US11532206B2
In one embodiment, an intermediary gaming trusted electronic device for use with an untrusted PED may operate to securely communicate with a gaming apparatus and securely communicate with the associated untrusted PED. The intermediary gaming trusted device is able to support interaction between the gaming apparatus and the associated untrusted PED. In another embodiment, a system to authorize a mobile electronic device to play games of chance may include a gaming system manager and a docking station. The docking station can be configured to: detect whether the mobile electronic device is connected to the docking station; and determine whether the mobile electronic device, or its user, is authorized to play a game of chance on the mobile electronic device.
US11532205B2
A robot management system (RMS) includes a plurality of service robots deployed within an operations venue that includes a plurality of gaming devices, an operator terminal presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) to an operator, and a robot management system server (RMS server) configured in networked communication with the plurality of service robots. The RMS server is configured to: identify location data for the service robots; create an interactive overlay map of the operations venue that includes a static map of the operations venue, overlay data showing the location data of the plurality of service robots over the static map, and an interactive icon for each service robot of the plurality of service robots; display, via the GUI, the overlay map; receive a first input indicating a selection of a first interactive icon associated with a first service robot; and display current status information associated with the first service robot.
US11532204B2
In one embodiment, a system, apparatus, and method for social gaming may include a gaming machine configured to play a game of chance and produce game information. A social gaming server can be configured to communicate with the gaming machine, may establish a remote gaming session between the gaming machine and a user device, and may distribute the portion of the game information to the user device.
US11532200B2
A gaming machine having a display to display symbols at a plurality of display positions and a plurality of prize identifiers. The gaming machine also includes a game controller to cause a display to display a plurality of symbols at the display positions and visually moves a number of a plurality of prize identifiers at a first speed. If a trigger condition occurs with the displayed symbols, the game controller selects a prize identifier of the prize identifiers to be upgraded while visually moving the selected prize identifier being upgraded at a second speed onto the display. The game controller completes the upgrading on the display while the selected prize identifier is being displayed.
US11532198B1
A re-locatable safety deposit box facility that allows for 24/7 access by authorized personnel to their safety deposit boxes without the need for any attendants at the facility. The facility is self-contained and re-locatable, such that it can be moved from one location to another location. In some embodiments, the facility may be, for example, a standard size shipping container. It has interior dimensions that are sufficient to house an array of safety deposit boxes. The container may also be equipped with devices that may be used to lift the entire container up so that it may be moved to another location.
US11532193B2
A venue automation environment is disclosed in which various forms of automation and user integration can be managed across one or more activities at one or more venues. Venue automation and integration can include automation at various stages of participant engagement including before, during, and after visiting one or more venues and participating in one or more activities at a venue. Venue automation and integration can include automated itinerary generation, activity reservation, participant identification, access control, payment managing, scoring, media capture (e.g., audio, photo, and video), and venue management.
US11532186B1
A system, method and computer program product for communicating data of a vehicle. The system includes a data recording device and a data transmitting device coupled to the vehicle. The data recording device is configured to receive at least a vehicle datum during operation of the vehicle, determine a subset of the at least a vehicle datum to be stored, wherein the subset of data is stored during operation of the vehicle, and store the subset of the at least a vehicle datum as a stored vehicle data, wherein the stored vehicle data comprises a diagnostic datum of a vehicle component. The data transmitting device is configured to initiate communication with an independent data communication device as a function of a connection to a network and transmit the stored vehicle data to the independent data communication device as a function of the connection to the network.
US11532184B2
A surveying device is operated to measure a surface profile of a terrain of a worksite and generate surface profile data indicative of the surface profile. A work machine is operated to move along a route over the terrain in accordance with an operating parameter and generates machine operational data indicative of the operating parameter. A navigation system determines the route and generates route data. A processing unit processes the route data, machine operational data and surface profile data to generate monitored operating condition data indicative of a monitored operating condition of the machine.
US11532168B2
A deep neural network(s) (DNN) may be used to detect objects from sensor data of a three dimensional (3D) environment. For example, a multi-view perception DNN may include multiple constituent DNNs or stages chained together that sequentially process different views of the 3D environment. An example DNN may include a first stage that performs class segmentation in a first view (e.g., perspective view) and a second stage that performs class segmentation and/or regresses instance geometry in a second view (e.g., top-down). The DNN outputs may be processed to generate 2D and/or 3D bounding boxes and class labels for detected objects in the 3D environment. As such, the techniques described herein may be used to detect and classify animate objects and/or parts of an environment, and these detections and classifications may be provided to an autonomous vehicle drive stack to enable safe planning and control of the autonomous vehicle.
US11532167B2
A vehicle can traverse an environment along a first region and detect an obstacle impeding progress of the vehicle. The vehicle can determine a second region that is adjacent to the first region and associated with a direction of travel opposite the first region. The vehicle can use a state machine to determine an action (e.g., an oncoming action) to utilize the second region to overtake the obstacle. By comparing a cost to a cost threshold and/or to a cost associated with another action (e.g., a “stay in lane” action), the vehicle, using the state machine, can determine a target trajectory that traverses through the second region and can traverse the environment based on the target trajectory to avoid, for example, the obstacle in the environment while maintaining a safe distance from the obstacle and/or other entities in the environment.
US11532162B2
A vehicle recognition unit of an information presenting device specifies a position of each of a plurality of vehicles, based on images captured by a plurality of imaging devices installed at a construction site. A vehicle designating unit receives designation of a designated vehicle, among the plurality of specified vehicles. A display control unit outputs a signal for displaying in an overlapping manner a proximity plot representing a position of another vehicle whose distance from the designated vehicle is less than a threshold on an overhead image of the construction site.
US11532150B1
A computer-implemented method comprises receiving a plurality of sampled data points, each data point including a y value and a t value; defining a plurality of bins; defining an array of elements; dividing the sampled data points into a plurality of sections; assigning a plurality of polynomial equations, one polynomial equation to each section, each polynomial equation having a waveform that fits the data points of the associated section; determining a plurality of section bin times, one section bin time for each bin in each section, each section bin time determined using the polynomial equation and indicating an amount of time that the waveform has values in the range of one of the bins; and adding the section bin time for each bin in each section to the histogram data in the array element pointed to by the number of the bin.
US11532145B2
An image captured by a camera can be processed by a scanning application to identify multiple regions within the image that are suitable for scanning. These regions can be detected and selected for scanning automatically. The captured regions for the single image can be stored as individual image content files.
US11532141B1
User interfaces, systems, methods, devices, media, and instructions are described for a client/contractor management and communication system with augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) interface elements. In one embodiment, a device receives finish and inspiration information associated with a home improvement project from a client and structures this information into finish pin data with associated project context information and 3D model data. The device uses this information to automatically generate and update a project chart for the project, along with 3D models for various subproject positions within a project chart. This information is then presented to the client and associated contractors as part of a user interface for a client/contractor system. A project chart interface enables access to 3D models in an AR or VR interface to display models of the project and various project data associated with different positions in a project chart.
US11532131B2
Embodiments relate to using sensor data and location data from a device to generate augmented reality images. A mobile device pose can be determined (a geographic position, direction and a three dimensional orientation of the device) within a location. A type of destination in the location can be identified and multiple destinations can be identified, with the mobile device receiving queue information about the identified destinations from a server. A first image can be captured. Based on the queue information, one of the identified destinations can be selected. The geographic position of each identified destination can be identified, and these positions can be combined with the mobile device pose to generate a second image. Finally, an augmented reality image can be generated by combining the first image and the second image, the augmented reality image identifying the selected one destination.
US11532120B2
This method for hole filling of a point cloud having at least one hole comprises:—detecting (2) boundary points of the point cloud;—grouping (12) the detected boundary points in boundary regions based on their spatial adjacency;—covering (16) each boundary region with at least one plane; and—inserting (18) new points in the point cloud using the planes covering the boundary regions.
US11532116B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described herein to model divergent beam ray paths between locations on a roof (e.g., of a structure) and modeled locations of the sun at different times of the day and different days during a week, month, year, or another time period. A graphical user interface allows for visualization of the modeled ray paths and graphical manipulation of the resolution and parameters of the modeling process.
US11532113B2
At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method for animating a display region, windows, or views displayed on a display of a device. The method includes starting at least two animations. The method further includes determining the progress of each animation. The method further includes completing each animation based on a single timer.
US11532110B2
Manipulating images using computationally expensive machine learning schemes can be implemented using server-generated models of the machine learning schemes that are transmitted to a client device for application. The schemes can include convolutional neural networks having a kernel comprising a plurality of low-rank matrices.
US11532105B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: capturing, by an electronic mirroring device, a video feed received from a camera of the electronic mirroring device, the video feed depicting a user; selecting, by the electronic mirroring device, a first whole-body outfit; displaying, by the electronic mirroring device, a representation of the user wearing the first whole-body outfit; detecting, by the electronic mirroring device, a hand gesture performed by the user in the video feed; and in response to detecting the hand gesture, transitioning, by the electronic mirroring device, the representation of the user from wearing the first whole-body outfit to wearing a second whole-body outfit.
US11532103B2
The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that are capable of distributing higher-quality G-PCC streams. When G-PCC streams obtained by encoding Point Cloud data according to G-PCC are generated, there are generated spatial positional information indicating spatial positions of respective pieces of partial Point Cloud data that represent individual parts into which the Point Cloud data is segmented, and grouping information that groups the partial Point Cloud data. The present technology is applicable to a generating apparatus that generates G-PCC streams, for example.
US11532099B2
A method of compiling performance metrics for racing competitors by analyzing videos of the competitors' prior races, includes determining: (a) the GPS coordinates of race track landmarks that appear in the videos, (b) within each of the videos' images, the position and orientation of a part for each of the competitors, (c) for each of the videos' images, the camera's extrinsic and intrinsic parameters, (d) the path of each of the competitors from the race's starting line to its finish line, (e) for each of the videos' images, the GPS coordinates of the part for each of the competitors, and (f) using the camera's frame rate, the performance metrics for each of the racing competitors.
US11532093B2
Systems and methods of automating the generation of an estimate of the first floor elevation of a building, using a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and an image of the front of the building. First, machine learning (ML) algorithms are used to estimate the height of the first floor of the building above ground from the image. The estimated height is added to a DTM height of the geographical area corresponding to the location of the building to provide an estimate of the FFE. The disclosed embodiments can be applied in estimating the first floor height of any kind of building. For example, single-family homes, townhomes, high rise buildings, stores, malls, shops, movie theaters, or any other building. Additionally, the disclosed embodiments are camera-agnostic and can be applied on any type of image collected by any type of camera.
