US11812676B2
A phase change memory device is provided. The phase change memory device includes a phase change memory material within an electrically insulating wall, a first heater terminal in the electrically insulating wall, and two read terminals in the electrically insulating wall.
US11812672B2
Provided is a quantum computing device and system. The quantum computing device includes a first qubit chip, a readout cavity structure surrounding a first end part of the first qubit chip, and a storage cavity structure surrounding a second end part of the first qubit chip, wherein the first qubit chip includes a first readout antenna disposed within the readout cavity structure, a first storage antenna disposed in the storage cavity structure, and a first qubit element provided between the first readout antenna and the first storage antenna, and wherein the first qubit element is disposed between the readout cavity structure and the storage cavity structure.
US11812669B2
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), including a bottom electrode layer on a substrate, a magnetic tunnel junction stack on the bottom electrode layer, a top electrode layer on the magnetic tunnel junction stack, and a hard mask layer on said top electrode layer, wherein the material of top electrode layer is titanium nitride, a material of said hard mask layer is tantalum or tantalum nitride, and the percentage of nitrogen in the titanium nitride gradually decreases from the top surface of top electrode layer to the bottom surface of top electrode layer.
US11812666B2
A piezoelectric element comprising a compound represented by Formula 1, a piezoelectric device including the piezoelectric element, a vibration module including the piezoelectric device, and a display apparatus including the piezoelectric device are provided, where (1−x)(LizNa0.5-zK0.5)(Nb1-ySby)O3·xCaZrO3 [Formula 1] where x, y, and z have a range of 0.001≤x≤0.2, a range of 0≤y≤0.5, and a range of 0≤z≤0.2, respectively.
US11812663B2
A flexible thermoelectric structure is provided, which includes a porous thermoelectric pattern having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a polymer film covering the first surface of the porous thermoelectric pattern. The polymer film fills pores of the porous thermoelectric pattern. The polymer film has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface of the polymer film is coplanar with the second surface of the porous thermoelectric pattern.
US11812650B2
A color filter substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel are provided. The color filter substrate includes a first substrate, at least one spacer on a side of the first substrate, at least one electrode on a side of the at least one spacer facing away the first substrate, and at least two elastic supports on the side of the first substrate. In a plane parallel with an extending plane of the first substrate, a periphery of each spacer comprises at least two of the elastic supports, and in a direction perpendicular to the extending plane of the first substrate, a sum of a height of the spacer and a thickness of the electrode on the spacer is smaller than a height of each of the elastic supports in the periphery of the spacer.
US11812649B2
A display device according to an embodiment includes a display unit including first emissive regions displaying a first color, second emissive regions displaying a second color, and third emissive regions displaying a third color; and an anti-reflection unit overlapping the display unit and including first color filters overlapping the first emissive regions, second color filters overlapping the second emissive regions, and third color filters overlapping the third emissive regions, wherein in a plan view, a ratio of an area of the first emissive regions, an area of the second emissive regions, and an area of the third emissive regions and a ratio of an area of the first color filters, an area of the second color filters, and an area of the third color filters are different.
US11812647B2
A display apparatus is disclosed that includes contact holes formed to expose at least a portion of a conductive layer or a semiconductor layer without damage to the surface of the conductive layer or the semiconductor layer, and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a substrate, a conductive mound arranged on the substrate, a first insulating mound arranged on the substrate, and a semiconductor layer including a first region arranged on the conductive mound, and a second region arranged on the first insulating mound. The second region of the semiconductor layer substantially covers an upper surface of the first insulating mound.
US11812646B2
A display device includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation layer, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode. The semiconductor substrate has a pixel region and a peripheral region located around the pixel region. The semiconductor substrate includes first electrodes and a driving element layer. The first electrodes are disposed in the pixel region and the first electrodes are electrically connected to the driving element layer. The isolation layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The isolation layer includes a first isolation pattern disposed in the peripheral region, and the first isolation pattern has a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface. The light-emitting layer is disposed on the isolation layer and the first electrodes, and covers the first side surface and the second side surface of the first isolation pattern. The second electrode is disposed on the light-emitting layer.
US11812644B2
A display apparatus includes a display region and a peripheral region adjacent to the display region. The display apparatus further includes a first flexible substrate (FFS), a driving circuit (DC), a conductive pattern (CP), a conductive line, a light-emitting device, and a support substrate. The FFS includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface includes, in the peripheral region, a cavity extending into the FFS. The DC is on the first surface and includes at least one transistor. The CP is in the cavity and is partially exposed by the cavity. The conductive line electrically connects the CP to the DC. The light-emitting device is in the display region and is electrically connected to the DC. The support substrate is on the second surface. In a view normal to the second surface, the support substrate is spaced apart from the CP.
US11812632B2
A display device includes a base, a light emitting element disposed on the base, a capping layer disposed on the light emitting element, a thin-film encapsulation layer which is disposed on the capping layer and includes an inorganic layer at the bottom, and a wavelength conversion pattern which is disposed on the thin-film encapsulation layer and overlaps the light emitting element. The capping layer includes a first sub-capping layer disposed on the light emitting element and a second sub-capping layer disposed between the first sub-capping layer and the inorganic layer, and a refractive index of the second sub-capping layer is greater than a refractive index of the inorganic layer and smaller than a refractive index of the first sub-capping layer.
US11812618B2
A nonvolatile memory device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel layer, a gate dielectric layer structure disposed on the channel layer, a ferroelectric layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer structure, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the ferroelectric layer. The gate dielectric layer structure has a positive capacitance. The ferroelectric layer has a negative capacitance. The gate dielectric layer structure includes a charge tunneling layer, a charge trap layer and a charge barrier layer disposed on the channel layer.
US11812617B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory stack on a substrate, the memory stack including gate electrodes, insulating layers and mold layers, the mold layers being disposed at the same levels as the gate electrodes in a through electrode area, a channel structure extending vertically through the gate electrodes in a cell array area, and a dam structure disposed between the isolation insulating layers and surrounding the through electrode area in a top view. The dam structure includes a dam insulating layer having a dam shape, an inner insulating layer inside the dam insulating layer, and an outer insulating layer outside the dam insulating layer. The inner insulating layer includes first protrusions protruding in a horizontal direction, and the outer insulating layer includes second protrusions protruding in the horizontal direction.
US11812610B2
Electronic devices (e.g., semiconductor devices, which may be configured for 3D NAND memory devices), comprise pillars extending through a stack of alternating conductive tiers and insulative tiers. The conductive tiers, which may include control gates for access lines (e.g., word lines), include conductive rails along an outer sidewall of the conductive tiers, distal from the pillars extending through the conductive tiers. The conductive rails protrude laterally beyond outer sidewalls of the insulative tiers. The conductive rails increase the amount of conductive material that may otherwise be in the conductive tiers, which may enable the conductive material to exhibit a lower electrical resistance, improving operational performance of the electronic devices.
US11812608B2
A semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory and a logic circuit. The non-volatile memory includes a stacked structure comprising a first insulating layer, a floating gate, a second insulating layer, a control gate and a third insulating layer stacked in this order from a substrate; an erase gate line; and a word line. The logic circuit includes a field effect transistor comprising a gate electrode. The word line includes a protrusion, and a height of the protrusion from the substrate is higher than a height of the erase gate line from the substrate. The word line and the gate electrode are formed of polysilicon.
US11812606B2
Disclosed herein is a method that includes forming a gate trench in a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate insulating film on an inner wall of the gate trench, forming a gate electrode in the gate trench via the gate insulating film, ashing a top surface of the gate electrode to form a first insulating film, and forming a gate cap insulating film embedded in the gate trench to cover the first insulating film.
US11812594B2
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display module including a display panel and a guide plate, a flexible printed circuit board extending from the display panel, a source printed circuit board connected to the flexible printed circuit board and attached to the guide plate, at least one driving chip disposed on the source printed circuit board, and a protective member disposed to cover the flexible printed circuit board, the source printed circuit board, and the driving chip.
US11812589B2
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a refrigerant distribution unit (RDU) distributes first refrigerant from a refrigerant reservoir to one or more cold plates to extract heat from at least one computing device and also interfaces between a first refrigerant cooling loop having a first refrigerant and a second refrigerant cooling loop, so that a second refrigerant cooling loop uses second refrigerant to dissipate at least part of such heat through a second condenser unit to an ambient environment.
US11812588B2
Systems and methods for managing airflow for cooling computing devices in a data center in normal and cold environments are disclosed. Computing devices are positioned on racks, and an air barrier may be connected to the racks and have openings configured to permit air to be drawn through the computing devices by cooling fans. In a first mode, cool air may be drawn in from a cold aisle, and heated air may be exhausted into a hot aisle. Temperature sensors may periodically measure temperatures for the cool air being drawn into the computing devices. A controller may select a subset of the computing devices for air flow reversal in response to the measured temperatures being below a predetermined threshold. Patterns that may be time-varying and temperature-varying may be used to select the computing devices for air flow reversal and to adjust the fan speed of the computing devices.
US11812584B2
A device for transferring heat from a device component to an environment includes a heat plate connected to a spring. A first fastener attaches the spring to the heat plate at a first location. A second fastener, such as a rivet, attaches the spring to the heat plate at each of a second and a third location. The second fastener includes a tab on and extending above the heat plate and corresponding tab slot on the spring. The spring is riveted to the heat plate at the first location and a second spring member accepts the tab at each of the second location and the third location. Ribs on a top surface of spring facilitate thermal coupling of the spring to the component when the device is assembled. One or more spring curvatures facilitate vertical deflection and horizontal extension of the spring during device assembly.
US11812580B2
A breakout cable, including a first portion of the cable coupled to a network switch, wherein at least a first section of the first portion is located within a volume inside of side walls of the computing rack, the first section of the first portion including first and second connectors and extending in a first direction; a second portion of the cable including a third connector, the third connector coupled to the first connector of the first portion and the first network interface module connected to a first server, the second portion of the cable extending in a second direction transverse to the first direction; a third portion of the cable including a fourth connector and, the fourth connector coupled to the second connector of the first portion and the second network interface module connected to a second server, the third portion of the cable extending in the second direction.
US11812575B2
A server system comprises a deck, a front panel arranged on the deck and defining a collecting space; two doors arranged on opposite sides of the deck, and being perpendicular to the front panel; two receiving frame structures arranged between the doors in a back to back arrangement, and configured to receive multiple rows and columns of a plurality of storage drives horizontally, wherein two periphery corridors are each defined between one of the doors and one of the receiving frame structure facing the one door; two circuit boards arranged between the two receiving frame structures, wherein the two circuit boards comprise a plurality of slits, wherein a central corridor is defined between the two circuit boards; a storage cover disposed above the deck over the two periphery corridors, the central corridor, the two receiving frame structures, and the two circuit boards.
US11812573B2
A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal, a second electrode facing the first electrode across the first region, a first resistor provided on the first conductive film in the second region and having a pair of electrodes, the pair of electrodes facing each other across a first resistance region in the first conductive film, one of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second electrode, the other of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second terminal, and a first switch electrically connecting the first conductive film to the second conductive film, in the second region.
US11812565B2
A display apparatus includes a flexible display panel, a drive board that drives the display panel, a flexible board that connects the display panel and the drive board, a core to which the drive board is fixed, rolls up the display panel and the flexible board, and a connection member including a plate-shaped member that is layered on the display panel, connects the display panel and the core, and is rolled up around the core along with the display panel and the flexible board. The plate-shaped member includes a first part overlapping the display panel and curved when the display panel is rolled up around the core and a second part overlapping the flexible board and curved when the flexible board is rolled up around the core. In a roll-up direction, an elongation rate of the second part is smaller than that of the first part.
US11812559B2
A flexible electronic structure includes a first film, made of a first polymer or glass, and a second film, made of a second polymer, in which at least one electronic component is arranged. The second film covers the first film. The flexible electronic structure also includes at least one electrically conductive track arranged between the first film and the second film, and each electrically connected to one of the electronic components, by a respective interconnection element. Optionally, the flexible electronic structure includes a third film, made of a third polymer or glass, covering the second film. The interconnection element is arranged near the neutral plane of the structure, and the structure includes at least one compensation layer, so as to position the neutral plane at a desired location.
US11812557B2
A method of making an electrical device is described. The method comprises the steps: (i) providing a layer of interlayer material having a first major surface and a second opposing major surface; (ii) positioning at least a first electrically operable component on the first major surface of the first layer of interlayer material, the first electrically operable component being mounted on a first circuit board; and (iii) providing a layer of adhesive material, preferably as a liquid, to cover at least a portion of the first major surface of the layer of interlayer material and at least a portion of the first electrically operable component and/or at least a portion of the first circuit board such that following step (iii) the first electrically operable component is fixed on the layer of interlayer material by at least a portion of the layer of adhesive material.
US11812554B2
A layout structure of flexible circuit board includes a flexible substrate, a chip and a circuit layer. A chip mounting area and a circuit area are defined on a top surface of the flexible substrate. The chip is mounted on the chip mounting area, a space exists between a first bump and a second bump of the chip, and there are no additional bumps between the first and second bumps. A first inner lead, a second inner lead, a first dummy lead and a second dummy lead of the circuit layer are located on the chip mounting area. The first and second inner leads are electrically connected to the first and second bumps respectively. The first dummy lead is connected to the first inner lead and adjacent to the first bump, and the second dummy lead is connected to the second inner lead and adjacent to the second bump.
US11812553B2
A conductive trace interconnect tape for use with a printed circuit board or a flexible circuit substrate comprises a top insulating layer, an electrically conductive layer, and a bottom insulating layer. The top insulating layer is formed from electrically insulating material and is configured to provide electrical isolation from electrically conductive objects that are positioned on top of the conductive trace interconnect tape. The electrically conductive layer is positioned underneath the top insulating layer. The electrically conductive layer is formed from electrically conductive material and includes electrical interconnect traces, electrical component pads, or electrically conductive planar portions. The bottom insulating layer is positioned underneath the electrically conductive layer. The bottom insulating layer is formed from electrically insulating material and is configured to provide electrical isolation from electrically conductive objects that are positioned on the printed circuit board or flexible circuit substrate.
US11812552B2
A printed circuit board, includes: a first insulating layer on which a wiring line is disposed; a second insulating layer covering an upper portion of the wiring line; a first conductive shield wall spaced apart from two opposing sides of the wiring line in a width direction of the wiring line, and extending in a length direction of the wiring line; and a second conductive shield wall spaced apart from two opposing ends of the first conductive shield wall in the length direction, and extending the a width direction. At least one of the first conductive shield wall or the second conductive shield wall includes a plurality of via walls each extending in a thickness direction of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer and having a gap is disposed therebetween.
US11812549B2
A package device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The package device includes a redistribution layer. The redistribution layer includes a first dielectric layer, a conductive layer, and a second dielectric layer, and the conductive layer is disposed between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, wherein the redistribution layer has a test mark, the test mark includes a conductive pattern formed of the conductive layer, the conductive pattern includes a center portion and a plurality of extension portions, and the plurality of extension portions are respectively connected to the center portion.
US11812534B2
The present invention provides a transceiver (1) for a local lighting system (L1), preferably a local lighting system based on the DALI-2 industry standard, comprising a bus (2) and a control unit (3) electrically connected to the bus (2) for controlling communication via the bus (2). The transceiver (1) comprises a transmitter (1a) configured to transmit wireless signals to a global lighting system (14) comprising one or more luminaires (L2 . . . LN), a receiver (1b) configured to receive wireless signals from the global lighting system (14), and a processing unit (1c) configured to process the received wireless signals from the global lighting system (14). The processing unit (1c) of the transceiver (1) is configured to convert the received wireless signals into bus signals such that the transceiver (1) behaves as an input device of the local lighting system (L1) when electrically connected to the bus (2).
US11812529B2
An electronic driver for transforming an electronic ballast input voltage into an operating voltage for an LED lighting module. The driver includes a flicker eliminating circuit, which is adapted to operate in a saturation mode when the input voltage is below a threshold voltage. It operates in a switch mode when the input voltage is above a threshold voltage. A voltage drop in the flicker eliminating circuit in the saturation mode is higher than in the switch mode.
US11812523B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for processing workpieces are provided. In one example, the system includes a processing chamber. The system includes a workpiece support configured to support a workpiece within the processing chamber. The system includes a heat source configured to emit light toward the workpiece. The system includes a shutter disposed between the workpiece and the heat source. The shutter includes an electrochromic material configurable in a translucent state and an opaque state. When the electrochromic material is configured in the opaque state, the shutter reduces transmission of the light through the shutter, and when the electrochromic material is configured in the translucent state, the light at least partially passes through the shutter. The system includes a controller configured to control the shutter to reduce transmission of light through the shutter during a thermal treatment process.
US11812517B2
A UE in a wireless communication system supporting a shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method comprises: determining a set of DSCH transmission windows based on a window periodicity, a window duration, and a window offset; determining a first set of SS/PBCH blocks within a DSCH transmission window of the set of DSCH transmission windows, wherein the first set of SS/PBCH blocks is QCLed; determining a second set of SS/PBCH blocks across at least two DSCH transmission windows being different DSCH windows of the set of DSCH transmission windows, wherein the second set of SS/PBCH blocks is QCLed; and receiving at least one SS/PBCH block that is located in the first set of SS/PBCH blocks or the second set of SS/PBCH blocks based on QCL information of the first set of SS/PBCH blocks or the second set of SS/PBCH blocks within the DSCH transmission window.
US11812510B2
Vehicles in traffic cannot coordinate their actions properly in 5G and 6G without knowing the location and the wireless address of the other vehicle. GNSS signals are generally too slow and too imprecise to discern vehicles in, for example, adjacent lanes. Directional wireless beams are subject to reflections from conducting surfaces, producing chaotic signals and false locations if more than one vehicle is within the transmission beam. To provide precise localization in traffic, methods are disclosed for multiple vehicles (or other mobile devices) to acquire satellite signals simultaneously, and then analyze the data differentially, thereby canceling major uncertainties (such as propagation variations, ephemeris motion, and clock jitter), and thereby determining the relative positions precisely. Unlike prior-art “precision” positioning methods, the disclosed methods do not require averaging multiple acquisitions. On the contrary, examples show how high differential precision can be obtained without averaging, using measurements acquired at the predetermined time.
US11812504B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5th generation (5G) communication system or a pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) system such as long-term evolution (LTE), and to a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. Various embodiments may provide a method for managing context of a terminal in a mobile communication system.
US11812502B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for supporting early data transmission (EDT) by a base station. The method may comprise a step of receiving a first message from a mobility management entity (MME). A first NAS message may include downlink data. The method may further comprise a step of confirming that there is no additional data other than the downlink data, on the basis of reception of the first NAS message.
US11812501B2
A communication system is presented in which a base station operates a first cell using a first component carrier and a second cell using a second component carrier. A control channel and reference signals of a first type are provided using the first component carrier. The control channel and the reference signals of the first type are not provided, and reference signals of a second type are provided, using the second component carrier. The base station determines from results of measurements performed on reference signals of the second type whether or not the mobile communication device is within an area covered by said second cell and, if it is, transmits cell configuration information to the mobile communication device.
US11812498B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for sidelink discovery message forwarding. In some implementations, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a discovery message from a second UE. The discovery message may be part of a beam training procedure between the first UE and the second UE. The first UE may forward the discovery message to one or more other UEs based on a condition associated with one or more forwarding termination parameters being satisfied. The first UE may, in some implementations, select one of a broadcast transmission or a unicast transmission for forwarding the discovery message based on one or more parameters associated with the UE. The first UE may transmit the discovery message from the second UE to the one or more other UEs using the selected broadcast or unicast transmission when the condition is satisfied.
US11812493B2
A method and apparatus for data transfer in RRC_INACTIVE state is provided. Method for data transfer in RRC_INACTIVE state includes transmitting a UECapabilityInformation, receiving a RRCRelease the RRC release message includes a first information for a second resume procedure, receiving a system information the system information includes a first threshold and a second threshold, initiating a second resume procedure and cancelling triggered PHR.
US11812491B2
A communications device configured to transmit signals representing data to a first in-coverage communications device acting as source relay node for the communications device, the first in-coverage communications device configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, and to receive signals representing the data from the first in-coverage communications device acting as the source relay node. The source relay node is within a coverage area of the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, the source relay node being configured to transmit the signals representing the data received from the communications device to the infrastructure equipment and to transmit the signals representing the data to the communications device which are received from the infrastructure equipment.
US11812487B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, a device, an extender, and a computer medium for automatically restoring connections. In this method, a wireless extender records the number of packets received from an access point within a first predetermined time; the wireless extender compares the recorded number with a predetermined threshold; and in response to determining that the recorded number is smaller than the predetermined threshold, the wireless extender restarts a WiFi module used for WiFi communication in the wireless extender to reestablish a WiFi connection with the access point. By automatically detecting the WiFi connection status and automatically triggering the restart of the WiFi module, it is possible to attempt to restore the WiFi connection without manual intervention, thereby improving the efficiency of network restoration.
US11812480B2
A UE operating in a wireless network receives a paging message from the wireless network and performs a random access procedure in response to the paging message, where performing the random access procedure includes sending an indication of whether the UE will transmit a reply to an early data transmission from the wireless network to the UE. The network receives, as part of a random access procedure performed by the UE in response to the paging message, an indication of whether the UE will transmit a reply to an early data transmission from the wireless network to the UE.
US11812472B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by an access point, a frame, the frame assigning first resource units to first devices participating in a multi-user transmission with the access point during a transmission opportunity, and further indicating second resource units available during the transmission opportunity for transmissions to other devices, transmitting the frame; and receiving the multi-user transmission from the first devices according to the resource unit assignments.
US11812467B2
In an 802.11ax network with an access point, a trigger frame offers scheduled and random resource units to nodes for data uplink communication to the access point. To avoid the overall energy level seen by legacy nodes for a communication channel to drop below a detection threshold, the invention provides two tools. First, the scheduled and random resource units may be interleaved over communication channels. Second, unused resource units may be detected, and a node or the access point may send a padding signal on them to increase the overall energy level. The latter may be evaluated during a monitoring period before deciding to emit the signal. As the overall energy level seen by legacy nodes is increased, the risk that such legacy nodes do not detect activity on a 20 MHz channel having only a subpart of its RUs used is reduced. And risks of collisions are consequently reduced.
US11812458B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support relaxed sensing for new radio (NR) sidelink over millimeter wave (mmW) operating frequencies. In a first aspect, a method by a user equipment (UE) of wireless communication includes identifying a resource selection trigger that indicates selection of one or more sidelink slots from a resource selection window. The UE may obtain long-term interference sensing statistics observed by the UE prior to the resource selection trigger. The UE can reduce a default sensing window length in accordance with the long-term interference sensing statistics and transmit a sidelink transmission in the selected sidelink slots. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11812457B2
A configuration to enable a wireless device to resolve a conflict between configured transmit beams and configured receive beams in a self-interference measurement configuration. The first wireless device receives, from a second wireless device, a configuration for a self-interference measurement. The first wireless device determines whether a conflict is present between a configured transmit beam and a configured receive beam. The first wireless device resolves the conflict between the configured transmit beam and the configured receive beam. Similarly, a second wireless device configures a configuration for a self-interference measurement for a first wireless device. The second wireless device determines whether a conflict is present between a configured transmit beam and a configured receive beam of the configuration. The second wireless device resolves the conflict between the configured transmit beam and the configured receive beam. The second wireless device transmits, to the first wireless device, the configuration for the self-interference measurement.
US11812452B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for transmitting signal and channel information in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: determining a first time domain position associated with a transmission of a first block according to a first configuration; and transmitting a second block at the first time domain position according to a second configuration, wherein the second configuration is different from the first configuration.
US11812451B2
A method includes receiving a first data block including an identifier for a component, receiving a second data block including usage data for the component and a link to the first data block, storing the first and second data blocks in a blockchain, and allocating respective usage tokens to each of a plurality of entities based on the usage data.
US11812448B2
Systems and methods for facilitating wireless intercom in a local communications network are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate and transmit a first broadcast packet and a second broadcast packet to a set of end-user communication devices; receive a first device-specific packet, on a first channel by a first central antenna and during a first uplink time period; receive a second device-specific packet, on the first channel by the first central antenna and during a second uplink time period; receive the first device-specific packet, on a second channel by a second central antenna and during a third uplink time period; receive the second device-specific packet, on the second channel by the second central antenna and during a fourth uplink time period; generate a third broadcast packet that includes packetized downlink information; and transmit the third broadcast packet to the set of end-user communication devices.
US11812439B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a relay/repeater unit (RU) in an integrated access/fronthaul (IAF) network, receives, from an upstream node, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message associated with a scheduled physical uplink control or shared channel (PUXCH) transmission from a downstream node at a scheduled time, and relays or repeats the first PDCCH message to the downstream node. If the scheduled PUXCH transmission associated with the first PDCCH message is not received from the downstream node at the scheduled time, the RU sends a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message associated with the scheduled PUXCH transmission to the upstream node. The RU may also or alternatively generate a second PDCCH message associated with a rescheduled PUXCH transmission and send the second PDCCH message to the downstream node.
US11812435B2
A method and system for reporting multi-beam channel state information, CSI, in a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes providing an indication of a plurality of beam index pairs, (lk, mk), in the UCI in a first transmission, each beam index pair corresponding to a beam k. The method also includes providing an indication of at least one of a beam power, a beam rotation and a channel quality index, CQI, in the UCI in a second transmission. The method also includes transmitting at least one of the indication of beam index pairs, beam power, beam rotation and CQI.
US11812434B2
A method for reporting a channel status and a device, where the method includes: a terminal receiving configuration signaling for semi-persistent channel state information (CSI) reporting, wherein the configuration signaling comprises one or more reporting periods of CSI of N cells, wherein the N cells are used for data communication of the terminal, and wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; the terminal receiving channel status request signaling, wherein the channel status request signaling indicates to the terminal to report the CSI of the N cells; and the terminal transmitting, according to the one or more reporting periods, the CSI of the N cells.
US11812423B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a configuration indicating a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state switching pattern and a TCI state switching period to a user equipment (UE). The UE may perform TCI state switching according to the TCI state switching pattern and period, and the UE may receive a downlink transmission according to the TCI state switching pattern. The UE may receive a downlink control information (DCI) including an indication of a TCI state for a subsequent TTI. The UE may receive the downlink signal in accordance with both the TCI state switching pattern and the indication in the DCI. The UE may receive a configuration message indicating a first DCI state, receive a DCI indicating a second TCI state for a subsequent TTI, switch to the second TCI state, and receive a downlink signal using the second TCI state.
US11812420B2
Aspects described herein relate to configuring, at a device, default beam information for determining a beam for data channel communications. The device can determine to use the default beam information for configuring the beam for a data channel communication based on determining explicit beam information is not configured. In addition, the device can transmit, based on determining to use the default beam information, the data channel communication based on the beam configured using the default beam information.
US11812417B2
A method performed by a first network node operating in a wireless communications network is described herein. The first network node initiates sending a first indication to a first wireless device operating in the wireless communications network using NB-IoT. The first indication indicates that a first carrier, the first carrier being a standalone Narrow Band-Internet of Things, NB-IoT, carrier operating within a New Radio, NR, carrier, is: a) deployed in one of: a guardband mode and an inband mode, and b) shifted away by a frequency offset from a frequency channel raster grid used by the first wireless device.
US11812416B2
According to embodiments described herein, a long delay-detector improves delay estimation performance for PRACH for many practical deployment scenarios. This, for example, reduces the risk that the timing advance of the UE is set incorrectly and hence reduces the risk that subsequent communication fails and that the UE spreads unnecessary interference to other communication in the system.
US11812414B2
Systems and methods provide solutions for delay and interruption requirements for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) sidelink carrier aggregation (CA). For example, when any number of component carriers is added for V2X CA, a user equipment (UE) capable of V2X sidelink communication is allowed an interruption of up to two subframes to the cellular network. The interruption may be for both uplink and downlink of a serving cell or primary cell.
US11812407B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for sending information, methods and apparatuses for receiving information, base stations, user equipment and computer readable storage media. The method of sending information includes: receiving auxiliary information of UE reported by the UE; determining to enter a reduced paging transmission area state according to the auxiliary information and pre-stored capability information of the UE; reducing a paging transmission area according to the reduced paging transmission area state; sending a wake-up signal or a wake-up channel for the UE within the reduced paging transmission area, where the reduced paging transmission area is a sub-area of a tracking area; and sending a paging message for the UE within the reduced paging transmission area. In examples of the present disclosure, the paging message for the UE is sent within the reduced paging transmission area, which effectively reduces signaling overhead.
US11812406B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support a reduction in false positive paging. In some implementations, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE) from a base station, a paging downlink control information (DCI). The paging DCI message is encoded to indicate an addressee of a paging message or indicates one or more UEs or a location of radio resources of the paging message in a time dimension, a frequency dimension, or both. The method also includes determining, at the UE, whether the paging message is addressed to the UE based on: an encoding of the paging DCI message, whether the one or more UEs include the UE, or the location of the radio resources of the paging message in the time dimension, the frequency dimension, or both. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11812401B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for managing a connection state of a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) that is in Mobile Initiated Communication Only (MICO) mode are disclosed. One representative method may include the WTRU obtaining information indicating that the WTRU is to initiate registration prior to sending a Service Request (SR). The representative method may further include the WTRU sending a registration request in accordance with the obtained information and sending a SR after registering with a Network Entity.
US11812396B2
A transmitter (e.g. a packet data convergence protocol, PDCP, in the transmitter), which may be a base station for downlink communications or a user equipment device for uplink communications, may control timing of the delivery of duplicate (same) packets to multiple (e.g. two) wireless links (e.g. radio link control links) for transmission to a receiver, based at least on synchronization information received from the receiver. The duplicate packets may be transmitted over the multiple wireless links to the receiver, which may receive the duplicate packets over the multiple wireless links. The receiver may collect and/or generate synchronization information indicative of the timing or latency between the multiple wireless links, based at least on the respective receive timings of the duplicate packets over the multiple wireless links. The receiver may transmit a report containing the synchronization information to the transmitter periodically and/or in response to a trigger event.
US11812395B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling the transmission power of a sounding reference signal (SRS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises: connecting to a serving cell; receiving an RS resource for acquiring path loss used for the transmission power of an SRS; determining measurement for the path loss on the basis of the RS resource; and controlling the transmission power of the SRS on the basis of the determination on the measurement, wherein the RS resource is related to a neighbor cell, a measurement value of the path loss is used to control the transmission power, on the basis that measurement for the RS resource has succeeded, and information related to a power setting, acquired from the serving cell can be used to control the transmission power, on the basis that the measurement for the RS resource has failed.
