US11957056B2
A thermoelectric conversion unit includes a pair of low-temperature fluid flow path sections arranged to face each other, a high-temperature fluid flow path section arranged between the pair of low-temperature fluid flow path sections, a pair of thermoelectric modules each arranged between the high-temperature fluid flow path section and one of the pair of low-temperature fluid flow path sections in a one-to-one relation, and a rod-shaped convex fin and concave fin both arranged in the high-temperature fluid flow path section. The concave fin includes a recess fitted to the convex fin. An outer peripheral surface of the convex fin and an inner peripheral surface of the recess of the concave fin are in contact with each other, and a gap is formed between a tip of the convex fin and a bottom of the recess of the concave fin.
US11957042B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1, wherein A11 is a group represented by one of Formulae 10A to 10D: The organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound may have improved efficiency and/or lifespan characteristics.
US11957036B2
A perovskite light-emitting diode and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes steps of providing a substrate, disposing a first electrode layer, a hole transport layer, and a perovskite precursor liquid layer on the substrate, coating the perovskite precursor liquid layer with a first solvent, performing a first thermal process to form a perovskite prefabricated layer, coating the perovskite prefabricated layer with a second solvent, and performing a second thermal process to form a perovskite light-emitting layer.
US11957030B2
A flexible display module is provided. The flexible display module includes a bending area and a plane area adjacent to the bending area, and the flexible display module includes a flexible display panel; a protection cover plate; and a transparent adhesive layer, wherein the transparent adhesive layer bonds the flexible display panel and the protection cover plate, and storage modulus of at least a part of the transparent adhesive layer corresponding to the bending area is less than storage modulus of at least a part of the transparent adhesive layer corresponding to the plane area.
US11957026B2
A display device including a window, a display panel, and an input detection sensor disposed therebetween and including a first electrode extending in a first direction, a second electrode extending in the first direction, a third electrode intersecting with the first and second electrodes while insulated therefrom, a first signal line electrically connected to an end of the first electrode, a second signal line electrically connected to an end of the second electrode, and a third signal line and a fourth signal line electrically connected to a first end and a second end of the third electrode, respectively, in which each of the first and second signal lines includes a first part and a second part extending in the first direction and disposed between the first part of the first signal line and the second part of the first signal line in a second direction crossing the first direction.
US11957019B2
A pixel arrangement structure, a display method and a preparing method of a pixel arrangement structure, and a display substrate are provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes first color sub-pixel blocks, second color sub-pixel blocks, and third color sub-pixel blocks. Each of the plurality of minimum repeating regions has a rectangular shape and includes a first virtual rectangle, and the first virtual rectangle includes one first color sub-pixel block, one second color sub-pixel block and one third color sub-pixel block. Any edge of the first virtual rectangle has a non-zero included angle with a first direction, and the first direction is a row direction or a column direction. The first color sub-pixel block is on a perpendicular bisector of the first edge, the second color sub-pixel block and the third color sub-pixel block are on different sides of the perpendicular bisector of the first edge.
US11957015B2
A lead wiring line is provided in a frame region to extend therein while intersecting with a frame-shaped dam wall, is formed of a same material and in a same layer as each of a plurality of display wiring lines in which a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a third metal layer are layered in sequence, is electrically connected to the plurality of display wiring lines on a display region side, and is electrically connected to a terminal on a terminal portion side. The third metal layer is provided to cover a side surface of the first metal layer, and a side surface and an upper face of the second metal layer.
US11957011B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display region including a first region and a second region and a frame region. The display panel also includes a frame adhesive located in the second region, and a padding metal located in the second region. Along a direction perpendicular to a plane where the display panel is located, the padding metal at least partially overlaps the frame adhesive. In addition, the display panel includes a cathode signal line located in the first region. Moreover, the display panel includes a cathode layer located in the display region and connected to the cathode signal line. Further, the display panel includes at least one connecting part connected to the padding metal. The connecting part is located on a side of the padding metal adjacent to the first region, and is connected to the cathode signal line.
US11956995B2
The OLED display includes a flat display area and an edge curved-surface display area; wherein the edge curved-surface display area is provided with an optical film layer, and the optical film layer is configured to reduce a light intensity of emergent light with a preset color in the edge curved-surface display area.
US11956994B2
The present disclosure is generally related to 3D imaging capable OLED displays. A light field display comprises an array of 3D light field pixels, each of which comprises an array of corrugated OLED pixels, a metasurface layer disposed adjacent to the array of 3D light field pixels, and a plurality of median layers disposed between the metasurface layer and the corrugated OLED pixels. Each of the corrugated OLED pixels comprises primary or non-primary color subpixels, and produces a different view of an image through the median layers to the metasurface to form a 3D image. The corrugated OLED pixels combined with a cavity effect reduce a divergence of emitted light to enable effective beam direction manipulation by the metasurface. The metasurface having a higher refractive index and a smaller filling factor enables the deflection and direction of the emitted light from the corrugated OLED pixels to be well controlled.