US11532083B2
A method for determining an ROI in medical imaging may include receiving first position information related to a body contour of a subject with respect to a support from a flexible device configured with a plurality of position sensors. The flexible device may be configured to conform to the body contour of the subject, and the support may be configured to support the subject. The method may also include generating a 3D model of the subject based on the first position information. The method may further include determining an ROI of the subject based on the 3D model of the subject.
US11532074B2
A method is for providing a resultant image dataset for a volume of interest. In an embodiment, an X-ray image dataset for the volume of interest is received, having a first noise level. A trained generator function is received, a parameter of which is based on a first and a second training image dataset for a training volume of interest. The first and the second training image dataset include a first training noise level. In addition, a resultant image dataset for the volume of interest is determined by applying the trained generator function to input data comprising the X-ray image dataset, the resultant image dataset has a second noise level less than the first noise level. In addition, the resultant image dataset is provided. As such, a higher noise level can be accepted and/or a lower X-ray dose can be used in the acquisition of the X-ray image dataset.
US11532062B2
A usage rule specifies a number of tokens to access a vehicle. Authorization of a request to access the vehicle is based on receiving the number of tokens specified by the usage rule. The request is stored to an electronic ledger. Actuation of the vehicle is based on the request being authorized. An allocation rule specifies the number of tokens allocated to each of an entity and the vehicle based on the request. Allocation of tokens to the entity and the vehicle is based on the allocation rule.
US11532060B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may determine one or more characteristics of an autonomous vehicle, determine one or more characteristics of one or more road segments of a geographic area, determine at least one geographic zone for the autonomous vehicle within the geographic area based at least on the characteristics of the autonomous vehicle and the characteristics of the one or more road segments of the at least one geographic area, and match a request with the autonomous vehicle within the at least one geographic zone based at least in part on a request location and a destination location of the request being associated with the at least one geographic zone. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.
US11532055B2
A distributed energy resource (DER) device is coupled to a utility meter in a “behind-the-meter” configuration. The utility meter analyzes a commitment generated by the DER device to determine a specific operation performed by the DER device at a particular time. The utility meter analyzes metrology data to identify an “event” associated with the particular time and then attempts to map the identified event back to the DER device based on a library of events associated with different DER devices. The utility meter also attempts to map the identified event to the specific operation set forth in the commitment. If the utility meter can successfully map the identified event to both the DER device and to the specific operation set forth in the commitment, then the utility meter generates a validated commitment. The validated commitment can be used to facilitate an energy market settlement process.
US11532054B2
A system including a presentational layer with a graphical participant interface which receives data from a participate and passes said data to a workflow engine, a business logic layer including a computer processor, where the business logic layer receives payload data from said workflow engine and sends encrypted payload data to the data layer, and a data layer which includes a storage medium or combination of storage mediums including a blockchain, wherein said data layer receives encrypted payload data from said business logic layer and stores said encrypted payload data on the blockchain and on a shadowing relational database. The system generates dynamic accounting and bookkeeping methodologies without the use of a ledger by sequencing activity records of associated transaction participants, authorization provided to complete a transaction, and supporting documentation and processing them through a rule-based workflow engine.
US11532047B2
Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
US11532044B2
A computer implemented method for optimizing a delivery or settlement process for a plurality of portfolios of a plurality of participants. Data records indicative of obligations between the plurality of participants are identified. A weighted directed graph data structure is generated that comprises vertex data records representing the plurality of participants and edge data records representing the obligations between the participants. All paths of edge data records where a vertex data record is reachable from itself in the weighted directed graph data structure are identified. The data records indicative of obligations between the plurality of participants are altered based on the identified paths.
US11532038B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing dynamic bidding notifications and price guidance for buyers are presented. The system receives a selection of a present item listing and accesses historical auction data for a set of historical item listings. The system generates a dynamic bidding model for bidding on the present item and generates one or more bidding notifications based on the dynamic bidding model. The system then causes presentation of the one or more bidding notifications on a client device.
US11532037B2
A management server is configured to perform a process including: obtaining, when an electric vehicle is returned, returning date and time, a returning location, and a use history of a vehicle; setting a fee-returning rate in accordance with a SOC at the time of renting, a SOC at the time of returning, the number of times of performing behaviors contributing to deterioration of a battery, and a leaving time in a state contributing to the deterioration of the battery; setting a correction coefficient in accordance with a cause of a behavior contributing to the deterioration; setting the fee-returning rate in accordance with the returning location and the returning time; determining the fee-returning rate; and performing a process for providing points corresponding to the fee-returning amount.
US11532036B2
Digital image ordering based on object position and aesthetics is leveraged in a digital medium environment. According to various implementations, an image analysis system is implemented to identify visual objects in digital images and determine aesthetics attributes of the digital images. The digital images can then be arranged in way that prioritizes digital images that include relevant visual objects and that exhibit optimum visual aesthetics.
US11532035B2
A computer-implemented method includes providing a user interface that allows selection of a product attribute and in the alternative allows selection of a previously defined rule. When a product attribute is selected in the user interface, a rule under construction that describes what products are to appear on a retail webpage is altered based on the selected product attribute. When a previously-defined rule is selected in the user interface, the rule under construction is modified so that the rule under construction uses the selected rule.
US11532032B2
The disclosure relates to technology for determining locations of approaching recipients of online pre-requested or pre-ordered goods/services. Physical waiting queues and/or wait-lists are managed so that the goods/services will be provided without excessive wait times or unacceptably long wait lines or inferior quality in the provided goods/services. Resolution of location determination becomes finer and finer in one embodiment as the recipients get closer to the provisioning spot. If there is a change of plans, the recipients are notified ahead of time so as to avoid last minute surprises or disappointments.
US11532020B2
A system and method for adaptive advertisement management for the serving of vehicle description pages and an automated customer engagement thereof. The system is a cloud-based network containing a campaign database, an analytics database, an adaptive advertisement management, a short message service server with automated response capabilities, and user mobile and compute devices that transmit a vehicle description page associated with an advertisement campaign embedded with a communication initiator for display on a customer computing device. Taken together or in part, said system optimizes advertising campaigns across multiple platforms, provides strong analytics for all advertising types while allowing users to engage with advertising quickly and in a real-time automated fashion.
US11532016B2
According to some aspects, disclosed methods and systems may include storing, in a local storage of a device, a plurality of advertisements; and outputting for display first content comprising a first portion of a first set of advertisements associated with a first campaign period. The disclosed methods and system may also include, in response to an expiration of the first campaign period, outputting for display second content comprising a second portion of the first set of advertisements based on a first set of one or more advertising rules.
US11532013B2
A method includes receiving, from a computing device, a request for content hosted by a content provider and determining one or more experiment variations for the requested content that the computing device is assigned to based, at least in part, on the request. The method further includes generating, by a processing device, a hash value of the one or more experiment variations and transmitting the hash value to the computing device and to a caching server.
US11532009B1
A food portioning system may include a food plate body and a scale associated with the food plate body to sense a weight of food carried thereby. The system may also include wireless communications circuitry coupled to the scale, and a mobile wireless communications device associated with a given user. The mobile wireless communications device may be configured to obtain a user-selected food recipe from the given user, obtain user health data associated with the given user, and obtain a desired consumable food weight for the food plate body based upon the user-selected food recipe and the user health data associated with the given user. The mobile wireless communications device may also be configured to wirelessly communicate with the wireless communications circuitry to obtain a sensed consumable food weight, compare the sensed consumable food weight with the desired consumable food weight, and generate a notification based upon the comparing.
US11532001B2
Disclosed are embodiments for the aggregation and analysis of vehicle prices via a geo-specific model. Data may be collected at various geo-specific levels such as a ZIP-Code level to provide greater data resolution. Data sets taken into account may include demarcation point data sets and data sets based on vehicle transactions. A demarcation point data set may be based on consumer market factors that influence car-buying behavior. Vehicle transactions may be classified into data sets for other vehicles having similar characteristics to the vehicle. A geo-specific statistical pricing model may then be applied to the data sets based on similar characteristics to a particular vehicle to produce a price estimation for the vehicle.
US11531993B2
Systems and methods for customizing business applications based upon user intent scores is described. A machine learning model trained to specifically predict when a user is likely to engage in a specific activity while interacting with the business application may be trained using data regarding prior interactions between a business application and a plurality of users. The machine learning model may thereafter provide a probability score for a particular user, the probability score indicating the likelihood that the user will engage in the specific activity for which the model has been trained to predict. The probability may be combined with a business value factor to produce a user intent score indicating the relative value of the user engaging in the specific activity. A business application comprising an app executing on a client device, a webpage, an automated menu at a call-in service center, or human operator interacting with the user at a call in the service center may be customized for the particular user based upon the user intent scores.
US11531978B2
Embodiments of the invention make consumer application adoption more efficient by giving suppliers access to the desired target audience by displaying the applications to the right audience. Suppliers can provide criteria for the kinds of users they are looking to target using constraints. Embodiments of the invention enable viewers that match the constraints to see the service. The user gets to see an automatically generated application set, that is instantly available, with a high probability of containing the application the user is likely to seek. Identity and Payment support are built into the platform, such that the user no longer needs to register with each application or set up payment with each application. In addition, the platform reduces bandwidth consumption, storage front print, and power consumption of the user device by choosing when and which modules to download to the user device.
US11531977B2
A system and method allows users to make purchases by charging or funding a prepaid debit card with their cell phone accounts by simulating a user roaming with their mobile device.
US11531968B2
A system to manage records in an orthopedic healthcare practice includes a server and a memory that stores patient data records and inventory equipment records. A check-in client computing device and first and second HCP client computing devices run apps that program respective devices to check-in patients for appointments, retrieve, and store patient healthcare data at the server. Display screens show approved appointments and the apps sort appointments as selected. The patient check-in app verifies that patients meet check-in requirements and locks the appointments of patients who do not. Apps retrieve patient data for the approved appointments and sort them. The server stores examination, treatment, and prescription data. Orthopedic equipment inventory delivery data and returns data are stored. The server is programmed to communicate with all apps in their form and format of data and to translate all disparate data types into that form and format.
US11531967B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for data management whereby a data management application manages data across a managed service environment, a mail server environment, and a client environment. The present invention allows a customer to optimize data management functions such as archiving, recovering, monitoring, authenticating, synchronizing, transferring, copying, stubbing, chunking, harvesting, and securing.
US11531957B2
In an embodiment, the methods and systems disclosed herein utilize a cloud-based service to accept measurements of commercial objects for storage in a database. In an embodiment, commercial objects are automatically grouped based on measured physical characteristics. In an embodiment, a build plan is generated to utilize the maximum amount of space possible in a shipping container based on the grouped commercial objects.