US11812394B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a source user equipment (UE) may transmit a first sidelink communication to a target UE. The source UE may receive, based at least in part on transmitting the first sidelink communication to the target UE, a transmit power control command for a second sidelink communication. The source UE may transmit the second sidelink communication using a transmit power determined based at least in part on the transmit power control command. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11812392B2
A wireless communication apparatus outputs first and second beams, based on a weighting vector representing gain and/or phase weighting. The apparatus derives a weighting vector corresponding to a maximum eigen value of a matrix obtained by subtracting, from a first matrix representing a main lobe output power of the first beam, a matrix obtained by multiplying a second matrix representing a side lobe output power of the first beam to a reduction ratio for reducing the side lobe output power of the first beam interfering with a main lobe of the second beam. The apparatus determines whether or not a power ratio of the main lobe output power of the first beam with respect to the side lobe output power of the first beam is greater than a maximum SIRmax, and extracts the weighting vector when the power ratio is not larger than the maximum SIRmax.
US11812386B2
A configuration adjustment method includes: determining, among businesses run by the terminal, a target business for which a heat generating speed is greater than a first preset speed, when a temperature of the terminal is higher than a preset temperature; sending information of the target business to a base station; reducing a wireless transmission configuration for the target business according to a received first adjustment command of the base station for the target business.
US11812379B1
Techniques for improving the power management of devices are described. In an example, a device transitions into a power save mode. While in the power save mode, the device performs a number of operations. The operations include transitioning into an awake state and determining that the device has no data to transmit to a network access device. The operations also include determining a sequence number associated with data transmission to the network access device. The operations further include generating a frame that includes a header field and a payload field. The header field includes the sequence number and power management data. The power management data indicates a transition of the device to the awake state. Additionally, the operations include transmitting the frame to the network access device.
US11812373B2
Optimal determination of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) sounding method and system may be provided. An Access Point (AP) selects a subchannel for the partial sounding. The AP then sounds the selected subchannel. A client station responds with Channel State Information (CSI). The AP can receive the CSI, from the client station, in response to the sounding. Based on the CSI from the selected subchannel, the AP extrapolates the CSI to determine predicted CSI for a wider bandwidth channel.
US11812361B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to using protected beacon frames in wireless communications. A device may determine a beacon management element of a beacon frame body and may determine an integrity group key identifier of the beacon management element, wherein the integrity group key identifier is associated with a basic service set (BSS). The device may determine, based on the integrity group key identifier, a management integrity check (MIC) field of the beacon management element. The device may generate a beacon frame including the beacon frame body. The device may send the beacon frame.
US11812353B2
A user equipment (UE) is associated with a cellular network, the UE and the cellular network are configured with a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) functionality, the DRX functionality including a cycle with a plurality of onDurations. The UE receives an indication of at least one parameter the cellular network is to utilize for the transmission of an emergency message, generates a monitoring schedule based on the indication of the at least one parameter, wherein the monitoring schedule does not include at least one of the plurality of onDurations and activates a mode of operation where the UE monitors for the emergency message based on the monitoring schedule.
US11812345B2
A method may be performed by a sending mobile phone that transmits SMS messages and transmits packet switched messages via a PSMS. The method may comprise sending first information representing a phone number of a first receiving mobile phone and receiving a first response to the sending of the first information. After the first response is received by the sending mobile phone, an SMS message may be sent to the first receiving mobile phone, based on the first response. Second information representing a phone number of a second receiving mobile phone may be sent by the sending mobile phone and a second response to the sending of the second information may be received. After the second response is received by the sending mobile phone, a message may be sent via a WLAN and the PSMS, to the second receiving mobile phone, based on the second response.
US11812344B2
A system that determines that devices are co-located in an acoustic region and selects a single device to which to send incoming notifications for the acoustic region. The system may group devices into separate acoustic regions based on selection data that selects between similar audio data received from multiple devices. The system may select the best device for each acoustic region based on a frequency that the device was selected previously, input/output capabilities of the device, a proximity to a user, or the like. The system may send a notification to a single device in each of the acoustic regions so that a user receives a single notification instead of multiple unsynchronized notifications. The system may also determine that acoustic regions are associated with different locations and select acoustic regions to which to send a notification based on location.
US11812342B2
A method for creating a correction function for improving the accuracy of a GPS device collects multiple time samples at multiple known locations wherein each time sample consists of GPS coordinates and associated satellite data from multiple satellites. The satellite data includes or permits determination of (i) satellite azimuth and elevation of an associated satellite, (ii) Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a received signal from the associated satellite, and optionally (iii) pseudo-range. For each time sample a respective error between the known location and the corresponding GPS coordinates is computed and an error correction function is created as a function of the respective GPS coordinates and the satellite data by applying deep learning/machine learning techniques to the multiple time samples.
US11812341B2
A hyper-precise positioning and communications (HPPC) system and network are provided. The HPPC system is a next-generation positioning technology that promises a low-cost, high-performance solution to the need for more sophisticated positioning technologies in increasingly cluttered environments. The HPPC system is a joint positioning-communications radio technology that simultaneously performs relative positioning and secure communications. Both of these tasks are performed with a single, co-use waveform, which efficiently utilizes limited resources and supports higher user densities. Aspects of this disclosure include an HPPC system for a network which includes an arbitrary number of network nodes (e.g., radio frequency (RF) devices communicating over a joint positions-communications waveform). As such, networking protocols and design of data link and physical layers are described herein. An exemplary embodiment extends the HPPC system for use with existing cellular networks, such as third generation partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) and fifth generation (5G) networks.
US11812338B2
In an aspect, a UE obtains information (e.g., UE-specific information) associated with a set of triggering criteria (e.g., from a server, a serving network, e.g., in conjunction with or separate from a set of neural network functions) for a set of neural network functions. The UE obtains positioning measurement data associated with a location of the UE, and processes the positioning measurement data into a respective set of positioning measurement features based at least in part upon the positioning measurement data and at least one neural network function from the set of neural network functions that is triggered by at least one triggering criterion from the set of triggering criteria. The UE reports the processed set of positioning measurement features to a network component (e.g., BS, LMF, etc.).
US11812331B2
A method for map query includes the following. A map query request and a current location of a terminal device are obtained. A map area to be displayed and a query object to be highlighted in the map area are obtained based on the map query request and the current location. A display icon corresponding to the query object is generated. A radar chart of the map area is drawn based on the current location, and the location where the query object is located is marked with the display icon.
US11812328B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, adaptively modifying a rate at which anchors broadcast messages into an area of interest based on tag presence status, where the messages may be used by tags to estimate tag position. Tag presence status may include an indication of whether a tag is present, a tag's position, velocity, acceleration, history, and the like. Areas of interest may be redefined based at least in part on tag presence status. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11812327B2
Distributed muster includes distributing to different mobile devices an identity of an assigned muster location of an ocean-going vessel, and associating each mobile device both with a corresponding passenger of the ocean-going vessel, and also with the assigned muster location. Thereafter, a timer initiates that defines a period during which a muster drill must be completed by all of the passengers and, in response, a message is transmitted to each mobile device that the muster drill has commenced. During the period, as each mobile device is sensed within a geographically defined area of a correspondingly assigned muster location, a record of the completion of the muster drill by the passenger associated with the sensed mobile device is recorded in the memory. As well, subsequent to a lapsing of the timer, a listing is displayed of any passenger not recorded as having completed the muster drill.
US11812323B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a terminal behavior triggering method and a terminal. The method includes: detecting an environment parameter of a terminal and a terminal status parameter of the terminal; determining a target situation event based on the environment parameter and/or the terminal status parameter; and if the environment parameter meets a first preset condition, and the terminal status parameter meets a second preset condition, triggering a terminal behavior corresponding to the target situation event.
US11812318B2
A system and method in a user equipment (UE) for transferring an emergency session from a first network to a second network. The method includes transmitting a first registration request message to the second network; receiving a registration reject message from the second network; detecting the emergency session between the UE and the first network is ongoing; transmitting a second registration request message comprising an emergency registration request to the second network; and receiving a registration accept message for the emergency session.
US11812297B2
The present invention is a radio communication system having quality measurement means configured to execute quality measurement related to a service quality in communication between a radio terminal and a radio station, and information collection means configured to collect information related to a location of the radio terminal to be a target for the quality measurement, the radio communication system comprising: means configured to associate the information related to the location of the radio terminal when a predetermined condition is satisfied in an execution period of the quality measurement with results of the quality measurement.
US11812288B2
A system, method and apparatus for presentation of sensor information to a building control system. Nodes in the sensor network can be configured to emulate a monitoring device in presenting sensor information to a data collection device such as a building control system.
US11812286B2
Radio access network controller-based mobility optimization is disclosed. Mobility reports are received at a radio access network controller from multiple network node devices, each mobility report reporting at least one individual failure event to complement one or more aggregated mobility event counters and/or one or more aggregated performance measurement reports. The mobility reports are related to client devices in one or more service areas. The radio access network controller analyzes the received mobility reports. In response to the analyzing resulting in a perceived need for an update of a cell configuration of a service area of the one or more service areas, the radio access network controller determines updated cell configuration information for the service area. The updated cell configuration information is transmitted from the radio access network controller to-wards at least one network node device in the service area.
US11812281B2
A measurement method, a terminal, and a network-side device are provided. The method applied to a terminal side includes: acquiring first system information sent by a network-side device in a case that the terminal is in a non-connected state; performing a corresponding measurement operation according to the first system information. In the present disclosure, through first system information, the terminal in a non-connected state is enabled to determine and perform a corresponding measurement operation according to the first system information.
US11812277B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for silencing signal transmissions by a user equipment (UE). Silencing signals may be transmitted periodically during shared spectrum downlink communications from a serving base station to the UE to prevent an interfering node from passing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure. The silencing signal transmissions may be configured by the base station and enabled in cases where potential interfering nodes are detected. An interfering node may be notified that silencing signals are being used, and may adjust a periodicity or wait time of its LBT procedures based on the silencing signal periodicity.
US11812255B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems and computer program products for sidelink communication to operate in a power efficient manner. The method comprises determining, at a user equipment, information related to a sidelink traffic load in a first set of resources. The user equipment is configured with an indication of the first set of resources and an indication of a second set of resources. The method also comprises determining the sidelink traffic load in the first set of resources based, at least partially, on the determined information. The method further comprises, based on the determined sidelink traffic load, determining a third set of resources for monitoring. In addition, the method comprises monitoring the third set of resources.
US11812249B2
A speaker device comprising two membranes facing each other, and two drive units arranged for driving the two membranes in opposite direction in operation. A vented frame element and a closed frame element are positioned outward on either side of the two membranes. At least one bellows element is connected on a first side to the membrane which is positioned closest to the closed frame element, and connected on a second side to the closed frame element.
US11812245B2
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for providing three-dimensional stereo sound
The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for providing three-dimensional stereo sound to a vehicle to promote active safety and awareness to hazards. For instance, the present disclosure describes a method for providing three-dimensional stereo sound comprising receiving data signals from sensors positioned around an exterior of a vehicle, detecting a hazard based on the received data signals, determining characteristics of the detected hazard, generating an alert based on the determined characteristics of the detected hazard, and outputting the generated alert as the three-dimensional stereo sound via speakers arranged around an interior of the vehicle, the outputted alert communicating to a driver of the vehicle the determined characteristics of the detected hazard.
US11812229B2
A patient monitor can diagnose whether its speaker is blocked, malfunctioning, or at a volume that is too low. For example, the monitor can include a processor that can diagnose the speaker by recording a microphone input signal. The processor can compare the microphone input signal to an expected alarm signal that should be output by the speaker. If the two do not match or reasonably correspond to one another, then the processor may increase the volume of the alarm to determine whether doing so can overcome an obstruction, noise, or potential malfunction. The microphone can again detect the speaker output, and the processor can again make another comparison or analysis of the input with the speaker output. If the speaker output as detected via the microphone is still insufficiently loud, then the patient monitor may output an indication that the speaker has a problem.
US11812228B2
Examples are provided for establishing a bonded zone comprising a first playback device comprising a respective first wireless radio and a second playback device comprising a second respective wireless radio. The first and second playback devices may establish a bonded zone comprising at least the first and second playback device. While in the established bonded zone, the first playback device may determine that the first playback device is in the established bonded zone and that the first playback device is not currently playing audio in synchrony with the second playback device. Responsive to determining that the first playback device is not playing audio in synchrony, the first playback device may disable communicating via the first wireless radio of the first playback device and send a message to the second playback device to disable communicating via the first wireless radio of the second playback device.
US11812223B2
A method, comprising receiving at least one sound at an electronic device. The at least one sound is enhanced for the at least one user based on a compound metric. The compound metric is calculated using at least two sound metrics selected from an engineering metric, a perceptual metric, and a physiological metric. The engineering metric comprises a difference between an output signal and a desired signal. At least one of the perceptual metric and the physiological metric is based at least in part on input sensed from the at least one user in response to the received at least one sound.
US11812219B2
Embodiments for one-way sound absorbing systems are described herein. In one example, a sound absorbing system includes a waveguide having open ends for receiving an incoming acoustic wave and wall portions defining a first port and a second port. A first electroacoustic absorber is mounted to the first port and is electrically connected to a shunting circuit, while a second electroacoustic absorber is mounted to the second port and is electrically connected to an open circuit. The sound absorption of the system is directional dependent.
US11812214B2
Disclosed are a communication control method, apparatus and system, and a charging case and a wireless earphone. The method includes: acquiring, when a charging case is connected with a first wireless earphone though a first power supply pin and a second power supply pin, first to-be-transmitted data if the charging case is to communicate with the first wireless earphone; and controlling a first single-pole double-throw switch to connect the first power supply pin with a first TxRx and level conversion circuit, sequentially transmitting a predetermined start code and the first to-be-transmitted data to the first wireless earphone through the first power supply pin, where the first wireless earphone controls a first predetermined charging pin to be connected with a second TxRx and level conversion circuit based on the predetermined start code, and receives the first to-be-transmitted data.
US11812209B2
Example embodiments provide a device that includes a support plate having a flat base portion and an elongated portion which extends perpendicular to the flat base portion, and a housing embodying one or more of a microphone and a speaker, and a housing backside having a set of screw holes configured to receive a set of screws to secure the support plate flat base portion to be flush mounted against the housing.
US11812208B2
A method and a device for reducing noise of a wireless-earphone, a wireless-earphone and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. In the method, a first electromagnetic signal from a slave earphone is received, and the first electromagnetic signal is converted to an audio signal. The first electromagnetic signal is obtained by a coil inducing an audio signal acquired by a microphone in the slave earphone. A to-be-denoised earphone is determined based on audio signals acquired by microphones in the earphones. It is determined whether an audio signal acquired by a microphone in the to-be-denoised earphone has a voice feature. Noise reduction processing is performed on the audio signal acquired by the microphone in the to-be-denoised earphone by using a filter in a case that the audio signal acquired by the microphone in the to-be-denoise earphone has the voice feature.
US11812207B2
Provided is a method for remote monitoring of a production plant and in particular a packaging plant, the plant has a plurality of working units as well as a data collection device, to which these working units are connected at least partially and/or at least intermittently for data transmission, wherein the data collection device collects relevant data for the working units and wherein a data transmission device transmits data from the data collection device to a data recording device, wherein at least one characteristic and in particular a type and/or a scope of the data to be transmitted can be determined by a user and in particular by a user of the data collection device.
US11812199B2
An image capturing device according to one embodiment includes a camera unit configured to capture images of a surrounding environment and generate image data, a suction-attachment unit configured to support the camera unit and be fixed on a suction-attachment subject surface by a user, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the image data can be output to a recording unit, and a controller configured to control output of the image data to the recording unit, based on a determination result by the determination unit.
US11812193B2
In some embodiments, a system for providing DisplayPort communication over an extension medium is provided. The system comprises an upstream facing port device (UFP device) and a downstream facing port device (DFP device). The UFP device is configured to conduct link training with a DisplayPort source device using first DisplayPort configuration data (DPCD). The DFP device is configured to conduct link training with the DisplayPort sink device using second DPCD different from the first DPCD. The UFP device is configured to extract video data from DisplayPort data received from the DisplayPort source device and transmit the video data to the DFP device. The DFP device is configured to receive the video data, generate DisplayPort data as specified by the second DPCD, and transmit the generated DisplayPort data to the DisplayPort sink device as specified by the second DPCD.
US11812191B2
A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a second acquisition unit acquiring the third luminance signal and setting information indicating display settings recommended to the display apparatus in display of the video; a display setting unit setting the display apparatus, using the setting information; a third luminance converter converting a third code value indicated by the third luminance signal into a second luminance value compatible with a second luminance range, using the setting information; and a display controller displaying the video on the display apparatus based on the second luminance value.
US11812186B2
Systems and processes are provided for interactive reassignment of character faces in an audio video program. An audio video input receives an audio video program. A user interface receives a request to substitute an original character face within the audio video program with an alternative character face. The system uses a buffer to delay the audio video program and generate a delayed audio video program. A processor detects the original character face in the audio video program and replaces the original character face in the delayed audio video program with the alternative character face to generate a modified and delayed audio video program. The modified delayed audio video program is sent to a display and loudspeaker.
US11812184B2
An apparatus for performing image searches including a camera, storage devices storing a set of instructions, and a processor coupled to the at least one storage device and the camera. The instructions configure the at least one processor to perform operations including identifying attributes of the captured image using a classification model; identifying first results based on the identified attributes; selecting a subset of first results based on corresponding probability scores, generating a first graphical user interface including interactive icons corresponding to first results in the subset, an input icon, and a first button. The operations may also include receiving a selection of the first button, performing a search to identify second results, and generating a second graphical user interface displaying the second results.
US11812182B1
A method and system for using a vehicle camera to capture visual information for a home security system is described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting a trigger event to activate at least one home security camera of a home security system of a dwelling. The method also includes analyzing activity of a target person near the dwelling using the at least one home security camera. Based on the analyzed activity, the method includes activating at least one camera of a vehicle located at or near the dwelling. The method further includes capturing visual information associated with the target person using the at least one camera of the vehicle.
US11812170B2
A solid-state imaging element that includes a charge accumulation unit that accumulates a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, a reset transistor that selectively applies a reset voltage to the charge accumulation unit, an amplification transistor having a gate electrode being electrically connected to the charge accumulation unit, and a selection transistor connected in series to the amplification transistor. Additionally, the solid-state imaging element includes a first wiring electrically connecting the charge accumulation unit and the gate electrode of the amplification transistor, a second wiring electrically connected to a common connection node of the amplification transistor and the selection transistor and formed along the first wiring, a and third wiring electrically connecting the amplification transistor and the selection transistor.
US11812169B2
A dynamic vision sensor such as an event based vision sensor employs analog to digital converters (ADC), such as ramp ADCs, that analog to digital converts the signals from photoreceptors. Current and previous light values are then stored and compared digitally. In addition, log compression can be implemented by increasing the count linearly while increasing the reference voltage exponentially, or increasing the count logarithmically while increasing the reference voltage linearly.
US11812166B2
A display system includes a camera, a processor and a display. The camera is configured to shoot a first image and a second image in order. The processor is configured to generate a third image when a difference between the first image and the second image is larger than or equal to a preset difference value. The display is configured to display the first image and the third image in order when the difference is larger than or equal to the preset difference value. A display method and an image capture device are also disclosed herein.
US11812160B2
Systems, methods, devices, media, and instructions are described for fast video sensor adjustment. In one embodiment, a portable electronic device with image capturing capabilities automatically captures a first plurality of frames upon selection of an input button while sensors of the device are determining camera settings for the environment. The first plurality of frames are captured using different automatic bracketing settings. Once the camera settings are determined, a second plurality of images are captured using the determined camera settings. One or more of the first plurality of images are used along with the second plurality of images for a video file. The one or more images may be selected based on a match between certain of the automatic bracketing settings and the final camera settings.
US11812153B2
Systems and methods for fisheye camera calibration and BEV image generation in a simulation environment. This fisheye camera calibration enables the extrinsic and intrinsic parameters of the fisheye camera to be computed in the simulation environment, where data is readily available, collectible, and manipulatable. Given a surround vision system, with multiple fisheye cameras disposed around a vehicle, and these extrinsic and intrinsic parameters, undistorted and BEV images of the surroundings of the vehicle can be generated in the simulated environment, for simulated fisheye camera testing and validation, which may then be extrapolated to real-world fisheye camera testing and validation, as appropriate. Because the simulation tool can be used to create and readily manipulate the simulated fisheye camera, the vehicle, its surroundings, obstacles, targets, markers, and the like, the entire calibration and image generation process is streamlined and may be automated.
US11812145B2
An imaging device in which an autofocus function can be performed without using brightness information is provided. In an imaging device according to one aspect, a density of points obtained by plotting two-dimensional point data of a plurality of event data as points on a plane, the event data outputted from an imaging element in a predetermined period in a state in which a focal point of a light receiving lens is adjusted by an adjustment mechanism, is calculated as a point density. When the point density is calculated, a control unit drives and controls the adjustment mechanism based on comparison results between the point density currently calculated and the point density last calculated to thereby adjust the focal point toward the in-focus position. In another aspect, an imaging device having an autofocus function can be provided without using event data.
US11812136B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for trimming video. The program and method provide for providing a capture user interface for capturing a video to generate a media content item; displaying a preview user interface for previewing and editing the captured video to generate the media content item, the preview user interface including an interface element for selecting to trim the captured video or to set a playback option for the media content item; receiving, via the interface element, user input selecting to trim the captured video; and displaying a preview bar within the preview user interface, the preview bar including a set of frames of the captured video and front and back handles respectively positioned in front and in back of the set of frames, each of the front and back handles being selectable to trim video.
US11812130B2
There is provided an optical engine for a navigation device including a first light source, a second light source, a lens, a barrier structure and an image sensor. The barrier structure has a first space for containing the first light source, a second space for containing the lens and a third space for containing the second light source and the image sensor. The reflected light associated with the first light source propagates to the image sensor via the lens in the second space. The reflected light associated with the second light source propagates to the image sensor via the third space without passing through the lens in the second space.
US11812128B2
Provided are methods for determination and correction of boresight shift caused by the installation of an optical layer over a camera assembly. Some methods described include performing a first calibration prior to installation of the window, performing a second calibration after installation of the window, and comparing the first and second calibrations to determine a transformation that corrects for the boresight shift. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11812127B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing a display device with a self-tilting retractable camera mechanism. The retractable camera mechanism includes a display device mounting portion, the display device mounting portion being configured to mechanically attach to a display device; and, a retractable camera mounting portion, the retractable camera mounting portion including a self-tilting mechanism, the self-tilting mechanism causing the retractable camera mounting portion to automatically tilt when the retractable camera mounting portion is in an extended position relative to the display device.
US11812126B2
A detachable mechanical eye cartridge includes a plurality of links, a plurality of couplers, a plurality of electronic connection points, and at least one mechanical eye that can be rotatably actuated in at least two rotational degrees of freedom. The detachable mechanical eye cartridge may include actuators for actuating the eye, eyelid structures, an actuator for actuating the eyelid structures, and imaging sensors within the mechanical eye. The detachable mechanical eye cartridge may include one or two mechanical eyes and related structures and may include a set of magnetic couplers that couple to magnets on a robotic head frame to which the detachable mechanical eye cartridge may couple. The detachable mechanical eye cartridge may also have a set of mechanically coupled linkages for controlling the pitch of each mechanical eye with minimal backlash.
US11812123B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel and a first camera and a second camera disposed under the display panel. The display panel includes an emissive layer including a plurality of pixels and a patterned layer disposed between the emissive layer and the first camera or the second camera. The patterned layer includes a first patterned portion disposed on a front surface of a first lens of the first camera and a second patterned portion that is disposed on a front surface of a second lens of the second camera and that has a different shape from the first patterned portion. Besides, it may be permissible to prepare various other embodiments speculated through the specification.
US11812121B2
Methods, apparatus and systems related to packaging a multimedia content for distribution are described. In one example aspect, a method for performing post-production editing includes receiving one or more footages of an event from at least one user. The method includes constructing, based on information about the event, a script to indicate a structure of multiple temporal units of the one or more footages, and extracting semantic meaning from the one or more footages based on a multimodal analysis comprising at least an audio analysis and a video analysis. The method also includes adding editing instructions to the script based on the structure of the multiple temporal units and the semantic meaning extracted from the one or more footages and performing editing operations based on the editing instructions to generate an edited multimedia content based on the one or more footages.
US11812108B2
During a conversation the participants of the conversation may use catchphrases that are associated with particular characters, media assets, or media personalities. The catchphrases may be associated with information such as the media asset where the catchphrase was originally spoken, the speaker, and keywords relating to the media asset. Based on this associated information and the participant's use of the catchphrase, the system may provide a media asset recommendation to the participant for a media asset that does not include the catchphrase.
US11812105B2
A system and method for rapidly and scalably tracking attentiveness. The system includes means for collecting relevant data streams from a plurality of client devices while consumers view content, means for analysing the collected data with an AI-driven module that outputs one or more attentiveness metrics indicative of real attention, and means for synchronising the collected data with the attentiveness metrics. The system provides the ability to synchronise attentiveness metrics with other data streams to make accessible the reasons that drive attention. A digital advertising campaign can be optimised using an effectiveness data set that expresses evolution over time of an attentiveness parameter. An effect on the attentiveness parameter caused by an adjustment to a target audience can be predicted and evaluated against a campaign objective, which can be updated for predictions that yield a positive effect.
US11812095B2
Improved technical functionality is provided to dynamically select and seamlessly play advertisements immediately before playing of a recorded program upon selection of the recorded program for playing, or upon other detected events and conditions associated with the set-top-box (STB) or user. In some embodiments, this is performed by using metadata which may be delivered to and stored on a digital video recorder (DVR) prior to recording the program, providing a technical solution to enable opportunities for additional advertisement impressions. Playing of the advertisement may also or instead occur upon the recorded program finishing playing. Thus, the technical solution provides the additional opportunity for the content creator and/or the satellite television or cable service provider to sell advertising spots in addition to those already sold for breaks within the recorded program.
US11812083B2
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Personalized store front ads are pushed to mobile devices passing stores associated with the ads using layered division multiplexing in an ATSC 3.0 signal.
US11812082B2
Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.
US11812081B2
In some embodiments, a method receives session features for a session associated with a request for a video from a client and predicts network conditions for the session using the session features. A subset of available profiles is selected based on the network conditions. The available profiles are associated with a different playback characteristic. The method provides a profile ladder that includes the subset of available profiles for the playback of the video to the client. The profile ladder restricts the client to using the subset of available profiles to request segments of the video during the session.
US11812079B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for distributing content over a local area network (LAN) between a first device within the LAN and a second device within the LAN. A first device multicasts a LAN-specific content beacon over the LAN. The LAN-specific content beacon includes an identifier uniquely identifying the first device. A second device sends a response to the LAN-specific content beacon requesting secondary content to be integrated into a display of the second device. The first device generates the secondary content based on profile information associated with the second device and unicasts the secondary content to the second device for integration into primary content being generated for display at the second device.
US11812075B2
Methods and systems for enhancing service compatibility are described. A request for content can be received from a client (e.g., user device). A first resource locator for at least a portion of the content can be encoded with service information. A second resource locator indicating a redirect device can comprise the encoded first resource locator and the service information. The client can request at least the portion of the content from a redirect device using the second resource locator. The redirect device can process the request by decoding the first resource locator and service information and sending the service information to a service. The redirect device can send the first resource locator to the client. The client can request at least the portion of the content from a content device using the first resource locator.
US11812074B2
Systems and methods for inserting auxiliary content slots within portions of media assets determined to be of interest to users. Segments of a media asset being viewed by a user are identified as being of particular interest to the user, with reference to a stored set of user preferences. User preferences may be consulted to determine which of these segments may be of likely interest to the viewer. Slots for auxiliary content, such as an advertisement, are then added to those segments deemed to be of likely interest. Auxiliary content such as ads may accordingly be displayed to a user at points within media assets at which the user is more likely to be paying attention, increasing the likelihood that auxiliary content will be viewed and perhaps interacted with by the user.
US11812073B2
Disclosed is a method of associating, at a secondary device, secondary media content with primary media content being output at a primary device. The method includes receiving, at the secondary device, first information based upon the primary content being output at the primary device, wherein the first information includes at least one of an audio and a visual signal, determining at the secondary device second information corresponding to the first information, receiving at the secondary device one or more portions of secondary media content that have been made available by a third device, determining at the secondary device whether one or more of the portions of the secondary media content match one or more portions of the second information, and taking at least one further action upon determining that there is a match.
US11812071B2
The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
US11812063B2
A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that, in response to satisfying one or more conditions, a syntax element indicating whether a first syntax structure providing a profile, a tier and a level information and a second syntax structure providing decoded picture buffer information are present in a sequence parameter set is set to be equal to 1 to indicate that the first syntax structure and the second syntax structure are present in the sequence parameter set.
US11812062B2
Methods, devices and systems for signaling the use of subpictures in coded video pictures are described. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of a video, wherein the bitstream conforms to a format rule, wherein the format rule specifies that a first syntax element signaled in a sequence parameter set (SPS) of the bitstream is indicative of a length of identifiers of subpictures in the SPS, and wherein the signaling of the first syntax element is independent of a value of a second syntax element that is indicative of explicit signaling of the identifiers of the subpictures in the SPS or a picture parameter set (PPS).
US11812060B2
A decoding method is disclosed that comprises: —decoding (S120) a block of a picture, said block being intra predicted from a plurality of reference blocks; —determining (S130) a frontier inside the decoded block based on a frontier existing between said plurality of reference blocks; and —filtering (S140) with a de-artifacting filter along the frontier determined inside the decoded block.
US11812057B2
An intra prediction method and device and a computer storage medium are provided. The intra prediction method includes that: a width-to-height radio of a present coding block and a width-to-height radio of a reference block are acquired, the reference block being a coding block correlated with the present coding block (S101); when the width-to-height radio of the present coding block is different from the width-to-height radio of the reference block, an angular replacement prediction mode corresponding to the reference block is adjusted to obtain a adjusted angular replacement prediction mode, the angular replacement prediction mode being an extended angular prediction mode under a wide-angle mode (S102); and a prediction mode list of the present coding block is constructed based on the adjusted angular replacement prediction mode for intra prediction of the present coding block (S103).
