US11751489B2
Techniques regarding a quantum entangling gate between multi-mode superconducting qubits are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an apparatus, which can comprise a first multi-mode superconducting qubit coupled to a second multi-mode superconducting qubit via a transmon qubit.
US11751488B2
A spin element according to the present embodiment includes a wiring, a laminate including a first ferromagnetic layer laminated on the wiring, a first conductive part and a second conductive part with the first ferromagnetic layer therebetween in a plan view in a lamination direction, and an intermediate layer which is in contact with the wiring and is between the first conductive part and the wiring, wherein a diffusion coefficient of a second element including the intermediate layer with respect to a first element including the wiring is smaller than a diffusion coefficient of a third element constituting the first conductive part with respect to the first element or a diffusion coefficient of the third element including the first conductive part with respect to the second element constituting the wiring is smaller than a diffusion coefficient of the third element with respect to the first element constituting the intermediate layer.
US11751486B2
A device including a templating structure and a magnetic layer is described. The templating structure includes D and E. A ratio of D to E is represented by D1-xEx, with x being at least 0.4 and not more than 0.6. E includes a main constituent. The main constituent includes at least one of Al, Ga, and Ge. E includes at least fifty atomic percent of the main constituent. D includes at least one constituent that includes Ir. D includes at least 50 atomic percent of the at least one constituent. The magnetic layer is on the templating structure and includes at least one of a Heusler compound and an L10 compound. The magnetic layer is in contact with the templating structure and being magnetic at room temperature.
US11751485B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a method for forming a flat via top surface for memory, as well as an integrated circuit (IC) resulting from the method. In some embodiments, an etch is performed into a dielectric layer to form an opening. A liner layer is formed covering the dielectric layer and lining the opening. A lower body layer is formed covering the dielectric layer and filling a remainder of the opening over the liner layer. A top surface of the lower body layer and a top surface of the liner layer are recessed to below a top surface of the dielectric layer to partially clear the opening. A homogeneous upper body layer is formed covering the dielectric layer and partially filling the opening. A planarization is performed into the homogeneous upper body layer until the dielectric layer is reached.
US11751477B2
A method for preparing a piezoelectric film includes: coating a solution containing a piezoelectric polymer and a solvent on a substrate to obtain a film, wherein the piezoelectric polymer is a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene; and annealing the film at a temperature ranging from 122° C. to 133° C., to obtain the piezoelectric film.
US11751473B2
The present specification relates to an organic light emitting device including: an anode; a cathode disposed to face the anode; and a light emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, in which the light emitting layer includes: a host including a P-type host and an N-type host, which produce an exciplex; and a phosphorescent dopant, and the host including the P-type host and the N-type host, which produce an exciplex, emits a photoluminescence light with a longer wavelength than a wavelength of each of the P-type host and the N-type host.
US11751468B2
Methods and devices for controlling pressures in microenvironments between a deposition apparatus and a substrate are provided. Each microenvironment is associated with an aperture of the deposition apparatus which can allow for control of the microenvironment.
US11751463B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus and an electronic device including the same are provided. The organic light emitting display apparatus comprises an organic light emitting display panel including a display area and a non-display area, the display area including a transparent area, a buffer area provided outside the transparent area, and an opaque area provided outside the buffer area, a camera provided in the transparent area in a rear surface of the organic light emitting display panel to photograph a region in a forward direction with respect to the organic light emitting display panel, and a transparent area pixel driving circuit provided in the buffer area to drive a transparent area organic light emitting diode provided in the transparent area. The transparent area organic light emitting diode is connected to the transparent area pixel driving circuit through a transparent area electrode line.
US11751462B1
A display may have both a full pixel density region and a pixel removal region with a plurality of high-transmittance areas that overlap an optical sensor. Each high-transmittance area may be devoid of thin-film transistors and other display components. To improve transmission while maintaining satisfactory touch sensing performance, one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may have a reduced width relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region and/or one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be omitted relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region. To mitigate a different appearance between the pixel removal region and the full pixel density region at off-axis viewing angles, the position of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be tuned.
US11751457B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate including: pixel regions; connection regions between adjacent pixel regions from among the pixel regions, respectively; and a region having a through-opening, the region being defined by the adjacent pixel regions, and the connection regions respectively between the adjacent pixel regions; a sub-pixel structure on the substrate at each of the pixel regions; and an organic pattern on a side wall of the substrate, the side wall being adjacent to the through-opening.
US11751450B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels located on the base substrate; and each sub-pixel includes: a semiconductor layer located on the base substrate and including a first active layer of an initialization transistor, a second active layer of a reset transistor and a third active layer of a data writing transistor; a first conductive layer located on a side of the semiconductor layer and including a data signal line extending in a first direction; and a second conductive layer located on the base substrate and including a drive gate of a drive transistor; and an orthographic projection of the second active layer on the base substrate is located between an orthographic projection of the first active layer on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the data signal line on the base substrate.
US11751449B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of pixel units in an array on the base substrate; and a first power line and a second power line arranged on the base substrate and configured to respectively provide a first power signal and a second power signal to the pixel units. At least one of the pixel units includes: a first-color light emitting device; a second-color light emitting device; a first pixel driving circuit configured to drive the first-color light emitting device; and a second pixel driving circuit configured to drive the second-color light emitting device. The first pixel driving circuit is electrically connected to the first power line, the second pixel driving circuit is electrically connected to the second power line, the first power line and the second power line are insulated from each other.
US11751448B2
A display device includes a substrate including a main display area, main display elements being in the main display area; a component area, auxiliary display elements and a transmission area being in the component area; and a peripheral area outside the main display area; an initialization voltage line in the main display area and extending in a first direction; a bottom metal layer in the component area between the substrate and the auxiliary display elements; and a bias line in the main display area and extending in the first direction, the bias line being connected to the bottom metal layer and being at a same layer as the initialization voltage line, wherein the bias line and the initialization voltage line are alternately arranged along a second direction crossing the first direction, in a first region of the main display area around the component area.
US11751444B2
A flexible display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion, a first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line, and a second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line. A plurality of first high power supply voltage lines branch from the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the first display region, a plurality of second high power supply voltage lines branch from the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the second display region, and the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line are electrically connected to each other via a first curved portion conductive layer formed in the curved portion.
US11751439B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, where the first semiconductor layer includes a channel region and a doped region; a first gate electrode disposed to overlap the channel region of the first semiconductor layer; an intermediate film disposed on the first semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode; and a first electrode disposed on the intermediate film, where an opening is defined through the intermediate film to overlap the doped region of the first semiconductor layer, the doped region of the first semiconductor layer and the first electrode contacts each other through the opening, and an area of a cross-section of the opening parallel to the substrate is in a range of about 49 μm2 to about 81 μm2.
US11751434B2
A semiconductor device includes a base substrate, a first transistor disposed on the base substrate, the first transistor including a first input electrode, a first output electrode, a first control electrode, and a first semiconductor pattern including a crystalline semiconductor, a second transistor disposed on the base substrate, the second transistor including a second input electrode, a second output electrode, a second control electrode, and a second semiconductor pattern including an oxide semiconductor, a plurality of insulating layers disposed on the base substrate, and an upper electrode disposed on the first control electrode with at least one insulating layer of the plurality of insulating layers interposed between the upper electrode and the first control electrode. The upper electrode overlaps the first control electrode and forms a capacitor with the first control electrode.
US11751429B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the transistor; a bank layer disposed on the pixel electrode having a pixel opening overlapping the pixel electrode; an emission layer disposed in the pixel opening; a common electrode disposed on the emission layer and the bank layer; an encapsulation layer disposed on the common electrode; a sensing electrode disposed on the encapsulation layer; a first insulator disposed on the encapsulation layer to overlap the pixel opening; a second insulator disposed outside the first insulator; and a third insulator disposed outside the second insulator. The first insulator has a first refractive index, the second insulator has a second refractive index, and the third insulator has a third refractive index, and the first refractive index, and wherein the second refractive index, and the third refractive index are different from each other.
US11751426B2
A hybrid permeation barrier having two complementary layers is disclosed. The barrier includes a first layer with a relatively high stress-thickness in the range of −1000 MPa-μm to −200 MPa-μm and a second layer with a relatively low stress-thickness in the range −150 MPa-μm to 300 MPa-μm. The second layer compensates for the stress caused by the first, thereby allowing for a barrier that provides good permeation without causing failure of the device due to delamination.
US11751424B2
A display device includes a substrate; a display area and a non-display area on the substrate, where a plurality of pixels is disposed in the display area, and where the non-display area is in a peripheral area of the display area; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate; a metal wiring disposed on the substrate; and a plurality of dummy patterns disposed in the non-display area. The plurality of dummy patterns includes a plurality of first patterns including an insulating material and a plurality of second patterns including a metal material.
US11751420B2
A display device is provided. An embodiment of a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, first and second partition walls disposed on the second substrate, the second partition wall being disposed outside the first partition wall, a first trench disposed inside the first partition wall and having a first width, a second trench disposed between the first and second partition walls and having a second width greater than the first width; an alignment key disposed to overlap the second trench; a first spacer disposed on the alignment key, and a sealing member disposed along an edge between the first substrate and the second substrate without overlapping the alignment key, wherein the first spacer partially overlaps the first partition wall, the second partition wall, and the sealing member.
US11751416B2
A display device including a display panel having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a guide structure disposed on the first surface of the display panel, and a window disposed on the second surface of the display panel, in which the guide structure includes a guide film configured to apply a preliminary pressure to the display panel, and a cover panel disposed between the guide film and the display panel, the cover panel including a cushion layer.
US11751410B2
Methods of passivating a surface. The methods may include providing a mixture including a liquid and a derivative of quinacridone, applying the mixture to a first surface of a film that includes a metal halide perovskite, and annealing the film for a time and a temperature effective to convert the derivative of quinacridone to quinacridone. Composite materials and electronic devices also are provided.
US11751409B2
To provide a semiconductor device suitable for miniaturization. To provide a highly reliable semiconductor device. To provide a semiconductor device with improved operating speed. A semiconductor device including a memory cell including first to cth (c is a natural number of 2 or more) sub memory cells, wherein: the jth sub memory cell includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor; a first semiconductor layer included in the first transistor and a second semiconductor layer included in the second transistor include an oxide semiconductor; one of terminals of the capacitor is electrically connected to a gate electrode included in the second transistor; the gate electrode included in the second transistor is electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode which are included in the first transistor; and when j≥2, the jth sub memory cell is arranged over the j-lth sub memory cell.
US11751406B2
An RRAM cell stack is formed over an opening in a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is sufficiently thick and the opening is sufficiently deep that an RRAM cell can be formed by a planarization process. The resulting RRAM cells may have a U-shaped profile. The RRAM cell area includes contributions from a bottom portion in which the RRAM cell layers are stacked parallel to the substrate and a side portion in which RRAM cell layers are stacked roughly perpendicular to the substrate. The combined side and bottom portions of the curved RRAM cell provide an increased area in comparison to a planar cell stack. The increased area lowers forming and set voltages for the RRAM cell.
US11751404B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a RRAM memory cell. The RRAM memory cell includes a FinFET transistor and a RRAM storage cell. The FinFET transistor includes a fin structure on a substrate, where the fin structure includes a channel region, a source region, and a drain region. An epitaxial layer is around the source region or the drain region. A RRAM storage stack is wrapped around a surface of the epitaxial layer. The RRAM storage stack includes a resistive switching material layer in contact and wrapped around the surface of the epitaxial layer, and a contact electrode in contact and wrapped around a surface of the resistive switching material layer. The epitaxial layer, the resistive switching material layer, and the contact electrode form a RRAM storage cell. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11751401B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a memory gate, and a data storage element. The semiconductor substrate includes a memory well which has two source/drain regions and a channel region between the source/drain regions. The memory gate is disposed above the channel region. The data storage element includes a ferroelectric material, and is disposed around the memory gate to separate the memory gate from the channel region.
US11751400B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a first doped region and a second doped region within a substrate. A ferroelectric material is arranged over the substrate and laterally between the first doped region and the second doped region. A conductive electrode is over the ferroelectric material and between sidewalls of the ferroelectric material. One or more sidewall spacers are arranged along opposing sides of the ferroelectric material. A dielectric layer continuously and laterally extends from directly below the one or more sidewall spacers to directly below the ferroelectric material.
US11751385B2
A method for forming a 3D memory device is provided. The method comprises forming a sacrificial layer on a substrate, forming an alternating dielectric stack on the sacrificial layer, forming a plurality of channel holes vertically penetrating the alternating dielectric stack and the sacrificial layer, and forming a first channel layer in each channel hole. The method further comprises forming a second channel layer on the first channel layer in each channel hole, such that a merging point of the second channel layer is higher than a bottom surface of the alternating dielectric stack. The method further comprises removing the sacrificial layer to form a horizontal trench, and forming a selective epitaxial growth layer in the horizontal trench.
US11751381B2
A semiconductor device includes: a bit line structure formed over a substrate; a storage node contact plug spaced apart from the bit line structure; and a nitride spacer positioned between the bit line structure and the storage node contact plug, wherein the nitride spacer has a higher silicon content in a portion adjacent to the storage node contact plug than in a portion adjacent to the bit line structure.
US11751379B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a bit line extending in a first direction, a first conductive pattern extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a semiconductor pattern connecting the bit line and the first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern including an insertion portion in the first conductive pattern, and a dielectric layer between the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern. The insertion portion of the second conductive pattern may have a width which increases as a distance from the semiconductor pattern increases.
US11751378B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a bit line extending on a substrate in a vertical direction; a transistor body part including a first source-drain region, a monocrystalline channel layer, and a second source-drain region that are sequentially arranged in a first horizontal direction and connected to the bit line; gate electrode layers extending in a second horizontal direction that is orthogonal to the first horizontal direction, with a gate dielectric layer between the gate electrode layers and the monocrystalline channel layer, and covering upper and lower surfaces of the monocrystalline channel layer; and a cell capacitor including a lower electrode layer, a capacitor dielectric layer, and an upper electrode layer at a side of the transistor body that is opposite to the bit line in the first horizontal direction and is connected to the second source-drain region.
US11751377B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, including the steps of: providing a substrate having an etch stop layer formed thereon; forming a preliminary stacked structure on the etch stop layer, the preliminary stacked structure including a lower sacrifice layer contacting the etch stop layer, a support layer, and an upper sacrifice layer; forming a hole penetrating the preliminary stacked structure and the etch stop layer; forming a conductive pattern in the hole; removing the upper sacrifice layer and a portion of the support layer; removing the lower sacrifice layer; forming a first conductive layer covering the conductive pattern; and forming a dielectric layer covering the first conductive layer, a remaining portion of the support layer, and the etch stop layer.
US11751375B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory cell including magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) devices. In one aspect, the memory cell includes a first layer including a first transistor and a second transistor. In one aspect, the first transistor and the second transistor are connected to each other in a cross-coupled configuration. A first drain structure of the first transistor may be electrically coupled to a first gate structure of the second transistor, and a second drain structure of the second transistor may be electrically coupled to a second gate structure of the first transistor. In one aspect, the memory cell includes a second layer including a first MTJ device electrically coupled to the first drain structure of the first transistor and a second MTJ device electrically coupled to the second drain structure of the second transistor. In one aspect, the second layer is above the first layer.
US11751368B2
The electrically conductive resin composition may contain matrix resin, coke powder, and carbon fiber. The volume mean particle diameter of the coke powder may be not less than 1 μm and not more than 500 μm. The content percentage of the coke powder in the electrically conductive resin composition may be not less than 1 wt % and not more than 60 wt %. The aspect ratio of the carbon fiber may be not less than 3 and not more than 1700. The content percentage of the carbon fiber in the electrically conductive resin composition may be not less than 0.5 wt % and not more than 10 wt %.
US11751363B2
A power module and method of forming the same. The power module includes an extruded tube with internal and external fins, first and second opposing surfaces defining ends thereof, and an internal slot for housing a power converter. The power module includes a bottom plate having a first depression to receive a first O-ring to provide a first liquid-tight fluid seal at the first opposing surface for an electrically insulting oil encapsulating the power converter. The power module includes a cable interface plate having a second depression to receive a second O-ring to provide a second liquid-type fluid seal at the second opposing surface for the electrically insulting oil encapsulating the power converter. The power module includes an end cap to mate with the cable interface plate and accept a conduit fitting to enable an electrical cable to be routed from within the end cap to an external connection point.
US11751354B1
A computing equipment box assembly can include a chassis base and a tray. The chassis base can include a bottom panel, an opening through the bottom panel, and a rim defined around the opening. The tray can include a body configured for supporting computing components, a frame section of the body sized to be supported atop the rim of the chassis base; and a downwardly embossed portion of the body extending downwardly from the rim and sized to fit within the opening of the chassis base when the frame section is supported atop the rim of the chassis base.
US11751352B2
A method and assembly for locking/unlocking, formed of one of several a removable module (2) and a mount plate (3). The assembly includes a support wall (4) supporting each removable module (2). The removable module (2) being provided with two lugs (5) through which an aperture passes. The lugs (5) extending out of the removable (2) so that they can be inserted into opening (7) formed in the support wall (4). This assembly is equipped with a locking/unlocking system (100) having a lever (10) extending under the support wall (4) and provided with circular eccentric cams (11) arranged with offset axial symmetry in the form of an S about a central rotation axle (20) perpendicular to the support wall (4). The lever (10) being fixed in terms of rotation on this central axle (2) at equal distances from the two openings (7).
US11751332B2
A baseboard includes a first connection configured to electrically interface with a motherboard, a second connection configured to electrically interface with a module, and a switch circuit configured to route data channels and power channels between the motherboard and the module. The first connection is configured to interface with more than one connection protocol or standard. The second connection is configured to interface with the more than one connection protocol or standard. The baseboard allows for cableless connections to allow unobstructed airflow over the components.
US11751331B2
A connection member includes a first region, a second region, and a third region, where a number of conductive layers in the second region is greater than a number of conductive layers in the first region and is greater than a number of conductive layers in the third region, a first layer, which is an uppermost layer of the second region, extends to the third region, a second layer, which is a lowermost layer of the third region, extends to the second region, and a side portion of the second region at a boundary between the second region and the third region is covered by the first layer and the second layer.
US11751326B2
An electronic apparatus includes: an electronic module; and a flexible substrate electrically connected to the electronic module. The flexible substrate includes: a base film; a plurality of first contact pads arranged at one end on the base film in a first direction, and electrically connected to the electronic module; a plurality of second contact pads arranged at an other end on the base film in the first direction; a plurality of first wires arranged on the base film, and each electrically connecting one of the first contact pads and one of the second contact pads together; and a plurality of third contact pads arranged on the base film, each of the third contact pads being positioned along the first direction between one of the first contact pads and one of the second contact pads, and being electrically connected to one of the first wires.
US11751318B2
A soft X-ray light source, including a vacuum target chamber, a refrigeration cavity, and a nozzle. The refrigeration cavity and the nozzle are contained in the vacuum target chamber. The nozzle (36) is arranged in the refrigeration cavity. The vacuum target chamber has a t-branch tube and a multi-channel tube. The t-branch tube has a first outlet and a second outlet opposed to each other and a third outlet, wherein the first outlet is connected to a mounting plate through which a refrigerant inlet pipe, a refrigerant outlet pipe, and a working gas pipe respectively pass and are connected to the refrigeration cavity, and wherein the third outlet is connected to a vacuum extraction device. The multi-channel tube has a top opening and a bottom opening opposed to each other, wherein the top opening is connected to the second outlet, wherein a vacuum outlet is provided at the bottom opening.
US11751314B2
Disclosed is a visualized light adjustment method and system. The method includes the steps of: S1. acquiring a light spot projection scenario of lights using an imaging device, and displaying the light spot projection scenario in real time by a display device; S2. selecting coordinates of a light spot on the display device using an input device, and inputting a desired light effect; and S3. controlling, by a console, the light corresponding to a physical address to generate a corresponding light effect, based on the selection by the input device and an association relationship between the coordinates of the light spot and a physical address of the light.
US11751310B2
An approach for controlling ultraviolet intensity over a surface of a light sensitive object is described. Aspects involve using ultraviolet radiation with a wavelength range that includes ultraviolet-A and ultraviolet-B radiation to irradiate the surface. Light sensors measure light intensity at the surface, wherein each sensor measures light intensity in a wavelength range that corresponds to a wavelength range emitted from at least one of the sources. A controller controls the light intensity over the surface by adjusting the power of the sources as a function of the light intensity measurements. The controller uses the light intensity measurements to determine whether each source is illuminating the surface with an intensity that is within an acceptable variation with a predetermined intensity value targeted for the surface. The controller adjusts the power of the sources as a function of the variation to ensure an optimal distribution of light intensity over the surface.
US11751304B1
A LED feedback voltage regulating driving device is provided. The LED feedback voltage regulating driving device includes a microcontroller, a first feedback circuit, a second feedback circuit, an oscillating circuit and a comparison circuit. The first feedback circuit and the second feedback circuit adjust the voltage and current from the electricity supply module and the driving circuit respectively, and transmit the voltage and current to the microcontroller; wherein, the microcontroller and the oscillating circuit reciprocate the voltage and current from the first feedback circuit and the second feedback circuit; wherein the comparison circuit compares the signal from the microcontroller and the oscillating circuit; wherein the pulse circuit adjusts the voltage and the current then transmits the voltage and current to the driving circuit for electricity driving; wherein, during the electricity driving, the driving circuit transmits part of the voltage and current to the second feedback circuit.
US11751303B2
In an auto vibrancy mode, a vibrancy value for a lighting load may be automatically determined based on a selected color setting for the lighting load. The automatically determined vibrancy value may also be configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above a target CRI value for the selected color setting. The selected color setting may be a CCT value on the black-body curve or an x-y chromaticity value. If the selected color setting is CCT value on the black-body curve, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be a pre-defined vibrancy value that is configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above the target CRI value for the selected CCT value. If the selected color setting is an x-y chromaticity value, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be based on the distance between the selected x-y chromaticity value and the black-body curve.
US11751294B2
An appliance includes a hinge module between a main body and a pull-down door. The hinge module includes a housing, a rotational axis member disposed in the housing serving as a center of rotation between the pull-down door and the main body, an inner link housing movably disposed in the housing that moves with the opening of the pull-down door in a direction of the rotational axis member, and a damper installed in the inner link housing, the damper including a piston and a cylinder and providing damping force according to a relative movement of the piston and the cylinder. Any one of the piston and the cylinder of the damper moves with the inner link housing and the other of the piston and the cylinder of the damper moves by a predetermined distance as the inner link housing moves and then is interfered by the housing so as not to move further, and the piston and the cylinder of the damper starts damping, wherein the predetermined distance corresponds to an opening angle of the pull-down door in which the damping is started.
US11751286B2
Embodiments described herein provide for the leveraging of edge-based resources (e.g., processing, memory, storage, and/or other resources of one or more Multi-Access/Mobile Edge Computing devices (“MECs”), such as MECs associated with a radio access network (“RAN”) of a wireless network) to process data from and/or provide instructions to microcontroller devices, System on Chip (“SoC”) devices, configurable logic boards, Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices, and/or other types of devices or systems. For example, embodiments described herein may provide for the creation and configuration of logical devices or systems based on one or more microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc., edge-based processing of sensor data and/or other types of data received or generated by the microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc., and the generation of instructions to control physical devices communicatively coupled to the microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc.
US11751285B2
A connection service providing method includes outputting, by a first user terminal from among a plurality of user terminals, a connection request signal to at least one second user terminal among the plurality of user terminals through an inaudible frequency range based on a trigger signal for initiating a connection between the plurality of user terminals; and connecting the at least one second user terminal and the first user terminal as a group; and providing a connection service associated with the group on the first user terminal.
US11751279B2
A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first service network utilizing a first RAT or a second service network utilizing a second RAT. The controller sends an indicator of a connection release request to the first service network via the wireless transceiver in response to terminating a first communication service with the first service network or in response to leaving the first service network for the second service network. Also, the controller releases a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with the first service network after sending the indicator of the connection release request.
US11751268B2
This document describes techniques and devices for efficient handling of a resource control state change and multi-node connectivity. Instead of performing multiple radio resource control (RRC) procedures to change a resource control state of a user equipment (UE) and establish, modify, or release a connection with multi-node connectivity, the techniques described herein combine the multiple RRC procedures into a single RRC procedure that supports both a resource control state change and multi-node connectivity. In particular, a master node sends a resource control state and multi-node connectivity message that includes both state change information and multi-node connectivity information. With this single message, timing and power resources of the UE can be conserved and failures resulting from asynchronous communication of the state change information and the multi-node connectivity information can be avoided.
US11751266B2
A communications device for use in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising one or more other infrastructure equipment, the infrastructure equipment and other infrastructure equipment each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, wherein the communications device includes transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment, receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the infrastructure equipment, and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry. The controller circuitry controls the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to communicate wirelessly with at least a first of the infrastructure equipment including by the use of a radio bearer, to receive a reconfiguration message from the first infrastructure equipment to effect re-establishment of its radio link control protocol layer, and subsequently to re-establish its radio link control protocol layer in response to the reconfiguration message.
US11751262B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus, a central node apparatus and a network side apparatus, a transmission method and a configuration method. The electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side includes: a transmission mode determining device configured for determining, based on service type of uplink transmission data that is to be transmitted to a network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side, whether to adopt a transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to a central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus. The electronic apparatus, the central node apparatus and the network side apparatus, the transmission method and the configuration method according to the present disclosure can implement at least one of saving network resources, reducing signaling overhead, and reducing power loss.
US11751259B2
A vehicle system includes a plurality of applications issuing a request for a communication with an outside of a vehicle, a communicator device performing the communicating, and a network coordinator managing the request for the communication from the plurality of applications. In a communication method in the vehicle system, when the network coordinator receives a request for a connection with an outside of the vehicle from the application, the network coordinator determines whether or not to permit the connection with the outside of the vehicle, and the network coordinator notifies the application of a determination result of the connection with the outside of the vehicle.
US11751258B2
There is provided a control method executed by a first information processing apparatus to establish a connection between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus, the method comprising: acquiring information for establishing a connection to a first communication apparatus; and displaying on a display unit a screen including a code image generated based on the acquired information and a message prompting a user to capture the code image by a second information processing apparatus that is more portable than the first information processing apparatus.
US11751251B2
Various embodiments herein provide techniques for grant-based and configured grant physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems operation in unlicensed spectrum. Some embodiments relate to identification, based on an index to a table, a combination of a listen-before talk (LBT) type, an offset, and a channel access priority class (CAPC). Some embodiments relate to selecting, based on a duration of a first uplink (UL) transmission that is to follow a received downlink (DL) transmission, one of CAT-1 LBT and CAT-2 LBT. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11751238B2
A method in a wireless device for performing random access to a network node. The method comprises receiving a set of downlink beam-specific reference signals, BRS, from the network node, and determining a preferred BRS based on the received signal power for each BRS. The method also comprises selecting, based on the preferred BRS, a random-access resource to be used for transmitting a random-access attempt to the network node, as well as using the selected random-access resource when transmitting a random-access attempt to the network node, whereby the selection of random-access resource indicates to the network node which downlink beam is preferred by the wireless device to be used for downlink transmissions.
US11751231B2
A UE may receive, from a base station, a first and second configurations of first and second periodic resources, receive, from the base station, a metric for switching between the first and second configurations, and switching from the first configuration to the second configuration based on the metric received from the base station. The first and second configurations may be CG of uplink resources for uplink channels. The first and second configurations may indicate SPS resources for downlink channels. The base station may determine the metric based on at least one measurement of signal at the base station or scheduling requirements.
US11751230B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving a first signal comprising one or more carrier signals comprising a plurality of resource blocks, wherein each resource block is assigned to a unique frequency and time slot of the respective carrier signal; generating a clipping pulse by modifying said first signal; converting the clipping pulse signal into a plurality of narrowband signals, wherein each narrowband signal is a frequency slice of the clipping pulse signal; modifying the plurality of narrowband signals to generate a plurality of modified narrowband signals, wherein said modifying is controlled based on filter weights that define a level of noise to be added to the respective narrowband signals in accordance with a desired error vector magnitude distribution or clipping noise distribution.
US11751226B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting/receiving section that performs transmission and/or reception based on an Uplink-Downlink (UL-DL) configuration; and a control section that controls switching of the UL-DL configuration based on update information of the UL-DL configuration notified via a higher layer signaling, and the control section performs the switching at a timing that comes after a specific timing and satisfies a given condition. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, even when a UL-DL configuration is semi-statically configured to be changed in an RRC connected state, it is possible to reflect the change at an appropriate timing.
US11751221B2
Data is scrambled at a transmitter according to one of a number of predetermined scrambling sequences which are associated with a particular one of a number of predetermined transmit antenna diversity schemes (i.e., a specific number of transmit antenna ports). Received data is decoded using one or more of the known transmit antenna diversity schemes and the scrambled data is descrambled according to a corresponding descrambling sequence (related to the scrambling sequence). Based on the descrambled data, the receiver determines which transmit antenna diversity scheme (i.e., the number of antenna ports) is used by the transmitter. In one specific embodiment, CRC parity data is scrambled in the transmitter and the receiver descrambles the recovered CRC parity data according to a descrambling sequence, computes CRC parity data from the received data, and compares the descrambled CRC parity data to the newly computed CRC parity data.
US11751218B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may transmit, to first central unit (CU) that corresponds to an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor, an indication of a first resource configuration for communications corresponding to a cell served by the network node and associated with a second CU that corresponds to a base station. The network node may receive, from the first CU, a second resource configuration comprising a distributed unit (DU) cell resource configuration for the cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11751216B2
5G methods and architectures to determine active SCells and their bandwidth parts (BWP) used in carrier aggregation (CA) are disclosed in which activating a BWP for an active SCell is performed initially according to a default value provided in initial radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After initialization, SCells and the SCell BWPs used by the user equipment (UE) are activated by RRC messaging, downlink control information (DCI) or dedicated medium access control (MAC) control elements (MAC CEs) with the initial BWP used for an activated SCell being a default value provided during initialization.
US11751214B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, an apparatus is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits a transport block (TB) using a physical uplink shared channel based on a downlink control information, a processor that applies a same symbol allocation across a plurality of slots when transmission of the TB is carried out over the plurality of slots, and an input apparatus that accepts an input, wherein the TB contains information based on the input. In other aspects, a system including an apparatus and a base station is also disclosed.
US11751210B2
A communication technique for convergence between an IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system, and a system thereof is provided. The method includes intelligence services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like.) On the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method includes determining a scheduling-related parameter for at least one user, and transmitting scheduling information indicating the scheduling-related parameter to a radio unit (RU), wherein the scheduling information includes a first section extension field including information relating to a user equipment identifier (ueID) related to the at least one user, and a second section extension field including information relating to a number of ueIDs corresponding to each user.