US11956992B2
An organic light-emitting diode device, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The organic light-emitting diode device includes a light-emitting layer, a functional layer, and a cathode layer, wherein a material of the functional layer includes a metal sol containing metal nanoparticles, and the metal sol forms an uneven nanostructure on a surface of the functional layer, which has a scattering effect on light of the light-emitting layer, thereby reducing a binding force between the light and surface electrons of the cathode layer, so surface plasmon polariton waves can be prevented and light extraction efficiency can be improved.
US11956988B2
A display substrate including: a base substrate with a display region, an encapsulation region and an edge region on a periphery of the encapsulation region, the edge region includes a bonding region on at least one side of the base substrate; a plurality of stacked inorganic film layers on a side of the base substrate; a plurality of first grooves, at the edge region, spaced apart from each other in a direction distal from the encapsulation region, and extending along a periphery of the base substrate, at least one of the plurality of first groove runs through at least one inorganic film layer of the plurality of inorganic film layers, and a distance between each first groove and the display region is larger than that between each first groove and an edge of the base substrate; and an organic layer.
US11956986B2
A flexible display screen includes: a flexible substrate (1); an OLED device layer (2) formed on the flexible substrate (1); an encapsulation layer(3), disposed on the OLED device layer(2) and encapsulating the OLED device layer (2); and an encapsulation protection layer (4) formed on the encapsulation layer (3). The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a flexible display device and a manufacturing method of the flexible display screen.
US11956985B2
A display device includes a display panel, a polarization member facing the display panel, a cover window including an inorganic material and facing the display panel with the polarization member therebetween, and a window bonding member which is between the cover window and the polarization member attaches the cover window to the polarization member. The window bonding member which attaches the cover window to the polarization member has a modulus of about of 1 MPa to about 10 MPa.
US11956979B2
A display device includes: a display panel; and a color conversion panel overlapping the display panel, where the display panel includes a transistor disposed on a first substrate; a light-emitting element electrically connected to the transistor; and a passivation layer disposed between the transistor and the light-emitting element and including a first recess portion. The light-emitting element is disposed on the first recess portion, the color conversion panel includes a first color conversion layer, a second color conversion layer and a transmission layer, which are disposed between a second substrate and the display panel, and at least one selected from the first color conversion layer, the second color conversion layer and the transmission layer overlaps the first recess portion.
US11956978B2
In one embodiment, a method of selectively forming a deposit may include providing a substrate, the substrate having a plurality of surface features, extending at a non-zero angle of inclination with respect to a perpendicular to a plane of the substrate. The method may include directing a reactive beam to the plurality of surface features, the reactive beam defining a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to the plane of the substrate, wherein a seed layer is deposited on a first portion of the surface features, and is not deposited on a second portion of the surface features. The method may further include exposing the substrate to a reactive deposition process after the directing the reactive ion beam, wherein a deposit layer selectively grows over the seed layer.
US11956977B2
A method for forming a V-NAND device is disclosed. Specifically, the method involves deposition of at least one of semiconductive material, conductive material, or dielectric material to form a channel for the V-NAND device. In addition, the method may involve a pretreatment step where ALD, CVD, or other cyclical deposition processes may be used to improve adhesion of the material in the channel.
US11956975B2
Structures and methods are provided for integrating a resistance random access memory (ReRAM) in a back-end-on-the-line (BEOL) fat wire level. In one embodiment, a ReRAM device area contact structure is provided in the BEOL fat wire level that has at least a lower via portion that contacts a surface of a top electrode of a ReRAM device area ReRAM-containing stack. In other embodiments, a tall ReRAM device area bottom electrode is provided in the BEOL fat wire level and embedded in a dielectric material stack that includes a dielectric capping layer and an interlayer dielectric material layer.
US11956971B2
A fabrication process for an STT MTJ MRAM device includes steps of cooling the device at individual or at multiple stages in its fabrication. The cooling process, which may be equally well applied during the fabrication of other multi-layered devices, is demonstrated to produce an operational device that is more resistant to adverse thermal effects during operation that would normally cause a similar device not so fabricated to lose stored data and otherwise fail to operate properly.
