US11778932B2
A RRAM and its manufacturing method are provided. The RRAM includes a first dielectric layer formed on a substrate, and two memory cells. The two memory cells include two bottom electrode structures separated from each other. Each bottom electrode structure fills one of two trenches in the first dielectric layer. The two memory cells also include a resistance switching layer and a top electrode structure. The resistance switching layer is conformity formed on the surface of an opening in the first dielectric layer, and the opening is between the two trenches. The top electrode structure is on the resistance switching layer and fills the opening. A top surface of the first dielectric layer, top surfaces of the bottom electrode structures, a top surface of the resistance switching layer, and a top surface of the top electrode structure are coplanar.
US11778930B2
A manufacturing method of a resistive memory device includes the following steps. A first electrode is formed. A first metal oxide layer is formed on the first electrode, and the first metal oxide layer includes first metal atoms. A multilayer insulator structure is formed on the first metal oxide layer. A second metal oxide layer is formed on the multilayer insulator structure. The second metal oxide layer includes second metal atoms, the multilayer insulator structure includes third metal atoms, and each of the third metal atoms is identical to each of the second metal atoms. A second electrode is formed on the second metal oxide layer. The multilayer insulator structure is disposed between the first metal oxide layer and the second metal oxide layer in a vertical direction, and an atomic percent of the third metal atoms in the multilayer insulator structure changes in the vertical direction.
US11778929B2
A semiconductor device structure and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device structure includes an embedded memory device and an electrode in contact with a top surface of the memory embedded device. A metal encapsulation layer is in contact with a top surface of the electrode and a portion of sidewalls of the electrode. The metal encapsulation layer comprises one or more materials that are chemical etch resistant and are conductive when oxidized. The method includes forming an insulating layer over a memory device and an electrode in contact with the memory device. Portions of the insulating layer are etched. The etching exposes a top surface and a portion of sidewalls of the electrode. A metal encapsulation layer is formed over and in contact with the top surface and the portion of sidewalls of the electrode.
US11778920B2
A semiconductor device includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, a cap layer adjacent to and directly contacting the MTJ, a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the MTJ, a top electrode on the MTJ, a metal interconnection under the MTJ, and a second IMD layer around the metal interconnection. Preferably, the cap layer is a single layer structure made of dielectric material and an edge of the cap layer contacts the first IMD layer directly.
US11778917B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) stack on a substrate, performing an etching process to remove the MTJ stack for forming a MTJ, performing a deposition process to form a polymer on a sidewall of the MTJ, and removing the polymer to form a rough surface on the sidewall of the MTJ. Preferably, the MTJ could include a pinned layer on the substrate, a barrier layer on the pinned layer, and a free layer on the barrier layer, in which the rough surface could appear on sidewall of the pinned layer, sidewall of the barrier layer, and/or sidewall of the free layer.
US11778908B2
The present disclosure relates to display technologies, and particularly discloses an organic electroluminescent device. This organic electroluminescent device includes a light-emitting layer, the light-emitting includes an exciplex composed of a donor molecule and an acceptor molecule, and a wide band gap material for increasing the inter-molecular spacing between the donor molecule and the acceptor molecule. According to the device of the present disclosure, the degree of orbital overlap of HOMO and LUMO of the formed exciplex and the singlet-triplet energy level difference can be reduced, the reverse intersystem crossing rate (kRISC) of the exciplex host can be increased, the Föster energy transferred to the guest molecule can be enhanced, and the efficiency and the lifetime of the device can be improved.
US11778907B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a bipolar host and an electron-transporting host, especially for use as matrix material in electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescent devices, and especially in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED). The invention further relates to electronic devices comprising said composition.
US11778906B2
The present disclosure relates to an electron transport material and an application thereof. According to the electron transport material, a structure of a molecular is designed and selected to be constructed by a group having a high carrier mobility, such that the molecule has a higher carrier mobility. In addition, a core group of the molecule is a structure based on mesitylene triazine. The molecular rigidity of the structure is strong, and the intermolecular stacking can be effectively inhibited, such that the material has a lower refractive index, and the surface plasma polariton loss of an organic light-emitting device can be effectively suppressed. The forward light-emitting efficiency of the light-emitting device can be improved by more than 14% by applying the electron transport material to the device.
US11778905B2
Provided is a compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein X1 is N or CRa, X2 is N or CRb, X3 is N or CRc, and one or more of X1 to X3 are N; Ar1 and Ar2 each independently is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl group, or heteroaryl group; Ar3 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl group; L is a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group; R1 and R2 each independently is hydrogen, deuterium, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or bond to each other to form a ring; R3 and Ra to Rc each independently is a hydrogen, deuterium, halogen, nitrile, nitro, hydroxyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted group selected from among a silyl, boron, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylthioxy, arylthioxy, alkylsulfoxy, arylsulfoxy, alkenyl, aralkyl, aralkenyl, alkylaryl, arylphosphine, phosphine oxide, aryl, or a heteroaryl group, or bond to adjacent groups to form a ring; a3 is 1 to 6; and n is 1 to 5, and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US11778903B2
A novel organic compound having an emission spectrum peak at a wavelength longer than 850 nm and an absorption spectrum peak at a wavelength longer than 600 nm is provided. The organic compound is represented by General Formula (G1). In General Formula (G1), Ar1 to Ar4 each independently represent an aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms in a ring. R1 to R8 each independently represent anyone of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms in a ring, and a heteroaryl group having 3 to 13 carbon atoms in a ring. Q1 and Q2 each independently represent a group having a carbazole skeleton or a group having a triarylamine skeleton and having 18 to 30 carbon atoms in a ring. Furthermore, m and n each independently represent 0 or 1.
US11778898B2
An organic light emitting device having an anode, a cathode and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode is provided. In one aspect, the organic layer comprises a compound having at least one zwitterionic carbon donor ligand. In another aspect the organic layer comprises a carbene compound, including the following:
US11778897B2
A compound comprising a first ligand LA having a Formula selected from: is disclosed. In the Formulas rings B and C are 5-membered or 6-membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring; Z1, Z2, X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, and X6 are each C or N, but X1, X2, X3, or X4 is C when it forms a direct bond to Z2; Y is selected from CRR′, NR′, O, S, and Se; R, R′, RA, RB, RC, and RD are each selected from a variety of substituents; the ligand LA is coordinated to a metal M by the dashed lines, and optionally to other ligands. Organic light emitting devices and consumer products containing the compounds are also disclosed.
US11778892B2
A display device includes a substrate that includes a bending area, a display active layer disposed on the substrate and that displays an image, a polarization layer disposed on the display active layer, a protective layer that contacts an end of the polarization layer and covers the bending area of the substrate; and an adhesive layer disposed on a boundary between the polarization layer and the protective layer, the adhesive layer extends from the end of the polarization layer toward the bending area by an extension area to overlap a portion of the protective layer.
US11778878B2
A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A novel display device is provided. The display panel includes a display region, a first terminal region, and a second terminal region, and the first terminal region is provided not to block the display region and includes a region overlapping with the display region. The first terminal region includes a first group of terminals, and the first group of terminals includes a first terminal. The second terminal region includes a second group of terminals, and the second group of terminals includes a second terminal. The display region includes one group of pixels, another group of pixels, a scan line, and a signal line. The one group of pixels includes a pixel and is arranged in a row direction. The another group of pixels includes the pixel and is arranged in a column direction intersecting the row direction. The scan line is electrically connected to the one group of pixels. The signal line is electrically connected to the another group of pixels, and the signal line is electrically connected to the first terminal and the second terminal.
US11778876B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes multiple sub-pixels and multiple data signal lines. The multiple sub-pixels constitute multiple sub-pixel columns; each sub-pixel column includes multiple sub-pixels arranged in sequence; every three adjacent sub-pixels or every four adjacent sub-pixels form a pixel unit; and colors of sub-pixels in each pixel unit include red, green and blue; at least part of sub-pixels belonging to a same sub-pixel column share one data signal line, and sub-pixels sharing one data signal line receive data signals transmitted by the one data signal line in a time-division manner; where a data signal line electrically connected to red sub-pixels is different from a data signal line electrically connected to blue sub-pixels, and a data signal line electrically connected to green sub-pixels is different from the data signal line electrically connected to the blue sub-pixels.
US11778869B2
A display unit includes: a drive wire; a planarization layer covering the drive wire and having a connection hole; a relay electrode provided on the planarization layer and configured to be electrically connected to the drive wire through the connection hole; a filling member made of an insulating material and provided in the connection hole; a first partition wall made of a same material as that of the filling member and covering an end of the relay electrode; a first electrode covering the filling member and configured to be electrically connected to the relay electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a functional layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, the functional layer including a light-emitting layer.
US11778864B2
An ink for a display device, the ink includes: an organic material, wherein the organic material has a molecular weight greater than about 500 and less than about 1,000,000, and the organic material in the ink has a concentration and the molecular weight of the organic material satisfy: y>−3.518*1n(x)+45.59, wherein y is the concentration of the organic material, and x is the molecular weight of the organic material.
US11778857B2
The present disclosure provides an organic electroluminescent device and a display panel. The organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a functional electrode is disposed on a side of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode away from the light-emitting layer; the functional electrode includes a first layer-stacked structure including a plurality of first light-transmitting layers and at least one second light-transmitting layer; the first and second light-transmitting layers are stacked alternately; in the first layer-stacked structure, both the layer closest to the light-emitting layer and the layer farthest from the light-emitting layer are the first light-transmitting layers; a refractive index of the first light-transmitting layer is greater than a refractive index of the second light-transmitting layer.
US11778855B2
A light-emitting diode structure, a fabrication method therefor, and a display panel. The light-emitting diode structure includes: a base substrate; and a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode layer that are successively stacked on the base substrate, wherein the second electrode layer includes a first coarse surface that is located at a side far from the base substrate.
US11778849B2
A display module includes a window including a base substrate and a bezel pattern overlapping the base substrate in a plan view, and a display panel. The bezel pattern includes a first bezel pattern extending along an edge of the base substrate, and a second bezel pattern which extends from the first bezel pattern and of which at least a portion defines a transmission area. The display panel includes a glass substrate, an encapsulation substrate on the glass substrate, a sealing member coupling the glass substrate and the encapsulation substrate and overlapping the first bezel pattern in the plan view, a circuit element layer disposed on the glass substrate and including a transistor, and a display element layer disposed on the circuit element layer and including light emitting elements. The display element layer exposes a portion of a layer disposed thereunder, which corresponds to the transmission area.
US11778840B2
To provide a solid-state imaging element capable of further improving reliability. Provided is a solid-state imaging element including at least a first photoelectric conversion section, and a semiconductor substrate in which a second photoelectric conversion section is formed, in this order from a light incidence side, in which the first photoelectric conversion section includes at least a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, a first oxide semiconductor layer, a second oxide semiconductor layer, and a second electrode in this order, and a film density of the first oxide semiconductor layer is higher than a film density of the second oxide semiconductor layer.
US11778835B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a channel on or in the substrate, a source/drain pair respectively on opposite ends of the channel, and a gate structure on the channel between the source/drain pair, wherein the gate structure includes an interfacial layer, a ferroelectric layer, a stabilization layer, an oxygen diffusion barrier layer, and a threshold voltage control layer that are sequentially stacked on the channel.
US11778826B2
A vertical memory device including gate electrodes on a substrate, the gate electrodes being spaced apart in a first direction and stacked in a staircase arrangement; a channel extending through the gate electrodes in the first direction; a first contact plug extending through a pad of a first gate electrode to contact an upper surface of the first gate electrode, the first contact plug extending through a portion of a second gate electrode, and the second gate electrode being adjacent to the first gate electrode; a first spacer between the first contact plug and sidewalls of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode facing the first contact plug, the first spacer electrically insulating the first contact plug from the second gate electrode; and a first burying pattern contacting bottom surfaces of the first contact plug and the first spacer, the first burying pattern including an insulating material.
US11778816B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for opening a source line in a memory device. An erase gate line (EGL) and the source line are formed elongated in parallel. The source line underlies the EGL and is separated from the EGL by a dielectric layer. A first etch is performed to form a first opening through the EGL and stops on the dielectric layer. A second etch is performed to thin the dielectric layer at the first opening, wherein the first and second etches are performed with a common mask in place. A silicide process is performed to form a silicide layer on the source line at the first opening, wherein the silicide process comprises a third etch with a second mask in place and extends the first opening through the dielectric layer. A via is formed extending through the EGL to the silicide layer.
US11778814B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an input/output (I/O) region, an one time programmable (OTP) capacitor region, and a core region, a first metal gate disposed on the I/O region, a second metal gate disposed on the core region, and a third metal gate disposed on the OTP capacitor region. Preferably, the first metal gate includes a first high-k dielectric layer, the second metal gate includes a second high-k dielectric layer, and the first high-k dielectric layer and the second high-k dielectric layer include an I-shape.
US11778813B2
Semiconductor devices including active regions and gate electrodes are disclosed. An example semiconductor device according to the disclosure includes a gate electrode extending in a first direction, and first and second active regions extending in a second direction. The gate electrode has a side extending in the first direction. The first active region includes: a first center portion having a first width in the first direction; and a first end portion disposed at a first end of the first center portion, and having a second width in the first direction that is greater than the first width. The second active region includes: a second center portion having a third width in the first direction. The gate electrode overlaps along the side with portions of the first end portion and the second center portion.
US11778812B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a semiconductor device with a conductive cap layer over a conductive plug. The method includes forming a first word line and a second word line over a semiconductor substrate, and forming a dielectric layer covering the first word line and the second word line. The method also includes forming a conductive plug between the first word line and the second word line, wherein the conductive plug is surrounded by the dielectric layer. The method further includes removing a portion of the dielectric layer to partially expose a sidewall surface of the conductive plug, and forming a conductive cap layer covering a top surface and the sidewall surface of the conductive plug. In addition, the method includes forming a bit line over the conductive plug, wherein the bit line is electrically connected to the conductive plug through the conductive cap layer.
US11778808B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a first wiring; a first semiconductor layer connected to the first wiring, the first semiconductor layer; a first electrode, the first electrode being connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second electrode disposed between the first electrode and the first wiring, the second electrode being opposed to the first semiconductor layer; a third electrode disposed between the second electrode and the first wiring, the third electrode; a second semiconductor layer disposed between the third electrode and the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer being opposed to the third electrode; and an electric charge accumulating layer electrically connected to the first wiring via the second semiconductor layer, the electric charge accumulating layer being opposed to the first semiconductor layer.
US11778797B2
In a component replenishment management system, a component supply monitoring unit estimates replenishable time, which represents time until component replenishment work becomes possible, for each of component supply devices. A work determination unit determines whether or not the component replenishment work can be actually performed at a timing at which replenishment component type information is acquired by an external input and output unit. In a case where the work determination unit determines that the component replenishment work cannot be performed, a work guidance unit generates performing process guidance information. The performing process guidance information is information for guiding a performing process based on the replenishable time of the component replenishment work.
US11778796B2
A support pin arrangement determination assisting apparatus including a display unit which displays an image including a board image, the board image indicating a shape and an arrangement of a component on the board, a position input unit through which an arrangement position of the support pin is input, a display processing unit which causes the display unit to display a figure to be superimposed on the board image, the figure corresponding to the support pin of which the arrangement position is input, a storage unit which stores three-dimensional shape data of an electronic component and three-dimensional shape data of the support pin, an interference judging unit which judges whether or not one or some of the support pins of which arrangement positions input interfere an already mounted component, and an alarm unit which announces occurrence of interference if the interference judging unit judges the occurrence of interference.
US11778782B2
Provided is a condenser for use in an electronic assembly. The condenser includes a first vertical wall extending in a vertical direction, the first vertical wall defining a first plurality of vertical condensation channels within the first vertical wall, a second vertical wall extending in the vertical direction, the second vertical wall defining a second plurality of vertical condensation channels within the second vertical wall, and a first plurality of fins extending in the vertical direction, each of the first plurality of fins connected to the first vertical wall, the second vertical wall or both the first vertical wall and the second vertical wall.
US11778780B2
In various embodiments, a cooling assembly includes a heat-generating device, a metal inverse opal (MIO) layer, a shared coolant reservoir, a passive heat exchange circuit, and an active heat exchange circuit. The MIO layer is bonded to the heat-generating device. The shared coolant reservoir contains a coolant fluid. The passive heat exchange circuit directs coolant fluid from the shared coolant reservoir through the MIO layer and back to the shared coolant reservoir. The active heat exchange circuit includes a pump and a heat exchanger, wherein the active heat exchange circuit draws the coolant fluid from the shared coolant reservoir through the heat exchanger and returns the coolant fluid to the shared coolant reservoir.
US11778778B2
The present invention provides a liquid-cooled container equipment, which belongs to the technical field of servers, and comprises a box provided with a heat exchange unit, a central control cabinet, a power distribution cabinet, a pure water processor and cabinets for placing computing equipments. The heat exchange unit, the central control cabinet and the pure water processor are arranged at one end of the box, the cabinet is arranged at the opposite end thereof, the pure water processor supplies cooling water to the heat exchange unit, the heat exchange unit cools down the computing equipment with liquid, and the central control cabinet controls actions of electrical components. The cabinets are arranged in rows on both sides of the length direction of the container equipment; the computing equipments are placed inside the cabinets in multiple layers; the power distribution cabinet is located at the end of the cabinets close to the heat exchange unit. A maintenance channel is located in the middle of the two rows of cabinets, a maintenance port and a panel of the computing equipment are all set toward the maintenance channel. The liquid-cooled container equipment is high in integration degree, small in occupied space and convenient to transport, install and maintain.
US11778777B2
Methods, systems, and devices for designing and implementing cooling fluid distribution in a computing environment such as a data center as disclosed. The disclosed design may reduce the impact cooling fluid leaks may have on the computing environment and other rack based systems. The disclosed methods and systems may include structures for containing cooling fluid leaks and detecting cooling fluid leaks. The structures may be movable between positions in which connectors for forming fluid connections are exposed and positions in which the connectors are contained. Containing and detecting cooling fluid leaks may allow for proactive action prior to significant damage to the computing environment.
US11778775B2
A cooling device for cooling a plurality of electronic components mounted on a circuit board. The device includes a contact sheet shaped for conforming to the plurality of electronic components and comprising a mating face for mating against the plurality of electronic components and a cooled face. An enclosure is mounted to the cooled face and defines a coolant transport circuit for circulating coolant liquid therethrough. A coupling may be provided for biassing the mating face toward the plurality of electronic components.
US11778769B2
The invention relates to a housing for an electrical apparatus, said housing including: a first chamber (117) intended for receiving first electronic components (300, 315); a second chamber (127) intended for receiving second electronic components; an interface separating the first chamber (117) from the second chamber (127); and a cooling circuit configured to receive a fluid intended for cooling said electrical apparatus, said cooling circuit being formed inside said housing interface, wherein said interface includes a blind hole extending from the first chamber (117) towards the second chamber (127), which is configured to form a cavity intended for receiving a first component (315).
US11778768B2
A connector gap between a module connector mating surface and the backplane connector of a chassis may be eliminated through a mechanism that forcefully pushes (or pulls) the module towards the backplane and/or forcefully pushes (or pulls) the backplane toward the module. A spring-loaded or resilient element may be used to fasten the module in a way that effectively fills any designed-in and tolerance-induced gap in the connector interface, allowing the connector to fully seat. In addition, a gasket or other compressible member may be included at the connector mating interface. The gap in the connector interface may be reduced by introducing adjustable card cage members that are capable of being set during the assembly or manufacturing process using special alignment fixtures. The gap in the connector interface may also be reduced by introducing a higher tolerance capable manufacturing process, such as machining, to the card cage sub-assembly.
US11778766B2
A manufacturing method of a casing including the following steps is provided. A magnesium alloy substrate is provided first. Next, a protective film is formed on the magnesium alloy substrate. A grinding treatment, a cutting treatment, or an engraving treatment is then performed to remove portions of the protective film and portions of the magnesium alloy substrate. An electrophoretic coating treatment is performed afterwards to form a light-transmissive coating layer covering the protective film and the magnesium alloy substrate. A casing is also provided.
US11778756B2
A display device includes a display panel and a panel protective layer. The display panel has a first area and a second area. The first area is parallel to a plane including a first direction crossing a second direction. The second area extends from the first area and includes: a first part adjacent to the first area in the second direction, a second part extending from the first part and in a bent state, and a third part extending from the second part and disposed below the first part. The panel protective layer is between the first part and the third part. A distance between the first part and the third part decreases from an end of the third part toward the second part along the second direction.
US11778755B2
A display device including a display panel has a folding portion, a metal layer disposed on one surface of the display panel, and including a first metal layer and a second metal layer spaced apart from each other in the folding portion, a first adhesive layer disposed at edges of the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and a first compressible member disposed on the first metal layer and a second compressible member disposed on the second metal layer, the first and second compressible members being disposed closer to the folding portion than the first adhesive layer, in which the first and second compressible members each have a thickness greater than a thickness of the first adhesive layer.
US11778754B2
A component carrier includes an electrically insulating layer structure with a first main surface and a second main surface, a through hole extends through the electrically insulating layer structure between the first main surface and the second main surface. The through hole has a first tapering portion extending from the first main surface and a second tapering portion extending from the second main surface. The through hole is delimited by a first plating structure on at least part of the sidewalls of the electrically insulating layer structure and a second plating structure formed separately from and arranged on the first plating structure. The second plating structure includes an electrically conductive bridge structure connecting the opposing sidewalls.
US11778751B2
A method of compensating misalignment during manufacturing laminate-type component carriers is disclosed. The method includes detecting an image of a region of interest of a component carrier structure during manufacturing the component carriers based on the component carrier structure, identifying a structural feature in the image of the region of interest showing misalignment with respect to a target design, and at least partially compensating the identified misalignment of the structural feature by modifying the target design of at least one correlated structural feature to be manufactured subsequently, wherein the at least one correlated structural feature is correlated to said structural feature showing misalignment.
US11778744B2
A printed circuit board assembly and a terminal are provided. The printed circuit board assembly includes: a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board, where the second printed circuit board is electrically connected to the first printed circuit board through at least four solder joints; the at least four solder joints include a first solder joint, a second solder joint, a third solder joint, and a fourth solder joint, the first solder joint communicates with the second solder joint, the third solder joint communicates with the fourth solder joint, and at least one solder joint and/or at least one printed circuit board cavity is provided between the second solder joint and the third solder joint; and the printed circuit board cavity is a recess structure that is recessed inwards from a surface of the printed circuit board.
US11778732B2
A signal transmission circuit packaging structure is disclosed. The signal transmission circuit packaging structure includes a body, a main circuit unit, power pins, input pins, output pins, control pins and ground pins. The main circuit unit is arranged in the center of the body. The power pins are arranged in the center of the body. The input pins are arranged at a first side of the body and are electrically connected to the main circuit unit. The output pins are arranged at a side of the body opposite to the first side and are electrically connected to the main circuit unit. The control pins are arranged at a second side of the body and are electrically connected to the main circuit unit. The ground pins are arranged at corners of the body to separate the input pins, the output pins and the control pins.
US11778725B2
A Thermal Interface Material (TIM) for chip warpage may be provided. A system may comprise an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip, a Thermal Interface Material (TIM) layer disposed on the IC chip, and a heatsink disposed on the TIM layer. The heatsink may comprise, a plate, a plurality of fins, and at least one TIM storage chamber disposed in the plate between two of the plurality of fins. The at least one TIM storage chamber may be filled with a TIM that is solid at a lower temperature end of a thermal cycle of the IC chip and that is liquid at a higher temperature end of the thermal cycle of the IC chip.
US11778720B2
A system for generating laser sustained broadband light includes a pump source configured to generate a pumping beam, a gas containment structure for containing a gas and a multi-pass optical assembly. The multi-pass optical assembly includes one or more optical elements configured to perform a plurality of passes of the pumping beam through a portion of the gas to sustain a broadband-light-emitting plasma. The one or more optical elements are arranged to collect an unabsorbed portion of the pumping beam transmitted through the plasma and direct the collected unabsorbed portion of the pumping beam back into the portion of the gas.
US11778717B2
Some embodiments include an x-ray source, comprising: an anode; a field emitter configured to generate an electron beam; a first grid configured to control field emission from the field emitter; a second grid disposed between the first grid and the anode; and a middle electrode disposed between the first grid and the anode wherein the second grid is either disposed between the first grid and middle electrode or between the middle electrode and the anode.
US11778716B2
A remote control device may be configured to transmit command messages based on user interactions. The remote control device may receive an indication of a user interaction and transmit a command message based on the indication of the user interaction. The command message may include a command to adjust an intensity level of a lighting device and a fade period. The fade period may include the period of time over which the lighting device is to transition to the intensity level. After a transmission interval period of time from when the command message was transmitted elapses and based on a subsequent user interaction, the remote control device may transmit another command message, which may include a command for the lighting device to adjust to another intensity level over the fade period. The fade period may be longer than the transmission interval.
US11778715B2
A powerline communication control system for controlling a lighting unit, such as an LED lighting unit, including a master controller for receiving lighting unit control inputs from a lighting controller and generating corresponding lighting unit command outputs in a lighting system command format and transmission mode and superimposing the lighting unit command outputs onto the power distribution system and at least one lighting slave unit for receiving the lighting command signal, separating the lighting command signal from the power signal and for providing lighting unit control commands to the at least one lighting unit to control illumination thereof, entirely within a modem embedded into a microcontroller.
US11778708B2
A scalable DC power distribution and control system suitable for commercial buildings includes one or more power and control hubs. Each DC power and control power hub provides power and control for any suitable distributed DC loads such as light-fixtures. AC power from the electric utility is applied to the power and control hub and is converted to DC power for distribution to DC loads within the space using low-voltage cables.
US11778703B2
An emergency lighting system uses a wireless mesh network to control the dimming of luminaires in the event of a power failure or a power outage. Luminaires are commissioned to different dimming power levels depending on localized lighting needs during the power failure of power outage.
US11778700B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a self-regulating heating cable. The cable includes a primary jacket including a first low-smoke, zero halogen material. The cable also includes a braid surrounding the primary jacket. The cable also includes a final jacket surrounding the braid and comprising a second low-smoke, zero halogen material. The final jacket is formed to the braid during an extrusion process in order to create a mated connection between the final jacket and the braid.
US11778697B2
A window glass apparatus includes a heater for heating a part of a windshield which is a particular part of a window glass of a host vehicle, and a control ECU configured to control an amount of the electric power supplied to the heater. The control ECU detects a preceding vehicle and controls the amount of the electric power supplied to the heater in such a manner that the amount of the electric power supplied to the heater is reduced as compared with a case where the preceding vehicle is not detected, using information on the detected preceding vehicle.
US11778690B1
An access point (AP) allocates a broadcast resource unit (RU), and ii) one or more other RUs for a multi-user physical layer protocol data unit (MU PPDU). The AP generates the MU PPDU to include i) a physical layer (PHY) preamble, and ii) a management medium access control layer (MAC) frame in the broadcast RU. When the AP device is allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device, the AP device sets a station identifier in the PHY preamble corresponding to the broadcast RU to a first value that indicates the AP device is allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device. When the AP device is not allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device, the AP device sets the station identifier to a second value that indicates the AP device is not allowing unassociated stations to associate with the AP device.
US11778689B2
A method and device for processing data are provided. The method comprises: a terminal device controlling the current state of a copied data transfer function according to first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether the copied data transfer function is enabled; and the terminal device processing, according to the current state of the copy data transfer function, each RLC service data unit (SDU) in a first radio link control (RLC) cache and a second RLC cache, wherein the first RLC cache corresponds to a first RLC entity, and the second RLC cache corresponds to a second RLC entity.
US11778684B2
Embodiments include methods in a wireless device. Such methods include, while the wireless device is in an RRC inactive state with respect to a wireless communication network, determining that updates are needed for the wireless device's access stratum (AS) and non-access stratum (NAS). For example, the AS update can be a RAN notification area update (RNAU) and the NAS update can be a tracking area update (TAU). Such methods include transmitting, to the wireless communication network, a request to resume an RRC connected state with the wireless communication network. The request includes a cause indicator that indicates mobility signaling as a cause for resuming the RRC connected state. Such methods also include receiving, from the wireless communication network, a response to the request to resume the RRC connected state and initiating the NAS update based on the response. Other embodiments include wireless devices configured to perform such methods.
US11778683B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a user equipment (UE) is configured to manage a state variable (associated with a radio link control (RLC) entity or a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity) that enables the UE to maintain synchronization with a base station during a communication session. For example, a base station may transmit, to the UE, a control PDU or a synchronization PDU that includes a value of a state variable maintained by a base station to enable the UE to update its state variable to maintain synchronization with the base station. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11778681B2
Various embodiments provides a data transmission method and an apparatus. In those embodiments, at least two frequency domain resources are configured for transmission of a connection resumption request, a connection establishment request, or a connection reestablishment request, and the connection resumption request, the connection establishment request, or the connection reestablishment request is sent by using the at least two frequency domain resources.
US11778677B2
Wireless communications for asymmetric services are described. Asymmetric services (e.g., for downlink or uplink) may be associated with each other. Resources may be configured based on an association of asymmetric services.
US11778676B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a node in a wireless network may transmit an indication of a capability of the node for simultaneous communication with respect to at least one of: multiple parent nodes of the node, multiple mobile termination components of the node, multiple transmit receive points of the node, multiple cells of the node, or a combination thereof; and communicate with another node in the wireless network based at least in part on the capability. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11778675B2
Embodiments of a system and method for dual connectivity for device to vehicle or vehicle to vehicle communication in a Wireless Network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, processing circuitry may determine a quality of service (QoS) level for data to be transmitted over a first radio access technology (RAT) connection and determine a QoS indicator from the QoS level, the QoS indicator identifying a dual connectivity backup transmission, the dual connectivity backup transmission including a hot, warm, or cold backup. In some embodiments, transceiver circuitry may attempt to transmit the data using a first transmission mode, the first transmission mode using the first RAT connection and the data including the QoS indicator and retransmit, in response to the attempt failing, the data using a second transmission mode.
US11778655B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration of a set of feedback channel occasions corresponding to a first sidelink data channel in a first listen-before-talk (LBT) sub-band, the set of feedback channel occasions located over multiple LBT sub-bands of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. The UE may receive a data transmission over the first sidelink data channel and may determine to transmit feedback associated with the data transmission. The UE, based on the configuration of the set of feedback channel occasions, may perform LBT for each of the set of feedback channel occasions to determine which of the set of feedback channel occasions are available to the UE for transmitting the feedback associated with the data transmission. The UE may transmit feedback over one or more of the set of feedback channel occasions accordingly.
US11778651B2
A transmitting device may select frequency domain resources for an alert transmission based on a severity level of the alert transmission. The transmitting device may determine a severity level of an alert transmission to be transmitted on one or more available channels. The transmitting device may determine a presence of one or more systems configured to transmit on one or more neighbor channels of the one or more available channels. The transmitting device may select, for the alert transmission, frequency domain resources within the one or more available channels based on the presence of the one or more systems and the severity level. The frequency domain resources for a highest severity level transmission are spaced further apart from the one or more neighbor channels in the frequency domain than resources for a lower severity level transmission. The transmitting device may transmit the alert transmission on the frequency domain resources.
US11778647B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme for convergence of an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and security related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or receiving system information by using a preamble in a next generation mobile communication system.
US11778643B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating data bearers each identified by a data bearer identifier. The data bearers comprise: first data bearer(s) configured with duplication; and second data bearer(s) that are not configured with duplication. A received control element comprises duplication activation bits comprising an activation bit for a first data bearer of the first data bearer(s). A first position of the activation bit in the control element identifies a second position of a first data bearer identifier in an ordered list of data bearer identifiers of the first data bearer(s) configured with the duplication. The ordered list of data bearer identifiers excludes the second data bearer(s). In response to the duplication being activated for the first data bearer: a first packet via a first cell; and a duplicate of the first packet is transmitted via a second cell different from the first cell.
