US11737377B2
A method of fabricating a device, comprising forming portions of electronic circuitry and a shadow wall structure over a substrate, and subsequently depositing a conducting layer over the substrate by angled deposition of a conducting material in at least a first deposition direction at an acute angle relative to the plane of the substrate. The shadow wall structure is arranged to cast a shadow in the deposition, leaving areas where the conducting material is not deposited. The shadow wall structure comprises one or more gaps each shorter than a shadow length of a respective part of the shadow wall structure casting the shadow into the gap, to prevent the conducting material forming in the gaps and to thereby create regions of said upper conducting layer that are electrically isolated from one another. These are arranged to form conducting elements for applying signals to, and/or receiving signals from, the electronic circuitry.
US11737375B2
A device including a semiconductor layer comprising first regions delimited by second regions and third regions; first electrostatic control gates including first conductive portions extending parallel to each other, in vertical alignment with the second regions; second electrostatic control gates including second conductive portions extending parallel to each other, in vertical alignment with the third regions; wherein each first gate includes an electrostatic control voltage adjustment element forming two impedances connected in series, one end of one of the impedances being coupled to the first conductive portion of the first gate and one end of the other of the impedances being coupled to a third conductive portion applying an adjustment electric potential to the second impedance, and wherein the value of at least one of the impedances is adjustable.
US11737371B2
The disclosed technology relates generally to a magnetic device and more particularly to a spintronic device comprising a tunnel barrier, a hybrid storage layer on the tunnel barrier and a metal layer on the hybrid storage layer. The hybrid storage layer comprises a first magnetic layer, a spacer layer on the first magnetic layer and at least one further magnetic layer on the spacer layer and exchange coupled to the first magnetic layer via the spacer layer.
US11737364B2
A thermoelectric conversion material includes: a base material that is a semiconductor composed of a base material element; a first additional element that is an element different from the base material element, has a vacant orbital in a d orbital or f orbital located internal to an outermost shell of the first additional element and forms a first additional level in a forbidden band of the base material; and a second additional element that is an element different from both of the base material element and the first additional element and forms a second additional level in the forbidden band of the base material. A difference is 1 between the number of electrons in an outermost shell of the second additional element and the number of electrons in at least one outermost shell of the base material element.
US11737353B2
The present disclosure relates to a plurality of host materials and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. The organic electroluminescent device of the present disclosure can exhibit excellent lifespan characteristics while maintaining high luminous efficiency by including a specific combination of a plurality of host compounds.
US11737350B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: M(L1)(L2) Formula 1 wherein in Formula 1, M, L1, and L2 are the same as described in the specificaiton.
US11737348B2
A halide material having general formula ArMAX is disclosed. The halide material can be processed to an optoelectronic film with a halogenated formamidine and a lead halide, and the optoelectronic film can be applied in the manufacture of an optoelectronic device like a perovskite laser or a PeLED. Experimental data have proved that, the fabricated optoelectronic film shows a property of photoluminescence (PL) peak wavelength adjustable. Moreover, the PL peak wavelength moves from 482 nm to 534 nm with the increase of the content of lead (Pb), halogen (X) and formamidine (FA) in the optoelectronic film. Furthermore, experimental data have also indicated that, the fabricated optoelectronic film can be used as a blue emissive layer, a red emissive layer or a green emissive layer, thereby having a significant potential for application in optoelectronics industry.
US11737347B2
A thin film includes a luminescent compound represented by Formula 1 and a random copolymer, wherein the random copolymer includes a first repeating unit including at least one aromatic ring, and a second repeating unit including a heteroatom including at least one lone pair of electrons, [A]n[Q]m[X]l Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, A is a monovalent organic cation, a monovalent inorganic cation, or a combination thereof, Q is a divalent metal cation, a divalent metalloid cation, or a combination thereof, X is at least one monovalent halogen ion, n is an integer from 1 to 3, m is an integer from 1 to 2, and l is an integer from 1 to 5.
US11737345B2
Provided are: an organic electronic material which can be easily multilayered and that can be used in substrates, such as resin, that cannot be processed at high temperatures; an ink composition containing the same; an organic thin film formed using said organic electronic material or said ink composition; and an organic electronic element and an organic EL element that are formed using said organic thin film and that have a superior luminous efficacy and emission lifespan than conventional elements. Specifically, provided are: an organic electronic material that is characterized by containing an oligomer or a polymer having a structure that branches into three or more directions and has at least one polymerizable substituent; an ink composition containing said organic electronic material; and an organic thin film prepared using the aforementioned organic electronic material. Further, provided are an organic electronic element and an organic electroluminescent element containing said organic thin film.
US11737343B2
A method of fabricating a perovskite light emitting device is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: providing a substrate; providing a first electrode disposed over the substrate; providing a bank structure disposed over the substrate, wherein the bank structure is patterned so as to define at least one sub-pixel on the substrate; providing a first transport layer ink, wherein the first transport layer ink comprises at least one solvent and at least one first charge transport material mixed in the at least one solvent; depositing the first transport layer ink into the at least one sub-pixel over the first electrode using a method of inkjet printing; vacuum drying the first transport layer ink inside a vacuum drying chamber to assemble a first transport layer over the first electrode in the at least one sub-pixel; annealing the first transport layer; providing a perovskite ink, wherein the perovskite ink comprises at least one solvent and at least one perovskite light emitting material mixed in the at least one solvent; depositing the perovskite ink into the at least one sub-pixel over the first transport layer using a method of inkjet printing; vacuum drying the perovskite ink inside a vacuum drying chamber to assemble a perovskite emissive layer over the first transport layer in the at least one sub-pixel; annealing the perovskite emissive layer; and depositing a second electrode over the perovskite emissive layer using a method of vapour deposition. Perovskite light emitting devices and displays fabricated using the provided method are also provided.
US11737338B2
Provided is a display panel, including: a substrate comprising: a display region, a peripheral region and a pad region; a first dam; a planarization layer disposed within the first dam, wherein a first groove is defined between the first dam and the planarization layer, and wherein an edge of a first side of the planarization layer comprises a first segment boundary and a second segment boundary that are connected; a packaging layer covering the planarization layer; and a touch layer disposed on the packaging layer, wherein the touch layer comprises a touch signal line and a touch electrode pattern, the a touch electrode pattern being electrically connected to a pad in the pad region by the touch signal line which travels through the first segment boundary; wherein the packaging layer comprises an organic layer, an edge of the organic layer being disposed in the first groove.
US11737334B2
A display device includes a base layer, a first electrode on the base layer, a pixel defining layer on the base layer, the pixel defining layer including a display opening exposing the first electrode, a light emitting pattern on the first electrode, a second electrode on the light emitting pattern, a division pattern on the second electrode, the division pattern including a division opening overlapping the display opening, and a color filter in the division opening. The second electrode includes an electrode opening which overlaps the division opening and is spaced apart from the display opening.
US11737324B2
In a transparent display panel, a GIP region acts as a transmissive region, thereby increasing or maximizing a transmissive area in the GIP region. To this end, a line for VSS voltage application is disposed in a display region. Thus, a non-transparent thick line for applying the VSS voltage is not disposed in an upper portion of a GIP circuit region. Thus, a transparent bezel in which the GIP region acts as the transmissive region is implemented. Further, a GIP input signal line region and a GIP output signal line region constitute different layers, thereby to maximize a spacing between GIP input signal lines, resulting in increasing or maximizing a transmissive area in the GIP circuit region.
US11737319B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area and a sensor area, wherein the display area includes a first pixel, and the sensor area includes a second pixel and a transmission portion; a sensor configured to transmit a signal through the substrate via the transmission portion, wherein the second pixel includes second thin-film transistor including a semiconductor layer, and wherein a blocking layer is disposed between the sensor and the second thin-film transistor, wherein the blocking layer covers the semiconductor layer.
US11737316B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel (10) and a method of manufacturing the same. The display panel (10) includes a substrate (101), a number of light transmissive units (320), and an package layer (600). The substrate (101) has a light transmissive region (700) and a pixel display region (800). The light transmissive region (700) and the pixel display region (800) are complementarily disposed with respect to the substrate (101). The plurality of light transmissive units (320) are disposed in the light transmissive region (700) and overlay a surface of the substrate (101) within the light transmissive region (700). The package layer (600) overlays a surface of a number of light transmissive units (320). In the present disclosure, the substrate (101) has a different structure in the light transmissive region (700) and the pixel display region (800).
US11737315B2
The disclosure relates to display panel and display apparatus including the same. The display panel includes a substrate including a display part displaying an image, an adhesive layer covering the display part, on the substrate, and a heat dissipation member on the adhesive layer. The heat dissipation member includes a first metal layer, a middle layer including an organic layer and a plurality of partition walls provided on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer provided on the middle layer.
US11737314B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel has a display region and a non-display region. The non-display region has an aperture region and a non-aperture region surrounding the aperture region. The display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed in the display region. The display panel includes a plurality of first light absorbing patterns and a plurality of second light absorbing patterns disposed in the non-aperture region. The plurality of first light absorbing patterns and the plurality of second light absorbing patterns are configured to absorb different colors of lights.
US11737307B1
An electronic device may have a display overlapped by a cover layer. Portions of the surface of the display and cover layer may have curved profiles. The display may include a flexible substrate with bent edge portions protruding from a central region. Gaps may be formed between regions of pixels on a common display substrate or between separate display substrates. A light source may emit light through a gap. Optical components such as sensors may be aligned with windows in the display. The windows may be formed from transparent portions of a display layer that are surrounded by pixels. A frame may be used to support the flexible substrate. The frame may have a metal portion and a polymer portion molded to the metal portion. Openings and other structures in the frame may accommodate components such as optical sensors. Components may be aligned with frame openings and display windows.
US11737299B2
An organic light-emitting device including: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a first emission unit and a second emission unit between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a first charge generation layer between the first emission unit and the second emission unit; wherein the first emission unit includes a first emission layer and a first inorganic buffer layer, and the second emission unit includes a second emission layer and a second inorganic buffer layer.
US11737291B2
A solar cell according to the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first electron transport layer located between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, in which at least one selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode is translucent, the photoelectric conversion layer contains a perovskite compound composed of a monovalent cation, a Sn cation, and a halogen anion, and the first electron transport layer contains a niobium oxide halide.
US11737287B2
Provided are a memory device and a method of forming the same. The memory device includes a plurality of bit lines extending along a first direction; a plurality of word lines extending along a second direction different from the first direction; a plurality of memory pillars; and a selector. The plurality of word lines are disposed over the plurality of bit lines. The plurality of memory pillars are disposed between the plurality of bit lines and the plurality of word lines, and respectively positioned at a plurality of intersections of the plurality of bit lines and the plurality of word lines. The selector is disposed between the plurality of memory pillar and the plurality of word lines. The selector extends from a top surface of one memory pillar to cover a top surface of an adjacent memory pillar. A semiconductor device having the memory device is also provided.
US11737283B1
To compensate switching of a dielectric component of a non-linear polar material based capacitor, an explicit dielectric capacitor is added to a memory bit-cell and controlled by a signal opposite to the signal driven on a plate-line.
US11737271B2
In order to permit dense integration of a high number of stacked word lines in the semiconductor memory device, a charge pump is included in the semiconductor memory device. The charge pump makes use of a capacitor. The capacitor is implemented with respect to the dense integration. Some components are placed under the stacked word lines, and some are not under the stacked word lines. The capacity of the capacitor not under the stacked word lines is provided in part by a parallel structure.
US11737267B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a floating gate test device, as well as a method for forming the IC. In some embodiments, the IC comprises a memory cell structure including a pair of control gates respectively separated from a substrate by a pair of floating gates and a pair of select gate electrodes disposed on opposite sides of the pair of control gates. A memory test structure includes a pair of dummy control gates respectively separated from the substrate by a pair of dummy floating gates and a pair of dummy select gate electrodes disposed on opposite sides of the pair of dummy control gates. The memory test structure further includes a pair of conductive floating gate test contact vias respectively extending through the pair of dummy control gates and reaching on the dummy floating gates.
US11737264B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of memory blocks grouped into pages, each including an alternating layer stack on the substrate, a plurality of channel holes in the alternating layer stack, and strings of memory cells disposed along the plurality of channel holes, and at least one dummy block adjacent to the plurality of memory blocks, each including an alternating dummy layer stack having multiple conductive layers and multiple dielectric layers alternately laminated on one another on the substrate, the at least one dummy block is disposed at an outskirt of each of the pages of the plurality of memory blocks.
US11737247B2
An apparatus for cooling one or more heat generating components comprises: a sealable enclosure defining a volume for containing a first coolant and one or more heat generating components; a conduit surrounded by the volume, the conduit enabling a second coolant to enter and leave the enclosure, the conduit providing a fluid-tight seal between the first coolant and the second coolant when the first coolant within the volume surrounds the conduit; and a pump within the enclosure configured to direct the first coolant to the conduit such that heat is exchanged between the first coolant and the second coolant.
US11737240B1
A heat-activated pump removes waste heat from electronic components, at a data center, circuit board, or chip level. A set of evaporators receive heat from the electronics, converting a working fluid into vapor. Piping from the evaporators to a shared condenser(s) and back form a fluid circulation system. A pressure-control valve set for a specified electronic operating temperature allows vaporized working fluid to vent into a liquid-piston chamber, where it expands adiabatically, displacing pumped liquid in a pumping stage and expelling it from the chamber through a unidirectional valve to the shared condenser(s). The condenser(s) has a heatsink transferring heat away to a flow of cooler fluid. The pumped liquid returns in a suction cycle to the chamber through another unidirectional valve. An injector valve returns jets of condensed working fluid to the evaporator in successive brief spurts responsive to periodic pressure pulses in the chamber.
US11737235B2
A propulsion control device of the present disclosure includes: a housing; a gate controller disposed at one end side of an interior space of the housing in a longitudinal axis direction X, the gate controller being configured to control a power converter; a fan disposed under the gate controller, the fan being configured to feed air to the gate controller; and an airflow guide member disposed at the side opposite to the fan relative to the gate controller, having, on an interior face of a ceiling of the housing, an airflow guide face having a predetermined angle with respect to the vertical direction, the airflow guide member being configured to guide air passed through the gate controller to flow toward the other end side of the interior space of the housing in the longitudinal axis direction X.
US11737233B2
Methods, systems, and devices for distributing power in a computing environment such as a rack in data center are disclosed. The disclosed methods and systems may provide for a high degree of power distribution reliability in a liquid cooling rack. To provide for power distribution reliability, the power distribution components such as busbars and power clips may be segregated from other components such as cooling fluid distribution components. By segregating these components from one other, the magnitude of damage or impact such as short circuits due to leaked cooling fluid may be eliminated and prevented to a large extend.
US11737232B2
A universal bracket for mechanically coupling an information handling resource to a chassis of an information handling system may include a first mechanical member having a pair of guide features located on opposite edges of the first mechanical member and a second mechanical member having corresponding guide features configured to mechanically couple to the pair of guide features in order to enable the second mechanical member to slide relative to the first mechanical member in a linear direction such that a height of the universal bracket is configurable to match a height of the information handling resource.
US11737231B2
Tools and techniques are described to attach a device to a controller, whereby the controller analyzes the device inputs, looks up information about the device in a database, and then determines which inputs on the device match the defined device inputs. It then may translate information received from the device into an intermediate language. It may also use the information received from the device, the location of the device, and information about the device to create a digital twin of the device.
US11737221B2
A ruler device module is disclosed that includes top and bottom plates that are parallel, with the bottom plate defining a tray where the bottom plate extends beyond the top plate. The module further includes a pair of side plates on opposite sides of, and extending between, the top and bottom plate, with each side plate including a slot. Partitions are perpendicular to and between the top and bottom plates forming bays between adjacent partitions and the top and bottom plates. A handle structure is between the top and bottom plates and includes a handle configured to rotate between a recessed position and a use position. A nut structure is between the top plate and the bottom plate. The nut structure includes an aperture configured to engage a fastener of a chassis to secure the ruler device module to the chassis.
US11737215B2
A printed circuit film includes: a base film including a first film portion extending in a first direction, a second film portion extending in the first direction, and a third film portion extending in the first direction; a plurality of lead wires extending in the second direction and disposed on the first, second, and third film portions, the plurality of lead wires being spaced apart from each other in the first direction; and a bonding member including: a conductive member disposed to overlap the plurality of lead wires on the first film portion; a first non-conductive member disposed to overlap the plurality of lead wires and the second film portion; and a second non-conductive member disposed to overlap the plurality of lead wires and the third film portion, wherein the conductive member is disposed between the first non-conductive member and the second non-conductive member in the second direction.
US11737211B2
A connection structure embedded substrate includes: a printed circuit board including a plurality of first insulating layers and a plurality of first wiring layers, respectively disposed on or between the plurality of first insulating layers; and a connection structure disposed in the printed circuit board and including a plurality of internal insulating layers and a plurality of internal wiring layers, respectively disposed on or between the plurality of internal insulating layers. Among the plurality of internal wiring layers, an internal wiring layer disposed in one surface of the connection structure is in contact with one surface of a first insulating layer, among the plurality of first insulating layers.
US11737205B2
An interconnect structure includes a first conductor, a second conductor, a dielectric block, a substrate, and a pair of conductive lines. The first conductor and the second conductor form a differential pair design. The dielectric block surrounds the first conductor and the second conductor. The first conductor is separated from the second conductor by the dielectric block. The substrate surrounds the dielectric block and is spaced apart from the first conductor and the second conductor. The pair of conductive lines is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, respectively, and extends along a top surface of the dielectric block and a top surface of the substrate.
US11737201B2
Various disclosed embodiments include collimated beam atomic ovens, collimated atomic beam sources, methods of loading a source of atoms into an atomic oven, and methods of forming a collimated atomic beam. In some embodiments, an illustrative collimated beam atomic oven includes: a tube having a first portion and a second portion; a source of atoms disposed in the first portion of the tube; an aperture disposed in the second portion of the tube; a heater assembly disposable in thermal communication with the tube; and an openable seal disposed in the tube intermediate the source of atoms and the aperture.
US11737196B2
An LED stroboscope device synchronized with a camera, which comprises: a power supply unit; a stroboscope unit which receives power from the power supply unit so as to charge the power for generating a flashing light, and then, outputs a flashing light generation signal for electric discharge of the charged power; a continuous light unit which receives the power from the power supply unit so as to output a continuous light generation signal for generating continuous light; a light emitting unit which individually receives the flashing light generation signal and the continuous light generation signal so as to generate the flashing light and the continuous light; and a control unit which receives the power from the power supply unit so as to individually control the stroboscope unit and the continuous light unit, thereby outputting the flashing light generation signal and the continuous light generation signal.
US11737177B2
An induction heating coil according to the present disclosure includes a pair of arcuate pipes curved in an arcuate shape along a circumferential direction of an outer peripheral surface of a cylindrical object to be heated, and a straight pipe connecting one ends of the arcuate pipes to each other, in which at least one wall is formed inside the straight pipe, the at least one wall extending along a longitudinal direction of the straight pipe and dividing an internal path of the straight pipe into a plurality of paths, and at least one rhombic through holes is formed in the wall.
US11737164B2
In one aspect, a computing device is configured to, while operating as a control device of a networked media playback system that includes a first set of network devices and a second set of network devices, (i) transmit a first message to each network device in the first set of network devices, wherein the first message comprises a command to, at a first time, temporarily disconnect from the computing device via a particular communication protocol, (ii) transmit a second message to each network device in the second set of network devices, wherein the second message comprises a command for the network device in the second set of network devices to, at a second time, test connectivity with the computing device; and (iii) after the second time, determine whether each network device in the second set of network devices was connected to the computing device.
US11737157B2
Apparatus and methods to support parallel access to services of multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and/or electronic SIMs (eSIMs) by a wireless device are disclosed. The wireless device is a single-radio wireless device that includes wireless circuitry that supports an active voice or video connection via a single radio access network of a cellular wireless network at a time. To send or receive data for a second SIM/eSIM, when an active voice or video connection for a first SIM/eSIM uses the wireless circuitry, the single-radio wireless device can i) establish parallel, linked protocol data unit (PDU) sessions for different SIMs, ii) multiplex traffic for different SIMs over a common radio connection with SIM information embedded in protocol headers for routing by network equipment, and/or iii) use an additional dedicated bearer using a first, active SIM for each data network name (DNN) over which to route for a second, suspended SIM.
US11737150B2
A wireless communication method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a random access request to a network device on a high frequency uplink carrier or a supplementary uplink (SUL) carrier deployed at a frequency band lower than the high frequency uplink carrier; and acquiring, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) sent by the network device in response to the random access request.
US11737149B2
A wireless device receives a random access response in response to transmitting a first random access preamble. A Msg3 message, including a wireless device identifier of the wireless device, is transmitted via an uplink grant comprised in the random access response. A contention resolution time window is started based on transmitting the Msg3 message. A contention resolution is determined to be unsuccessful in response to not receiving a response, including the wireless device identifier and corresponding to the Msg3 message, during the contention resolution time window. Based on the determining, a two-step random access procedure is performed including transmitting a message including: a second random access preamble via a random access channel resource, and a transport block via an uplink resource corresponding to the random access channel resource.
US11737145B2
A method, an apparatus and a computer readable medium ae disclosed for early data transmission determinations using an uplink grant. The method includes obtaining Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling to be transmitted to a network device and data to be transmitted with the RRC signaling. The method also includes, in response to receiving a Random Access Response with uplink grant from the network device, determining, based on the uplink grant, whether the data is allowed to be transmitted with the RRC signaling. In addition, the method also includes, in response to determining whether the data is allowed to be transmitted with the RRC signaling, generating a media access control (MAC) packet data unit (PDU) and transmitting the MAC PDU the network device.
US11737142B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select, for a sidelink transmission over an unlicensed band and associated with a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU), one or more candidate resources of a set of candidate resources that are within an adaptive effective contention window (ECW). The UE may adjust at least one parameter of the adaptive ECW to determine an adjusted at least one parameter based at least in part on a channel access output associated with the one or more candidate resources. The UE may transmit the MAC PDU using the one or more candidate resources or an additional one or more candidate resources, wherein the additional one or more candidate resources are selected based at least in part on the adjusted at least one parameter. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11737139B2
Provided in embodiments of the present disclosure are a wireless communication method and a device capable of reducing communication delay. The method includes: a terminal device transmitting uplink data to a network device using at least one of multiple uplink resources, where the multiple uplink resources are indicated by a dynamic scheduling instruction.
US11737137B2
Provided are a method for performing a random access process in an unlicensed band, and a device using the same. The device receives a random access preamble (RAP) order instructing the transmission of a RAP. The device performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) in an unlicensed cell during an RAP window so as to transmit the RAP when the device succeeds in CCA.
US11737134B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for data transmission. The method comprises: performing data transmission in a listen-before-talk mode; obtaining HARQ-ACK information of transmitted data bursts; and adjusting a contention window size CWS for carrier sensing to be performed before transmission of a next data burst based on HARQ-ACK information of reference data, wherein the reference data refers to a chosen PDSCH or PUSCH in a reference slot in a reference data burst selected from the transmitted data bursts. The method of the present disclosure may effectively reduce transmission collision between different nodes.
US11737117B2
Methods and apparatuses for determining whether to perform transmissions or receptions. A method for a user equipment (UE) to determine whether to perform the transmissions includes receiving a n for a search space set for receptions of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) according to a common search space (CSS) and receiving a PDCCH that includes a downlink control information (DCI) format. The method includes determining a set of time resources and a set of frequency resources based on an indication in the DCI format and canceling a transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS) in time resources from the set of time resources based on determining that the SRS transmission would include frequency resources from the set of frequency resources. The method includes transmitting a physical uplink control channel in time resources from the set of time resources and in frequency resources from the set of frequency resources.
US11737114B2
Methods and apparatuses of a communication system are provided. Configuration information for a preemption indication is received from a base station via higher layer signaling. Downlink control information including a preemption indicator is received from the base station. The preemption indicator is applied to a previous transmission period of the downlink control information. Resources indicated by the preemption indicator are identified. It is identified that the resources are preempted. The preemption indicator indicates the resources in a unit of symbols and a unit of frequency band based on a bitmap. The unit of symbols is based on a transmission period of the downlink control information.
US11737109B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that tone reservation is to be applied to one or more subcarriers for one or more downlink communications. The UE may transmit one or more uplink signals, using the one or more subcarriers, for measurement by a base station. The UE may receive the one or more downlink communications having the tone reservation applied to the one or more subcarriers, the one or more subcarriers having tone reservation applied based at least in part on the measurement of the one or more uplink signals on the one or more subcarriers. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11737106B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device and a second device may communicate via a channel. The first device may generate and transmit a reference signal, which may be a distortion probing reference signal with a high peak to average power ratio. In one implementation, the first device may use the reference signal as an input for a neural network model to learn a nonlinear response of the second device transmission components. In another implementation, the second device may sample the generated reference signal, and use the samples as inputs for a neural network model to learn the nonlinear response. The first device and the second device may exchange signaling based on learning the nonlinear response, and each device may compensate for the nonlinear response when communicating via the channel.
US11737098B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a primary cell and a secondary cell. The secondary cell may be a scheduling cell for the primary cell. The wireless device may receive a DCI based on monitoring search space(s) of the secondary cell. The DCI may comprise a first field and a second field. A first value of the first field may indicate scheduling information. A second value of the second field may indicate that the scheduling information is for scheduling the primary cell. The wireless device may receive or transmit a transport block via the primary cell based on the scheduling information.
US11737094B2
In an aspect, a PDCCH and a PDSCH are transmitted by a BS to a UE, whereby the PDCCH includes a first DCI part and the PDSCH includes a second DCI part (e.g., a 2-part DCI). In an example a first grant associated with the second DCI part is offset relative to a slot position of the second DCI part, whereas a second grant associated with the second DCI part is offset relative to the slot position to which the first grant is offset. In another aspect, two or more grants are grouped together, with the respective group being mapped to a PUCCH.
US11737090B2
A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive indication of a first PDSCH group index in a first DCI format, and receive indication of a second PDSCH group index in a second DCI format; and a transmission unit configured to, in a case that the first DCI format is detected, transmit HARQ-ACK information of the second PDSCH group index, the HARQ-ACK information being determined based at least on a parameter M. A value of a first NFI of the second PDSCH group index is indicated by a first NFI field in the second DCI format. A value of a second NFI of the second PDSCH group index is indicated by a second NFI field in the first DCI format. In a case that the value of the second NFI is not null and the value of the second NFI is different from the value of the first NFI, a value of the parameter M is set to zero.
US11737075B1
Systems and methods are provided for dynamically reallocating available transmit power on a dual connectivity user device. A retransmission rate is monitored for the user device that can simultaneously communicate using two or more wireless communication protocols. It is determined that the retransmission rate for the user device is above a threshold for communications using a first wireless communication protocol, such as LTE. Channel assignment of a second wireless communication protocol, such as 5G, is reduced, thus allowing the user device to reallocate a portion of the transmit power previously allocated for the second wireless communication protocol to the first wireless communication protocol to improve the retransmission rate for the first wireless communication protocol.
US11737070B2
[Object] To enable multiplexing configurations of a plurality of uplink control channels in a preferred mode in a communication system in which a base station device and a terminal device communicate with each other. [Solution] A communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; and a control unit configured to selectively switch between a first physical channel and a second physical channel in which both conditions of the number of symbols and the number of resource blocks are different from each other and which are allocated during a predetermined period in a time direction to transmit control information to a base station.
US11737068B2
A method for determining a carrier center frequency in a wireless communications system and apparatus is provided. The method includes: determining, a carrier center frequency used by a base station and UE to communicate, according to a frequency band starting frequency, an absolute radio frequency channel number, a frequency band offset, and a relative radio frequency channel number. According to this application, a time for searching for a cell by a terminal can be reduced, power consumption of the terminal can be reduced, and a battery life can be extended.
US11737064B2
Methods and apparatuses for signal transmission and reception are provided for a wireless communication system. Information for configuring a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources is transmitted to a terminal. Downlink control information (DCI) is transmitted to the terminal on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The DCI includes a resource indicator for indicating a PUCCH resource among the plurality of PUCCH resources. Uplink control information (UCI) is received from the terminal on the PUCCH resource indicated by the resource indicator.
US11737063B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods to dynamically indicate preference for self-contained slots and slot duration by a user equipment device (UE) in communication with a base station (e.g., a gNB) using a 5G NR radio access technology. A UE may determine to send an indication to a gNB indicating a preference for self-contained slots and slot duration for downlink and/or uplink communications utilizing one or more of the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and/or acknowledgement messaging (ACK/NACK) for downlink communications, and utilizing one or more of the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the PDCCH, and/or the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for uplink communications. The configuration of self-contained slots and slot duration for uplink and/or downlink may be based on one or more of average packet size, average packet rate, traffic type and UE processing capabilities.
US11737058B2
Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For instance, a first user equipment (UE) can determine one or more parameters associated with sidelink communications between the first UE and a second UE. The first UE can determine, based on the one or more parameters, one or more non-preferred resources associated with the sidelink communications. The first UE can transmit an indication of the one or more non-preferred resources associated with the sidelink communications.
US11737019B2
Procedures, mechanisms, methods, and techniques are provided that trigger power saving mode (PSM) functionality in the at least one wireless transmit receive units, group of WTRUs or subset of the group of WTRUs. The trigger may be in response to an application layer request to set one or more predetermined PSM settings, wherein the trigger originates from one or more application servers (APs) directed to a core network by way of an interface such as an SCEF that may be included on a device (e.g., a gateway, computing device, and/or the like) and may be configured for enabling the application server to request enabling and disabling PSM functionality.
US11737017B2
A control information utilization method and an apparatus of a terminal with heterogenous technology communication modules operating in a same frequency band are provided to protect against unnecessary battery power consumption. A control information reception method of a terminal includes receiving control information from a base station using a first module, determining a channel occupancy time based on the control information using a licensed assisted access (LAA) radio identifier, and transferring the channel occupancy time to a second module that is operating in a same frequency band as the first module.
US11737015B2
A user device may receive information indicating that a universal integrated circuit card has been installed in the user device, where the universal integrated circuit card may store a default table that includes network slice selection assistance information used to route data from the user device to correct slices of a network. The user device may execute an application stored in the user device based on receiving a selection of the application, where execution of the application may cause data to be generated. The user device may identify a slice of the network to which to route the data based on the network slice selection assistance information included in the default table. The user device may cause the data to be routed to the slice of the network identified based on the network slice selection assistance information included in the default table.
US11737012B2
Implementations of the subject technology provide for storing a temporary certificate on a mobile device for accessing services in association with a primary number. A device determines that a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card, previously used by the device, is not available for use by the device. The device determines that a second SIM card is available for use by the first device within a predetermined time period after the first SIM card is determined to be not available for use by the device. The device confirms that a communication identifier of the first SIM card is strongly tied to a user account associated with the device. The device stores a temporary certificate that attests to continued ownership of the communication identifier by the device and allows the device to access at least one service in association with the communication identifier.
US11737011B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, transmitting to a Network Function, NF, service producer, by a Service Communication Proxy, SCP, a service request on behalf of an NF service consumer, wherein the service request comprises an access token, receiving, by the SCP, a service response from the NF service producer and upon receiving the service response, transmitting to the NF service consumer, by the SCP, information related to the access token.