US11751209B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may provide hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for multiple physical channels (e.g., multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCH)) scheduled via cross component carrier scheduling. A base station may transmit downlink control information (DCI) messages via physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), to the UE to schedule the multiple PDSCH over multiple component carriers. The UE may monitor for the multiple PDSCH over the multiple component carriers, respectively. The UE may identify resource allocations to use for HARQ feedback transmissions associated with the multiple PDSCH, based on the DCI messages received. The DCI may include a number of control fields that the UE may use to determine resource allocations to use for the HARQ feedback transmissions. The UE may thus improve coverage for wireless communications by supporting HARQ feedback for multiple PDSCH scheduled via cross component carrier.
US11751207B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for scheduling of transmission time intervals. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a first semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment indicating a first set of resources including a first multiple time domain resources. Each time domain resource of the first multiple time domain resources has a first transmission time interval length. The processor also determines a second semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment indicating a second set of resources including a second multiple time domain resources. Each time domain resource of the second multiple time domain resources has a second transmission time interval length, and the first transmission time interval length is different from the second transmission time interval length. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits the first semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment using a first semi-persistent scheduling radio network identifier, and transmits the second semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment using a second semi-persistent scheduling radio network identifier.
US11751204B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send, to a wireless device, one or more radio resource control messages comprising parameters for one or more bandwidth parts or other wireless resources. The base station may send, to the wireless device, downlink control information comprising one or more bandwidth part identifiers. The wireless device may switch, based on the downlink control information, from a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part.
US11751200B2
A method of sidelink transmission can include receiving a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) associated with a first two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) at a first user equipment (UE) from a second UE over a sidelink. The first two-stage SCI indicates a physical layer identity (L1-ID) of the second UE. The method can further include determining based on the L1-ID of the second UE a time-frequency resource for transmitting a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) carrying a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback corresponding to reception of the PSSCH, and transmitting the PSFCH with the determined time-frequency resource. In an embodiment, transmission of the PSSCH from the second UE is a groupcast transmission or a unicast transmission.
US11751196B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a method for transmitting/receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor. Specifically, a method of receiving downlink data by user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving configuration information; receiving downlink control information (DCI), the DCI comprising a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field, and multiple TCI states being indicated on the basis of the TCI field; and receiving multiple transmission occasions of an identical transport block on the basis of the DCI. The multiple transmission occasions are received through a time-domain resource on the basis of time division multiplexing (TDM), and the number of the multiple transmission occasions is determined on the basis of the number of the multiple TCI states.
US11751192B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a gateway wherein the method comprises to detect a downlink data packet session transmitted to the first user entity, and to amend the lifetime indicator in at least some of the data packets of the detected downlink data packet session such that the data packets for which the lifetime indicator has been amended, have reached the end of the lifetime and cannot be transmitted further when arriving at the first user entity.
US11751177B2
The present disclosure provides a method for data transmission or reception performed by a first node in a wireless communication system, the method including: performing a first data transmission or reception to or from a UE on an access link on the basis of a first timing case in an access time duration; and performing a second data transmission or reception to or from a second node or a donor base station on a backhaul link on the basis of a second timing case in a backhaul time duration, wherein downlink transmission timings over the donor base station, the first node, the second node and the UE are aligned in the first timing case, and downlink and uplink transmission timings or downlink and uplink reception timings are aligned in the first node in the second timing case.
US11751176B2
Methods and systems include beamformed wireless communications to and from a user equipment electronic device. During operation of the user equipment electronic device, a change in slot aggregation is made. Using the aggregated slots, the user equipment electronic device and/or a wireless network utilize beam sweeps to determine a best beam pairing by repeating a shared channel in the aggregated slots with a beam sweep of multiple beams between the user equipment electronic device and the wireless network.
US11751174B2
Methods, systems, and devices for signaling for configuring downlink transmissions are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration message from a base station indicating that a control resource set (CORESET) for a downlink control channel is associated with a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states. The UE may subsequently receive a control message from the base station activating one or more of the TCI states. The UE may decode the downlink control channel based on the configuration message and the one or more activated TCI states. The UE may identify one or more TCI states (e.g., associated with the CORESET) to apply to a reception of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. The UE may determine to apply one or more of the TCI states activated by the control message. The UE may determine to apply one or more different TCI states.
US11751165B2
A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio access network part of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprising configuring a notification area of a radio access network part by determining one or more base stations and/or one or more of non-terrestrial network parts which form part of the notification area, the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area being for use in transmitting signals to a communications device from the wireless communications network, determining, based on the notification area and on a present time, which one of the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area is presently serving the communications device, and transmitting a paging message to the serving base station or serving non terrestrial network part for subsequent transmission to the communications device.
US11751164B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for determining paging location or camping location. The method includes: determining information of a first location on which the UE camps or receives a paging message, wherein the information of the first location indicates a location of a bandwidth part (BWP) or a beam; and camping on or receiving the paging message on a corresponding BWP or beam according to the information of the first location.
US11751158B2
Embodiments include methods for downlink (DL) transmission by a network node in an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network. Such methods include receiving, from an upstream node in the network, first timing offset information related to communications between the network node and the upstream node. Such methods include transmitting a DL signal or channel, to one or more downstream nodes, based on a DL transmission timing for the network node. The DL transmission timing is determined from the network node's DL reception timing of signals or channels transmitted by the upstream node and a second function of the first timing offset information, which is determined based on a first function of the first timing offset information (when the first function is greater than a threshold) or on an alternate timing offset (when the first function is not greater than the threshold). Embodiments also include network nodes configured to perform such methods.
US11751151B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may distinguish between synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) intended for different classes of UEs. For example, a base station may transmit different SSBs in a physical broadcast channel with different configurations or parameters to indicate different UE classes, where UEs may monitor for and receive SSBs for their UE class. A UE may operate according to a UE class (e.g., New Radio (NR) Light) associated with lower bandwidths and may identify SSBs associated with this UE class to connect with a base station. The UE may identify the SSBs associated with the UE class based on a subcarrier-level offset value either implicitly or explicitly indicated to the UE. Additionally, the base station may transmit fields to indicate different parameters for subsequent communications transmitted according to the UE class.
US11751148B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for performing rate matching and configuring a soft buffer in a wireless cellular communication system.
US11751129B2
Systems and methods for multiple network mode selection devices in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a multiple network mode selection device includes a processor, a radio module connected to the processor, and network determination process storage connected to the processor and configured to store one or more network determination processes, wherein the processor is configured to connect to a first network using the radio module, execute a network determination process selected from the one or more network determination process, reprogram the radio module in response to the executed network determination process, and connect to a second network using the radio module, where the second network is separate from the first network.
US11751118B2
In some implementations, a message indicating a request for delivery of data to user equipment (UE) (e.g. an IoT device) operative for communications in a mobile network may be received from an application server. One or more first loading or congestion indication values indicative of a first loading or congestion at one or more first network nodes along a first mobile network route may be obtained. In addition, one or more second loading or congestion indication values indicative of a second loading or congestion at one or more second network nodes along a second mobile network route may be obtained. The first or the second mobile network route may be selected based on at least one of the one or more first and the second loading or congestion indication values. The data may be delivered to the UE over the selected mobile network route.
US11751116B2
Coordinated P-GW change for SIPTO may be provided. A WTRU may send and/or receive one or more flows via a first PDN connection and via a first P-GW. The WTRU may send an indication to the network that at least one flow of the first PDN connection is available for SIPTO. The indication may include one or more SIPTO preferences. The WTRU may receive a message from a MME. The message may trigger establishment of a second PDN connection via a second P-GW. The WTRU may move, while maintaining the first PDN connection, the at least one flow from the first PDN connection to the second PDN connection. The WTRU may deactivate the first PDN connection when the one or more flows have been moved to the second PDN connection and/or when no information has been received via the first PDN connection after a predetermined duration.
US11751115B2
Hybrid use of dual policies is provided to improve a communication system. In a multiple access scenario, when an inactive user equipment (UE) transitions to an active state, it may be become a burden to a radio cell on which it was previously camping. In some embodiments, hybrid load balancing is provided using a hierarchical machine learning paradigm based on reinforcement learning in which an LSTM generates a goal for one policy influencing cell reselection so that another policy influencing handover over active UEs can be assisted. The communication system as influenced by the policies is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP). The policies controlling the active UEs and inactive UEs are coupled, and measureable system characteristics are improved. In some embodiments, policy actions depend at least in part on energy saving.
US11751110B2
Methods are provided for communicating in a mobile network, the mobile network comprising a plurality of infrastructure equipment, each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, and a device configured to communicate wirelessly with at least a first of the infrastructure equipment in control of a first cell. In some embodiments, the method comprises determining, at the device, whether a second cell under control of a second of the infrastructure equipment is connected to a first core network operating in accordance with a first protocol or both of the first core network and a second core network operating in accordance with a second protocol, and transmitting, by the device, an automatic neighbour relation report to the first infrastructure equipment, a report comprising an indication of whether the second cell is connected to the first core network or both of the first core network and the second core network.
US11751103B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for variably selecting and managing a quality of service framework within a network. A network data store may be accessed to obtain information indicating current network conditions, network policies, and/or device scripts. This information may be used to determine whether and when to allocate network resources, such as bandwidth, for particular services within the network to implement quality of service based on current network/link conditions.
US11751102B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to resource reservation for sidelink communication over a shared radio frequency band are provided. The method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes performing, in a shared radio frequency band, a listen-before-talk (LBT) for a first channel occupancy time (COT) and transmitting, during the first COT, a COT structure indicator, wherein the COT structure indicator reserves at least one resource within a second COT different than the first COT.
US11751081B2
Provided are a method and a device for load information interaction, a processor and a storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a first network node, a load request message to a second network node, where the load request message is used for indicating configuration information used by the second network node in reporting load information to the first network node; and receiving, by the first network node, the load information reported by the second network node according to the configuration information. The second network node and the first network node belong to different logical nodes in a network. The technical problem that load management cannot be performed when the second network node and the first network node belong to different logical nodes in related technology is solved, and the maximum performance of the network is fully exhibited.
US11751078B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). The disclosure relates to the collection and reporting of measurement information in a wireless communication system, in which an operation method of a terminal may include receiving configuration information for a logged minimization drive test (MDT) disclosed by a secondary node (SN), storing a measurement result by performing the logged MDT in one of a radio resource control (RRC) idle mode or an RRC inactive mode, based on the received configuration information, transmitting a message including an indicator for indicating that the stored measurement result exists after the terminal is switched to the RRC connected mode, receiving a request message for requesting the logged MDT measurement result, and transmitting a message for reporting the logged MDT measurement result.
US11751077B2
A method, computer program, apparatus, and transportation vehicle for generating a quality of service (QoS) map. A radio link is used between a first and second mobile transceiver. The method includes determining information related to a density of mobile transceivers in an area surrounding the first mobile transceiver, information related to an availability of different radio access technologies (RATs) in the area surrounding the first mobile transceiver, and information related to a distance between the first and the second mobile transceivers; obtaining information related to a QoS of the radio link for the different RATs and determining a relationship between the information related to the density, the information related to the distance, and the information related to the QoS of the radio link for the different RATs; and storing the information related to the relationship for the different locations of the first mobile transceiver to obtain the QoS map.
US11751071B2
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) abstracts network functions, allowing them to be installed, controlled, and manipulated by software running on standardized compute nodes such as cloud computing platform rather than on dedicated hardware. In a 5G mobile communications network, the base station or gNB may be split into virtualized and non-virtualized network functions (NFs). Described herein are systems and methods for managing such gNBs within the NFV framework.
US11751069B2
The invention relates cloud based IoT network monitoring and validation to enable optimal network selection and connectivity for IoT sensors. The present invention relates to a system to measure the signal quality directly from the network module of IoT sensors. It comprises of an application programming interface (API) 105, a Network detection dongle 103, communication network 110, server 115, network modules of network operators and IoT sensors 120, to be deployed or installed. The invention also relates to a method for determination of signal strength from network module of IoT sensors, wherein the API 105 is configured to run network detection software to determine and validate an optimal location for IoT sensor/device installation or deployment based on the highest signal strength.
US11751068B2
Tools and methods for optimizing the selection and placement of wireless radio devices in a wireless network within a geographic region using a remote database that includes a geographic mapping of existing wireless devices within the network and/or adjacent networks, device characteristics for the wireless devices within the network and/or adjacent networks, and radio frequency spectral information across times for a plurality of regions (e.g., corresponding to locations of existing wireless devices). A tool may include a local user interface, a remote database, and a processor that communicates with the user interface and remote database. The methods and tools described herein may receive user input indicating a desired location and/or operational characteristics of new wireless radio device and may determine and suggest an optimal type, location and/or operational parameters for the additional device, or may suggest other modifications to the current network to optimize the network including the new device.
US11751054B2
The present disclosure relates to network slice access control methods. One example method includes receiving, by an access and mobility management function network element, first information from a session management function network element, where the first information is associated with an authentication failure of a network slice, and sending, by the access and mobility management function network element, second information to a terminal device based on the first information, where the second information is used to reject access of the terminal device to the network slice.
US11751053B2
A method of controlling screen lock and a mobile terminal employing the same is provided. The mobile device includes a User Interface (UI) for setting a screen unlock mode using a wireless device other than the mobile terminal and stores IDentifier (ID) information of the wireless device designated by the UI corresponding to the screen unlock mode. The mobile terminal is capable of detecting a wireless device. After the ID information of the wireless device is stored, if the wireless device is detected by the mobile terminal and ID information of the detected wireless device is identical to the stored ID information, the mobile terminal controls not to display an unlock requesting screen when the display unit of the mobile terminal is turned on.
US11751051B2
proviced is an authentication method based on a GBA, and the method includes: a BSF receives an initialization request message sent by a UE, wherein the initialization request message carries a first identifier of the UE, and the first identifier comprises at least one of the following: a SUCI, an identifier converted from the SUCI, and a TMPI associated with the subscriber identity; the BSF acquires an AV of the UE according to the first ID; the BSF completes GBA authentication with the UE according to the acquired AV. In this way, the privacy of the SUPI is protected for the UE, and the SUCI or the identifier converted from the SUCI is used to perform the bootstrapping process of the GBA, thereby improving the security of the GBA authentication process.
US11751050B2
A network device includes a wireless transceiver configured to establish a bi-directional communication channel with a network gateway. The network device also includes a visible light communication (VLC) interface configured to establish a visible light communication channel with a configurator for the network gateway. The network device further includes a controller configured to operate with the configurator to execute out-of-band (OOB) provisioning of the network device for the network gateway, wherein data communicated on the visible light communication channel includes a portion of information related to bootstrap provisioning the network device with the network gateway using the device provisioning protocol (DPP).
US11751049B2
A device, mobile operator, network, and a device controller can exchange messages for EAP-TLS authentication. The network can include an authentication server function (AUSF). A device and device controller can record both a device certificate and a device controller certificate. The device controller can receive a subscriber concealed identity (SUCI) for the device from the AUSF. The device controller can decrypt the SUCI and send the network the certificates with a device SUPI. The network can send at least a TLS ephemeral public key to the device controller. The device controller can generate a digital signature for at least the ephemeral public key with a private key for the device controller certificate. The AUSF can complete an EAP-TLS authentication with the device using at least (i) the device certificate for the device, (ii) the device controller certificate for the server, (iii) the digital signature, and (iv) the ephemeral public key.
US11751044B2
Disclosed is a system and method to route a call from a roaming UE on a 5G network. The system receives from a UE belonging to a home network an indication of a call to a dialed number. The call requires information associated with the UE that is not available to the first wireless telecommunication network, because the UE is roaming on a visitor network. The indication of the call includes a unique identifier of the visitor network. The system can determine based on the unique identifier that the UE is roaming and send a request to the visitor network to provide instructions on how to route the received call. Upon obtaining the instructions on how to route the received call, the system routes the received call.
US11751040B2
Methods and systems for cellular device detection are presented. A wideband receiver is operable to acquire a block of digitized samples in an uplink frequency band. The wideband receiver is also operable to applying one or more computational kernels to the block of digitized samples, thereby determining a possible uplink transmission from the cellular device. The cellular device is confirmed when the bandwidth of the possible uplink transmission is verified and a cellular basestation, associated with the possible uplink transmission, is located.
US11751037B2
Method for distributing multimedia public warning alerts in a mobile telecommunications network, including: creating an alert message by an emergency authority computer in the network, the message including a textual message and a multimedia object; sending by a content distributor server parameters for a content delivery session; sending by the computer the created message to the server; sending by the computer a request for a cell broadcast message to a cell broadcast center in the network, the message including the textual message and content delivery session parameters; broadcasting by the cell broadcast center the message through a radio access network; receiving by mobile user equipment in the network the message through the radio access network; setting up by the multicast content distributor server a transparent IP multicast session between the server and at least some of the user equipment; sending the multimedia object though the session to the user equipment.
US11751034B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit that supports a Bluetooth network, at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor, through the wireless communication circuit, to generate a first link with a first external electronic device based on the Bluetooth network, generate a second link with a second external electronic device based on the Bluetooth network, transmit information to the second external electronic device through the second link, wherein the information is used by the second external electronic device to monitor the first link, negotiate timing for transmitting a response message with the second external electronic device, receive a data packet from the first external electronic device, and transmit a response message to the first external electronic device in response to the data packet based on the negotiated timing.
US11751033B2
An apparatus includes a network circuit to communicate with a network and a server on the network. The apparatus includes a wireless circuit to communicate with another wireless device. The apparatus includes control logic to determine that the other wireless device is within a given proximity of the apparatus, and to determine that the other wireless device is configured to perform automatic pairing. The control logic is further to, based on a determination that the other wireless device is within the given proximity of the apparatus and is configured to perform automatic pairing, access the server to determine whether to perform automatic pairing with the other wireless device. The control logic is to pair with the other wireless device without further input from a user of the apparatus.
US11751022B2
The present invention, when it is estimated that a device that can receive a large-sized advertisement is present within a communication area, transmits advertisement packets of that size. A communication device of this invention comprises a first transmission unit that transmits a first advertisement packet, using a first frequency band, a determination unit that, upon receiving a request packet in response to the first advertisement packet, determines whether or not an external device that can receive the second advertisement packet whose size is larger than that of the first advertisement packet is present within a communication area, based on the request packet, and a second transmission unit that, if the determination result indicates the presence, transmits a second advertisement packet, using a second frequency band different from the first frequency band.
US11751019B2
A communication apparatus and corresponding method for performing wireless communication to include controlling deliver of content for plural programs using a directional beam, and notifying a terminal apparatus of first information regarding a timing of transmitting the directional beam in each of a plurality of directions in association with second information notified commonly to one or more of the terminal apparatuses within a communication range.
US11751016B2
A method of determining a destination of an individual carrying a mobile device is provided. The method including: detecting at least one of a position of the mobile device and an activity of an individual carrying the mobile device; detecting a distance between the mobile device and each of a plurality access controls; generating a list of the plurality of access controls and the distance between the mobile device and each of the plurality access controls; determining that the individual carrying the mobile device has stopped moving or slowed in response to the activity detected; and identifying one or more access controls of the plurality of access controls that have a distance of lowest magnitude on the list.
US11751010B2
A user-to-entity communication channel is established for providing increased information regarding entities to the general population. Ambassadors for a entity are identified and selected based on location history of devices for which location reporting is authorized. The ambassadors may provide information regarding the entity to the public through the communication channel. Communications between the users and ambassadors may be reported to the entity owner for analysis by the entity owner.
US11751008B2
A method includes obtaining channel information, range information, and angle of arrival (AoA) information based on wireless signals communicated between an electronic device and an external electronic device. The method also includes generating an initial prediction of a presence of the external electronic device relative to a field of view (FoV) of the electronic device based on the channel information and at least one of the range information or the AoA information. The initial prediction includes an indication of whether the external electronic device is within the FoV or outside the FoV of the electronic device. The method further includes performing, using a tracking filter, a smoothing operation on the range information and the AoA information. Additionally, the method includes determining that the external electronic device is within the FoV of the electronic device based on the AoA information, the smoothed AoA information, and the initial prediction.
US11751007B2
Embodiments described herein relate to anonymizing of trajectories of mobile devices through the obfuscation of stay points. Methods may include: receiving probe data points of a trajectory in real-time or near real-time from a probe apparatus as it travels along the trajectory; calculating, for each probe data point, a probability of the trajectory reaching a stay point within a predetermined distance; providing sequential sub-sets of probe data points of the trajectory to a location-based service provider in response to the sequential sub-sets of probe data points including probe data points having a probability failing to satisfy a predetermined value; and identifying a last sub-set of probe data points of the sequential sub-sets of probe data points to provide to the location-based service provider in response to identifying a probe data point having a probability of the trajectory reaching a stay point within the predetermined distance satisfying the predetermined value.
US11751005B2
Augmented reality is used to display graphical elements overlaid on a continually updating image of an area around an augmented reality device (e.g., a mobile device). The graphical element may contain geographical location information about a grave of an ancestor and/or biographical information about the ancestor. The continually updating image is captured by a camera of the augmented reality device and updates in response to time and motion of the augmented reality device. Based on orientation data and geographical location data collected by the augmented reality device, the graphical element is updated and displayed on the mobile device.
US11751004B2
Methods and systems for communication management are disclosed. A computing device may receive a computing request. The computing device may determine a timeout parameter associated with the computing request. A notification may be sent if the timeout parameter is predicted to be exceeded or if the timeout parameter is exceeded.
US11750986B2
The present disclosure relates to a hearing aid with an RF antenna arranged within the hearing aid's housing, and a loudspeaker positioned in the ear canal of the user. The RF antenna is configured to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna corresponding to a first wavelength. The hearing aid further comprises one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead one or more electric signals within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range between the loudspeaker in the ear canal of the user and an electronic circuit in the housing, with the one or more electrical leads being decoupled, at a connector end of the one or more electrical leads, by means of one or more decoupling components.
US11750985B2
Presented herein are techniques for increasing sensitivity of a hearing prosthesis to sound signals received from the “side” of a recipient. The sensitivity of the hearing prosthesis to sound signals received from the side of a recipient is provided by a spatial pre-filter that is configured to use a primary reference signal (i.e., a first directional signal) and a side reference signal (i.e., a second directional signal having at least one null directed to the side of the recipient) to calculate a side gain mask. The side gain mask includes gains for each of a plurality of frequency channels associated with the received sound signals.
US11750983B2
A microphone assembly includes a substrate and a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) die. The substrate comprises a top layer and a bottom layer. The top layer comprises a layer of solder mask material spanning across at least a portion of the substrate and one or more standoffs formed of the solder mask material. The one or more standoffs and the layer of solder mask material comprising a single, contiguous structure. The MEMS die is disposed on the one or more standoffs and is coupled to the substrate via a bonding material. The bonding material forms an acoustic seal between the substrate and the MEMS die.
US11750982B2
Micromechanical sound transducer including a plurality of unilaterally suspended bending transducers. The plurality of bending transducers are configured for deflection within a plane of vibration and are arranged side by side within the plane of vibration along a first axis and are extending along a second axis which is transverse to the first axis. The bending transducers are alternately suspended on opposite sides and engage with one another. Each bending transducer includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are located opposite one another along the first axis to cause deflections of the respective bending transducer along the first axis upon application of voltage. Mutually facing electrodes of adjacent bending transducers are electrically connected to one another by a transverse connection crossing the plane of vibration transverse to the first axis.
US11750970B2
An apparatus and method for determining signals representative of events in the environment of a reactive transducer while being driven by a switching amplifier is disclosed. While the switching amplifier is in a zero voltage state, a signal capture circuit that is also in a zero voltage state is connected to the transducer for a relatively brief period of time during which a measurement is made of the residual current flow due to the inductance of the transducer. A prediction of the output signal is then subtracted from the signal measured across the transducer, reducing the overall range of the signal and increasing the relative size of the back-EMF signal compared to any remaining output signal. If desired, conventional echo cancellation can then be performed. The back-EMF signal can then be subjected to further processing by an analog-to-digital converter as known in the art.
US11750968B2
An audio device including a housing having a side facing outwardly of the housing, the housing further having a first mounting position disposed on the side. The side has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion opposite the second portion relative to the first mounting position. The audio device also includes a first omnidirectional microphone disposed on the first portion. The audio device also includes a second microphone disposed on the first mounting position. The second microphone may be a second-order microphone. The second-order microphone has a first-order microphone disposed within a first platform mounted a distance from the first mounting position. The audio device also includes a first speaker disposed on the second portion. The first speaker is further disposed such that an audio output of the first speaker falls within a null of the second microphone.
US11750966B2
An earphone comprising: an earphone housing having a cap portion and a body portion that interlock with one another to enclose a driver, the driver having a front face that outputs sound waves and a back face opposite the front face, the cap portion defines a first chamber coupled to the front face of the driver and the body portion defines a second chamber coupled to the back face of the driver, a first opening formed through the cap portion; a first port and a second port formed through the body portion and open to a surrounding environment; and a mesh coupled to the first opening, the first port or the second port.
US11750965B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a communication device that includes a microphone configured to detect an acoustic signal from an acoustic environment, and a processor, configured to detect an acoustical dampening between the acoustic environment and the microphone, based on a change in a characteristic of the acoustic signal and, responsive to the acoustical dampening, apply a compensation filter to the acoustic signal to form a compensated acoustic signal that is reproduced. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11750964B2
A system and method for a hybrid ring-radiator headphone driver, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
US11750959B2
A speaker device is used while being attached to a helmet, and includes a speaker unit that outputs a sound, a speaker housing that includes a back wall portion covering the speaker unit from a back side, and in which a space between a back surface of the speaker unit and the back wall portion is formed as an output space for the sound output from the back surface of the speaker unit, and a duct whose internal space is communicated with the output space and that guides, to an outside of the helmet, the sound output to the output space, in which a distance between the back surface of the speaker unit and the back wall portion is smaller than a distance of the internal space of the duct in a direction in which the duct guides the sound.
US11750950B1
A global shutter readout circuit includes a pixel enable signal and a first sample and hold (SH) signal that are configured to turn ON a pixel enable transistor and a first storage transistor at a first time during a global transfer period. The pixel enable signal is configured to begin a transition to an OFF level at a second time and complete the transition to the OFF level at a third time to turn OFF the pixel enable transistor. The first SH signal is configured to begin a transition to the OFF level at a fourth time, which occurs after the second and third times, and complete the transition to the OFF level at a fifth time to turn OFF the first storage transistor. An OFF transition duration between the fourth and fifth times is greater than an ON transition duration of the first SH signal at the first time.
US11750944B2
Some embodiments include a system, comprising: a plurality of pixels; a plurality of data lines coupled to the pixels; a plurality of switches coupling the pixels to the data lines; a plurality of readout circuits coupled to the data lines; control logic coupled to the readout circuits, the control logic configured to, for one of the pixels: acquire a first value for the pixel while the corresponding switch is in an off state; reset the corresponding readout circuit corresponding for the pixel; acquire a second value for the pixel after resetting the readout circuit; turn on the corresponding switch; acquire a third value for the pixel after turning on the corresponding switch; and combine the first value, the second value, and the third value into a combined value for the pixel.
US11750939B2
In order to provide a tilt control device capable of performing tilt control optimal at a high speed by controlling both a focus position and a tilt angle even when a scene changes such as in a case in which a subject changes, there is provided an imaging apparatus including a tilt control unit that performs tilt control by driving at least one of an imaging device and an imaging optical system, a focus lens driving unit that drives a focus lens, and a control unit that has a plurality of control modes for performing focus correction using at least one of the tilt control unit and the focus lens driving unit and selects one of the plurality of control modes in accordance with the number of subject areas displayed on an image screen.
US11750937B2
In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed. In a reproducing state, raw data are read from the recording device 111 at a low screen rate according to a display performance of the display section 112 and the raw data that have been read are processed are processed by the pre-processing circuit 202 and the camera signal processing circuit 203 and a reproduced image is displayed by the display section 112.
US11750933B2
Disclosed is an image sensing device including a first pixel group including at least one first half-shading pixel and at least one first normal pixel, and an image processor suitable for using a first pixel signal, which is generated from the first half-shading pixel during a first period, as phase information, and using a first pixel signal, which is generated from the first half-shading pixel during a second period, as dynamic range information.
US11750925B1
A camera is auto-focused on an in-person attendee in a meeting who is speaking into a microphone at a live location of the meeting. The live location includes a real-time location system (RTLS) having a RTLS tag and a plurality of RTLS anchors for locating a position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space. The RTLS tag is fixed to the microphone and transmits a signal that is received by the plurality of RTLS anchors. In operation, it detected when the microphone is active. The position of the RTLS tag in the live location is then identified in three-dimensional space by using the signal transmitted from the RTLS tag and received by the RTLS anchors to calculate the position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space. The position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space in the live location is presumed to be the same position as the microphone that the RTLS tag is fixed to. The camera is auto-focused on the identified live location when the microphone is active, the camera thereby outputting a video signal of an area in the proximity of the microphone which is presumed to include an image of the in-person attendee who is speaking into the microphone.
US11750924B2
Various embodiments include a camera having a sensor-shifting mechanism. For example, the camera may include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator to move an image sensor, relative to a lens group, to provide autofocus (AF) functionality. According to some embodiments, the VCM actuator may include one or more coils attached to a coil carrier, and one or more magnets attached to a stationary structure of the camera. The coil carrier may be attached to an image sensor package such that the image sensor is movable together with the coil carrier, in at least one direction parallel to an optical axis defined by the lens group. In some embodiments, the camera may include one or more suspension arrangements to suspend the coil carrier and/or the image sensor package from one or more stationary structures of the camera.
US11750919B2
The present invention is a security camera that is fully equipped with an inbuilt smoke and motion detectors and with a special remote control to program the security camera. Furthermore, the security camera is specially designed to be set by a user to automatically capture and send a still picture or motion picture with audio or video message to a mobile phone when the smoke detector or motion detector is activated.
US11750913B2
A control apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to, in a case where a user operation for removing an image capturing apparatus being a control target from the control target is performed, determine whether or not the image capturing apparatus is executing a specific function, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the image capturing apparatus is executing the specific function, cause the image capturing apparatus to stop the specific function.
US11750912B2
An apparatus comprises a detection unit detecting an object from an image acquired by a capturing unit; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the object is the same as a main object, wherein the determination unit includes a first determination unit that determines whether or not coordinates of the object candidate and coordinates of the main object satisfy a distance condition; a second determination unit that determines whether or not a difference between the object candidate and the main object is within a predetermined range; and a third determination unit that determines whether or not the first and second determination units have determined in the affirmative a predetermined number of times in a row, and the determination unit determines whether transfer of the main object has occurred based on determination results of the first to third determination units.
US11750902B2
An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, a heater that heats the liquid lens, a temperature adjuster that controls the heater to adjust the temperature of the liquid lens to a predetermined temperature, a nonvolatile memory storing property information about the liquid lens, a refractive power controller that determines, based on a target refractive power and the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens adjusted to have the predetermined temperature and applies the application voltage to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens to match the target refractive power, and an image processor. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from a body module including the refractive power controller and the image processor.