US11778642B2
Wireless communication devices are adapted to facilitate power conservation and sidelink communications. According to one example, a wireless communication device can transmit a reservation signal to reserve one or more sidelink resources for use by another device, and receive a sidelink transmission from the other device on at least a portion of the one or more reserved sidelink resources. According to another example, a wireless communication device can detect a reservation signal from another device, where the reservation signal is configured to reserve one or more sidelink resources, and transmit a sidelink transmission on at least a portion of the one or more of the sidelink resources reserved by the other device. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US11778641B2
The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support configurations for sidelink beam management. In some cases, a base station may determine sidelink beams for beam sweeping and instruct a user equipment (UE) which sidelink beams to use. The base station may determine the sidelink beams for beam sweeping based on a report sent from the UE. In other cases, the UE may determine transmission sidelink beams for beam sweeping based on the UE capabilities beam input from the receiving UE, or the base station determining which beams to use and allocating resources for the beam sweeping. Additionally or alternatively, the base station may determine a portion of the sidelink beams for beam sweeping and the UE may determine a portion of the sidelink beams to use for beam sweeping in addition to the beams indicated by the base station.
US11778618B2
Provided is a wireless communication method and device. Frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration is flexibly performed on a terminal device in conjunction with a synchronous signal block, and the performance of a communication system can be raised. The method comprises: a network device receiving a first message sent by a terminal device, the first message being used for indicating a first synchronous signal block detected by the terminal device; and according to the first synchronous signal block, the network device performing frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration on the terminal device.
US11778613B2
A default subcarrier spacing for use in transmission/reception of a broadcast channel is defined for each frequency range. A base station transmits a broadcast channel in a frequency band, using the default subcarrier spacing defined for a frequency range to which the corresponding frequency band belongs. A user equipment attempts to detect a broadcast channel in the frequency band where a cell search is being attempted, using the default subcarrier spacing defined for a frequency range to which the frequency band belongs.
US11778612B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive configuration information indicating a set of scheduling request (SR) occasions (SROs), wherein the configuration information identifies a set of mappings between the set of SROs and a set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs); receive an SSB of the set of SSBs; and transmit one or more SRs on one or more selected SROs associated with the received SSB based at least in part on the set of mappings. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11778610B2
A UE receives control signaling that indicates that the UE is scheduled to transmit one or more uplink control channel messages on a first component carrier that overlap in a time domain with one or more uplink shared channel messages scheduled for transmission on a second component carrier. The UE resolves a first overlap of uplink control channels having a same priority level, if present, and resolves, after resolving the first overlap, a second overlap of an uplink control channel and at least one uplink shared channel having the same priority level, if present. The UE resolves two or more channels having a different priority level after resolving the first overlap and the second overlap. The UE transmits one or more uplink transmissions including at least one of the one or more uplink control channel messages and the one or more uplink shared channel messages.
US11778608B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), uplink data in a wireless communication system supporting a narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) system includes: receiving information related to a preconfigured uplink (UL) resource (PUR) for transmitting the uplink data in an RRC connected state; and transmitting the uplink data by using the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) in an RRC idle state. In the transmitting of the uplink data, when the preconfigured UL resource (PUR) is a dedicated resource and there is no data to be transmitted in the preconfigured UL resource (PUR), transmission of the uplink data is skipped.
US11778606B2
Wireless communication techniques for supporting, selecting, and using multiple waveforms and/or multiple decoders for downlink wireless communication are discussed. A UE may transmit to a base station a request to use a first waveform during a first time period for downlink wireless communication. The UE may receive from the base station a response to the request that includes an indication of a selected waveform to use during the first time period for the downlink wireless communication.
US11778605B2
A method by which a first device performs wireless communication, and a device for supporting same are provided. The method may comprise the steps of: transmitting, to a second device, through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), first sidelink control information (SCI) for the scheduling of second sidelink control information (SCI) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH), the first SCI including information related to a frequency resource allocation, information related to a time resource allocation, and information related to the format of the second SCI; and transmitting, to the second device, through the PSSCH, an inter-UE coordination message and the second SCI including a source ID and a destination ID. The inter-UE coordination message can include information related to a preferred resource or information related to a non-preferred resource, and information indicating that the inter-UE coordination message has been transmitted can be included in the first SCI or the second SCI.
US11778603B2
A terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus efficiently communicate. A terminal apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an RRC message including first configuration information and to receive DCI on a PDCCH, a determination unit configured to determine a time parameter for transmitting a PUSCH, based on a bit sequence indicated by a first field of the DCI, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUSCH, based on the time parameter. A relationship between the bit sequence and the time parameter is defined by a first parameter group in a case that a first condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the first parameter group and the relationship between the bit sequence and defined by a second parameter group in a case that a second condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the second parameter group.
US11778602B2
The present embodiments relate to a method and device for obtaining location information of a terminal by using a wireless communication system. Provided according to an embodiment is a device for acquiring the location information of a terminal, the device comprising at least one downlink signal receiver, at least one uplink signal receiver, and a controller for controlling the downlink signal receiver and uplink signal receiver, wherein the controller configures uplink resource assignment information on the basis of control information received by the downlink signal receiver and determines whether an uplink signal is received, on the basis of the uplink resource allocation information.
US11778598B2
A WTRU may receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating a start of a frame. The DCI may be received on a control channel, such as the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) from an eNB, base station, AP, or other infrastructure equipment operating in a wireless communications system. The WTRU may decode the DCI and may determine a transmit time interval (TTI) duration, which may be expressed in terms of an integer number of basic time intervals (BTIs). The WTRU may determine a downlink (DL) transmission portion and assignment and an uplink (UL) transmission portion and UL grant based on the received DCI. Additionally, the WTRU may determine the start of the UL portion based on an offset (toffset). The WTRU may receive data in a DL portion of the frame and may transmit in an UL portion of the frame based on the determined UL grant and TTI duration.
US11778590B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a transmitting user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a configuration including criterion for selecting a sensing mode for a sidelink resource selection procedure. The transmitting UE may select the sensing mode based on the configuration and a duplex mode configured for a sensing window and determine available resources based on the performing channel sensing according to the selected sensing mode. The transmitting UE may then select one or more of the available resource to transmit one or more sidelink message to a receiving UE.
US11778582B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to secure location measurement sharing. A device may cause to send a first indication associated with a location of the device to a cloud server. The device may cause to send a second indication associated with a ranging information of an access point (AP), wherein the AP is connected to the cloud server. The device may identify an access token received from the cloud server, wherein the access token is associated with providing anonymized AP location information to the AP, and wherein the access token is associated with accessing channel allocation from a channel access database.
US11778581B2
A method in a wireless device (WD) for determining a best-fit geo-location of a target station is described. The best-fit geo-location is determined using a plurality of round-trip times (RTTs). The target station is movable. The method includes assigning values to current target station parameters. The current target station parameters include a current location for the target station and movement parameters. A plurality of square residuals is determined based at least in part on the current target station parameters. Each square residual of the plurality of square residuals corresponds to one RTT. A minimum of a sum of squared residuals (SSR) is determined based at least on the plurality of square residuals. best-fit parameters are determined based at least in part on the determined minimum of the SSR. In addition, the best-fit geo-location of the target station is determined based at least on the best-fit parameters.
US11778577B2
A method and system for acquiring mmWave carrier in a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, an MS acquires a low frequency carrier and then acquires the high frequency carrier. Since the low frequency carrier and the high frequency carrier are transmitted by same BS, the BS provides assistance information on the acquired low frequency carrier to the MS to acquire a synchronization signal which is transmitted on a high frequency carrier using beamforming. The assistance information includes synchronization signal beam time slots, synchronization signal beams which the MS needs to search, beam ID and so on. Based on the assistance information, the MS monitors the high frequency carrier to search and acquire the synchronization beam signal transmitted on the high frequency carrier. The MS determines the beam ID of the received synchronization beam signal and reports to the BS on the low frequency carrier.
US11778574B2
Systems, methods, and devices for secondary cell activation using temporary reference signals are provided. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), includes receiving, from a base station (BS) via a first cell, an activation command to activate a second cell different from the first cell, and receiving, from the BS via the second cell during an activation period, a first reference signal different from a synchronization signal block (SSB). The method further includes performing a measurement of the first reference signal, and operating in the second cell based on the measurement. In some aspects, using reference signals different from SSBs may reduce the delay associated with activating the secondary cell.
US11778570B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for transmission of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) using adjusted transmit powers. In one aspect, a power offset may be configured for one or more sets of SSBs. The power offset may be configured to be applied for a set of SSBs based on a duplexing mode of one or more of a transmitter wireless node (that transmits an SSB) or a receiver wireless node (that receives the SSB). The duplexing mode may be based on whether the transmitter receiver node or the wireless receiver node is operating in a full-duplex mode or may be based on a resource configuration associated with a resource used to transmit the SSB. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein also provide signaling to support the transmission of SSBs using adjusted transmit powers, and techniques for receiving and processing SSBs that use adjusted transmit powers.
US11778558B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, one or more downlink grants scheduling one or more corresponding downlink transmissions from the base station to the UE. In some examples, the UE may enter a state of sleep prior to receiving the one or more downlink transmissions. In such examples, the UE may wake up from the state of sleep at a first time that is at least a threshold period of time before a second time corresponding to a beginning of the one or more downlink transmissions. After waking up from the state of sleep, the UE may activate a notch filter and use the activated notch filter to filter a spur generated at the UE. The UE may receive the one or more downlink transmissions with improved reliability based on activating the notch filter.
US11778557B2
A device and method for communicating identifying information to a nearby portable electronic device is disclosed. A low energy electronic device comprises a transceiver operable to transmit and receive signals and a processing unit in communication with the transceiver. The processing unit, in response to being activated by user input, switches the transceiver into a one-way communication mode, wherein the transceiver transmits a generic wake-up signal comprising a generic wake-up identifier for a first time period, and transmits a user identifier signal comprising a user identifier for a second time period after the first time period as elapsed. The processing unit then switches the transceiver into a two-way communication mode after the second time period has elapsed to facilitate receipt of an incoming confirmation signal.
US11778548B2
In an approach to deploying containers on a 5G slice network, responsive to receiving a request to obtain and host a container within a 5G network, a slice network is created within the 5G network for hosting of the container, where the slice network is created by a carrier for the 5G network. The container is deployed to one or more worker nodes using the slice network within the 5G network.
US11778539B2
A computer-readable media, system, and method for providing role-based access management to channels within a group-based communication system. Role-based access management allows for a plurality of roles to be established and for users to be associated with these roles. Roles may be associated with sets of permissions allowing users assigned to the respective role to perform various actions within the group-based communication system. The group-based communication system may include preset, system roles with predetermined permissions and custom, user-defined roles may be created by administrators within the group-based communication system.
US11778523B1
A method for communicating between base stations of two different wireless communication networks may include (1) transmitting a setup request message from a first base station of a first wireless communication network to a second base station of a second wireless communication network, the setup request message including a first user equipment (UE) device context format of the first wireless communication network and a second UE device context format of the second wireless communication network; (2) receiving, at the first base station, a setup response from the second base station, the setup response including a union of the first UE device context format and the second UE device context format; and (3) at the first base station, communicating with the second base station according to the union of the first UE device context format and the second UE device context format.
US11778521B2
A system is proposed to provide handover in a mobile telecommunications environment, particularly applicable to 3GPP networks, which does not increase signalling overhead but minimises user data loss during handover. In the modified system, PDCP SDUs with Sequence numbers are buffered and retransmitted as necessary. At the time of handover, SDUs not received by the user device are forwarded to the target base station for forward transmission to the UE. The handover procedure is designed to minimise packet loss whilst keeping to a minimum the duplication of packet transmission over the air interface.
US11778519B2
A transmitting device maps complex valued symbols in sequence to physical resource blocks for a sidelink transmission. The transmitting device reserves a first symbol of a subframe, where resource elements in the first symbol of the subframe are not considered in mapping the complex valued symbols to the physical resource blocks for the sidelink transmission. The transmitting device transmits the sidelink transmission after mapping the complex valued symbols to the physical resource blocks. A receiving device receives the sidelink transmission and decodes the sidelink transmission to determine complex valued symbols that are mapped in sequence to physical resource blocks of the sidelink transmission, where the complex valued symbols are not mapped to resource elements in a first symbol of a subframe.
US11778514B2
A data router serves User Equipment (UEs) over network connections to network slices. The router executes an operating system, and in response, executes router applications in containers. The router applications receive a container configuration, a connection configuration, and a slice configuration from the wireless communication network. The router applications transfer the container configuration to the operating system. The operating system controls processing qualities of the containers based on the container configuration. The router applications generate and transfer the performance information for the network connections to the wireless communication network. The router applications prioritize the network connections to the network slices based on the slice configuration. The router applications exchange user data with the UEs and exchange the user data with the network slices over the network connections using service qualities based on the connection configuration.
US11778512B2
A wireless management system manages a wireless system including a base station and terminals. The wireless management system includes a computer that includes an arithmetic device that executes predetermined arithmetic processing, and a storage device connected to the arithmetic device. The arithmetic device calculates a usage rate of radio resources used by the terminal based on positional information of the terminals and the number of terminals communicating with the base station at the time of communication between the terminals and the base station.
US11778510B2
A communication control apparatus allocates capacity of a line that connects a plurality of baseband units managed by a plurality of operators to a radio unit shared by the plurality of operators to the plurality of operators. The communication control apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: calculating a fairness coefficient indicating allocation fairness of the line with respect to each of the plurality of operators; acquiring needed capacity of the line needed by each of the plurality of operators and a gain achievable when the needed capacity is allocated to each of the plurality of operators; and deciding allocation capacity of the line for each operator based on the fairness coefficient, the needed capacity, and the gain.
US11778504B2
Disclosed is a technology for resolving the problems of the conventional 5G ULCL function and efficiently supporting requirements/performance of the URLLC service supported by 5G as the terminal implements a new technology, that is, ULCL of the terminal capable of controlling steering of the transmission path of its own traffic.
US11778503B1
Examples of techniques for Association Identifier (AID) assignment are disclosed. In an example, a controller managing an AP may allocate a set of numbers for AID assignment to clients connecting to VAPs in a multiple BSSID set of the AP. The controller may configure the AP to assign AIDS to non-Multi-Link (non-ML) clients from a first subset of the set based on a first monotonic sequence and assign AIDS to ML clients from a second subset of the set based on a second monotonic sequence. The AP may receive an association request from a client to associate with a VAP of the multiple BSSID set, determine whether Multi-Link operation (MLO) is enabled for the client, and in response to determining that MLO is disabled for the client device, assign a first AID to the client from the first subset based on the first monotonic sequence.
US11778498B2
Disclosed is a method and performed by a system of a wireless communication network for determining signal quality indications. The method includes determining a correlation between a quality of a signal received at a first wireless device and a quality of a signal received at a second wireless device, obtaining a first indication of quality of a signal received at the first wireless device, and determining a second indication of quality of signals received at the second wireless device based on the first indication and the determined correlation. The system may be implemented in a radio access network node.
US11778496B2
Methods may include alerting fixed service microwave operators that their network has been compromised due to interference, before their service is necessarily impacted. In an example, method may include receiving instructions to test fade margin for a wireless communication link associated with a receiver radio, wherein the wireless communication link is passing live traffic; testing the fade margin while the wireless communication link is passing the live traffic; receiving error information, wherein the error information is based on an error correction mechanism for the wireless communication link; based on the error information, determining that a threshold number of errors has been reached; and sending an alert based on the threshold number of errors.
US11778488B2
There is provided mechanisms for determining beam settings for beam management. A method is performed by a first radio transceiver device. The method comprises obtaining information about expected distribution of second radio transceiver devices in a network coverage region of the first radio transceiver device in which the beam management is to be performed. The method comprises determining beam settings for a first set of beams and a second set of beams. The first set of beams and the second set of beams are to be used for the beam management. There are fewer beams in the first set of beams than in the second set of beams. The beams in the first set of beams collectively cover all beams in the second set of beams. The beam settings for the beams in the first set of beams are determined according to the obtained information.
US11778486B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an antenna device and a base station comprising the same. The antenna device may comprise an antenna array with a radiation pattern including a main lobe and a back lobe; and a first reflector able to be configured to reflect a first part of energy of the back lobe to at least one direction different from a direction of the main lobe.
US11778477B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may extract information from a neighboring base station with cell coverage that overlaps cell coverage of the base station. The base station may determine, from the information, one or more locations of control resource sets (CORESETs) used by the neighboring base station. The base station may select resources that do not overlap with the CORESETs used by the neighboring base station. The base station may transmit a communication using the selected resources. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11778476B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for selectively granting or revoking/denying access to applications, services, data, etc. to a User Equipment (“UE”) based on location-based policies and a network-determined location of the UE. The network-determined location may be determined by elements of a wireless network, such as a Mobility Management Entity (“MME”), Access and Mobility Management Function (“AMF”), or other suitable element.
US11778474B2
A system comprising a plurality of pieces of equipment, wherein the equipment included in the system communicates with other equipment by using inter-equipment pairing information, the other equipment being included in the system, and the equipment and the other equipment mutually storing the inter-equipment pairing information, a part included in the equipment communicates with an other part by using inter-part pairing information, the part and the other part being included in the equipment that is identical, and mutually storing the inter-part pairing information, and when receiving a deletion request that is information that requests deletion of the inter-equipment pairing information, the system deletes the inter-equipment pairing information stored in each of the plurality of pieces of equipment, and maintains the inter-part pairing information stored in the part.
US11778466B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for secure resource allocation communication with a network. The present invention may be configured to provide, to a device management system, a request for authentication and receive, from the device management system, a file including a link to a certificate system. The present invention may be further configured to provide, using the link, a certificate enrollment request to the certificate system and receive, from the certificate system, a signed certificate. The present invention may be further configured to establish, using the signed certificate, a wireless connection to a network. In some embodiments, the present invention may include a scanner device for processing instruments associated with resource allocations and a network device communicatively connected to the scanner device for enabling the scanner device to communicate wirelessly with the network.
US11778465B2
Embodiments include wireless authentication devices, systems, and methods. A wireless authentication system can include an active wireless communication device including a first memory, first processing circuitry, and a first antenna, the first processing circuitry to produce an identifier request for an identifier (ID) and cause the first antenna to transmit the identifier request, receive the ID in a response to the identifier request, identify, based on the ID and data in the first memory, a location of a second memory to access, and produce an access request for the identified location of the second memory and cause the first antenna to transmit the access request. The system can further include a passive wireless communication device comprising a second memory, second processing circuitry, a second antenna, and a power harvesting circuitry to convert electromagnetic power incident on the second antenna to electrical power for the second memory and the second processing circuitry, the second processing circuitry to produce the response to the identifier request, the response including the ID, and cause the second antenna to produce the response, receive the access request, retrieve data from or write data to the identified location of the second memory based on the access request, and cause the second antenna to transmit the response to the access request.
US11778458B2
Embodiments of the prevent invention provide a network access authentication method and device. The method comprises: receiving an authentication request message sent by a first serving network, wherein the authentication request message carries a user equipment pseudonym identifier generated by a user equipment; determining whether a local user equipment pseudonym identifier is asynchronous with the user equipment pseudonym identifier generated by the user equipment; and obtaining, if the determination result is yes, an encrypted international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) to carry out network access authentication on the user equipment. The embodiments of the present invention can solve the problem that a network access process in the related art does not provide a processing method for the case where the user equipment pseudonym identifier in the user equipment is asynchronous with the user equipment pseudonym identifier in a home network.
US11778454B2
Delivering communication services is provided. A request for a mobile number from a mobile number authority is received from a subscriber. In response to receiving the request from the subscriber, the mobile number is assigned to the subscriber and sent to the subscriber. A request to register with the mobile number authority is received from a communication service provider. In response to receiving the request from the communication service provider, the communication service provider is registered with the mobile number authority. The mobile number from the mobile number authority may be used by the subscriber to subscribe at the same time to a plurality of communication services for a mobile device from a plurality of different communication service providers registered with the mobile number authority.
US11778450B2
Embodiments provide efficient multicast handover for content delivery to client devices in multi-carrier communications systems. For example, client devices in a transport craft can consume a media channel offering via a first carrier during transport through the communications system. Embodiments can establish respective multicast groups for the media channel offering in at least the first carrier and a subsequent second carrier, and can notify the craft of the multicast groups prior to the craft being serviced by the second carrier. Such pre-notification can permit multicast handover of the media channel offering from the first carrier to the second carrier in a manner that avoids typical handover-related. For example, embodiments can direct multicast delivery of the media channel offering to the craft in accordance with the first multicast group while being serviced by the first carrier and in accordance with the second multicast group while being serviced by the second.
US11778449B2
A system and method is disclosed for allowing a Third-Party (TP) User Equipment (UE) to use a base station/access point (BS/AP), such as a 4G eNodeB (eNB) or a 5G gNodeB (gNB) of a private network, such as an enterprise network to access components of a network core, such as an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in the TP network while also having access to features provided by or through components of an EPC within the private network.
US11778423B2
A signal is received from an occupancy sensor each time a person passes through an access point corresponding to a building space, and is identified as indicating a person either entering or exiting the building space. An occupancy count is maintained for each of the building spaces by incrementing the occupancy count when the signal indicates a person entering and decrementing the occupancy count when the signal indicates a person exiting. A determination is made as to whether the occupancy count for any of the building spaces of the plurality of building spaces has reached a threshold for the corresponding building space. Action is taken in response to determining that the occupancy count for any of the building spaces of the plurality of building spaces has reached the threshold for that particular building space.
US11778416B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication is to be relayed based at least in part on a location of the UE and a range requirement associated with the P2P communication; and transmit the P2P communication, wherein the P2P communication includes an indication of whether the P2P communication is to be relayed. In some aspects, a UE may receive the P2P communication; determine whether to relay the P2P communication based at least in part on the indication and at least one of: a location of the UE, or a UE identifier, included in the P2P communication, that identifies the UE and is associated with a request for the UE to relay the P2P communication; and selectively relay the P2P communication based at least in part on determining whether to relay the P2P communication.
US11778410B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for presenting mixed reality audio. In an example method, audio is presented to a user of a wearable head device. A first position of the user's head at a first time is determined based on one or more sensors of the wearable head device. A second position of the user's head at a second time later than the first time is determined based on the one or more sensors. An audio signal is determined based on a difference between the first position and the second position. The audio signal is presented to the user via a speaker of the wearable head device. Determining the audio signal comprises determining an origin of the audio signal in a virtual environment. Presenting the audio signal to the user comprises presenting the audio signal as if originating from the determined origin. Determining the origin of the audio signal comprises applying an offset to a position of the user's head.
US11778404B2
Systems and methods for detecting and configuring passive speakers within a playback system using a graphical user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of for detecting and configuration passive speakers in a playback system using a mobile device includes deriving speaker identification data concerning one or more passive speakers connected to an audio device in a playback system based upon at least an electrical signal sent to and returned from the one or more passive speakers, where the electrical signal is sent by the audio device including an audio stage comprising one or more amplifiers, and where the speaker identification data comprises information identifying a type of speaker, and displaying a graphical user interface screen on a mobile device based upon the identified type of speaker, where the displayed information and selectable options are dependent upon the identified type of speaker.
US11778395B2
There is presented an in-the-ear hearing aid comprising a faceplate, an ear shell, such as a custom ear shell, and a battery, wherein the battery is fixed to the ear shell and furthermore a method for providing an in-the-ear hearing aid, said method comprising obtaining data, such as three-dimensional data, representative of a shape and/or size of an ear canal of a specific person, such as the part of an ear canal extending at least partially from the outer ear to the middle ear, establishing a digital model of the ear shell, such as the custom ear shell, of the hearing aid for said ear canal based on said data, wherein said providing includes determining a position and/or orientation of a battery in said ear shell, which position and/or orientation increases or maximizes a distance from the outer ear to the faceplate.
US11778392B2
A hearing device comprises a processor operatively coupled to memory, a speaker or a receiver, and one or both of a microphone arrangement and a telecoil arrangement. A sensor is operatively coupled to the processor and configured to sense an angular position of the device relative to a horizontal plane oriented orthogonal to a direction of gravity. The processor is configured to detect a change in the angular position of the device from a first angular position to a second angular position, the first angular position corresponding to a specified angular position that provides for a target or optimal level of device performance and the second angular position resulting in suboptimal device performance. The processor is also configured to implement a corrective action that improves performance of the device relative to the suboptimal device performance while operating the device at the second angular position.
US11778391B2
A hearing device cable including a body portion is described herein. The body portion may extend between a first end region and a second end region along a tube centerline. The body portion may include a first radial portion proximate the first end region and second radial portion proximate the second end region. The first radial portion may define a radius of curvature that is greater than or equal to a radius of curvature defined by the second radial portion. The tube centerline may lie along an x-y plane between the first and second end regions. In one or more embodiments, the body portion may define a passageway extending between the first and second end regions. Further, the hearing device cable may include a superelastic wire within the passageway extending between the first and second end regions.
US11778390B2
The disclosure describes devices and methods for starting up a microphone assembly. The device may be implemented on an integrated circuit that includes a direct current (DC) bias circuit. The DC bias circuit may be coupled to a transducer and configured to supply a DC bias signal to the transducer. The DC bias circuit includes a multi-stage charge pump and a low pass filter (LPF) circuit. The LPF circuit includes an adjustable resistance and a capacitor. A resistance of the adjustable resistance may be reduced to reduce the settling time of the LPF while starting (e.g., turning on) the microphone assembly.
US11778387B2
A sound generator includes a sound generating body, a base, a protection wall, and an erected wall. The sound generating body includes a diaphragm and a driving portion. The base includes a base tubular portion and a partition wall defining a sound hole. The diaphragm and the partition wall divide an inner space of the base tubular portion into a first space and a second space. The protection wall is disposed away from the partition wall and the erected wall connects between the protection wall and the base tubular portion. The protection wall, the erected wall, and the partition wall defines a sound emission space in communication with the first space through the sound hole. The protection wall and the erected wall define an emission hole through which the sound exits.
US11778384B2
The present disclosure relates to a magnetic circuit assembly of a bone conduction speaker. The magnetic circuit assembly may generate a first magnetic field. The magnetic circuit assembly may include a first magnetic element, and the first magnetic element may generate a second magnetic field. The magnetic circuit may further include a first magnetic guide element and at least one second magnetic element. The at least one second magnetic element may be configured to surround the first magnetic element and a magnetic gap may be configured between the second magnetic element and the first magnetic element. A magnetic field strength of the first magnetic field within the magnetic gap may exceed a magnetic field strength of the second magnetic field within the magnetic gap.
US11778367B2
A portable electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that forms an interior chamber and a sound output port to an ambient environment; a speaker positioned within the interior chamber, the speaker having a front volume chamber coupling a sound output surface of the speaker to the sound output port and a back volume chamber acoustically coupled to the interior chamber by an aperiodic vent; and a valve operable to open and close the aperiodic vent in response to a pressure change.
US11778361B1
Validation of an activation event of a device based on analyzing audio data is disclosed. The device detects an activation event, e.g., an input to a soft-touch button or a wake word detected by a microphone array. Responsive to detecting the activation event, the device captures, via a microphone array on the device, sound from a local area of the device. The device stores the captured sound as audio data in an audio buffer. The device performs a validation of the activation event by analyzing the captured sound. The device performs an action based on a result of the validation.
US11778355B2
A searching method is applicable to Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON). The searching method includes: dividing a GPON Encapsulation Mode Port Identifier (GEM Port ID) of a GEM frame into a first portion GEM Port ID and a second portion GEM Port ID; performing a row look-up in a first memory array by using the first portion GEM Port ID, and performing a column look-up in the first memory array by using the second portion GEM Port ID; and identifying a specific bit's position in the first memory array, according to results of the row look-up and the column look-up in the first memory array, wherein the specific bit's position represents a GPON Encapsulation Mode Port (GEM Port) that is used by the GEM frame.
US11778347B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of unit pixels each including a charge holding portion to which charges are transferred from four or more photoelectric conversion units. Sensitivity of each photoelectric conversion unit of a first group to incident light is greater than sensitivity of each photoelectric conversion unit of a second group to the incident light. After charge accumulation is started in all the photoelectric conversion units of the second group, charge accumulation is started in the photoelectric conversion units of the first group. After signals corresponding to charges accumulated in all the photoelectric conversion units of the second group are read out, signals corresponding to charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion units of the first group are read out.
US11778340B2
An example method includes receiving a single frame comprising a first set of pixel data that includes a fluorescence scene component and a second set of pixel data that includes a combination of a visible color component scene and the fluorescence scene component; and generating, based on the first set of pixel data that includes the fluorescence scene component and the second set of pixel data that includes the combination of the visible color component scene and the fluorescence scene component, a display scene.
US11778335B2
An example method of single-exposure multiple-frame image capture, making an HDR video, comprising, capturing a series of frames at an underexposed setting, selecting a reference image from the series of frames, aligning the series of frames to the reference image, merging the series of frames into one frame based on the reference image, indexing the reference image to a next frame in the series of frames, resulting in an indexed reference image, realigning the series of frames to the indexed reference image and remerging the series of frames into a single frame based on the indexed reference image.
US11778334B2
There is provided a method for capturing a sequence of image frames in a thermal camera having a microbolometer detector comprising: capturing a first sequence and a second sequence of image frames with a shutter of the thermal camera being in a closed state and an open state, respectively. While capturing each of the first and the second sequence, an integration time of the microbolometer detector is switched between a plurality of integration times according to one or more repetitions of a temporal pattern of integration times. The method further comprises correcting image frames in the second sequence that are captured when the integration time is switched to a particular position within the temporal pattern of integration times using image frames in the first sequence that are captured when the integration time is switched to the same particular position within the temporal pattern of integration times.
US11778332B2
A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Here, generating the prediction image includes: checking, from the syntax information, prediction mode accuracy for a current block to be decoded; determining whether the checked prediction mode accuracy corresponds to most probable mode (MPM) information obtained from the syntax information; and when the checked prediction mode accuracy does not correspond to the MPM information, reconfiguring the MPM information according to the prediction mode accuracy for the current block.
US11778328B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and a process for producing and viewing through the internet high-resolution images of the commonly viewed exterior surfaces of a vehicle, while maintaining the same background view for multiple images of the vehicle. The background and the imaging device are revolved around a vehicle which is maintained in fixed position between the background and the imaging device. There can be two or more opposed imaging devices and two or more opposed displays. The vehicle does not need to be rotated or moved during the imaging.
US11778327B2
Embodiments of the present application provides an image reconstruction method and device. The method comprises: when a long-focus image set acquisition condition is met, driving the pan-tilt platform of a binocular long-focus and short-focus pan-tilt camera to rotate throughout a field-of-view range, obtaining one long-focus image every preset horizontal and/or vertical angle, and constituting a first long-focus image set with all long-focus images acquired throughout the field-of-view range; receiving a zoom request, and performing interpolating on the first short-focus image currently acquired to obtain a second short-focus image that meets the zoom request; downsampling each long-focus image in the first long-focus image set to obtain a second long-focus image set; dividing the second short-focus image into blocks, searching, for each of the divided blocks, all long-focus images in the second long-focus image set for a matching block; fusing each of the divided blocks in the second short-focus image with the matching block for this divided block to obtain a reconstructed short-focus image. The embodiments of the present application not only retain the advantage of a large field-of-view of the short-focus image, but also improves the definition.