US11956970B2
Methods, systems, and devices for deck selection layouts in a memory device are described. In some implementations, a tile of a memory array may be associated with a level above a substrate, and may include a set of memory cells, a set of digit lines, and a set of word lines. Selection transistors associated with a tile of memory cells may be operable for coupling digit lines of the tile with circuitry outside the tile, and may be activated by various configurations of one or more access lines, where the various configurations may be implemented to trade off or otherwise support design and performance characteristics such as power consumption, layout complexity, operational complexity, and other characteristics. Such techniques may be implemented for other aspects of tile operations, including memory cell shunting or equalization, tile selection using transistors of a different level, or signal development, or various combinations thereof.
US11956969B2
Provided is a semiconductor storage device that includes a substrate, a first storage element formed on the substrate and including a first insulating film, and a second storage element formed on the substrate and including a second insulating film having a film thickness of equal to or greater than 0.5 times and equal to or less than 2 times a film thickness of the first insulating film, the second storage element differing from the first storage element in power consumption at a time of writing.
US11956962B2
A 3D flash memory device includes a substrate having a substantial planar surface. A plurality of active columns of semiconducting material is disposed above the substrate. Each of the plurality of active columns extends along a first direction orthogonal to the planar surface of the substrate. The plurality of active columns is arranged in a two-dimensional array. Each of the plurality of active columns may comprise multiple local bit lines and multiple local source lines extending along the first direction. Multiple channel regions are disposed between the multiple local bit lines and multiple local source lines. A word line stack wraps around the plurality of active columns. A charge-storage element is disposed between the word line stack and each of the plurality of active columns.
US11956957B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first stacked structure, a first supporter layer, a second stacked structure, a block cut structure, and a second supporter layer on the second stacked structure and separated by a second cut pattern. The first stacked structure includes a first and second stack, the second stacked structure includes a third stack separated by the block cut structure and a fourth stack, the first supporter layer is on the first stack and the second stack, the second supporter layer is on the third stack and the fourth stack, the first cut pattern includes a first connection on the block cut structure and connecting the first supporter layer and the second stack, and the second cut pattern of the second supporter layer includes a second connection on the block cut structure and connecting the second supporter layer placed on the third stack and the fourth stack.
US11956956B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device is provided which includes a stacked body, a first pillar portion, a first separating portion, and a first supporting post. In the stacked body, a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of electrically conductive layers are stacked alternately one on another. The stacked body is provided on a predetermined electrically conductive film. The first pillar portion includes a plurality of memory cells, and penetrates through the stacked body in a stacking direction of the stacked body. The first separating portion separates the stacked body into a plurality of blocks. The first supporting post extends locally within the stacked body from an upper surface of the predetermined electrically conductive film in the stacking direction.
US11956952B2
A device, including: a first structure including first memory cells, the first memory cells including first transistors; and a second structure including second memory cells, the second memory cells including second transistors, where the second transistors overlay the first transistors, and a plurality of memory cells control lines, where the first transistors are self-aligned to the second transistors, where a second transistor channel of the second transistors is aligned to a first transistor channel of the first transistors, the aligned is at an atomic level as would have been resulted from an epitaxial growth process.
US11956950B2
A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The conductive tiers comprise metal along sides of the memory blocks. Silicon is formed between the memory blocks over the metal of the conductive tiers. The silicon and the metal react to form metal silicide therefrom that is directly against and longitudinally-along the metal of individual of the conductive tiers. After the reacting, unreacted of the silicon is removed from between the memory blocks and intervening material is formed between and longitudinally-along the memory blocks. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11956946B2
The semiconductor structure manufacturing method includes the steps of: providing a substrate with bit line contact regions and isolation regions located between adjacent bit line contact regions; forming a groove in the substrate, the bottom of the groove exposes the bit line contact region and the isolation region adjacent to the bit line contact region; forming a contact region isolation layer covering at least sidewalls of the groove; and forming a contact region to cover the contact region isolating the surface of the layer and filling the bit line contact layer of the groove, the bit line contact layer being in contact with the bit line contact region at the bottom of the groove; forming a bit line layer on the bit line contact layer. The invention avoids damage to the sidewalls of the active region in the substrate.
US11956929B2
A server device includes a casing, an electronic assembly, a cover, and a heat dissipation device. The electronic assembly includes a circuit board and at least one heat source. The circuit board is disposed on the casing, and the heat source is disposed on the circuit board. The cover is removably disposed on the casing. The heat dissipation device includes at least one air cooling heat exchanger and at least one liquid cooling heat exchanger. The air cooling heat exchanger is fixed on and thermally coupled with the heat source. The liquid cooling heat exchanger is fixed on the cover and thermally coupled with the air cooling heat exchanger.
