US11864477B2
Provided are a memory cell and a method of forming the same. The memory cell includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a storage element layer. The storage element layer is disposed between the bottom and top electrodes. The storage element layer has a first inclined sidewall, the top electrode has a second inclined sidewall, and an angle of the first inclined sidewall is greater than an angle of the second inclined sidewall. A semiconductor device having the memory cell is also provided.
US11864471B2
A described example includes: a semiconductor die including a Hall sensor arranged in a first plane that is parallel to a device side surface of the semiconductor die; a passivated magnetic concentrator including a magnetic alloy layer formed over the device side surface of the semiconductor die, the upper surface of the magnetic alloy layer covered by a layer of polymer material; a backside surface of the semiconductor die opposite the device side surface mounted to a die side surface of a die pad on a package substrate, the semiconductor die having bond pads on the device side surface spaced from the magnetic concentrator; electrical connections coupling the bond pads of the semiconductor die to leads of the package substrate; and mold compound covering the magnetic concentrator, the semiconductor die, the electrical connections, a portion of the leads, and the die side surface of the die pad.
US11864470B2
A magnetic field magnetic field sensor and method of making the sensor. The sensor and method of making the sensor may comprise a material or structure that prevents the admission of light in certain wavelengths to enhance the stability of the magnetic field sensor over a period of time. The sensor and method of making the sensor may comprise an adsorption prevention layer which protects the semiconductor portion of the magnetic. The sensor may also comprise an insulating layer formed between semiconductor layers and a substrate layer.
US11864468B2
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device includes a first array region and a second array region on a substrate, a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the first array region, a first top electrode on the first MTJ, a second MTJ on the second array region, and a second top electrode on the second MTJ. Preferably, the first top electrode and the second top electrode include different nitrogen to titanium (N/Ti) ratios.
US11864467B2
A top electrode of a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device over a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is formed using a film of titanium nitride oriented in a (111) crystal structure rather than a top electrode which uses tantalum, tantalum nitride, and/or a multilayer including tantalum and tantalum nitride.
US11864464B2
A method for polarizing a piezoelectric film is described. In this method, a piezoelectric film is formed by using an injection deposition method. The piezoelectric film is flat adhered to a surface of a conductive substrate. A polarization process is performed on the piezoelectric film while the piezoelectric film is flat adhered to the surface of the conductive substrate by generating static electricity on the adhesion surface of the piezoelectric film, and generating the static electricity on the adhesion surface of the piezoelectric film comprises using a pressurized gas to blow the adhesion surface, and the adhesion surface of the piezoelectric film is adhered to the even surface of the conductive substrate by an electrostatic adsorption method.
US11864462B2
An organic light emitting diode includes a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an emitting material layer including a first compound and a second compound and positioned between the first and second electrodes. An energy level of the first compound and an energy level of the second compound satisfy a pre-determined condition. An organic light emitting device may include the organic light emitting diode.
US11864461B2
The present specification relates to a compound represented by the following Formula 1 and an organic light emitting device including the same. The compound is used as a material for an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device.
US11864445B2
A display panel, comprising a plurality of sub-pixels of at least one color provided corresponding to a display area. The peripheral sub-pixels of the sub-pixels provided along the edge of the display area are edge sub-pixels, and the remaining sub-pixels surrounded by the edge sub-pixels and located in the display area are internal sub-pixels; a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels in the display area is a display pixel portion, and the edge contour of the display pixel portion is formed by the edge sub-pixels; the shape of the edge sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-pixels is different from that of the internal sub-pixels of the same color; the edge sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-pixels fill an area between the internal sub-pixels and the edge of the display area, so that the edge contour shape of the display pixel portion is consistent with that of the display area.
US11864441B2
A tiled display device includes a first display panel including a first display area and a first non-display area adjacent to the first display area, and a second display panel including a second display area and a second non-display area between the second display area and the first non-display area. The first display panel includes a first lower substrate, emitting diodes disposed on the first lower substrate and overlapping the first display area, a first upper substrate including a lower surface facing the first lower substrate, a first black matrix pattern disposed on the lower surface of the first upper substrate and overlapping the first non-display area, and a first photochromic matrix pattern disposed on the lower surface of the first upper substrate, overlapping the first non-display area, and transmitting light.
US11864439B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate; a pixel unit on the base substrate and including a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, the pixel circuit being configured to drive the light-emitting element, the pixel circuit being closer to the base substrate than the light-emitting element and including a driving transistor; a data line configured to provide data signal to the pixel circuit; a connection element through which the light-emitting element is connected with the pixel circuit, the connection element including a shielding portion; and a connection line connected with a gate electrode of the driving transistor. The data line includes two adjacent data lines with the shielding portion located therebetween, and an orthographic projection of the connection line on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the shielding portion on the base substrate.
US11864437B2
A display device includes a first substrate that includes a first electrode, a second substrate disposed under the first substrate and that includes, a second electrode that overlaps the first electrode, and an anisotropic conductive film disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The anisotropic conductive film includes an insulating resin layer and a plurality of conductive particles in the insulating resin layer. The conductive particles include first conductive particles that overlap the first electrode and the second electrode, and second conductive particles other than the first conductive particles. Each of the first conductive particles and the second conductive particles includes a first flat surface, a second flat surface that faces the first flat surface, and a curved surface rounded between the first flat surface and the second flat surface.
US11864434B2
In an organic EL display device including a proximity sensor, deterioration in display quality due to irradiation with IR light is suppressed. In the organic EL display device including the proximity sensor is provided with a light shielding unit that prevents a channel layer of a first initialization transistor from being irradiated with IR light, the first initialization transistor being provided in a pixel circuit in order to initialize a voltage that is applied to a control terminal of a drive transistor. The first initialization transistor preferably has a dual-gate structure. The first initialization transistor may have a LDD structure (including a one-side LDD structure).
US11864431B2
A light emitting display device includes a lower substrate, a driving transistor positioned on the lower substrate and including a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and a light shield layer covering a lower surface, an upper surface, and a side surface of the semiconductor layer, for protecting the driving transistor from external light.
US11864429B2
A display panel of an organic light emitting display device includes a buffer layer disposed on a first conductive layer, and including a first contact hole, an active layer disposed on the buffer layer, and including an active pattern and a conductive pattern disposed on the active pattern, a first insulating film disposed on or over the active layer and the buffer layer, and including a second contact hole overlapping with the first contact hole, a second conductive layer disposed on the first insulating film, and contacting the first conductive layer through the first contact hole and the second contact hole, a plate disposed in the same layer as the second conductive layer, and spaced apart from the second conductive layer, and each of the first conductive layer, the active layer, and the plate serves as an electrode of a storage capacitor, thereby implementing a high-capacity storage capacitor for the display panel.
US11864414B2
The display device includes a substrate, a transistor, a leveling film, a display element, a partition wall, and at least one dam. The substrate has a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region. The transistor is located over the display region. The leveling film is located over the display region and covers the transistor. The display element is located over the leveling film and includes a pixel electrode electrically connected to the transistor. The partition wall covers an edge portion of the pixel electrode. The at least one dam is located over the peripheral region, is spaced away from the leveling film, and surrounds the display region. The at least one dam has a base and stopper. The base includes a material included in at least one of the leveling film and the partition wall.
US11864411B2
A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a main pixel circuit located on the first substrate and including a first semiconductor layer, an auxiliary pixel circuit located on the first substrate and including a second semiconductor layer, a buffer layer located between the first substrate and the first semiconductor layer and between the first substrate and the second semiconductor layer, and a barrier layer located between the first substrate and the buffer layer, including one material from among silicon nitride (SiNx), aluminum oxide (Al2O3), and zirconium oxide (Zr2O3), and having a density ranging from about 2 g/cm3 to about 6 g/cm3.
US11864401B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; an organic material layer disposed on the first electrode and including a first resonance auxiliary layer; and a second electrode disposed on the organic material layer, wherein the first resonance auxiliary layer includes a first compound with a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level of −4 eV or less and a second compound with a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level of −4 eV or less, and wherein the first resonance auxiliary layer has a thickness of 20% to 90% of a total thickness of the organic material layer.
US11864396B2
A flexible display device including a substrate, a light emitting layer, a first insulating layer, and a conductive layer. The substrate includes a bent region and a non-bent region. The light emitting layer overlaps the non-bent region. The first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. The conductive layer is disposed on the first insulating layer. A sidewall of the first insulating layer includes a first tapered surface. The first tapered surface includes at least three curved surface portions continuously arranged with one another.
US11864393B2
A memory device includes a bit line, a word line, a memory cell, select bit lines, and a controller. The memory cell includes a first transistor, data storage elements, and second transistors corresponding to the data storage elements. The first transistor includes a gate electrically coupled to the word line, a first source/drain, and a second source/drain. Each of the select bit lines is electrically coupled to a gate of a corresponding second transistor. Each data storage element and the corresponding second transistor are electrically coupled in series between the first source/drain of the first transistor and the bit line. The controller turns ON the first transistor and a selected second transistor, and, while the first transistor and the selected second transistor are turned ON, applies different voltages to the bit line to perform corresponding different operations on the data storage element coupled to the selected second transistor.
US11864387B2
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The operative channel-material strings in the laterally-spaced memory blocks comprise part of a memory plane. An elevationally-extending wall is in the memory plane laterally-between immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks and that completely encircles an island that is laterally-between immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks in the memory plane. Other embodiments, including method are disclosed.
US11864386B2
A memory array comprises vertically-alternating tiers of insulative material and memory cells. The memory cells individually comprise a transistor comprising first and second source/drain regions having a channel region there-between and a gate operatively proximate the channel region. The individual memory cells comprise a capacitor comprising first and second electrodes having a capacitor insulator there-between. The first electrode electrically couples to the first source/drain region. Wordline structures extend elevationally through the insulative material and the memory cells of the vertically-alternating tiers. Individual of the gates that are in different of the memory cell tiers directly electrically couple to individual of the wordline structures. Sense-lines electrically couple to multiple of the second source/drain regions of individual of the transistors. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11864379B2
The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional memory (3D) and a control method thereof. The 3D memory includes a first deck and a second deck which are stacked in a vertical direction of a substrate. The first deck and the second deck each includes a plurality of memory string. Each memory string includes a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of memory cells includes a first portion and a second portion. A diameter of channel structure corresponding to the first portion of memory cells is smaller than that of channel structure corresponding to the second portion of memory cells. The method includes performing a read operation for selected memory cells that are in at least one of the first deck or the second deck; and applying a pass voltage to non-selected memory cells other than the selected memory cells in the first deck and the second deck. A first pass voltage is lower than a second pass voltage. The first pass voltage is applied to first non-selected memory cells in the first portion, and the second pass voltage is applied to second non-selected memory cells in the second portion.
US11864364B2
A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a housing including a first portion constituting a first outer surface of the wearable electronic device and a second portion constituting a second outer surface of the wearable electronic device, at least one electronic component positioned in an inner space of the housing and configured to emit heat, and multiple support structures which are at least partially positioned to correspond to the at least one electronic component between the first portion and the second portion, wherein a boundary part between the first portion and the second portion is at least partially positioned along a surface boundary between the first outer surface and the second outer surface and includes at least one opening, and an at least one distancing space between the multiple support structures is configured to communicate with an outer space of the housing through the at least one opening.
US11864360B2
A method of cooling or heating a plurality of computer processor heat sources, such as processors in a data center or the like, is disclosed with individual sources having a control valve associated therewith. Individual heat sources are in communication with a supply of a coolant fluid and individual control valves have an inlet for receiving coolant fluid from its respective computer processor heat source reflective of the heat source temperature. The control valve has a chamber with an inlet that receives coolant, and an outlet. A valve member within the chamber is movable in response to changes in temperature of the coolant fluid within the chamber between a closed position and an open position. The valve member is of a material that changes shape in response to changes in temperature. The coolant is carbon dioxide (CO2) that is in its supercritical state as it passes through the heat sources.
US11864358B2
An apparatus, such as a power routing apparatus, includes an enclosure having first and second compartments having respective first and second opposing walls. A cooling structure is disposed between the first and second compartments and has a coolant passage defined therein configured to support a coolant flow in a direction parallel to the first and second opposing walls. First and second semiconductor switches (e.g., static switches) are disposed on the first and second walls on opposite sides of the coolant passage and are configured to be cooled by the coolant flow.
US11864357B2
A double-sided cold plate includes a manifold comprising openings extending from a first surface of the manifold through the manifold to a second surface of the manifold forming recesses within the manifold and an inlet channel and an outlet channel fluidly coupled to the recesses within the manifold, a plurality of first heat sinks coupled to the first surface of the manifold enclosing the openings on the first surface, and a plurality of second heat sinks positioned adjacent each other along a length of the manifold and coupled to the second surface of the manifold, enclosing the openings on the second surface, a width of the plurality of second heat sinks is greater than a width of the manifold thereby forming an overhanging portion on each lengthwise side of the manifold, the overhanging portion configured to mechanically support a plurality of electrical components positioned around a perimeter of the manifold.
US11864344B2
A computing device chassis for a common cooling solution for die packages comprising: a chassis base comprising: an internal cavity; a cooling element housed in the internal cavity; and one or more thermal interfaces to the cooling element.
US11864340B2
A rack for storing electrical equipment includes a columnar frame formed by combining a vertical frame and a horizontal frame and a connecting member attached to the horizontal frame. The horizontal frame has a first portion including the connecting member and a second portion other than the first portion. The connecting member is movably attached to the second portion so that an inside of the rack is opened in the first portion.
US11864339B2
A lock device may include a slider assembly including a first slider, a second slider movably coupled to the first slider, and a base having a planar portion with a top rail and a bottom rail that hold the slider assembly and allows the relative movement of the first slider relative to the second slider along the top and bottom rails in the base. The second slider can move relative to the first slider to different positions including a latch lock position, a latch unlock position, and a latch impending lock position. The lock device may also include a latch assembly attached to a chassis. The latch assembly including a latch element is configured to move to a first, a second, and a third heights from the top rail of the base corresponding to the latch lock position, the latch unlock position, and the latch impending lock position of the slider assembly, respectively.
US11864337B1
Systems involve implementations including an electronic hub device with electronic device interface ports and with protrusions for coupling with a base assembly of a stand system wherein the electronic hub device is positioned in an internal cavity of the base assembly when the electronic hub device is coupled to the base assembly. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US11864333B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a first rotating component, a second rotating component, a flexible display panel, and a supporting part. The first rotating component is capable of rotating about a first center line; the second rotating component is capable of rotating about a second center line; the flexible display panel is capable of being wound around the first rotating component, and a first end of the flexible display panel is configured to move away or close to the first rotating component under an action of an external force; the supporting part is capable of being wound around the second rotating component, and a first end of the supporting part being configured to move away or close to the second rotating component under the action of the external force. The flexible display panel and the supporting part have a laminated portion in mutual lamination.
US11864327B2
An inductor structure is provided that is positioned within a via of a printed circuit board. The inductor structure includes a via extending through a printed circuit board. The inductor structure includes at least one coil of an electrically conductive material beginning at a first opening to the via continuously present on a sidewall of the via encircling a center of the via extending to a second opening of the via opposite the first opening of the via. It further includes at least electrode present in contact with an end of the coil at said first or second opening.
US11864314B2
The present invention relates to a patterned fiber substrate comprising: a fiber substrate; and a pattern consisting of a functional material and formed on the fiber substrate, wherein at least a part of the functional material that constitutes the pattern is present in inside of the fiber substrate, the fiber substrate has a contact angle of 100 to 170° with pure water on its surface, and the pattern has a narrowest line width of 1 to 3000 μm.
US11864310B2
A stretchable laminate to be fixed to a fabric includes a stretchable circuit board including a stretchable insulating layer having an elongation rate of 10% or more, a fabric base material, and an adhesive layer that bonds the stretchable circuit board and the fabric base material together.
US11864295B2
Front end systems and related devices, integrated circuits, modules, and methods are disclosed. One such packaged module includes a multi-mode power amplifier circuit in an interior of a radio frequency shielding structure and an antenna external to the radio frequency shielding structure. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit includes a stacked output stage including a transistor stack of two or more transistors. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit also includes a bias circuit configured to control a bias of at least one transistor of the transistor stack based on a mode of the multi-mode power amplifier circuit. The radio frequency shielding structure can extend above a package substrate. The antenna can be on the package substrate. Other embodiments of front end systems are disclosed, along with related devices, integrated circuits, modules, methods, and components thereof.
US11864290B1
Apparatus and methods for lighting. The apparatus may include a power supply. The apparatus may include a controller. The controller may be configured to receive power from the power supply. The controller may be configured to receive a dimming signal generated external to the controller. The controller may be configured to receive from a user selection that includes a CCT partition set-point. The controller may be configured to transmit to a light source lighting power. The lighting power may correspond to the dimming signal. The lighting power may correspond to the CCT partition set-point. The light source may include a high correlated color temperature (“CCT”) LED. The light source may include a low CCT LED. The CCT partition set-point may correspond to a selected value of a partition of power between the high CCT LED and the low CCT LED.
US11864286B2
A multi-channel power supply system includes a power supply circuit configured to generate a drive signal for powering a plurality of color channels based on an input power signal, a channel controller configured to generate a first pulse width modulated (PWM) signal for controlling an output light intensity of a first color channel of the plurality of color channels, a filter circuit configured to generate a first pseudo-sawtooth signal based on the first PWM signal, and a first current control circuit coupled to a first color channel of the plurality of color channels and configured to adjust a first channel current of the first color channel based on the drive signal and the first pseudo-sawtooth signal.
US11864285B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems that interact with users to provide access to media appropriate to and/or customized for a particular user using the entertainment system, the location at which the entertainment system is being accessed, and/or a predefined event. For example, in certain exemplary embodiments, an entertainment system in a location is configured to provide jukebox-related and entertainment system mediated services that are accessible from within and from the outside of the location, and provide (1) attract or flight media operations, (2) browsing services, and/or (3) search screens appropriate to and/or customized for a particular user using the entertainment system, the location at which the entertainment system is being accessed, and/or a predefined event. Such screens may be provided with a three-dimensional look-and-feel in certain exemplary embodiments.
US11864278B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) frequency range two (FR2) based communications beam management. The UE may configure, via communications with a base station, serving the UE, a group ID for PUCCH resources within a group of PUCCHs, e.g., for FR2 based communications. The UE may receive, from the base station, an update to one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may include one of a resource ID indicating an update to a PUCCH resource or the group ID to update the group of PUCCH resources. The UE may update, based on the MAC-CE, the one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs.
US11864268B2
Method and system for validating whether a user of a mobile device is a vehicle driver. For example, the method includes receiving telematics data and device interaction data generated by the mobile device during a vehicle trip, analyzing the telematics data and the device interaction data to determine driving instances in which the user interacts with the mobile device during the vehicle trip, determining whether the user of the mobile device is the driver of the vehicle during the vehicle trip based on the driving instances by using a classification technique, receiving positioning data associated with the mobile device within the vehicle during the vehicle trip, and validating the classification technique based on the positioning data and whether the user of the mobile device is determined to be the driver of the vehicle.
US11864265B2
Solutions for providing a data traffic session with proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) restoration include: receiving an indication, by an application server (AS), that a user equipment (UE) registered with a first proxy node; receiving, by the AS, from a call session control function, a first indication that the first proxy node is unavailable; based on at least receiving the first indication that the first proxy node is unavailable, transmitting, by the AS, to a subscriber information node, a first message triggering proxy node restoration (e.g., over an N71 interface); receiving an indication, by the AS, that the UE is registered with a second proxy node different than the first proxy node; and based on at least receiving a session initiation message, establishing the data traffic session for the UE with the second proxy node.
US11864257B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a mobility configuration from a source cell of a network, wherein the mobility configuration includes at least one mobility measurement object, determine that a radio link failure (RLF) event has occurred on the source cell, searching for a primary cell (PCell) only on frequencies associated with the at least one mobility measurement object to reestablish a radio resource control (RRC) connection and reestablish the RRC connection with the PCell.
US11864249B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first UE (User Equipment) to update Layer-2 Identities (IDs). In one embodiment, the method includes the first UE establishing a unicast link with a second UE, wherein a first Layer-2 ID of the first UE and a second Layer-2 ID of the second UE are used for data transmission and reception on the unicast link. The method further includes the first UE transmitting a Link Identifier Update Request message for the unicast link to the second UE, wherein the Link Identifier Update Request message includes a new first Layer-2 ID of the first UE. The method also includes the first UE receiving a Link Identifier Update Accept message for the unicast link from the second UE, wherein the Link Identifier Update Accept message includes a new second Layer-2 ID of the second UE. In addition, the method includes the first UE passing the new first Layer-2 ID of the first UE and the new second Layer-2 ID of the second UE down to the lower layer(s) after a Link Identifier Update Acknowledgement (ACK) message is passed to the lower layer(s) for transmission in response to reception of the Link Identifier Update Accept message.
US11864243B2
A system and method includes implementing, by a base station (BS), a reliable ultra-low latency transmission mechanism in a grant-free uplink transmission scheme having defined therein contention transmission unit (CTU) access regions and a plurality of CTUs. Implementing the reliable ultra-low latency transmission mechanism includes defining a reliable ultra-low latency CTU (RULL-CTU) access region from a portion of the CTU access regions of the grant-free transmission scheme, defining an RULL-CTU mapping scheme by mapping at least a portion of plurality of CTUs to the RULL-CTU access region to define a plurality of RULL-CTUs, defining a reliable ultra-low latency user equipment (RULL-UE) mapping scheme by defining rules for mapping a plurality of RULL-UEs to the plurality of RULL-CTUs in an initial pattern for initial transmissions in a first transmission time interval (TTI), and a regrouped pattern for redundant transmissions in a second TTI subsequent to the first TTI.
US11864241B2
A random access method, including: determining, by a terminal, that a transmission of an uplink control information overlaps with a transmission of a Msg.A on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); judging whether to allow the transmission of the uplink control information to be multiplexed in the PUSCH; in response to allowing the transmission of the uplink control information to be multiplexed in the PUSCH, multiplexing the transmission of the uplink control information in the PUSCH; and in response to not allowing the transmission of the uplink control information to be multiplexed in the PUSCH, transmitting the uplink control information on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
US11864236B2
A method of performing a random access channel (RACH) procedure by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) via a message A, and receiving a message B related to contention resolution in response to the message A. An index related to a reference signal used for transmission power allocation to the PUSCH is same as an index of a resource used for channel measurement for transmission of the PRACH, based on that the PRACH and the PUSCH are transmitted via the message A.
US11864234B2
A base station (BS) or a user equipment (UE) performs a channel access procedure for a plurality of beams to determine an availability of the plurality of beams. In some implementations, the BS or the UE determines that a channel access procedure is successful for a subset of the plurality of beams. In such implementations, the BS or the UE performs the transmission on the subset of the plurality of beams.
US11864231B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to LBT aware autonomous sidelink sensing are provided. A first UE determines, based on a projected listen-before-talk (LBT) completion time, at least one of a sensing window or a first resource selection window. The first UE senses, based on the determining, in a sidelink resource pool within a shared radio frequency band during the sensing window. The first UE identifies, based on the sensing, a subset of resources from the sidelink resource pool that are within the first resource selection window. The first UE selects at least a first resource from the subset of resources. The first UE transmits, to a second UE using the selected first resource, a sidelink transmission.
US11864222B2
An ULCI DCI with a group-common DCI format for a serving cell can be received. The ULCI DCI can indicate a group of symbols and a group of PRBs. In response to receiving the DCI, a PUSCH transmission or an SRS transmission on the serving cell can be cancelled if the PUSCH transmission is with low priority based on the device being provided a RRC indication indicating ULCI is only applicable to UL transmissions with low priority level, if the group of symbols includes a symbol of the PUSCH or of the SRS transmission, and if the group of PRBs includes a PRB of the PUSCH or of the SRS transmission.
US11864221B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, monitoring a network to identify a first amount of traffic in the network, determining, in accordance with the monitoring, that the first amount of traffic in the network exceeds a threshold, and modifying a priority class for a first communication device responsive to the determining that the first amount of traffic in the network exceeds the threshold, wherein the priority class controls access by the first communication device to a resource of the network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11864214B2
An apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium perform client access delegation for a network device in a wireless network. A network controller of a gateway device receives a super-user client device authorization from the network admin client device, connects the super-user client device to the gateway device, receives a second-party client device access authorization from the super-user client device, and connects the second-party client device to the gateway device. The network controller of the gateway device also allocates a portion of available network bandwidth to a second group of client devices, monitors bandwidth consumption by the second group of users, and limits the bandwidth consumption of the second group of users to the allocated portion of the available bandwidth.
US11864213B1
Reducing wireless device capabilities based on a usage of the wireless device. Regular wireless device (e.g. non-RedCap wireless devices) with periods of low usage are configured to adjust device capabilities to mimic those of RedCap wireless devices. The capabilities can be modified in real-time based on monitoring of usage, or based on patterns of usage, e.g. during time windows typical to low-usage.
US11864209B2
A multi-panel (MP) user equipment (UE) (MP-UE) includes a plurality of physical antennas configurable as one of a plurality of antenna panels. The MP-UE identifies at least one of a capability and a status of each of a plurality of antenna panels of the MP-UE. The MP-UE then reports, to a base station in uplink, the identified at least one of the capability and the status of the plurality of antenna panels in accordance with an antenna panel reporting configuration for the MP-UE.
US11864202B2
A network device sends indication information to a terminal device, to indicate a reference position of a starting symbol of a data channel. The network device sends a physical downlink control channel to the terminal device. Then the network device sends the data channel to the terminal device, or the network device receives the data channel from the terminal device.
US11864201B2
The present disclosure provides a communication method, base station and user equipment for configuring a parameter table in a wireless communication system including a base station and a user equipment, the communication method comprising: defining at both the base station and the user equipment a parameter table which includes whole entries of a legacy parameter table and extended entries; and transmitting from the base station to the user equipment a bitmap indication which indicates a sub-table selected from the parameter table, wherein the number of the entries in the sub-table is the same as in the legacy parameter table.
US11864186B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating a linkage between a first search space (SS), of a scheduled cell, and a second SS, of a first bandwidth part (BWP) of a scheduling cell, and that a third SS, of the scheduled cell, is not linked to any SSs of a second BWP of the scheduling cell. In response to the linkage and the first BWP being active, the second SS is monitored for receiving a scheduling indication for the scheduled cell. The wireless device switches from the first BWP to the second BWP as an active BWP of the scheduling cell. In response to the switching and the third SS not being linked to the any SSs of the second BWP, the third SS is monitored for receiving DCI for the scheduled cell. The DCI is received via the third SS and for transmission on the scheduled cell.
US11864180B2
A radio communication system includes: a plurality of cells having different scrambling sequences, respectively, wherein at least two cells communicate with at lease two user terminals connected to different serving cells; and a controller which controls the plurality of cells and provides a single scrambling sequence to said at least two cells and said at least two user terminals for control signal transmission and reception.
US11864175B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for requesting scheduling of resources to be used for uplink communication of data in a communications system. If the repeated transmission by a user equipment of scheduling requests on an uplink control channel is determined to be unsuccessful, a random access transmission on a random access channel is initiated as a fallback procedure.
US11864173B2
The embodiments of this application provide a resource scheduling method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to resolve the problem that how to schedule a SL resource is not provided in the related technologies. The method includes: when data is needed to be sent on a SL, or a BSR of a SL triggers a scheduling request SR, sending a SR to a network side device by using a target resource, where the SR is used to request the network side device to configure a SL sending resource for the terminal device. The embodiments of this application are used to schedule a SL sending resource.
US11864163B2
An apparatus for a wireless communication system includes one or more base stations and a plurality of user devices, UEs. The apparatus is configured to be connected to one or more UEs via a sidelink for a sidelink communication with the one or more UEs, the apparatus and the one or more UEs forming a group of UEs and using a set of group resources to be used for the sidelink communication within the group of UEs. In case a base station does not provide resource allocation configuration or assistance, the apparatus is configured to select resources from a set of resources provided by the wireless communication system so as to alter or completely change the set of group resources to be used for the sidelink communication within the group of UEs.
US11864155B2
Provided are a paging method, base station, and user equipment (UE). The paging method includes that a base station configures a paging parameter according to a UE category. The paging parameter includes at least one of configuration information for scheduling paging or information about a downlink carrier for carrying paging.
US11864147B2
A method for performing, by a user equipment (UE), a registration to a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Specifically, the UE performs a registration to a first public land mobile network (PLMN) via a first base station, receives an disaster related message applied to the first PLMN or applied to an area in which the UE is located when there is no service provided from the first PLMN, transmits a registration request message to a second PLMN providing an disaster roaming service based on the disaster related message, and receives, from the second PLMN, a response message to the registration request message. The UE is subscribed to the first PLMN, and the second PLMN is configured to provide the disaster roaming service to the UE based on a disaster applied to the first PLMN or applied to the area in which the UE is located.
US11864141B2
In performing wireless communication between terminals to perform time difference measurement and propagation time measurement, first and second terminals that transmit a signal at least once in attempting space-time synchronization are included. The first terminal measures a reception phase of a locally transmitted signal, and a reception phase of a signal transmitted by the second terminal, adds a positive or negative phase to the measured reception phase, and makes a report to the second terminal. The second terminal measures a reception phase of a locally transmitted signal, and a reception phase of a signal transmitted by the first terminal, and makes a report to the first terminal. The first and second terminals obtain a time difference or propagation time according to a reception phase measured by a local device and reported from a counterpart, and obtain additional information based on a phase reflected in the time difference or propagation time.
US11864136B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications provide techniques for multiplexing, in a frequency domain, a synchronization signal block (SSB) and a control resource set (CORESET) to form a multiplexed block that is transmitted using a set of symbols. A base station may transmit multiple multiplexed blocks using multiple different beams with a switching gap provided between each multiplexed block that allows for switching of radio frequency (RF) components between different beams. The switching gap is longer than a duration of a cyclic prefix (CP) that is associated with each symbol of the set of symbols of each multiplexed block. Within one or more of the multiplexed blocks, an associated SSB may use a different waveform than the CORESET. The multiplexed blocks may use a common reference signal for both the SSB and CORESET.
US11864133B2
Embodiments of this application provide a synchronization signal block transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: A network device sends an SSB to a terminal device in a resource position of the SSB. Correspondingly, the terminal device receives the SSB. In this process, a symbol included in the resource position of the SSB does not overlap with an uplink symbol in a plurality of self-contained slot structures as much as possible. This method can reduce a probability that the symbol included in the resource position of the SSB conflicts with an uplink symbol in as many self-contained slot structures as possible, to avoid cross interference, and therefore can support reliable transmission in as many self-contained slot structures as possible.