US11778326B2
An imaging apparatus configured to (a) acquire information about a target position of pan or tilt drive of the imaging apparatus and information about a first driving speed associated with the target position; and (b) control an imaging direction of the imaging apparatus by performing the pan or tilt drive to the target position according to the first driving speed. In a case where the imaging apparatus is in a specific state at a time of controlling the imaging direction by performing the pan or tilt drive to the target position, the imaging direction is controlled by performing the pan or tilt drive according to a second driving speed higher than the first driving speed.
US11778318B2
A system and method for operating a depth sensor. A configuration operation can be performed by storing a first sequence of operation steps which define a first depth sensing mode of operation, and a second sequence of operation steps which define a second depth sensing mode of operation, in the memory. In response to a first request for depth measurements according to the first depth sensing mode of operation, the depth sensor can be operated in the first mode of operation by causing it to execute the first sequence of operation steps. In response to a second request for depth measurements according to the second depth sensing mode of operation, and without performing an additional configuration operation, the depth sensor can be operated in the second mode of operation by causing it to execute the second sequence of operation steps.
US11778313B2
An image capturing apparatus, which includes a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching a device capable of holding at least an image captured by the image capturing apparatus and capable of communicating with the mounted device in accordance with a predetermined standard, obtains, from the device, information of communication specifications used to perform predetermined communication, in accordance with the predetermined standard, with the device mounted in the mounting part, and performs, using the obtained information of the communication specifications, the predetermined communication with the device mounted in the mounting part in accordance with the predetermined standard.
US11778309B2
Digital photograph filters and associated settings are recommended by an image classification model. A plurality of images and metadata associated with each of the plurality of images are received. Human interaction scores for each of the images are received. Training data is generated classifying the images using the associated metadata and human interaction scores. The training data is used to derive an image classification model for predicting a human interaction score for an image having an unknown human interaction score. At least one recommended image capture setting using the image classification model is determined in response to determining that a user is preparing to capture an image with a device. The recommended image capture setting is displayed on a display of the device.
US11778300B2
A display device and a white balance adjusting method of a photosensitive element of the display device are provided. The display device includes a display panel, the photosensitive element, and a driver integrated circuit (IC). A first white balance imaging parameter is color parameters of a preset image collected by the photosensitive element of the display device under a preset light source. A second white balance imaging parameter is color parameters of a preset image collected by a photosensitive element of a typical display device under the preset light source. The driver IC is configured to perform a white balance compensation on image data collected by the photosensitive element of the display device according to a deviation between the first white balance imaging parameter the second white balance imaging parameter.
US11778292B2
A sensor shield for a digital camera includes a casing and lens locking ring on a front thereof. The sensor shield includes a barrier member removably coupled to the lens locking ring of the camera body and has a ring-shaped configuration that defines an aperture. The sensor shield has a plurality of iris blades that is rotatably movable between a closed configuration in arranged in an overlapping spiral configuration that prevents ambient air from flowing through said aperture and an open configuration at which said plurality of iris blades are arranged in a rotatably displaced configuration that, when actuated, allows ambient air to flow through its aperture. The sensor shield may receive a camera lens and is actuated by rotation thereof such that a spring is compressed and the iris blades are urged from the closed configuration to the open configuration that allows ambient air to pass through.
US11778288B2
A sensor array (1) for recording a color image in the visible spectrum (8) and hyperspectral information that is spatially linked with the color image, wherein the sensor array (1) includes an image sensor (2) composed of a plurality of photocells (3), wherein respectively a color filter (4) is fixedly assigned to at least one portion of the photocells (3), wherein each photocell (3) is assigned to a subcell (5) and each subcell (5) is assigned to a supercell (6). Each subcell (5) has at least one additional filter of a channel, and all the channels together cover at least the entire visible spectrum (8), and the characteristic wavelengths (9) of the individual filters belonging to a channel in each case differ from one another between the subcells (5) of a supercell (6).
US11778283B2
A video distribution system in one embodiment includes a distribution server, a storage and a supporter computer. The distribution server may be configured to cause a first display device and a plurality of client devices to play a live video containing an animation of a character object. A supporter computer may be configured to display in the live video, upon selection of a decorative object and receipt of a first operation input, a blind object for hiding at least a part of the character object.
US11778280B1
A method for generating geolocation-specific subtitles for a video is implemented via a computing system including a processor. The method includes accessing, via the processor, a video including an embedded subtitle file, extracting the subtitle file from the video, extracting unit values from the subtitle file, and extracting a geolocation of a user executing a video streaming application. The method also includes converting the unit values within the subtitle file to geolocation-specific unit values using a unit conversion map, where the geolocation-specific unit values correspond to the extracted geolocation of the user. The method further includes streaming the video with subtitles from the subtitle file on a video GUI of the video streaming application and, simultaneously with the streaming of the video, surfacing the geolocation-specific unit values within a unit conversion GUI of the video streaming application that is surfaced on top of the video GUI.
US11778278B2
A server includes a relay unit relaying transmission of video data related to a live-stream from a user terminal where the video data is generated to a user terminal where the video data is reproduced, a gift generation unit generating a gift based on a part of the live-stream recorded while the video data is reproduced, and a processing unit performing processing for giving the generated gift to a distributor of the live-stream while the video data is reproduced.
US11778274B2
The user can respond to a media segment wherein the media segment may be associated with a schedulable event. Software on the device can then schedule the event into an electronic calendar system, and/or may use data associated with the media segment. At the appropriate time, the electronic calendar system may notify the user of the scheduled broadcast and/or event.
US11778270B2
Aspects of the present disclose involve a method, a device, and a system comprising a processor and a machine-readable storage medium storing at a set of instructions for identification and authentication of user profiles associated with a digital television system and displaying information related thereto. In example embodiments, the method includes identifying a user profile registered with a content presentation device based on received identification data that includes biometric data. The method further includes receiving, from a server, identifiers of a set of recently watched channels associated with the user profile and causing presentation of a recent channels interface that includes selectable elements corresponding to the set of recently watched channels.
US11778269B1
Consumption of online content is tracked to increase a likelihood that the user is paying attention. A request is received from a remote processing device to begin receiving content, and a block of content is assembled, the block of content having a known content playback duration. Additionally, a post block verification duration is associated with the block of content. The assembled block of content is communicated to the remote processing device for playback thereon, and a perception indicator is collected during playback of the block of content. The collected perception indicator is compared against a perception threshold. Also, a post block verification is performed immediately after playback of the block of content for the post block verification duration. A contingency result is then determined based upon the comparison of the perception indicator to the perception threshold, and whether a valid feedback is received within the post block verification duration.
US11778264B2
The present invention relates to a device and a method for processing and transmitting image data in a wireless AV system. The present specification provides a device comprising: an external device interface unit configured to receive an external input signal including an actual image (an actual picture); a control unit connected to the external device interface unit and configured to detect the external input signal and produce information on the external input signal; an image processing unit connected to the control unit, receiving, from the control unit, at least one among the external input signal and the information on the external input signal, determining an image compressibility on the basis of the information on the external input signal, and outputting a compressed image based on the determined image compressibility; and a communication unit for transmitting the compressed image through a wireless channel.
US11778263B2
The present application discloses techniques of interacting with live videos. The techniques comprise obtaining a streaming video of a live streamer and images of a user captured in real time by a user terminal, and displaying the streaming video and the image of the user in a same video play box; obtaining and recognizing a first gesture of a user in the images of the user, and comparing the first gesture with a second gesture included in a preset table, wherein the preset table comprises information indicating corresponding relationships between gestures and special effects; obtaining a first special effect corresponding to the second gesture by querying the preset table when the first gesture matches with the second gesture; and displaying the first special effect in the video play box.
US11778260B2
A method for interacting with a graphical user interface (GUI) of a television operating in a step mode in which movement of a cursor among menu items displayed on the GUI is performed stepwise in accordance with a manipulation of a direction key of the remote controller, the method including receiving, by the television, from a remote controller a signal corresponding to spatial movement of the remote controller detected by the remote controller that instructs the television to switch from (i) the step mode to (ii) a position mode of the GUI in which the movement of the cursor among the menu items is performed in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote controller and switching from the step mode of the GUI to the position mode of the GUI based on the signal.
US11778257B2
Systems, devices and automated process allow automatic replacement of advertisements or other content in previously-broadcast television programs. A content management system or the like operating on a digital network receives indicia from playback devices that have encountered identified advertisements that are stored in digital video recorders or that are otherwise contained within previously-broadcast television programs. The encounters are recorded in a database for subsequent analysis. If desired, the previously-broadcast advertisements may be replaced with more relevant or engaging advertisements prior to playback to the viewer, thereby allowing a fresher, more relevant and more engaging experience for the viewer.
US11778254B2
Described herein is a platform for providing a resource catalog local to an appliance device, such that the appliance device is able to generate a transaction related to one or more resources within the resource catalog. In some embodiments, the appliance device may receive resource information within streaming data. For example, the appliance device may receive an indication that a portion of streaming media data is related to a resource. Upon determining that a portion of streaming data is related to a resource, the appliance device may be configured to store the portion of data in relation to the identified resource. A user may retrieve and/or execute the portion of streaming data at a later date. In some embodiments, the user may request that a transaction be conducted with respect to the resource and a corresponding transaction request may be generated by the appliance device.
US11778247B2
Systems and methods are described for server-side manipulation of underlying video content in order to dynamically place overlay content or other supplemental content within a video stream in a manner whereby a viewing user sees the advertisement content over or integrated within a portion of the base video content. Segments of the original video file may be modified by a server to display overlay content over a portion of the original content or integrated within the portion of the original content, and revised manifest data may be generated by the server and sent to a client device for playback. The systems and methods may include introducing a delay in the live stream relative to its original source in order to provide time for server-side creation of replacement video portions that include overlay content or other supplemental content.
US11778243B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identification of streaming activity and source for cached media on streaming devices. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions on the apparatus, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: store, in a content identification information library, first content identification information of a first media presentation, wherein the first media presentation is a streamed media presentation; inspect a network connection of a media streaming device for network activity associated with a second media presentation; determine, in response to an absence of the network activity, the second media presentation is a cached media presentation; infer a streaming source of the second media presentation by matching second content identification information of the second media presentation with the first content identification information of the first media presentation; and generate a second media credit for the second media presentation that includes an inferred streaming source identifier.
US11778242B2
Apparatus and method for mass distribution of content. A system for mass distribution of content includes a media server configured to receive content comprising a real-time broadcast of a live performance. The media server generates a content signal representative of the received content and a multicast network coupled to the media server encrypts the content signal and multiplies it to generate a multicast signal. The multicast signal, transmitted by a multicast network via the data communication network, comprises a plurality of encrypted unicast signals. One or more receivers are coupled to the multicast network via the data communication network and each receives one of the encrypted unicast signals of the multicast signal via the data communication network. Each of the one or more receivers decrypts the received unicast signal and broadcasts the decrypted unicast signal to one or more entertainment pods for consumption.
US11778227B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: derives an average value of motion vector values of two prediction candidates in a prediction candidate list for a merge mode, and registers the average value derived as new motion vector information of a new prediction candidate into the prediction candidate list; and derives new correction processing information regarding correction processing of a prediction image, and registers the new correction processing information derived into the prediction candidate list in association with the new motion vector information.
US11778221B2
A method for decoding a picture from a bitstream. In one embodiment, The method includes: receiving a slice header for a slice of the picture, wherein the slice header comprises a state syntax element; decoding a state value from the state syntax element in the slice header, wherein a) if the state value is not equal to a first value, then the state value indicates that i) the bitstream includes for the picture a picture header comprising a set of picture syntax elements and ii) the slice header does not comprise the set of picture syntax elements and b) if the state value is equal to the first value, then the state value indicates that i) the slice header contains said set of picture syntax elements and ii) the bitstream does not include a picture header for the picture; and using the set of picture syntax elements to decode the slice of the picture.
US11778211B2
Systems and methods of parallel image parsing and processing for video decoding are provided. Video decoder circuitry may enable an incoming encoded bitstream to be split into multiple bitstreams corresponding to the bitstream compression scheme and processed by multiple parsers corresponding to the bitstream compression scheme in parallel. This enables parallel decoding of the incoming bitstream and, thus, more efficient decoder processing.
US11778207B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory: derives a one-dimensional array of a plurality of reference samples for intra prediction; performs smoothing on the one-dimensional array of the plurality of reference samples which has been derived; and generates a prediction image using the plurality of reference samples. In deriving the one-dimensional array, the circuitry projects a value of at least one decoded pixel located on a first line onto a second line perpendicular to the first line, to derive at least one of the plurality of reference samples, and the smoothing is performed on the at least one decoded pixel projected onto the second line.
US11778202B2
An information processing method and device, an apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: for inputted source video data, predicting a colour component of a coding block in the source video data according to a prediction mode to obtain a first prediction block, wherein the prediction mode is preset and is a Position-Dependent Prediction Combination (PDCP) mode; determining a difference between the colour component of the coding block and a prediction value of the first prediction block to obtain a residual block; and signalling the residual block and the prediction mode in a bitstream.
US11778198B2
A method including: extracting a set of video features representing properties of a video segment; generating a set of bitrate-resolution pairs based on the set of video features, each bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs defining a bitrate and defining a resolution estimated to maximize a quality score characterizing the video segment encoded at the bitrate; accessing a distribution of audience bandwidths; selecting a top bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs; selecting a bottom bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs; selecting a subset of bitrate-resolution pairs in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs based on the distribution of audience bandwidths, the subset of bitrate-resolution pairs defining bitrates less than the top bitrate and greater than the bottom bitrate; and generating an encoding ladder for the video segment comprising the top bitrate-resolution pair, the bottom bitrate-resolution pair, and the subset of bitrate-resolution pairs.
US11778182B2
This invention relates to a method of coding video data. The method comprising: determining a largest coding unit size for a picture; determining whether a largest coding unit within a picture is an intra type largest coding unit; and applying a partitioning to the largest coding unit based on whether the largest coding unit is an intra type largest coding unit.
US11778179B2
The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: decoding information associated with a clipping range of a current block; and performing sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering on the basis of the information associated with the clipping range, wherein the information associated with the clipping range may include information on the maximum and minimum values of a pixel value included in the current block.
US11778174B2
An apparatus for decoding video data includes a decoder configured to decode, from a bitstream, a syntax element indicating an intra-prediction type of a current block of the video data, and an intra-predictor configured to generate a prediction block for the current block by selectively performing matrix based intra-prediction (MIP) or regular intra-prediction based on the intra-prediction type of the current block indicated by the syntax element.
US11778172B2
Disclosed are a colour component prediction method, an encoder, a decoder, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining adjacent reference pixels of a current block in a picture; constructing a subset of adjacent reference pixels according to the adjacent reference pixels, wherein the subset of adjacent reference pixels contains a part of the adjacent reference pixels; and calculating model parameters of a prediction model according to the subset of adjacent reference pixels, wherein the prediction model includes N prediction sub-models, the N prediction sub-models correspond to N groups of model parameters, and the prediction sub-models are used to perform, through corresponding model parameters, cross-component prediction of colour components to be predicted, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2.
US11778170B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to improvement for temporal gradient calculating in BIO. A method for video processing is provided, including: determining a reference block for a current block; performing a refinement process for prediction of the current block, based on the reference block; and performing a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of a video including the current block, based on a result of the refinement process; wherein, the refinement process comprises: modifying the reference block into a modified reference block, and calculating a temporal gradient based on the modified reference block, or calculating an original temporal gradient based on the reference block, and modifying the original temporal gradient into a modified temporal gradient.
US11778167B1
A method of improving a main output of a main AI model processing first video data includes analyzing incoming video data via a first processing pipeline and analyzing incoming video data via a second processing pipeline. The second processing pipeline includes receiving the incoming video data from the camera; identifying, by a parameter optimization module, first test preprocessing parameters; preprocessing the incoming video data according to the first test preprocessing parameters defined within a test runtime configuration file, wherein the first test preprocessing includes formatting the incoming video data to create first test video data; accessing the first test video data by a test AI model; processing the first test video data by the test AI model to determine a first test output that is indicative of a first test inference dependent upon the first test video data; and comparing the first test output and the main output to a baseline criterion. In response to the first test output satisfying the baseline criterion, the parameter optimization module can alter the first preprocessing parameters in the first runtime configuration file to be similar to the first test preprocessing parameters in the test runtime configuration file and, in response to the first test output failing to satisfy the baseline criterion, replace the first test preprocessing parameters with second test preprocessing parameters that are different from the first test preprocessing parameters and repeat the steps of analyzing the incoming video data via the second preprocessing pipeline.
US11778163B2
Provided is an electronic device including a display to output an image, a parallax optical element configured to provide light corresponding to the image to a plurality of viewpoints, an input interface configured to receive an input to calibrate the parallax optical element by a user who observes a pattern image from a reference viewpoint among the plurality of viewpoints, and a processor configured to output the pattern image generated by rendering a calibration pattern toward the reference viewpoint, adjust at least one of a pitch parameter, a slanted angle parameter, and a position offset parameter of the parallax optical element based on the input, and output, by the display, the pattern image adjusted by re-rendering the calibration pattern based on an adjusted parameter.
US11778161B2
A time of flight (TOF) camera device and a method of operating the same is provided. The time of flight (TOF) camera device includes a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse signal, a light module configured to emit output light to at least one object in response to the pulse signal, a three-dimensional (3D) sensor configured to receive reflected light when the output light is reflected by the at least one object for a first frame, a distance calculator configured to receive an output of the 3D sensor and generate a distance data signal, and a light density control device configured to receive the distance data signal from the distance calculator and output a light density control signal. The light density control signal may adjust the size of an opening in the light module to change a projected area from the output light onto the at least one object.
US11778154B2
A Head-Mounted Display with camera sensors to perform chroma keying in a mixed reality context is presented. Low latency is achieved by embedding the processing in the HMD itself, specifically, format camera images, detect the selected color range and make a composite with the virtual content.
US11778147B1
A Passive Smart Color Night Vision (CNV) System that includes a fully integrated scope system with dynamically controlled color night vision (CNV) algorithm to work in all light conditions. It provides the ability to replace zoom lens capability as necessary on the fly and includes interchangeable lenses. Scope parameters can be controlled from any mobile device, RF, Bluetooth, Smart goggles, Satellite, and voice. The object recognition data can be loaded to the Scope System via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or any form of radio communications. Recognition Algorithm using database loaded. The color night vision picture seen by the Scope System can be seen using smart glasses, mobile devices, and by remote locations. Completely passive solution—IR/Visible composite image capture. An AI Reticle Adjustment algorithm is used to calculate the line up between Reticle canter and target. Smart recording capability and alerts; and recoil dampening carrier to reduce impact on electronics and overall weapon system.
US11778145B2
A control server includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an imaging condition of a plurality of imaging apparatuses, a communication parameter determination unit configured to determine a time length during which each of a plurality of pieces of image data based on image capturing by the plurality of imaging apparatuses is communicable, based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to perform control so that communication of the plurality of pieces of image data is performed in accordance with the time length determined by the determination unit.
US11778142B2
A system or method executing an intelligent appearance monitoring management system comprising a processor to execute code instructions of a multimedia multi-user collaboration application to join a videoconference session, a display screen, a speaker, a video camera, and a microphone where the video camera captures a videoframe of a user and the processor to input videoframe data, including the detected user's image, into a trained neural network of the intelligent appearance monitoring management system to generate optimized appearance filtering adjustments indicating detection of a user appearance anomaly in the user's image or altering a user's image in the captured videoframes in response to the user appearance anomaly and prepare those videoframes for transmission.
US11778141B2
The present invention relates to an improved method of contactless initiation and control of a videoconference between a user in a sterile environment, wherein in the videoconference output is processed from one or more imaging instruments, and from one or more remote users from a predetermined list of a plurality of remote users.
US11778139B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store a plurality of frames included in an input image and a processor configured to: identify whether one frame of the plurality of frames is a first interpolated frame generated based on at least two frames from remaining frames of the plurality of frames, and select a reference frame to be used in frame interpolation of the plurality of frames based on the first interpolated frame being identified.
US11778137B2
An information processing device includes circuitry to set one or more images transmitted from an image capturing device and stored, in a memory, as ones to be deleted from the memory in a case that a condition is satisfied, transmit, to a communication terminal, input screen information related to an input screen for inputting information for setting one of the one or more images as one to be excluded from the images to be deleted, and set the one of the one or more images as the one to be excluded from the images to be deleted according to an operation received via the input screen displayed on the communication terminal based on the input screen information.
US11778119B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control circuit configured to operate as a setting tool that performs setting of an application installed in a client device by executing a setting tool program. The setting tool includes an application setter and a server synchronizer. The application setter is configured to perform setting of an application in a client device. The server synchronizer is configured to synchronously register the client device on which setting has been performed by the application setter in a server apparatus that manages a client device which is provided with a function of the application with the setting performed on the client device by the application setter as a trigger.
US11778112B2
The disclosure discloses methods and systems for allowing a user to reserve a tray for special media printing while submitting a document for printing, the method is implemented at a print driver application running on a computing device. The method includes receiving a print request for the document through the print driver application. A user interface is provided to the user including one or more print attributes, wherein at least one print attribute includes special media option. Upon selection of the special media option, a list of one or more trays available at at least one multi-function device for special media printing is displayed. Thereafter, the user is allowed to select a tray from the displayed tray list for reservation for special media printing at the at least one multi-function device.
US11778107B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments for operating a retail photo kiosk and establishing a dedicated access for a remote mobile device to the photo kiosk. Certain embodiments of the photo kiosk incorporate anchored connector cables to connect remote mobile devices to the photo kiosk. According to one embodiment, the photo kiosk detects when a remote mobile device is connected to the kiosk via an anchored connector cable. Upon receiving user information, the photo kiosk generates and sends an access message comprising to the connected mobile device. Following the access message, the user may establish dedicated access to the photo kiosk through the mobile device, which allows the user to utilize and leverage photo processing features of the kiosk.
US11778105B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to template-based configuration and management of telecommunications services. According to a specific example, a server is provided comprising one or more computer processor circuits configured to interface with a remotely-situated client entity using a first programming language. The server includes a provisioning circuit and a call control circuit. The provisioning circuit is configured to identify a provisioning template for at least one extension for a client entity, and configure the extension for one or more call processing functions. The call control circuit is configured identify at least one call control template written in a second programming language. The call control circuit is further configured to control call routing for communications (e.g., VoIP telephone calls) by executing the call control template, and to implement one or more call processing functions specified by the call control template as being conditional upon retrieved data.
US11778101B2
Methods, devices, and systems related to performing an operation responsive to a voice call are described. In an example, a method can include storing data representing a number of contact lists on a memory of a first computing device, wherein the data representing the number of contact lists includes data representing credentials of a number of contacts on the number of contact lists, receiving data representing a voice call and credentials of a second computing device at the first computing device, comparing the data representing the credentials of the second computing device with the data representing the credentials of the number of contacts on the number of contact lists to determine which contact list the second computing device is included in, and performing an operation at the first computing device at least partially based on which contact list the second computing device is included in.
US11778097B2
Techniques for pairing contacts and agents in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for pairing contacts and agents in a contact center system comprising: assigning, by at least one computer processor communicatively coupled to and configured to operate in the contact center system, a contact to an agent based on information associated with a prior interaction of the contact with the contact center system. The assigning of the contact to the agent may result in a less favorable outcome for the contact assigned to the agent and an increase in an overall performance of the contact center system.
US11778094B2
The location of voice prompts within a call waveform is usually conducted by match filtering a snippet of the prompt (approx. 800 ms) to the call waveform. In an enhanced process that can accommodate transmission errors when detecting voice prompts on lower quality transmission lines, a snippet of a voice prompt may be divided into sniplets, typically 100 ms long. The sniplets can be individually detected. If a sufficient number of sniplets are detected within allowed time tolerances, then this subset of detected sniplets can indicate the presence of the snippet, and thus the associated voice prompt.
US11778093B1
Apparatuses and methods concerning providing a data-communications virtual assistant are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes a data-communications server. The data-communications server is configured to process user-data-communications between a client station and another station participating in data-communications via the data-communications services where the client station is associated with one client entity. The server is also configured to identify a context for each respective user-data-communication between the client station and the participating station, where the context data corresponds to at least one communications-specific characteristic associated with the user-data-communications, and to retrieve structured and unstructured data relating to previous data-communications provided by the data-communications server. The server is also configured to provide the integrated contact center to particular end users based on the identified context, and including data generated from the retrieved structured and unstructured data.
US11778092B2
Implementations are directed to using an assistant to initiate automated telephone calls with entities. Some implementations identify an item of interest, identify a group of entities associated with the item, and initiate the calls with the entities. During a given call with a given entity, the assistant can request a status update regarding the item, and determine a temporal delay before initiating another call with the given entity to request a further status update regarding the item based on information received responsive to the request. Other implementations receive a request to perform an action on behalf of a user, identify a group of entities that can perform the action, and initiate a given call with a given entity. During the given call, the assistant can initiate an additional call with an additional entity, and generate notification(s), for the user, based on result(s) of the given call and/or the additional call.
US11778086B2
A inter-device interactive control method is applied to a first device, and includes: determining a location of the first device in a pre-established map; acquiring a target operation of the first device; determining a target operating device based on the location and the target operation of the first device; and performing operations on the determined target operating device.
US11778074B2
The disclosed technology includes a method to wirelessly communicate with a wireless communication device using two wireless communication protocols. The method includes: aligning a timing of audio frames of a first wireless communication protocol with a timing of advertising events of a second wireless communication protocol; increasing a time duration between beginnings of advertising Protocol Data Units (PDUs) transmitted during an advertising event of the second wireless communication protocol; receiving a first request to access a transceiver of the wireless communication device from the first wireless communication protocol and receiving a second request to access the transceiver of the wireless communication device from the second wireless communication protocol; and selecting the second request from the second wireless communication protocol to be executed based on priority of the second wireless communication protocol. The method can be used during audio streaming.
US11778067B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for triggering cross channel data caching on network nodes. Historical event data and live event data of a user may be monitored to determine an expected event that includes one or more expected channels. An expected period of time for the expected event may also be determined. Relevant user data may then be identified from one or more systems of record and cached or otherwise compressed. One or more nodes of a network associated with each of the one or more expected channels are then identified. The cached data is then transmitted to virtual data structures associated with each of the one or more nodes. The cached data is then generally maintained in these virtual data structures on the network for the expected period of time.
US11778065B2
A method includes receiving, at an intermediation server, from a requesting device, a request for one or more items provided by a provider system; generating, at the intermediation server, an intermediate reply comprising data indicative of the one or more items provided by the provider system; determining, at the intermediation server, whether the request is eligible for direct distribution; in response to determining that the request is eligible for direct distribution, generating, at the intermediation server, an adjusted reply by: communicating with a hosted offer management system to receive instructions for adjusting the intermediate reply, the hosted offer management system providing hosted provider object services for the provider system; and adjusting, at the intermediation server, the intermediate reply based on the instructions; and providing, from the intermediation server, to the requesting device, the adjusted reply in response to the request.
US11778061B2
A feature extraction device is a device that extracts a feature quantity to be input to a state estimation model for estimating a state related to a terminal where the activity is executed or a user of the terminal, which includes an acquisition unit that acquires activity history information indicating an execution history of the activity in a specified period of time and including time-series activity logs, an extraction unit that extracts co-occurrence relationship information indicating a co-occurrence relationship of activities in a specified period of time based on the activity history information, a generation unit that aggregates activity feature quantities indicating a feature of each activity based on the co-occurrence relationship information and generates an activity history feature quantity indicating a feature of the activity history information, and an output unit that outputs the activity history feature quantity as a feature quantity to be input to the state estimation model.
US11778059B1
A system for detecting whether a device seeking communication with a server is a returning device that previously communicated with the server includes a database that stores groups of device attributes based on observable device characteristics and unique identifiers. The database is generally not accessible to the devices. Each attribute group and the associated device identifier (DID) can uniquely identify a particular device, and the associated DID is generally not derivable from the attributes. The database may satisfy a uniqueness property so that each attribute value in the database may also uniquely identify a device.
US11778057B2
In some aspects, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by a processor, causes the processor to receive an indicator of a functionality; map the indicator to a first service and a second service dependent on the first service; identify a policy based on the first service and the second service; and determine, based on the policy, locations of deployment for the first service and the second service.
US11778052B1
A first user device associated with a first dependent user may receive a request to add a second dependent user associated with a second user device to a contacts list of the first user device, and may provide a first device identifier, identifying the first user device, to the second user device via a short-range communication. The first user device may receive, from the second user device, a second device identifier, identifying the second user device, via a short-range communication, and may provide the second device identifier to an approval system. The first user device may receive, from the approval system, an indication of approval to add the second dependent user to the contacts list, and may add the second dependent user to the contacts list based on the indication. The first user device may communicate with the second user device, via a telecommunications network, based on the contacts list.
US11778047B2
The systems and methods described herein can enable the indirect transmission of session data between different domains. The system can pass the session data through a hashing function so that the data from a given domain remains private and secure to the specific domain. The system can generate clusters of associated domains for a given client device that the system can use to maintain a session between the client device and the domain.
US11778046B2
An object is to provide a communication system capable of preventing a number of control signals, which could occur in a mobile communication network, from occurring when a VM is deleted in a node device without suspending a service. A communication system according to the present invention includes a communication device 1, and a communication device 2 configured to control a plurality of sessions set between the communication devices 1 and 2 by using a plurality of VMs, in which the communication device 2 notifies, by using a determination that a plurality of sessions that are controlled between the communication device 1 and a VM 3 should be controlled in a VM 4 different from the VM 3 as a trigger, the communication device 1 of identification information used in the VM 4 and updates the sessions.
US11778031B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a service model management request. The method may include receiving an end-to-end network service model for network services. The method may also includes determining a set of domain services that are required to be able to provide an end-to-end network service defined by the end-to-end network service model. The method may further include checking whether at least one management domain is capable of providing the required set of domain services. The method may also include requesting, when the at least one management domain is not capable of providing the required set of domain services, to prepare the at least one management domain to become able to provide the required set of domain services. In addition, the method may include receiving a notification from the at least one management domain indicating an availability to provide the required set of domain services.
US11778025B1
Techniques for managing a cross-region directory service are described. A method of managing a cross-region directory service may include establishing a cross region peer connection between a first directory virtual network of a directory service in a first region of a provider network and a second directory virtual network of the directory service in a second region of the provider network, the second directory virtual network associated with a pre-allocated classless interdomain routing (CIDR) range, replicating, by a cross-region replicator, data or metadata associated with the directory service from the first region to the second region, and orchestrating one or more updates to the directory service in the second region based at least on the data or metadata replicated to the second region.
US11778022B2
Various examples of the present disclosure can be directed to programmatically generating and rendering for display a context pane within a group-based communication interface. In some examples, the context pane comprises context pane content representative of channel membership associated with a communication channel identifier with which the group-based communication interface is associated. Group-based communication objects of a group-based communication data corpus can be utilized (e.g., by way of a trained machine learning model and/or work graph data structures) to inform the determination of context pane content.
US11778016B2
A terminal device transmits, upon a launch of an application frontend of a distributed application, a lookup request based on a predetermined fully qualified domain name associated with an application backend of the distributed application to a domain name server via a communication network. Upon receipt of the fully qualified domain name, the domain name server transmits an IP address associated with the fully qualified domain name to the application frontend. Upon receipt of the IP address, the terminal device transmits application data to the transmitted IP address via a connection provided by the communication network. Upon transmission of the application data, the core server selects a quality service for the distributed application, which is then applied by the communication network for operation of the distributed application.