US11737009B2
An Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node configured with a first Backhaul Adaptation Protocol (BAP) address related to a first donor IAB node and a second BAP address related to a second donor IAB node in a wireless communication system. Techniques include receiving a packet including a destination BAP address and a path identifier (ID). Based on the packet being received through the second link and the destination BAP address not matching the second BAP address, determining whether the destination BAP address and the path ID of the packet match at least one entry of a configured rewriting table. Based on the destination BAP address and the path ID of the packet matching the at least one entry, rewriting a header of the packet by setting the destination BAP address and the path ID according to the at least one entry, and transmitting the packet to a next hop node.
US11737005B2
A base station configured to communicate with at least one user equipment for an unmanned aerial vehicle, the base station comprising circuitry configured to detect a change from an airborne mode to a terrestrial mode based on an indication received from the at least one user equipment.
US11737002B2
Systems and methods are provided for seamless roaming in a network. First, a client device is authenticated at a first access point of the network. Next, a processor selectively determines, among remaining access points in the network, second access points at which respective precursor keys, such as Pairwise Master Keys R1 (PMK-R1s) are to be computed. The second access points are determined based on any of respective path losses from the first access point to the second access points and respective historical frequencies at which the client device associates at the respective remaining access points. For the second access points, the respective PMK-R1s are computed and transmitted to the second access points to be cached. Next, following a request from the client device to reassociate to a second access point of the second access points, the client device is authenticated at the second access point based on a corresponding PMK-R1.
US11736997B2
A link determination and establishment method and apparatus are provided. In the link determination method, a ground serving base station of User Equipment (UE) receives, from an air serving base station of the UE, link information of a primary link and configuration information of the air serving base station; the ground serving base station determines at least one cooperative base station of the UE and feature information of at least one secondary link according to the link information of the primary link and the configuration information of the air serving base station; and the ground serving base station sends, to the air serving base station and the at least one cooperative base station, indication information for establishing the at least one secondary link, the link information of the primary link, and configuration information of the ground serving base station.
US11736985B2
Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes communicate with one another in half-duplex mode. Such a multiplexing of the communications of the IAB node requires simultaneous execution of a “mobile terminal” function and of a “base station” function by the IAB node. However, these two functions are not synchronised with one another, resulting in a lack of temporal alignment between the data communicated with the parent node and the data communicated with the child node, which causes interference that negatively impacts the quality of the communications between the different IAB nodes involved. Existing solutions suffer from long data processing times and are expensive. Accordingly, a time offset is introduced during the processing of the data by the child node, in order to take into account the lack of synchronisation between the “mobile terminal” function and the “base station” function of the current node.
US11736982B2
Embodiments described herein provide for the pseudo-cooperative load balancing and/or distribution of traffic and/or other types of data by independent nodes. Techniques described herein may be considered “pseudo-cooperative” in that the resulting distribution of traffic and/or other data may resemble load balancing techniques in which various nodes, that serve as an ingress for data for distribution and/or other types of processing, communicate with each other (e.g., share context information) in order to perform load balancing in a coordinated or cooperative manner. In contrast, nodes in accordance with some embodiments described herein may perform load balancing with the same or similar results (e.g., a relatively even distribution of traffic and/or other data), without communicating with each other, thus saving time, processing resources, and/or other resources.
US11736980B1
A method for interfacing an information technology device with a gateway includes (1) receiving, at the gateway, first downlink data, and (2) steering the first downlink data from the gateway to a first information technology (IT) device via at least one of a first plurality of parallel data communication links between the first IT device and the gateway, according to a first steering policy.
US11736979B2
A data packet transmission method—that includes: obtaining, by a terminal, N application programs that are running; and if the N application programs include an application program including a low-latency service; determining whether an unlicensed frequency band is in a congestion state; and instructing a network device to schedule a data packet of the terminal to a licensed frequency band for transmission when the unlicensed frequency band is in a congestion state. When determining that the N running application programs include the application program including the low-latency service, the terminal may instruct the network device to schedule the data packet of the terminal to the licensed frequency band for transmission, so as to transmit a data packet of the low-latency service by using the licensed frequency band. Resources in the licensed frequency band are centrally scheduled by the network device, instead of being used through contention.
US11736964B2
A radio terminal, which has a function to collect and report measurement information designated by a radio network, comprises: means for receiving collection/reporting control information related to the radio terminal's execution of at least one of the collection of measurement information and the reporting of the measurement information to the radio network; and control means for executing, based on the collection/reporting control information, at least one of the collection and the reporting if execution determination information, which is related to at least one of the collection of the measurement information and the reporting of the measurement information to be executed by the local terminal, satisfies a given determination criterion.
US11736959B2
A radio frequency (RF) circuit includes a tank circuit having a selectively variable impedance. The RF circuit further includes a tuning circuit adapted to dynamically vary the impedance of the tank circuit, and to develop a first quantized value representative of a change to impedance of the tank circuit. The RF circuit further includes a detector circuit adapted to develop a second quantized value representative of a field strength of a received RF signal.
US11736958B2
[Object] To provide a communication control device, a base station, a terminal device, a communication control method, and a wireless communication method which are capable of improving user throughput by performing more flexible frequency control. [Solution] Provided is a communication control device including: a communication unit configured to communicate with a base station of a wireless communication system in which one or more frequencies are used; a setting unit configured to set an event and set a frequency to be used by the base station using occurrence of the set event as a trigger; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire information for the setting by the setting unit.
US11736952B2
Devices and methods enable optimizing a signal of interest based on identifying and analyzing the signal of interest based on radio frequency energy measurements. Signal data is compared with stored data to identify the signal of interest. Signal degradation data is calculated based on noise figure parameters, hardware parameters and environment parameters. The signal of interest is optimized based on the signal degradation data. Terrain data is also operable to be used for optimizing the signal of interest.
US11736947B2
SIM router device, communication terminal device, method of routing, and method of manufacturing SIM
A SIM router device is configured to access a SIM that stores a first authentication application and a second authentication application. The SIM router device includes a first input interface, a second input interface, a mapping information storage unit, and a controller. The mapping information storage unit is configured to acquire an authentication application list that lists the first authentication application and the second authentication application from the SIM, and store a mapping information in which the first input interface is associated with the first authentication application and the second input interface is associated with the second authentication application. The controller is configured to route, based on the mapping information, a first instruction received by the first input interface to the first authentication application of the SIM, and a second instruction received by the second input interface to the second authentication application of the SIM.
US11736945B2
Disclosed are a method and device for handling a pseudo base station. The method includes: performing restriction processing on a registration network of the mobile terminal at the pseudo base station in response to determining a pseudo base station; and prohibiting accessing the pseudo base station in response to the restriction processing.
US11736942B2
A service coordinating entity device includes communications circuitry to communicate with a first access network, processing circuitry, and a memory device. The processing circuitry is to perform operations to, in response to a request for establishing a connection with a user equipment (UE) in a second access network, retrieve a first Trusted Level Agreement (TLA) including trust attributes associated with the first access network. One or more exchanges of the trust attributes of the first TLA and trust attributes of a second TLA associated with the second access network are performed using a computing service executing on the service coordinating entity. A common TLA with trust attributes associated with communications between the first and second access networks is generated based on the exchanges. Data traffic is routed from the first access network to the UE in the second access network based on the trust attributes of the common TLA.
US11736940B2
A method and system of establishing trust between computing devices is described. The method includes downloading additional computer-readable instructions from a server computing device; receiving a name input value, an address input value and an email address from a user of the mobile computing device; receiving a verification message from the server computing device; communicating a confirmation verification message to the server computing device; receiving a code from the server computing device; communicating the received code to the mobile computing device for secondary verification; capturing global positioning system (GPS) measurements and/or parameters from the GPS receiver and/or communicate the captured GPS measurements and/or parameters to the server computing device; and capturing geolocation measurements and/or parameters from one or more wireless cellular towers and communicate the geolocation measurements and/or parameters to the server computing device.
US11736936B2
A 5G system (5GS) includes a Network Function (NF) Service Consumer and a functional entity, wherein the functional entity includes binding information stored therein and the binding information includes: Protocol Data Unit (PDU) sessions information and a list comprising one or more subscribers identities (IDs) and/or Policy Control Function (PCF) instance IDs. A method for querying PCF binding information for an address range in the 5GS includes: querying, from the NF Service Consumer to the functional entity, based on one or a combination of query parameters, for all binding information matching the query parameters; and notifying, from the functional entity to the NF Service Consumer, any binding information that matches the query parameters.
US11736931B2
This Application sets forth techniques for provisioning and activating electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) for mobile wireless devices. An eSIM is reserved during a sales order process and later activated during device activation after receipt by a user. An option for eSIM installation in place of (or in addition to) physical SIM installation is provided when purchasing the mobile wireless device. The reserved eSIM can replace a previous SIM/eSIM or be a new eSIM. During device activation, installation and activation of the eSIM occurs. Activation of the eSIM can occur before or after deactivation of a transferred SIM/eSIM. The mobile wireless device accounts for propagation delay of eSIM activation through MNO servers by disabling and re-enabling the eSIM until initial attachment to an MNO cellular wireless network succeeds or a maximum number of retry attempts is reached.
US11736926B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for handling an event message in a communications system. The method comprises receiving the event message and processing the event message using a pre-processing module of the communications system to determine if the event message is relevant for a management module of the communications system. Responsive to determining that the event message is relevant, the event message is tagged to generate a tagged event message, and the tagged event message is transmitted to the management module. Tagging the event comprises adding, to the event message, a model or pipeline label identifying a model or pipeline applied to the event message by the pre-processing module, a status identifier indicating a status of the event message following a process or set of processes performed by the model or pipeline, and an input identifier for identifying features or variables of the event message that were used as inputs to the model or pipeline.
US11736925B2
A low-power mobile telephony alert system and an alert device. The alert device has a communication interface configured to establish a low-power communication link with a mobile device for transmitting status data to the mobile device, and a telephony-enabled communication linked with the mobile device for initiating telephony from the mobile device while in locked mode. The alert device can initiate a status check request to third party contact devices before escalating to connect to the mobile device from locked mode to initiate telephony to an emergency service. The alert device is compact and can be incorporated into an article of jewelry or a wearable loop member.
US11736920B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to use resource filtering to provide multiple different device personalities and/or multiple different resources from a radio frequency (RF)-enabled wireless device or apparatus to one or more other connecting RF-enabled wireless devices across one or more wireless connections. In one example, each different given resource of a wireless device may be associated with at least one filter which may be used by the device to determine which connection/s the given resource may be provided, and a given resource may only be provided to a given connecting device only if the given resource passes the filter.
US11736913B2
Some embodiments provide a mobile computing device that includes a number of applications having a common display area to display data relating to a location. In some embodiments, the common display area is a unified display area to display different types of data. The different types of data can include information regarding the location, multimedia associated with the location, user feedback regarding the location, a catalog associated with the location, social network data, etc. In some embodiments, the unified common display area is also referred to as a place card because it presents data relating to a place.
US11736908B2
A method and apparatus for switching between unicast and multicast by considering degraded user experience in a wireless communication system is described. A CU of a RAN node receives, from the DU, a first switching message including status of the MBS for each of the first wireless device and the second wireless device. A CU of a RAN node determines to switch the first transmission to a third transmission only for the first wireless device for the MBS, based on the received status of the MBS.
US11736907B2
A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising receiver circuitry and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to: control the receiver circuitry to receive a first signal indicating that a warning notification message is to be transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using a multicast or broadcast transmission; in response to the reception of the first signal, control the receiver circuitry to receive a second signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using predetermined communication resources, the second signal comprising information for the terminal device to use to determine communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message; determine the communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message using the information comprised in the second signal; control the receiver circuitry to receive the warning notification message using the determined communication resources.
US11736897B2
The disclosed embodiments estimate a location of a first wireless device based on signals received from the wireless device from two other wireless devices. To combine estimates of the two wireless devices, the two wireless devices share a definition of a plurality of geographic regions. A first set of expected phase differences for the plurality of regions are determined for a first of the two wireless devices, and a second set of expected phase differences for the plurality of regions are determined for a second of the two wireless devices. Based on these two sets of expected phase differences, each of the two devices estimate a position of the first wireless device.
US11736890B2
Diffuse or spatially large audio objects may be identified for special processing. A decorrelation process may be performed on audio signals corresponding to the large audio objects to produce decorrelated large audio object audio signals. These decorrelated large audio object audio signals may be associated with object locations, which may be stationary or time-varying locations. For example, the decorrelated large audio object audio signals may be rendered to virtual or actual speaker locations. The output of such a rendering process may be input to a scene simplification process. The decorrelation, associating and/or scene simplification processes may be performed prior to a process of encoding the audio data.
US11736884B2
A method for supporting a multi-conversation mode for a vehicle of the present disclosure may include: receiving user information of the multi-conversation mode and at least one of a message or speech from a conversation partner participating in the multi-conversation mode; allocating sound spaces on the basis of the user information; and assigning directivity to speech generated on the basis of at least one of the message or the speech and outputting the speech to an allocated space.
US11736875B2
There is provided a hearing aid with a Receiver In The Ear speaker assembly comprising a connecting member with electric conductors connecting a connector at one end, and a receiver housing with a receiver at the opposite end. A microphone housing with a microphone is attached to the connecting member. Placed along the connecting member, the microphone housing with the microphone is separated by a distance from the receiver in the receiver housing, thus reducing acoustic or mechanical feedback problems. Especially, the microphone and connector may share one common housing.
US11736874B2
A hearing aid and related systems and methods are disclosed. In one implementation, a system may comprise a microphone and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive an original audio signal representative of sounds captured by the microphone; determine that the original audio signal includes a voice of the user; process the original audio signal according to a first processing scheme to generate a first processed audio signal; transmit the first processed audio signal to a hearing interface device after a first time delay associated with the first processing scheme; determine that the original audio signal includes an additional sound; process the original audio signal according to a second processing scheme to generate a second processed audio signal; and transmit the second processed audio signal to the hearing interface device after a second time delay associated with the second processing scheme.
US11736872B2
A hearing aid and a method performed by a hearing aid including at least one microphone unit, an accelerometer unit, and a processor. The method performed by the hearing aid includes generating a processed microphone signal including attenuating the microphone signal in accordance with an attenuation value; wherein the attenuation value is based on a measure of correlation between a microphone signal from the microphone unit and an acceleration signal from the accelerometer unit. The hearing aid instantly reduces noise arising from mechanical handling of the hearing aid based on input from the microphone unit and the accelerometer unit.
US11736869B2
Technologies disclosed herein can be used to test vibrating actuators, such as those found in auditory prostheses. An example test system includes a trigger signal generator that emits a trigger signal, a test frequency generator that operates in a test mode responsive to receiving a trigger signal, and a diagnostic tool comprising a vibration sensor. The diagnostic tool can measure an output of the vibration sensor.
US11736868B2
A method performed by a hearing device comprising a first housing, a microphone, a speaker, and a first control system configured to control an active vent, the active vent comprising a vent canal and a valve member configured to block the vent canal when the active vent is in the closed state, and to allow passage of air through the vent canal when the active vent is in the open state, comprising: emitting an acoustic signal from the speaker; measuring a first transfer function of an acoustic feedback path between the speaker and the microphone when the active vent is expected to be in the open state; measuring a second transfer function of the acoustic feedback path when the active vent is expected to be in the closed state; and determining a status of the active vent based at least on the first and second measured transfer functions.
US11736865B2
A transducer, a method of manufacturing a transducer, and a transducing device are provided. The transducer includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit includes a first receiving electrode, a first piezoelectric film, and a second receiving electrode which are sequentially stacked, and the receiving unit is configured to convert a first acoustic wave signal into an electrical signal by using a piezoelectric effect of the first piezoelectric film. The transmitting unit is configured to receive a control signal, which is based on the electrical signal, to transmit a second acoustic wave signal.
US11736858B2
A panel vibration type sound generating display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel for displaying an image; a sound generating actuator connected to the display panel and configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound; a support structure spaced apart from the display panel with an air gap between the support structure and the display panel; and a baffle part disposed between the support structure and the display panel to surround the air gap.
US11736855B1
The present disclosure provides a communication device for a hearing protection equipment which includes at least one earmuff, at least one loudspeaker and an audio input member, the device includes: a housing; a first mounting assembly rotatably arranged on the housing; a second mounting assembly arranged on the housing, the first mounting assembly and the second mounting assembly are releasably connected to two ends of the earmuff respectively; a microphone configured for capturing an audio; a radio transceiver configured for wirelessly transmitting the audio captured by the microphone to user and wirelessly receiving a wireless signal containing an audio from the user; and an audio output member communicated with the audio input member and configured for transmitting the wireless signal containing the audio to the at least one loudspeaker. The present disclosure further provides a system for connecting the communication device to the hearing protection equipment.
US11736852B2
The present disclosure discloses a loudspeaker apparatus. The loudspeaker apparatus comprises a core housing for accommodating the earphone core; a circuit housing for accommodating a control circuit that drives the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound, wherein the sound includes at least two resonance peaks; an ear hook for connecting the core housing and the circuit housing; a key arranged at a keyhole on the circuit housing, wherein the key moves relative to the keyhole to generate a control signal for the control circuit; and an elastic pad arranged between the key and the keyhole, wherein the elastic pad hinders a movement of the key towards the keyhole. In the present disclosure, by providing an elastic pad between the key and the keyhole, the waterproof effect of the loudspeaker apparatus may be improved, and the space occupied by the key may be reduced.
US11736850B1
Disclosed is an open ear headphone, including a housing, a speaker arranged in an accommodating space inside the housing to define the accommodating space into a front cavity and a rear cavity, a connecting member including opposite first and second ends, and a supporting member connected to the second end and including a supporting portion and a sound outlet channel. A sound outlet is provided on a surface of the housing and is in acoustic communication with the front cavity. The first end is connected to the surface of the housing. When a user wears the open ear headphone, the housing is located in a concha cavity of the user's ear, the supporting portion at least leans against a lower edge of the concha cavity, and the sound outlet channel is in acoustic communication with the user's ear canal and is not in contact with the user's ear.
US11736849B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of providing RF mitigation exposure to a user, more specifically an eartip that can provide RF mitigation. The eartip can be an elastic layer forming a cavity with a conductive medium within.
US11736846B2
Disclosed is an earphone, which includes a housing defined with a first sound hole, a second sound hole, and a resonant cavity communicating the first sound hole and the second sound hole inside the housing; and a loudspeaker in the resonant cavity, having a first sound emitting surface corresponding to the first sound hole, and a second sound emitting surface facing the first sound emitting surface, where sound emitted from the second sound emitting surface pass to the second sound hole through the resonant cavity.
US11736844B2
An earphone module includes a first circuit board. The first circuit board includes a touch panel layer, a grounding layer, an antenna layer and a touch circuit layer assembly. The grounding layer is disposed apart from and below the touch panel layer. The antenna layer includes an antenna flat portion, an antenna feed wire and an antenna short-circuit wire. The antenna flat portion is disposed apart from and below the grounding layer, and the antenna feed wire and the antenna short-circuit wire are connected to the antenna flat portion. The touch circuit layer assembly is disposed apart from and below the antenna flat portion and includes a touch chip. The touch panel layer is electrically connected to the touch chip.
US11736835B2
A solid-state imaging device includes M pixel units to and a correction unit. The pixel unit includes a main amplifier, a capacitive element, a first switch, a second switch, a photodiode, a feedback capacitive element, and an initialization switch. The correction unit includes a null amplifier, a capacitive element, a first switch, and a second switch. An effective offset voltage of the main amplifier is small.
US11736833B1
A pixel circuit includes a photodiode configured to photogenerate image charge in response to incident light. A transfer transistor is configured to transfer the image charge from the photodiode to a floating diffusion. A reset transistor coupled between a reset voltage source and the floating diffusion. A lateral overflow integration capacitor (LOFIC) includes an insulating region disposed between a first metal electrode and a second metal electrode. The first metal electrode is coupled to a bias voltage source, the second metal electrode is selectively coupled to the floating diffusion, and excess image charge photogenerated by the photodiode during an idle period is configured to overflow from the photodiode through the transfer transistor into the floating diffusion.
US11736832B2
Using the same image sensor to capture a two-dimensional (2D) image and three-dimensional (3D) depth measurements for a 3D object. A laser point-scans the surface of the object with light spots, which are detected by a pixel array in the image sensor to generate the 3D depth profile of the object using triangulation. Each row of pixels in the pixel array forms an epipolar line of the corresponding laser scan line. Timestamping provides a correspondence between the pixel location of a captured light spot and the respective scan angle of the laser to remove any ambiguity in triangulation. An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in the image sensor operates as a Time-to-Digital (TDC) converter to generate timestamps. A timestamp calibration circuit is provided on-board to record the propagation delay of each column of pixels in the pixel array and to provide necessary corrections to the timestamp values generated during 3D depth measurements.
US11736827B2
An image sensing device includes a first substrate structured to support a pixel array that includes a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction and configured to detect incident light to produce pixel signals carrying image information in the incident light; a second substrate structured to support one or more circuits for operation of the image sensing device including receiving a pixel signal from the plurality of unit pixels; and a shielding layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the shielding layer includes shielding driver circuitry and conductive lines coupled to the shielding driver circuitry to receive electrical currents which produce electromagnetic fields to offset electromagnetic fields induced by currents in the one or more circuits supported by the second substrate.
US11736805B2
An image capture apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion unit, an acquisition unit, a first amplification unit, a second amplification unit, and an amplification factor control unit. The photoelectric conversion unit is configured to convert an optical image into an image signal. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a value related to a correct exposure on a basis of the image signal converted from the optical image by the photoelectric conversion unit. The first amplification unit is configured to amplify the image signal with a first amplification factor. The second amplification unit is configured to amplify the image signal with a second amplification factor. The amplification factor control unit is configured to change the first amplification factor or the second amplification factor based on the value related to the correct exposure.
US11736793B2
An electronic device includes an optical collection device, a display device, and a control device. The optical collection device has a first power consumption state and a second power consumption state. In the first power consumption state, the optical collection device is configured to obtain optical data in a collection range. The display device includes an optical component collection arranged in an array. A unit optical component of the optical component collection changes an optical state according to a control signal. The control device is configured to control a first optical component subset of the first region. The first region has a first optical state and a second optical state. In the second optical state, the optical collection device obtains the optical data that do not characterize the external environment of the electronic device.
US11736792B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a first camera; a second camera; a processor that is electrically connected to the first camera and the second camera; a touch screen that is electrically connected to the processor; and a memory that is electrically connected to the processor, wherein the processor may be configured to obtain an initiation command for capturing a first video, to display a plurality of first image frames that are obtained by the first camera onto the touch screen in response to the initiation command for capturing the first video being obtained, to store the first video based on the plurality of first image frames in the memory, to obtain, while capturing the first video, an initiation command for capturing second video with respect to a first object that is included in one or more image frames of the plurality of first image frames through the touch screen, and to store, while capturing the first video, the second video based on a plurality of second image frames that include a second object corresponding to the first object obtained using the second camera.
US11736784B2
A three-plate camera includes an IR prism that causes an IR image sensor to receive incident IR light of light from an observation part, a visible prism that causes a visible image sensor to receive incident visible light of light from the observation part, a specific prism that causes a specific image sensor to receive incident light of a specific wavelength band of light from the observation part, and a video signal processing unit that generates an IR video signal, a visible video signal, and a specific video signal of the observation part based on respective imaging outputs of the IR image sensor, the visible image sensor, and the specific image sensor, combines the IR video signal, the visible video signal, and the specific video signal, and outputs a combined video signal to a monitor.
US11736781B1
Aspects of the present disclosure reduce visual artifacts and provide robust video signals to end-user equipment. According to an aspect, a system includes a splice point controller that analyzes video to detect and compensate for content boundary misalignments. The splice point controller can process video streams by analyzing splice point parameters and/or dynamically updating adjustment values associated with splice points to ensure appropriate transitions from primary content to secondary or alternate content. After determining an adjustment value for a splice point, the splice point controller can provide splice point adjustment feedback to a signal processing engine and/or to a secondary content source as part of synchronizing outputs of a transcoder farm and/or the secondary content source. For example, the splice point controller can operate to align a splice point adjustment value associated with an SCTE-35 descriptor with an actual live splice point time that is included with a live broadcast.
US11736780B2
Systems and methods for generating a graphically animated audience are disclosed. Biometric data is captured via a sensor during display of content via a first device. The biometric data is stored in association with metadata for the content, and is mapped to a graphical representation. Based on the mapping of the biometric data to the graphical representation and the metadata, a graphical animation is generated for display in synchronization with displaying of the content via a second device.
US11736779B2
A video distribution system distributes a video including animation of a character object generated based on a motion of an actor to client devices used by a plurality of viewing users. The video distribution system includes: one or more computer processors; a storage that stores objects associated with each of the plurality of viewing users; and a display device seeable by the actor. The one or more computer processors execute computer-readable instructions to: receive a display request for any of the objects from a first viewing user among the plurality of viewing users; and display object information on the display device, the object information including information on the object corresponding to the display request in association with identification information of the first viewing user.
US11736765B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to credit media segments shared among multiple media assets are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include comparing a sequence of monitored media signatures with a library of reference signatures to determine a signature match, the monitored media signatures representative of a monitored media presentation. Disclosed example methods also include determining a duration and an offset of the signature match, the offset to represent a position of the signature match relative to a start of a reference media asset associated with the signature match. Disclosed example methods further include crediting a segment of the monitored media presentation represented by the signature match to an identifier of a class of media assets including the reference media asset in response to a determination that (i) the duration of the signature match does not exceed a first threshold and (ii) the offset does not exceed a second threshold.
US11736762B2
A mobile device responds in real time to media content presented on a media device, such as a television. The mobile device captures temporal fragments of audio-video content on its microphone, camera, or both and generates corresponding audio-video query fingerprints. The query fingerprints are transmitted to a search server located remotely or used with a search function on the mobile device for content search and identification. Audio features are extracted and audio signal global onset detection is used for input audio frame alignment. Additional audio feature signatures are generated from local audio frame onsets, audio frame frequency domain entropy, and maximum change in the spectral coefficients. Video frames are analyzed to find a television screen in the frames, and a detected active television quadrilateral is used to generate video fingerprints to be combined with audio fingerprints for more reliable content identification.
US11736746B2
A method and system for using steganographically-encoded time information as a basis to control when a client carries out a content-related action. The client processes for presentation one or more linear media streams, each defining a respective time sequence of frames of media content, and at least one of the streams being steganographically encoded with at least one watermark at a respective time-point within the linear media stream, the watermark encoding a timestamp of the respective time-point within the linear media stream according to a server clock. The client extracts the timestamp from the watermark and computes a time offset based on a difference between the extracted timestamp and a current time according to a client clock. And the client uses the computed time offset as a basis to determine when the client should carry out a content-related action in a given one of the one or more linear media streams.
US11736745B2
A multimedia content selection system includes at least one processor executing instructions for performing operations. The operations include receiving a playback request from a playback unit, including a content identifier, providing, to the playback unit, a manifest with at least a set of content segment identifiers based on the content identifier, each content segment identifier identifying a content segment associated with a content stream, receiving a content stream request comprising one of the content segment identifiers, and selecting a segment for playback from the content segment associated with the received content segment identifier, determined using a set of content selection rules.
US11736743B1
Methods and systems for analyzing video quality of programming by content type. A method for analyzing video quality includes receiving, at a service provider system, video containing a source event. The system can sample the video at a least processed sampling point in the service provider system. An event feature set characterizing the source event is determined using the sampled video. The event feature set includes unique features that are same and unique features that are substantially same in videos including future occurrences of the source event. The system assesses the quality of one or more sampled videos taken at other delivery path points in the service provider system. The quality assessed using a source event no reference quality evaluator trained using at least the event feature set. The system outputs a quality metric for each of the one or more sampled videos taken at the other delivery path points.
US11736741B2
Non-volatile memory over fabric (NVMe-oF) is used to stream video, computer games, and the like to client devices from network storage embodied by solid state storage devices (SSDs). To provide for redundancy, multiple copies of a single piece of content, e.g., a computer game or video file, are stored on multiple SSDs. To provide information to address the block-level storage based on a client demand for the content, a data structure correlates each content with the SSDs and related block numbers at which the content is stored. Sourcing of the content as it is being streamed may be dynamically switched between SSDs to provide for load balancing or loss of a SSD.
US11736738B2
Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.
US11736737B2
The present disclosure provides methods for processing video content. One exemplary method comprises: receiving a bitstream comprising coded video data; determining a first parameter of a coding block; determining, according to the first parameter, one or more second parameters associated with a delta quantization parameter (QP) value or a chroma QP offset value; and determining, according to the one or more second parameters, at least one of the delta QP value or the chroma QP offset value.
US11736735B2
A device may be configured to apply adaptive loop filters according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
US11736729B2
A video signal decoding apparatus, comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: parse a syntax element related to a secondary transform of a coding unit based on whether a prediction method of the coding unit is MIP (Matrix based Intra Prediction), check whether or not the secondary transform is applied to a transform block included in the coding unit based on the parsed syntax element, obtain one or more inverse transform coefficients based on an inverse transform of the secondary transform when the secondary transform is applied to the transform block, obtain a residual sample for the transform block based on the one or more inverse transform coefficients.
US11736728B2
An encoding device 1 includes: a transformer 13 configured to calculate an orthogonal transform coefficient by performing an orthogonal transformation process on a residual image indicating a difference between the input image and a predicted image of the input image; a quantizer 14 configured to generate quantization coefficient by quantizing the orthogonal transform coefficient based on a quantization parameter; an entropy encoder 24 configured to generate encoded data by encoding the quantization coefficient; an image decoder 10 configured to restore an orthogonal transform coefficient from the quantization coefficient based on the quantization parameter and generate a pre-filtering image by adding the predicted image to a residual image restored by performing inverse orthogonal transformation on the orthogonal transform coefficient; and a deblocking filter 18 configured to perform a filtering process on the pre-filtering image and control a filtering strength depending on a result of comparison between a luminance signal level of the pre-filtering image and a luminance threshold value.
US11736725B2
A method for encoding a data stream representing an omnidirectional video. The method includes: encoding, in the stream, at least one base layer representative of a 2D or 3D video, the 2D or 3D video being representative of a view of a same scene captured by the omnidirectional video; and encoding, in the stream, one enhancement layer representative of the omnidirectional video. The enhancement layer is encoded by prediction relative to the base layer. The prediction of the enhancement layer relative to the base layer includes: generating a reference sub-image obtained by geometrical projection on the reference sub-image of an image, called a base image, rebuilt from the base layer, and storing the reference sub-image in association with shift information enabling an encoder to determine the location of the reference sub-image in the enhancement image in a non-transitory computer-readable memory of reference sub-images of the enhancement layer.
US11736721B2
A method and device for encoding and a method and device for decoding a signal including encoded data representing an image sub-divided into blocks, and information representing a correction block and a residual block. For a current block of the image, a first pixel is encoded from a prediction value obtained for the first pixel from at least one pixel of a previously rebuilt block. The prediction is corrected using at least one value of a pixel of the correction block. At least one current pixel of the current block is encoded from a prediction value obtained for the current pixel from at least one previously corrected pixel of the current block. The prediction is corrected by using at least one value of a pixel of the correction block, delivering a prediction block for the current block. The residual block is computed from the current block and the predictive block.