US11864125B2
A power configuration method includes: a base station determining the configuration upper limit of an overall equivalent power value of a terminal when performing multi-bandwidth transmission on n bandwidths; the base station generating, for the terminal, configuration information of a first bandwidth among n bandwidths, the overall equivalent power value on the n bandwidths corresponding to the configuration information being not higher than the upper limit of the configuration; the base station sending configuration information to the terminal.
US11864124B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method can include receiving a configuration for a first set of power control information and a second set of power control information, receiving a Downlink Control Information (DCI) scheduling one or more Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs), wherein the DCI comprises a first Sounding Reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI) field and a second SRI field, determining a first Identifier (ID) directly based on value indicated by the first SRI field, wherein the first ID is a power control information ID in the first set of power control information, determining a second ID based on a value indicated by the second SRI field and the number of layers, and transmitting the one or more PUSCHs based on transmit power derived from the power control information of the first ID or the power control information of the second ID.
US11864123B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node used for wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling; and transmits a first signal; the first signaling is used for determining configuration information of the first signal; the first signaling is used for determining a first information unit, the first information unit comprises a first field, the first field in the first information unit indicates a first reference-signal resource, and the first reference-signal resource is used for determining a spatial-domain filter of the first signal; a first power control parameter group is used for determining transmission power of the first signal. The above method unifies Uplink beam management mechanism and Downlink beam management mechanism, and solves the power control problem of Uplink transmission under a unified beam management mechanism.
US11864111B2
A downlink channel monitoring method includes monitoring a downlink channel with a first monitoring mode, where the first monitoring mode comprises a full monitoring mode, a wake-up signal monitoring mode, or a sleep signal monitoring mode. Additionally, the method includes monitoring levels of the full monitoring mode, the wake-up signal monitoring mode, and the sleep signal monitoring mode, where the full monitoring mode, the wake-up signal monitoring mode, and the sleep signal monitoring mode are different. Further, the method includes switching, in response to determining that a monitoring situation satisfies a preset condition, a monitoring mode from the first monitoring mode to a second monitoring mode matching the preset condition according to the monitoring levels. Finally, the method includes monitoring the downlink channel with the second monitoring mode, where the second monitoring mode is different from the first monitoring mode.
US11864102B2
Wireless communication service over a network slice that comprises a network exposure function (NEF)
A wireless communication network serves sensor data from a wireless sensor to a data system. The wireless communication network receives a sensor request transferred by the data system. The wireless communication network transfers the sensor request to a Network Exposure Function (NEF). The wireless communication network receives sensor data transferred by the wireless sensor. The wireless communication network transfers the sensor data to the NEF. The NEF receives the sensor data and the sensor request, and in response, transfers the sensor data for delivery to the data system.
US11864095B2
Disclosed are system architectures and techniques for multiple access points for a data container. Control plane and data plane APIs are disclosed for generating access points and associating the access points with data containers, as well as for generating access point policies that specify permissions for the access points. More than one access point may be associated with a single data container. A storage service receives requests directed to the access points, and grants or denies the requests based on the permissions specified in the corresponding policies. Various types of use cases for using access policies are contemplated such as default, regional, or network-based (e.g., VPC-based) use-cases or the like. A system may implement layers of policies such as identity and access management policies, access point policies and data container policies.
US11864087B2
In a system where a first node provides a first area of TDD coverage on a first TDD carrier using a first TDD configuration and an adjacent second node provides a second area of TDD coverage on a second TDD carrier using a different second TDD configuration, the first node could additionally provide an area of FDD coverage on a first FDD carrier, including causing the area of FDD coverage to sit at least partially between the first and second areas of TDD coverage and therefore to define a spatial buffer between the first and second areas of TDD coverage. For instance, the first access node could restrict its service on the first TDD carrier to be for user equipment devices (UEs) that are relatively close to the first access node and could restrict its service on the first FDD carrier to be for UEs that are relatively far away from the first access node.
US11864076B2
A method for monitoring a vehicle, the method may include determining, by a computer, whether a pairing between a vehicle and a mobile device associated with the vehicle succeeded; applying, by the computer, a first monitoring process when the pairing succeeded; and applying, by the computer, a second monitoring process that differs from the first monitoring process when the pairing failed.
US11864067B2
In some implementations, a user device may receive a text message and identify a keyword that relates to a future event. The user device may display, based on identifying the keyword, a first user interface that includes the text message and an option to set a reminder. The user device may receive a selection of the option and display a second user interface. The user device may receive a selection of a reminder type and automatically populate the reminder with text of the text message based on the selection of the reminder type. The user device may store the reminder and cause an action to be performed based on the reminder.
US11864062B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may receive a feedback configuration for providing feedback for downlink communications from a base station. Based on the feedback configuration, the UE may determine whether one or more feedback processes has a multicast-only configuration for multicast data communications, or a multicast-or-unicast configuration for either multicast data communications or unicast data communications. The UE may decode one or more transmissions associated with the one or more feedback processes based on the multicast-only or multicast-or-unicast configuration, and may determine a feedback codebook based on the multicast-only or multicast-or-unicast configuration of the one or more feedback processes. The UE may monitor for retransmissions of one or more multicast data communications based on the feedback process configuration.
US11864061B2
Systems and methods for tracking activities of daily living (ADL) of a user are provided. The method monitors data from one or more internet of things (IoT) devices corresponding to one or more ADLs. The method further monitors data from an activity identification module. The data received is related to an ADL and includes one or more steps specific to the ADL. The data related to the ADL is stored in an activity logging database located in a memory and compared to an activity best practices (BP) database. A score that represents a compliance level is calculated based on the compared data. A response that corresponds the compliance level from a response database is executed.
US11864060B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits a first signal for positioning (RS-P) (e.g., SRS, etc.) on a first link from the UE to a wireless network node (e.g., BS, UE, etc.). The UE receives, from the wireless network node, location assistance data that comprises information that indicates a line of sight (LOS) condition associated with the first link. The UE measures a second RS-P on a second link from the wireless network node to the UE that is reciprocal to the first link. The UE performs one or more positioning measurements, determines a location estimate of the UE, or both, based in part on the reception of the second RS-P on the second link and the indicated LOS condition, the indicated LOS condition associated with the second link based on link reciprocity between the first and second links.
US11864040B2
Measurement mode determination for narrowband internet of things devices There are provided measures for measurement mode determination for NB-IoT devices. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, by a NB-IoT device and from a serving network node (30), configuration information indicative of a measurement mode (e.g., Inband/Guard-band/Standalone) in relation to a neighbor cell, deriving said measurement mode of said neighbor cell from said configuration information, and measuring a reference signal of said neighbor cell based on said measurement mode.
US11864038B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments herein disclose a method and system for performing initial beam alignment during a random access (RACH) procedure by a User Equipment (UE).
US11864029B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a configuration for a set of bandwidth part groups including an intra-group switching delay and an inter-group switching delay, where the intra-group switching delay is smaller than the inter-group switching delay. The UE may communicate with a base station on a first bandwidth part of a first bandwidth part group of the set of bandwidth part groups. The UE may switch to a second bandwidth part of the first bandwidth part group based at least in part on the intra-group switching delay, or the UE may switch to a third bandwidth part of a second bandwidth part group based at least in part on the inter-group switching delay. The UE may communicate with the base station on the second bandwidth part or the third bandwidth part based on switching.
US11864023B2
A wireless device transmits one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages indicating assistance information, where the assistant information indicates: an identifier indicating a logical channel; and one or more periodicities associated with the logical channel. The wireless device receives, in response to the assistance information, one or more second RRC messages indicating one or more configured grant configurations. The wireless device triggers a buffer status report in response to data of the logical channel becoming available. In response to receiving one or more activation commands indicating activation of the one or more configured grant configurations, the wireless device cancels the buffer status report.
US11864022B2
The disclosure provides methods, apparatus and machine-readable mediums relating to buffer status reporting in wireless communication systems. One aspect provides a method performed by a user equipment. The user equipment is configurable to communicate with a radio access node via a plurality of communication protocols, and to communicate with a network node via at least one congestion-controlled application transport protocol. The method comprises: generating a buffer status report comprising an indication of a first amount of data available for transmission from the user equipment, the first amount of data including at least data stored in a buffer for data conforming to the congestion-controlled application transport protocol; and transmitting the buffer status report to the radio access node.
US11864019B2
A time-sensitive networking communication method and an apparatus, where the method may include: receiving, by a policy control network element, forwarding policy information of time sensitive networking (TSN) traffic; triggering the policy control network element to manage a quality of service (QoS) flow corresponding to the TSN traffic; determining a user terminal corresponding to the TSN traffic; determining, in a QoS flow corresponding to the user terminal, the QoS flow corresponding to the TSN traffic; creating or updating, according to the forwarding policy information, a QoS policy of the QoS flow corresponding to the TSN traffic; and sending the QoS policy to a session management network element, where the forwarding policy information includes traffic information of the TSN traffic and an identifier of a port that transmits the TSN traffic.
US11864017B2
Systems and methods are provided for an improved link budged resulting from reduced overhead. The method includes determining a signal to noise and interference ratio (SINR) at a wireless device, comparing the SINR to a predetermined threshold and determining the SINR at the wireless device meets the predetermined threshold. The method additionally includes disabling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission mechanism for the wireless device based on the determination that the SINR at the wireless devices meets the predetermined threshold.
US11864016B2
An invention to perform a method of cell measurement in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network comprises a plurality of frequency layers, the invention configured to: determine a Measurement Gap Length, MGL, for each one of the plurality of frequency layers operational in the wireless network; determine a gap bitmap to indicate a measurement gap availability in a time sequence for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network; and transmit gap assistance information for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network to a User Equipment, wherein the gap assistance information comprises at least the determined Measurement Gap Length and the determined gap bitmap.
US11864015B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication link between the UE and a serving base station may be established. The UE may measure, at an application layer of the UE, a set of quality of experience variables associated with different service types. The UE may measure, at an access stratum of the UE, a set of radio resource management variables associated with the communication link between the UE and the serving base station and a communication link between the UE and a corresponding set of one or more neighboring base stations associated with the communication links. The UE may transmit a measurement report to the serving base station indicating information associated with the quality of experience variables and the radio resource management variables in a multi-layer readable format.
US11864013B2
Provided are a method for transmitting and receiving channel state information (CSI) and an apparatus for the same. Specifically, the method includes receiving configuration information related to a CSI report, wherein the configuration information includes first information related with a time domain behavior of the CSI report, and based on the first information, one of (i) periodic, (ii) semi-persistent or (iii) aperiodic may be configured as a behavior of the CSI report in the time domain, receiving second information related with a time domain behavior of the CSI report, wherein the second information may be configured for a time duration including a plurality of specific units based on a specific unit in the time domain, receiving a reference signal for a CSI measurement, performing the CSI measurement based on the reference signal, and reporting the CSI in the time domain based on the first information and the second information.
US11864006B2
Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation.
US11863998B1
One wireless telecommunications system includes a Mobile Central Office (MCO) for capacity sharing via a master scheduling system. The MCO is communicatively coupled to a plurality of wireless base stations, each being operable to handle a session from a wireless device and to handoff the session to another wireless base station when the wireless device moves into a range of the other base station. Each of the wireless base stations is operable to convey capacity information to the master scheduling system through the MCO, and to acquire capacity from one or more wireless base stations of another MCO when directed by the master scheduling system.
US11863983B2
In one embodiment, a New Radio (NR) core network system comprises a set of network functions to: receive a request from a user equipment (UE) device comprising a virtual local area network data network name (VLAN DNN); determine whether the UE device is authorized to access a particular VLAN implemented on the core network and associated with the VLAN DNN; and cause a message comprising a VLAN identifier (VLAN ID) to be transmitted to the UE device based on a determination that the UE device is authorized to access the particular VLAN, wherein the VLAN ID corresponds to the particular VLAN.
US11863980B1
A System Platform establishes a Genuine User ID (“GUID”), creates a user profile for an Intended User, generates a unique data set based upon input associated with the user profile and a digital device it has registered to the Intended User. The output of the GUID in combination with the output of an algorithm in a provisioning application enables the digital device to respond to Access Requests at an Access Point. The response from the genuine Intended User's application on their genuine digital device produces a unique data package which combines the GUID, a device ID for the digital device and the output of the algorithm using the payload obtained from one or more data management sources. The unique data package can be tailored for many different uses by the intended user, including uses which are attended or unattended, with varying levels of security.
US11863979B2
Device-side, translator functions may be authenticated by elements of a 5G core network before communications involving such functions are allowed to occur, or continue to occur.
US11863976B2
An example apparatus can include a processor and an external communication component. The external communication component can be coupled to the processor and can be configured to, in response to determining a vehicular entity is within a particular proximity to the external communication component, generate an external private key and an external public key. The external communication component can further provide the external public key and data to a vehicular communication component associated with the vehicular entity. The external communication component can further receive data from the vehicular communication component in response to providing the external public key and data to the vehicular communication component. The external communication component can further decrypt the received data using the external private key, and provide a service to the vehicular entity based on the decrypted received data.
US11863969B2
Provided is a communication apparatus (200) including: an acquisition unit (241) that acquires, from a base station apparatus (100), information for operating as a master for controlling a sidelink communication between other apparatuses; and a control unit (240) that performs a process for operating as the master on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11863963B2
Devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device with spatial audio. The eyewear device has a processor, a memory, and image sensor, and a speaker system. The eyewear device captures image information for an environment surrounding the device and identifies an object location within the same environment. The eyewear device then associates a virtual object with the identified object location. The eyewear device monitors the position of the device with respect to the virtual object and presents audio signals to alert the user that the identified object is in the environment.
US11863959B2
A headphone system includes a calibration microphone for performing a calibration routine with a user. The calibration microphone receives a stimulus signal emitted by the headphone system and generates a response signal indicating variations in the stimulus signal that arise due to physiological attributes of the user. Based on the stimulus signal and the response signal, the calibration engine generates response data. The calibration engine processes the response data based on a headphone transfer function (HPTF) associated with the headphone system in order to create an inverse filter that can reduce or remove acoustic variations caused by the headphone system. The calibration engine generates a personalized HRTF for the user based on the response data and the inverse filter. The personalized HRTF can be used to implement highly accurate 3D audio and is thereby well-suited for applications to immersive audio and audio-visual entertainment.
US11863955B1
The present invention relates generally to the field of digital content, and more particularly to an improved system and methods for producing, mixing, and recording content. In particular, the system may include a plurality of input channels to which one or more audio sources may be linked via a user interface. Each audio source may be assigned to a physical fader or a virtual fader for adjusting a level of an audio signal received from the audio source. Advantageously, the system may connect via a wired and/or wireless connection with a number of audio devices and may further facilitate assigning each audio source to an input channel such that content creators, such as podcasters, are able to produce, mix, and record audio contents more efficiently and effectively.
US11863951B2
Systems and methods are provided for distributing audio. An audio system is provided that includes one or more audio interfaces, at least one of which is a wireless audio interface. An audio hub couples to the one or more audio interfaces and detects the presence of one or more headphones coupled to the wireless audio interfaces. The audio hub selectively establishes communication channel(s) to convey audio content between a plurality of devices coupled to the audio interfaces. The plurality of devices may include one or more headphones, an infotainment head unit, a microphone, and a speaker. Accordingly, headphone users may hold conversations with each other and/or other occupants of a vehicle, and various users may share audio content with headphone users and/or other occupants of a vehicle.
US11863946B2
A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.
US11863945B2
There is provided a case which accommodates an electronic device including a speaker, and a microphone. The case may incudes a first body, an accommodating part having a shape corresponding to a shape of the electronic device a second body provided on the first body so as to open or close the accommodating part, an internal speaker hole formed through the accommodating part, an external speaker hole formed through the first body, a speaker conduit formed in at least one of the first body and the accommodating part so as to connect the internal speaker hole and the external speaker hole, an internal microphone hole facing the microphone an external microphone hole formed through the second body, and a microphone conduit formed through the second body to connect the internal microphone hole and the external microphone hole.
US11863931B2
The present application discloses a speaker, including a shell and a speaker unit. The speaker unit includes a frame, and a magnetic path assembly and a vibration assembly; wherein, a guide pipe is also arranged in the receiving space. Compared with the related art, the present invention has the advantages that the guide pipe having a first through hole is provided; a magnetic bowl is provided with a second through hole in a penetrating manner; a main magnet is provided with a third through hole in a penetrating manner; a support is provided with a fourth through hole in a penetrating manner; all the above through holes are communicated in sequence. Thus, air of a region of the rear cavity can be introduced to the front cavity, which achieves effects of increasing the loudness of the speaker and optimizing the acoustic performance.
US11863926B2
A headset kit includes at least one Bluetooth earphone, a charging base used for charging each Bluetooth earphone, and an upper cover connected with the charging base. Supporting grooves used for supporting a first side of the each Bluetooth earphone are formed in the charging base, and through holes used for a second side of the each Bluetooth earphone to extend into are formed in the upper cover.
US11863923B2
Various embodiments of a speaker and a method of forming such speaker are disclosed. The speaker includes a frame having a first major surface, a second major surface, and an opening disposed between the first and second major surfaces; a cone disposed adjacent the first major surface of the frame; and an adhesive layer disposed on at least a portion of the second major surface of the frame. The adhesive layer occludes the opening of the frame.
US11863914B2
A projection apparatus includes a light source for emitting light with an initial spectral distribution, an optical element, and a projection surface. The optical element is arranged in a beam path of light emitted from the light source between the light source and the projection surface. The optical element includes a number of pixels. The pixels of the optical element are each configured to convert light with the initial spectral distribution into light with a predetermined final spectral distribution different from the initial spectral distribution.
US11863904B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and an operation method of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include a communication circuit configured to transmit or receive data using a call channel established via a call connection with an external electronic device, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to receive at least some packets of a first plurality of packets of a first frame via the call channel, to identify whether a lost packet is present in the first plurality of packets of the first frame, and to determine, based on the result of the identification, whether to perform frame rate conversion (FRC) based on the first frame and a second frame corresponding to a second plurality of packets received after the reception of the at least some packets. In addition, various other embodiments are possible.
US11863893B2
An image sensor including: a pixel array including first and second pixel groups, each of the first and second pixel groups includes of pixels arranged in rows and columns; and a row driver configured to provide transmission control signals to the pixel array, the first pixel group includes a first auto-focus (AF) pixel including photodiodes arranged in a first direction, the pixels of the first pixel group output a pixel signal through a first column line, and the second pixel group includes a second AF pixel including photodiodes arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the pixels of the second pixel group output a pixel signal through a second column line, and the first AF pixel of the first pixel group and the second AF pixel of the second pixel group receive same transmission control signals.
US11863891B2
An imaging apparatus acquires pixel signals for each predetermined-size partial region of an imaging plane and for detecting a region among the regions of the imaging plane in which a subject image has changed, the number of acquired pixel signals being less than the number of pixels included in the partial region, and controls to perform image capturing in response to detection of the region in which the subject image has changed, and to output a captured image based the pixel signals. The imaging apparatus acquires pixel signals from each partial region of the imaging plane by, when pixel signals are to be acquired from a first partial region of the imaging plane, acquiring pixel signals from a second partial region that is adjacent to the first partial region and partially overlapped with the first partial region.
US11863877B2
Provided is a method for removing flicker in a video by an electronic device, the method including obtaining a plurality of red-green-blue (RGB) video frames of a scene in a field of preview of a camera included in the electronic device, obtaining a position of at least one light source in the plurality of video frames, obtaining a brightness of the at least one light source based on the position of the light source, obtaining a de-flickering factor for each pixel in the plurality of video frames based on the position of the at least one light source and the brightness of the at least one light source, and applying the de-flickering factor to each of the plurality of video frames to remove the flicker.
US11863874B2
A method for controlling an autoexposure function of a camera to a gray level setting, the method including establishing a critical exposure time of an image sensing device of the camera, wherein the critical exposure time of the image sensing device of the camera is an exposure time at which a first sensed gray level of the image sensing device of the camera is disposed at a target gray level, the sensed gray level is disposed in a trend of decreasing sensed gray level values; exposing the image sensing device of the camera to light to obtain a second sensed gray level and comparing the second sensed gray level at the critical exposure time to the target gray level, if the second sensed gray level is disposed at least at the target gray level, limiting the exposure of the image sensing device of the camera to the critical exposure time.
US11863873B2
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, an image capturing apparatus capable of capturing an image while controlling an image capturing condition on a pixel-by-pixel basis or on a region-by-region basis comprises: an identification unit configured to identify a moving object region in the image on the basis of motion information on an object; and a setting unit configured to set the image capturing condition for each pixel or each region such that an identical shutter speed is applied to pixels corresponding to the moving object region.
US11863868B1
Systems and methods for characterizing a camera system on a mobile device are disclosed. Characterization of the camera system may be implemented by providing a diffraction pattern of dots at controlled, defined angles to the camera system. Images of the diffraction pattern may be captured during a focus sweep through predetermined focus positions and/or while changing the relative locations between the lens and image sensor at the predetermined focus positions. The captured images may be analyzed to determine calibration data that provides physical measurement of properties of the camera system. The calibration data may then be implemented by the camera system to produce enhanced imaging on the mobile device.
US11863861B2
Apparatuses and systems for electronic wearable devices such as smart glasses are described. The wearable device can comprise a housing, an image capture component, a locking component, and a control component. The housing defines an imaging aperture. The image capture component is coupled to the housing and aligned with the imaging aperture. The image capture component is configured to capture image data of a field of view aligned with the imaging aperture. The locking component is coupled to the image capture component. The locking component modifies a capture state of the image capture component to selectively enable image capture in response to a selection releasing the locking component. The control component is coupled to the locking component. Interaction with the control component comprises the selection releasing the locking component and triggering modification of the capture state of the image capture component.
US11863858B2
A system and method are provided for automatically concatenating two or more audiovisual clips containing video input from multiple cameras, and producing a combined audiovisual file containing video that switches between the two video inputs. In some examples, two video inputs and an audio input are recorded synchronously and are synchronized. The audio input can be sampled to locate low-noise audio events. The audiovisual file contains video that switches between two or more camera angles at the low-noise audio events. In one aspect, pauses are automatically removed from the audiovisual files. In another aspect, the system detects switch-initiating events, and switches between camera angles in response to detecting a switch-initiating event.
US11863853B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. A display area of the display panel is provided with a plurality of transistor units and first light-emitting pixel units driven by the transistor units; and an under-screen camera area of the display panel is only provided with a plurality of second light-emitting pixel units, the transistor units are disposed surrounding the under-screen camera area, and each of the transistor units disposed surrounding the under-screen camera area in the display area is electrically connected to a plurality of the second light-emitting pixel units by each of conductive wires.
US11863850B2
Provided is a camera module. The camera module according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a housing; a substrate arranged on the housing; a substrate supporting member arranged on the housing and supporting the substrate; and a coupling member that fixes the substrate on the housing, wherein the substrate supporting member includes a body, an extending portion which extends from the body to be disposed between the substrate and the inside surface of the housing, a hole formed in the extending portion, and a bent portion which extends from the extending portion inwardly of the hole and towards the substrate.
US11863849B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a driving assembly. The fixed portion includes a main axis. The movable portion is movably disposed on the fixed portion. The movable portion is connected to an optical element. The driving assembly is used for driving the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion.
US11863848B1
Customized highlight shows for sporting events, entertainment events, and/or the like, may be generated and presented. Source content with a representation of one or more events, such as sports events, may be obtained. A user may designate an attribute and/or a viewing length. A subset of the source content with highlights from within the source content may be selected such that the subset has the attribute and/or viewing length designated by the user. A customized highlight show including the subset may be generated and outputted to the user, for example, on a display screen. The attribute may include a team playing in the sporting events, a player playing in the sporting events, and/or a type of play occurring in the sporting events. The subset may optionally be generated based on teams and/or players in one or more fantasy sports teams.
US11863844B2
Various embodiments for dynamically generating an advertisement in a video stream are disclosed. In one embodiment, video stream content associated with a video stream for a user device is received. Video analytics data is obtained for the video stream content, which indicates a scene recognized in the video stream content. An advertisement to be generated and inserted into the video stream content is then selected based on the scene recognized in the video stream content, and an advertisement template for generating the selected advertisement is obtained. Video advertisement content corresponding to the advertisement is then generated based on the advertisement template and the video analytics data. The video advertisement content is then inserted into the video stream content, and the modified video stream content is transmitted to the user device.
US11863834B2
During playback of a content item, a media signature corresponding to a first portion of the content item is identified. A number of media signatures representing portions of a plurality of other content items may have been previously identified and stored. Each stored media signature may also include an identifier of an associated content item and a timestamp corresponding to a position in the associated content item at which the signature is located. If it is determined that the identified media signature matches a stored media signature, a progress bar is generated for display comprising an identifier of the content item associated with the matching stored media signature, and a progress indicator corresponding to a timestamp associated with the stored media signature.
US11863833B2
A streaming broadcast sponsorship system using an Internet of Things device, capable of inducing a viewer's sponsorship by enabling control of a broadcaster-owned Internet of Things device when the viewer's sponsorship is available is provided, the streaming broadcast sponsorship system includes a broadcaster terminal configured to generate a content and perform a streaming broadcast, a viewer terminal configured to be capable of viewing the broadcast, a server configured to receive the content from the broadcaster terminal, and transmit the received content to the viewer terminal, and IoT devices configured to be capable of communicating with the server and operated by the server, in which the viewer terminal generates sponsorship information for the broadcaster and transmit the sponsorship information to the server, and the server transmits a control signal corresponding to the sponsorship information to the IoT devices, and the IoT devices are operated by the control signal.
US11863829B2
A display apparatus, including: a display configured to display a video; a user input interface configured to receive a command; a remote control comprising a plurality of buttons; a controller in connection with the display, the user input interface and configured to: receive a command for obtaining information associated with one or more character objects in the video currently displayed on the display of the display apparatus, wherein the video is displayed in a video play window in the video layer; in response to the command, cut a target image in the video play window, to recognize an object in the target image; continue playing the video in the video play window in the video layer, and display a character name of a first character object recognized from the target image in a first layer over the video layer.
US11863828B2
A video replay system includes a display device, a replay controller, a session input device, a processing circuitry and a video enabling circuitry. The session input device receives plural video streams of a broadcast event from plural video capturing devices installed at different locations of a facility hosting the broadcast event. The processing circuitry is configured for generating a user interface on the display device. The user interface includes one or more replay operator modes. The one or more replay operator modes includes plural video tracks corresponding to each of the plural video capturing devices. Each of the plural video tracks includes plural video window players. The video enabling circuitry may enable creation of at least one replay video of one or more video segments to be broadcast.
US11863827B2
A system is provided for client-side dynamic presentation of programming content in indexed disparate live media output stream. In response to a client request, an updated playback position is presented in at least one of an altered first disparate live media output stream or a generated second disparate live media output stream at a client interface based on an insertion of manifest data and indexed metadata associated with a program identifier. The program identifier is associated with a programming content and is referenced in a published first programming schedule with respect to a playback position in the published first programming schedule. The published first programming schedule comprises a functionality enabled via constraints and rights associated with an indexed first disparate live media output stream.
US11863826B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for providing a storyline based media content. At least two storylines may be identified, each storyline specifying an order of providing a plurality of episodes from a plurality of interrelated series. Identifiers of the plurality of episodes are displayed. Then identifiers of a first set of the plurality of episodes that are relevant to the first storyline are graphically modified to indicate relevance to the first storyline. Identifiers of a second set of the plurality of episodes that are relevant to the second storyline are also graphically modified to indicate relevance to the second storyline. A first and second storyline identifier are generating for display to enable storyline selection. The interrelated series are then provided to a user device in the order specified by the selected storyline.
US11863824B2
Inspection of over the top (OTT) content to facilitate offering non-OTT content or other content and/or services as an alternative to the OTT content is contemplated. The OTT content may be inspected at an access point configured to provide a broadband or other connection between a device consuming the OTT content and a device sourcing the content. Data packets or other signaling may be added to the OTT content at the access point in order to announce the offer.
US11863805B2
A computer-implemented method for preserving video stream quality may include (i) identifying a plurality of video streams being transmitted via a shared connection with limited bandwidth, (ii) determining that viewership of a video stream within the plurality of video streams falls below a popularity threshold, (iii) increasing bandwidth availability for a remainder of the plurality of video streams by ceasing transmission of the video stream with the viewership that falls below the popularity threshold, and (iv) continuing to transmit the remainder of the plurality of video streams via the shared connection with the limited bandwidth. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11863802B2
A network of orbiting satellites can be used with a distributed network of nodes to deliver live video streams from physical locations in space to Earth for distribution to viewers on client devices. The approach can include replicating a distributed network cluster in space where each orbiting satellite is a node in the network. This system allows entities to deliver low latency live video streams from cameras mounted on the spacecraft, as well as other satellites, and on the surface of the Moon and planets. The latency will depend on the communication technology used and the distance of the video source from Earth. The lowest latency can be achieved by using optical communication technology, such as laser communication. The system can distribute live streams originating in space to a large global audience through an earth-based distribution network and can support millions of concurrent online users with near real-time latency.
US11863801B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for generating live streaming video data and playing live streaming video. The techniques comprise obtaining live broadcasting video data; identifying a target object in a video frame; determining a target area based on the target object in the video frame; encoding data indicative of the target area based on a predetermined format for supplementary enhancement information to obtain encoded target area data; and adding the encoded target area data to a data packet corresponding to the video frame, wherein the data packet is encoded based on a predetermined video data format, and wherein the predetermined video data format and the predetermined format for supplementary enhancement information are mutually compatible data encoding formats.
US11863798B2
The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. An image encoding method according to the present invention may comprise generating a transform block by performing at least one of transform and quantization; grouping at least one coefficient included in the transform block into at least one coefficient group (CG); scanning at least one coefficient included in the coefficient group; and encoding the at least one coefficient.
US11863796B2
Methods and apparatus for processing of video are described. The processing may include video encoding, decoding or transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including a current picture including a current subpicture including a current slice and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule that disallows an active entry in a reference picture list of the current slice from including a first picture that precedes in a decoding order a second picture that includes a step-wise temporal sublayer access subpicture in response to conditions associated with at least the first picture and the current subpicture.
US11863787B2
A device for decoding video data can be configured to receive a syntax element indicating a maximum block size for a transform skip mode; determine a maximum block size for a block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) mode based on the syntax element; and decode block of video data based on the determined maximum block size for the BDPCM mode.
US11863780B2
A method and device identify a maximum number of temporal sublayers that is allowed in a coded video sequence referring to a parameter set. A coded video sequence is decoded based on the identified maximum number of temporal sublayers that is allowed in the coded video sequence referring to the parameter set.
US11863773B2
A method and apparatus for decoding multiple semantically independent picture parts into a single video picture includes decoding unique picture order count values for each coded picture, coded slice, or coded tile in a coded video sequence, with multiple decoded pictures, cycles, and tiles belonging to a same access unit representing a frame of the video. A value representing the amount of pictures, cycles, or tiles, is then assigned to each access unit for assigning sequential access unit count values to the access units. As a result, each access unit, which represents multiple pictures, slices, or tiles to be combined into a single frame, is decoded for display processing.