US11956924B1
Quantum processing circuitry cooling systems are provided. The systems can include: a first chamber maintained at a first pressure; a second chamber maintained at a second pressure, wherein the first and second pressures are independent from one another; a cooler within the first chamber and operable to act as a cooling source for the cooling system; and quantum processing circuitry within the second chamber, the quantum processing circuitry being thermally coupled to the cooler. Cooling systems are also provided that can include: a cooler configured to generate and/or store cryofluid; a device thermally coupled to the cooler; and a plurality of thermal couplings between the cooler and the device, at least one of the thermal couplings being a first conduit system configured to convey cryofluid between the cooler and the device, wherein the first conduit system includes a first heat exchanger within the cooler and is configured to receive the cryofluid from the device, cool the cryofluid using the heat exchanger and provide cooler cryofluid to the device. Methods for cooling quantum processing circuitry are also provided. The methods can include providing cooling to quantum processing circuitry from a cooling source in a chamber having an independent pressure from the pressure about the quantum processing circuitry.
US11956903B2
A transmission line includes a first structure including a first flexible resin base material, and a first ground conductor thereon, a second structure including a second flexible resin base material, and a first signal line and an interlayer connection conductor in or on the second resin base material, a first spacer between the first and second structures, and a first metal joining material joining the first and second structures with the first spacer interposed therebetween. A first hollow portion is between the first and second structures with the first spacer interposed therebetween. The first signal line and the first ground conductor face each other in a joining direction with the first hollow portion interposed therebetween. The first resin base material and the second resin base material are not in contact with each other. The first metal joining material has a melting point lower than that of the interlayer connection conductor.
US11956901B2
A holding and drive device including a frame; a rotation structure which is attached to the frame in such a manner that it can rotate around a rotation axis; a rotation drive for rotating the rotation structure around the rotation axis; and a rotation structure interface attached to or formed on the rotation structure, to which a tool device including a plurality of sleeves can be detachably attached, which are configured for the detachable attachment of a respective component holding device protruding from the rotation axis with a radial direction component or of another tool element. A corresponding tool device, a corresponding supplementary tool device, and a component handling device constructed from these components.
US11956898B2
Structures that implement three-dimensional (3D) conductive material (e.g., copper) in printed circuit boards (PCBs) are disclosed. 3D (three-dimensional) conductive material may include trenches and/or buried vias that are filled with conductive material in the PCBs. Trenches may be formed in build-up layers of a PCB by overlapping multiple laser drilled vias. The trenches may be filled with conductive material using electroplating process(es). Buried vias may be formed through the core layers of the PCB by mechanical drilling. The buried via may be filled with solid conductive material using a combination of electroless plating and electrolytic plating of conductive material. Various PCB structures are disclosed that implement combinations of these trenches and/or these buried vias filled with conductive material.
US11956888B2
An electronic device includes a casing, a circuit board and a grounding assembly. The circuit board has a first surface and a second surface, wherein an input terminal and an output terminal are disposed on the second surface. The grounding assembly comprises a conducting terminal, a first grounding element and a second grounding element. The conducting terminal is disposed on the first surface of the circuit board, and the first grounding element is disposed adjacent to the conducting terminal. The first grounding element penetrates the circuit board and electrically couples with the conducting terminal and the casing, and the second grounding element correspondingly penetrates the circuit board and the conducting element, so that a first portion of the second grounding element electrically couples with the input terminal and the output terminal of the circuit board, and a second portion of the second grounding element electrically couples with the conducting terminal.
US11956883B2
A method and apparatus for controlling RF plasma attributes is disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosure provide RF sensors within processing chambers operable at high temperatures. Some embodiments provide methods of measuring RF plasma attributes using RF sensors within a processing chamber to provide feedback control for an RF generator.
US11956860B2
Signal transmission method, signal detection method and apparatuses thereof and communication system
A signal transmission method, signal detection method and apparatuses thereof and communication system. The signal transmission apparatus includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a synchronization signal (SS) block to a user equipment within a time window of a predetermined position in an SS block transmission period. Hence, UE cell search and measurement time is reduced, complexity at the UE is lowered, power consumption of the UE is lowered, cell handover is sped up, communication interruption is avoided, and currently at least one of existing problems is solved.
US11956852B2
Methods and systems are described for voice over packet communications.
US11956832B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficiently transmitting a SR. One apparatus includes a memory comprising instructions executable by a processor to cause the apparatus to trigger a buffer status report for a first logical channel and trigger a SR for the first logical channel based at least in part on the triggered buffer status report. The instructions are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus determine whether a SR configuration associated with the first logical channel is configured with a set of PUCCH resources for a transmission of a SR on a current active BWP and initiate a RACH procedure for requesting uplink resources if the SR configuration associated with the first logical channel is not configured with the set of PUCCH resources for the transmission of the SR on the current active BWP.