US11736717B2
Systems and methods herein describe a video compression system. The described systems and methods accesses a sequence of image frames from a first computing device, the sequence of image frames comprising a first image frame and a second image frame, detects a first set of keypoints for the first image frame, transmits the first image frame and the first set of keypoints to a second computing device, detects a second set of keypoints for the second image frame, transmits the second set of keypoints to the second computing device, causes an animated image to be displayed on the second computing device.
US11736714B2
A method of video decoding is provided. In the method, a coded video bitstream including a current picture is received. Whether a current block included in the current picture is coded in an intra block copy (IBC) mode is determined. In response to determining that the current block is coded in the IBC mode, a maximum number of IBC predictor candidates associated with the current block is determined as equal to a value of max(M, MaxNumMergeCand). The MaxNumMergeCand is equal to a number of candidates in a merge mode list and the M is a predetermined integer. An IBC predictor candidate list is constructed based on the maximum number of IBC predictor candidates. A block vector associated with the current block is determined based on a block vector predictor included in the IBC predictor candidate list. The current block is reconstructed based on the block vector.
US11736703B2
Several embodiments of scalable image processing systems and methods are disclosed herein whereby color management processing of source image data to be displayed on a target display is changed according to varying levels of metadata.
US11736694B2
A method for decoding a digital image from encoded data representative of the image. The image is divided into blocks processed in a defined order. The method includes, for a current block having a predetermined number (Mv) of lines and number (Mh) of columns: decoding coefficients of the current block from coded data; decoding an index representative of an identifier of a transform among a plurality of transforms and identifying the transform, a transform being expressed as a vertical subtransform of size Mv*Mv and a horizontal subtransform of size Mh*Mh; transforming the current block into a decoded block transformed, from the transform obtained, by successive application of the vertical subtransform and then the horizontal subtransform or respectively of the horizontal subtransform and then the vertical subtransform; and reconstructing the image from the transformed decoded block. The transforming includes: a modified use of core sub-transform coefficients, their absolute values being retained.
US11736687B2
A device for encoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data, and a video encoder implemented in circuitry and configured to encode a future picture of the video data having a first display order position, the future picture being included in an intra period (IP) of the video data, the IP comprising a plurality of groups of pictures (GOPs), and after encoding the future picture, encode a picture of an ordinal first GOP of the plurality of GOPs using the future picture as a reference picture, each picture of the ordinal first GOP having display order positions earlier than the first display order position. Encoding the future picture in this manner may result in encoding performance improvements with minimal increases in encoding and decoding complexity.
US11736686B2
A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: determining a first prediction mode for a first sub-block in a current block and a second intra prediction mode for a second sub-block, performing a first prediction for the first sub-block based on the first intra prediction mode, performing a second prediction for the second sub-block based on the second intra prediction mode, and obtaining a prediction sample of the current block according to a result of the first prediction and the second prediction.
US11736683B2
A method of video decoding includes checking one or more video blocks in pre-defined relative positions compared to a first video block to derive a first set of candidates, wherein each of the first set of candidates is derived from corresponding motion information of the video blocks checked, checking, upon a determination that a number of the first set of candidates has not reached a predetermined limit, one or multiple tables to derive a second set of candidates, and processing the first video block based on a bitstream representation of the first video block and the constructed candidate list.
US11736665B1
A network-connected security device is communicatively coupled to an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device having a camera and a speaker. A method receives video data captured by the camera, and performs an object recognition algorithm upon the received video data to identify an object therein. The method performs a table lookup using the identified object, into a data structure that associates objects with at least one description of a predefined voice message. The method selects a description of a predefined voice message associated with the identified object, and transmits the selected description's predefined voice message to the A/V recording and communication device for output through the speaker.
US11736661B2
A video capturing a user facing a camera is received. An image of the video is analyzed to identify a marking object in the image. The image captures the marking object held by the user in between the user and the camera. A gesture performed by the user is detected using the marking object in a space between the user and the camera. A location associated with the marking object is marked including by overlaying a highlight of a portion of content virtually shared between the user and one or more other remote participants. The overlaid highlight of the portion of the content is provided to one or more other remote participants via a collaboration medium.
US11736660B2
A conference gallery view intelligence system determines regions of interest for display within views of conferencing software based on input streams received from devices within a conference room during a conference. Conference participants are detected in the conference room based on an input video stream received from a video capture device. A direction of audio from the conference participants is determined based on an input audio stream received from a multi-directional audio capture device. A conversational context within the conference room is then determined based on the direction of the audio and locations of the one or more conference participants in the conference room. A region of interest to output within conferencing software is determined based on the conversational context, and the region of interest is output for display within a view of the conferencing software.
US11736657B2
An image capturing device in the present embodiment has a configuration that is provided with an image splitting unit 21 and an edge extracting unit 22 that acquire the edge component for each block image that has been divided from an image captured by an image sensor 10, a resolution controlling unit 23 that writes each block image into a frame memory 30 with a resolution in accordance with the amount of its edge component, an image enlarging unit 24 that reads out at least one block image that corresponds to a selected region from the frame memory 30 and enlarges the block image with a magnification in accordance with the size of the selected region, and an enlarged output unit 45 that outputs the enlarged block image that corresponds to the selected region that is supplied from the image enlarging unit 24.
US11736647B2
An image outputting device includes a scanning module, a storage module, an identification module, a calibration module and a printing module. The scanning module generates an image by scanning an object. The storage module stores the image. The identification module identifies a layout orientation and a text orientation of the image. The calibration module calibrates the layout orientation and the text orientation of the image according to a relation of an identification result of the identification module and a layout orientation of the printing medium. When the printing module prints the calibrated image on a printing surface of the printing medium and outputs the printing medium with the printing surface facing downwardly, the layout orientation of the printed image matches with the layout orientation of the printing medium, and the text orientation of the printed image is opposite to an medium outputting direction or arranged from proximal to distal.
US11736645B2
A print processing system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a terminal device, and a mobile device. A first controller of the terminal device is capable of writing information necessary for transmitting the print data, in the memory of the mobile device. A second controller of the image forming apparatus executes, upon reading out the necessary information written by the first controller from the memory of the mobile device, via the second wireless communication device, a first process necessary for transmitting the print data. A second controller of the image forming apparatus is capable of writing the necessary information in the memory of the mobile device. The first controller of the terminal device executes, upon reading out the necessary information written by the second controller from the memory of the mobile device, via the first wireless communication device, a second process necessary for transmitting the print data.
US11736644B2
Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified user is prioritized over a setting condition not corresponding to the user among the registered setting conditions, and the setting condition information indicating the setting conditions in the determined priority is displayed. The image is read under the setting condition based on the setting condition information selected according to the input by the user of the setting condition information indicating the displayed setting conditions.
US11736642B2
A reading portion generates an original image including an image of a document sheet. A first document sheet end detection portion, in a case where the thickness of the document sheet is equal to or greater than a threshold value, identifies a peripheral edge shape of the document sheet by detecting a shadow portion that occurs at a peripheral edge portion of the document sheet in the original image. A second document end detection portion, in a case where the thickness of the document sheet is less than a threshold value, identifies the peripheral edge shape based on a specification by the user. A document sheet size determination portion determines a size of the document sheet according to a result of shape identification by the first document sheet end detection portion or a result of shape identification by the second document sheet end detection portion.
US11736637B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a base, a holder and a connecting rod. The main body has a bottom surface, a top surface, a lower surface, a paper outlet and a paper inlet. The base has a bottom board being adjacent to the paper outlet, at least one vertical board being connected to the bottom board and being pivoted on the main body, and a first hinge being located at the bottom board. The holder has a beam, at least one support arm being connected to the beam, and a second hinge being located at the beam. The tip portion is higher than the vertical board. The connecting rod has opposite end portions being pivoted on the first hinge and the second hinge respectively. As described above, the occupying area is further reduced in an unused status.
US11736635B2
A reading apparatus, having a platen glass, a document cover, a conveyer, a reading sensor, a document supporting member, a pressing plate, and a linkage assembly, is provided. The document cover is movable between an open position and a closed position. The document supporting member is movable between a first position, where the document supporting member faces a reading surface of the reading sensor, and a second position, where the document supporting member is separated from the reading surface. The pressing plate is movable between a third position, where the pressing plate is attached to a lower side of the document cover, and a fourth position, where the pressing plate is removed from the lower side. The linkage assembly moves the document supporting member from the first position to the second position in conjunction with the pressing member moving from the third position to the fourth position.
US11736630B2
A server includes an email receiver, a memory controller, a first generator, and an email transmitter. The email receiver receives, from an external device, a first email including image data, a first email address, and a second email address. The memory controller stores identification information in association with the second email address. The first generator generates first print data representing a first print image. The first print image includes a first partial image represented by the image data and a second partial image representing an image corresponding to the identification information. The email transmitter transmits a second email including scanned data. The scanned data represents a scanned image. The second email further includes, as a destination address, the second email address associated with the identification information corresponding to the second partial image included in the scanned image.
US11736620B2
A device may receive, from a user device, a request to establish a voice call. The device may determine that one of a plurality of endpoints is to be involved in the voice call with the user device. The device may transmit send-only invites to the plurality of endpoints. The device may receive, from a first endpoint of the plurality of endpoints, a receive-only response. The device may transmit a send-receive invite to the first endpoint, wherein the send-receive invite identifies a selected communication protocol as a communication protocol for the voice call. The device may transmit a send-receive acceptance to the user device. The send-receive acceptance may identify the communication protocol for the voice call, and upon the user device receiving the send-receive acceptance, the voice call can be established between the user device and the first endpoint.
US11736619B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automated urgency detection is provided. The present invention may include capturing at least one caller parameter. The present invention may include determining whether an incoming call is urgent. The present invention may include conveying a determined urgency to a receiver of the incoming call.
US11736618B1
This document is directed to, among other things, communication systems involving networked contact center interfaces. One example method involves presenting a frame on a user interface to present information in a selectable format. Another example method involves using a circuit device to detect selection of a frame as displayed and causing display of further graphical information in an un-selectable format.
US11736617B1
A call management system of a call center retrieves from a customer database enterprise customer data associated with an identified customer in a customer call, which may include customer event data, attributions data, and activity event data. The customer database tracks prospects, leads, new business, and purchasers of an enterprise. The system retrieves customer demographic data associated with the identified customer. A predictive model is selected from a plurality of predictive models based on retrieved enterprise customer data. The selected predictive model, including a logistic regression model, and tree-based model, determines a value prediction signal for the identified customer, then classifies the identified customer into a first value group or a second value group. The system routes a customer call classified in the first value group to a first call queue assignment, and routes a customer call classified in the second value group to a second call queue assignment.
US11736610B2
There is a need for faster and more accurate predictive data analysis steps/operations. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for efficient predictive data analysis steps/operations. In one example, a computer-implemented method for generating a predictive output with respect to a primary audio data embedding data object associated with a primary audio data object, is provided. The method includes generating, using one or more computer processors, by utilizing a similarity determination machine learning model and based at least in part on the primary audio data embedding data object, the predictive output for the primary audio data embedding data object; generating, by the one or more computer processors, a forwarding recommendation prediction based at least in part on the predictive output; and performing, by the one or more computer processors, one or more prediction-based actions based at least in part on the forwarding recommendation prediction.
US11736600B2
A protective bag into which a mobile device can be placed to limit exposure of the device to unsanitary conditions or conversely to limit exposure of other surfaces to an unsanitary mobile device. The protective bags are distributed to users using a dispenser. The system improves overall hygiene associated with use of mobile devices.
US11736598B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a plurality of first antennas, at least one second antenna, at least one sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to perform a multi input multi output (MIMO) operation by using the plurality of first antennas in first status, detect that the electronic device in the first status is changed to be in second status, by folding or sliding of at least one of the first housing or the second housing, and disable at least one, which is adjacent to the at least one second antenna, of the plurality of first antennas and perform a single input single output (SISO) operation by using remaining antennas of the plurality of first antennas, when a frequency band or a channel of a signal transmitted by the plurality of first antennas is adjacent to or partially overlapped with that of a signal received by the at least one second antenna.
US11736590B2
A method for communicating data requests to one or more data sources. The method includes receiving a data request, with which data of one or more data types are requested, from an application, and checking the availability of one or more data sources that are able to provide the one or more requested data types. The method further comprises: if at least one of the one or more data sources is available, sending a request to the available data source for the requested associated data type that the data source can provide; and, if no data source is available for at least one of the requested data types, sending a request for this data type to a placeholder module.
US11736586B2
A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. Each computing node typically is functionally-equivalent to all other nodes in the core. The nodes operate on blocks independently from one another while still maintaining a consistent and logically-complete view of the blockchain as a whole.
US11736581B2
Systems and methods of visualization of electronic social network content are disclosed. A monitor may be designated. The monitor may include criteria specifying desired characteristics of mentions of electronic social network content. Electronic social network content, including mentions, is received from one or more electronic social network platforms. A timeline is presented. The timeline can be representative of a period of time corresponding to when at least a portion of the electronic social network content was provided to electronic social network platforms. A plurality of graphical depictions is presented that match the one or more search criteria of the monitor. Each graphical depiction is presented on the timeline at a position corresponding to a time at which the corresponding mention was provided to a corresponding electronic social network platform. An individual graphical depiction may be sized, colored, and/or shaped to convey additional information about the corresponding mention.
US11736580B1
The present disclosure provides techniques for recommending vendors using machine learning models. One example method includes generating a dependency graph based on one or more microservices in a transaction, wherein each node of the dependency graph corresponds to each microservice of the one or more microservices in the transaction, respectively, generating a first set of features using the dependency graph, predicting a first set of nodes that are likely to fail using a first machine learning model based on the first set of features, generating a second set of features using the dependency graph, predicting a second set of nodes that are likely to fail using a second machine learning model based on the second set of features, and applying one or more fixes to one or more microservices based on a combination of the first set of nodes and the second set of nodes.
US11736572B2
A social network image pool system can capture one or more image data items (e.g., image, video) in a temporary persistent post pool. The post pool enables for efficient capture of multiple image data items for publishing in a manner that allows multiple images data items to be captured while preserving the editability of the multiple items before they are published to a social network site.
US11736570B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the managed systems may be deployed to a location and operate in a predetermined manner conducive to, for example, execution of applications that provide the computer implemented services. When deployed to a location, the managed systems may be housed in a managed system frame. The managed system frames may include systems to guide placement of managed system in preferred frame units, remotely identify occupancy of the frame units, and/or the frame units against unexpected removals of or insertion of devices in the frame units.
US11736556B1
In some embodiments, a robotic process automation (RPA) agent executing within a browser window/tab interacts with an RPA driver executing outside of the browser. A bridge module establishes a communication channel between the RPA agent and the RPA driver. In one exemplary use case, the RPA agent receives a robot specification from a remote server, the specification indicating at least one RPA activity, and communicates details of the respective activity to the RPA driver via the communication channel. The RPA driver identifies a runtime target for the RPA activity within the target web page and executes the respective activity.
US11736552B1
Techniques are described for streaming (e.g., low-latency streaming) of media content by performing sender-based adaptive bit rate control operations. The operations can include streaming a media stream to a streaming client. While streaming the media stream, an outgoing queue of buffered streaming content to be sent to the streaming client can be monitored. When a step down condition is satisfied, based at least in part on the monitoring, a switch can be made to a lower bit rate media stream for streaming to the streaming client. When a step up condition is satisfied, based at least in part on the monitoring, a switch can be made to a higher bit rate media stream for streaming to the streaming client. The operations are performed without receiving any quality feedback from the streaming client and without measuring bandwidth of the network channel.
US11736550B2
A system and method for optimizing defragmentation of content in a content delivery network (CDN). In an example, a manifest available to the content delivery node with respect to a particular content as well as segment files stored in a database cache of the content delivery node are analyzed to determine if any segment files referenced by the manifest are absent from the database cache. If so, one or more delivery rules associated with the content delivery node based on historical ABR asset delivery patterns may be applied to determine representations of the absent segment files that satisfy the one or more delivery rules. After determining compliant representations of the absent segment files, they may be pulled from another content delivery node of the CDN (e.g., a parent node or an edge server node).
US11736549B2
A method is performed at a network device including a plurality of network interfaces. The method includes obtaining a first source adaptive bitrate (ABR) asset and a second source ABR asset. The method includes encoding the first source ABR asset in order to generate a first plurality of video representations, and encoding the second source ABR asset in order to generate a second plurality of video representations. The method includes providing, to a first client device, a first one of the first plurality of video representations. The method includes, in response to detecting satisfaction of a source change condition with respect to the first client device, providing, to the first client device, a first one of the second plurality of video representations, and ceasing to provide the first one of the first plurality of video representations to the first client device.
US11736547B1
Systems and methods for social media music streaming may include (1) providing a music service within a social media platform, (2) detecting a group chat between two or more members of the social media platform, and (3) creating, via the music service, a shared music station for the members of the group chat. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11736533B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for implementing a call service, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium, the method includes: deciding whether a first state of a terminal in an eMSC is consistent with a second state of the terminal in an IMS; if they are inconsistent, sending a registration request to the IMS to cause the terminal to complete an initial call service, wherein the eMSC does not subscribe to registration state information in the IMS.
US11736530B2
Systems and techniques are described for virtual machine security. A described technique includes operating one or more virtual machines each in accordance with a respective security container, wherein the respective security container is associated with a respective rule that specifies transfer of the virtual machine from the respective security container to a quarantine container based on one or more criteria. One or more security services are operated on the one or more virtual machines to identify one or more security threats associated with one or more of the virtual machines. One or more tags generated by the endpoint security services are obtained, where each tag is for a virtual machine that is associated with one of the identified security threats. And one of the virtual machines is identified as requiring transfer to the quarantine container based on, at least, one or more of the obtained tags and the one or more criteria.
US11736526B2
The present disclosure, in a method for providing a security service by a security controller in a security management system, is receiving a high-level first security policy from an interface to network security functions (I2NSF) user via a consumer-facing interface.
US11736525B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating access control policies using static analysis are disclosed. An access control policy generator performs static analysis of program code of a software product. The static analysis identifies one or more calls to one or more external components in the program code. The access control policy generator determines a mapping of the one or more calls to one or more actions. The one or more actions are selected from a plurality of known actions supported by an access control policy manager. The access control policy generator generates an access control policy associated with the software product. The access control policy comprises one or more permissions with respect to the one or more external components. The access control policy permits the software product to access the plurality of external components using the access control policy manager during execution of the software product.
US11736523B2
Systems and methods are described by which a serving module of a campaign controller identifies a first version of a model which the campaign controller uses to communicate a first simulated phishing communication to a plurality of users. The campaign controller receives a first response from a first user to the simulated phishing communication and a second response from a second user to the simulated phishing communication and determines that the first and second responses are corresponding, for example are the same or similar. The serving module assigns a first user to a first group of users and a second user to a second group of users and identifies a second version of the model to use for the first user and a third version of the model to use for the second user.
US11736520B1
A system and method for ransomware protection includes an extended browser in an endpoint device. The extended browser selects a certificate for user authentication with an identity provider based on the enterprise ransomware threat level. The selection of the certification may be used to aid in providing protection from ransomware attacks of SaaS and private enterprise applications. The endpoint device may be part of a larger VLAN environment in which endpoint devices are deployed under a default gateway with point-to-point links.
US11736512B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, protection server apparatuses, and network security systems that improve network security for web applications by mitigating cyberattacks that cause the exfiltration of data are illustrated. With this technology, network request(s) are received from a client that specify domain(s) to which the client has sent data during rendering of a webpage. The webpage includes instrumentation code configured to intercept and post the network requests. A determination is then mage when one of the domain(s) is a malicious domain. Interceptor code is generated based on a type of attack that is associated with the one of the domains, when the determination indicates the one of the domains is a malicious domain. The instrumentation code is then updated to include the interceptor code. The interceptor code is configured to mitigate the attack when the webpage is subsequently rendered by another client.
US11736508B2
A system and method for managing the security health of a network devices interconnected with each other in a service provided in an entity. The security health of the networked device is evaluated by determining a cyber risk score for the entity having a plurality of devices. A first set of data from individual network devices and a second set of data including risk data from an external data source are collected by a data collector. The collected data is normalized into a format which can be further correlated by a correlation engine. The correlating step enables to determine cyber risk scores for the individual network devices. The cyber risk score for the entity may further be determined by aggregating the individual cyber risk scores of the individual network devices. The risk scores are displayed by a web-based user interface which is enabled by an application programming interface.
US11736506B2
A monitoring apparatus includes: an acquisition unit sequentially receiving messages on a network; a first calculation unit calculating a difference between data values of two continuous messages; a second calculation unit calculating a difference between reception time points of two continuous messages; a first determination unit determining whether a received message is an abnormal message based on the difference calculated by the first calculation unit or the second calculation unit; a second determination unit determining whether a received message is a suspicious message based on the difference calculated by the first calculation unit or the second calculation unit; and a recording unit recording, when the second determination unit determines that the received message is the suspicious message, as a history, data values and reception time points of the suspicious message and a predetermined number of messages received before and after reception of the suspicious message.
US11736495B2
Aspects of validating information sent to and/or received by a computing device, such as a vehicle computing device, are discussed herein. A vehicle may receive information associated with a computing device, the information indicating that the computing device is authorized to provide guidance information to an autonomous vehicle. Further, the vehicle can receive a message comprising the guidance information associated with the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle can determine that the message is associated with the computing device and can evaluate the message based at least in part on configuration data associated with maneuvering the autonomous vehicle or state information associated with the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle can be controlled based at least in part on evaluating the message.
US11736488B1
A computer-implemented method for selectively monitoring devices may include (i) identifying a set of characteristics of a device-usage session of a device, (ii) calculating, based on the set of characteristics, a privacy score for the device-usage session, (iii) selecting, for the device, a device monitoring profile that is correlated with the privacy score and that defines an intensity level of monitoring actions to be performed on the device, and (iv) monitoring activity performed on the device during the device-usage session in accordance with the device monitoring profile that is correlated with the privacy score for the device-usage session. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11736485B2
A method and a system for facilitating access control with respect to an application in a cloud computing environment are provided. The method includes: intercepting a first request from a user for creating a service instance for a first application; generating an instance space for the service instance in a pool within the cloud computing environment; assigning criteria for determining whether to allow access to the service instance via the instance space; facilitating a creation of the service instance; and connecting the first application to the service instance. When a second request for accessing the service instance via the instance space is received from a subsequent requester, the criteria are applied to the received second request in order to determine whether to allow the requested access.
US11736466B2
A device is described that includes a first microprocessor configured for interfacing with a digital access control backend, and a second microprocessor configured for dedicated communications with an access control manager device backend. The first microprocessor is a master device that controls the operation of the second microprocessor as a secondary device. The proposed device is configured for operation of the first microprocessor and the second microprocessor at low clock speeds and to maintain a hash segregation between locally received data sets and data sets transmitted to an external authentication system.
US11736458B2
A method for managing information handling systems includes obtaining, by a stackable system role (SSR) manager of an information handling system, an SSR instruction, performing an encoding on the SSR instruction using a public key to obtain an encoded instruction value, providing an encoded SSR instruction to a local hardware resource manager of the information handling system, wherein the encoded SSR instruction comprises the SSR instruction and the encoded instruction value, obtaining, from the hardware resource manager, a response, wherein the response specifies whether the encoded SSR instruction is valid, and based on the response, initiating an execution of the SSR instruction.
US11736455B1
Systems and methods are described herein for performing a verification process. In some embodiments, video streams may be exchanged between two devices via a first network connection. Additionally, an out-of-band connection can be established between the two devices. A degradation in the first network connection may be detected. In response to the detection, the first device may be configured to identify one or more key frames from the video stream. The key frames can be identified due to the inclusion of information indicative of the identity of the user of the first device (e.g., a representation of the user’s face and/or an identity document such as a driver’s license). The key frames are transmitted via the out-of-band connection with a higher quality resolution than the resolution utilized by the video stream. The first user’s identity may be verified using the key frames despite the degradation of the first network connection.
US11736445B2
The techniques herein are directed generally to personalized secure communication session management, such as for virtual private networks (VPNs). In one embodiment, a user is authenticated at a client device to verify that the user is present at the client device and authorized to access one or more secured resources, and in response, a secure communication session is established for the client device to access the secured resources. At a later time during the secure communication session, it is determined whether the user is still authenticated at the client device, such that if so, access to the one or more secured resources is maintained on the secure communication session, or else access is restricted to the one or more secured resources (e.g., the session is terminated, or access is otherwise limited).
US11736443B2
A segmentation firewall executing on a host enforces a segmentation policy. In a co-existence mode, the segmentation firewall operates in co-existence with a system firewall that enforces a security policy. The segmentation firewall is configured to either drop packets that do not match any permissive rule or pass packets that match a permissive rule to the system firewall to enable the system firewall to determine whether to drop or accept the passed packets. To enable efficient operation of the segmentation firewall when operating in co-existence with the system firewall, the segmentation firewall may include a plurality of rule chains and may be configured to exit a chain and bypass remaining rule chains upon an input packet matching a permissive rule of the segmentation policy.
US11736439B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for blocking information from being received on a computing device. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, by a hardware processor, intercepting a Domain Name System (DNS) request, the intercepted DNS request being initiated by an advertising module of the computing device; obtaining a set of rules for a transmission of the intercepted DNS request; estimating a probability of the intercepted DNS request being a DNS request that was initiated by one or more actions of a user based on the obtained set of rules; and blocking displaying the advertisement information on the computing device based on the estimated probability, wherein the blocking displaying the advertisement information comprises blocking the advertisement information from being received on the computing device.
US11736438B2
Different database deployments, or other data system deployments, may want to communicate with each other without sacrificing security or control. To this end, embodiments of the present disclosure may provide secure message exchange techniques for a source and/or target deployment. Configurable rule sets may be stored in the deployments; the rule sets may define what messages may be communicated between deployments. The deployments may implement a selective filtering scheme in one or more stages based on the rule sets to filter outgoing and/or incoming messages.
US11736430B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for facilitating proactive two-way communication sessions. One example includes proactively sending a message, where when the message is received, the message initiates a conversation with a user across a first messaging platform. When it is dynamically determined that the first messaging platform is unavailable, a list of prioritized alternative messaging platforms is dynamically generated. A prioritized second messaging platform is selected from the list of prioritized alternative messaging platforms, and the message is dynamically modified in accordance with standards associated with the prioritized second messaging platform. When a response is then received after sending the modified message on the prioritized second messaging platform, an agent is selected from a pool of agents to respond.
US11736425B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by allowing senders to transmit messages and content using a messaging system, and recipients to access such messages and content, even if the recipients do not have access to the messaging system.
US11736424B2
An embodiment of the present invention, a computer receives, on a first computer, a request to locate a topic. The computer determines a second computer to query for the topic. The computer queries the second computer for the topic. The computer receives identification information of participants of an instant messaging conversation corresponding to the topic. The computer stores, on the first computer, the identification information of the participants and indexing the stored identification information by the topic.
US11736423B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and/or computer program products facilitating a process to identify and respond to a primary electronic message are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include a determination component can determine that a primary electronic message has not received a response electronic message. An analysis component can generate a generated electronic message addressing the informational or emotional content of the primary electronic message. In one or more embodiments, an updating component can update the analytical model based on one or more feedbacks to the generated electronic message, where the analytical model can remain active while being updated. The one or more feedbacks can comprise a feedback from an entity-in-the-loop monitoring outputs of the analytical model including the generated electronic message.
US11736421B1
A system for condensing user communications relating to a topic is provided. The system may include a processor and a non-transitory memory. The processor may: designate a topic of user interest; retrieve legacy communications; and remove duplicative communications. The processor may form a topic-centric training set for a neural network. The topic-centric training set may be based on the legacy communications, legacy intelligence, and the plurality of outcomes and may be delimited by an analysis of the database. The processor may synthesize the neural network using the topic-centric training set in order to assign individual weights to each of a plurality of nodes in the neural network. In response to a selection of the topic of user interest, the processor may generate a plurality of user options based on the neural network. The system may include a display in order to prompt the user to select one of the options.
US11736420B2
Computer technology for management and organizing paused and ongoing conversation in an augmented reality (AR) user interface (for example, an interface for products like Google Glass) and for creating a dynamic user interface with the paused and ongoing computer based chat conversations that include: (i) merger of two or more paused conversation content to a single resumed conversation content; and/or (ii) handing over one or more paused conversation to other users.
US11736417B2
A programmable switch includes a plurality of ports for communicating with devices on a network. Circuitry of the programmable switch is configured to receive a series of related messages from a first device on the network via at least one port, and determine whether one or more messages of the series of related messages have been received out-of-order based at least in part on a sequence number included in the one or more messages. The series of related messages are sent by the programmable switch to a second device via one or more ports in an order indicated by sequence numbers included in the series of related messages by delaying at least one message. According to one aspect, a network controller selects a programmable switch between the first device and the second device to serve as a message sequencer for reordering out-of-order messages using a stored network topology.
US11736415B2
An external processing system includes a port configured to exchange signals with a router and one or more processors configured to instantiate an operating system and a hypervisor based on information provided by the router in response to the external processing system being connected to the router. The processors implement a user plane layer that generates feedback representative of a processing load and provides the feedback to the router via the port. The router includes a port allocated to an external processing system and a controller that provides the information representing the operating system and hypervisor in response to connection of the external processing system. The controller also receives feedback indicating a processing load at the external processing system. A queue holds packets prior to providing the packets to the external processing system. The controller discards one or more of the packets from the queue based on the feedback.
US11736410B1
An example controller device that manages a plurality of network devices includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine that configuration of one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices is to be updated; determine dependencies between types of resources provided by the network devices; construct a directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing the dependencies, the DAG having nodes representing the corresponding types of resources of the network devices of the plurality of network devices; sort the nodes of the DAG according to a grouped topological sort into a plurality of hierarchical levels according to the dependencies; and submit queries for two or more resources of the network devices at a common level of the plurality of hierarchical levels in parallel to determine resources of the determined types of resources of the two or more resources to configure the two or more network devices.
US11736401B2
A method for utilizing, by a virtual private network (VPN) server, a first exit internet protocol (IP) address to communicate data associated with a user device having an established VPN connection with the VPN server; suspending, by the VPN server for a given duration of time, utilizing the first exit IP address to communicate the data associated with the user device based at least in part on receiving a notification indicating that an amount of data communicated utilizing the first exit IP address satisfies a data threshold; and re-utilizing, by VPN server at an expiration of the given duration of time, the first exit IP address to communicate the data associated with the user device during the established VPN connection. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11736398B2
Some aspects of the methods and systems presented relate to performing stateless address translation between IPv4 capable devices to IPv6 capable networks and devices. Stateless address translation may form a new IPv6 addresses by combining the IPv4 address of a device with an IPv6 prefix address assigned to the translator. The translation may also combine the IPv4 destination address and UDP port information with the new IPv6 address. Existing Domain Name Systems (DNSs) may be leveraged for resolving the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses across different networks.
US11736394B2
A logical routing element (LRE) having multiple designated instances for routing packets from physical hosts (PH) to a logical network is provided. A PH in a network segment with multiple designated instances can choose among the multiple designated instances for sending network traffic to other network nodes in the logical network according to a load balancing algorithm. Each logical interface (LIF) of an LRE is defined to be addressable by multiple identifiers or addresses, and each LIF identifier or address is assigned to a different designated instance.