US11531945B2
A system, methods, and apparatus for point-in-time requirement tracking are disclosed. In an example embodiment, requirements for a project are stored in a database communicatively coupled to a server, the requirements including at least a first requirement stored in a first record and a second requirement stored in a second record. The server receives changes to the first requirement and the second requirement during the edit session and stores the changed first requirement to a third record and the changed second requirements to a fourth record. The server then provides the first and third records to a client device so that the client device can concurrently display the first requirement as specified in the first record and the first requirement as specified in the third record.
US11531932B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for compressing and/or distributing machine learning models. In one example, a computer-implemented method is provided to compress machine-learned models, which includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, a machine-learned model. The method includes selecting, by the one or more computing devices, a weight to be quantized and quantizing, by the one or more computing devices, the weight. The method includes propagating, by the one or more computing devices, at least a part of a quantization error to one or more non-quantized weights and quantizing, by the one or more computing devices, one or more of the non-quantized weights. The method includes providing, by the one or more computing devices, a quantized machine-learned model.
US11531927B2
Categorical data transformation and clustering techniques and systems are described for machine learning using natural language processing. These techniques and systems are configured to improve operation of a computing device to support efficient and accurate use of categorical data, which is not possible using conventional techniques. In an example, categorical data is received by a computing device that includes a categorical variable having a non-numerical data type for a number of classes. The categorical data is then converted into numerical data using natural language processing. Data is then generated by the computing device that includes a plurality of latent classes. This is performed by clustering the numerical data into a number of clusters that is smaller than the number of classes in the categorical data.
US11531925B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing content presentation. In one aspect, a system includes a training database that stores training data including attribute information about users and corresponding proxy metrics quantifying behavior by the users following content presentation; a content database; a model generator that accesses the training data and trains a model for content distribution; and a content distribution server that receives a content request, uses the model to select content, transmits data identifying the selected content, wherein the model: obtains a set of attributes for a user associated with the request, receives information about a given content, predicts a proxy metric based on the set of attributes and the information about the content, the predicted proxy metric providing information about subject retention or awareness; and identifies the given content for distribution if the predicted proxy metrics meet a threshold.
US11531924B2
The present invention provides a sensor and measuring method. The sensor comprises multiple-layer organo-metallic cross-linked polymers forming various superlattice nanostructured biomimetic membranes for sensing Cooper-pair wave transmissions causing intrinsic magnetic flux quantum observed based on a Josephson junction toroidal array and a controllable state-switch valve having a double-pole electron-relay that promoted Cooper pairs coherently transmitting waves in the membranes within and cross the Josephson toroidal junction barriers at zero-bias. The One-Device-Assembly system enables a femto-joule energy consumption for quantum qubits; or acting as an energy storage device that stores energy 1.53 MJ/cm2 for an application in automobile vehicles.
US11531911B2
A system for application selection using behavioral propensities includes a computing device configured to identify a negative behavioral propensity associated with a human subject, generate, using category training data including a plurality of applications and a plurality of correlated categories, and using a classification algorithm, an application category classifier, wherein the application category classifier inputs applications and outputs categories of the applications, receive an application to be loaded to a device operated by the human subject, identify, using the application category classifier, a category of the application, wherein identifying the category includes determining, a plurality of application data elements, classifying each application data element of the plurality of application data elements to an application data object of a plurality of application data objects using an object classifier, and inputting the plurality of objects to the application category classifier, and determine an effect of the category on the negative behavioral propensity.
US11531910B2
An artificial intelligence server can include a communication interface configured to communicate with a display device and a refrigerator; and a processor configured to in response to the display device displaying an image including a dish, acquire dish information about the dish included in the image displayed on the display device, receive, from the refrigerator, available ingredient information about ingredients in the refrigerator, and transmit, to the display device, information about making the dish by using the ingredients in the refrigerator.
US11531891B2
The present disclosure provides a cooking apparatus and a method for controlling the same for analyzing changes in the internal temperature, the external temperature, and the surface of a cooking material that is being cooked, and appropriately heating the cooking material based on the analysis result to cook the same. In particular, the intensity of heat emitted toward the cooking material from a heater or the cooking time may be controlled using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, which executes machine learning (ML) over a 5G network, such that the cooking material is appropriately cooked in accordance with a change in the surface of the cooking material and a change in a thermal image representing the internal temperature and the external temperature of the cooking material.
US11531888B2
A method for creating a deep neural network. The deep neural network includes a plurality of layers and connections having weights, and the weights in the created deep neural network are able to assume only predefinable discrete values from a predefinable list of discrete values. The method includes: providing at least one training input variable for the deep neural network; ascertaining a variable characterizing a cost function, which includes a first variable, which characterizes a deviation of an output variable of the deep neural network ascertained as a function of the provided training input variable relative to a predefinable setpoint output variable, and the variable characterizing the cost function further including at least one penalization variable, which characterizes a deviation of a value of one of the weights from at least one of at least two of the predefinable discrete values; training the deep neural network.
US11531883B2
System and methods for iterative synthetic data generation and refinement of machine learning models
Embodiments of the present invention provide an improvement to convention machine model training techniques by providing an innovative system, method and computer program product for the generation of synthetic data using an iterative process that incorporates multiple machine learning models and neural network approaches. A collaborative system for receiving data and continuously analyzing the data to determine emerging patterns is provided. Common characteristics of data from the identified emerging patterns are broadened in scope and used to generate a synthetic data set using a generative neural network approach. The resulting synthetic data set is narrowed based on analysis of the synthetic data as compared to the detected emerging patterns, and can then be used to further train one or more machine learning models for further pattern detection.
US11531879B1
Some embodiments provide a method for training a machine-trained (MT) network. The method uses a first set of training inputs to train parameters of the MT network. The method uses a set of validation inputs to measure error for the MT network as trained by the first set of training inputs. The method adds at least a subset of the validation inputs to the first set of training inputs to create a second set of training inputs. The method uses the second set of training inputs to train the parameters of the MT network. The error measurement is used to modify the training with the second set of training inputs.
US11531872B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel neuron circuit using a p-n-p-n diode to realize small size and low power consumption. The neuron circuit according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may generate potential by charging current input from synapses through a capacitor. In this case, when the generated potential exceeds a critical value, the neuron circuit may generate and output a spike voltage corresponding to the generated potential using a p-n-p-n diode connected to the capacitor.
US11531865B2
Systems and methods for parallel autonomy of a vehicle are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives input data, the input data including at least one of sensor data and structured input data; encodes the input data into an intermediate embedding space using a first neural network; inputs the intermediate embedding space to a first behavior model and a second behavior model, the first behavior model producing a first behavior output, the second behavior model producing a second behavior output; combines the first behavior output and the second behavior output using an ideal-behavior model to produce an ideal behavior for the vehicle; and controls one or more aspects of operation of the vehicle based, at least in part, on the ideal behavior.
US11531864B2
Disclosed is an artificial intelligence (AI) server. The AI server includes a communication unit configured to communicate with an AI device; and an AI unit configured to receive feature data from the AI device, wherein the received feature data is generated by the AI device by obtaining sensing data and compressing the sensing data while preserving a feature of the sensing data; and input the received feature data to a deep learning model to obtain second sensing data for use in a recognition model related to an AI function of the AI device.
US11531862B2
A learning device includes one or more processors. The processors calculate a likelihood of belonging to a plurality of estimated classes, of learning data, by using an estimation model for estimating to which of the estimated classes input data belongs. The processors calculate a weight of a loss function to be used in learning the estimation model such that, when a likelihood of a first class that is closer to correct data than other estimated classes among the estimated classes and likelihoods of a second class and a third class that are adjacent to the first class are applied to a function having a predetermined shape, a position that has an extreme value of the function corresponds to the correct data. The processors learn the estimation model by using the loss function.
US11531859B2
A method for a neural network includes receiving an input from a vector of inputs, determining a table index based on the input, and retrieving a hash table from a plurality of hash tables, wherein the hash table corresponds to the table index. The method also includes determining an entry index of the hash table based on an index matrix, wherein the index matrix includes one or more index values, and each of the one or more index values corresponds to a vector in the hash table and determining an entry value in the hash table corresponding to the entry index. The method also includes determining a value index, wherein the vector in the hash table includes one or more entry values, and wherein the value index corresponds to one of the one or more entry values in the vector and determining a layer response.
US11531854B2
An image processing apparatus that generates image data to be output to an image forming apparatus printing an image, and includes: a generation unit configured to generate, based on an input image, first generation amount data indicating a generation amount of each of one or more kinds of ink dot for each pixel and second generation amount data indicating a generation amount of a blank dot for which the ink dot is not formed for each pixel; and a processing unit configured to determine a dot arrangement pattern indicating an arrangement of each of the one or more kinds of ink dot by performing quantization processing using the first generation amount data and the second generation amount data.
US11531852B2
Machine learning classification models which are robust against label noise are provided. Noise may be modelled explicitly by modelling “label flips”, where incorrect binary labels are “flipped” relative to their ground truth value. Distributions of label flips may be modelled as prior and posterior distributions in a flexible architecture for machine learning systems. An arbitrary classification model may be provided within the system. The classification model is made more robust to label noise by operation of the prior and posterior distributions. Particular prior and approximating posterior distributions are disclosed.
US11531851B2
Computational algorithms integrate and analyze data to consider multiple interdependent, heterogeneous sources and forms of patient data, and using a classification model, provide new learning paradigms, including privileged learning and learning with uncertain clinical data, to determine patient status for conditions such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or non-ARDS.
US11531845B1
A computing device trains a fair machine learning model. A prediction model is trained to predict a target value. For a number of iterations, a weight vector is computed using the bound value based on fairness constraints defined for a fairness measure type; a weight value is assigned to each observation vector based on the target value and a sensitive attribute value; the prediction model is trained with each weighted observation vector to predict the target value; and a conditional moments vector is computed based on the fairness constraints and the target and sensitive attribute values. Conditional moments difference values are computed. When the conditional moments difference values indicate to adjust the bound value, the bound value is updated and the process is repeated with the bound value replaced with the updated bound value until the conditional moments difference values indicate no further adjustment of the bound value is needed.
US11531838B2
Systems and methods for automating image annotations are provided, such that a large-scale annotated image collection may be efficiently generated for use in machine learning applications. In some aspects, a mobile device may capture image frames, identifying items appearing in the image frames and detect objects in three-dimensional space across those image frames. Cropped images may be created as associated with each item, which may then be correlated to the detected objects. A unique identifier may then be captured that is associated with the detected object, and labels are automatically applied to the cropped images based on data associated with that unique identifier. In some contexts, images of products carried by a retailer may be captured, and item data may be associated with such images based on that retailer's item taxonomy, for later classification of other/future products.