US11778011B2
A live media streaming architecture facilitates live interaction among multiple participants, such as viewers and stage performers for a show. A cluster of computers is responsible for generating, transmitting, and displaying a composed live stream, such as a grid, of one group of individuals, by mixing live streams from those individuals, that will allow them to interact with a stage performer or other contributors or other individuals during an event. The architecture can support receiving the live streams at a physical location of an event or other locations for centralized redistribution.
US11778001B2
Not every person can or should join an electronic conference (herein, “conference”) where they may contribute content to the conference. While a first set of participants are communicating, a question may arise to be addressed to an additional participant not participating in the conference. Rather than executing the overhead of joining the conference, a separate communication channel is established, such as via an instant messaging application of the additional participant. The additional participant is presented with a message, such as a question, which may indicate the sender is the conference itself. The additional participant replies via their IM application which is delivered to each of the conference participants and optionally included in a recording of the conference.
US11778000B1
Systems and methods for subscribing to receive published events and publishing events in a distributed session initiation protocol (SIP) network are provided. A request can be obtained from an event subscribing user agent (UA) to subscribe to receive events from another UA, and information regarding the event subscribing UA and the other UA can be stored in a local storage. Additionally, information regarding the other UA is stored in a global storage accessible to multiple components in the SIP network along with an identifier of a presence server storing the information. In this regard, when an event occurs relating to the other UA, the global storage is queried to determine one or more presence servers associated with UAs subscribed to receive events of the other UA, and the event information or a portion thereof is transmitted to the one or more presence servers.
US11777987B2
Phishing attacks cause financial frauds and credential thefts. The conventional blacklist, whitelist and Machine Learning (ML) based methods fail to provide an accurate detection of phishing attacks. The present disclosure provides a layered approach wherein a URL domain name is compared with blacklist domains and whitelist domains. Further, the URL undergoes Internet Protocol (IP) address checking followed by context checking. A clicked context is verified based on the number of search results from a popular search engine. Otherwise, the typed context is checked for non-ASCII characters in the domain name. Further, the URL is checked for any brand name. Further, the domain is checked for any misspelling. Further, the URL is examined using a Machine Learning (ML) model. Finally, the URL is classified as phishing if a number hits in a popular search engine is less. Here a phishing alert is generated in each layer based on the corresponding decision.
US11777977B2
A method for establishing a campaign for a simulated phishing attack includes receiving, via a campaign manager, specification of a plurality of parameters for a campaign including at least an identifier of a campaign and identification of users to which to send the campaign, establishing, via the campaign manager, a type of exploit for the campaign and one or more types of data to collect via the type of exploit, storing, by the campaign manager, the campaign comprising the plurality of parameters, and identifying, by a simulation server, the campaign stored in the database to create a simulated phishing email, to be sent to email accounts of the users, using the plurality of parameters of the campaign, wherein the simulated phishing email is to be created to have a link to a landing page comprising the type of exploit and configured to collect the one or more types of data.
US11777974B2
A network connection between a server group of a data intake and query system and each of one or more source network nodes is established. Source data at the server group is received from at least one of the one or more source network nodes via the respective network connections and transformed, by the indexer server, to timestamped data entries of machine data. A model management server detects data constraints for a security model that include a data element used by the security model and an availability requirement set. Using the timestamped data entries, the data constraints are validated, and the validation used to determine a data availability assessment of the security model.
US11777968B2
A method and device for handling an anomaly at a unit. The device is integrated into the unit. A variable is detected for handling attacks on the unit that defines an operation of the unit. A piece of information is determined depending on the variable that characterizes surroundings in which the unit is operated. It is checked depending on a comparison of the piece of information about the surroundings to a piece information about the setpoint surroundings for the operation of the unit, whether or not an anomaly is present in the operation of the unit. The unit is operated in a first operating mode having a first functional range, if no anomaly is detected. The unit is operated in a second operating mode having a second functional range, which is reduced or changed with regard to the first functional range, if an anomaly is detected.
US11777963B2
A processing pipeline for supporting machine-learning processes for network monitoring and information management as well as specific analytics for particular use cases. The processing pipeline 500 takes in system data (502) and pre-processes (504) the system data. The system data (502) may include any of the types of data described above including text log files, and categorical data from various sources. The illustrated processing pipeline 500 includes two branches; a data fitting branch (506) where a model is developed for the data and a data transformation branch (508) where the developed model is leveraged to transform live data. For certain event detection use cases, the output of the data transformation branch (508) includes a score (510) (e.g., a threat level score) and an attribution (512).
US11777960B2
In one embodiment, a method includes collecting DNS (Domain Name System) communications, analyzing the DNS communications, and identifying DNS tunneling or exfiltration based analysis of the DNS communications. Analyzing the DNS communications includes identifying a distinct query count for each of a plurality of clients over a specified time period and a data transfer direction between the clients and one or more servers, and categorizing the DNS communications based on session features associated with at least one of query type, transfer capability, and server response. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US11777955B2
A method of detecting bots, preferably in an operating environment supported by a content delivery network (CDN) that comprises a shared infrastructure of distributed edge servers from which CDN customer content is delivered to requesting end users (clients). The method begins as clients interact with the edge servers. As such interactions occur, transaction data is collected. The transaction data is mined against a set of “primitive” or “compound” features sets to generate a database of information. In particular, preferably the database comprises one or more data structures, wherein a given data structure associates a feature value with its relative percentage occurrence across the collected transaction data. Thereafter, and upon receipt of a new transaction request, primitive or compound feature set data derived from the new transaction request are compared against the database. Based on the comparison, an end user client associated with the new transaction request is then characterized, e.g., as being associated with a human user, or a bot.
US11777938B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for protecting cloud resources. The methods and systems may use a virtual gatekeeper resource to enforce secure access controls to cloud resources for a list of privileged operations. The cloud resources and the virtual gatekeeper resource may be in different security domains within a cloud computing system and the cloud resources may be linked to the virtual gatekeeper resource. A request may be sent to perform a privileged operation on the cloud resource. Access may be provided to the virtual gatekeeper resource in response to approval of the request and the access to the virtual gatekeeper resource may be used to perform the privileged operation on the cloud resource.
US11777929B2
A computer implemented system and method for acquisition of advance consent for each instance of PII use includes the steps of receiving reference specimens for a user, electronically storing the reference specimens on a distributed block chain. When PII of the user is to be used, a consent session is electronically requested for the user. Consent-session specimens are electronically received from the user in response to the electronic request for the consent-session after completion of the consent session. The consent-session specimens include a video of the user making an affirmative consent statement, a photograph of fingerprints of the user, and a photograph of identification (ID) credentials of the user. A degree to which each of the consent-session specimens from the user match the reference specimens for the user is electronically determined and the transaction information is electronically stored on the distributed block chain.
US11777921B2
Systems and methods for management and configuration of personal digital privacy and security. A list of protected accounts is received, where each protected account is an online user account associated with a user. For each protected account of the list, a privacy configuration is generated, based at least in part on one or more user-specific privacy rules. A login session for the protected account is accessed, without transmitting or receiving the user's password for the protected account. Based on the accessed login session for the protected account, a plurality of current status indicators are determined for a plurality of privacy settings associated with the protected account. The current status indicators are analyzed to generate updated configuration settings for one or more of the privacy settings of the protected account, and the updated configuration settings are applied to the protected account.
US11777913B2
The techniques herein are directed generally to a “zero-knowledge” data management network. Users are able to share verifiable proof of data and/or identity information, and businesses are able to request, consume, and act on the data—all without a data storage server or those businesses ever seeing or having access to the raw sensitive information (where server-stored data is viewable only by the intended recipients, which may even be selected after storage). In one embodiment, source data is encrypted with a source encryption key (e.g., source public key), with a rekeying key being an encrypting combination of a source decryption key (e.g., source private key) and a recipient's public key. Without being able to decrypt the data, the storage server can use the rekeying key to re-encrypt the source data with the recipient's public key, to then be decrypted only by the corresponding recipient using its private key, accordingly.
US11777912B2
A middleware system and corresponding methods are described whereby data communications, either inter-device or intra-device, are coordinated using a set of cryptographic identifiers that correspond to computing elements, such as interfaces, methods, parameters, classes, among others. The cryptographic identifiers are coupled to data messages being sent across the middleware system and processed to indicate adherence to protocol standards and/or to cause transformation of the data messages such that the receiver receives a data message adhering to their acceptable protocol standards.
US11777909B1
Systems and methods for identifying and removing a tracking capability from an external domain that performs a tracking activity on a host web page. Tracking capabilities of an external domain may be removed by altering web requests and/or responses to API calls. Once these tracking capabilities of the external domain have been removed, the altered web requests and/or altered responses to API calls may be transmitted to a web browser and/or entity making the API call thereby protecting user privacy while allowing the external domain to interact with the host web page.
US11777898B2
An electronic apparatus for establishing a Dual-Stack Lite (DS-lite) tunnel is provided. The apparatus sends a request for an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a Domain Name System (DNS) server and a domain name of an Address Family Transition Router (AFTR) server to a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server using an IP address of the DHCP server, receives the IP address of the DNS server and the domain name of the AFTR server from the DHCP server in response to the request, sends a DNS query including the domain name of the AFTR server to the DNS server using the IP address of the DNS server. In response to the DNS query being successful, the apparatus receives an IP address of the AFTR server from the DNS server, and establishes the DS-lite tunnel between the apparatus and the AFTR server using the IP address of the AFTR server.
US11777885B2
Among other things, we describe techniques for encoding data that is included in electronic communications. In one aspect, a first electronic communication system sends, to an entity, a first email message that includes a Message-ID field including data that identifies an action to be carried out by a second electronic communication system. The first electronic communication system receives, from the entity, a second email message that includes an In-Reply-To field containing the data that identifies the action to be carried out by the second electronic communication system. The first electronic communication extracts the data from the In-Reply-To field in a message header of the first electronic communication. The second electronic communication system may be the same as the first electronic communication system, or may be an electronic communication system other than the first electronic communication system.
US11777884B2
Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
US11777880B2
Systems and methods for integrating a messaging client application with a content management system are provided. In some examples, a method can include receiving messaging content at a content management system from a messaging client application via an application programming interface, the content management system and the messaging client application being on different cloud-based systems. The method can include associating the messaging content with a workspace in the content management system, the workspace including a plurality of users that are authorized to access the workspace to collaborate with each of the plurality of users. The method can further include providing access to the messaging content to the plurality of users that are authorized to access the workspace of the content management system. The method also can include embedding the messaging content in the workspace of the content management system.
US11777874B1
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may provide an artificial intelligence (AI) conversation system, such as an AI driven virtual assistant, that can participate in automated conversations with users. The AI conversation system may be configured to respond to user inquiries or requests and implement conversations to achieve tasks.
US11777873B1
A method and apparatus for managing buffering of data packets of a network card, a terminal and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: setting ring buffer queues, setting a length of each ring buffer queue, then setting a buffer pool formed by two ring buffer queues, and setting the two ring buffer queues in the buffer pool as a busy queue and an idle queue, respectively; a network card driver receiving data packets from a data link, classifying the data packets, sequentially buffering the classified data packets into the busy queue, and then sequentially mapping addresses of the buffered data packets in the busy queue into the idle queue; acquiring latest addresses of the buffered data packets in the busy queue; and the upper-layer application successively acquiring and processing the buffered data packets, and successively releasing the addresses of the processed buffered data packets in the busy queue.
US11777865B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for discovering dynamic path maximum transmission unit (PMTU) between a sending computing device and a receiving computing device (e.g., a client device and a host device) are described herein. A sending computing device may iteratively transmit bursts of probe packets, each burst being defined by a search range between a maximum packet size and a minimum packet size. The sending computing device may iteratively update the search range based on the previous iteration until the search converges on the PMTU. When the PMTU is discovered, each of the computing devices may update their transport and presentation layer buffers based on the discovered PMTU without any other protocol level disruption. In a multi-path scenario, the computing device may discover PMTU for each of the paths and select a performance optimal path based on the individual PMTUs and other network characteristics such as loss, latency, and throughput.
US11777864B2
A transmitting device generates multiple small packets for a large packet and transmits them to a receiving device. Routing devices forward the multiple small packets to the receiving device. Each of the smaller packets, except the last packet, has a sequence indicator set. As a result, the receiving device is able to determine that each of the smaller packets is part of a larger packet and buffer the smaller packets or their payloads. When the last packet is received, the larger packet is complete and may be processed by the receiving device. The routing devices delay requests from other transmitting devices to transmit data to the receiving device until the last packet is sent to the receiving device. The routing devices may continue to route traffic to the receiving device on all virtual channels other than a virtual channel being used for the large packet.
US11777858B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for data transmission. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a plurality of types of data at a first device from a plurality of data sources, each type of data having a corresponding data transmission configuration; determining a first predicted network bandwidth for transmitting data from the first device to a second device in a first time window period in the future; determining a first piece of configuration information for transmitting the plurality of types of data in the first time window period based on the first predicted network bandwidth and a plurality of data transmission configurations corresponding to the plurality of types of data; and transmitting the received plurality of types of data to the second device in the first time window period based on the first piece of configuration information.
US11777855B2
Policy based dual connectivity traffic steering is described herein. A master Long-Term Evolution (LTE) base station may operate in conjunction with a secondary New Radio (NR) base station to provide dual connectivity to user equipment (UE) operating in an environment. The LTE base station can steer traffic between the LTE base station and the NR base station based at least in part on policy information received at the LTE base station. The policy information can indicate, for a particular UE and for a particular Quality of Service (QoS) Class Identifier (QCI), whether the LTE base station can transfer a communication to the NR base station. Thus, traffic steering determinations can be based on the policy information, quality identifiers, device capability, signal strength(s), load level(s), and the like, thereby providing a flexible framework for steering wireless traffic in a dual connectivity environment.
US11777840B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for re-establishing a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) session. A method, according to one implementation, include a step of receiving, at a local end device, a first BFD control packet from a remote end device when a BFD session between the local end device and remote end device is down. For example, the first BFD control packet may include a remote discriminator number associated with the remote end device and a local discriminator number presumed to be associated with the local end device. The method further includes a step of replying to the remote end device with a second BFD control packet including an actual discriminator number of the local end device in response to determining that the local discriminator number included in the first BFD control packet is non-zero and differs from the actual discriminator number of the local end device.
US11777836B2
A system includes a memory and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory. The processing device determines a network communication protocol associated with a dynamic routing network comprising one or more nodes, and analyzes one or more log data files in view of the network communication protocol. Each of the one or more log data files is associated with a corresponding node of the dynamic routing network. The processing device further generates a combined output file for the dynamic routing network in view of the analyzing.
US11777827B1
A method is provided. A baseline data count is retrieved from the qualified communication device. Data is then sent destined to a host of the communication device using an address of a host connected to the communication device. An updated data count is retrieved from the communication device. A measured speed of the qualified communication device is then determined using the baseline data count, the updated data count, and a period of time for which the data was sent.
US11777822B2
A computing device is provided, including a processor configured to receive a selection of a performance profile of a plurality of performance profiles. The performance profile may indicate a performance variable goal state for a first network stack component included in a network stack of a plurality of network stack components. In response to receiving the selection of the performance profile, the processor may be further configured to control a network performance parameter of the first network stack component such that a performance variable of the first network stack component approaches the performance variable goal state. The processor may be further configured to transmit, to an additional network stack component of the plurality of network stack components, instructions to control an additional network performance parameter of the additional network stack component such that the performance variable of the first network stack component approaches the performance variable goal state.
US11777818B1
A framework for performing drift analysis with respect to database and enterprise applications. For a product for which drift analysis is to be performed, a set of one or more parts of the product are determined. Current state information for the set of one or more parts is obtained by crawling an environment in which the product is deployed. Current state information obtained for the set of one or more parts is compared with a baseline for the product. The comparison aids to identify one or more differences between the current state information and information in the baseline for the set of one or more parts. The information in the baseline for the set of one or more parts is indicative of a state of the set of one or more parts when the baseline was generated. A report indicative of the one or more differences is generated and output.
US11777813B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that may advantageously apply machine learning to detect and ascribe network interruptions to specific components or nodes within the network. In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method comprising: mapping a network comprising a plurality of islands that are capable of dynamically changing by splitting and/or merging of one or more islands, wherein the plurality of islands comprises a plurality of individual components; and detecting and localizing one or more local events at an individual component level as well as at an island level using a disaggregation model.
US11777812B2
A method for managing model updates by a first network device includes receiving, at the first network device associated with a first zone model of multiple zone models, a global model from a second network device associated with the global model. The method also includes transmitting, from the first network device, the global model to user equipment (UEs) in a first group of UEs associated with the first zone model, a different group of UEs associated with each of the plurality of zone models. The method further includes receiving, at the first network device, weights associated with the global model from each UE in the first group. The method still further includes updating, at the first network device, the first zone model based on the received weights. The method also includes transmitting, from the first network device, the updated first zone model to each UE in the first group.
US11777809B2
Signals may be forwarded to a variety of ports for transmission. The signals may be modulated for transmission. The forwarding of signals to ports may be accomplished by forwarding the signals to one or more signal modulators using a processing unit. The mapping of signals to ports may change responsive to a triggering event.
US11777807B2
A set of identifying elements of a first network is determined from a set of data. For each identifying element of the set of identifying elements, a first frequency at which the identifying element is associated with a first set of systems connected to the first network is determined, and a second frequency at which the identifying element is associated with a second set of systems of other networks accessible via the Internet is determined. It is determined if each identifying element is associated with the first set of systems at a greater frequency than with the second set of systems based, at least in part, on the first frequency and the second frequency. If an identifying element is associated with the first set of systems at a greater frequency than with the second set of systems, the identifying element is indicated as a fingerprint of the first network.
US11777806B2
Methods, a system for managing traffic transmitted by a User Equipment (UE), a UE for enabling differentiation of the traffic, a Packet Gate-Way User plane (PGW-U) for managing the traffic as well as a Mobility Management Entity (MME) for enabling differentiation of the traffic are disclosed. The PGW-U (120) receives (9) a marking type and a marking value, which originate from the SCS/AS (170) and which are associated with an application identifier for identifying application traffic to be handled according to the marking type and the marking value. The UE (110) receives (14), from the MME (130), the marking type and the marking value. The UE (110) transmits (17), towards the PGW-U (120), application traffic marked according to the marking type and marking value. The PGW-U (120) inspects (18) the traffic according to the marking type to obtain the marking value. The PGW-U (120) handles (18) the traffic based on the marking value. Corresponding computer programs and computer program carriers are also disclosed.
US11777802B2
The disclosed embodiments provide for rules-based deployment of software installations. In some aspects, operational parameters for a computer system are monitored over time to generate a historical database of values for the operational parameters. The computer system may include multiple instances of a software installation. A portion of the multiple instances is updated with a new version of software. The operational parameters are then monitored to quantify whether the new version results in an improvement or degradation of performance of the computer system. The improvement or degradation is based on comparing values of the operational parameters after deployment to their historical values. Depending on the evaluation of the operational parameters after the installation, the installation may be rolled back if a degradation is indicated. Otherwise, the new software version may be propagated to additional installation instances.
US11777796B2
Techniques discussed herein relate to implementing a distributed computing cluster (the “cluster”) including a plurality of edge devices (e.g., devices individually configured to selectively execute within an isolated computing environment). One edge device may be configured to operate as a head node of the cluster at a given time. A request for virtual resources of the cluster may be received from a user device and directed to the first edge device of the cluster. The first edge device may determine it is not operating as a head node of the cluster. The first edge device may determine that a second edge device of the cluster is operating as the head node. In response, the first edge device may forward the request to the second edge device, wherein forwarding the request to the second edge device causes the second request to be processed by the cluster.
US11777795B2
The disclosure provides a method for providing an enterprise gNB for connection to a 5G packet core network. The method includes provisioning the enterprise gNB. The enterprise gNB hosts a local user plane function (L-UPF). The method also includes configuring the 5G packet core network comprising a session management function (SMF) to select the local user plane function to service user equipment (UE) connected to the enterprise gNB.
US11777790B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for migrating and/or changing the allocation of network interface(s) or Internet Protocol address(es) of network interface(s) from one Pod, e.g., a failed Pod, to another Pod, e.g., a live Pod, in a Kubernetes system. An exemplary method of operating a Kubernetes system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: establishing, by the Kubernetes system, a first service including a first Pod located on a first node and a second Pod located on a second node, allocating by the Kubernetes system an external network interface including an Internet Protocol address for use by the first Pod, the allocation of said external network interface for use by the first Pod being unknown to a first Kubelet managing the first node; and upon failure of the first Pod, changing allocation of the external network interface from the first Pod to the second Pod.
US11777789B1
A system and method for managing node status in a MANET includes each node identifying node status data and clusterhead priority value data in data packets. Clusterhead priority values define which node dominates in the event of a clusterhead collision. Clusterhead priority values prevent clusterhead switching based solely on first to declare. Each node may define a specific set of redundancy factors when determining if the node should be characterized as a gateway node. The specific set of redundancy factors is based on node capabilities to promote stability in gateway selection.
US11777788B2
In one embodiment, an issue analysis service obtains telemetry data from a plurality of devices in a network across a plurality of time intervals. The service detects a failure event in which a device in the network is in a failure state. The service clusters the telemetry data obtained prior to the failure event into rounds according to time intervals in which the telemetry data was collected. Each round corresponds to a particular time interval. The service applies a machine learning-based classifier to each one of the rounds of clustered telemetry data to identify one or more common traits appearing in the telemetry data for each round. The service generates a trait change report indicating a change in the one or more common traits appearing in the telemetry data across the rounds leading up to the failure event.
US11777782B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for establishing a synchronized interactive multimedia communication among a plurality of users. The method includes generating, at a first device, first information associated with a multimedia content selected by a first user. The first information is generated based on parameters. The method includes transmitting the first information to a second user. The first and second user is associated with a social computer network. Further, the method includes, at second devices, receiving the first information from the social network. The method includes processing the first information to establish a synchronized multimedia interactive communication between the second and the first user. The presentation of the multimedia content in the synchronized interactive multimedia communication is synchronized among the first device and the second device(s). The synchronized interactive multimedia communication is performed along with the presentation of the multimedia content.
US11777776B2
A wireless communication device and a communication method for header repetition are described. The device and method receive and decode a wireless packet through a communication channel. Formats of the wireless packet includes a first packet format and a second packet format. In this regard, the first packet format comprises a first header field carried by a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol while the second packet format comprises both the first header field carried by the first OFDM symbol and a second header field carried by a second OFDM symbol which follows the first OFDM symbol. The second header field is a repetition of the first header field. According to an exemplary embodiment, the second packet format is distinguished from the first packet format by detecting, from the received wireless packet, the second header field which repeats the first header field.
US11777774B2
A method for transmitting a digital frame by an optical network unit in a digital communications network includes steps of arranging received data into a series of symbols, installing a primary cyclic prefix immediately preceding the series of symbols in time, and inserting individual ones of a plurality of secondary cyclic prefixes between each adjacent pair of symbols in the series of symbols. A length of each secondary cyclic prefix corresponds to a first duration shorter than an amount of time needed to turn on a laser of the optical network unit. The method further includes a step of providing to the optical network unit the digital frame. The digital frame includes the primary cyclic prefix, the plurality of secondary cyclic prefixes, and the series of symbols. The method further includes a step of modulating the provided digital frame by a laser of the optical network unit.
US11777772B2
The present invention is designed so that allocation of signals can be controlled appropriately even when multiple frame configurations are introduced. A control section that controls communication using a plurality of frame configurations that are applied to downlink data transmission, and a receiving section that receives a downlink reference signal are provided, and the receiving section performs reception, assuming that the downlink reference signal is allocated to a common time field and/or frequency field in the plurality of frame configurations. Furthermore, a control section that controls communication using a plurality of frame configurations that are applied to uplink data transmission, and a transmission section that transmits a measurement reference signal are provided, and the transmission section allocates the uplink reference signal to a common time field and/or frequency field in the plurality of frame configurations, and performs transmission.
US11777764B2
Techniques and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for staggering sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in frequency across multiple orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, which may allow multiple UEs to transmit SRS using a common listen-before-talk (LBT) gap for a LBT procedure. The techniques also provide for transmitting an SRS across multiple OFDM symbols using same frequency resources, and an orthogonal cover code (OCC) may be applied to the SRS transmission of each OFDM symbol, which may allow multiple UEs to transmit concurrent SRS using a common LBT gap.
US11777746B2
To provide a mutual authentication system which is not required to erase master key when a slave device is replaced. The storage part stores a temporary key which is key data used temporarily and a master key which is key data used for authentication. The storage part stores the temporary key. The key confirmation unit inquires whether the slave device stores the master key. The key confirmation response unit confirms whether the master key has already been stored in the storage part for an inquiry from the master device and responds. The key introduction unit encrypts the master key by using the temporary key and transmits to the slave device. The key storage unit decrypts the encrypted master key by using the temporary key and stores in the storage part. The main authentication unit and the sub-authentication unit authenticate with each other by using the master key.
US11777740B1
A method for securely sharing and authenticating a last secret can include splitting a secret into a first split and a second split, the secret comprising a cryptographic element and controlling access to a first key, the secret comprising at least one of a password, a second key, and a tokenized value, and the first key controlling access to a secure computing system, encrypting the first split by an encryption key established between the dealer computing system and the combining computing system, encrypting the second split by the encryption key established between the dealer computing system and the combining computing system, transmitting the encrypted first split to a first share-holder, transmitting the encrypted second split to a second share-holder, designcrypting the encrypted first split, and designcrypting the encrypted second split.
US11777730B2
A method for providing interactive recording networks is disclosed. Multiple child networks can be established, each child network being coordinated by a respective coordinating entity. Each coordinating entity can also participate in a central parent network. A data package can be sent from one network to another. When a data package is sent to another network, additional data can be added to indicate that the data package is being escalated.
US11777727B1
The disclosed technique secures a seed phrase configured to access a digital wallet, which holds private keys to access digital assets on a blockchain. Copies of portions of the seed phrase are stored at multiple electronic devices. The seed phrase can be reconstructed at a particular device by retrieving a necessary and sufficient number of the portions from the other devices. In one example, the portions can be shared among devices when in physical proximity to each other and/or when the devices are authenticated as belonging to the same user, which owns the digital wallet. As such, the seed phrase can be stored securely across multiple devices and retrieved even when one of those devices is lost, damaged, or stolen.
US11777726B2
A method for recovering data. The method including collecting identity factors at a user device, wherein hashes of the identity factors are configured to be stored at a server. The method including generating at the user device a dynamic password based on the identity factors and a Salt configured to be generated by the server and configured to be delivered to the user device. The method including generating at the user device a data key and encrypting the data key using the dynamic password to generate an encrypted data key configured to be stored at the server. The method including encrypting at the user device data items using the data key to generate encrypted data items configured to be stored at the server. As such, the data items are recoverable by presenting the identity factors to the server.
US11777724B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for data fragmentation and reconstruction are provided. Random number generation information, indicating a number of fragments into which data stored by a client device is to be fragmented, is received. The data is fragmented according to the number of fragments as a set of fragments. Authentication data is incorporated with the set of fragments. A set of entities capable of storing the set of fragments with the authentication data is identified. The set of fragments with the authentication data are stored across the set of entities.
US11777722B2
There is herein provided a method of performing Quantum Key Distribution, the method including transmitting, in a first basis state, a first photon from a quantum transmitter to a quantum receiver; transmitting, in a second basis state, a second photon from the quantum transmitter to the quantum receiver, the second basis state being non-orthogonal to the first basis state and the transmitter and receiver being optically connected by both a first optical channel and a second optical channel, wherein transmitting the first photon from the quantum transmitter to the quantum receiver in the first basis state comprises: transmitting the first photon from the quantum transmitter to the quantum receiver along either the first optical channel or the second optical channel, wherein transmitting the second photon from the quantum transmitter to the quantum receiver in the second basis state comprises: transmitting a first portion of the probability distribution of the second photon from the transmitter to the receiver along the first optical channel; and transmitting a second portion of the probability distribution of the second photon from the transmitter to the receiver along the second optical channel.
US11777714B2
The foundation of Matrix Encryption is a discrete function called the Modified Combinatorial Batch Decimation Function (CBDF-Mod) and its asymmetric inverse (CBDI-Mod). Herein we disclose the nature of Matrix Encryption, an encryption technology built upon these two discrete functions, together with their shared, Secondary Variable Functions. Matrix Encryption implements a block encryption with arbitrary block size dependent upon the length of text to be encrypted, thereby allowing for keys of user desired length and for the surpassing of industry standards of security. A Master Key may be used to generate a Key Set containing keys of appropriate length for any data presented above a minimum length, up to a length corresponding to the length of a message for which the Master Key is appropriate. Matrix Encryption reads and writes numerically encrypted text to text files as designated by the user.
US11777713B2
Blockchain management platform for performing asset adjustment, cross sectional editing, and bonding
Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing systems for performing cross-sectional asset editing. A computing platform may receive permission to perform a first subset of event processing steps. The computing platform may delegate permission to an external event processor to perform a second subset of event processing steps and to an external resource management platform to perform a third subset of event processing steps. The computing platform may generate an element chain corresponding to the account. In response to receiving a request to process an event, the computing platform may add a sub-element to the element chain containing a fixed parameter corresponding to an expected value associated with the event and a variable parameter corresponding to an actual value associated with the event. In response to receiving a request to write the actual value to the element chain, the computing platform may modify the variable parameter of the sub-element accordingly.
US11777710B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for cryptography using different sized symbol sets. To protect against a brute force or other similar type of attack, multiple symbol sets having different sizes can be used for encrypting/decrypting data. For example, different portions of the data (e.g., data blocks representing multiple symbols, set of bits representing a single symbol) may be encrypted/decrypted using different symbol sets that include different numbers of unique symbols. Using different sized symbol sets adds additional complexity to the encryption process, thereby greatly increasing the difficulty in decrypting the encrypted data with a brute force attack.
US11777709B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes a user device storing a message data template comprising a plurality of data fields. A multi-record message may be generated using the message data template in response to an interaction between the user device and an access device. To generate the multi-record message, the user device may increment a counter stored on the user device to produce a counter value, and generate a dynamic cryptogram. The user device may additionally retrieve a credential. The counter value, the dynamic cryptogram, and the credential may then be incorporated into the plurality of data fields of the message data template to form the multi-record message. The multi-record message may be transmitted to the access device, where the access device forwards the multi-record message to an authorization computer to authorize or deny the interaction.
US11777708B2
Encrypting data blocks by receiving blocks of compressed data, determining a size, in bytes, of the compressed data, appending a trailer to the compressed data, the trailer associated with the size in bytes of the compressed data, encrypting the compressed data and trailer, yielding encrypted data, where a header of the encrypted data comprises a number of complete encrypted data blocks, and providing the encrypted data to a user.
US11777703B2
A line card in a network box receives a SyncE clock signal and an input synchronization (SYNC) signal. A phase-lock loop (PLL) in the line card receives the SyncE clock signal as a reference clock signal and generates an output SyncE clock signal. The line card regenerates a SYSCLK signal using a digitally controlled oscillator that receives a timing signal from the SyncE PLL and receives a control signal from control logic on the line card. The frequency and phase information contained in the SYNC signal is utilized to control the DCO. The SYSCLK signal is divided to generate an output SYNC signal. The control logic uses the time difference between the input SYNC signal and a SYNC feedback signal to control the DCO to provide a zero delay SYNC output signal. The output SYNC signal and the SYSCLK signal control a time of day counter in the line card.
US11777700B2
A ground station communicates with a satellite having a field of view (FOV), the satellite directly communicating with user equipment (UE) over uplink signals and downlink signals. The ground station has a Dynamic Time Division Duplex (DTDD) controller configured to establish UE uplink time slots during which the UE sends UE uplink signals, the UE uplink time slots based on a unique delay for the UE, whereby UE uplink signals are received at the satellite during a same satellite uplink time slot. The controller avoids overlapping uplink and downlink signals being received at the satellite, as well as at the UE.