US11750887B2
A content controller system and method may include a user interface device in communication with a user interface device. The user interface device may provide operations including select advertising media content, select positive and negative content placement associations for the advertising media content, and automatically place the advertising media content in response to the positive content placement areas and away from at least one of the negative content placement areas.
US11750886B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for tailoring related episode content within an episode, thereby improving a user's experience. In response to receiving a request for an episode, several factors may be considered when determining how much of the related episode content to provide. These factors may include information such as whether the user has already viewed a previous episode, the elapsed time since viewing the previous episode and a user preference. Related episode content may be modified to remove portions previously viewed by a user, depending on factors such as the elapsed time and a user preference.
US11750881B2
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) determining, by a content-presentation device, a media-device loudness of content that is provided to the content-presentation device by a media device; (ii) sending, by the content-presentation device to a computing system, a request for supplemental content for use in connection with performing a content-modification operation during a content-modification opportunity, with the request including an indication of the media-device loudness; (iii) based on sending the request, receiving, by the content-presentation device from the computing system, a version of a supplemental content segment having a loudness corresponding to the media-device loudness, with the version of the supplemental content segment selected from among multiple versions of the supplemental content segment having different respective loudnesses; (iv) and performing, by the content-presentation device, the content-modification operation using the version of the supplemental content segment.
US11750873B2
A video distribution device includes processing circuitry configured to receive first information, from a first terminal device, corresponding to motion of a first user of the first terminal device; distribute second information to a second terminal device of a second user being different from the first user, the second information for displaying a video including a first character object generated based on the first information; receive, from a second terminal device in a case that a second terminal device displays the video, a request for a first gift for the first character object; and distribute, to a second terminal device in response to a request, third information for displaying video that includes the first character object and a first object corresponding to a first gift.
US11750870B2
Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system selects a first plurality of subsets of content categories, each subset of content categories comprising a first number of content categories. The subsets are assigned reward scores based on content popularity and duplication. The subset are then iteratively modified to increase the rewards scores. If the reward scores are still low, the process is repeated by selecting a second plurality of subsets of content categories, each subset of content categories comprising a second number of content categories, different from first number.
US11750869B2
A system and a method is provided for publishing a disparate live media output stream that complies with distribution format regulations. The system includes a memory for storing instructions and a processor that executes the instructions. Based on the instructions, the processor is manipulates a manifest of a live input stream based on a media segment identified for an edit. The manipulation of the manifest corresponds to removal of references to the media segment prior to a live event start indicator and after a live event end indicator, maintenance of indicators that mark locations of a non-programming content, and removal of duration information and referenced media segment that corresponds to originally scheduled non-programming content. A pre-encoded media asset is generated for a repeated playback based on the manipulation of the manifest of the live input stream.
US11750866B2
A method for generating a content depiction of particular content that includes a machine learning system programmed to receive profile data representing preferences for content. The machine learning system identifies preferences for content features based upon the profile data, accesses content data representing the particular content and other content, and classifies features of the content data and content structure data within a content structure database system according to content categories. The machine learning system generates a content structure depiction of the particular content by combining content structure data from the content structure database system, wherein the combining is based upon correlating the identified preferences of the profile with the classified content categories. The machine learning system receives feedback data responsive to the content depiction and reprograms a configuration of the machine learning system for generating a content depiction based upon the feedback data.
US11750865B1
A system, apparatus and method for synchronizing distributed adaptive streaming transcoders or packagers includes a plurality of distributed transcoders having one or more processors configured to perform the functions of identifying the output track timescale, identifying from an input signal a frame time information and optionally adjusting it for the output track timescale, calculating the frame time information of the frame relative to a time anchor by adjusting it with a synchronization time stamp, identifying a fixed segment duration by reading it from a memory, computing an earliest presentation time of a next media segment as an integer multiple of the fixed segment duration times the output track timescale, generating the next media segment with the fixed segment duration and the earliest presentation time of the next media segment, and transmitting the next media segment using an HTTP Request or a receiver.
US11750864B2
The disclosure relates to creating and consuming video-centric experiences with additional interactivity and immersion capabilities. The process involves receiving multiple video and media signals, ensuring their synchronization, uploading them to processing engines, enabling manual and autopilot-driven camera changes, and presenting them in immersive and non-immersive devices.
US11750861B2
A method of compensating for potential interruptions in a wireless connection (110) over which data is transmitted from a host device (11) to a client device (12) involves determining an expectation of an interruption to the wireless connection (110), setting a second compression level for compressing the data when an interruption is due, the second compression level being set at a higher level than a first compression level normally used for the data, compressing the data at the second compression level, and forwarding the data compressed at the second compression level to a transmitting component (16) for transmittal to the client device (12). The expectation of a potential interruption may be determined by analysing a historical record of previous interruptions to determine a periodicity of the previous interruptions and using the determined periodicity to calculate when a next potential interruption may be expected, or by determining that a buffer used for storing the data prior to transmittal is full, indicative that an interruption has commenced, or by receipt of information from the transmitting component that a potential interruption is expected to occur or has commenced.
US11750857B1
A method of communicating an alert includes: encoding data received from a plurality of sources by a central content controller (CCC) and determining existence of one or more alerts. If no alerts exist, the encoded data is assigned as streams to subchannels. For existing alerts, a market area (MA) is determined and the alert is assigned as a stream to a data subchannel and the encoded data is assigned as streams to remaining subchannels. For each MA without an applicable alert, the encoded data is assigned as streams to the subchannels. The assigned data is transmitted to regional controllers (RCs) for broadcasting to the associated MAs.
US11750856B2
A computer implemented method for inserting advertisement content into a program content stream includes receiving, by a headend content server, the program content stream. The program content stream includes an advertisement insertion cue. The method further includes detecting the advertisement insertion cue in the program content stream, and the advertisement insertion cue indicates an insertion point in the program content stream for inserting an advertisement. The method further includes modifying the advertisement insertion cue to indicate an expiration date and time for playout of a first advertisement content to be inserted into the program content stream, and inserting the first advertisement content into the program content stream.
US11750853B2
Apparatus, devices, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for watermarking with phase shifting. An example watermark encoding apparatus includes memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to select a plurality of frequencies for encoding a watermark symbol, apply a phase shift pattern to the plurality of frequencies, the phase shift pattern based on a phase reference, and embed in the plurality of frequencies the applied phase shift pattern in a media signal to encode the watermark symbol in the a media signal, and embed the phase reference into the media signal.
US11750851B2
An apparatus 103 stores, in a storage unit, a plurality of parameters for generation of a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of captured images, the plurality of parameters including a parameter representing a time and a parameter representing a position of a virtual viewpoint and a direction of view from a virtual viewpoint corresponding to the time, and causes, in accordance with a switching operation performed while a virtual viewpoint image is being displayed on a display unit, the display unit to display a virtual viewpoint image corresponding to a parameter representing a time selected from the plurality of parameters stored in the storage unit based on the switching operation, and corresponding to a parameter representing a position of a virtual viewpoint and a direction of view from a virtual viewpoint corresponding to the virtual viewpoint image being displayed.
US11750839B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for point cloud coding. In a method, when parallel octree coding is enabled for occupancy codes of nodes in an octree partitioning structure of the point cloud, syntax information of the point cloud is decoded from a coded bitstream and a bitstream offset of an octree depth is determined. The syntax information indicates a bitstream length of the octree depth at which the parallel octree coding is enabled. Parallel decoding is performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes of the octree depth based on the bitstream offset and the bitstream length of the octree depth. Further, the point cloud is reconstructed based on the occupancy codes of the nodes.
US11750834B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus comprises deriving control points (CPs) for the current block; obtaining motion vectors for the CPs; deriving a motion vector of a sub-block or a sample unit in the current block on the basis of the obtained motion vectors; deriving a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the derived motion vector; and generating a reconstruction sample on the basis of the prediction sample. The method enables effective performance of inter prediction through the motion vectors (transformation prediction), not only when an image in the current block is moved in a plane, but also when the image in the current block is rotated, zoomed in, zoomed out, or transformed into a parallelogram. Accordingly, the amount of data for the residual signal for the current block can be eliminated or reduced, and the overall coding efficiency can be improved.
US11750833B2
A video decoding method includes the steps of: generating a merge candidate list for a first block; selecting one among merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; and performing motion compensation for the first block based on motion information of the selected merge candidate. At this point, an inter-region merge candidate included in an inter-region motion information list may be added to the merge candidate list based on the number of spatial merge candidates and temporal merge candidates included in the merge candidate list.
US11750830B2
A method for decoding a picture block is disclosed. The decoding method comprises: —decoding (10) at least one stream S_diff into decoded data and into one information for identifying a reconstructed reference picture in a decoder picture buffer; —reconstructing (12) a special reference picture from at least the identified reconstructed reference picture and from the decoded data; —reconstructing (16) the picture block from at least the special reference picture, wherein the at least the special reference picture is not displayed.
US11750826B2
A method and apparatus for parallel context processing for example for high coding efficient entropy coding in HEVC. The method comprising retrieving syntax element relating to a block of an image, grouping at least two bins belonging to similar context based on the syntax element, and coding the grouped bins in parallel.
US11750823B2
A method for encoding or decoding an image signal according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining a plurality of weight prediction parameter candidates for a coding block based on number information signaled in a unit of a sequence of a bitstream, the sequence being a higher unit of the coding block, determining a weight prediction parameter of the coding block from the weight prediction parameter candidates based on index information signaled in the unit of the coding block, and obtaining a prediction block of the coding block by obtaining a second prediction sample of the coding block.
US11750821B2
In various embodiments, an encoding ladder application generates encoding ladders for encoding media titles. In operation, the encoding ladder application generates a first convex hull representing encoding tradeoffs between quality and bitrate when encoding a media title at a first resolution; The encoding ladder application generates a second convex hull representing encoding tradeoffs between quality and bitrate when encoding the media title at a second resolution. Based on the first convex hull and the second convex hull, the encoding ladder application generates an overall convex hull. Subsequently, the encoding ladder application generates an encoding ladder for the media title based on at least the overall convex hull and a ladder requirement. Advantageously, the tradeoffs between quality and bitrate represented by the encoding ladder are customized for the media title. Consequently, encoding inefficiencies attributable to conventional fixed-bitrate ladders can be reduced.
US11750815B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for encoding or decoding a file format that stores one or more images are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a visual media file and a bitstream of a visual media data according to a format rule, where the format rule specifies a condition that controls whether an information item is included in a non-video coding layer track of the visual media file, and where a presence of the non-video coding layer track in the visual media file is indicated by a specific track reference in a video coding layer track of the visual media file.
US11750804B2
A method of controlling an Adaptive Loop Filter for one or more image portions of an image, the method comprising controlling filtering on a first sample of an image portion based on one or more neighbouring sample value(s) of the first sample value, wherein the controlling uses a nonlinear function which has one or more variables based on one or more of the neighbouring sample value(s).
US11750799B2
A method for visual media processing, including: computing, during a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a cross-component linear model (CCLM) and/or a chroma residual scaling (CRS) factor for the current video block based, at least in part, on neighboring samples of a corresponding luma block which covers a top-left sample of a collocated luma block associated with the current video block, wherein one or more characteristics of the current video block are used for identifying the corresponding luma block.
US11750798B2
The present invention relates to the field of video encoding. In particular, it relates to a method 300 of encoding images captured by a camera and to an image processing device. An image sequence captured with an image sensor of the camera is obtained S310, and an oscillation frequency of a periodic movement of the camera during capturing of the image sequence is determined S320. A base subset of images of the image sequence corresponding to the oscillation frequency is identified S330 and the base subset of images are encoded S340 into an encoded video stream comprising intra frames and inter frames.
US11750796B2
This application provides a calibration device and a method. The calibration device includes calibration boards arranged at intervals and having board surface parallel to each other, a guide rail disposed at peripheries of the calibration boards, TOF cameras, and a controller. Support frames are arranged at intervals on the guide rail, and the TOF cameras are mounted on the guide rail using the support frames. Distances between the calibration surfaces and the corresponding TOF cameras are different. The controller is connected to the guide rail and the TOF cameras, and configured to send a first set of timing control signals to control the guide rail to carry the TOF cameras to move along the guide rail, and send a second set of timing control signals to the TOF cameras to control the TOF cameras to work simultaneously or alternately to measure distance values between the TOF cameras and the corresponding calibration boards.
US11750790B2
A viewing direction may define an angle/visual portion of a spherical video at which a viewing window is directed. A trajectory of viewing direction may include changes in viewing directions for playback of spherical video. Abrupt changes in the viewing directions may result in jerky or shaky views of the spherical video. Changes in the viewing directions may be stabilized to provide stabilized views of the spherical video. Amount of stabilization may be limited by a margin constraint.
US11750780B1
A method includes receiving a light beam propagating along an optical path and operating a polarization rotator in a first state to produce an input right-hand circularly polarized beam or in a second state to produce an input left-hand circularly polarized beam. The method also includes converting, using a first diffractive element, the input right-hand circularly polarized beam into an intermediate left-hand circularly polarized beam or converting, using the first diffractive element, the input left-hand circularly polarized beam into an intermediate right-hand circularly polarized beam. The method also includes converting, using a second diffractive element, the intermediate left-hand circularly polarized beam into a right-hand circularly polarized output beam or converting, using the second diffractive element, the intermediate right-hand circularly polarized beam into a left-hand circularly polarized output beam.
US11750755B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: control an operation of the information processing apparatus by executing a control program; in response to reception of an instruction to enter a power-supply off state, determine whether a first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered, the first power-supply off state being a state in which, while a current operation state is held without execution of a restart of the control program, the operation is stopped; in response to a determination result indicating that the first power-supply off state fails to be entered, perform a redetermination after a lapse of a set time, the redetermination determining whether the first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered; and in response to the redetermination determining that the first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered, cause the first power-supply off state to be entered, and, in response to the redetermination determining that the first power-supply off state is not allowed to be entered, cause a second power-supply off state to be entered, the second power-supply off state being a state in which, after the control program is restarted and an initialization process is performed, the operation is stopped.
US11750739B2
The technology disclosed herein enables an endpoint system to present a visual indicator that user communications have been suspended. In a particular embodiment, a method includes exchanging audio user communications for the communication between the first endpoint system and a second endpoint system. At the first endpoint system, the method includes determining that the second endpoint system caused a suspension of the audio user communications and providing a first visual indicator of the suspension.
US11750726B2
A master device is capable of communicating with an external device. The master device is capable of installing a slave device and allowing the slave device being detached from the master device. The slave device is capable of communicating with the master device after it is detached from the master device. The master device includes a main body and a bracket connected to the main body. The main body includes a front surface and a rear surface disposed opposite to the front surface. The front surface is provided with a receiving groove. The bracket is located at a side of the front surface. The bracket is capable of being rotated to a first position and a second position relative to the main body. The bracket is received in the receiving groove when in the first position, and is rotated out of the receiving groove when in the second position.
US11750720B1
A system can receive a predetermined entity preference from an entity device. The entity device can be associated with the entity. The system can receive a first location indicating that the entity is proximate to an interaction location from the entity device. The system can access historical interaction data of the entity related to an interaction location during a predetermined period. The system can cache the historical interaction data in a processor device dynamically selected based on computing capacity. The system can generate an interaction recommendation by executing the interaction instructions and by using the historical interaction data. The system can receive a second location indicating that the entity is not proximate to the interaction location. The system can clear the cached historical interaction data from the processor device, in response to determining that the entity is not proximate to the interaction location.
US11750717B2
A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.
US11750715B2
A system for performing industrial automation control may include a first device that generates a first set of data formatted according to a first protocol and a second device that generates an automation command. The automation command may control the first device based on the first set of data. The second device may interpret data formatted according to a second protocol. The system may include a broker system coupled between the first device and the second device to transform data communicated between the devices, such as the first set of data, the automation command, or both. For example, the broker system may transmit a set of data generated to communicate the first set of data to the second device formatted according to the second protocol as opposed to being formatting according to the first protocol.
US11750714B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for fast resumption of dormant sessions on a client device are disclosed. A client device receives a push notification from a push notification server, the push notification having a payload that includes a datagram packet from an application server that initiated the push notification. A push notification process on the client device extracts the datagram packet from the push notification and injects the datagram packet into a communications protocol stack for at least one application on the client device. The application is awakened from a dormant state and reads the datagram packet. The application may then send a response to the datagram packet to the application server.
US11750706B1
A system for scheduling transmission times to avoid connection timeouts includes a memory configured to store data in a buffer for upload to a storage system. The system also includes one or more computing devices configured to implement a connection manager. The connection manager is configured to establish a connection to a storage system. The connection manager is configured to iteratively repeat, until the data transfer operation is completed, begin transmitting the data from the buffer via the connection to the storage system, stop transmitting the data from the buffer via the connection to the storage system, where at least a portion of the data is retained in the buffer, determine a time to resume transmitting the data from the buffer via the connection to the storage system to avoid a connection timeout for the connection to the storage system, and wait until the time to resume.
US11750705B2
A computer-implemented method and system for reducing time lag in data transfer are disclosed. The computer implemented method for reducing time lag in data transfer, the method includes sending a small packet of data at predetermined time from at least one device to a destination address to keep the network connection alive and network resources assigned, wherein the at least one device includes one or more of: a transmitting device, a receiving device or a combination thereof. The system for reducing time lag in data transfer, the system comprising at least one base station; at least one device, wherein the at least one device includes one or more of a transmitting device, a receiving device or a combination thereof; wherein the at least device sends a small packet of data at predetermined time to a destination address to keep the network connection alive and network resources assigned.
US11750694B2
Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for a node of a network to facilitate communication among two or more clients, including but not limited to determining, by the node, that the two or more clients are connected to the node for accessing data originating from an origin server, receiving, by the node, a message from a first client of the two or more clients, the message is to be routed to at least one second client of the two or more clients, and sending, by the node, the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.
US11750691B2
A logical grouping of subgroups of server clusters forms a failover super-cluster. A logical grouping of groups of servers provides high availability by, upon failure of an entire group (site), failing over an entire subgroup to a different subgroup. Yet within each subgroup local failovers continue to maintain application high availability during instances in which the site remains operational.
US11750686B2
A server computer system, comprises a processor; a communications module coupled to the processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module and from a client device, a signal including a request to configure a transfer of data to a particular data record; determine that the particular data record is associated with a third party server; obtain a trust score associated with the particular data record; determine that the trust score satisfies trust criteria; and responsive to determining that the trust score satisfies trust criteria, enable one or more transfer features associated with a real-time transfer protocol.
US11750683B2
A computer-implemented process includes providing a request to access content associated with a website; receiving web page information associated with the website, and data for displaying a notification that indicates availability of a native computer application that is associated with the website; providing a request to access information associated with the native computer application; receiving information associated with the native computer application that describes interactions between a plurality of users of an application marketplace and a component of the application marketplace that provides and receives information related to the native computer application; and displaying the descriptive information for viewing by a user, including displaying information that indicates the interactions between the plurality of users and the component of the application marketplace.
US11750681B2
A gateway device for implementing data security is described herein. The gateway device is coupled between a client device and a server device, and generates a mapping between portions of data received from a client device and interface fields or data elements of the client device. Upon receiving subsequent data from the client device, the gateway device can access the generated mapping to identify portions of the subsequent data corresponding to particular interface fields or data elements of the client device using the mapping, and can encode the identified portions of the subsequent data, for instance based on data protection techniques defined by a security policy. The encoded data can then be outputted by the gateway device to the server device.
US11750680B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured for determining that a first peer involved in a video conference is a primary peer; determining that a second peer involved in the video conference is a secondary peer in response to non-satisfaction by the second peer of a threshold associated with a selected number of objects in the second peer; determining a viewing peer involved in the video conference, wherein the primary peer, the secondary peer, and the viewing peer are different; creating a modified video stream of the second peer in response to the determining that the second peer is the secondary peer based on the non-satisfaction by the second peer of the threshold associated with the selected number of objects in the second peer; detecting a static area and a dynamic area in a video stream of the first peer; superimposing the modified video stream of the second peer onto the static area in the video stream of the first peer; and providing a composite video including the video stream of the first peer, the modified video stream of the second peer, and a video stream of the viewing peer for presentation to the viewing peer.
US11750679B1
Systems and methods for managing distributed computing resources including blockchain-based management of serverless computing and edge computing. Distributed computing resources are managed on a peer-to-peer network, and serverless functions are hosted on a distributed IT infrastructure. Developers for the serverless functions and providers of distributed IT infrastructure utilize a blockchain-based IT marketplace platform to make transactions relating to computing resource consumption.
US11750676B2
A method of network-based media processing (NBMP) deployment with a framework for live uplink streaming (FLUS) and a fifth-generation media streaming (5GMS) application function (AF) can include establishing a provisioning session by a 5GMS application provider with the 5GMS AF in which a 5GMS application provider configures the 5GMS AF for a network-based media processing, configuring a FLUS sink by the 5GMS AF for the network-based media processing, selecting the FLUS sink by a FLUS source during a FLUS source discovery process, establishing a FLUS session by the FLUS source with the FLUS sink, and starting an uplink streaming by the FLUS source to the FLUS sink where media content of the uplink streaming is processed with the network-based media processing.
US11750670B2
Techniques and systems are described that support collection of electronic signatures within an online conference. At least one user input is received as part of the online conference. The user input specifies an attendee of the online conference that is provide an electronic signature. A signature module is communicated within the online conference. The signature module is configured to receive the electronic signature from the attendee. The electronic signature received via the signature module from the attendee within the online conference is applied to the digital content.
US11750668B1
The present disclosure is generally related to integrating asynchronous text based and voice based communication between users on desktop and mobile devices with synchronous modes of communication, such as video or audio conferencing. More particularly, additional notifications, commands, and services may be provided to aid users to smoothly transition between different modes of operation, to adapt to varying conditions, and to reduce distraction caused by notifications.
US11750663B2
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed enabling efficient collection of forensic data from client devices, also referred to herein as endpoint devices, of a networked computer system. Embodiments described herein further enable correlating forensic data with other types of non-forensic data from other data sources. A network security application described herein further enables generating various dashboards, visualizations, and other interfaces for managing forensic data collection, and displaying information related to collected forensic data and information related to identified correlations between items of forensic data and other items of non-forensic data.
US11750657B2
Implementations include receiving an AAG that at least partially defines a digital twin of an enterprise network and includes rule nodes each representing an attack tactic that can be used to move along a path, determining security controls each mitigating at least one rule node, executing an iteration of a simulation of a sub-set of security controls in the enterprise network, the iteration including: for each security control in the set of security controls, determining, an influence score that represents a change in a security risk from implementing the security control and a rule distribution, defining the sub-set of security controls based on the first influence scores, and reducing the AAG based on the sub-set of security controls to provide a residual AAG, determining a decrease in a graph risk value and the first AAG, and selectively implementing the sub-set of security controls in the enterprise network.
US11750656B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for providing secure access to an email server. A gateway server can receive a request for email notification information from a notification server and parse the request to identify at least one user device associated with the request. The gateway server can then determine whether the identified devices comply with any applicable compliance rules, for example by requesting a compliance status from a management server at which the identified devices are enrolled. If at least one of the identified devices is in compliance, the gateway can pass the request through to the email server. The gateway can then receive a response from the email server and provide it to the notification server.
US11750643B1
An apparatus and method for determining a recommended cyber-attack risk remediation action are provided. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least a processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a cyber profile associated with a digital environment. The processor is further configured to receive a risk profile associated with the cyber profile and determine at least one recommended risk remediation action based on the risk profile. In addition, the processor is configured to generating a user interface data structure configured to display the determined at least one recommended risk remediation action.
US11750640B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing web app scans of an application are provided. Telemetry events derived from the web app scan are intercepted by a runtime that has been instrumented in conjunction with the application. The telemetry events are collected and transmitted to a platform that analyzes the collected events and presents information based on the analysis.
US11750634B1
This disclosure describes threat detection monitoring of systems executing in environments (consisting of hosts, networks, and/or applications, etc.), e.g., service provider networks, using trained deep learning/machine learning (ML) models. The models may be trained in one or more stages in simulators within a service provider network, e.g., the cloud, and/or in a simulator located in an on-premises environment, as well as on systems executing within the network. The models may be trained without relying on any security device/feature being configured or enabled, or with such security device/features being configured or enabled.
US11750630B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to real-time validation of application data. A computing platform may collect, in real-time, information associated with a plurality of data transmissions between applications, where the information includes, for each data transmission of the plurality of data transmissions, an indication of a source application and a destination application, a first indication whether the data transmission was sent by the source application, and a second indication whether the data transmission was received by the destination application. The computing platform may compare, for each data transmission, the first indication and the second indication. The computing platform may detect, for a particular data transmission, a lack of a match between the first indication and the second indication. The computing platform may identify the particular data transmission as an anomalous data transmission. Then, the computing platform may trigger one or more security actions to mitigate the anomalous data transmission.
US11750628B2
Methods and systems for monitoring activity on a network. The system may first classify network activity data as being generated by a human actor or an automated process. Then, the system may assign a first behavioral profile to the entity based on the network activity data and detect anomalous activity associated with the entity.
US11750626B2
A cybersecurity engine can guide a forensic investigation of a security incident by estimating the utility of investigating events associated with the security incident, selecting a subset of such events based on the estimated utilities, and presenting data associated with the selected events to the investigator. A method for guiding a response to a security incident may include estimating, for each of a plurality of security events associated with the security incident, a utility of investigating the security event. The method may further include selecting a subset of the security events based, at least in part, on the estimated utilities of investigating the security events. The method may further include guiding the response to the security incident by presenting, to a user, data corresponding to the selected security events.
US11750617B2
An apparatus for use in an identity management system includes a storage device; a network interface; and a processor, the storage device storing software instructions for controlling the processor to: process a request, received via a network interface, for an exclusive claim to a unique identifier associated with an individual; verify the individual's claim to the unique identifier is proper; if the individual's claim is verified, create a user account, wherein the user account is associated with the respective individual's claimed unique identifier; provide a look up service for responding to external queries regarding whether individual unique identifiers of the type claimed by the individual have been claimed; and provide proof of the identity of the individual based on the individual's exclusive claim to the claimed unique identifier in response to a request to provide said proof if authorized by the individual through the user account.
US11750612B2
A service computing system receives an API call in which an authorization token, that contains an identifier in the content of the authorization token, is included in a header of the API call. The identifier is also included as a parameter passed in with the API call. The service computing system parses the API call to obtain the authorization token, and the identifier included in the authorization token. It also obtains the identifier passed in as a parameter of the API call. The service computing system compares the identifier obtained from the authorization token to the identifier passed in as a parameter of the API call to determine whether they match. If they do not match, the API call is processed as an unauthorized API call. A security system in the service computing system authorizes the API call based on the comparison.
US11750609B2
Techniques include receiving an access notification identifying a request by an identity for access to an access-protected network resource; identifying a configurable and multi-dimensional policy defining rights of the identity to access the access-protected network resource with respect to the operation of the access-protected network resource; automatically determining, based on the configurable and multi-dimensional policy, whether to perform at least one of: permitting the identity to access the access-protected network resource; denying the identity to access the access-protected network resource; or rotating a secret associated with the identity.
US11750597B2
In an approach to unattended authentication in HTTP using time-based one-time passwords, a request is received from a client for a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication on a server. A challenge is sent to the client, where the challenge includes a header that indicates that a Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) is to be used for the HTTP authentication. A first response is received from the client based on a first TOTP value and a shared secret, wherein the first response is encoded based on an encoding mechanism included in the header. Responsive to validating the first TOTP value and the shared secret from the client, the client is authenticated.
US11750596B2
Methods and systems for using ephemeral URL passwords to deter high volume attacks is described. A request to access one of several protected URLs is detected from a client computing device. A URL password is received from the client computing device. The request is redirected to the protected URL upon determining that the received URL password is valid for the one of the several of protected URLs.
US11750592B2
The object of the invention relates to a method in which a telecommunications operator or an e-delivery provider can send notices by email to one or a number of recipients, certifying the content of the notice and with a link to a proxy server of a CA (certification authority) who will verify the digital certificate of the recipient and their identity.
US11750584B2
The invention provides one or more consortia of networks that identify and share information about users and/or user devices interacting with the consortia. User devices may be identified, at least in part, by tag-based computer information. Computers and other devices accessing the Web carry device tags with date and time information describing when they were issued by a security tag server. A server time stamp may be inserted into time based computer tags such as a cookies indicating when they were created. Such time stamp information can be encrypted and analyzed during future attempts to access a secure network such as a customer attempting to log into an online banking account. When the time stamp information from the tag is compared to other selected information about the user, device and/or account, including but not limited to last account log-in date/time or account creation date, the invention may be used to detect suspicious activity. The invention may be use for identity-based applications such as network security, the detection of fraudulent transactions, identity theft, reputation-based communities, and law enforcement.
US11750580B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium, and method for secure network communication. A first device employs a first secret to establish a stream between the first and a second device. A third key, first ciphertext based on a first key, and hash of the first key are received from the second device by the first. A second key is applied to recover a second secret from the first ciphertext. The third key is encrypted to generate a second ciphertext including a third secret. Fourth and fifth keys are derived based on the first, second, and third secrets. A message authentication code is generated based on the fourth and third keys, first ciphertext, hash of the first key, and second ciphertext. The second ciphertext and message authentication code are transmitted by the first to the second device, and the fifth key is employed by the first device to modify the stream.
US11750566B1
A customer of a computing resource provider configures a virtual computer system in a virtual private network with a web service application. The web service application comprises a web service interface that executes instructions provided by the customer to cause one or more hardware security modules (HSMs) to perform cryptographic operations on data on behalf of the customer without the need to generate programmatic code.
US11750560B2
A Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) client, such as a network element, includes one or more processors and memory comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to configure an unnumbered interface to communicate via Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and communicate to a server over a network, wherein the unnumbered interface is an interface which does not have an IPv6 address which is routable in the network, auto provision Open Shortest Path First version 3 (OSPFv3) based on a reply from a DHCPv6 relay agent, and request data from the network for provisioning.
US11750553B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing email suggestions are presented. A first user account associated with a composer of an email may be identified. Core working hour and a time zone associated with that first user account may be determined. One or more recipient user accounts included in the email may be identified. Core working hours and a time zone associated with the recipient user accounts may be identified. If more than a threshold number, percentage, and/or ratio of the recipient users is not currently in core working hours when the email is being drafted/sent, a suggestion may be surfaced in association with the email to send the email at a later time when more recipient users are in their core working hours.
US11750544B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that allows third party applications to inject dependencies to leverage automated assistant functions. Furthermore, enabling such dependency injections can allow third party applications to preserve privacy of any application content that is used during execution of automated assistant functions. In some implementations, a third party application can initialize a function with an assistant dependency using parameters that are tagged as private. Initializing a function in such as a way can allow private content communicated between the third party application and the automated assistant to be abstracted for security purposes. The abstracted content can thereafter be communicated to a remote server—such as a server hosting an extensively trained machine learning model. Intelligent output provided by the server can then be incorporated into one or more processes of the third party application without comprising security.