US11863768B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for processing image data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a visual media file and a bitstream. The visual media file comprises image items each comprising a sequence of pictures according to a media file format, and the bitstream comprises access units each comprising one or more pictures each belonging to a layer according to a video coding format. The media file format specifies a suggested transition period of an image item to be applied for a transition between the image item and a next image item during displaying of the pictures as a slideshow.
US11863758B2
An embodiment includes a method and an encoder for SSIM-based bits allocation. The encoder includes a memory and a processor utilized for allocating bits based on SSIM, wherein the processor estimates the model parameter of SSIM-based distortion model for the current picture and determines allocates bits based on the SSIM estimation.
US11863753B2
A video decoding method includes obtaining an initial value of a context model for a syntax element, determining, based on the initial value, slope size information, slope sign information, offset size information, and offset sign information of the context model, determining an initial probability of the context model based on the slope size information, the slope sign information, the offset size information, the offset sign information, and a quantization parameter, obtaining at least one bin of a symbol indicating the syntax element by performing context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) decoding based on the initial probability of the context model, and reconstructing a video based on the at least one bin.
US11863751B2
A coding method and a decoding method for decoding a coded data stream representative of at least one image that is split into blocks. For at least one current block of the image, an item of information indicating a coding mode of the current block is decoded from the data stream. When the coding mode of the current block corresponds to a first coding mode, the current block is decoded using a first determined quantization step to dequantize, in the transform domain, a prediction residue associated with the current block. When the coding mode of the current block corresponds to a second coding mode, the current block is decoded using a second determined quantization step to dequantize, in the spatial domain, a prediction residue associated with the current block. The first quantization step and the second quantization step are determined according to the same quantization parameter.
US11863750B2
According to the present invention, an adaptive scheme is applied to an image encoding apparatus that includes an inter-predictor, an intra-predictor, a transformer, a quantizer, an inverse quantizer, and an inverse transformer, wherein input images are classified into two or more different categories, and two or more modules from among the inter-predictor, the intra-predictor, the transformer, the quantizer, and the inverse quantizer are implemented to perform respective operations in different schemes according to the category to which an input image belongs. Thus, the invention has the advantage of efficiently encoding an image without the loss of important information as compared to a conventional image encoding apparatus which adopts a packaged scheme.
US11863748B2
A method of obtaining quantization parameter (QP) for chrominance components based on QP for luminance component, wherein the method is performed by a decoder or encoder, and wherein the method comprises obtaining a luminance QP for a luma component of a coding unit; obtaining a QP index (QPi) based at least in a part on the luminance QP; and obtaining a chrominance QP (QPc) for a chroma component of the coding unit based on the QP index by using a preset lookup table, wherein the maximum difference between the QP index and the chrominance QP is equal to 3.
US11863746B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing video signals. An image signal decoding method according to an embodiment of the disclosure comprises the steps of: determining, on the basis of the height and width of a current block, an input length and output length of a non-separable transform; determining a non-separable transform matrix corresponding to the input length and output length of the non-separable transform; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to the current block, wherein, when the height and width of the current block are 4 each, the input length and output length of the non-separable transform are determined to be 8 and 16 respectively.
US11863745B2
A video decoding method according to the present invention may comprise: a step for determining whether to divide a current block into a plurality of sub-blocks; a step for determining an intra prediction mode for the current block; and a step for performing intra prediction for each sub-block on the basis of the intra prediction mode, when the current block is divided into the plurality of sub-blocks.
US11863732B1
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.
US11863731B2
Embodiments are generally directed to selective packing of patches for immersive video. An embodiment of a processing system includes one or more processor cores; and a memory to store data for immersive video, the data including a plurality of patches for multiple projection directions. The system is select the patches for packing, the selection of the patches based at least in part on which of the multiple projection directions is associated with each of the patches. The system is to encode the patches into one or more coded pictures according to the selection of the patches.
US11863726B2
A printing device comprises a head configured to print an image having a plurality of pixels on a printing medium based on image data, an input device configured to obtain an input of designating a pixel of the image, and a controller. The controller is configured to cause the printing device to print, on a same printing medium, a first patch group containing a plurality of patches, and a second patch group containing patches corresponding to the designated pixel designated via the input device, the second patch group containing a pair of patches, a color difference of the pair of patches contained in the second patch group being smaller than a color difference of a pair of patches with a smallest color difference among the plurality of patches contained in the first patch group.
US11863725B2
An image reading device that efficiently performs shading correction that flexibly responds to changes in the diffusion properties of reflected light on the surface of a reading target efficiently performing same as a result of including: controlling a plurality of light sources so as to cause only a specific light source among the light sources to be lit; obtaining the diffusion state of a first reflected light generated by the specific light source being lit, in a state in which general shading correction data not dependent on the image reading target is generated; obtaining a diffusion state for a second reflected light generated by light being irradiated on to the reading target by the specific light source; and generating dedicated shading correction data that relies on the reading target, based on the first reflected light diffusion state, the second reflected light diffusion state, and the general shading correction data.
US11863715B2
Methods, systems and devices for implementing adaptive color transform (ACT) and block based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) during image/video encoding or decoding are described. An example method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video unit of a video that is a chroma video unit and a bitstream representation of the video, whether a block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) mode is available based on a rule, and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein the rule is based on whether an adaptive color transform (ACT) mode is used for coding the current video unit and/or whether the BDPCM mode is used for coding a luma video unit corresponding to the current video unit.
US11863710B2
An audio device is provided. The audio device includes processing circuitry which is connected to a loudspeaker and a microphone. The processing circuitry is configured to play an echo reference signal from a far end on the loudspeaker, and perform an acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) process using the echo reference signal and an acoustic signal received by the microphone using an AEC adaptive filter. The processing circuitry repeatedly determines a first status of the loudspeaker according to a relation between the played echo reference signal and the received acoustic signal, and transmits a first status signal indicating the first status of the loudspeaker to the far end through a cloud network.
US11863706B2
A system and method for a cloud callback platform, comprising at least a profile manager, callback manager, interaction manager, media server, context analysis engine, and context aggregator mechanism, allowing users to call a business, agents in contact centers, or other users who are connected to cloud callback platform, and, failing to connect to the individual they called, or by request, allow for an automatic callback object to be created, whereby the two users may be automatically called and bridged together at a time when both users are available, and a context summary report is sent to one or more user. The system and method implement predictive logic to determine the most successful alternative communication channel to use to bridge the two parties.
US11863699B2
Methods and apparatuses for arranging applications for a mobile device are described, in which the mobile device includes a set of applications. The mobile device may identify certain applications that a user of the mobile device is likely to activate, based on a particular environmental setting. The environmental setting may include a present location determined by a GPS, a present date and time, a present day, or the like. The mobile device may display graphical elements (e.g., icons) corresponding to the identified applications on a screen of the mobile device such that the user may conveniently activate the identified applications. In some embodiments, the mobile device may sort individual applications of the set based on quantities and/or lengths of activations to identify such applications. The mobile device may enlarge the icons by a predetermined factor before displaying them on the screen.
US11863698B2
One example method of operation may include one or more of receiving call content at a mobile device, responsive to receiving the call content, adding a contact identifier to a contact list of the mobile device, receiving a call from a calling device at the mobile device, pairing the calling device with the contact identifier, and displaying the call content and the contact identifier during the call.
US11863696B2
The technology disclosed herein attaches to a communications handset cradle to improve accessibility. In a particular embodiment, an apparatus includes a connector for affixing the apparatus to a telephone handset cradle. The apparatus also includes a bottom face with a first sidewall and a second sidewall extending from the bottom face. A distance between the first sidewall and the second sidewall tapers towards the cradle.
US11863689B1
A system having one or more processors. The one or more processors receive data having a request for transferring ownership of a portion of a security from a first user computing system. A portion of the data is signed by a signer with a group signature having an extension. The one or more processors further receive a request to link an identity of the signer and open the identity of the signer. The one or more processors provide to a regulator information corresponding to the group signature and a signature of a transferee being linked to the group signature. The one or more processors generate signing ability of a second user computing system associated with an identifier of the transferee. Generating the signing ability of the second user computing system to use the group signature transfers the ownership of the portion of the security.
US11863686B2
Authentication of electronic document is based on multiple digital signatures incorporated into a blockchain. Structured data, metadata, and instructions may be hashed to generate the multiple digital signatures for distribution via the blockchain. Any peer receiving the blockchain may then verify an authenticity of an electronic document based on any one or more of the multiple digital signatures incorporated into the blockchain.
US11863685B2
A request for a transaction between a client system and a server system may be processed. The transaction may be associated with transmission of data between the client system and the server system. The data may be encrypted using a transient encryption key to form encrypted data. The transient encryption key may be a synced-clock random number configured to automatically change when a designated time interval elapses. The encrypted data may be transmitted between the client system and the server system.
US11863679B2
A permissioned blockchain, using off-chain storage, provides advantages over blockchains that rely on consensus and/or store information within the blockchain. Advantages include enhanced viability, compactness, and the ability to register material with distribution limitations (e.g., military classified). Examples create an immutable public record of data signatures that confirm when data is intact, without distributing the data itself, so that widespread availability of the blockchain (beyond those privileged to see the data) advantageously increases the size of the community that is able to detect spoofing or forgery attempts. A permissioning entity limits submissions to manage blockchain growth, foreclosing problematic material that may risk long-term viability. Examples render blockchain operations resistant to advanced persistent threats (APTs), leverage digital signatures as additional trust elements for high-risk data, link records to track pedigree and enable identification of superseded (obsolete) data, and leverage out-of-band date proof to enable independent verification of integrity and no-later-than data-of-existence.
US11863678B2
A permissioned blockchain, using off-chain storage, provides advantages over blockchains that rely on consensus and/or store information within the blockchain. Advantages include enhanced viability, compactness, and the ability to register material with distribution limitations (e.g., military classified). Examples create an immutable public record of data signatures that confirm when data is intact, without distributing the data itself, so that widespread availability of the blockchain (beyond those privileged to see the data) advantageously increases the size of the community that is able to detect spoofing or forgery attempts. A permissioning entity limits submissions to manage blockchain growth, foreclosing problematic material that may risk long-term viability. Examples render blockchain operations resistant to advanced persistent threats (APTs), leverage digital signatures as additional trust elements for high-risk data, link records to track pedigree and enable identification of superseded (obsolete) data, and leverage out-of-band date proof to enable independent verification of integrity and no-later-than data-of-existence.
US11863675B2
Datacenters or other large-scale distributed computing systems can provide computing resources such as processing power and data storage as computing services accessible to tenants via a computer network. A tenant, such as a corporation, school, or organization, can have multiple users or groups of users with corresponding websites. To facilitate ready access, data relevant to a user, group, or website of a tenant can be stored in a dedicated network location sometimes referred to as a shard. A shard can be a physical and/or logical storage location that contains emails, chats, instant messages, documents, photos, videos, or other types of content items with which the user, group, or website can interact.
US11863674B2
Systems and methods of Exact Data Matching (EDM) for identifying related tokens in data content using structured signature data implemented in a cloud-based system receiving data sets and customer configuration from a customer, wherein the data sets include customer specific sensitive data from a structured data source with each token represented by a hash value and the customer configuration includes one or more primary keys for a plurality of records in the data sets; distributing the data sets and the customer configuration to a plurality of nodes in the cloud-based system; performing monitoring of content between a client of the customer and an external network; detecting a presence of a plurality of tokens associated with a record in the customer specific sensitive data based on the monitoring; and performing a policy-based action in the cloud-based system based on the detecting.
US11863657B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involves receiving an input message, generating a first random value that is used to blind the input message to prevent a side-channel analysis (SCA) attack, computing a second random value using the first random value and a factor used to compute the Montgomery form of a blinded input message without performing an explicit Montgomery conversion of the input message, and computing a signature using Montgomery multiplication, of the first random value and the second random value, wherein the signature is resistant to the SCA attack.
US11863653B2
A protocol processing method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: carrying a leaf-transfer capability identifier in an RIFT protocol, the leaf-transfer capability identifier being configured to indicate that a first node that carries the leaf-transfer capability identifier supports other leaf nodes within a network to access the network through the first node.
US11863649B2
A method and apparatus for a first service processing system receiving and responding to a service request using a time context of a service time protocol is described. The method may include receiving a network based message associated with a service. The method may also include determining whether a service time context has been passed to the first service processing system from a second service processing system in the request. Furthermore, the method can include when no service time context is determined to have been passed to the first service processing system in the request, generating a current service time from a combination of a current physical time of the first service processing system and an initial counter time, performing a task associated with the service, and transmitting a second network based message that comprises the current service time as time context metadata associated with the performance of the task to a second service processing system.
US11863647B2
Provided is a convertible software application management system for a shared data-access layer in a distributed structure system linked to a database for customizable data processing at least in the transportation, home healthcare, delivery, and other service industries. Provided is a dispatching service provider (DSP) application for dispatching objects of service companies to provide an efficient mobile app to promote a cooperative relationship between a DSP and service companies using white label apps and a streamlined/efficient dispatching system. Customers only need to download or utilize a single mobile app to access service providers from a plurality of service companies, white label companies, and/or a DSP, all using the same dispatch software. This increases the likelihood of a customer to find suitable service providers for his/her needs and allows service entities to reach additional customers and maintain their brands without the need for a plurality of mobile applications.
US11863643B1
Clusters of users of networked services are defined based on tasks performed by such users during such networked services. Activities of the users during sessions of the networked services are tracked, and representations of such users or such activities are used to train a model to predict activities of users in the future, including but not limited to services utilized by such users, or pages visited by such users. Subsequently, when a user accesses a networked service during a session, activities of the user may be determined, and a representation of the session is provided as an input to the model, along with contextual information such as an identifier of the persona of the user. A next action, e.g., a service or a page utilized by the user, may be predicted based on outputs received from the model.
US11863642B2
A method for tracking an activity of a user. The method includes receiving, by a tracking element, compressed user activity information representative of activities performed by the user during a visit to a web page; receiving, by the tracking element, web page content information representative of web page content displayed to the user during the visit; decompressing the compressed user activity information; and generating user visit information by the tracking element.
US11863638B1
An online system displays supplemental content in conjunction with messaging threads between users and third parties to promote clear and productive conversations. The online system enables third parties to specify a set of content items to be displayed within a messaging interface when a messaging thread is initiated with the third party by other users. The set of content items may include one or more of images, videos, or web pages. When a user initiates a messaging thread with a third party, the online system accesses the set of specified content items and generates a messaging interface including one or more of the specified content items. By incorporating the content items within the messaging interface, the online system enables users and third parties to communicate while interacting with and viewing the content items.
US11863633B2
A method and an apparatus for cloud communication are provided. The method comprises: a client triggers creation of a virtual device performed by a first cloud platform; the client configures registration information for the virtual device, wherein the registration information is used for registration of the virtual device with a second cloud platform; and the client communicates with the second cloud platform or the first cloud platform by means of the virtual device on the first cloud platform.
US11863629B1
A networked lighting control system having the capability to identify problems within its own wireless network. The system includes a plurality of luminaire nodes. Each luminaire receives, via a wireless mesh network, a series of messages containing an output control indication. The indication represents a “delta” value, which the luminaire uses, for each received message, to generate a control signal to increase the light output of its lamp by a known amount. The luminaire transmits a series of messages containing the output control indication, wherein each transmitted message corresponds to each message that had been received by the luminaire. After a series of such “delta” messages have been originated and broadcast over the mesh network, the luminaires that failed to receive some of the messages will appear dimmer than the luminaires that received all, or more of, the messages, providing a visualization of signal propagation problems.
US11863623B2
Storage devices and systems are capable of dynamically managing QoS requirements associated with host applications via a management interface. The management interface may the enable storage devices to: (i) decide which data needs to be transferred back to the hosts, (ii) choose to skip portions of the data transferred back to the hosts to improve throughput and maintain low cost, and (iii) operate contention resolutions with host applications. Furthermore, storage devices and systems may achieve a virtual throughput that may be greater than its actual physical throughput. The management interface may also be operated at an application level, which advantageously allows the devices and systems the capabilities of managing contention resolutions of host applications, and managing (changing, observing, fetching, etc.) one or more QoS requirements for each host application.
US11863622B2
A method includes receiving identifiers of a set of computing devices to participate in a cross-device data visualization session; sending a data set to each computing device and instructions to display a first portion of the data set; receiving an interaction with one of the identified computing devices requesting another computing device to display a second portion of the data set; sending an instruction to display the second portion of the data set to the at least some of the other identified computing devices, where the instruction is sent without sending at least some of the second portion after receiving the interaction and the instruction causes the at least some of the other identified computing devices to execute the instructions on the at least some of the second portion of the data set that is present at the at least some of the other identified computing devices.
US11863621B2
A method for autonomously routing data using in a peer-to-peer computer network, includes automatically updating a peer-to-peer computer network comprising a plurality of nodes and automatically relaying data from the first node to a second node by one of the neighbor nodes associated with the first node. The method further includes automatically sending pulse messages from a first node to neighbor nodes and candidate nodes, dynamically adjusting time intervals between the pulse messages, receiving return pulses by the first node from some of the neighbor nodes and the candidate nodes, calculating round-trip times (RTTs) between the first node and the neighbor nodes or the candidate nodes, sorting the nodes in the neighbor nodes and the candidate nodes into a plurality of orbital bins, and automatically selecting and assigning a node from the orbital bins to update neighbor nodes associated with the first node.
US11863619B1
Prior to initiating discovery of computing resources of an information technology (IT) infrastructure, an input query and a discovery job are received, and one or more trigger configuration items (CIs) are calculated. The input query specifies how the computing resources are discovered, and has a filter parameter. The discovery job is for the input query, has a job parameter, and is associated with a trigger query that is a subset of the input query. The trigger CIs are calculated based on the trigger query, such that the filter parameter of the input query is replaced with the job parameter in the trigger CIs. Discovery of the computing resources is initiated by dispatching each trigger CI. As discovery of the computing resources occurs, CIs representing the computing resources matching the trigger CIs are received, and the CIs are populated within a configuration management database (CMDB).
US11863615B2
A server system receives an electronic document from a client system to be stored at a content management system. The server system generates multiple copies of the electronic document that are stored in parallel at respective multiple instances of the content management system. The server system receives a request to retrieve a copy of the electronic document. In response to the request, the server system checks, by a load balancer, whether the respective multiple instances of the content management system are operational to retrieve the copy of the electronic document. The server system then performs load balancing by the load balancer in accordance with a round-robin process to select a particular instance and retrieves the copy of the electronic document from the particular instance of the content management system.
US11863614B2
A first plurality of UDP packets corresponding to a first session and a second plurality of UDP packets corresponding to a second session can be received at a core network node. The first plurality of UDP packets and the second plurality of UDP packets have the same source five tuple. A first plurality of HTTP packets comprising first session information identifying the first session can be created based on the first plurality of UDP packets. A second plurality of HTTP packets comprising second session information identifying the second session can be created based on the second plurality of UDP packets. The first plurality of HTTP packets can be routed to a first microservice instance based at least in part on the first session information. The second plurality of HTTP packets can be routed to a second microservice instance based at least in part on the second session information.
US11863613B1
Systems and methods are described for allocating requests to implement new workloads within a dynamic set of servers. Existing load balancing techniques can result in “focus firing” on new servers added to the set, since a load balancer may view a new server as underloaded. With sufficient intensity, focus firing can result in overshooting target load for the new server, and the new server in fact becoming overloaded. The present disclosure modifies selection of servers as potential targets for a workload by at least partly biasing against selection of young servers. The bias imposed can be scaled to avoid overloading new servers.
US11863610B2
A method for managing multiple REST requests of a browser or other client to resources in an atomic transaction using a transaction management process that is communicatively coupled to a cluster of computer-executed server processes. In one approach, the process is programmed for receiving from a browser process a request to start a transaction associated with a data access process; acquiring a database connection from the data access process and storing the database connection in an open state; receiving from the browser process REST queries for execution; forwarding the REST queries to the data access process, and forwarding responses from the data access process to the browser process; receiving a request from the browser process to end the transaction, and only in response to the second request, completing the transaction in communication with the data access process, and changing the database connection to a closed state. As the connection to the database remains open, multiple REST queries may be sent for updating multiple resources in a single transaction efficiently through the same data access process without occupying extra server processes.
US11863601B1
Systems and methods configured to execute branching automation schemes in a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; manage automation records of the collaboration environment, the automation records defining trigger events, branching criteria, and sets of automated actions to carry out in the collaboration environment in response to occurrence of the trigger events and satisfaction of individual ones of the branching criteria; responsive to the detection of the occurrence of individual trigger events and the satisfaction of the individual ones of the branching criteria, effectuate individual ones of the sets of automated actions within the collaboration environment, and/or perform other operations.
US11863594B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a memory, at least one antenna module comprising at least one antenna, and at least one communication processor. The at least one communication processor may be configured to: control the electronic device to perform a call by voice communication connection through a second communication network, in response to receiving a first call request, based on identifying that the call is disconnected, identify information related to a call disconnected cause, based on identifying that the identified information related to the call disconnected cause corresponds to a designated condition, start a timer for deferring connection to a first communication network, and in response to receiving a second call request before the timer expires, control the electronic device to perform a voice communication connection through the second communication network currently connected the electronic device.
US11863587B2
A webshell detection method and apparatus are provided. The apparatus obtains first web traffic of a protected host; generates a web page visit record of the protected host based on the first web traffic, where the web page visit record is used to save at least one uniform resource locator (URL), an IP address visiting each URL, and a total quantity of visits to each URL; determines a suspicious URL from the at least one URL based on the web page visit record, where a total quantity of visits to the suspicious URL is less than a first threshold, and a ratio of a quantity of different IP addresses visiting the suspicious URL to the total quantity of visits to the suspicious URL is less than a second threshold; and determines whether a web page identified by the suspicious URL contains a webshell signature.
US11863584B2
An occurrence of an infection-spreading attack and an attack source thereof are detected with high accuracy. A first feature value is calculated based on traffic information regarding a packet forwarded by a forwarding device, and M partial address spaces to be monitored are specified based on the first feature value. A second feature value is calculated for each address of a terminal in a network, based on traffic information regarding the M partial address spaces, the second feature value is learned to classify terminal addresses into a plurality of clusters, and whether or not each of the clusters is an infection-spreading attack is determined to generate cluster information. Whether or not an infection-spreading attack has occurred and an address of a terminal that is an attack source are specified based on the second feature value and the cluster information.
US11863579B1
Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to identity authentication and/or recognition. Some embodiments provide a method for determining when a user may engage in a restricted activity, including engaging in an initial contact with a user via a medium for exchange, receiving a request to engage in an activity, determining an activity trust threshold required for the activity, determining an initial identity trust score for the user, and comparing the initial identity trust score with the activity trust threshold. Based on the comparison, the user is either allowed to engage in the activity, rejected from engaging in the activity, or additional identifying information is collected.
US11863578B1
A Cyber Vulnerability Assessment Tool (CVAST) and CVAST Threat Assessment Heuristic (CVAST THRASH) capable of automated modeling of cyber physical systems, assessment of the nature of cyber risks thereto, and output of such cyber risk assessments are provided.
US11863576B2
A system, method, and machine-readable storage medium for detecting an anomaly are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes computing an access rate of a set of entities for each user of a plurality of users. The access rate may refer to data operations for the set of entities stored by a storage system. The method also includes normalizing the access rates for a subset of the plurality of users, the subset belonging to a community. The method further includes determining whether a normalized access rate from among the access rates satisfies a threshold. The method also includes detecting an anomaly in response to a determination that the normalized access rate satisfies the threshold.
US11863558B1
An approach is described for securely and automatically handling credentials when used for accessing endpoints, and/or applications and resources on the endpoints. The approach involves selecting and injecting credentials at an endpoint by an accessor to log into the endpoint, running applications or gaining access to resources on the endpoint, without full credential information traversing the accessor's machine.
US11863556B2
A method operable by a computing device for configuring access for a limited user interface (UI) device to a network service via a local network access point is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining from the limited UI device a device identifier via a first out-of-band channel. The device identifier is provided to the network service via a secure network link. A zero knowledge proof (ZKP) challenge is received from the network service. Configuration information is provided to the limited-UI device via a second out-of-band channel, the configuration information including information sufficient to enable the limited-UI device to connect to the local network access point. The ZKP challenge is provided to the limited-UI device via the second out-of-band channel. A secure channel key is received from the network service indicating a successful response from the limited-UI device to the ZKP challenge; and provided to the limited-UI device enabling the limited-UI device to access the network service.
US11863546B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method for delivering a certificate to a vehicle comprising transmitting the certificate to the vehicle via near field coupling is provided. The near field coupling can be accomplished by transmitting data using a near field coupled antenna to a receiver. The near field coupled antenna can also be used for content delivery such as for example, a streaming video signal, a streaming webcast signal, non-streaming transfer of information, etc. The method can be used for location validation of land vehicles, marine vehicles, and pedestrians as well as content delivery, and payment mechanisms. In accordance with another embodiment a traffic control system is configured to control vehicles and pedestrians in an intelligent transportation system.
US11863536B2
Remote instructions are received at a remote computing device from a requesting device through a firewall. The remote computing device resides in a secured data center. Access credentials are presented by the requesting device. A request is made to an assistant computing device to query a dataset in communication with the remote computing device. Encrypted access credentials and encrypted remote instructions are received from the assistant computing device. The encrypted access credentials are configured to allow the requesting computing device to access the remote computing device. The encrypted remote instructions are configured to enable the remote computing device to execute at least one of the following: at least one data query, or at least one data manipulation. The encrypted access credentials are decrypted. The encrypted remote instructions are decrypted. The remote instructions are executed to generate query results. The query results are communicated to the requesting device.
US11863532B2
A method including establishing, by a first device, a virtual private network (VPN) connection with a VPN server; establishing, by the first device during the established VPN connection, a meshnet connection with a second device in a mesh network; determining, by the first device, whether the second device is a destination associated with a transmission packet to be transmitted by the first device; and transmitting, by the processor, the transmission packet by utilizing the VPN connection or by utilizing the meshnet connection based at least in part on determining whether the second device is the destination associated with the transmission packet. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11863530B1
A computerized method for establishing a secure channel between a virtual private network (VPN) client processing on a network device for a user and a network gateway is disclosed. The computerized method includes operations of the controller of transmitting an authentication request to an identity provider based on receipt of a resource request from the VPN client, receiving an authentication response from the identity provider, generating an authentication token based on the authentication response and transmitting the authentication token to the VPN client, wherein the controller further stores the authentication token. The method includes operations of the network gateway of receiving a secure connection request from the VPN client that includes the authentication token, validating the authentication token by querying the controller, in response to validation of the authentication token, establishing the secure connection with VPN client, and providing the VPN client with access to resources via the secure connection.
US11863527B2
A system and method for provisionally authenticating a host moving from a source port of a switch device to a destination port of the switch device is disclosed. The host is initially authenticated at the source port and blocked from forwarding network traffic at the destination port. During a provisional authentication session, an authentication agent executing on the switch intercepts one or more authentication packets sourced by the host and headed for the destination port of the switch device and redirects the authentication packets to an authentication server for validating the host at the destination port of the switch device. The switch device removes the block at the destination port in response to receiving an acknowledgment of successful authentication at the destination port from the authentication server.
US11863521B2
Automated techniques for converting network devices from a Layer 2 (L2) network into a Layer 3 (L3) network in a hierarchical manner are described herein. The network devices may be configured to boot such that their ports are in an initialization mode in which the ports are unable to transmit locally generated DHCP packets. When a network device detects that a neighbor (or “peer”) device has acquired an IP address or has been configured by a network controller, then the port on which the neighbor device is detected can then be transitioned from the initialization mode into a forwarding mode. In the forwarding mode, the port can be used to transmit packets to obtain an IP address. Thus, the network devices are converted from an L2 device to an L3 device in a hierarchical order such that upstream devices are discovered and converted into L3 devices before downstream devices.
US11863518B2
A method for automatic domain name system (DNS) configuration for 5G core (5GC) network functions (NFs) includes, at an NF repository function (NRF) including at least one processor, receiving a message concerning a 5GC network function. The method further includes determining a first DNS resource record parameter for the 5GC NF. The method further includes determining a second DNS resource record parameter for the 5GC NF. The method further includes automatically configuring a DNS with a mapping between the first and second DNS resource record parameters for the 5GC NF.
US11863515B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a router, a common prefix pool from a transport interface associated with a transport virtual private network (VPN). The method also includes identifying, by the router, a prefix associated with a service VPN and generating, by the router, an IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Address Translation (NAT66) prefix translation using the common prefix pool and the prefix. The NAT66 prefix translation includes a predetermined prefix length. The method further includes automatically installing, by the router, the NAT66 prefix translation into a translation table.
US11863514B2
Some embodiments provide a method of load balancing data message flows across multiple secure connections. The method receives a data message having source and destination addresses formatted according to a first protocol. Based on the source and destination addresses, the method selects one of the multiple secure connections for the data message. Each of the secure connections handles a first set of connections formatted according to the first protocol and a second set of connections formatted according to a second protocol that is an alternative to the first protocol. The method securely encapsulates the data message and forwards the encapsulated data message onto a network. The encapsulation includes an identifier for the selected secure connection.
US11863513B2
A method and a system include receiving a request from a client device to view a media content item, determining at least one comment associated with a respective user profile from a set of connected profiles, generating a summary comments selectable item based at least in part on the respective user profile, causing a display of playback of the media content item and the summary comments selectable item in response to the request to view the media content item, and during the playback of the media content item at the particular time, causing a display of at least one comment.
US11863512B2
A method and communication device for processing data for transmission from the communication device to a second communication device is provided. It is detected that the data comprises an attachment. An address of a copy of the attachment is determined, the attachment present on a storage device external to the communication devices. An address of the copy of the attachment is substituted in the data such that the copy is retrievable at the second communication device via the address. The data is then transmitted to the second communication device.
US11863511B1
Disclosed embodiments may include a method for prioritizing messages. The system may include receiving one or more messages comprising message data and application sender data. From the message data and application sender data, the system may determine a ranking of importance of the one or more messages, and then determine whether a first message is urgent. If the first message is urgent, the system may send the first message to the user device. If the first message is not urgent, the system may determine a set time for the first message to be sent and send the first message to the user device at the set time.
US11863508B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to provide for progressive display of attachments on a mobile device. In some aspects, a method includes determining a sequence of media for presentation to a user, determining to insert new media between two media of the sequence of media. In some aspects, the new media may be a short form video. The method may further include receiving touch screen input while presenting the new media, and presenting additional media in response to the touch screen input. In some aspects, the additional media may be a long form video. In some aspects, additional input may be received while the additional media is presented. The new input may request a further media be presented. The further media may be a software installation dialog or a web page.