US11777694B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a related device and a system for searching for a Synchronization Signal Block (SS block). The method includes: receiving detection configuration information of the SS block transmitted by a network device; and searching for the SS block according to the detection configuration information.
US11777693B2
The present invention relates to a signaling method of a wireless LAN frame for multi-user transmission, and to a wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication method using the same. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: generate a frame including a first signal field and a second signal field, wherein the first signal field includes a bandwidth field indicating total bandwidth information in which the frame is transmitted, and the second signal field includes a resource allocation field indicating arrangement information of resource unit(s) in a frequency band through which the frame is transmitted, and transmit, by the transceiver, the generated frame and a wireless communication method using the same.
US11777691B2
A wireless user equipment (UE) may employ any of various mechanisms for reporting signal quality measurements to a wireless network. The UE may impose a time delay between measurement and reporting, based on a delay parameter K. The UE may average measurements obtained at different measurement instances. The UE may employ any of various schemes for prioritizing transmission of one type of report over another, when temporal collisions occur between different types of report. The UE may employ a differential report that includes a state for indicating that a beam is not workable. The UE may employ a beam index that includes a state for indicating an invalid beam. A base station may receive a signal quality report and determine workability of a beam, e.g., by triggering a report of channel state information.
US11777688B2
An integrated circuit includes reception circuitry and demodulation circuitry. The reception circuitry, in operation, controls receiving one or more repetitions of control information in a search space region. The search space region includes a first plurality of sub-regions of different lengths for a largest repetition number of the control information. The search space region includes a second plurality of sub-regions of different lengths for a second-largest repetition number of the control information. An interval of subframes to which the first plurality of sub-regions are mapped is greater than an interval of subframes to which the second plurality of sub-regions are mapped. The demodulation circuitry, in operation, controls performing a demodulation process of the one or more repetitions of the control information.
US11777679B2
Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for synchronization channel design and signaling in wireless communications systems (e.g., a 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) system). In an aspect, a method includes identifying a frequency band supported by a user equipment (UE), identifying one or more frequency locations based on the identified frequency band, and the one or more frequency locations are a subset of synchronization raster points used for synchronization signal transmission. The method further includes searching for at least one synchronization signal based on the one or more identified frequency locations.
US11777671B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide improved repetition techniques for autonomous uplink transmissions. Configuration information may be provided from a base station to a user equipment (UE) for autonomous uplink transmissions, that may indicate initial resources for an initial uplink transmission slot and retransmission resources for a number of retransmissions. Time resources within the retransmission resources may be configured to provide enhanced reliability, such as by being configured in non-contiguous slots to avoid one or more other transmission channels. Time resources within slots may also be configured to prevent persistent collisions with autonomous uplink transmissions or retransmissions of two or more different UEs.
US11777668B2
The subject application is related to a method and apparatus for Device-to-Device communication. A method for Device-to-Device communication includes transmitting a signal toward a group of user equipments (UEs); detecting a HARQ feedback signal accumulated by signal (s) from one or more UEs within the group of UEs; and transmitting a signal toward the group of UEs, wherein the UE and the group of UEs are configured to perform groupcast transmission.
US11777665B2
Provided are an information processing method, a communication device and a storage medium. The information processing method which is applied to a first communication device includes: sending X sets of parameter values jointly encoding M types of transmission parameters, where the M types of transmission parameters include a beam indication and/or a quasi-co-location indication parameter, where the beam indication is used for indicating a beam, the quasi-co-location indication parameter is used for indicating a parameter of the beam, and M>1; selecting Y sets of parameter values from the X sets of parameter values, where X>=Y>=1; and sending a selection indication based on the Y sets of parameter values, where the selection indication is used for selecting the Y sets of parameter values from the X sets of parameter values for a data transmission.
US11777661B2
A base station transmits configuration parameters indicating: a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes of a cell; a subset of the plurality of HARQ processes; and a HARQ process identifier offset. The base station may further transmit a downlink control information (DCI) comprising a first HARQ process identifier and a resource assignment. The first HARQ process identifier indicates a HARQ process in the subset of the plurality of HARQ processes. A second HARQ process identifier is determined based on the first HARQ process identifier and the HARQ process identifier offset. The second HARQ process identifier indicates a second HARQ process of the plurality of HARQ processes. The base station may further receive a transport block of a HARQ buffer associated with the second HARQ process is transmitted, based on the resource assignment.
US11777657B2
A user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) are provided. The UE monitors a plurality of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) resources, and determines an SPS Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) bit order of a plurality of SPS HARQ-ACK bits, corresponding to the SPS PDSCH resources, in a codebook according to a time-domain position, a component carrier index and a configuration index of each SPS PDSCH resource. Afterwards, the UE generates an HARQ-ACK message including the codebook according to the SPS HARQ-ACK bit order, and transmits the HARQ-ACK message on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource to the BS.
US11777655B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique executed by a user equipment (UE) for obtaining a burst of transmission control protocol (TCP) packets conveying packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data units (PDUs) by an application protocol TCP layer of a communication protocol stack of the UE. The UE may then determine a first number of a first plurality of acknowledge (ACK) tokens to transmit in a first transmission time interval (TTI) based on an amount of data used to ACK the burst of TCP packets. The UE may then transmit the first plurality of ACK tokens in the first TTI and a single ACK token in a second TTI subsequent to the first TTI.
US11777654B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for improving utilization of a communications system (e.g., a satellite communications system) are provided, using delayed reliability techniques as part of a multicast transport protocol. Embodiments may operate in a client-server context, in which the server-side of the communication link multicasts data to requesting users and to users where the data is being speculatively prepositioned. Requesting users may implement reliability checks to verify receipt of complete data in response to the request while user systems where data is being speculatively prepositioned may receive multicast reliability information in response to reliability requests from other users, but may not request replacement of missing or corrupted data themselves until a request is made for the data by that system.
US11777651B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting a PPDU in a WLAN system are proposed. Specifically, a transmitter generates a PPDU and transmits the PPDU to a receiver. The PPDU includes a legacy field and an EHT field. The legacy field includes a VHT-STF and a HE-STF. The EHT field includes an EHT-STF and a data field. The EHT field is configured on the basis of a CSD value of each transport chain. The CSD value is determined as a candidate CSD value in which the sum of a first absolute value and a second absolute value is the minimum on the basis of a power ratio. The power ratio is a ratio of a received power of the VHT-STF, the HE-STF, or the EHT-STF to a received power of the data field. The first absolute value is an absolute value of a value related to 5 percent of a CDF relative to the power ratio. The second absolute value is an absolute value of a value related to 95 percent of the CDF relative to the power ratio.
US11777643B2
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US11777640B2
A method and apparatus for inserting dummy sequences during data modulation in a communication system, according to channel status, link status, and the like, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for data modulation by a wireless communication node of a wireless communication system, includes: inserting at least one first dummy sequence to a first data sequence in a first data block; and inserting at least one second dummy sequence to a second data sequence in a second data block; wherein a first length of a first dummy sequence is different from a second length of a second dummy sequence, and wherein the second dummy sequence includes the first dummy sequence or is included in the first dummy sequence.
US11777634B2
Systems and methods include, responsive to a request for capacity change of X channels, X is an integer >1, on an optical section (14) and at an Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM) node (12) in an optical network (10), dividing optical spectrum on the optical section into M slots, M is an integer >1, such that the capacity change of X channels takes a maximum of N steps, N is an integer >1; and performing the capacity change of X channels in up to the N steps in an interleaved manner that changes a subset of the X channels in each of the N steps. For each step, the performing can include a maximum of M/N slots of the M slots with spacing between each of the M/N slots not used for the capacity change in a corresponding step. The spacing can be f, (N+f), (2N+f), . . . , M over the optical spectrum, where f is each step, f=1, 2, . . . , N.
US11777627B2
A serial communication apparatus capable of efficiently eliminating a timing lag between serial data transferred via a plurality of routes in serial communication is provided. The serial communication apparatus transfers serial data transmitted from a transmitting side communication unit disposed on a transmitting side to a receiving side communication unit disposed on a receiving side via a plurality of lanes. The transmitting side communication unit comprises a packet transmitting unit configured to divide transmission data into equal parts according to the number of the lanes, distribute the divided transmission data to each lane as a data main body, and add header information indicating the type of the transmission data to the divided transmission data distributed to each lane. The receiving side communication unit comprises a received packet skew adjusting unit configured to adjust skew of data received in each lane.
US11777626B2
A method and an apparatus related to multiple modes are provided. In the method, the first mode is operated. The first mode is a host mode or a client mode, and the host mode is configured for broadcasting information related to a global coordinate system to a device operated with the client mode. A switching condition is detected, and the first mode is switched to the second mode. The second mode is another one of the host mode and the client mode. The second mode is operated. Therefore, the positioning information of a global coordinate system can be provided for motion sensing apparatuses.
US11777621B2
User equipment (UE) can include a spectrum analyzer to monitor characteristics of transmission channels. The user equipment can monitor a 600 MHz spectrum and associated channels, for example, to determine if the spectrum is free of interference or is currently occupied. The UE can analyze a received signal strength indication (RSSI), a reference signal received power (RSRP), a reference signal received quality (RSRQ), and signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), for example, to distinguish between types of interference if a channel is occupied. User equipment (UE) can aggregate data and report such data to a network device further aggregate the data and to generate reports. Network components can be deployed or optimized based at least in part on network metrics provided by individual UEs or aggregated data provided by a plurality of UEs. In some instances, the UE can be a mobile phone of a customer to gather metrics in a distributed manner.
US11777618B2
Techniques described herein provide phase and amplitude calibration of phased array antennas. In an N-by-M phased array having N*M channels, embodiments use aggregated measurements over multiple concurrently active channels to improve signal-to-leakage performance, while also using sequences of exclusion groups to yield an individualized calibration value for each channel (i.e., N*M individualized calibration values). For example, a J×K channel group of the array is selected in each of a sequence of measurement frames based on a calibration schema. Over J*K measurement sub-frames, a set of J*K aggregate measurements is obtained, each with different subsets of the channel group activated and excluded from the measurement. The aggregate calibration measurements can be used to compute J*K individualized calibration values, each for a channel of the channel group. In some implementations, each calibration value is computed as a complex value including both amplitude and phase calibrations information.
US11777616B2
A method and arrangement for testing wireless connections is provided. The method comprises obtaining (500) a three-dimensional model of a given environment; obtaining (502) ray tracing calculations describing propagation of radio frequency signals in the given environment; locating (504) one or more devices in the given environment; determining (506) utilising ray tracing calculations the radio frequency signal properties of one or more devices communicating with the device under test; transmitting (508) control information to the radio frequency controller unit for updating the connections between one or more devices and a set of antenna elements to match with the determined properties; obtaining (510) information on the location and propagation environment of the one or more devices and updating (512) the radio frequency signal properties of the one or more devices if the location or propagation environment changes.
US11777613B2
Polarization change tracking apparatus, processing apparatus for received signal and methods thereof
A polarization change tracking apparatus, a processing apparatus for a received signal and methods thereof. The polarization change tracking method includes: estimating a polarization change speed in a link according to a received signal; setting a response coefficient of polarization tracking according to a relationship between an estimated polarization change speed and a predetermined value, to make a response of polarization tracking and a response of adaptive equalization be consecutive; and performing compensation for polarization change on the received signal according to a set response coefficient of polarization tracking.
US11777611B2
A coherent optical receiving apparatus including a polarization optical splitter, a polarization controller, an optical hybrid unit, and a combiner. The polarization optical splitter is connected to an input terminal of the optical hybrid unit, and an output terminal of the optical hybrid unit is connected to the combine. The polarization optical splitter receives signal light and local oscillator light in any polarization mode, decomposes the signal light into a plurality of beams of sub signal light, and decomposes the local oscillator light into a plurality of beams of sub local oscillator light. The optical hybrid unit obtains a plurality of beams of hybrid light by performing optical hybridization on the sub signal and sub local oscillator lights, the combiner performs conversion on the plurality of beams of hybrid light to obtain and output coherent electrical signals, and the polarization controller controls polarization of the local oscillator light.
US11777608B2
This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: processing, by a network device, a to-be-sent optical data unit ODU to obtain another ODU, where a bit rate of the another ODU is lower than a bit rate of the ODU; and sending, by the network device, the another ODU. In embodiments of this application, the ODU is processed to obtain the another ODU with a lower bit rate, and this helps reduce a rate increase when service data is transmitted in an OTN, so as to reduce an OTN interface rate and OTN costs.
US11777607B2
A transfer device installed between a host device and a plurality of OLTs in a communication system to which a network with a PON configuration including the plurality of OLTs between the host device and a subordinate device is applied, the transfer device including a frame information acquisition unit configured to monitor downstream frames input from the host device and calculate a statistical value of the downstream frames per a predetermined fixed cycle, a frame storage unit including a plurality of queues each configured to store downstream frames to be transferred to the plurality of OLTs, the frame storage unit configured to store the downstream frames input from the host device, a frame sorting unit configured to input the downstream frames to the plurality of queues in the frame storage unit, and a distribution control determination unit configured to determine the number of frames to be sequentially input by the frame sort unit to the plurality of queues based on the statistical value.
US11777592B2
The intelligent measurement and control communication network at least includes at least one management node and at least one common node. The whole intelligent measurement and control communication network is logically divided into a control plane and a service plane. The control plane selects a routing strategy with the shortest path to cause each management node on the control plane to communicate with all common nodes. The service plane is divided into multiple task subnets according to tasks performed by each node, and each task subnet may select different routing strategies according to task requirements of this task subnet. According to the application and scenario needs of the tasks, the control plane combines externally changed parameters and utilizes machine learning to generate a new mathematical model in real time and sends a new task instruction to the service plane.
US11777576B2
A wireless communication method is described for a user equipment to receive a reporting configuration, measure one or more resources, and generate a report transmitted to a base station. The report may include one or more CSI values that describe signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) or reference signal received quality (RSRQ), where the CSI values are determined based on measuring at least some of the one or more resources. The report may also include one or more identifiers associated with at least some of one or more channel measurement resource (CMR) or at least some of interference measurement resource (IMR), or at least some of one or more CMR groups or at least some of one or more IMR groups.
US11777569B2
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.
US11777556B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing dynamic block control of multi-bitrate video are described. In some embodiments, a computing device may determine transcoder conditions of a transcoder independent of a client device. The computing device may dynamically adjust a block size of one or more blocks of a stream based on the transcoder conditions. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive a stream. The client device may package the stream into a first packaged stream having a first block size and a second packaged stream having a second block size less than the first block size. In some embodiments, a client device may determine an actual minimum number of blocks to buffer prior to initiating content playback based on a received predicted network and/or transcoder quality of service forecast. The client device may adjust its preset minimum number of blocks to the actual minimum number of blocks.
US11777553B2
A high-frequency module includes a transmission signal amplifier that outputs a transmission signal to an antenna terminal side; a reception signal amplifier that amplifies a reception signal supplied from an antenna terminal; a switch that selectively connects the antenna terminal to either an output of the transmission signal amplifier or an input of the reception signal amplifier; and a directional coupler that is provided on a transmission signal path and detects a signal level of the transmission signal. The transmission signal amplifier is controlled by a first control signal supplied from a first control circuit. The reception signal amplifier is controlled by a second control signal supplied from a second control circuit. The switch is controlled by a switch control signal supplied from the first control circuit. The directional coupler is controlled by a coupler control signal supplied from the first control circuit.
US11777540B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for correcting distortion of radio signals A transmit radio signal corresponding to an output of a transmitting radio signal processing system is obtained. A pre-distorted radio signal is then generated by processing the transmit radio signal using a nonlinear pre-distortion machine learning model. The nonlinear pre-distortion machine learning model includes model parameters and at least one nonlinear function to correct radio signal distortion or interference. A transmit output radio signal is obtained by processing the pre-distorted radio signal through the transmitting radio signal processing system. The transmit output radio signal is then transmitted to one or more radio receivers.
US11777537B2
A tactical communications apparatus is used to establish secure, reliable communications between a forward-deployed communications station and any designated second communicator during a building siege or hostage situation. At least one communications device, at least one processing unit, a transceiver array, and a power supply are mounted to a casing. The casing allows the tactical communication apparatus to be tossed into an area. The transceiver array wirelessly connects to at least one remote terminal, enabling communication via the at least one communication device. The casing also contains a plurality of discrete surveillance devices mounted into the casing to enable an operator to remotely surveil the area around the casing. Further, the tactical communication apparatus also supports at least one offensive device operated via the at least one remote terminal. The at least one offensive device may be activated as cover for responders if communications fail to resolve a situation.
US11777532B2
An encoding method includes, when a first code rate K/Nmax is less than or equal to a code rate threshold Rt, reading a first matrix from a preset code table based on a second matrix. The second matrix includes a matrix that is read from the preset code table and that corresponds to a maximum supported code length Nmax and Rt, where K is an integer and N is an integer. The method also includes reading K rows and (N−K) columns starting from a preset first location in the first matrix to obtain a third matrix. The method further includes adding a unit matrix with K rows and K columns to a left side of the third matrix to obtain a generator matrix of an (N, K) linear block code. K rows and (Nmax−Nmax×Rt) columns of the second matrix in a first direction are consistent with K rows and (Nmax−Nmax×Rt) columns of the first matrix in a second direction.
US11777531B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for high-speed decoding of a linear code on the basis of a soft decision. The method for high-speed decoding of a linear code on the basis of a soft decision may comprise the steps of: obtaining an alignment signal by aligning received signals in order of magnitude; obtaining a hard decision signal by making a hard decision on the alignment signal; obtaining a higher-level signal corresponding to most reliable bases (MRB) from the hard decision signal; obtaining a permuted and corrected codeword candidate by using an error vector according to a current order and the higher signal; calculating a cost for the current order by using a cost function; determining the permuted and corrected codeword candidate as a permuted and corrected codeword according to a result of comparing the calculated cost and the minimum cost; and determining a predefined high-speed condition.
US11777530B2
Methods and apparatuses for generating optimized LDPC codes are proposed. One of the methods is a method for generating an optimized LDPC code for an asymmetric transmis¬ sion channel. The method includes receiving an initial LDPC code for the asymmetric transmission channel. Further, the method includes performing a density evolution threshold optimization for the initial LDPC code in order to obtain the optimized LDPC code for the asymmetric transmission channel. A uniformly mixed symmetric channel density for the asymmetric transmission channel is used in the density evolution threshold optimization.
US11777526B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication systems configured to provide techniques for multiplexing dedicated control information for a plurality of users in a single information block and polar coding the information block to produce a polar code block of dedicated control information for transmission over a wireless air interface. The information block may further include group cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information for the information block and individual CRC information for each dedicated control information.
US11777521B2
This application relates to communicating information between communication devices. A channel coding method is disclosed. A communication device obtains an input sequence of K bits. The communication device encodes the input sequence using a low density parity check (LDPC) matrix H, to obtain an encoded sequence. The LDPC matrix H is determined according to a base matrix and a lifting factor Z. The base matrix includes m rows and n columns, m is greater than or equal to 5, and n is greater than or equal to 27. The lifting factor Z satisfies a relationship of 22*Z≥K. According to the encoding method provided in the embodiments, information bit sequences of a plurality of lengths can be encoded for transmission between the communication devices.
US11777513B2
A spur correction system for a transmit chain having an interleaving multiplexer. In some embodiments, the spur correction system includes a spur sense chain, a correction controller, and a Q path corrector. The interleaving multiplexer combines signals from multiple bands in response to a clock signal. The spur sense chain estimates an error that is in phase with the clock signal (an I-phase error) and an error that is a derivative of the clock signal (a Q-phase error). The correction controller compensates for the estimated I-phase error by injecting an I-phase correction signal into the transmit chain. The Q path corrector compensates for the estimated Q-phase error by selectively connecting one or more capacitors within the interleaving multiplexer.
US11777511B2
Systems and methods for processing and storing digital information are described. One embodiment includes a method for linearizing digital-to-analog conversion including: receiving an input digital signal; segmenting the input digital signal into several segments, each segment being thermometer-coded; generating a redundant representation of each of the several segments, defining several redundant segments; performing a redundancy mapping for the several segments, defining redundantly mapped segments; assigning a probabilistic assignment for redundantly mapped segments; converting each redundantly mapped segment into an analog signal by a sub-digital-to-analog converter (DAC); and combining the analog signals to define an output analog signal.
US11777505B2
A controlled quantum logic gate implements a replacement for an n−1 qubit controlled X gate function to n qubits, wherein n is greater than 4. The quantum logic gate includes a controlled gate or controlled Z gate equivalent that selectively applies, under control of a first subset of the n qubits, a pi radian Z-axis Bloch sphere rotation or a phase flip to a target qubit of the n qubits. A pair of controlled Hadamard gates selectively conjugate the target qubit under control of a second subset of the n qubits.
US11777502B2
A semiconductor device is provided; the semiconductor device includes unipolar transistors. A steady-state current does not flow in the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device uses a high-level potential and a low-level potential to express a high level and a low level, respectively. The semiconductor device includes unipolar transistors, a capacitor, first and second input terminals, and an output terminal. To the second input terminal, a signal is input whose logic is inverted from the logic of a signal input to the first input terminal. The semiconductor device has a circuit structure called bootstrap in which two unipolar transistors are connected in series between the high-level potential and the low-level potential and a capacitor is provided between an output terminal and a gate of one of the two transistors. A delay is caused between the gate of the transistor and the signal output from the output terminal, whereby the bootstrap can be certainly performed.
US11777500B2
In examples, a system includes a differential input device having a first input and a second input. The system includes a window generator configured to output, at a first output, a first voltage above a reference voltage and a second voltage, at a second output, below the reference voltage. The system includes a multiplexer coupled to the first output and the second output, the multiplexer configured to receive the first voltage, the second voltage, and an input voltage. The system includes a selector coupled to the multiplexer and configured to select the first voltage, the second voltage, or the input voltage based on a value of the input voltage, where the selector is configured to cause the multiplexer to provide the selected voltage to the first input of the differential input device, where a voltage source provides the reference voltage to the second input of the differential input device.
US11777496B1
A device comprises a voltage-mode filter circuit, a current-mode output circuit, and a regulation circuit. The voltage-mode filter circuit is configured to generate a voltage signal on an output terminal thereof. The current-mode output circuit comprises an input transistor which comprises a gate terminal coupled to the output terminal of the voltage-mode filter circuit, and a source terminal coupled to a regulated node. The regulation circuit is configured to adjust a voltage level on the regulated node to maintain a constant gate-source bias voltage for the input transistor to generate a current for biasing the current-mode output circuit.
US11777492B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first end, a second end, and a first body. The second transistor includes a third end coupled to the second end, a fourth end, and a second body. The semiconductor device includes a first resistor coupled to the first end, a second resistor coupled between the first resistor and the second end, a third resistor coupled to the third end, a fourth resistor coupled between the third resistor and the fourth end, a first diode coupled between the first body and a node coupling the third resistor and the fourth resistor, and a second diode coupled between the second body and a node coupling the first resistor and the second resistor.
US11777489B1
A disclosed circuit arrangement detects the supply voltage level to the “device” (SoC, chip, SiP, etc.) and adjusts bias voltages to receiver and transmitter circuits of the device to levels suitable for the device in response to the supply voltage ramping-up during a power-on reset (“POR”) sequence. The circuitry holds the receiver output at a constant logic value while the supply voltage is ramping up and the POR signal is asserted. The disclosed circuitry also protects the transceiver as the voltage domain of the input signal is unknown and the voltage between any two terminals of a transistor of the transceiver cannot exceed a certain level.
US11777485B2
Methods and devices to improve the switching speed of radio frequency FET switch stacks are disclosed. The described methods and devices are based on bypassing drain-sources resistors when the FET switch stack is transitioning from an ON to an OFF state. Several implementations of the disclosed teachings are also presented.
US11777484B2
A comparator includes a first-stage circuit, a second-stage circuit, a first switching circuit and a second switching circuit. The first-stage circuit includes a first input circuit and a second input circuit. The first switching circuit is configured to control the conduction of the first input circuit, and the second switching circuit is configured to control the conduction of the second input circuit. The first input circuit is configured to generate a first differential signal in a sampling phase when being switched on. The second input circuit is configured to generate a second differential signal in a sampling phase when being switched on. The second-stage circuit is configured to amplify and latch the first differential signal or the second differential signal in a regeneration phase to output a comparison signal.
US11777478B2
A quantum circuit includes a first qubit and a second qubit. A bus resonator transmission line is coupled between the first qubit and the second qubit. A readout bus is coupled to the first qubit. A switch is coupled to the bus resonator transmission line between the first qubit and the second qubit.
US11777475B2
Methods and systems are described for generating multiple phases of a local clock at a controllable variable frequency, using loop-connected strings of active circuit elements. A specific embodiment incorporates a loop of four active circuit elements, each element providing true and complement outputs that are cross-coupled to maintain a fixed phase relationship, and feed-forward connections at each loop node to facilitate high frequency operation. A particular physical layout is described that maximizes operating frequency and minimizes clock pertubations caused by unbalanced or asymmetric signal paths and parasitic node capacitances.
US11777471B2
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and an IDT electrode provided on the piezoelectric substrate and includes a main electrode layer. In the IDT electrode, a central region, first and second low acoustic velocity regions and first and second high acoustic velocity regions are disposed in this order. A duty ratio in the first low acoustic velocity region of first electrode fingers and the second low acoustic velocity region of second electrode fingers is larger than a duty ratio in the central region. The main electrode layer includes any one of Au, Pt, Ta, Cu, Ni, and Mo as a main component.
US11777463B2
A system includes an instrumentation amplifier (INA) including a first transistor coupled to a first input node, and a second transistor coupled to a second input node. The INA also includes a resistor coupled between the first transistor and the second transistor. The INA includes a gain resistor network coupled to the resistor and to the first and second transistors, where the gain resistor network includes two or more gain resistors. The system also includes a voltage to current converter, where the voltage to current converter is coupled to the resistor and the gain resistor network.
US11777460B2
Disclosed is an operational amplifier, including a first-stage gain circuit, a second-stage gain circuit, and a tail current compensation circuit. The first-stage gain circuit is connected to the second-stage gain circuit, the first-stage gain circuit is provided with an input terminal, the second-stage gain circuit is provided with an output terminal. The first-stage gain circuit at least includes a tail current source, a first terminal of the tail current compensation circuit is connected to the tail current source, and a second terminal of the tail current compensation circuit is connected to the output terminal of the second-stage gain circuit. The tail current compensation circuit is configured to compensate the tail current source with an output signal of the output terminal of the second-stage gain circuit.
US11777455B2
Disclosed is an integrated circuit amplifier having a power transistor with a signal/bias input terminal, a first high current terminal, and a second high current terminal, and thermal protection circuitry with a sensor transistor having a sensor control terminal, a sensor output terminal, and a sensor current terminal coupled to a fixed voltage node. Sensor bias circuitry includes a sensor bias terminal coupled to the sensor control terminal, wherein the sensor bias circuitry is configured to generate a temperature set point at which a sensor output voltage at the sensor output terminal drops at least 50% when the temperature of the sensor transistor is above the temperature set point. Shutdown circuitry coupled between the sensor output terminal and the signal/bias input terminal is configured to reduce a bias signal at the signal/bias terminal in response to the at least 50% drop in sensor output voltage.
US11777449B1
An apparatus is disclosed for mixing signals. In example aspects, the apparatus includes a mixer circuit having multiple local oscillator nodes, a first node corresponding to a first frequency, and multiple second nodes corresponding to a second frequency. The mixer circuit includes multiple capacitors coupled between the multiple local oscillator nodes and the multiple second nodes. The mixer circuit has multiple switches including a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch. The multiple switches are coupled between the multiple capacitors and the multiple second nodes. The first switch and the second switch are coupled between the multiple capacitors and the first node. The first switch and the second switch are disposed between the fourth switch and the third switch.
US11777448B2
A high frequency electromagnetic radiation generation device is disclosed that includes a high voltage input, a nonlinear transmission line, an antenna, and a pulse recirculating circuit. In some embodiments, the high voltage input may be configured to receive electrical pulses having a first peak voltage that is greater than 5 kV, and/or may be electrically coupled with the nonlinear transmission line. The antenna may be electrically coupled with the nonlinear transmission line and/or may radiate electromagnetic radiation at a frequency greater than 100 MHz about a voltage greater than 5 kV. The pulse recirculating may be electrically coupled with the high voltage input and the antenna. The pulse recirculating circuit may include a diode; a low pass filter; and a delay line. In some embodiments, unradiated energy from the antenna is directed through the pulse recirculating circuit to the nonlinear transmission line with a delay of less than 100 ns.
US11777447B2
An oscillation circuit according to the present invention includes a first oscillation circuit including a first diode having a first negative differential resistance and first composite inductor having a first inductor and a second inductor connected in series to the first diode in series. The oscillation circuit also includes a second diode that has a second negative differential resistance that is connected to the first inductor in parallel, and a third diode having a third negative differential resistance is connected to the first diode in series and is also connected to the first composite inductor in parallel. A burst pulse is output from a common connection point of the first inductor, the second inductor, and the second diode.
US11777443B2
A system is provided. The system includes a tracker configured to collect solar irradiance and attached to a rotational mechanism for changing a plane of the tracker and a controller in communication with the rotational mechanism. The controller is programmed to store a plurality of positional information and a shadow model for determining placement of shadows based on positions of objects relative to the sun, determine a position of the sun at a first specific point in time, retrieve height information for the tracker and at least one adjacent tracker, execute the shadow model based on the retrieved height information and the position of the sun, determine a first angle for the tracker based on the executed shadow model, and transmit instructions to the rotational mechanism to change the plane of the tracker to the first angle.
US11777441B2
A thermoelectric power generation system includes a solar panel array on a first side of a tower to absorb solar radiation and generate electrical energy and waste heat and a panel on a second side, opposite the first side, of the tower. A plurality of thermoelectric elements of the tower are interposed between the solar panel array and the panel. The plurality of thermoelectric elements converts conductive heat flow of the waste heat from the solar panel directed toward the panel to electrical energy. A conductive base supports the tower and to conduct heat away from the panel.
US11777438B2
A motor drive device includes a first drive circuit to control an energization period of a first upper arm switch and a first lower arm switch connected to one end of a coil, a second drive circuit to control an energization period of a second upper arm switch and a second lower arm switch connected to another end of the coil, a current detection circuit to detect current flowing through the coil and output a current detection signal indicating a detection result of the current, a first protection circuit to determine whether overcurrent has occurred based on the current detection signal and output a first enable signal indicating a determination result to the first drive circuit, and a second protection circuit to determine whether overcurrent has occurred based on the current detection signal and output a second enable signal indicating a determination result to the second drive circuit.
US11777425B2
In accordance with at least one example of the description, a circuit is adapted to be coupled to a coil of a motor via an H-bridge circuit. The circuit includes a duty sensor, a subtractor, and a comparator. The duty sensor is coupled to the coil of the motor and is configured to provide raw run duty data responsive to a coil current through the coil. The subtractor is coupled to the duty sensor and is configured to provide a differential duty signal responsive to a stall duty signal and a run duty signal obtained using the raw run duty data. The comparator is coupled to the subtractor and is configured to provide a stall signal indicative of a stall condition for the motor responsive to the differential duty signal and a threshold value.
US11777420B2
A submodule for a modular multilevel converter has nine semiconductor switches that can be switched off, four capacitors, six network nodes, and two terminals. The components are mounted such that different voltages are generated between the terminals of the submodule by controlling the semiconductor switches. This arrangement of components substantially improves the behavior of the converter and of the submodule in the event of a fault.