US11750540B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing electronic communications. According to certain embodiments, an enterprise directory is provided for listing a plurality of enterprises. In one embodiment, the enterprise directory may include an enterprise profile for each enterprise identifying, among other things, a mode of communication for the enterprise. Enterprises that wish to communicate with one another may form partnerships with one another. In one embodiment, a partnership may be formed between two enterprises when one enterprise accepts a partnership request submitted by the other enterprise. Information regarding partnerships between enterprises may be stored in a database. Further, an enterprise user may request to electronically communicate (e.g., via IM, voice, or email) with a user associated with a different enterprise. Users associated with different enterprises may be allowed to communicate electronically with one another if their respective enterprises are in a partnership with one another.
US11750532B2
Example methods and systems for logical network packet handling are described. In one example, a physical network interface controller (PNIC) may receive an ingress encapsulated packet associated with a packet flow via a physical network. The ingress encapsulated packet may include an outer header and an inner packet that is destined for a virtualized computing instance. The ingress encapsulated packet may be steered towards a processing pipeline for processing to generate a processed packet. The processing pipeline may include (a) retrieving a logical network policy associated with the packet flow from a datastore on the PNIC; and (b) performing decapsulation to remove the outer header and one or more actions on the inner packet according to the logical network policy. The processed packet may be forwarded towards the virtualized computing instance via a virtual function supported by the PNIC or a physical network connected to the PNIC.
US11750526B2
Some embodiments provide a method for an ingress packet processing pipeline of a network forwarding integrated circuit (IC). The ingress packet processing pipeline is for receiving packets from a port of the network forwarding IC and processing the packets to assign different packets to different queues of a traffic management unit of the network forwarding IC. The method receives state data from the traffic management unit. The method stores the state data in a stateful table. The method assigns a particular packet to a particular queue based on the state data received from the traffic management unit and stored in the stateful table.
US11750514B1
In accordance with one disclosed method, a first application may receive a first connectivity candidate from a second application, the first connectivity candidate identifying at least a first internet protocol (IP) address that a remote application can potentially use to send data over a network to the second application for use by the first application. The first application may determine that the first connectivity candidate satisfies at least one criterion and, based at least in part on the first connectivity candidate satisfying the at least one criterion, may cause the first connectivity candidate to be sent to the remote application via a signaling channel to cause the remote application to attempt to use the first connectivity candidate to send data to the second application via the network.
US11750510B2
The present disclosure discloses an FPGA device for implementing a network-on-chip transmission bandwidth expansion function, and relates to the technical field of FPGAs. When a predefined functional module with built-in hardcore IP nodes is integrated in an FPGA bare die, soft-core IP nodes are configured and formed by using logical resource modules in the FPGA bare die and are connected to the hardcore IP nodes to form an NOC network structure, so as to increase nodes and expand the transmission bandwidth of the predefined functional module. On the other hand, the soft-core IP nodes can be additionally connected to input and output signals in the predefined functional module and also can expand the transmission bandwidth of the predefined functional module.
US11750507B1
This disclosure describes techniques relating to assigning unique segment identifiers (SIDs) in a segment routing network. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a computing system and from a node on a network, a request to allocate a segment identifier for use in a segment routing network; allocating, by the computing system and from a block of addresses, an assigned segment identifier; responding to the request by outputting, by the computing system and over the network to the node, information about the assigned segment identifier; and maintaining the assigned segment identifier.
US11750490B2
A communication coupling verification method executed by a computer, the communication coupling verification method includes identifying both setting information before a setting change of each of network devices arranged in a network and forwarding information before the setting change; identifying both setting information after the setting change and the forwarding information after the setting change; generating a first model before the setting change and a second model after the setting change by using the setting information before the setting change, the forwarding information before the setting change, the setting information after the setting change, and the forwarding information after the setting change; and determining influence of the setting change on the network based on a difference between the generated first model and the generated second model.
US11750489B1
Some embodiments provide a novel method for monitoring health of an SMN that includes multiple networking components. A health analytics manager identifies a set of one or more metrics associated with the network components of the SMN. The health analytics manager uses the set of metrics to compute a first health score for the SMN. Then, the health analytics manager presents the first health score in a UI along with (1) data regarding how the first health score was computed, and (2) a set of one or more parameters for a user to modify how the health for the SMN is computed. After receiving from the user one or more modifications to at least one of the parameters, the health analytics manager computes a second health score for the SMN based on the modified set of parameters.
US11750488B1
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for minimizing latency in an infrastructure. One or more servers receive a request of deploying a new extract, load, and transform (ELT) logic. One or more servers analyze the new ELT logic to identify source and target locations, analyze logs of existing ELT logics, identify physical locations of infrastructure resources, and identify available physical spaces for moving the infrastructure resources close to each other. One or more servers determine infrastructure resources that need to be moved so that round trip network communication of the new ELT logic are optimized, based on the physical locations of the infrastructure resources, the available physical spaces, and parameters identified through analysis of existing ELT logics. One or more servers move the infrastructure resources that need to be moved.
US11750487B1
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms facilitate actionable reporting of network state information and real-time, autonomous network engineering directly in-network at a switch or other network device. A data collector within the network device collects state information and/or data unit information from various device components, such as traffic managers and packet processors. The data collector, which may optionally generate additional state information by performing various calculations on the information it receives, is configured to then provide at least some of the state information to an analyzer device connected to an analyzer interface. The analyzer device, which may be a separate device, performs various analyses on the state information, depending on how it is configured. The analyzer device outputs reports that identify statuses, errors, misconfigurations, and/or suggested actions to take to improve operation of the network device. In an embodiment, some or all actions that may be suggested therein ae executed automatically.
US11750485B2
An extraction unit 141 extracts predetermined pieces of information from each of a plurality of packets and sent from equipment 20. Then, an inference unit 142 infers a piece of equipment information that is information on the equipment 20, for each of the plurality of packets on the basis of the pieces of information extracted by the extraction unit 141. Then, the first selection unit 143 selects a predetermined piece of equipment information for each packet type from among pieces of equipment information on the basis of a level of detail of each piece of equipment information. Then, the second selection unit 144 selects, on the basis of a level of reliability predefined according to each packet type, a predetermined piece of equipment information corresponding to the equipment 20 from among pieces of equipment information inferred by the first selection unit 143.
US11750481B2
A method for visualizing network flows of a network is provided. The method monitors network flows between a group of machines in a network. The method associates identifiers with the monitored network flows. The method aggregates the monitored network flows into a set of groups based on the associated identifiers. The method displays a set of flow records for the each group of the set of groups.
US11750476B2
For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for forwarding tenant traffic through a set of service machines to perform a set of service operations on the tenant traffic. In some embodiments, the method performs a classification operation on a data message flow of a tenant, in order to identify a set of service operations to perform on the data message flow. For some data message flows, the classification operation selects the identified set of service operations from several candidate sets of service operations that are viable service operation sets for similar data message flows of the tenant. In some embodiments, the classification operation is based on a set of attributes associated with the data message flow (e.g., five tuple identifier, i.e., protocol and source and destination ports and IP addresses).
US11750471B2
Various embodiments include methods for determining a resource configuration of a cloud service system using a system simulation tool with a model library. This may include: obtaining a model required for each service; obtaining a resource limit setting of each required model; creating a service workflow among the models to obtain a system simulation model, indicating the interaction workflow among the models and the sequence of model execution in a single service; using training data to train a service performance model of each service, wherein the training data comprises test data collected from the cloud service system in a testing environment, and the service performance model defines a resource consumption of a single request running on a service in the system simulation model; performing system simulation with a given resource configuration set and the resource limit settings, to obtain a system performance KPI; and determining a resource configuration with the best KPI.
US11750470B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for ensuring that one or more compliance information bundles associated with one or more end-point identifiers maintain compliance with one or more regulations. It is detected that a rules engine has been updated with a new regulation. Based on an identification that one or more compliance information bundles associated with the one or more end-point identifiers will not be compliant with the new regulation after an expiration of a grace period associated with the new regulation, a status associated with each one or more compliance information bundles is changed to a provisionally-approved status. The changing of the status associated with each of the one or more compliance information bundles to the provisionally-approved status causes each of the one or more compliance information bundles to be treated, temporarily like the status of each the one or more compliance information bundles is an approved status.
US11750468B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify a given one of one or more assets in an information technology infrastructure associated with a support indicator associated with a priority level, and to obtain information characterizing state transitions of the one or more assets. The processing device is also configured to determine, based at least in part on a current state of the given asset identified utilizing the obtained information, a probability of the given asset transitioning to each of a plurality of states and to select, based at least in part on the determined probabilities, one of the plurality of states as a predicted future state of the given asset utilizing conformal prediction. The processing device is further configured to modify the priority level of the support indicator associated with the given asset based at least in part on the predicted future state of the given asset.
US11750466B2
To provide a low latency near RT RIC, some embodiments separate the RIC's functions into several different components that operate on different machines (e.g., execute on VMs or Pods) operating on the same host computer or different host computers. Some embodiments also provide high speed interfaces between these machines. Some or all of these interfaces operate in non-blocking, lockless manner in order to ensure that critical near RT RIC operations (e.g., datapath processes) are not delayed due to multiple requests causing one or more components to stall. In addition, each of these RIC components also has an internal architecture that is designed to operate in a non-blocking manner so that no one process of a component can block the operation of another process of the component. All of these low latency features allow the near RT RIC to serve as a high speed IO between the E2 nodes and the xApps.
US11750455B2
Methods and systems for configuring nodes in a cloud computing network are described. One example method includes receiving a request from a user to create and configure a node in the cloud computing network, the request including attributes associated with the node; verifying that user is authorized to create and configure the node; in response to verifying that the user is authorized, creating the node; receiving a configuration request from the node identifying configuration actions to perform on the node based on the attributes; in response to receiving the configuration request, sending, to the node, a configuration command corresponding to one or more of the identified configuration actions, wherein the node executes the configuration command upon receipt to perform the identified configuration actions; receiving, from the node, reporting information related; and determining that the configuration command was executed successfully based on the reporting information.
US11750453B2
This application provides a network slice configuration method, apparatus, and system, and pertains to the field of wireless communications technologies. The method includes: after receiving a management request of a network slice, obtaining or determining, by a network slice manager, network resource information corresponding to a subnet included in the network slice, and then sending, in a form of a subnet management request to a subnet manager, the network resource information corresponding to the subnet, so that the subnet manager configures the corresponding subnet based on the network resource information corresponding to the subnet. In this application, network slice configuration efficiency can be improved.
US11750447B2
In one example aspect, a method performed by a network node for configuring a network slice is provided, the method comprising, in response to a request to configure a network slice, configuring network resources for providing the network slice, and configuring a state of the network slice to a first state, wherein in the first state the network slice is disabled.
US11750435B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data processing method and apparatus, and belong to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: generating a physical layer protocol data unit PPDU, where the PPDU includes a preamble field, a data field, and a middle preamble field, and the preamble in the PPDU includes information used to indicate an insertion frequency of the middle preamble in the data field in the PPDU; and sending the PPDU. The insertion frequency of the middle preamble in the data field is indicated by using a specified field in the preamble. In this way, in different scenarios, the middle preamble may be inserted into the data field at different frequency, thereby reducing overheads of an inserted pilot and improving data transmission performance.
US11750432B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction in a MIMO OFDM transmitter system. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a transmitter system includes, for each carrier of two or more carriers, performing precoding of frequency-domain input signals for the carrier to provide frequency-domain precoded signals for the carrier, the frequency-domain input signals for the carrier being for a plurality of transmit layers for the carrier, respectively. The method further includes processing the two or more pluralities of frequency-domain precoded signals for the two or more carriers, respectively, in accordance with a multi-carrier processing scheme to provide a plurality of multi-carrier time-domain transmit signals for a plurality of antenna branches, respectively, of the MIMO OFDM transmitter system. The multi-carrier processing scheme provides PAPR reduction for Cyclic Prefixes (CPs) of the plurality of multi-carrier time-domain transmit signals for the plurality of antenna branches.
US11750428B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network, the method including communicating based on a signaling structure, the signaling structure including a number R of long symbols and/or a number Nsym of regular symbols, wherein R and/or Nsym is based on the subcarrier spacing associated to the signaling structure and/or a cyclic prefix length of a long symbol and/or a cyclic prefix length of a regular symbol. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11750424B2
An electronic control unit is mounted on a vehicle, and includes a reception unit that receives a data signal transmitted via a transmission path mounted on the vehicle; an environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines the state of the transmission path, in which the reception unit includes an equalizer that compensates for the data signal, the equalizer calculates a compensation parameter for compensating for the data signal, and the determination unit determines the state of the transmission path based on the compensation parameter and the environmental information.
US11750423B2
Described are methods for dealing with phase noise, e.g., common phase error and/or inter-carrier interference, in communication systems, and apparatuses for the same. A method can include at least: transmitting one or more reference signals (in-band signals within a channel); and mapping the reference signals to radio resources in the channel for transmission of the reference signals. An amount of the radio resources may depend on, e.g., information about a modulation and coding scheme used for transmission. An associated method can include at least: receiving one or more reference signals, and mapping the reference signals to radio resources in the channel for reception of the reference signals; receiving information about a modulation and coding scheme to be used, an amount of the radio resources depending on, e.g., information about the modulation and coding scheme used for reception; and using the reference signals to compensate for phase noise.
US11750422B2
Methods and apparatus for decoding received uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a stream having data LLRs and second channel state information (CSI2) LLRs, and separating the data LLRs into a data stream and the CSI2 LLRs into a CSI2 stream based on configuration parameters. The method also includes decoding the data stream to generate decoded data, and decoding the CSI2 stream to generate decoded CSI2 information. An apparatus includes a first LLR preprocessor that receives a stream having data LLRs and second channel state information (CSI2) LLRs and separates the data LLRs into a data stream, and a second LLR preprocessor that receives the stream and separates the CSI2 LLRs into a CSI2 stream. The apparatus also includes a data decoder that decodes the data stream to generate decoded data, and a CSI2 decoder that decodes the CSI2 stream to generate decoded CSI2 information.
US11750415B1
A single hardware device (“unified NDR core”) that supports a narrowband digital return (NDR) channel for a plurality of remote PHY devices. The unified NDR core may be located within a cable headend. The unified NDR core comprises a single digital-to-analog converter (DAC) which converts digital payloads carried by digital packets received from the plurality of Remote PHY devices into a RF signal. The unified NDR core further comprises a transmitter for sending the RF signal to an Out-of-Band (OOB) Termination System. The unified NDR core supports a plurality of narrowband digital return (NDR) channels for the plurality of remote PHY devices.
US11750389B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing hardware backed symmetric operations for password based authentication. In operation, a system receives a request to access software utilizing password-based authentication. Further, the system receives a password for the password-based authentication. The system computes a hash utilizing the password and a hardware-based authenticator associated with hardware of the system utilizing hardware backed symmetric encryption. Moreover, the system verifies that the hash computed utilizing the password and the hardware-based authenticator is correct for accessing the software.
US11750388B2
The technology relates to a technique for representing a unique physical asset such as a smartphone with a unique (singular) digital asset such as a non-fungible token (NFT). The NFT and related metadata can be stored on a blockchain to verify ownership of the digital asset. In one example, the NFT is produced based on a unique identifier (IMEI) for the smartphone. Other examples of physical assets with unique identifiers include automobiles, real property, etc.
US11750387B2
Presented herein are systems and methods for end-to-end encryption for session-less communications. A first server may receive, from a second server, a request to retrieve keys for a customer device to access a service. The request may include a device identifier and a first token encrypted using a first encryption key. The first server may determine, responsive to validating, that the customer device is to be issued a second token. The first server may identify least a portion of the first token decrypted using the first encryption key. The first server may generate a set of second encryption keys to be used by the customer device. The first server may package the second token to include (i) at least the portion of the first token and (ii) the set of second encryption keys. The first server may transmit, to the second server, a response including the second token.
US11750382B2
Methods, systems, and devices for facilitating the automated configuration of one or more new 802.11 access points (APs) are disclosed herein. A cloud server may receive a message associated with a customer account for one or more new APs. The cloud server may associate a first AP of the one or more new APs based on the message. The cloud server may then retrieve a public key associated with the first AP which has a reciprocal private key. The cloud server may send the public key to a gateway (GW) associated with the customer account. The GW may encrypt the GW credentials, such as a password and SSID, into a ciphertext using the public key and then broadcast this information. When the first AP has been powered on it may decrypt the ciphertext using the private key and use the credentials to act as a node in the GW's network.
US11750380B2
In accordance a method for storing a dataset, the dataset may be split into fragments that are distributed among different nodes of a network for storage. The fragments may then be retrieved as and when needed and re-assembled. The method allows multiple different fragments to be stored and re-assembled on demand. The dataset is initially stored in a user computing device in communication with a data storage system and a custodial entity. The fragments are stored so that no single computing entity in the storage system or the custodian ever contains or gains knowledge of all the fragments. Additionally, the user computing device that was initially in possession of the dataset and which caused the fragments to be stored in the storage system may be replaced with different user computing devices without losing the capability of storing and re-assembling the user data on demand by the replacement user computing device.
US11750376B2
A method of securing, by a managing node, communication in a network of member nodes including a first member node. Communication is secured using a (k, n1) secret sharing scheme during a first phase. The managing node announces a phase shift to a subsequent phase relative to the first phase. The managing node secures communication in the network during the subsequent phase using a (k+x, n2) secret sharing scheme. Each of the member nodes is previously in possession of exactly one corresponding unique share for the second key. The first member node is previously in possession of a first unique share for the second key. The managing node deletes the first member node from the subsequent phase by broadcasting the first unique share for the second key.
US11750372B2
A BIOS/OS key provisioning system includes an NVMe storage device coupled to a server device via a network. The server device includes an operating system engine and a BIOS engine. Subsequent to a current initialization of the server device and prior to an immediately subsequent initialization of the server device, the BIOS engine retrieves a key from a key storage subsystem and stores the key in a BIOS memory subsystem. When the BIOS engine receives a current key request that identifies the key from the operating system engine and determines that the key stored in the BIOS memory system has not previously been accessed subsequent to the current initialization and prior to the subsequent initialization, it provides the key from the BIOS memory subsystem to the operating system, and prevents the key from being provided from the BIOS memory subsystem in response to any subsequent key request.
US11750362B2
A non-interactive protocol is provided for evaluating machine learning models such as decision trees. A client can delegate the evaluation of a machine learning model such as a decision tree to a server by sending an encrypted input and receiving only the encryption of the result. The inputs can be encoded as vector of integers using their binary representation. The server can then evaluate the machine learning model using a homomorphic arithmetic circuit. The homomorphic arithmetic circuit provides an implementation that requires fewer multiplications than a Boolean comparison circuit. Efficient data representations are then combined with different algorithmic optimizations to keep the computational overhead and the communication cost low. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11750357B1
Coherent phase recovery method includes producing, with a transmit-side frequency-comb source, a first frequency-comb signal that includes a pilot tone and a first optical tone having a first center wavelength that differs from a pilot center wavelength of the pilot tone. The method also includes coherently modulating the first optical tone to yield a first modulated signal; and generating a second frequency-comb signal with a receive-side frequency-comb source driven by the pilot tone. The method also includes extracting, from the second frequency-comb signal, a first local-oscillator tone having the first center wavelength; and demodulating the first modulated signal by homodyning the first modulated signal with the first local-oscillator tone.
US11750353B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting a periodic channel quality report (CSI) and/or a sounding reference symbol (SRS) from a UE to an eNodeB. To avoid double decoding at the eNodeB in transient phases, a deterministic behavior of the UE is defined by the invention, according to which the eNodeB can unambiguously determine whether the UE will transmit the CSI/SRS or not. According to one embodiment, the UL grants and/or DL assignments received until and including subframe N−4 only are considered; UL grants and/or DL assignments received by the UE after subframe N−4 are discarded for the determination. Additionally, DRX-related timers at subframe N−4 are considered for the determination. In a second embodiment, DRX MAC control elements from the eNodeB, instructing the UE to enter DRX, i.e., become Non-Active, are only considered for the determination if they are received before subframe N−4, i.e., until and including subframe N−(4+k).
US11750352B2
Provided are a feedback information processing method, device and system, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: multiplexing, by a first node, feedback information for a plurality of second nodes in a media access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU), where the feedback information is information generated after the first node correctly receives transmission blocks from the second nodes, and the feedback includes a plurality of pieces of bit information. After the first node multiplexes the feedback information for the plurality of second nodes in the MAC PDU, a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) is used in a process that the first node delivers the feedback information to the plurality of second nodes.
US11750351B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) configuration for a sidelink channel; and communicate on the sidelink channel using a MAC-CE configured according to the MAC-CE configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11750350B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for optimizing delivery of a small amount of mobile originated (MO) or mobile terminated (MT) data.
US11750348B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method and system for managing data transmission in a communication network is provided. During Data Resource Bearer (DRB) creation, network signals to a transmitting node, the data transfer requirement. The network uses a signaling parameter to indicate a large data transfer requirement. Based on the data transfer requirement information collected from the network, the transmitting node determines the type of data format that needs to be used for the data transmission. If the network signals large data transfer requirement, then the transmitting node selects a Subheader format in which the length field of the data format suits the large data transfer requirement. Further, data communication is initiated using the selected Subheader format.
US11750340B2
A method for transmitting and receiving channel state information at a terminal of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the preset specification comprises the steps of: determining at least one of first precoding information and first rank information corresponding to a first dimension; receiving, from a base station, a reference signal corresponding to a second dimension; determining at least one of second precoding information and second rank information corresponding to the second dimension, on the basis of the reference signal; and transmitting, to the base station, channel state information which has been determined on the basis of at least one of the first precoding information, the first rank information, the second precoding information and the second rank information. According to an embodiment of the present specification, it is possible to correctly transmit and receive pre-coding information and channel state information at a terminal and a base station including a plurality of antennas, and to reduce an overhead occurring at the time of transmission and reception.
US11750339B2
Methods for wireless communications over a wideband carrier are provided. Time-frequency resources of the wideband carrier within a transmission time interval are divided into multiple time-frequency resource blocks. Each of the time-frequency resource blocks corresponds to a group of contiguous subcarriers of the wideband carrier and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols. Data streams may be scheduled to be transmitted in different time-frequency resource blocks, and may be destined for different user equipments or the same user equipment. Baseband processing operations may be performed on data streams scheduled in different time-frequency resource blocks independently from one another. Separate control channels or one common control channel may be configured for data transmissions in different time-frequency resource blocks.
US11750334B2
The data collection management device (10) is connected via a network to a plurality of communication devices (20) performing cyclic communication and includes: a network configuration storage (17) to store network configuration information indicating the communication devices participating in the cyclic communication; a data receiving unit (11) to receive communication data multicast from each communication device (20); a received data storage (12) to store the received communication data as collected data; a received data determination unit (13) to determine whether there is missing data in the collected data and identify unreceived communication data, based on information specifying communication cycles included in the collected data, on information specifying sender communication devices included in the collected data, and on network configuration information; and a retransmission requesting unit (15) to transmit a retransmission request of the unreceived communication data to one of the plurality of communication devices (20).
US11750326B2
A terminal device receives a DMRS and data from a network device. The DMRS and the data undergo Alamouti coding in space domain and frequency domain, or the DMRS and the data undergo Alamouti coding in space domain and time domain, and a DMRS obtained through the Alamouti coding is mapped to a first DMRS port and a second DMRS port. A modulation symbol of the first DMRS port is related to a modulation symbol of the second DMRS port. The terminal device demodulates the data based on the DMRS. Therefore, the DMRS corresponds to a transmission scheme of the data, to help the terminal device demodulate the data. This can reduce interference estimation complexity of the terminal device.
US11750325B2
A system and method for efficiently transporting data in a computing system are contemplated. In various embodiments, a computing system includes a source, a destination and multiple lanes between them for transporting data. Multiple receivers in the destination has a respective termination resistor connected to a single integrating capacitor, which provides a reference voltage to the multiple receivers. The receivers reconstruct the received data by comparing the corresponding input signals to the reference voltage. The source includes a table storing code words. The source maps a generated data word to a code word, which is sent to the destination. The destination maps the received code word to the data word. The values of the code words are selected to maintain a nearly same number of Boolean ones on the multiple lanes over time as a number of Boolean zeroes.
US11750323B2
A method performed by a STA may comprise receiving data of a MU-HE-PPDU, from an AP. The MU-HE-PPDU may comprise a HE-SIG-A field, a first HE-SIG-B portion and a second HE-SIG-B portion. The first HE-SIG-B portion may be received on a first channel and the second HE-SIG-B portion may be received on a second channel which is different than the first channel. The first HE-SIG-B portion may include one or more STA identifiers.
US11750316B2
Disclosed herein is wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) and demultiplexing with signal entry and exit in a common routing surface to increase channel density. In particular, disclosed is a WDM assembly including a plurality of common ports and a plurality of channel sets having one or more channel ports. The WDM assembly includes a first routing surface with a first WDM passband and a second routing surface offset from the first routing surface. The second routing surface is configured to reflect at least one signal passed through the first routing surface back through the first routing surface at a laterally different location. Optical signal paths of at least a portion of the common ports are parallel to and offset from one another. In certain embodiments, such a configuration may increase channel density and decrease a form factor (e.g., footprint).
US11750314B2
This application discloses a service data processing method and apparatus, to resolve a problem of low bandwidth utilization in the conventional technology. A dynamic framing method is used. When a transmission rate of an OTN data frame increases, a length of a payload area constantly increases, while a length of an overhead area does not increase. In other words, in OTN data frames at different transmission rates, lengths of overhead areas are fixed. As the transmission rates of the OTN data frames increase, lengths of payload areas constantly increase. In this way, when the rate increases, overheads do not occupy more bandwidths, thereby improving bandwidth utilization.
US11750309B2
An audio mixer includes an operation panel having a plurality of faders, a display device, and a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, the second surface extending from the first surface and the third surface extending from the second surface, in a front-back direction. The plurality of faders are disposed along the first surface and arranged in a left-right direction. The display device is disposed along the third surface. A first reference distance from a common reference point to a first point of the first surface is equal to greater than a second reference distance from the common reference point to a second point of the third surface. The first point is disposed at a frontmost portion of the operation panel. The second point is disposed higher than the first point, at an uppermost portion of the third surface. The common reference position is disposed higher than the second point.
US11750306B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for antenna calibration. A method implemented at a network function comprises calibrating an antenna of the network function based on available time-frequency resources. The method further comprises communicating with at least one terminal device via the calibrated antenna.
US11750292B2
A method for determining an optical signal power change, wherein the method includes: A first optical signal that includes a plurality of wavelength signals is obtained, where the plurality of wavelength signals are distributed in a plurality of bands. Then, an optical power of each band and a center wavelength signal of each band are detected, and a preset single-wavelength transmit power and a preset coefficient are obtained. Next, an equivalent quantity N of equivalent wavelength signals is determined, and an equivalent wavelength signal corresponding to the first optical signal is determined. Further, a target power that is used to compensate for a first power change value of the first optical signal in transmission over an optical fiber is determined based on the preset coefficient, the equivalent wavelength signal, the equivalent quantity, and the preset single-wavelength transmit power.
US11750287B2
An optical Digital Signal Processor (DSP) circuit includes a digital core configured to implement digital signal processing functionality and configured to operate at a plurality of baud rates including a full baud rate and a half-baud rate; and an analog interface including a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) section and an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) section, wherein the analog interface is connected to the digital core and is configured to operate at the full baud rate when the digital core is configured to operate at any of the plurality of baud rates.
US11750277B2
A system for satellite communication is disclosed. The system includes a base terminal and a mobile terminal configured to communicate via a communication satellite relay. The base terminal and the mobile terminal include a receiver and a transmitter. At least one of the base terminal or the mobile terminal further includes an artificial intelligence engine configured to receive status or instruction data based on a received signal, determine an instruction or command based on the received data, prepare instruction data or updated status data, and send an instruction signal or status signal based on the instruction data or updated status data. The artificial intelligence engine utilizes a machine learning model and may generate the machine learning model.
US11750272B2
A technology is described for a time division duplex (TDD) repeater with network protection. The TDD repeater can comprise a first port, a second port, and one or more amplification paths coupled between the first port and the second port. The TDD repeater can comprise a signal detector configured to measure a received signal power for a downlink (DL) signal in a first set of one or more TDD DL subframes. The TDD repeater can be further configured to adjust an uplink (UL) noise power or gain of the one or more amplification paths based on the received signal power for the DL signal in the first set of the one or more TDD DL subframes.
US11750271B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may concurrently configure repeaters in a wireless communications system via multicast control messaging. The base station may identify a quantity of repeaters in communication with the base station. Some repeaters may be in communication with the base station via other repeaters, for example in a chain configuration. The base station may prepare a multicast message including control information for the quantity of repeaters. In some examples, the base station may transmit the multicast message directly to each repeater in the quantity of repeaters, which may be referred to as a single hop control transmission. In some examples, the base station may transmit the multicast message via one or more chains of repeaters, which may be referred to as a multi-hop control transmission. The described techniques may include improved repeater operations and promote efficient repeater communications, among other benefits.
US11750270B2
Technology for a diversity bi-directional repeater is disclosed. The diversity bi-directional repeater can include a first interface port, a second interface port, a 1st first-direction signal amplification and filtering path communicatively coupled between the first interface port and the second interface port, and a 1st second direction signal amplification and filtering path communicatively coupled between the first interface port and the second interface port. The diversity bi-directional repeater can further include a third interface port, a fourth interface port, and a 2nd second direction signal amplification and filtering path communicatively coupled between the third interface port and the fourth interface port.
US11750268B2
A method for beam failure recovery in a communication network may include detecting a beam failure based on a downlink transmission at a user equipment (UE) in an inactive state, and performing a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure at the UE in the inactive state based on detecting the beam failure. The downlink transmission may include a reference signal. The reference signal may include a synchronization signal block, The reference signal may include a channel state information reference signal. Detecting the beam failure may include detecting the beam failure based on a beam failure measurement configuration. The method may further include receiving the beam failure measurement configuration at the UE. The UE may receive the beam failure measurement configuration based on a preconfigured uplink resources (PUR) response. The UE may receive the beam failure measurement configuration based on a system information block (SIB) transmission.
US11750266B2
Provided is a beam recovery method in a wireless communication system. A beam recovery method performed by a user terminal (UE) may include receiving a beam reference signal (BRS) used for beam management from an enhanced Node B (eNB), when a beam failure event is detected, transmitting a control signal for a beam failure recovery request to the eNB; and, when beam reporting is triggered, reporting a beam measurement result to the eNB in a specific resource.
US11750263B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling including a set of parameters. The set of parameters may include one or more thresholds associated with initiating aperiodic beam failure detection (BFD) reference signals (RSs). The UE may receive a set of periodic BFD-RSs. In some examples, the UE or the base station may determine that a triggering threshold is satisfied. In some cases, the UE may determine that the set of periodic BFD-RSs satisfies a consecutive beam failure indication (BFI) threshold, a cumulative BFI threshold, or the like. In some cases, a base station may determine that the set of periodic BFD-RSs satisfies a channel quality threshold. The UE may receive a set of one or more aperiodic BFD-RSs based on whether the triggering threshold is satisfied.