US11736393B2
Techniques for leveraging MLD capabilities at edge nodes of network fabrics to receive SNMAs from silent hosts, and creating unicast addresses from the SNMAs for the silent nodes that are used as secondary matches in a network overlay if primary unicast address lookups fail. The edge nodes described herein may act as snoopers of MLD reports in order to identify the SNMAs of the silent hosts. The edge nodes then forge unicast addresses for the silent hosts that match with the least three bytes of the SNMAs. The forged unicast addresses are presented as unicast MAC/IP mappings in the fabric overlay. In situations where a primary IP address lookup fails, the look-up device performs a secondary lookup for a mapped address that has the last three bytes of the IP address. If a mapping is found, the lookup is sent as a unicast message to the matching MAC address.
US11736388B1
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for assigning paths to network packets. The path assignment techniques utilize path state information and/or other criteria to determine whether to route a packet along a primary candidate path selected for the packet, or one or more alternative candidate paths selected for the packet. According to an embodiment, network traffic is at least partially balanced by redistributing only a portion of the traffic that would have been assigned to a given primary path. Move-eligibility criteria are applied to traffic to determine whether a given packet is eligible for reassignment from a primary path to an alternative path. The move-eligibility criteria determine which portion of the network traffic to move and which portion to allow to proceed as normal. In an embodiment, the criteria and functions used to determine whether a packet is redistributable are adjusted over time based on path state information.
US11736384B2
According to an embodiment, a node of a communication system includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: determine, when receiving a packet including path information that indicates a parent-child relationship of transfer nodes included on a network topology from a source node to a destination node, whether at least one of its own node and a neighboring node is included in the path information as the transfer node; specify a distance between the own node and the destination node when at least one of the own node and the neighboring node is included in the path information; and transmit a confirmation response for the packet to the wireless multi-hop network after a waiting time corresponding to the distance, and transfer the packet when a confirmation response is not received from the neighboring node during the waiting time.
US11736377B2
Systems and methods are described for adjusting an operating characteristic associated with a premises device. The premises device may receive one or more communications that indicate an adjustment to the operating characteristic associated with the premises device.
US11736374B2
An equipment detection system includes a processor, a communication module, and a display module. The processor is configured to detect a connection to an external device. The processor enumerates device information about the external device, obtains user information from a local host, and generates a data structure according to the device information and the user information. The processor is included in the local host. The communication module is configured to transmit the data structure and receive status information. The status information includes a placement space corresponding to the external device or the status of the external device. The status information is associated with the data structure. Moreover, the display module is configured to display the status information.
US11736371B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provides a heartbeat information sending method and apparatus, a heartbeat information processing method and apparatus, and a node. One example method includes: determining at least one heartbeat receiving node in which at least two follower data blocks corresponding to at least two leader data blocks in a heartbeat sending node are located; and when the at least one heartbeat receiving node is a single heartbeat receiving node, sending heartbeat information of the heartbeat sending node to the single heartbeat receiving node, where the heartbeat information of the heartbeat sending node is obtained after respective heartbeat information of the at least two leader data blocks are combined.
US11736356B2
Some embodiments provide a method for associating data message flows from applications executing on a host computer with network interfaces of the computer. The method of some embodiments identifies a set of applications operating on a machine executing on the host computer, identifies candidate teaming policies for associating each identified application with a subset of one or more interfaces, and generates a report to display the identified candidate teaming policies per application to a user. In response to user input selecting a first teaming policy for a first application, the method generates a rule, and distributes the rule, to the host computer to associate the first application with a first subset of the network interfaces specified by the first teaming policy. Similarly, in response to user input selecting a second teaming policy for a second application executing on the machine, the method generates a second rule, and distributes the second rule, to the host computer to associate the second application with a second subset of the network interfaces specified by the second teaming policy.
US11736354B2
The present disclosure provides a method for classifying and setting a plurality of electronic devices, the method includes receiving a setting value by a server from each of a plurality of electronic devices, classifying the plurality of electronic devices into any one of a plurality of clusters, based on the setting value, calculating a representative setting value corresponding to the any one of clusters by the server, based on the setting value received from the electronic devices classified into any one of the plurality of clusters, and transmitting the classified cluster data into each of the plurality of electronic devices and a representative setting value corresponding to the classified cluster data by the server, wherein the setting value received from each of the plurality of electronic devices is a setting value corresponding to a user input applied first after each of the plurality of electronic devices is activated.
US11736352B2
A method for determining a misconfiguration of components in an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure includes decomposing one or more components into sub parts, creating one or more synthetic objects, each synthetic object being associated with a sub part of a respective component, and including the components and the synthetic objects in a model of the IT infrastructure. The method further determines a relationship between a first component and a first synthetic object based on attributes of the first component and attributes of the first synthetic object, includes the determined relationship in the model of the IT infrastructure, and loads a graph of the IT infrastructure in a graph database with the first component and the synthetic object as nodes and the determined relationship as an edge in the graph. The method further determines the misconfiguration of components in the IT infrastructure by identifying components having improper relationships in the graph.
US11736351B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to determine a hit count for a concrete level rule implemented on a node and identify one or more components of a logical model, wherein each of the one or more components are associated with the concrete level rule. The network assurance appliance may attribute the hit count for the concrete level rule to each of the components of the logical model, determine a number of hardware level entries associated with the each of the one or more components, and generate a report comprising the one or more components of the logical model, the hit count attributed to each of the one or more components of the logical model, and the number of hardware level entries associated with the one or more components of the logical model.
US11736349B2
A device associated with a network may provide a subscription request that requests data associated with the network and user equipment connected to the network. The device may receive, based on the subscription request, network congestion data associated with the network, reachability data associated with the user equipment, and location data associated with the user equipment. The device may determine a group of the user equipment based on the network congestion data, the reachability data, and the location data. The device may determine timing for providing firmware to the group based on capabilities of the user equipment in the group. The device may provide segments of the firmware to the network to cause the network to provide the segments of the firmware to the group based on the timing for providing the firmware to the group.
US11736340B2
The present technology is directed to signaling unreachability of a network device, more specifically, a prefix of the network device in network that utilizes route summarization. A pulse trigger agent can detect an unreachability of at least one Provider Edge (PE) device in a network domain of a network and determine that a route summarization is being used within the network where the unreachability of the at least one PE device is hidden by the route summarization. A pulse distribution agent can transmit a failure message informing other PE devices of the unreachability of the at least one PE device.
US11736332B2
Disclosed are methods for avoiding, detecting, and mitigating message faults. Due to the expected large increase in electromagnetic background energy in in dense 5G and 6G networks, message faults are likely to dramatically increase, along with their costs. To avoid intermittent interference, a user device can monitor the noise level and request that the base station store incoming messages while the noise level is too high. Likewise, if a user device receives a faulted message while the noise level is high, the user device can delay the retransmission until the noise subsides. If the user device has received two faulted messages (a likely scenario in crowded urban/industrial/sporting environments), the user device can merge the two versions while selecting the message elements with the best quality (based on modulation, SNR, stability, and other criteria) and may thereby obtain a corrected message version, without resorting to a third transmission of the message.
US11736331B2
The present disclosure discloses an information reporting method and information determining method, a terminal and a network device. The method includes: determining PDCCH blind decoding capability information of the terminal; wherein the PDCCH blind decoding capability information indicates a maximum processing capability of the terminal to perform blind decoding on the PDCCH within a first unit time and a maximum processing capability of the terminal to perform blind decoding on the PDCCH within a second unit time; the first unit time is greater than the second unit time; reporting the PDCCH blind decoding capability information to a network device. The present disclosure is applied to PDCCH blind decoding.
US11736330B2
A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise receiving a signaling message from a network node. The signaling message may indicate a subcarrier spacing numerology for a synchronization signal transmission. The method may further comprise determining the subcarrier spacing numerology, based at least in part on the signaling message.
US11736323B2
Systems and methods which use adjunct signals from a remote highly stable clock to enhance performance of a digital wideband receiver equipped with a less stable local clock system. The digital wideband receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and an adjunct receiver system connected to the output of the ADC. The adjunct receiver system includes matched filters and circuitry configured to generate an interpolation coefficient vector based on the matched filter outputs. The adjunct receiver system further includes an interpolating filter which is configured to remove jitter from the digitized samples output by the ADC using the interpolation coefficient vector.
US11736322B1
A system that includes a Viterbi Equalizer having adaptive signal levels is disclosed. Each branch metric of the Viterbi Equalizer compares the value of the incoming bit to one of a plurality of different expected signal levels. A set of default signal values may be used by the Viterbi Equalizer. The system is also configured to determine whether these default expected signal levels are acceptable by monitoring the incoming data bits. If it is determined that the actual signal levels of the incoming data bits differ from the default expected signal levels by more than a predetermined amount, the signal levels used by the Viterbi Equalizer may be changed from default signal levels to the adaptive signal levels. The adaptive signal levels may be determined using the synchronization pattern.
US11736318B2
A method for operating a data bus subscriber of a local bus, particularly of a ring bus, the method including the steps of: receiving a first data packet over the local bus, wherein the first data packet has an address of the data bus subscriber to which it is directed and at least one instructions list, having a set of instructions for processing process data, receiving a second data packet over the local bus, wherein the second data packet has process data; and executing instructions of the at least one instructions list for processing the received process data. A corresponding data bus subscriber and a local bus master is also provided.
US11736314B2
An emission reduction device for a CAN bus system. The device includes an evaluation block for evaluating signals that are transferred differentially on two bus lines, the evaluation block being designed to form the sum voltage of the differentially transferred signals, and a comparison block for comparing the sum voltage in such a way that the difference between the sum voltage for a dominant bus state and the sum voltage for a recessive bus state has a predetermined minimum value, the recessive bus state being overwritable by a dominant bus state. For the comparison, the comparison block is designed to modify at least one property of the transceiver device via a setting in a block of the transceiver device until the difference between the sum voltage for a dominant bus state and the sum voltage for a recessive bus state has the predetermined minimum value.
US11736301B2
A method, system, transmitter, and receiver for authenticating a transmitter are disclosed. The authentication is performed using an asymmetric key pair and using a digital signature. The method for authenticating the transmitter includes generating a user identification, calculating the digital signature, generating an authentication request message, and transmitting the authentication request message to a receiver.
US11736294B2
A root-of-trust device includes one or more processors configured to receive a candidate block identifier corresponding to a block number of a candidate block of a distributed electronic ledger; receive one or more verified block identifiers each corresponding to a block number of one or more verified blocks; compare the received candidate block identifier with a block identifier in the stored one or more verified block identifiers; and in the case that the comparing of the candidate block identifier to the block identifier in the stored one or more verified block identifiers satisfies a predetermined condition, verify the candidate block corresponding to the candidate block identifier and send data corresponding to a verified block of the distributed electronic ledger.
US11736291B2
A system performs digital notarization using a biometric identification service. A signature requesting service receives a request to validate a digital item with a signature for a person. The signature requesting service provides a payload that identifies the digital item and/or the person to an identity service. The identity service obtains one or more digital representations of biometrics for the person, determines an identity for the person, and returns a data structure including the payload and one or more identity attestations regarding the determined identity. The identity service encrypts at least a portion of the data structure using a private encryption key. A public encryption key for the identity service can then be used to decrypt the portion to verify that the data structure was generated by the identity service after determining the identity. In this way, validation can be verified to the full trust level of the identification service.
US11736288B2
Techniques are shown for key management using a traceable key block-chain ledger involving creating a cryptographic key at a key source, generating a key block on a block-chain ledger corresponding to the cryptographic key, and securely modifying the key block to include metadata describing the key source. The techniques also involve performing a first key transaction with the cryptographic key, generating a first transaction block on the block-chain ledger corresponding to the first key transaction with the cryptographic key, linking the first transaction block to the key block and securely modifying the first transaction block to include metadata describing the first key transaction with the cryptographic key.
US11736282B2
A transmitter Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) device stores and transmits a quantum signal over a communication channel. A receiver CV-QKD device receives the quantum signal via the communication channel and via a reception band. The receiver CV-QKD device determines a quantum communication channel. The receiver CV-QKD device communicates the determined quantum communication channel to the transmitter CV-QKD device over an authenticated communication channel. The transmitter CV-QKD device obtains a modified quantum signal by modifying the stored quantum signal based on the determined quantum communication channel. The transmitter CV-QKD device and the receiver CV-QKD device generate a secret key using the modified quantum signal and the received quantum signal.
US11736279B2
An entangled links mechanism to establish and maintain bipartite temporal intimacy between pairs of computers, using an idempotent, reversible token method which presents no observable external “change” until a communication of information needs to occur between the computers, and which maintains the potential for “bounded (or unbounded) reversibility” in case the intended information dispatched by a source computational entity is not captured or properly accepted by a destination computational entity. The mechanism enables distributed computers in a network to remain continuously aware of each other's presence; to communicate on a logically nearest neighbor basis in a secure and reliable manner in which packets passed over these links do not conflict with normal traffic or cause the available resources of the link to be exceeded; and that atomicity, consistency, isolation, and “reversible durability” may be maintained for transactions when perturbations occur.
US11736276B2
A key delegation request is received from a host system. The key delegation request includes a new public key. A challenge is generated based on the new public key and a root public key, and the challenge is provided to the host system responsive to the request. A first and second digital signature are received from the host system. The first digital signature is generated by cryptographically signing the challenge using a new private key corresponding to the new public key and the second digital signature is generated by cryptographically signing the challenge using a root private key corresponding to the root public key. The first digital signature is validated using the new public key and the second digital signature is validated using the root public key. Based on successful validation of both signatures, the new public key is utilized in one or more cryptographic operations.
US11736272B2
A method for a mobile station (STA) is described. The method may be performed to use an identifiable medium access control (MAC) random (IRM) address (IRMA) to associate to an access point (AP). The method includes exchanging one IRM key (IRMK) with the AP for each association of a plurality of associations; determining an IRM hash using the IRMA and the IRMK exchanged with the AP at an immediately previous association of the plurality of associations and/or a temporal element; associating to the AP using the IRMA as a transmitted address (TA); and transmitting an association request including the IRM hash. The transmitted association request triggers the AP to one or both of check a list of stored IRMKs to find one stored IRMK that together with the IRMA produces the IRM hash included in the association request and identify the STA by the one IRMK.
US11736270B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for quantum random number generation. In one aspect, a method includes initializing N qubits in respective superposition states; computing a randomly selected oracle randomization function using i) the initialized N qubits and ii) multiple ancilla qubits, wherein the multiple ancilla qubits comprise a first ancilla qubit and one or more second ancilla qubits; performing a phase flip operation on the first ancilla qubit; computing an inverse of the randomly selected oracle randomization function using i) the N qubits and ii) the multiple ancilla qubits; performing a diffusion operation on the N qubits; and measuring the N qubits and providing data representing the measured states of the N qubits as N random bits.
US11736267B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, relates to a signal sending device, a signal receiving device, a symbol timing synchronization method, and a system, and resolves a problem that complexity of symbol timing synchronization performed by a terminal with relatively low crystal oscillator accuracy is high. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences. A processing module performs a first sliding correlation operation and a second sliding correlation operation on the synchronization signal, and performs symbol timing synchronization according to a relationship between a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N1 generalized ZC sequences and a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N2 generalized ZC sequences. This has relatively low implementation complexity, compared with an existing method in which grid search should be performed multiple times to compensate for a relatively large phase rotation.
US11736263B2
A base station that switches between uplink periods and downlink periods in a time division manner and performs communication, the base station includes a memory; processor circuitry coupled to the memory, wherein the processor circuitry is configured to: notify of allocation information indicating a combination of resources for time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL) or downlink (DL) configuration at a predetermined interval; and generate control information indicating cancelation of transmission of a downlink signal, wherein the canceled transmission is configured to be performed by using one of the resources designated by the allocation information, and wherein the processor circuitry is further configured to transmit the generated control information.
US11736262B2
The present disclosure provides a method executed by a base station, the method comprising: generating configuration information indicating whether one transport block is mapped to only one resource unit or mapped to more than one resource unit when user equipment (UE) uses sub-physical resource block allocation to allocate resources for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and transmitting the configuration information to the UE. The present disclosure further provides a corresponding base station, UE, and a corresponding method executed by UE.
US11736260B2
The present invention relates to a signaling method of a wireless LAN frame for multi-user transmission, and to a wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication method using the same. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: generate a frame including a first signal field and a second signal field, wherein the first signal field includes a bandwidth field indicating total bandwidth information in which the frame is transmitted, and the second signal field includes a resource allocation field indicating arrangement information of resource unit(s) in a frequency band through which the frame is transmitted, and transmit, by the transceiver, the generated frame and a wireless communication method using the same.
US11736255B2
A wireless communication system includes a wireless communication device that functions as a base station, and one or more wireless communication terminals that communicate with the wireless communication device as slave units, a controller in the wireless communication device sets propriety information indicating whether or not reception of a packet transmitted from the wireless communication terminals is possible during a downlink transmission period when the wireless communication device transmits a packet, and a communication section in the wireless communication device transmits the packet including the propriety information. Furthermore, a controller in the wireless communication terminal controls transmission of the packet to the wireless communication device, during the downlink transmission period when the wireless communication device transmits the packet, according to the propriety information included in the packet, the propriety information indicating whether or not reception of the packet transmitted from the wireless communication terminals is possible.
US11736239B2
A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a first indication to disable hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for a number of instances of a multicast transport block (TB). The method also includes receiving, from the base station, a second indication identifying a value of the number of instances of the multicast TB. The method further includes receiving, from the base station, one or more instances of the multicast TB. The method still further includes determining, based on the one or more received instances, whether the multicast TB is recoverable. The method further includes selectively transmitting, to the base station, HARQ feedback after all instances of the multicast TB have been transmitted by the base station based on the determination of whether the multicast TB is recoverable.
US11736237B2
A data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving PDSCH; determining a size of a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook according to a number of repetition transmissions of the PDSCH; and performing a corresponding HARQ-ACK feedback for the PDSCH with repetition transmissions according to the determined size of the semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook.
US11736235B2
A data processing method and a related apparatus are disclosed, to improve data recovery effects in various packet loss scenarios. The method includes: determining a packet loss scenario type corresponding to a first data packet when detecting that the first data packet is lost in a data packet transmission process (201); generating a second data packet based on a data packet adjacent to the first data packet if the packet loss scenario type corresponding to the first data packet meets a data packet compensation condition (202); and finally adding the second data packet to a corresponding target location at which the first data packet is located before the first data packet is lost, that is, using the second data packet to compensate for the lost first data packet (203).
US11736233B2
Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method including: generating, at an evolved NodeB (eNB), D2D scheduling assignment (D2D SA) grant; transmitting the generated D2D SA grant to a transmission (Tx) UE, the D2D SA grant enabling the Tx UE to transmit an SA to a reception (Rx) UE through a D2D communication; generating, at the eNB, a D2D data grant; transmitting the generated D2D data grant to the Tx UE, the D2D data grant enabling the Tx UE to transmit a Transport Block (TB) to the Rx UE; generating a separate grant for indicating data overriding; and transmitting the generated separate grant to the Tx UE, the separate grant enabling the Tx UE to transmit an overriding data to the Rx UE.
US11736228B2
A communication system is described in which system information is transmitted to communication devices, by a communication apparatus of the system, in system information blocks, in accordance with a system information block transmission scheme. The communication apparatus configures at least one system information block to include control information indicating how the system information blocks will be transmitted.
US11736223B2
Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications device, and a storage medium, to process an invalid block in a data stream. In embodiments of this application, N first block streams are obtained, where N is a positive integer. When there is an invalid block in the N first block streams, the invalid block in the N first block streams is converted into a target block, to obtain a to-be-sent block stream. Then, the to-be-sent block stream is sent. Because the invalid block in the block stream is checked and converted into the target block, an error that occurs in service data at a receive end and that is caused by the invalid block can be reduced.
US11736214B2
A method for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation of OUDP bursts includes: providing an apparatus for use in a patrol vehicle, the apparatus including a leak signal receiver coupled to a processor; measuring a duration of detected bursts to provide a plurality of burst durations; collecting a histogram of the burst durations during a measuring session to provide a duration histogram; and determining a presence of a leak based on a comparison of the duration histogram with expected durations of OUDP bursts. Systems for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation OUDP bursts, and other methods for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation OUDP bursts are also described.
US11736209B1
An antenna array system includes a receiver with a plurality of receiving chains adapted to receive incoming signals from corresponding receiver antennas. A respective directional coupler is positioned in proximity to each of the plurality of receiving chains. The plurality of receiving chains is adapted to receive a respective pilot signal through the respective directional coupler, the respective pilot signal being transmitted simultaneously. A controller has a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded for a method of calibration. One of the plurality of receiving chains is selected as a reference channel. The controller is adapted to perform calibration for the plurality of receiving chains based on the respective pilot signal, including obtaining respective chain phase values and respective gain factors. The calibration is performed without mechanical switching off or physically disconnecting the corresponding receiver antennas.
US11736198B2
An optical emitter comprising a primary laser and a plurality of secondary lasers wherein each secondary laser is optically injection locked to said primary laser, the emitter further comprising at least one polarisation controller configured to control the polarisation of the output of at least one of the secondary lasers, the emitter further comprising a combination unit that is configured to combine the outputs of the secondary laser modules into an output signal.
US11736196B2
An optical communication system including a hub optical transceiver, a power splitter, and a plurality of spoke transceivers. The hub optical transceiver is configured for receiving a spectrum of wavelengths. The power splitter is coupled to the hub optical transceiver, and operates as a passive device that is configured to replicate the spectrum of wavelengths and output a plurality of replicated spectrum of wavelengths, and each replicated spectrum of wavelengths has a corresponding power that is a fraction of a total power received from the hub optical transceiver. The plurality of spoke transceivers is coupled to the power splitter and each of the plurality of spoke transceivers is configured to receive a corresponding one of the plurality of replicated spectrum of wavelengths, wherein each spoke transceiver is tunable to select a band of wavelengths that set a bandwidth for the each spoke transceiver.
US11736192B2
A cell site includes a tower, a multi-service terminal mounted to the tower and a base transceiver station in communication with the multi-service terminal. The multi-service terminal includes a housing and a plurality of adapters mounted to the housing. Each of the adapters includes an outer port accessible from outside the housing and an inner port accessible from inside the housing.
US11736191B2
n wavelengths set such that delay differences between optical signals due to wavelength dispersion in an optical fiber between accommodation and base stations are at equal intervals are assigned to n antenna elements of the base station which are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station adjusts the phases of optical signals of the wavelengths or modulated signals that modulate the optical signals such that the amounts of phase shift of their RF signals are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station transmits beacon signals multiple times while varying a transmission phase shift interval α1 and the terminal transmits beacon number information of a beacon signal selected based on received power multiple times. The accommodation station varies a reception phase shift interval α2 for each piece of beacon number information to determine a reception phase shift interval α2 which maximizes the received power and determines the transmission phase shift interval α1 based on the beacon number information received from the terminal.
US11736188B2
Methods, devices, and systems are described for free space optical communication. An example method can comprise generating a first linearly polarized optical signal and converting the first linearly polarized optical signal to a first circularly polarized optical signal. The first circularly polarized optical signal can be output into free space. The method can comprise converting a second circularly polarized optical signal, received via free space, to a second linearly polarized optical signal. The second linearly polarized optical signal can have a linear polarization different than a polarization of the first linearly polarized optical signal. The method can comprise directing, via a polarizing beam splitter, the second linearly polarized optical signal to a first path separate from a second path from which the polarizing beam splitter received the first linearly polarized optical signal.
US11736187B1
Techniques for identifying sources of degradations within a PON include detecting a degradation pertaining to a segment of the PON and comparing the drift over time of an optical profile of the segment with respective drifts over time of optical profiles of one or more other PON segments, where pairs of segments share respective common endpoints and an optical profile of a segment corresponds to the characteristics of optical signals delivered over the segment (e.g., attenuation, changes in frequencies, changes in power outputs, etc.). The differences between the compared drift(s) over time are utilized to narrow down the candidate components (e.g., segment endpoints, optical fibers, etc.) for the source of the degradation, and may be utilized to particularly identify a particular endpoint or optical fiber as being the source. The source of the degradation may or may not be a component of the segment to which the degradation pertained.
US11736184B2
A method, wireless device, and network node configured to enable a wireless device to serve as a base station to at least one other wireless device in a communications network, the wireless device being configured to perform predetermined base station functions. The method includes determining a condition triggering a need to provide the predetermined base station functions to the at least one other wireless device, notifying a network node in the communications network that the wireless device is available to provide the predetermined base station functions, receiving approval from the network node to provide the predetermined base station functions, and providing the predetermined base station functions to the at least one other wireless device.
US11736180B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to devices, systems and methods for multi-beam formation. A user equipment (UE) may determine a sampling interval for references signals to be transmitted by a base station for an upcoming control or data communication. For example, the UE may determine a maximum sampling interval tolerable for channel estimation and select the sampling interval based on the maximum. In some examples, the UE determines the sampling interval based on characteristics of its motion. The UE transmits an indication of the sampling interval to the base station. Based on the indication, the base station selects an interval for the reference signals and transmits the reference signals to the UE to enable it to perform the channel estimation for the multi-beam. The base station may determine to select the interval for the reference signals such that it is less than or equal to the sampling interval indicated by the UE.
US11736179B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for multi-antenna transmission. The method which may be performed by a communication device comprises determining first correlation information in response to interference to data on a first subset of multiple antenna branches of the communication device. The first correlation information may indicate at least correlation between the data on the first subset of the multiple antenna branches and data on a second subset of the multiple antenna branches which is not affected by interference. The method further comprises correcting the data on the first subset of the multiple antenna branches, based at least in part on the first correlation information.
US11736178B2
A method is performed by an electronic device that includes antenna modules AM1 and AM2. The method includes: while transmitting or receiving through AM1, receiving a specified wireless signal through AM1 and AM2; identifying a first signal quality for the specified wireless signal of AM1 and a second signal quality for the specified wireless signal of AM2; and in response to determining that a difference between the first signal quality and the second signal quality is within a specified signal quality range and that a rank of a wireless channel through which the specified wireless signal is received is two or more, selecting an antenna module to transmit or receive a wireless signal, from among AM1 and AM2, based on first channel information about AM1 and second channel information about AM2. The method includes transmitting or receiving the wireless signal using the selected antenna module.
US11736176B1
A wireless communication device includes: a first antenna configured to provide a first gain pattern at a millimeter-wave radio frequency and having a first boresight direction; a second antenna configured to provide a second gain pattern at the millimeter-wave radio frequency and having a second boresight direction that is different from the first boresight direction; and an electrically-conductive device; where the first antenna, in combination with the electrically-conductive device, is configured to provide a third gain pattern that has a first gain differential relative to the second gain pattern that is greater than a second gain differential between the first gain pattern and the second gain pattern over a range of angles relative to the wireless communication device.
US11736173B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a manner of avoiding excessive latency and resource consumption due to exhaustive beam searching and pairing for finding an appropriate bi-directional beam pair combination with manageable mutual interference to enable point-to-point FD transmission. Aspects of the present disclosure also provide a solution for enabling multi-user transmission where one or all UEs are with FD capability and the cross-UE interference raised from FD transmission are measured and taken into account during multi-user pairing.
US11736169B2
Disclosed is a method for reporting channel state information by a terminal in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method is characterized by: receiving information relating to an integrated channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource set including a plurality of CSI-RS resource groups; receiving information relating to CSI reporting setting associated with the integrated CSI-RS resource set; and reporting CSI for the integrated CSI-RS resource set based on the CSI reporting setting, wherein each of the plurality of CSI-RS resource groups can includes a plurality of CSI-RS resources.
US11736154B2
An antenna system can include an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The antenna system can include an array controller configured to control operation of the antenna array for beam forming of the antenna array. The antenna system can include a radiofrequency circuit. The antenna system can include a transmission line coupling the radiofrequency circuit to the array controller. The transmission line can be configured to carry a radio-frequency signal to the antenna array. The radiofrequency circuit can be configured to modulate an antenna array control signal onto the radiofrequency signal to generate a transmit signal for communication over the transmission line to the array controller. The array controller can be configured to demodulate the antenna array control signal from the transmit signal such that the array controller is configured to control operation of the antenna array based at least in part on the antenna array control signal.
US11736150B2
Aspects of the present relate to reflection type phase shifters for radio frequency (RF) wireless devices. Reflection type phase structures in accordance with aspects described herein can improve device performance with compact configurations, such as where magnetic and capacitive coupling is integrated into a device design to integrate interactions between elements for improved phase shifting performance in a compact design with wideband performance.
US11736147B2
A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The devices in the wireless power system may communicate using in-band communication. The wireless power transmitting device may transmit data to the wireless power receiving device using frequency-shift keying (FSK) modulation. The wireless power receiving device may transmit data to the wireless power transmitting device using amplitude-shift keying (ASK) modulation. While transmitting data to the wireless power receiving device using FSK modulation, the wireless power transmitting device may monitor for ASK modulation from the wireless power receiving device. In response to detecting the ASK modulation from the wireless power receiving device, the wireless power transmitting device may abort the FSK data transmission and process the detected ASK modulation to receive data from the wireless power receiving device.
US11736142B2
Data acquisition in a chirp spread spectrum (CSS) signal may use a data alignment indicator of a single down chirp signal or single upchirp signal. A receiver may receive part or all of a preamble comprising a sequence of training chirps for symbol alignment followed by a single opposite chirp for data alignment. Training chirps may be processed through a fast-Fourier transform (FFT), and the values from the FFT may be accumulated. The accumulated values may exceed a threshold for detection. The receiver may align, based on the received chirps of the preamble and exceeding the threshold, its symbol reception. Using this symbol alignment, the receiver may await a single opposite chirp after the sequence of training chirps. The single opposite chirp may indicate data alignment. Upon receipt of the opposite chirp, the receiver may start data acquisition based on chirps following the single opposite chirp.
US11736138B2
A digital up-converter (DUC) includes conjugate-mixer-combiner. The conjugate-mixer-combiner includes a pre-combiner configured to generate combinations of a first in-phase (I) value to be transmitted at a first frequency of a first frequency band, a first quadrature (Q) value to be transmitted at the first frequency of a first frequency band, a second I value for to be transmitted at a second frequency of a second frequency band, and a second Q value to be transmitted at the second frequency of a second frequency band. The conjugate-mixer-combiner further includes a plurality of multipliers collectively configured to shift the combinations based on an average difference between the first frequency and the second frequency.
US11736134B2
A digital isolator according to an embodiment includes a first electrode, a first insulating part, a second electrode, a second insulating part, and a first dielectric part. The first insulating part is located under the first electrode. The second electrode is located under the first insulating part. The second insulating part is located around the first electrode along a first plane perpendicular to a first direction. The first direction is from the second electrode toward the first electrode. The first dielectric part is located between the first electrode and the second insulating part in a second direction along the first plane. The first dielectric part contacts the first electrode. A relative dielectric constant of the first dielectric part is greater than a relative dielectric constant of the first insulating part.
US11736132B2
Radio frequency (RF) communication systems with coexistence management are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a method of coexistence management in a mobile device includes providing an RF receive signal from a first front end system to a first transceiver, generating an RF transmit signal and an RF observation signal using a second front end system, the RF observation signal generated based on observing the RF transmit signal, generating digital observation data based on the RF observation signal using a second transceiver, downconverting the RF receive signal to generate a baseband receive signal using the first transceiver, and compensating the baseband receive signal for RF signal leakage based on the digital observation data using the first transceiver.