US11956830B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for PUSCH transmission using an aggregation factor. One method includes selecting, at a user equipment, a physical random access channel preamble. The method includes transmitting the physical random access channel preamble. The method includes, in response to transmitting the physical random access channel preamble, receiving a random access response message comprising an uplink grant for transmission of a physical uplink shared channel. The method includes transmitting the physical uplink shared channel according to the uplink grant using a first physical uplink shared channel aggregation factor. The user equipment is configured with a second physical uplink shared channel aggregation factor.
US11956829B2
A method of wireless communication includes repeatedly transmitting, from a mobile device to a communication node, a first message using increasing power levels for initiating a two-step random-access procedure until a termination condition is met. The first message includes a payload part and optionally a preamble sequence. The termination condition includes (1) the mobile device receives an indication from the communication node that the payload part was received successfully, or (2) a number of repeated transmissions reaches a threshold.
US11956826B2
A first radio terminal of a radio communications network. In one example, the first radio terminal includes an electronic processor, a communication module, and an antenna. The electronic processor is configured, together with the communication module, and the antenna, to cause the radio terminal to transmit, in a first transmission to a second radio terminal, data via a first subset of a set of SPS radio resources, reserve a second subset of the set of SPS radio resources for a subsequent data transmission, and in response to detecting a triggering event, skip the subsequent data transmission.
US11956820B2
A transmission device, which is capable of wirelessly communicating with a reception device by using a first frequency band that does not need a license, the transmission device including, a controller configured to verify whether the first frequency band is not used by other transmission devices, and shift, in a time direction, a first symbol including a first control channel and a first shared channel in a first communication direction, or a second symbol including a second shared channel in a second communication direction different from the first communication direction, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the reception device, a first control signal and first data, which are allocated to the first symbol, by using the first control channel and the first shared channel, respectively, or second data allocated to the second symbol by using the second shared channel.
US11956811B2
A method in a node is disclosed. The method comprises generating a tag for an associated data packet at a first layer, the generated tag indicating one or more parameters related to transmission of the associated data packet. The method comprises signaling the tag from the first layer to another layer. The method comprises mapping, at the another layer, the associated data packet to a logical channel based on the one or more parameters indicated by the tag, and selecting one or more resources for transmission of the associated data packet based on the mapping of the associated data packet to the logical channel.
US11956804B2
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) is provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method for obtaining numerology information by a user equipment (UE) includes detecting synchronization signals, obtaining first numerology information for the synchronization signals, decoding a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) based on the first numerology information, obtaining second numerology information for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to a result of the decoding, and receiving control information on the PDCCH based on the second numerology information.
US11956785B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a federated learning configuration that configures a participation indication to be used by the UE to indicate a participation status of the UE associated with at least one federated learning round corresponding to a machine learning component. The UE may transmit the participation indication to the base station based at least in part on the federated learning configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11956782B2
An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) sidelink communication. The processing circuitry is to determine a set of candidate resources of the UE from a sidelink resource pool, the sidelink resource divided into multiple time slots, frequency channels, and frequency sub-channels. Sidelink control information (SCI) is encoded for transmission to a second UE via a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The SCI indicates a plurality of transmission resources of the set of candidate resources. A transport block is mapped across the plurality of transmission resources. A physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) is encoded for transmission to the second UE using the plurality of transmission resources, the PSSCH encoded to include the mapped transport block.
US11956774B2
A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of the wireless communication includes: a communication module; and a processor configured to control the communication module. When a second physical uplink data channel transmission of the UE is scheduled to a time-frequency resource in which uplink control information (UCI) transmission of a first physical uplink data channel of the UE is scheduled, the processor is configured to transmit the UCI to a base station of the wireless communication system in a time-frequency resource except for a time-frequency resource in which a second physical uplink data channel transmission of the UE is scheduled.
US11956772B2
A sidelink transmission method includes: performing configuration based on first configuration information, so that the terminal device simultaneously works in both a network device scheduling mode Mode 1 and a terminal device autonomous mode Mode 2.
US11956768B2
A method and an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node are disclosed for resource scheduling. According to an embodiment, the IAB node determines a first range of scheduling delay such that the first range is different from a second range of scheduling delay determined by a neighboring IAB node having a hop to the IAB node. The IAB node schedules an uplink transmission or downlink reception to occur within the first range.
US11956758B2
A method and apparatus for configuration of sidelink channel resource units for sidelink communications in a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first wireless communication device, comprising: performing sidelink communication on a first sidelink channel resource unit of a first sidelink channel, determining a second sidelink channel resource unit of a second sidelink channel according to the first sidelink channel in a sidelink channel couple; and performing sidelink communication on the second sidelink channel resource unit; wherein the sidelink channel couple comprises the first sidelink channel and the second sidelink channel, and wherein a first sidelink channel resource unit comprises a first number of first resource units in the time domain and a second number of second resource units in the frequency domain, and the second sidelink channel resource unit comprises a third number of first resource units in the time domain and a fourth number of second resource units in the frequency domain.