US11863506B2
A messenger-linked service system and method using a social graph based on a human relationship of a messenger are provided. The messenger-linked service system may include a relationship extraction unit to extract a social graph of a friend relationship of the messenger, a selection unit to select data in the messenger-linked service, and an execution unit to either transmit or to execute a sharing request of the selected data to the friend using the social graph.
US11863504B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating communications with service providers using disposable email addresses (DEAs) are provided. A first email, associated with a requested service, may be received from an email account. A set of service providers may be determined based upon the requested service. A DEA corresponding to the email account may be generated. A second email, comprising an indication of the DEA, may be generated based upon the first email. The second email may be transmitted to a set of email accounts associated with the set of service providers. Emails received from the set of email accounts that are addressed to the DEA may be transmitted to the email account. Responsive to receiving a request to deactivate the DEA from a device associated with the email account and/or responsive to determining that the requested service is completed, the DEA may be deactivated.
US11863498B2
A user equipment and a method for handling a switching time period of downlink (DL)-uplink (UL) switching for half duplex-frequency division duplex operation are provided. The method includes: receiving a first configuration for a first active bandwidth part (BWP) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS), the first active BWP being one of an active UL BWP and an active DL BWP; receiving a second configuration for configuring a second active BWP with a second SCS, the second active BWP being another one of the active UL BWP and the active DL BWP; receiving a third configuration for the switching time period, the switching time period having a unit of symbol; performing communication with a Base Station (BS) on the first active BWP with the first SCS; and performing, after the switching time period, communication with the BS on the second active BWP with the second SCS.
US11863497B2
A method and system for controlling application of TTI bundling on a carrier on which an access node provides service, the carrier defining air-interface resources. An example method includes detecting that at least a predefined threshold number of devices of a predefined class (e.g., IoT devices) are connected with the access node on the carrier. Further, the example method includes, responsive to the detecting that at least the predefined threshold number of devices of the predefined class are connected with the access node on the carrier, proactively reserving a portion of the air-interface resources for use to serve communications between the access node and the devices of the predefined class and, in view of the proactive reserving of the portion of the air-interface resources, imposing a reduction in the application of the TTI bundling by the access node on the carrier.
US11863496B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS code generation unit (201) which generates an SRS (Sounding Reference Signal) for measuring uplink line data channel quality; an SRS arrangement unit (202) which frequency-multiplexes the SRS on the SR transmission band and arranges it; and an SRS arrangement control unit (208) which controls SRS frequency multiplex so as to be uniform in frequency without modifying the bandwidth of one SRS multiplex unit in accordance with the fluctuation of the reference signal transmission bandwidth according to the SRS arrangement information transmitted from the base station and furthermore controls the transmission interval of the frequency-multiplexed SRS.
US11863489B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Methods and apparatuses for exchanging configuration information related to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) are provided, and particularly, for providing DMRS ports included in a different code division multiplexing group for communication between a terminal and a base station.
US11863478B2
A base station (100, 300) is provided with a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter (109) transmits a downlink signal in a downlink transmission region, in a time unit that includes the downlink transmission region, an uplink transmission region, and a gap period that is a switching point between the downlink transmission region and the uplink transmission region. The receiver (111) receives an uplink signal in the uplink transmission region, in the time unit. Furthermore, a delay tolerant signal for which a delay is tolerated more than for the downlink signal and the uplink signal is mapped to within the gap period.
US11863475B2
An apparatus and method are provided for partial transmission of a PDSCH DMRS due to PDSCH RM. The method includes determining, by the UE, whether a downlink received from a base station is rate matched; and in response to determining that the downlink is rate-matched, determining, by the UE, that a rate matching pattern of the downlink is applicable for partial transmission of a reference signal, and decoding, by the UE, the downlink with a partial transmission of the reference signal.
US11863471B2
Disclosed are a feedback information sending method and apparatus thereof. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information from an access network device; receiving a data channel scheduled by the downlink control information; determining an uplink time unit to send feedback information corresponding to the data channel; determining a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for the feedback information according to resource indication information, wherein the first PUCCH resource is a part of a second PUCCH resource that is included in a second PUCCH resource set, and wherein the second PUCCH resource is indicated by the resource indication information, which raises resource utilization.
US11863467B2
A network appliance can have an input port that can receive network packets at line rate, two or more ingress queues, a line rate classification circuit that can place the network packets on the ingress queues at the line rate, a packet buffer that can store the network packets, and a sub line rate packet processing circuit that can process the network packets that are stored in the packet buffer. The line rate classification circuit can place a network packet on one of the ingress queues based on the network packet's packet contents. A buffer scheduler can select network packets for processing by a sub line rate packet processing circuit based on the priority levels of the ingress queues.
US11863460B1
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for generating, sending, and receiving messages in a networked environment using autonomous (or semi-autonomous) agents. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method of controlling message flow in a computer network comprising a plurality of agents, agent data consumers, and an agent message bridge configured to send messages by receiving a set of messages, at least some of the messages including a message type, queuing the set of messages in a spooler that includes an indication of the respective message type for each of the messages, receive an indication that sending some of the messages queued in the spooler should be delayed for one or more indicated message types, and sending at least one of the messages to a selected one or more of the agent data consumers, the sent messages not being of the indicated message types.
US11863458B1
Nodes within a network are configured to adapt to changing path states, due to congestion, node failures, and/or other factors. A node may selectively convey path information and/or other state information to another node by annotating the information into packets it receives from the other node. A node may selectively reflect these annotated packets back to the other node, or other nodes that subsequently receive these annotated packets may reflect them. A weighted cost multipathing selection technique is improved by dynamically adjusting weights of paths in response to feedback indicating the current state of the network topology, such as collected through these reflected packets. In an embodiment, certain packets that would have been dropped may instead be transformed into “special visibility” packets that may be stored and/or sent for analysis. In an embodiment, insight into the performance of a network device is enhanced through the use of programmable visibility engines.
US11863453B2
Techniques for dynamically load balancing traffic based on predicted and actual load capacities of data nodes are described herein. The techniques may include determining a predicted capacity of a data node of a network during a period of time. The data node may be associated with a first traffic class. The techniques may also include determining an actual capacity of the data node during the period of time, as well as determining that a difference between the actual capacity and the predicted capacity is greater than a threshold difference. Based at least in part on the difference, a number of data flows sent to the data node may be either increased or decreased. Additionally, or alternatively, a data flow associated with a second traffic class may be redirected to the data node during the period of time to be handled according to the first traffic class.
US11863445B1
A network node may receive an indication of a range of network address prefixes and a corresponding range of sequential identifiers. The network node may generate a policy for mapping respective network address prefixes, having ordered positions within the range of network address prefixes, to respective identifiers having corresponding ordered positions within the corresponding range of sequential identifiers. The network node may discover a device associated with a network address having a network address prefix at an ordered position within the range of network address prefixes. The network node may map, based on the policy, the network address prefix to an identifier having an ordered position within the corresponding range of sequential identifiers, wherein the ordered position within the corresponding range of sequential identifiers corresponds to the ordered position within the range of network address prefixes. The network node may advertise the mapping to one or more neighbor nodes.
US11863440B2
A method for forwarding a packet, and a network device are provided. Under the method: a first packet can be received. The first packet includes first indication information, payload data, and a packet sequence number of the first packet in a data flow corresponding to the first packet. When the first network device determines that the first packet includes the first indication information, a plurality of second packets can be generated based on the first packet. Each of the plurality of second packets includes the payload data, the packet sequence number, and second indication information; and separately forwarding, the plurality of second packets to a second network device over different forwarding paths in a plurality of forwarding paths.
US11863439B2
This application discloses a method, apparatus and storage medium for application identification. A network device performs flow behavior feature analysis according to a flow table to obtain a plurality of services. Each service includes one IP address and one port identifier, and one application may usually include a group of services. Therefore, the network device clusters the plurality of services according to the flow table and a domain name table, to obtain a plurality of application types. Each application type includes a plurality of services. Each application type corresponds to one application. Further, the network device may determine a label corresponding to each of the plurality of application types, the label identifying an application to which a data flow belongs.
US11863437B2
A method for autonomously routing data using in a peer-to-peer computer network is disclosed. The method includes identifying multiple paths from a source node to a destination node, wherein each of the multiple paths includes two or more routing segments each comprising a sending node and a receiving node. The receiving node is selected among a plurality of nodes in the peer-to-peer computer network based on round-trip times measured between the sending node and the plurality of nodes. Path packages are sent along the multiple paths from the source node to the destination node. Total one-way latencies (OWLs) associated with the multiple paths are measured using path packages from the source node to the destination node. A relayed data path is selected from the multiple paths at least in part based on the total OWLs respectively associated with the multiple paths from the source node to the destination node.
US11863435B2
In one embodiment, a service chain data packet is instrumented as it is communicated among network nodes in a network providing service-level and/or networking operations visibility. The service chain data packet includes a particular header identifying a service group defining one or more service functions, and is a data packet and not a probe packet. A network node adds networking and/or service-layer operations data to the particular service chain data packet, such as, but not limited to, in the particular header. Such networking operations data includes a performance metric or attribute related to the transport of the particular service chain packet in the network. Such service-layer operations data includes a performance metric or attribute related to the service-level processing of the particular service chain data packet in the network.
US11863434B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing policy selection in a software defined network. An example method includes registering, by an enterprise controller on an enterprise domain, in a shared mapping system on a service provider domain, one or more entries specifying one or more services for one or more classes of traffic to yield registered entries, reading, by a service provider controller, from the shared mapping system, the registered entries, posting, by the service provider controller, the one or more entries to one or more routing tables at a software-defined wide area network of the service provider domain and receiving a request, by a mobile node on the enterprise domain, of a specific service for a particular class of packets according to a classification of the particular class of packets based on a particular label defined in the registered entries for the specific service.
US11863430B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a set of SRLGs associated with a set of link bundles, wherein the set of SRLGs comprises for each SRLG in the set of SRLGs an indication for each failed link bundle in a particular SRLG a respective bandwidth failure fraction, and wherein for at least one of the failed link bundles the failure is less than a complete failure; generating a set of dominance relationships among the SRLGs in the set of SRLGs, and generating, based at least in part upon the set of SRLGs and the set of dominance relationships a packed set of SRLGs, wherein the packed set of SRLGs comprises a subset of the set of SRLGs. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11863426B2
A network device may receive a request for a service from an endpoint device located in a first region, and may determine whether destination addresses are identified for the service and the first region. The network device may determine whether the service and the first region are identified in a lookup table, and may receive performance metrics associated with multiple paths in the first region to the destination addresses, based on the service and the first region not being identified in the lookup table. The network device may generate a performance metrics matrix based on the performance metrics, and may identify a best destination and a best path for the service in the first region based on the performance metrics matrix, and may cause, for the endpoint device, a connection to the service to be established via the best destination and the best path for the first region.
US11863415B2
Techniques for using trace with tunnels and cloud-based systems for determining measures of network performance are presented. In an embodiment, a method includes determining a client application is being executed; determining an endpoint associated with the client application, based on any of monitoring application logs associated with the client application and network flows associated with the client application; and causing one or more probes to the determined endpoint and deriving metrics based on the one or more probes for determining performance of the client application.
US11863413B1
A system for orchestrating deployment of network services is described. The system comprises a plurality of network services, an observability framework and an orchestration agent. The observability framework receives monitoring data corresponding to at least one network function of a network service, identifies data corresponding to the status and/or performance of the network service, aggregates the identified data into genericized metrics for the network service and forwards the genericized metrics to the orchestration agent. The orchestration agent uses the genericized metrics to trigger actions.
US11863405B1
A method for providing individualized communication service includes (1) recognizing a first client being communicatively coupled to a first local communication network, (2) determining an identity of the first client, (3) transporting first data between the first client and a first operator communication network, using the first local communication network in accordance with a first service profile associated with the first client, and (4) transporting the first data using the first operator communication network in accordance with the first service profile.
US11863400B2
Methods and devices utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) for customization of a device specific air interface configuration in a wireless communication network are provided. An over the air information exchange to facilitate the training of one or more AI/ML modules involves the exchange of AI/ML capability information identifying whether a device supports AI/ML for optimization of the air interface.
US11863396B1
Techniques for discovering a network using a sensor installed in the network, where the network is communicatively coupled to an external network by a router, are presented. The techniques can include: determining, automatically and by the sensor, a network address of the router; detecting, automatically and by the sensor, a network address of a client in the network; assessing, automatically and by the sensor, that the client in the network is actively communicating on the network; communicating, by the sensor, with the network address of the router; and participating, by the sensor, in communications on the network by emulating the network address of the client and by using the network address of the router.
US11863393B1
System and method embodiments are disclosed for high availability management for open radio access network (O-RAN). The O-RAN may be deployed on cloud with the O-CU deployed on a region cloud, O-RUs deployed on a cell site O-Cloud, and O-DUs deployed on an edge cloud. Each O-RU may comprise one or more RF clusters, computation clusters, and interface clusters. O-RU instances and O-DU instances may be instantiated with redundancy on the cell site O-Cloud and on the edge cloud, respectively, to serve one or more users. Local and central high-availability (HA) managers may be used to monitor O-RU instance performance for failure prediction/detection and to monitor internal states of each O-DU instance. In response to O-RU instance failure or O-DU internal states beyond/below state thresholds, new O-RU or O-DU instances may be instantiated as replacement instances for O-Cloud high availability management.
US11863386B2
A mobile device management method includes: a first electronic device sends a request message including an identifier of at least one second electronic device to a first server. The first electronic device receives a DM service APP from the first server and installs the DM service APP. After the DM service APP is installed, the first electronic device can provide the MDM service. The first electronic device provides the MDM service for the second electronic device, to implement management and device system upgrade of the second electronic device.
US11863382B2
Systems and methods described herein provide a co-managed configuration service. A network device stores parameters for the co-managed configuration service. The parameters identify exposed services for an enterprise network that uses devices from a network service provider. The network device receives, via a customer portal, a vendor-agnostic change request for the enterprise network. The change request includes a user role and a change request name for one of the exposed services. The network device authenticates the change request based on the user role and the change request name and retrieves vendor director information for an SDN device implementing the configuration change. The network device invokes, in response to the change request, the configuration change for the enterprise network based on the vendor director information.
US11863380B2
Provided herein are devices, systems, methods and various means, including those related to providing a community internet drive that may utilize a centrally-managed hub as well as storage devices distributed among various networked machines. In some embodiments, the community internet drive can also include features to enable its users to promote and utilize the user's trusted personal relationships while also enabling an open platform for peer-to-peer and/or other types of sharing schemes.
US11863377B2
A network (e.g. cloud or enterprise network) includes servers (110) and switches (120) each of which has multiple ports. A bare-metal server's ports are configured for different roles, e.g. management role or data role. The configuration is at least partially automated using a blueprint (340) which does not necessarily specify the roles for the server ports, but may associate a role with a network parameter, e.g. Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) or QoS. A management computer (320) obtains, from switches, (i) network parameters configured on switch ports, and (ii) MAC addresses for the adjacent server ports. The management computer matches the blueprint's parameters with the switch ports' parameters, and associates matched parameters with the roles specified by the blueprint. These roles are configured on the corresponding server ports. Other features are also provided.
US11863375B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses can detect whether an impairment is present within a service provider network. The impairment can cause a service provided by the service provider network to not perform as expected. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can develop multiple network records to record the performance of the service provider network at various instances in time. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can compare these network records among each other to detect for the presence of the impairment within the service provider network. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can thereafter diagnose and/or remedy the impairment when present within the service provider network.
US11863373B2
A method, performed by a User Equipment (UE), for a Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) procedure includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a BFR configuration for a serving cell of the BS, wherein the BFR configuration includes a threshold for a Beam Failure Instance (BFI) counter associated with the serving cell, and the threshold is associated with a beamFailureInstanceMaxCount information element (IE); incrementing a value of the BFI counter based on a Beam Failure Detection (BFD); triggering the BFR procedure for the serving cell when the value of the BFI counter is equal to or higher than the threshold; performing Band Width Part (BWP) switching for the serving cell when receiving a reconfiguration indication from the BS, wherein the reconfiguration indication includes a BWP index; and setting the value of the BFI counter to zero when performing the BWP switching.
US11863358B2
Transmission of baseband and carrier-modulated vector codewords, using a plurality of encoders, each encoder configured to receive information bits and to generate a set of baseband-encoded symbols representing a vector codeword; one or more modulation circuits, each modulation circuit configured to operate on a corresponding set of baseband-encoded symbols, and using a respective unique carrier frequency, to generate a set of carrier-modulated encoded symbols; and, a summation circuit configured to generate a set of wire-specific outputs, each wire-specific output representing a sum of respective symbols of the carrier-modulated encoded symbols and at least one set of baseband-encoded symbols.
US11863351B2
A logical router includes disaggregated network elements that function as a single router and that are not coupled to a common backplane. The logical router includes spine elements and leaf elements implementing a network fabric with front panel ports being defined by leaf elements. Control plane elements program the spine units and leaf to function a logical router. The control plane may define operating system interfaces mapped to front panel ports of the leaf elements and referenced by tags associated with packets traversing the logical router. Redundancy and checkpoints may be implemented for a route database implemented by the control plane elements. The logical router may include a standalone fabric and may implement label tables that are used to label packets according to egress port and path through the fabric.
US11863347B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for encapsulating intra-device protocols, such as CXL and/or PCIe packets, into inter-device protocols, such as IP packets, allowing resources across one or more networks to be shared. For example, CXL and/or PCIe address to IP address lookup tables may be used to determine destination IP addresses or source IP addresses such that CXL and/or PCIe packets may be sent across various networks. Layer 3 forwarding enables communication between large distributed systems while utilizing existing network infrastructure.
US11863323B2
A wireless device and an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) and methods performed by a wireless device and an AMF, respectively.
US11863313B2
The present invention provides a data transmission method, a base station, a user equipment, and a system. The method includes: adjusting and determining a frame structure of each time unit within a preset duration; notifying a user equipment (UE) of the adjusted frame structure; and performing data transmission according to the adjusted frame structure.
US11863311B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for tying virtual whiteboards to physical spaces. In one implementation, the computer-readable medium includes instructions to cause a processor to receive wirelessly, an indication of a location of a first wearable extended reality appliance; perform a lookup to determine that the location of the first wearable extended reality appliance corresponds to a location of a particular virtual whiteboard; transmit to the first wearable extended reality appliance, data corresponding to content of the particular virtual whiteboard; receive, during a first time period, virtual content added by a first user; receive wirelessly at a second time period an indication that a second wearable extended reality appliance is in the location of the particular virtual whiteboard; and transmit to the second wearable extended reality appliance, data corresponding to the content and the added content of the particular virtual whiteboard.
US11863308B1
Presented herein are systems and methods for managing networked environments. A computer system may provide a user interface for configuring a plurality of groups of servers each hosting a resource for an application. The user interface may include: a first element configured to select, upon interaction, at least one group of servers from the plurality of groups of servers to which to install a patch for the application; a second element configured to identify, upon interaction, a first group of servers of the plurality of groups of servers to which to transfer network traffic associated with the application and communicated with a second group of servers of the plurality of groups of servers; and a third element configured to provide, upon interaction, one or more performance indicators for at least one of a plurality of functions of the application.
US11863306B2
Automatic spotlighting of participant video feeds in a video conference are based on one or more triggers detected in the participant video feeds. Participant video feeds are added to a spotlight video queue. The participant video feeds are elevated to an active spotlight status based on certain criteria. The participant video feeds that are elevated to the active spotlight status are displayed adjacent to a host video feed on a display.
US11863303B2
This application describes a link bit error-based processing method and apparatus. A network device may report, to a controller, a bit error rate at which an egress port on the network device is configured to send data traffic. In this way, the controller may collect and accumulate bit error rates at which data traffic is sent through all egress ports on a transmission path, to obtain an accumulated bit error rate of the transmission path. In this way, the controller may determine, based on the accumulated bit error rate of the transmission path, whether to switch a service flow on the transmission path to another transmission path. Therefore, the controller may switch a service flow transmitted on a transmission path with an excessively high accumulated bit error rate to another transmission path with a relatively low accumulated bit error rate for transmission.
US11863299B2
A shared bus time interleaves 1 PPS signal and control and coordination information between a primary timing source and line cards that need to be synchronized using the 1 PPS signals. The shared bus utilizes 1 second frames divided into time slots. The 1 PPS signals are interleaved at predetermined locations in the frame so the delays introduced by interleaving the 1 PPS data in time can be precisely removed. While the bus is not being used for 1 PPS signals, the bus is available to send control and coordination information between the line cards and the primary timing source, avoiding the use of another system and increasing utilization of an available communication path.
US11863296B2
Disclosed are techniques and amplifier stages that include wave division multiplexers, semiconductor optical amplifiers and wave division demultiplexers that amplify optical signals. An input optical signal having a first bandwidth is partitioned into a plurality of subband optical signals by thin film filters tuned to a selected bandwidth that is less than the first bandwidth. Each of the plurality of subband optical signals has a bandwidth that is a portion of the first bandwidth. Each subband optical signal is input into a semiconductor optical amplifier that is tuned to the respective portion of the first bandwidth that corresponds to the subband optical signal. The combination of the partitioned input optical signal and tuned semiconductor optical amplifiers provides improved optical signal transmission performance by reducing polarization dependent gain.
US11863294B2
Methods and apparatus for determining increasing robustness of media signatures are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein is to select to at least one of (A) boost a first characteristic of a media signal at a first time or (B) attenuate a second characteristic of the media signal at a second time based on an effect of the at least one of the boost of the first characteristic or the attenuation of the second characteristic on a difference between a third characteristic of the media signal at a third time and a fourth characteristic of the media signal at a fourth time. The disclosed example apparatus is also to perform the selected one of (A) the boost of the first characteristic of the media signal at the first time or (B) the attenuation of the second characteristic of the media signal at the second time to enhance the media signal.
US11863291B2
A disclosure of this specification provides a method for radio communication, performed by user equipment (UE). The method is comprising: connecting to a non-terrestrial network (NTN) satellite serving a targeted service area via a service link, wherein the NTN satellite is connected to a gateway via a feeder link; receiving, from the NTN satellite, information on service time of a serving cell; starting to perform neighbor cell measurement at a time point before end of the service time of the serving cell by a certain time, regardless of whether a cell quality of the serving cell meets a cell selection criterion S, wherein the NTN satellite provides an earth fixed system, wherein the information on the service time includes information on when the serving cell is going to stop serving the targeted service area, wherein the information on the service time is provided based on a Coordinated Universal Time.
US11863272B2
The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses that support channel state information feedback for semi-open-loop and open-loop schemes. The described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to determine an open-loop, semi-open-loop, or closed-loop transmission scheme for deriving channel quality information (CQI). In the case of determined open-loop transmission scheme, the UE may select a transmission scheme corresponding to a time offset value and a precoder cycling granularity value. The UE may determine one or more of a time offset value, a precoder cycling granularity value, and a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for a channel state information (CSI) report, and generate CQI accordingly. Additionally, the UE may include the determined values in the CSI report to indicate the transmission scheme used for the CQI derivation. Based on the CQI, the base station can then determine the transmission scheme and perform link adaption accordingly.
US11863262B2
This disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for generating precoding vectors. One method includes: receiving a channel state information (CSI) report, wherein the CSI report indicates a quantity of space-frequency vector pairs to be reported for a quantity of R transport layers, wherein a size of an overhead for indicating the quantity of the space-frequency vector pairs is same when the quantity of R is greater than or equal to 2, wherein each of the space-frequency vector pairs comprises one spatial domain vector and one frequency domain vector, and wherein for each of the R transport layers, one or more frequency domain units associated with the transport layer correspond to one or more precoding vectors, and determining the quantity of space-frequency vector pairs according to the CSI report.
US11863259B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a precoder for wireless communications. An apparatus includes a processor that determines a precoder for a set of modulation symbols, the determined precoder comprising a plurality of codewords and configured to reduce an ensemble interference and a pairwise interference among the plurality of codewords. The processor precodes the set of modulation symbols based on the determined precoder. The processor maps the precoded set of modulation symbols to a set of physical transmission resources for a transmission layer, wherein a number of modulation symbols in the set of modulation symbols is greater than a number of physical transmission resources in the set of physical transmission resources. The apparatus includes a transceiver that transmits, to a receiver node, an indication of the determined precoder and the set of physical transmission resources.
US11863255B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a communication system including a transceiver module, a rearrangeable switch network coupled to the transceiver module, a power distribution network coupled to the rearrangeable switch network, and a plurality of Beam Steering Phase Array (“BSPA”) antennas, each coupled to the power distribution network and dynamically controllable to generate beams according to a power regulation requirement for a set of satellites.
US11863253B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that a base station has scheduled the UE for one or more downlink transmissions, each of the one or more downlink transmissions having an associated repetition factor that corresponds to one of a plurality of configured repetition factors configured at the UE. The UE may identify an applied repetition factor to apply to feedback codebook generation for the one or more downlink transmissions. The UE may generate a feedback codebook for reporting feedback for the one or more downlink transmissions, the feedback codebook populated based at least in part on the applied repetition factor and on whether the one or more downlink transmissions were successfully received and decoded. The UE may transmit to the base station a feedback report that includes the feedback codebook.
US11863250B2
A satellite communications system can comprise at least one that satellite, an antenna structure deployed on the at least one satellite, and radio hardware coupled to the antenna structure that can provide for transmitting a first channel simultaneously with a second channel, wherein the first channel is transmitted using directive beams and the second channel is transmitted using a wide beam and wherein the directive beams are for data communication signals and the wide beam is for navigation signals.
US11863243B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for operating an electronic device. The technique includes an electronic device determining one or more signal characteristics of a link between the electronic device and a base station, estimating a coupling loss for the link based on the one or more signal characteristics, determining whether the coupling loss exceeds a maximum coupling loss (MCL) for the link; and in response to determining that the coupling loss exceeds the MCL, delaying transmission of one or more messages from the electronic device over the link to the base station.
US11863241B2
A method and system for performing Over-The-Air (OTA) testing for 5G New Radio (NR) beamforming is presented. In one embodiment the method includes transmitting, by only the User Equipments (UEs) U and Sx, the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols containing UL Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) that are orthogonal to each other during Uplink (UL) subframes; performing, by a gNB, channel estimation in the same UL subframe, precoding matrix computation, and antenna elements weighting coefficient computations; transmitting, by the gNB in a subsequent Downlink (DL) subframe, known data streams to UEs U and Sx using the massive MU-MIMO beamforming coefficients; collecting by the host PC, the IQ samples from the UE U and all the victim UEs Vx in the DL subframe; and evaluating a performance of the beam that was meant for UE U.
US11863237B2
An optical communication device includes: a first multiplexer including a first transmitting port and a second transmitting port; a downstream wavelength analyzer configured to analyze first transmission light to recognize a first downstream wavelength corresponding to the first transmission light and analyze second transmission light to recognize a second downstream wavelength corresponding to the second transmission light; and a controller configured to generate a first control signal for allowing the first transmitting port to pass light corresponding to the first downstream wavelength and allowing the second transmitting port to pass light corresponding to the second downstream wavelength, and output the first control signal to the first multiplexer, wherein the first multiplexer, according to the first control signal, controls the first transmitting port to correspond to the first downstream wavelength and controls the second transmitting port to correspond to the second downstream wavelength.
US11863236B2
A transmission method includes: in a first period, causing a light source to emit light having a first luminance; and in a second period, causing the light source to transmit an optical signal by causing the light source to alternately emit light having a second luminance and light having a third luminance lower than the second luminance.
US11863232B2
A baseband processing unit includes a baseband processor configured to receive a plurality of component carriers of a radio access technology wireless service, and a delta-sigma digitization interface configured to digitize at least one carrier signal of the plurality of component carriers into a digitized bit stream, for transport over a transport medium, by (i) oversampling the at least one carrier signal, (ii) quantizing the oversampled carrier signal into the digitized bit stream using two or fewer quantization bits.
US11863221B1
Described is a Neuromorphic Adaptive Core (NeurACore) cognitive signal processor (CSP) for wide instantaneous bandwidth denoising of noisy signals. The NeurACore CSP includes a NeurACore block, a globally learning layer, and a neural combiner. The NeurACore block is operable for receiving as an input a mixture of in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) signals and mapping the I/Q signals onto a neural network to determine complex-valued output weights of neural states of the neural network. The global learning layer is operable for adapting the complex-valued output weights to predict a most likely next value of the input I/Q signal. Further, the neural combiner is operable for combining a set of delayed neural state vectors with the weights of the global learning layer to compute an output signal, the output signal being separate in-phase and quadrature signals.
US11863220B2
A network access device placed between one or more distribution devices and multiple premises may remotely or wirelessly monitor and/or analyze signal characteristics at the network access device and or of equipment at the multiple premises. The network access device may adjust switchably-filtered signal paths between the distribution device(s) and the multiple premises to remove or mitigate signal interference.
US11863218B2
The present application relates to a gain control method and an apparatus, comprising an automatic gain controller. An input power of a PSS in an input signal is detected in real time, a rated power of a downlink PSS that acts as a gain control threshold of the automatic gain controller is acquired, and the automatic gain controller is controlled to adjust a value of gain attenuation according to magnitudes of the input power of the PSS and the rated power of the downlink PSS, which is used to adjust an uplink gain and a downlink gain.
US11863207B2
Methods and systems for providing dynamic dictionary-based compression and decompression are described herein. A computing device may receive, during a currently running session with a client device, a plurality of messages. The computing device may determine, based on the plurality of messages, one or more frames. The computing device may determine, based on the one or more frames, data samples. The computing device may compress the one or more frames based on a compression dictionary. The computing device may train, during the currently running session, the compression dictionary based on the determined data samples, to create a new compression dictionary. The computing device may determine, during the currently running session and based on receiving additional messages, one or more additional frames. In addition, the computing device may compress the one or more additional frames based on the new compression dictionary.
US11863192B2
An apparatus includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), which includes an inductor coupled in series with a first capacitor. The DCO further includes a second capacitor coupled in parallel with the series-coupled inductor and first capacitor, a first inverter coupled in parallel with the second capacitor, and a second inverter coupled back-to-back to the first inverter. The DCO further includes a digital-to-analog-converter (DAC) to vary a capacitance of the first capacitor.
US11863191B2
An improved ramp generator enables a very high degree of linearity in an output voltage ramp signal. Output ramps of the output voltage ramp signal are alternatingly produced from two preliminary ramp signals during alternating time periods. Preliminary ramps are produced at different preliminary ramp nodes that are alternatingly connected to an output node. The preliminary ramps continuously ramp during and in some cases beyond, e.g., before and/or after, the time periods. In some embodiments, switches alternatingly connect two capacitors to at least one current source, a reset voltage source, and the output node to alternatingly produce the preliminary ramps.