US11812053B2
A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream; determine, for a current block and using the bitstream, a global motion vector candidate utilized by an adjacent block; construct a motion vector candidate list including adding the determined global motion vector candidate to the motion vector candidate list; and reconstruct pixel data of the current block and using the motion vector candidate list. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11812042B2
The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device capable of recognizing performance necessary for decoding more accurately and a method. Coded data of image data and decoding load definition information for defining a magnitude of a load of a decoding process of a partial region of an image of the image data are acquired; decoding of the acquired coded data is controlled based on the acquired decoding load definition information; and the acquired coded data is decoded according to the controlling. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device such as an image coding device that scalably codes image data or an image decoding device that decodes encoded data obtained by scalably coding image data.
US11812038B2
Provided is a transform coefficient scan method including: determining a reference transform block for a decoding target block; deriving a scanning map of the decoding target block using scanning information of the reference transform block; and performing inverse scanning on a transform coefficient of the decoding target block using the derived scanning map. According to the present invention, picture encoding/decoding efficiency may be improved.
US11812034B2
A method and apparatus for decoding video. The method includes determining a sample adaptive offset edge type of at least a portion of the image, determining a boundary edge type of the at least a portion of the image, modifying the sample adaptive offset edge type of the at least a portion of the image according to the determined edge type of the at least a portion of the image, selecting a sample adaptive offset type according to at least one of the determined sample adaptive offset edge type or the modified sample adaptive offset edge type, and filtering at least a portion of the image utilizing the selected filter type.
US11812022B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a quantized transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of BDPCM; deriving a transform coefficient by performing dequantization on the quantized transform coefficient; and deriving a residual sample on the basis of the transform coefficient, wherein, when the BDPCM is applied to the current block, inverse non-separable transform is not applied to the transform coefficient.
US11812006B2
A colorimetric method includes a server generating a colorimetric job including information about an instruction to perform colorimetry and a colorimetry measurement condition, the server storing the colorimetric job, the server transmitting the colorimetric job, a colorimeter receiving the colorimetric job, and the colorimeter performing colorimetry based on the colorimetric job when the colorimetric job is selected by the colorimeter.
US11812001B2
In a method for always displaying a borderless protrusion area, which is an area for achieving borderless printing, when a borderless printing function is used, the display is not necessarily appropriate display depending on the application of the user. Setting for receiving a setting for enabling borderless printing, displaying control for displaying an editing screen including an image as an editing target and a recording medium area, and controlling for, in a case where the borderless printing is set and an operation on the editing screen is received, displaying an object indicating an area for the borderless printing outside the recording medium area on the editing screen, and in a case where the operation on the editing screen is not received, not displaying the object indicating the area for the borderless printing outside the recording medium area on the editing screen are executed.
US11811993B2
Provided is a system configured to read an original document and submit the generated image data to the education management system, easily. A method of controlling an image processing apparatus includes reading an original document, specifying an assignment, receiving, from a first server, storage location information indicating a storage location in a second server corresponding to the specified assignment, transmitting image data generated by reading of the original document to the storage location indicated based on the received storage location information, and notifying the first server of identification information for identifying the image data.
US11811989B2
An image forming apparatus that utilizes a communication device is disclosed. A communication unit of a housing which corresponds to an antenna portion is provided at a position at which the communication unit can be seen without obstruction from the upper side. A communication device such as a smartphone can be brought close to or into contact with the communication unit readily. Accordingly, wireless communication between the antenna portion and the communication device can be established.
US11811985B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors display a relation display screen including text box images each indicating one of a plurality of text ranges included in a document and a relation image indicating a relation between the plurality of text ranges.
US11811982B2
An image processing apparatus communicates with a chat server configured to control sharing of received image data in a transmission destination group based on received information about the group. The image processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register a group of the chat server in association with an object, the group serving as a transmission destination of image data, an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information corresponding to the group from the chat server, a display unit configured to display the registered object, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, if the displayed object is selected, the image data and the information about the group serving as the transmission destination to the chat server. The display unit displays the identification information with the object.
US11811981B2
An MFP includes a controller. When a short cut key is operated, the controller is configured to execute a scan process to transmit scan data to a destination associated with the short cut key. The controller determines whether the shortcut key associated with user ID is disabled in management information when information about a destination including the user ID is deleted. When determining that the shortcut key is not disabled, the controller disables the shortcut key.
US11811965B2
Embodiments of this application provide a charging method. The method includes that a session management function determines, a data flow within a protocol data unit, PDU, session and a charging key corresponding to the data flow within the PDU session, wherein a plurality of user plane functions are involved in the PDU session. For each of the plurality of user plane functions, the session management function sends to an online charging system, a quota request for a charging key without available quota for the UPF.
US11811963B2
A mobile device includes a user interface including a display panel to display a menu image and a touch panel to receive a password, a network interface to detect an external device, a functional unit to sense a motion of the mobile device and to photograph a user, and a control unit to control the user interface, the network interface, the memory, and the functional unit, to unlock the mobile device according to a user identification process of identifying an authorized user, when the mobile device is in a time condition, in response to the sensed motion, and to unlock the mobile device according to the password when the mobile device is not in the time condition, in response to the sensed motion.
US11811960B2
A method for testing a portable electronic device. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring at least one set of parameters; storing the at least one set of parameters in a first area of a storage unit of the portable electronic device; storing the at least one set of parameters in a second area of the storage unit; generating at least a first image by means of a first processing operation; in a first displaying step, displaying the at least one first image for a predetermined time period; in a first erasing step, erasing first intermediate results corresponding to calculation steps carried out during the first processing operation; generating at least one second image by means of a second processing operation; and in a second displaying step, displaying the at least one second image for a predetermined time period.
US11811959B2
A mount for a handheld electronic device is adapted to be attached to a flat vertical glossy environmental surface, such as a mirror, with suction cups. A shelf with an upwardly concave center section holds electronic devices of various sizes and will hold an electronic device in a vertical orientation even if the mount is attached to the mirror at a small angle to the vertical. The shelf may hold the electronic device in either portrait or landscape orientation. The shelf permits a cable to be plugged into the bottom of the electronic device by being routed through a central notch in the shelf and an opening in a lip.
US11811958B2
A foldable terminal includes a body, a display screen and a flattening member. The display screen is located on a surface of the body and includes a bendable portion. The flattening member is located between the body and the bendable portion, and configured to apply a force to the bendable portion, so as to flatten the bendable portion when the foldable terminal is in a flattened state.
US11811957B2
At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package comprises a substrate, an antenna, and an active component. The antenna is disposed at least partially within the substrate. The active component is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the antenna. A location of the antenna is configured to be adjustable with respect to a location of the active component.
US11811955B1
Systems and methods for improving reliability in blockchain networks using sharding are disclosed herein. An example method includes assigning a unique identifier to a user, applying a deterministic function, such as a consistent hashing algorithm, to the unique identifier to select a unique set of nodes that are assigned to a shard for the user, wherein the nodes are a subset of available nodes, receiving a request for blockchain data from the user, generating a response to the request using a consistent view of a blockchain obtained from the unique set of nodes, and transmitting the response to the request to the user.
US11811952B2
A working method includes: a client receives and parses an authentication request to obtain an application identifier, an authentication policy and a challenge value; generates a signature key identifier list according to the authentication policy; sends an identity information verifying instruction generated according to the challenge value, the application identifier and the signature key identifier list; an authenticator obtains a signature private key and a signature key identifier according to the signature key identifier list and the application identifier; generates a final challenge hash value according to the application identifier and the challenge value; generates a signature value according to the final challenge hash value, the preset authenticator identifier and the signature key identifier; sends the signature value to a server; the server receives the signature value and verifies the signature value, determines whether the verifying is successful, if yes, the verifying is successful; otherwise, the verifying is failed.
US11811950B1
A system that provides responses to requests obtains a key that is used to digitally sign the request. The key is derived from information that is shared with a requestor to which the response is sent. The requestor derives, using the shared information, derives a key usable to verify the digital signature of the response, thereby enabling the requestor to operate in accordance with whether the digital signature of the response matches the response.
US11811942B2
The invention relates to distributed ledger technologies such as consensus-based blockchains. Computer-implemented methods for locking and unlocking transaction inputs and outputs are described. The invention is implemented using a blockchain network, which may be, for example, a Bitcoin blockchain. A group of entities form a group in with membership may be proven using an accumulation tree. A variety of methods are described for generating the accumulation tree, including methods that use a central authority and methods that use a decentralized protocol in place of the central authority. In various implementations, parties are able to unlock transaction outputs that are based on group membership without revealing their identity generally.
US11811929B2
Managing client access token requests is provided. It is determined whether a current time interval between a last allowed access token request matches a regular access token request interval for a client. In response to determining that the current time interval does match the regular access token request interval for the client, a current access token request is allowed. An access token is generated for the client to access a protected resource hosted by a resource server based on allowing the current access token request. The access token is issued to the client via a network.
US11811928B2
Systems and methods for securely accessing a legacy system are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method for securely accessing a legacy system via an enterprise system includes requesting issuance of a security token by an STS server of a security token service, causing, by an enterprise server of an enterprise system, association of a first user account with the security token upon reception of the security token, communicating the security token to an access server of a legacy access provider for authentication of the security token, enabling creation of a second user account after the legacy access provider authenticates the security token, accessing a legacy server of a legacy system via the first user account and the second user account, and causing at least the second user account to be deleted after a single use of the legacy system.
US11811927B2
A computer-implemented method for sharing information about a subject without disclosing identification information about the subject includes comparing, by a first computer system, a third set of data with a fourth set of data. The third set of data is converted by a transformation from a first set of identification data of a first subject provided by the first computer system. The fourth set of data is converted by the transformation from a second set of identification data of a second subject provided by a second computer system. The transformation renders the first subject unidentifiable from the third set of data and the second subject unidentifiable from the fourth set of data. The computer-implemented method also includes transmitting, from the first computer system to the second computer, a fifth set of data when the third set of data corresponds to the fourth set of data.
US11811925B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for a machine-learning platform for the safe serialization of a machine-learning application. Individual library components (e.g., a pipeline, a microservice routine, a software module, and an infrastructure model) can be encrypted using one or more keys. The keys can be stored in a location different from the storage location of the machine-learning application. Prior to incorporation of the library component into a machine-learning model, one or more keys can be retrieved from the remote storage location to authenticate that the one or more encrypted library components are authentic. The process can reject any of the one or more component, when the encrypted library component fails authentication. If a component is rejected, the system can roll back to a previous, authenticated version of the library component. The authenticated library components can be compiled into machine-learning software.
US11811916B2
A method for securing data flows in a communication device configurable from a remote terminal, the method comprising steps of recording a first encryption key in a memory of the device, the generation, from the first key, of a public key and of a private key corresponding to the public key, the reception of a request for securing sent by the remote terminal and a sending of the public key to the remote terminal in response to the request for securing, the operations of receiving the request and of sending the public key being performed when the device and the terminal are connected to the same local network. Another object of the invention is a communication device configured to implement the method described.
US11811915B1
A method including authenticating, by a processor, received biometric information; selectively transmitting, by the processor based at least in part on a result of authenticating the received biometric information, a decryption request to decrypt an encrypted assigned private key; receiving, by the processor based at least in part on selectively transmitting the decryption request, a decrypted assigned private key; and decrypting, by the processor, encrypted content based at least in part on utilizing the decrypted assigned private key is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11811912B1
Various embodiments relate to a method performed by a processor of a computing system. An example method includes determining a first cryptographic algorithm utilized in a first block of a first blockchain. The first block of the first blockchain has a first unique block identifier. A second cryptographic algorithm utilized in a second block of the first blockchain is determined. The second block of the first blockchain having a second unique block identifier. A first cryptographic algorithm status transition (“CAST”) event is defined if the second cryptographic algorithm is different than the first cryptographic algorithm. A first CAST record is defined upon occurrence of the first CAST event. The first CAST record includes the second cryptographic algorithm and the second unique block identifier. The first CAST record is digitally signed and stored on a second blockchain. The second blockchain may be referenced out-of-band of the first blockchain.
US11811911B2
A method for generation of blocks for a partitioned blockchain includes: storing blocks comprising a partitioned blockchain, wherein each block includes a header and transaction entries; receiving transaction data entries for each of a plurality of subnets; generating a hash value of the header included in the most recently added block; generating a new block header, the new block header including the generated hash value, a timestamp, and a sequence of pairs including a pair for each of the plurality of subnets, each pair including a subnet identifier associated with the respective subnet and a merkle root of each of the transaction data entries received for the respective subnet; generating a new block, the new block including the generated new block header and the transaction data entries for each of the plurality of subnets; and transmitting the new block to a plurality of nodes associated with the partitioned blockchain.
US11811910B2
This application discloses a method used to remove a target blockchain node group of a first tenant from a channel. In the method, an execution node of a second tenant receives configuration information of the target blockchain node group of the first tenant which is sent by a management node, obtains channel configuration information of the channel from a consensus organization, and generates channel adjustment information based on the channel configuration information and the configuration information of the target blockchain node group. The execution node of the second tenant sends the channel adjustment information to the consensus organization, and the consensus organization generates a block including the channel adjustment information. A blockchain node group of the second tenant obtains the block from the consensus organization, and adds the block to a blockchain stored in the second tenant.
US11811899B2
A virtual machine host may provide IPv4 connections to IPv4 virtual machine guests and map the connections to IPv6 networks. The IPv6 addressed exposed by the virtual machine host may be used in an IPv6 environment to communicate with the virtual machine guests, enabling various IPv6 connected scenarios for the IPv4 virtual machines. The virtual machine host may receive IPv6 communications, and translate those communications to IPv4 to communicate with the virtual machine guests. Similarly, the outbound IPv4 communications may be translated into IPv6 for communications to the IPv6 network.
US11811898B2
Methods and apparatus for compressing data streams. In an embodiment, a method includes calculating a probability distribution function (PDF) for scaler data, matching the PDF to PDF templates to determine a closest matching PDF template, and selecting an encoder corresponding to the closest matching PDF template wherein a corresponding encoder identifier is determined. The method also includes encoding the scaler data with the encoder to generate an encoded stream, and transmitting the encoded stream and the encoder identifier.
US11811895B2
A method of data storage includes determining a latency distance from a primary node to each of two or more replica nodes, choosing a preferred replica node of the two or more replica nodes based on the determined latency distances, and write-caching data into the preferred replica node.
US11811889B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a communication from a user associated with multiple media assets. Based on the schedule of the media assets, one is selected and recommended to the user.
US11811888B2
In an approach for ensuring data protection and control in a distributed hybrid multi-cloud environment with Kubernetes clusters, a processor determines whether a respective quorum of the set of clusters are online. A processor, responsive to determining that a respective quorum of the set of clusters are online, determines whether one or more applications of the cluster are running on another cluster of the set of clusters. A processor, responsive to determining the one or more applications of the cluster are not running on another cluster of the set of clusters, determines whether the cluster is designated as a highest priority cluster. A processor, responsive to determining the cluster is designated as the highest priority cluster, determines whether a main cluster of the set of clusters is online. A processor, responsive to determining the main cluster is online, scales a new custom resource to one (1).
US11811884B1
A service provider receives a request to attach a subscription to a client node. The request can be an authenticated request by an entity associated with the client node. In response to the request, information is stored that indicates the client node is authorized for the subscription. A service can determine a connection by the client node to a service. The connection can trigger the subscription to be created for the client node.
US11811883B2
In one aspect, a computer system for vehicle configuration verification, and/or detecting unauthorized vehicle modification may be provided. In some exemplary embodiments, the computer system may include a processor and a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: (1) receiving a vehicle image, including a vehicle identifier and at least one software module; (2) calculating a configuration hash value of the at least one software module; generating a first data block including the configuration hash value, a first index value, the vehicle identifier, and a digital signature; (3) storing the first data block in a memory; and/or (4) transmitting the first data block to any number of network participants using a distributed network to facilitate vehicle software configuration verification.
US11811880B2
A system to allow smooth transition between a plurality of communication sessions between a plurality of edge-links comprising a first of said plurality of communication sessions carrying traffic from one or more applications. An edge-link redundancy device, coupled to said plurality of communication sessions, monitors the status of said plurality of communication sessions. The edge-link redundancy device routing applications initiated to a second of said plurality of communication sessions when the status of said plurality of communication sessions changes to a predetermined state.
US11811879B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance packet processing. In one implementation, a host computing element identifies a packet from a process executing on the host computing element. In response to identifying the packet, the host computing element determines whether the packet originates from a container namespace corresponding to a container on the host computing element or a host namespace corresponding to the host computing element. If the packet originates from a container namespace, the host computing element may determine supplemental information for the container associated with the container namespace, and process the packet based on the supplemental information.
US11811871B2
Systems and methods to facilitate cloud-based point-to-point data transfer via machine learning are described herein. A request for a transfer of data between a sending system and a receiving system may be obtained. Receiving system information for the receiving system may be obtained. Values of transfer parameters for performing the transfer may be determined through machine-learning. The transfer may be performed based on the determined values. Results of the transfer may be obtained and provided to the machine-learning algorithm to further train the algorithm.
US11811867B2
Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for determining data transmission paths across storage systems based on replication path capability. A processor may collect buffer data from a source storage device and one or more target storage devices, the source storage device and the one or more target storage devices being communicatively coupled via a network. The processor may calculate, using the buffer data, a set of buffer capacities for a set of replication paths used for replicating data between the source storage device and the one or more target storage devices. The processor may correlate, using the set of buffer capacities, the set of replication paths with a set of tiered data to be replicated. Once correlated, the processor may select a first replication path for replicating a first tier of data from the set of tiered data.
US11811866B2
A method of controlling and coordinating of processing steps in a distributed system can be implemented by an initiator node of a cyclically-ordered set of nodes participating in a blockchain network (e.g., Bitcoin blockchain). The method includes generating a private key and cryptographic shares thereof for the nodes of the set and distributing them. A locking value is determined based on the shares and a transaction is arranged to transmit control of a resource responsive to supply of a corresponding unlocking value. A circuit of transactions amongst the nodes each arranged to transmit control of a resource responsive to supply of an unlocking value corresponding to a locking value determined based on the share distributed to a first node of one of two adjacent nodes and a value received from another node immediately previous to it is prepared. The initiator node may belong to a cyclically-ordered set of initiator nodes.
US11811856B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to operate as an edge enabler client (EEC) and is configured to determine one or more application context relocation (ACR) methods supported by an application client (AC) of the UE and transmit, to an edge data network (EDN), a message comprising a first indication that the AC requires service continuity support, a second indication of one or more ACR methods supported by the AC and a third indication of one or more ACR methods supported by the EEC.
US11811854B2
Media streaming to a phone, tablet or other mobile device is improved by adapting requests for content in anticipation of the device's future location. If a device is expected to pass through an area with poor wireless signal quality, then requests for media content can be pre-emptively obtained beforehand at places and times where the available bandwidth is more favorable. Further, requests for content may be delayed during lower bandwidth conditions if the device is expected to soon encounter more bandwidth. Content requests can be therefore optimized (or at least improved) based upon the expected bandwidth that will be encountered during the anticipated upcoming movement of the device.
US11811846B2
The systems and methods monitor thermal states associated with a device. The systems and methods set thermal thresholds associated with the device. The systems and methods infer the thermal thresholds from information gathered by a client application running on the device. The systems and methods implement a stored policy associated with a violation of one of the thermal thresholds by one of the monitored thermal states.
US11811844B2
A system configures a test case including a test script to validate a new product. The test script has a logic flow for communications through a sequence of network nodes and the test case includes pass/fail criteria for parameter data of packets communicated between the sequence of network nodes. The system initiates an automation engine that is configured to execute the test script and validates the new product based on actual parameter data relative to the pass/fail criteria. The system simulates the enhanced calling or messaging communications service to utilize by the new product during the test. The system instantiates a network probe that captures packets of the network nodes and extracts actual parameter data, which is compared to expected parameter data to generate test results relative to the pass/fail criteria. The system can present an indication that the new product passed/failed the test case based on the test results.
US11811841B2
Visual content to be displayed on a display of a user device is received. Obfuscation data for obscuring the visual content is generated and the obscured visual content is displayed on the display. A request to stop obscuring the visual content is transmitted from the user device to a remote device, in response to a drag gesture detected at the user device. As the drag gesture is performed, the obfuscation data is modified to reduce a level of obfuscation applied to the visual content before the request has been accepted, so that the visual content remains obscured but with a lower level of obfuscation. If the request is subsequently accepted at the remote device, the display is controlled to stop obscuring the visual content, thereby rendering the visual content fully visible on the display.
US11811840B2
A video player for playing a video stream that receives a master playlist identifying at least one variant playlist identifying a video file encoded as a series of video frames that when decoded provide the video stream. The video player based upon a configuration tag in the master play list selectively determining whether the video file is to be processed in a trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment of the video player selectively includes at least one of (i) hack one, only hack one; (ii) output and link protection; (iii) hardware root of trust; and (iv) forensic watermarking, and decrypts and/or decodes the video stream in such an environment.
US11811835B1
The instant application provides a method providing one or more of: receiving, by a control node coupled to a SIP node, a SIP message from the SIP node, parsing the SIP message to determine a message type and content, modifying the SIP message content to create a modified SIP message, transmitting the modified SIP message to the SIP node, receiving, by the SIP node, the modified SIP message within a predetermined time period, and forwarding, by the SIP node, the modified SIP message to a destination SIP node in the SIP call path. The control node is not in a SIP call path.
US11811823B2
A method for identifying data exfiltration attempts on a computer network comprising the following steps: identifying malicious data exfiltration behaviors (DEBs) for known adversary tactics in a knowledge base; identifying benign DEBs; comparing the malicious DEBs with the benign DEBs to identify network features that indicate malicious DEB; calculating, with a network analyzer, an entropy value for each identified network feature; establishing a threshold based on the calculated entropy values; building a complete profile of DEB based on the benign and malicious DEBs; adding every network feature having an entropy value greater than the threshold to a model; comparing the model to live network traffic; and flagging behavior in the live network traffic as a malicious DEB if such behavior includes a network feature that has an entropy value greater than the threshold regardless of whether or not the flagged behavior was previously recognized as a malicious DEB.
US11811807B2
Conditionally initiating a security measure in response to an estimated increase in risk imposed related to a particular user of a computing network. The risk is determined using a rolling time window. Accordingly, sudden increases in risk are quickly detected, allowing security measures to be taken quickly within that computing network. Thus, improper infiltration into a computing network is less likely to escalate or move laterally to other users or resources within the computing network. Furthermore, the security measure may be automatically initiated using settings pre-configured by the entity. Thus, the security measures go no further than what the entity instructed, thereby minimizing risk of overreaching with the security measure.
US11811803B2
There is provided a method comprising: detecting a new process start at a network node of a computer network; determining that said process requires external code modules; observing the times at which one or more external code modules required by the new process are loaded relative to the process starting time; determining that the usage of an external code module required by the new process is anomalous when the time elapsed between the start of the process and loading of said external code module lies outside predetermined expected boundaries; and taking further action to protect the network node and/or the computer network based on determining that the usage of the external code module required by the detected new process is anomalous.
US11811798B2
A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a fraud-sensing electronic control unit connected to the network between a first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed and a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed. Moreover, in the second mode, a second type of detecting process having a different degree to which a fraudulent message is detectible than the first type of detecting process is performed.
US11811791B2
Described herein are embodiments for transferring knowledge of intrusion signatures derived from a number of software-defined data centers (SDDCs), each of which has an intrusion detection system (IDS) with a convolutional neural network (CNN) to a centralized neural network. The centralized neural network is implemented as a generative adversarial neural network (GANN) having a multi-feed discriminator and a generator, which is trained from the discriminator. Knowledge in the GANN is then transferred back to the CNNs in each of the SDDCs. In this manner, each CNN obtains the learning of the CNNs in nearby IDSs of a region so that a distributed attack on each of the CNNs, such as a denial of service attack, can be defended by each of the CNNs.
US11811775B2
A system and method detects and handles replay attacks using counters maintained for each of several different periods for various values of IP addresses and browser description attributes encountered.
US11811774B1
A method includes receiving, at a cloud storage system, a request to access a file from an external application on behalf of a first user account, determining, based on one or more access control lists (ACLs) associated with a shared folder, that the external application is not allowed to access the file on behalf of the first user account, and receiving, from a user device associated with the first user account, a message authorizing the external application to access the file on behalf of the first user account. The method further includes modifying the ACLs associated with the shared folder containing the file and a subfolder, and allowing the external application to access the file on behalf of the first user account based on the user information of the first user account and the application information of the external application in the modified ACLs.
US11811772B2
Systems and methods may provide for receiving web content and determining a trust level associated with the web content. Additionally, the web content may be mapped to an execution environment based at least in part on the trust level. In one example, the web content is stored to a trust level specific data container.
US11811767B2
Techniques for streamlined secure deployment of cloud services in cloud computing environments are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include in response to receiving an instruction to deploy a cloud service in the cloud computing system, creating a deployment subscription to resources in the cloud computing system, the deployment subscription being owned by the deployment service and instantiating one or more computing resources accessible by the deployment service in the cloud computing system in accordance with the created deployment subscription. The method also includes retrieving one or more components of an application corresponding to the cloud service based on a manifest with the instantiated one or more computing resources and installing the retrieved one or more components of the application in the cloud computing system in accordance with an installation sequence identified in the manifest.
US11811761B2
Techniques for intelligently deciding the optimal authenticator(s) from amongst those supported by an electronic device are described. The authentication system according to some embodiments may include a dynamic machine learner that incorporates the attributes of: (i) user behavior attributes (e.g., preferred authenticator); (ii) device attributes (e.g., hardware and software specifications, applications, etc.); and (iii) operating environment attributes (e.g., ambient light, noise, etc.), as well as the interplay between the aforementioned attributes over time to make the decision. In some embodiments, the authentication activities and patterns of other users of similar type (e.g., users exhibiting similar behavior across different operating environments) can also be learned and employed to improve the decision making process over time.
US11811758B1
Current embodiments relate to proofing and authenticating digital access and/or control requests. By communicating with various service providers, automatic proofing and/or enrollment for authentication of digital access and/or control services may be provided.
US11811757B1
In accordance with at least some aspects of the present disclosure, an illustrative method for authenticating a user is disclosed. A plurality of biometric modalities are displayed for authenticating the user. A selection of one or more of the biometric authentication modalities may be received. User authentication data may be received for each of the one or more selected authentication modalities. The user authentication data may be compared with previously-determined biometric data. An authentication score may be determined based on the comparison of the user authentication data with the previously-determined biometric data. A determination may be made whether to authenticate the user based on the authentication score.
US11811755B2
A secure executable container executed by an endpoint device establishes a two-way trusted relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data network with a user entity, generates an endpoint identifier for the endpoint device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, and associates the endpoint device with a federation identifier identifying the user entity in the secure peer-to-peer data network. The secure executable container also: establishes a two-way trusted relationship between the endpoint device and a target network device; securely obtains, via the secure peer-to-peer data network, a user interface element definition describing a user interface element executable by the target network device; and supplies the user interface element definition to a secure keyboard resource executed in the endpoint device, causing the secure keyboard resource to generate a local representation of the user interface element for control of the target network device via the secure keyboard resource.
US11811751B2
A method and apparatus provides for securely unlocking a locked program domain by a third party wishing to gain extraordinary access to the program domain by a third party. The third party and the program domain are mutually authenticated using exclusive self-escrow of credentials that are generated, revealed, or stored within the program domain. Multiple third parties that are required for unlocking the program domain may also be authenticated prior to unlocking the program domain. The method and apparatus provides extraordinary access without the use of backdoors or having the program domain provide credentials to third parties.
US11811733B2
Methods and systems are described operating a networking device comprising a data structure associating network packet signatures with network packet metadata, the data structure comprising a temporary storage pipeline and a hash table stored in a computer-readable memory. The method comprises upon determining that network packet metadata is to be inserted in the data structure, determining a location in the hash table at which the network packet metadata is to be inserted; if the location in the hash table is an empty cell, inserting the network packet metadata in the empty cell; if the location in the hash table is not an empty cell: transferring the pre-existing network packet metadata from the hash table to the temporary storage pipeline; inserting the network packet metadata at the location of the hash table; and operating a reinsertion routine.
US11811728B1
In some implementations, a broadband network gateway (BNG) may receive, from a customer premises equipment, a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) discover request, wherein the BNG is connected to the customer premises equipment and a fixed mobile interworking function (FMIF). The BNG may communicate with, based on the DHCP discover request, the FMIF. The BNG may provide to the customer premises equipment, and based on communicating with the FMIF, a DHCP offer that offers utilization of the BNG as a DHCP server. The BNG may receive from the customer premises equipment, and based on providing the DHCP offer, a DHCP request to request utilization of the BNG as the DHCP server. The BNG may provide to the customer premises equipment, and based on the DHCP request, a DHCP acknowledgment that acknowledges utilization of the BNG as the DHCP server.
US11811704B2
Implementations of this disclosure provide a resource allocation method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by a network device, the first indication information being used for determining frequency domain units included in a first interlace on a first BWP; and determining, by the terminal device, the frequency domain units included in the first interlace according to the first indication information.
US11811684B2
Flow-zone switching provides for the switching of frames through a network, basing forwarding decisions on location and flow information encoded in the frames, such as in the source and destination addresses. Various address formats are disclosed, supporting transfer of packet data among data switches as well as among endpoints. Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed.
US11811683B1
VLSI layouts of generalized multi-stage and pyramid networks for broadcast, unicast and multicast connections are presented using only horizontal and vertical links with spacial locality exploitation. The VLSI layouts employ shuffle exchange links where outlet links of cross links from switches in a stage in one sub-integrated circuit block are connected to inlet links of switches in the succeeding stage in another sub-integrated circuit block so that said cross links are either vertical links or horizontal and vice versa. Furthermore the shuffle exchange links are employed between different sub-integrated circuit blocks so that spatially nearer sub-integrated circuit blocks are connected with shorter links compared to the shuffle exchange links between spatially farther sub-integrated circuit blocks. In one embodiment the sub-integrated circuit blocks are arranged in a hypercube arrangement in a two-dimensional plane. The VLSI layouts exploit the benefits of significantly lower cross points, lower signal latency, lower power and full connectivity with significantly fast compilation. The VLSI layouts with spacial locality exploitation presented are applicable to generalized multi-stage and pyramid networks, generalized folded multi-stage and pyramid networks, generalized butterfly fat tree and pyramid networks, generalized multi-link multi-stage and pyramid networks, generalized folded multi-link multi-stage and pyramid networks, generalized multi-link butterfly fat tree and pyramid networks, generalized hypercube networks, and generalized cube connected cycles networks for speedup of s≥1. The embodiments of VLSI layouts are useful in wide target applications such as FPGAs, CPLDs, pSoCs, ASIC placement and route tools, networking applications, parallel & distributed computing, and reconfigurable computing.