US11956756B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a request processing method and a corresponding entity, to control a data notification and signaling that is used for triggering paging, thereby avoiding overload of a network element in a core network. The request processing method includes: determining, by an AMF, a first control plane function entity for a terminal device; determining, by the AMF, that the terminal device enters an idle state; obtaining, by the AMF, a first reachability service invocation request from the first control plane function entity; and rejecting, by the AMF, the first reachability service invocation request when the AMF determines, based on the first reachability service invocation request, that a reachability service invocation limitation condition is satisfied.
US11956745B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment from a network node, an indication of configured channel resources for use by the user equipment in communication with the network node and at least one other network node of a communication network, wherein the configured channel resources are channel resources configured in coordination with the network node and the at least one other network node; and using, by the user equipment, the channel resources to at least avoid collisions during the communication with the network node and the at least one other network node.
US11956741B2
A communication device generates a first packet and a second packet. The first packet includes a first physical layer (PHY) preamble having: a first legacy signal field (L-SIG) having first duration information that indicates a first duration of the first packet; and first non-legacy signal field information having first modulation information that indicates a first modulation used in the first packet. The second packet includes a second PHY preamble having: a second L-SIG having second duration information that indicates a second duration of the second packet, wherein the second duration is different than the first duration; and second non-legacy signal field information having second modulation information that indicates a second modulation used in the second packet, wherein the second modulation is different than the first modulation. The communication device simultaneously transmits the first packet in a first frequency segment and the second packet in a second frequency segment.
US11956727B2
There is provided mechanisms for average EIRP control of at least two radio power sources. A method is performed by a coordinating controller of a site. The site comprises the at least two radio power sources. The method comprises obtaining, from a respective inner controller of each of the at least two radio power sources, power control feedback information. The method comprises determining, according to an inner control loop for each of the at least two radio power sources, coordinating control information from the power control feedback information. The method comprises performing individual average power control of each of the at least two radio power sources by providing, to each respective inner controller, the coordinating control information, whereby total average transmission power of each of the at least two radio power sources is selectively adjusted based on the inner control loop.
US11956722B2
A wireless device receives parameters, including a first discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration associated with unicast transmissions in a cell and a second DRX configuration associated with multicast and broadcast services (MBS) in the cell. The wireless device may also receive a power saving (PS) indication indicating not to start a DRX on duration timer. The PS indication may be applied for the first DRX configuration; and it may not be applied for the second DRX configuration. The wireless device may further skip monitoring, in a first DRX on duration of the first DRX configuration, first physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) for the unicast transmissions based on receiving the PS indication. The wireless device may also monitor, in a second DRX on duration of the second DRX configuration and while skipping monitoring the first PDCCHs in the first DRX on duration, second PDCCHs for the MBS.
US11956720B2
System, method and computer-readable storage medium including a first communications device including a host processor to wake up upon receipt of a message and stream audio directly to another device via wireless communication, a second communications device including circuitry to control the streaming of the audio by sending messages to the first communications device and to control a display. The host processor of the first communications device enters a sleep state during audio streaming while a state of the display is off. Reduction in the number of messages sent by the second communications device, or offloading of message handling by the host processor, allows the host processor to remain in a sleep state for longer periods.
US11956715B2
A terminal device obtains first slice selection assistance information, where the first slice selection assistance information is obtained by encrypting second slice selection assistance information, and the second slice selection assistance information is selection assistance information of a slice to which the terminal device is allowed to access. The terminal device sends a registration request message to an access network device, where the registration request message includes the first slice selection assistance information.
US11956714B2
A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a network node in a VPLMN (Visited Public land mobile network), information indicating a PLMN to be prioritized and information indicating a trigger of PLMN selection; and a control unit configured to execute the PLMN selection, based on the information indicating the PLMN to be prioritized and the information indicating the trigger of the PLMN selection.
US11956709B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a base station for transmitting a paging message is provided. The method includes determining a number of paging frames (PFs) in a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on information on paging search space, transmitting, to a terminal, information on the number of PFs in system information block 1 (SIB1), identifying at least one PF based on the number of PFs, and transmitting, to the terminal, at least one paging message in the at least one PF.