US11863190B1
Circuits, methods, and systems for generating data outputs based on sampled data inputs. One circuit includes a first clock-activated transistor electrically coupled to a first shared clock node, a second clock-activated transistor coupled to a second shared clock node, a third clock-activated transistor coupled to a third shared clock node, a plurality of flip-flops, a latch electrically coupled to the second shared clock node and the third shared clock node, and a first keeper sub-circuit electrically coupled to the third shared clock node and at least one of a first output or a second output of the latch. Each flip-flop of the plurality of flip-flops includes a latch electrically coupled to the second shared clock node and the third shared clock node and a first keeper sub-circuit electrically coupled to the third shared clock node and at least one of a first output or a second output of the latch.
US11863188B2
A flip-flop circuit includes a first master latch circuit transmitting an inverted signal of an input signal received from an external device to a first node and transmitting an inverted signal of a signal of the first node to a second node, according to a first control signal having a first logic level or a second control signal having a second logic level, a first slave latch circuit transmitting an inverted signal of a signal of the second node to a third node according to the first control signal having the second logic level or the second control signal having the first logic level, a first output inverter generating a first output signal by inverting a signal of the third node, and a first control signal generation circuit generating the first control signal and the second control signal based on a clock signal and the signal of the first node.
US11863166B2
A power semiconductor module includes a semiconductor switching element, a gate control pattern to which a gate electrode of the semiconductor switching element is connected, a source control pattern to which a source electrode of the semiconductor switching element is connected, a capacitor to form a low-pass filter, a capacitor arrangement pattern to which one end of the capacitor is connected, and a wire. The other end of the capacitor is connected to the source control pattern. The wire electrically connects the capacitor arrangement pattern and the gate control pattern.
US11863144B2
Apparatus and methods for non-invasively monitoring an oscillation signal in an effort to provide a more reliable oscillation signal. An example oscillation circuit generally includes an oscillator configured to generate an oscillation signal, the oscillator comprising an oscillator core circuit for coupling to a resonator and configured to generate the oscillation signal to enable the resonator to resonate and an adjustable current source coupled to the oscillator core circuit and configured to control an amplitude of the oscillation signal; a first automatic gain control (AGC) circuit having an input coupled to an output of the oscillator and having an output coupled to a control input of the adjustable current source; a second AGC circuit configured to replicate the first AGC circuit; and logic having a first input coupled to the output of the first AGC circuit and having a second input coupled to an output of the second AGC circuit.
US11863141B2
There is provided audio equipment that enables power supply and signal connection to a rotary operation unit in a non-contact manner. The audio equipment includes: the rotary operation unit rotatably supported in relation to an equipment body; an operation detecting section provided for the rotary operation unit and in which an electric load changes in response to a pressing operation; a power supplying section provided for the equipment body and configured to supply power to the operation detecting section in a non-contact manner; and a monitoring section configured to monitor the power supplied by the power supplying section to detect the user's operation from a change in the power.
US11863139B2
An amplifier includes an amplification circuit, an equalization circuit, an output circuit, a first gain adjusting circuit, and a second gain adjusting circuit. The amplification circuit changes voltage levels of first and second amplification nodes based on first and second input signals. The equalization circuit changes the voltage levels of the first and second amplification nodes. The output circuit generates an output signal based on the voltage levels of the first and second amplification nodes. The first gain adjusting circuit changes voltage levels applied to the first and second amplification nodes based on the voltage levels of the first and second amplification nodes and a first gain control signal. The second gain adjusting circuit changes a voltage level of the output signal based on a second gain control signal.
US11863132B2
A switched capacitor amplifier circuit includes an operational amplifier, a first capacitor and a second capacitor each having one end connected to a negative input terminal of the operational amplifier, a first switching circuit configured to connect the other end of the first capacitor and a signal source during a first operation, a second switching circuit configured to connect the other end of the second capacitor and the output terminal of the operational amplifier so as to connect the output terminal and the negative input terminal of the operational amplifier through the second capacitor during the second operation, and an impedance converter circuit configured to convert an output impedance of the signal source into a specified impedance, the impedance converter circuit being connected between the first switching circuit and the other end of the first capacitor.
US11863129B2
A bias circuit includes first to sixth transistors and first to fifth resistors. The collector of the fifth transistor is coupled to a node in a path connecting the collector of the fourth transistor and one end of the third resistor. The collector of the sixth transistor Tr6 is coupled to one end of the fifth resistor.
US11863128B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor disposed on a semiconductor substrate; a second transistor that supplies a bias current based on a first current which is a part of a control current to the first transistor; a current output element in which a current flowing therethrough increases in accordance with a rise in temperature; and a wiring portion including a plurality of metal layers that are electrically connected to an emitter of the first transistor and that are stacked one on top of another so as to oppose the semiconductor substrate. At least one metal layer among the plurality of metal layers extends so as to overlap an area extending from at least a part of a first disposition area in which the first transistor is disposed to a second disposition area in which the current output element is disposed in plan view of the semiconductor substrate.
US11863110B2
The present disclosure relates to a motor driver and a method of driving a motor capable of driving a motor with optimum efficiency. The method of driving the brushless direct current (BLDC) motor may include an initial driving operation, a test operation of adjusting a turn-on time and a transition time in the test mode step by step, driving the BLDC motor by applying the adjusted turn-on time and the adjusted transition time, and detecting a driving error of the BLDC motor, an operation of repeating the test operation when the driving error is not detected in the test operation, and an operation of setting the turn-on time and the transition time, which are adjusted in an operation just before the driving error is detected, as a turn-on time and a transition time in an optimum driving mode.
US11863109B2
The application provides a method and device for adjusting a permanent magnet motor, an equipment, and a storage medium. The method includes the following operations. An electronic equipment acquires a counter electromotive force (CEMF) parameter, information of an electromagnetic structure of a permanent magnet motor to be adjusted and a minimum impedance value of any short-circuited coil of the permanent magnet motor to be adjusted, to determine an operational time of the short-circuited coil. The electronic equipment further judges, according to the operational time of the short-circuited coil, whether an adjustment instruction is required to be transmitted to a production equipment. When the operational time is inconsistent with a preset time, the electronic equipment transmits the adjustment instruction to the production equipment. The production equipment adjusts, according to the adjustment instruction, the electromagnetic structure of the permanent magnet motor to be adjusted. Through the method of the application, a rail transit vehicle may keep running for the preset time safely after an inter-turn short circuit failure occurs to the permanent magnet motor, and the operational safety of the rail transit vehicle is improved.
US11863106B2
A power supply control circuit of a three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor is provided. The control circuit includes means for calculating the DC current consumption IS based on a phase current signal Ishunt of the BLDC motor, the means including a shunt resistor Rshunt, an amplifier and a low pass filter. The amplifier is configured to amplify a measured voltage Vshunt that corresponds to the current Ishunt across the resistor Rshunt and perform an offset correction. The low pass filter is configured to provide a filtered voltage VO of the voltage Vshunt. The DC current IS is calculated based on the voltage VO.
US11863105B2
A method for controlling an electric motor, the method including determining a planned reference speed of the electric motor; determining a pulse-width modulation (PWM) switching frequency based on the planned reference speed; and controlling the electric motor with an alternating current produced by PWM switching with the determined PWM switching frequency. A control system for controlling an electric motor and an industrial robot including a control system, are also provided.
US11863102B2
A linear electric actuator system, preferably for patient lifters, comprising at least one linear electric actuator and a controller having a power limiting circuit for limiting the power to the at least one linear electric actuator. The actuator system is arranged such that the threshold value of the maximum permissible power in the power limiting circuit may be changed, and that this change may be performed via reference to the position of the spindle nut on the spindle as a look up in a table showing a corresponding value for the power limit.
US11863100B2
An induction machine with localized voltage unbalance compensation is disclosed. The use of an induction machine with a voltage unbalance correction compensator (VUC) may be used to maintain proper working conditions of the machine during intervals of voltage unbalance.
US11863096B2
A boost circuit is arranged to reduce rise and fall times of pulsed power used for pulsed control operation of electric machines. Magnetic energy present in the electric machine at the end of a pulse is extracted by the boost circuit to reduce the pulse fall time. The energy is stored by the boost circuit and then applied at the beginning of a subsequent pulse to reduce the rise time. By reducing rise and fall times compared to not using such a boost circuit, machine efficiency is improved.
US11863085B2
The invention relates to a converter assembly for converting a DC voltage from a DC voltage source, e.g. a battery, a fuel cell or a DC voltage intermediate circuit, into an N-phase AC voltage, e.g. for supplying an N-phase electric machine, comprising a connected inverter unit (1) having a number M of electronically controllable half bridges (2, 2′, 2a, 2a′, 2b, 2b′) for each of the N phases, wherein M is greater than one, a control unit (3) controlling the half bridges (2, 2′, 2a, 2a′, 2b, 2b′) which is designed to activate the half bridges (2, 2′, 2a, 2a′, 2b, 2b′) in a phase-offset manner with a switching frequency fT, wherein the phases are connected to a respective winding (5, 5′, 5″) of a common-mode choke (10) with a common magnetic core for damping electrical common-mode interference, and wherein the outputs of the half bridges (2, 2′, 2a, 2a′, 2b, 2b′), supplying said phases, are interconnected via interleaving chokes (4, 4′, 4a, 4a′, 4b, 4b′), wherein a first resistance-damped capacitor circuit (6) is provided at the output of the interleaving chokes (4, 4′, 4a, 4a′, 4b, 4b′) forming a first LC filter stage (8), and a second resistance-damped capacitor circuit (7) is provided at the output of the common-mode choke (5, 5′, 5″) forming a second LC filter stage (9).
US11863082B2
A power converter includes a power conversion circuit having a first terminal set and a second terminal set, configured to convert power input via one of the first terminal set and the second terminal set and output the converted power via the other of the first terminal set and the second terminal set; a measurement unit; a controller configured to control the power conversion circuit to generate a voltage/current waveform travelling along the first network with a power supplied by a second power source linked to the second terminal set of the power conversion circuit in response to a condition that a change rate of the measurement of the voltage/current exceeds a threshold; and locate a fault on the first network. The power conversion circuit can be re-used for different modes of operation either for power transmission under normal condition or for fault location under fault condition.
US11863081B2
A single/Multi-phase PMIC built on silicon substrate with coil layers processed on top of the PMIC layers' is provided. The integrated coil is in a spiral form, with a gap at the center of the coil, making additional metal routing not required. The integrated coil has connection pads located in the center gap of the spiral form, limiting the overall inductor resistance to the device only. The on-die inductor may have a magnetic core wrapping the windings. The spiral form may be implemented in a circular design, or a racetrack (elongated spiral) design. The coil layers may be implemented as multiple coil layers or as a single coil layer, connected in parallel (with the same I/O pads), reducing the resistance and maintaining the inductance.
US11863076B2
The present invention provides a control device for an isolated converter, including a comparison module, which receives a load percentage of the isolated converter, compares the load percentage with a first preset threshold and a second preset threshold, and outputs a comparison result; and an adjustment module, which receives the comparison result and adjusts a switching frequency of a switching transistor of the isolated converter based on the comparison result, wherein when the load percentage is not greater than the first preset threshold value, the switching frequency is set to a first frequency value to prevent magnetic saturation of a transformer of the isolated converter, and when the load percentage is greater than the second preset threshold value and in a stable state, the switching frequency is set to a second frequency value, so that the temperature of the isolated converter does not exceed the maximum allowable temperature, wherein the first preset threshold is less than or equal to the second preset threshold, and the first frequency value is greater than the second frequency value.
US11863071B2
A power converter having a smooth transition control mechanism is provided. An oscillator circuit outputs a clock signal. A control circuit receives the clock signal from the oscillator circuit and outputs a control signal based on the clock signal. A driver circuit outputs a high-side conduction signal and a low-side conduction signal according to the control signal. A high-side switch is turned on or off according to the high-side conduction signal from the driver circuit. A low-side switch is turned on or off according to the low-side conduction signal from the driver circuit. The oscillator circuit receives the high-side conduction signal from the driver circuit. The oscillator circuit, according to the high-side conduction signal, determines whether or not the clock signal outputted to the control circuit needs to be adjusted.
US11863070B2
A DC/DC converter includes: a first connection pole and a second connection pole, wherein a first DC voltage is applied between the first connection pole and the second connection pole; a third connection pole and a fourth connection pole, wherein a second DC voltage is applied between the third connection pole and the fourth connection pole; a first commutation cell, wherein the first commutation cell has a capacitor, a diode and a semiconductor switch; a second commutation cell, wherein the second commutation cell has a capacitor, a diode and a semiconductor switch; and a precharging circuit for precharging the capacitor of the first commutation cell and the capacitor of the second commutation cell. The precharging circuit has a precharging resistor and an actuable switching device. The precharging resistor and the actuable switching device are connected in parallel. The capacitor of the first commutation cell, the precharging circuit and the capacitor of the second commutation cell are looped in series between the first connection pole and the second connection pole.
US11863066B2
A voltage supply circuit and a method for controlling a voltage supply circuit are provided. The voltage supply circuit includes a positive charge pump stage that generates a positive voltage and a negative charge pump stage that generates a negative voltage. The voltage supply circuit also includes a control stage that compares a voltage representative of the negative voltage with a reference voltage and causes a slope of the positive voltage to decrease when the voltage representative of the negative voltage exceeds the reference voltage.
US11863062B2
A capacitor discharge circuit for discharging a capacitor to a discharge load. The discharge circuity includes current level sensing circuitry for producing a control signal circuity response to current passing to the discharge load. The discharge circuity modulates a level of current passing from the capacitor to the discharge load over time between predetermined ranges of current levels in response to the control signal.
US11863053B2
A lubricant supported electric motor includes a stator presenting an outer raceway and a rotor extending along an axis and rotatably disposed within the stator. The rotor presents an inner raceway disposed in spaced relationship with said outer raceway to define at least one hydrostatic support chamber disposed therebetween. A lubricant is disposed in the hydrostatic support chamber for supporting the rotor within the stator. A monitoring port is disposed in fluid communication with the at least one hydrostatic support chamber, and a sensor is coupled with the monitoring port for monitoring an operating characteristic of the lubricant disposed in said at least one hydrostatic support chamber. This monitored operating characteristic is then used to determine a real-time operating condition of the lubricant supported electric motor.
US11863045B2
An electric power steering device includes a motor housing of an electric motor. An annular seal accommodating portion is formed around an external terminal forming part of a connector assembly, and filled with a liquid sealing agent. A fixing member fixes the connector assembly to a fixing part of an end face part of the motor housing. A liquid sealing agent guiding passage is formed with the annular seal accommodating portion, and allows the liquid sealing agent to flow to the fixing member. A metal cover includes: a bottom part including: an exposure hole through which the external terminal forming part is exposed to outside; and an annular reinforcing projecting portion formed at an edge of the exposure hole, and accommodated in the annular seal accommodating portion; and a lateral peripheral part angled from the bottom part, and forming an opening for fixation to the end face part.
US11863044B1
The present disclosure provides a motor for a high-speed electric hair dryer. The motor for the high-speed electric hair dryer includes: an air duct shell, a stator mechanism, a rotor mechanism, blades and a concave motor bracket. The rotor mechanism includes a rotating shaft, a first bearing, a second bearing and a magnetic ring. The stator mechanism is fixed in the concave motor bracket. Installation holes for installing the first bearing and the second bearing are formed in two ends of the concave motor bracket. A semicircular machine cover is arranged on the concave motor bracket. The magnetic ring is arranged in the stator mechanism, the concave motor bracket is fixed in the air duct shell. The rotating shaft passes through one end of the first bearing and is connected to the blades, and the blades are installed in the air duct shell.
US11863036B2
In this armature, between the first segment conductor and the second segment conductor that are joined to each other in the joint portion, a first clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the first leg portion and the second leg portion body portion in the axial direction, and a second clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the second leg portion and the first leg portion body portion in the axial direction.
US11863035B2
The invention relates to a stator (1) for an electric machine, comprising an essentially hollow-cylindrical laminated core (2) with multiple receiving grooves (4) which are arranged distributed. Multiple electric conductor sections (La, Lb) per receiving groove (4) formed by forming rods form a stator winding (14) with at least two part-windings (TWa, TWb). The at least two electric part-windings (TWa, TWb) are respectively formed by at least one first and one second electrically series-connected winding segment (WSa, WSb), wherein conductor sections (La, Lb) of the first winding segment (WSa) are electrically interconnected by means of first and second electric connecting sections (VBa, VBb) such that a helical current path (17a) is defined along a first radial direction (18a) to the longitudinal axis (3) of the laminated core (2) and conductor sections (La, Lb) of the second winding segment (WSb) are electrically interconnected by means of first and second electric connecting sections (VB a, VBb) such that a second helical current path (17b) is defined along an opposite, second radial direction (18b) to the longitudinal axis (3) of the laminated core (2).
US11863034B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for sensing rotor location, the apparatus comprising: a central shaft; a magnet coupled to the central shaft; a sensor portion is disposed correspond to the magnet; wherein the sensor portion comprising a substrate, a first group including a first Hall sensor and a third Hall sensor disposed on the substrate, and a second group including a second Hall sensor and a fourth Hall sensor, the first Hall sensor and the third Hall sensor are arranged to overlap in a radial direction about the central shaft and the second Hall sensor and the fourth Hall sensor are arranged to overlap in a radial direction about the central shaft.
US11863033B2
The present disclosure provides a displacement detection circuit of a maglev rotor system and a displacement self-sensing system thereof. The displacement detection circuit comprises a current sampling circuit (10) configured to collect a current flowing through a corresponding coil (4); coils (4), which are coils (4) distributed in series in the maglev rotor system; Hall sensors (20), the Hall sensors (20) being arranged in an upper auxiliary air gap (8) and a lower auxiliary air gap (8) of the maglev rotor system, and sensing surfaces of the Hall sensors (20) being perpendicular to magnetic field directions in the corresponding auxiliary air gaps (8); a Hall signal processing circuit (30) connected to the Hall sensors (20) and configured to differentiate a Hall sensing signal corresponding to the upper auxiliary air gap (8) and a Hall sensing signal corresponding to the lower auxiliary air gap (8); and a displacement signal resolving circuit (40) connected to the current sampling circuit (10) and the Hall signal processing circuit (30) respectively and configured to acquire a displacement of a rotor in the maglev rotor system according to the current and a differentiation result. By using the detection circuit and the displacement self-sensing system thereof, the axial size of the rotor is reduced, such that detection and control are coplanar, and high precision and simple design are realized.
US11863027B2
A rotating electrical machine and a method of manufacturing a rotating electrical machine. The machine including a machine frame, a rotor, a shaft attached to the rotor and bearings supporting the shaft and the rotor in the machine frame. The rotating electrical machine includes further an electrically conducting member having a hole, the electrically conducting member being attached to the frame such that the shaft extends through the hole.
US11863023B2
A rotating electrical machine includes a magnetic field-producing unit equipped with a magnet unit including a plurality of magnetic poles, and an armature which includes a multi-phase armature winding. The armature winding has conductor portions which are arranged at a given interval away from each other in a circumferential direction. The armature is designed to have conductor-to-conductor members arranged between the conductor portions in the circumferential direction. The armature may alternatively be designed not to have the conductor-to-conductor members disposed between the conductor portions in the circumferential direction. The magnet unit is magnetically oriented to have an easy axis of magnetization which is directed in a region close to a d-axis that is a center of a magnetic pole to be more parallel to the d-axis than that in a region close to a q-axis that is a boundary between magnetic poles.
US11863009B2
In some examples, an apparatus is to adjust charge termination voltage. The apparatus includes a controller to adjust a charge termination voltage of a charger of a rechargeable energy storage device based on a comparison of a first threshold level with the voltage of the rechargeable energy storage device during peak load. The charge termination voltage is a voltage at which the rechargeable energy storage device has capacity to support peak load of a system. The controller is to adjust the charge termination voltage based on a comparison of a second threshold level with an end voltage of the rechargeable energy storage device after peak load.
US11863004B2
A split-phase bidirectional on-board charger (OBC) has separate charging and discharging modes, and includes a switchgear block connectable to an offboard charging station during the charging mode, and to an external alternating current (AC) load during the discharging mode. The OBC includes first and second DC-AC converters connected to the switchgear block and DC-DC converter connected to the first and second DC-AC converters and a DC bus. During the charging mode, the DC-AC converters output a DC link voltage to the DC-DC converter. The DC-DC converter outputs a DC charging voltage or current to the DC bus when the link voltage reaches a predetermined value. During the discharging mode, the DC-AC converters receive a DC discharging voltage or current from the DC-DC converter and together selectively output a split-phase AC voltage through the switchgear block to the AC electrical load.
US11863002B1
Systems and methods involve implementations such as a system including (I) a box assembly including a base, a first side, a second side, and an interior area, wherein the first side being oppositely positioned across the interior area from the second side, the first side including a protrusion extending from the first side away from the interior area, the second side including a protrusion extending from the second side away from the interior area, and the protrusion of the first side being at a different elevation than the protrusion of the second side with respect to the base.
US11862997B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply such that the power supply does not become one or both of a fully charged state and a discharging termination state.
US11862995B2
The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system which simulates functions such as cognition, judgment, and the like of the human brain by utilizing machine learning algorithms such as deep learning and the like, and to an application thereof. According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a first impedance matching circuit configured to perform a first impedance matching on a power signal wirelessly received from a wireless power transmission device; a second impedance matching circuit configured to perform a second impedance matching on the first impedance-matched power signal using any one impedance value among a plurality of impedance values; a control circuit configured to perform control to change an impedance value of the second impedance matching circuit to an impedance value learned using an impedance matching network model, corresponding to a power and a frequency of the second impedance-matched power signal; and a power conversion circuit configured to convert a second impedance-matched power signal in an AC form into a power in a DC form for charging a battery according to the changed impedance value.
US11862994B2
A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information associated with AC wireless signals, the electrical information including, at least, a voltage of the AC wireless signals. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, detect a change in the electrical information, determine if the change in the electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold, if the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, generate an alert, and output a plurality of data alerts. The transmitter controller is configured to receive the plurality of data alerts from the demodulation circuit, and decode the plurality of data alerts into the wireless data signals.
US11862991B2
An antenna for wireless power transmission includes a source coil comprised of a first conductive wire, the source coil including a first outer turn and a first inner turn, the source coil configured to connect to one or more electronic components for wireless power transfer. The antenna further includes an internal repeater coil comprised of a second conductive wire, the internal repeater coil including a second outer turn and a second inner turn, the internal repeater coil configured to have a repeater current induced in the second outer turn and the second inner turn. The antenna further includes a repeater tuning system in electrical connection with a beginning of the second outer turn and an ending of the second inner turn, the repeater tuning system positioned inward of the second outer turn.
US11862988B2
A first RF-to-DC circuit receives a radiofrequency signal and produces a first converted signal delivered to an energy storage circuit. A second RF-to-DC circuit, which is a down-scaled replica of the first RF-to-DC circuit, produces a second converted signal from the radiofrequency signal that is indicative of an open-circuit voltage of the first RF-to-DC circuit. The first RF-to-DC section includes N sub-stages, with a sub-set of sub-stages being selectively activatable. A window comparison of the second converted signal generates a first signal and a second signal indicative of whether the second converted signal is within a range of values proportional to a voltage reference signal. The sub-set of sub-stages is selectively deactivated, respectively activated, when the performed window comparison has a first result, respectively, a second result.
US11862986B1
A system is disclosed. The system includes a first circuit that includes a first receiver configured to receive a wireless power input, a first conductor, and operably coupled to the first receiver, and a switch network operably coupled to the first conductor configured to rectify the wireless power input and generate a rectified voltage. The first circuit further includes a first field effect transistor operably coupled to the first conductor and configured to receive a portion of the wireless power input from the first conductor and output an output voltage back to the first conductor based upon a gate input. In one or more embodiments, the first circuit further includes a first controller configured to determine if the rectified voltage is greater than a voltage threshold and transmit a transmission of the gate input to the first field effect transistor if the rectified voltage is above the voltage threshold.
US11862985B2
A device or an accessory may include a near-field communications antenna and a soft magnetic ring concentric with the near-field communications antenna. The device or accessory may further include at least one wireless charging coil concentric with the near-field communications antenna, a rectifier coupled to the at least one wireless charging coil, and a battery configured to receive a rectified voltage from the rectifier. The soft magnetic ring may be used to shunt magnetic flux from one or more nearby magnets in external electronic devices to prevent the magnets from repelling each other. The soft magnetic ring may be attracted to a magnet in an external device to help align wireless charging coils in the two mated devices.
US11862976B2
Provided are techniques for predictively generating demand response (DR) events based on grid operations and faults, based on optimization and self-learning routines. The techniques include obtaining grid status information, and determining a fault condition based at least in part on the grid status information. The techniques also include generating a DR event based at least in part on the fault condition, and responsive to generating the DR event, transmitting a notification of the DR event.
US11862972B2
A system and method to join distributed energy resources (DER) to achieve common objectives is provided. The present technology organizes and/or aggregates DERs by routing a (DER) program request for resources to DER contributors capable of responding to and performing the request using a routing system. The system accesses a plurality of DER profiles, each profile associated with a DER contributor capable of contributing a resource to the request, and calculates an initial value for each DER profile based on request attributes and scoring metrics associated with the profile. The system then calculates a fitness metric for each DER profile based on the initial value using a neural network having weights based on the plurality of performance indicators and selects the DER profile and contributors to whom to route the request.
US11862960B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a first diode, a second diode, an ESD clamp circuit and a first conductive structure on a backside of a semiconductor wafer, and being coupled to the first voltage supply. The first diode is in the semiconductor wafer, and coupled between an IO pad and a first node. The second diode is in the semiconductor wafer, coupled to the first diode and coupled between the IO pad and a second node. The ESD clamp circuit is in the semiconductor wafer, coupled between the first node and the second node, and further coupled to the first and second diode. The ESD clamp circuit includes a first signal tap region in the semiconductor wafer that is coupled to a first voltage supply. The first diode is coupled to and configured to share the first signal tap region with the ESD clamp circuit.
US11862955B2
A thruster power control box assembly includes a housing having a cover. Inside the housing is a switch circuit and a switch control circuit. The switch circuit directs current from an external battery to a pair of thruster cables that are connected to a thruster. The switch control circuit controls the switch circuit by configuring the direction in which current from the battery flows to the thruster cables so that the thruster can operate in both directions. The housing incudes bushings through which the various cables and conductors pass, and are sealed by a compliant plug and a compression nut on each bushing. A terminal box can be used to connect the various cables of the thruster to their corresponding cables of the thruster power control box.
US11862954B1
Junction box devices, systems, and methods including a base and a wall extending upward from the base to define a housing having a top opening, and a lid configured to slide in a first direction along the wall to secure the lid into a closed position upon the wall and defining a gap between the wall and lid configured to receive a spacer to prevent the lid from sliding in an opposite direction, and in other aspects the junction box having pins which slide within grooves of a lid to be slid upon the pins to secure the lid to the box.
US11862948B2
A fish stick includes a light emitting component, such as a lighted tip, near the leading end of the fish stick. The lighted tip includes a curved lens that directs some light around an attachment piece at the end of the fish stick and generally in the forward direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fish stick. The fish stick may be made of a phosphorescent material and stored in a lit container with an LED and reflective surfaces. The fish stick may be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other and include a spring biasing element that increases the coefficient of friction between the threads of the rods. The fish stick may also be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other via collars.
US11862947B2
An apparatus includes a switch cabinet and a device housing. The device housing is adapted to accommodate a component of a device and the switch cabinet is adapted to accommodate electrical equipment for the device. The switch cabinet is operable to be moved between an open position and a closed position relative to the device housing. When in the closed position a wall of the switch cabinet closes off an opening in the device housing, and when in the open position the wall of the switch cabinet is removed from the opening in the device housing so as to expose that opening.
US11862936B2
The present disclosure provides an optical member for use in a laser module that includes a surface emitting laser, the optical member being capable of detecting damage (cracking, peeling, and the like), a method for manufacturing the optical member, a laser module including the optical member, and a laser device.
US11862931B2
In a laser system according to an aspect of the present disclosure, the following components are disposed: a first container that accommodates a first heater and a first crystal holder holding a first nonlinear crystal and includes a first light incident window via which laser light is incident and a first light exit window via which the laser light exits; a second container that accommodates a second heater and a second crystal holder holding a second nonlinear crystal and includes a second light incident window via which the laser light is incident and a second light exit window via which the laser light exits; and a stage that holds the first and second containers. A controller controls the stage to move the first nonlinear crystal away from the optical path of the laser light and inserts the second nonlinear crystal into the optical path of the laser light.
US11862930B2
An optical module includes: a stem including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a thermoelectric cooler including a heat-releasing substrate fixed to the first surface; a semiconductor laser element attached to the thermoelectric cooler; a cap fixed to the first surface and covering the thermoelectric cooler and the semiconductor laser element; a lens fixed to the cap; and a restriction body fixed to the second surface. The linear thermal expansion coefficients of the heat-releasing substrate and the restriction body are smaller than the linear thermal expansion coefficient of the stem.
US11862929B2
The present disclosure provides a laser diode package module. The laser diode package module includes a substrate including a first surface; a cover disposed on the first surface of the substrate; an accommodation space formed between the substrate and the cover; a laser diode die disposed in the accommodation space; and a reflective surface disposed in the accommodation space for outputting light of the laser diode die reflected by the reflective surface and transmitted through a light-transmitting area. The light-transmitting area is at least partially disposed on a surface of the cover opposite the substrate.
US11862915B2
[Object] The present invention provides a joined conductor and a method for manufacturing a joined conductor that can improve electrical conductivity between conductors. [Solution] In a joined conductor 100 including a joining portion 110 in which a plurality of conductors exposed portions 220 arranged along a longitudinal direction X are fused and joined, the joining portion 110 is configured to have a substantially rectangular shape in an orthogonal cross section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction X, and among a pair of side surfaces in width direction 120 and a pair of side surfaces in up-down direction 130 configured such that a first surface 121 and a second surface 122 that face each other in the orthogonal cross section, and a horn 131 and a horn 132 are paired, on each of the first surface 121 and the second surface 122 of the pair of side surfaces in width direction 120 that are at least one pair, a corrugated portion 140 that has a corrugated shape and in which a ridge 141 protruding outward and a valley 142 recessed inward are alternately continuously provided along the longitudinal direction X is formed.