US11531834B2
A computer-executable method for moderating publication of data content with a moderator tool. The data contents are labelled as acceptable or unacceptable. The moderator tool receives the training data and executes a first algorithm that identifies features that exist in the training data and extracts them and ending up with a feature space. The moderator tool executes a second algorithm in the feature space for defining a distribution of data features that differentiate between the acceptable contents and the unacceptable contents in order to create a moderation model. When the moderator tool receives a new data content to be moderated, it executes the moderator tool on the new data content for identifying the data features in the new data content to be moderated in accordance with the moderation model created, and for producing a moderation result for the new data content by indicating whether the new data content is acceptable.
US11531832B2
A method is described for determining a confidence value for an object of a class determined by a neural network in an input image. The method includes: preparing an activation signature with the aid of a multiplicity of output images of a layer of the neural network for the class of the object, with the input image being provided to the input of the neural network; scaling the activation signature to the size of the input image; comparing an overlapping area portion of an area of the activation signature with an area of an object frame in relation to the area of the activation signature in order to determine the confidence value.
US11531824B2
A machine accesses a query in a first natural language. The machine identifies an event corresponding to the query. The machine computes, using a cross-lingual information retrieval module, a ranked list of documents in a second natural language that are related to the event. At least a portion of documents in the ranked list are selected from a collection of documents in the second natural language that are not annotated with events. The cross-lingual information retrieval module is trained using a dataset comprising annotated documents in the first natural language and translations of the annotated documents into the second natural language. Each annotated document is annotated with one or more events. The machine provides an output representing at least a portion of the ranked list of documents in the second natural language. The second natural language is different from the first natural language.
US11531822B1
A model training service of a provider network may receive content items as training data. For example, the content items may be documents with certain portions labeled as stale. The model training service may train one or more different types of models using those content items (e.g., natural language inference model, paraphrasing detection model, named entity recognition model). The model training service may then provide the model(s) to a content staleness check (CSC) service. The CSC service may receive, from a client, a request that indicates one or more content items to be checked for staleness. The CSC service may process the content items by the model(s) to generate one or more indications of staleness of the content item. The CSC service may generate a response based on the indications of staleness. For example, the CSC service may generate a document with certain portions highlighted as stale content.
US11531817B2
In some embodiments, a knowledge graph generation system extracts noun-phrases from sentences of a knowledge corpora and determines the relations between the noun-phrases based on a relation classifier that is configured to predict a relation between a pair of entities without restricting the entities to a set of named entities. The knowledge graph generation system further generates a sub-graph for each of the sentences based on the noun-phrases and the determined relations. Nodes or entities of the sub-graph represent the non-phrases in the sentence and edges represent the relations between the noun-phrases connected by the respective edges. The knowledge graph generation system merges the sub-graphs to generate the knowledge graph for the knowledge corpora.
US11531816B2
A search apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory is configured to store second sentences in association with past-input first sentences, and store synonyms corresponding to each of a plurality of words. The circuitry is configured to divide each of the past-input first sentences into words and divide a newly-input first sentence into words; select, from the synonyms corresponding to each of the plurality of words, synonyms corresponding to each of the words obtained by dividing each of the past-input first sentences, in descending order of appearance frequency of the words; store the selected synonyms; detect, from the selected synonyms, synonyms corresponding to each of the words obtained by dividing the newly-input first sentence; and retrieve, from the memory storing the second sentences, at least one of the second sentences corresponding to the newly-input first sentence based on the detected synonyms and the words of the newly-input first sentence.
US11531808B2
A method of notifying a user of a cloud-based content management platform of a comment made in a document associated with the user includes determining a set of comments associated with documents to which the user has access via the cloud-based content management platform, the set of comments including one or more comments added by other users to each document within a last predetermined time period, selecting one or more comments from the set of comments for notification to the user, the selecting being based at least on interactions of the user with a comment thread associated with each comment from the set of comments and characteristics of the comment thread, wherein a comment thread is a group of a plurality of comments comprising a first comment and a second comment added in reply to the first comment, determining one or more documents associated with the one or more selected comments, and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) of a cloud storage of the user hosted by the cloud-based content management platform for presentation to the user, the GUI identifying the one or more documents and, for each identified document, a respective selected comment associated with the identified document.
US11531774B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a degree of inconvenience to a user who is a target of authority setting, and a setting unit that sets an authority of the user in accordance with the degree of inconvenience.
US11531772B2
A server includes a processor core including system memory, and a cryptographic engine storing a key data structure. The data structure is to store multiple keys for multiple secure domains. The core receives a request to program a first secure domain into the cryptographic engine. The request includes first domain information within a first wrapped binary large object (blob). In response a determination that there is no available entry in the data structure, the core selects a second secure domain within the data structure to de-schedule and issues a read key command to read second domain information from a target entry of the data structure. The core encrypts the second domain information to generate a second wrapped blob and stores the second wrapped blob in a determined region of the system memory, which frees up the target entry for use to program the first secure domain.
US11531770B2
Embodiments are directed to trusted local memory management in a virtualized GPU. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a trusted execution environment (TEE); a GPU including a trusted agent; and a memory, the memory including GPU local memory, the trusted agent to ensure proper allocation/deallocation of the local memory and verify translations between graphics physical addresses (PAs) and PAs for the apparatus, wherein the local memory is partitioned into protection regions including a protected region and an unprotected region, and wherein the protected region to store a memory permission table maintained by the trusted agent, the memory permission table to include any virtual function assigned to a trusted domain, a per process graphics translation table to translate between graphics virtual address (VA) to graphics guest PA (GPA), and a local memory translation table to translate between graphics GPAs and PAs for the local memory.
US11531765B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, systems and apparatuses may retrieve, via a computing device and over a network, information related to one or more characteristics of a particular application or service deployed in a computing environment. The particular application or service may be associated with a class of applications or services based on the information. A type of personal data collected may be determined for each application or service in the associated class. For the particular application or service, a risk metric indicative of a type of personal data collected by the particular application or service in relation to the type of personal data collected by other applications or services in the associated class may be determined. An additional application or service with a lower risk than the particular application or service may be recommended.
US11531760B1
Technologies are described herein for providing a Baseboard Management Controller (“BMC”) -based security processor. The disclosed BMC-based security processor can provide a hardware Root of Trust (“RoT”) for a computing platform without the addition of specialized silicon to the platform and while minimizing the number of attack points. The disclosed BMC-based security processor can also provide functionality for securely filtering requests made on certain buses in a computing platform. Through implementations of the features identified briefly above, and others described herein, various technical benefits can be achieved such as, but not limited to, increased security as compared to previous computing systems that utilize a BMC to provide a hardware RoT and reduced complexity and cost as compared to previous computing systems that utilize a separate hardware device, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (“FPGA”) or a microcontroller, to provide a hardware RoT.
US11531759B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: provide a permission list; allocate an executable, the executable to have permissions according to the permission list; designate a child object of the executable; allocate a certificate for the child object; and after a system reboot, grant the child object permissions of the executable after validating the certificate.
US11531752B2
Technologies for control plane separation at a network interface controller (NIC) of a compute device configured to transmit, by a resource of the compute device, commands to a physical function managed by a network interface controller (NIC) of the compute device. The NIC is further to establish a data plane separate from a control plane, wherein the control plane comprises one of the trusted control path and the untrusted control path. Additionally, the resource is configured to transmit the commands via one of the trusted control path or the untrusted control path based on a trust level associated with the physical function. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11531749B2
A method and system for controlling access to external networks by an air-gapped endpoint is provided. The method includes providing, on the air-gapped endpoint, a plurality of isolated security zones by instantiating a plurality of corresponding virtual machines using a hypervisor; selecting one security zone of the plurality of isolated security zones; and tunneling a traffic from the selected security zone to a designated network location, wherein the tunneling is through a virtual private network (VPN).
US11531742B2
Methods and systems are provided for an AdHoc enrollment process. A user may be able to enroll and be verified by a system for a variety of actions or authentications without being forced to turn over personally identifiable information and without having to formally enroll. The system may compare captured biometric information with existing biometric information and may identify the user without the use of personally identifiable information.
US11531737B1
Systems, devices and methods for use in biometric identification are disclosed for use resolution of ambiguity as to what identity is being asserted and/or which reference identities are to be used to build a gallery for identification. In implementations, are described to resolve ambiguity and in particular situations in which a unique authoritative identifier is unavailable for use in locating relevant references to serve as the basis for biometric matching and identification.
US11531727B1
Some embodiments provide a method for a circuit that executes a neural network including multiple nodes. The method loads a set of weight values for a node into a set of weight value buffers, a first set of bits of each input value of a set of input values for the node into a first set of input value buffers, and a second set of bits of each of the input values into a second set of input value buffers. The method computes a first dot product of the weight values and the first set of bits of each input value and a second dot product of the weight values and the second set of bits of each input value. The method shifts the second dot product by a particular number of bits and adds the first dot product with the bit-shifted second dot product to compute a dot product for the node.
US11531726B2
A puncture planning apparatus has: a simulation unit that simulates movement of an organ and a puncture needle by simulation using an organ model; and a planning unit that plans, based on the simulation result, how to move the puncture needle when an actual organ is punctured. The simulation unit executes a plurality of times of the simulation of an operation to advance the puncture needle while correcting an angle of the puncture needle so as to follow the movement of the target segment due to deformation of the organ, conditions of an advancement speed of the puncture needle are changed for each of the plurality times of the simulation, and the planning unit performs planning using the best simulation result out of the plurality of simulation results acquired under different conditions of the advancement speed.
US11531725B2
Described herein are systems and methods for providing custom component compilation within a cloud-based content hub environment. In accordance with an embodiment, embodiments can allow developers to work with a variety of technologies and optimize a page or site for runtime performance, including in some instances the use of a custom (component) compiler, for use during compilation of a particular component of a website.
US11531724B2
A highly secure database platform is entity-centric and entity-controlled. Posting, query and retrieval of a data is bound to unique, unidirectional relationship identifiers that control a requesting entity's access to documents pertaining to a targeted entity. Data is immutably mapped to entities and relationships. The platform is domain-partitioned, schema-agnostic and order-preserving. The invention presents a trusted platform or service which is readily adapted to data concerning people, groups, businesses, devices, and/or microservices.
US11531720B1
A system and method to convert source dependent data into source-agnostic data includes extracting, by a processing unit associated with a data transformation application, relevant data from impression data received from a data source to obtain extracted data, cleansing the extracted data for obtaining cleansed data, and converting the cleansed data into source-agnostic data by re-categorizing at least some of the cleansed data. The system and method also include retrievably storing the source-agnostic data as persisted data into a memory associated with the data transformation application, receiving a query via a dashboard associated with the data transformation application to retrieve the persisted data, and displaying a portion of the persisted data that satisfies the query on the dashboard.