US11750256B2
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses configured to direct wireless communication. In some embodiments, a networking apparatus is configured to generate a plurality of sequences of symbols for transmission to plurality of client devices; transmit the plurality of sequences to the plurality of client device via one or more beams focused toward the client devices; and transmit the first sequence of symbols and the second sequence of symbols at least partly simultaneously.
US11750254B2
An example method may include obtaining first beamforming feedback from a station based on first sounding signals from a first set of antennas selected from multiple antennas of an access point, and obtaining second beamforming feedback from the station based on second sounding signals from a second set of antennas selected from the multiple antennas of the access point. The method may also include, using the first beamforming feedback and the second beamforming feedback, determining correlational relationships between pairs of the multiple antennas of the access point, and deriving a beamforming steering matrix from the correlational relationships.
US11750253B2
In certain aspects, a method includes receiving a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal and a second IF signal via a common input, upconverting the first IF signal into a first radio frequency (RF) signal, transmitting the first RF signal via a first antenna array, upconverting the second IF signal into a second RF signal, and transmitting the second RF signal via a second antenna array. In a first transit mode, the first RF signal is in a first frequency band and the second RF signal is in a second frequency band, and, in a second transmit mode, the first RF signal and the second RF signal are both in the first frequency band.
US11750247B2
An inductor circuit includes a receiver inductive circuit, a transmitter inductive circuit, and an antenna inductive circuit which are implemented on a single chip die; the receiver inductive circuit is disposed on a specific ring of a specific plane to form a ring shape; the transmitter inductive circuit and the antenna inductive circuit are disposed inside the specific ring and surrounded by the specific ring of the specific plane; and, a circuit area, occupied by the transmitter inductive circuit, inside the specific ring and on the specific plane, is larger than a circuit area occupied by the receiver inductive circuit and by the antenna inductive circuit.
US11750245B2
A power transmission apparatus has a first communication function for communicating with a power reception apparatus and a second communication function for communicating with the power reception apparatus at a radio frequency different from a radio frequency used in the first communication function, and makes a decision as to whether to use the first communication function or the second communication function in communication for controlling wireless transmission of power, the decision being made on the basis of device information obtained from the power reception apparatus through communication using the first communication function.
US11750226B2
Various embodiments include an error correction code (ECC) system that provides protection against various errors in addition to data bit errors. In general, ECC codes protect against data bit errors, where one or more data bits in a data word contain the wrong value. The ECC code is based on the original data bits, such that a data bit error results in a data word that is inconsistent with the ECC code generated for and stored with the data word. The present embodiments generate ECC codes based on address information and/or sequencing information in addition to the data bits in the data word. As a result, the present embodiments detect bit errors in this address information and/or sequencing information. Such errors include write address decoding errors, read address decoding errors, write enable errors, and stale data errors.
US11750223B2
A system comprises a forward error correction decoder comprising syndrome computation circuitry, key-equation solver circuitry, and search and evaluator circuitry. The syndrome computation circuitry may comprise a plurality of syndrome compute units connected in parallel. The syndrome computation circuitry may be dynamically configurable to vary a quantity of the syndrome compute units used for processing of a codeword based on conditions of a channel over which the codeword was received. The syndrome computation circuitry may be operable to use a first quantity of the syndrome compute units for processing of a first codeword received over the channel when the channel is characterized by a first bit error rate and a second quantity of the syndrome compute units for processing of a second codeword received over the channel when the channel is characterized by a second bit error rate.
US11750210B2
The present invention is to reduce detection of an erroneous edge caused by variation in a case of a sampling frequency that is not larger than a data transmission frequency. A semiconductor device includes: a data reception circuit configured to receive first data at first time and receive second data at second time; and an edge recognition circuit configured to set a range and detect an edge contained in the range. The edge recognition circuit includes a measurement circuit configured to measure a first period taken from the reception of the first data to the reception of the second data, and is configured to determine the range in which the edge contained in the data that is received by the data reception circuit is detected, on the basis of the first period.
US11750196B1
An IC includes a first set of core logic configured to convert data between a single stream and a double stream, and a first data I/O block on a first side of the first set of core logic. The first data I/O block interfaces with the first set of core logic and a DRAM. The IC further includes a second set of core logic configured to process CA information, and a first CA I/O subblock on a second side of the first set of core logic. The first CA I/O subblock interfaces with the second set of core logic and the DRAM. The IC further includes a first set of power switches adjacent at least one side of the first CA I/O subblock. The first set of power switches is coupled to the first set of core logic and the second set of core logic.
US11750189B2
Devices and/or computer-implemented methods to facilitate a programmable and/or reprogrammable quantum circuit are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a superconducting coupler device having a superconducting fuse device that is used to alter the coupling of a first quantum computing element and a second quantum computing element.
US11750187B2
A power supply output device converts an input from a DC-DC converter into a bipolar voltage output that is supplied to a gate driver circuit driving a power switch. The power output supply device includes a clamping circuit that sets the voltage values of the bipolar voltage output at a predetermined voltage through switching of one or more switching elements. The power supply output device allows shunting of a high current on the negative side so that the required bipolar voltage output is reached very rapidly.
US11750180B2
Embodiments herein describe a self-biased divider for a clock in an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, the clock includes a VCO that generates a clock signal that is output to the self-biased divider. However, because the VCO may generate an analog clocking signal (e.g., a low amplitude sine wave of unknown common mode) to reduce jitter, the amplitude can vary which means it may not sufficiently track CMOS parameters. The clocking signals generated by the self-biased divider are used as feedback signals for DC biasing (or DC leveling). In this manner, the divider is referred to a self-biased divider since signals generated by the divider are used to perform DC biasing/leveling.
US11750178B2
A flip-flop including a scan enable input for receiving a scan enable signal, a clock input for receiving a clock signal, input select circuitry that is configured to select between a data input and a scan input based on a state of the scan enable signal for providing a selected input, latching circuitry that is configured to latch the selected input to a preliminary output node in response to transitions of the clock signal, and output select circuitry that is configured to provide a state of the preliminary output node to a selected one of a scan output and a data output based on a state of the scan enable signal. The flip-flop may be implemented using fast yet leaky transistors. The data output may be disabled to prevent toggling other circuitry when scanning into or out of a memory for data retention.
US11750177B2
A clock delay circuit is configured to generate a delayed clock signal based on an input clock signal, the delayed clock signal delayed by a delay time (TDEL). The circuit includes a current mirror configured to generate starved currents based on the reference current, a plurality of inverters, and a Schmitt trigger configured to generate an output signal in response to the input clock signal, wherein the Schmitt trigger output signal increases from a low signal to a high signal over a period (TCHARGE) correlated with TDEL. Some inverters and the Schmitt trigger are configured to be current starved when the input clock signal is high and are configured to be shorted to ground and the reference current when the input clock signal is low. TDEL is based on TCHARGE and TCHARGE is based on C, NTOP, VST,High, and a supply voltage.
US11750176B2
A reflection attenuation device for a bus of a bus system and a method for attenuating reflections during a data transfer in a bus system. The reflection attenuation device may close off a free end of bus lines of the bus in a transceiver device of a user station of the bus system. Alternatively, the reflection attenuation device may be connected to a branch point of the bus which is a star point or is used to connect a user station to the bus. Thus, bus users in a vehicle trailer are also connectable to the bus system of the vehicle, as needed. The reflection attenuation device includes at least one pair of electrical semiconductor components connected in parallel, and at least one capacitor that is connected in series to the pair of electrical semiconductor components connected in parallel, for attenuating reflections on a bus line of the bus.
US11750171B2
A ceramic substrate is formed of polycrystalline ceramic and has a supporting main surface. At the supporting main surface of the ceramic substrate, the mean of grain sizes of the polycrystalline ceramic is 0.5 μm or more and less than 15 μm and the standard deviation of the grain sizes is less than 1.5 times the mean.
US11750170B2
A guided surface acoustic wave (SAW) device includes a substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the substrate, and a transducer on the piezoelectric layer. The substrate is silicon, and has a crystalline orientation defined by a first Euler angle (ϕ), a second Euler angle (θ), and a third Euler angle (ψ). The first Euler angle (ϕ), the second Euler angle (θ), and the third Euler angle (ψ) are chosen such that a velocity of wave propagation within the substrate is less than 6,000 m/s.
US11750165B2
A vibration generating apparatus comprises a vibration apparatus and a vibration driving circuit including a driving signal generator configured to supply a driving signal to the vibration apparatus, wherein the driving signal generator is configured to adjust a frequency-based gain compensation value based on at least one of a circuit internal temperature value of the vibration driving circuit and a temperature prediction value of the vibration apparatus corresponding to a current value of an nth driving signal, compensate for a frequency-based gain value based on the adjusted frequency-based gain compensation value, compensate for an (n+1)th driving signal based on the compensated frequency-based gain value, and supply the compensated (n+1)th driving signal to the vibration apparatus.
US11750153B2
A high-frequency circuit includes an amplifier, a power distributor disposed on an output route of the amplifier, a first by-pass route that bypasses the amplifier, a second by-pass route that bypasses the power distributor, a first switch and a second switch disposed in series on the first by-pass route, and a third switch disposed in series on the second by-pass route. The first by-pass route is connected to a first node on a route connecting a signal input terminal and the amplifier and a second node on a route connecting the amplifier and the power distributor. The second by-pass route is connected to a third node between the first switch and the second switch and a fourth node on an output route of the power distributor.
US11750152B2
Provided is a power amplifier circuit that can increase output power and also reduce the effect of intermodulation distortion. The power amplifier circuit includes a power divider, a distortion compensation circuit provided on the secondary path, a power combiner, and a first amplifier configured. The distortion compensation circuit includes a generation circuit configured to generate the second-harmonic wave of the input signal, a filter circuit configured to attenuate the fundamental wave and pass the second-harmonic wave, and a phase adjustment circuit configured to adjust the phase of the second-harmonic wave.
US11750147B2
A photovoltaic system includes a collection of photovoltaic modules, a base supporting the collection of photovoltaic modules, and a damper coupled between the collection of photovoltaic modules and the base. The damper resists movement of the photovoltaic modules relative to the base. The damper has a first damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a first rate relative to the base and a second damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a second rate relative to the base, and the damper passively transitions from the first damping ratio to the second damping ratio.
US11750132B2
An inverter system for mitigating oscillation of an electric motor that drives a load comprises a torque command generation module for receiving a commanded torque from an operator of a vehicle. A torque damping module is configured to receive the commanded torque and generating a commanded compensating torque to dampen any mechanical oscillation or resonance of the electric motor based on the observed rotational speed of the motor. The torque damping module further comprises a digital filter of order greater than one, a gain adjuster and a limiter.
US11750123B1
A control circuit arranged to detect an initial rotor position of a brushless DC motor includes: a voltage integrator circuit, arranged to perform integration upon an input voltage, to generate a plurality of integrated voltages; a PWM generating circuit, arranged to generate and output a plurality of PWM signals to the brushless DC motor through a drive circuit, and stop outputting a PWM signal that is any of the plurality of PWM signals to the brushless DC motor according to an integrated voltage corresponding to the PWM signal; a current receiving circuit, arranged to receive a plurality of feedback currents from the brushless DC motor; a comparison circuit, arranged to perform comparison upon the plurality of feedback currents, to generate a comparison result; and a decision circuit, arranged to detect the initial rotor position according to the comparison result.
US11750115B2
A stacked electrostatic actuator exhibits a sufficient contraction force even when pulled by a large external force and the contraction rate thereof does not decrease even under a light load. A stacked electrostatic actuator includes a plurality of electrode films each including a three-layer structure including a first insulating layer, a conductor layer, and a second insulating layer.
US11750114B2
A power system including a power converter system and an electric machine is provided. In one aspect, the power converter system has first and second switching elements. The electric machine includes a first multiphase winding electrically coupled with the first switching elements and a second multiphase winding electrically coupled with the second switching elements. The first and second multiphase windings are arranged and configured to operate electrically opposite in phase with respect to one another. One or more processors control the first switching elements to generate first pulse width modulated (PWM) signals based on received voltage commands to render a first common mode signal and also control the second switching elements to generate second PWM signals based on received voltage commands to render a second common mode signal. The rendered first and second common mode signals have the same or similar waveform with opposite polarity with respect to one another.
US11750113B2
An inverter device is provided which is capable of more quickly raising an internal temperature of an electrolytic capacitor within a permissible range of a ripple voltage to shorten a non-operating time. The inverter device includes an electrolytic capacitor, an inverter circuit, a temperature sensor, and a control device. When the ambient temperature of the electrolytic capacitor detected by the temperature sensor is lower than a predetermined temperature, the control device on-drives specific switching elements of the inverter circuit before the start of a normal operation of a motor, and executes a warming up operation of allowing a current capable of controlling a ripple voltage of a DC voltage within a permissible range to flow through the motor at a predetermined rate of increase while keeping the motor stopped.
US11750110B2
A low voltage, low frequency multi-level power converter capable of power conversion is disclosed. The power converter may include a low voltage, low frequency circuit that includes a plurality of phase-shifting inverters in series; a plurality of low voltage source inputs, and a plurality of phase-shifting inverters in series. Each of the plurality of phase-shifting inverters may be configured to receive at least one of the plurality of low voltage source inputs; and generate at least one square wave output. A semi-sine wave output may be derived from the generated at least one square wave output.
US11750105B1
A full-bridge phase-shift converter with voltage clamping includes a transformer, a primary-side circuit, and a secondary-side circuit. The secondary-side circuit includes a first synchronous rectifying switch, a second synchronous rectifying switch, an output inductor, a plurality of diodes, a capacitor, an energy-releasing unit, and an output capacitor. The capacitor provides a clamping voltage. The energy-releasing unit is coupled to the capacitor in parallel, and converts the clamping voltage into an output voltage. The output capacitor is coupled to the energy-releasing unit in parallel, and provides the output voltage.
US11750092B2
A configurable DC-DC converter circuit has first and second DC voltage connections. The first DC voltage connection connected to a plurality of galvanically isolating DC-DC converters via a configuration circuit that has first and second switches, between which a changeover switch connects the first and second switches to one another via a diode device and connects the first and second switches to one another via a resistor. The DC-DC converters connected to the first and second switches. In the first changeover switch position, the first and the second switch are closed in a first configuration position and connect the DC-DC converters in parallel with one another. If the changeover switch is in the first switching position, the first and second switches, in a second configuration position in which the first and the second switches are open, the DC-DC converters are connected in series with one another via the diode device.
US11750088B2
The application provides a method for controlling a PFC circuit including a diode bridge arm, DNPC bridge arm and capacitor group connected in parallel. The control method includes: switching working mode of the PFC circuit back and forth between first mode and third mode via second mode in each switching cycle when positive half cycle of a modulation wave is modulated, and switching working mode of the PFC circuit back and forth between sixth mode and fourth mode via fifth mode in each switching cycle when negative half cycle of the modulation wave is modulated. The durations of the second and fifth modes are as short as possible, thereby decreasing a current flowing into or out from midpoint of the capacitor group, and reducing voltage fluctuation at the midpoint. The application further provides a PFC circuit using the control method and a power conversion device having the PFC circuit.
US11750076B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods used to produce linear and rotational motion, acceleration, and actuation by the use of mobile ferromagnetic or permanent magnets subjected to asymmetric electromagnetic field distributions are disclosed herein. A variety of exemplary embodiments and applications are described, involving different coil and actuator geometries to include and allow for both stationary and moving magnets, electric fields, and magnetic fields.
US11750070B2
An electric machine with variable torque generation having a tunable Halbach array configuration. The electric machine includes a magnet assembly for generating a magnetic field. The magnet assembly includes a plurality of fixed magnets disposed in a ring arrangement so that fixed magnets having a north pole faced toward the rotor or stator are alternated with fixed magnets having a south pole faced toward the rotor or stator, a plurality of rotatable magnets disposed within a respective slot formed between two adjacent fixed magnets, a drive assembly for turning the rotatable magnets within the slots to vary the magnetic field generated by the magnet assembly in the rotor or stator, the drive assembly configured to turn the rotatable magnets between a first position wherein the magnetic field in the rotor or stator is augmented and a second position wherein the magnetic field in the rotor or stator is cancelled.
US11750068B2
An electric work machine includes a smaller motor. An electric work machine includes a motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and a sensor board including a rotation sensor that detects rotation of the rotor and a plate supporting the rotation sensor. The plate includes a first surface facing an end face of the rotor in an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis and a support area receiving the rotation sensor that faces the end face, and a second surface facing at least a part of the stator. In the axial direction, a distance between the support area and the end face is shorter than a distance between at least a part of the second surface and the end face.
US11750060B1
An electric drive unit that includes an electric motor having a rotor with a rotor shaft and a heat exchanger that is received in the rotor shaft. The heat exchanger has a plurality of heat exchanger plates, each of which having a hub, a rim member, and disc spring portion that interconnects the hub and the rib member. Each disk spring portion defines a plurality of coolant apertures. The heat exchanger plates are press-fit to the rotor shaft such that each disc spring portion is deflected from a pre-installation state, and each rim member is engaged to an interior surface of the rotor shaft while being spaced apart from adjacent rim members along a rotational axis of the rotor. A first coolant passage is disposed through the hubs of the plates. The coolant apertures in the heat exchanger plates cooperate to form a plurality of second coolant passages.
US11750052B2
A rotating electric machine rotor according to the present disclosure includes: a rotor shaft extending in a direction of an axis of rotation; and a rotor core fixedly fitted to an outer circumference of the rotor shaft and formed of laminated steel sheets. Further, an inner diameter of the rotor core is smaller than an outer diameter of the rotor shaft. Furthermore, an inner edge part of each laminated steel sheet is made thinner than an outer edge part thereof, and the inner edge part abuts on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft and is curved along the outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft in the direction of the axis of rotation.
US11750047B2
A motor includes a stator unit formed by coupling plural stators to one another into an annular shape. Each of the stators has: an iron core having an arc-shaped core-back portion and a tooth portion protruding from the core-back portion, the iron core forming slot portions between the iron core and adjacent ones of the stators; insulating members disposed on both end portions, in the axial direction, of the iron core; insulating films disposed so as to be in contact with inner walls of the slot portions of the iron core; and a winding disposed in the slot portions and wound over the iron core with the insulating members and the insulating films interposed therebetween. In a portion of each of the insulating films that is in contact with the inner wall of the slot portion, at least a portion that is in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the tooth tip portion has a length in the axial direction longer than the length of the iron core in the axial direction. Each of the insulating members has position fixing portions that are engaged with the iron core to fix the position of the insulating member.
US11750045B2
A noncontact power supplying system transfers power by noncontact between a ground power supplying apparatus and a vehicle. The vehicle includes a power reception side resonance circuit for receiving power, and a signal emitting device for emitting an alternating magnetic field or electric wave for transmitting vehicle identification information of the vehicle to the ground power supplying apparatus. The ground power supplying apparatus includes a power transmission side resonance circuit for transmitting power to the power reception side resonance circuit, and a signal reception device for receiving an alternating magnetic field or electric wave emitted from the signal emitting device. The ground power supplying apparatus detects a relative positional relationship between the power transmission side resonance circuit and the power reception side resonance circuit, based on the strength of the alternating magnetic field or electric wave which the signal reception device receives.
US11750043B2
Apparatus and methods are described for performing wireless power transfer and foreign object detection with authentication at different power levels. The impact of time required for an authentication process to execute between transitions to different power levels is reduced.
US11750042B2
The present disclosure provides a wireless charging switching method, which includes steps as follows. After a proximity sensor disposed in the central area of a coil senses an object, it is determined whether a power bus voltage of a wireless power transceiver electrically connected to the coil has reached a predetermined voltage value during a predetermined period, so as to determine a receiver mode or a transmitter mode for the wireless power transceiver.
US11750034B2
A conductor arrangement for an inductive power transfer, the conductor arrangement comprising at least three coils arranged along a longitudinal axis and formed of at least one conductor; and at least two winding heads arranged opposite one another and in which conductor sections of each coil extend along one another and along the longitudinal axis; wherein, within at least one of the winding heads, the conductor sections of the first and second coils that extend along the longitudinal axis are arranged at a first distance to one another, the first distance ≥zero, and the conductor section of the third coil that extends along the longitudinal axis is arranged at second distances to said conductor sections of the first and second coils, the second distances being larger than the first distance. Also disclosed are an inductive power transfer arrangement and methods for providing conductor arrangements for an inductive power transfer.
US11750026B2
An assembly for harvesting power from one or more power cables. The assembly includes a current transformer operable to harvest power from the one or more power cables and a controller operable to control an amount of power harvested by the current transformer.
US11750025B2
An apparatus for a system power device utilized in an interconnected power system. The interconnected power system may include multiple system power devices connected to various inter connections of groups of direct currents (DC) from power sources which also may be connected in various series, parallel, series parallel and parallel series combinations for example. The apparatus may include a processor connected to a memory and a communication interface operatively attached to the processor. The communication interface may be adapted to connect to a mobile computing system of a user in close proximity to the system power devices. A graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile computing system may allow various operational and re-configuration options for the interconnected power system which may include installation, maintenance and monitoring schedules in the interconnected power system when the user of the GUI is in close proximity to the system power devices.
US11750016B2
A charging system utilizing energy storage multiplication is provided. An energy storage battery pack of the charging system is directly connected to a DC power transmission bus. When the charging request is initiated by the charging device, the charging device takes the power from the DC bus, the AC-DC converter and DC-DC converter connected to the energy generation device work as the energy source to deliver power to the DC bus, the power goes through the DC bus to the charging device, and the rest of the power goes to the energy storage device or goes out form the energy storage device when the charring power is higher than total energy from all other converters. The high C rate discharging of the energy storage device means high power capacity during discharging, this can provide much high power than AC-DC converter to fulfill the requirement of charging device.
US11750015B2
An information processing apparatus includes a power processor, an interface, a detector that detects at least one of a voltage value and a current value on an electric power line which connects the power processor and the interface, and a controller. The controller notifies a swap request for swapping electric power roles with an external device to the external device via the interface in a case where a detection value of the detector indicates an abnormal value while electric power is supplied to the external device via the interface.
US11750014B2
A battery control system and method selectively connect battery strings to one or more conductive buses by plural electrically controllable switches. The switches are controlled to one or more of (a) connect the strings with one or more of the load or the power source via the one or more conductive buses in a first sequence and/or (b) disconnect the strings from one or more of the load or the power source via the one or more conductive buses in a second sequence. The first sequence and the second sequence are based on one or more of states of charge between the strings, different charge capacities between the strings, different electric currents conducted through the strings, different polarities of the electric currents conducted through the strings, and/or a speed of a vehicle that is powered by the one or more loads.
US11750010B2
A method and apparatus for an active discharge of an X-capacitor are provided. A sensor signal, indicative of a voltage at the capacitor, is compared with a lower and upper threshold values. A first value of a smaller one of the lower and upper threshold values is increased to a first new value that is greater than a second value of a larger one of the lower and upper threshold values in response to a first control signal indicating the sensor signal is greater than the upper and lower threshold values. A third value of the greater one of the lower and upper threshold values is decreased to a second new value that is less than the value of the larger one of the lower and upper threshold values in response to a second control signal indicating the sensor signal is less than the upper and lower threshold values.
US11750006B2
An estimation system, includes: a secondary battery; a monitoring device that detects a voltage and a current of the secondary battery; and a processor that estimates a full charge capacity of the secondary battery using a detection result of the monitoring device. The processor calculates a first charging rate of the secondary battery using a current integration amount in charging, discharging, or charging and discharging of the secondary battery and using a full charge capacity of the secondary battery that was estimated last time; calculates a second charging rate of the secondary battery using an open circuit voltage of the secondary battery, when a predetermined time has elapsed without charging and discharging since the first charging rate is calculated; and performs correction, when a magnitude of a difference between the first and second charging rates is larger than a threshold, on the full charge capacity based on the difference.
US11750003B2
An information processing device that transmits information on an energy storage device and a power supply-related device in response to a request from the outside or as an event includes, an acquisition unit that acquires information including a state of the energy storage device or the power supply-related device through communication; a storage processing unit that stores the acquired information in a storage medium in association with information that identifies the energy storage device and the power supply-related device, respectively; and a transmission processing unit that transmits display information for collectively displaying the information stored in the storage medium for each system including the energy storage device and/or power supply-related device, or for each place where the energy storage device and/or power supply-related device is installed.
US11749997B2
Electrically connecting a first node of a first power grid to a second node of a second power grid includes: determining a phase angle of at least one phase of an AC voltage at the first node in the first power grid; determining a phase angle of at least one phase of an AC voltage at the second node in the second power grid; determining a phase angle metric based on comparing the phase angle of the AC voltage in the first power grid to the phase angle of the AC voltage in the second power grid; comparing the phase angle metric to a phase angle threshold; and if the phase angle metric is equal to or exceeds the phase angle threshold, controlling a dispatchable energy source in the first power grid in a P-Q control mode to adjust the phase angle of at least one phase of the AC voltage at the first node.
US11749991B1
In order to ensure reliable power for charging electric vehicles is available at each charging station at a charging site having multiple charging stations, the systems and methods disclosed herein provide for charge transfers between batteries of such charging stations. A plurality of charging stations at a charging site are connected via local alternating current (AC) circuit in order to transfer energy between the charging stations, such as to balance the energy stored at the respective batteries of the charging stations. Each charging station includes a system controller controlling operation of the charging station and a bidirectional inverter to convert AC input power from a power grid or the local AC circuit to direct current (DC) power for storage in a battery of the charging station and to convert DC power from the battery to AC output power to the local AC circuit, as controlled by the system controller.
US11749981B2
A control device for an AC rotating machine includes: switching control means for controlling inverters and motor relays 15; and abnormality detection means for detecting an abnormality in each system and outputting a result of the detection to the switching control means. When the abnormality detection means detects an abnormality in at least one of the systems, the switching control means causes the motor relay to block a circuit between windings and the inverter in the system in which the abnormality has been detected, and continues normal control in a system other than the system in which the abnormality has been detected.
US11749976B2
A switch-fuse module and a ring main unit. The switch-fuse module includes: a housing having therein a switch enclosure including an insulating gas and a cable compartment that is different and separate from the switch enclosure; at least one switch disconnector arranged within the switch enclosure; and at least one fuse canister with a vertically oriented longitudinal axis; wherein the fuse canister i) is adapted to receive a fuse, and ii) is arranged within the cable compartment, and the insulating gas has a global warming potential less than a global warming potential of SF6.
US11749972B2
A passive prechamber spark plug for use in a combustion chamber of a vehicle engine includes an upper prechamber having an upper opening where the upper prechamber is connectable to the combustion chamber via the upper opening. An air ignition spark is formable via an upper air spark gap. A central electrode is disposed in an upper region of the upper prechamber where a base of the upper prechamber opposite the upper region is an insulator. An electrically conductive element or a slot is guided by the insulator continuously from the upper prechamber into a lower region under the base and the lower region is either a lower prechamber or is arrangeable directly in the combustion chamber. An earth electrode is disposed in the lower region such that a lower air spark gap is formed between the earth electrode and the electrically conductive element or the slot.
US11749958B2
Provided is a fixing device for line laser output. The device includes a laser beam expander having: a laser via hole defined in an axial direction thereof; an emitter embedding groove disposed at a laser entry end of the laser via hole, the emitter embedding groove having a peripheral wall coaxial with a peripheral wall of the laser via hole, and a bottom wall perpendicular to the peripheral wall of the laser via hole; and a Powell lens embedding groove disposed at a laser exit end of the laser via hole, the Powell lens embedding groove having a peripheral wall coaxial with the peripheral wall of the laser via hole, and a bottom wall perpendicular to the peripheral wall of the laser via hole.
US11749951B2
An electrical connector, comprising a housing, a circuit board, a cable, and a shielding member. The housing comprises an accommodating space and a plurality of through grooves. The plurality of through grooves are disposed on an inner surface of the housing along a first direction at intervals. Each of the through grooves extends in a second direction and penetrates the housing. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodating space and protrudes from the housing. The cable is disposed in the accommodating space. One end of the cable protrudes from the housing. One end of the cable disposed in the accommodating space is connected to the circuit board. The shielding member is disposed in the accommodating space and covers the plurality of through grooves. The accommodating space and the plurality of through grooves are partitioned by the shielding member.
US11749950B2
A shielding housing structure of an electric connector includes an insulating body including a first terminal slot for insertion of a first terminal set, a second terminal slot for insertion of a second terminal set, a socket for insertion of a preset board; a shielding housing having an accommodation space assembled with a top side of the insulating body, and top holes and lateral holes formed thereon, and an insertion hole formed on upper edges of the lateral holes; and a movable cover having a top covering plate having top openings, and a side covering plate having lateral openings. The top covering plate is plugged into the insertion hole, and can be slid to a first position to form thermal convection ventilation holes on the shielding housing structure, or the top covering plate can be slid to a second position to form an enclosing status of the shielding housing.
US11749935B2
An electrical connector, comprising a connector main body, a cable, a connecting housing, a limiting member, and a housing. The connector main body comprises a plugging side and a connecting side. One end of the cable is electrically connected with the connector main body, while the other end protrudes from the connecting side of the connector main body. The connecting housing is disposed at one side of the connector main body. The cable protrudes from one side of the connecting housing close to the connecting side. The limiting member is disposed at one side of the connecting housing close to the plugging side. The housing is disposed at one side of the connecting housing close to the plugging side. The plugging side of the connector main body is disposed in the housing. The connecting housing is assembled to the housing through the cooperation of the limiting member and the housing.
US11749933B2
A joint connector 10 to be connected to wires 11 includes a lower housing 30 and an upper cover 60. The lower housing 30 accommodates terminals 12 to be respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the wires 11. The upper cover 60 is assembled to close an upper surface of the lower housing 30. The lower housing 30 or the upper cover 60 includes a lower guide portion 36 or an upper guide portion 69 for bending the wires 11 by contacting the wires 11 with the lower housing 30 and the upper cover 60 assembled.
US11749928B2
A housing for an electrical connecting terminal comprises a body defining a cavity for accommodating the connecting terminal, and a latch member located in the cavity. The latch member extends from a bottom surface of the cavity toward a top surface of the cavity and includes an opening located proximate the bottom surface of the cavity and a locking portion for locking the connecting terminal within the body.
US11749927B1
A banana plug including a body, a male portion, a female portion, and a lever. The male portion is configured to extend from the body to electrically connect with a receptacle. In one example, the receptacle is a piece of audio/video (AV) equipment. The female portion is configured to receive a wire and/or other electrical component. The lever is configured to actuate between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the lever is configured to actuate an internal spring to receive a wire. In the closed position, the lever is configured to release the internal spring to secure and/or retain the wire via a compression force.