US11862908B2
A power plug device includes a first housing, a circuit board, a wire assembly and a second housing. The first housing includes an upper-housing body, a through hole and an inner cover. An accommodating portion is arranged in the upper-housing body, the through hole is formed on one side of the upper-housing body, the inner cover is installed in the accommodating portion, a receptive space is arranged in the inner cover, and the through hole interconnects with the receptive space. The wire assembly includes core wires, which passes through the through hole and the receptive space, so that the core wires are accommodated in the accommodating portion, and the receptive space is suitable for accommodating glue to secure the core wires and provides waterproof effect. In addition, dual-layered waterproof structure is used to make the first and second housing joining together having stronger waterproof effect.
US11862903B2
A device charger is provided. The device charger includes: a faceplate having an electrical outlet-sized aperture therethrough, the faceplate comprising an electrical circuit; a first body extending from a rear side of the faceplate, the first body comprising an AC-to-DC power supply; a second body extending from the rear side of the faceplate, the first body and the second body including respective electrical contacts located to electrically contact one or more respective electrical outlet terminals, the respective electrical contacts configured to provide alternating current from the terminals to an AC input of the power supply at least partially via the electrical circuit of the faceplate; and at least one electrical connector, located at a front side of the faceplate, connected to a DC output of the power supply, the at least one electrical connector for providing DC power to an external device connected thereto.
US11862902B2
An electrical connector with electromagnetic shielding function includes a circuit board, a plurality of cables and a shielding component. The circuit board includes a plurality of conductive pads and a ground component. Each of cables includes a wire core and a shielding layer for covering the wire core. One end of the wire core is exposed from the shielding layer, and the wire cores of the cables are electrically connected to the conductive pads respectively. The shielding component is configured on the circuit board and electrically connected to the ground component. The shielding component forms a plurality of shielding grooves for covering the conductive pads and the cables. Each of the shielding grooves includes a contact portion configured to contact the shielding layer and a shielding portion configured to cover the exposed wire core of the cables to provide electromagnetic shielding to the cables.
US11862901B2
An interposer for a test system includes coaxial cables, each of which is configured to transport a first portion of current originating from a current source, and printed circuit boards (PCBs), each of which is connected to a set of the coaxial cables in order to receive the first portion of the current from each coaxial cable in the set and to transport a second portion of the current. A spring leaf assembly includes spring leaves, each of which is connected to a PCB in order to transport a third portion of the current obtained from the PCB to a device interface board (DIB) that connects to devices under test (DUTs) to be tested by the test system. The coaxial cables on each PCB are arranged in parallel, the PCBs are arranged in parallel, and the spring leaves on each PCB are arranged in parallel.
US11862889B2
A connector for receiving a ribbon cable is provided. The connector includes a housing including an open top and a guide wall including a track and a cable organizer configured to be positioned within an interior of the housing and the open top and to receive the ribbon cable along a surface thereof. The connector also includes a cover configured to selectively cover the open top of the housing to enclose the cable organizer within the interior of the housing. The cover includes a rib configured to slide along the track so that the cover moves relative to the housing along a linear trajectory.
US11862881B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a slot; plural contacts secured in the insulative housing and exposed to the slot; and a metallic shell mounted to the insulative housing and having a top plate, a bottom plate, and a connecting part connected to the top plate at an upper end thereof and connected to the bottom plate at a lower end thereof, wherein the top plate has a pair of actuating arms and the connecting part has a pair of locking arms, and the top plate is movable about the upper end of the connecting part to actuate the pair of locking arms by the pair of actuating arms.
US11862880B2
A compressible electrical contact, manufactured from a tube, includes a first contact end, a second contact end opposing the first contact end, and a medial portion disposed between the first contact end and the second contact end. The medial portion includes a plurality of divaricated cut sections based on at least one divaricating pattern cut into the tube. The at least one divaricating pattern preferably includes an upper tapered section and a lower tapered section such that a plurality of tapered slots are formed after the tube is cut and when the compressible electrical contact is substantially compressed.
US11862877B2
An antenna includes antenna elements provided one by one on the respective sides of a substantially rectangular conductor plate. Each of the antenna elements includes a feeding wire and a split ring conductor having a shape in which a ring is partially cut by a split part. The feeding wire is electrically connected to the split ring conductor and extends in a direction across a region formed inside the split ring conductor. Two antenna elements provided on two arbitrary sides facing each other of the conductor plate among the four antenna elements are each supplied with power through the feeding wire included in each antenna element so as to have substantially the same direction of an electric field in a polarization direction.
US11862872B2
An apparatus includes a module comprising an antenna having at least one antenna component. The apparatus further includes at least one tuning component coupled to the at least one antenna component. The at least one tuning component is external to the module.
US11862870B1
Antenna arrays with three-dimensional (3D) conformal radiating elements are provided, as well as methods of manufacturing and methods of using the same. An array can include a ground plane and a plurality of unit cells disposed thereon. Each unit cell can include a 3D conformal radiating element. The 3D conformal radiating elements can be, for example, patches (e.g., circular 3D patches), dipoles, or loops, and each radiating element is conformal on a hemispherical shape.
US11862869B2
An antenna structure includes a substrate, a plurality of reflective plates, a grounding plate, a radiating member and a plurality of conductive vias. The substrate contains liquid crystal polymer and has opposite first and second surfaces. The reflective plates are arranged in an array on the first surface of the substrate. The grounding plate is arranged on the second surface of the substrate and overlaps with the reflective plates in a normal direction of the substrate. The radiating member is on the second surface of the substrate and does not overlap with the reflective plates in the normal direction of the substrate. The radiating member has an open slot which is defined by a first radiating branch and a second radiating branch that generate at least two different operating frequency bands. The conductive vias respectively penetrate the substrate and connect with the reflective plates and the grounding plate.
US11862864B2
Systems, devices, and methods related to phase shifters are provided. An example true time-delay (TTD) phase shifter structure includes a signal conductive line disposed on a first layer of the structure; a first switchable ground plane comprising a first conductive plane disposed on a second layer of the structure; a second switchable ground plane comprising a second conductive plane disposed on a third layer of the structure, where the first, second, and third layers are separate layers of the structure; a first switch coupled between the first switchable ground plane and a first ground element, the first ground element disposed on the second layer; and a second switch coupled between the second switchable ground plane and a second ground element, the second ground element disposed on the third layer.
US11862861B2
An apparatus is disclosed for a hybrid wireless transceiver architecture that supports multiple antenna arrays. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a first antenna array, a second antenna array, and a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver includes first dedicated circuitry dedicated to the first antenna array and second dedicated circuitry dedicated to the second antenna array. The wireless transceiver also includes shared circuitry that is shared with both the first antenna array and the second antenna array.
US11862854B1
Antenna arrays, antenna elements for said arrays, and methods of fabricating and using the same are provided. Antenna arrays can be operated at multiple frequencies, such as at two different frequencies for Radio Detection And Ranging (RADAR) communication and for imaging applications. Each antenna element can include a driven patch that is excited directly and a parasitic patch that is excited by the driven patch.
US11862849B2
A radome and a method for manufacturing same. A radome apparatus has a radome body having an aperture, a film covering the aperture, and a support installed into the aperture. The film and the support have a low loss at a desired operating frequency. The support provides backing, support, and rigidity for the film so that distortion of the film by weather conditions, such as wind, is reduced. Thus, the integrity of the RF transmission characteristics of the radome are preserved. The aperture, film, and support are in the boresight of an antenna and are large enough to accommodate a desired beam steering range. The radome body may be manufactured with the aperture and the film included therein by using an in-mold labeling process. The support may be installed in the aperture by a subsequent molding process.
US11862846B2
An antenna module to be provided to a vehicle includes: an array antenna configured to form a beam directed from an aperture provided in an exterior body panel of the vehicle, toward a vehicle outside; and a housing holding the array antenna in a vehicle inside.
US11862844B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device according to an embodiment may include a first device and a second device that are coupled to each other or spaced from each other. The first device may include a first housing, a first antenna element having a first electrical length for transmitting or receiving a signal in a first frequency band, a communication circuit disposed inside the first housing and for transmitting and receiving the signal of the first antenna element, and a first ground member electrically connected to the first antenna element. The second device may include a second antenna element having a second electrical length, a second housing, and a second ground member disposed inside the second housing. The first antenna element and the second antenna element may be connected to each other, and operate as a third antenna element having a third electrical length for transmitting and receiving a signal in a second frequency band while the first device and the second device are connected to each other. The first ground member and the second ground member may be electrically connected to each other while the first device and the second device are connected to each other. In addition, various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
US11862842B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a display panel, multiple antenna electrodes, a dummy electrode, and multiple feed lines. The display panel has a display area. The antenna electrodes are disposed on the display panel and overlap the display area. The dummy electrode is disposed around the antenna electrodes and overlaps the display area. The dummy electrode is electrically separated from the antenna electrodes, and has multiple dummy wire segments whose extension directions intersect each other. The dummy wire segments have multiple breaks. The feed lines are respectively electrically connected to the antenna electrodes. An antenna module is also provided.
US11862831B2
A container for a fuel cell system includes a system frame configured to house one or more components of a fuel cell system. The container also includes a plurality of fuel cells supported by the system frame and configured to provide power to an external unit. The container also includes a raised floor configured to support the plurality of fuel cells. The container also includes a cooling system. The cooling system includes a central cooling pipe located underneath the raised floor, a plurality of fuel cell cooling pipes connected to the central cooling pipe and to each fuel cell, and a cooling pipe valve configured to regulate the pressure of the cooling system.
US11862829B2
The invention relates to a method for setting an operating strategy for a fuel cell system (2) of a power generation device (1), in particular in the form of a vehicle, depending on an operating mode of the power generation device (1), having the steps of: a determination unit (3) determining at least one current operating parameter (P1) of the power generation device (1), the determination unit (3) determining at least one cumulative and/or predictive operating parameter (P2, P3, P4) of the power generation device (1), and a setting device (8) setting the operating strategy for the fuel cell system (2) on the basis of the at least one current operating parameter (P1) and the at least one cumulative and/or predictive operating parameter (P2, P3, P4) of the power generation device (1). The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding circuit arrangement (10), to a computer program (20) and to a storage means with a computer program (20) stored thereon.
US11862826B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining the compressive tensile force acting on a fuel cell stack due to at least one tensioning element. Thereby, the compressive tensile force is the overall tensile force compressing the fuel cell stack. This is determined according to the invention by means of acoustic measurements on vibratable sections of the tensioning elements. The subject matter of the invention also includes a data processing program for carrying out the method according to the invention along with the use of a smartphone for carrying out the method according to the invention.
US11862825B2
To provide a fuel cell system configured to, at the time of starting the fuel cell system, purge gas other than fuel gas from the fuel electrodes of a fuel cell stack in a short time. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell stack, an ejector set, a fuel gas supplier, a circulation flow path, a mixed gas supply flow path, a pressure detector which detects pressure information of a fuel electrode side of the fuel cell stack, a fuel off-gas discharger which discharges the fuel off-gas, in which a concentration of the fuel gas is a predetermined concentration or less, to the outside, and a controller, wherein the ejector set includes a first ejector and a second ejector in parallel, the first ejector being an ejector which supplies first mixed gas to the fuel electrodes of the fuel cell stack, and the second ejector being an ejector which supplies second mixed gas, in which a content ratio of the circulation gas is larger than the first mixed gas, to the fuel electrodes of the fuel cell stack.
US11862819B2
The present invention provides a battery module which includes: a battery stack formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells on each other, each of which includes electrode tabs; a first case unit including a bottom section which surrounds one side of the battery stack and a pair of first sidewalls located on both sides of the battery stack in a direction in which battery cells are stacked; and a second case unit including a top section which surrounds the other side of the battery stack and a pair of second sidewalls located on both sides of the battery stack in the direction in which battery cells are stacked, wherein the first sidewall and the second sidewall are located on both sides of the battery stack in the direction in which battery cells are stacked, in a state in which at least portions thereof are overlapped with each other.
US11862809B2
A separator sealing apparatus for bonding an upper separator and a lower separator with an electrode plate being interposed therebetween and a separator sealing method is provided. The separator sealing apparatus includes a first sealing unit configured to seal a first region specified as an outer edge along a width direction of the electrode plate, among portions where the upper separator and the lower separator face each other; and a second sealing unit configured to seal a second region specified as an outer edge along a length direction of the electrode plate, among the portions where the upper separator and the lower separator face each other.
US11862808B2
The vehicle battery pack exchange system herein described charges renters for the time use interval, the energy needed to recharge the battery pack, and the battery wear their use has caused. Data on battery wear accelerating stress parameters such as current, voltage, temperature, and state of charge is collected for battery packs rented to vehicle users. Wear rates are estimated from the collected data. Drivers are displayed information to adapt their driving to battery wear rates. Renters are charged for battery pack usage time, energy supplied by the rental station, and battery wear providing battery owners a secure return on their investment. This system accommodates both short term and sustained long term rentals. Long term rental of one or more battery pack modules for local use gives convenience and low costs while short term rentals of multiple modules provide unlimited range via swapping exhausted packs for recharged units during extended travel. User travel plans and preferences are employed to automatically provide users with suggestions for which battery modules to return and how many to replace during extended travel battery exchanges.
US11862804B2
A battery includes a battery case including a housing having side walls defining a first open end and a second open end, the battery case including a separate top cover to cover the first open end of the housing and a separate bottom cover to cover the second open end of the housing; a first electrode located within the case; a second electrode located within the case; a first terminal coupled to the first electrode and exposed outside the case; and a second terminal coupled to the second electrode and exposed outside the case.
US11862803B2
A radical scavenger, a manufacturing method therefor, a membrane-electrode assembly including the radical scavenger, and a fuel cell including the membrane-electrode assembly are disclosed. The membrane-electrode assembly contains an ion exchange membrane; catalyst electrodes disposed on both surfaces of the ion exchange membrane, respectively; and a radical scavenger disposed at any one position selected from the group consisting of in the catalyst electrodes, in the ion exchange membrane, between the ion exchange membrane and the catalyst electrodes, and a combination thereof.
US11862802B2
The invention discloses a lithium electrode. The electrically conductive structure layer has a recess with one-side opening, and the lithium metal layer is disposed on the bottom of the recess. The solid electrolyte layer and the electrolyte storage layer are disposed thereon sequentially. When the lithium metal is plated, the plated lithium metal is restricted by the solid electrolyte layer to push and compress the electrolyte storage layer. Therefore, the growth of the lithium dendrites is limited efficiently. The penetration through issue of the lithium dendrites will not be occurred so that the safety of the lithium metal battery is improved greatly.
US11862782B2
The present invention relates to electrode slurry coating apparatus and method, the present invention ultimately allowing the process efficiency to be increased and rate of errors to be reduced when double-layer structured active material layers are formed by temporally adjusting the height of first and second discharge outlets through which active material is discharged.
US11862781B1
A hydrogen fueled power system of a vehicle includes a liquid hydrogen fuel source having a volume of liquid hydrogen fuel and a thermal engine configured to expand the liquid hydrogen fuel into gaseous form via interaction between a heated first portion of the hydrogen fuel and a second portion of the hydrogen fuel. A heat exchanger is positioned between the liquid hydrogen source and the thermal engine, and is configured to heat the first portion of the hydrogen fuel via thermal energy exchange with a relatively warm fluid. A turbine is located fluidly downstream of the heat exchanger and upstream of the thermal engine, and is driven by the heated first portion. A power generator is located fluidly downstream of the thermal engine. The power generator utilizes exhaust from the thermal engine to generate electrical or mechanical power. A compressor is operably connected to and driven by the turbine.
US11862778B2
A battery module includes a module including a series of cell stacks, each having a series of unit cells arranged in a first direction, and an insulation member insulating at least one unit cell. The battery module also includes a module housing and a series of receiving parts in the module housing accommodating the cell stacks. Each receiving part includes a fixed wall around a respective cell stack and having a portion in contact with the cell stack. The fixed wall includes a pair of end walls at opposite ends of the receiving part in the first direction. The pair of end walls are configured to engage respective end surfaces of the corresponding cell stack in the first direction. The battery module also includes a cooling channel below a floor surface of the module housing for a coolant to flow to cool the receiving parts and the cells stacks.
US11862776B2
Provided are a battery, a power consumption device, a method for producing a battery, and a device. The battery includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged along a first direction and a thermal management component extending along the first direction and being connected to a first wall of each battery cell among the plurality of battery cells, the thermal management component including a pair of heat conducting plates that are oppositely arranged along a second direction and a flow passage located between the pair of heat conducting plates, the flow passage being configured to accommodate a fluid to adjust temperatures of the battery cell, and the second direction being vertical to the first wall, where in the second direction, a thickness D of the heat conducting plate and a size H of the flow passage satisfy: 0.01≤D/H≤25. Technical solutions of embodiments of the present application could enhance performance of batteries.
US11862773B2
The present disclosure provides a charging method and a terminal. The method includes: automatically learning, by the terminal, historical data by using a machine learning algorithm, to establish a habit model of a user, and matching a current time with the usage habit model of the user to determine a current charging intention of the user, so as to determine a charging mode according to the charging intention. By means of the technical solutions, a charging requirement of a user can be effectively identified, and on-demand charging can be implemented. This improves user experience while avoiding a battery life decrease caused by frequent fast charging.
US11862772B2
Battery recharging devices include a power port, a user interface module for receiving a user input, a charge profile generator responsive to the user input for producing a charge profile, and a switch for enabling a current to flow to the battery based upon the charge profile. The charge profile is associated with a set of charges that are adapted to be applied to the battery during a user-defined time period. The set of charges comprises a first charge adapted to be applied to the battery during the user-defined time period during which the battery does not recharge. Methods of recharging batteries are also disclosed.
US11862761B2
Provided are a light-emitting module and a display apparatus. The light-emitting module may include a substrate, at least one light-emitting element located on a side of the substrate, and a first light-uniformizing component and a reflective layer disposed on a light-exit side of the light-emitting element; wherein, the first light-uniformizing component is configured to make light emitted by the light-emitting element be uniformly incident on the reflective layer; and the reflective layer is configured to reflect the light incident on the reflective layer toward a direction away from the light-exit side of the light-emitting element.
US11862759B2
Embodiments of the invention include an infrared-emitting phosphor comprising (La,Gd)3Ga5−x−yAlxSiO14:Cry, where 0≤x≤1 and 0.02≤y≤0.08. In some embodiments, the infrared-emitting phosphor is a calcium gallogermanate material. In some embodiments, the infrared-emitting phosphor is used with a second infrared-emitting phosphor. The second infrared-emitting phosphor is one or more chromium doped garnets of composition Gd3−x1Sc2−x2−yLux1+x2Ga3O12:Cry, where 0.02≤x1≤0.25, 0.05≤x2≤0.3 and 0.04≤y≤0.12.
US11862739B2
A light-receiving device includes: a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in a row on a main surface of a substrate and a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface formed on the substrate to extend in the arrangement direction with the row of the plurality of light-receiving elements interposed therebetween. Each of the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface includes an inclined surface forming one flat surface formed from a main surface of the substrate on which each light-receiving element is formed to a back surface side of the substrate.
US11862735B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device including: a substrate including: a first, second and third doped regions, the second doped region disposed between the first and third doped regions, the second doped region has a first conductivity type and a first doping concentration and the first and third doped regions have a second conductivity type and a second doping concentration; first and second doped terminal regions disposed within the first and second doped regions, respectively; and a doped island region disposed within the second doped region, the first and second doped terminal regions and doped island region have the second conductivity type and a third doping concentration, the third doping concentration higher than the first and second doping concentrations; and conductive terminals respectively coupled to the doped terminal regions; and an insulation layer arranged on the substrate between the conductive terminals and covering at least the second doped region.
US11862723B2
A manufacturing method of an integrated circuit memory includes: a substrate is provided; a bit line extending along a first direction is formed on the substrate; a word line extending along a second direction is formed on the bit line; and a vertical storage transistor is formed in an overlapping region where the word line and the bit line are spatially intersected, the vertical storage transistor being located on the bit line, and connected to the bit line.
US11862720B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a group III-V device including a rough buffer layer. The rough buffer layer overlies a silicon substrate, a buffer structure overlies the rough buffer layer, and a heterojunction structure overlies the buffer structure. The buffer structure causes band bending and formation of a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) in the rough buffer layer. The rough buffer layer includes silicon or some other suitable semiconductor material and, in some embodiments, is doped. A top surface of the rough buffer layer and/or a bottom surface of the rough buffer layer is/are rough to promote carrier scattering along the top and bottom surfaces. The carrier scattering reduces carrier mobility and increases resistance at the 2DHG. The increased resistance increases an overall resistance of the silicon substrate, which reduces substrate loses and increases a power added efficiency (PAE).
US11862714B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure having a bottom part and an upper part on the bottom part is formed over a substrate. The bottom part is trimmed so that a width of an uppermost portion of the bottom part is smaller than a width of the upper part. Bottom end corners of the upper part are trimmed to reduce a width of the upper part at a bottom of the upper part. An isolation insulating layer is formed so that the upper part protrudes from the isolation insulating layer. A dummy gate structure is formed. A source/drain structure is formed. An interlayer dielectric layer is formed over the dummy gate structure and the source/drain structure. The dummy gate structure is replaced with a metal gate structure.
US11862713B2
Doping techniques for fin-like field effect transistors (FinFETs) are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes forming a fin structure, forming a doped amorphous layer over a portion of the fin structure, and performing a knock-on implantation process to drive a dopant from the doped amorphous layer into the portion of the fin structure, thereby forming a doped feature. The doped amorphous layer includes a non-crystalline form of a material. In some implementations, the knock-on implantation process crystallizes at least a portion of the doped amorphous layer, such that the portion of the doped amorphous layer becomes a part of the fin structure. In some implementations, the doped amorphous layer includes amorphous silicon, and the knock-on implantation process crystallizes a portion of the doped amorphous silicon layer.
US11862706B2
Semiconductor devices and methods are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first transistor having a first gate dielectric layer, a second transistor having a second gate dielectric layer, and a third transistor having a third gate dielectric layer. The first gate dielectric layer includes a first concentration of a dipole layer material, the second gate dielectric layer includes a second concentration of the dipole layer material, and the third gate dielectric layer includes a third concentration of the dipole layer material. The dipole layer material includes lanthanum oxide, aluminum oxide, or yttrium oxide. The first concentration is greater than the second concentration and the second concentration is greater than the third concentration.
US11862700B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The semiconductor device structure includes a first dielectric feature extending along a first direction, the first dielectric feature comprising a first dielectric layer having a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposing the first sidewall, a first semiconductor layer disposed adjacent the first sidewall, the first semiconductor layer extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a second dielectric feature extending along the first direction, the second dielectric feature disposed adjacent the first semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode layer surrounding at least three surfaces of the first semiconductor layer, and a portion of the first gate electrode layer is exposed to a first air gap.
US11862696B2
A semiconductor storage device relating to one embodiment includes: a stacked body in which electrode films and insulating films are alternately stacked in a first direction; a first and a second charge storage films that are arranged away from each other in the first direction inside the stacked body and each face one of the electrode films; and a tunnel insulating film that extends in the first direction inside the stacked body and is in contact with the first and the second charge storage films. The first and the second charge storage films each include a first film that is in contact with the electrode film and contains a High-k material, and a second film that is provided between the first film and the tunnel insulating film and contains silicon nitride.
US11862687B2
A nitride semiconductor device is provided, comprising: a first nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductivity-type; a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity-type provided above the first nitride semiconductor layer; a junction region of a first conductivity-type which is provided to extend in a direction from a front surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer to the first nitride semiconductor layer and has a doping concentration NJFET equal to or higher than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a source region of a first conductivity-type which is provided more shallowly than the junction region and has a doping concentration equal to or higher than the doping concentration NJFET, wherein a dopant of the source region is an element with an atomic weight larger than that of a dopant in the junction region.
US11862672B2
[Object] To provide a semiconductor device capable of improving a discharge starting voltage when measuring electric characteristics, and widening a pad area of a surface electrode or increasing the number of semiconductor devices (number of chips) to be obtained from one wafer, and a method for manufacturing the same. [Solution Means] A semiconductor device 1 includes an n-type SiC layer 2 having a first surface 2A, a second surface 2B, and end faces 2C, a p-type voltage relaxing layer 7 formed in the SiC layer 2 so as to be exposed to the end portion of the first surface 2A of the SiC layer 2, an insulating layer 8 formed on the SiC layer 2 so as to cover the voltage relaxing layer 7, and an anode electrode 9 that is connected to the first surface 2A of the SiC layer 2 through the insulating layer 8 and has a pad area 95 selectively exposed.
US11862669B2
An embodiment relates to a device comprising a first section and a second section. The first section comprises a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) interface comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a first contact with a horizontal surface of a semiconductor substrate and the second portion comprises a second contact with a trench sidewall of a trench region of the semiconductor substrate. The second section comprises one of a second metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) interface and a metal region. The second MOS interface comprises a third contact with the trench sidewall of the trench region. The metal region comprises a fourth contact with a first conductivity type drift layer. The first section and the second section are located contiguously within the device along a lateral direction.
US11862657B2
To achieve a size reduction of a semiconductor package while securing stability in mounting. Three terminals t1, t2, and t4 are individually arranged on a semiconductor package 10 having a rectangular shape as viewed in plan in such a manner that the center in the longitudinal direction of the semiconductor package 10 of each of the three terminals t1, t2, and t4 and the center in the longitudinal direction of each of the other terminals are not overlapped with each other as viewed from the side of the long side. The terminal t4 and the other terminals t1 and t2 are arranged in such a manner that the terminal t4 and the other terminals t1 and t2 are present on mutually different sides across a line segment M passing through the center in the width direction, an angle θ formed by two line segments connecting the center of gravity of the terminal t4, the position in the longitudinal direction of which is the center, and the center of gravity of each of the other terminals t1 and t2 is 60° or more, and a width L1 of the semiconductor package 10 and a distance Lt between the rightmost end position of the terminal t4 arranged at the rightmost end in the width direction of the semiconductor package 10 and the leftmost end position of the terminal t1 or t2 arranged at the leftmost position in the width direction satisfy Lt/L1≥0.5.
US11862651B2
A light-trapping image sensor includes a pixel array and a lens array. The pixel array is formed in and on a semiconductor substrate and including photosensitive pixels each including a reflective material forming a cavity around a portion of semiconductor material to at least partly trap light that has entered the cavity. The cavity has a ceiling at a light-receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate, and the ceiling forms an aperture for receiving the light into the cavity. The lens array is disposed on the pixel array. Each lens of the lens array is aligned to the aperture of a respective cavity to focus the light into the cavity through the aperture.
US11862650B2
In some embodiments, an image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a photodetector disposed in a semiconductor substrate. A wave guide filter having a substantially planar upper surface is disposed over the photodetector. The wave guide filter includes a light filter disposed in a light filter grid structure. The light filter includes a first material that is translucent and has a first refractive index. The light filter grid structure includes a second material that is translucent and has a second refractive index less than the first refractive index.
US11862642B2
A display panel, an array substrate, and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the array substrate includes a thin film transistor device, and an interface layer, a first transparent conductive layer, a passivation layer, and a second transparent conductive layer which are formed on the thin film transistor device in sequence. By replacing a planarization layer in the prior art with the interface layer, performing a gate re-etching process, and perforating the interface layer and the passivation layer to simultaneously form a deep via and a shallow via, a number of photomasks required to form the array substrate is reduced to 8. It effectively reduces costs of production materials and costs of photomasks.
US11862638B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first fin extending from a substrate; a second fin extending from the substrate; a gate spacer over the first fin and the second fin; a gate dielectric having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion extending along a first sidewall of the first fin, the second portion extending along a second sidewall of the second fin, the third portion extending along a third sidewall of the gate spacer, the third portion and the first portion forming a first acute angle, the third portion and the second portion forming a second acute angle; and a gate electrode on the gate dielectric.
US11862635B2
Neighboring gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having disjoined epitaxial source or drain regions, and methods of fabricating neighboring gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having disjoined epitaxial source or drain regions, are described. For example, a structure includes first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires, the nanowires of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires having a horizontal width greater than a horizontal width of the nanowires of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires. First and second gate stacks are over the first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires, respectively. First epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires, and second epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires. An intervening dielectric structure is between neighboring ones of the first epitaxial source or drain structures and of the second epitaxial source or drain structures.
US11862627B2
A display device includes a substrate that includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, a display element on the display area, a peripheral circuit on the peripheral area, the peripheral circuit including a thin film transistor, a first shielding layer on the peripheral circuit. and a second shielding layer on the first shielding layer. At least one of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer includes a hole. One shielding layer of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer includes the hole and overlaps the other one of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer.
US11862624B2
An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate having components of a peripheral circuit structure formed in and on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The peripheral circuit structure comprising a plurality of protective antenna diodes therein. A memory cell array structure is provided on at least a portion of the peripheral circuit structure. A charge accumulating conductive plate is provided, which extends between the peripheral circuit structure and the memory cell array structure. The conductive plate is electrically connected to current carrying terminals of the antenna diodes within the peripheral circuit structure. The conductive plate may have a generally rectangular planar shape with four corners, and the antenna diodes may be arranged into four groups, which extend between respective corners of the conductive plate and the semiconductor substrate.
US11862622B2
An integrated circuit layout includes a first standard cell and a second standard cell. The first standard cell includes first gate lines arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction. The second standard cell abuts to one side of the first standard cell along the second direction and includes second gate lines arranged along the first direction and extending along the second direction. A first gate line width of the first gate lines and a second gate line width of the second gate lines are different. A first cell width of the first standard cell and a second cell width of the second standard cell are integral multiples of a default gate line pitch of the first gate lines and the second gate lines. At least some of the second gate lines and at least some of the first gate lines are aligned along the second direction.
US11862621B2
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes at least one delay circuit having an input and an output, and an output connector electrically coupled to the output. The delay circuit further includes a plurality of transistors electrically coupled with each other between the input and the output. The plurality of transistors is configured to delay an input signal received at the input to generate a delayed signal at the output. The output is in a first metal layer. The output connector includes a first conductive pattern in the first metal layer, and a second conductive pattern in a second metal layer different from the first metal layer. The second conductive pattern electrically couples the output to the first conductive pattern.
US11862615B2
Solid state lighting (SSL) devices and methods of manufacturing such devices. One embodiment of an SSL device comprises a support and an emitter array having a plurality of SSL emitters carried by the support. The emitter array has a central region and a peripheral region outward from the central region. Individual SSL emitters in both the central and the peripheral regions have a primary emission direction along which an intensity of light from the SSL emitters is highest, and the primary emission direction of the SSL emitters in the central region is at least substantially the same direction as the primary emission direction of the SSL emitters in the peripheral region. Additionally, a first coverage area ratio of the SSL emitters in the central region is different than a second coverage area ratio of the SSL emitters in the peripheral region.