US11736131B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a segmented receiver for a wireless communication system. The segmented receiver includes a first receiver segment and a second receiver segment configured to receive respective radio frequency signals. The radio frequency signals can be orthogonally polarized. Branch circuits in each receiver segment can provide a radio frequency signal to different mixers. The different mixers can be included in different receiver segments and receive local oscillator signals from independent local oscillators. Each receiver segment can process a different bandwidth of the radio frequency signal. Two different bandwidths of the radio frequency signal can be processed concurrently by different receiver segments.
US11736129B2
Methods and wireless devices for selecting a local oscillator frequency to use for conducting orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications. For each of a plurality of local oscillator frequencies, a wireless device determines a respective interference power resultant from the local oscillator frequency for each of a plurality of subcarriers, and determines a cost function by performing a summation over the interference powers associated with each of the plurality of subcarriers. The wireless device selects a first local oscillator frequency with the smallest cost function to use for wireless communications. The wireless device performs wireless communications through the plurality of subcarriers using the first local oscillator frequency.
US11736128B2
Methods, systems, and devices for channelizing a wideband waveform for transmission on a spectral band comprising unavailable channel segments are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for transmitting and receiving wideband waveforms when channels of a system bandwidth are unavailable for transmission. A transmitter may separate a first wideband signal into segments, with each segment a bandwidth corresponding to a channel of the system bandwidth, and may map the segments to the available channels. The transmitter may combine the mapped segments into a second wideband waveform and transmit the second wideband waveform using the available channels. A receiver may receive a first wideband signal waveform and may separate the first wideband signal waveform into segments, de-map the segments and combine the de-mapped segments into a second wideband waveform for demodulation. The techniques may be used to transmit and receive wideband waveforms over tactical data links.
US11736126B1
A double factor correction Turbo decoding method based on a simulated annealing algorithm is provided, including: S1: setting an initial bit error rate Pe0 and an initial solution of correction factors; S2: randomly selecting a new solution of the correction factors from a proximal subset of a current solution, and calculating a new bit error rate Penew; S3: determining whether the new bit error rate is smaller than a bit error rate of a previous decoding, and if so, receiving the new solution of the correction factors, otherwise calculating a reception probability based on a difference between the new bit error rate and the bit error rate of the previous decoding; S4: decreasing the initial bit error rate Pe0 to determine whether a termination condition is satisfied, performing S5 if the termination condition is satisfied, otherwise performing S2; and S5: outputting a current solution of the correction factors as an optimal solution.
US11736124B2
Various embodiments are directed to Reed-Muller decoding systems and methods based on recursive projections and aggregations of cosets decoding, exploiting the self-similarity of RM codes, and extended with list-decoding procedures and with outer-code concatenations. Various embodiments are configured for decoding RM codes (and variants thereof) over binary input memoryless channels, such as by, for each received word of RM encoded data, projecting the received word onto each of a plurality of cosets of different subspaces to form thereby a respective plurality of projected words; recursively decoding each of the respective plurality of projected words to form a respective plurality of decoded projected words; and aggregating each of the respective decoded projected words to obtain thereby a decoding of the corresponding received word of RM encoded data.
US11736121B1
An error correction method comprises: when a decoder determines that an input analog code is at a forbidden state, setting a digital binary code as a first predetermined code and inputting the digital binary code to an ECC engine; determining whether the digital binary code has no error or two errors; when the digital binary code has no error, outputting the digital binary code after ECC by the ECC engine; when the digital binary code has two errors, resetting the digital binary code as a second predetermined code and inputting the digital binary code to the ECC engine for ECC; and when the decoder determines that the input analog code is not at the forbidden state, decoding the input analog code into the digital binary code and inputting the digital binary code to the ECC engine for ECC.
US11736105B1
An integrated circuit (IC), including: a current mirror, including: a first field effect transistor (FET) including a first drain, a first gate, and a first source, wherein the first source is coupled to a first voltage rail; and a second FET including a second drain, a second gate, and a second source, wherein the second gate is coupled to the first gate of the first FET, and the second source is coupled to the first voltage rail; and a selective coupling circuit configured to selectively couple the first drain of the first FET to the first and second gates of the first and second FETs based on a voltage at the first drain of the first FET.
US11736102B1
A compact RF switch with improved isolation is presented. According to one aspect, the RF switch includes a basic single-pole single-throw (SPST) switch element that includes an inductor in parallel with a series FET transistor. An inductance of the inductor is selected to provide in combination with an off capacitance of the series FET transistor a resonance at a specific frequency of interest. The frequency of interest can be in-band or out-of-band, including the band's fundamental frequency or a harmonic thereof. According to another aspect, the inductor is conditionally coupled to the series FET transistor via a reduced size FET transistor. Complex RF switches can include a plurality of the SPST switch elements, each tuned to a same or different frequency of interest. According to yet another aspect, SPST switch elements in their OFF states can provide matching to an SPST element in the ON state.
US11736093B2
A method for identifying a mechanical impedance of an electromagnetic load may include generating a waveform signal for driving an electromagnetic load and, during driving of the electromagnetic load by the waveform signal or a signal derived therefrom, receiving a current signal representative of a current associated with the electromagnetic load and a back electromotive force signal representative of a back electromotive force associated with the electromagnetic load. The method may also include implementing an adaptive filter to identify parameters of the mechanical impedance of the electromagnetic load, wherein an input of a coefficient control for adapting coefficients of the adaptive filter is a first signal derived from the back electromotive force signal and a target of the coefficient control for adapting coefficients of the adaptive filter is a second signal derived from the current signal.
US11736091B2
One or more systems, devices and/or methods of use provided herein relate to a baseband filter that can be used in a current-mode end-to-end signal path. The current-mode end-to-end signal path can include a digital to analog converter (DAC) operating in current-mode and an upconverting mixer, operating in current-mode and operatively coupled to the DAC. In one or more embodiments, a device used in the signal path can comprise a baseband filter that receives an input current and outputs an output current. The baseband filter can comprise a feedback loop component having an active circuit branch and a passive circuit branch coupled in a loop. A mirroring device can be coupled to the feedback loop component and can provide an output of the device. Selectively activating the mirroring device can vary gain, such as of the mirroring device.
US11736088B2
Devices and processes for preparing devices are described for reducing resonance of spurious waves in a bulk acoustic resonator and/or for obstructing propagation of lateral waves out of an active region of the bulk acoustic resonator. A first electrode is coupled to a first side of a piezoelectric layer and a second electrode is coupled to a second side of the piezoelectric layer to form a stack having the active region. The piezoelectric layer in the active region is configured to resonate in response to an electrical signal applied between the first electrode and the second electrode. One or more perforations in the first electrode, the piezoelectric layer and/or the second electrode, and/or one or more posts or beams supporting the stack, reduce resonance of spurious waves and obstruct propagation of lateral acoustic waves out of the active region.
US11736079B2
An amplifier circuit includes a differential input terminal, a first power supplier, an amplifier, and a current redistributor. A differential input terminal includes a first differential pair of a p-type and a second differential pair of an n-type, and receives an input voltage. A first power supplier supplies a bias current to the differential input terminal. An amplifier receives an output current of the first differential pair and an output current of the second differential pair, and applies an amplified current to an output node. A current redistributor receives the output current of the first differential pair and the output current of the second differential pair, and provides a redistribution current to the differential input terminal.
US11736074B2
A circuit including an amplifier having an input and an output; and a feedback path comprising a transmission line electrically coupled or electrically connected to the output and the input. A low noise amplifier including the circuit wherein the feedback path cancels noise generated in the low noise amplifier.
US11736070B2
An amplifier circuit includes a multistage amplifier, a first feedback circuit and a second feedback circuit. The multistage amplifier includes a first-staged amplifier, a last-staged amplifier and at least one middle-staged amplifier cascaded between the first-staged amplifier and the last-staged amplifier. The first feedback circuit is configured to couple a positive output end of the last-staged amplifier to a positive input end of the at least one middle-staged amplifier, or is configured to couple a negative output end of the last-staged amplifier to a negative input end of the at least one middle-staged amplifier. The second feedback circuit is configured to couple the positive output end of the last-staged amplifier to a positive input end of the last-staged amplifier, or is configured to couple the negative output end of the last-staged amplifier to a negative input end of the last-staged amplifier.
US11736068B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing efficient Digital Predistortion (DPD). In some embodiments, a system comprises a DPD system comprising a DPD actuator. The DPD actuator comprises a Look-Up Table (LUT), selection circuitry, and an approximate multiplication function. Each LUT entry comprises information that represents a first set of values {p1, p2, . . . , pk} and a second set of values {s1, s2, . . . , sk} that represent a LUT value of s1·2p1+s2·2p2+ . . . +sk·2pk where each value si ∈{+1 , −1} where k≥2. The selection circuitry is operable to, for each input sample of an input signal, select a LUT entry based on a value derived from the input sample that is indicative of a power of the input signal. The approximate multiplication function comprises shifting and combining circuitry that operates to, for each input sample, shift and combine bits that form a binary representation of the input sample in accordance with {p1, p2, . . . , pk} and {s1, s2, . . . , sk} to provide an output sample.
US11736046B2
Disclosed is a motor control apparatus including an inverter part configured to convert DC power into AC power and provide the AC power to a motor, and a controller configured to control driving of the motor by using the inverter part, the controller configured to identify a stop position of a rotor in previous driving of the motor, and control the inverter part to apply an input signal of a specific pattern to the motor according to a start of driving the motor, wherein a phase of the input signal of the specific pattern is determined on the basis of the stop position of the rotor. Other example embodiments may be provided.
US11736044B2
A brake control system of a motor is provided. When a control circuit intends to brake the motor, the control circuit controls a driver circuit to turn off a first high-side switch and a second high-side switch, and to fully turn on the first low-side switch and the second low-side switch, for a period of time. Then, the control circuit controls the driver circuit to turn off one of the first low-side switch and the second low-side switch, and to continually turn on the other one of the first low-side switch and the second low-side switch, for a period of time. Then, the control circuit controls the driver circuit to turn off the other one of the first low-side switch and the second low-side switch, and to turn on the one of the first low-side switch and the second low-side switch, for a period of time.
US11736042B2
An energy producing device includes a piezoelectric layer having a first side and second side opposite of the first side, a first electrical contact arranged on the first side of the piezoelectric layer, a second electrical contact arranged on the second side of the piezoelectric layer, and a counter-layer arranged on the second electrical contact. The piezoelectric layer, first and second electrical contacts, and counter-layer form a beam having a neutral axis outside of the piezoelectric layer.
US11736023B2
Communicating fault conditions between primary-side and secondary-side controllers of a Universal Serial Bus Power Delivery (USB-PD) device is described. The primary-side controller receives a control signal from the secondary-side controller across a galvanic isolation barrier. The primary-side controller converts the control signal into a first pulse signal and applies the first pulse signal to control a primary-side switch. When the primary-side controller detects that a first fault condition has occurred, the primary-side controller communicates a first information signal about the first fault condition to the secondary-side controller across the galvanic isolation barrier. The first information signal is generated by converting the control signal into a second pulse signal having a different pulse width than the first pulse signal. The primary-side controller applies the second pulse signal to control the primary-side power switch.
US11736001B2
A method for discharging a capacitor of an input or output circuit arrangement of an inverter for supplying current to a power supply grid includes determining voltage readings at connections of the input or output circuit arrangement and a DC link capacitor of the inverter; and calculating an upper limit voltage value of the DC link capacitor based on the measured values. The method also includes operating a DC/DC converter or a bridge arrangement of the inverter such that energy from the capacitor of the input or output circuit arrangement is transferred to the DC link capacitor, ending the method if the voltage across the DC link capacitor exceeds the upper voltage limit. Otherwise the method continues to transfer energy from the capacitor of the input or output circuit arrangement to the DC link capacitor until the capacitor is discharged to or below a lower limit voltage value.
US11735998B2
A current going through the first power semiconductor is sensed by a first and a second current derivative sensing means, the current going through the second semiconductor is sensed by a third and a fourth current derivative sensing means, when the current going through the first power semiconductor increases, the first current derivative means providing a positive voltage and the second current derivative means providing an opposite negative voltage, when the current going through the second power semiconductor increases, the third current derivative means providing a positive voltage and the fourth current derivative means providing an opposite voltage and the system reduces the voltage on the gate of the first power semiconductor if the first and third current derivative means provide voltages of same sign and reduces the voltage on the gate of the second power semiconductor if the second and fourth current derivative means provide voltages of same sign.
US11735996B2
A method controls a converter assembly which has a line-commutated converter. The line-commutated converter has an alternating voltage terminal which can be connected via a phase conductor to an alternating voltage network. The converter assembly further has a switch module branch which is arranged serially in the phase conductor and which contains a series circuit of switch modules at each of the terminals of which bipolar voltages can be generated which add up to a branch voltage. A connection voltage to a connection point between the switch module branch and the converter is controlled by adjusting an amplitude of a positive sequence component of the branch voltage. The converter assembly is configured to carry out a control method for controlling the converter assembly.
US11735994B2
An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit that includes a transformer and a transistor. The integrated circuit includes a first terminal receiving a voltage corresponding to a coil voltage across an auxiliary coil of the transformer when the transistor is off, a second terminal receiving a feedback voltage corresponding to an output voltage of the power supply circuit, a third terminal receiving a voltage that corresponds to a current flowing through the transistor and the coil voltage respectively when the transistor is on and off, a detection circuit configured to detect whether the voltage at the third terminal when the transistor is off is lower than a reference voltage, and a control circuit configured to control switching of the transistor based on the feedback voltage, the voltage at the third terminal when the transistor is on, and a detection result of the detection circuit.
US11735985B2
A method and apparatus for forming a rotor for an electric machine includes serially adding layers of material to form a rotor body having a radially-extending post configured to receive a set of electrically-conductive windings, and also having a radially-extending winding end turn support formed contiguously from the rotor body.
US11735981B2
An electrical machine includes an interconnection assembly that creates contact for a stator of the electrical machine, a busbar that creates contact for the interconnection assembly, a measurement printed circuit board that is arranged perpendicularly to an axis of rotation of the electrical machine, on a side of the interconnection assembly that is averted from the stator, wherein a field sensor is arranged on the measurement printed circuit board, and a flux concentrator that engages around the busbar and the field sensor.
US11735978B2
A free piston generator based on a rigid synchronous transmission system is provided, which belongs to the technical field of power energy. The present disclosure solves the problems of low power generation efficiency and low stability of the existing free piston generator. The free piston generator based on the rigid synchronous transmission system includes a first linear generator set, a second linear generator set, a rigid synchronous transmission assembly, two high-pressure cylinders arranged at two ends of the first linear generator set, and two low-pressure cylinders arranged at two ends of the second linear generator set. The combustion product is firstly subjected to first-stage expansion in the high-pressure cylinder and is then subjected to second-stage expansion in the low-pressure cylinder, which effectively increases the energy utilization in exhaust gas, also increases the expansion work, and further improves the thermal efficiency and the power generation efficiency of the free piston generator. By means of the rigid synchronous transmission assembly, high-pressure pistons and low-pressure pistons are always kept in stable phase operation, so as to avoid the problems of wall-impingement and insufficient pressure of compressed air due to the phase mismatching.
US11735977B2
Provided is a motor including a shaft welded to or fused with a metallic member. The motor includes a shaft (5) made of metal and a base including a metal board (81) covered with a coating layer (83). The coating layer (83) has an opening (83b), and the metal board (81) includes a recessed part (84) exposed through the opening (83b). An outer peripheral part of the shaft (5) and the recessed part (84) are fused or welded together.
US11735974B2
The present disclosure discloses an electric assembly and a vehicle having the same. The electric assembly includes: a box assembly, where an mounting plate is disposed in the box assembly, and the mounting plate divides a space within the box assembly into a motor holding cavity and a transmission holding cavity; a motor, disposed in the motor holding cavity; a transmission, disposed in the transmission holding cavity, where the motor is power-coupled to the transmission; and a cooling lubricating liquid, filling the transmission holding cavity and cooling the box assembly.
US11735972B2
A set of interchangeably pairable end caps is provided for electrically insulating a variety of stator cores having differing axial stack heights. Each pair of end caps cooperatively defines a generally radially projecting, generally axially extending wire barrier including axially opposed ends. Each of the ends forms a respective rounded winding ramp configured to smoothly guide wiring into a wire trough in part defined by the wire barrier.
US11735966B2
A surface-mounted high-speed permanent magnet synchronous rotor includes a rotor shaft, multiple permanent magnet sets, multiple silicon steel piece sets and a rotor iron core sleeve. The multiple permanent magnet sets and the multiple silicon steel piece sets are glued on a surface of the rotor shaft along an axis of the rotor shaft. The multiple permanent magnet sets and the multiple silicon steel piece sets are spaced around the rotor shaft. The multiple permanent magnet sets have a same outer diameter as the multiple silicon steel piece sets, and the multiple permanent magnet sets and the multiple silicon steel piece sets are sleeved with the rotor iron core sleeve.
US11735960B2
A system for facilitating wireless energy transmissions. The system comprises a ground station and a space station. The ground station is positioned in a location on the earth. The ground station comprises a transmitter device. The space station is positioned in an orbit around the earth. The space station comprises a primary receiver device and a primary transmitter device. The primary receiver device comprises a receiver transceiver. The transmitter device transmits terahertz electromagnetic wave energy wirelessly to the receiver transceiver. The receiver transceiver receives the energy wirelessly from the transmitter. The receiver transceiver comprises a receiver enclosure comprised of a metamaterial. The receiver enclosure converts the terahertz electromagnetic wave energy into electrical energy based on the receiving. The receiver enclosure comprises a receiver antenna comprised of superconducting material and facilitates the receiving. The primary transmitter device transmits the electrical energy wirelessly to a secondary receiver device based on the converting.
US11735955B2
An apparatus for transmitting electrical energy to an electrical consumer, includes a transmitter device for transmitting an electrical energy having at least one first coil and a first capacitor for producing a resonant tank circuit at the transmitter device; at least one receiver device for receiving the energy transmitted by the transmitter device, including a second coil and a capacitor for producing a resonant tank circuit at the receiver device, wherein the receiver device is connectable to the consumer to form an electrical connection; a power amplifier; a transformer for matching the impedance between the resonant tank circuit at the receiver device and the consumer; and an electrical energy source—for supplying the resonant tank circuit at the transmitter device with electrical energy. The transmitter device and the receiver device jointly form a resonant tank circuit for transferring the electrical energy from the transmitter device to the receiver device, such that at the receiver device the electrical energy made available by the transmitter device can be fed to the consumer.
US11735948B2
A topology of bi-directional multi-output multi-function converter is designed in a BBU. The concept of bi-directional multi-function multi-output converter may be designed for the application of BBUs in a data center to provide multiple control functionalizes, such as battery discharging, battery charging, fan speed control, pump control, as well as providing power for multiple components/devices simultaneously. The proposed converter has two characteristics: bi-direction and multi-output. With the function of bi-direction, the battery discharging and charging can be accomplished with the same converter. With the function of multi-output, different rails of output voltages or power can be applied to different components or devices in BBU, such as fan, pump, control IC chip, sensors and etc. With the proposed concept of bi-directional multi-function multi-output converter, only one converter is required to achieve multiple control functions and provide power to different components, which reduces the volume and cost of a battery backup unit.
US11735942B2
A power delivery system may include a power converter configured to electrically couple to a power source and further configured to supply electrical energy to one or more loads electrically coupled to an output of the power converter and control circuitry configured to monitor a first voltage derived from the power source, wherein the first voltage is indicative of a total power demanded by the power converter, and control a limit for a current supplied from the power source to the one or more loads based on comparison of the first voltage to a threshold voltage, wherein the threshold voltage is indicative of a point within a range of operation of the power converter at which the power converter delivers a maximum amount of power to the one or more loads.
US11735941B2
A charging method and a charging device are provided. The charging method is configured to charge a battery. A charging process of the battery includes at least one constant current stage, and the at least one constant current stage includes a first constant current stage. The method includes: determining an open circuit voltage of the battery; and in the first constant current stage, charging the battery with a first current until the open circuit voltage of the battery reaches a first cut-off voltage, the first cut-off voltage being less than or equal to a standard limited charging voltage of the battery.
US11735928B2
A grid forming vector current control system can be used for controlling a grid intertie. A first terminal is connected to a first power grid and a second terminal is connected to a second power grid. The terminals each include current control unit, a virtual admittance unit, and a phase locked loop (PLL) unit. The virtual admittance unit and the PLL unit are configured to emulate an inertia of a virtual synchronous machine (VSM) and a virtual current source is connected in parallel to the VSM. A controller is configured to use transient power consumed by the first VSM to generate a power-equivalent current reference to control the second virtual current source and to use transient power consumed by the second VSM to generate a power-equivalent current reference to control the first virtual current source.
US11735927B2
A system for supplying electric power to a grid and for supporting the grid is provided. The system includes (a) a power generator including a main converter, (b) an energy buffer including an energy storage and a secondary converter, (c) a grid stability monitor-configured to provide a grid stability, and (d) a controller configured to control the main converter and the secondary converter in dependency on the grid stability indication such that when the stability level is at least equal to a predetermined threshold value, the main converter is controlled to operate as a virtual synchronous machine and the secondary converter is controlled to operate to maintain a predetermined amount of energy in the energy storage, and when the stability level is below the predetermined threshold value, the secondary converter is operated to provide a predetermined response in order to support the grid stability.
US11735908B2
Systems and methods are described herein to detect an open-phase condition associated with an inverter-based resource for electric power generation within an electric power delivery system. An electric power delivery system may include one or more inverter-based resources that provide three phased electric power to one or more loads of an electric utility. A controller may include circuitry to measure voltage unbalances between different phases, high voltage sequences, phase voltage waveform harmonic distortions, voltage levels, and current levels to dependably detect an open-phase condition of the electric power delivery system.
US11735906B2
To provide a power converter and a breaking mechanism which can break a DC current and can suppress that a fused material scatter to other circuits at fusing, in the case where the breaking mechanism of excess current is formed by a circuit pattern of a circuit board. In a power converter, a supporting member is provided with a support body part; a fixation projection part which projected from the support body part and to which the multilayer circuit board was fixed; and a support projection part which projected from the support body part and supports an one side circuit board face, wherein the fuse pattern is provided in an inner layer, and the support projection part overlaps with at least one part of a fusing part of the fuse pattern, viewing in a normal direction of the circuit board face of the multilayer circuit board.
US11735903B2
A method for suppressing magnetizing inrush current of the transformer with flux linkage control includes connecting a small-capacity direct current/alternating current (DC/AC) converter with the secondary winding or auxiliary winding of transformer, detecting the primary side phase voltage before closing load, inducing the core flux linkage reference according to the relationship between the winding voltage and core flux linkage. The core flux linkage closed-loop PI control system is constructed to control the converter voltage in the synchronous coordinate, then the core flux linkage can track its reference with no static error, thus the sinusoidal flux linkage with 90-degree difference from the grid voltage can be pre-established in the core before no-load closing. By these methods, no matter when the main transformer closes, the core flux linkage is always in the steady state, and the magnetizing inrush current can be eliminated completely.
US11735901B2
A short protection method for a power converter having an output terminal for providing an output voltage. The power converter works in a hiccup protection mode when a short fault occurs. The hiccup protection mode has a sleep stage and a reset stage, the short protection method detects the output voltage during the hiccup protection mode and sets the time period of the reset stage based on the detected output voltage. The time period of the reset stage increases with the increase of the detected output voltage.
US11735900B2
A system for gripping the outside jacket of a cable including a flexible gripper having a serpentine shape, teeth on one side and retention channels on another side. The retention channels each receive a cable tie.
US11735899B1
A retractable data cable assembly is provided, which includes a cable, a winding assembly, a movable assembly and a housing defining an accommodating cavity where the winding assembly and the movable assembly are arranged. The cable is wound around the winding assembly and exposed out of the housing. The winding assembly includes a winder rotatable with respect to the housing. The movable assembly is disposed on a side of the winder and positioned to connect to the housing. The movable assembly includes a transmission assembly and an auxiliary member respectively coupled with the winder and the transmission assembly. The auxiliary member produces elastic deformation to provide the transmission assembly with a preload force for swinging toward or away from the side of the auxiliary member. The storage of the retractable data cable assembly is more convenient.
US11735895B2
Disclosed is a length of cable run made of metal wire mesh having a nominal end and a fish-plated end equipped with a fish plate made of metal wires which is configured to allow the fish-plated end to be assembled by clip-fastening with the nominal end of a similar length of cable run; lateral parts of the fish plate each including a flexible arm, a head provided with a ramp and with a clip and connected to the flexible arm by one of its ends, and a spacer secured to the end cross wire of the fish-plated end and situated between this end cross wire and the end cross wire of the nominal end of the similar length when the fish-plated end of the length and the nominal end of the similar length are assembled.
US11735891B2
An electrical assembly may include a bus bar assembly, a fuse connected to the bus bar assembly, a contactor connected to the bus bar assembly, a bracket connected to the bus bar assembly, and/or a cooling member connected to the bracket such that the fuse is indirectly connected to the cooling member via the bus bar assembly and the bracket. A method of operating an electrical assembly may include controlling the contactor to provide current from a power source to a load, generating heat via the current flowing through the fuse, conducting the heat from the fuse to the bus bar assembly, conducting the heat from the bus bar assembly to the cooling member, and/or dissipating the heat via the cooling member.
US11735888B2
A method for producing a semiconductor optical device includes the steps of bonding a semiconductor chip to an SOI substrate having a waveguide, the semiconductor chip having an optical gain and including a first cladding layer, a core layer, and a second cladding layer that contain III-V group compound semiconductors and are sequentially stacked in this order, forming a covered portion with a first insulating layer on the second cladding layer, etching partway in the thickness direction the second cladding layer exposed from the first insulating film, forming a second insulating film covering from the covered portion to a part of a remaining portion of the second cladding layer, and forming a first tapered portion that is disposed on the waveguide and tapered along the extending direction of the waveguide by etching the core layer and the second cladding layer exposed from the second insulating film.
US11735887B2
In one embodiment the semiconductor laser (1) comprises a carrier (2) and an edge-emitting laser diode (3) which is mounted on the carrier (2) and which comprises an active zone (33) for generating a laser radiation (L) and a facet (30) with a radiation exit region (31). The semiconductor laser (1) further comprises a protective cover (4), preferably a lens for collimation of the laser radiation (L). The protective cover (4) is fastened to the facet (30) and to a side surface (20) of the carrier (2) by means of an adhesive (5). A mean distance between a light entrance side (41) of the protective cover (4) and the facet (30) is at most 60 μm. The semiconductor laser (1) is configured to be operated in a normal atmosphere without additional gas-tight encapsulation.
US11735878B2
An elevated outlet assembly includes a tripod that has a base and a plurality of legs each extending downwardly from the base. Each of the legs engages a support surface thereby elevating the base upwardly from the support surface. A disk is disposed on the base and a plurality of female electrical outlets is each integrated into the disk to receive a power plug from an electronic device. Each of the female electrical outlets is elevated when the tripod is positioned on the support surface to inhibit the power plug from the electronic device from coming into contact with moisture on the support surface. A power cord is coupled to and extends away from the disk and the power cord can be plugged into a power source to supply electrical power to the respective electronic device.
US11735875B2
Antenna units and system that has an antenna with at least one docking station, at least one radio unit; and at least one interconnect that includes first and second mating connectors. The first connector is configured to be electrically and mechanically coupled to the antenna and the second connector is configured to be electrically and mechanically coupled to the at least one radio unit. The interconnect has radial and axial float for blind mating of the first and second mating connectors. The first connector is mounted on the at least one docking station via a mounting body such that space for the radial float is provided between the mounting body and a housing of the first connector.
US11735867B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a receiving space, plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space, a first and second holding members secured to two opposite ends of the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space, and a shielding plate located between the first and second holding members, wherein at least one of the first and second holding members has an integral coupling parallel to the shielding plate.
US11735864B2
An electrical connector assembly includes: a first module including a mounting plate and a plurality of first electrical connectors; a second module including a housing and a plurality of second electrical connectors; wherein the electrical connector assembly has a locking device including at least one first interlocking member disposed on the first module and at least one second interlocking member disposed on the second module, wherein one of the first interlocking member and the second interlocking member is provided with a protrusion, and the other of the first interlocking member and the second interlocking member is provided with a hole for receiving the protrusion, wherein one of the projection and the hole is elastically actuatable so as to lock or unlock the first module and the second module.
US11735860B2
Use of a hydrogen tank of a vehicle such as an aircraft for protecting at least one electrical connection device linked to at least one electrical device. At least one connection device is placed in a tank or in a sealed enclosure supplied with hydrogen by a tank or by any other source of hydrogen supply of the vehicle. The use of a tank that already exists in the vehicle makes it possible to avoid having to use specific chambers incorporated in a complex manner with the connection device.
US11735859B2
A connector to connect electric circuits inside and outside the tire includes: a tubular terminal penetrating the connector attachment hole; an outer seal member surrounding outside the tubular terminal and elastically deformed by being pressed against a tire wheel to provide a seal between the tire wheel and the tubular terminal; an inner seal member filled inside the tubular terminal; one or more rod-shaped terminals penetrating the inner seal member; a plurality of communication holes formed at a plurality of positions in a circumferential direction in an intermediate portion in an axial direction of the tubular terminal; and a plurality of seal communication portions integrally formed with one or both of the outer seal member and the inner seal member and arranged in the plurality of communication holes to transmit, to the inner seal member, elastic force toward the tubular terminal by the elastic deformation of the outer seal member.
US11735855B2
A connector apparatus including a housing, and a primary lock reinforcement. The housing includes at least one substantially cylindrical coaxial cavity therein. The coaxial cavity has a first end, a second end, and a locking finger. At least one stop is located proximate the second end. A locking finger is positioned intermediate the first end and the second end. The locking finger includes a locking tab, and an unlocking surface. The locking finger is formed to be flexible and capable of flexing between a lock position and an unlock position. The locking finger is biased toward the lock position. The primary lock reinforcement is placed in the housing and has an opening therein corresponding to the second end of the cylindrical coaxial cavity.
US11735852B2
Connector assemblies for making connections to a subassembly, such as a processor card, may include signal contact tips formed of a material different than that of an associated cable conductor. The signal contact tips may be formed of a super elastic material, such as nickel titanium. The connector assembly may include ground contact tips that similarly make a pressure contact to the electrical component may be electrically connected to a shield of the cable shield Housing modules that interlock or interface with a support member may be employed to manufacture connectors with any desired quantity of signal and ground contact tips in any suitable number of columns and rows. Each module may terminate a cable and provide pressure mount connections between signal conductors and the shield of the cable and conductive pads on the subassembly, and conductive or lossy grounded structures around the conductive elements carrying signals through the module.
US11735851B2
A connector (1) according to the present disclosure includes a holder (10) holding a cable (30) including a conductor (31) and an insulating coat (32) covering the conductor (31), and a socket (20) with which the holder (10) is to be engaged and including a contact (22). The holder (10) includes a base portion (11) holding the cable (30) by being integrally molded with the cable (30) and in which a portion of each of the insulating coat (32) and the conductor (31) of the cable (30) is embedded, and an extension portion (12) covering at least a portion of the conductor (31) and extending from the base portion (11) toward a side of connect with the socket (20). The holder (10) exposes a part of the conductor (31) of the cable (30) in contact with the contact (22) in an engaged state in which the holder (10) and the socket (20) are engaged with each other.