US11811682B1
Systems and methods for responding to latency in connected vehicles. Vehicles operating on or near the edge of networks are identified. Vehicle dependent nodes are identified. Latency is calculated between the vehicle and the dependent nodes. The latency is compared to one or more threshold values and a response is determined and/or executed.
US11811675B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for triggering adaptive resource channel requisition within a distributed network. The present invention is configured to electronically receive, from a user input device, a resource allocation request from a user; retrieve, from the resource allocation request, information associated with the user; trigger an adaptive resource channel requisition (ARCR) engine on the request based on at least the information associated with the user; retrieve, from the resource allocation request one or more preset value associated with resource allocation request; retrieve, using the ARCR engine, one or more predetermined requisitions corresponding to the resource allocation request from a requisition repository associated with the user; implement the one or more predetermined requisitions on the one or more preset values to generate one or more requisitioned values; and authorize the resource allocation request for the one or more requisitioned values.
US11811672B2
Systems and methods for data scheduling and queuing. A data network node is configured to transmit data in a store-and-forward fashion. The data network node includes a delay and validity determination module that determines and assigns a validity value to each data packet incoming via an input port based on a time stamp of the data packet, a current time value, an expected delay on a route of the data packet to its destination, and a packet urgency value. A scheduling module and a queue managing module execute their functions based on the validity value assigned to a data packet in a transmission buffer.
US11811671B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support entering a fast-negative acknowledgement (NACK) mode. A user equipment (UE) may enter a fast-NACK mode and may decrease a value of a respective timer for one or more wireless connections (e.g., may override the timer independently for each connection). The timer may be referred to as a retransmission request time duration. If configured with two or more component carriers (CCs), the UE may determine a value of the timer based on a location of a data hole within the two or more CCs. Based on entering the fast-NACK mode, the UE may override a configured timer for the respective wireless connection with a new, shorter timer. Based on expiration of the new timer, the UE may transmit an RLC NACK to a base station via the corresponding wireless connection.
US11811668B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for validating network traffic from upstream applications. The present invention is configured to electronically receive datastream from an upstream application; initiate a traffic bias management engine (TBME) on the datastream; determine, using the TMBE, an information bias for the upstream application based on at least initiating the TBME on the datastream; determine a validation level for the upstream application based on at least the information bias; and validate the upstream application based on at least the validation level.
US11811667B2
A prediction apparatus includes, a first calculation unit configured to calculate, for traffic in a past time period between a plurality of users and a plurality of services, statistics of the traffic in units of combinations of the users, the services, and time zones, an extraction unit configured to extract, based on the statistics, a plurality of patterns from the traffic, a classification unit configured to classify, by pattern, at least one of each user or each service into groups, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the classification result from the classification unit and the statistics, per-time-zone statistics for each group, and a third calculation unit configured to apply a prediction technique to the per-time-zone statistics for each group, to calculate, for each group, a prediction value of the statistics for a time period later than the past time period, resulting improved accuracy of traffic prediction.
US11811666B2
Approaches are described for release-time-driven (RTD) prioritization of on-board content scheduling and delivery to in-transit transport craft via communications systems. In context of a constrained network, content is scheduled to be delivered to those in-transit on-board media servers in a manner driven by respective release times and other prioritization factors associated with the updated content. Each content is associated with a RTD priority profile that can define a release time, a release priority, and a profile plot for the content. The RTD priority profiles can be used to compute priority surfaces that define priority scores over a multidimensional space for a particular time. A subset of the content can be selected for delivery based on the priority surfaces, and can be scheduled for delivery according to network capacity determinations.
US11811662B2
Determination of an inflection point in congestion in a network path can include determining packet congestion on a network path using an inflection point mechanism (IPDM), detecting a potential inflection point in response to a one-way delay (OWD) of a first packet being lesser than an OWD of a second packet by a quantity greater than a function of a difference of inter departure time (IDT) between the first packet and the second packet, and determining an inflection point in congestion of the network path based on the potential inflection point.
US11811655B2
A network management method includes a controller receiving an underlay network identifier and a network segment identifier. The underlay network identifier and network segment identifier can be associated with entries in a forwarding information base and border gateway protocol speakers may be deployed in association with the entries. A virtual network can be associated with the underlay network and network traffic can be forwarded to the virtual network according to the entries.
US11811647B2
Systems and methods provide for the dynamic discovery, update and propagation of multicast streams capabilities in a network. An endpoint can be coupled to a first hop router in a network environment. The first hop router can discover multicast flow characteristics information associated with the endpoint and propagate the multicast flow characteristics information of the endpoint to additional network nodes in the network environment. The first hop router and at least a portion of the additional network nodes can form one or more multicast flows associated with the endpoint through the network environment using the multicast flow characteristic information associated with the endpoint.
US11811646B2
A system manages network traffic in a distributed system comprising a plurality of network devices. The network devices are divided into a plurality of network slices, each of the network slices including a subset of the network devices such that there is no overlap of network devices between the network slices. Individual network slices are associated with individual slice controllers, and an individual slice controller is configured to manage network routing of an individual network slice. Each of the individual slice controllers route the network traffic within each respective individual network slice. The network traffic is independently routed based on expected network conditions for each respective individual network slice, and data defining routing decisions is contained within each network slice to limit fault effects between the network slices.
US11811644B2
In one embodiment, a device computes states of a network path associated with an online application by representing time series of telemetry data regarding the network path as discrete values. The device generates state trajectories from the states of the network path computed by the device. The device selects one or more sub-sequences of the state trajectories based on prediction performance metrics that represent how well the one or more sub-sequences are able to predict a failure condition of the network path. The device causes a networking entity to use the one or more sub-sequences of the state trajectories to perform predictive routing for the network path.
US11811637B1
To support different timestamp formats, for example, for different network protocols, an integrated circuit device is provided with a memory that is programmed with multiple instruction sets associated with multiple timestamp formats. Each of the instruction sets contains instructions to generate a timestamp according to a corresponding timestamp format. A compute circuit can generate a formatted timestamp by using a base timestamp input and executing an instruction set selected from the multiple instruction sets stored in the memory.
US11811632B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for the proactive failover of groups of Virtualized Network Functions (“VNFs”) based on monitoring Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) associated with the VNFs. KPIs associated with a particular VNF or a set of VNFs may be monitored, and a failover event indicating service degradation or imminent service degradation may be detected based on the KPIs associated with the particular VNF or set of VNFs. Additional VNFs, associated with the particular VNF or set of VNFs, may be further identified for failover from a first data center to a second data center. The additional VNFs may be identified for failover without necessarily monitoring KPIs associated with the additional VNFs, and/or based on factors in addition to KPIs associated with the additional VNFs. For example, the additional VNFs may be failed over based on the KPIs associated with the particular VNF or set of VNFs.
US11811628B2
Disclosed embodiments include a system for displaying access market network device network traffic statistics for active Internet Protocol (IP) destinations. The system includes a network device having a connection tracker module that maintains connection-based traffic flows in a packet forwarding path, and a flowstats module that receives data for connection-based traffic flows from the connection tracker module and communicates with an analysis module to generate a table of network traffic statistics for active IP destinations.
US11811627B2
A network monitoring device may receive, from a mediation device, flow-tap content data (generated by the mediation device based on current and/or previous investigation reports associated with flow tapping) that needs to be monitored. The network monitoring device may map the content data to a flow-tap content destination address of a content destination device in an entry of a flow-tap content filter. The network monitoring device may analyze, using the flow-tap content filter, network traffic of the network to detect a traffic flow that includes the content data. The network monitoring device may generate, based on successfully detecting a traffic flow that includes the content data, a traffic flow copy and may provide the traffic flow copy to the flow-tap content destination address, wherein the traffic flow copy is to be accessible to the content destination device to enable a context analysis of the content data.
US11811619B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for emulating a local interface to a remotely managed storage system, including: receiving a request for remote access a storage system, wherein access is provided using a user interface (‘UI’); identifying, for a user profile, a version of the UI that is utilized when locally accessing the storage system; and presenting, a remote UI for the storage system, wherein a version of the remote UI matches the version of the UI that is utilized when the user locally accesses the storage system, wherein the remote UI provides read-only access to the storage system.
US11811616B1
A system for predicting an anomalous request comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to parse a user profile from a plurality of user profiles to generate a first set of data objects associated with the first user profile. The processor is configured to compare the first set of the data objects to approved data and audit data to generate a second set of data objects with a set of anomalous data indicators for the first user profile. The processor is further configured to process the second set of the data objects through an anomaly learning model to determine a predictive degree of approval associated with the user profile. The processor is further configured to determine to approve, flag or disapprove the user profile based on the predictive degree of approval. The processor is further configured to assign a profile indicator to the user profile.
US11811614B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage media, optimizing interior gateway protocol (IGP) metrics using reinforcement learning (RL) for a network domain. The system can receive a topology (G) of a network domain, a set of flows (F), and an objective function. The system can optimize, using reinforcement learning, the objective function based on the received topology and the one or more flows F. The system can determine updated IGP metrics based on the optimization of the objective function. The IGP metrics for the metric domain may be updated with the updated IGP metrics.
US11811612B2
Systems and methods for monitoring devices on a network are describes. An indication of one or more active devices coupled to a network at an end of a time interval is received. Network traffic data associated with the network is received and one or more additional devices coupled to the network during the time interval that were not included in the indication of the one or more active devices coupled to the network at the end of the time interval are determined based on the network traffic data.
US11811607B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network device name management involves at a cloud server, determining a device name of a network device to be deployed at a customer site based on site survey result information of the customer site, at the cloud server, receiving network device information of the network device after the network device is deployed at the customer site, and at the cloud server, associating the device name of the network device with the network device information of the network device.
US11811606B2
One example method of operation may include receiving at a managing device an indication whether a first network device is a known network device, identifying a selected network mode of operation stored in memory of the managing device, and determining whether to cancel the selected network mode of operation based on whether the first network device is a known device.
US11811598B2
A configuration system may generate synthetic datasets based on machine learning, and may provide the synthetic datasets in order to configure, train, test, and/or otherwise modify operation of network equipment and/or other devices. The configuration system may receive a sampling of data used by the particular network equipment, and may determine parameters that define values for the variables represented in the sampling. The configuration system may generate different datasets based on the parameters, and may determine an accuracy of each dataset to the sampling based on the values of each dataset conforming by different amounts to the parameters that define the values for the variables represented in the sampling by different amounts. The configuration system may modify the network equipment operation using the values from a particular dataset in response to determining that the accuracy of the particular dataset is greatest to the sampling.
US11811569B2
A sensor includes a sensing element to produce a sensing element signal and a processor responsive to the sensing element signal to generate a sensor output signal comprising a Single Edge Nibble Transmission (SENT) frame. The SENT frame includes a Status and Communication (SCN) nibble comprising a bit 0 and a bit 1 that represent a status of at least one internal diagnostic indicator and a plurality of data nibbles. At least one of the plurality of data nibbles includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), the CRC being an encoding of the bit 0 and the bit 1 of the SCN nibble and the plurality of data nibbles and at least one of the plurality of data nibbles includes a count that indicates a new frame, the CRC being at least a five bit value.
US11811568B2
Front-end circuitry for a data receiver and related systems, methods, and devices are disclosed. The front-end circuitry includes a passive equalizer, which includes a signal input, an equalizer output including a first equalizer output and a second equalizer output, a first signal path, and a second signal path. The first signal path is between the signal input and the first equalizer output. The first signal path has a first frequency response. The second signal path is between the signal input and the second equalizer output. The second signal path has a second frequency response. The second frequency response exhibits substantially inverse behavior to that of the first frequency response. An amplifier circuit is configured to combine a first equalizer output signal from the first equalizer output with a second equalizer output signal from the second equalizer output to obtain an equalized output signal.
US11811562B2
Interference for reference symbols in URLLC/eMBB multiplexing may be reduced. URLLC and/or eMBB reference signal (RS) interference may be reduced regardless whether the URLLC and eMBB reference signals and data are multiplexed and superimposed using the same numerology or different numerologies and/or regardless whether the URLLC and eMBB reference signals may be aligned or misaligned (e.g., may or may not use a common resource). An URLLC transmission may preempt an eMBB transmission. For the URLLC and eMBB transmissions using a same numerology, a RS reuse indication may be used. The RS reuse indication may indicate whether a RS in the preempted portion of the eMBB transmission may be reused. A channel estimation function set may be estimated, and channel estimation may be performed using the determined channel estimation function set. The eMBB transmission and the URLLC transmission may be decoded based on the performed channel estimation.
US11811556B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network traffic management of a network deployed at a customer site involves establishing a wired traffic overlay tunnel between an access switch (AS) of the network deployed at the customer site and a head end (HE) of the network deployed at the customer site, establishing a wireless traffic overlay tunnel between a wireless access point (AP) of the network deployed at the customer site and the HE of the network deployed at the customer site, and conveying network traffic associated with a network device through the wired traffic overlay tunnel or the wireless traffic overlay tunnel based on whether the network device connects to the network through a wired link or connects to the network wirelessly.
US11811552B2
Method and device for processing data associated with a message received via a communications system
A computer-implemented method for processing data, which are associated with at least one message received via a communications system, such as a bus system. The method includes: determining a first variable, which characterizes a transmitting time of the at least one message; evaluating the first variable with regard to at least one time frame of possible transmitting times of the at least one message.
US11811547B2
A control system, apparatus, and method are provided. In the control system, plural apparatuses in time synchronization with one another are connected to a network, and the network transfers a frame periodically exchanged by the apparatuses. The apparatuses include a control device and an apparatus controlled by the control device. Each apparatus in the control system is connected over the network, to a first apparatus that transmits a frame that arrives at each of the apparatuses and a second apparatus that receives a frame transmitted from each of the apparatuses. Each apparatus includes information on a frame transfer path and transfer timing based on a synchronous time. When a frame does not arrive at defined time through the transfer path and when a condition associated with a cycle is satisfied, one or more of the apparatuses is configured to transmit a resend request through the transfer path.
US11811545B2
Some embodiments provide a method for configuring a set of MFEs to implement a distributed multicast logical router and multiple logical switches to process the multicast data messages. The method sends, from a managed forwarding element (MFE) implementing the distributed multicast logical router, a multicast group query to a set of data compute nodes (DCNs) that are logically connected to one of several logical switches and that execute on the same host machine as the managed forwarding element. The method receives multicast group reports from a subset of the set of DCNs and at least one of the multicast group reports specifies a multicast group of interest. The method distributes, to a set of MFEs executing on other host machines, a summarized multicast group report specifying a set of multicast groups of interest to the first MFE (i.e., multicast groups that the first MFE participates in).
US11811543B2
A system and method are disclosed for generating a chat space for two or more communication devices using a computer coupled with a database and comprising a processor and memory. The computer generates a chat space and transmits requests to join the chat space to the two or more communication devices. The computer stores in memory identification information for each of the two or more communication devices and one or more public chat messages transmitted between the two or more communication devices. The computer monitors for one or more requests, transmitted from one of the two or more communication devices to the computer, to generate a private thread. In response to one or more requests, the computer generates a private thread, and stores in the computer memory one or more private thread messages transmitted between two or more communication devices in the private thread.
US11811542B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for providing galvanic isolation and low power wakeup of circuitry. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes first isolation circuitry, second isolation circuitry, and first control circuitry. The first isolation circuitry includes a first primary interface and a first secondary interface. The first primary interface is galvanically isolated from the first secondary interface. The second isolation circuitry includes a second primary interface and a second secondary interface. The second primary interface is galvanically isolated from the second secondary interface. The first control circuitry is electrically coupled with the first secondary interface and the second secondary interface. The first control circuitry is configured to transition the apparatus from a sleep state to a wake state upon receiving a wake signal and the first isolation circuitry is configured to provide the wake signal to the first control circuitry via the first secondary interface.
US11811535B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a terminal configured to have two or more processing times transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a downlink control channel for indicating a downlink data channel, and the downlink data channel in one or more downlink subframes; and transmitting, to the base station, HARQ-ACK information on the downlink data channel in an uplink subframe corresponding to the one or more downlink subframes, wherein the HARQ-ACK information transmitted in the uplink subframe includes HARQ-ACK information on a downlink data channel in accordance with only one processing time among the two or more processing times, and cannot include HARQ-ACK information on a downlink data channel in accordance with the rest processing times.
US11811534B2
Feedback methods for repetitive uplink transmissions in a communication system are disclosed. An operation method of a terminal may comprise receiving DL data #1 from a base station through a DL data channel #1; receiving DL data #2 from the base station through a DL data channel #2; and when each of a UL control channel #1 on which an HARQ response #1 for the DL data #1 is to be transmitted and a UL control channel #2 on which an HARQ response #2 for the DL data #2 is to be transmitted overlaps with a UL data channel assigned by the base station, transmitting the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 to the base station through the UL data channel. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.
US11811515B2
Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for filtering chatroom messages. The message processing method includes setting at least one filter condition related to a chatroom for at least one chatroom on a messenger; and displaying a message corresponding to the filter condition among messages included in the chatroom.
US11811514B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for request controlling. The method includes determining, in response to receiving a request for computing resources, a first control window including a plurality of control time slots, the request being received in a receive time slot of the plurality of control time slots. The method further includes determining a quantity of available computing resources within the first control window according to a position of the receive time slot in the plurality of control time slots. The method further includes processing the request within the first control window if the quantity of available computing resources does not exceed a threshold. The method can improve the capability of controlling requests for computing resources, and reduce congestion caused by a large number of requests exceeding the load of computing resources.
US11811511B2
A method for communication between controllers in TSN. A first controller receives a first packet that is sent by a second controller and that includes an identifier of a TSN domain to which the second controller belongs. The first controller determines, based on the TSN domain identifier, that the first controller and the second controller belong to a same TSN domain. The first controller sends, to the second controller, a second packet that carries user information. According to the foregoing method, communication and exchange between the controllers may be implemented, so that the controllers cooperatively configure a network device in the TSN.
US11811510B2
A framework for security information and event management (SIEM), the framework includes a first data store; a data router; one or more parsing mechanisms; one or more correlation machines; and one or more workflow engines, wherein said framework performs SIEM on behalf of multiple subscribers to said framework.
US11811508B2
A method and device for transmitting reference signals are provided in the present disclosure, where the method for transmitting reference signals is performed by a user terminal and time-frequency resources for the user terminal are divided into multiple groups of time-frequency resources. The method includes: selecting a reference signal port for each group of time-frequency resources from candidate reference signal ports; and transmitting reference signals by using the reference signal port corresponding to each group of time-frequency resources.
US11811507B1
A programmable radio frequency (RF) memory system includes a receiver designed to receive an RF pulse, a memory, a waveform transform module, and a transmitter. The memory stores a digitized version of the RF pulse. The waveform transform module is designed to determine one or more characteristics of the digitized version of the RF pulse, and based on the determined one or more characteristics, transform the digitized version of the RF pulse into a transformed signal. The transformed signal has at least one characteristic that is different than the one or more characteristics. The transmitter is designed to transmit an analog equivalent of the transformed signal. The analog equivalent of the transformed signal and the received RF pulse are coherent.
US11811501B2
This application discloses a clock synchronization method and apparatus, and related storage medium, and pertains to the field of communications technologies. A network device receives an announce message from a first master clock node and an announce message from a second master clock node; and when an identifier of a first clock source node carried in the announce message of the first master clock node is the same as an identifier of a second clock source node carried in the announce message of the second master clock node, selects a master clock node with a smaller clock deviation from the first master clock node and the second master clock node, and then calibrates a clock of the network device based on time information of the master clock node. The precision of clock synchronization by the network device is improved.
US11811482B2
A method for sidelink beam acquisition for device to device (D2D) communication includes calculating, by a base station, one or more first directions, where the one or more first directions are directions of a second electronic device located relative to a first electronic device; calculating, by the base station, one or more second directions, where the one or more second directions are directions of the first electronic device located relative to the second electronic device; transmitting, by the base station and to the first electronic device, the one or more first directions; and transmitting, by the base station and to the second electronic device, the one or more second directions.
US11811481B2
Disclosed are beam training methods and devices. A beam training method includes: a transmitting end determining a first mapping relationship between BPL identifiers and transmission beams; the transmitting end configuring a first reference signal resource for a receiving end, and transmitting configuration information of the first reference signal resource to the receiving end, the configuration information carrying a first BPL identifier; the transmitting end determining a first transmitting beam according to the first mapping relationship; the transmitting end transmitting a reference signal to the receiving end, by using the first transmitting beam within the first reference signal resource, so that the receiving end receives the reference signal on the first reference signal resource, performs a measurement for the reference signal, and updates a first receiving beam corresponding to the first BPL identifier in a second mapping relationship according to a measurement result for the reference signal.
US11811471B2
Example channel measurement methods and communications apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving a precoded reference signal by a terminal device, where the precoded reference signal is obtained by precoding a reference signal based on K angle vectors and L delay vectors. First indication information is generated and sent, where the first indication information indicates P weighting coefficients corresponding to P angle-delay pairs. The P weighting coefficients are determined by using the precoded reference signal. The P angle-delay pairs and the P weighting coefficients corresponding to the P angle-delay pairs are used to determine a precoding matrix. Each angle-delay pair includes one of the K angle vectors and one of the L delay vectors. The K angle vectors and the L delay vectors are determined based on uplink channel measurement.
US11811463B2
An example process includes receiving a voltage input and a current input associated with one or more audio signals, bandpass filtering the voltage input and the current input, determining a root means square of the bandpass filtered portion, dividing the determined root means square of the voltage by the root means square of the current to identify an impedance value, and determining whether a fault has occurred based on the impedance value.
US11811444B1
Devices, buoys, kits, systems and methods for preventing small objects, such as but not limited to portable phones, money and keys from sinking in the water. A foam block buoy molded about a t-shaped plastic insert with an eyelet in a stem extending therefrom for attaching to a tether line. A phone foldable ring stand can be included with a peel and stick backing for being attached to a portable phone, that is attachable to the end of the tether line, wherein the float prevents the portable phone from sinking and becoming lost in water. A dry bag can be included to also be attachable to the tether line for keeping items from becoming wet and damaged. Additionally, a battery powered fishing lure, can be attached to the float or the line to allow the float buoy to be found in the dark.
US11811441B2
A method of interference mitigation may include receiving a desired signal from an asset of the system at an antenna assembly and associating the desired signal with relative phase distribution information based on a relative location of origin of the desired signal where the relative phase distribution information is predetermined for the antenna assembly. The method further includes receiving an interfering signal and associating the interfering signal with relative phase distribution information based on a relative location of origin of the interfering signal where the desired signal and the interfering signal forming a received signal set. The method further includes normalizing signals of the received signal set to respective relative phases associated with each respective relative location of origin, and performing interference cancellation of the interfering signal based on the normalized signals.
US11811437B2
A satellite signal method includes: receiving a satellite signal at an apparatus; transmitting, from the apparatus, one or more outbound signals; and inhibiting processing, by the apparatus, of at least a first portion of the satellite signal spanning a first frequency set that includes at least a portion of an interference signal corresponding to transmission of the one or more outbound signals.
US11811422B2
Provided is an information processing method. The method includes that: first data to be decoded and one or more decoding parameters of the first data are obtained; a basis matrix is determined based on the one or more decoding parameters; a decoding instruction set including a plurality of decoding instructions is determined based on the basis matrix, wherein the plurality of decoding instructions include elements in the basis matrix; and the first data is decoded based on the decoding instruction set. Further provided are an information processing device and a computer storage medium.
US11811416B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including instruction code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform a successive approximation analog-to-digital conversion of an analog input, representing a result of multiplication of first and second vectors, to a digital output by determining an upper bound on the result of multiplication of the first and second vectors, identifying, based at least in part on the determined upper bound, at least a portion of the successive approximation analog-to-digital conversion to be skipped, and skipping the identified portion of the successive approximation analog-to-digital conversion.
US11811415B2
A direct digital synthesizer (DDS) circuit. The circuit includes a first input to receive a first fixed frequency clock signal having a first frequency, a second input to receive a second fixed frequency clock signal having a second frequency lower than the first frequency, and an output to provide an output frequency that is based at least in part on a frequency control word (FCW). The DDS circuit may include a frequency correction circuit having a first input to receive the first clock signal, a second input to receive the second clock signal, and a third input to receive the FCW, and an output to provide a frequency error of the first clock signal, the frequency error determined using the second clock signal and FCW. Alternatively, or in addition to, the DDS circuit may include an all-digital phase lock loop to correct for frequency wander of the first clock signal.
US11811400B1
The present invention discloses a circuit for improving linearity and channel compensation of PAM4 receiver analog front end, comprising a first stage and a second stage, the first stage comprising first to twentieth transistors, a first resistor, a pair of second resistors, a pair of first capacitors, and a pair of second capacitors. In the first stage circuit, the ninth and tenth transistors are directly coupled to the ground, eliminating the electrical connection to the bias current source. The Input terminals of the ninth and tenth transistors are coupled to the output signals of the preceding nineteenth and twentieth transistors, so that the ninth and tenth transistors serve as both input pairs and current source transistors. The overall current is limited by the thirteenth and fourteenth transistors, which results in a lower power supply voltage for the first stage consisting of the ninth through fourteenth transistors.
US11811399B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for detecting a key press comprising a circuit substrate, a key module with a key cap and a movement mechanism, and a device for detecting the movement of the key cap, wherein the movement mechanism has at least one movement element wherein this device comprises an electrical resonance circuit with at least one capacitor and with a primary coil and comprises a secondary coil wherein the device for detecting the movement of the key cap comprises a measuring device for detecting and/or processing at least one physical variable of the electrical resonance circuit, which variable changes during the movement of the key cap, and outputs at least one electrical signal that is dependent on the change in the physical variable. The invention also relates to a keyboard comprising one or more such apparatuses and to a method for detecting a key press.
US11811397B1
An signal switching integrated-circuit die includes an array of switch cells, control signal contacts, data input contacts and data output contacts. Switch control signals are received from an external control-signal source via respective control signal contacts, inbound data signals are received from one or more external data-signal sources via respective data input contacts and outbound data signals are conveyed to one or more external data-signal destinations via respective data output contacts. The array of switch cells receives the control signals directly from the control signal contacts and response to the control signals by switchably interconnecting the data input contacts with selected ones of the data output contacts.
US11811394B2
A programmable circuit includes a superconducting component arranged in a multi-dimensional array of alternating narrow and wide portions. The programmable circuit further includes a plurality of heat sources, each heat source configured to selectively provide heat to a respective narrow portion sufficient to transition the respective narrow portion from a superconducting state to a non-superconducting state. The programmable circuit further includes a plurality of electrical terminals, each electrical terminal coupled to a respective wide portion of the multi-dimensional array.
US11811392B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a surface acoustic wave resonator that may include a piezoelectric substrate, interdigital transducer (IDT) electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, and a dielectric film covering the piezoelectric substrate and the IDT electrode for temperature compensation. The IDT electrodes may include bus bar electrode regions spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction perpendicular to a propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave to be excited, an overlapping region sandwiched between the bus bar regions, and gap regions defined between respective bus bar electrode regions and the overlapping region in the transverse direction. Each of the gap regions may include a dummy electrode in a dummy electrode region extending from the bus bar electrode region in the transverse direction. The dielectric film may include an open region exposing a respective bus bar electrode region and dummy electrode region.
US11811389B2
A real-time clock device includes a package that houses a resonator, an oscillation circuit, a clocking circuit, and a functional circuit, and on which external terminals are formed. The external terminals include a high-potential power supply terminal coupled to a high-potential power supply, a low-potential power supply terminal coupled to a low-potential power supply, a clocking signal terminal used at least for controlling the clocking circuit, and a functional signal terminal used for controlling the functional circuit, the functional signal terminal is arranged outside the high-potential power supply terminal, the low-potential power supply terminal, and the clocking signal terminal in a direction in which the external terminals are arranged, and the real-time clock device further includes a switching circuit that switches between a state in which the functional signal terminal and the functional circuit are coupled and a state in which the functional signal terminal and the functional circuit are not coupled.
US11811387B2
An elastic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the support substrate, and an IDT electrode disposed on a piezoelectric layer and including first and second electrode fingers that are interdigitated. A region where the first and second electrode fingers overlap each other as seen in a direction of propagation of elastic waves is an excitation region. Edge portions where an acoustic velocity is lower than an acoustic velocity in a central portion are disposed on opposite sides of a central portion in the excitation region. A first busbar and second busbar include inner busbar portions, central busbar portions, and outer busbar portions. First and second offset electrode fingers extend from the inner busbar portions toward the leading ends of the second electrode fingers or first electrode fingers.
US11811386B2
Acoustic resonator devices and filters are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate supported by the substrate. A portion of the piezoelectric plate suspended across a cavity in the substrate forms a diaphragm. A decoupling dielectric layer is on a front surface of the diaphragm. An interdigital transducer (IDT) has interleaved fingers on the decoupling dielectric layer over the diaphragm. The IDT and piezoelectric plate are configured such that a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT excites shear acoustic waves in the diaphragm.
US11811375B2
An asymmetric signal path approach is used to extract differential signals out of the photodetector (e.g., a photodiode) for amplification by a differential transimpedance amplifier (TIA). This asymmetric-path differential TIA configuration has less low-frequency Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) (also known as Baseline Wander), less high-frequency noise amplification, and higher bandwidth capabilities. There is no power penalty with this design in comparison to a single-ended TIA, can extend the range of the link for a given system power consumption, and can decrease transmitter power for a given range.
US11811356B2
A method is disclosed for installing a solar cell module, which enables easy installation of a solar cell module on a rack, and also enables a worker to install a solar cell module without climbing on the roof. A solar cell module is installed on a rack mounted on a roof. The solar cell module includes a frame formed of a material containing a resin. The rack includes multiple rails each having a groove, and the grooves of a pair of the rails are disposed to be opposed to each other. The method of this invention comprises the steps of fitting the frame of the solar cell module into the groove such that the solar cell module is retained by the pair of the rails, and fixing the solar cell module to the pair of the rails to prevent the solar cell module from falling out of the grooves.