US11956703B2
Systems and methods dynamically adapt network policies for mobile devices by accessing context-based values to allocate or restrict capabilities on the mobile devices or within the network. Context-based values may include position or velocity as well as more general environment features such as proximity of other devices, the presence or absence of other wireless signals or network traffic, parameters measured by local or remote sensors, user credentials, or unique user or signal inputs to the device. Relevant capabilities may include access to hardware and software interfaces and related parameter sets including priority settings.
US11956701B2
An example system and method for selectively conveying content via User Interface (UI) display screen sections of Business Intelligence (BI) software and for facilitating user interaction therewith, e.g., so as to impart usefulness or preference ratings thereto, which can then affect subsequently displayed content. An example method includes providing one or more UI controls enabling a user to provide an input query and to interact with resulting content (i.e., query results, also called search results), where the user interaction with the content provides information (e.g., context information) indicative of a usefulness or preference rating pertaining to the content; thereby enabling modifications to subsequently retrieved content in accordance with the usefulness or preference rating(s). Such rating(s) may be aggregated from plural users of an associated software application. Additional UI controls may provide options to selectively share relevant retrieved content with other users, such as nearby users that have the appropriate permissions to view the shared content.
US11956679B2
A method that includes sensing, by a first user equipment (UE), a signal transmitted by a second UE indicating a resource reservation for a shared channel for a sidelink (SL) transmission by the second UE and a priority associated with the SL transmission; determining, by the first UE, a threshold based on a type of the SL transmission and the priority; and selecting, by the first UE, a resource in the shared channel to use for a SL transmission by the first UE based on the threshold.
US11956678B2
An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.
US11956676B2
Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting a data rate in a wireless connection are provided. The systems include a source device and a sink device configured to establish a wireless connection. The quality of the wireless connection is monitored. Should the quality degrade so as to satisfy a triggering event, the source controller can adjust the data rate, e.g., the bit rate or sample rate, used to reduce the number of dropped, lost, or retransmitted packets. The reduction in bit rate and/or sample rate results in packets of decreased size and additional unused air-time. The unused air-time provided can be filled with at least a portion of a frame of data originally associated with another packet. This will result in at least one packet being free to include additional retransmission packets. Additionally, should the quality of the connection improve, the source controller can adjust increase the data rate accordingly.
US11956674B2
The described technology is generally directed towards adaptive spectrum as a service, in which spectrum can be dynamically allocated to adapt to demand for wireless capacity. The demand for wireless capacity can be based on monitoring system state, and/or proactively predicted based on other system state such as time of day. Reallocated spectrum can be monitored for performance, to converge spectrum allocation to a more optimal state. Allocated spectrum can be relocated, increased or decreased, including by the use of citizens band radio service spectrum or other spectrum. Currently allocated spectrum can be adapted into modified allocated spectrum by an application program (xApp) coupled to a radio access network intelligent controller (RIC), a citizens broadband radio service device, a domain proxy service, and/or a user device.
US11956671B2
A 5G network having a multi-path transport protocol (MPTP) proxy external to the user plane function (UPF). The session management function (SMF) provides address information of the external MPTP proxy to user equipment (UE) and distributes access traffic steering, switching, and splitting (ATSSS)-related rules to the UE, the UPF, and the external MPTP proxy. The external MPTP proxy receives, from the UPF, (i) 3GPP uplink data transmitted by the UE via a 3GPP radio access network (RAN) and (ii) non-3GPP uplink data transmitted by the UE via a non-3GPP RAN, combines the 3GPP and non-3GPP uplink data to form network uplink data for a data network. The external MPTP proxy also divides received network downlink data into 3GPP downlink data and non-3GPP downlink data, and provides the 3GPP and non-3GPP downlink data to the UPF for transmission to the UE via the 3GPP RAN and the non-3GPP RAN, respectively.
US11956666B2
An embodiment of the present application discloses an HARQ process determination method, a network device and a terminal. The method comprises: the terminal determines HARQ process resource parameters; the terminal determines currently transmitted HARQ process resources on the basis of the HARQ process resource parameters; wherein, the current transmission is a non-dynamic transmission.
US11956665B2
A method performed by a first radio network node for handling communication in a wireless communications network providing, is provided. The wireless communications network comprises the first radio network node (131) and a second radio network node (132) relaying data packets between a central network node (12) and a UE (10). The first radio network node is an intermediate network node between the second radio network node and the central network node. The first radio network node detects (701) congestion over a link towards the second radio network node. Upon detection of the congestion the first radio network node adds a marking in a header in a data packet and transmits (702) the data packet towards the second radio network node.