US11735850B2
A connector assembly comprises a circuit board having a front side and a back side, and two first connectors mounted side by side on the front side of the circuit board. A cable includes a plurality of wires divided into two groups, with each of the groups of wires being electrically connected on one end to a respective one of the first connectors via the circuit board.
US11735849B2
An electrical connector includes an insulation housing, a plurality of rows of terminals, and a plurality of corresponding fixing parts. The plurality of rows of terminals are sequentially and fixedly arranged in parallel on the insulation housing. The plurality of fixing parts are assembled to the insulation housing for structurally constraining the corresponding rows of terminals. An electrical connector manufacturing method includes fixing a plurality of first terminals on an insulation housing in a row, assembling a first fixing part to the insulation housing to structurally constrain the row of first terminals, fixing a plurality of second terminals on the insulation housing in a row, assembling a second fixing part to the insulation housing to structurally constrain the row of second terminals, and so on, so as to obtain one like the above electrical connector. The electrical connector can provide data transmission in compliance with PCIe 4.0 standard.
US11735846B2
A stacked card edge connector for mating with stacked pluggable modules includes a housing configured to be mounted to a host circuit board and including inner and outer contact channels and inner and outer card slots configured to receive card edges of module circuit boards of the stacked pluggable modules. The stacked card edge connector includes an inner contact assembly received in the inner card slot and an outer contact assembly received in the outer card slot.
US11735840B2
An electrical connection box is provided with a conductive bus bar, an insulating housing body, a cover, and a power supply line. The cover opens or closes with respect to the housing body at a fully open position and a fully closed position. The housing body has a connector at a position exposed to the outside, with the connector configured so that a terminal provided at a tip of the power supply line is attachable or detachable to or from the connector. A restriction portion, which restricts the power supply line from moving in the longitudinal direction is provided in the cover. In the state where the terminal is connected to the connector, the tension is created on the power supply line in the longitudinal direction by the restriction portion during moving the cover from the fully closed position to the fully open position side.
US11735836B2
A core-wire exposed portion in an electric wire and at least one pair of pressure-welding pieces made of an electroconductive material are included. The core-wire exposed portion is a portion is which a core wire composed of a plurality of element wires is exposed. The pair of pressure-welding pieces are provided with a core wire pressure-welding section in which pressure-welding end surfaces are disposed facing each other at a distance and Kate the core-wire exposed portion press-fitted between the pressure-welding end surfaces. The core wire pressure-welding section is formed as a section that brings all of the element wires in the core-wire exposed portion, between the pressure-welding end surfaces, into contact with either of the pressure-welding end surfaces while being in an aligned state.
US11735832B2
A plurality of segments each include one input-output port and a plurality of antenna ports. A plurality of subarrays each include a plurality of elements connected to any of the plurality of antenna ports. The plurality of elements constitute a sequential array for each subarray. Each of the plurality of segments includes a distribution-combination circuit that distributes a signal input to a first port to the plurality of antenna ports and that combines signals input to the respective plurality of antenna ports to output a combined signal from the first port, and a first amplifier connected between the input-output port and the first port. In the plurality of subarrays, the plurality of antenna ports to which the respective plurality of elements included in one subarray are connected are included in one segment.
US11735831B2
A broadband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with self-decoupling characteristics includes: a dielectric substrate, a metal patch printed on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate, and a pair of horizontal back-to-back elliptical tapered slots and a vertical elliptical tapered slot etched on the metal patch. A microstrip line and another bent micro strip line are respectively used to feed the vertical elliptical tapered slot and the pair of horizontal elliptical tapered slots, and characteristic modes of the horizontal slots excited by the bent microstrip line and characteristic modes of the vertical slot excited by the micro strip line are mutually orthogonal. By adopting the technical scheme, no additional decoupling structure needs to be introduced, and lower coupling can be realized in a wider working frequency band.
US11735829B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a passive antenna module for an active-passive antenna system. The passive antenna module includes a chassis for detachably mounting onto an active antenna module. The chassis includes an opening or a cavity for extending at least partially over the active antenna module when the chassis is mounted onto the active antenna module. The passive antenna module includes a ground plane layer arranged within or over said opening or cavity and fixed to the chassis. The ground plane layer includes a metallic or metallized grid. The passive antenna module includes a first antenna array including one or more first antenna elements arranged, in part, over said chassis and adjacent to said opening or cavity and, in part, over said opening or cavity. The chassis and the ground plane layer are adapted to act as ground planes for the first antenna array.
US11735828B2
Disclosed is a system and method for a 24-GHz phased array for indoor smart radar comprising at least 6 horizontally placed antenna elements as a vertically placed 5-element series-fed microstrip patch array. The beam of the phased array can be continuously steered on the H-plane to different directions through a novel vector control array. Each element can adjust the phase and amplitude of the corresponding element of the horizontally placed linear array. The phased array system of the present invention may be fabricated on a single printed circuit board (PCB), and PIN diodes are used to realize beam steering by modulating the decomposed received signal. In order to compensate for the loss of the vector control array and reduce the noise figure, six low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are also used in the array. The present invention has the ability to continuously steer the beam on the H-plane.
US11735823B2
An antenna is disclosed. The antenna can include a coplanar antenna structure. The coplanar antenna structure can include a substrate and a radiating portion that is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation and is disposed over the substrate. The radiating portion defines a slot having a width to length ratio of at least approximately 0.4. The antenna also includes a scattering element disposed over the substrate and at least partially surrounds the radiating portion.
US11735819B2
Various wireless device and antenna array configurations are provided. An example wireless device includes at least one radio frequency integrated circuit, at least one patch antenna element operably coupled to the at least one radio frequency integrated circuit, at least one dipole antenna comprising two dipole antenna elements disposed adjacent to the at least one patch antenna element and operably coupled to the at least one radio frequency integrated circuit, and at least one high impedance surface disposed below the at least one dipole antenna and adjacent to the at least one patch antenna element.
US11735814B2
An antenna module includes a wiring structure including a plurality of insulating layers, a plurality of wiring layers, and a plurality of via layers; an antenna disposed on an upper surface of the wiring structure; and an encapsulant disposed on the upper surface of the wiring structure and covering at least a portion of the antenna. An uppermost wiring layer of the plurality of wiring layers is connected to the antenna through a connection via of an uppermost via layer of the plurality of via layers. The connection via penetrates at least a portion of the encapsulant.
US11735809B2
An antenna system and a terminal device, where the antenna system includes a first feed point, a first ground point, a second feed point, a second ground point, a third ground point, a fourth ground point, a first radiator, a second radiator, a first resonance structure, and a second resonance structure, where the first feed point is coupled to the first radiator, the second feed point is coupled to the second radiator, the first radiator is coupled to the first ground point, and the second radiator is coupled to the second ground point, the first resonance structure is electromagnetically coupled to the first radiator at a first distance from the first radiator, and the second resonance structure is electromagnetically coupled to the second radiator at a second distance from the second radiator.
US11735805B1
An antenna mounting system configured to be attached to the structure of a communications tower and to connect with additional mounting systems located adjacent on the tower. The system is secured to the tower structure via a multi piece clamp configured to attach to tower elements of varying sizes and shapes and which may be joined together with one or more adjacent mounting systems. Single piece side frames with X shaped central bracing are attached to the mounting clamp and further attached to multiple face members. The face members are used to attach members which serve as the ultimate mounting points for antenna equipment as well as members to brace the mounting system to the tower structure or an adjacent mounting system. The system is configured that it may be adjusted for azimuth once installed on the tower and features an azimuth guide for making precise adjustments.
US11735803B2
The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus, which specifically comprises: a filter unit which is disposed to form at least one layer; an electric appliance unit which is coupled and is spaced apart from the filter unit to form a layer different from that of the filter unit, and includes various electric devices installed therein; a filter unit heat dissipation module which is coupled to the opposite surface of a surface of the filter unit, the surface being coupled to the electric appliance unit, and thus radiates heat generated from the filter unit to the outside; and an electric appliance unit heat dissipation module including a first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module and a second electric appliance unit heat dissipation module, wherein: the first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module is coupled to the opposite surface of a surface of the electric appliance unit, the surface being coupled to the filter unit, and thus radiates, to the outside, heat generated from first heating elements intensively disposed at one side of the filter unit; and the second electric appliance unit heat dissipation module is provided in parallel to the first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module and radiates, to the outside, heat generated from second heating elements intensively disposed at the other side of the filter unit. Accordingly, the present invention provides advantages of improving assembling performance and maximizing heat dissipation performance.
US11735802B2
Devices, systems, and/or methods that can facilitate plating one or more metal layers onto a niobium-titanium substrate are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a first metal layer plated on a portion of the niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a second metal layer plated on the first metal layer. The device can further comprise a third metal layer plated on the second metal layer.
US11735801B2
The disclosure provides a high-Q triple-mode cavity dielectric resonant hollow structure and a filter with the dielectric resonant structure. The structure includes a cavity and a cover plate, wherein the cavity is internally provided with a cube-like dielectric resonance block and a dielectric support frame; the cube-like dielectric resonance block and the dielectric support frame form a triple-mode dielectric resonance rod; air is arranged between the triple-mode dielectric resonance rod and an inner wall of the cavity; one end or any end of the cube-like dielectric resonance block is connected with the dielectric support frame respectively; the dielectric support frame is connected with an inner wall of the cavity; and the cube-like dielectric resonance block forms triple-mode resonance in directions of X, Y and Z-axes of the cavity.
US11735800B2
The present disclosure relates to an oscillator apparatus comprising a differential transmission line forming a closed loop, a plurality of active core components that are electrically connected to the differential transmission line and that are configured to compensate for loss in the differential transmission line, a plurality of tuning elements that are electrically coupled with the differential transmission line, and a processor configured to control each tuning element of the plurality of tuning elements to activate or deactivate such that an effective electrical length of the differential transmission line is changed.
US11735797B2
A coating solution for lithium ion battery separators which comprises inorganic particles, an organic polymer binder and carboxymethyl cellulose having an etherification rate of 1.10 to 2.00 or a salt thereof, or a coating solution for lithium ion battery separators comprising inorganic particles containing magnesium hydroxide having a linseed oil absorption of 30 to 80 (g/100 g), and a separator having a coating layer formed from the coating solution on a substrate and high safety and low internal resistance.
US11735795B2
An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a length direction, each of the battery cells including a vent; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being located between long side surfaces of an adjacent pair of the battery cells; a cover member; a top plate coupled to a top portion of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells and including opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes located in an exhaust area and respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature and including opening holes located to correspond to the ducts.
US11735794B2
A method for connecting an energy storage module to a module support, in particular a cooling element, The energy storage module is fastened on the module support by multiple connecting screws, which are each screwed into threaded bores provided on the module support. A gap is provided between the bottom of the energy storage module and the bottom of the module support, into which a thermally-conductive compound is introduced, which is distributed to fill the gap due to a reduction of the gap width when the energy storage module is screwed down.
US11735792B2
The disclosure relates to a battery assembly and an electronic device having the same, wherein the battery assembly is electrically connected to battery contact. The battery assembly includes a battery body, battery terminal, and first insertion portion. The battery terminal is disposed on the battery body, and the first insertion portion is slidably disposed on the battery body. The first insertion portion is removably inserted into an idle space formed in the battery contact so that at least part of the battery contact is clamped by the first insertion portion and the battery terminal.
US11735788B2
An energy storage module includes a plurality of battery cells, each including a vent; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being located between long side surfaces of each adjacent pair of the battery cells; a cover member including an internal receiving space; a top plate coupled to a top portion of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells, and opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature, and including opening holes positioned to correspond to the ducts.
US11735782B2
An apparatus for voltage sharing of series connected battery modules in a DC microgrid includes a battery management system and a battery module controller that generates, for an mth of N converters connected together to a DC microbus, a droop current ĩd,m that includes a converter voltage error signal {tilde over (v)}err,m multiplied by a droop multiplier gd(i). Each converter is a DC/DC converter connected between a battery module, with one or more battery cells, and the DC microbus. The mth converter uses the droop current ĩd,m, a common current reference ĩall of a battery pack that includes the battery modules and an input current ĩm to the mth converter to control switching of the mth converter. The common current reference ĩall is from the battery management system. The voltage error signal {tilde over (v)}err,m is based on an output voltage {tilde over (v)}o,m of the mth converter and an average converter output voltage {tilde over (v)}avgeodcmastereodcmastereodcmaster.
US11735775B2
The present application provides a secondary battery, an electrolyte, and an apparatus including the secondary battery. The secondary battery of the present application includes an electrolyte, characterized in that the electrolyte includes an organic solvent, and the organic solvent includes a cyclic carbonate and a chain carbonate; the mass ratio of the cyclic carbonate and the chain carbonate is from 25:75 to 32:68; the chain carbonate includes dimethyl carbonate; the mass percentage of the dimethyl carbonate in the chain carbonate is greater than or equal to 9 wt % and less than 50 wt %; wherein based on the total mass of the organic solvent, the mass percentage of a carboxylic acid ester is less than 5 wt %. The secondary battery of the present application can simultaneously obtain excellent low-temperature power, long service life and cycle performance.
US11735773B1
An electrochemical cell having a casing housing an electrode assembly of a separator residing between a lithium anode and a cathode comprising silver vanadium oxide and fluorinated carbon is described. The electrode assembly is activated with a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a lithium salt dissolved in a solvent system of propylene carbonate mixed with 1,2-dimethoxyethane, lithium bis(oxalato)borate (LiBOB), and fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC). Preferably LiBOB is present in an amount ranging from about 0.005 wt. 5 to about 5 wt. %, and FEC is present in an amount ranging from about 0.01 wt. % to about 10 wt. %. This electrolyte formulation is more conductive than the conventional or prior art binary and ternary solvent system electrolytes while being chemically and electrochemically stable toward Li/SVO cells, Li-SVO/CFx mixture cells, and Li-SVO/CFx sandwich cathode primary electrochemical cells.
US11735769B2
A solid state electrolyte material including a decontaminated lithium conducting ceramic oxide material including a decontaminated surface thickness. The decontaminated surface thickness is less than or equal to 5 nm. The decontaminated surface thickness may be greater than or equal to 1 nm. The decontaminated lithium conducting ceramic oxide material may be selected from the group consisting of Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO), Li5La3Ta2O12 (LLTO), Li6La2CaTa2O12 (LLCTO), Li6La2ANb2O12 (A is Ca or Sr), Li1+xAlxGe2-x(PO4)3 (LAGP), Li14Al0.4(Ge2-xTix)1.6(PO4)3 (LAGTP), perovskite Li3xLa2/3-xTiO3 (LLTO), Li0.8La0.6Zr2(PO4)3 (LLZP), Li1+xTi2-xAlx(PO4)3 (LTAP), Li1+x+yTi2-xAlxSiy(PO4)3-y (LTASP), LiTixZr2-x(PO4)3 (LTZP), Li2Nd3TeSbO12 and mixtures thereof.
US11735764B2
A printable lithium composition is provided. The printable lithium composition includes lithium metal powder; a polymer binder, wherein the polymer binder is compatible with the lithium powder; and a rheology modifier, wherein the rheology modifier is compatible with the lithium powder and the polymer binder. The printable lithium composition may further include a solvent compatible with the lithium powder and with the polymer binder.
US11735763B2
Solid state solid electrolyte rechargeable battery in no use of separator comprising a positive electrode/a conductive polymer solid state electrolyte layer/a negative electrode in which the solid state electrolyte layer is a composition comprising an inorganic solid electrolyte and a polymer electrolyte composition wherein the polymer electrolyte composition is selected from the group consisting of a polymer electrolyte composition (X1) obtained by graft polymerizing or living radical polymerization of a molten salt monomer having a polymerizable functional group and having an onium cation and an anion containing a halogen with a fluoro polymer, and a polymer electrolyte composition comprising (X1) and at least one kind selected from the following (X2) and (X3), X2: a molten salt having an onium cation and an anion containing a halogen, or a molten salt monomer having a polymerizable functional group and having an onium cation, X3: a polymer or copolymer of a molten salt monomer having a polymerizable functional group and having an onium cation. By providing this rechargeable battery, the solid electrolyte rechargeable battery without separator which has a descending effect of particle interface resistance between a positive and negative active materials in case of using conductive polymer solid electrolyte, a thin film cell, a less dependence on the temperature and excellent safety in case of happening short circuit can be obtained.
US11735762B2
Provided are an anode for an all solid cell and a method of fabricating the same. The anode may include an anode current collector, a conductive material of which one end contacts a part of the anode current collector, a conductive coating layer surrounding the conductive material, an anode active material which contacts the other end of the conductive material, and a solid electrolyte. The conductive coating layer may prevent the conductive material and the solid electrolyte from being electrically connected to each other.
US11735749B2
The present disclosure provides methods for turbine-based energy recovery from exhaust streams in fuel cell systems. The fuel cell systems can include an expansion turbine (200) arranged to capture electrical energy from cathode exhaust streams. The cathode exhaust streams (151a, 151b, 151c) can be flowed through an intercooler (250) to be preheated prior to entering the expansion turbine (200), with heat added by transferring heat from a compressed air flow. The methods can include operating the fuel cell system in a temperature-boost mode that includes reducing fan operation related to a condenser to reduce liquid recapture from an exhaust stream and increase exhaust stream temperature for use in turbine-based energy recovery. The temperature-boost mode can be controlled to limit the operation time based on coolant fluid levels in the fuel cell system.
US11735745B2
A battery may include an anode, a cathode positioned opposite to the anode, a separator positioned between the anode and the cathode, an electrolyte dispersed throughout the cathode and in contact with the anode, and a dual-pore system. The anode may be configured to release a plurality of lithium ions. The cathode may include a plurality of pathways defined by a plurality of porous non-hollow carbonaceous spherical particles and may include a plurality of carbonaceous structures each based on a coalescence of a group of the porous non-hollow carbonaceous spherical particles. The dual-pore system may be disposed in the cathode and defined in shape and orientation by the plurality of carbonaceous structures. In some aspects, the dual-pore system may be configured to receive gaseous oxygen from the ambient atmosphere.
US11735744B2
A battery electrode, and a method for fabricating the battery electrode are described. The battery electrode includes a current collector having a woven mesh planar sheet that is composed of metallic strands. The metallic strands define a multiplicity of interstitial spaces, and the woven mesh planar sheet includes a first surface and a second surface. An active material including lithium is embedded in the interstitial spaces of a first portion of the woven mesh planar sheet, and an electrical connection tab arranged on a second portion of the woven mesh planar sheet.
US11735742B2
A lead-acid battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, an electrolyte solution, and a polymer compound, in which the positive electrode plate includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode material, the negative electrode plate includes a negative current collector and a negative electrode material, the Ca content of the positive current collector is 0.13% by mass or less, and the polymer compound has a peak in a range of 3.2 ppm or more and 3.8 ppm or less in a chemical shift of 1H-NMR spectrum, or the polymer compound contains a repeating structure of oxy C2-4 alkylene units.
US11735733B2
A composite negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery is provided. The composite negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer formed on the negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes unit cells arranged with a gap therebetween, and wherein the unit cells include a solid electrolyte and a carbon material dispersed in the solid electrolyte.
US11735728B2
A cathode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including primary particles of a lithium nickel complex oxide represented by a general formula: LizNi1−x−yCoxMyO2+α, and secondary particles in which the primary particles aggregate, wherein a plurality of coated lithium nickel complex oxide particles are formed by disposing a compound containing tungsten and lithium on surfaces of the secondary particles and surfaces of the primary particles positioned inside the secondary particles, and wherein a relative standard deviation of a ratio of a number of atoms of tungsten to a number of atoms of a metallic component other than lithium contained in the coated lithium nickel complex oxide particles is 0.4 or lower.
US11735727B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a cathode containing a cathode active material in which a central part has a different concentration from a surface part, and a conductive material having a specific composition ratio, and specifically, a lithium secondary battery including a cathode containing a cathode active material in which a central part of one or more kinds of metals configuring the cathode active material has a different concentration from a surface part thereof, and two or more kinds of conductive materials mixed at a specific ratio, thereby having excellent stability and high low-temperature characteristic and high output characteristic as compared to a conventional lithium secondary battery.
US11735725B2
An electrode including an electrode active material and a mesoporous film coating at least a portion of the electrode active material is provided. The mesoporous film coats at least a portion of the electrode active material and includes M2SiO3, MAlO2, M2O—Al2O3—SiO2, or combinations thereof, where M is lithium (Li), sodium (Na), or a combination thereof. Methods of fabricating the electrode are also provided.
US11735721B2
The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method for preparing the same and a lithium secondary battery including the same, the positive electrode active material includes a core including a first lithium complex metal oxide, and a shell located surrounding the core and including a second lithium complex metal oxide, and further includes a buffer layer located between the core and the shell, wherein the buffer layer includes a pore, and a three-dimensional network structure of a third lithium complex metal oxide which is connecting the core and the shell, and accordingly, minimizing destruction of the active material caused by a rolling process during the electrode preparation, and maximizing reactivity with an electrolyte liquid.
US11735718B2
A method for preparing a carbon nanostructure including molybdenum disulfide is discussed. More particularly, a method is discussed for preparing a carbon nanostructure in which molybdenum disulfide is located on the surface by melt diffusion and heat treatment of a mixture of a molybdenum precursor, a carbon nanostructure, and sulfur. Also, a positive electrode of a lithium secondary battery including a carbon nanostructure including molybdenum disulfide as an additive, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. In the case of the lithium secondary battery including the positive electrode to which the carbon nanostructure including molybdenum disulfide was applied, the carbon nanostructure including the molybdenum disulfide adsorbs lithium polysulfide (LiPS) generated during the charging/discharging process of the lithium secondary battery, thereby increasing the charging/discharging efficiency of the battery and improving lifetime characteristics.
US11735715B2
To provide an anode material that can improve the efficiency of the initial charging and discharging, the anode material includes an amorphous glassy carbon material that is an anode active material, and a NaMH compound that is a solid electrolyte.
US11735708B2
A method for manufacturing an energy storage device includes a swaging step in which a swaged portion is formed by swaging a tip portion, penetrating a positive electrode terminal or a positive electrode current collector and projecting in a predetermined direction from the positive electrode terminal or the positive electrode current collector, of a shaft portion. In the swaging step, the tip portion of the shaft portion is swaged by a punch which includes a pressing surface, the pressing surface including a punch-side first concave portion which is concaved in the predetermined direction and a punch-side second concave portion which is concaved in the predetermined direction more than the punch-side first concave portion at an inner peripheral side of the punch-side first concave portion.
US11735697B2
A light-emitting device includes: a base member including: a first lead, a second lead, and a securing member securing the first and second leads; a light-emitting element mounted on an upper surface of the base member; a frame, a part of which is disposed on the upper surface of the base member to surround the light-emitting element; a first member covering at least a portion of an upper surface of the securing member that is exposed at an outer peripheral side of the frame in a top view, the first member being arranged intermittently under the frame and containing a reflective material; and a second member covering the light-emitting element, the frame, and the first member. The frame has a first region on which the first member is arranged and a second region on which the first member is not arranged, the first and second regions having different heights.
US11735694B2
Semiconductor light emitting devices and packages are provided. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate, a luminous structure, and first and second electrodes. The substrate has a first region and a second region that is spaced apart in a first direction from the first region. The luminous structure includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate. The first electrode is on the second semiconductor layer. The second electrode is electrically coupled to the first semiconductor layer through plural first openings that penetrate the first electrode, the second semiconductor layer, and the active layer, where the first openings expose the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode is in contact with the second semiconductor layer in the first region and in the second region, and the first openings are in the first region.
US11735691B2
Techniques, devices, and systems are disclosed and include LEDs with a first flat region, at a first height from an LED base and including a plurality of epitaxial layers including a first n-layer, a first active layer, and a first p-layer. A second flat region is provided, at a second height from the LED base and parallel to the first flat region, and includes at least a second n-layer. A sloped sidewall connecting the first flat region and the second flat region is provided and includes at least a third n-layer, the first n-layer being thicker than at least a portion of third n-layer. A p-contact is formed on the first p-layer and an n-contact formed on the second n-layer.
US11735690B2
A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate, and light emitting elements. The light emitting elements are aligned in a first array, and each includes a sapphire substrate having a lower surface, a pair of first lateral surfaces slanted with respect to the lower surface, and a pair of second lateral surfaces perpendicular to the lower surface, with the pair of first lateral surfaces has an acute angle lateral surface and an obtuse angle lateral surface, and a semiconductor layered structure disposed on the sapphire substrate. In a plan view, a direction along which the second lateral surfaces of one of the light emitting elements in the first array extend forms an angle of 45° with respect to a direction along which the second lateral surfaces of an adjacent one of the light emitting elements in the first array extend.
US11735686B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes dividing a semiconductor structure into a plurality of light-emitting portions by removing a portion of the semiconductor structure so as to form an exposed region, a first surface being exposed from under the semiconductor structure in the exposed region; etching protrusions formed in the exposed region; bonding a light-transmitting body to a second surface so as to form a bonded body; forming a plurality of modified regions along the exposed region inside the substrate by irradiating a laser beam on the exposed region from the first surface side; removing a portion of the light-transmitting body that overlaps the plurality of modified regions in a plan view; and singulating the bonded body along the modified regions.
US11735678B2
A solar cell, and methods of fabricating said solar cell, are disclosed. The solar cell can include a first emitter region over a substrate, the first emitter region having a perimeter around a portion of the substrate. A first conductive contact is electrically coupled to the first emitter region at a location outside of the perimeter of the first emitter region.
US11735672B2
Some embodiments include an integrated transistor having an active region comprising semiconductor material. A conductive gating structure is adjacent to the active region. The conductive gating structure includes an inner region proximate the active region and includes an outer region distal from the active region. The inner region includes a first material containing titanium and nitrogen, and the outer region includes a metal-containing second material. The second material has a higher conductivity than the first material. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11735671B2
A method of fabricating a vertical fin-based field effect transistor (FET) includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, epitaxially growing a first semiconductor layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type and including a drift layer and a graded doping layer on the drift layer, and epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type on the graded doping layer. The method also includes forming a metal compound layer on the second semiconductor layer, forming a patterned hard mask layer on the metal compound layer, and etching the metal compound layer and the second semiconductor layer using the patterned hard mask layer as a mask exposing a surface of the graded doping layer to form a plurality of fins surrounded by a trench.
US11735670B2
Integrated circuit transistor structures and processes are disclosed that reduce n-type dopant diffusion, such as phosphorous or arsenic, from the source region and the drain region of a germanium n-MOS device into adjacent channel regions during fabrication. The n-MOS transistor device may include at least 70% germanium (Ge) by atomic percentage. In an example embodiment, source and drain regions of the transistor are formed using a low temperature, non-selective deposition process of n-type doped material. In some embodiments, the low temperature deposition process is performed in the range of 450 to 600 degrees C. The resulting structure includes a layer of doped mono-crystyalline silicon (Si), or silicon germanium (SiGe), on the source/drain regions. The structure also includes a layer of doped amorphous Si:P (or SiGe:P) on the surfaces of a shallow trench isolation (STI) region and the surfaces of contact trench sidewalls.
US11735656B2
A semiconductor structure that includes at least one lateral diffusion field effect transistor is described. The structure includes a source contact and a gate shield that enables the line width of an ohmic region that electrically connects the source/body region to the gate shield to be smaller than the minimum contact feature size. The gate shield defines a bottom recess for forming a narrower bottom portion of the source contact, and a section that flares outward with distance from the ohmic region to extend above and laterally beyond the ohmic region. By providing a wider area for the source contact, the flared portion of the gate shield allows the portion of the gate shield that contacts the ohmic region to be narrower than the minimum contact feature size. As a result, the cell pitch of the lateral diffusion field effect transistor can be reduced.
US11735650B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a fin feature over the substrate. The fin feature includes a first portion of a first semiconductor material and a second portion of a second semiconductor material disposed over the first portion. The second semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor oxide feature disposed on sidewalls of the first portion and a gate stack disposed on the fin feature. The gate stack includes an interfacial layer over a top surface and sidewalls of the second portion and a gate dielectric layer over the interfacial layer and sidewalls of the semiconductor oxide feature. A portion of the gate dielectric layer is below the interfacial layer.
US11735635B2
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor structure, a dielectric layer, a metal-semiconductor compound film and a cover layer. The semiconductor structure has an upper surface and a lateral surface. The dielectric layer encloses the lateral surface of the semiconductor structure and exposes the upper surface of the semiconductor structure. The metal-semiconductor compound film is on the semiconductor structure, wherein the dielectric layer exposes a portion of a surface of the metal-semiconductor compound film. The cover layer encloses the portion of the surface of the metal-semiconductor compound film exposed by the dielectric layer, and exposes the dielectric layer.
US11735627B2
A semiconductor device includes a device isolation layer on a substrate; pattern groups including fin patterns extending in a first direction; and gate structures extending in a second direction to intersect the fin patterns. A first pattern group, among the pattern groups, may include first fin patterns. At least a portion of the first fin patterns may be arranged with a first pitch in the second direction. The first pattern group may include a first planar portion extending from a first recess portion. A central axis of the first recess portion may be spaced apart from a central axis of one of the first fin patterns by a first distance in the second direction. The first planar portion may have a first width in the second direction and being greater than the first pitch. The first distance may be about 0.8 times to about 1.2 times the first pitch.
US11735612B2
Techniques for implementing and/or operating an electronic device that includes or utilizes a display panel. The display panel includes an organic light-emitting diode layer, an encapsulation layer disposed over the organic light-emitting diode layer, and a color filter layer disposed over the encapsulation layer. The color filter layer overhangs the organic light-emitting diode layer and comprises a first color filter cell of a first color component sub-pixel that at least partially overlaps an organic light-emitting diode of a second color component sub-pixel that is a different color compared to the first color component sub-pixel.
US11735611B2
A drive backplane, a manufacturing method thereof, a detection substrate and a detection device. The drive backplane includes: a base plate and multiple drive modules disposed on the base plate. Each drive module includes a reset transistor, a read transistor, an amplifier transistor and a memory capacitor; the reset transistor is connected to the memory capacitor, the memory capacitor is connected to a photosensor, the amplifier transistor is connected to the memory capacitor, and the read transistor is connected to the amplifier transistor; wherein an active layer in the amplifier transistor is made of amorphous silicon or an oxide semiconductor.
US11735610B2
The disclosure discloses a global shutter CMOS image sensor, which adopts non-uniform storage diffusion region doping to reduce the junction leakage at storage points, so as to ensure that with the increase of the depth of photodiodes and the increase of pixels, all carriers in rows read subsequently can be transferred to storage diffusion regions, the loss of the carriers in the storage diffusion regions is not caused when a global shutter transistor is turned on, and the carriers can be completely transferred from the storage diffusion regions to floating diffusion regions through second transfer transistors even if the number of rows of pixel units increases during reading-out row by row. The disclosure further discloses a method for making the global shutter CMOS image sensor.