US11749926B2
An embodiment electrical connection device for a vehicle includes a male connector housing having a blade terminal mounting portion, a female connector housing to couple to the male connector housing and having a tab terminal mounting portion, a blade terminal mounted in the blade terminal mounting portion, and a tab terminal mounted in the tab terminal mounting portion to connect to the blade terminal when the male connector housing and the female connector housing are coupled to each other. An embodiment blade terminal includes a terminal body having a first connection portion and a contact spring inserted into an inner side of the first connection portion to connect the terminal body and the tab terminal to each other by being brought into contact with the tab terminal when the tab terminal is inserted into the inner side of the first connection portion.
US11749923B2
An electronic assembly is provided and includes a host circuit board having an upper surface and board contacts on the upper surface. The upper surface has a mounting area. The electronic assembly includes a socket connector mounted to the host circuit board at the mounting area. The socket connector includes a socket housing holding a plurality of socket contacts. Each socket contact has an upper contact portion and a lower contact portion. The lower contact portion is electrically connected to the corresponding board contact of the host circuit board. The socket contact is compressible between the upper contact portion and the lower contact portion. The socket housing includes coolant channels configured to receive coolant. The electronic assembly includes an electronic package coupled to the socket connector. The electronic package has a lower surface and package contacts on the lower surface. The package contacts are electrically connected to the upper contact portions of the socket contacts.
US11749908B2
This application relates to a method for designing a non-uniformly spaced linear array antenna. The method includes setting a cost function for spacing between a plurality of antennas comprised in a linear array and for weights for each of the antennas, with limits on side lobe level and bandwidth, and obtaining an initial best solution vector for the cost function under an initial environmental condition based on learning parameters. The method may further include updating the initial best solution vector through reinforcement learning in which a reward value is computed by comparing a sub best solution vector with each of a plurality of solution vectors for the cost function under a sub environmental condition based on the initial best solution vector. The method may further include determining the spacing between the plurality of antennas and the weights for each of the antennas based on the updated initial best solution vector.
US11749902B2
A dual-band shared-aperture antenna array based on a dual-mode parallel waveguide is applicable to the field of wireless communications technologies. The dual-band shared-aperture antenna array includes: a waveguide-substrate integrated waveguide transition structure, a multi-stage cascaded power splitter, a transverse coupling slot, a longitudinal coupling slot, a matching through-hole, a shared-aperture dual-mode parallel waveguide, and a shared-aperture parallel slot array. The entire structure includes two dielectric substrates. A signal is input to the multi-stage cascaded power splitter through the waveguide-substrate integrated waveguide transition structure located on a bottom-layer substrate. The foregoing dual-band shared-aperture antenna array based on a dual-mode parallel waveguide can separately implement a low-band fixed-beam slot array antenna, a high-band multi-beam long slot leaky-wave antenna, or a fixed-beam slot array antenna. It has a simple structure, multiple functions, high integration, a small size and light weight.
US11749901B2
A hybrid antenna structure includes a first metal element, a second metal element, a third metal element, a cable, and a proximity sensor. The first metal element has a feeding point. The second metal element is adjacent to and separate from the first metal element. A coupling gap is formed between the second metal element and the first metal element. The third metal element is coupled to a connection point on the second metal element. The proximity sensor is coupled through the cable to the third metal element. The second metal element and the third metal element are used as both a sensing pad and a radiation element.
US11749897B2
A slot antenna includes a substrate having a first side and a second side, a first conductive layer on the first side of the substrate, and a second conductive layer on the second side of the substrate. A first aperture is in the first conductive layer, a second aperture is in the first conductive layer, a first slotline is in the first conductive layer and in communication with the first aperture, and a second slotline is in the first conductive layer and in communication with the second aperture. A third aperture can be in the second conductive layer. A plurality of vias can be in the substrate and surrounding at least a portion of a region including the first aperture, the second aperture, the first slotline, and the second slotline, each of the vias extending through the substrate from the first conductive layer to the second conductive layer.
US11749893B2
An apparatus includes a module, which includes an impedance matching circuit. The apparatus further includes a capacitor that is external to the module, and is coupled to the impedance matching circuit. The apparatus further includes a loop antenna to transmit or receive the RF signals. The loop antenna is coupled to the capacitor.
US11749888B2
The present disclosure relates to a switchable transmission mechanism for a base station antenna. The switchable transmission mechanism includes a plurality of axially drivable members, each of which is mounted on a corresponding one of a plurality of transmission rods arranged in parallel and is configured to be connected with a corresponding one of a plurality of phase shifters in the base station antenna; a transmission unit including a first gear assembly and a second gear assembly transmissibly connected to the first gear assembly, where the second gear assembly is engageable with or dis-engageable from any one of the transmission rods via a rod adapter that is movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position along an axial direction; and a switch unit configured to move the second gear assembly along a lateral direction perpendicular to the axial direction when the second gear assembly is disengaged from the transmission rod, so that the switchable transmission mechanism can selectively drive any one of the transmission rods.
US11749870B2
The present invention relates to a positive electrode plate and an electrochemical device. The positive electrode plate comprises a current collector, a positive active material layer and a safety coating disposed between the current collector and the positive active material layer, wherein the safety coating comprises a polymer matrix, a conductive material and an inorganic filler, wherein the polymer matrix comprises at least two types of polymer materials, and the first type of polymer material is fluorinated polyolefin and/or chlorinated polyolefin, and the solubility of the second type of polymer material in oil solvent is smaller than the solubility of the first type of polymer material; and the weight percentage of the first type of polymer material relative to the total weight of the polymer matrix, the conductive material and the inorganic filler is 17.5% or more. The positive electrode plate improves high temperature safety of electrochemical device.
US11749867B1
A method for remotely solving thermal runaway and related products are provided in implementations of the disclosure. The method is applied to a user terminal in a system for remotely solving thermal runaway, and include the following. At least one monitoring datum transmitted by at least one monitoring terminal and related to at least one energy-storage device is received at a preset frequency. When at least one of the at least one monitoring datum is greater than a threshold, an energy-storage device related to the at least one of the at least one monitoring datum is determined as a target energy-storage device. An accident type of the target energy-storage device is determined according to the at least one of the at least one monitoring datum, a first prompt message is generated, and the first prompt message is presented to a user in multiple manners.
US11749860B2
The disclosure provides a battery replacement mechanism configured to pick and place a battery from and in a first accommodation bay. The first accommodation bay is provided with a first latch to hold the battery therein. The battery replacement mechanism includes a multi-axial slide table assembly, a carrier, and a pick-and-place device. The carrier is movably disposed on the multi-axial slide table assembly, and the pick-and-place device is movably disposed on the carrier. The carrier includes a second latch, and the pick-and-place device includes a catching hook. The second latch is configured to release the first latch of the first accommodation bay, so that the battery may enter and exit the first accommodation bay, and the catching hook is connected to the battery and is configured to drag the battery toward and away from the carrier. The disclosure further provides a battery replacement system and a battery replacement method for a UAV.
US11749853B2
Provided is a battery module. The battery module includes: a first cooling pipe; a second cooling pipe connected to the first cooling pipe and arranged on a different plane than the first cooling pipe; and a branch unit connecting the first cooling pipe and second cooling pipe, wherein the branch unit includes: a lower connection pipe connected to the first cooling pipe; an upper connection pipe connected to the second cooling pipe; and a connection member into which one of the lower connection pipe and the upper connection pipe is inserted and which is inserted into the other one of the lower connection pipe and the upper connection pipe.
US11749852B2
A battery module including a battery cell stacked body in which a plurality of battery cells are adjacent each other in parallel and are stacked; a mono frame receiving the battery cell stacked body and including at least one opening opened in a length direction of the battery cell stacked body, and including an upper plate and a lower plate that are perpendicular to a stacked side of the battery cell stacked body and a pair of lateral plates in parallel to the stacked side of the battery cell stacked body; an external expansion controlling pad provided between the battery cell stacked body and the mono frame; and a heat radiating resin provided between the battery cell stacked body and the lower plate. The external expansion controlling pad includes two main bodies and two bridges connecting the two main bodies.
US11749849B2
A battery module and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a battery module includes a module case having an internal space formed by a top plate, a bottom plate and sidewalls of the module case, a plurality of battery cells disposed in the internal space, a first filler-containing cured resin layer in contact with both the top plate and the plurality of battery cells, and a second filler-containing cured resin layer in contact with both the bottom plate and the plurality of battery cells. The battery module can have excellent power relative to volume, while being manufactured in a simple process and at a low cost.
US11749847B2
A method and apparatus for charging a battery pack including a plurality of electrochemical cells distributed within a thermal management composite matrix, including a phase change material. The method operates upon determining that a battery pack temperature and/or voltage measurement is below a predetermined minimum threshold. The pack temperature and/or the voltage measurement is raised to the predetermined minimum threshold, such as by applying a low current rate, and then the charging rate is increased upon reaching the predetermined minimum threshold. The increased charging rate is further selected based upon a thermal state of charge of the thermal management composite matrix.
US11749845B2
A process and system for measuring internal faults in an electrochemical cell is provided. The process for detecting an internal fault in an electrochemical cell includes measuring a voltage difference or a rate of change in voltage difference between a common terminal of a first electrochemical cell and a second electrochemical cell. The first electrochemical cell or second electrochemical cell is accepted based on the measuring, or first electrochemical cell or second electrochemical cell is rejected based on the measure of the internal fault of the electrochemical cell.
US11749842B2
A cell of an energy storage device with at least one electrode that is tabless, and methods of forming thereof, are described. The cell includes a first substrate having a first coating disposed thereon, wherein a second portion of the first substrate at a proximal end along the width of the first substrate comprises a conductive material. An inner separator is disposed over the first substrate. A second substrate is disposed over the inner separator. The second substrate has a second coating disposed thereon. The first substrate, the inner separator, and the second substrate in a successive manner, the first substrate, the inner separator, and the second substrate are rolled about a central axis.
US11749841B2
A method for manufacturing an electrode assembly includes a unit cell grasping step of moving a movable gripper to grasp a unit cell having an electrode and a separator, a vision measurement step of vision-measuring a full width value of the unit cell, and an input step of determining a width difference between the full width value of the unit cell and a set width value stored in a memory, and moving the unit cell by the movable gripper while taking into account the width difference to seat the unit cell on the separation film. A method for manufacturing a secondary battery includes a manufacturing step of manufacturing an electrode assembly according to the above, and an accommodation step of accommodating the folded electrode assembly in a battery case.
US11749836B2
A composite ceramic including: a lithium garnet major phase; and a grain growth inhibitor minor phase, as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method of making composite ceramic, pellets and tapes thereof, a solid electrolyte, and an electrochemical device including the solid electrolyte, as defined herein.
US11749823B2
A method for manufacturing a fuel cell stack body includes a step of forming a plurality of line-shaped separator cross-sectional patterns. In the patterns, a first direction along the build surface is the stacking direction, and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is the planar direction of the separators. The patterns extend in the second direction and meander so as to have convexities and concavities in the first direction. The manufacturing method further includes a step of forming the electrolyte membrane cross-sectional pattern and a step of forming the electrode cross-sectional patterns. These steps are repeated to perform stacking in a direction perpendicular to the build surface.
US11749822B2
Methods and devices and aspects thereof for generating power using PEM fuel cell power systems comprising a rotary bed (or rotatable) reactor for hydrogen generation are disclosed. Hydrogen is generated by the hydrolysis of fuels such as lithium aluminum hydride and mixtures thereof. Water required for hydrolysis may be captured from the fuel cell exhaust. Water is preferably fed to the reactor in the form of a mist generated by an atomizer. An exemplary 750 We-h, 400 We PEM fuel cell power system may be characterized by a specific energy of about 550 We-h/kg and a specific power of about 290 We/kg. Turbidity fixtures within the reactor increase turbidity of fuel pellets within the reactor and improve the energy density of the system.
US11749815B2
A caulk composition includes: at least one powder component and at least one binder component. The powder component is a ball-milled powder component comprising ceria, zirconia, alumina, or a combination thereof. The powder component is a heat-treated powder component that has been heated to a temperature of at least 1500° C. The powder component is present in a concentration range of 65 wt % to 75 wt % of the caulk composition. The powder component has a particle size distribution of 95% less than 25 μm and 90% greater than 1 μm. The binder component is present in a concentration range of 25 wt % to 35 wt % of the caulk composition.
US11749813B2
A bipolar plate faces an electrode of a redox flow battery and includes an introduction channel and a discharge channel of an electrolyte. One of the introduction channel and the discharge channel is a groove-like flow channel that is formed in a surface of the bipolar plate, and the other of the introduction channel and the discharge channel is a pipe-like flow channel that is formed in an inside of the bipolar plate. The bipolar plate includes a communication hole that communicates with the pipe-like flow channel from the surface.
US11749805B2
The present invention relates to a liquid composition for forming an electrochemical device contains one or both of an active material or an electrolyte; a dispersion medium; and a polymer, wherein the polymer contains constituent units having one or both of an amide bond or an imide bond, and having a group represented by a following general formula (I): wherein X is an oxygen atom, or a carbon atom substituted with a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently hydrogen atoms, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups, or substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl groups, and m and n are positive integers.
US11749802B2
A method for manufacturing a porous carbon material doped with a heterogeneous element and a porous carbon material doped with a heterogeneous element manufactured using the method are proposed. The method includes melting carbon precursor powder that contains one or more kinds of heterogeneous elements selected from metal and nonmetal to prepare a precursor melt; disposing a pair of metal wires in the precursor melt; and applying power to the metal wires to perform plasma-discharge, thus forming and aggregating carbon nanoparticles doped with the heterogeneous element while having a micropore and thereby forming a porous carbon material having a meso-macro hierarchical pore structure. As the heterogeneous element is bound to carbon of the carbon precursor, the carbon nanoparticles are formed in an amorphous structure while being doped with the heterogeneous element, thus increasing an active site.
US11749798B2
There is provided a method of manufacturing nanoparticles comprising the steps of feeding a core precursor into a plasma torch in a plasma reactor, thereby producing a vapor of silicon or alloy thereof; and allowing the vapor to migrate to a quenching zone of the plasma reactor, thereby cooling the vapor and allowing condensation of the vapor into a nanoparticle core made of the silicon or alloy thereof, wherein the quenching gas comprises a passivating gas precursor that reacts with the surface of the core in the quenching zone produce a passivation layer covering the core, thereby producing said nanoparticles. The present invention also relates to nanoparticles comprising a core covered with a passivation layer, the core being made of silicon or an alloy thereof, as well as their use, in particular in the manufacture of anodes.
US11749794B2
The present invention relates to an electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery, and a method of producing the same. The electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery exhibits a little change in a physical property caused by a difference in a crosshead speed when tensile strength and an elongation percentage of the electrolytic copper foil are measured, thereby achieving excellent charging and discharging characteristics of a battery and preventing exfoliation of an active material. The electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery is produced from a plating solution containing Total Organic Carbon (TOC), cobalt, and iron by using a drum, in which a ratio of the TOC to the cobalt and the iron contained in the electrolytic copper foil follows Formula 1 below. TOC/(cobalt+iron)=1.3 to 1.5 [Formula 1]
US11749793B2
Provided are an all-solid-state battery and a preparation method thereof. The all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid-state electrolyte located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a first negative electrode and a second negative electrode. The second negative electrode is located on a side of the first negative electrode. The solid-state electrolyte includes a first solid-state electrolyte and a second solid-state electrolyte. The first solid-state electrolyte is located between the positive electrode and the first negative electrode. The second solid-state electrolyte is located between the positive electrode and the second negative electrode. The roughness of the second solid-state electrolyte is greater than the roughness of the first solid-state electrolyte.
US11749792B2
A light emitting diode having an improved heat dissipation effect includes a light source unit emitting a light to a front surface and including a light emitting part, a first electrode pad, and a second electrode pad. The light emitting diode further includes a lead frame unit disposed on a rear surface of the light source unit and including first and second lead terminals respectively connected to the first and second electrode pads. The light emitting diode also includes at least one of the first and second lead terminals includes an upper conductive layer, an intermediate conductive layer, and a lower conductive layer which are disposed on different layers and electrically connected to one another.
US11749790B2
A device may include a substrate having a first embedded transistor in a first region and a second embedded transistor in a second region. The first region and the second region may be separated by trench extending through at least a portion of an epitaxial layer formed on the substrate. The first embedded transistor may be connected to a first light emitting diode (LED) and the second embedded transistor may be connected to a second LED. A first optical isolation layer may be between the epitaxial layer and the first region of the substrate. A second optical isolation layer may be between the epitaxial layer and the second region of the substrate.
US11749780B2
An ultraviolet light-emitting diode includes: a substrate; an n-type semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a mesa disposed on the n-type semiconductor layer and including an active layer and a p-type semiconductor layer; an n-ohmic contact layer contacting the n-type semiconductor layer; a p-ohmic contact layer contacting the p-type semiconductor layer; an n-bump electrically connected to the n-ohmic contact layer; and a p-bump electrically connected to the p-ohmic contact layer, wherein the mesa includes a plurality of branches, the n-ohmic contact layer surrounds the mesa and is disposed in a region between the branches, each of the n-bump and the p-bump covers an upper surface and a side surface of the mesa, and the p-bump covers at least two of the branches among the plurality of branches. Therefore, an optical output can be increased by reducing light loss, and a forward voltage can be lowered.
US11749778B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment may include: a light emitting structure; a light transmitting electrode layer disposed on the light emitting structure; and a reflective layer disposed on the light transmitting electrode layer and including a plurality of first openings and a plurality of second openings. The semiconductor device according to the embodiment may include: a first electrode in contact with a first conductivity type semiconductor layer of the light emitting structure; and a second electrode in contact with the light transmitting electrode layer through the plurality of first openings. The first electrode may include a first sub-electrode and a plurality of first branch electrodes, wherein the plurality of first branch electrodes are arranged extending toward the second electrode from the first sub-electrode; the second electrode may include a second sub-electrode and a plurality of second branch electrodes, wherein the plurality of second branch electrodes are arranged extending toward the first electrode from the second sub-electrode; and the plurality of first branch electrodes and the plurality of second branch electrodes may be alternately disposed on an upper surface of the reflective layer.
US11749775B2
A light sensing system includes a plurality of light-emitting devices arranged to have a first optical axis and a plurality of light-receiving devices arranged to have a second optical axis, the second optical axis being parallel with the first optical axis. The plurality of light-emitting devices and the plurality of light-receiving devices are formed to have a monolithically integrated structure, and the first optical axis and the second optical axis are substantially coaxial to each other, thus improving the efficiency of light reception.
US11749771B2
Methods and devices for detecting incident radiation are provided. The methods and devices use high quality single-crystals of photoactive semiconductor compounds in combination with metal anodes and metal cathodes that provide for enhanced photodetector performance.
US11749766B2
A photovoltaic device (1) is provided with a first electrode layer (11), a photovoltaic layer (13), a second charge carrier transport layer (14) and a second electrode layer (15). The photovoltaic device (1) has a plurality of mutually subsequent photovoltaic device cells (1A, . . . , 1F) arranged in a first direction (D1). Each pair of a photovoltaic cell (1C) and its successor are serially connected in an interface region (1CD). The interface region comprises an elongate region (R0) between successive first electrode layer portion (11C, 11D), a first elongate region (R1) between successive photovoltaic layer portions (13A, 13B), a second elongate region (R2) between successive second charge carrier transport layer portions (14C, 14D) and a third elongate region (R3) between successive second electrode layer (15) portions (15C, 15D). The second elongate region (R2) extends within the first elongate region (R1), and its lateral boundaries are distinct from those of the first elongate region (R1).
US11749754B2
An active pattern structure includes a lower active pattern protruding from an upper surface of a substrate in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, a buffer structure on the lower active pattern, at least a portion of which may include aluminum silicon oxide, and an upper active pattern on the buffer structure.
US11749750B2
A split-gate trench device chip has an active region in which a plurality of active trenches are disposed. The active region is enclosed by termination trenches disposed in a termination region, which extends to the edges of the chip. A gate metal lead is disposed on the device surface. The gate metal lead makes contact to gate electrodes in the active trenches through contact holes disposed in the active region. A source or a drain metal lead is also disposed on the surface. The source or the drain metal lead makes contact to the field plate electrodes through contact holes disposed outside the active region. Each active trench in the active region has a first end merge into a first termination trench and a second end separated from an adjacent second termination trench.
US11749743B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate structure on a substrate, a first spacer on sidewalls of gate structure, a second spacer on sidewalls of the first spacer, a polymer block adjacent to the first spacer and on a corner between the gate structure and the substrate, an interfacial layer under the polymer block, and a source/drain region adjacent to two sides of the first spacer. Preferably, the polymer block is surrounded by the first spacer, the interfacial layer, and the second spacer.
US11749741B2
The invention provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a gate structure on the substrate, respectively forming an epitaxial layer on both sides of the gate structure, and performing a pre-amorphization doping step on the substrate. After the pre-amorphization doping step, a defect is generated in the epitaxial layer, an outer spacer is formed beside the gate structure, and a chemical cleaning step is performed to remove a part of the epitaxial layer, and the defect in the epitaxial layer is removed.
US11749733B2
Fin shaping using templates, and integrated circuit structures resulting therefrom, are described. For example, integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor fin having a protruding fin portion above an isolation structure above a substrate. The protruding fin portion has a vertical portion and one or more lateral recess pairs in the vertical portion. A gate stack is over and conformal with the protruding fin portion of the semiconductor fin. A first source or drain region is at a first side of the gate stack. A second source or drain region is at a second side of the gate stack opposite the first side of the gate stack.
US11749726B2
A transistor device includes a semiconductor layer, source and drain contacts on the semiconductor layer, a gate contact on the semiconductor layer between the source and drain contacts, and a field plate over the semiconductor layer between the gate contact and the drain contact. The transistor device includes a first electrical connection between the field plate and the source contact that is outside an active region of the transistor device, and a second electrical connection between the field plate and the source contact.
US11749725B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature disposed over a first semiconductor fin, a second epitaxial S/D feature disposed over a second semiconductor fin and adjacent to the first epitaxial S/D feature, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer disposed over the first and the second epitaxial S/D features, a dielectric feature disposed In the ILD layer and contacting the second epitaxial S/D feature, and a conductive feature disposed in the ILD layer and contacting the first epitaxial S/D feature, where a portion of the conductive feature extends to contact the dielectric feature.
US11749723B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor channel layer, a gate structure, complex regions, a source terminal and a drain terminal. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor channel layer. The source terminal and the drain terminal are disposed on the semiconductor channel layer. The complex regions are respectively disposed between the source terminal and the semiconductor channel layer and between the drain terminal and the semiconductor channel layer.
US11749719B2
A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same are provided. In an embodiment, a semiconductor structure includes a first plurality of channel members over a backside dielectric layer, a second plurality of channel members over the backside dielectric layer, a first gate structure over and wrapping around each of the first plurality of channel members, a second gate structure over and wrapping around each of the second plurality of channel members, and a through-substrate contact that extends between the first plurality of channel members and the second plurality of channel members, between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and through the backside dielectric layer.
US11749717B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a transistor with an embedded isolation layer in a bulk substrate and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a bulk substrate; an isolation layer embedded within the bulk substrate and below a top surface of the bulk substrate; a deep trench isolation structure extending through the bulk substrate and contacting the embedded isolation layer; and a gate structure over the top surface of the bulk substrate and vertically spaced away from the embedded isolation layer, the deep trench isolation structure and the embedded isolation layer defining an active area of the gate structure in the bulk substrate.
US11749700B2
A plurality of photovoltaic junctions for a subpixel may be formed in a semiconductor substrate. After thinning the backside of the semiconductor substrate, at least one transparent refraction structure may be formed on the backside surface of the thinned semiconductor substrate. Each transparent refraction structure has a variable thickness that decreases with a lateral distance from a vertical axis passing through a geometrical center of the second-conductivity-type pillar structures for the subpixel. A subpixel optics assembly including an optical lens may be formed over the at least one transparent refraction structure. Each transparent refraction structure may reduce the tilt angle of light that propagate downward into the photodetectors, and increases total internal reflection of light and increase the efficiency of the photodetectors.
US11749691B2
An electronic device substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device substrate includes a base substrate, a first insulating layer, and light-emitting sub-units, a first conductive member and a second conductive member, which are on a side of the first insulating layer away from the base substrate. The light-emitting sub-units and the first conductive member are respectively in array region and periphery region, and the second conductive member is between the first conductive member and the array region; orthogonal projections of the first and second conductive members on the base substrate are spaced apart; each light-emitting sub-unit includes first and second driving electrodes, second driving electrodes of the light-emitting sub-units are integrated to form a first common electrode layer; the periphery region further includes a second common electrode layer electrically connected to the first conductive member and the first common electrode layer.
US11749687B2
An array substrate, a method for fabricating the same, and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a first metal layer, a first insulating layer, a second metal layer, a second insulating layer, and a third metal layer. The first metal layer includes a first data line and a first vertical scan line. The second metal layer includes a horizontal scan line. The third metal layer includes a second data line and a second vertical scan line. The second data line is connected to the first data line through a first via hole. The second vertical scan line is connected to the first vertical scan line through a second via hole. The second vertical scan line is connected to the horizontal scan line through a third via hole. The first via hole, the second via hole, and the third via hole are formed by a same manufacturing process.
US11749686B2
A more convenient and highly reliable semiconductor device which has a transistor including an oxide semiconductor with higher impact resistance used for a variety of applications is provided. A semiconductor device has a bottom-gate transistor including a gate electrode layer, a gate insulating layer, and an oxide semiconductor layer over a substrate, an insulating layer over the transistor, and a conductive layer over the insulating layer. The insulating layer covers the oxide semiconductor layer and is in contact with the gate insulating layer. In a channel width direction of the oxide semiconductor layer, end portions of the gate insulating layer and the insulating layer are aligned with each other over the gate electrode layer, and the conductive layer covers a channel formation region of the oxide semiconductor layer and the end portions of the gate insulating layer and the insulating layer and is in contact with the gate electrode layer.
US11749682B2
A first dielectric layer is selectively formed such that the first dielectric layer is formed over a source/drain region of a first type of transistor but not over a source/drain region of a second type of transistor. The first type of transistor and the second type of transistor have different types of conductivity. A first silicide layer is selectively formed such that the first silicide layer is formed over the source/drain region of the second type of transistor but not over the source/drain region of the first type of transistor. The first dielectric layer is removed. A second silicide layer is formed over the source/drain region of the first type of transistor.
US11749681B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor fin that is formed over a substrate and extends along a first lateral axis. The semiconductor device includes a second semiconductor fin that is also formed over the substrate and extends along the first lateral axis. At least a tip portion of the first semiconductor fin and at least a tip portion of the second semiconductor fin bend toward each other along a second lateral axis that is perpendicular to the first lateral axis.
US11749677B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor device formed over a substrate and a second semiconductor device formed over the substrate. The first semiconductor device includes a first source/drain feature over the substrate, a first gate structure over the substrate, a first conductive feature over the first source/drain feature, and a first insulation layer between the first gate structure and the first conductive feature. The second semiconductor device includes a second source/drain feature over the substrate, a second gate structure over the substrate, a second conductive feature over the second source/drain feature, and a second insulation layer between the second gate structure and the second conductive feature. A width of the first conductive feature and a width of the second conductive feature are different, and a width of the first insulation layer is less than a width of the second insulation layer.
US11749674B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit including a monitoring unit, a main discharge transistor, and an auxiliary discharge transistor is provided herein. The monitoring unit is configured to detect an electrostatic pulse caused by accumulation of electrostatic charges. The main discharge transistor and the auxiliary discharge transistor are configured discharge the electrostatic charges to ground end after the electrostatic pulse is detected. A first section of a power supply metal line is coupled to the main discharge transistor and the auxiliary discharge transistor, a third section of the power supply metal line is coupled to an internal circuit protected by the ESD protection circuit, and a second section of the power supply metal line couples the first section to the third section. The power supply metal line includes an angle that is less than 180 degrees at a contact position between the second section and the first section.
US11749663B2
Techniques and mechanisms for providing interconnected circuitry of an integrated circuit (IC) die stack. In an embodiment, first integrated circuitry of a first IC die is configured to couple, via a first interconnects of the first IC die, to second integrated circuitry of a second IC die. When the first IC die and the second IC die are coupled to one another, second interconnects of the first IC die are further coupled to the second integrated circuitry, wherein the second interconnects are coupled to each of two opposite sides of the first IC die. In another embodiment, the second integrated circuitry includes processor logic, and the first integrated circuitry is configured to cache data for access by the processor logic. In another embodiment, the first integrated circuitry includes a power delivery circuit and an on-package input-output interface to cache data for access by the processor logic at higher bandwidth with lower power consumption.
US11749657B2
The present disclosure provides a fan-out chip packaging structure and a method to fabricate the fan-out chip package. The fan-out chip packaging structure includes a first redistribution layer, a second redistribution layer, metal connecting posts, a semiconductor chip, a first packaging layer, a stacked chip package, a passive element, a filling layer, a metal bumps, and a second packaging layer. By means of the present disclosure, various chips having different functions can be integrated into one package structure, thereby improving the integration level of the fan-out packaging structure. By means of the first redistribution layer, the second redistribution layer, and the metal connecting posts, a three-dimensional vertically stacked package is achieved. In this way, the integration level of the packaging structure can be effectively improved, and the conduction path can be effectively shortened, thereby reducing power consumption, increasing the transmission speed, and increasing the data processing capacity.
US11749648B2
A circuit structure for testing through silicon vias (TSVs) in a 3D IC, including a TSV area with multiple TSVs formed therein, and a switch circuit with multiple column lines and row lines forming an addressable test array, wherein two ends of each TSV are connected respectively with a column line and a row line. The switch circuit applies test voltage signals through one of the row lines to the TSVs in the same row and receives current signals flowing through the TSVs in the row from the columns lines, or the switch circuit applies test voltage signals through one of the column lines to the TSVs in the same column and receives current signals flowing through the TSVs in the column from the row lines.
US11749644B2
An embodiment is package structure including a first integrated circuit die, a redistribution structure bonded to the first integrated circuit die, the redistribution structure including a first metallization pattern in a first dielectric layer, the first metallization pattern including a plurality of first conductive features, each of the first conductive features including a first conductive via in the first dielectric layer and first conductive line over the first dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the respective first conductive via, each of the first conductive lines comprising a curve in a plan view, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and the first metallization pattern, and a second metallization pattern in the second dielectric layer, the second metallization pattern including a plurality of second conductive via in the second dielectric layer, each of the second conductive vias being over and electrically coupled to a respective first conductive line.
US11749641B2
Embodiments of semiconductor devices and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes NAND memory cells and a first bonding layer including first bonding contacts. The semiconductor device also includes a second semiconductor structure including DRAM cells and a second bonding layer including second bonding contacts. The semiconductor device also includes a third semiconductor structure including a processor, SRAM cells, and a third bonding layer including third bonding contacts. The semiconductor device further includes a first bonding interface between the first and third bonding layers, and a second bonding interface between the second and third bonding layers. The first bonding contacts are in contact with a first set of the third bonding contacts at the first bonding interface. The second bonding contacts are in contact with a second set of the third bonding contacts at the second bonding interface. The first and second bonding interfaces are in a same plane.