US11811353B2
A load driving device includes a smoothing capacitor, an inverter, and a control unit. The inverter includes two legs, each including upper and lower arm switching elements connected in series and converts direct-current power stored in the smoothing capacitor into alternating-current power. The control unit performs voltage drop prevention control for preventing the voltage across the smoothing capacitor from becoming a negative voltage. The control unit stops power running control on the load when the capacitor voltage is higher than the sum of a first voltage and a second voltage. The first voltage is a potential difference between a second terminal and a first terminal in the upper-arm. The second voltage is a potential difference between a second terminal and a first terminal in the lower-arm in the same leg as the leg of the upper-arm.
US11811351B2
A motor controller includes a motor drive unit configured to drive and control a motor, an electrical discharge control unit configured to perform control in which regenerative power from the motor is consumed by a regenerative power discharge resistor, and a housing formed to accommodate the motor drive unit and the electrical discharge control unit, wherein at least a part of the housing is configured as the regenerative power discharge resistor.
US11811344B2
A work machine includes a frame, a traction system supporting the frame, a power source mounted on the frame, a switched reluctance motor, an inverter configured to control power to the motor from a power source, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicating a desired torque and determine if the desired torque is between an upper threshold and a lower threshold. If the desired torque is between the upper threshold and the lower threshold, pulse width modulation is used to produce a PWM adjusted torque command, and the motor is commanded based on the PWM adjusted torque command. The PWM adjusted torque command is configured to cycle between the upper threshold and the lower threshold to produce the desired torque.
US11811343B2
Examples include a method for controlling a synchronous motor using a variable speed drive. The motor includes a permanent magnet rotor generating a magnetic flux. The method includes applying a predefined electrical command signal to the motor and estimating a motor speed in response to the applying of the predefined electrical command signal. The method also includes reaching a desired estimated motor speed and, in response to reaching the desired estimated motor speed, estimating a parameter related to the magnetic flux of the permanent magnet rotor. The method further includes recording the estimated parameter.
US11811340B2
Provided is a control device for a rotating electric machine, the control device being configured to control an inverter configured to apply a voltage to each phase winding of a rotating electric machine, to thereby control, for the each phase winding, a current to be supplied to the each phase winding, the control device including a control unit configured to: calculate a voltage command value to be applied to the each phase winding so that a phase difference between harmonic components of the same order in a radial magnetic flux density and a circumferential magnetic flux density of an air gap portion between a stator core and a rotor core of the rotating electric machine becomes a phase difference target value determined in advance, and to control the inverter in accordance with the calculated voltage command value.
US11811338B2
One or more multiphase power converters are connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a power supply via a high potential line and a low potential line, respectively, convert DC power of the power supply into multiphase alternate current power by operations of a plurality of inverter switching elements, and apply a voltage to each of phase windings of a multiphase winding set. A DC rotating machine switch including switches on a high potential side and a low potential side connected in series via a DC motor terminal connected to a second terminal that is an end of the DC rotating machine on an opposite side to a first terminal. The DC rotating machine switch generates a voltage of the DC motor terminal variable by switching. A control unit controls operations of the inverter switching elements and the DC rotating machine switch.
US11811337B2
A nanofiber actuator comprises a composite structure and a vanadium dioxide layer. The composite structure comprises a carbon nanotube wire and an aluminum oxide layer. The aluminum oxide layer is coated on a surface of the carbon nanotube wire, and the aluminum oxide layer and the carbon nanotube wire are located coaxially with each other. The vanadium dioxide layer is coated on a surface of the composite structure, and the vanadium dioxide layer and the composite structure are located non-coaxially with each other.
US11811334B2
An electrostatic machine including a rotor plate comprising a plurality of rotor electrodes, and rotatably fixed to a shaft; a stator plate comprising a plurality of stator electrodes; an excitation circuit electrically coupled to at least one of the rotor plate or the stator plate at a first end, and electrically couplable to exchange power at a second end with a selected one of an electrical power source or an electrical load; wherein the excitation circuit is configured to: in a first motoring mode, provide excitation power to at least one of the rotor plate or the stator plate, wherein the shaft provides positive torque to the load; and in a second generating mode, wherein the shaft receives negative torque from the load, operably couple at least one of the rotor plate or the stator plate to the electrical power source.
US11811328B2
An isolated conversion apparatus with magnetic bias balance control includes an isolated converter, a controller, and a magnetic bias balance circuit. The isolated converter includes a transformer, and a primary side of the transformer includes a primary-side winding and at least one switch bridge arm. The controller is coupled to the at least one switch bridge arm, and provides a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal group to control the at least one switch bridge arm. The magnetic bias balance circuit is coupled to two ends of the primary-side winding and the controller, and provides a compensation voltage to the controller according to an average voltage of a winding voltage across the two ends of the primary-side winding. The controller adjusts a duty cycle of the PWM signal group according to the compensation voltage to correct the magnetic bias.
US11811320B2
A power conversion circuit includes a first and a second power converters for generating a first and a second driving voltages respectively. The second power converter is a switching converter. In a short-circuit detection mode, the first driving voltage is regulated to the first driving level, and the second power converter is configured to operate in a pulse frequency modulation mode to regulate the second driving voltage to a short-circuit detection level, and when a switching frequency of the second power converter exceeds a threshold frequency, a short-circuit condition between the second driving voltage and the first driving voltage is determined.
US11811315B2
A direct current (DC)/DC conversion circuit includes an input end, a power circuit, and an output end, a bypass circuit that is a unidirectional conduction circuit, and a switch disposed between the input end and the power circuit, where the input end is configured to be coupled to an external power supply to receive power to the DC/DC conversion circuit. The bypass circuit is coupled between the input end and the power circuit, the bypass circuit is disposed between the switch and the power circuit, and the bypass circuit is coupled to the power circuit in parallel. The switch is configured to be closed when the input end is reversely coupled to the external power supply to enable a current from a positive electrode of the external power supply to flow back to a negative electrode of the external power supply through the bypass circuit and the switch.
US11811312B2
A bipolar output charge pump circuit having a network of switching paths for selectively connecting an input node and a reference node for connection to an input voltage, a first pair of output nodes and a second pair of output nodes, and two pairs of flying capacitor nodes, and a controller for controlling the switching of the network of switching paths. The controller is operable to control the network of switching paths when in use with two flying capacitors connected to the two pairs of flying capacitor nodes, to provide a first bipolar output voltage at the first pair of output nodes and a second bipolar output voltage at the second pair of bipolar output nodes.
US11811308B2
A multi-phase PFC (power factor correction) system, controller for the multi-phase PFC system and method of controlling the multi-phase PFC system are described. The controller includes a digital circuitry configured to calculate a delay value based on a positive current slope and a negative current slope for a first phase of the plurality of phases which is enabled for all load current conditions. In response to an increase in an average current reference, the digital circuitry is configured to enable a second phase of the plurality of phases such that a current output by the second phase is out of phase with a current output by the first phase by an amount corresponding to the delay value as referenced to a beginning of a boost charging portion of a switching cycle for the first phase.
US11811303B2
Increases in current drawn from power supply nodes in a computer system can result in unwanted drops in the voltages of the power supply nodes until power supply circuits can compensate for the increased load. To lessen the effects of increases in load currents, a decoupling circuit that includes a diode may be coupled to the power supply node. During a charge mode, a control circuit applies a current to the diode to store charge in the diode. During a boost mode, the control circuit can couple the diode to the power supply node. When the voltage level of the power supply node begins to drop, the diode can source a current to the power supply node using the previously stored charge. The diode may be directly coupled to the power supply node or be part of a switch-based system that employs multiple diodes to increase the discharge voltage.
US11811300B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for providing electrical isolation using a converter comprising a first converter working in a rectifier mode receiving AC current and providing DC current, a second converter working in an inverter mode receiving said DC current from said first converter and providing AC current, a transformer receiving said AC current from said second converter having an input and output, said transformer providing electric isolation between said input and output, a third converter working in a rectifier mode receiving AC current from said transformer and providing DC current, wherein at least one of said first, second and third converters is a multilevel converter.
US11811298B2
A sensor circuit for a power FET monitors current flowing through the FET and includes a regulator circuit regulating a first current flowing through a sense resistance, so voltage drop at the sense resistance corresponds to voltage drop between terminals of the FET. A measurement circuit provides a second current corresponding (or being proportional) to the first current. A first switch selectively applies the second current to a resistor based on a first control signal, and a low pass filter generates a low-pass filtered signal by filtering voltage at the resistor. A voltage follower generates a replica of the low-pass filtered signal, and a second switch selectively applies the replica to the resistor. When the FET is closed, a control circuit closes the first switch and opens the second electronic switch. When the FET is opened, the control circuit opens the first electronic switch and closes the second electronic switch.
US11811296B2
An electric machine includes a drive assembly and a casing. The drive assembly has a stator and a rotor rotatable about a drive axis relative to the stator. The casing contains the drive assembly and has coolant passages, the coolant passages defining a first inlet opening, a second inlet opening, a stator feed circuit, a rotor feed circuit, and an intersection providing fluid communication between the stator feed circuit and the rotor feed circuit. The coolant passages receive at least one coolant input through one or more of the first inlet opening and the second inlet opening to deliver coolant to the rotor through the rotor feed circuit and to the stator through the stator feed circuit.
US11811292B1
A tumbler-type vehicle-mounted flywheel energy storage device with five-degree-of-freedom magnetic suspension support for an electric vehicle is provided. A flywheel is formed into a bowl by a metal flywheel rotor and a composite material ring by interference fit. The metal flywheel rotor comprises an upper-section ring, a mid-section hollow hemisphere, and a lower-section ring. The composite material ring is closely fitted outside the upper-section ring to form a bowl-shaped bowl opening part. An annular axial thrust disc protrudes inward in a radial direction from an inner wall on a bottom end of the upper-section ring. An area above the axial thrust disc is a bowl opening empty slot layer, and an area below the axial thrust disc is a sphere empty slot layer and a bowl bottom empty slot layer in sequence, which form an inner cavity of the flywheel. A supporting frame is fitted in an inner stator.
US11811283B2
A stator for a radial-flux rotary electric machine includes a yoke with a plurality of teeth, each tooth extending from a root at the yoke to a tip. The stator further includes a plurality of coils, each one of which being located on a respective one of the plurality of teeth, the coils being sized such that a slot fill factor is between zero and unity to define axial voids in the slots. The stator further includes a plurality of magnetic sealing members, each one of which being engaged with the tips of adjacent teeth to circumferentially and axially seal the axial voids in the slots for retaining an axial flow of coolant therein, the magnetic sealing members being composed of a magnetic material to provide a flux path between adjacent tooth tips to increase an amount of leakage flux.
US11811280B2
The rotor for a squirrel-cage asynchronous rotating electrical machine comprises two compaction elements clamping a cylindrical magnetic mass, short-circuit rings facing the face of the compaction elements opposite that in contact with the magnetic mass, and conductive bars housed in recesses in the magnetic mass and distributed evenly over at least one diameter of the magnetic mass such that the short-circuit rings and the conductive bars form a squirrel cage. Retaining means distributed over at least one diameter of each short-circuit ring and over at least one diameter of each compaction element interact so as to secure the short-circuit rings and the compaction elements together, the pitch circle diameters of the retaining means on the rings and the compaction elements being smaller than the pitch circle diameter of the conductive bars.
US11811278B2
A method for producing an electromagnetic component for an electric machine is provided. The method includes providing a metal sheet as a starting material; punching out a number of lamellae from the metal sheet; heat-treating the lamellae; and joining the heat-treated lamellae to form the component or a portion of the component. The electromagnetic component to be produced can be a laminated core, for example a stator core or a rotor core, and can be provided for use with the electric machine such as an electric motor.
US11811275B2
A gas engine replacement device includes a housing, a battery receptacle coupled to the housing and configured to removably connect to a battery pack having a memory storing battery pack configuration data, a motor located within the housing, a power take-off shaft receiving torque from the motor and protruding from a side of the housing, a power switching network configured to selectively provide power from the battery pack to the motor, and a first electronic processor coupled to the power switching network and configured to control the power switching network to rotate the motor. The first electronic processor is configured to receive the battery pack configuration data responsive to a connection of the battery pack to the battery receptacle and control the power switching network based on the battery pack configuration data.
US11811262B2
According to certain aspects of the disclosure, an uninterruptible power supply is provided comprising an input, a backup power supply, an output configured to provide output power from the input and/or the backup power supply, a sensor, a relay, and a controller coupled to the sensor and the relay and being configured to determine, based on stored relay specifications, a manufacturer total estimated relay lifetime, receive operational information indicative of operational parameters of operation of the relay from the sensor, the operational information including a current conducted by the relay, determine, based on the operational information, an effective number of relay cycles consumed by the operation of the relay, determine a modified number of remaining relay cycles based on a difference between the manufacturer total estimated lifetime and the effective number of relay cycles consumed, and output remaining relay lifetime information indicative of the modified number of remaining relay cycles.
US11811250B2
An electrical consumer system includes an electrical consumer with a first mating interface and a first plurality of electrical contacts, and a removable battery pack including a second mating interface and a second plurality of electrical contacts, the second mating interface configured to removably mate with the first mating interface such that the second plurality of contacts contact the first plurality of contacts. At least one of the first and second mating interfaces includes a temperature sensor configured to detect at least one of a temperature of the at least one of the first and second mating interfaces, and a temperature of the first or second electrical contacts of the at least one of the first and second mating interfaces.
US11811244B2
A demodulation circuit includes a slope detector circuit and a comparator circuit. The slope detector circuit is configured detect a change in the voltage and determine if the voltage rate of change meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold. The comparator circuit is configured to set an upper limit and lower limit for rate of change, compare the voltage rate of change to the limits, determine that the voltage rate of change meets or exceeds the limits, if the voltage rate of change meets or exceeds the rising and falling rate of change limits, (v) set a lower limit for a falling rate of change, (vi) receive the voltage rate of change and determine that the voltage rate of change meets or exceeds the fall or rise threshold, if the voltage rate of change meets or exceeds the falling or rising rate of change.
US11811232B2
An electric power source includes: a battery defining a state of charge; a converter in electrical communication with the battery; and a controller in operable communication with the converter, the controller including a compensation toggle circuit configured to provide a compensation toggle value based on a power output of the battery; a dynamic droop control circuit configured to receive the compensation toggle value and switch an output droop value of the dynamic droop control circuit from an upper output droop measurement to a lower output droop measurement, wherein the lower output droop measurement is based on the state of charge of the battery.
US11811226B1
A four-stage digital voltage distribution system is provided with a multi-bridge relay assembly to deliver pulsed direct current to a dielectric actuator. A first stage of operation opens a forward voltage flow from a high voltage source through a passive signal conditioner before activating the actuator and passing through a forward diode to ground. A second stage cuts off the forward voltage flow to the dielectric actuator; thereby, shorting the dielectric actuator and causing a reverse discharge flow through a reverse diode. A third stage opens a reverse voltage flow through the signal conditioner before activating the dielectric actuator and passing through the reverse diode to ground. A fourth stage cuts off the reverse voltage flow to the charged dielectric actuator; thereby, shorting the dielectric actuator and causing a forward discharge flow through the forward diode. The four stages continuously loop to deliver pulsed DC to the actuator.
US11811222B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit including a detection circuit, a voltage-divider element, and a discharge element is provided. The detection circuit is coupled between a first power line and a second power line. In response to an ESD event, the detection circuit enables a turn-on signal. The voltage-divider element is coupled between the first power line and a third power line and receives the turn-on signal. The discharge element is coupled between the second and third power lines. In response to the turn-on signal being enabled, the first discharge element discharges an ESD current.
US11811217B2
A photovoltaic power generation system includes a capacitor bridge arm, an inverter bridge arm, and the fault protection apparatus. The capacitor bridge arm includes a positive electrode output port, a negative electrode output port, and a reference output port The inverter bridge arm includes a positive electrode input port, a negative electrode input port, and a reference input port. The positive electrode input port is connected to the positive electrode output port. The negative electrode input port is connected to the negative electrode output port. The reference input port is connected to the reference output port by using the fault protection apparatus. The fault protection apparatus is turned off based on a magnitude value or a variation of a voltage, or a magnitude value or a variation of a current between the reference input port and the positive electrode input port or the negative electrode input port.
US11811215B2
A compound control circuit comprises an input end, a light-load signal processing circuit, a slow response circuit and a fast response circuit. The compound control circuit is mainly used as an additional circuit of a work control chip, so that although the work control chip only has a single overcurrent protection level, a compound function control of fast and slow speed, high and low level current protection and light-load signal stabilization can be generated through the compound control circuit, so as to meet the complex application environment and compatible requirements of the current power supply.
US11811212B2
A system in a vehicle includes a first fuse connected between a power source and a load. The first fuse is an electronic fuse (eFuse) to disconnect the load from the power source via the first fuse based on detecting a failure in the first fuse. The system also includes a second fuse connected between the power source and the load, the first fuse and the second fuse being part of a cluster of fuses. The second fuse is an eFuse and the first fuse signals the second fuse to disconnect the load from the power source via the second fuse based on the first fuse detecting the failure in the first fuse without the second fuse detecting a failure in the second fuse.
US11811205B2
A switch and socket cover structure includes a light transmitting cover, an LED light panel, a carrying board and a light control switch component. The light transmitting cover has a first opening, a light emitting area on a side of the first opening, and a light sensing area on a side of the first opening. The LED light panel is installed to the bottom of the light transmitting cover and corresponsive to the light emitting area, the carrying board is installed to the bottom of the light transmitting cover and has a second opening corresponding to the first opening, and an accommodating slot corresponding to the light sensing area. The light control switch component is installed in the accommodating slot and provided for the light sensing area to detect ambient light, and the light control switch component is electrically connected to the LED light panel.
US11811201B2
A wire stripper for stripping cables has two plier jaws, two outer clamping jaws, two inner cutting jaws, and two gripping parts. The cutting jaws can be displaced from a starting position into an end position by a pull rod while pressing together the gripping parts. The cutting jaws are guided on sliding block parts that rest against a sliding block fixed in the clamping jaws. The cutting jaws are moved toward each other to varying degrees through these sliding block parts, depending on a closed position of the clamping jaws, with the closed position determining the movement of the sliding block part. The sliding block parts can be manually adjusted independently of a closed position of the clamping jaws in terms of a position relative to the sliding block, while at the same time acting on both sliding block parts.
US11811200B2
An apparatus and method for installing an aircraft bulkhead connector with a bulkhead is disclosed where access to only one side of the bulkhead is required. The disclosure is also applicable to installation of bulkhead connectors in aircraft fuel tanks. An aircraft bulkhead connector and installation tool is also disclosed. The bulkhead connector includes a female end portion and the installation tool includes a male end portion. The male end portion of the installation tool is removably engaged with the female end portion of the bulkhead connector, such that the installation tool protrudes beyond the female end portion of the bulkhead connector. The installation tool may be inserted through an aperture in a bulkhead and used to both position and hold the bulkhead connector during the installation process.
US11811196B2
There is provided assemblies for combining a group of laser sources into a combined laser beam. There is further provided a blue diode laser array that combines the laser beams from an assembly of blue laser diodes. There are provided laser processing operations and applications using the combined blue laser beams from the laser diode arrays and modules.
US11811194B2
Systems and methods for imaging in the short wave infrared (SWIR), photodetectors with low dark current and associated circuits for reducing dark currents and methods for generating image information based on data of a photodetector array. A SWIR imaging system may include a pulsed illumination source operative to emit radiation pulses in the SWIR band towards a target resulting in reflected radiation from the target; (b) an imaging receiver including a plurality of Ge PDs operative to detect the reflected SWIR radiation and a controller, operative to control activation of the receiver for an integration time during which the accumulated dark current noise does not exceed the time independent readout noise.
US11811186B2
An apparatus includes an optical gain fiber having a core, a cladding surrounding the core, the core and cladding defining an optical gain fiber numerical aperture, and a multimode fiber having a core with a larger radius than a radius of the optical gain fiber core, a cladding surrounding the core, the core and cladding of the multimode fiber defining a multimode fiber stable numerical aperture that is larger than the optical gain fiber numerical aperture, the multimode fiber being optically coupled to the optical gain fiber so as to receive an optical beam propagating in the optical gain fiber and to stably propagate the received optical beam in the multimode fiber core with low optical loss associated with the optical coupling.
US11811179B2
An electrode connection structure includes a first electrode unit that includes first electrodes formed concentrically, and a second electrode unit that includes a second electrode formed into a needle shape axially movable forward and rearward and is electrically connectable to the first electrode unit, and in the electrode connection structure, the second electrode unit includes a plurality of the second electrodes that is arranged in a circumferential direction and arranged at different radial positions, and the plurality of the second electrodes is electrically connected to the first electrodes arranged at different radial positions, respectively.
US11811177B2
In various implementations, a raceway may be provided that is capable of providing power and/or data connectivity to items (e.g., devices, articles of furniture, etc.) coupled to the raceway. The raceway may be low profile. The raceway may be disposed on floor and/or under floor. The raceway may include an integrated power housing. The raceway may include segments that are selected, as desired for an application configuration, and that are coupleable to each other or other components of the raceway (e.g., nodes, joints, etc.). The housing of component(s) of the raceway may include a base and wall(s) with at least curved section and at least one straight section.
US11811171B2
A cable card assembly includes a circuit card and cables terminated to the circuit card. Each cable has signal conductors, an insulator, and a cable shield. The cable card includes conductor holders forward of the insulators manufactured from a dielectric material and having conductor channels that receive the signal conductors. The cable card assembly includes ground shields coupled to the circuit card providing electrical shielding for the cables. Each ground shield includes a side walls and an end wall. The end wall has an end wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The first side wall has a first side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The second side wall has a second side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield.
US11811165B2
Provided is a molding method of a sealing cover, realized by setting up a sealing cover mold, the mold includes a cavity and a core group arranged in the cavity, including setting up a first core and a second core, the mold opening direction of the first core and the second core are not parallel. The present application does not need a process hole to perform the injection molding of the sealing cover with a fastening structure, whose sealing is also better.
US11811163B2
A floating quad connector assembly is designed to hold two pairs of simplex connecters in a quad formation and to permit the two pairs of connectors to float within the assembly, thereby rendering the quad connector assembly compatible with different quad adapters having different spacings between the two middle simplex ports. Also, a segmental switch module is configured to aggregate multiple category-rated connectors in an array formation while permitting the spacings between the connectors to float, thereby rendering the switch module compatible with port arrays of different port-to-port spacings.
US11811160B2
A plug contact for an electrical charging connector includes: a contact element having a contact area with at least one spring-loaded contact means, and a connection area for connecting an electrical conductor; a cooling element arranged at least in some areas around the contact area; and a heat-conducting element arranged between the cooling element and the contact element. The heat-conducting element is elastic and thermally and mechanically contacts the cooling element and the contact element.
US11811155B2
A connection member includes a guide plate and a first connecting plate integrally formed on the guide plate. The first connecting plate is disposed in a bendable manner relative to the guide plate, and at least one indentation is present between the first connecting plate and the guide plate. A portion, of the guide plate except a part corresponding to the at least one indentation, connected to the first connecting plate becomes gradually thinner in a direction from the guide plate to the first connecting plate.
US11811153B2
A wireless module has a multilayer substrate, an element installation section formed in one region in a substrate plane of the multilayer substrate, and an antenna. The antenna includes a conductor unit formed in another region in the substrate plane of the multilayer substrate. The conductor unit has a first end and a second end that extend along an outer periphery of the other region and that are separated from each other in a direction of the extension, and is formed in a loop as seen from a direction perpendicular to a substrate surface of the multilayer substrate. A feed unit connected to the first end of the conductor unit receives input of an AC signal of a prescribed frequency. A short-circuit line has a first end connected to a ground and a second end connected to the conductor unit through the feed unit.
US11811145B2
An antenna module includes an antenna box and a first connection wire. The antenna box can include a first antenna, a second antenna, a first connection terminal, a second connection terminal and a housing. The first and second antennas are located in the housing and the housing has a first opening collectively exposing a portion of the first connection terminal and a portion of the second connection terminal. Each of the first and second antennas is adapted to receive or transmit wireless signals according to one of a plurality of wireless communication standards and the first and second antennas are electrically connected to the first and second connection terminals, respectively. The wireless communication standards can be different from each other.
US11811143B2
An OAM multiplexing communication system uses one or more OAM modes and multiplexes signals of one or more sequences for each OAM mode. A transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna using an M-UCA, and an OAM mode generation unit that simultaneously generates one or more OAM modes from each UCA. A receiving station includes a receiving antenna equivalent to the M-UCA, an OAM mode separation unit that separates signals received by each UCA for each OAM mode, and a received signal processing unit that estimates channel information for each OAM mode and performs an equalization process for each OAM mode by using a receiving weight calculated from the channel information. The received signal processing unit is configured to estimate, for each OAM mode, channel information of another OAM mode causing interference and calculate the receiving weight of a subject OAM mode by using the channel information of the subject OAM mode and said another OAM mode.
US11811141B2
Systems and methods provide an antenna array with separately fed subarrays. The systems and methods provide optimized or improved physical embodiments of each sub-banded subarray in terms of radiating element type and physical implementation, radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) technology choice, RFIC packaging and interconnect implementation, and/or intra-subarray feed typology choice and implementation. The antenna array can include first elements within a first distance range from a point in a surface associated with the antenna array and configured for first signals in a first frequency range, and second elements within a second distance range from the point and configured for second signals in a second frequency range. The antenna system also can include an interconnect system comprising a first multichip module and a second multichip module region.
US11811140B2
A configurable radio frequency device includes a surface and a plurality of configurable radio frequency elements disposed on the surface. The radio frequency elements can be configured to absorb, reflect, or pass a radio transmission. A controller is configured to control the configuration of the surface by setting the state of the radio frequency elements. The controller also determines a deployment configuration for the surface by applying a series of test configurations to the surface and receiving a measurement of signal quality as measured by a receiver. The controller can then use these measurements to determine how to set the states of the radio frequency elements for the deployment configuration.
US11811137B2
An additively manufactured antenna device is disclosed, including a base portion and a body portion. The body portion is attached to the base portion and includes a lattice stiffening structure configured to eliminate secondary printing support.
US11811131B2
The present disclosure provides an antenna module. The antenna module includes an antenna layer, a ground layer, and an electronic component. The ground layer is disposed over the antenna layer. The electronic component is disposed between the antenna layer and the ground layer.
US11811128B1
Disclosed is an attachment mechanism for attaching a wireless access point to a vertical structure, such as a wall. The attachment mechanism includes a bracket that is mounted to the vertical structure. The attachment mechanism also includes at least two engagement members positioned on opposing sides of the access point. The two engagement members are horizontally aligned, in some embodiments, when the access point is engaged with a bracket. The two engagement members engage with receptacles that are part of the bracket. One of the receptacles includes a tab which prevents its corresponding engagement member from fully engaging with the receptacle, allowing the attachment mechanism to disengage via disengagement of only one of the engagement members.
US11811111B2
A control method for a fuel cell system includes: acquiring a poisoning rate of an electrode catalyst of a fuel cell; performing a potential maintaining operation of maintaining a potential of the fuel cell in a first potential range when the poisoning rate of the electrode catalyst is greater than a prescribed value α; and performing a potential changing operation of repeating a cycle in which the potential of the fuel cell is changed between an upper-limit potential and a lower-limit potential of a second potential range which is higher than the first potential range after the potential maintaining operation has been performed.
US11811104B2
A bipolar conductive plate for a fuel cell structure, the plate having a network of fluid circulation channels in the form of a succession of undulations with narrowed portions preferably distributed regularly in order to reduce the stratification phenomena.
US11811100B2
A cell module includes a plurality of battery cells each having a safety valve at a first end in a height direction, a first current collector plate including a main body having a through hole that at least partly overlaps the safety valve when viewed along the height direction and a lead extending into the through hole from the main body and being electrically connected to a first terminal of each of the battery cells, an exhaust duct disposed over a surface of the first current collector plate remote from the battery cells, and an insulating film being made of an insulating material and covering an area of the first current collector plate facing the exhaust duct. The safety valve opens when an internal pressure of any of the battery cells reaches or exceeds a predetermined level.
US11811094B2
A wiring module includes a first housing section row, a second housing section row, and linking sections. The first housing section row includes first housing sections that are arranged in an arrangement direction and include connection bus bars therein, respectively. The second housing section row includes second housing sections that are arranged in the arrangement direction and include the connection bus bars and output bus bars therein, respectively, and is disposed away from the first housing section row with respect to a crossing direction that crosses the arrangement direction. The linking sections are disposed between the first and second housing section rows and link the first and second housing section rows. The first housing sections are connected by a first warping section that can be deformed with warping and the second housing sections are connected by a second warping section that can be deformed with warping.
US11811093B2
The present disclosure relates to a separator for a lithium secondary battery comprising a porous substrate, and a porous coating layer disposed on at least one surface of the porous substrate and comprising inorganic particles and binder polymer, wherein the binder polymer is terpolymer including 65 to 90 weight % of a repeat unit derived from vinylidenefluoride (VDF), 1 to 28 weight % of a repeat unit derived from hexafluoropropylene (HFP) and 5 to 28 weight % of a repeat unit derived from chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE), and the separator has adhesiveness towards electrode ranging from 30 gf/25 mm to 150 gf/25 mm and machine direction (MD) thermal shrinkage of 1 to 18% and transverse direction (TD) thermal shrinkage of 1 to 17%, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same, wherein the separator has uniform micropores on the surface, and thus has the increased adhesive surface area with electrode and consequential improved adhesiveness towards electrode.
US11811086B2
An alkaline battery separator is made from a blend of polyvinyl alcohol and a cellulose derivative, and has a controlled pore size.
US11811067B2
A strip-shaped electrode sheet includes an electrode foil including a strip-shaped foil exposed portion in which the electrode foil is exposed, a strip-shaped active material layer extending in a longitudinal direction, and a strip-shaped insulator layer containing insulating resin and formed on an insulator-layer support portion along a one-side layer edge portion of the active material layer and between the foil exposed portion of the electrode foil and an active-material-layer support portion. The insulator layer is located lower than a top face of the active material layer toward the electrode foil and includes a slant coating portion covering at least a lower portion of a one-side slant portion of the active material layer and a foil coating portion extending from the slant coating portion in a width-direction one side and covering the insulator-layer support portion of the electrode foil.