US11531718B2
A system for displaying information on a selected entity is configured to: (a) display, on a graphical user interface (GUI), a menu including an option for probing a world view, a regional view, regional interactions, and a target entity view, wherein the world view includes image icons displayed on a world map, the regional view includes image profiles displayed by region, the regional interactions include image icons representing commonalities between two or more different regions, and the target entity view includes an image of the selected entity; (b) display the world view based on the option being the probing of the world view; and (c) display a set of keywords associated with the image icons based at least in part on calculated ratings associated with the set of keywords, wherein an order of the displayed set of keywords is determined based on the associated ratings.
US11531717B2
Data records are linked across a plurality of datasets. Each dataset contains at least one data record, and each data record is associated with an entity and includes one or more attributes of that entity and a value for each attribute. Values associated with attributes are compared across datasets, and matching attributes having values that satisfy a predetermined similarity threshold are identified. In addition, linkage points between pairs of datasets are identified. Each linkage point links one or more pairs of data records. Each data record in the pair of data records is contained in one of a given pair of datasets, and each pair of data records is associated with a common entity having matching attributes in the given pair of datasets. Data records associated with the common entities are linked across datasets using the identified linkage points.
US11531715B2
In certain embodiments, single-page application server-side rendering may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a request related to a single-page web application may be obtained. A determination of whether the request is a crawler request may be effectuated. In response to determining that the request is a crawler request, a server-side renderer may generate a static page in connection with the request from the crawler. In some embodiments, web assets may be obtained from one or more databases via the server-side renderer, and the server-side renderer may generate the static page based on the web assets. The static page may then be provided as a response to the request.
US11531713B2
Based on a selection by a user of first one or more values of one or more events displayed in a graphical interface, an extraction rule is automatically determined that is capable of extracting a field label-value pair at least partially within at least the selected one or more values. An option is displayed that correspond to the determined extraction rule in the graphical interface. Based on the user selecting the option in the graphical interface, display is caused of second one or more values of one or more field label-value pairs extracted from the one or more events using the extraction rule. The one or more events may be displayed in a table format, and the first one or more value may be selected by the user selecting one or more cells, columns, or text portions in the table format.
US11531698B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for generating a playlist of media content items without explicit content. A vector space is created that represents explicit and non-explicit tracks in the same playlists created by other users and then tracks are filtered based on cosine distance between the “seed tracks” and all the tracks in the aforementioned playlist. The explicit tracks are filtered out, and tracks are sorted based on the affinity of the user to the artist.
US11531687B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for application of an N-dimensional hypercube datatype for automatically generating a data structure are provided. A database stores a plurality of data each associated with a corresponding application and each including metadata describing information about the data. A processor creates taxonomies describing data concepts associated with the metadata and store the taxonomies onto the database; receive the metadata and the taxonomies from the database via a communication network; automatically generate a cube set including a set of N-dimensional hypercubes from the received metadata to represent the metadata describing the information about the data; automatically generate a map from the cube set to express data quality checks and rules that apply to nodes in the map; and apply the data quality checks and rules to the received metadata to automatically generate a data structure.
US11531686B2
A system for propagating an identity state change set about shared identities may include a plurality of systems of record (SORs), and a management server cooperating with the plurality of SORs and configured to: detect discrete Create-Retrieve-Update-Delete (CRUD) operations on a given SOR related to at least one shared identity to generate an identity state change set corresponding to a current state of the at least one shared identity; transact the identity state change set, with associated metadata, to a distributed immutable long-term storage as a current transaction; propagate the identity state change set and associated metadata to replicate a current state of the at least one shared identity as of the current transaction to at least one domain cache instance, and; synchronize the current state of the at least one shared identity across the plurality of SORs from the at least one domain cache instance.
US11531684B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for consistently providing accurate versions of digital data within a distributed server network utilizing session-level user tokens. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a session-level user token that is specific to a client computing device participating in a session and in response to receiving a write request from the client computing device. As the client computing device initiates additional requests to read and write digital data from the distributed server network during the session, the disclosed systems maintain current version information within the session-level user token, and utilize this version information to verify that data provided to the client computing device from the distributed server network is accurate at the session-level.
US11531669B2
Methods for data quality analysis and aggregation in a building automation system and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving input data and receiving a configuration file that defines data quality (DQ) processes to be performed on the input data. The method includes dynamically building a configurable pipeline based on the configuration file, the pipeline including one or more Data Quality Indicator (DQI) or Data Quality Aggregation (DQA) process components from a DQ core library. The method includes performing DQ processes on the input data, including executing each of the DQI or DQA process components included in the pipeline, producing one or more DQ results based on the DQ processes, and returning the one or more DQ results.
US11531663B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are directed to the generation of a global index structure. Agents executing on different data sources locally pre-process (e.g., format, filter, compress, encode, serialize etc.) data generated thereby and index such data. The agents also manage the resources thereof to perform the pre-processing and indexing operations. Each index generated by an agent is formatted as a plurality of index nodes. The index nodes and pre-processed data are provided to backend server(s) that maintain the global index structure and store the data in a globally distributed file system, which aid in unexpected disaster recovery. The backend server(s) generate the global index structure based on the index nodes. As new index nodes are received by the backend servers, the backend servers merge the newly-received index nodes with the global index structure. Global index structure traversal techniques for retrieving search keys are also described herein.
US11531659B2
Described is a system for providing quick and efficient identification of a desired version of content from an editing history of the content. The system receives a search index identifying versions of content from an editing history of the content. The system sorts the search index according to sort criteria and receives a selection from the sorted search index of a first version of the content and a second version of the content. The system identifies and displays one or more content differences between the first and second versions of the content.
US11531654B1
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing validation of transformed electronic data. A source to target comparison service identifies testing configuration parameters and performs a comparison between source and target electronic data to identify anomalies for each transformed data item in the target automated comparison.
US11531653B2
A branch of a main database is created, comprising a copy of the main database schema. A user edits the branch and requests that it be merged back into the main database. A schema diff is generated and used to determine differences between the main database and the edited branch. The merge is performed if it does not create a conflict. A second branch is created and edited by a second user. When the second user indicates to merge the second branch back into the main database, differences between the two branches are determined, relative to the main database. If merging the second branch back into the main database on top of the first branch does not create a conflict, a three-way merge is performed of the first branch, the second branch, and the version of the main database from which the first and second branches were generated.
US11531650B2
A computer-implemented knowledge asset distribution platform distributes packages of knowledge assets between plural provider system environments (PSE) and/or consumer system environments (CSE), which store knowledge assets and make the knowledge assets available to users of the CSE. The platform includes one or more processor unit(s), with one or more non-transitory memory unit(s), and a distribution module that distributes packages of knowledge assets. The platform includes a receiver module that receives packages of knowledge assets, a database module that stores packages of knowledge assets and/or stores content information of packages of knowledge assets, a browser module that provides a browser function for browsing the knowledge assets stored by the database module and/or for browsing the content information stored by the database module and a sender module that relays packages of knowledge assets.
US11531639B2
Techniques for denoising an electromagnetic signal are disclosed. The techniques utilize an antenna, a weight adaptation component, a reservoir computer including a computer interpretable neural network, a delay embedding component, and an output layer computer. The techniques include passively acquiring an electromagnetic signal by the antenna, producing a plurality of reservoir state values by the reservoir computer based on the electromagnetic signal, collecting the plurality of reservoir state values by the delay embedding component into a historical record, determining a plurality of reservoir state value weights by the weight adaptation component based at least in part of the historical record, scaling, by the plurality of reservoir state value weights, to produce a plurality of output values, the plurality of reservoir state values by the output layer computer, and outputting the plurality of output values, where the scaling occurs over a plurality of clock cycles of a clock for the system.
US11531638B2
A method and system are provided for configurable computation and data processing. A logical processor includes an array of logic elements. The processor may be a combinatorial circuit that can be applied to modify computational aspects of an array of reconfigurable circuits. A memory stores a plurality of instructions, each instruction including an instruction-fetch data portion and an output data transfer data portion. One or more memory controllers are coupled to the memory and receive instructions and/or output data from the memory. A back buffer is coupled with the memory controller and receives instructions from the memory controller. The back buffer sequentially asserts each received instruction upon one or more memory controllers. The memory controllers transfer data received from the memory to a target, such as an array of reconfigurable logic circuits that are optionally coupled to the memory, the back buffer, and one or more additional memory controllers.
US11531617B2
A heterogeneous memory system is implemented using a low-latency near memory (NM) and a high-latency far memory (FM). Pages in the memory system include NM blocks stored in the NM and FM blocks stored in the FM. A page is assigned to a region in the memory system based on the proportion of NM blocks in the page. When accessing a block, the block address is used to determine a region of the memory system, and a block offset is used to determine whether the block is stored in NM or FM. The memory system may observe memory accesses to determine the access statistics of the page and the block. Based on a page's hotness and access density, the page may be migrated to a different region. Based on a block's hotness, the block may be migrated between NM and FM allocated to the page.
US11531606B2
A memory apparatus comprising: a cell array comprising multiple first and second word lines, a fuse array configured to substitute a selection word line of the multiple first word lines with the multiple second word lines, a fail determination unit configured to determine, as a fail word line, a word line matched with a first condition during an access operation for the multiple first word lines and to determine a fail grade of the fail word line based on a second condition, an information storage unit configured to store a physical address, fail grade and access count of the fail word line as determination information for the fail word line, and a rupture operation unit configured to select the selection word line from the fail word lines based on a result of the analysis of the determination information, and perform rupturing the selection word line into the fuse array.
US11531605B2
A scheme for handling program errors is provided for a memory system which includes a memory device and a controller including firmware and a memory interface. The firmware issues commands for program operations to the memory interface. After detecting a failed program operation in a particular memory block, the firmware reroutes that program operation to a different location in a different memory block and takes further action to reduce the likelihood of a subsequent error occurring in the same memory block in which the failed program operation occurred.
US11531604B2
Methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like are disclosed that provide for scalable deduplication in an efficient and effective manner. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include determining whether a source data store and a replicated data store are unsynchronized and, in response to a determination that the source data store and the replicated data store are unsynchronized, performing a resynchronization operation. The source data stored in the source data store is replicated to replicated data in the replicated data store. The resynchronization operation resynchronizes the source data and the replicated data.
US11531602B2
A system according to certain aspects improves the process of data restoration and application recovery operations. The system can back up primary data based on network path information associated with a client computing device. When the primary data becomes corrupted or unavailable, a previously backed up copy of the primary data may be used as the primary data to achieve instant application recovery. For example, when a portion of the primary data is requested by a user or an application, the system may identify a corresponding portion in the backed up copy of the primary data and provide the identified portion to the user or the application in a manner transparent to the user or the application. Alternatively, the application running on the client computing device may send a request for the backup copy of the primary data to the secondary storage device upon determining that the requested data is not available.