US11749637B2
In one example, a method to manufacture a semiconductor device comprises providing an electronic component over a substrate, wherein an interconnect of the electronic component contacts a conductive structure of the substrate, providing the substrate over a laser assisted bonding (LAB) tool, wherein the LAB tool comprises a stage block with a window, and heating the interconnect with a laser beam through the window until the interconnect is bonded with the conductive structure. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US11749633B2
A power semiconductor module includes a substrate with a structured metallization layer and a number of semiconductor chips. Each chip has a first power electrode bonded to the metallization layer. A leadframe is laser-welded to second power electrodes of the semiconductor chips for electrically interconnecting the semiconductor chips. A control conductor is attached to the leadframe opposite to the semiconductor chips and is electrically isolated from the leadframe. The control conductor is electrically connected to control electrodes of the semiconductor chips in the group.
US11749632B2
A power electronics module includes a glass layer with one or more vias extending through the glass layer and having an electrically and thermally conductive material disposed within the one or more vias, a power electronic device directly bonded to a first surface of the glass layer, and, a cooling structure thermally coupled to a second surface of the glass layer.
US11749630B2
A semiconductor chip includes a back end of line (BEOL) structure on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate and including a conductive connection structure and an interlayer insulating layer covering the conductive connection structure, a conductive reinforcing layer arranged on the BEOL structure, a cover insulating layer covering the conductive reinforcing layer, an under bump metal (UBM) layer including a plurality of pad connection portions connected to the conductive reinforcing layer through openings in the cover insulating layer, and a plurality of first connection bumps arranged on the plurality of pad connection portions of the UBM layer, electrically connected to one another through the conductive reinforcing layer, and located to overlap the conductive reinforcing layer. The conductive reinforcing layer has a plate shape and extends parallel to the first surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US11749623B2
A method for fabricating memory devices includes forming a first portion of a memory device that includes a first device portion and one or more first interface portions. The first device portion includes a plurality of first memory strings, each of which includes a plurality of first memory cells vertically separated from one another. Each of the one or more first interface portions, laterally abutted to one side of the first device portion, includes a plurality of first word lines (WLs). The method further includes forming a plurality of first source lines (SLs) and a plurality of first bit lines (BLs) in the first device portion. The method further includes forming a first seal ring structure that laterally encloses both the first device portion and the first interface portion concurrently with forming the pluralities of SLs and BLs.
US11749620B2
A semiconductor module includes: a semiconductor element; and a sealing member. The semiconductor element includes: a semiconductor substrate; a protection film on the semiconductor substrate; a metal film on the semiconductor substrate and having at least a part located between the semiconductor substrate and the protection film; and a dummy metal film on the semiconductor substrate between the metal film and the protection film. The surface of the semiconductor substrate has a recess. The protection film has an other recess or a hole. The dummy metal film is arranged in both the recess of the semiconductor substrate and the other recess or the hole of the protection film.
US11749617B2
The present disclosure provides a package structure, including a mounting pad having a mounting surface, a semiconductor chip disposed on the mounting surface of the mounting pad, wherein the semiconductor chip includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and facing the mounting surface, and a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, a first magnetic field shielding, including a first portion proximal to the third surface of the semiconductor chip, wherein the first portion has a first height calculated from the mounting surface to a top surface, and a second portion distal to the semiconductor chip, has a second height calculated from the mounting surface to a position at a surface facing away from the mounting surface, wherein the second height is less than the first height, wherein the second portion has an inclined sidewall.
US11749613B2
A method for manufacturing a component carrier includes forming a stack with at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure, providing a component having one or more pads and at least one dielectric layer on at least one main surface of the component such that the dielectric layer at least partially covers one or more pads of the component, placing the component on a temporary carrier, and embedding the component between the temporary carrier and the at least one insulating layer structure by pressing the component into the at least one insulating layer structure.
US11749606B2
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices, and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate; a bridge, embedded in the package substrate, wherein the bridge includes an integral passive component, and wherein a surface of the bridge include first contacts in a first interconnect area and second contacts in a second interconnect area; a first die coupled to the passive component via the first contacts in the first interconnect area; and a second die coupled to the second contacts in the second interconnect area.
US11749602B2
Provided is a method for fabricating an interconnect. The method comprises forming a topological semi-metal layer. The method further comprises patterning the topological semi-metal layer to form one or more interconnects. The method further comprises forming a dielectric layer between the one or more interconnects. The method further comprises forming a hermetic dielectric cap layer on top of the one or more interconnects and the dielectric layer.
US11749599B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to dual thickness fuse structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a continuous wiring structure on a single wiring level and composed of conductive material having a fuse portion and a thicker wiring structure.
US11749596B2
A wiring substrate includes a conductor pad, an insulating layer formed on the conductor pad such that the insulating layer is covering the conductor pad and has a through hole, a bump formed on the conductor pad such that the bump is formed in the through hole penetrating through the insulating layer. The conductor pad is formed such that the conductor pad has a connecting surface connected to the bump, a concave part formed on the connecting surface of the conductor pad to the bump, and a convex part formed in the concave part.
US11749595B2
A method to produce a semiconductor package or system-on-flex package comprising bonding structures for connecting IC/chips to fine pitch circuitry using a solid state diffusion bonding is disclosed. A plurality of traces is formed on a substrate, each respective trace comprising at least four different conductive materials having different melting points and plastic deformation properties, which are optimized for both diffusion bonding of chips and soldering of passives components.
US11749565B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first recess in a first wafer. The first recess is at a first front-side surface of the first wafer and exposes a first interconnect structure in the first wafer. A second recess is formed in a second wafer. The second recess is at a second front-side surface of the second wafer. The first recess is filled with a first polymer. The second recess is filled with a second polymer. The first front-side surface of the first wafer is bonded with the second front-side surface of the second wafer such that the first polymer is bonded to the second polymer. The first polymer in the first recess and the second polymer in the second recess are removed. A metal is deposited in the first recess and the second recess.
US11749563B2
The present disclosure describes a method for forming a silicon-based, carbon-rich, low-k ILD layer with a carbon concentration between about 15 atomic % and about 20 atomic %. For example, the method includes depositing a dielectric layer, over a substrate, with a dielectric material having a dielectric constant below 3.9 and a carbon atomic concentration between about 15% and about 20%; exposing the dielectric layer to a thermal process configured to outgas the dielectric material; etching the dielectric layer to form openings; and filling the openings with a conductive material to form conductive structures.
US11749555B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an apparatus and method for processing semiconductor substrates. In one embodiment, a processing system is disclosed. The processing system includes an outer chamber that surrounds an inner chamber. The inner chamber includes a substrate support upon which a substrate is positioned during processing. The inner chamber is configured to have an internal volume that, when isolated from an internal volume of the outer chamber, is changeable such that the pressure within the internal volume of the inner chamber may be varied.
US11749547B2
A target provided to a substrate placement portion is detected by an object detection sensor at a plurality of rotation positions of the substrate placement portion. An index length which is a distance from a robot reference axis to the target in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, or information correlated therewith, is calculated. At least one of a rotation position of a detection line about the robot reference axis and a rotation position of the substrate placement portion about a rotation axis when the target located on a line connecting the robot reference axis and the rotation axis is detected is calculated on the basis of the calculated index length or the calculated information correlated therewith. A direction in which the rotation axis is present as seen from the robot reference axis is specified on the basis of the calculated rotation position.
US11749541B2
This bonding apparatus is provided with: a tape feeder module which takes out an electronic component from a carrier tape and transfers the electronic component thus taken out; a die supply module which has a die pick-up mechanism for picking up a semiconductor die from a semiconductor wafer bonded to a dicing sheet by pushing up the semiconductor die and which transfers the semiconductor die thus picked up; and a bonding module which arranges, on a circuit substrate, the semiconductor die supplied by the die supply module and/or the electronic component supplied by the tape feeder module.
US11749540B2
Disclosed is a wafer processing system, a dual gate system, and methods for operating these systems. The dual gate system may have a shaft, a first gate and a second gate coupled to the shaft at opposite sides thereof, and an actuator coupled to the shaft. The actuator is configured to tilt together the shaft, the first gate, and the second gate to a first sealed gate position or to a second sealed gate position. The actuator can be operated using a pneumatic mechanism, an electro-magnetic mechanism, or a cam follower mechanism.
US11749539B1
Systems and methods for selectively etching features in an electronic substrate via a precision dispense apparatus and precision etchant dispense tool are disclosed. The method includes creating a toolpath instruction for etching at least one feature in the substrate, programming the precision dispense apparatus to execute the created toolpath instruction, and causing the precision dispense tool to deposit etchant material onto the surface of the substrate to etch the substrate surface to produce the at least one feature according to the created toolpath instruction. The capabilities of the systems and methods disclosed herein extend to 3D substrates and post-build processing, among others.
US11749535B2
A system and method for applying an underfill is provided. An embodiment comprises applying an underfill to a substrate and patterning the underfill. Once patterned other semiconductor devices, such as semiconductor dies or semiconductor packages may then be attached to the substrate through the underfill, with electrical connections from the other semiconductor devices extending into the pattern of the underfill.
US11749529B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a dielectric layer, forming a plurality of mandrel lines over the dielectric layer, and forming a plurality of non-mandrel lines over the dielectric layer between adjacent ones of the mandrel lines utilizing self-aligned double patterning. The method also includes forming at least one spacer-merge region extending from a first portion of a first one of the mandrel lines to a second portion of a second one of the mandrel lines in a first direction and covering at least a portion of one or more of the non-mandrel lines between the first mandrel and the second mandrel in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The method further includes forming a plurality of trenches in the dielectric layer by transferring a pattern of (i) the mandrel lines and (ii) portions of the non-mandrel lines outside the at least one spacer-merge region.
US11749525B2
A vapor phase growth apparatus according to an embodiment includes a reaction chamber; a substrate holder having a holding wall capable holding an outer periphery of the substrate; a process gas supply part provided above the reaction chamber, the process gas supply part having a first region supplying a first process gas and a second region around the first region supplying a second process gas having a carbon/silicon atomic ratio higher than that of the first process gas, an inner peripheral diameter of the second region being 75% or more and 130% or less of a diameter of the holding wall; a sidewall provided between the process gas supply part and the substrate holder, an inner peripheral diameter of the sidewall being 110% or more and 200% or less of an outer peripheral diameter of the second region; a first heater; a second heater; and a rotation driver.
US11749517B2
An object of the present invention is to improve the safety and stability of an ion source by making a temperature distribution of a heated gas uniform while ensuring heat insulating properties. The ion source according to the present invention includes a gas introduction port inside a probe holder that holds an ion probe. A heater that increases the temperature of a heated gas and the gas introduction port are connected by a plurality of pipes which extend along an extending direction of the ion probe and are independent of each other (see FIG. 4).
US11749496B2
Disclosed herein are techniques directed toward a protective shutter for a charged particle microscope. An example apparatus at least includes a charged particle column and a focused ion beam (FIB) column, a gas injection nozzle coupled to a translation device, the translation device configured to insert the gas injection nozzle in close proximity to a stage, and a shutter coupled to the gas injection nozzle and arranged to be disposed between the sample and the SEM column when the gas injection nozzle is inserted in close proximity to the stage.
US11749495B2
Methods and systems for detecting charged particles from a specimen are provided. One system includes a first repelling mesh configured to repel charged particles from a specimen having an energy lower than a first predetermined energy and a second repelling mesh configured to repel the charged particles that pass through the first repelling mesh and have an energy that is lower than a second predetermined energy. The system also includes a first attracting mesh configured to attract the charged particles that pass through the first repelling mesh, are repelled by the second repelling mesh, and have an energy that is higher than the first predetermined energy and lower than the second predetermined energy. The system further includes a first detector configured to generate output responsive to the charged particles that pass through the first attracting mesh.
US11749489B2
A system, comprising: a vacuum enclosure; an anode support structure penetrating the vacuum enclosure and including a plurality of first cooling passages; and an anode disposed within the vacuum enclosure, coupled to and supported by the anode support structure, and including: a target; and a plurality of second cooling passages; wherein: each of the second cooling passages is coupled to a corresponding first cooling passage; and the anode is coupled to the anode support structure on a side of the anode different from a side of the anode including the target and different from axial ends of the anode on a major axis of the anode.
US11749482B2
A protection element includes a first electrode (1), a second electrode (2) having a spring property, and a fuse element material (3) that is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the fuse element material (3) is supported by being interposed between the first electrode (1) and the second electrode (2) in a bent state.
US11749478B1
A small compact magnetic latching shut-off switch having a lightweight float, angled geometry, and quick/convenient small-stroke manual float reset. A lower float magnet and a second upper magnet affecting electrical circuit continuity have initial offset positioning that minimizes their magnetic attraction to one another. When a predetermined small amount of fluid accumulates below it, the float begins forward rotation and attraction between magnets thereafter multiplies until gravitational force on the float and forces maintaining initial raised positioning of the upper magnet are overcome, resulting in strong latched snap-lock connection between upper and lower magnets, an abrupt/reliable/strong tripped state that remains until manual float reset occurs. Transparent float housing reveals drain line clogging potential, and structural features of the float and housing enable raised tripping point adjustment, promoting switch reliability. Switch use with a tapered threaded adapter seal also provides fast and stable installation, and greater adaptation to different work environments.
US11749477B2
A circuit breaker includes a vacuum interrupter. The interrupter includes a first movable electrode to which a first contact is connected and a second movable electrode to which a second contact is connected. The interrupter is operable between an open state and a closed state. In the open state, the first contact and the second contact are separated by a contact gap distance. In the closed state, the first contact and the second contact touch each other. The circuit breaker includes an ultrafast actuator operatively connected to each of the first and second movable electrodes. The ultrafast actuator is configured to change the vacuum interrupter from the closed state to the open state by simultaneously moving the first contact in a first direction along a first distance portion of the contact gap, and the second contact in a second direction along a second distance portion of the contact gap.
US11749472B1
A dustproof micro switch is provided by the present disclosure, comprising a base body, an upper cover, and a button, wherein the base body and the upper cover form a box body; the upper cover is provided with a first half of through hole for the button, the base body is provided with a second half of through hole for the button, and the first half of through hole for the button and the second half of through hole for the button form a through hole for the button; one end of the button is arranged in the box body, and the other end of the button extends out of the box body through the through hole for the button; the end, extending out of the box body, of the button is provided with a sealing sleeve, and the movable contact arm support is arranged on the base body.
US11749468B2
A poly(vinylphosphonic acid) (PVPA)-(NH4)2MoO4), gel polymer electrolyte can be prepared by incorporating redox-mediated Mo, or similar metal, into a PVPA, or similar polymer, matrix. Gel polymer electrolytes including PVPA/MoX, x representing the percent fraction Mo in PVPA, can be used to make supercapacitors including active carbon electrodes. The electrolytes can be in gel form, bendable and stretchable in a device. Devices including this gel electrolyte can have a specific capacitance (Cs) of 1276 F/g, i.e., a more than 50-fold increase relative to a PVPA system without Mo. A PVPA/Mo10 supercapacitor can have an energy density of 180.2 Wh/kg at power density of 500 W/kg, and devices with this hydrogel structure may maintain 85+% of their initial capacitance performance after 2300 charge-discharge cycles.
US11749466B1
A light harvesting supercapacitor and a method of preparing the light harvesting supercapacitor are disclosed. The light harvesting supercapacitor includes a transparent substrate, an active layer including TiO2 nanoparticles and polyaniline (PANI) nanoparticles disposed on the transparent substrate, an electrolyte layer including a solid separator and poly(2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid) disposed on the active layer, a carbon electrode disposed on the electrolyte layer; and a metal layer disposed on the activated carbon electrode. The method of preparing the light harvesting supercapacitor involves pulsed laser ablation in a liquid of bulk PANI to form the PANI nanoparticles. The light harvesting supercapacitor can be used in a photovoltaic device.
US11749460B2
There are provided an electronic component and a board including the same. The electronic component includes: a capacitor body; a pair of external electrodes respectively disposed on both ends of the capacitor body; and a pair of metal frames including a pair of connection portions connected to the pair of external electrodes, respectively, and a pair of mounting portions connected to the pair of connection portions, respectively. A bottom surface of one of the pair of mounting portions has roughness.
US11749452B2
A leakage transformer is provided. The leakage transformer includes a first plate, a second plate, a plurality of winding pillars, a primary winding, a secondary winding and a plurality of magnetic shunt elements. Each magnetic shunt element is disposed between the two corresponding winding pillars, and there is a gap between every two neighboring magnetic shunt elements. Alternatively, the magnetic shunt element is disposed on the first plate and aligned with the corresponding winding pillar, and there is a gap between the magnetic shunt element and the second plate. A leakage inductance of the leakage transformer is determined by the gap.
US11749447B2
An electronic component including an element body having a magnetic body; an internal electrode embedded in the element body and whose end portion is exposed from an end surface of the element body; and an external electrode on an outer surface of the element body. The external electrode has a bottom surface portion on a bottom surface of the element body, and an end surface portion extending to an end surface of the element body that intersects perpendicularly with the bottom surface. The end surface portion is connected to the internal electrode exposed from the end surface. The bottom surface portion includes a first bottom surface portion arranged on the element body side, and a second bottom surface portion arranged on an outer side of the first bottom surface portion. The first bottom surface portion is a resin electrode containing a resin and a conductive filler.
US11749445B2
A laminated coil component includes an element body, a coil, and a pair of conductors. The pair of conductors is disposed on the element body. Each of the pair of conductors has an L shape when viewed from the third direction. Each of the pair of conductors includes a first conductor portion and a second conductor portion. The first conductor portion is disposed on one of first side faces. The second conductor portion is disposed on a pair of end faces. The coil includes a first coil portion and a second coil portion. The first coil portion includes a first straight portion and a pair of second straight portions. The pair of second straight portions is connected to both ends of the first straight portion. The second coil portion is curved as a whole.
US11749425B2
A device for recovering electrical energy includes a ferromagnetic cable helically wound around a portion of a power conductor , and disposed to form both a magnetic system which is capable of sensing the magnetic field induced by a current passing through the power conductor , and a way to generate a utilisable induced voltage from this magnetic field. The ferromagnetic cable is produced from an assembly of unitary strands produced from ferromagnetic material, these strands being assembled into the form of a stranded wire, each unitary strand behaving as a winding in which the induced voltage is induced, and the assembly of unitary strands forming an assembly of windings connected in parallel by way of connecting terminals provided at the ends of the ferromagnetic cable to recover the induced voltage.
US11749413B2
A display screen including a first display area displaying plural similar medical images received from a case search system and a second display area displaying disease names is displayed on a display of an information terminal. Each similar medical image is a medical image contained in an electronic medical book, and has additional information which includes the number of a page containing the similar medical image. If the user's selection of a similar medical image is detected for the first time after the display of the display screen, a page of an electronic medical book containing the selected similar medical image is displayed on the display screen. If the user's selection of a disease name is detected for the first time after the display of the display screen, a page of an electronic medical book containing differential items corresponding to the selected disease name is displayed on the display screen.
US11749412B2
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a distributed data processing system in which multiple processing devices communicate with one another over at least one network. The distributed data processing system is configured to obtain reads of biological samples of respective sample sources, with each of the biological samples containing genomic material from a plurality of distinct microorganisms within an environment of a corresponding one of the sample sources, and to perform distributed data analytics to characterize an actual or potential outbreak of at least one of a disease, an infection and a contamination that involves genomic material from multiple ones of the distinct microorganisms in one or more of the sample sources. Performing distributed data analytics illustratively comprises performing local analytics in respective ones of a plurality of data zones, and performing global analytics utilizing results of the local analytics performed in the respective data zones.
US11749411B2
A system for modeling the evolution of a system over time using an advection-based process is provided. The system continuously evolves a probability density function (“PDF”) for a characteristic of a characteristic of the state of the system and its time-varying parameters. The PDF is evolved based on advection by solving an advection partial differential equation that is based on a system model of the system. The system model has time-varying parameters for modeling the characteristic of the state of the system. The system uses the continuously evolving PDF to make predictions about the characteristic of the state of the system.
US11749405B2
Systems and methods of dynamic biometric detection and response are provided for the purpose of establishing baseline health status while conveying real-time drug prescription usages and reactions from baseline data. The dynamic monitoring system may be embedded within a wristband, ring, vest, and/or waistband in wireless communication with a computing device or server. Each wearable device may employ interchangeable and embedded sensors to detect inertia movements; 360-imaging fall detections; and a variety of body-emitting vital signs. The system may include a processor operable to sense user location, motion, activity, and biomarkers for the purpose of detecting the user's behavior pattern, wherein an enhanced machine-learning algorithm is used to identify repetitive actions within the user's behavior pattern; and, based upon this pattern, the system is able to detect one or more anomalies for the purpose of generating an anomaly alert for third party notification and quantitative analysis at a server.
US11749399B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing data and computer implementable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for generating cross section views of a wound, the operations including receiving 3D information of a wound based on information captured using an image sensor associated with an image plane substantially parallel to the wound; generating a cross section view of the wound by analyzing the 3D information; and providing data configured to cause a presentation of the generated cross section view of the wound.
US11749397B2
Systems, methods, and user interfaces infer data organization for display. An inference system learns patterns of how various healthcare items are typically grouped on a display so data can be aggregated and displayed in appropriate groupings to a clinician user. From a user perspective, it appears as though the display has been manually edited or a mapping has been created so that items are displayed in appropriate groups, even though neither editing nor mapping has been performed.
US11749392B1
Systems and methods may be provided that may enable an individual to retrieve one or more prescription products (e.g., product refills) from a self-service retrieval location such as a counter, drive-thru, drop box, or kiosk. A unique-machine readable code may be associated with a particular one or more prescription products (e.g., associated with a medical prescription of a patient). The unique machine-readable code may be provided to a computing device of the individual, along with an anticipated time of preparedness of the one or more products for retrieval at the retrieval location. Identification of the unique machine-readable code may result in dispensing of the one or more prescription products associated at the retrieval location.
US11749385B2
The present invention provides a hand hygiene system implemented on a computer comprising: a health management program including a cleaning hand module implemented on said computer; and a sanitizer dispenser equipped with a sensor that is connected to said computer; wherein every time the dispenser is used, the computer receives a signal indicating that the dispenser was used, and wherein said health management program entails access to a new/consequent patient file only when receiving said signal, whereby said hand hygiene system makes the performance of hand hygiene an obligatory action in between patients.
US11749383B2
The disclosure presents a new computer based model framework to predict drug effects over multiple time and spatial scales from the drug chemistry to the cardiac rhythm. The disclosure presents a new computer based model framework to predict drug effects from the level of the receptor interaction to the cardiac rhythm.
US11749382B2
Improved computer-implemented tools for use in modeling/simulating spatial charge distributions for electrophysiological systems are provided. The improvements are in three areas: (1) the use of solid angles to calculate quantities of free charge and/or bound charge in calculation cells and/or the movement of quantities of free charge across one or more faces of a calculation cell; (2) the use of flattened calculations cells having only two faces with substantial areas as seen from the free charge and/or the bound charge of the electrophysiological system; and (3) the use of at least two spatial charge distributions, specifically, at least one for bound charge and at least one for free charge, so as to include the effects of relative dielectric constants greater than 1.0 for part or all of an electrophysiological system. The three improvements can be used individually or in combinations.
US11749377B2
A method for predicting at least one fitness value of a protein is implemented on a computer and includes the following steps: encoding the amino acid sequence of the protein into a numerical sequence according to a protein database, the numerical sequence comprising a value for each amino acid of the sequence; calculating a protein spectrum according to the numerical sequence; and for each fitness: comparing the calculated protein spectrum with protein spectrum values of a predetermined database, said database containing protein spectrum values for different values of said fitness, predicting a value of said fitness according to the comparison step.
US11749376B2
Systems and method for identifying variants associated with a genetic disease can include obtaining calls for a plurality of individuals for a list of variant positions. The calls can be compared to identify variants that are found in affected individuals and absent in non-affected individuals. Such variants can include loss of heterozygosity, trans-phased compound heterozygotes, increased frequency mitochondrial variants, homozygous recessive variants, de novo variants, sex-linked variants, and combinations thereof.
US11749373B2
A first pool of blocks of a memory device is determined, wherein blocks of the first pool are associated with storing system data at a single bit per memory cell. A second pool of blocks of the memory device is determined, wherein blocks of the second pool are associated with storing user data at a plurality of bits per memory cell. In response to detecting a failure associated with a particular block of the second pool of blocks, the particular block is added to the first pool of blocks.
US11749368B2
An FPGA includes a number of logic elements in a core fabric. Each logic element includes a number of registers and each register includes a registered circuit path and a combinatorial circuit path. The registered and combinatorial circuit paths are in parallel. Each register includes a DFT circuit path that comprises an input in the registered circuit path and an output in the registered circuit path. The DFT circuit path is not in series with the registered circuit path and is not in series with the combinatorial circuit path. Each register includes a CE time-borrowing circuit path. Each the CE time-borrowing circuit path includes an input in the registered circuit path and an output that is coupled to the input of the registered circuit path. The CE time-borrowing circuit path is not in series with the registered circuit path and is not in series with the combinatorial circuit path.
US11749362B2
A failed erase operation is detected at a memory block of a memory device. Based on detecting the failed erase operation at the memory block, data on the memory block is destroyed using a data destruction algorithm that corrupts data stored by one or more cells of the block. The data on the memory block is verified to be destroyed. A passing data destruction status for the memory block is provided based on verifying the data on the memory block is destroyed.
US11749351B2
A memory controller that controls a memory device including a memory block includes an initial program controller configured to control the memory device to program at least one or more monitoring memory cells from among memory cells respectively connected to monitoring word lines from among a plurality of word lines connected to the memory block, a pre-read controller configured to generate a shifting information of a threshold voltage distribution of the monitoring memory cells based on a result of reading the monitoring memory cells before a read operation is performed on the memory block, and a pre-program controller configured to control the memory device to perform the read operation after applying a pre-program voltage having a voltage level determined according to the shifting information to the plurality of word lines.
US11749343B2
A memory management circuit stores information indicative of reliability-types of regions of a memory array. The memory management circuitry responds to a request to allocate memory in the memory array to a process by determining a request type associated with the request to allocate memory. Memory of the memory array is allocated to the process based on the request type associated with the request to allocate memory and the stored information indicative of reliability-types of regions of the memory array. The memory array may be a shared memory array. The memory array may be organized into rows and columns, and the regions of the memory array may be the rows of the memory array.
US11749332B2
Various embodiments include methods and devices for portion interleaving for asymmetric size memory portions. Embodiments may include determining an asymmetric memory portion assignment for an interleave unit, determining a consumed address space offset for consumed address space of a memory, modifying an address of the interleave unit using the consumed address space offset, and assigning the interleave unit to an interleave granule in the asymmetric memory portion using the modified address in a compact manner before assigning another interleave unit to another interleave granule. Embodiments may include receiving an address of memory access request in a memory, mapping the address to an interleave granule in an asymmetric memory portion, assigning consecutive interleave units to the interleave granule while the interleave granule has unused space before assigning another interleave unit to another interleave granule, and implementing the memory access request at the mapped address.
US11749329B1
Ferroelectric memory arrays with reduced current leakage is described herein. A ferroelectric memory array may include a number of memory cells including capacitors with ferroelectric material. Providing an intermediary word line voltage to non-selected word lines that are not electrically coupled to a target memory cell during a sensing operation may reduce leakage current from an active data line electrically coupled to the target memory cell to the non-selected word lines. The intermediary word line voltage may be provided using an amplitude between an idle voltage of the data lines and zero volts. The intermediary word line voltage may be reduced closer to zero volts for performing a programming operation.
US11749327B2
An exemplary memory bit cell circuit, including a bit line coupled to an SRAM bit cell circuit and an NVM bit cell circuit, with reduced area and reduced power consumption, included in a memory bit cell array circuit, is disclosed. The SRAM bit cell circuit includes cross-coupled true and complement inverters and a first access circuit coupled to the bit line. The NVM bit cell circuit includes an NVM device coupled to the bit line by a second access circuit and is coupled to the SRAM bit cell circuit. Data stored in the SRAM bit cell circuit and the NVM bit cell circuit are accessed based on voltages on the bit line. A true SRAM data is determined by an SRAM read voltage on the bit line, and an NVM data in the NVM bit cell circuit is determined by a first NVM read voltage on the bit line.
US11749306B2
A magnetic recording tape, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes a substrate, an underlayer formed above the substrate, and a magnetic recording layer formed above the underlayer. The underlayer includes first encapsulated nanoparticles each comprising a first magnetic nanoparticle encapsulated by a first aromatic polymer, and a first polymeric binder binding the first encapsulated nanoparticles. The recording layer includes second encapsulated nanoparticles each comprising a second magnetic nanoparticle encapsulated by an encapsulating layer, and a second polymeric binder binding the second encapsulated nanoparticles.
US11749298B2
A detected sound signal may comprise speech or non-verbal sounds, and many non-verbal sounds contain health information. If the speech, or a non-verbal sound containing health information, was produced by an enrolled user, data relating to the sound can be stored in a storage element. A system also comprises a data modification block, for obfuscating received data to provide an obfuscated version of the stored data. The system then has a first access mechanism, for controlling access to the stored data such that only an authorised user can obtain access to said stored data, and a second access mechanism, for controlling access to said stored data such the second access mechanism only provides access to the obfuscated version of the stored data.
US11749297B2
A voice quality estimation apparatus includes: a packet sequence creation unit configured to create a first sequence by applying a first characteristic indicating that quality degradation caused by packet loss is perceived by a user all at once, to a sequence consisting of elements each indicating whether or not a packet of a voice call has been lost; a smoothing unit configured to create a second sequence from the first sequence; a degradation amount emphasis unit configured to create a third sequence from the second sequence; a packet loss tolerance characteristics reflection unit configured to create a fourth sequence from the third sequence; a degradation amount calculation unit configured to calculate a degradation amount from the fourth sequence; and a listening quality estimation unit configured to estimate voice quality that is to be experienced by the user, from the degradation amount.
US11749293B2
Provided is an audio signal processing device that receives an operation input made by a user and performs noise removal processing for removing noise from a collected audio signal collected by a microphone, and that changes content of the noise removal processing according to content of the operation input.
US11749288B2
Encoding and decoding devices for encoding the channels of an audio system having at least four channels are disclosed. The decoding device has a first stereo decoding component which subjects a first pair of input channels to a first stereo decoding, and a second stereo decoding component which subjects a second pair of input channels to a second stereo decoding. The results of the first and second stereo decoding components are crosswise coupled to a third and a fourth stereo decoding component which each performs stereo decoding on one channel resulting from the first stereo decoding component, and one channel resulting from the second stereo decoding component.
US11749287B2
A computing device may receive an indication of an audio signal captured by a microphone, wherein the audio signal includes voice input. The computing device may determine that the voice input in the audio signal is from an authorized user of the computing device and includes a trigger phrase associated with a request to trigger device finder functionality based at least in part on comparing the voice input with data provided by the authorized user of the computing device. The computing device may, in response to determining that the voice input in the audio signal is from the authorized user of the computing device and includes the trigger phrase associated with the request to trigger device finder functionality, cause a speaker of the computing device to audibly output the alert sound to assist the authorized user to locate the computing device.