US11862614B2
A micro LED display device includes a substrate, micro LED units and a transparent insulation layer. The substrate includes conductive pads and conductive connecting portions. The conductive pads are disposed on the substrate. Each of the micro LED units includes a semiconductor epitaxial structure and electrodes. The electrodes are disposed on the semiconductor epitaxial structure, and each of the electrodes is connected to one of the conductive connecting portions adjacent to each other. The transparent insulation layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the conductive pads, the conductive connecting portions and the micro LED units, and the transparent insulation layer is filled between the electrodes of each of the micro LED units. The transparent insulation layer relative to a surface on each of the semiconductor epitaxial structures is of a first thickness and a second thickness, and the first thickness is different from the second thickness.
US11862612B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a three-dimensional (3D) trench capacitor, as well as methods for forming the same. In some embodiments, a first substrate overlies a second substrate so a front side of the first substrate faces a front side of the second substrate. A first trench capacitor and a second trench capacitor extend respectively into the front sides of the first and second substrates. A plurality of wires and a plurality of vias are stacked between and electrically coupled to the first and second trench capacitors. A first through substrate via (TSV) extends through the first substrate from a back side of the first substrate, and the wires and the vias electrically couple the first TSV to the first and second trench capacitors. The first and second trench capacitors and the electrical coupling therebetween collectively define the 3D trench capacitor.
US11862598B2
There is provided a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor element; a support substrate configured to support the semiconductor element; an intermediate metal layer interposed between the semiconductor element and the support substrate in a thickness direction of the support substrate, wherein the semiconductor element and the intermediate metal layer are bonded by solid phase diffusion bonding; and a first positioning portion including a portion of the semiconductor element and a first portion of the intermediate metal layer and configured to suppress relative movement between the semiconductor element and the intermediate metal layer.
US11862596B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising a redistribution substrate, a semiconductor chip on the redistribution substrate and including a chip pad electrically connected to the redistribution substrate, and a conductive terminal on the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate includes a first dielectric layer, a first redistribution pattern, a second dielectric layer, a second redistribution pattern, and a first insulative pattern. The first redistribution pattern electrically connects the chip pad and the second redistribution pattern. The first insulative pattern has a first surface in contact with the first redistribution pattern and a second surface in contact with the second redistribution pattern. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. A width at the first surface of the first insulative pattern is the same as or greater than a width at the second surface of the first insulative pattern.
US11862589B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip comprising a first surface and a second surface, a redistribution layer on the first surface of the semiconductor chip, an under bump metal (UBM) layer on the redistribution layer, and a solder bump on the UBM layer, and the solder bump covers both outer side surfaces of the UBM layer.
US11862583B2
A semiconductor wafer thinned by a stealth lasing process, and semiconductor dies formed therefrom. After formation of an integrated circuit layer on a semiconductor wafer, the wafer may be thinned by focusing a laser at discrete points in the wafer substrate beneath the surface of the wafer. Upon completion of stealth lasing in one or more planar layers in the substrate, a portion of the substrate may be removed, leaving the wafer thinned to a desired final thickness.
US11862575B2
A semiconductor device includes a crack detection ring and a crack detection structure. The semiconductor device comprises a first seal-ring surrounding a circuit region; a crack detection ring surrounding the first seal-ring; a second seal-ring surrounding the first seal-ring and the crack detection ring; a connection part connecting the first seal-ring and the crack detection ring; and a crack detection structure disposed in the circuit region and electrically connected to the crack detection ring.
US11862559B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a metallization feature over the semiconductor substrate, a first dielectric feature, a second dielectric feature, and a via contact. The metallization feature includes a first bottom corner and a second bottom corner opposite to the first bottom corner. The first dielectric feature is adjacent to the first bottom corner, and the second dielectric feature is adjacent to the second bottom corner. The metallization feature is interposed between the first dielectric feature and the second dielectric feature. In some embodiments, an included angle of the first bottom corner defined by a sidewall of first dielectric feature and a bottom surface of the metallization feature is less than 90°. The via contact is configured to connect the metallization feature to the semiconductor substrate.
US11862547B2
Embodiments include assemblies. An assembly includes a substrate having a first interconnect and a second interconnect. The first interconnect has a first conductive pad and a second conductive pad, and the second interconnect has a third conductive pad and a fourth conductive pad. The assembly includes a socket over the substrate. The socket has a first pin, a second pin, and a base layer with a first pad and a second pad. The first and second pins are vertically over the respective first and second interconnects. The first pad is directly coupled to the first pin and fourth conductive pad, while the second pad is directly coupled to the second pin and second conductive pad. The first pad is positioned partially within a footprint of the third conductive pad, and the second pad is positioned partially within a footprint of the first conductive pad.
US11862546B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor core assemblies and methods of forming the same. The semiconductor core assemblies described herein may be utilized to form semiconductor package assemblies, PCB assemblies, PCB spacer assemblies, chip carrier assemblies, intermediate carrier assemblies (e.g., for graphics cards), and the like. In one embodiment, a silicon substrate core is structured by direct laser patterning. One or more conductive interconnections are formed in the substrate core and one or more redistribution layers are formed on surfaces thereof. The silicon substrate core may thereafter be utilized as a core structure for a semiconductor package, PCB, PCB spacer, chip carrier, intermediate carrier, or the like.
US11862537B2
A soldering structure configured for preventing solder overflow during soldering and a power module, may include a component to be soldered; and a metal layer having a bonding area, to which the component to be soldered is bonded by solder, and a groove portion formed around the bonding area.
US11862532B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion, first bump structures, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer, a contact layer, and isolation sections. Herein, the active layer and the isolation sections reside over the contact layer, and the active layer is surrounded by the isolation sections. The BEOL portion is formed underneath the FEOL portion, and the first bump structures and the first mold compound are formed underneath the BEOL portion. Each first bump structure is partially encapsulated by the first mold compound, and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion via connecting layers within the BEOL portion. The second mold compound resides over the active layer without a silicon material, which has a resistivity between 5 Ohm-cm and 30000 Ohm-cm, in between.
US11862530B2
A multi-layered spacer of which a thermal expansion coefficient and a thermal conductivity are controllable and a double-sided cooling power module including the multi-layered spacer, is provided between a semiconductor chip and a substrate in a double-sided cooling power module. The multi-spacer includes first metal layers made of a first metal and provided as at least respective outermost layers, and a second metal layer made of a second metal having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than a thermal expansion coefficient of the first metal and disposed between the first metal layers provided as the outermost layers.
US11862520B2
A method includes obtaining sensor data associated with a deposition process performed in a process chamber to deposit a film stack on a surface of a substrate, wherein the film stack comprises a plurality of layers of a first material and a plurality of layers of a second material. The method further includes obtaining metrology data associated with the film stack. The method further includes training a first machine-learning model based on the sensor data and the metrology data, wherein the first machine-learning model is trained to generate predictive metrology data associated with layers of the first material. The method further includes training a second machine-learning model based on the sensor data and the metrology data, wherein the second machine-learning model is trained to generate predictive metrology data associated with layers of the second material.
US11862517B1
A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
US11862516B2
A semiconductor structure manufacturing method according to the embodiments of the present application includes the following steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a first reaction layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming a second reaction layer on the first reaction layer; and thermally reacting at least a portion of the first reaction layer with at least a portion of the second reaction layer, to form an amorphous diffusion barrier layer. This amorphous diffusion barrier layer is an amorphous body with no grain boundary therein. As a result, the diffusion path for metal atoms is cut off, thereby improving the barrier effect of the barrier layer efficiently and solving the circuit performance issue caused by metal atom diffusion.
US11862514B2
An integrated circuit device according to the inventive concepts includes lower wiring structures formed on a substrate, an air gap arranged between the lower wiring structures, a capping layer covering an upper surface of the air gap, an etch stop layer conformally covering an upper surfaces of the lower wiring structures and the capping layer and having a protrusion and recess structure, an insulating layer covering the etch stop layer, and an upper wiring structure penetrating the insulating layer and connected to the upper surface of the lower wiring structure not covered with the etch stop layer, wherein the upper wiring structure covers a portion of an upper surface of the capping layer, and a level of the upper surface of the capping layer is higher than a level of the upper surface of the lower wiring structures.
US11862511B2
Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods of forming a structure for a field-effect transistor. The structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first trench, and a trench isolation region positioned in the first trench. The trench isolation region contains a dielectric material, the trench isolation region includes a second trench surrounded by the dielectric material, and the trench isolation region includes openings that penetrate through the dielectric material. A semiconductor layer is positioned in the second trench of the trench isolation region. The semiconductor layer contains a single-crystal semiconductor material.
US11862506B2
A substrate processing system includes a substrate processing module, an atmospheric substrate transfer module, a first and a second vacuum substrate transfer module, a load lock module, and a vacuum substrate transfer robot. The first vacuum substrate transfer module having a first transfer space is disposed adjacent to the atmospheric substrate transfer module and the substrate processing module. The second vacuum substrate transfer module, having a second transfer space in communication with the first transfer space and external dimensions smaller than those of the first vacuum substrate transfer module in a plan view, is disposed on or under the first vacuum substrate transfer module. The load lock module is disposed between the atmospheric substrate transfer module and the second vacuum substrate transfer module. The vacuum substrate transfer robot is disposed in the first transfer space or the second transfer space to transfer a substrate.
US11862502B2
A device, apparatus, and method for semiconductor transfer are provided. A transfer substrate is controlled to be moved to be above the target substrate. An infrared emitting portion emits infrared signals to position a semiconductor on a target substrate. After a second magnetic portion picks up the semiconductor from the target substrate, a controller outputs a first control current to a first electromagnetic portion to cause the first electromagnetic portion to generate an electromagnetic force, to control the second magnetic portion to adjust a position of the picked-up semiconductor relative to the welding position on the target substrate, where adjusting the position of the picked up semiconductor includes horizontal adjustment.
US11862500B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes: a first housing having a first chamber; a support member disposed in the first chamber and including a frame having a plurality of openings; a plurality of adhesive patterns disposed on the frame; and a plurality of electrostatic supports overlapping the plurality of openings and supported for reciprocal movement in respective ones of the openings.
US11862491B2
An apparatus for treating a substrate includes a light treatment chamber having an interior space, a support unit that supports the substrate in the interior space, and an irradiation unit that irradiates light to the substrate in the interior space to remove organic matter remaining on the substrate, in which the irradiation unit includes a first light source that irradiates first light to the substrate and a second light source that irradiates, to the substrate, second light having a different wavelength range from the first light.
US11862490B2
The present application discloses a diffusion furnace, including: a furnace tube structure including a furnace tube body and a furnace bottom, a bottom of the furnace tube body being connected to the furnace bottom to form a reaction chamber; and a carrying structure including a pedestal and a plurality of cassettes disposed on the pedestal, the pedestal being disposed on the furnace bottom. By disposing the plurality of the cassettes, a height of the furnace tube body can be decreased and a width of the furnace tube body can be increased, thus enlarging a space of equipment repair and maintenance, which is favorable for the repair and maintenance of the equipment.
US11862489B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a rotary stage configured to hold a substrate; a rotary driver configured to rotate the rotary stage around a rotation axis; at least one electric heater installed in the rotary stage; at least one power receiving coil installed in the rotary stage and electrically connected to the electric heater; at least one power feeding coil installed to face the power receiving coil in a direction of the rotation axis with a gap between the power feeding coil and the power receiving coil; and a radio-frequency power supply unit configured to supply radio-frequency power to the power feeding coil.
US11862485B2
A nozzle standby device configured to allow a nozzle to stand by therein includes a nozzle accommodation unit, having an inner circumferential surface formed to surround a leading end portion of the nozzle, provided with a drain opening facing a discharge opening of the nozzle; and a solvent discharge opening opened within the nozzle accommodation unit. The nozzle accommodation unit has a diameter reducing portion having a first and a second inner circumferential surfaces having different angles with respect to a center line of the nozzle accommodation unit such that an inner diameter of the diameter reducing portion becomes smaller toward the drain opening. An intersection point of two straight lines extending along two opposite portions of the first inner circumferential surface is located above the discharge opening of the nozzle when the leading end portion of the nozzle is placed in the diameter reducing portion.
US11862472B2
Methods for polishing dielectric layers using an auto-stop slurry in forming semiconductor devices, such as three-dimensional (3D) memory devices, are provided. The methods include forming a stack structure in a staircase region and a core array region, the stack structure including a staircase structure in the staircase region; forming a dielectric layer over the staircase region and a peripheral region outside the stack structure; and polishing the dielectric layer using an auto-stop slurry containing a ceria-based abrasive.
US11862456B2
A method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer to clean a semiconductor wafer after polishing, including: performing a first ozone-water treatment step of cleaning the polished semiconductor wafer with ozone water to form an oxide film; performing a brush cleaning step of brush-cleaning the semiconductor wafer with carbonated water after the first ozone-water treatment step; and then performing a second ozone-water treatment step including cleaning the semiconductor wafer with hydrofluoric acid to remove the oxide film, followed by cleaning with ozone water to form an oxide film again. This second ozone-water treatment step is performed one or more times.
US11862451B2
An orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometer (1) includes: an ion ejector (123) which ejects measurement-target ions in a predetermined direction; an orthogonal accelerator (132) which accelerates ions in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the ions are ejected; a ring electrode (131) located between the ion ejector and the orthogonal accelerator, the ring electrode having an opening for allowing ions to pass through and arranged so that the central axis (C2) of the opening is shifted from the central axis (C1) of the ion ejector in a direction along the axis of the acceleration of the ions by the orthogonal accelerator; a reflectron electrode (134) which creates a repelling electric field for reversing the direction of the ions accelerated by the orthogonal accelerator; and an ion detector (135) which detects ions after the direction of flight of the ions is reversed by the reflectron electrode.
US11862450B2
An ion optical arrangement (1) for use in a mass spectrometer comprises a collision cell defining an ion optical axis along which ions may pass, electrodes comprising a set of parallel poles (11A, 11B, 11C) arranged in the collision cell, and a voltage source for providing voltages to the electrodes to produce electric fields. The ion optical arrangement is arranged for switching between a first operation mode in which the collision cell is pressurized and a second operation mode in which the collision cell is substantially evacuated. The ion optical arrangement is further arranged for producing a radio frequency electric focusing field in the first operation mode and a static electric focusing field in the second operation mode.
US11862446B2
Calibrants and methods of making the same include using mixtures of multifunctional core compounds or multifunctional dendrimers that are functionalized to yield a set of discrete compounds which cover a range of collisional cross sections (CCSs) for calibrating ion mobility and variation in molecular weight to calibrate the mass to charge (m/z) measurements of mass spectrometry, as well as for calibrating tandem instruments that measure both dimensions. Methods of using the calibrants are also disclosed, such as in mass spectrometry.
US11862441B2
A plasma processing method includes providing a substrate having a recess is provided in a processing container; generating plasma in the processing container to form a film on the recess; monitoring a state of the plasma generated in the generating; and determining necessity of re-execution of the generating and processing conditions for the re-execution based on the monitored plasma state.
US11862439B2
In a substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate, a processing chamber accommodating the substrate is provided. A mounting table is disposed in the processing chamber and configured to attract and hold the substrate using an electrostatic attractive force. A charge amount measurement unit is disposed in the processing chamber and configured to measure charge amount of a substrate attraction surface of the mounting table. A charge neutralization mechanism is configured to neutralize the substrate attraction surface of the mounting table. A retreating mechanism is configured to make the charge amount measurement unit retreat from a measurement position facing the substrate attraction surface of the mounting table.
US11862430B2
According to one embodiment, a pattern formation method includes placing an imprint resist film on a substrate, then imprinting a pattern in the imprint resist film. The pattern has a first loop section in a first end portion and a second loop section in a second end portion. After the imprint resist film has been patterned, it is selectively irradiated between the first loop section and the second loop section. The imprint resist film is then etched under conditions leaving the selectively irradiated portion of the imprint resist film and removing the unirradiated portion of the imprint resist film.
US11862424B2
The main body frame includes a first frame including a flexible protruding plate portion, a second frame facing the first frame in a first direction to form the housing section, and a snap-fit mechanism connecting the first frame to the second frame. The snap-fit mechanism includes a fitted portion provided on the flexible protruding plate portion and a fitting projection portion provided on a side wall of the second frame and fitting with the fitted portion. The fitting projection portion and the fitted portion are fitted by bringing the first and second frames into relative proximity in the first direction, and the fitting is released by relatively displacing the first and second frames in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
US11862420B2
An interrupter unit for a circuit breaker includes a gas-insulated housing, which is fillable with a quenching gas, and a gas-guiding structure, which is disposed in the housing and has a guide tube and at least one diverting element. The guide tube extends in tubular manner about a longitudinal axis of the interrupter unit in order to guide hot gas, which is created in an electric arc region of the interrupter unit by the heating of quenching gas by an electric arc, away from the electric arc region. The at least one diverting element is configured to set hot gas exiting from the guide tube in a circular flow running around the longitudinal axis.
US11862417B2
A vacuum interrupter is equipped with a vacuum container and fixed and movable electrodes provided in the vacuum container. The vacuum container is constructed by hermetically respectively joining fixed-side and movable-side end plates to one and the other end portions of an insulating tube. The insulating tube is equipped at its end portion with a projection portion that projects in an axial direction of the insulating tube along an outer periphery of the insulating tube. The insulating tube is equipped at its end portion with an end plate joining portion that projects from a base end portion of the projection portion inwardly in a radial direction of the insulating tube. The end plate joining portion is equipped on its surface with a metallized layer to which the fixed-side or movable-side end plate is joined by brazing.
US11862408B2
An electrical circuit includes a contact with a pair of switchable electrodes, the contact configured to cycle through make and break transitions while conducting current. The electrical circuit further includes an arc suppressor, at least one sensor, and a controller circuit. The arc suppressor is coupled across the pair of switchable electrodes and is to extinguish an arc formed across the pair of switchable electrodes during the make and break transitions of the contact. The at least one sensor is coupled to the pair of switchable electrodes and is configured to generate sensor data. The controller circuit includes a plurality of registers and is configured to detect a fault condition associated with the contact based on the sensor data. The controller circuit further sequences contact opening of the contact based on the detected fault condition and a timing value stored in at least one register of the plurality of registers.
US11862400B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic component includes an element, a first lead, and a second lead. The element includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first lead is electrically connected with the first electrode, and has a flattened cross section. The second lead is electrically connected with the second electrode. The first lead includes a first connection portion, a first bonding portion, and a first extension portion. The first connection portion is connected with the first electrode. The first bonding portion is configured to be bonded with a substrate. The first bonding portion extends in an extension direction perpendicular to a first counter direction. The first counter direction connects the first electrode and the second electrode. The first extension portion is located between the first connection portion and the first bonding portion. The first extension portion extends in the extension direction.
US11862394B2
An electrochemical capacitor (300) for use with a biofilm is presented. The electrochemical capacitor includes a first electrode (324) coupled to a first porous layer (326), a second electrode (334) coupled to a second porous layer (336); and an electrolyte (310) provided between the first porous layer (326) and the second porous layer (336). At least one of the first porous layer (326) and the second porous layer (336) has a plurality of cavities adapted to receive redox-active metabolites produced by the biofilm. Also presented is an electrochemical capacitor device, such as a skin patch that includes a support layer attached to the electrochemical capacitor (300). Also presented is a power source that includes the electrochemical capacitor (300) and a biofilm provided between the first electrode (324) and the second electrode (334) of the electrochemical capacitor (300).
US11862391B2
Magnet array structure includes a first linear magnet array and a second linear magnet array having a first and a second arrangement of magnets, respectively, in which the first and the second arrangement of magnets are repeated along respective lengths of the first and second linear magnet array. The first and second arrangement of magnets include respective individual first and second magnet elements arranged along the respective length of the first and second linear magnet array so that no net magnetic forces parallel to the length of the first and second linear magnet array result on the first and second arrangement of magnets, respectively. The first arrangement of magnets is offset from the second arrangement of magnets so that the first arrangement of magnets and the second arrangement of magnets partially overlap.
US11862389B1
A magnetic device includes a magnetic core, a plurality of first windings forming respective first winding turns, and a second winding forming a second winding turn. Each first winding turn is within the second winding turn, as seen when the magnetic device is viewed cross-sectionally in a first direction. Yet another magnetic device includes a magnetic core, one or more first windings, and one or more second windings magnetically isolated from the one or more first windings.
US11862375B2
A support for mounting an accessory equipment assembly with one or more accessory equipment units, such as current transformer units, to a base of a bushing includes a conductor surrounded by an insulator part such that each of the accessory equipment units is positioned in a defined way regarding the conductor, wherein said support includes aligning means for aligning each individual accessory equipment unit separately with respect to the conductor. A corresponding accessory equipment module includes an accessory equipment assembly with one or more accessory equipment units, such as current transformer units, and a support for mounting the accessory equipment assembly as well as a bushing unit including a bushing and said kind of accessory equipment module.
US11862371B2
A magnetic structural body contains core-shell structure particles each including a core section and a shell section covering the surface of the core section. The core section is made of an alloy containing a first metal and a second metal. The shell section is made of an alloy which contains the first metal and the second metal and which has a first metal-to-second metal content ratio different from that of the core section. The first metal is a magnetic metal and has a standard redox potential higher than that of the second metal. The neighboring core-shell structure particles are linearly linked to each other.
US11862364B2
Energy and a control signal may be provided using a coupled power and control cable. The coupled power and control cable may comprise a power cable, a control cable, and an overall jacket. The power cable may be connected between a switch and a fixture and may provide energy to the fixture from the switch. The control cable may be connected between the control circuit and the fixture and may provide the control signal to the fixture from the control circuit. The power cable and the control cable maybe disposed beneath the overall jacket.
US11862360B2
A support stand made of a non-conductive material and having a saddle, pedestal and a base used to support objects is provided. The pedestal supports the saddle and the base supports the pedestal. The saddle has a support member used to support objects and one or more flanges used to support objects. The saddle, pedestal and base are formed of a non-conductive material.
US11862356B2
A reactor that is operable to produce an isotope includes a region for containing a controlled nuclear fission reaction, the region segmented into a plurality of independent compartments, each of the compartments for containing a parent material in an aqueous solution that interacts with neutrons to produce the isotope via a fission reaction. Also provided are methods of producing an isotope using the same.
US11862351B2
The invention relates to a multi-component cladding for a nuclear fuel rod that includes a combination of ceramic and metal components. More particularly, the invention is directed to a cladding that includes a ceramic composite having a zirconium composition deposited thereon to form a zirconium coated ceramic composite. The ceramic composite includes a ceramic matrix and a plurality of ceramic fibers. The cladding is effective to protect the contents of the cladding structure from exposure to high temperature environments during various load conditions of a nuclear reactor.
US11862347B2
A method, computer system, and computer program for improving communication between a patient and a provider are described. The method, computer system and computer program perform a method that includes: obtaining data related to the health state of a patient; associating a timestamp with the data, encrypting the data and writing the data to a computer readable medium, determining whether the data is in a pre-configured range, and responsive to determining that the data is not in the pre-configured range, sending an alert to a client. This method also includes obtaining a response from the client and writing the response to the computer readable medium, where the response includes a medical recommendation based on the data.
US11862341B2
A server for classifying a plurality of mental states of a user is provided. The server comprised: a service platform; and a mental state classification platform. The service platform is configured to: provide a questionnaire corresponding to each of the plurality of mental states to a terminal of a user, and receive an answer of the user to the questionnaire from the terminal; receive a face image generated by photographing a face of the user while the user inputs the answer to the questionnaire for each of the plurality of mental states in the terminal of the user; by the terminal, display the face image including at least a middle of a forehead and both cheeks of the face of the user on the user interface so that the user can recognize his/her appearance while inputting the answer to the questionnaire through the user interface of the terminal; and transmit the answer received from the user and the face image to the mental state classification platform.
US11862335B2
A method, system, gateway and computer program for remote controlling and monitoring of at least one instrument, for example a bioproces sing instrument. The system can comprise: at least one instrument to be controlled and/or monitored; at least one instrument server connected to the at least one instrument, said instrument server comprising an instrument control software; at least one gateway connected to the at least one instrument server; a transferring means provided in the at least one instrument server, said transferring means being arranged to receive information from the at least one connected instrument and forward said information to the at least one gateway.
US11862332B2
Devices and methods for mobile monitoring of a drainage catheter are provided. A device may be configured to perform an operation of rendering a user interface. The user interface may be configured to provide an output interface configured to prompt a user to input catheter use information, catheter use information being information related to using the catheter to drain fluid from the patient. The user interface may be configured to provide an input interface for the user to input catheter use information. The device may be further configured to receive catheter use information input by the user through the user interface. The device may be further configured to generate catheter management information based upon the received catheter use information. A method for mobile monitoring of a drainage catheter may include using a processor to perform the steps the device is configured to perform.
US11862331B2
An apparatus is disclosed, comprising a detector unit comprising a detector configured to detect an actuation action performable via the detector unit to an actuation button of a medical device to cause the medical device to eject at least a portion of a medicament comprised in the medical device. The detector is configured to detect the actuation action based on a detection of a force and/or a touch applied to the detector unit as part of the actuation action. The apparatus further comprises an electric unit connected to the detector and configured to store and/or provide information related to the detected actuation action. Furthermore, an according method and a computer program for controlling this method are disclosed.
US11862327B2
A remaining time calculation unit calculates, based on a notification waiting time indicating a time from when a feature region is recognized to when a notification of a recognition result of the feature region is started and a count time counted by a time count unit, a remaining time until the notification of the recognition result of the feature region is provided. A display control unit displays on a monitor remaining time notification information obtained based on at least the remaining time.
US11862316B2
A system and method for obtaining prior authorization and fulfilling a prescription is described. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, prescription information for a patient from a prescriber; identifying, by the computing device, an electronic health record associated with the patient; collecting, by the computing device, medical information for the patient related to the prescription from the electronic health record; submitting, by the computing device, a claim for the prescription with a payor associated with the patient; and completing, by the computing device, a prior authorization request for the prescription.
US11862314B2
Methods and systems are provided for an online system for patient control of a medical prescription. In one example, a method is provided for transmitting a prescription to a first pharmacy in response to a patient selecting the first pharmacy for a first fill of the prescription. The method may further include transmitting the prescription to a second pharmacy in response to the patient selecting the second pharmacy, different than the first pharmacy, for a second fill of the prescription.
US11862312B2
Provided are systems, methods, and devices for sleep intervention quality assessment. Methods include receiving measurement data from a plurality of data sources, the measurement data comprising a plurality of measurements of biological parameters of a user before and after a sleep intervention, and receiving treatment data comprising one or more treatment parameters associated with the sleep intervention. Methods further include generating, using one or more processors, a plurality of quality assessment metrics based on the received measurement data, the plurality of quality assessment metrics being generated based, at least in part, on a comparison of the plurality of measurements of biological parameters before and after the sleep intervention, and generating a report based, at least in part, on the plurality of quality assessment metrics.
US11862310B2
A system, method, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision making, and in particular, decision making based on a third party's clinical situation by determining and providing useful, up-to-date information, such as patient-related information to a decision maker. In one embodiment, a user first identifies an information item concerning a patient. Based on that item, a set of related information items is determined and prioritized, and a reference pointer, which identifies the set of related information, is generated. The reference pointer is communicated to the user's mobile device. Subsequently, the user's mobile device requests information from the set of information items associated with the reference pointer, and provides information authorization information. Following authentication of the user's credentials, updates of information from the set of information items may be communicated to the user's mobile device as they become available.
US11862307B2
An inbound message including medical record content may be received. The inbound message may indicate a healthcare entity and a vendor entity. It may be determined, from the healthcare entity and stored correspondences between medical record formats and healthcare entities, that the medical record content of the inbound message is in a first medical record format. Which configuration record of stored configuration records specifying combinations of sets of rules may be determined to apply as a translation to the inbound message based upon the medical record content of the inbound message and the first medical record format. The sets of rules as indicated by the configuration record may be accessed and applied to the inbound message to translate the medical record content in the inbound message from the first medical record format to the standardized format. The standardized format may be transmitted to the vendor entity.
US11862302B2
Automatically generating a structured medical note during a remote medical consultation using machine learning. A provider tele-presence device may receive audio from a medical provider. A medical documentation server may be coupled to the network. A machine learning network receives audio data from the provider tele-presence device, the machine learning network generating a structured medical note based on the received audio data, and wherein the structured medical note is stored in the medical documentation server in association with an identity of a patient.
US11862299B2
The invention provides methods of determining a consensus sequence from multiple raw sequencing reads of a nucleic acid target. The nucleic acid target includes an anchor segment of known sequence and an adjacent segment of unknown sequence. The anchor segment provides a means to assess the quality of a raw target sequencing read. Raw target sequencing reads meeting or exceeding a threshold are assigned to an accepted class. The consensus sequence of the adjacent segment can be determined from raw target sequencing reads in the accepted class. Successive polling steps determine successive consensus nucleobases in a nascent sequence of the adjacent segment. Raw target sequencing reads can be removed or reintroduced from the accepted class depending on their correspondence to the most recently determined consensus nucleobase and/or the nascent sequence.
US11862297B1
A method includes accessing genomic data from a first cohort and a second cohort of patients that are encrypted to comprise a probabilistic and irreversible hash of each patient's genomic sequence data; based on the probabilistic and irreversible hashes, determining one or more variants residing in a particular locale indicating where the one or more variants reside; comparing a first number of variants determined to reside in the particular locale for the first cohort of patients with a second number of variants determined to reside in the particular locale for the second cohort of patients; and in response to determining that the first number of variants determined to reside in the particular locale for the first cohort of patients and the second number of variants determined to reside in the particular locale for the second cohort of patients differ by more than a threshold value, identifying the particular locale.
US11862295B1
A system and method for classifying conformers of a molecule are provided. The methods for classifying conformers of a molecule include selecting a target molecule, generating a list of conformers of the target molecule, completing a quantum mechanics (QM) simulation for each conformer, extracting an electronic energy for each conformer from the corresponding QM simulation, calculating average electron density (AED) values corresponding to a most electronegative group of the target molecule, generating a plot of the electronic energies vs. the calculated AED values, and classifying conformers based on this plot. Similar methods can also be used to predict shapes of electrostatic potential (ESP) maps for conformers of a molecule. These ESP maps can, in turn, be used to identify conformers of the molecule having desired chemical or pharmaceutical properties.
US11862293B2
A semiconductor memory device includes memory cell arrays including a first memory cell and a first word line connected to the first memory cell, a first wiring electrically connected to the first word lines corresponding to the memory cell arrays, a driver circuit electrically connected to the first wiring, second wirings electrically connected to the first wiring via the driver circuit, a voltage generation circuit including output terminals disposed corresponding to the second wirings, and first circuits disposed corresponding to the memory cell arrays. The voltage generation circuit is electrically connected to the first word lines via a first current path including the second wirings, the driver circuit, and the first wiring. The voltage generation circuit is electrically connected to the first word lines via a second current path including the second wirings and the first circuits and without including the driver circuit.