US11811063B2
A solid-state cathode for a solid-state electrochemical cell includes an electrochemically active cathode material and one or more elemental dopant residing in grain boundaries of the electrochemically active cathode material. The grain boundaries contain at least 0.2 wt % of the one or more elemental dopant and the one or more elemental dopant is less than 10 wt % of the solid-state cathode. The solid-state cathode does not have liquid, gel and polymer materials.
US11811061B2
A powderous positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery has the general formula Li1+x[Ni1−a−b−cMaM′bM″c]1−xO2−z. M is one or more elements of the group Mn, Zr and Ti. M′ is one or more elements of the group Al, B and Co. M″ is a dopant different from M and M′, and x, a, b and c are expressed in mol with −0.02≤x≤0.02, 0≤c≤0.05, 0.10≤(a+b)≤0.65 and 0≤z≤0.05. The material has an unconstrained cumulative volume particle size distribution value (Γ0(D10P=0)), a cumulative volume particle size distribution value after having been pressed at a pressure of 200 MPa (ΓP(D10P=200)) and a cumulative volume particle size distribution value after having been pressed at a pressure of 300 MPa (ΓP(D10P=300)). When ΓP(D10P=200) is compared to Γ0(D10P=0), the relative increase in value is less than 100%. When ΓP(D10P=300) is compared to Γ0(D10P=0), the relative increase in value is less than 120%.
US11811058B2
A primary battery includes a cathode having a non-stoichiometric metal oxide including transition metals Ni, Mn, Co, or a combination of metal atoms, an alkali metal, and hydrogen; an anode; a separator between the cathode and the anode; and an alkaline electrolyte.
US11811057B2
A positive electrode sheet includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer coated on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer includes an inner active material layer and an outer active material layer successively stacked. The inner active material layer has a three-level pore size distribution: an inner primary pore size distribution from 3 nm to 10 nm, an inner secondary pore size distribution from 10 nm to 100 nm, and an inner tertiary pore size distribution from 0.1 μm to 2 μm. The outer active material layer has a three-level pore size distribution: an outer primary pore size distribution from 0.5 nm to 3 nm, an outer secondary pore size distribution from 10 nm to 100 nm, and an outer tertiary pore size distribution from 0.1 μm to 2 μm.
US11811056B2
Provided is an improved method for forming a coated lithium ion cathode materials specifically for use in a battery. The method comprises forming a first solution comprising a digestible feedstock of a first metal suitable for formation of a cathode oxide precursor and a multi-carboxylic acid. The digestible feedstock is digested to form a first metal salt in solution wherein the first metal salt precipitates as a salt of deprotonated multi-carboxylic acid thereby forming an oxide precursor and a coating metal is added to the oxide precursor. The oxide precursor is heated to form the coated lithium ion cathode material.
US11811053B2
A positive electrode (11) according to one embodiment is provided with: a positive electrode collector (30); a first middle layer (32) disposed on one of two surfaces of the positive electrode collector (30), the surface being on the inner circumferential side when the positive electrode collector (30) is wound; a second middle layer (34) that is disposed on the other surface that is on the outer circumferential side; and a positive electrode mixed material layer (36) disposed on the first middle layer (32) and on the second middle layer (34). The first middle layer (32) and the second middle layer (34) contain insulating particles and an electrical conductor, and the thickness of the first middle layer (32) is less than the thickness of the second middle layer (34).
US11811043B2
The present disclosure may obtain an electrode for an all-solid-state battery with low porosity by adjusting the concentration of an electrode active material layer-forming slurry and a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. The all-solid-state battery uses a solid electrolyte material, not a liquid electrolyte material, and thus it needs to have a close contact between the constituent materials of the battery such as an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte material, and when the manufacturing method according to the present disclosure is applied, the electrode active material layer is filled with the solid electrolyte material, bringing the components into close contact, thereby improving the interfacial resistance characteristics.
US11811037B2
A hand-guided, battery-operated working apparatus has an apparatus housing in which is arranged an electric drive motor, a battery tray to accommodate a removable battery pack, and a cooling air guide. The cooling air guide includes an inlet-side air guide portion, which extends from a housing inlet into the battery tray as far as an air outlet from the battery tray, and an outlet-side air guide portion, which leads from the air outlet of the battery tray to the drive motor and, from there, onwards to a housing outlet. The working apparatus has a filter element, which is arranged in the cooling air guide so as to be accessible via the battery tray.
US11811032B2
A system for detecting a change in a battery cell may include instructions executable by a processor to determine a baseline profile of a battery cell with a capacitance sensor, detect a changed profile from the baseline profile with the capacitance sensor, match the changed profile with a stored profile where the stored profile is associated with a condition, and classify the battery cell as having the condition associated with the stored profile.
US11811020B2
An ultrahigh closo-borate concentration solid-state electrolyte is presented that is a combined salt of an alkali metal or alkali earth metal closo-borate and conductivity enhancing SISE. The combined salt allows significantly higher conductivities in the solid state than the included alkali metal or alkali earth metal closo-borate. The combined salt can be prepared by mechanical combination or combination in solution. The salts can be used in solid-state electrochemical devices.
US11811017B2
A battery unit and a battery module, where the battery unit includes an electrode assembly, including a first electrode and a second electrode, which have opposite polarities, each of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a coated portion and an uncoated portion, and the uncoated portion is located at an end part of a coated portion along the length direction of the electrode assembly and forms a tab; two terminals, arranged at the top of the electrode assembly; and two current collectors for electrically connecting the tabs on both sides of the electrode assembly with the terminals on the same side respectively. At least one end of at least one current collector along the width direction of the electrode assembly is a flat plate structure, and the tab covers the flat plate structure from the outer side after being bent.
US11811016B2
A series formation system is provided. The series formation system includes at least two formation modules and a power module. The power module is connected in series with the at least two formation modules. The at least two formation modules are connected in series. The power module is configured to supply power to the at least two formation modules. Each of the formation modules includes a battery cell and a formation control circuit. The formation control circuit is electrically connected to the battery cell. The formation control circuit is configured to control a voltage or a current provided by the power module to the battery cell, so that the battery cell is switched between a constant current charging mode and a constant voltage charging mode.
US11811000B2
Methods for forming light emitting diodes (LEDs) that leverage cavity profiles and induced stresses to alter emitted wavelengths of the LEDs. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a cavity on a substrate where the cavity has a cavity profile that is configured to accept an emitter pixel structure for an LED, forming at least one passivation layer in the cavity, and forming at least one optical layer in the cavity on at least a portion of one of the at least one passivation layer. The at least one optical layer is configured to increase a lumen output of the emitter pixel structure. The method further includes forming the emitter pixel structure in the cavity on the at least one optical layer of the emitter pixel structure where the cavity profile is configured to adjust an emitted light wavelength of the emitter pixel structure.
US11810994B2
The invention relates to an infrared-transmitting high-sensitivity visible light detector and its preparation method. The detector is composed of passivation layer (14), upper electrode (13), heterojunction (15), lower electrode (3), and intrinsic monocrystalline silicon substrate (2). The upper electrode (13) is the material that is electrically conductive and transparent to visible light and infrared light. The heterojunction (15) is divided into heterojunction upper layer (5) and heterojunction lower layer (4), wherein the upper heterojunction layer (5) is a nano film sensitive to visible light and capable of transmitting infrared ray, and the lower heterojunction layer (4) is intrinsic monocrystalline silicon. When visible light and infrared light pass through the upper electrode (13) and the heterojunction upper layer (5), the visible light excites electron-hole pairs in the heterojunction (15), which are collected by the upper and lower electrodes and flow out through longitudinally arranged metal columns, while infrared light passes through the whole detection structure, so that visible light can be detected without affecting infrared transmission. The distance between the electrode and the junction zone is very small, which can reduce the recombination rate of electron-hole pairs before reaching the electrode and improve the collection efficiency of photo-generated carriers. The structural design of longitudinal metal reduces light shielding and improves sensitivity.
US11810982B2
A nonvolatile memory device is provided. The nonvolatile memory device comprises an n-doped source, an n-doped drain, and a doped region in a first p-well in a substrate. A floating gate may be arranged over the first p-well, whereby the doped region may be arranged at least partially under the floating gate.
US11810974B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a U-metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (UMOS) structure; and a trench junction barrier Schottky (TJBS) diode, wherein an insulating layer of a sidewall of the TJBS diode does not have a side gate.
US11810972B2
A semiconductor device includes an enhancement mode high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) with an active region and an isolation region. The HEMT includes a substrate, a group III-V body layer, a group III-V barrier layer, a first recess, a second recess, a passivation layer, and an etch mask layer. The group III-V barrier layer includes a thinner portion, a first thicker portion and a second thicker portion in the active region, the thinner portion surrounds the first thicker portion, and the second thicker portion surrounds the thinner portion. The first recess is disposed in the group III-V barrier layer in the active region. The second recess is disposed in the group III-V barrier layer in the isolation region.
US11810958B2
A transistor includes: gate electrodes and field electrodes, wherein in each case one gate electrode and one field electrode are arranged one above another in a vertical direction in a common trench of a semiconductor body; a gate pad to which the gate electrodes are connected; and a source metallization arranged above the semiconductor body. The field electrodes of a first group include at least one contact section. The at least one contact section is arranged between two sections of a gate electrode arranged in the same trench and is connected to the source metallization. The two sections of the gate electrode are separated from one another in a region of the contact section. At least one of the two sections of the gate electrode arranged in the same trench is electrically connected to a gate electrode arranged in a further trench by way of a gate connecting electrode.
US11810947B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a bottom electrode on the substrate, a first support layer on the substrate next to a sidewall of the bottom electrode, a dielectric layer covering the sidewall and a top surface of the bottom electrode, and a top electrode on the dielectric layer. The bottom electrode includes a first part having a plurality of protrusions that protrude from a sidewall of the first part. The first part of the bottom electrode may be on the first support layer.
US11810942B2
An X-ray detection device includes a substrate, a first transistor disposed on the substrate and including a silicon semiconductor, a second transistor disposed on the substrate and including a metal oxide semiconductor, a sensor disposed on the first transistor and the second transistor and electrically connected to the first transistor and the second transistor, a first barrier layer disposed between the first transistor and the second transistor, and a second barrier layer disposed between the second transistor and the sensor. The X-ray detection device may further include a scintillator disposed on the sensor.
US11810938B2
A back-lit image sensor and a method for manufacturing the back-lit image sensor; the back-lit image sensor comprises a photoreceptor portion and a circuit portion, wherein the photoreceptor portion comprises: a microlens and a light filter incident photons entering the back-lit image sensor first by means of the microlens and then passing through the light filter; a transparent conductive film, which is located below the microlens and the light filter, the incident photons continuing to enter by means of the transparent conductive film; and a first substrate, which is located below the transparent conductive film and which is used for capturing and detecting received photons; a heterojunction is formed between the transparent conductive film and the first substrate.
US11810934B2
An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a substrate having a first pixel region and a second pixel region. The image sensor also includes a resonator structure disposed over the substrate. The resonator structure includes a first metal layer over the first pixel region and the second pixel region. The resonator structure also includes a first insulating layer over the first metal layer and the first pixel region. The first insulating layer has a first thickness. The resonator structure further includes a second insulating layer over the first metal layer and the second pixel region. The second insulating layer has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness. In addition, the resonator structure includes a second metal layer over the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.
US11810928B2
CMOS image sensor with LED flickering reduction and low color cross-talk are disclosed. In one embodiment, an image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns of a pixel array that is disposed in a semiconductor substrate. Each pixel includes a plurality of large subpixels (LPDs) and at least one small subpixel (SPD). A plurality of color filters are disposed over individual subpixels. Each individual SPD is laterally adjacent to at least one other SPD.
US11810926B2
Improving a reliability of a semiconductor device. A resistive element is comprised of a semiconductor layer of the SOI substrate and an epitaxial semiconductor layer formed on the semiconductor layer. The epitaxial semiconductor layer EP has two semiconductor portions formed on the semiconductor layer and spaced apart from each other. The semiconductor layer has a region on where one of the semiconductor portion is formed, a region on where another of the semiconductor portion is formed, and a region on where the epitaxial semiconductor layer is not formed.
US11810923B2
A pixel array substrate includes data lines, first gate lines, pixel structures, first common lines, and conductive line sets. The conductive line sets are arranged in a first direction. Each of the conductive line sets includes first conductive line groups and a second conductive line group sequentially arranged in the first direction. Each of the first conductive line groups includes second gate lines and a second common line. The second conductive line group includes first auxiliary lines and a second common line. An arrangement order of the second gate lines and the second common line of each of the first conductive line groups in the first direction are the same as an arrangement order of the first auxiliary lines and the second common line of the second conductive line group in the first direction, respectively.
US11810922B2
An array substrate and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; and a first electrically conductive layer and a second electrically conductive layer on the base substrate, wherein the base substrate is provided with at least one thin film transistor, each of the at least one thin film transistor includes a gate electrode disposed in the first electrically conductive layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed in the second electrically conductive layer, and wherein the drain electrode has a comb shape and includes a plurality of drain electrode sub-portions extending parallel to one another, and the source electrode has a comb shape and includes a plurality of source electrode sub-portions extending parallel to one another, and wherein at least one of the drain electrode and the source electrode includes an electrode body and an extending portion, the electrode body overlapping with the gate electrode, and the extending portion overlapping with a portion of the first electrically conductive layer other than the gate electrode.
US11810917B2
Methods of performing backside etching processes on source/drain regions and gate structures of semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first transistor structure; a first interconnect structure on a front-side of the first transistor structure; and a second interconnect structure on a backside of the first transistor structure, the second interconnect structure including a first dielectric layer on the backside of the first transistor structure; a contact extending through the first dielectric layer to a source/drain region of the first transistor structure; and first spacers along sidewalls of the contact between the contact and the first dielectric layer, sidewalls of the first spacers facing the first dielectric layer being aligned with sidewalls of the source/drain region of the first transistor structure.
US11810915B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor package including: a redistribution substrate; at least one passive device in the redistribution substrate, the passive device including a first terminal and a second terminal; and a semiconductor chip on a top surface of the redistribution substrate, the semiconductor chip vertically overlapping at least a portion of the passive device, wherein the redistribution substrate includes: a dielectric layer in contact with a first lateral surface, a second lateral surface opposite to the first lateral surface, and a bottom surface of the passive device; a lower conductive pattern on the first terminal; a lower seed pattern provided between the first terminal and the conductive pattern, and directly connected to the first terminal; a first upper conductive pattern on the second terminal and a first upper seed pattern provided between the second terminal and the first upper conductive pattern, and directly connected to the second terminal.
US11810910B2
A group III nitride transistor structure capable of reducing a leakage current and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The group III nitride transistor structure includes: a first heterojunction and a second heterojunction which are laminated, wherein the first heterojunction is electrically isolated from the second heterojunction via a high resistance material and/or insertion layer; a first electrode, a second electrode and a first gate which are matched with the first heterojunction, wherein a third semiconductor is arranged between the first gate and the first heterojunction, and the first gate is also electrically connected with the first electrode; a source, a drain and a second gate which are matched with the second heterojunction, wherein the source and the drain are also respectively electrically connected with the first gate and the second electrode, and a sixth semiconductor is arranged between the second gate and the second heterojunction.
US11810905B2
Provided are a light emitting device, a method for manufacturing same, and a display device including the light emitting device. The method for manufacturing the light emitting device comprises the steps of: preparing a lower substrate including a substrate and a buffer semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, forming an element rod by forming a separating layer disposed on the lower substrate, forming a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active material layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer on the separating layer, and etching the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, the active material layer, the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and the separating layer in a direction perpendicular to the lower substrate, forming a first insulating layer surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the element rod, forming a second insulating layer surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the first insulating layer and separating the element rod from the lower substrate to form a light emitting element.
US11810904B2
A micro light emitting diode structure includes a temporary substrate, a plurality of micro light emitting elements, a plurality of light blocking structures, and a connection layer. The micro light emitting elements and the light blocking structures are disposed on the temporary substrate and arranged alternately. Each of the light blocking structures includes a light blocking layer, and a light shielding layer disposed on the light blocking layer. The micro light emitting elements and the light blocking structures are fixed to the temporary substrate by the connection layer. A reflectivity of the light blocking layer is greater than a reflectivity of the connection layer, and a Young's modulus of the light blocking layer is greater than a Young's modulus of the connection layer.
US11810901B2
A microelectronic device comprises a first control logic region comprising first control logic devices and a memory array region vertically overlying the first control logic region. The memory array region comprises capacitors, access devices laterally neighboring and in electrical communication with the capacitors, conductive lines operatively associated with the access devices and extending in a lateral direction, and first conductive pillars operatively associated with the access devices and vertically extending through the memory array region. The microelectronic device further comprises a second control logic region comprising second control logic devices vertically overlying the memory array region. Related microelectronic devices, memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US11810892B2
A method of bonding semiconductor components is described. In one aspect a first component, for example a semiconductor die, is bonded to a second component, for example a semiconductor wafer or another die, by direct metal-metal bonds between metal bumps on one component and corresponding bumps or contact pads on the other component. In addition, a number of solder bumps are provided on one of the components, and corresponding contact areas on the other component, and fast solidified solder connections are established between the solder bumps and the corresponding contact areas, without realizing the metal-metal bonds. The latter metal-metal bonds are established in a heating step performed after the soldering step. This enables a fast bonding process applied to multiple dies bonded on different areas of the wafer and/or stacked one on top of the other, followed by a single heating step for realizing metal-metal bonds between the respective dies and the wafer or between multiple stacked dies. The method allows to improve the throughput of the bonding process, as the heating step takes place only once for a plurality of dies and/or wafers.
US11810877B2
Embodiments herein describe providing a decoupling capacitor on a first wafer (or substrate) that is then bonded to a second wafer to form an integrated decoupling capacitor. Using wafer bonding means that the decoupling capacitor can be added to the second wafer without having to take up space in the second wafer. In one embodiment, after bonding the first and second wafers, one or more vias are formed through the second wafer to establish an electrical connection between the decoupling capacitor and bond pads on a first surface of the second wafer. An electrical IC can then be flip chipped bonded to the first surface. As part of coupling the decoupling capacitor to the electrical IC, the decoupling capacitor is connected between the rails of a power source (e.g., VDD and VSS) that provides power to the electrical IC.
US11810876B1
An electronic assembly has a host wafer having a first circuit including passive devices for the purpose of one of tuning or matching networks. Chiplets are placed in the cavities. At least one chiplet has a second circuit including at least one transistor or switch device and passive tuning circuits including at least one of a stabilization network, a gain boosting network, a power delivery network, or a low-noise network. Electrical interconnects between the chiplets and wafer electrically connect the first circuitry to the second circuitry.
US11810875B2
A packaged integrated circuit (IC) includes an IC die having first and second external contacts and a package substrate. The IC die is attached to the package substrate which includes a balun in a first metal layer. The balun is connected to the first and second external contacts of the IC die and to a first external contact of the package substrate. The first and second external contacts of the IC die communicate a differential signal with the package substrate, and the first external contact of the package substrate communicates a single-ended signal corresponding to the differential signal. Alternatively, the balun is connected to an external contact of the IC die and to first and second external contacts of the package substrate, in which the external contact of the IC die communicates a single-ended signal and the first and second external contacts of the package substrate communicate a differential signal.
US11810873B2
A solid-state fuse device includes a switch a gate driver connected to the switch and configured to transition the switch from a closed state to an open state when at least one of an overcurrent measurement exceeds a predetermined overcurrent threshold or a voltage drop across the switch exceeds a predetermined saturation voltage threshold.
US11810869B2
A semiconductor device with improved reliability is provided. The semiconductor device is characterized by its embodiments in that sloped portions are formed on connection parts between a pad and a lead-out wiring portion, respectively. This feature suppresses crack formation in a coating area where a part of the pad is covered with a surface protective film.
US11810868B2
A packaged integrated circuit device includes a substrate having a surface thereon. A spacer and a first semiconductor chip are provided at spaced-apart locations on a first portion of the surface of the substrate. This first portion of the surface of the substrate has a lateral area equivalent to a sum of: (i) a lateral footprint of the spacer, (ii) a lateral footprint of the first semiconductor chip, and (iii) an area of an entire lateral space between the spacer and the first semiconductor chip. A stack of second semiconductor chips is provided, which extends on the spacer and on the first semiconductor chip. The stack of second semiconductor chips has a lateral footprint greater than the lateral area of the first portion of the surface of the substrate so that at least a portion of the stack of second semiconductor chips overhangs at least one sidewall of at least one of the spacer and the first semiconductor chip, which extend between the stack of second semiconductor chips and the surface of the substrate.
US11810865B2
A semiconductor package includes; a chip structure including vertically stacked semiconductor chips disposed on a package substrate, a spacer disposed on an uppermost semiconductor chip among the semiconductor chips, an encapsulant covering at least part of the chip structure, and including an upper portion of the encapsulant covering at least part of the spacer, and a marking pattern visually identifiable through an opening in the upper portion of the encapsulant selectively exposing portions of the spacer.
US11810864B2
A semiconductor package includes a core substrate having a through hole, a first molding member at least partially filling the through hole and covering an upper surface of the core substrate, the first molding member having a cavity within the through hole, a first semiconductor chip on the first molding member on the upper surface of the core substrate, a second semiconductor chip arranged within the cavity, a second molding member on the first molding member and covering the first semiconductor chip, a third molding member filling the cavity and covering the lower surface of the core substrate; first redistribution wirings on the second molding member and electrically connecting first chip pads of the first semiconductor chip and core connection wirings of the core substrate; and second redistribution wirings on the third molding member and electrically connecting second chip pads of the second semiconductor chip and the core connection wirings.
US11810861B2
There is provided a field-effect transistor including: a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer having a source region and a drain region with the gate electrode in between; contact plugs provided on the source region and the drain region; first metals stacked on the contact plugs; and a low-dielectric constant region provided in a region between the first metals along an in-plane direction of the semiconductor layer and provided at least in a first region below bottom surfaces of the first metals along a stacking direction.
US11810860B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a base substrate; and a first gate structure and doped source/drain layers on the base substrate. The doped source/drain layers are on both sides of the first gate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a dielectric layer on a surface of the base substrate. The dielectric layer covers the doped source/drain layers, and the dielectric layer contains a first trench on the doped source/drain layer. The first trench includes a first region filled by an insulation layer and a second region filled by first conductive structure under the insulation layer. A top size of the insulation layer in the first region is larger than a bottom size of the insulation layer in the first region. A maximum size of the first conductive structure in the second region is smaller than the bottom size of the insulation layer in the first region.
US11810858B2
A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device having stable electrical characteristics is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, and a first conductive layer. The semiconductor layer includes an island-shaped top surface. The first insulating layer is provided in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer and includes a portion overlapping with the semiconductor layer. In addition, the semiconductor layer includes a metal oxide, and the first insulating layer includes an oxide. The semiconductor layer includes a first region overlapping with the first conductive layer and a second region not overlapping with the first conductive layer. The first insulating layer includes a third region overlapping with the first conductive layer and a fourth region not overlapping with the first conductive layer. Furthermore, the second region and the fourth region contain phosphorus or boron.
US11810847B2
A package structure includes a redistribution structure and a core substrate. The redistribution structure includes a plurality of connection pads. The core substrate is disposed on the redistribution structure and electrically connected to the plurality of connection pads. The core substrate includes a first interconnection layer and a plurality of conductive terminals. The first interconnection layer has a first region, a second region surrounding the first region, and a third region surrounding the second region, and includes a plurality of bonding pads located in the first region, the second region and the third region. The conductive terminals are electrically connecting the plurality of bonding pads to the plurality of connection pads of the redistribution structure, wherein the plurality of conductive terminals located over the first region, the second region and the third region of the first interconnection layer have different heights.
US11810843B2
A microelectronic device has a die with a first electrically conductive pillar, and a second electrically conductive pillar, mechanically coupled to the die. The microelectronic device includes a first electrically conductive extended head electrically coupled to the first pillar, and a second electrically conductive extended head electrically coupled to the second pillar. The first pillar and the second pillar have equal compositions of electrically conductive material, as a result of being formed concurrently. Similarly, the first extended head and the second extended head have equal compositions of electrically conductive material, as a result of being formed concurrently. The first extended head provides a bump pad, and the second extended head provides at least a portion of a first plate of an integrated capacitor. A second plate may be located in the die, between the first plate and the die, or on an opposite of the first plate from the die.
US11810842B2
A leadframe is formed by chemically half-etching a sheet of conductive material. The half-etching exposes a first side surface of a first contact of the leadframe. A solder wettable layer is plated over the first side surface of the first contact. An encapsulant is deposited over the leadframe after plating the solder wettable layer.
US11810834B2
A thermal conduction sheet includes graphite particles (A) of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of flake-shaped particles, ellipsoidal particles, and rod-shaped particles. When the graphite particles (A) are flake-shaped particles, a planar direction of the graphite particles (A) is oriented in a thickness direction of the thermal conduction sheet, when the graphite particles (A) are ellipsoidal particles, a major axis direction of the graphite particles (A) is oriented in the thickness direction of the thermal conduction sheet, when the graphite particles (A) are rod-like particles, a longitudinal direction of the graphite particles (A) is oriented in the thickness direction of the thermal conduction sheet, the thermal conduction sheet has an elastic modulus of 1.4 MPa or less under a compression stress of 0.1 MPa at 150° C., and the thermal conduction sheet has a tack strength of 5.0 N·mm or higher at 25° C.
US11810833B2
A packaged semiconductor device and a method and apparatus for forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes bonding a device die to a first surface of a substrate; depositing an adhesive on the first surface of the substrate; depositing a thermal interface material on a surface of the device die opposite the substrate; placing a lid over the device die and the substrate, the lid contacting the adhesive and the thermal interface material; applying a clamping force to the lid and the substrate; and while applying the clamping force, curing the adhesive and the thermal interface material.
US11810830B2
A package structure and a method of forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a package substrate, an interposer substrate, a first semiconductor device, and a second semiconductor device. The interposer substrate is disposed over the package substrate and includes a silicon substrate. The interposer substrate has a bottom surface facing and adjacent to the package substrate, a top surface opposite the bottom surface, and a cavity formed on the top surface. The first semiconductor device is disposed on the top surface of the interposer substrate. The second semiconductor device is received in the cavity and electrically connected to the first semiconductor device and/or the interposer substrate.
US11810822B2
Apparatuses including structures in scribe lines are described. An example apparatus includes: a first chip and a second chip; a scribe region between the first chip and the second chip; a crack guide region in the scribe region, the crack guide region including a dicing line along which the first chip and the second chip are to be divided; and a structure disposed in the crack guide region and extending along the dicing line.
US11810819B2
A method includes forming a transistor, which includes forming a gate dielectric on a semiconductor region, forming a gate electrode over the gate dielectric, and forming a source/drain region extending into the semiconductor region. The method further includes forming a source/drain contact plug over and electrically coupling to the source/drain region, and forming a gate contact plug over and in contact with the gate electrode. At least one of the forming the gate electrode, the forming the source/drain contact plug, and the forming the gate contact plug includes forming a metal nitride barrier layer, and depositing a metal-containing layer over and in contact with the metal nitride barrier layer. The metal-containing layer includes at least one of a cobalt layer and a metal silicide layer.
US11810803B2
A linear gauge includes a contact member having a lower tip to be positioned facing a workpiece; an air slider including a cylinder surrounding the contact member with a clearance left between them, and configured to eject air such that the contact member is supported movably in a vertical direction; a scale that detects a height position of the contact member; a casing accommodating therein the contact member, the air slider, and the scale; an evacuation portion formed in an upper portion of the cylinder such that the ejected air is evacuated into the casing; and a communication channel communicating an inlet, which is formed in an upper portion of the contact member, and an outlet, which is formed in the lower tip of the contact member, with each other inside the contact member.
US11810801B2
A substrate transport apparatus includes a transport chamber, a drive section, a robot arm, an imaging system with a camera mounted through a mounting interface of the drive section in a predetermined location with respect to the transport chamber and disposed to image part of the arm, and a controller connected to the imaging system and configured to image, with the camera, the arm moving to or in the predetermined location, the controller effecting capture of a first image of the arm on registry of the arm proximate to or in the predetermined location, the controller is configured to calculate a positional variance of the arm from comparison of the first image with a calibration image of the arm, and determine a motion compensation factor changing an extended position of the arm. Each camera effecting capture of the first image is disposed inside the perimeter of the mounting interface.
US11810795B2
Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. All treating units are each arranged such that a treatment chamber, a chemical piping space, and an exhaust chamber are located side by side along a transportation space, the chemical piping space is located on a first side of the treatment chamber, and the exhaust chamber faces the chemical piping space across the treatment chamber when seen from the transportation space. The exhaust chamber faces the chemical piping space across the treatment chamber, leading to prevention of obstruction of a passage for passing a pipe, configured to supply a chemical to a substrate held by a holding rotator, by an exhaust pipe. Moreover, a single type of treating units is enough for the substrate treating apparatus instead of two types of treating units currently used. This results in sharing of components by all the treating units.
US11810791B2
An etching method includes forming a film on a surface of a substrate. The substrate has a region at least partially made of silicon oxide and a mask. The mask is provided on the region and includes an opening that partially exposes the region. The film is made of the same material as that of the region. The film is formed to correct a shape of a side wall defining the opening to a vertical shape. The etching method further includes etching the region.
US11810783B2
A gallium nitride semiconductor device includes: a chip formation substrate made of gallium nitride and having one surface and an other surface opposite to the one surface; a one surface side element component disposed on the one surface and providing a component of an one surface side of a semiconductor element; and a metal film constituting a back surface electrode in contact with the other surface. The other surface has an irregularity provided by a plurality of convex portions with a trapezoidal cross section and a plurality of concave portions located between the convex portions; and an upper base surface of the trapezoidal cross section in each of the plurality of convex portions is opposed to the one surface.
US11810782B2
A conductive C-plane GaN substrate has a resistivity of 2×10−2 Ω·cm or less or an n-type carrier concentration of 1×1018 cm−3 or more at room temperature. At least one virtual line segment with a length of 40 mm can be drawn at least on one main surface of the substrate. The line segment satisfies at least one of the following conditions (A1) and (B1): (A1) when an XRC of (004) reflection is measured at 1 mm intervals on the line segment, a maximum value of XRC-FWHMs across all measurement points is less than 30 arcsec; and (B1) when an XRC of the (004) reflection is measured at 1 mm intervals on the line segment, a difference between maximum and minimum values of XRC peak angles across all the measurement points is less than 0.2°.