US11749278B2
Recommending an automated assistant action for inclusion in an existing automated assistant routine of a user, where the existing automated assistant routine includes a plurality of preexisting automated assistant actions. If the user confirms the recommendation through affirmative user interface input, the automated assistant action can be automatically added to the existing automated assistant routine. Thereafter, when the automated assistant routine is initialized, the preexisting automated assistant actions of the routine will be performed, as well as the automated assistant action that was automatically added to the routine in response to affirmative user interface input received in response to the recommendation.
US11749270B2
An output apparatus according to the present application includes an estimation unit, a decision unit, and an output unit. The estimation unit estimates an emotion of a user from detection information detected by a predetermined detection device. The decision unit decides information to be changed on the basis of the estimated emotion of the user. The output unit outputs information for changing the information to be changed.
US11749239B2
An electronic wind instrument includes a tonguing sensor which detects tonguing, a breath sensor which detects a breath value, a loudspeaker which outputs a musical sound and a processor which controls the musical sound, in which the processor acquires a tonguing value which depends on a tonguing time which is the time which has elapsed after start of the tonguing which is detected by the tongue sensor, decides a silencing effect value which indicates a degree of volume reduction depending on the tonguing value, acquires the breath value which depends on a magnitude of a breath sensor signal which indicates a result of detection by the breath sensor and makes the loudspeaker emit the musical sound whose volume which depends on the breath value is reduced depending on the silencing effect value.
US11749232B2
In an image generation apparatus, an input information obtaining section obtains contents of a user operation from an input apparatus. When two images are composited, an image data generating section switches a space of image data according to a situation and stores data of images composited in the space in a frame buffer. A format control section sets a data format corresponding to the determined space in the frame buffer. An output section outputs the data read from the frame buffer as video signals corresponding to a display.
US11749228B2
A method for adjusting the display of a terminal provided with an under-screen image capturing device includes adjusting the brightness of the display above the under-screen image capturing device. First display brightness within a first display region is detected and second display brightness within a second display region is detected when a display screen of a terminal is displaying an image. Grayscale brightness within the first display region is adjusted based on the first display brightness and the second display brightness to allow adjusted grayscale brightness within the first display region to be consistent with grayscale brightness within the second display region.
US11749224B2
According to one embodiment, a level shift circuit includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, an output terminal, a first level shift unit, a first inverter, a second level shift unit, a second inverter, and first to fourth switching elements. The first level shift unit outputs a first output voltage and a reference voltage. The second level shift unit outputs the reference voltage and a second output voltage.
US11749223B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit and a display panel. After pre-charging a first node to a first electrical potential, raising it to a second electrical potential through a first capacitor by a current row gate output signal G(n), and then raising it to a third electrical potential which is a high electrical potential greater than an electrical potential of the current row gate output signal G(n), so that a first transistor is turned on and data is written, raising an original electrical potential of a gate and improving driving capability since a gate electrical potential of the first transistor can be raised to greater than the G(n).
US11749220B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pair of substrates including a display area in which pixels are arranged, pixel electrodes and memories provided in the pixels, signal lines supplied with digital signals, switching elements connecting the memories and the signal lines, scanning lines supplied with scanning signals, a first driver unit, and a second driver unit. The first driver unit is provided in a peripheral area around the display area, and supplies the digital signal to the signal line. The second driver unit is provided in the peripheral area, and supplies the scanning signal to the scanning line. In the display device, at least a part of the first driver unit is provided between the display area and the second driver unit.
US11749213B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a light emitting diode, a first transistor controlling a driving current of the light emitting diode, a second transistor including a second drain electrode connected to a first source electrode of the first transistor, a second gate electrode, a second channel overlapped with the second gate electrode when viewed in a plan view, a second source electrode facing the second drain electrode with the second channel interposed therebetween, and a lower gate electrode, and a plurality of driving voltage lines transmitting a first driving voltage. The lower gate electrode of the second transistor is overlapped with the second channel when viewed in a plan view, and the lower gate electrode is electrically connected to a corresponding driving voltage line among the driving voltage lines.
US11749212B2
Disclosed is a display device including: a timing controller outputting image data and a data driving control signal based on an image signal and a control signal inputted from the outside; a data driver outputting a data voltage corresponding to the image data based on the data driving control signal; and a display panel displaying an image corresponding to the data voltage, and the data driver includes: a buffer array where buffer groups, each of which is composed of one or more adjacent output buffers, are disposed; a bias current controller applying a bias current to the buffer groups; and an output circuit sequentially applying the data voltage outputted from the buffer groups to data lines in response to a source output enable signal and driving method for the same.
US11749209B1
A drive circuit, a display assembly, and a display device are provided. The drive circuit includes a display drive module, at least one display control module, and a discharge control module. The display control module is configured to receive a data signal and transmit a first power-supply voltage to the display drive module according to the data signal. The display drive module is configured to transmit, under control of a scan signal and the data signal, the first power-supply voltage to a light-emitting element upon reception of the first power-supply voltage, to drive the light-emitting element to emit lights. The discharge control module is configured to receive the first power-supply voltage, and discharge the light-emitting element by adjusting a potential of the scan signal when the first power-supply voltage drops.
US11749208B2
A display device includes: a pixel connected to each of a first scan line, a second scan line, and a data line; a scan driver supplying a first scan signal to the first scan line and a second scan signal to the second scan line; a controller dividing one frame period into an active period and a blank period and generating a count signal in which a time duration of the blank period is counted and a power control signal; a data driver supplying a data signal to the data line; and a power supply controlling a source driving voltage supplied to the data driver according to a duration of the blank period based on the power control signal. When the count signal reaches a reference value, the controller supplies a start signal for output of the first scan signal to the scan driver.
US11749194B2
A display substrate, a driving method therefor, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, provided with multiple pixel islands discretely provided, the pixel islands including multiple subpixels distributed in an array; a plurality of pixel circuits, arranged in the subpixels respectively, each of the pixel circuits including a driving transistor and a light-emitting component, a first electrode of the driving transistor being electrically connected to a first power supply end, a second electrode of the driving transistor being electrically connected to an anode of the light-emitting component, and a cathode of the light-emitting component being electrically connected to a second power supply end; and multiple light emission control circuits, each arranged at a gap between adjacent pixel islands, the light emission control circuit being electrically connected between the first power supply end and the first electrode of the driving transistor.
US11749187B2
A component for a display device, a display device and a method for operating the display device, a computer program and a storage medium are disclosed. The component comprises LED chips arranged in rows, wherein one red, one green and one blue LED chip are arranged alternately per row in the extension direction of the respective row and per column obliquely to the extension direction, and the rows have an offset from one another in the extension direction.
US11749182B2
A display system includes a light emitting array and a driving device. The light emitting array includes multiple scan lines, multiple drive lines and multiple light emitting elements. The driving device includes a controller, a charge balance line and a charge sharing circuit. The controller generates a control output. The charge sharing circuit is coupled to the drive lines, the charge balance line and the controller, and receives the control output from the controller. With respect to each of the drive lines, the charge sharing circuit is operable, based on the control output, to establish or not establish an electrical connection between the drive line and the charge balance line.
US11749179B2
A display panel includes a scan driving circuit, signal pins and a first gating circuit. Signal pins include a detection signal pin and an enable signal pin. The scan driving circuit includes scan drive units disposed in a cascade manner. The first gating circuit includes a first switch unit and a second switch unit. An input terminal of the first switch unit is electrically connected to a scan signal detection terminal of an Nth-stage scan drive unit. An input terminal of the second switch unit is electrically connected to a scan signal detection terminal of a first-stage scan drive unit. An output terminal of the first switch unit and an output terminal of the second switch unit are both electrically connected to the detection signal pin. The first switch unit is configured to turn on in a forward scan detection stage and turn off in a backward scan detection stage. The second switch unit is configured to turn on in the backward scan detection stage and turn off in the backward scan detection stage.
US11749177B2
In a display device and driving method thereof, a display device includes: a display panel including a pixel, the pixel including a light-emitting device (LED), the pixel receiving a data signal (DS) corresponding to a gate signal, the LED emitting light by a driving current flowing from a first power voltage to a second power voltage in response to the DS, the pixel receiving a reset voltage at least once after receiving one DS and before receiving a next DS, a data driver circuit supplying the DS to the pixel through a data line, a gate driver circuit for: supplying the gate signal to the pixel through a gate line, and outputting a light emission control signal for controlling supply of one of the reset voltage and the first power voltage to the LED, and a timing controller controlling the data driver circuit and the gate driver circuit.
US11749171B2
An electronic device includes a host controller. The host controller splits a to-be-displayed image into at least two sub images, where each sub image and an adjacent sub image thereof include at least one column of overlapping image pixels. The host controller sends the at least two sub images to at least two display drive circuits, so that the at least two display drive circuits can jointly drive a display screen to display the to-be-displayed image in a sub pixel rendering (SPR) manner.
US11749167B2
The present disclosure relates to a data drive circuit capable of increasing clock and data recovery stability by generating a clock synchronized with input data, a clock recovery method thereof, and a display drive device having the same, and the data drive circuit according to an aspect includes a receiver including a clock and data recovery part configured to recover a test data pattern from input data using an internal clock, and a data comparator configured to compare the recovered test data pattern with a predetermined reference data pattern to generate a control signal according to a degree of asynchronicity between the recovered test data pattern and the reference data pattern, wherein the clock and data recovery part recovers a clock synchronized with the input data according to the control signal, and recovers control information and image data from the input data using the recovered clock.
US11749166B2
A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a display panel are provided. The GOA circuit provides a pull-up maintaining module including transistors T11, T12, and T13. In a pre-charge sub-phase t1 and an output sub-phase t2, a node Qb is at a high level to pull down a node P and turn off the transistor T13. A node K changes to the high level under control of the transistor T11. The transistor T12 is turned on, and the node Qb is keeping at the high level. A node Qa is keeping at the high level in the pre-charge sub-phase, and keeping at a bootstrap electrical level in the output sub-phase.
US11749165B2
A brightness parameter correction method and device and a brightness compensation system. The method includes: obtaining a first to-be-tested brightness parameter of a designated sample display panel at a first gray level; obtaining a first deviation parameter between the first to-be-tested brightness parameter and a reference brightness; calculating a correction coefficient based on the first to-be-tested brightness parameter and the reference brightness parameter when the first deviation parameter is greater than a first preset standard threshold, the correction coefficient being such that a corrected first deviation parameter between a corrected first to-be-tested brightness parameter and the reference brightness parameter is less than or equal to the first preset standard threshold; obtaining a second to-be-tested brightness parameter of a target display panel at the first gray level; and correcting the second to-be-tested brightness parameter using the correction coefficient to obtain a corrected second to-be-tested brightness parameter.
US11749157B2
The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a gate driving circuit and a plurality of rows of pixel circuits. By electrically connecting a gate of a driving transistor in each of the pixel circuits to at least one oxide thin-film transistor, each of the pixel circuits has a low leakage characteristic, thereby realizing a low-frequency driving display of the pixel circuits. On this basis, a display time interval between two adjacent rows of the pixel circuits can be lengthened about half-frame time, thereby realizing an ultra-low-frequency driving display.
US11749156B2
A shift register and driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register includes a first input unit, a second input unit, a pull-up control unit, a pull-down control unit, an output control unit and an output reset unit, wherein the first input unit, the second input unit, the pull-up control unit, the pull-down control unit and the output control unit are coupled to a first node, and the pull-up control unit, the pull-down control unit and the output reset unit are coupled to a second node.
US11749145B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for performing color calibration of display modules using a reduced number of display characteristic measurements. In aspects, methods include generating a measured lookup table (50) for a source display module (32), using dynamic optimization to down-sample the measured lookup table and select a set of color patches, sending the color patches to a testing display module; measuring output values for the testing display module; generating a sparse lookup table (52) relating the color patches and the measured output values, up-sampling the sparse lookup table to a forward lookup table (54), and inverting the forward lookup table to generate a reverse lookup table (56). The reverse lookup table (56) can be utilized to determine correct output values (29) for driving a target display module to generate color lights within a display module color gamut.
US11749142B2
An Optical See-Through viewing device (100) comprising a controller (101) configured to control a display arrangement (110) comprising an image capturing device (112), wherein the controller (101) is further configured to: a) display virtual content (DVC, 115) overlapping at least one real-life object (RLO) viewable by a user's eye (E) through the Optical See-Through viewing device (100); b) capture a composite view of displayed virtual content (DVC, 115) overlapping real life object (RLO); c) determine captured virtual content (CVC) based on composite view; d) determine a difference (D) between captured virtual content (CVC) and the displayed virtual content (DVC, 115); e) determine modified virtual content (MDVC) based on the difference (D); and f) display the modified virtual content (MDVC).
US11749129B2
The present invention provides a virtual reality vehicle and/or equipment training system and platform within contextually relevant simulated environments. The system and platform will simulate accurate vehicle and/or equipment dynamics of various vehicles through vehicle modules. The simulated vehicles and/or equipment will be placed within contextually relevant simulated physical environments, and will be able to communicate with other vehicle modules and users of the platform. The system and platform allows for multiple simulated vehicles and/or equipment to exist and interact in the same simulated physical environment. The system allows for rapid development of trainers for different vehicles, different equipment, different physical environments, and different scenarios. The characteristics of the system which most directly enable this rapid development are the use of commodity computer hardware, use of common interface-deployment toolkits, and use of a data-driven architecture where participating modules are generic until being configured at runtime. The virtual reality vehicle and/or equipment training system and platform is also capable of responsiveness measurement and assessment of a simulator occupant.
US11749128B2
The disclosure provides an answer correction method and a device, including: determining the target test paper that matches the test paper to be corrected; marking the area of each answer in the test paper to be corrected as the first answer set, and marking the area of each answer in the target test paper as the second answer set; matching each answer area in the first answer set and the second answer set, and adjusting the position of the answer area in the first answer set on the test paper to be corrected; for each answer area in the second answer set, determining the target answer area in the first answer set according to the position information of the answer area on the target test paper, and correcting the answer in the determined target answer area according to the answer in the answer area. The disclosure can solve the problem in the related art that the accurate position of the answer filled by the student cannot be identified, thereby affecting the correction of the answer.
US11749120B2
A drone detection apparatus and method for same, that provides a real time solution for detecting drones and informing and alerting a user. The apparatus includes a housing with a processor and memory, at least one indicator, at least one switch, a connector, a radio, an antenna and a power source; and a housing-carrier in which the housing is removably secured. When a drone transmits an identification broadcast message the processor has the ability to receive and recognize the identification broadcast message. The apparatus can receive a remote identification message intermittently broadcast from a drone and can send, forward and receive alerts to and from one or more remote devices.
US11749119B2
Methods and systems for generating and displaying a time and a location for transitions of a vehicle
A method is disclosed for generating and displaying a location, time, amount of one or more transitions along a flight path of a vehicle to ensure sonic boom values remain within permissible threshold values. The method may include receiving speed data, altitude data, and flight path data, including environment data, for a flight path of the vehicle, and generating, for each of one or more transitions along the flight path of the vehicle, at least one of a transition location, of upcoming locations along the flight path, a transition time, and a transition amount, based on the received speed data, altitude data, and flight path data, and a permissible threshold boom value of the upcoming transitions along the flight path. The method may also include outputting the generated transition location, transition time, and transition amount for the one or more transitions to a display system.
US11749115B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for dynamically detecting pedestrian activity. The method includes receiving one or more data objects from a vehicle. The one or more data objects may be processed using an image processing model to determine one or more pedestrian parameters. The method further includes determining whether the one or more pedestrian parameters satisfy one or more pedestrian parameter thresholds. In an instance the one or more pedestrian parameters do not satisfy the one or more pedestrian parameter thresholds, the method further includes causing a safety alert warning to be provided to one or more other vehicles. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US11749108B2
A method for traffic state estimation of a road network based on a plurality of vehicles including probe vehicles and non-probe vehicles travelling includes receiving probe vehicle data from the probe vehicles within a communication range of a host vehicle. The method also includes spatially and temporally associating the probe vehicle data to lane level cells of the road network, and identifying empty lane level cells of the road network where the probe vehicle data is unavailable. The method includes calculating estimated non-probe vehicle data for the empty lane level cells based on the probe vehicle data. The method further includes calculating a traffic density value for the road network based on the probe vehicle data and the estimated non-probe vehicle data and providing the traffic density value to the host vehicle.
US11749104B2
According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device comprises: a communication circuit, a display, a processor operatively connected to the communication circuit and the display, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory, when executed, stores instructions for causing the processor to: receive a message for signal information related to walking from an external electronic device through the communication circuit; display, on the display, a first user interface for the received signal information related to walking; receive a message about signal information related to walking that has been changed according to a designated condition from the external electronic device through the communication circuit while displaying the first user interface; and displaying, on the display, a second user interface for the changed signal information related to walking. Other various embodiments, other than the various embodiments disclosed in the present invention, are possible.
US11749099B2
A detecting method for detecting a dynamic status in a space, wherein at least two wireless communication devices are deployed in the space and capable of performing a channel state detection to obtain a channel state information, the detecting method comprising: controlling the at least two wireless communication devices to perform the channel state detection in a registration stage to obtain a plurality of registration-stage channel state information; determining an environmental data of the space according to the plurality of registration-stage channel state information; controlling the at least two wireless communication devices to perform the channel state detection in a detection stage to obtain a plurality of detection-stage channel state information; and determining an intrusion situation of the space according to the environmental data and the plurality of detection-stage channel state information.
US11749096B2
Devices, systems, and methods for event device operation are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a mobile device comprising a user interface, a memory, and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive a signal from a control panel of a control system in response to the mobile device connecting to the control panel, generate, based on the signal, an event device analysis for a number of event devices included in the control system, display, via the user interface, the event device analysis, in response to a selection of a fault corresponding to an event device from the list of event devices having faults, display a diagnostic guide to remedy the fault, and control, in response to an input to the user interface, at least one of operation of the control panel and an event device of the number of event devices.
US11749094B2
A disclosed method includes: receiving an alarm notification; determining that there is a verification for the alarm notification such that the alarm notification is not a false alarm; and pushing the alarm notification to an emergency network entity along with an indication that the alarm has been verified in response to determining that there is a verification. Another disclosed method includes monitoring an emergency queue at an emergency network entity for incoming queue entries from an emergency data manager; determining correlations for the incoming queue entries based on data associated with each incoming queue entry; and generating a link for each correlated queue entry linking each correlated queue entry to a primary queue entry in response to determining correlations.
US11749092B2
A method includes—responsive to activation of a vehicle for loading objects —detecting a first set of objects in vicinity of the vehicle, and—responsive to subsequent activation of the vehicle for relocation —detecting a second set of objects in vicinity of the vehicle. The method also include—responsive to a difference between the first and second sets of objects—issuing an indication for a user of the vehicle. The difference may, for example, relate to an added object, the added object being present in the second set of objects but not in the first set of objects. In some embodiments, objects may be excluded from consideration when a tracked location of the object indicates an increasing distance between the vehicle and the object. In some embodiments, objects that have an estimated size larger than a reference size may be excluded from consideration.
US11749086B2
A method for detecting a fall by a user wearing a fall detector, including: detecting a trigger event identifying the time location of a possible fall event in user data; extracting motion features from motion data and physiological features from physiological data from within a time window around the identified time location; and determining whether the detected trigger event is a fall by the user by inputting the at least one of the motion features and at least one of the physiological features into a classifier.
US11749073B2
Method of identifying actions of a shopper to account for taken items by the shopper in a cashierless checkout includes sampling a shopping environment using one or more video cameras to generate video features related a shopper in connection to an item and sampling using one or more supplemental sensors to generate supplemental sensor feature data, receiving output of the sampled video and supplemental sensor features as feature inputs to a deep learning model used for making inferences related to the state of a scenario involving shopper action of taking the item into their possession or held and other actions including moving outside a zone initially associated with the item.
US11749072B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for controlling a detail level of shopping data provided to frictionless shoppers. In one implementation, a method may comprise: receiving image data captured using one or more image sensors in a retail store; analyzing the image data to detect a shopper in the retail store; determining a likelihood that the shopper will be involved in shoplifting; controlling a detail level associated with frictionless shopping data provided to the shopper based on the determined likelihood that the shopper will be involved in shoplifting.
US11749071B2
Scanner/scale configuration is performed without scanning a series of programming barcodes and performed when a terminal is in a transaction processing mode of operation. A single code scanned into the scanner, initiates a configuration tool on the terminal and causes a graphical user interface (GUI) window to be rendered on a display of the terminal on top of any transaction windows rendered on the display. The GUI window permits user-defined configuration of the scanner/scale. In an embodiment, the configuration tool also provides a clone code that represents a source scanner/scale's configuration settings, when the clone code is scanned into a target scanner, the source scanner/scale's configuration settings are cloned on the target scanner/scale.
US11749061B2
Methods and systems in which a plurality of plays is offered on a plurality of games, wherein the math model of a first game differs from the math model of a second game and wherein the player may specify at least one of the first and second games to receive additional plays and/or additional wagering.
US11749057B2
An electronic method of gaming in a gaming system comprises receiving a selection of one of a plurality game options; forming, based on the selected game option, a set of symbols to be used in the generation of at least one game outcome generating a game outcome with the game controller by selecting subsets of the symbols of the respective reels of the formed set of symbols for display on a display of the gaming system in a plurality of columns of symbol display positions with which the respective reels are associated; and making an award upon the symbols displayed at the symbol display positions in the game outcome including a winning combination of symbols.
US11749051B2
In various embodiments, motion is used to control games played on a mobile gaming device.
US11749049B2
A system comprising: a document holder; an image sensor directed toward the document holder; a polarized filter between the image sensor and the document holder; a filter motor configured to rotate the polarized filter; one or more processors; and at least one memory having stored thereon computer program code that, when executed by the one or more processors, instructs the one or more processors to: control the filter motor to rotate the polarized filter; control the image sensors to capture a plurality of images of a document within the document holder, the plurality of images corresponding to a respective relative orientations of the polarized filter to the document; identify a feature of the document; and output, in response comparing respective visual characteristics of the feature of the document to corresponding expected visual characteristics of the first feature for the document, an indication of a verification of the document.
US11749028B2
An electronic device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a positional relationship between a subject and the electronic device, a normalization unit configured to normalize posture information of the subject based on a positional relationship acquired by the acquiring unit and a controlling unit configured to perform control to perform predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized satisfies a predetermined condition, and control not to perform the predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized is not the predetermined posture.
US11749019B2
A facial feature matching system comprises a facial feature matching engine. A first user selection of reference facial images is received, and facial features of reference faces are characterized using the facial feature recognition engine comprising a neural network with input, hidden, and output layers. The facial features are weighted. The weighted facial features are used to identify users that have facial features similar to the weighted facial features, wherein the respective reference faces include faces different than the faces of the users. Similarity indicators are generated for the identified users. The generated respective similarity indicators are used to generate a ordering of the identified users which is rendered via the user device. A first user selection of a second user in the ordered identified users is received and the first user and the second user are enabled to communicate over an electronic communication channel.
US11749013B2
This application provides an optical signal processing circuit and an electronic device, to improve a signal-to-noise ratio of an output signal of a fingerprint sensor, thereby improving a fingerprint recognition rate. The optical signal processing circuit includes a photosensitive device, an amplifier transistor T1, a switch transistor T2, a switch transistor T3, a readout circuit, a control circuit, and a voltage-adjustable power supply. When the optical signal processing circuit is in a compensation reset phase, the voltage of the gate of T1 exactly reaches a level at which the amplifier transistor T1 is turned on. Therefore, when an input voltage and a voltage increment are applied to the gate of T1, a gate-source voltage Vgs of T1 increases, and T1 amplifies an input voltage signal to generate an output signal.
US11749002B2
A lane line recognition apparatus includes an imaging device, a lane-line-search-region setting section, a light-streak-search-region setting section, a light-streak determination section, a light-streak-reaching determination section, and a mask processing section. The imaging device is to be mounted on a vehicle and captures an image of a traveling environment in front of the vehicle. The lane-line-search-region setting section sets a lane-line search region on the image. The light-streak-search-region setting section sets a light-streak search region adjacently to the lane-line search region. The light-streak determination section determines whether a light streak that crosses, in a vertical direction of the image, the light-streak search region is found. The light-streak-reaching determination section determines, if the light streak is found, whether the light streak reaches the lane-line search region. The mask processing section performs, if the light streak reaches the lane-line search region, a mask process on the light streak.
US11749001B2
A behavior control system includes: a behavior control device for changing a behavior of a moving body; an imaging device for acquiring images ahead of the moving body; and a control device for controlling the behavior of the moving body based on the images acquired by the imaging device. The control device includes: a feature point extraction unit configured to extract feature points from the images acquired by the imaging device; a straight moving state storing unit configured to store, as a reference feature point state, a feature point state when the moving body is in a straight moving state, the feature point state being obtained based on a temporal change of the feature points; and a moving body control unit configured to control the behavior control device when the feature point state obtained based on the temporal change of the feature points differs from the reference feature point state.
US11748998B1
A method includes obtaining a two-dimensional image, obtaining a two-dimensional image annotation that indicates presence of an object in the two-dimensional image, obtaining three-dimensional sensor information, generating a top-down representation of the three-dimensional sensor information, and obtaining a top-down annotation that indicates presence of the object in the top-down representation. The method also includes determining a bottom surface of a three-dimensional cuboid based on map information, determining a position, a length, a width, and a yaw rotation of the three-dimensional cuboid based on the top-down annotation, and determining a height of the three-dimensional cuboid based on a two-dimensional image annotation, and the position, the length, the width, and the yaw rotation of the three-dimensional cuboid.
US11748995B2
System, methods, and embodiments described herein relate to predicting a future state of an object detected in a vicinity of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method for predicting a state of an object includes detecting, at a plurality of discrete times [t, t−1, t−2, . . . ], a respective plurality of states of the object, obtaining, based at least in part on a present location of the vehicle, supplemental information, associated with an environment of the present location, that indicates at least a speed reduction factor, executing a prediction operation to determine a predicted state of the object at a time t+1 based at least in part on the detected plurality of states and the supplemental information, determining an actual state of the object at a time t+1 based on data from the one or more sensors, and modifying the prediction operation based at least in part on the actual state.
US11748990B2
An object recognition ingestion system is presented. The object ingestion system captures image data of objects, possibly in an uncontrolled setting. The image data is analyzed to determine if one or more a priori know canonical shape objects match the object represented in the image data. The canonical shape object also includes one or more reference PoVs indicating perspectives from which to analyze objects having the corresponding shape. An object ingestion engine combines the canonical shape object along with the image data to create a model of the object. The engine generates a desirable set of model PoVs from the reference PoVs, and then generates recognition descriptors from each of the model PoVs. The descriptors, image data, model PoVs, or other contextually relevant information are combined into key frame bundles having sufficient information to allow other computing devices to recognize the object at a later time.
US11748979B2
Disclosed is a method for training a neural network, for the recognition of a sequence of characters in an image and without a predefined format, including: a step of creating an artificial database of a plurality of sequences of characters in images, some sequences being generated randomly, other sequences being derived from transformations of sequences generated randomly; a learning step that teaches the neural network to recognize a sequence of characters in an image, directly on at least some of the sequences of the artificial database, without a preliminary subdividing of these sequences into their component characters.
US11748977B2
A system includes: a sequential image string input unit configured to input a sequential image string having sequentiality; a reference image selection unit configured to select one or more images from the sequential image string as reference images; a variation calculation unit configured to select an adjacent reference image adjacent to the reference image from the sequential image string and calculate a variation between the reference image and the adjacent reference image; an image information regression unit configured to calculate class confidence by regression processing with the reference image as an input; a difference image information regression unit configured to calculate class confidence by regression processing with the variation as an input; a confidence integration unit configured to integrate class confidence calculated by the image information regression unit and class confidence calculated by the difference image information regression unit; and an output unit configured to output the integrated class confidence.
US11748975B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and device for optimizing an object-class model based on a neural network. The method includes: establishing the object-class model based on the neural network, training the object-class model, and realizing classification of target images by using the object-class model that has been trained; and when a new target image is generated, and the new target image is an image corresponding to a new condition of a target and is capable of still being classified into an original classification system, judging a result of identification of the object-class model to the new target image, and if the object-class model is not capable of correctly classifying the new target image, according to the new target image, selecting some of parameters, adjusting the some of parameters, and training to obtain an object-class model that is capable of correctly classifying the new target image.
US11748974B2
A method and apparatus for assisting driving include: identifying one or more set of video frames from captured video regarding surrounding condition of a vehicle, wherein the one or more set of video frames comprise a moving object; extracting one or more features indicating motion characteristics of the moving object from the one or more set of video frames; and predicting motion intention of the moving object in the one or more set of video frames based on the one or more features.
US11748972B2
In some implementations, a service qualification system may receive, from a user device, a set of images that depict a window. The service qualification system may perform an image-based analysis of the set of images to determine a reflectivity score associated with the window. The reflectivity score may be indicative of a quality associated with a signal of the service being received through the window. The service qualification system may determine, based on the reflectivity score, a service qualification metric that is indicative of a capability of receiving the service within the unit. The service qualification system may perform an action associated with the service qualification metric.
US11748970B2
A hardware environment-based data quantization method includes: parsing a model file under a current deep learning framework to obtain intermediate computational graph data and weight data that are independent of a hardware environment; performing calculation on image data in an input data set through a process indicated by an intermediate computational graph to obtain feature map data; separately performing uniform quantization on the weight data and the feature map data of each layer according to a preset linear quantization method, and calculating a weight quantization factor and a feature map quantization factor (S103); combining the weight quantization factor and the feature map quantization factor to obtain a quantization parameter that makes hardware use shift instead of division; and finally, writing the quantization parameter and the quantized weight data to a bin file according to a hardware requirement so as to generate quantized file data (S105).
US11748969B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an image processing method and apparatus. One specific embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring a target image, the target image being an image acquired by photographing content to be corrected; detecting the content to be corrected from the target image to acquire a polygonal frame surrounding the content to be corrected; acquiring a correction result of the content to be corrected, the correction result being used for representing whether the content to be corrected meets preset conditions; generating a correction mark corresponding to the correction result and matching the size of the polygonal frame; and outputting a target image comprising the generated correction mark in order to display the target image comprising the generated correction mark.
US11748968B2
The present disclosure provides a target tracking method and system, a readable storage medium, and a mobile platform. The method includes: obtaining a user's trigger operation on an operation button, and generating a trigger instruction based on the trigger operation to generate a candidate target box; displaying, based on the trigger operation, the candidate target box in a current frame of picture displayed on a display interface to correspond to the feature portion of the predetermined target; obtaining, based on the displayed candidate target box, a box selection operation performed by the user on the operation button, and generating a box selection instruction based on the box selection operation to generate a tracking target box, where the box selection instruction is used to determine that the candidate target boxes is a tracking target box; and tracking the target based on the tracking target box.