US11777417B2
A power converter and a control method thereof are provided. The power converter includes a primary side switching circuit, a secondary side switching circuit, a transformer, and a control circuit. The primary side switching circuit includes a first set of switches. The secondary side switching circuit includes a second set of switches. The transformer is coupled between the primary side switching circuit and the secondary side switching circuit. The control circuit is configured to control power transfer between the primary side switching circuit and the secondary side switching circuit by controlling the first and second sets of switches. The control circuit is adapted to enable and disable the first and second sets of switches in an enabling duration and a disabling duration respectively and alternatively.
US11777415B2
An amplifier system may include at least one input source, a converter configured to provide voltage rails to an amplifier, the voltage rails including a first voltage rail and a second voltage rail, a MOSFET arranged at a secondary side of the system at the first voltage rail, a second MOSFET arranged at the first voltage rail, a third MOSFET arranged at the second voltage rail, a fourth MOSFET arranged at the second voltage rail; and, a first capacitor arranged at the first voltage rail and a second capacitor arranged at the second voltage rail, the first and forth MOSFETS are configured to operate simultaneously with one another and the second and third MOSFETs are configured to operate simultaneously with one another and opposite of the first and fourth MOSFETs so as to allow synchronous rectification so that the first and second capacitors reciprocally and mutually exclusively charge and discharge.
US11777411B2
A resonant converter device comprising a selectable primary winding comprising a plurality of circuit legs, the selectable primary winding comprising one or more of a tapped primary winding or a plurality of switchable primary windings. At least one secondary winding coupled to the selectable primary winding to form a resonant transformer. At least one resonant inductor coupled to at least one of the plurality of circuit legs. A plurality of resonant capacitors, each circuit leg comprising at least a respective one of the plurality of resonant capacitors, and at least a second resonant capacitor of the plurality of resonant capacitors coupled within the second circuit leg. And, one or more switching devices connected to the resonant transformer and configured to selectively vary a resonant impedance of the resonant converter device when a voltage inputted to the resonant converter device varies.
US11777409B2
An inductive current simulation circuit of a switching circuit, an inductive current simulation method of the switching circuit, and a switched-mode power supply are provided. The inductive current simulation method includes the following steps: based on an error amplification circuit, performing, by the error amplification circuit, an error amplification on a first sampling signal representing a current of a synchronous rectifier and a second sampling signal representing an inductive current simulation signal when the synchronous rectifier is turned on to obtain an error amplification signal; and reconstructing an inductive current according to the error amplification signal when the synchronous rectifier is turned on and a first current when a main power transistor is turned on to obtain the inductive current simulation signal.
US11777407B2
A method for converting voltage is disclosed, including implementing a first DC-DC converter in a power management unit; implementing a second DC-DC converter in the power management unit; implementing a controller communicatively coupled to a first output line of the first DC-DC converter and communicatively coupled to a second output line of the second DC-DC converter; coupling the power management unit to a supply voltage; and providing one or more output voltages on the first output line and the second output line.
US11777406B2
Multiphase switched mode power supply clock apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first clock recovery circuit to in response to obtaining a first clock pulse, transmit the first clock pulse to a power converter to cause the power converter to switch based on the first clock pulse, in response to obtaining a second clock pulse after the first clock pulse re-transmit the second clock pulse to a second clock recovery circuit, and increment a count value, and in response to the count value meeting a phase selection value, reset the count value.
US11777405B2
A power converter, a boost off time adaptive adjustment unit and a boost cycle short circuit protection module for controlling an off time of a boost cycle of the power converter. The boost off time adaptive adjustment unit is adapted to generate an off time control signal based at least on an input voltage and an output voltage of the power converter to regulate the off time of the boost cycle to change in an opposite direction to the output voltage when the power converter is operating normally during the boost cycle, and to regulate the off time of the boost cycle to change in a same direction as the output voltage when a short-circuit fault occurs during the power converter operating in the boost cycle.
US11777395B2
An isolated communications apparatus applied to a transformer. The transformer includes N first rectifier units and a second rectifier unit, and the isolated communications apparatus includes N first control units, a second control unit, and a signal convergence unit. The first control units are connected to the first rectifier units in a one-to-one correspondence. Each first control unit is connected to the signal convergence unit, and the signal convergence unit and the second control unit are connected through an optical fiber. The signal convergence unit is configured to: receive first data packets from the N first control units, send the first data packets to the second control unit, receive at least one second data packet from the second control unit, determine a first control unit corresponding to each second data packet, and send each second data packet to a corresponding first control unit.
US11777391B2
Described herein are braking mechanisms and related methods of using eddy current interactions to resist relative movement between members, the magnetic flux about an eddy current region being modified beyond an inherent drag effect resulting from a simple magnetic pole arrangement.
US11777386B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a new and improved electric motor/generator including a toroidal magnetic cylinder centered on the longitudinal axis, and a coil assembly including a first coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder, and a second coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder.
US11777375B2
A handpiece for a handheld surgical instrument having a motor and a heatsink is provided. The motor is within a motor housing and the heat sink is disposed around and thermally coupled with the motor housing. The handpiece is formed from a material having a first thermal conductivity and the heat sink has a second thermal conductivity that is greater in value than the first thermal conductivity of the material of the handpiece. The heat sink is configured to dissipate heat from the motor during operation of the motor to the handpiece.
US11777374B2
A motor drive architecture is provided. The motor drive architecture includes a three-dimensional (3D) stack of cold plates on which power electronic components for an electric machine are mountable and supporting structures. Each cold plate has an annular shape with internal fluid pathways. The supporting structures hold the cold plates in the 3D stack. At least one supporting structure defines an internal cavity bifurcated into an internal inlet fluid pathway configured to direct fluid into the internal fluid pathways of each cold plate and an internal outlet fluid pathway receptive of the fluid from the internal fluid pathways of each cold plate.
US11777369B2
A power tool with a combined printed circuit board (PCB) having a doughnut shape and located coaxially with a motor shaft. The combined PCB is secured to a heat sink on one end of the motor and a metal end piece is positioned on an opposite end of the motor. The metal end cap and heat sink are secured to one another via fasteners to provide a rigid coupling. A tabbed end piece is provided between the heat sink and the motor stator and is also secured into place via the fasteners. The tabbed end piece includes wire support tabs that provide strain relief to motor coil leads. The wire support tabs extend axially from circumferential locations of the tabbed end piece and include channels to guide the motor coil leads to solder contact points on the combined PCB.
US11777360B2
An electrically-assisted turbocharger includes a shaft extending along an axis, a compressor wheel, a turbine wheel, a housing, and an electric machine. The electric machine includes a rotor rotatably coupled to the shaft and a stator lamination stack radially spaced from the rotor. The stator lamination stack has circumferentially spaced teeth defining gaps therebetween. The electric machine also includes a coil winding disposed in the gaps between the circumferentially spaced teeth and a guard plate disposed at one of the first and second stator ends. The guard plate extends radially away from the axis and includes a plurality of teeth guards extending radially, with each of the teeth guards aligned with one of the teeth of the stator lamination stack to electrically insulate the coil winding from the teeth of the stator lamination stack.
US11777358B2
The disclosure relates to an electrical machine for a drive system of an electrically driven aircraft and its winding system. In particular, the disclosure relates to an interconnection unit for interconnecting the windings of the winding system. For electrically connecting winding arrangements of the winding system, the interconnection unit has a connection arrangement with large number of contact points which are configured and arranged on the interconnection unit such that these contact points of the interconnection unit may be connected to contact points of the winding arrangements to be contact-connected. The connection arrangement furthermore has a large number of electrical connection sections, wherein a respective connection section connects two of the contact points to one another. This interconnection unit may be contact-connected by way of its contact points to corresponding contact points of the winding arrangements, so that a desired winding system may be constructed in a simple manner.
US11777355B2
A stator to be provided in an electric rotating machine includes a stator core and a distributed winding coil. The stator core has a plurality of slots. The distributed winding coil includes a plurality of segment coils coupled to each other. Each of the segment coils is accommodated across a pair of slots out of the plurality of slots. The distributed winding coil has a coil structure including a plurality of parallel coils coupled to each other in series. Each of the parallel coils includes two or more of the segment coils. The two or more segment coils are coupled to each other in parallel and are accommodated across the same pair of slots out of the plurality of slots. The two or more segment coils included in each of the parallel coils are disposed adjacent to each other in a radial direction in the same pair of slots.
US11777350B2
A rotor for a motor includes a sensor ring, a rotor shaft and an over-molded body configured to couple the sensor ring to the rotor shaft. The rotor may further include at least one magnet and a magnet support where the magnet support is disposed between the at least one magnet and the rotor shaft. The over-molded body couples the sensor ring, the rotor shaft, the magnet support and the at least one magnet to each other.
US11777347B2
Motor having a first rotor core containing magnets and a second rotor core made of magnetic material
An electric motor and a compressor having an electric motor. The electric motor may include a stator, and a rotor provided with a rotational shaft, a rotor core coupled to the rotational shaft, and permanent magnets coupled to the rotor core. The rotor core may include a first core to which the permanent magnets may be coupled, and a second core made of a magnetic material and coupled to an end of the first core in an axial direction. The second core may have outer surfaces disposed inside of extension lines extending in the axial direction from inner surfaces of the permanent magnets.
US11777346B2
The present disclosure provides a rotor assembly and a motor. The rotor assembly includes a rotor body; the rotor body includes a plurality of magnetic poles centered on an axis of the rotor body and uniformly arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor body; each of the magnetic poles includes a filling slot provided therein with a conductive and magnetic isolation material, the filling slots of the plurality of magnetic poles are orderly arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor body; two ends of each of the filling slots along the circumferential direction of the rotor body have a first sidewall and a second sidewall respectively; the first sidewall of each of the filling slots and the second sidewall of the adjacent filling slot are parallel to each other, and together form a magnetic flux channel parallel to the q-axis.
US11777344B2
A signal emitting apparatus provided in a vehicle to which power is transferred from a ground side power supplying apparatus by noncontact, includes: a signal emitting device for emitting a signal including information relating to the vehicle wirelessly toward the ground side power supplying apparatus; an outside environment acquiring part for acquiring information relating to an outside environment at surroundings of the ground side power supplying apparatus; and a control part for controlling the signal emitting device. The control part changes a mode of wireless signal emission of the signal emitting device in accordance with the outside environment.
US11777342B2
Embodiments disclosed herein describe a wireless power receiver including a synchronous transistor rectifier using a Class-E or a Class-F amplifier. The wireless power receiver includes at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna configured to generate an alternating current (AC) waveform from received RF waves. The wireless power receiver further includes a power line configured to carry a first signal based on the AC current generated by the least one RF antenna, and a tap-line coupled to the power line, the tap-line being configured to carry a second signal. The second signal is based on the AC current generated by the least one RF antenna and distinct from the first signal. The wireless power receiver also includes a transistor coupled to at least the power line and the tap-line. The transistor is configured to provide a direct current (DC) waveform to a load based on the first and second signals.
US11777341B2
A wireless power receiver for wirelessly receiving power from a wireless power transmitter comprises: a power reception circuit receiving electromagnetic waves emitted from the wireless power receiver so as to output power having an alternating current waveform; a rectifier for rectifying the power, having an AC waveform, outputted from the power reception circuit into power having a direct current waveform; a DC/DC converter for converting, into a voltage of a preset level, a voltage of the power having a direct current waveform, the power being rectified by the rectifier; a charger for charging a battery by using the power having a DC waveform, converted from the DC/DC converter; an alternating current ground connected to the power reception circuit and/or the rectifier so as to receive at least a portion of the power having an alternating current waveform; and a direct current ground connected to the DC/DC converter and/or the charger so as to receive at least a portion of the power having a direct current waveform, wherein the alternating current ground and the direct current ground can be disposed on different PCB layers, respectively.
US11777339B2
In an embodiment, a wireless power transmitter is disclosed that includes a first field-effect transistor, a second field-effect transistor a coil and an analog front end. The wireless power transmitter is configured to drive the coil based at least in part on activations of the first and second field-effect transistors. The analog front end includes a first driver corresponding to the first field-effect transistor and being configured to control activation of the first field-effect transistor based at least in part on a pulse-width modulation signal and a second driver corresponding to the second field-effect transistor and being configured to control activation of the second field-effect transistor based at least in part on the pulse-width modulation signal.
US11777338B2
An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) including an input configured to receive input AC power having an input AC voltage, a backup power input configured to be coupled to a backup power source and to provide DC power to the backup power source for charging, a positive DC bus and a negative DC bus, the positive and negative DC busses being galvanically coupled to the backup power input, and a converter coupled to the input, the backup power input, and the positive and negative DC busses, the converter including a first inductor, a second inductor, a first converter switch configured to couple the first inductor to a neutral connection, a second converter switch configured to couple the second inductor to the positive DC bus, and a third converter switch configured to couple the second inductor to the negative DC bus, wherein the UPS is voltage-frequency independent.
US11777334B2
A system for charging multiple power sources including a plurality of batteries. The system also including a plurality of diodes, each diode of the plurality of diodes electrically connected in series with at least a battery of the plurality of batteries, wherein each diode of the plurality of diodes restricts current flow into the plurality of batteries and the plurality of diodes permits current flow from the plurality of batteries. The system includes a bus element connecting the batteries in parallel, having a cross tie element having an engaged state and disengaged state. The bus element disconnects a first battery from a second battery of the plurality of when the cross-tie element is in the disengaged state, and connects the first battery to the second battery when the cross tie element is in the engaged state. The system includes a load electrically connected to the plurality of diodes.
US11777328B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may generate and transmit power waves that, as result of their physical waveform characteristics (e.g., frequency, amplitude, phase, gain, direction), converge at a predetermined location in a transmission field to generate a pocket of energy. Receivers associated with an electronic device being powered by the wireless charging system, may extract energy from these pockets of energy and then convert that energy into usable electric power for the electronic device associated with a receiver. The pockets of energy may manifest as a three-dimensional field (e.g., transmission field) where energy may be harvested by a receiver positioned within or nearby the pocket of energy.
US11777321B1
An exemplary two-step method for power system inertia online estimation is described. The first step is to accurately estimate the POI-level aggregated inertia. The second step is to calculate the system-level inertia constant by weighting all the POI-level aggregated inertia and to monitor the inertia spatial distribution. In one example embodiment, the PMU is installed at POI, the frequency spatial difference is considered, and the mechanical power is carefully treated.
US11777316B2
A method of operating a windfarm connected to an electric grid via a point of injection for injecting power from the windfarm to the electric grid, the windfarm including at least two generating units and a windfarm controller, the method comprising: measuring 302 voltage and/or frequency characteristics of an electrical signal of the electric grid at the point of injection, communicating 304 to at least two generating units of the at least two generating units of the windfarm at least one control signal based at least in part on the measured voltage and/or frequency characteristics of the electrical signal of the electric grid at the point of injection, the at least one control signal being indicative of a grid situation at the point of injection; controlling 306 the at least two generating units of the at least two generating units of the windfarm at least in part based on the communicated at least one control signal.
US11777306B2
A load control device includes an energization circuit unit connected between a power source and a load and configured to switch ON and OFF of energization of the load, a failure detection unit connected to a downstream side of the energization circuit unit, a current interruption unit connected to an upstream side of the energization circuit unit and configured to interrupt supply of current of the power source to the energization circuit unit based on an input from the failure detection unit, and a control unit configured to supply an ON-OFF control signal to the energization circuit unit. The energization circuit unit includes a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch which are connected in parallel to each other. The control unit supplies a common ON-OFF control signal to the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch.
US11777300B2
A method for installing a section of heat shrink tubing on a wire. The method utilizes an infeed guide that receives the continuous length of tubing and initially opens the tubing from a compressed condition. The continuous length of tubing is received in a cutting guide and cut to a desired length. After cutting, a pair of spaced support jaws move together to open the cut section of tubing. A funnel having a first opening and a second opening is moved into engagement with the section of tubing such that the second opening is received within the section of tubing. A wire is inserted into the funnel which guides the wire into the cut section of tubing. Once the wire is received within the cut section of tubing, the funnel and support jaws are removed and the wire is removed with the section of support tubing installed thereon.
US11777299B2
A method for manufacturing a wiring system includes providing an electric cable having an electric conductor and a contact element with a termination portion, and removing a cable insulation in a first sub-portion of the electric cable. The cable insulation remains on the electric conductor in a second sub-portion of the electric cable offset from the first sub-portion. The electric conductor is welded at the first sub-portion to a termination surface of the termination portion. The first sub-portion is pressed against the termination portion and compressed during welding. A holding device encompasses the second sub-portion at least partially. The holding device supports the second sub-portion at least during the welding and compressing of the first sub-portion and maintains a position of the second sub-portion.
US11777282B2
An electrode material for a spark plug includes 22-46 wt % iron (Fe), inclusive, 20-40 wt % nickel (Ni), inclusive, 13-42 wt % cobalt (Co), inclusive, and one or more additional elements selected from aluminum (Al), titanium (Ti), chromium (Cr), boron (B), and niobium (Nb), wherein the electrode material has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) from room temperature to 200° C. that is less than or equal to 11.0×10−6/° C. In another example, the electrode material includes greater than or equal to 32 wt % iron (Fe), greater than or equal to 36 wt % nickel (Ni), and one or more additional elements selected from aluminum (Al), chromium (Cr), and cobalt (Co). In advantageous embodiments, the electrode material includes greater than or equal to 22 wt % cobalt (Co). Replacing nickel with a higher percentage of cobalt can help reduce the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the electrode material.
US11777280B2
An emitter array may comprise a plurality of emitters that includes two adjacent emitters. The emitter array may comprise a plurality of emitters that includes two adjacent emitters. The ohmic metal layer may include a portion that is shared by, and located between, the two adjacent emitters. The emitter array may comprise a protective layer over the ohmic metal layer. The emitter array may comprise a via through the protective layer to the portion. The via is shared by, and located between, the two adjacent emitters.
US11777274B2
A semiconductor optical device includes a substrate including a waveguide made of silicon and a semiconductor layer joined to the substrate so as to overlap the waveguide and including a diffraction grating formed of a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer having different refractive indices. The waveguide includes a bent portion and a plurality of straight portions that are connected to each other by the bent portion and that extend straight. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are each made of a compound semiconductor. The second semiconductor layer is embedded in the first semiconductor layer and includes a plurality of portions arranged in a direction in which the plurality of straight portions extend. The diffraction grating is positioned above the plurality of straight portions.
US11777268B2
A coaxial tap in a hybrid fiber coaxial cable distribution system serves subscribers with an RF signal and optionally an equipment supply voltage while passing the RF signal to devices downstream of the tap.
US11777257B2
A chip slot is disclosed, which includes a slot, where a plurality of terminal groups are disposed in the slot, terminals in each terminal group include metal sheets that are symmetrically disposed on two opposite inner side walls of the slot, and each metal sheet has a bending pin that extends outside the slot; bending directions of bending pins on the terminals in each terminal group are same; and for any row of metal sheets in any two adjacent terminal groups, along an arrangement direction of the row of metal sheets, bending pins of the metal sheets in the adjacent terminal groups are alternately arranged on both sides of the row of metal sheets. The bending pins of the row of metal sheets are bent toward two different directions.
US11777256B2
An electrical connector and a method for mating and unmating the same. The electrical connector comprises a housing, a locking arm, a biasing member, and a sliding member. The locking arm comprises a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion between the first end and the second end. The first end comprises a locking portion. The intermediate portion is pivotably mounted to the housing about a pivot. The biasing member is engaged with the locking arm to drive the first end in a first direction. The sliding member is slidably connected to the housing and configured to slide in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The electrical connector may be securely locked to a mating electrical connector and has a compact structure, allowing the mating electrical connector to be mounted on a circuit board that has a compact structure.
US11777252B2
A manufacturing method for assembling a high voltage vertical disk ferrule, the ferrule being stamped and having a vertical disk-like structure, which is not necessarily round or does not necessarily have any roundness. The high voltage disk ferrule has an opening residing and traveling over the wire core and/or a wire braided shield, to which an end portion of the wire braided shield is affixed thereto the ferrule, or between two ferrules, such that a portion of the wire braided shield is flared and substantially perpendicular to the direction along which the wire core extends. The high voltage vertical disk ferrule slides over the core insulation, towards the outer insulation when the wire is pushed. The end portion/flared portion of the braided shield and the high voltage vertical disk ferrule, or the end portion/flared portion of the braided shield between at least two high voltage vertical disk ferrules are soldered, welded, or brazed together. The wire braided shield develops a natural spring force against the ferrule, and causes it to be accordioned, pleated, or folded against itself, and therefore pushes the vertical disk ferrule forward.
US11777246B2
An electrical pop out device has an shroud and a pop out housing configured to be inside the shroud in a retracted position and to extend outside the shroud in an extended position. A guidance mechanism connects the pop out housing with the shroud and allows movement of the pop out housing with respect to the shroud between a retracted position and an extended position. The electrical pop out device includes an electrical connection for powering an electrical/electronic device in the pop out housing and/or charging a battery of the electrical/electronic device in the pop out housing. The electrical pop out device may also include audio, video and/or data connections for the electrical/electronic device in the pop out housing. In some embodiments, the electrical/electronic device is portable and the pop out housing is detachable from the shroud.
US11777243B2
A connector receptacle for connecting with a corresponding connector plug coupled with electrodes being used for performing EMG procedure on a patient is provided. The receptacle includes a first ball bearing pressing against a first end of a housing of the plug and, preferably, a second ball bearing pressing against a first end of the housing of the plug when the plug is connected to the receptacle for exerting a retention force against the plug. The first and the second ball bearings are pressed against the first and the second ends respectively by using a spring force generated, for example, by a retention band.
US11777236B2
A distribution block for attaching to a support rail extending in a support direction comprises an insulating housing, and a conductive member arranged in the insulating housing. A mounting assembly of the distribution block is connected to the insulating housing for attaching to the support rail. The distribution block is mountable on the support rail in a longitudinal configuration wherein the extension direction of the insulating housing is substantially parallel to the support direction, and in a transverse configuration wherein the extension direction of the insulating housing is transverse to the support direction.
US11777232B2
A mobile antenna array system has a first baseplate with a first groundplane. An elevated second baseplate defines an elevated second groundplane. A plurality of support antennas are positioned between the first baseplate and the elevated second baseplate. The plurality of support antennas comprise multiple antennas configured to work at different frequencies. The plurality of support antennas are coupled to the first and second baseplates in mechanical connections that provide enhanced stability, tight tolerances, repeatability and low cost through the use of printed circuit boards as substrates for one or more of the antennas and baseplates. An elevated GPS antenna is positioned above the elevated second baseplate in use. The elevated GPS antenna is configured to work within a GPS range of frequencies different from the support antenna ranges of frequencies. The elevated GPS antenna has improved GPS transmissions and the support antennas also have improved positioning and functionality.
US11777227B1
Enhanced components and assemblies for microwave radio frequency (RF) antenna feed systems are provided. One example includes radiating probes that propagate RF signals to intermediate waveguides that feed polarizers or filters associated with horn antenna elements. The radiating probes can couple to corresponding transmit/receive circuitry using coaxial link elements. The radiating probes comprise tunable components which can be shaped/sized to produce desired output characteristics (e.g., frequency ranges and gain properties). Many radiating probes can be integrated into a cover plate assembly that feeds an array of horn antennas. Interface elements with integrated waveguides can provide RF sealing between radiating probes and provide radiative coupling from radiating probes to corresponding waveguides that feed the array of horn antennas.
US11777214B2
An interleaved antenna array configuration in a radio node is disclosed. The antenna array includes a mixture of isolated and non-isolated antenna elements interleaved in each row and each column of the antenna array. Each isolated antenna element is only adjacent to one or two non-isolated antenna elements in each row and each column. Each non-isolated antenna element is only adjacent to one or two isolated antenna elements in each row and each column. By interleaving the isolated and non-isolated antenna elements in each row and column of the antenna array, it is possible to reduce a number of antenna isolators, thus helping to reduce cost and footprint of the radio node. Further, by using a combination of antenna isolators and simplified digital pre-distortion (DPD) actuators in association with the interleaved antenna array, the radio node is able to satisfy stringent radio frequency (RF) performance requirements.
US11777195B2
A mobile device for enhancing antenna stability includes a nonconductive frame, a back cover, a PIFA (Planar Inverted F Antenna), and a U-shaped ground element. The PIFA is disposed between the nonconductive frame and the back cover. The U-shaped ground element is coupled to the PIFA, and is at least partially attached to the nonconductive frame. The vertical projection of the PIFA at least partially overlaps the U-shaped ground element.
US11777192B2
An antenna package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna device including an antenna unit, and a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the antenna unit. The flexible circuit board has a bending area. The flexible circuit board includes a core layer having a first surface and a second surface facing each other, a signal wiring disposed on the first surface of the core layer and electrically connected to the antenna unit, a ground line disposed on the first surface of the core layer to be spaced apart from the signal wiring, a ground layer disposed on the second surface of the core layer, and a via structure penetrating a portion of the core layer in a region excluding the bending area and connecting the ground line and the ground layer with each other.
US11777189B2
A header, with improved cooling for electronic components for radio frequency signal transmission, for an electronic component for radio frequency data transfer, includes: a metallic base body including a plurality of electrical feedthroughs; a thermoelectric cooling element having one side bearing on the base body and an opposite side for mounting the electronic component; a radio frequency line to the electronic component being on the side for mounting the electronic component, with a ground conductor that is electrically connected to the metallic base body, the electrical connection to the metallic base body including a telluride element.
US11777171B2
A buckling structure for a battery of a handheld power tool includes a horizontal opening end formed at a handheld seat of the power tool, a buckling structure arranged on top of a battery base and configured to mutually guide, insert and buckle into the opening end to be integrally attached thereto, the buckling structure comprising: a guiding slot formed at a front side surface of the battery base, two receiving slots formed at two sides of the guiding slot respectively, a pressing member arranged inside the guiding slot and two buckling members arranged inside the receiving slot respectively, and an elastic element connected to the pressing member and each of the buckling members respectively, thereby achieving an assembly and buckling structure having single direction movement and stable, durable structure that is convenient to use and operation.
US11777170B2
A traction battery pack assembly includes, among other things, first and second pieces of an enclosure having an interior area. An attachment rim is disposed at a periphery of the first piece. The attachment rim has a stand-off that includes a platform portion and turned flange. The platform portion extends outward from the interior area in a first direction. The platform portion provides an aperture. The turned flange extends away from the platform portion in a second direction and terminates at an end face. The second direction is transverse to the first direction. The aperture is configured to receive a fastener that clamps the end face against the second piece.
US11777157B2
Disclosed is a battery module including a module housing capable of effectively increasing an energy density while improving the heat dissipation efficiency. The battery module includes a cell assembly having a plurality of secondary batteries; and a module housing having at least one sidewall to accommodate the cell assembly in an inner space defined by the sidewall and having a cooling channel embedded in the sidewall.
US11777156B2
A method for recovering a lithium electrolyte salt from spent batteries comprises first extracting electrolyte from shredded batteries (e.g., spent batteries at the end of their useful lifetime) with an organic carbonate solvent; concentrating the extracted electrolyte in vacuo to form a solid lithium electrolyte salt that is solvated with the organic carbonate; and then extracting solvent from the solvated, solid lithium electrolyte salt with supercritical CO2 to purify the lithium electrolyte salt sufficiently for reuse in lithium batteries. In the first extraction, the organic carbonate solvent is selected based on the solubility of the lithium electrolyte salt in the solvent, as well as the volatility of the solvent to facilitate the concentration process. The supercritical CO2 is preferably held at a pressure in the range of about 1,500 to about 30,000 psi and is passed through a bed or column of the solvated salt.
US11777142B2
A gelable system is formed by mixing lithium salts and small-molecule ether compounds such as cyclic ether compounds or straight-chain ether compounds, optionally added with inorganic nanoparticles, additives, other solvents and/or electrolytes; a gel system or solid system is formed by interaction between them (such as the formation of new complexes or self-assembly, etc.), and by ring-opening polymerization or polycondensation of the small-molecule cyclic ether compounds, or by addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization of the small-molecule straight-chain ether compounds, etc. The gel system or solid system not only has better safety in use than common gel systems or solid systems, but also better adjustability of strength. The strength of the formed gel can be improved from the source by changing composition and type of raw materials. The improvement in the strength enables the gel system to be expanded into the solid system, thereby further extending the application range of the gel system.
US11777137B2
Disclosed is a member for electrochemical devices comprising a current collector, an electrode mixture layer provided on the current collector, and an electrolyte layer provided on the electrode mixture layer in this order, wherein the electrode mixture layer comprises an electrode active material, a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1), at least one electrolyte salt selected from the group consisting of lithium salts, sodium salts, calcium salts, and magnesium salts, and a molten salt having a melting point of 250° C. or less, and the electrolyte layer comprises an inorganic solid electrolyte: wherein X− represents a counter anion.
US11777131B1
A battery module locating tool includes a support pillar and a plurality of fixtures supported on the support pillar. Each fixture is individually translatable along the support pillar and arranged to locate a battery cell according to a longitudinal datum and a lateral datum. The support pillar is movable toward and away from a battery frame onto which the battery cell is located.
US11777129B2
The present invention is concerned with an improved fuel cell stack assembly (10) comprising a metal base plate (20) on which is mounted at least one fuel cell stack (30) and a metal end plate (40), each stack comprising at least one fuel cell stack layer (50) that comprises at least one fuel cell (101, 102) and at least one electrically insulating compression gasket (110), wherein a skirt (130) is attached to the base and end plates enclosing the stack and is under tension therebetween so as to maintain a compressive force through the stack, thereby obviating the need for tie-bars.
US11777126B2
Herein discussed is a method of using an oxide ion conducting membrane comprising exposing the oxide ion conducting membrane to a reducing environment on both sides of the membrane. In an embodiment, the oxide ion conducting membrane also conducts electrons. In various embodiments, the membrane is impermeable to fluid flow (e.g., having a permeability of less than 1 micro darcy). In an embodiment, the oxide ion conducting membrane comprises lanthanum chromite and a material selected from the group consisting of doped ceria, yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), lanthanum strontium gallate magnesite (LSGM), scandia-stabilized zirconia (SSZ), Sc and Ce doped zirconia, and combinations thereof. In an embodiment, the lanthanum chromite comprises undoped lanthanum chromite, strontium doped lanthanum chromite, iron doped lanthanum chromite, strontium and iron doped lanthanum chromite, lanthanum calcium chromite, or combinations thereof. In an embodiment, the membrane is mixed conducting.
US11777123B2
A direct alcohol fuel cell having a proton exchange membrane (PEM) separating an anode section from a cathode section, which cathode section contains a cathode collection element electrically connected to a cathode catalyst, the cathode catalyst being in diffusive communication with a gaseous oxidant, and which anode section comprises an anode collection element electrically connected to an anode catalyst. The anode catalyst is in diffusive communication with a fuel supply. The PEM is structured to have a bottom and walls extending from the bottom to a containment distance into the cathode section, and the cathode catalyst is located within the containment distance from the bottom. The fuel cell is suited for a microelectronic device.
US11777116B2
A fuel cell system (200), wherein the fuel cell system (200) has: a) a fuel cell stack (10), b) an anode gas path (20) which fluidically communicates with the fuel cell stack (10) and which serves for supplying anode gas from an anode gas store (22) to the fuel cell stack (10), c) a cathode gas path (30) which fluidically communicates with the fuel cell stack (10) and which serves for supplying cathode gas from a cathode gas store (32) to the fuel cell stack (10), d) a cooling fluid path (40) which fluidically communicates with the fuel cell stack (10) and which serves for supplying cooling fluid from a cooling fluid store (42) to the fuel cell stack (10), e) a vibration generator (60) which is in data-transmitting communication with a control unit (50) and which serves for setting the fuel cell stack (10) into a vibrating state, and f) the control unit (50) for actuating the vibration generator (60) in order to set the fuel cell stack (10) into the vibrating state by means of the vibration generator (60).