US11810781B2
There is provided a technique that includes: forming a first film to have a first predetermined film thickness over a substrate by performing a first cycle a first predetermined number of times, the first cycle including non-simultaneously performing: (a1) forming an oxynitride film by supplying a first film-forming gas to the substrate; and (a2) changing the oxynitride film into a first oxide film by supplying a first oxidizing gas to the substrate to oxidize the oxynitride film.
US11810774B2
A method for making field emission devices so that they have emitter tips in the form of a needle-like point with a width and length configured such that ratio of the width to the length ranges from about 0.001 to about 0.05, and associated methods for making the tips by 3-D printing.
US11810765B2
A reactive particles supply system that may include an adjustable gas supply unit that is arranged to supply gas and to set a gas condition, a reactive particles supply unit that may be arranged to receive the gas, and an adjustable reactive particles output unit that may include a reactive particles input, a second reactive particles output, and a reactive particles path. The second reactive particles output is configured to output reactive particles towards an opening of a vacuumed chamber. The adjustable reactive particles output unit is arranged to mechanically configure at least one element of the reactive particles path according to the reactive particles condition.
US11810763B2
Embodiments presented provide for a distributed ground single antenna ion source used in scientific experimentation.
US11810757B1
Atomic layer etching of a substrate using a wafer scale wave of precisely controlled electrons is presented. A volume of gaseous plasma including diluent and reactive species and electrons of a uniform steady state composition is generated in a positive column of a DC plasma proximate the substrate. A corrosion layer is formed on the substrate by adsorption of the reactive species to atoms at the surface of the substrate. The substrate is positively biased to draw electrons from the volume to the surface of the substrate and impart an energy to the electrons so to stimulate electron transitions in the corrosion layer species, resulting in ejection of the corrosion layer species via electron stimulation desorption (ESD). The substrate is negatively biased to repel the electrons from the surface of the substrate back to the volume, followed by a zero bias to restore the steady state composition of the volume.
US11810738B2
An input device includes an manipulating part, a movable member fixed to the manipulating part and having a rotating shaft, a fixing member configured to rotatably support the rotating shaft so that the movable member is rotatable, a flex sensor disposed on the manipulating part and configured to detect flexing of the manipulating part, a switch disposed on the movable member or the fixing member, pressed by a rotating operation of the movable member, and configured to switch between an on state and an off state when a flexing amount of the manipulating part reaches a predetermined amount, and a signal processor configured to output a control signal, based on a first output signal of the flex sensor, and a second output signal of the switch.
US11810732B2
A button device includes a fixed support structure; a movable structure, laterally surrounded by the support structure and configured to deform at least in part under the action of an external force; and a fluid-tight protection cap. The movable structure includes a piston element, deformable elements having piezoelectric transducers arranged thereon, and anchor elements that couple the piston element to the deformable elements. When an external force acts on the piston element, the anchor elements transfer this force to the deformable elements and to the piezoelectric transducers, so as to sense the extent of this force.
US11810731B2
Described herein is a liquid electrophotographic photovoltaic ink composition comprising: a dispersion of a material with a perovskite structure, a thermoplastic resin and conductive particles in a carrier liquid; wherein the material with a perovskite structure has a chemical formula selected from ABX3 and A2BX6; wherein A is a cation, B is a cation and X is an anion; and wherein the thermoplastic resin comprises: a copolymer of an alkylene monomer and a monomer having acidic side groups; and/or a copolymer of an alkylene monomer and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising an epoxide; and/or a copolymer of an alkylene monomer, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising an epoxide, and a monomer selected from a monomer having acidic side groups, a monomer having ester side groups and a mixture thereof. Also described is a method of producing a photovoltaic cell using the LEP ink and the printed cell produced by the method.
US11810727B2
In this present invention lateral voltage variable capacitor designs are disclosed. The lateral voltage variable capacitor utilizes a dielectric material with an electric field dependent dielectric permittivity (dielectric constant). Variable capacitor structures are defined laterally in the plane of the substrate as opposed to vertical device structures defined out of the plane of the substrate.
US11810718B2
A capacitor component includes a body including internal electrode layers and a dielectric layer disposed between the internal electrode layers adjacent to each other and an external electrode disposed on one surface of the body, wherein the internal electrode layer and the dielectric layer separately include molybdenum (Mo), the dielectric layer has a central portion in a thickness direction and an outer portion disposed between the central portion and the internal electrode layer, and the content of molybdenum contained in the central portion of the dielectric layer is less than the content of molybdenum (Mo) contained in the outer portion of the dielectric layer.
US11810715B2
An electromagnetic propulsion system is provided. The system comprises first and second pluralities of stator coils wound about first and second axes, a plurality of support structures, first and second couplers that surround portions of the first and second pluralities of stator coils, and first and second pluralities of sets of rotor coils wound about axes that are parallel to the first and second axes. The stator coils are configured to receive electric current through an outside controller selecting appropriately coupled stator sections or through a sliding electrical contact system or bearing system to induce at least a first magnetic field. The plurality of support structures supports the first and second plurality of stator coils. The first and second couplers include notches and are oriented so that their notches pass over the plurality of support structures when the couplers move along the stator coils. The couplers may have an adjustable segment to close the notch. The sets of rotor coils are equidistantly attached to the couplers and are configured to receive electric current to induce magnetic fields that interact with the magnetic fields of the stator coils so that magnetic forces are applied to the plurality of rotor coils, thereby propelling the couplers along the stator coils.
US11810713B2
Provided are a rare earth magnet precursor having a roughened structure on a surface or a rare earth magnet molded body having a roughened structure on a surface, and a method for manufacturing the same. In the rare earth magnet precursor or the rare earth magnet molded body, recesses and protrusions are formed on the surface having the roughened structure, and the recesses and protrusions satisfy at least one of the following (a) to (c): (a) an arithmetic mean height (Sa) (ISO 25178) from 5 to 300 μm, (b) a maximum height (Sz) (ISO 25178) from 50 to 1500 μm, and (c) a developed interfacial area ratio (Sdr) (ISO 25178) from 0.3 to 12.
US11810705B2
An adjustable inductor including a core defining a plurality of gaps, a material positioned in the gaps, at least one winding wound on the core, a force-applying structure, and a film substantially covering the adjustable inductor. The force-applying structure is operable to apply a force to the core to adjust the gaps and thereby an inductance of the adjustable inductor. The film is configured to prevent movement of force-applying structure when below a predetermined temperature threshold, and allow movement of the force-applying structure when above the predetermined threshold.
US11810704B2
A multilayer coil component includes an element body having a multilayer structure including a first element body portion formed of a ferrite element body material, and a second element body portion laminated on the first element body portion and formed of a ferrite element body material having a composition different from the ferrite element body material forming the first element body portion, a multilayer coil having an axis parallel to a lamination direction of the element body, and a stress alleviation portion provided in an inner region of the multilayer coil when viewed from the lamination direction. In the multilayer coil component, the stress alleviation portion is provided in the inner region of the multilayer coil in which a stress tends to be concentrated to alleviate the stress in the inner region of the multilayer coil, and thereby occurrence of cracking in the element body can be suppressed.
US11810685B2
An infusion system (10) including a radioisotope generator (52) that generates a radioactive eluate via an elution, an activity detector (58) configured to measure an activity of a first radioisotope in the radioactive eluate generated by the radioisotope generator, and a controller (80). The controller can track a cumulative volume of radioactive eluate generated by the radioisotope generator and also track the activity of the first radioisotope in the radioactive eluate generated by the radioisotope generator. The controller can determine a predicted volume of the radioactive eluate generated by the radioisotope generator at which the activity of the first radioisotope in the radioactive eluate will reach a threshold based on the tracked cumulative volume of the radioactive eluate and the tracked activity of the first radioisotope. This information can be useful for proactively removing the radioisotope generator from service and/or replacing the radioisotope generator with a fresh generator.
US11810681B2
A nuclear reactor core mechanical support bracket is disclosed. The support bracket includes a housing, a spring disposed internally within the housing, a shaft slidingly disposed within the housing, a shaft travel pin, and a flange. The shaft is configured to engage the spring to compress and decompress the spring as the shaft travels in and out of the housing. The shaft travel pin controls the travel of the shaft. The flange is configured to mount the nuclear reactor core mechanical support bracket to a canister of a nuclear reactor. The shaft includes an inset configured to interface with a nuclear reactor core component.
US11810678B2
Systems and methods for reducing acute incident risks for dementia patients are provided. Benefits of the systems and methods include reducing healthcare costs, improving patient and caregiver outcomes and reducing caregiver burden. A server system analyzes data related to a dementia patient and the corresponding caregivers (e.g., family member, paid caregiver, physician) and calculates an acute incident risk. Based on the acute incident risk, the server system determines patient therapies to reduce the acute incident risk and also identifies caregiver education to improve the caregiver belief state, which reduces the acute incident risk. The system periodically re-calculates the acute incident risk and identifies patient therapies and caregiver education and motivation to further reduce or maintain the acute incident risk.
US11810668B2
An at-home medical diagnostic test kit container including a plurality of at-home medical diagnostic test kits is provided herein. In particular, the medical diagnostic test kit container may include a machine-readable code (e.g., QR code) configured to facilitate an augmented reality experience associated with the at-home medical diagnostic test kit container. In some embodiments, a testing and diagnostic platform may facilitate tracking of inventory within the at-home medical diagnostic test kit container and/or may facilitate coordination of prescription medication order fulfillment and delivery upon indication of a medical condition that could benefit from taking prescription medication.
US11810667B2
A patient support system for providing improved guidance and/or troubleshooting with respect to a patient support apparatus. A user interface is configured to receive inputs from a user, and an information output device is configured to provide instructions to the user. A controller determines a guidance protocol for the user based on the inputs. The guidance protocol comprises user-performed actions to be performed by the user in response to the instructions provided to the user with the information output device. The guidance protocol may be initiated and/or determined based on a troubleshooting request and/or an uncorrelated sequence of user inputs. At least one of the user-performed actions may be configured to control operational functions of a patient support apparatus. Methods for improving patient care by providing the guidance and/or troubleshooting are also disclosed.
US11810665B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for customization of management of population health. A population tracking builder application is provided as a single application that allows users to completely customize population management. In particular, populations may be added or changed, algorithms for monitoring the populations may be added or changed to meet a user's needs or completely removed, specific variables of algorithms may be edited, and the like. This provides user's flexibility to customize population management tools at any time.
US11810656B2
An athlete tracking system and method for tracking an athlete during training sessions. The system includes a mobile tracking device wearable around a portion of the athlete's head, and a training log server for maintaining an athlete profile that includes a training record updatable by the athlete and a training plan supplied by a coach.
US11810650B2
Methods are provided for the rational design of stable communities of microbes for benefiting the health of a host organism, including human and/or animal health. The methods describe design of microbial consortia based on providing and/or complementing key functionalities lacking or underrepresented in the microbiome of an organism having a disorder or disease as compared to healthy subjects. The consortia are designed to possess metabolic interdependencies for improved engrafting, stability and performance of the consortium. Compositions that include the designed microbial consortia are provided for treatment of disorders/diseases involving chronic inflammation, infection, and the combination of chronic inflammation and infection including inflammatory bowel disease and related disorders. The compositions are also broadly applicable for the treatment of neurological, metabolic and oncology-related conditions.
US11810642B2
A memory device includes: a memory cell array; a first latch; a second latch; a first circuit; and a second circuit. The memory cell array includes first, second, and third columns associated with first, second, and third addresses, respectively. The first latch stores the first address and is associated with a fourth address. The second latch stores the second address and is associated with a fifth address. The fourth address and the fifth address are in an ascending order. The first circuit selects the third column in place of the first column based on the first address. The second circuit determines whether or not the first address and the second address are in an ascending order.
US11810622B2
Respective values of a subset of the plurality of memory cells of a memory device are compared to a pattern of pre-programmed memory cells. The pattern pre-programmed memory cells comprise representations of values of the pattern of pre-programmed memory cells when a temperature criterion is satisfied. Responsive to determining that at least a threshold number of the respective values of the subset matches the pattern of pre-programmed memory cells, a temperature reading from a thermal sensor coupled to the memory device is identified. Responsive to determining that the temperature reading does not correspond to a temperature criterion, determining that the thermal sensor has failed.
US11810620B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor substrate, a first memory cell and a second memory cell provided between the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate, a first word line electrically connected to the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to the second memory cell, a first transistor that is provided on the first semiconductor substrate and electrically connected between the first word line and a first wiring through which a voltage is applied to the first word line, and a second transistor that is provided on the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected between the second word line and a second wiring through which a voltage is applied to the second word line.
US11810619B2
The plurality of CAM cells MC are configured to discriminate a match or mismatch between stored data stored in advance and search data. A match line is coupled to a plurality of CAM cells, and has a voltage level controlled based on discrimination results of the plurality of CAM cells. A first transistor and a second transistor are coupled in series between a common match output line and a predetermined power source. The first transistor is controlled to be turned ON or OFF based on a voltage level of the match line, and the second transistor is controlled to be turned ON or OFF by a search enabling signal asserted at the time of a search operation.
US11810603B2
A magnetic tape cartridge includes a case that accommodates a magnetic tape on which a plurality of servo bands and a plurality of data bands are formed, servo patterns being recorded in the servo bands, and a memory provided in the case. The memory stores servo pattern interval-related information related to a servo pattern interval determined for each of the plurality of data bands included in the magnetic tape. The servo pattern interval is commonly used for a plurality of division areas obtained by dividing the data band in a width direction of the magnetic tape, and is a representative interval between a first servo pattern and a second servo pattern.
US11810602B2
Provided are a magnetic tape head, a magnetic tape drive, and a computational device in which the magnetic tape head is comprised of a plurality of elements, wherein a pitch between adjacent elements of the plurality of elements is not identical. Selected elements of the plurality of elements that are shifted from a nominal position are selected in a symmetrical manner in the plurality of elements. A total of shifts of the elements of the plurality of elements that are shifted add up to a desired total shift to realign a plurality of modules, such that the median head span of each module type match as closely as possible to a desired value of a head span for all module types.
US11810598B2
A method for automatic video record generation is provided. method may include a plurality of sensors configured to detect at least audiovisual data. Method may include a processor that may be configured to generated prompts for a user to respond to. User responses may be collected and formed into a video record. Method may use machine learning to automatically generate video records by assembling a plurality of temporal sections gathered from audiovisual data from a user.
US11810588B2
Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for providing audio source separation for audio input, such as for audio devices having limited power and/or computing resources. The subject technology may allow an audio device to leverage processing and/or power resources of a companion device that is communicatively coupled to the audio device. The companion device may identify a noise condition of the audio device, select a source separation model based on the noise condition, and provide the source separation model to the audio device. In this way, the audio device can provide audio source separation functionality using a relatively small footprint source separation model that is specific to the noise condition in which the audio device is operated.
US11810587B2
In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a microphone, a radar, a memory, and a processor in communication with the microphone, the radar, and the memory. The microphone is to receive audio signals. The radar is to collect data on users in a location. The memory is to store known body positions associated with having a side-conversation. The processor is to determine that a user is having a side-conversation based on the data collected by the radar compared to the known body positions associated with having a side-conversation and filter noise associated with the side-conversation received by the microphone from a direction associated with the user.
US11810578B2
Systems and processes for operating an intercom system via a digital assistant are provided. The intercom system is trigger-free, in that users communicate, in real-time, via devices without employing a trigger to speak. Acoustic fingerprints are employed to associate users with devices. Acoustic fingerprints include vector embeddings of speech input in an acoustic-feature vector space. Speech heard at multiple devices, as embedded in a fingerprint, may be clustered in the vector space, and the structure of the clusters is employed to associate users and devices. Based on the fingerprints, a device is mapped to a user, and the user employs that device to participate in a conversation, via the intercom service.
US11810574B1
A system and method of capturing a voicer's voice data to illuminate features of their own physiology and produce voice-driven internal imaging. Data encoded within the voice is captured, decoded, modeled and simulated. Using vibrations of a voicer's voice as the input, features of their own physiology are outputted in the format of an internal image.
US11810572B2
A system, method, and computer-program product includes distributing a plurality of audio data files of a speech data corpus to a plurality of computing nodes that each implement a plurality of audio processing threads, executing the plurality of audio processing threads associated with each of the plurality of computing nodes to detect a plurality of tentative speakers participating in each of the plurality of audio data files, generating, via a clustering algorithm, a plurality of clusters of embedding signatures based on a plurality of embedding signatures associated with the plurality of tentative speakers in each of the plurality of audio data files, and detecting a plurality of global speakers associated with the speech data corpus based on the plurality of clusters of embedding signatures.
US11810569B2
Methods, devices, and systems for processing audio information are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving an audio stream. The audio stream may be monitored by a low power integrated circuit. The audio stream may be digitized by the low power integrated circuit. The digitized audio stream may be stored in a memory, wherein storing the digitized audio stream comprises replacing a prior digitized audio stream stored in the memory with the digitized audio stream. The low power integrated circuit may analyze the stored digitized audio stream for recognition of a keyword. The low power integrated circuit may induce a processor to enter an increased power usage state upon recognition of the keyword within the stored digitized audio stream. The stored digitized audio stream may be transmitted to a server for processing. A response received from the server based on the processed audio stream may be rendered.
US11810566B2
Systems and methods are described for handling interruptions during a digital assistant session between a user and a digital assistant by detecting if an interruption event is to occur during the digital assistant session. In response to detecting that the interruption event is to occur, options to address the interruption are provided.
US11810557B2
Techniques are described herein for enabling the use of “dynamic” or “context-specific” hot words to invoke an automated assistant. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be executed in a default listening state at least in part on a user's computing device(s). While in the default listening state, audio data captured by microphone(s) may be monitored for default hot words. Detection of the default hot word(s) transitions of the automated assistant into a speech recognition state. Sensor signal(s) generated by hardware sensor(s) integral with the computing device(s) may be detected and analyzed to determine an attribute of the user. Based on the analysis, the automated assistant may transition into an enhanced listening state in which the audio data may be monitored for enhanced hot word(s). Detection of enhanced hot word(s) triggers the automated assistant to perform a responsive action without requiring detection of default hot word(s).
US11810551B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for monitoring of one or more A/V collection devices within a premises. Based on the monitoring, one or more computing devices may determine whether to route or block a data transmission outside a premises. The data transmission may be routed or blocked based on, for example, one or more of the following: whether a transmission window associated with an A/V collection device is open or closed; whether the data transmission is being sent to an authorized destination device; whether the data transmission is encrypted, and the like.
US11810541B2
An electronic musical instrument is provided and includes: a musical tone processing circuit processing a musical tone signal; an output jack for connecting the musical tone signal to an amplifier; a phone jack for connecting the musical tone signal to a phone; a switch for turning power supply ON or OFF; and a control circuit that determines whether power supply is necessary and selects power supply from among first, second and third power based on information indicating each power receiving state of the first to third power (respectively from AC adapter, USB cable, and battery), information indicating whether an output plug is inserted into the output jack, a phone plug is inserted into the phone jack, the USB cable is connected to USB jack, and an ON or OFF operation of the switch is performed, and information indicating a power supply ON or OFF state of the electronic musical instrument.
US11810538B1
Abstract: Harmonicas providing more notes and increased playability and musicality when playing blues scales. Disclosed harmonicas also provide functional minor scales.
US11810531B1
A method is provided for controlling display of an image on a display panel of a display device, the method comprising determining a commanded brightness level for the display panel, generating an index look-up table (LUT) and a mura LUT based on the brightness level and a relationship between pixel output and pixel value for each pixel of the display panel for each of a plurality of brightness levels, the relationship determined during a calibration phase and stored in memory of the display device, determining an index value for each pixel of the display panel based on the index LUT, determining a corrected pixel value for each pixel based on the mura LUT and the index value, and sending the corrected pixel value to that pixel within the display device.
US11810529B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a screen color gamut control method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: displaying a control, the control being configured to control the screen to switch between different color gamut spaces; acquiring the state of the control, the state being used for representing the color gamut space to which the screen is controlled to switch; and adjusting the color gamut space of the screen to make same be switched to the color gamut space corresponding to the state of the control. By means of the present method, when the control is displayed, the color gamut space of the screen is adjusted by the control to switch the color gamut space to that corresponding to the state of the control, so that users can enjoy different color experiences, thereby improving user experience.
US11810527B2
The disclosure includes multiple data drivers provided for each predetermined number of data lines. Each data driver receives an image signal; generates, based on the image signal, a positive gradation data signal and a negative gradation data signal; outputs one of the positive and negative gradation data signals to one of a first and second data line groups of a display panel; and outputs the other of the positive and negative gradation data signals to the other of the first and second data line groups. The data driver shifts a phase of the negative gradation data signal in a direction delayed with respect to the positive gradation data signal, and controls a slew rate of an output amplifier for outputting the positive gradation data signal to be lower than that of an output amplifier for outputting the negative gradation data signal.
US11810520B2
The present disclosure belongs to the field of display technologies, and provides a method and apparatus for compensating white point coordinates, and a computer device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring target brightness and target white point coordinates of a display module in a black frame insertion mode, wherein the display module includes a backlight; determining white point coordinates corresponding to the target brightness to be reached by the backlight in the black frame insertion mode and in an always-on mode, respectively; and compensating the target white point coordinates based on a difference value between the white point coordinates in the always-on mode and the white point coordinates in the black frame insertion mode.
US11810518B2
A gate driving circuit according to an embodiment and a display panel including the same are disclosed. The gate driving circuit according to the embodiment includes: a controller configured to charge and discharge a first control node that pulls up an output voltage and a second control node that pulls down the output voltage; an output unit including a pull-up transistor configured to apply a gate high voltage to an output node in response to a charging voltage of the first control node, and a pull-down transistor configured to apply a gate low voltage to the output node in response to a charging voltage of the second control node; a sensing unit configured to sense a threshold voltage of the pull-down transistor; and a compensation unit configured to change the charging voltage of the second control node in response to an output of the sensing unit.
US11810509B2
A backplane for driving a display includes a two-dimensional array of pixel drive circuits, organized as a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The backplane has at least one shift register addressing assembly that includes a shift register chain formed of a plurality of controlling shift registers serially connected with, and separated by, equal sized groups of non-controlling shift registers. Each controlling shift register controls a different one of a plurality of word lines that each connect with pixel drive circuits of one row. The backplane also includes a plurality of bit lines that each connect with pixel drive circuits of one column. A shift register data sequence is input to a first one of the plurality of controlling shift registers and propagates through the shift register chain to control the plurality of word lines to load display values from the bit lines into the pixel drive circuits.
US11810503B2
A display device including: a display panel including first and second data lines, a first and second pixels connected to first and second data lines in first pixel row, third and fourth pixels connected to the second data line in a second pixel row; and a display driver configured to receive image data including first, second, third and fourth pixel data for the first, second, third and fourth pixels, and provide first, second, third and fourth data voltages corresponding to the first, second, third and fourth pixel data to the first, second, third and fourth pixels through the first and second data lines, the display driver further configured to: calculate average data of the first and second pixel data; and selectively perform a charge sharing operation between the first and second data lines according to whether a first increase/decrease condition and a second increase/decrease condition are satisfied.
US11810493B2
A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: an image detection unit that determines whether an empty second subframe is present in input image data, in addition to a first subframe that displays an image; a correction image generation unit that generates correction image data for correcting the input image data; a control unit that performs control to display the correction image data generated by the correction image generation unit during the period of the second subframe, when the image detection unit detects that the second subframe is present in the input image data; and a display panel that includes a light modulation device provided for each pixel, and modulates irradiation light from a light source, on the basis of input image data including the correction image data.
US11810487B2
Display systems for simultaneously directing different images to different viewers. A display system is constructed with a display panel with multiple folds that create a number of angled display surfaces. These angled surfaces are oriented so that some surfaces are angled in one direction to project one image to viewers at one location, and the remaining surfaces are angled in a different direction to project a different image to viewers at another location. The folded display panel may be actuated, to change the angles at which display surfaces are oriented, and thus adjust the directions in which images are displayed. In this manner, the display may project images to differing users as they change their locations. Multiple users may thus enjoy differing content at the same time, from the same display device.
US11810474B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing virtual feedback of a neural pattern to create a neural pathway corresponding to an action of an affected limb of a brain injury patient. Embodiments provide for detecting a neural pattern and determining a target action associated with the detected neural pattern. A virtual feedback is generated that includes a virtual action to be performed in a virtual representation of the affected limb. In embodiments, the brain injury may prevent the affected limb from performing the target action. The virtual representation of the affected limb is superimposed over a real-world presence of the affected limb such that the virtual representation is presented to the patient in lieu of the real-world presence, and the virtual action is performed in the virtual representation, such that the virtual action is presented to the patient in lieu of the target action in the real-world.
US11810469B2
An electronic just-in-time learning and training system that is integrated into a user workflow to provide users with the knowledge they require to complete the tasks in the workflow and to provide meaningful and impactful training to users or advancement along a learning or training path. User tasks are matched to training modules in a training database to assist with completion of a task while a user profile tracks user training to deliver the most appropriate training modules. The system tracks completion of training modules to guide the user with training and advancement and to offer the user opportunities for additional certification and learning.
US11810459B1
This document describes techniques and systems for vehicle localization based on radar detections in garages and other GNSS denial environments. In some examples, a system includes a processor and computer-readable storage media comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the system to obtain structure data regarding a GNSS denial environment and generate, from the structure data, radar localization landmarks. The radar localization landmarks include edges or corners of the GNSS denial environment. The instructions also cause the processor to generate polylines along or between the radar localization landmarks to generate a radar occupancy grid. The instructions further cause the processor to receive radar detections from one or more radar sensors and obtain a vehicle pose within the radar occupancy grid to localize the vehicle within the GNSS denial environment. In this way, the system can provide highly accurate vehicle localization in GNSS denial environments in a cost-effective manner.
US11810437B2
Systems and techniques are described for an integrated security environment to monitor activities at a commercial facility and a residential facility. In some implementations, a monitoring system monitors a property that includes one or more sensors located at the property and generate sensor data. A monitor control unit receives and analyzes the sensor data. Based on analyzing the sensor data, the monitor control unit determines that an event has likely occurred at the property and generates data indicating that the event has likely occurred at the property. A monitoring server receives the data indicating the event has likely occurred at the property. Based on the data that the event has likely occurred at the property, transmitting, to an additional monitoring system that is configured to monitor an additional property, instructions for the additional monitoring system to perform an action.
US11810436B2
The disclosure includes a security system including an outdoor security device. In some embodiments, the outdoor security device comprises a housing, a light coupled to the housing and located within a hollow inner portion of the housing, and a camera and a lens coupled to the housing. In some embodiments, the security device comprises at least one directional microphone communicatively coupled to the camera and configured to determine a location of a detected sound whereby the camera performs a frame lock to capture an image associated with the detected sound.
US11810431B2
Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
US11810426B2
A detection system including a control device detecting fraud performed in a game table by using a result of an image analysis performed by an image analyzing device is included. A substitute currency for gaming used for this detection system has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a coloring layer is included at least in the middle, and white layers or thin-color layers (may be layers having a color thinner than that of the coloring layer; not illustrated in the drawing) are stacked on both sides of the coloring layer disposed in the middle.
US11810422B2
A detection system including a control device detecting fraud performed in a game table by using a result of an image analysis performed by an image analyzing device is included. A substitute currency for gaming used for this detection system has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a coloring layer is included at least in the middle, and white layers or thin-color layers (may be layers having a color thinner than that of the coloring layer; not illustrated in the drawing) are stacked on both sides of the coloring layer disposed in the middle.
US11810416B2
A sheet processing apparatus has: a processing unit having, at a front side of a housing, openings through which at least one of feeding a sheet in the housing or feeding the sheet out from the housing is performed; a storage chamber configured to store the sheet fed in the housing, and a door disposed at an opening part of the storage chamber is capable of being locked; a control unit configured to control transport of the sheet between a container, the openings and the storage chamber, the container configured to be capable of being detachably mounted to the processing unit or the storage chamber and configured to be stored the sheet fed in the sheet processing apparatus; and an attachment unit provided at the back side of the processing unit or on the back side of an outer surface of the storage chamber, the attachment unit to which the container is capable of being mounted.
US11810411B1
A system for controlling access to a secure room containing a plurality of safety deposit boxes, comprises a motion detector, a biometric sensor, and a plurality of contact sensors, wherein each of the safety deposit boxes is associated with at least two contact sensors. The system includes a processor that is configured to unlock the gate when a plurality of access conditions are satisfied, which may include: collecting via the biometric sensor a biometric sensor a biometric credential that matches a reference biometric credential in a user database; and determining the secure room is unoccupied based on at least a predetermined period of no motion detected by the at least one motion sensor. The processor may also be configured to generate a box-accessed event identifying one of the safety deposit boxes when all of the contact sensors associated with that safety deposit box are simultaneously opened.
US11810410B2
A contactless delivery locker may have a locker housing with a locker door fitted to the locker housing. A disinfecting system may be arranged to disinfect the locker content and a remotely actuable lock may be arranged to secure the locker door in a closed position and actuable to release the locker door. A controller associated with the lock may be configured to actuate the lock and a wireless interface may be connected to the controller and configured to receive a command to actuate the lock to release the locker door. The controller may operate to control actuation of the lock to release the locker door upon detection of a command to actuate the lock and release the locker door. The controller may be configured to report lock status information to a user to confirm if a locker has been opened after completion of a disinfecting cycle.
US11810406B2
A data management platform for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) is provided. The data management platform can receive, from an AV at a first time, a first copy of a manifest including a creation history of a transformed object generated by the AV and a data integrity value corresponding to the transformed object. The data management platform can receive, from a second computing system at a second time, a second copy of the manifest. The data management platform can reconcile the first copy and the second copy. The data management platform can receive, from the second computing system at a third time, a request to upload the transformed object. The data management platform can validate the transformed object stored in storage of the first computing system based on the data integrity value included in the manifest.