US11531599B2
On-the-fly point-in-time recovery operations are disclosed. During a recovery operation, the PiT being restored can be changed on-the-fly or during the existing recovery operation without restarting the recovery process from the beginning. In one example, this improves recovery time operation (RTO) and prevents aspects of the recovery operation to be avoided when changing to a different PiT.
US11531597B2
A system for providing backup services for limited-access user data includes persistent storage for storing a user data visualization enhanced user data backup and a manager. The manager identifies a backup generation event for limited-access user data based on a protection policy; in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtains fragmented user data from an application that gates access to the limited-access user data; obtains organizational metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; makes a determination that the fragmented user data is associated with a user data visualization; in response to making the determination, obtains user data visualization metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; and generates the user data enhanced user data backup using the organizational metadata, the user data visualization metadata, and the fragmented user data.
US11531596B2
A system and method to receive, by a backup service layer of a database service instance, a request to create a data backup; create, in response to the request and internally of the backup service, a backup having a filename including a version identifier; and transmit the created backup to a hyperscaler to be stored in a cloud object storage of the hyperscaler, the filename of the backup being a key for the storage of the backup in the cloud object storage.
US11531594B2
A data recovery method is provided. In the method, a backup type of a backup data packet is identified. Data recovery is performed based on physically backed up data in the backup data packet in a case that the identified backup type is a hybrid backup, the hybrid backup being a backup process that includes a physical backup and a logical backup. Data recovery is performed on logically backed up data in the backup data packet after the data recovery based on the physically backed up data is completed.
US11531591B2
An error correction and fault tolerance method and system for an array of disks is presented. The array comprises k+5 disks, where k disks store user data and 5 disks store computed parity. The present invention further comprises a method and a system for reconstituting the original content of each of the k+5 disks, when up to 5 disks have been lost, wherein the number of disks at unknown locations is E and the number of disks wherein the location of the disks is known is Z. All combinations of faulty disks wherein Z+2×E≤4 are reconstituted. Some combinations of faulty disks wherein Z+2×E≥5 are either reconstituted, or errors are limited to a small list.
US11531587B2
Methods and systems for decoding raw data may select a preliminary read-level voltage from a sequence of read-level voltages based on a decoding success indicator and execute a preliminary hard decoding operation to decode raw data read from a plurality of memory cells using the preliminary read-level voltage. If the preliminary hard decoding operation is successful, the decoded data from the hard decoding operation is returned. If the preliminary hard decoding operation is unsuccessful, a multi-stage decoding operation may be executed to decode raw data read from the plurality of memory cells using the sequence of read-level voltages, and returning decoded data from the multi-stage decoding operation upon completion of the multi-stage decoding operation. The decoding success indicator is maintained based on results of the preliminary hard decoding operation or the multi-stage decoding operation.
US11531586B2
A memory system includes at least one semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory blocks in which an original data stripe including a plurality of unit data and parity data is stored, and a controller configured to control an operation of the semiconductor memory device. The controller performs an error correction operation on one or more unit data received from the semiconductor memory device, and generates data for recovery based on remaining data except for first and second unit data among the plurality of unit data, in response to a first error correction failure for the first unit data among the plurality of unit data and a second error correction failure for the second unit data.
US11531576B2
The invention provides a maintenance recommendation system in which an inspection item is presented timely in the halfway of an inspection, accuracy of failure mode identification is improved, a failure mode is identified at an early stage, meanwhile, a time required for investigating a content of the failure is reduced, and a time from device failure to reset is shortened. The maintenance recommendation system includes: a primary storage unit that stores an input inspection result; a failure mode probability calculation unit that is configured to calculate a probability of a failure mode based on the inspection result stored in the primary storage unit; an inspection item search unit that is configured to extract an inspection item with the minimum inspection score from uninspected inspection items; and a main routine operation unit that is configured to narrow down a failure mode candidate and an inspection item candidate from all inspection items.
US11531570B2
Systems and methods for adaptively provisioning a distributed event data store of a multi-tenant architecture are provided. According to one embodiment, a managed security service provider (MSSP) maintains a distributed event data store on behalf of each tenant of the MSSP. For each tenant, the MSSP periodically determines a provisioning status for a current active partition of the distributed event data store of the tenant. Further, when the determining indicates an under-provisioning condition exits, the MSSP dynamically increases number of resource provision units (RPUs) to be used for a new partition to be added to the partitions for the tenant by a first adjustment ratio. While, when the determining indicates an over-provisioning condition exists, the MSSP dynamically decreases the number of RPUs to be used for subsequent partitions added to the partitions for the tenant by a second adjustment ratio.
US11531566B2
A message processing component may include an execution unit configurable to execute a set of tasks associated with one or more communication network messages. The set of tasks may include at least one of a message evaluation task or a cryptography task. The execution unit may be configured to provide functional safety in association with executing the set of tasks. The execution unit includes a set of time-multiplexed partitions. Each partition in the set of time-multiplexed partitions may be configurable to execute only one task included in the set of tasks. The message processing component may include an interface to one or more hardware accelerators available for use in association with the execution of the set of tasks. Only one partition, of the set of time-multiplexed partitions, may have access to the one or more hardware accelerators at a time.
US11531564B2
A system and method for executing multi-stage distributed computing operations initiates an operation workflow for a multi-stage distributed computing operation in response to a request to execute the multi-stage distributed computing operation. The operation workflow includes tasks of the multi-stage distributed computing operation that are executed by a plurality of service compute nodes, which are monitored to detect any failures. When a failure of the operation workflow for the multi-stage distributed computing operation is detected, a rollback workflow for the multi-stage distributed computing operation is initiated, which includes rollback tasks that correspond to the tasks of the operation workflow to roll back executed tasks of the operation workflow. The rollback workflow is an independent workflow from the operation workflow.
US11531561B2
In one embodiment, a system includes first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines comprises a resource manager that provides a public-cloud resource interface through which one or more public-cloud clients interact with one or more virtual machines, and second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines comprises one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein at least one of the first host machines further comprises a private-cloud VM resource provider through which the resource manager interacts with the private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the VM resource provider translates requests to perform virtual machine operations from a public-cloud-resource interface to a private-cloud virtual machine interface, and the private-cloud virtual machines perform the requested virtual machine operations in response to receiving the translated requests from the VM resource provider.
US11531560B2
An agent and a configuration interface permit custom-level customizations for synchronizing a replica of an enterprise system over a network connection with a replicator. The replicator produces the replica as a Virtual Machine (VM) that is maintained on a portal server that is remote from an enterprise server that hosts the enterprise system.
US11531558B2
A system is provided for a hybrid computing application with desktop and web-based components. In particular, the system may comprise a desktop application comprising a user interface which may be configured to load and display one or more embedded web-based components along with one or more desktop application components. The web-based components may access data within the application (“application data”), and conversely, the application may access data within the web-based components (“web-based data”). The bidirectional interface of the application and web-based components may allow the user to seamlessly access all relevant functions of the application and web-based components within a unified graphical interface.
US11531554B2
Example implementations relate to performing automated hierarchical configuration tuning for a multi-layer service. According to an example, a service definition and optimization criteria are received for tuning a configuration of a service. The service definition includes information regarding multiple of layers of the service and corresponding configuration groups. An acyclic dependency graph is created including nodes representing each of the of layers and each of the corresponding configuration groups. Configuration parameters of the configuration groups are globally optimized by creating an instance of the service within a test environment based on the service definition; and performing a local optimization process based on the optimization criteria at each layer of the instance of the service by passing identified optimized values of configuration parameters for a particular layer on to parent layers as defined by the acyclic dependency graph and propagating the identified optimized values through the dependency graph.
US11531546B2
An instruction to perform an operation selected from a plurality of operations configured for the instruction is executed. The executing includes determining a value of a selected operand of the instruction. The determining the value is based on a control of the instruction and includes reading the selected operand of the instruction from a selected operand location to obtain the value of the selected operand, based on the control having a first value, and using a predetermined value as the value of the selected operand, based on the control having a second value. The value and another selected operand of the instruction are multiplied to obtain a product. An arithmetic operation is performed using the product and a chosen operand of the instruction to obtain an intermediate result. A result from the intermediate result is obtained and placed in a selected location.
US11531542B2
A number of addition instructions are provided that have no data dependency between each other. A first addition instruction stores its carry output in a first flag of a flags register without modifying a second flag in the flags register. A second addition instruction stores its carry output in the second flag of the flags register without modifying the first flag in the flags register.
US11531541B2
The present disclosure relates to a processing device including a memory configured to store data to be computed; a computational circuit configured to compute the data to be computed, which includes performing acceleration computations on the data to be computed by using an adder circuit and a multiplier circuit; and a control circuit configured to control the memory and the computational circuit, which includes performing acceleration computations according to the data to be computed. The present disclosure may have high flexibility, good configurability, fast computational speed, low power consumption, and other features.
US11531540B2
A processing device with dynamically configurable operation bit width, characterized by comprising: a memory for storing data, the data comprising data to be operated, intermediate operation result, final operation result, and data to be buffered in a neural network; a data width adjustment circuit for adjusting the width of the data to be operated, the intermediate operation result, the final operation result, and/or the data to be buffered; an operation circuit for operating the data to be operated, including performing operation on data to be operated of different bit widths by using an adder circuit and a multiplier; and a control circuit for controlling the memory, the data width adjustment circuit and the operation circuit. The device of the present disclosure can have the advantages of strong flexibility, high configurability, fast operation speed, low power consumption or the like.
US11531539B2
A system for enforcing compliance and testing for software development, comprising an indexing service configured to create a dataset by processing and indexing source code of a project by a developer, perform a code audit on the indexed source code, store results from the code audit in the dataset, gather additional information relating to the provided project, store the additional information in the dataset, and store the dataset into memory; and a monitoring service configured to continuously monitor the project for source code changes and make changes to the dataset as needed. Further comprising an enforcement module to automatically verify code and other media related to the software development process by ensuring obligations from a rules database are met and where not able to automate the compliance check forward to an appropriate authority, receive back the manually reviewed compliance check, then produce and implement automated recommendations for compliance adherence.
US11531538B2
Meta-indexing, search, compliance, and test framework for software development using smart contracts
A system and method for meta-indexing, search, compliance, and test framework for software development using smart contracts is provided, comprising an indexing service configured to create a dataset by processing and indexing source code of a project provided by a developer, perform a code audit on the indexed source code, store results from the code audit in the dataset, gather additional information relating to the provided project, store the additional information in the dataset, and store the dataset into memory; and a monitoring service configured to continuously monitor the project for at least source code changes and make changes to the dataset as needed. Additionally, a smart contract authority creates and enforces smart contracts for every transaction taking place upon the software essentially mandating and guaranteeing the security and authenticity of the software during the software's development and use.