US11777111B2
Systems and methods relate to measuring ammonium bisulfide concentration in a fluid sample. The system includes an electrolytic conductivity cell, a temperature sensor and an analyzer. Logic of the analyzer determines the ammonium bisulfide concentration based on signals received from the conductivity cell and the temperature sensor that are coupled to monitor the fluid.
US11777106B2
In a case where an alkali aqueous solution is used as an electrolyte, provided are an oxygen catalyst excellent in catalytic activity and composition stability, an electrode having high activity and stability using this oxygen catalyst, and an electrochemical measurement method that can evaluate the catalytic activity of the oxygen catalyst alone. The oxygen catalyst is an oxide having peaks at positions of 2θ=30.07°±1.00°, 34.88°±1.00°, 50.20°±1.00°, and 59.65°±1.00° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuKα ray, and having constituent elements of bismuth, ruthenium, sodium, and oxygen. An atom ratio O/Bi of oxygen to bismuth and an atom ratio O/Ru of oxygen to ruthenium are both more than 3.5.
US11777102B2
A current collector for electrodes according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a polymer film, and a conductive material provided on at least one surface of upper and lower surfaces of the polymer film, wherein the conductive material may have a function of an electrochemical fuse or a function of blocking a short-circuit current.
US11777095B2
Provided is a secondary battery which includes an electrode assembly having an electrode tab extended from an electrode current collector, wherein the electrode tab is provided with an insulation coating layer containing an inorganic filler and a binder, the binder has an electrolyte uptake more than 0% and less than 50%, and the electrolyte uptake is determined by a predetermined method. In the secondary battery according to the present disclosure, the insulation coating layer provided in the electrode tab includes a binder having a low electrolyte uptake, and thus the insulation coating layer has improved adhesion and is prevented from detachment from the electrode tab. As a result, it is possible to maintain an excellent insulation state and to minimize an internal short-circuit in a secondary battery, thereby ensuring safety.
US11777094B2
A composite binder composition for an all-solid-state battery includes: a first polymer comprising a repeating structure represented by Chemical Formula 1a or Chemical Formula 1b below, and a second polymer comprising at least one selected from a group consisting of diene-based rubber, polysiloxane, and combinations thereof:
US11777093B2
A polymer binder with high peel strength is used in a secondary lithium battery. The polymer binder is obtained by a ring-opening reaction of polyvinylene carbonate by a nucleophile. The polyvinylene carbonate accounts for 10-90% of the total mass of the polymer binder while the nucleophile accounts for 10-90% of the total mass of the polymer binder. The polymer binder has high peel strength (0.02-0.6 N/mm) and high decomposition voltages (4.5-6.0 V), and can be used as an electrode material binder in a secondary lithium battery.
US11777090B2
Provided is a positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a LiNi composite oxide having low internal resistance and excellent thermal stability. The positive electrode active material is obtained by performing a water washing process using a water spray on a LiNi composite oxide powder obtained by a firing step until the filtrate has an electric conductivity of 30 to 60 mS/cm, and then dried, where the LiNi composite oxide is represented by the composition formula (1): LibNi1-aM1aO2, where M1 represents at least one kind of element selected from transition metal elements other than Ni, group 2 elements, and group 13 elements, and 0.01≤a≤0.5, and 0.85≤b≤1.05.
US11777086B2
A multilayer anode includes an anode collector, and a plurality of anode mixture layers sequentially stacked on at least one surface of the anode collector, and including natural graphite as an anode active material. A weight ratio of the natural graphite in innermost and outermost anode mixture layers is greater than a weight ratio of the natural graphite in an anode mixture layer located between the innermost and outermost anode mixture layers, in a stacking direction of the plurality of anode mixture layers. Performance of a cell may be improved and calendering-calender contamination occurring in a calendering process and an electrode stripping phenomenon may be prevented.
US11777085B2
The application relates to the field of lithium ion battery technology and, more particularly, relates to a lithium-supplement layer and its negative electrode sheet, a lithium ion battery and a device. The lithium-supplement layer is formed by connecting a transition layer, an oxide layer and a surface layer in sequence, the surface layer contains an appropriate amount of an organic material and a filling substance, which can reduce a winding temperature of the negative electrode sheet, the oxide layer substance in the lithium-supplement layer is used to provide an additional lithium source, after injection, the lithium source can be continuously supplemented during the cycle process to improve the activity of a lithium layer, at the same time, the filling substance contained in the surface layer can effectively play a role of restraining the expansion of an active substance, and improve the battery cycle performance.
US11777074B2
This positive electrode includes a current collector, an intermediate layer which is formed at least on one surface of the current collector, and a composite material layer which is formed on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes metal compound particles, a conductive material, and a binding material. The metal compound particles comprise at least one selected from a sulfated oxide, hydroxide, or oxide of alkali earth metal or alkali metal.
US11777066B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) package assembly includes a substrate. The substrate includes a top surface, a bottom surface and an opening formed through the substrate. The opening includes a first portion adjacent the top surface and a second portion adjacent the bottom surface that is wider than the first portion such that portions of the substrate overhang the second portion of the opening. Pads are provided on a bottom surface of the portions of the substrate that overhang the second portion of the opening. The assembly also includes a hybridized device in the opening. The hybridized device includes a silicon backplane that has a top surface, a bottom surface and interconnects on the top surface. The interconnects are electrically coupled to the pads. The hybridized device also includes an LED array on the top surface of the silicon backplane.
US11777064B2
A method of repairing a display device, in which the display device includes a defective pixel area including a defective wavelength conversion patter, the method including removing the defective wavelength conversion pattern of the defective pixel area, injecting ink including a wavelength conversion material into the defective pixel area, and curing the ink injected into the defective pixel area.
US11777060B2
A semiconductor light-emitting element includes: an n-type semiconductor layer made of an n-type AlGaN-based semiconductor material; an active layer made of an AlGaN-based semiconductor material provided on the n-type semiconductor layer; a p-type semiconductor layer provided on the active layer; a p-side contact electrode made of Rh and in contact with the p-type semiconductor layer; a p-side electrode covering layer made of TiN that covers the p-side contact electrode; a dielectric protective layer that covers the n-type semiconductor layer, the active layer, the p-type semiconductor layer, and the p-side electrode covering layer; and a p-side pad electrode in contact with the p-side electrode covering layer in a p-side opening that extends through the dielectric protective layer on the p-side contact electrode.
US11777059B2
A light source includes an array of light emitters, with at least some light emitters having a central patterned surface and an unpatterned border; a light blocking metal layer positioned between each of the array of light emitters; and down-converter material positioned on each of the array of light emitters.
US11777055B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a partitioning member, a light transmissive member, a plurality of reflecting portions. The light sources are arranged on the substrate. Each of the light sources has a light emitting diode. The partitioning member includes a plurality of wall portions defining a plurality of sections respectively surrounding at least one of the light sources, the wall portions including top portions. The light transmissive member is arranged above the light sources. The plurality of reflecting portions are arranged on a lower surface of the light transmissive member. Lower surfaces of the reflecting portions are positioned lower than apexes of the top portions of the wall portions of the partitioning member.
US11777050B2
An optical sensor includes: a photosensitive layer that absorbs incident light to generate a first carrier with a first polarity and a second carrier with a second polarity different from the first polarity; a channel layer that is electrically connected to the photosensitive layer and that conducts the first carrier that has moved from the photosensitive layer; a counter electrode facing the channel layer through the photosensitive layer; an insulating layer positioned between the photosensitive layer and the counter electrode; and a source electrode and a drain electrode each electrically connected to the channel layer.
US11777044B2
A solar module having at least two substring groups, each including an upper substring having solar cells connected in series and arranged in a matrix having two adjacent columns and a plurality of rows, and a lower substring having solar cells connected in series and arranged in a matrix having two adjacent columns and a plurality of rows. The lower and upper substrings include the same number of solar cells. A cross-connector interconnects the lower and upper substrings electrically in parallel forming the substring group. A bypass diode is arranged electrically in the cross-connector, and cross-connectors of each substring group are interconnected electrically in series. Two columns of the lower substring include a different number of solar cells and two columns of the upper substring include a different number of solar cells, such that the number of solar cells of the upper substring and of the lower substring is odd.
US11777039B2
A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an active layer formed of oxide semiconductor material on a substrate, and a gate insulation layer therebetween. The active layer includes a channel region corresponding to the gate electrode, a source region at one side of the channel region, and a drain region at the other side of the channel region. The source region includes a first upper portion and the drain region includes a second upper portion that includes the oxide semiconductor material and Si.
US11777035B2
A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for weaker and softer dielectric layer. The insert layer may be applied between two weaker dielectric layers or the insert layer may be used with a single layer of dielectric material. Once formed, trenches and vias are formed within the composite layers, and the insert layer will help to provide support that will limit or eliminate undesired bending or other structural motions that could hamper subsequent process steps, such as filling the trenches and vias with conductive material.
US11777034B2
A stacked transistor device is provided. The stacked transistor device includes a nanosheet transistor device on a substrate; and a fin field effect transistor device over the nanosheet transistor device to form the stacked transistor device, wherein the fin field effect transistor device is configured to have a current flow through the fin field effect transistor device perpendicular to a current flow through the nanosheet transistor device.
US11777031B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a metal gate layer over the substrate, a channel between a source region and a drain region in the substrate, and a ferroelectric layer, at least a portion of the ferroelectric layer is between the metal gate layer and the substrate, wherein the ferroelectric layer includes hafnium oxide-based material, the hafnium oxide-based material includes a first portion of hafnium oxide with orthorhombic phase, a second portion of hafnium oxide with monoclinic phase, and a third portion of the hafnium oxide with tetragonal phase, wherein a first volume of the first portion is greater than a second volume of the second portion, and the second volume of the second portion is greater than a third volume the third portion.
US11777029B2
A vertical transistor structure includes a material stack having a source material, a drain material, and a channel material therebetween. The vertical transistor structure further includes a gate electrode adjacent to a sidewall of the stack, where the sidewall includes the channel material, and at least a partial thickness of both the source material and the drain material. A gate dielectric is present between the sidewall of the stack and the gate electrode. The vertical transistor structure further includes a first metallization over a first area of the stack above the gate dielectric layer, and in contact with the gate electrode on sidewall of the stack. A second metallization is adjacent to the first metallization, where the second metallization is over a second area of the stack, and in contact with the source material or the drain material.
US11777028B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, a first conductive member, a semiconductor member, and a first insulating member. The third electrode includes a third electrode end portion and a third electrode other-end portion. The first conductive member includes a first conductive member end portion and a first conductive member other-end portion. The first conductive member is electrically connected with one of the second electrode or the third electrode. The semiconductor member includes first to fourth semiconductor regions. The first semiconductor region includes first and second partial regions. The third semiconductor region is electrically connected with the second electrode. The fourth semiconductor region is electrically connected with the first electrode. At least a portion of the first insulating member is between the semiconductor member and the third electrode and between the semiconductor member and the first conductive member.
US11777024B2
A nitride semiconductor device includes an electron transit layer (103) that is formed of a nitride semiconductor, an electron supply layer (104) that is formed on the electron transit layer (103), that is formed of a nitride semiconductor whose composition is different from the electron transit layer (103) and that has a recess (109) which reaches the electron transit layer (103) from a surface, a thermal oxide film (111) that is formed on the surface of the electron transit layer (103) exposed within the recess (109), a gate insulating film (110) that is embedded within the recess (109) so as to be in contact with the thermal oxide film (111), a gate electrode (108) that is formed on the gate insulating film (110) and that is opposite to the electron transit layer (103) across the thermal oxide film (111) and the gate insulating film (110), and a source electrode (106) and a drain electrode (107) that are provided on the electron supply layer (104) at an interval such that the gate electrode (108) intervenes therebetween.
US11777022B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for transistors including first and second semiconductor materials between source and drain regions. An example apparatus includes a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material adjacent the first semiconductor material. The example apparatus further includes a source proximate the first semiconductor material and spaced apart from the second semiconductor material. The example apparatus also includes a drain proximate the second semiconductor material and spaced apart from the first semiconductor material. The example apparatus includes a gate located between the source and the drain.
US11777017B2
Negative capacitance field-effect transistor (NCFET) and ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FE-FET) devices and methods of forming are provided. The gate dielectric stack of the NCFET and FE-FET devices includes a non-ferroelectric interfacial layer formed over the semiconductor channel, and a ferroelectric gate dielectric layer formed over the interfacial layer. The ferroelectric gate dielectric layer is formed by inserting dopant-source layers in between amorphous high-k dielectric layers and then converting the alternating sequence of dielectric layers to a ferroelectric gate dielectric layer by a post-deposition anneal (PDA). The ferroelectric gate dielectric layer has adjustable ferroelectric properties that may be varied by altering the precisely-controlled locations of the dopant-source layers using ALD/PEALD techniques. Accordingly, the methods described herein enable fabrication of stable NCFET and FE-FET FinFET devices that exhibit steep subthreshold slopes.
US11777016B2
A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same are provided. In an embodiment, a semiconductor structure includes a source feature and a drain feature, a channel structure disposed between the source feature and the drain feature, a semiconductor layer disposed over the channel structure and the drain feature, a dielectric layer disposed over the semiconductor layer, a backside source contact over the source feature and extending through the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer, and a backside power rail disposed over the dielectric layer and in contact with the backside source contact.
US11777013B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a three dimensional transistor above a substrate. A three dimensional transistor includes a channel structure, where the channel structure includes a channel material and has a source area, a drain area, and a channel area between the source area and the drain area. A source electrode is coupled to the source area, a drain electrode is coupled to the drain area, and a gate electrode is around the channel area. An electrode selected from the source electrode, the drain electrode, or the gate electrode is in contact with the channel material on a sidewall of an opening in an inter-level dielectric layer or a surface of the electrode. The electrode is further in contact with the channel structure including the source area, the drain area, or the channel area. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11777005B2
A transistor which is resistant to a short-channel effect is provided. The transistor includes a first conductor in a ring shape, an oxide semiconductor including a region extending through an inside of a ring of the first conductor, a first insulator between the first conductor and the oxide semiconductor, a second insulator between the first conductor and the first insulator, and a charge trap layer inside the ring of the first conductor. The charge trap layer is inside the second insulator and configured to be in a floating state.
US11777004B2
A FinFET device structure is provided. The FinFET device structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate, and a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer formed over the fin structure. The FinFET device structure includes a gate structure formed in the first ILD layer, and a first S/D contact structure formed in the first ILD layer and adjacent to the gate structure. The FinFET device structure also includes a first air gap formed on a sidewall of the first S/D contact structure, and the first air gap is in direct contact with the first ILD layer.
US11777001B2
A semiconductor device includes; a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first active pattern extending upward from the first region, a first superlattice pattern on the first active pattern, a first active fin centrally disposed on the first active pattern, a first gate electrode disposed on the first active fin, and first source/drain patterns disposed on opposing sides of the first active fin and on the first active pattern. The first superlattice pattern includes at least one first semiconductor layer and at least one first blocker-containing layer, and the first blocker-containing layer includes at least one of oxygen, carbon, fluorine and nitrogen.
US11777000B2
An improved SiC trench MOSFET having first and second type gate trenches for formation of a gate electrode, and a grounded P-shield region under the gate electrode for gate oxide electric-field reduction is disclosed. The gate electrodes are disposed into the first type gate trench having a thick oxide layer on trench bottom. The grounded P-shield region surrounding the second type gate trench filled up with the thick oxide layer is connected with a source metal through a grounded P region. The device further comprises a current spreading region surrounding the first type gate trench for on-resistance reduction.
US11776998B2
A device comprises a plurality of nanosheets, source/drain stressors, and a gate structure wrapping around the nanosheets. The nanosheets extend in a first direction above a semiconductor substrate and are arranged in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The source/drain stressors are on either side of the nanosheets. Each of the source/drain stressors comprises a first epitaxial layer and a second epitaxial layer over the first epitaxial layer. The first and second epitaxial layers are made of a Group IV element and a Group V element. An atomic ratio of the Group V element to the Group IV element in the second epitaxial layer is greater than an atomic ratio of the Group V element to the Group IV element in the first epitaxial layer.
US11776990B2
A micro light-emitting diode display panel including first and second substrates, micro light-emitting diodes, a wavelength conversion layer, a light-shielding pattern layer, a light filter layer, and an air gap is provided. The micro light-emitting diodes are disposed on the first substrate and respectively located in a plurality of sub-pixel areas. The micro light-emitting diodes are adapted to emit a light beam. The wavelength conversion layer is overlapped with at least a portion of the micro light-emitting diodes. The light beam is used to excite the wavelength conversion layer to emit a converted light beam. The light filter layer is disposed between the wavelength conversion layer and the second substrate and overlapped with the micro light-emitting diodes. The air gap is disposed between any two adjacent ones of any one of the micro light-emitting diodes, the second substrate, the wavelength conversion layer, and the light filter layer.
US11776987B2
A display apparatus includes a display substrate, first micro LED modules arranged on the display substrate, and at least one second micro LED module disposed between the first micro LED modules. Each of the first micro LED modules includes a first substrate and micro LEDs disposed on the first substrate. The second micro LED module includes a second substrate and micro LEDs disposed on the second substrate. The second substrate bridges two adjacent first substrates.
US11776975B2
A sensor package structure is provided and includes a substrate, a sensor chip disposed on the substrate, a plurality of wires electrically coupled to the substrate and the sensor chip, a light-permeable layer, and a colloid formed on the substrate to fix the light-permeable layer. The colloid covers the wires, a peripheral portion of the sensor chip, and lateral surfaces of the light-permeable layer. A top curved surface of the colloid is partially arranged beside the lateral surfaces. In a cross section of the sensor package structure, the top curved surface has a reference point spaced apart from one of the lateral surfaces adjacent thereto by 100 μm, a top edge of the top curved surface and the reference point define a connection line, and the connection line and the one of the lateral surfaces have an acute angle within a range from 25 degrees to 36 degrees.
US11776969B2
To provide a novel shift register. Transistors 101 to 104 are provided. A first terminal of the transistor 101 is connected to a wiring 111 and a second terminal of the transistor 101 is connected to a wiring 112. A first terminal of the transistor 102 is connected to a wiring 113 and a second terminal of the transistor 102 is connected to the wiring 112. A first terminal of the transistor 103 is connected to the wiring 113 and a gate of the transistor 103 is connected to the wiring 111 or a wiring 119. A first terminal of the transistor 104 is connected to a second terminal of the transistor 103, a second terminal of the transistor 104 is connected to a gate of the transistor 101, and a gate of the transistor 104 is connected to a gate of the transistor 102.
US11776968B2
An object of an embodiment of the present invention is to manufacture a semiconductor device with high display quality and high reliability, which includes a pixel portion and a driver circuit portion capable of high-speed operation over one substrate, using transistors having favorable electric characteristics and high reliability as switching elements. Two kinds of transistors, in each of which an oxide semiconductor layer including a crystalline region on one surface side is used as an active layer, are formed in a driver circuit portion and a pixel portion. Electric characteristics of the transistors can be selected by choosing the position of the gate electrode layer which determines the position of the channel. Thus, a semiconductor device including a driver circuit portion capable of high-speed operation and a pixel portion over one substrate can be manufactured.
US11776966B2
First to third insulators are successively formed in this order over a first conductor over a semiconductor substrate; a hard mask with a first opening is formed thereover; a resist mask with a second opening is formed thereover; a third opening is formed in the third insulator; a fourth opening is formed in the second insulator; the resist mask is removed; a fifth opening is formed in the first to third insulators; a second conductor is formed to cover an inner wall and a bottom surface of the fifth opening; a third conductor is formed thereover; polishing treatment is performed so that the hard mask is removed, and that levels of top surfaces of the second and third conductors and the third insulator are substantially equal to each other; and an oxide semiconductor is formed thereover. The second insulator is less permeable to hydrogen than the first and third insulators, the second conductor is less permeable to hydrogen than the third conductor.
US11776962B2
An integrated circuit device is provided. The integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active region that extends in a first direction on a substrate, a gate structure that intersects with the fin-type active region and extends in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, on the substrate, and a first contact structure that is disposed on the gate structure, and has a greater width at a top surface than a bottom surface thereof.
US11776959B2
A wrap-around source/drain trench contact structure is described. A plurality of semiconductor fins extend from a semiconductor substrate. A channel region is disposed in each fin between a pair of source/drain regions. An epitaxial semiconductor layer covers the top surface and sidewall surfaces of each fin over the source/drain regions, defining high aspect ratio gaps between adjacent fins. A pair of source/drain trench contacts are electrically coupled to the epitaxial semiconductor layers. The source/drain trench contacts comprise a conformal metal layer and a fill metal. The conformal metal layer conforms to the epitaxial semiconductor layers. The fill metal comprises a plug and a barrier layer, wherein the plug fills a contact trench formed above the fins and the conformal metal layer, and the barrier layer lines the plug to prevent interdiffusion of the conformal metal layer material and plug material.
US11776954B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide 3D semiconductor apparatus and a method for fabricating the same. The 3D semiconductor apparatus can include a first semiconductor device including first S/D regions, a first gate region sandwiched by the first S/D regions, and a first channel surrounded by the first S/D regions and the first gate region; a second semiconductor device stacked on the first semiconductor device that includes second S/D regions, a second gate region sandwiched by the second S/D regions, and a second channel surrounded by the second S/D regions and the second gate region and formed vertically in-situ on the first channel; and silicide formed between the first and second semiconductor devices where the first and second channels interface and coupled to an upper one of the first S/D regions of the first semiconductor device and a lower one of the second S/D regions of the second semiconductor device.
US11776950B2
An IC includes: a plurality of first cells placed in a series of first rows extending in a first horizontal direction and each having a first height; and a plurality of second cells placed in a series of second rows extending in the first horizontal direction and each having a second height different from the first height, wherein a total height of the series of first rows corresponds to a multiple of a height of a first multi-height cell with a maximum height among the plurality of first cells, and a total height of the series of second rows corresponds to a multiple of a height of a second multi-height cell with a maximum height among the plurality of second cells.
US11776948B2
Provided is a method for inserting a pre-designed filler cell, as a replacement to a standard filler cell, including identifying at least one gap among a plurality of functional cells. In some embodiments, a pre-designed filler cell is inserted within the at least one gap. By way of example, the pre-designed filler cell includes a layout design having a pattern associated with a particular failure mode. In various embodiments, a layer is patterned on a semiconductor substrate such that the pattern of the layout design is transferred to the layer on the semiconductor substrate. Thereafter, the patterned layer is inspected using an electron beam (e-beam) inspection process.
US11776944B2
A discrete three-dimensional (3-D) processor comprises communicatively coupled first and second dice. The first die comprises 3-D memory (3D-M) arrays, whereas the second die comprises at least a non-memory circuit and at least an off-die peripheral-circuit component of the 3D-M arrays. The first die does not comprise said off-die peripheral-circuit component. The non-memory circuit on the second die is not part of a memory.
US11776941B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a connection substrate on the package substrate, a first image sensor chip on the connection substrate, a second image sensor chip on the connection substrate, the second image sensor chip being horizontally spaced apart from the first image sensor chip, and a memory chip disposed on the package substrate and electrically connected to the first image sensor chip through the connection substrate. A distance between the first image sensor chip and the second image sensor chip is less than a thickness of the first image sensor chip.
US11776939B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatuses and method for a stacked light emitting diode (LED) display. A stacked LED display can include a first array of LEDs that are configured to emit red light, a second array of LEDs that are configured to emit green light, and a third array of LEDs that are configured to emit blue light. The stacked LED hologram display can include a number of actuators configured to adjust a position of a first array of LEDs in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, adjust a position of a second array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction, and adjust a position of a third array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction to control the packing scheme of the LEDs.
US11776934B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a channel layer, a barrier layer, a source contact and a drain contact, a first doped group III-V semiconductor, a group III-V semiconductor, and a second doped group III-V semiconductor. The barrier layer is disposed on the channel layer. The source contact and the drain contact are disposed on the channel layer. The first doped group III-V semiconductor is disposed on the barrier layer. The group III-V semiconductor is disposed on the first doped group III-V semiconductor and between the source contact and the drain contact. The second doped group III-V semiconductor is disposed on the group III-V semiconductor and between the source contact and the drain contact. The group III-V semiconductor has a central region covered by the second doped group III-V semiconductor and a peripheral region free from coverage by the second doped group III-V semiconductor.
US11776929B2
A semiconductor device includes: an inner substrate on which a semiconductor chip is mounted, and has a surface on which terminals including electric path terminals are formed; a lead frame which has a chip connecting electrode portion which is electrically connected to a surface of the semiconductor chip via a conductive bonding member, substrate connecting electrode portions which are electrically connected to the electric path terminals of the inner substrate, and horizontal surface support portions which bulge to the outside from the chip connecting electrode portion or the substrate connecting electrode portions; and pin terminals which are mounted upright over the inner substrate in a direction perpendicular to flat surfaces of the substrate connecting electrode portions of the lead frame, wherein the horizontal surface support portions bulge to the outside of the inner substrate.
US11776926B2
Systems and methods for semiconductor devices having a substrate with bond pads, a die pair in a stacked configuration above the bond pads and having a first die having an oxide layer, a second die having an oxide layer attached to the first oxide layer, and conductive bonds electrically coupling the dies. Interconnects extend between the bond pads and the die pair, electrically coupling die pair to the substrate. The device may include a second die pair electrically coupled to: (1) the first die pair with secondary interconnects; and (2) the substrate with through-silicon vias extending through the first die pair. The top die of a die pair may be a thick die for use at the top of a pair stack. Pairs may be created by matching dies of a first silicon wafer to dies of a second silicon wafer, combination bonding the wafers, and dicing the die pairs.
US11776923B2
Connection pads are formed in interlayer films provided respectively in interconnection layers of a sensor substrate on which a sensor surface having pixels is formed and a signal processing substrate configured to perform signal processing on the sensor substrate to make an electrical connection between the sensor substrate and the signal processing substrate. Then, a metal oxide film is formed between the interlayer films of the sensor substrate and the signal processing substrate, between the connection pad formed on a side toward the sensor substrate and the interlayer film on a side toward the signal processing substrate, and between the connection pad formed on the side toward the signal processing substrate and the interlayer film on the side toward the sensor substrate. The present technology can be applied to a laminated-type CMOS image sensor, for example.
US11776915B2
The present disclosure discloses an FPGA device forming a network-on-chip by using a silicon connection layer. An active silicon connection layer is designed inside the FPGA device. A silicon connection layer interconnection framework is arranged inside the silicon connection layer. Bare die functional modules inside an FPGA bare die are connected to the silicon connection layer interconnection framework to jointly form the network-on-chip. Each bare die functional module and a network interface and a router that are in the silicon connection layer interconnection framework form an NOC node. The NOC nodes intercommunicate with each other, so that the bare die functional modules in the FPGA bare die without a built-in NOC network can achieve efficient intercommunication by means of the silicon connection layer interconnection framework, reducing the processing difficulty on the basis of improving the data transmission bandwidth and performance inside the FPGA device.
US11776913B2
A semiconductor package including: a first wiring structure; a semiconductor chip disposed on the first wiring structure; a second wiring structure disposed on the semiconductor chip and including a cavity; and a filling member between the first wiring structure and the second wiring structure and in the cavity, wherein an uppermost end of the filling member and an uppermost end of the second wiring structure are located at the same level.
US11776901B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a conductive structure arranged within a substrate or a first dielectric layer. A first barrier layer is arranged on outermost sidewalls and a bottom surface of the conductive structure. A second barrier layer is arranged on outer surfaces of the first barrier layer. The second barrier layer separates the first barrier layer from the substrate or the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is arranged over the substrate or the first dielectric layer. A via structure extends through the second dielectric layer, is arranged directly over topmost surfaces of the first and second barrier layers, and is electrically coupled to the conductive structure through the first and second barrier layers.
US11776899B2
An interconnect structure for a redistribution layer includes an intermediate via land pad; a cluster of upper conductive vias abutting the intermediate via land pad and electrically coupling the intermediate via land pad to an upper via land pad; and an array of lower conductive vias electrically coupling the intermediate via land pad with a lower circuit pad. The array of lower conductive vias is arranged within a horseshoe-shaped via array region extending along a perimeter of the intermediate via land pad. The array of lower conductive vias arranged within the horseshoe-shaped via array region does not overlap with the cluster of upper conductive vias.
US11776891B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first lead including a mounting portion for the semiconductor element and a first terminal portion connected to the mounting portion, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element and a portion of the first lead. The mounting portion has a mounting-portion front surface and a mounting-portion back surface opposite to each other in a thickness direction, with the semiconductor element mounted on the mounting-portion front surface. The sealing resin includes a resin front surface, a resin back surface and a resin side surface connecting the resin front surface and the resin back surface. The mounting-portion back surface of the first lead is flush with the resin back surface. The first terminal portion includes a first-terminal-portion back surface exposed from the resin back surface, in a manner such that the first-terminal-portion back surface extends to the resin side surface.
US11776890B2
A power semiconductor device includes: a power semiconductor; a base metal sheet; and a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) between the base metal sheet and the power semiconductor. The power semiconductor includes a first power pad on a side facing the flexible PCB, and the flexible PCB includes a conductive pad, one side of which is electrically connected to the first power pad of the power semiconductor and the opposite side of which is electrically connected to the base metal sheet.
US11776888B2
A package comprising a substrate and an integrated device coupled to the substrate. The substrate includes at least one dielectric layer, a plurality of interconnects comprising a plurality of protruding pad interconnects, and a solder resist layer located over the at least one dielectric layer, the solder resist layer comprising a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the plurality of protruding pad interconnects. A protruding pad interconnect may include a first pad portion and a second pad portion.
US11776886B2
An integrated circuit package that includes symmetrical redistribution structures on either side of a core substrate is provided. In an embodiment, a device comprises a core substrate, a first redistribution structure comprising one or more layers, a second redistribution comprising one or more layers, a first integrated circuit die, and a set of external conductive features. The core substrate is disposed between the first redistribution structure and the second redistribution structure, the first integrated circuit die is disposed on the first distribution structure on the opposite side from the core substrate; and the set of external conductive features are disposed on a side of the second redistribution structure opposite the core substrate. The first redistribution structure and second redistribution structure have symmetrical redistribution layers to each other with respect to the core substrate.
US11776885B2
A substrate includes a first dielectric layer having a first surface and a second dielectric layer having a first surface disposed adjacent to the first surface of the first dielectric layer. The substrate further includes a first conductive via disposed in the first dielectric layer and having a first end adjacent to the first surface of the first dielectric layer and a second end opposite the first end. The substrate further includes a second conductive via disposed in the second dielectric layer and having a first end adjacent to the first surface of the second dielectric layer. A width of the first end of the first conductive via is smaller than a width of the second end of the first conductive via, and a width of the first end of the second conductive via is smaller than the width of the first end of the first conductive via.
US11776882B2
A method includes: arranging a semiconductor device on a redistribution substrate, the device having a first power electrode and a control electrode on a first surface and a second power electrode on a second surface, the redistribution substrate having an insulating board having a first major surface and a second major surface having solderable contact pads, so that the first power electrode is arranged on a first conductive pad and the control electrode is arranged on a second conductive pad on the first major surface; arranging a contact clip such that a web portion is arranged on the second power electrode and a peripheral rim portion is arranged on a third conductive pad on the first major surface; and electrically coupling the first power electrode, control electrode and peripheral rim portion to the respective conductive pads and electrically coupling the web portion to the second power electrode.