US11735602B2
The disclosed display device includes: a substrate; a gate electrode disposed on the substrate; a data line disposed on the substrate and extending along an extension direction; and a connecting member disposed on the substrate and electrically connecting to the gate electrode, wherein the connecting member includes a first part overlapped with the gate electrode and a second part not overlapped with the gate electrode, and a minimum width of the second part in a direction perpendicular to the extension direction is less than a maximum width of the first part in the direction.
US11735595B2
Thin film tunnel field effect transistors having relatively increased width are described. In an example, integrated circuit structure includes an insulator structure above a substrate. The insulator structure has a topography that varies along a plane parallel with a global plane of the substrate. A channel material layer is on the insulator structure. The channel material layer is conformal with the topography of the insulator structure. A gate electrode is over a channel portion of the channel material layer on the insulator structure. A first conductive contact is over a source portion of the channel material layer on the insulator structure, the source portion having a first conductivity type. A second conductive contact is over a drain portion of the channel material layer on the insulator structure, the drain portion having a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type.
US11735586B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first well region of a first conductive type and a second well region of a second conductive type disposed in the substrate. The first conductive type and the second conductive type are complementary. A plurality of first dummy structures are disposed in the first well region and arranged along a junction between the first well region and the second well region. The first dummy structures respectively include a first conductive region and a first doped region disposed between the first conductive region and the first doped region.
US11735585B2
A stacked semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a 1st transistor formed on a substrate, and including a 1st active region surrounded by a 1st gate structure and 1st source/drain regions; and a 2nd transistor stacked on the 1st transistor, and including a 2nd active region surrounded by a 2nd gate structure and 2nd source/drain regions, wherein the 1st active region and the 1st gate structure are vertically mirror-symmetric to the 2nd active region and the 2nd gate structure, respectively, with respect to a virtual plane therebetween.
US11735584B2
A semiconductor device, allowing easy hole extraction, including a semiconductor substrate having drift and base regions; and transistor and diode portions, in which trench portions and mesa portions are formed, is provided. The transistor portion includes emitter and contact regions above the base region and exposed to an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The emitter region has a higher concentration than the drift region. The contact region has a higher concentration than the base region. The mesa portions include boundary mesa portion(s) at a boundary between the transistor and diode portions. The trench portions include dummy trench portion(s) provided adjacent to a trench portion adjacent to the boundary mesa portion(s) and provided on the transistor portion side relative to the trench portion adjacent to the boundary mesa portion(s). The boundary mesa portion(s) include a base boundary mesa portion in which the base region is exposed to the upper surface.
US11735582B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a plurality of transistors each including a gate terminal, a drain terminal, and a source terminal, a first connection line connected to the drain terminals of the plurality of transistors, a second connection line connected to the source terminals of the plurality of transistors, a third connection line connected to the gate terminals of the plurality of transistors, an external resistor connected to the third connection line, and a ground terminal connected to the external resistor. The external resistor includes a first resistor and a second resistor connected to each other in parallel.
US11735581B2
An electrostatic protection structure able to discharge static electricity of either polarity from a functional circuit including signal lines includes a discharge electrode and a plurality of electrostatic protection units electrically coupled to the discharge electrode. Each electrostatic protection unit includes a first TFT and a second TFT. The first TFT includes first gate, source, and drain, the second TFT includes second gate, source, and drain. The first gate and the first drain are electrically connected to one signal line. The first source is electrically connected to the second drain, the first drain is electrically connected to the second source, the second gate is electrically connected to the discharge electrode, and the second gate is electrically connected to the second drain.
US11735573B2
A slicing wafer includes a driver circuit substrate; a plurality of epitaxial layer slices arranged side-by-side on the driver circuit substrate; and a bonding layer, formed between the driver circuit substrate and the plurality of epitaxial layer slices.
US11735569B2
A light emitting device module includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting devices mounted on the substrate, an adhesive layer interposed between the substrate and the light emitting device; and bonding wires electrically connecting the plurality of light emitting devices. The substrate includes an outer electrode in at least a partial region, and the adhesive layer has a non-conductive material.
US11735568B2
Semiconductor die stacks, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. The semiconductor die stack may include a first die with a memory array and a second die with CMOS circuitry configured to access the memory array. The first die may not have circuitry for accessing the memory array. Further, the first and second dies may be bonded to function as a single memory device, and front surfaces of the first and second dies are conjoined to form electrical connections therebetween. The second die may include a portion uncovered by the first die, where bond pads of the semiconductor die stack are located. The first die may provide a space for bond wires to connect to the bond pads without interfering with another die attached above the semiconductor die stack. Multiple semiconductor die stacks may be stacked on top of and in line with each other.
US11735566B2
A semiconductor package including a substrate; a first semiconductor chip on the substrate; a second semiconductor chip on the first semiconductor chip; and at least one connection terminal between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, wherein the first semiconductor chip includes a first semiconductor chip body; and at least one upper pad on a top surface of the first semiconductor chip body and in contact with the at least one connection terminal, the at least one upper pad includes a recess that is downwardly recessed from a top surface thereof, and a depth of the recess is less than a thickness of the at least one upper pad.
US11735553B2
A semiconductor package includes a support member, a semiconductor chip arranged in the support member such that a front surface and a backside surface of the semiconductor chip are exposed from a second surface of the support member and a first surface opposite to the second surface respectively, a lower redistribution wiring layer covering the second surface of the support member and including first redistribution wirings electrically connected to chip pads provided at the front surface of the semiconductor chip and vertical connection structures of the support member respectively, and an upper redistribution wiring layer covering the first surface of the support substrate, and including second redistribution wirings electrically connected to the vertical connection structures and a thermal pattern provided on the exposed backside surface of the semiconductor chip.
US11735550B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor structure including a bond bump disposed on an upper surface of an upper conductive structure. The upper conductive structure overlies a substrate. A buffer layer is disposed along the upper surface of the upper conductive structure. The bond bump comprises a sidewall having a straight sidewall segment overlying a curved sidewall segment.
US11735548B2
Electronic assemblies may be fabricated with interconnects of different types present in multiple locations and comprising fused copper nanoparticles. Each interconnect or a portion thereof comprises a bulk copper matrix formed from fusion of copper nanoparticles or a reaction product formed from copper nanoparticles. The interconnects may comprise a copper-based wire bonding assembly, a copper-based flip chip connection, a copper-based hermetic seal assembly, a copper-based connector between an IC substrate and a package substrate, a copper-based component interconnect, a copper-based interconnect comprising via copper for establishing electrical communication between opposite faces of a package substrate, a copper-based interconnect defining a heat channel formed from via copper, and any combination thereof.
US11735535B2
Embodiments include an inductor, a method to form the inductor, and a semiconductor package. An inductor includes a plurality of plated-through-hole (PTH) vias in a substrate layer, and a plurality of magnetic interconnects with a plurality of openings in the substrate layer. The openings of the magnetic interconnects surround the PTH vias. The inductor also includes an insulating layer in the substrate layer, a first conductive layer over the PTH vias, magnetic interconnects, and insulating layer, and a second conductive layer below the PTH vias, magnetic interconnects, and insulating layer. The insulating layer surrounds the PTH vias and magnetic interconnects. The magnetic interconnects may have a thickness substantially equal to a thickness of the PTH vias. The magnetic interconnects may be shaped as hollow cylindrical magnetic cores with magnetic materials. The magnetic materials may include ferroelectric, conductive, or epoxy materials. The hollow cylindrical magnetic cores may be ferroelectric cores.
US11735534B2
A chip package is provided. The chip package may include at least one chip, an exposed metal region and a metal protection layer structure over the exposed metal region and configured to protect the metal region from oxidation. The protection layer structure includes a low-temperature deposited oxide, and a hydrothermally converted metal oxide layer over the protection layer structure.
US11735529B2
An integrated circuit package includes a substrate including at least one electrical connection to at least one of power or ground. The package further includes a bridge structure including at least one layer of conductive material and at least one layer of insulative material. The bridge structure is configured to be coupled to the substrate such that the conductive material is electrically connected to the at least one electrical connection. The bridge structure includes a side pad made of conductive material that is electrically connected to the at least one electrical connection. The side pad is in direct contact with the conductive material and with the insulative material of the bridge structure. The side pad forms an end face of the bridge structure such that the conductive material of the side pad is exposed.
US11735521B2
Embodiments herein may describe techniques for an integrated circuit including a MOSFET having a source area, a channel area, a gate electrode, and a drain area. The channel area may include a first channel region with a dopant of a first concentration next to the source area, and a second channel region with the dopant of a second concentration higher than the first concentration next to the drain area. A source electrode may be in contact with the source area, a gate oxide layer above the channel area, and the gate electrode above the gate oxide layer. A first resistance exists between the source electrode and the gate electrode. A second resistance exists between the source electrode, the gate electrode, and a path through the gate oxide layer to couple the source electrode and the gate electrode after a programming operation is performed. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11735515B2
A semiconductor monolithic IC includes a semiconductor substrate having a rectangular shape in plan view, multiple chiplets each comprising a circuit, wherein the multiple chiplets are disposed over the semiconductor substrate and are separated from each other by die-to-die spaces filled with a dielectric material, and a plurality of conductive connection patterns electrically connecting the multiple chiplets so that a combination of the circuit of the multiple chiplet function as one functional circuit. The chip region has a larger area than a maximum exposure area of a lithography apparatus used to fabricate the first and second circuits.
US11735514B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first power supply terminal; a second power supply terminal; an output terminal; a first switching element connected between the first power supply terminal and the output terminal; and a second switching element connected between the second power supply terminal and the output terminal. The first power supply terminal includes: a first facing portion; a second facing portion; and a third facing portion. The first facing portion and the second facing portion are provided such that, upon application of a current, the current flows through the first facing portion and the second facing portion in a direction opposite to a direction in which the current flows through each of portions in the second power supply terminal that face the first facing portion and the second facing portion.
US11735508B2
In a general aspect, an apparatus can include a leadframe including a plurality of leads disposed along a single edge of the apparatus. The apparatus can also include an assembly including a substrate and a plurality of semiconductor die disposed on the substrate, the assembly being mounted on the leadframe and an inductor having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the inductor can be electrically coupled with the leadframe via a first contact pad of the leadframe. The second terminal of the inductor can be electrically coupled with the leadframe via a second contact pad of the leadframe. The first contact pad and the second contact pad can be exposed through a molding compound by respective mold cavities defined in the molding compound. The leadframe, the assembly and the inductor can be arranged in a stacked configuration.
US11735505B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, first and second conductive members, a first connection member, and a resin portion. The first conductive member includes first and second portions. The second portion is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip. A direction from the semiconductor chip toward the second portion is aligned with a first direction. A direction from the second portion toward the first portion is aligned with a second direction crossing the first direction. The second conductive member includes a third portion. The first connection member is provided between the first and third portion. The first connection member is conductive. The resin portion includes a first partial region. The first partial region is provided around the first and third portions, and the first connection member. The first portion has a first surface opposing the first connection member and including a recess and a protrusion.
US11735504B2
Implementations described herein are related to a semiconductor device package having an improved baseplate. In such an improved baseplate, there is a recess cut out of a region of a surface of the baseplate such that the recess has a first sidewall having a first thickness above a recess base and a second sidewall having a second thickness above the recess base. A substrate, e.g., a direct bonded copper (DBC) substrate, may be attached to the baseplate at a recess base using, e.g., a solder layer between the recess base and a surface of the substrate.
US11735492B2
Low inductance power modules for ultra-fast wide-bandgap semiconductor power switching devices are disclosed. Conductive tracks define power buses for a switching topology, e.g. comprising GaN E-HEMTs, with power terminals extending from the power buses through the housing to provide a heatsink-to-busbar distance which meets creepage and clearance requirements. Low-profile, low-inductance terminals for gate and source-sense connections extend from contact areas located adjacent each power switching device to provide for a low inductance gate drive loop, for high di/dt switching. The gate driver board is mounted on the low-profile terminals, inside or outside of the housing, with decoupling capacitors provided on the driver board. For paralleled switches, additional terminals, which are referred to as dynamic performance pins, are provided to the power buses. These pins are configured to provide a low inductance path for high-frequency current and balance inductances of the power commutation loops for each switch.
US11735490B2
A semiconductor module includes: a dissipating metal plate including a recess provided on an upper surface; an insulating substrate provided on a bottom surface of the recess and including a circuit pattern; a semiconductor device provided on the insulating substrate and connected to the circuit pattern; a case bonded to a peripheral portion on the upper surface of the dissipating metal plate and surrounding the insulating substrate and the semiconductor device; a case electrode provided on the case; a wire connecting the semiconductor device and the case electrode; and a sealant provided in the case and sealing the insulating substrate, the semiconductor device, and the wire, wherein a sidewall of the recess has a taper.
US11735488B2
The present disclosure relates to a power module comprising a substrate, first and second pluralities of vertical power devices, and first and second terminal assemblies. The substrate has a top surface with a first trace and a second trace. The first plurality of vertical power devices and a second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically coupled to form part of a power circuit. The first plurality of vertical power devices are electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the first trace and a bottom of a first elongated bar of the first terminal assembly. The second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the second trace and a bottom of a second elongated bar of the second terminal assembly.
US11735481B2
An improved work function layer and a method of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes forming a semiconductor fin extending from a substrate; depositing a dielectric layer over the semiconductor fin; depositing a first work function layer over the dielectric layer; and exposing the first work function layer to a metastable plasma of a first reaction gas, a metastable plasma of a generation gas, and a metastable plasma of a second reaction gas, the first reaction gas being different from the second reaction gas.
US11735477B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. A first conductive feature and a second conductive feature are provided. A first hard mask (HM) is formed on the first conductive feature. A patterned dielectric layer is formed over the first and the second conductive features, with first openings to expose the second conductive features. A first metal plug is formed in the first opening to contact the second conductive features. A second HM is formed on the first metal plugs and another patterned dielectric layer is formed over the substrate, with second openings to expose a subset of the first metal plugs and the first conductive features. A second metal plug is formed in the second openings.
US11735466B2
An apparatus including a drive having motors and coaxial drive shafts; an arm assembly having a first arm and a second arm; and a controller. The first arm includes a first upper arm, a first forearm, a first end effector, and a first transmission, where the first transmission includes a non-circular pulley, and where the first upper arm and the first forearm have unequal effective lengths. The second arm includes a second upper arm, a second forearm, a second end effector, and a second transmission, where the second upper arm and the second forearm have substantially equal effective lengths. The controller is configured to cause the drive to extend and retract the arms to move an upper substrate and a lower substrate on the substrate holding areas such that the arm assembly and upper substrate do not travel over the lower substrate.
US11735460B2
An integrated circuit device includes an engineered substrate including a substantially single crystal layer and a buffer layer coupled to the substantially single crystal layer. The integrated circuit device also includes a plurality of semiconductor devices coupled to the buffer layer. The plurality of semiconductor devices can include a first power device coupled to a first portion of the buffer layer and a second power device coupled to a second portion of the buffer layer. The first power device includes a first channel region comprising a first end, a second end, and a first central portion disposed between the first end and the second end. The second power device includes a second channel region comprising a third end, a fourth end, and a second central portion disposed between the third end and the fourth end.
US11735446B2
A substrate carrier, includes: a unitary body fabricated from a single block of graphite, wherein the body comprises a back plate, and a pair of spaced apart, substantially parallel, side rails, wherein each of the side rails comprises: an inwardly facing surface extending outwardly of the back plate; a longitudinally extending selenium vapor bore formed therein, a top end of the selenium vapor bore being open and configured for coupling to a selenium supply container for receiving selenium vapor by gravity, a bottom end of the selenium vapor bore being closed; an inwardly directed selenium vapor channel; a plurality of selenium vapor outlets disposed between the selenium vapor bore and the inwardly directed selenium vapor channel so as provide a plurality of conduits between the selenium vapor bore and the selenium vapor channel; and, a longitudinally extending engagement slot formed in the inwardly facing surface of each side rail adjacent the back plate to engage and hold a substrate in proximity to the back plate.
US11735445B2
The disclosure relates to substrate processing apparatus, with a first and second reactor, each reactor configured for processing a plurality of substrates; and, a substrate handling robot constructed and arranged to transfer substrates between a substrate cassette at a substrate transfer position and the first and second reactor. The apparatus is constructed and arranged with a maintenance area between the first and second reactors to allow maintenance of the reactors from the maintenance area to both the first and second reactor.
US11735441B2
Semiconductor systems and methods may include a semiconductor processing chamber having a gas box defining an access to the semiconductor processing chamber. The chamber may include a spacer characterized by a first surface with which the gas box is coupled, and the spacer may define a recessed ledge on an interior portion of the first surface. The chamber may include a support bracket seated on the recessed ledge that extends along a second surface of the spacer. The chamber may also include a gas distribution plate seated on the support bracket.
US11735427B2
In a method of manufacture, a displacement sensor is provided over a conditioner disk. The conditioner disk is rotated to perform a conditioning process on a polishing surface of a polishing pad. A displacement of the rotating conditioner disk is detected using the displacement sensor during the conditioning process. A height of the conditioner disk is calculated from the detected displacement. An end point of the conditioning process is determined on the polishing surface based on the calculated height.
US11735422B2
Methods of forming structures including a photoresist underlayer and structures including the photoresist underlayer are disclosed. Exemplary methods include forming the photoresist underlayer that includes metal. Techniques for treating a surface of the photoresist underlayer and/or depositing an additional layer overlying the photoresist underlayer are also disclosed.
US11735417B2
A method of preparing a heterojunction material, includes forming a first transition metal on a substrate, forming a second transition metal on the first transition metal, and performing a plasma process containing a chalcogen source on the substrate. The first transition metal and the second transition metal are different from each other.
US11735415B2
A first main surface is a (000-1) plane or a plane inclined by an angle of less than or equal to 8° relative to the (000-1) plane. A reaction chamber has a cross-sectional area of more than or equal to 132 cm2 and less than or equal to 220 cm2 in a plane perpendicular to a direction of movement of a mixed gas. When an X axis indicates a first value and a Y axis indicates a second value, the first value and the second value fall within a hexagonal region surrounded by first coordinates, second coordinates, third coordinates, fourth coordinates, fifth coordinates and sixth coordinates in XY plane coordinates, where the first coordinates are (0.038, 0.0019), the second coordinates are (0.069, 0.0028), the third coordinates are (0.177, 0.0032), the fourth coordinates are (0.038, 0.0573), the fifth coordinates are (0.069, 0.0849), and the sixth coordinates are (0.177, 0.0964).
US11735410B1
Disclosed is a filament support and a lamp with the filament support. The filament support may include a main rod, a plurality of branch rods and a plurality of support members. The plurality of branch rods are all installed on the main rod; the support members are arranged at ends of at least some of the branch rods, both ends of the support member are curved or bent towards a same side, resulting in that the support member surrounds to form a penetrating zone, and an opening for communicating the penetrating zone is formed between both ends of the support member. Both ends of the support member are curved or bent towards a same side, resulting in that the support member surrounds to form a penetrating zone, and an opening for communicating the penetrating zone is formed between both ends of the support member.
US11735407B2
The present invention relates to the field of mass and/or ion mobility spectrometers. Provided is an ionization device and a mass spectrometer and an ion mobility spectrometer having same. Further provided is an ionization method. A sampling probe of the ionization device of the present invention is able to actively and rapidly collect samples, while a sampling device and a thermal desorption device are combined into one, simplifying and compacting the sampling device. An ionization part is provided downstream of the sampling and desorption part, ensuring that the sampling probe will not interfere with a flow field or an electric field between the ionization part and the analysis assembly inlet, thus ensuring repeatability of the device signal and flexibility of analysis.
US11735398B2
A method for altering surface charge on an insulating surface of a first sample includes generating first plasma inside a plasma source, causing the first plasma to diffuse into a first vacuum chamber to generate second downstream plasma, immersing the first sample in the second downstream plasma, and applying a first bias voltage to a conductive layer of the first sample, or applying a first bias voltage to a metal holder that holds the first sample.
US11735382B1
A keyboard device includes a base plate, a plurality of key structures, a floating frame and a cover layer. The key structures are disposed over the base plate, and each of the key structures has a keycap. The floating frame is disposed over and separated from the base plate. The floating frame has a plurality of openings, and the key structures are disposed in the openings, respectively. The cover layer covers the keycaps of the key structures and the floating frame and is in direct or indirect contact with an upper surface of the keycap of each of the key structures and an upper surface of the floating frame. When the keycap of one of the key structures and the cover layer thereover are pressed to bottom, the floating frame surrounding the one of the key structures is pulled by the cover layer and shifted.
US11735378B2
Proposed is an automatic transfer switch with an N-phase overlapping structure, the switch including: a driving unit including a drive shaft provided to generate power; a three-contact switching unit including a normal power shaft and an emergency power shaft provided to be rotated by the drive shaft, and a normal power terminal and an emergency power terminal for inputting/releasing normal power and emergency power; and an N-phase overlapping unit including a first insertion part having a first insertion hole, an N-phase normal contact terminal provided to input/release an N-phase normal power, a second insertion part having a second insertion hole, an N-phase emergency contact terminal provided to input/release an N-phase emergency power, and a connection bar connected between the first insertion part and the second insertion part so as to be interlocked with each other.
US11735376B2
A key switch including: a support base; a key which is manually operable for being moved, with respect to the support base, between at least a first operating position and a second operating position spaced apart from each other, in order to establish or interrupt at least one electric connection; a leaf spring member operatively interposed between the support base and the key; wherein the first operating position is a stable operating position of the key in which the leaf spring member is deformed between the key and the support base so as to take a first curvilinear configuration.
US11735375B2
This disclosure describes techniques for increasing wetting current for an electromechanical switch. In one example application, an aircraft may include one or more valves used to control the temperature of aircraft interior. The valves may include one or more valve position switches to indicate certain valve positions, e.g. fully open, fully closed, fifty percent open, and so on. In some examples, the valve position switches may receive current at electromechanical contacts of the switch that is less than the wetting current. The techniques of this disclosure provide additional wetting current at the time the switch contacts close to improve reliability of the valve position switches. In some examples, an analog to digital converter circuit may be configured to provide the additional wetting current to the switch.
US11735372B2
A ceramic electronic device includes: a multilayer chip in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, a main component of the dielectric layers being ceramic, the plurality of internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to a first end face and a second end face of the multilayer chip, the first end face facing with the second end face; a first external electrode provided on the first end face; and a second external electrode provided on the second end face, wherein a silane film is provided on a surface of the ceramic electronic device, and wherein an organic compound is provided on the silane film, and has a siloxane bonding.
US11735370B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately laminated, and external electrodes at two end surfaces of the multilayer body and connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers on a surface of the capacitor main body, and opposed and spaced apart from each other. The two interposers each include a first surface at or adjacent to the capacitor main body, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first and second surfaces being parallel or substantially parallel with each other, and the first surface is sloped with respect to the surface of the capacitor main body at a predetermined angle to be spaced from the surface of the capacitor main body toward a side at which the two interposers face each other.
US11735366B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body and an outer electrode on each end surfaces of the multilayer body. The outer electrode includes an underlying electrode layer and a plating layer on the underlying electrode layer. Void portions inside the underlying electrode layer are each filled with a barrier film. The barrier film is formed by an atomic layer deposition method.
US11735365B2
Provided are a multilayer capacitor and a board for mounting the same. The multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes and a pair of external electrodes respectively including a conductive layer disposed on opposing ends of the capacitor, a conductive resin layer covering the conductive layer, and a reduced graphene oxide (RGO) layer disposed between the conductive layer and the conductive resin layer.
US11735358B2
A bonded magnet is provided which includes first and second components. The first and second components have first and second non-action surfaces, and first and second action surfaces that intersect the first and second non-action surfaces, respectively. First and second flux groups curve inside the first and second components from the first and second non-action surfaces to the first and second action surfaces, respectively. The areas of the first and second non-action surfaces are greater than the first and second action surfaces, respectively. The flux densities on the first and second action surfaces are higher than the first and second non-action surfaces, respectively. The pole on the first non-action surface is opposite to the second non-action surface. The first and second non-action surfaces are coupled to each other. The first flux groups continuously extend from one to another.
US11735356B2
A current converter with fluid or oil paper insulation for high voltage, with a head housing through which a primary conductor passes. A measurement device through which the primary conductor passes is arranged in the head housing. The primary conductor includes two different primary conductor types, more specifically an outer tube primary conductor as the first type and one or more inner conductor primary conductors as the second type. The outer tube primary conductor surrounds an interior that is designed to receive the inner conductor primary conductor, and the inner conductor primary conductors can be inserted into the interior. The outer tube primary conductor is used to transmit power and creates an encasement for the inner conductors. Only the outer tube primary conductor needs to be sealed with respect to the head housing. Inner conductors therefore can be easily inserted or re-moved subsequently, without the need for sealing measures.
US11735349B2
A method for manufacturing a vertically-laminated ferromagnetic core includes (a) depositing a conductive seed layer on or over a first side of a substrate; (b) depositing a masking layer on or over a second side of the substrate, the first and second sides on opposite sides of the substrate; (c) forming a pattern in the masking layer; (d) dry etching the substrate, based on the pattern in the masking layer, from the second side to the first side to expose portions of the conductive seed layer; and (e) depositing a ferromagnetic material onto the exposed portions of the conductive seed layer to form vertically-oriented ferromagnetic layers.
US11735345B2
The method for manufacturing the Halbach magnet array includes the steps of: (a) magnetizing at least two first magnetic material pieces in a direction parallel to a first direction, and (b) magnetizing at least one second magnetic material piece in a direction parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, in this order. In the step (a), the first magnetic material pieces and the second magnetic material piece are alternately arranged in the second direction with the first magnetic material pieces being each adhered to the adjacent second magnetic material piece, and the magnetization is performed under a condition in which a residual magnetization ratio r1 of the first magnetic material pieces is higher than a residual magnetization ratio r2 of the second magnetic material piece.
US11735344B2
An actuator is proposed. A housing and a housing cap may constitute the exterior of the actuator, and a driving pin may be installed in an inner space of the housing such that the driving pin is moved by being guided by a guide. A cylindrical bobbin having one open end portion may be installed at the driving pin to be moved integrally therewith, and a coil may be installed at the bobbin. A permanent magnet and an iron core may be stacked in the inner space by the guide. A pin iron core may be provided at the driving pin, and a pin coil may be installed in a groove of the pin iron core.
US11735342B2
A method for manufacturing a magnet module. The method may include injecting a magnet module including a plurality of magnetless magnets arranged in a straight line; and magnetizing the plurality of magnetless magnets mounted on the injected magnet module. The injecting of a magnet module may include mounting the plurality of magnetless magnets to a first part forming a frame of the magnet module in a mold frame including first and second mold frames molded inside to fit an external shape of the magnet module; injecting a resin in a liquid state into the mold frame; and separating the mold frame when the resin is hardened. The injecting of a magnet module may further include mounting a metal plate to a second part forming a base of the magnet module in the mold frame, before performing the step of injecting a resin in a liquid state into the mold frame.
US11735336B2
A wiring body includes a wire-like transmission member and a base member to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed. A temporary joint part joins portions where a first part and a second part mutually extending in an opposite side from a bending position in the wiring body overlap with each other in a state where the wiring body is bended in an intermediate portion of the wire-like transmission member in an extension direction to maintain a bending state of the wiring body. The temporary joint part is formed to be able to resolve a state of joining the first part and the second part by a relative separation movement of the first part and the second part.
US11735327B2
A natural passively cooled ventilated cask includes a cavity which holds a canister containing heat and radiation emitting spent nuclear fuel assemblies or other high level wastes. Ambient ventilation or cooling air is drawn inwards beneath the cask and vertically upwards into a lower portion of the cavity through air inlet ducts formed integrally with a bottom canister support structure coupled to the cask. The air heated by the canister flows upwards in the cavity and returns to atmosphere through air outlet ducts in the cask lid. Air circulation is driven via natural convective thermo-siphon flow. Structural standoff members elevate the bottom of the cask above a concrete base pad forming an air inlet plenum beneath the canister support structure. The lateral sidewall surface of the cask has no penetrations for the air inlets, which eliminates any streaming path for radiation emanating from the spent nuclear fuel.
US11735325B2
Actuator of a nuclear reactor control and protection system comprises: a linear step motor comprising an armature; a rod being coaxial with and connected to the armature to enable joint vertical movement and rotation about a common vertical axis, which rod can form an L-shaped bayonet connection with a working member; and a lock to prevent spontaneous rotation of the rod. The lock comprises a guiding inside the armature and provided with a flange and longitudinal through slot; a cross-member connected to the armature, mounted in the slot and capable of vertical movement therein; a fixed ring, on which the inner surface of the flange rests; and a vertical pin. Through slots are arranged equidistantly in the outside rim of the flange, the vertical pin being mounted in one of several openings arranged equidistantly about the circumference of the fixed ring to pass through one of the through slots.
US11735322B2
Systems and methods for ossification center detection (OCD) and bone age assessment (BAA) may be provided. The method may include obtaining a bone age image of a subject. The method may include generating a normalized bone age image by preprocessing the bone age image. The method may include determining, based on the normalized bone age image, positions of a plurality of ossification centers using an ossification center localization (OCL) model. The method may include estimating, based on the normalized bone age image and information related to the positions of the plurality of ossification centers, a bone age of the subject using a bone age assessment (BAA) model.
US11735315B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, and device for fusing features applied to small target detection, and a storage medium, relate to the field of computer vision technology. A particular embodiment of the method for fusing features applied to small target detection comprises: acquiring feature maps output by convolutional layers in a Backbone network; performing convolution on the feature maps to obtain input feature maps of feature layers, the feature layers representing resolutions of the input feature maps; and fusing, based on densely connection feature pyramid network features, the input feature maps of each feature layer to obtain output feature maps of the feature layer. Since no additional convolutional layer is introduced for feature fusion, the detection performance for small targets may be enhanced without additional parameters, and the detection ability for small targets may be improved with computing resource constraints.
US11735314B2
Methods and apparatus for the application of machine learning to radiographic images of animals. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a set of radiographic images captured of an animal, applying one or more transformations to the set of radiographic images to create a modified set, segmenting the modified set using one or more segmentation artificial intelligence engines to create a set of segmented radiographic images, feeding the set of segmented radiographic images to respective ones of a plurality of classification artificial intelligence engines, outputting results from the plurality of classification artificial intelligence engines for the set of segmented radiographic images to an output decision engine, and adding the set of segmented radiographic images and the output results from the plurality of classification artificial intelligence engines to a training set for one or more of the plurality of classification artificial intelligence engines. Computer-readable apparatus and computing systems are also disclosed.
US11735309B2
Methods and systems for evaluating a proposed treatment plan for radiation therapy, for evaluating one or more delineated regions of interest for radiation therapy, and/or for generating a proposed treatment plan for radiation therapy. Machine learning based on historical data may be used.
US11735297B2
Various aspects described herein relate to presenting electronic patient data accessing information. Data related to a plurality of access events, by one or more employees, of electronic patient data can be received. A set of access events of the plurality of access events can be determined as constituting, by the one or more employees, possible breach of the electronic patient data. An alert related to the set of access events can be provided based on determining that the set of access events constitute possible breach of the electronic patient data.
US11735296B2
A system for associating a patient with a device may include a memory and a processor. The memory may be configured to store a plurality of orders and a set of parameters, wherein each of the plurality of orders comprises order attributes and each of the plurality of orders identifies one of a plurality of patients. The processor may be configured to receive the plurality of orders from an order entry system, receive the set of parameters from a device, correlate the set of parameters with an order of the plurality of orders based on the order attributes of the plurality of orders, associate the device with the patient identified by the order that correlates with the set of parameters, and provide, to the device, an indication of the patient associated with the device.