US11531537B2
Discussed are DevOps systems, methods, and apparatuses that provide a solution for organizing, reporting, and facilitating the automation of deploying infrastructure, platform, and application code for an IT enterprise. A logical data model for organizing components of the DevOps approach may include inventories for systems, environments, applications, resources, and deployments. A set of components may be built to provide an organizational structure to collect, report, and facilitate the automation of applications and the deployments of those applications across the enterprise. An artifact inventory may be used to request a deployment of specific versions of artifacts to an environment, providing a complete picture of what the environment should contain after a deployment. This inventory may be linked to business-level system inventory tracking as well as low-level computing resource tracking to provide a complete picture of total cost of ownership.
US11531519B2
Adjusting gains of an audio mix. Audio tracks using respective gains are individually analyzed to compute a first metric of frequency content. A user input specifies a desired second metric of the frequency content. Responsive to the user input, respective gains of the audio tracks are collectively and simultaneously adjusted to produce respective adjusted gains of the audio tracks. A second audio mix when played of the audio tracks with the respective adjusted gains has a third metric of frequency content different from the first metric of frequency content. The third metric is closer to the second metric than said first metric.
US11531516B2
An electronic device includes: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to control the at least one processor to: identify a location of the electronic device; obtain an image and a sound signal corresponding to the location; identify, using a trained neural network, a scene where the electronic device is present, based on the image, the sound signal, and the location; and provide settings of the electronic device based on the identified scene.
US11531512B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and including a first to a fifth regions, at least one first and fourth sound generating devices in a left region of a rear surface of the display panel and in the first and fourth regions, at least one second and fifth sound generating device in a right region of the rear surface and in the second and fifth regions, and at least one third sound generating device in a center region of the rear surface and in the third region. The at least one first to third sound generating devices is configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, and the at least one fourth and fifth sound generating devices is configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound in a direction upwards from the display panel.
US11531508B2
A sensor data providing unit included in a control device provides, when an HMD is connected, detection data acquired by a sensor driver as standard sensor data, and continues an operation of acquiring detection data of a first sensor by the sensor driver, and provides, when the HMD is not connected, detection data acquired by a built-in sensor driver as standard sensor data.
US11531503B2
An image processing apparatus has an operation panel, a reading portion, and a controller. The operation panel accepts, from a registered user, registration of an authorized user. The controller sets as a candidate a registered user who has registered a job-requesting user as an authorized user, makes the operation panel accept designation of a registered user set as a candidate, recognizes a designated registered user as a target user, and generates output data of a filled sheet filled with the target user's personal information.
US11531500B1
A storage system has a plurality of heterogenous storage nodes characterized by non-uniform total non-volatile storage capacity. Storage capacity of all nodes is configured as same-size cells and represented as a set of matrices. The matrices have dimensions corresponding to consecutive cell indices and consecutive storage node indices. Initially, storage nodes having the same storage capacity are consecutively indexed so that the representative matrices are not ragged due to gaps, referred to herein as non-contiguous storage space, where cells do not exist because of differences in numbers of cells in adjacently indexed storage nodes. Addition of more heterogeneous storage nodes can create such gaps when the cells of those storage nodes are added to the matrices. The gaps are managed in the ragged matrix representations by coalescing the non-contiguous storage space, thereby enabling selected protection group members to be relocated using matrix mathematics such as linear algebra so that new protection groups can be created, and capacity can be scaled.
US11531498B2
Systems and methods for peer storage device messaging over a control bus to offload and back up internal operation data are disclosed. Storage devices may include a host interface configured to connect to a host system and a control bus interface to connect to a control bus. Peer storage devices may establish peer communication through the control bus interface, select internal operation data, and send the internal operation data to other peer storage devices through the control bus. Responsive to a recovery event, peer storage devices may receive the offloaded internal operation data from another peer storage device.
US11531492B2
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the storage device. A memory controller may include a storage area manager and a write operation controller. The storage area manager may allocate a plurality of memory devices to a first group and a second group in response to a storage area setting command. The write operation controller may control a group selected from the first group and the second group according to a type of a write request to store write data. At least one memory devices in the first group includes memory blocks storing n data bits. At least one memory devices in the second group includes memory blocks storing m data bits.
US11531491B2
A data storage system includes a first storage layer, a second storage layer, an I/O manager, and a data organizer. The first storage layer utilizes a first type of data storage device. The first storage layer includes (i) a first data bucket that includes first data having a first data attribute, the first data bucket including a first data limit, and (ii) a second data bucket. The second storage layer utilizes a second type of data storage device. The I/O manager receives a data write request from the user and directs the data write request to the first storage layer. The data organizer (a) determines whether data in the data write request has the first data attribute; and (b) stores the data in the data write request in at least one of the first data bucket and the second data bucket if the data in the data write request has the first data attribute. When a volume of data in the first data bucket reaches the first data limit, the data organizer moves the volume of data in the first data bucket from the first storage layer to the second storage layer.
US11531488B2
Described methods and systems for copying a source volume to a target volume that include a combination of concurrent copying and a copy-on-write (COW) technique that improves the reliability of the backup process and requires fewer resources during a given backup instance than the processes of the prior art.
US11531477B2
An example method for restricting read access to content in the component circuitry and securing data in the supply item is disclosed. The method identifies the status of a read command, and depending upon whether the status disabled or enabled, either blocks the accessing of encrypted data stored in the supply chip, or allows the accessing of the encrypted data stored in the supply chip.
US11531474B1
In a storage system, processing related to data replication includes associating first control information with a logical volume and a snapshot and second control information with data on a pool volume. Data of the logical volume and the snapshot is managed by associating the first control information with the second control information. A time series of the logical volume and one or more snapshots is managed using generation information associated with the first control information, for each piece of data on the pool volume. Generation information indicating a generation in which the data is created is managed in association with the second control information. Invalidation of the first and second control information asynchronously with a processing of data related to the logical volume and the snapshot is executed. Whether the invalidation is possible is determined by referring to the generation information associated with the first and second control information.
US11531470B2
A storage system comprises a plurality of storage devices that are configured to store data pages. The data pages are distributed across the plurality of storage devices in a plurality of data stripes. A processing device of a storage controller is configured to identify a data stripe that corresponds to a given data page that was stored on a failed storage device and to provide an indication of the identified data stripe to a first storage device. A first processing device of the first storage device is configured to obtain data pages corresponding to the identified data stripe from at least one storage device other than the failed storage device and to perform a parity calculation based at least in part on the obtained data pages to rebuild the given data page. The rebuilt given data page is then stored on a third storage device.
US11531457B2
A video display apparatus for displaying a catalogue of one or more candidate video items for replay, each video item being represented in the catalogue by a catalogue entry having at least one displayed representative image comprises a user control device operable to resize a displayed catalogue entry by a select-and-drag operation; and means responsive to a resizing of a catalogue entry to select a number of distinct representative images, for display in respect of that video item, so that the number displayed increases with increasing size of the catalogue entry while the display size of each representative image stays substantially constant with respect to changes in the catalogue entry size.
US11531450B1
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of a graphics application, receive a selection of a first granular medium tool (GMT), receive a first input associated with the first GMT, the first input comprising one or more first input values characterizing placement of a first amount of a granular medium (GM) on a virtual drawing canvas, access one or more settings of the first GMT, determine, using the one or more first input values and the one or more settings, a first spatial distribution of the first amount of the GM on the virtual drawing canvas, and display, on the GUI, a first image corresponding to the first spatial distribution of the first amount of the GM.
US11531436B2
A touch panel and a method of manufacturing the same, an electronic device are provided. The touch panel includes a bending area bent along a bending axis. It further includes: a plurality of first touch electrodes extending along a first direction; a plurality of second touch electrodes extending along a second direction; and a metal mesh pattern at least provided in the bending area. The metal mesh pattern includes a first metal mesh line extending along the first direction and connected with the first touch electrode in parallel. The second direction intersects with the first direction.
US11531431B2
Provided is an information processing device that includes a control unit that sets an input auxiliary region based on an acquired sensing result of an operator and display a starting point of an input start within the input auxiliary region when the input start performed using the operator is detected.
US11531427B2
A display device, including: a touch screen panel including a touch panel and a display panel stacked under the touch panel; a touch driving circuit; and one or more rollers on which at least a portion of the touch screen panel is rolled. The touch panel may include receiving electrodes extending in a first axis direction and arranged in parallel in a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis direction and driving electrodes extending in the second axis direction and arranged in parallel in the first axis direction. The display panel may include gate lines and source lines intersecting with the gate lines. The touch driving circuit may be configured to apply driving signals to the driving electrodes. The touch screen panel rolled on the one or more rollers may be unfolded as the one or more rollers slide in the first axis direction.
US11531418B2
A phased array ultrasound device includes transducer elements arranged in a two dimensional array; first electrodes, each first electrode extending along a first direction; and second electrodes, each second electrode extending along a second direction, where each transducer element is associated with one first electrode and one second electrode, where each transducer element includes a material located between its associated first electrode and second electrode, and is configured to emit an ultrasonic wave induced by a vibration force or an oscillation force of its material when the transducer element is actuated based on control signals applied to its associated first electrode and second electrode, where each transducer element has a unipolar actuation force direction, and where the phased array ultrasound device is configured to create a pressure focus point by actuating a set of transducer elements to form a combined ultrasonic wave.
US11531403B2
A blender using different modes of operation is disclosed. Exemplary implementations may include a base assembly, a container assembly, a blending component, a control interface, control circuitry, and/or other components. The control interface includes a button configured to be pushed by the user, which controls transitions between the different blending modes of operation and a ready-to-blend mode. Rotation of the blending component is controlled through the control circuitry.
US11531401B2
A data replacement apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a replacement unit. The acquisition unit acquires first control data having a value based on the position of a first device which can be mounted on a user's head and the position of a second device which can be gripped by a user. The determination unit determines whether or not a prescribed condition is satisfied. The replacement unit replaces the first control data with second control data when it is determined that the condition is satisfied. The second control data has a value not based on the position of the first device and/or the position of the second device.
US11531399B2
A touch panel including an operation surface on which touch operation is to be performed; a voice coil actuator to apply vibrating force to the operation surface in response to the touch operation; and a main body chassis supporting the touch panel via a spring are included, and the voice coil actuator includes: a magnetic circuit unit provided on the main body chassis and including a magnetic gap; a coil unit provided on a rear surface of the touch panel and including a coil provided in the magnetic gap; and a fit unit to align a center position of the coil unit and a center position of the magnetic circuit unit and with each other by fitting the coil unit and the magnetic circuit unit and to each other when the coil unit is pushed toward the magnetic circuit unit.