US11776877B2
Method for packaging a semiconductor die assemblies. In one embodiment, a method is directed to packaging a semiconductor die assembly having a first die and a plurality of second dies arranged in a stack over the first die, wherein the first die has a peripheral region extending laterally outward from the stack of second dies. The method can comprise coupling a thermal transfer structure to the peripheral region of the first die and flowing an underfill material between the second dies. The underfill material is flowed after coupling the thermal transfer structure to the peripheral region of the first die such that the thermal transfer structure limits lateral flow of the underfill material.
US11776876B2
A heatsink for distributing heatsink load across a processor module with separable input/output (I/O) connectors, comprising: a thermal conductor; and one or more pistons aligned with one or more separable interconnects of the processor module.
US11776864B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of forming such packages. In an embodiment an electronic package comprises a package substrate, and a first level interconnect (FLI) bump region on the package substrate. In an embodiment, the FLI bump region comprises a plurality of pads, and a plurality of bumps, where each bump is over a different one of the plurality of pads. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises a guard feature adjacent to the FLI bump region. In an embodiment, the guard feature comprises, a guard pad, and a guard bump over the guard pad, wherein the guard feature is electrically isolated from circuitry of the electronic package.
US11776860B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes a preparation step of preparing a substrate to which a lead is bonded, and a molding step of mounting a cap in a mold in a state in which the cap is disposed on the substrate and forming a mold portion by filling a mold material into the mold. The mold includes a first mold including a cap mounting portion, and a second mold including a lead pressing portion. The molding step includes a step of mounting the cap in the cap mounting portion, a step of mounting the substrate on the cap, a step of pressing the lead with the lead pressing portion to elastically deform the lead, and biasing the substrate toward the cap by a restoring force generated in the lead, and a step of filling the mold material into the mold.
US11776852B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer having a first composition over a semiconductor substrate, and forming a second semiconductor layer having a second composition over the first semiconductor layer. Another first semiconductor layer having the first composition is formed over the second semiconductor layer. A third semiconductor layer having a third composition is formed over the another first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layers, second semiconductor layer, and third semiconductor layer are patterned to form a fin structure. A portion of the third semiconductor layer is removed thereby forming a nanowire comprising the second semiconductor layer, and a conductive material is formed surrounding the nanowire. The first semiconductor layers, second semiconductor layer, and third semiconductor layer include different materials.
US11776848B2
A semiconductor device and related manufacturing methods are provided. The semiconductor device includes one interconnection structure including: a substrate; a first insulating dielectric layer underneath a lower surface of the substrate; a second insulating dielectric layer on an upper surface of the substrate; a first connecting pad disposed within the first insulating dielectric layer; a metal connection member penetrating through a portion of the second insulating dielectric layer, the substrate and a portion of the first insulating dielectric layer to connect the first connecting pad; and a second connecting pad disposed within the second insulating dielectric layer and connecting the metal connection member. The metal connection member may be a Through-Silicon Via (TSV). The device includes a confined air gap surrounding the metal connection member, which improves the performance and reliability of the device.
US11776847B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain region on a substrate and forming a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer over the source/drain region. The method further includes forming a second ILD layer over the first ILD layer, forming a source/drain contact structure within the first ILD layer and the second ILD layer, and selectively removing a portion of the source/drain contact structure to form a concave top surface of the source/drain contact structure.
US11776845B2
A semiconductor arrangement is provided. The semiconductor arrangement includes a first dielectric layer over a substrate, a metal layer over the first dielectric layer, a first conductive structure passing through the metal layer and the first dielectric layer, a second conductive structure passing through the metal layer and the first dielectric layer, and a third conductive structure coupling the first conductive structure to the second conductive structure, and overlying a first portion of the metal layer between the first conductive structure and the second conductive structure, wherein an interface exists between the metal layer and at least one of the first conductive structure or the second conductive structure.
US11776844B2
The embodiments herein relate to contact via structures of semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same. A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a conductive feature over the substrate, and a contact via structure over and electrically coupling to the conductive feature. The contact via structure has a concave profile.
US11776842B2
A method for surface treatment of an at least primarily crystalline substrate surface of a substrate such that by amorphization of the substrate surface, an amorphous layer is formed at the substrate surface with a thickness d>0 nm of the amorphous layer. This invention also relates to a corresponding device for surface treatment of substrates.
US11776841B2
A method is provided for forming a semiconductor product including providing a substrate comprising a buried power rail; forming a sacrificial plug at a contact surface on the buried power rail; applying a front-end-of-line module for forming devices in the semiconductor substrate; providing a Via, through layers applied by the front-end-module, which joins the sacrificial plug on the buried power rail; selectively removing the sacrificial plug thereby obtaining a cavity above the buried power rail; filling the cavity with a metal to electrically connect the devices with the buried power rail, wherein the sacrificial plug is formed such that the contact surface area is larger than an area of a cross-section of the Via parallel with the contact surface.
US11776832B2
A transfer system has a storage device including a plurality of shelves, each of the shelves including a placement portion in which an opening region is formed and on which the article is placed and an attaching portion provided according to a position of the placement portion; and a transfer device used for transferring the article, from the one side with respect to the transfer target shelf. The transfer device has a main unit portion attached to the attaching portion of the transfer target shelf from the one side, a moving portion including a grip portion and being capable of supporting the article and configured to move along the one direction, and an elevating portion configured to elevate the moving portion through the opening region of the transfer target shelf.
US11776830B2
The present disclosure provides a host computer, and a control system and method of a machine. The host computer includes a control unit, a service configuration unit, and a functional flow unit. The control unit is configured to control a lower level computer to execute items of a functional flow of the machine. The service configuration unit is configured with action instruction information used to execute the functional flow of the machine and configured to interact with the control unit. The functional flow unit stores items of the functional flow of the machine edited by a user and is configured to interact with the control unit. A technical solution of the host computer and the control system and method of the machine may realize an editable function of the functional flow of the machine to improve flexibility, convenience, and a degree of automation of addition/modification of the functional flow.
US11776827B2
An adapter for a liquid container of a supply system of a wet process module for the treatment of substrates has a container part for fastening to the liquid container and a channel part for fastening to the supply system. The container part has a central opening and a fastening device for fastening the container part to the liquid container. The channel part has a continuous first channel portion and a continuous second channel portion, the first and the second channel portion each opening into the central opening of the container part.
US11776818B2
An apparatus, semiconductor device and method of manufacture are presented, wherein a hard mask layer and one or more etch stop layers are etched in an etching chamber. In an embodiment the semiconductor device is placed on a mounting platform at a first height and an etch process is performed, then the semiconductor device is moved to a second height within the chamber and a second etch process is performed, with the rotational speed of the semiconductor device reduced during movements in order to reduce the chance of cross contamination.
US11776816B2
At least one fin structure may be created on a silicon substrate. Next, a width of the at least one fin structure may be decreased by applying one or more iterations of a self-limiting fin etch process.
US11776811B2
A method for etching a hardmask layer includes forming a photoresist layer comprising an organometallic material on a hardmask layer comprising a metal-containing material, exposing the photoresist layer to ultraviolet radiation through a mask having a selected pattern, removing un-irradiated areas of the photoresist layer to pattern the photoresist layer, forming a passivation layer comprising a carbon-containing material selectively on a top surface of the patterned photoresist layer, and etching the hardmask layer exposed by the patterned photoresist layer having the passivation layer formed thereon.
US11776810B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a target layer over a semiconductor substrate, forming a carbon-rich hard masking layer over the target layer, patterning features in the carbon-rich hard masking layer using an etching process, performing a directional ion beam trimming process on the features patterned in the carbon-rich hard masking layer, and patterning the target layer using the carbon-rich hard masking layer as a mask.
US11776809B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure comprising a semiconductor material, and a semiconductor substrate fabricated from the method. The method can include a step of providing a template structure. The template structure can comprise an opening, a cavity and a seed structure. The seed structure can comprise a seed material and a seed surface. An inner surface of the template structure can comprise at least one metallic surface area comprising a metallic material. The embodied method further comprises a step of growing the semiconductor structure within the cavity of the template structure from the seed surface along the metallic surface area.
US11776806B2
Methods for pre-cleaning substrates having metal and dielectric surfaces are described. The substrate is exposed to a strong reductant to remove contaminants from the metal surface and damage the dielectric surface. The substrate is then exposed to an oxidation process to repair the damage to the dielectric surface and oxidize the metal surface. The substrate is then exposed to a weak reductant to reduce the metal oxide to a pure metal surface without substantially affecting the dielectric surface. Processing tools and computer readable media for practicing the method are also described.
US11776804B2
A laser-sustained plasma (LSP) light source with reverse vortex flow is disclosed. The LSP source includes gas cell including a gas containment structure including a body, neck, and shaft. The gas cell includes one or more gas delivery lines for delivery gas to one or more nozzles positioned in or below the neck of the gas containment structure. The gas cell includes one or more gas inlets and one or more gas outlets arranged to generate a reverse vortex flow within the gas containment structure of the gas cell. The LSP source also includes a laser pump source configured to generate an optical pump to sustain a plasma in a region of the gas containment structure. The LSP source includes a light collector element configured to collect at least a portion of broadband light emitted from the plasma.
US11776785B2
A vacuum container is configured so that an opening on one side and an opening on another side in the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical insulating body are sealed with an emitter unit and a target unit respectively; and a vacuum chamber is provided on the inner peripheral side of the insulating body. The emitter unit is provided with: a moving body located on the one side in the longitudinal direction in the vacuum chamber and supported so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction via a bellows; and a guard electrode located on the outer peripheral side of the moving body. An emitter section having an electron generating section is formed at a tip section of the moving body on the other side in the longitudinal direction by subjecting the surface of the tip section to film formation processing.
US11776771B2
A protection structure is disclosed and is applied in a fuse link switch. The fuse link switch comprises: an insulator, a fuse tube including an upper connection portion and a lower connection portion, an upper-end fixing unit, a lower-end fixing unit, and a toggle mechanism, wherein the upper connection portion is connected with a pull hook. The protection structure comprises at least one electrically insulating shielding layer covering at least one of the upper-end fixing unit, the pull hook, the upper connection portion, the lower connection portion, the lower-end fixing unit, and the toggle mechanism through overmolding technique.
US11776764B2
A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
US11776761B2
A hybrid polymer aluminum electrolytic capacitor and a method for manufacturing a capacitor are disclosed. In an embodiment a method for manufacturing a capacitor includes winding an anode foil, separators and a cathode foil around an axis to form a winding element, flooding the winding element with a polymer dispersion, wherein the polymer dispersion contains electrically conductive solid polymer particles or a polymer powder and a solvent and applying pulses of overpressure to the flooded winding element.
US11776759B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor containing a capacitor element is provided. The capacitor element contains an anode body that contains tantalum, a dielectric that overlies the anode body; and a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric. The solid electrolyte includes an intrinsically conductive polymer containing repeating thiophene units. Further, the capacitor exhibits a dielectric strength of about 0.6 volts per nanometer or more. The capacitor also exhibits a charge-discharge capacitance after being subjected to 3,000 cycles of a surge voltage and an initial capacitance prior to being subjected to the surge voltage, wherein the ratio of the charge-discharge capacitance to the initial capacitance is from about 0.75 to 1.
US11776752B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer structure having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are alternately stacked, the dielectric layers being mainly composed of BaTiO3, the internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two edge faces of the multilayer chip opposite to each other. A Zr/Ti ratio is 0.02 or more and 0.10 or less in a capacity section. A Ba/Ti ratio is more than 0.900 and less than 1.010 in the capacity section. A Eu/Ti ratio is 0.005 or more and 0.05 or less in the capacity section. A Mn/Ti ratio is 0.0005 or more and 0.05 or less in the capacity section. A total amount of a rare earth element or rare earth elements is less than the amount of Eu.
US11776746B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body in which a first capacitor portion and a second capacitor portion are disposed to face each other with a connection region disposed therebetween, the connection portion having a predetermined thickness in which an internal electrode is not formed. The first capacitor portion comprises first and second internal electrodes that are alternately disposed with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and the second capacitor portion comprises third and fourth internal electrodes that are alternately disposed with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween. First and second external electrodes connected to the internal electrodes respectively comprise first and second internal layers containing copper (Cu), and first and second external layers containing silver (Ag) or nickel (Ni), and palladium (Pd).
US11776741B2
A rotary transformer for transferring electrical current between a stationary location and a rotating location utilizes paired electrically conducting sintered disks, one stationary and one rotating, wherein the rotating sintered disk rotates on the stationary one and are lubricated with a boundary layer conductor that is a triacylglyceride.
US11776731B2
Downsized and weight reduced reactor is provided. An annular core 3 includes a first leg 31 and a second leg 32 to which a coil 2 is mounted and which generates magnetic flux, and a pair of yokes 33 which form a closed magnetic path together with the legs. Recess portions 35a is formed at four corners of the annular core 3, and a part of the end surfaces 31a and 32a of the legs which is a magnetic flux generating part or an end surface of the magnetic flux generating part is exposed from the recess portion 35a.
US11776729B2
This invention entails the use of fractal shapes as cores for electromagnets, and a concurrent shape of a fractal for the windings which surround it. The novelty of this invention lies not only with the shaping, but the advantage of such shaping, which includes producing a smaller form factor electromagnet for the same desired magnetic field strength, when compared to a conventional electromagnet. It will be appreciated that a range of devices including electromagnets, based on such fractal shaping, are additionally novel and include but are not limited to solenoid switches, relays, and other devices in which the fractal electromagnets are used to make a change in state of some device.
US11776728B2
A reactor includes an outer peripheral iron core, at least three iron cores, and a coil wound around the iron core. The reactor further includes an energizing portion connected to the coil and configured to be connected to a cable, and a cover provided to cover the energizing portion. At least one cutout formed in the cover is provided with at least one adjustment member configured to adjust an area of the cutout at least partially in the cover. The adjustment member is configured to be cut away from the cutout or to be bent with respect to a surface where the cutout is formed.
US11776726B2
A magnetic device is described. The magnetic device includes a magnetic junction, a spin-orbit interaction (SO) line and a dipole-coupled layer. The magnetic junction includes a free layer. The SO line is adjacent to the free layer, carries a current in-plane and exerts a SO torque on the free layer due to the current passing through the SO line. The free layer being switchable between stable magnetic states using the SO torque. The SO line is between the free layer and the dipole-coupled layer. The dipole-coupled layer is magnetically coupled to the free layer. At least one of the free layer and the dipole-coupled layer has a damping of greater than 0.02.
US11776720B2
A sintered ferrite magnet having a composition of metal elements of Ca, R, A, Fe and Co, which is represented by the general formula of Ca1−x−yRxAyFe2n−zCoz, wherein R is at least one of rare earth elements indispensably including La; A is Sr and/or Ba; x, y, z and n represent the atomic ratios of Ca, R, A, Fe and Co; 2n represents a molar ratio expressed by 2n=(Fe+Co)/(Ca+R+A); and x, y, z and n meet the conditions of 0.15≤x≤0.35, 0.05≤y≤0.40, (1−x−y)>y, 0
US11776707B2
An electrically conductive paste includes: an elastic binder; and a conductive filler. The conductive filler includes: at least one spherical conductive filler, at least one plate-like conductive filler, and at least one rod-like conductive filler. In an embodiment, the spherical filler has a mean particle diameter, measured in accordance with ISO 21501-2:2019-11 of at most 200 μm.
US11776705B1
A method of providing alpha particle emitters and materials suitable for use in generating the alpha particles for medical treatment is disclosed. Metal oxide targets, preferentially Bi2O3 pellets and Bi2O3 coatings on metallic or metal oxide substrates are formed. The targets placed in a heated vacuum chamber subjecting to irradiation using a 6Li beam at an elevated temperature below the melting point of the target generate a radioactive gas, such as 211Rn, the radioactive gas is carried by an inert gas which is delivered a carrier for, such as a carbon column or oil for delivery to a treatment facility. The radioactive gas such as 211Rn generates 211At, which has a useable half-life of at least about 14 hours, in turn releases alpha particles which are effective for use in medical procedures.
US11776700B2
A fusion reactor includes a fusion plasma reactor chamber. A magnetic coil structure is disposed inside of the fusion plasma reactor chamber, and a structural component is also disposed inside of the fusion plasma reactor chamber. The structural component couples the magnetic coil structure to the fusion plasma reactor chamber. A superconducting material is disposed at least partially within the structural component. A plurality of cooling channels are disposed at least partially within the structural component. An insulating material is disposed at least partially within the structural component.
US11776693B2
A system provides artificial intelligence health support for people. The system renders specific, targeted treatments for people by using a flow engine and a conversational service to call one or more conversational modules. The treatments for the people may be tracked. The flow engine and/or one or more of the modules may include different instructions to perform for different programs and/or goals that have been configured. The flow engine and/or one or more of the conversational modules may also include instructions to perform when certain features are active (which may be activated when certain programs and/or goals are configured), when data regarding activity for people are received, and so on. Other modules may be dedicated to particular programs and/or goals. Some modules may determine whether or not to perform various instructions repetitiously, and/or may determine to do so when a priority of a previous instruction is below a threshold.
US11776690B2
A decision support tool is provided for predicting uterine contractions. The predicted contractions are determined from measurements of uterine activity (UA). The contraction forecast may be made using a plurality of trained predictive models. The forecasts are formed with linear regressive models based, at least in part, on UA data from a reference population. The predicted contractions may be predictions of contraction duration, contraction peak, and time between contractions. In this way, these predicted contractions may be used for decision support for care plans during labor, such as increased monitoring and/or modifying the care plan.
US11776688B2
A computer-implemented method for capturing a user constructed map of bodily region of interest for remote telemedicine navigation includes receiving, by a user-device, a request for capturing data for constructing a model of the bodily region using a designated capture-device. The method further includes generating, by the user-device, a visual feedback for capturing the data. Generating the visual feedback includes displaying a representation of the bodily region, and modulating, in response to the capture-device scanning the bodily region, the representation with a first indicator that indicates a duration to maintain a position of the capture-device. Generating the visual feedback includes further modulating, in response to completion of scanning the bodily region, the representation with a second indicator that indicates completion of the scan. The method further includes constructing, by the user-device, the model of the bodily region using data that is acquired by the capture-device by scanning the bodily region.
US11776684B2
A medical device and method are provided. The medical device includes a battery, a charge bank configured to store supplemental energy, memory to store program instructions, and device operational circuitry. The device operational circuitry identifies an energy demand (ED) action to be performed by the device operational circuitry in connection with at least one of monitoring a medical characteristic of interest (COI), treating the medical COI, or wirelessly communicating with a separate device. The device operational circuitry obtains an energy consumption estimate for an amount of energy to be consumed by the device operational circuitry in connection with performing the ED action and dispatches a charge instruction to charge the charge bank from the battery with supplemental energy. The device operational circuitry supplies the supplemental energy to the device operational circuitry for performing the ED action in connection with the at least one of monitoring, treating or communicating operations.
US11776681B2
An image processing method including identifying, using a machine learning system, an area of interest of a target image by analyzing features extracted from image regions in the target image, the machine learning system being generated by processing a plurality of training images each comprising an image of human tissue and a diagnostic label characterizing at least one of a slide morphology, a diagnostic value, and a pathologist review outcome; determining, using the machine learning system, a probability of a target feature being present in the area of interest of the target image based on an average probability; determining, using the machine learning system, a prioritization value, of a plurality of prioritization values, of the target image based on the probability of the target feature being present in the target image.
US11776680B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate real-time and/or offline de-identification of facial regions from regular and/or occluded color video streams obtained during diagnostic medical procedures are provided. A detection component can generate a bounding box substantially around a person in a frame of a video stream, can generate a heatmap showing key points or anatomical masks of the person based on the bounding box, and can localize a face or facial region of the person based on the key points or anatomical masks. An anonymization component can anonymize pixels in the frame that correspond to the face or facial region. A tracking component can track the face or facial region in a subsequent frame based on a structural similarity index between the frame and the subsequent frame being above a threshold. If the structural similarity index between the frame and the subsequent frame is above the threshold, the tracking component can track the face or facial region in the subsequent frame without having the detection component generate a bounding box or a heatmap in the subsequent frame, and the anonymization component can anonymize pixels in the subsequent frame corresponding to the tracked face or facial region.
US11776675B2
The present disclosure relates to integrated systems, methods and apparatuses for assisting individuals in managing acute life-threatening conditions. A system in accordance with the current disclosure may comprise an electronic circuit configured to be attached to a container of a medication and one or more devices in communication with the electronic circuit in a private network. In an aspect, the one or more devices may work in concert to determine the safety level of an individual based on predetermined usage settings. In some aspects, the system may be configured to determine whether a medication would expire before its manufactured expiry date. In another aspect, the system may assist an individual in locating a medication. In a further aspect, the system may determine whether an individual is having an anaphylactic reaction. In some aspects, the system may detect a known allergen and alert the individual.
US11776663B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for compressing nucleic acid sequence data. A method can include obtaining nucleic acid sequence data representing: (i) a read sequence, and (ii) a plurality of quality scores, determining whether the read sequence includes at least one “N” base, based on a determination that the read sequence includes at least one “N” base, generating, by one or more computers, a first encoding data set by using a first encoding process to encode each set of four quality scores of the read sequence into a single byte of memory, and using a second encoding process to encode the first encoded data set, thereby compressing the data to be compressed.
US11776659B1
Techniques for simulating networks using dynamics-based constraints are disclosed.
US11776658B2
A method of analyzing biological data containing expression values of a plurality of polypeptides in the blood of a subject. The method comprises: calculating a distance between a segment of a curved line and an axis defined by a direction, the distance being calculated at a point over the curved line defined by a coordinate along the direction. The method further comprises correlating the distance to the presence of, absence of, or likelihood that the subject has, a bacterial infection. The coordinate is defined by a combination of the expression values, wherein at least 90% of the segment is between a lower bound line and an upper bound line.
US11776657B2
A memory device includes a page buffer, a voltage generator, and a test controller. The page buffer is connected to a memory cell through a bit line, and is configured to sense a threshold voltage of the memory cell through a potential of a sensing node electrically connected to the bit line. The voltage generator is configured to generate a test voltage to be applied to the sensing node. The test controller is configured to control the voltage generator to apply the test voltage to the sensing node, and detect a defect of the page buffer, based on a leakage current value of the sensing node.
US11776652B2
Provided is a non-volatile storage system that performs error correction processing at high speed while ensuring error correction capability. When error correction decoding processing using data read first with hard-decision decoding processing has failed, a non-volatile storage device 2 reads data on the same page again, performs diversity synthesis processing on the readout data for the first time and the readout data for the second time on the same page as one for the first time, and then performs error correction processing using data after diversity synthesis processing.
US11776646B2
A TPM with programmable fuses in an SOC includes an on-die RAM storing a blown-fuse count and a TPM state read from off-die NV memory. During initialization, if the blown-fuse count is greater than a TPM state fuse count, a TPM state PIN-attempt-failure count is incremented, thereby thwarting a replay attack. If a PIN satisfies a PIN failure policy, and if a TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to true, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented depending on the PIN being incorrect, but if the TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to false, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented independent of whether the PIN is correct or incorrect. The TPM state fuse count is set equal to the blown-fuse count. If a counter cleared before processing the PIN remains cleared during the next initialization, a fuse voltage cut is detected and a penalty imposed.
US11776642B2
A method of operating a memory device that includes a plurality of stages each having a plurality of page buffers. The method including performing a verify operation of a first program loop from among a plurality of program loops, the verify operation of the first program loop including, performing a first off-cell counting operation on a first stage of the plurality of stages based on a first sampling rate to generate a first off-cell counting result; selectively changing the first sampling rate based on the first off-cell counting result to generate a changed first sampling rate; and performing a second off-cell counting operation on a second stage of the plurality of stages based on one of the first sampling rate and the changed first sampling rate to generate a second off-cell counting result.
US11776632B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film disposed therebetween, first and second wirings connected to the semiconductor layer, and a third wiring connected to the gate electrode and is configured to execute a write operation, an erase operation, and a read operation. In the write operation, a write voltage of a first polarity is supplied between the third wiring and at least one of the first wiring or the second wiring. In the erase operation, an erase voltage of a second polarity is supplied between the third wiring and at least one of the first wiring or the second wiring. In the read operation, the write voltage or a voltage having a larger amplitude than that of the write voltage is supplied between the third wiring and at least one of the first wiring or the second wiring.
US11776624B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes n memory cells, each capable of storing j bits of data; and a controller. The controller is configured to write a first portion of each of first data to n-th data from among n×j data with consecutive logical addresses to the n memory cells one by one. The first data has a lowest logical address among the n×j pieces of data. The first data to the n-th data have ascending consecutive logical addresses. The controller is configured to write the first portion of one of the first to n-th data as a first bit of the j bits, and write the first portion of another one of the first to n-th data except said one of the first to n-th data as a second bit of the j bits.
US11776623B2
A bitline precharge system is provided for a semiconductor memory device. The bitline precharge system comprises a voltage comparator circuit to output a reference voltage signal based on an input wordline voltage supply level (VDDWL), and a periphery power supply voltage (VDDP) level. A voltage control circuit is electrically coupled to a periphery power supply and the voltage comparator circuit to output a precharge voltage (VDDM) level based on the reference voltage signal and the periphery power supply voltage (VDDP) level. A bitline precharge circuit is electrically coupled to the voltage control circuit and a plurality of bitlines of the memory device to precharge the plurality of bitlines based on the precharge voltage (VDDM) level in response to a precharge enable signal during one of a read operation to read data from the memory device and a write operation to write data from the memory device. Further, the at least one bitline is discharged from the precharge voltage (VDDM) level during at least one of the read operation or the write operation.
US11776621B2
A memory device and an operation method thereof is disclosed. The memory device includes a SRAM cell and a power supply assist circuit connected to the SRAM cell. The power supply assist circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, and a fifth transistor. The first transistor receives a power supply voltage. The control terminals of the first transistor and the second transistor are connected to each other. The third transistor switches, in response to a first control signal, to connect the control terminal and the connect terminal of the second transistor. The fourth transistor switches, in response to a second control signal, to drive the control terminal of the second transistor to a system ground voltage. The fifth transistor switches, in response to a third control signal, to drive the control terminal of the first transistor to the power supply voltage.
US11776620B2
A semiconductor base material stands on a substrate in a vertical direction or extends in a horizontal direction. Between first and second impurity layers disposed at the ends of the semiconductor base material, first and second gate insulating layers and first and second gate conductor layers are disposed around the semiconductor base material. A memory write operation is performed where voltages are applied to the first and second impurity layers and the first and second gate conductor layers to cause an impact ionization phenomenon to occur in a channel region, and among generated groups of electrons and positive holes, the group of electrons are discharged from the channel region and some of the group of positive holes are retained in the channel region. A memory erase operation is performed where the retained group of positive holes are discharged via any of or both of the first and second impurity layers.
US11776617B2
An application processor includes a memory interface and a memory controller. The memory interface is connected to a semiconductor memory device through first data input/output (I/O) pads and second data I/O pads. The memory controller exchanges data with the semiconductor memory device by controlling the memory interface. The memory interface includes a training circuit to perform duty training of first data signals and second data signals by adjusting a duty of each of the first data signals with respect to a first reference voltage and adjusting a duty of each of the second data signals with respect to a second reference voltage.
US11776608B2
Certain aspects provide methods and apparatus for in-memory convolution computation. An example circuit for such computation generally includes a memory cell having a bit-line and a complementary bit-line and a computation circuit coupled to a computation input node of the circuit and at least one of the bit-line or the complementary bit-line. In certain aspects, the computation circuit comprises a counter, an NMOS transistor coupled to the memory cell, and a PMOS transistor coupled to the memory cell, drains of the NMOS and PMOS transistors being coupled to the counter.
US11776607B2
The present disclosure provides a fusion memory including a plurality of memory cells, wherein each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells includes: a bulk substrate; a source and a drain on the bulk substrate; a channel extending between the source and the drain; a ferroelectric layer on the channel; and a gate on the ferroelectric layer.
US11776600B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory clock management and estimation procedures are described. A host device may determine a quantity of clock cycles associated with a duration for accessing a memory cell of a memory array based on truncating a value of a first parameter associated with another duration for a clock to perform a clock cycle. The host device may estimate a value of a second parameter related to (e.g., inversely proportional) to the truncated value of the first parameter and related to (e.g., directly proportional) to a correction factor, and may adjust (e.g., truncate) a third parameter to determine the quantity of clock cycles. Additionally or alternatively, the host device may adjust (e.g., perform a ceiling operation on) the second parameter to determine the quantity of clock cycles. The host device may access the memory cell based on the quantity of clock cycles.
US11776597B2
A memory subsystem and method for performing calibrations therein is disclosed. A memory subsystem includes a memory controller coupled to a memory by a plurality of signal paths. The memory controller is configured to perform an initial calibration to determine respective eye patterns corresponding to the ones of the plurality of signal paths. For a subsequent calibrations, updated eye patterns are determined for a subset of the plurality of signal paths. Remaining ones of the plurality of signal paths (not included in the subset), are not active during the subsequent calibrations. Updated eye patterns for the remaining ones of the plurality of signal paths are determined based on information obtained during the initial calibration and information from signal paths in the subset designated proxies for the remaining ones of the plurality of signal paths.
US11776595B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory device including a set of memory cells and a memory controller. In one aspect, each of the set of memory cells includes a select transistor and a storage element connected in series between a corresponding bit line and a corresponding source line. In one aspect, the memory controller is configured to apply a first write voltage to a bit line coupled to a selected memory cell, apply a second write voltage to a word line coupled to a gate electrode of a select transistor of the selected memory cell during a first time period, and apply a third write voltage to a source line coupled to the selected memory cell. The second write voltage may be between the first write voltage and the third write voltage.
US11776587B2
Memory devices are disclosed that support multiple power ramping sequences or modes. For example, a level shifter device is operably connected to a memory macro in a memory device. The level shifter device receives at least one gating signal. Based on a state of the at least one gating signal, the level shifter device outputs one or more signals that cause or control voltage signals in or received by the memory macro to ramp up, ramp down, or ramp up and ramp down according to one or more power ramping modes.
US11776575B2
Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for receiving a request from a user to add a media item to a playlist at a certain playlist position where the media items in the playlist are provided to other users in a media group. Based on a determination that the requesting user has rights to the requested media item, the requested media item may be added to the playlist at the position. When the playlist reaches the position, the user that added the media item to the playlist may be provided with a first version of the media item and the other users in the group may be provided with a second version of the media item. If the user that requested the item to be added to the playlist is determined not to have rights to the media item, the item is added to a position different than the requested position.
US11776567B2
The present disclosure generally relates to spin-orbital torque (SOT) differential reader designs. The SOT differential reader is a multi-terminal device comprising a first seed layer, a first spin hall effect (SHE) layer, a first interlayer, a first free layer, a gap layer, a second seed layer, a second SHE layer, a second free layer, and a second interlayer. The gap layer is disposed between the first SHE layer and the second SHE layer. The materials and dimensions used for the first and second seed layers, the first and second interlayers, and the first and second SHE layers affect the resulting spin hall voltage converted from spin current injected from the first free layer and the second free layer, as well as the ability to tune the first and second SHE layers. Moreover, the SOT differential reader improves reader resolution without decreasing the shield-to-shield spacing (i.e., read-gap).
US11776564B2
A memory device including at least one channel and a fluid including particles is provided. In one aspect, the channel includes a least some of the fluid. The memory device may further include an actuator configured to induce a movement of the particles in the channel; and a writing element configured to arrange the particles in a sequence, thereby yielding a sequence of particles in the channel. The particles may include first particles and second particles. The particles may be in a first state or a second state in the channel. In certain aspects, the channel is configured to preserve the sequence of the particles. The memory device may further include a reading element for detecting the sequence of the particles in the channel.