US11735290B2
Disclosed are techniques for predicting a trait of an individual and identifying a set of enriched record collections of a genetic community. To predict a trait of an individual, DNA features and non-DNA features of the individual are accessed to generate a feature vector that is inputted into a machine learning model. The machine learning model generates a prediction of the trait. The prediction may be based on an inheritance prediction and/or a community prediction. To identify a set of enriched record collections, individuals belonging to a genetic community are identified and a set of candidate record collections are accessed. A community count and a background count is determined for each candidate record collection. The set of enriched record collections are identified based on a comparison of the community count and the background count. The genetic community may be annotated using the set of enriched record collections.
US11735277B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell and a first boosting circuit. The first boosting circuit generates a first voltage, a second voltage, and a third voltage lower than the second voltage at a first output terminal. The first, second and third voltages is used for a write operation. The write operation includes a first program operation and a first verify operation executed after the first program operation. The first boosting circuit generates the first voltage at the first output terminal during the first program operation, generates the third voltage at the first output terminal at end of the first program operation, generates the second voltage at the first output terminal during the first verify operation, and then generates the first voltage to the first output terminal during the first verify operation.
US11735271B2
The present technology relates to a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit configured to perform a read operation and a dummy read operation on the memory block. A discharge slope of a pass voltage applied to the memory block during the read operation is greater than a discharge slope of a dummy pass voltage applied to the memory block during the dummy read operation.
US11735268B2
Memory devices might include an array of memory cells and a controller configured to access the array of memory cells. The controller might be further configured to receive a command to perform an erase operation; and in response to the command to perform the erase operation, begin execution of the erase operation. The controller might be further configured to while executing the erase operation, receive a command to perform a program operation; in response to the command to perform the program operation, suspend the execution of the erase operation; and with the execution of the erase operation suspended, execute the program operation.
US11735265B2
According to a certain embodiment, the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of selected blocks and a plurality of non-selected blocks; and a row decoder including a block decoder configured to switch between the selected block and the non-selected block. The row decoder switches a block determined to be a defective block to a non-selected block and switches a block determined not to be a defective block to a selected block, on the basis of the multi-level data. The block decoder includes a defective block flag circuit including a plurality of latch circuits configured to store multi-level data.
US11735253B2
Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, may include determining a memory cell age of a plurality of memory cells, determining a desired programming step voltage for programming memory cells having the determined memory cell age, and performing a programming operation on the plurality of memory cells using the desired programming step voltage corresponding to the determined memory cell age. Methods may further include configuring a memory, including characterizing a read window budget for a programming operation of the memory as a function of a programming step voltage for a plurality of memory cell ages.
US11735252B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing programming of multi-level memory cells using an optimized multiphase mapping with a balanced Gray code. A method includes programming, in a first phase, a first portion of data into memory cells in a first-level cell mode. The method may also include reading, from the memory cells, the programmed first portion of the data. The method may also include programming, in a second phase, a second portion of the data into the memory cells in a second-level cell mode, wherein programming the second phase is based on applying, to the read first portion of the data, a mapping from the first-level cell mode to the second-level cell mode. The mapping may be selected based on minimizing an average voltage change of the memory cells from the first to second phase while maintaining a balanced Gray code.
US11735248B2
A sub-word-line driver and semiconductor memory devices including the same are provided. The sub-word-line driver may include a word line pull-up transistor, a word line pull-down transistor, and a keeping transistor configured to maintain a word line at a specified voltage level. The sub-word-line driver may include a peripheral active region on a substrate, a first peripheral gate electrode that corresponds to a gate node of the word line pull-down transistor on the peripheral active region, a second peripheral gate electrode that corresponds to a gate node of the keeping transistor on the peripheral active region, and a first lower contact coupled to a first region of the peripheral active region. A first (VBB) voltage from the first region may be supplied to a source node of the keeping transistor.
US11735229B2
The invention provides a multi-die stacked package memory and an output synchronization method thereof. The multi-die stacked package memory includes multiple dies (100), and the multiple dies (100) are stacked and packaged together to form a stacked package structure. The multiple dies (100) share a CS #pin, and the CS #pin is configured to turn on or turn off the stacked package structure. The multiple dies (100) also share an IO pin. Each die (100) is provided with a SYNC_PAD pin. The SYNC_PAD pins of the multiple dies (100) are electrically connected together, the SYNC_PAD pins are configured to judge whether the multiple dies (100) are all in an idle status or not. The multi-die stacked package memory and the output synchronization method thereof are simple in structure, easy to realize, stable and reliable.
US11735227B2
A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, a complete index that can be used to locate each data chunk in each of these tracks and an abridged index that can enable the location of a subset of the data chunks in each track, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and ‘meta data’ concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and ‘meta data’ external to the file. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames, a first index that includes information indicative of the location within the file and characteristics of each encoded video frame and a separate second index that includes information indicative of the location within the file of a subset of the encoded video frames.
US11735225B2
Video content may be captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The video content may include video frames that define visual content viewable as a function of progress through a progress length of the video content. Rotational position information may characterize rotational positions of the image capture device during the capture duration. Time-lapse video frames may be determined from the video frames of the video content based on a spatiotemporal metric. The spatiotemporal metric may characterize spatial smoothness and temporal regularity of the time-lapse video frames. The spatial smoothness may be determined based on the rotational positions of the image capture device corresponding to the time-lapse video frames, and the temporal regularity may be determined based on moments corresponding to the time-lapse video frames. Time-lapse video content may be generated based on the time-lapse video frames.
US11735224B1
There is provided a mold for molding a tape reel that is made of a resin and that includes a cylindrical portion, a bottom portion formed on a proximal end side of the cylindrical portion, and a plurality of through holes penetrating the bottom portion and arranged in a peripheral direction of the cylindrical portion, the mold including: a bottom surface that is used to form the bottom portion; a tubular surface that is used to form the cylindrical portion; and a plurality of projecting portions that protrude from the bottom surface and are used to form the plurality of through holes, respectively, in which, in the tubular surface, a first portion corresponding to a portion between the projecting portions adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction, among the plurality of projecting portions, has a shape that bulges toward a radially outer side of the bottom surface than a second portion corresponding to the projecting portion.
US11735212B1
A thermally assisted magnetic head includes a slider, the slider includes a slider substrate and a magnetic head part. The magnetic head part includes a recording head, a reading head, a near field transducer and a medium-opposing surface. The medium-opposing surface includes a recording area and a reading area. The magnetic head part includes a record/read separately protective structure which a stabilized protective film is formed on the recording area and a reading head protective film is formed on the reading area. The stabilized protective film includes a three-layers structure which a seed layer and a double protective layer are laminated. The double protective layer includes a YSZ protective layer and a hard protective layer. The reading head protective film includes a thickness which is thinner than the stabilized protective film.
US11735209B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device, including a disk, a head to write data to the disk and read data from the disk, a preamplifier to generate a recording current corresponding to data that the head writes to the disk, and a controller to convert a first data pattern in first write data, in accordance with a pattern length of a second data pattern previous to the first data pattern, to a different data pattern including a pseudo polarity inversion that does not cause a polarity inversion when converting the first data pattern to the recording current.
US11735206B2
A virtual private assistant (VPA) is configured to analyze various types of input that indicate one or more behaviors associated with a user and to determine the emotional state of the user based on the input. The VPA also determines one or more operations to perform on behalf of the user based on the input and the determined emotional state. The VPA then executes the one or more operations and synthesizes an output based on the emotional state of the user and the one or more operations. The synthesized output includes one or more semantic components and one or more emotional components derived from the emotional state of the user. The VPA observes the behavior of the user in response to the synthesized output and then implements various modifications, based on the observed behavior, to improve the effectiveness of future interactions with the user.
US11735199B2
Method for modifying a style of an audio object, and corresponding electronic device, computer readable program products and computer readable storage medium The disclosure relates to a method for processing an input audio signal. According to an embodiment, the method includes obtaining a base audio signal being a copy of the input audio signal and generating an output audio signal from the base signal, the output audio signal having style features obtained by modifying the base signal so that a distance between base style features representative of a style of the base signal and a reference style feature decreases. The disclosure also relates to corresponding electronic device, computer readable program product and computer readable storage medium.
US11735189B2
A method of speaker identification comprises receiving an audio signal representing speech; performing a first voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled speaker; and, if the first voice biometric process makes an initial determination that the speech is the speech of an enrolled user, performing a second voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of the enrolled speaker. The second voice biometric process is selected to be more discriminative than the first voice biometric process.
US11735186B2
A computer system configured to generate captions is provided. The computer system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to access a first buffer configured to store text generated by an automated speech recognition (ASR) process; access a second buffer configured to store text generated by a captioning client process; identify either the first buffer or the second buffer as a source buffer of caption text; generate caption text from the source buffer; and communicate the caption text to a target process.
US11735184B2
A speech recognition method including performing speech recognition on an inputted speech to obtain a first text, correcting the first text according to an obtained mapping relationship between words in different languages to obtain at least one second text, and in response to determining that the at least one second text corresponds to the same language, outputting the first text, or in response to determining that the at least one second text corresponds to different languages, determine an outputted text according to first probability values corresponding to each of the at least one second text. By combining the mapping relationships between words in different languages in correcting the initial ASR result, the present application ensures the accuracy of the final speech recognition result.
US11735181B2
A voice input apparatus includes a voice input device configured to input voice and performs control to, in a case where a second voice instruction for operating the voice input apparatus is input in a predetermined period after a first voice instruction is input to the voice input apparatus, execute processing corresponding to the second voice instruction. The voice input apparatus changes a length of the predetermined period, according to the first voice instruction.
US11735164B2
A system, article, and method of automatic speech recognition with highly efficient decoding is accomplished by frequent beam width adjustment.
US11735160B2
A method for announcing the correct pronunciation of travelers' names is disclosed. The method may include retrieving a traveler ID from a tag on a travel document; determining whether a remote database includes a stored audio recording associated with the retrieved traveler ID; collecting an audio recording if the remote database does not include the stored audio recording associated with the retrieved traveler ID using an audio recording device; receiving the audio recording in a non-standardized format from the audio recording device; converting the audio recording received in the non-standardized format to a standardized format; retrieving traveler data; storing the converted audio recording in the standardized format in the remote database along with the retrieved traveler ID and the retrieved traveler data; retrieving the converted audio recording from the remote database; and generating control signals configured to cause an audio speaker device to play the retrieved audio recording.
US11735152B2
A musical sound generation device includes a control device which, when a performance operator among a plurality of performance operators has been operated for a part that has been set to sound a predetermined number of simulated voices of an analog synthesizer, assigns a sounding parameter of one or two or more voices, which form a timbre of a simulated voice of the analog synthesizer corresponding to the operated performance operator and are selected from a plurality of sounding voices, to a sound generation circuit, and assigns, to the sound generation circuit, an information set selected from a plurality of information sets and each include a variation value that applies a variation to the sounding parameter of the one or two or more voices, and a sound generation circuit that performs a sounding process of the one or two or more voices using the sounding parameter and the information set.
US11735150B2
A keyboard device is provided, and includes multiple keys and multiple hinges. Each of the keys is supported by a support member. Each of the hinges has: a pair of base parts, joined to the support member and separated from each other with a predetermined gap therebetween in a width direction of the keys, and a connection part, connecting the pair of base parts and each of the keys to each other in a longitudinal direction of the keys. A dimension of the connection part in the longitudinal direction of the keys is set to be larger than dimensions of the base parts in the width direction of the keys.
US11735145B2
There is provided a periphery display device for a work machine, which displays a bird's-eye view image around the work machine. A display magnification of a region between a peripheral line having a turning radius of the work machine and an offset peripheral line surrounding the peripheral line is different from a display magnification of a region inside the peripheral line.
US11735139B2
A display-system includes a transparent-display-body having a first-surface and a second-surface opposite to the first-surface, a sensor to detect a brightness of the transparent-display-body or a brightness around the transparent-display-body, an arithmetic-unit configured to derive, based on the brightness detected by the sensor, a background luminance caused by outside-light as when the transparent-display-body is viewed from a side of the second-surface, and a controller to cause video to be displayed on the first-surface, wherein where rear-show-through-luminance that is a luminance of the video that occurs on the side of the second-surface is denoted as BB and the background luminance is denoted as SB, the controller controls a video luminance in accordance with the background luminance derived by the arithmetic-unit such that (BB/SB) is less than or equal to a predetermined-contrast-value, the video luminance being a luminance at which the video is to be displayed on the first-surface.
US11735136B2
An output parameter adjustment method employing an ambient light distribution field including: acquiring an environmental image of a background environment in a viewing angle range of a user; dividing the environmental image according to preset partitioning to obtain environmental sub-images; obtaining the illumination value of each environmental sub-image; splicing the illumination of all of environmental sub-images to obtain distributed illumination distribution information corresponding to the environmental image; obtaining a first illumination model corresponding to the illumination distribution information; querying a model-parameter list, to obtain a first adjustment parameter corresponding to the first illumination model; and adjusting, display parameters of a display screen of a user terminal and/or adjusting light compensation output parameters of a lighting compensation device according to the first adjustment parameter so that the display parameter of the display screen match an illumination state of the background environment in the viewing angle range of the user.
US11735134B2
A display apparatus with low power consumption is provided. The display apparatus includes a circuit for boosting a signal voltage output from a gate driver. The signal voltage from the gate driver can be boosted and then supplied to a pixel, which is suitable for driving a display device with a high threshold voltage. Furthermore, by utilizing a boosting function, output of the gate driver can be reduced, and power consumption can also be reduced. By combination with a pixel having a boosting function of image data, a display apparatus with lower power consumption can be achieved.
US11735132B2
A display device includes: a display panel to display a frame image by arranging line images; and a light source. One frame period includes sub-frame periods each including a writing period and a display period. The line images are written in units of a predetermined number of lines during the writing period. The line images that are written at a time in units of the predetermined number of lines are the same image. In two continuous sub-frame periods in the one frame period, when a line image to be written during the writing period in a preceding sub-frame period differs from a line image to be written during the writing period in a subsequent sub-frame period, a start position of the writing period in the preceding sub-frame period and a start position of the writing period in the subsequent sub-frame period are shifted by one line from each other.
US11735130B2
The disclosure provides a white balance adjusting method, device, and electronic equipment. The method includes obtaining a first image parameter of a panel under test; obtaining a white balance compensation factor of the panel under test; using a gamma value of the panel under test as a first threshold value to obtain a first target luminance of the panel under test; obtaining a second target luminance of the panel under test; and obtaining grayscale voltages corresponding to sub-pixels of the panel under test based on the second target luminance of the panel under test.
US11735125B2
The application discloses an image display device and a control method thereof. The control method for the image display device includes: receiving a first image signal from a host and displaying a frame, a first frame data of the first image signal having a first frequency; determining that the image display device enters a Motion Blur Reduction (MBR) mode and writing a double frequency of a vertical synchronous signal into a storage unit; and informing the host to read the storage unit and alternatively outputting a second frame data and a black-insertion frame data from the host, the second frame data having a second frequency higher than the first frequency.
US11735124B2
A reflective display device includes a layer of pigment material that is divided into a plurality of pixels, the pigment material in each pixel displaying information by reflecting light. The reflective display device further includes a light source embedded in the layer of a pigment material, wherein the light source emits light that is reflected by the pigment material.
US11735122B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to display devices, controllers, and display driving methods for compensating for a difference between respective charges of sub-pixels disposed in different locations in a high temperature condition, and preventing image quality caused by such a charge difference from being degraded.
US11735120B2
Provided is a scanning-line driving circuit configured with a plurality of unit circuits cascaded in stages and integrally formed with a display panel. The unit circuit includes a first transistor, a resistor, a second transistor, and an output transistor. The first transistor has a first conductive electrode supplied with a first-level voltage and a second conductive electrode connected to a first node. The resistor is connected to the first node at a first terminal. The second transistor has a first conductive electrode supplied with a second-level voltage and a second conductive electrode connected to a second terminal of the resistor. The output transistor has a control electrode connected to the first node and a first conductive electrode connected to an output terminal. The resistor is formed in a semiconductor layer. The unit circuit further includes an upper electrode formed above the resistor. This configuration allows the scanning-line driving circuit to prevent an operation failure due to a change in characteristics of the resistor in the unit circuit.
US11735115B2
Pixel driving circuit having two data signals to compensate for threshold voltage and driving method
A pixel driving circuit includes a data writing sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, and a control sub-circuit. The data writing sub-circuit is configured to: in response to a first scanning signal and a third scanning signal, write a first data signal into the driving sub-circuit; and in response to a second scanning signal and the third scanning signal, write a second data signal into the driving sub-circuit. The control sub-circuit is configured to, in response to an enable signal, connect a driving transistor to a first power supply voltage signal terminal and an element to be driven. The driving sub-circuit is configured to: according to the first data signal and a first power supply voltage signal, output a driving to signal; and according to the second data signal and the first power supply voltage signal, control an operating state of the element to be driven.
US11735113B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a method of driving the same, and a display device. In the pixel driving circuit, under the control of a gate line, a data writing-in sub-circuit controls to connect or disconnect a data line and a first common node, and controls to connect or disconnect the first common node and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; under the control of a reset signal line, a first reset control sub-circuit controls to connect or disconnect a reference voltage input terminal and a second common node, and controls to connect or disconnect the second common node and the gate electrode of the driving transistor; a first end of a third capacitor unit is connected to the first common node and/or the second common node, and a second end of the third capacitor unit is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor.
US11735105B2
A driving circuit, a driving method and a display apparatus are provided. The driving method is provided for driving a light-emitting unit including a first light-emitting element series and a second light-emitting element series connected in parallel and connected to a processing unit and a driving unit of a driving circuit. The processing unit detects a first voltage value and a second voltage value. The driving unit detects and transmits a first current value and a second current value to the processing unit. The processing unit determines and compares a first power value and a second power value. When the first and second power values are different, the processing unit controls the driving unit to adjust a driving current setting of the light-emitting element series until the first and second power values are equal. The invention ensures luminance consistency of different light-emitting element series and the luminance uniformity of display apparatus.
US11735092B2
A display device includes first pixels partitioned into a plurality of blocks, each of the plurality of blocks being categorized as a first block or a second block, a sensor configured to generate first sensing data for at least two of the first pixels in each of the plurality of blocks during a first period, and a sensing controller configured to generate interpolated data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor by interpolating the first sensing data, for the first block, and configured to forgo interpolation of the first sensing data, for the second block. The sensor generates second sensing data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor, for the second block, during a second period after the first period.
US11735088B2
End user cumulative blue light exposure from a display is tracked over time so that a message may be provided to the end user if the exposure exceeds a threshold. For instance, a display frame buffer is retrieved to determine an average blue light component presented at the display, which is then adjusted based upon display characteristics, such as display size, luminance and brightness, end user distance to the display and a sensed ambient blue light component.
US11735080B1
The display system includes an automotive system, a display panel, and a panel driving circuit. The panel driving circuit receives a frame from the automotive system and determines if a panel error with respect to the display panel occurs. If the panel error occurs, the panel driving circuit replaces a portion of the frame with an error icon to generate a prompt frame, and transmit the prompt frame to the display panel. If the panel error does not occur, the panel driving circuit transmits the frame to the display panel.
US11735076B2
The electronic display, especially for carts, provided with a display housing being a cart handle or being mounted on a cart handle, comprising a screen with an electronic circuit board and a power supply unit located in the display housing, according to the invention stands out in that the screen with the electronic circuit board and the power supply unit are further placed in a removable inner housing, thereby forming a separate display module. The display module is provided with a screen with an electronic circuit board and a power supply unit located in an inner housing adapted to be placed in the display housing.
US11735070B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of labeling a plurality of products includes coating a pressure sensitive adhesive to a roll of face stock, the roll of face stock configured to be converted to a plurality of individual labels aligned in a single lane; singulating an individual label from the roll of face stock; and applying the individual label to a product of the plurality of products, wherein the coating, singulating and applying are conducted sequentially in a single continuous operation with a single continuous web of material.
US11735069B1
A case, system, and/or method relating to trading cards, sports memorabilia, coins, printed matter, or the like (herein referred to as “collectibles”). The case and/or method may allow for better protection while obtaining signatures thereon. The case may be used with one or more collectibles to facilitate the pleasure of hobbyists in growing and maintain one or more collectibles and to simplify the maintenance, storage, and transportation of collections.
US11735064B2
A simulation device and a simulation method for gas reservoir exploitation are provided. The simulation device includes a gas-liquid supply system, a simulation system, a metering system, pipes for interconnecting each system, and switches, wherein: the gas-liquid supply system includes a gas supply system and a liquid supply system; the metering system is for metering gas and/or liquid produced after the simulation system; the simulation system includes core models having at least one of micro-fractures with an aperture smaller than 1 μm, map-fractures with an aperture between 10-20 μm, and large-fractures with an aperture between 100-5000 μm. The present invention is able to accurately simulate water invasion and water-controlled gas production processes of different fractured gas reservoirs under different bottom water energies.
US11735063B2
A device for teaching counting binary numbers (base 2) includes a frame having a plurality grooves with sliders deployed within said grooves. The device bears a plurality of zero indicia, each indicia aligned with one of the grooves. Extending from the slider is a label “1” which overlays the corresponding zero indicia when the slider is moved to a first end of the groove to indicate that its value is operative. Each of the sliders are labelled in binary progression (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.). In use, the device can teach the 0's and 1's representation of a decimal base number by correlating the visible 0's and 1's on the device with the sum of the numbers displayed on the sliders. In addition to decimal numbers, the device may also be used to convert binary numbers into hexadecimal numbers and other base systems, and to convert binary numbers into text.
US11735059B2
A system and method are provided that direct a real time global view with images of an aircraft's entire exterior environment from an external monitoring system located on an aircraft equipped with landing gear wheel-mounted electric taxi drive systems powering ground travel to an integrated head-up display worn by a pilot driving the aircraft with the electric taxi drive systems within an airport ramp area. The real time global view and images produced by the monitoring system are communicated to the integrated head-up display in the form of an actual picture of the ramp area environment exterior to the aircraft viewable by the pilot with the head-up display in real time as the pilot maneuvers the aircraft within the ramp area with the electric taxi systems. The pilot can change the images viewed in the head-up display by changing head position.
US11735054B1
A smartphone marine vessel location system utilizes global positioning to determine the location and trajectory of marine vessels. When two marine vessels have a trajectory that will bring the vessels within a warning zone a trajectory alert is activated and when the two vessels enter into a warning zone, a collision warning is activated. An App on the smartphones may produce a display showing the location of the marine vessels and may produce the alerts when required. The smartphone may also communicate with other navigational system on the marine vessel to produce a display and alerts, such as through Bluetooth. The location of marine vessels may be acquired through the App, through a crowd-sourcing application, and/or through a carrier sourced location.
US11735049B2
A park assist system includes a controller that executes park assist control with which a vehicle is automatically parked in a parking spot. The controller is configured to set a point at a position higher than the vehicle and across the vehicle from the parking spot as a viewpoint used to generate the parking spot image, set an angle according to a parking spot distance that is an actual distance between the vehicle and a parking spot shown by the parking spot image as a depression angle used to generate the parking spot image, generate a parking spot image by using the set viewpoint and depression angle, cause a display device to display the parking spot image, and park the vehicle with the park assist control in a parking spot set by the driver as a target parking spot by way of viewing the parking spot image.
US11735043B2
A video analytics based image verification system for obtaining initial vehicle profiles is presented. The system may include an external processing server that receives a location of a vehicle and proximate traffic information to determine whether it is safe for a user to obtain an initial vehicle profile. The external processing server may further determine first and second profile features from video data indicative of the vehicle. The external processing server may compare the second profile feature to an image verification indicator to generate an image verification score. A provider server may receive the first profile feature and the image verification score from the external processing server, and update a risk evaluation to include the initial vehicle profile if the image verification score is above an image verification threshold.
US11735039B1
A computer-implemented method of generating and broadcasting telematics and/or image data is provided. Telematics and/or image data may be collected, with customer permission, in real-time by a mobile device (or a Telematics App running thereon) traveling within an originating vehicle. The telematics data may include acceleration, braking, speed, heading, and location data associated with the originating vehicle. The mobile device may generate an updated telematics data broadcast including up-to-date telematics data at least every few seconds; and then broadcast the updated telematics data broadcast at least every few seconds via wireless communication to another computing device to facilitate alerting another vehicle or driver of an abnormal traffic condition or event that the originating vehicle is experiencing. An amount that an insured uses or otherwise employs the telematics data-based risk mitigation or prevention functionality may be used with usage-based insurance, or to calculate or adjust insurance premiums or discounts.
US11735030B2
Methods and apparatus are described to automatically re-enable monitoring of a bypassed security sensor by a security system control device.
US11735029B2
An emergency communication system, while accurately and reliably detecting a location of an object person, receives contact from the object person and grasps a state of the object person when a matter of emergency has occurred. An object person terminal transmits identification information via short-range wireless communication, acquires location information by a GPS function, and transmits the identification information and the location information to a server. A detection terminal transmits the identification information transmitted from the object person terminal. The server specifies the location of the object person terminal on the basis of the information transmitted from the detection terminal or the identification information and the location information transmitted from the object person terminal. The object person terminal, when the occurrence of a matter of emergency is sensed, records ambient sounds as object person sound information, and transmits the recorded object person sound information to the server.
US11735026B1
In some examples, systems, methods, and devices are described that generate contextual suggestions for patients. Generation of the contextual suggestions is triggered by certain events performed by a medical professional with respect to a patient (e.g., updating a patient record). The contextual suggestions are related to addressing health conditions of the patient and represent tasks or considerations which the medical professional should be made aware. The contextual suggestions are generated in a way that is considerate of patient context, medical professional context, and contexts of similar patients. The contextual suggestions can be presented to the medical professional for selection and execution.
US11735021B2
A building management system includes one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive threat events from one or more data sources, each threat event including a description and for each threat event determine whether the description for the threat event corresponds to one of a multiple predefined threat categories, generate a standardized threat object for the threat event using the corresponding predefined threat category, and in response to determining the description does not correspond to one of the predefined threat categories, process the description using a natural language processing engine to identify one of the predefined threat categories to be assigned to the threat event and generate a standardized threat object for the threat event using the predefined threat category identified by the natural language processing engine.
US11735018B2
An intelligent face recognition system for an installed security system can include a camera and a local or remote video processor including a face recognition engine. The video processor can be configured to receive the image information from the one or more cameras, and generate an alert for communication to a user device based on a recognition event in the environment. In an example, the face recognition engine is configured to apply machine learning to analyze images from the camera and determine whether the images include or correspond to an enrolled face, and the face recognition engine is configured to provide the recognition event based on the determination.
US11735013B2
The present disclosure relates to a money handling apparatus including: a money storage unit configured to store money; a locking unit configured to limit access to the money storage unit; and a control unit configured to give unlock permission to unlock the locking unit to at least one of a plurality of qualified persons who are qualified to unlock the locking unit, and to perform a process involving change of the qualified person.
US11735012B2
Embodiments of this concept are directed to gaming devices that are configured to initiate multiple gaming events in response to a player input. The gaming device may include game initiating inputs that initiate a predetermined number of gaming events in response to the player input, or the gaming device may include configurable game initiating inputs that initiate a number of gaming events specified by the player, specified the gaming device, or specified by a gaming server. The gaming device or gaming server may set the number of initiated game events in response to the occurrence of a triggering event.
US11735010B2
A gaming machine determines a base outcome and initiates a bonus display sequence including a plurality of bonus outcomes. Prior to displaying any of the bonus outcomes, the machine determines a quantity of free spins and an outcome for each free spin, including an outcome amount, and at least one additional free play outcome including a corresponding outcome amount. The machine identifies i) a plurality of winning outcomes and ii) a plurality of non-winning outcomes and sorts, in ascending order based on the outcome amount, the plurality of winning outcomes in a table stored in memory. The machine displays the winning outcomes in order retrieved from the table, and displays the at least one additional free play outcome when the corresponding outcome amount is equal to or greater than the respective free play outcome of the plurality of winning outcomes.
US11735008B2
Gaming systems and methods for providing free plays of a game with increasing quantities of paylines, wherein for each of a plurality of free plays of a game of a free game sequence, any awards for the displayed plurality of symbols for that free play of the game are based on a quantity of paylines associated with the symbol display positions for that free play of the game, wherein the quantity of paylines for that free play of the game is greater than a previous quantity of paylines for a previous free play of the game of the sequence by a determined quantity of additional paylines.
US11735006B2
Gaming systems and methods which utilize the results of a sporting event to determine an outcome of a game of skill.
US11735004B2
Systems and methods employing a ticket voucher handling device, such as an electronic gaming machine or a ticket voucher redemption kiosk, that issues and/or redeems ticket vouchers associated with different ticket voucher systems corresponding to different activities.
US11735003B2
A system and method are provided for redeeming cashless gaming tickets having associated monetary value, such as issued at a cash-out from a gaming machine in a casino. When the customer wishes to redeem the ticket, the ticket is introduced to a multi-function ATM. The ATM then electronically communicates with a ticket redemption system to validate the ticket. The customer may transfer the monetary value associated with the ticket to an account associated with a presented bank card, wherein the ATM transmits a request for transfer to a financial server which transmits a request to a financial network for crediting of the monetary value (such as less a transaction fee) to the customer's bank card account.
US11735002B2
Gaming systems that determine a total award based on a play of a card game and a play of a supplemental game and then display the determined total award via an alternative gaming presentation different from the play of the card game and the play of the supplemental game.
US11734999B2
Bet synchronization, to provide a user with at least information about bets made by the user at multiple sportsbooks, may be performed by a server. The server may permit the user to register and login and to provide information on sportsbooks with which the user bets. The server may generate a shared session key and provide this to the sportsbooks indirectly, via direct links to the sportsbooks provided to the user. The user may use the links to login to the respective sportsbooks, which may then generate respective unique reference identification keys, which may then be indirectly provided to the server via redirects including the shared session key and the respective unique reference identification keys. The server may then use the shared session key and the respective unique reference identification keys to transmit requests to the respective sportsbooks and to obtain bet information associated with the user.
US11734994B2
Some implementations may involve providing a slot game in which the game outcome presentation may involve displaying a persistent moving symbol. In some examples, an initial persistent moving symbol position may be based, at least in part, on a first bet level. Determining a game outcome may involve determining whether a persistent moving symbol position is a prize-triggering persistent moving symbol position. If an initial persistent moving symbol position is not a prize-triggering persistent moving symbol position, a persistent moving symbol may be presented in a secondary persistent moving symbol position of a next game outcome. The secondary persistent moving symbol position may be closer to the prize-triggering persistent moving symbol position than the initial persistent moving symbol position.
US11734987B2
The vending machine control system S performs authentication processing for authenticating a user on the basis of information on the user who is about to open a door 13 of a vending machine 1, and when the user is authenticated, performs control to unlock the door 13 of the vending machine 1. Then, the vending machine control system S identifies a product picked up from a storing chamber 12 after the door 13 is unlocked, and when a reserved product is included in the identified product, outputs different information depending on whether or not the authenticated user is a reservation person of the reserved product.