US11531392B2
A system, having: a first sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and configured to be attached to a forearm of a user and to generate first motion data identifying an orientation of the forearm connected between a hand of the user and an upper arm of the user; a second sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and configured to be attached to the hand of the user and to generate second motion data identifying an orientation of the hand; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the first sensor module and the second sensor module through communication links, the computing device configured to calculate, based on the orientation of the forearm, a position of the forearm, and the orientation of the hand, an orientation of the upper arm.
US11531391B2
A haptic feedback device to be worn on top of a user's hand comprises a plurality of loops configured to be circumscribed around the user's fingers and thumb, a plurality of anchoring finger caps configured to be circumscribed around extremities of the user's fingers and thumb, at least one haptic actuator housed within each of the anchoring finger caps, and a plurality of tendons coupled to the loops and the anchoring finger caps, the tendons configured to extend along the user's fingers and thumb. The tendons are configured to cause the loops to decrease in diameter to conform to the user's fingers and thumb.
US11531379B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible display, a first housing moving to correspond to change in a shape of the flexible display and including a contact region, a second housing sliding in a direction opposite to a direction in which the first housing moves of the first housing and to mount the flexible display, a rotary contact structure making contact with the contact region, and a printed circuit board (PCB) electrically connected with the at least one rotary contact structure. The at least one rotary contact structure includes a rotating part maintaining contact with the contact region while rotating in a process of changing a shape of the flexible display, a central part disposed inside the rotating part, a conductive member interposed between the rotating part and the central part, and a support part supporting the central part and electrically connecting the central part with the PCB.
US11531377B2
This application discloses a foldable display apparatus, including a flexible display screen and a bearer component, where the bearer component includes a first plane part, a first bending part, a second plane part, a second bending part, and a third plane part that are sequentially connected in a long side direction, a length of the first bending part in the long side direction is greater than a length of the second bending part in the long side direction, the plurality of parts jointly bear the flexible display screen, the third plane part is folded between the first plane part and the second plane part through bending and deformation of the first bending part and the second bending part, and parts, of the flexible display screen, borne by the first plane part and the second plane part are exposed.
US11531360B2
Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a motor, a memory configured to store at least one of first frequency information associated with a sound that is generated when the motor is driven or second frequency information associated with a surrounding environment of the electronic device, and a processor configured to control the motor to be driven by avoiding a driving speed corresponding to the frequency information stored in the memory.
US11531352B2
A materials handling vehicle includes a camera, odometry module, processor, and drive mechanism. The camera captures images of an identifier for a racking system aisle and a rack leg portion in the aisle. The processor uses the identifier to generate information indicative of an initial rack leg position and rack leg spacing in the aisle, generate an initial vehicle position using the initial rack leg position, generate a vehicle odometry-based position using odometry data and the initial vehicle position, detect a subsequent rack leg using a captured image, correlate the detected subsequent rack leg with an expected vehicle position using rack leg spacing, generate an odometry error signal based on a difference between the positions, and update the vehicle odometry-based position using the odometry error signal and/or generated mast sway compensation to use for end of aisle protection and/or in/out of aisle localization.
US11531336B2
Methods, systems, and devices for automatically customizing operation of a robotic vehicle are described. The method may include identifying an operator, retrieving an operator profile and associated metadata for the operator from a database, where the metadata includes operator habit information, and configuring the robotic vehicle based on existing preference-based and performance-based settings, where the existing preference-based and performance-based settings are based on the metadata. The methods may include identifying operator habit information during operation of the robotic vehicle, deriving updated preference-based and performance-based settings for the operator based on the identified operator habit information, and providing, to the database, modifications to the metadata associated with the operator profile of the operator.
US11531332B2
The present invention relates to the field of remote-control technology, and provides a remote control for remotely controlling a motorized device, the remote control including a first rocking lever device, a second rocking lever device, a processor and a signal transmitting device. A rod of the first rocking lever device is configured to perform a linear movement along a first direction and a second direction, so as to trigger the remote control to generate a first remote control instruction and a second remote control instruction, and is further configured to rotate along a third rotation direction and a fourth rotation direction, so as to trigger the remote control to generate a third direction and a fourth direction. The first direction is opposite to the second direction, and the third direction is opposite to the fourth direction. The processor is connected to the first rocking lever device and the second rocking lever device to process the first remote control instruction, the second remote control instruction, the third remote control instruction and the fourth remote control instruction.
US11531327B2
An abnormality determination device acquires observation data observed during an operation of an industrial machine, extracts partial time-series data, including a portion representative of a feature of an operating state at a specified timing, from the observation data, calculates a statistical amount from the extracted partial time-series data, and performs processing for machine learning related to determination of operation abnormality of the industrial machine, based on the calculated statistical amount.
US11531321B2
Automatic system management is provided by controlling/managing part or all of the system operation through the predefined properties embedded in the components of the management system itself. The creation of Quanta with properties allow the programming of the rules for the system management in a way that any user, client, provider or any other type of participant can interact with the system without the need of an intermediary or approver.
US11531320B2
A numerical controller that collects data from an industrial machine and writes data into a storage medium includes: an interval setting unit that sets a time interval between cycles in which one cycle involves collection of operation information indicating an operating state of the industrial machine and writing of the collected operation information to the storage medium; a reduced service life calculation unit that calculates a service life of the number of writes of the storage medium reduced by the writing on the basis of the set time interval as a reduced service life; a determining unit that determines whether the calculated reduced service life exceeds a prescribed threshold; and a signal output unit that outputs a signal indicating that the reduced service life exceeds the prescribed threshold when it is determined that the reduced service life exceeds the prescribed threshold.
US11531318B2
Embodiments of welding work cells are disclosed. One embodiment includes a workpiece positioning system, a welding power source, and a welding job sequencer. The workpiece positioning system powers an elevating motion and a rotational motion of a workpiece mounted between a headstock and a tailstock to re-position the workpiece for a next weld to be performed. The welding power source generates welding output power based on a set of welding parameters of the power source. The welding job sequencer commands the workpiece positioning system to re-position the workpiece from a current position to a next position in accordance with a next step of a welding sequence of a welding schedule. The welding job sequencer also commands the welding power source to adjust a current set of welding parameters to a next set of welding parameters in accordance with the next step of the welding sequence of the welding schedule.
US11531316B2
A motor controller includes: a command unit which outputs a command value for controlling a motor that drives a driven unit; a motor control unit which controls the motor based on the command value; a compensation filter which compensates for the command value; and a preprocessing unit which is provided in a stage preceding the compensation filter, the compensation filter has a frequency region in which a gain is greater than 1 and the preprocessing unit executes, when a variation in the command value before being compensated for with the compensation filter is equal to or less than a predetermined value, preprocessing in which a past command value is used as a current command value.
US11531312B2
A power supply control system includes a power generator for providing a signal to a load. The power generator includes a power controller controlling a power amplifier. The power generator includes an adaptive controller for varying the output signal controlling the power amplifier. The adaptive controller compares an error between a measured output and a predicted output to determine adaptive values applied to the power controller. The power generator also includes a sensor that generates an output signal that is digitized and processed. The sensor signal is mixed with a constant K. The constant K is varied to vary the processing of the sensor output signal. The value K may be commutated based on the phase, frequency, or both phase and frequency, and the bandwidth of K is determined by coupled power in the sensor output signal.
US11531307B2
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a compressor having an impeller configured to rotate and drive a working fluid through a working fluid circuit of the HVAC system in an active operating mode. The HVAC system further includes a controller configured to, in response to receiving an input indicative of a transition to operate in an inactive operating mode, suspend the active operating mode by interrupting a supply of power to the compressor, adjust pre-rotation vanes of the compressor, a variable geometry diffuser of the compressor to a first position, or both to enable a backflow of the working fluid through the compressor for a first interval of time, and, after the first interval of time has elapsed, adjust the pre-rotation vanes, the variable geometry diffuser, or both to a second position to block the backflow of the working fluid through the compressor.
US11531299B2
An image carrier unit includes an image carrier including a cylindrical main body portion and a pair of flange portions attached to both ends of the main body portion, a first cleaning member that rotates in contact under a prescribed pressure with an outer circumferential surface of the main body portion, a unit frame that rotatably supports the image carrier and the first cleaning member, and an image carrier protective cover that includes a cover main body extending in an axial direction of the image carrier and a side surface portion that is disposed on one end side of the cover main body. On the side surface portion, an image carrier holding portion is formed that performs positioning of the image carrier with respect to the unit frame and releases a pressure contact state between the image carrier and the first cleaning member.
US11531297B2
In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a fixing device with a heating element to heat a sheet. A controller is configured to control electric power supplied to the heating element based on a prior use metric. The controller reduces the electric power supplied to the heating element during a startup period if an electric power level supplied from a power supply is equal to or greater than a threshold value and the prior use metric is equal to or greater than a reference value.
US11531285B2
A charging roller includes a conductive support, and a roller body to rotate about the conductive support. The roller body includes a conductive elastic layer to contact the conductive support, and a conductive resin layer located around the conductive elastic layer to form a surface of the roller body. The surface has ten-point average roughness Rzjis of approximately 20 μm to 30 μm. The conductive resin layer contains polyrotaxane.
US11531279B2
A method for correcting misalignments is provided. An alignment for each device of a group of devices mounted on a substrate is determined. An alignment error for the group of devices mounted on the substrate is determined based on the respective alignment for each device. One or more correction factors are calculated based on the alignment error. The alignment error is corrected based on the one or more correction factors.
US11531277B2
An EUV mask inspection system includes a mask receiving unit configured to receive a manufactured EUV mask, a main chamber configured to perform an inspection on the EUV mask, and a load-lock chamber disposed between the mask receiving unit and the main chamber. The load-lock chamber includes a mask table for loading the EUV mask, an UV lamp disposed adjacent the mask table in a first direction, a cold trap disposed adjacent the mask table in a second direction, and a vacuum pump. The first direction is a direction perpendicular to a sidewall of the mask table, and the second direction is a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the mask table. The UV lamp is configured to evaporate water molecules on the EUV mask by irradiating UV light onto the EUV mask. The cold trap is configured to trap the water molecules evaporated from the EUV mask.
US11531268B2
The present invention provides a positive photoresist composition having excellent storage stability, sensitivity, developing properties, plating resistance, and heat resistance. More specifically, a specific dissolution inhibitor in the form of an oligomer having the same repeating unit structure as the resin contained in the photoresist composition is applied to said composition.