US11810404B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses an automobile diagnostic method, apparatus and a vehicle communication interface. The automobile diagnostic method is applied to a vehicle communication interface, the method including: acquiring a vehicle identification number of a vehicle based on a first communication protocol; determining a first diagnostic protocol according to the vehicle identification number; acquiring and storing to-be-diagnosed information of the vehicle based on the first diagnostic protocol; and after a connection is established to a diagnostic host, sending the to-be-diagnosed information to the diagnostic host. In the foregoing way, according to the embodiment of the present invention, efficiency of automobile diagnosis may be improved.
US11810390B2
A method for fingerprint detection, which may more easily reduce an influence of a brightness change of a display screen on the fingerprint detection and improve performance of the fingerprint detection. The method for the fingerprint detection includes: receiving a synchronization signal of a display screen, the synchronization signal being configured to trigger a pixel array of a fingerprint sensor to expose, where a period of the synchronization signal is synchronized with a dimming period of the display screen, and the dimming period includes a bright period and a dark period; exposing each row of pixels in the pixel array in sequence based on triggering of the synchronization signal, so that a position of the pixel whose exposure time corresponding to the dark period in the pixel array is constant, where data of each row of the pixels after exposure is configured to obtain a fingerprint image.
US11810386B2
An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a communication unit that receives subject information about a subject captured by an external apparatus, and a control unit that controls the image capture apparatus based on a first operation mode in a case where the subject information does not include information about a main subject, or based on a second operation mode in a case where the subject information includes the information about the main subject. The first operation mode is an operation mode of searching for the main subject, and the second operation mode is an operation mode of capturing an image of the subject at an angle of view that is different from an angle of view of the external apparatus.
US11810382B2
Techniques for training an optical character recognition (OCR) model to detect and recognize text in images for robotic process automation (RPA) are disclosed. A text detection model and a text recognition model may be trained separately and then combined to produce the OCR model. Synthetic data and a smaller amount of real, human-labeled data may be used for training to increase the speed and accuracy with which the OCR text detection model and the text recognition model can be trained. After the OCR model has been trained, a workflow may be generated that includes an activity calling the OCR model, and a robot implementing the workflow may be generated and deployed.
US11810376B2
A method for detecting small obstacles includes: acquiring a first 3D point cloud corresponding to image data acquired by a cleaning robot; extracting, from the first 3D point cloud, a second 3D point cloud of a ground region; extracting, from the second 3D point cloud, a third 3D point cloud having a height value in a set height range; calculating a ground projection point cloud of the third 3D point cloud; and, determining morphologically-connected regions in the ground projection point cloud, and using a morphologically-connected region having an area less than a preset value as a region where a small obstacle is located. By effectively recognizing the ground, acquiring the ground projection point cloud and processing the point cloud by image processing, accuracy and timeliness of the algorithm can be improved compared with directly processing discrete 3D point clouds.
US11810368B2
A parking assist apparatus of a vehicle includes an image recognition ECU and a vehicle control ECU. The image recognition ECU extracts characteristic points contained in an image of a surrounding region of the vehicle captured during a travel. The vehicle control ECU can register, as parking lot information, the position of a parking lot and a piece of information regarding characteristic points contained in an image of a scene of the entrance of the parking lot. The vehicle control ECU can automatically park the vehicle in the registered parking lot. The image recognition ECU extracts the characteristic points contained in the image of the surrounding region when the distance between the vehicle and the entrance of the registered parking lot is equal to or shorter than a threshold distance, and does not extract the characteristic points when the distance is longer than the threshold distance.
US11810365B1
Techniques for modeling the probability distribution of errors in perception systems are discussed herein. For example, techniques may include modeling error distribution for attributes such as position, size, pose, and velocity of objects detected in an environment, and training a mixture model to output specific error probability distributions based on input features such as object classification, distance to the object, and occlusion. The output of the trained model may be used to control the operation of a vehicle in an environment, generate simulations, perform collision probability analyses, and to mine log data to detect collision risks.
US11810356B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and arthroscopic video analysis apparatuses and systems that facilitate improved analysis of videos of arthroscopic procedures are disclosed. With this technology, analytical data related to the video feed of an arthroscopic surgery can be obtained using machine learning models and associated with the video feed. The generated videos can be output in real-time to provide contextual information related to the surgical procedure, or can be saved for playback for training or informational purposes.
US11810355B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to an improved approach to providing gratitude between consumers and workers. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring from a camera within a manufacturing facility, source video of manufacturing of different stages of a product. The method includes identifying, from the source video, segments associated with the product. The method includes generating a combined video from the segments. The method includes providing the combined video to a consumer associated with the product.
US11810353B2
Methods, systems, and media for analyzing spherical video content are provided. More particularly, methods, systems, and media for detecting two-dimensional videos placed on a sphere in abusive spherical video content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving an identifier of a spherical video content item, wherein the spherical video content item has a plurality of views; selecting a first frame of the spherical video content item; projecting the first frame of the spherical video content item to a two-dimensional region using a projection defined by a mapping according to which neighboring points of the first frame are mapped to respective neighboring points of the region, and one or more contiguous portions of the frame are each mapped to a corresponding plurality of contiguous portions of the region; identifying an area within the region which meets a criterion indicative of the region having a likelihood above a threshold of including a particular type of content; in response to identifying the area within the region which meets the criterion, analyzing the identified area of the region using a video fingerprinting technique; and, in response to determining that content associated with the identified area of the region matches a reference content item of a plurality of reference content items using the video fingerprinting technique, generating an indication of the match in association with the identifier of the spherical video content item.
US11810351B2
Systems and methods for video analytic processing with neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence are provided. These systems and methods include detecting and extracting one or more objects from one or more video frames, and identifying the attributes associated with each of the one or more objects. These further include extracting context from a question, and compiling a series of inquiries to identify the information needed to answer the question and identify missing information. These further include storing intermediate information about the extracted objects and identified attributes, and determining whether the question requires further modeling of data to obtain missing information. These further include mining the one or more video frames for missing information, and compiling the intermediate information from the data storage and missing information based on the context of the question to produce a final answer.
US11810348B2
The present disclosure provide a method for identifying power equipment targets based on human-level concept learning, including: creating a dataset of power equipment images, and annotating power equipment in power equipment images; training neural network and Bayesian network with the annotated dataset and respectively acquire identification results and conditional probabilities; calculating probabilities of unions with the conditional probabilities; and filtering the identification result corresponding to the highest probability of the union as identification result of the dataset of the power equipment images and complete the identification of the power equipment. The present disclosure combines Mask R-CNN and probabilistic graphical model. The bottom layer uses Mask R-CNN, and the top layer uses Bayesian network to train in identifying power equipment images, so that a small amount of data samples can achieve good recognition, which improved the performance of Mask R-CNN model.
US11810343B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for visually identifying anomaly events, comprising an edge node configured for applying a limited resources classifier to a plurality of images captured by imaging sensor(s) deployed to monitor a certain scene relating to a certain area to classify object(s) detected in the images, applying a trained context based Machine Learning (ML) model to classification data generated by the limited resources classifier to compute an anomaly score for potential anomaly event(s) relating to the detected object(s) based on one or more contextual attributes associated with the certain scene and transmitting one or more of the images to a remote server in case the anomaly score exceeds a threshold. The remote server is configured to further apply high performance visual analysis tool(s) to visually analyze the received image(s) in order to identify the one or more potential anomaly events.
US11810342B2
A mechanism for radiation detection is disclosed. An integrated circuit usable in detecting radiation includes a plurality of readout circuits is described. A readout circuit of the plurality of readout circuits includes an integration capacitor and an averaging capacitor. The integration capacitor is coupled with a pixel of a photodetector pixel array. The pixel has a pixel area. An available area less than the pixel area is usable for layout of the integration capacitor. The integration capacitor has a capacitor area less than the available area. The averaging capacitor has an averaging capacitance greater than the integration capacitance of the integration capacitor. In some aspects, the integrated circuit further includes at least one cascaded averaging circuit coupled with the averaging capacitor.
US11810340B2
A system includes a determination component that determines output for successively larger neural networks of a set; and a consensus component that determines consensus between a first neural network and a second neural network of the set. A linear chain of increasingly complex neural networks trained on progressively larger inputs is utilized (e.g., increasingly complex neural networks is generally representative of increased accuracy). Outputs of progressively networks are computed until a consensus point is reached—where two or more successive large networks yield a same inference output. At such point of consensus the larger neural network of the set reaching consensus can be deemed appropriately sized (or of sufficient complexity) for a classification task at hand.
US11810336B2
An object display method, an object display apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The object display method comprises: receiving video images; recognizing a target object in the video image; displaying, in response to a first target object being recognized, a first object having a first shape at a first location in the video images; displaying, in response to a second target object being recognized, a second object having a second shape at a second location in the video images; and combining, when a distance between the first target object and the second target object is less than a first threshold, the first object and the second object so that the first object and the second object form a third shape.
US11810335B2
Video containers are expanded to encapsulate auxiliary data and metadata linking video content with relevant portions of auxiliary data for download during playback of particular video content. Auxiliary data is parsed into areas of interest and associated with the video content including the same areas of interest. During playback a viewer is provided access to relevant portions of the auxiliary data according to the encapsulated metadata describing the relevant portions.
US11810327B1
A data acquisition system of a vehicle includes an image capture device, a communication interface, and a controller communicatively coupled to the image capture device and communicatively coupled to the communication interface. Processors of the controller are configured to calibrate an image-distance relationship value of an identified component of a first image captured by the image capture device corresponding to a known feature based on established metrics of the known feature. The processors are also configured to provide control of the vehicle or activation of an alert system of the vehicle via the communication interface based on the image-distance relationship value.
US11810323B2
A position estimation system includes: a reference image database configured to store a reference image and information indicating a position in a state in which they are associated with each other; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image for estimation which is a position estimation target; an estimation unit which performs comparison of the reference image with the image for estimation, estimate the position related to the image for estimation from the information indicating the position associated with the reference image, and calculate a reliability of the estimated position; and an update unit configured to update the reference image using the image for estimation on the basis of the reliability.
US11810313B2
According to an aspect, a real-time active stereo system includes a capture system configured to capture stereo data, where the stereo data includes a first input image and a second input image, and a depth sensing computing system configured to predict a depth map. The depth sensing computing system includes a feature extractor configured to extract features from the first and second images at a plurality of resolutions, an initialization engine configured to generate a plurality of depth estimations, where each of the plurality of depth estimations corresponds to a different resolution, and a propagation engine configured to iteratively refine the plurality of depth estimations based on image warping and spatial propagation.
US11810302B2
Certain examples provide an image data processing system including an anatomy detector to detect an anatomy in an image and to remove items not included in the anatomy from the image. The example system includes a bounding box generator to generate a bounding box around a region of interest in the anatomy. The example system includes a voxel-level segmenter to classify image data within the bounding box at the voxel level to identify an object in the region of interest. The example system includes an output imager to output an indication of the object identified in the region of interest segmented in the image.
US11810288B2
Systems and methods for automatic detection of defects in a coating of a component are provided. In one aspect, a coating inspection system is provided. The coating inspection system includes a heating element operable to impart heat to the component as it traverses relative thereto. An imaging device of the system captures images of the component as the heating element traverses relative to the component and applies heat thereto. The images indicate the transient thermal response of the component. The system can generate a single observation image using the captured images. The system can detect and analyze defects using the generated single observation image.
US11810286B2
Provided is the technique that allows an operator or the like to easily grasp a defect contained in a mold. A display control device is configured to carry out: a determination process in which a feature amount of each of defects contained in a mold is determined with reference to an image obtained by image capture of a mold; and a display process in which the image is displayed on a display such that each of the defects in the image is emphasized by a method which is determined according to the determined feature amount.
US11810284B2
To find repeater defects, optical-inspection results for one or more semiconductor wafers are obtained. Based on the optical-inspection results, a plurality of defects on the one or more semiconductor wafers is identified. Defects, of the plurality of defects, that have identical die locations on multiple die of the one or more semiconductor wafers are classified as repeater defects. Based on the optical-inspection results, unsupervised machine learning is used to cluster the repeater defects into a plurality of clusters. The repeater defects are scored. Scoring the repeater defects includes assigning respective scores to respective repeater defects based on degrees to which clusters in the plurality of clusters include multiple instances of the respective repeater defects. The repeater defects are ranked based on the respective scores.
US11810282B2
A system and method for quantitative image quality assessment for photogrammetry are disclosed. An example embodiment is configured to receive one or more quality assessment images via an image receiver; process the quality assessment images to determine if a quality of the surface texture features of an object or environment depicted in the quality assessment images satisfies a pre-determined quality threshold, the pre-determined quality threshold corresponding to a likelihood of a satisfactory result if images of the object or environment are used for photogrammetry; generate an image quality map indicating image quality values corresponding to regions of the surface of the object or environment that have satisfactory or unsatisfactory texture features for photogrammetry; and generate instructions or prompts for a user, the instructions or prompts directing the user to perform actions with respect to the object or environment that will effect improvements of the texture features for satisfactory photogrammetry.
US11810275B2
Temporal filtering operations may be reset for certain pixels within an image frame to reduce contribution from previous input frames to reduce ghosting and other artifacts. The resetting reduces the contribution to, for example, zero, either immediately or within a predetermined period of time (e.g., a certain number of frames). A decision regarding whether to reset temporal filtering for a pixel of the image frame may be based on a probability assigned to that pixel. The probability can be based on rules with one or more criteria. One example factor for adjusting probability is a confidence level regarding the temporal filtering decision for the pixel, in which the probability for a random reset of a pixel is based on the confidence level regarding the temporal filtering decision for those pixels.
US11810263B2
A system for manufacturing a customized product includes at least one processor programmed and/or configured to: display an image of a first product having first dimensions on a user interface of a computing device of a user; receive an augmented reality or virtual reality (AR/VR) request; in response to receiving the AR/VR request, capture image data from an image capturing device of the computing device and display the image data on the computing device; overlay the image of the first product over a portion of the image data captured by the image capturing device; and resize the overlaying image of the first product based on user input from a computing device of the user, such that second dimensions are associated with the first product.
US11810242B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for stabilizing a raycast and an electronic device. The method includes: determining a specific raycast associated with a hand gesture in a virtual environment; determining whether the hand gesture is a pinch gesture; and in response to determining that the hand gesture is the pinch gesture, locking the specific raycast during the pinch gesture.
US11810241B2
A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for generating shadows in an image of a scene. The method includes: generating a shadow map to determine pixels in shadow; for each pixel in shadow, performing a sampling of neighboring pixels; for each pixel in shadow, computing an average brightness of the sampling to generate a shadow mapped shadow value; determining a set of close shadow edge pixels, which are shadow edge pixels that correspond to locations on an object that are below a threshold distance to an occluding object; for each pixel in the set of close shadow edge pixels, performing ray tracing to determine a ray traced shadow value; and outputting shadow values for pixels in shadow, wherein the output is based on the ray traced shadow value for the close shadow edge pixels, and the output is based on the shadow mapped shadow value for other shadow pixels.
US11810240B2
A computer-implemented method of constructing a ray tracing acceleration structure for a scene defined with respect to an overall coordinate system. The acceleration structure includes a top-level acceleration structure (TLAS) having leaf nodes referencing one or more instances of a bottom-level acceleration structures (BLAS). The method comprises defining one or more TLAS nodes, for each TLAS node, determining a first bounding volume and associating the node with a transformation matrix that maps between the first bounding volume and a second bounding volume in the overall coordinate system.
US11810239B2
Graphics processing system configured to perform ray tracing. Rays are bundled together and processed together. When differential data is needed by a shader, the data of a true ray in the bundle can be used rather than processing separate tracker rays.
US11810234B2
In embodiments of a method and apparatus for processing avatar usage data, a user obtains the avatar usage data, so as to use a plurality of avatars. If the user selects a target avatar from the plurality of avatars, the target avatar is loaded in the target round, and the permission data of the target avatar associated with the avatar usage data is updated. Through embodiments of the method and apparatus, the user does not need spend a lot of time in collecting different avatars when the user wants to use the different avatars, thereby reducing complexity of user operations, simplifying operation steps, and improving the efficiency of human-computer interaction.
US11810233B2
An end-to-end virtual object animation generation method includes receiving input information, where the input information includes text information or audio information of a virtual object animation to be generated; converting the input information into a pronunciation unit sequence; performing a feature analysis of the pronunciation unit sequence to obtain a corresponding linguistic feature sequence; and inputting the linguistic feature sequence into a preset timing mapping model to generate the virtual object animation based on the linguistic feature sequence.
US11810230B2
The invention relates to a method and system for validating the graphical generation of symbols to display, comprising a graphical generation of symbols to display to form a video stream comprising a plurality of rasters, comprising a pixel generation, with the attribution of at least one associated symbol attribute for each pixel contributing to one of said symbols. The method comprises, for at least one raster of said video stream: obtaining at least one reference symbol attribute associated with at least one symbol to be monitored; identifying pixels having the reference symbol attribute(s), during a scan of the pixels of said raster in a predetermined course direction, these pixels contributing to said at least one symbol to be monitored, and calculating associated characteristic information; validating the display of the symbol(s) to be monitored based on the calculated characteristic information and of source information associated with said symbols to display.
US11810223B2
Methods for graphics processing are provided. One example method includes executing a plurality of kernels using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs), wherein responsibility for executing a corresponding kernel is divided into one or more portions each of which being assigned to a corresponding GPU. The method includes generating a plurality of dependency data at a first kernel as each of a first plurality of portions of the first kernel completes processing. The method includes checking dependency data from one or more portions of the first kernel prior to execution of a portion of a second kernel. The method includes delaying execution of the portion of the second kernel as long as the corresponding dependency data of the first kernel has not been met.
US11810222B2
Systems and methods may provide for receiving a pixel shader and sending the pixel shader to shader bypass hardware if the pixel shader and a render target associated with the pixel shader satisfy a simplicity condition. In one example, the shader bypass hardware is dedicated to pixel shaders and associated render targets that satisfy the simplicity condition.
US11810218B2
Systems and methods are provided for the generation of augmented reality (AR) content that provides a shared AR experience involving multiple users. Shared AR experiences can improve the communication and collaboration between multiple simultaneous users. According to an embodiment, AR content is generated for a first user in a shared AR experience. The AR content includes at least one of a render of a model, a virtual representation of a second user in the shared AR experience, a virtual representation of a user interaction in the shared AR experience, and spatial audio content. Modifications to a shared AR experience are also provided. These modifications may be initiated based on instructions from one user and be reflected in the AR content generated for multiple users.
US11810209B2
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for restoration time predictions and optimized recovery solutions is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include selecting a dataset based on time series data. Embodiments of the present invention may include building one or more models, wherein the one or more models include a classification and regression tree model, a cross validated decision tree model or a bootstrap aggregating model. Embodiments of the present invention may include selecting a model for predictions using decision trees to reduce a variance of the model. Embodiments of the present invention may include rebuilding the model based on additional data attributes. Embodiments of the present invention may include determining an outage prioritization for each outage node. Embodiments of the present invention may include transmitting results of the outage prioritization.
US11810194B1
The disclosed embodiments relate to reduction of computational resources of an electronic trading system required for management of electronic tradeable instruments via instantiation of data objects in a memory including both data inherited from and data linked to a master data object stored in an external data structure or database. The combination of both inherited and referenced attributes may uniquely define each instance to enable the electronic trading system to manage and process transactions for a large number of tradeable instrument variations with minimal computational resources. Thereby, the disclosed embodiments enable the listing en mass and scheduling of a large number of financial instruments for trading to cover, for example, various currency patterns, pricing sources and fixing times.
US11810190B2
A crypto ETP is administered by a portfolio modeling computer/(PMC), a fund administration computer/(FAC), an order taking platform computer/(OTP), a custodian computer/(CC), and a paying agent settlement computer/(PASC). The PMC defines the ETP and captures data for a cryptocurrency index. The CC tracks Underlying Assets held by the ETP, and sends the data to the FAC, which calculates the NAV of the Underlying Assets to generate a Portfolio Composite File/(PCF) sent to the OTP. The OTP receives and validates/confirms with the CC, orders for creations and redemptions of the ETP from Authorized Parties/(APs), in exchange for the Underlying Assets and/or cryptocurrency. The PASC provides settlement on the Exchange in cryptocurrency by: receiving confirmation from the CC of transfer of underlyings, ETPs or cryptocurrency from the APs to a blockchain wallet associated with the PCM; and issuing units of the ETPs, underlyings or cryptocurrency to the APs.
US11810187B2
Systems and methods for forecasting cashflows across one or more accounts of a user disclosed. One example method may include retrieving a data set for each of a plurality of accounts from a database, constructing a graph including a plurality of nodes linked together by a multitude of edges, wherein each node identifies a time series value corresponding to one of the accounts, and each edge indicates a time series value of a corresponding set of transactions occurring between a corresponding pair of accounts, determining a plurality of constraints, determining a specified loss function based on the plurality of constraints, back-propagating a derivative of the specified loss function into a deep neural network (DNN) to determine a set of neural network parameters, forecasting, using the DNN, a time sequence for one or more of the nodes and one or more of the edges, and providing the forecasted time sequences to the user.
US11810186B2
A spending analysis display is provided that includes first, second, and third display regions, wherein an uncategorized financial transaction of the first display region is selectable by a user, and a sweeping motion toward either the second or third display region categorizes the selected uncategorized financial transaction under a financial transaction category represented by the second or third display region that is positioned in the direction of the sweeping motion.
US11810178B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh visualization are presented. An avatar representation of a user is generated. A user-specified change to the avatar representation is received and the avatar representation is changed based on the user-specified change. A current status of the user is determined, and an updated avatar representation is generated based on the current status of the user. The updated avatar is displayed in association with a communication of the user.
US11810175B1
Systems and methods for optimally formatting item identifiers (ID) are disclosed. An example method is performed by one or more processors of a system and includes obtaining descriptions of items, identifying, for each item, one or more attributes of the item described in the item's description, extracting a value for each of the identified attributes, identifying a set of common attributes among the identified attributes for which values were extracted for more than a threshold ratio of the items, assigning a priority weight to each of the common attributes using an optimization algorithm, identifying a set of optimum attributes among the set of common attributes based on the priority weights, mapping an optimum code to each unique value extracted for the optimum attributes, and generating an optimum ID format that provides, for each item, a unique ID including the optimum codes mapped to the values of the item's optimum attributes.
US11810173B2
A flowerbed sales order system including a user terminal, a server apparatus capable of communicating with the user terminal, and an arrangement identificator that identifies arrangement of different colors and/or different types of plants for each of a plurality of regions included in a flowerbed, in which the user terminal includes an order placement request transmitter which transmits an order request of the flowerbed having the arrangement identified by the arrangement identificator by an operation of a user, and the server apparatus includes an order placement request receiver which receives the order request of the flowerbed.
US11810171B2
A multi-platform e-commerce system with a virtual cart is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device storing a set of instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to: create an internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system; in response to the creation of the internal virtual cart, create an external virtual cart associated with one or more single e-commerce platforms; in response to every action taken in the internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system, enable performance of an immediate corresponding action on the external virtual cart associated with the one or more single e-commerce platforms.
US11810164B1
An analysis system includes a data retrieval module that retrieves claimline data for a period of time. The claimline data includes multiple billing codes and corresponding prices associated with a provider. An analysis module receives the claimline data from the data retrieval module, determines whether a changepoint exists in the billing codes in the claimline data, determines a statistical parameter of changepoints per day during the period of time, and identifies a chargemaster increase for the provider in response to the statistical parameter of changepoints exceeding a threshold. An alert module, in response to identification of a chargemaster increase, publishes an alert that a chargemaster increase has occurred. The alert includes the provider's identification, a chargemaster increase date, a claimline number, a changepoint number, the billing code identification, or a price of the billing code at the changepoint. The alert transforms a user interface displayed to a user.
US11810163B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for generating customized invoice data. In some examples, first data describing invoice settings for a first entity may be received during a registration process. In various examples, a plurality of invoice customizations may be determined based on a similarity between the first data and historical invoice settings of other entities. In some examples, the customized invoice data comprising the plurality of invoice customizations may be generated. In at least some examples, the customized invoice data may be stored in non-transitory computer-readable memory.
US11810162B2
The present principles are directed to systems and methods for providing a trading system cooperatively integrated with manufacturing control and distribution systems, and, more specifically, to provide a trading, clearance, settlement, and depository for securities, commodities, and their derivatives (collectively “securities”) that utilize asset-backed, virtualized data tokens and blockchain technology to facilitate price discovery and automated transactions at all stages of the asset development, manufacturing, and distribution of commodities.
US11810154B2
An information communication system transmits an advertisement to a second terminal device used by a second user based on transmission of a message from a first terminal device used by a first user to the second terminal device. The information communication system executes processing of giving a reward to the first user based on recognition that the second user takes an action corresponding to a successful result of the advertisement after the second user selects the advertisement.
US11810143B2
A device may receive, from a camera device, an image that includes a person. The device may provide the image to a user recognition device and receive, from the user recognition device, a user identifier based on the person included in the image. In addition, the device may obtain user data based on the user identifier, the user data relating to prior activity relating to the person associated with the user identifier. The device may identify a user device based on a first physical location associated with the camera device and a second physical location associated with the user device, and provide the user data to the user device.
US11810138B2
Provided is a method including determining a combined plurality of accounts, determining, for each account of the combined plurality of accounts, aggregate transaction data associated with a plurality of transactions involving the account; determining a first cohort level group including a group of exposed accounts and controls accounts; determining a first segment level group of accounts from the first cohort level group of accounts; generating a prediction model based on a plurality of control accounts that are included in the first segment level group of accounts; identifying a first exposed account of a plurality of exposed accounts; determining a first control account of the plurality of control accounts that corresponds to a first exposed account using the prediction model; and outputting a report comprising data associated with the first control account that corresponds to the first exposed account. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11810133B2
A musician discovery system is provided. The musician discovery system includes a first interface for displaying a plurality of musicians organized according to a musical characteristic. The system includes a second interface for presenting multimedia information about a first musician from the plurality of musicians displayed on the first interface. The system includes means for comparing a second plurality of musicians with the first musician using the multimedia information presented on the second interface about the first musician. Furthermore, the system includes a third interface for recommending a second musician from the second plurality of musicians based on the comparing means.
US11810128B2
A system for providing resource material to a customer service representative [CSR], including a database storing a plurality of resources associated with one or more customer service contexts, a memory storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to analyze an on-going communication including a customer service request received from a customer; determine a context of the request based on the analysis and historical data associated with the customer determined to be associated with the communication, automatically identify, based on the context of the request, a resource in the database associated with the determined context; and display, via a user interface in real-time during the communication, the resource associated with the customer service request.
US11810120B2
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a method including assigning, by a virtual assistant computing device, a transaction intent associated with a mobile device user for a transaction and determining by the virtual assistant computing device, whether the transaction is in accordance with policy. The method further includes sending by the virtual assistant computing device, a policy decision recommendation to the mobile device and receiving, by the virtual assistant computing device, a response from the mobile device indicating whether to perform the transaction. The method further includes facilitating, by the virtual assistant computing device, performance of the transaction and generating, by the virtual assistant computing device, an expense report associated with the transaction.
US11810110B2
The present invention relates to a method of processing a transaction sent from a proof entity (1) connected to a verification entity (2); the proof entity (1) having at least one secret key and a candidate authentication data, the verification entity (2) having the hash value of a reference authentication data; the method comprising the steps of: (a) generation by data processing means (11) of the proof entity (1) of: a signature of the proof entity (1) from said secret key; a zero-knowledge proof of the fact that the candidate authentication data and the reference authentication data match; (b) transmission to the verification entity (2) of transaction data comprising at least: said signature of the proof entity (1); said zero-knowledge proof; (c) verification by the data processing means (21) of the verification entity (2) that said signature of the proof entity (1) and the zero-knowledge proof are valid; (d) processing said transaction.
US11810108B1
Various embodiments generally relate to generating and scheduling transactions in advance. More specifically, various embodiments relate to receiving a request for a transaction from a user device; processing the transaction, where the transaction requires some user interaction at a point of transaction to complete the transaction; identifying a location for completion of the transaction; determining possible points of transaction within a predetermined distance of the identified location; displaying the possible points of transaction; receiving a selection of one of the possible points of transaction; generating a unique identifier for the transaction based on the selected point of transaction; and sending the unique identifier for presentation at the selected point of transaction, where the unique identifier is used to complete the transaction.
US11810103B2
Systems and methods for processing events transmitted by an application to hashing processors executing a custom mempool protocol that is independent of the public blockchain protocol. Events transmitted by the application are hashed only into blocks with other events transmitted by the application or events with parameters satisfying a screening criterion and are not propagated to mempools of nodes that are not executing the custom mempool protocol. The blocks are appended to the blockchain according to the public blockchain protocol. Thus, application users exercise intentionality over which hashing processors process their events and which other events will be hashed into a block with the users' events.
US11810089B2
A method includes receiving, from a client device, a request to access data of a data exchange platform. The method further includes receiving a selection corresponding to a monetization option for the data. The method further includes executing, by one or more processors, a monetization operation corresponding to the selection without directing the client device outside of the data exchange platform. The method further includes granting the client device access to the data of the data exchange platform in response to successfully performing the monetization operation.
US11810086B2
A method, system, and computer program product is provided for generating digital receipts. The method includes receiving, through a first communication channel, a transaction request message from a merchant system for a transaction between a consumer and the merchant system using an account identifier, assigning a transaction identifier to the transaction, storing the first transaction data in association with the transaction identifier in at least one data storage device, receiving, through a second communication channel, digital receipt data comprising a digital receipt object and second transaction data, processing the transaction using the account identifier, determining the transaction identifier based on the second transaction data by matching the second transaction data to the first transaction data in the at least one data storage device, and storing the digital receipt object in association with the transaction identifier in the at least one data storage device or at least one other storage device.
US11810077B2
A system and method for implementing a fast payment is described. A request to execute a payout to a payee account is received, where the request includes information about the payout. At least one payment rail available for the requested payout is determined from a plurality of payment rails based on the included information. Rules associated with each of the at least one payment rail are identified. A fastest payment rail is determined from the at least one payment rail for executing the payout based on the identified rules and the information about the payout. The payout is then executed over the determined fastest payment rail.
US11810075B2
A method includes generating a plurality of training vectors relating to different respective historical service requests generated by respective autonomous vehicles, each of the training vectors including respective features associated with the historical request to which the training vector relates. The method further includes, using the training vectors, training a model configured to generate a prediction relating to one or more future service requests, generating the prediction using the model, and outputting the generated prediction. Other embodiments are also described.