US11862287B2
Systems, methods, circuits, and apparatus including computer-readable mediums for managing page buffer circuits in memory devices are provided. In one aspect, a memory device includes a memory cell array, memory cell lines connecting respective lines of memory cells, and a page buffer circuit including page buffers coupled to the memory cell lines. Each page buffer includes a sensing latch circuit and a storage latch circuit. The sensing latch circuit includes a sensing transistor coupled to a sensing node and at least one sensing latch unit having a first node coupled to the sensing node and a second node coupled to a first terminal of the sensing transistor. The storage latch circuit includes at least one storage latch unit having third and fourth nodes coupled to the sensing node and a gate terminal of the sensing transistor. A second terminal of the sensing transistor is coupled to a ground.
US11862285B2
A sense amplifier, a memory and a method for controlling the sense amplifier are provided. The sense amplifier includes: an amplification module configured to read data in a storage unit on a first or second bit line; a control module electrically connected to the amplification module. When data in the storage unit on the first bit line is read, in a first amplification phase of the sense amplifier, the control module configures the amplification module to include a first current mirror structure and connects a mirror terminal of the first current mirror structure to the second bit line; when data in the storage unit on the second bit line is read, in the first amplification phase of the sense amplifier, the control module configures the amplification module to include a second current mirror structure and connects a mirror terminal of the second current mirror structure to the first bit line.
US11862279B2
A method for determining a repaired line and a repairing line in a memory includes the following: writing first preset data sets into respective lines in a normal region, and writing second preset data sets into respective lines in a redundancy region; repairing the lines in the normal region by using the lines in the redundancy region; reading data from the lines in the normal region after repairing; and determining a repaired line in the normal region and a repairing line in the redundancy region according to the data of the lines in the normal region, the data of the lines in the normal region after repairing, or the data of the lines in the redundancy region.
US11862274B2
Disclosed is a system including a memory device having a plurality of physical cells and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device. The processing device maintains association of block families with a first (second, etc.) bin of a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins associated with one or more read voltage offsets. The read voltage offsets are used to compensate for a temporal read voltage shift caused by a charge loss by memory cells of the block families. Responsive to an occurrence of a power event, the processing device performs diagnostics of one or more blocks of various block families and determines whether to maintain association of the block families with current bins of the respective block families or to associate the block families with different bins.
US11862269B2
A testing method for a packaged chip includes: acquiring a target chip; in the post-burn-in test process, testing a first data retention time of each memory unit on the target chip; comparing the first data retention time of each memory unit with a preset reference time; and, determining that the target chip is a qualified chip if the first data retention time of each memory unit is not less than the preset reference time. In the present application, by testing the first data retention time of each memory unit on the target chip in the post-burn-in test process, it is determined that the target chip is a qualified chip if the first data retention time of each memory unit is not less than the preset reference time.
US11862264B2
A memory circuit includes a sense amplifier coupled to a non-volatile memory cell, and a detection circuit coupled to the sense amplifier and the non-volatile memory cell. The sense amplifier includes a comparator. The comparator includes a first input terminal coupled to the non-volatile memory cell by a first node, and configured to receive a first voltage, a second input terminal configured to receive a second voltage, and a first output terminal configured to output a first output signal. The detection circuit is configured to latch the first output signal and disrupt a current path between the non-volatile memory cell and the sense amplifier. The detection circuit includes a first inverter. A first input terminal of the first inverter is configured to receive the first output signal. A first output terminal of the first inverter is configured to generate an inverted first output signal.
US11862247B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory string including a first select transistor, a first memory cell, a first select element, a second memory cell, and a second select element in series, a second memory string including a second select transistor, a third memory cell, a third select element, a fourth memory cell, and a fourth select element in series, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to set the second select transistor to an on state, and to set the third select element and the fourth select element to an off state, when reading data of the first memory cell.
US11862245B2
Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells each having a floating body for storing, reading and writing data as volatile memory. The device includes a floating gate or trapping layer for storing data as non-volatile memory, the device operating as volatile memory when power is applied to the device, and the device storing data from the volatile memory as non-volatile memory when power to the device is interrupted.
US11862233B2
The present application relates to the field of semiconductors, in particular, to the field of Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAMs), and provides a method and system for detecting a mismatch of a sense amplifier. The method creates a sense amplifier by delaying switch-on of a positive channel-metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor or a negative channel-metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor in the sense amplifier and shortening a row precharge command period (tRP).
US11862224B2
A method for performing memory calibration and an associated System on Chip (SoC) Integrated Circuit (IC) are provided. The method may include: in a power-up and initialization phase, controlling a physical layer (PHY) circuit within the SoC IC to apply power to a memory through a pad set and perform initialization on the memory; in an impedance-calibration-related phase, triggering the memory to perform impedance calibration regarding a set of data pins; in at least one subsequent phase, during performing any calibration operation among a reading-related calibration operation and a writing-related calibration operation, performing a data access test corresponding to a set of test points on a predetermined mask, wherein the predetermined mask is movable with respect to a data eye; and according to whether the data access test is successful, selectively stopping the any calibration operation.
US11862219B2
A memory cell includes a write bit line, a read word line, a write transistor, and a read transistor. The write transistor is coupled between the write bit line and a first node. The read transistor is coupled to the write transistor by the first node. The read transistor includes a ferroelectric layer, a drain terminal of the read transistor is coupled to the read word line, and a source terminal of the read transistor is coupled to a second node. The write transistor is configured to set a stored data value of the memory cell by a write bit line signal that adjusts a polarization state of the read transistor. The polarization state corresponds to the stored data value.
US11862218B2
In some embodiments, the present application provides a memory device. The memory device includes a memory cell array comprising a plurality of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) memory cells arranged in columns and rows, a read bias circuit connected to the memory cell array and configured to provide a reading bias for a MTJ memory cell of the memory cell array, and a first non-linear resistance device connected in series and between the MTJ memory cell and the read bias circuit. The first non-linear resistance device is configured to provide a first resistance when conducting a first current and a second resistance greater than the first resistance when conducting a second current smaller than the first current.
US11862213B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk that has a track including a first servo sector and a second servo sector that is different from the first servo sector, a head that writes data to the disk and reads data from the disk, and a controller that records first signal strength record data related to a signal strength at which first target servo data that is a target of the first servo sector is read, and standardizes first signal strength data related to a signal strength at which the first target servo data is read when the first target servo data is read.
US11862212B2
[Solving Means] A magnetic recording medium according to an embodiment of the present technology is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, including: a magnetic layer including a servo band, a servo signal being recorded on the servo band. An index expressed by Sq×Fact.(p−p)/F0(p−p) is 0.42 or more, Sq being a squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a perpendicular direction, F0(p−p) being a peak-to-peak value of a first magnetic force gradient strength observed by a magnetic force microscope when a servo signal is saturation-recorded on the magnetic layer, Fact.(p−p) being a peak-to-peak value of a second magnetic force gradient strength for the servo signal recorded on the servo band observed by the magnetic force microscope.
US11862209B2
An improved load beam is described herein. In some embodiments, the load beam comprises a major surface including a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end including a tip weld, a dustpan, and a lift tab; side rails extending from the major surface and the dustpan; and a slit disposed on the major surface about the tip weld.
US11862204B2
A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk including a track having a plurality of sectors, a motor configured to rotate the magnetic disk, a magnetic head, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a first read operation of reading target sectors among the sectors of the track, with the magnetic head during a first revolution of the magnetic disk, detect an off-track state of the magnetic head during the first revolution of the magnetic disk, perform a first error correction with respect to data read from the target sectors during the first read operation, and perform a second read operation of selectively reading a part of the target sectors for which the off-track state has been detected or the first error correction is unsuccessful, with the magnetic head during a second revolution of the magnetic disk.
US11862200B2
Methods for creating interactive audio-video contents, through visualization on an interactive display include providing a interconnected video segments, adapted to evolve in time, each having an initial video segment and one or more final video segments. Each video segment includes a non-interactive video clip having a given, or even null, duration, and an interactive node. The interactive node acts as an interconnection with one or more other video segments. Each interactive node includes a loop interval subject to continuous cyclical forward and backward time evolution. At least one set of commands determines connection choices among the video segments. The commands can be activated during at least one of the loop intervals. Upon activation of a command during the loop interval, the interval is exited and processing continues in the video segment of the one or more other video segments in which said interactive audio-video content continues.
US11862193B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises an actuator, a controller that controls the actuator, a loop shaping filter connected in parallel with the controller, the loop shaping filter having a parameter for suppressing a rotation asynchronous disturbance affecting the actuator, the parameter of the loop shaping filter being determined using a transfer function from an output of the loop shaping filter to before an input of the rotation asynchronous disturbance, and a notch filter that suppresses mechanical resonance of the actuator.
US11862187B2
An electronic device receives a first audio content item that includes a plurality of sound sources. The electronic device generates a representation of the first audio content item. The electronic device determines, from the representation of the first audio content item: a representation of an isolated sound source, and frequency data associated with the isolated sound source. Determining the representation of the isolated sound source and the frequency data associated with the isolated sound source includes using a neural network to jointly determine the representation of the isolated sound source and the frequency data associated with the isolated sound source. The electronic device determines that a portion of a second audio content item matches the first audio content item using the representation of the isolated sound source and/or the frequency data associated with the isolated sound source.
US11862186B2
A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as a human voice. The method includes, upon a determination that at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to the predetermined type, determining whether the sound input includes predetermined content, such as a predetermined trigger word or phrase. The method also includes, upon a determination that the sound input includes the predetermined content, initiating a speech-based service, such as a voice-based digital assistant.
US11862177B2
Embodiments described herein provide for systems and methods for implementing a neural network architecture for spoof detection in audio signals. The neural network architecture contains a layers defining embedding extractors that extract embeddings from input audio signals. Spoofprint embeddings are generated for particular system enrollees to detect attempts to spoof the enrollee's voice. Optionally, voiceprint embeddings are generated for the system enrollees to recognize the enrollee's voice. The voiceprints are extracted using features related to the enrollee's voice. The spoofprints are extracted using features related to features of how the enrollee speaks and other artifacts. The spoofprints facilitate detection of efforts to fool voice biometrics using synthesized speech (e.g., deepfakes) that spoof and emulate the enrollee's voice.
US11862170B2
A system is provided for determining privacy controls for output including sensitive data. A user may subscribe to receive an output in the future based on the occurrence of an event. The system may determine when the event is occurred triggering the output, and determine that the output includes outputting sensitive data. The system may determine output data that does not include the sensitive data, send the output data to a device, and may request the user to provide an authentication input to receive the sensitive data.
US11862160B2
A control method for a display system is provided. The display system includes a display device displaying an image, and a voice processing device which generates first voice data based on a first voice requesting a first-type operation belonging to a part of a plurality of types of operations to the display device and transmits the first voice data to a server device. The display device receives a command to execute the first-type operation from the server device. The display device includes a voice recognition unit recognizing a second voice requesting a second-type operation that is different from the first-type operation, and a control unit controlling execution of the first-type operation and the second-type operation. The voice processing device transmits the first voice data requesting a permission for the execution of the second-type operation, to the server device. The display device receives a command permitting the execution of the second-type operation from the server device. The control unit starts the execution of the second-type operation in response to the command permitting the execution of the second-type operation.
US11862156B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to providing talk back automation for applications installed on a mobile device. To do so actions (e.g., talk back features) can be created, via the digital assistant, by recording a series of events that are typically provided by a user of the mobile device when manually invoking the desired action. At a desired state, the user may select an object that represents the output of the application. The recording embodies the action and can be associated with a series of verbal commands that the user would typically announce to the digital assistant when an invocation of the action is desired. In response, the object is verbally communicated to the user via the digital assistant, a different digital assistant, or even another device. Alternatively, the object may be communicated to the same application or another application as input.
US11862150B2
A skill dispatching method for a speech dialogue platform including: receiving, by a central control dispatching service, a semantic result of recognizing a user's voice sent by a data distribution service; dispatching, by the central control dispatching service, a plurality of skill services related to the semantic result in parallel, and obtaining skill parsing results from the plurality of skill services; sorting the skill parsing results based on priorities of the skill services, and exporting a result with the highest priority to a skill realization discrimination service; when failure in realization, selecting a result with the highest priority among the rest of skill parsing results and exporting the same to the skill realization discrimination service, and when success in realization, sending the result with the highest priority to the data distribution service for feedback to the user. The method improves skill dispatching efficiency, reduces delay, and improves user experience.
US11862149B2
Techniques for decreasing (or eliminating) the possibility of a skill performing an action that is not responsive to a corresponding user input are described. A system may train one or more machine learning models with respect to user inputs, which resulted in incorrect actions being performed by skills, and corresponding user inputs, which resulted in the correct action being performed. The system may use the trained machine learning model(s) to rewrite user inputs that, if not rewritten, may result in incorrect actions being performed. The system may implement the trained machine learning model(s) with respect to ASR output text data to determine if the ASR output text data corresponds (or substantially corresponds) to previous ASR output text data that resulted in an incorrect action being performed. If the trained machine learning model(s) indicates the present ASR output text data corresponds (or substantially corresponds) to such previous ASR output text data, the system may rewrite the present ASR output text data to correspond to text data representing a rephrase of the user input that will (or is more likely to) result in a correct action being performed.
US11862139B2
A method and a system for creating a plurality of sound zones within an acoustic cavity is provided. The method comprises: providing a plurality of actuators within the acoustic cavity, each for generating a respective acoustic output in response to a respective drive signal, providing, for each of the plurality of actuators, an adaptive filter for receiving a respective input signal, and generating a respective output signal, providing, for each of the adaptive filters, at least one filter coefficient, providing a plurality of error sensors within the acoustic cavity, each for generating a respective error signal e, representing a respective sound detected by the respective error sensor, providing an audio data signal x(n) for generating a desired sound in a desired sound zone of the plurality of sound zones, determining, for the desired sound zone, a set of actuator generation coefficients kgk, a set of actuator exclusion coefficients kek, wherein k refers to a kth actuator, k=1, 2, 3 . . . , and a set of sensor weighting coefficients mem wherein m refers to a mth error sensor, m=1, 2, 3.
US11862098B2
A shift register, a driving method, a driving control circuit and a display device. The method comprises: at a data refresh stage (T10), applying to an input signal end (IP) an input signal having a pulse level, applying a control clock pulse signal to a control clock signal end, and applying a noise reduction clock pulse signal to a noise reduction clock signal end; at a noise reduction holding phase (T21-1), applying a fixed voltage signal to the input signal end (IP), applying a fixed voltage signal to the control clock signal end, and applying a fixed voltage signal to the noise reduction clock signal end; and at a noise reduction enhancement stage (T22-1), applying a fixed voltage signal to the input signal end (IP), applying a fixed voltage signal to the control clock signal end, and applying a clock pulse signal to the noise reduction clock signal end.
US11862090B2
A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: a driving transistor which includes a first electrode connected to a first node, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node, and supplies a driving current to a light emitting device; a first transistor that is electrically connected between the first node and the second node; a second transistor that is electrically connected between the first node and a data voltage; a third transistor that is electrically connected between the first node and a power supply line that supplies a high potential voltage; and a storage capacitor that includes a first electrode connected to the high potential voltage and a second electrode connected to the second node.
US11862083B2
An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a pixel array that produces images. A display cover layer may overlap the pixel array. The display cover layer may have a planar central area surrounded by a peripheral edge area with a curved cross-sectional profile. From an on-axis viewing angle, an image on the pixel array is fully viewable through the planar central area and the peripheral edge area. From an off-axis viewing angle, the image is partly viewable through the peripheral edge area and not through the central area. To avoid an undesired color cast in the partly viewable image seen through the peripheral edge area of the display cover layer, the display may be provided with color cast compensation structures such as a guest-host liquid crystal layer that exhibits an anisotropic colored light absorption characteristic, a diffuser layer, and/or other optical structures.
US11862079B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and an image capturing unit disposed below the plurality of pixels, wherein, when the image capturing unit is driven, the display panel is time-divisionally driven by dividing one frame into a plurality of sub-frame sections, and the image capturing unit is synchronized with the display panel to receive different color data for each section of the plurality of sub-frame sections.
US11862076B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting diode display module, including a first light-emitting diode, a second light-emitting diode, a third light-emitting diode, a scan block, a voltage conversion block, a first sink block, and a second sink block. An operating voltage of the first light-emitting diode is lower than that of the second and third light-emitting diodes. The voltage conversion block provides an auxiliary power supply voltage based on a high power supply voltage and a low power supply voltage. The first light-emitting diode is coupled between the scan block and the first sink block receiving the high power supply voltage and the auxiliary power supply voltage. The second light-emitting diode and the third light-emitting diode are coupled between the scan block and the second sink block receiving the high power supply voltage and the low power supply voltage.
US11862075B2
The present disclosure relates to a drive circuit, including: a first module, generating display data based on image information; a second module, generating a display signal based on the display data and a plurality of clock signals; a third module, outputting a constant current based on the display signal; and a fourth module, configured to provide a reference current to the third module, wherein the fourth module includes: a reference voltage generation module, a bias module, a current generation module, and a pre-charging module. Any two adjacent clock signals of the plurality of clock signals differ by M complete clock cycles, where 0≤M<1. This circuit can realize relatively high image display accuracy with relatively low system power consumption and chip cost, and meanwhile realize effective low grayscale compensation for image.
US11862072B2
A pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor including a first electrode electrically connected to a first voltage line which supplies a first driving voltage, a second electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, and a gate electrode connected to a first node, a second transistor connected between the first node and a second node and including a gate electrode connected to a first scan line, a third transistor connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and the second node and including a gate electrode connected to a second scan line, and a booting capacitor connected between the second node and the second scan line.
US11862069B2
A micro-LED driver applies a low baseline power (i.e., a baseline voltage or current) to pre-charge a micro-LED in a nominally-off (i.e., non-light-emitting) state in addition to applying an operating driving power to drive the micro-LED in a light-emitting state. By pre-charging the micro-LED prior to applying the operating driving power, the micro-LED driver significantly decreases the time between application of the operating driving power and onset of emission of light from the micro-LED. In some embodiments, the micro-LED driver applies an operating driving power having multiple phases of current density to reduce the time between application of the operating driving power and onset of emission of light from the micro-LED.
US11862043B1
Disclosed in the present invention is a letter and number-shaped decorative panel, composed of two parts, a base plate and a side plate, the base plate is arranged in a shape of a letter or a number, a plurality of first slots are arranged at intervals along a periphery of an edge of the shape of the base plate on the base plate, the side plate is perpendicularly provided along the periphery of the edge of the shape of the base plate, and first insertion plates corresponding to the first slots are provided at a side of the side plate close to the base plate. In this case, by means of the assembly between the side plate and the base plate, the assembly can be completed by directly inserting the first insertion plates on the side plate into the corresponding first slots on the base plate correspondingly, which is simple and quick; furthermore, the first slots and the first insertion plates are directly machined when the base plate and the side plate are manufactured, which can ensure consistency after the assembly of the decorative panel and ensure stable quality. The decorative panel has the advantages of a simple structure, a reasonable design, convenience in assembly, etc.
US11862038B2
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for measuring motion values associated with movements of an object as the objects drives along a track comprises: receiving, using a wireless network transceiver, experiment instructions for performing an experiment; generating, based on the experiment instructions, driving instructions for causing the object to drive along the track; executing the driving instructions to cause the object to drive along the track; as the object is driving along the track: receiving, from one or more sensors, motion values associated with the movements of the object as the object drives along the track; transmitting, using the wireless network transceiver, the motion values associated with the movements of the object to one or more user devices to cause a user device, from the one or more user devices, to generate and display a graphical representation of the motion values on a display device of the user device.
US11862035B2
Methods and apparatus to provide visual information associated with welding operations are disclosed. An weld training system includes a display, a camera, a communications device, and a welding helmet. The communications device communicates with welding equipment. The welding helmet has a view port. The communications device is configured to hold the camera, the communications device, and the display such that, when the welding helmet is worn by a wearer, the display is viewable by the wearer, the camera has a view through the view port such that the display displays to the wearer images taken by the camera through the view port and displays a simulated object generated based on information received from the welding equipment via the communications device.
US11862032B1
The invention provides a device and method for displaying chords in a musical scale based upon one or more selected root notes. The device includes planar members representing a fretboard of a stringed instrument and fingering positions for playing chords in a selected root note in a selected musical scale. The planar members are adapted to be connected to one another and permit multiple chords in multiple root notes to be displayed simultaneously in an easy to understand format.
US11862027B2
In an uninhabited aircraft flight management system 1, there is a three-dimensional map data storage section 172 for storing three-dimensional map data in horizontal and height directions where no ground objects exist and where an uninhabited aircraft 6 is allowed to fly, a current position acquisition section 175 for acquiring a current position, a transport instruction acquisition section 166 for acquiring a destination, a path calculation section 167 for calculating a path, a lidar data acquisition section 121 for acquiring wind condition data, a dangerous wind condition area judgement section 123 for calculating a warning area where flight should be avoided, from the wind condition data, and a path recalculation section 164 for recalculating the path avoiding the warning area when the path calculated by the path calculation section 167 is one which passes through the warning area calculated by section 123.
US11862021B2
The invention is drawn towards a method and apparatus for controlling a consumer based on motion detected in a data stream, comprising: receiving the data stream, extracting motion information from the image data, generating commands and parameters for the consumer according to the motion information and controlling the consumer according to the commands and parameters.
US11862020B2
Devices, methods, and systems for parking management are described herein. One device includes instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive a first indication via a mobile device that a user intends to park a vehicle in a parking spot of a parking area, display directions to an available parking spot in the parking area via the mobile device, receive a second indication via the mobile device that the user has parked the vehicle in the available parking spot, and provide a third indication via a different mobile device that the available parking spot is no longer available.
US11862019B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems associated with lightweight docking stations for one or more micromobility transit vehicles. The docking station may include multiple racks. Each rack may include a base frame having frame segments, an anchor coupled to and extending vertically from at least one of the frame segments of the base frame, and a lock plate coupled to the anchor and including a lock hole. The lock hole is disposed through the lock plate and is capable of receiving a locking device associated with a micromobility transit vehicle so as to permit locking of the micromobility transit vehicle to the anchor.
US11862015B2
A corner mount warning system includes a housing adapted to receive and engage a corner of two perpendicular walls. The housing has a top wall, a bottom wall, an inner side wall, an outer side wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall. Each end wall has a motion detector and at least one warning device. The motion detectors and the at least one warning device are connected to and operated by a control system.
US11862014B2
In a magnetic marker system including a magnetic marker disposed in a travel environment so as to be detectable by a magnetic sensor attached to a vehicle and a server apparatus which acquires detection information of the magnetic marker from each vehicle, the detection information uploaded from a vehicle side to the server apparatus includes marker information, which is identification information of a corresponding magnetic marker, and the server apparatus estimates the state of the magnetic marker based on the detection information from each vehicle.
US11862011B2
A traffic analysis system analyzes location data from a plurality of vehicles to determine journeys made by the vehicles. Vehicles may make one or more rest stops during a journey. The traffic analysis system compares rest periods to journey criteria to determine whether a rest period delineates the end of a journey, or whether a rest period is still within the journey. In this way, a plurality of trips can be chained together into a journey to provide more accurate analysis of traffic patterns.
US11862008B2
A method to correct a haptic output, the method including sending, at a device, a reference tactile signal to a haptic actuator and recording, using a sensor associated with the haptic actuator, an output signal from the haptic actuator. This output signal could be provided, along with the reference tactile signal to an engine at the device, which could be used to determine regions of perceptual distortion from the output signal and the reference tactile signal. Specifically, a perceptual similarity measure could be determined which could be used to generate an adapted signal to reduce and equalize the perceptual distortion, where the adapted signal could be provided to the haptic actuator to control adaptation or equalization of distortions.
US11862006B2
A method of controlling a visual operator interface having a plurality of predefined areas, which include one or more monitoring areas configured to display visual elements representing a current state of a technical system. According to the method, it is determined that one of the monitoring areas is to be prioritized; and an incomplete visibility decrease in at least one other area of the visual operator interface is initiated, wherein the prioritized monitoring area is unaffected by the visibility decrease.
US11862002B2
A detection system includes a microphone, and a detector. The microphone picks up the voice of a visitor. The detector has an opening. The detector collects a microparticle passing through the opening, and detects a predetermined infectious agent contained in the collected microparticle. The opening is disposed below and forward of the microphone so that, when the visitor faces the microphone, the opening is positioned below and forward of the visitor.
US11861993B2
According to the present invention, there is provided an information processing system (100) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image, which is generated by a camera, of a face, a selection unit (14) that extracts a person in the acquired image, and selects a person who performs a settlement process based on at least one of a distance from a checkout apparatus, an appearance frequency, and an appearance period of time in a case where a plurality of persons are extracted, an identification unit (12) that identifies the selected person based on the image in which the person is included, and database information in which a feature value of a face is registered, a settlement unit (checkout unit (21)) that performs the settlement process with respect to the identified person.
US11861988B2
A system and method for facilitating the purchase of digital lottery tickets, the validation of digital lottery tickets, and the redemption of digital lottery tickets. The systems and methods provide improved security and protection against fraudulent validation and redemption of digital lottery tickets.
US11861987B2
Specialized slot machine for conducting a wagering game using real time or live action event content
A system and method for conducting a wagering tournament game using real time or live action event content are disclosed. An embodiment includes: prompting a plurality of users at a plurality of geographically distributed user platforms to each submit a wager for entry as players into a real time live action wagering tournament game; dividing a plurality of players of the real time live action wagering tournament game into player groups; obtaining a set of real time or live event content via the data network while the plurality of players are playing the real time live action wagering tournament game; ranking each of the players in each player group based on their score; and enabling a pre-determined quantity of highest ranked players from each player group to advance to a next round.
US11861982B1
A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. The gaming system can include electronic gaming machines that are compatible to receive both virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that are redeemable for credits on the electronic gaming machines. Information associated with a virtual ticket voucher can be stored on a patron-controlled portable electronic device and then can be wireless transmitted to the electronic gaming machines. The electronic gaming machines can be configured to issue virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that can be redeemed for cash or additional game play on another electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, the electronic gaming machine can be configured to issue a virtual ticket voucher to a patron-controlled portable electronic device.
US11861980B2
A game terminal allows a player to participate in the linked transaction including a linked deal within an initial deal via their client account interacting with a management system. The management system manages the execution of the linked transaction including execution of the initial deal, execution of the linked deal, and movement and monitoring of capital during execution of the linked transaction. Initial deal tickets are electronically allocated to player accounts by the management system. The linked deal may be a secondary deal that is lightly linked to the initial deal. In particular, the initial deal may include an access ticket to the linked deal, and the access ticket allows the management system to grant the player a play in the linked deal. Both the initial deal and the linked deal can have prizes, and the management system may resolve those prizes, as necessary.
US11861974B2
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems, computational devices, and methods. An illustrative method includes receiving a code request message from a computational device, where the code request message includes information describing a code requestor and a code parameter defined by the code requestor. The method may further include determining that the requestor is permitted to receive the shareable code with the code parameter defined by the code requestor, generating the shareable code, storing an electronic record indicating that the shareable code has been generated, where the electronic record includes an identifier of the shareable code and an identifier of the code requestor, and transmitting a code delivery message to the computational device, where the code delivery message includes the shareable code.
US11861964B2
Operability of a valuable medium handling system is enhanced. A valuable medium handling system 1 includes a communication device 3001 disposed at a storage cassette 31 that is detachably attached to a medium handling device 2 and that stores banknotes, and a controller 513 and a computer 5 that communicate with the communication device 3001 via a communication line 9. The controller 513 and the computer 5 each perform a predetermined process by communicating with the communication device 3001 via the communication line 9.
US11861954B2
A vehicle diagnostic system and method includes connecting a vehicle interface device to a diagnostic port of a vehicle to be in communication with an electrical system of the vehicle for diagnosing the vehicle, and running a selected one of multiple available diagnostic application scan programs via the vehicle interface device to generate a scan log file of the electrical system of the vehicle, where the scan log file is generated in one of a plurality of possible native file formats depending on the selected diagnostic application program. A diagnostic evaluation tool program extracts diagnostic data from the scan log file, where the diagnostic evaluation tool program is configured to extract diagnostic data from scan log files in each of the plurality of possible native file formats, and outputs the diagnostic data to a scan database in a common format from which detailed diagnostic reports are generated.
US11861946B2
Blockchain-controlled and location-validated locking systems and methods are described. A method includes maintaining state information for a lock, where the first state of the lock corresponds to an open state and the second to a locked state. The method further includes receiving a current location of a device associated with a person, authorized to change a state of the lock, attempting to change a state of the lock and a current location of the lock. The method further includes receiving a digital signature from the device. The method further includes automatically transmitting a control signal to the lock to change the state of the lock only when the current location of the person is determined to be the same as the current location of the lock and a valid proof of work is performed by a miner associated with a blockchain configured to manage transactions corresponding to the lock.
US11861943B2
An iris recognition apparatus is provided with: an irradiating device that is capable of irradiating light to a target person to be recognized; an acquiring device that acquires a first image which imaged a first imaging range including at least a face of the target person; and a determining device that determines an irradiation mode of light irradiated from the irradiating device to the target person when imaging a second image including an area, which includes an eye of the target person, and corresponding to a second imaging range, which is narrower than the first imaging range, based on the first image.
US11861937B2
The facial verification apparatus is a mobile computing apparatus, including a camera to capture an image, a display, and one or more processors. While in a lock state, the image is captured and facial verification performed using a face image, or using a detected face and in response to the face being detected. The facial verification includes a matching with respect to the detected face, or obtained face image, and a registered face information. If the verification is successful, the lock state of the apparatus may be canceled and the user allowed access to the apparatus. The lock state may be cancelled when the verification is successful and the user has been determined to have been attempting to gain access to the apparatus. Face image feedback to the user may not be displayed during the detecting for, or obtaining of, the face and/or performing of the facial verification.
US11861933B2
A touch-based method for user authentication includes a training stage and an authentication stage. The training stage includes: generating, by a touch interface, a plurality of training touch parameters; and generating, by a processor, a training heat map according to the plurality of training touch parameters. The authentication stage includes: generating, by the touch interface, a plurality of testing touch parameters; generating, by the processor, a testing heat map according to the plurality of testing touch parameters; comparing, by the processor, the testing heat map with the training heat map to generate an error map; and generating, by the processor, one of pass signal and fail signal according to the error map.
US11861922B2
A computing device for extracting target data from a source document includes: a memory storing target data extraction rules; a processor connected with the memory, the processor configured to: obtain text recognition data extracted from an image of the source document, the text recognition data indicating locations of text structures in the source document; define text lines based on the text recognition data; identify a reference string from the text recognition data; select a subset of the text lines based on a location of the reference string and the target data extraction rules; and output the subset of the text lines as the target data.