US11956660B2
Systems and methods for triggering measurements before the completion of connection resumption are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for performing measurements where a current Radio Resource Control (RRC) status is: IDLE or INACTIVE. The method includes monitoring for a potential reception of a downlink message in a cell that the wireless device is camping on; detecting, based upon the reception of the downlink message, information regarding performing measurements; performing measurements based on the information regarding performing the measurements; and reporting the measurement results. In some embodiments, the message is a paging message or a message multiplexed with the paging message. In this way, latency might be reduced to start performing measurements. This early availability of measurements at the target cell might increase the speed at which the wireless device acquires wireless connections such as Carrier Aggregation (CA) or Dual Connectivity (DC) connections.
US11956654B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for searcher resource coordination between NR mobility based measurement and LTE (E-UTRA) PRS based measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode. Other embodiments are also provided for searcher resource coordination between NR PRS measurement and LTE (E-UTRA) PRS measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode. Further embodiments provide for searcher resource coordination between NR or LTE (E-UTRA) PRS measurement and NR mobility measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode.
US11956652B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interference measurements based on synchronization signal blocks (SSB) in a network (e.g., an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network. In some cases, a node determines resources used for periodic SSB transmissions by at least one parent node of the network, uses the determined resources to perform SSB-based interference measurements, and communicates with at least one of the parent node, a central unit (CU), or another node of the network based on the SSB-based interference measurements.
US11956650B2
Systems and methods for determining baselines for network parameters used to configure base stations
A device may receive network data from base stations associated with a network and may aggregate the network data to generate aggregated network data. The device may remove data that satisfies a threshold from the aggregated network data to generate a reduced set of the aggregated network data. The device may divide the reduced set of the aggregated network data into groups of network factors associated with determining network parameters for the base stations. The device may apply weights to the network factors in the groups of network factors to generate groups of weighted network factors and may generate baselines for the network parameters based on the groups of weighted network factors. The device may compare the network data and the baselines to identify one or more anomalies in the network parameters and may perform one or more actions based on the one or more anomalies.
US11956644B2
A smart city management system may enable creating a digital twin of the smart city based on mapping lidar data for the smart city and radio frequency data for the smart city; determining placement of a set of network devices in the smart city based on the created digital twin; and providing a visualization of the determined placement of the set of network devices.
US11956643B2
A station placement design method includes: extracting candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station from point group data in accordance with designated conditions for an installation location of a wireless base station; determining presence/absence of visibility between a plurality of designated wireless terminal stations and the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station based on the point group data and generating a first list including information in which the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station and wireless terminal stations determined to have presence of visibility for the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station are associated with each other; generating a second list including information representing combinations of the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station that enable all of the plurality of designated wireless terminal stations to be accommodated based on the first list; and sorting the second list in order from the smallest number of the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station to the largest.
US11956642B2
A method of efficient wideband operation for intra-band non-contiguous spectrum using extending bandwidth part (BWP) configuration is proposed. The BWP definition is extended to cluster BWPs to aggregate distributed spectrum blocks within a frequency range (e.g., 200 MHz) by single carrier operation and facilitate UE to filter out the transmission of unknown RAT between any two of the distributed spectrum blocks. In addition, the cluster BWP configuration enables dynamic aggregation of the number and location of the distributed spectrum blocks based on LBT results in unlicensed spectrum. Specifically, the BWP definition is extended to a group of one or multiple radio resource clusters, each of which contains a set of contiguous PRBs in frequency domain within the associated carrier.
US11956637B2
Techniques and apparatus for managing a message relaying system are described. One technique includes an access point (AP) detecting a first signal and a second signal from a computing device. A validation of the first signal is performed based on parameters of the first signal and the second signal. After the validation, information associated with the first signal is transmitted to a computing system. In another technique, the computing system may designate one of multiple APs reporting information regarding first signals as a primary reporting AP and designate the remaining APs as secondary reporting APs. The computing system may instruct the secondary reporting APs to refrain from reporting information regarding first signals to the computing system.
US11956633B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for uniform security access. A computing platform may receive, from a 5G device, a request to access a collaborative experience service. The computing platform may identify whether the 5G device is authenticated. Based on identifying that the 5G device is authenticated, the computing platform may grant the 5G device access to an API that may be used to access the collaborative experience service. The computing platform may identify that attributes of the 5G device comply with a stored security policy, and grant access to the collaborative experience service in response. The computing platform may receive user interaction information from the 5G device, and may input the user interaction information into an anomaly detection model. Based on identifying that the interactions do not comprise an anomaly for the user, the computing platform may maintain the access to the collaborative experience service.
US11956631B2
Techniques for securing data are disclosed. A security device includes: one or more processors; one or more authentication components including one or more of a biometric reader, a positioning system, and a wireless receiver; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including securing data on a storage device that is external to the security device, using multiple authentication factors obtained using the one or more authentication components.
US11956628B2
A method is provided that includes obtaining an access request for a device to access a visited access network, the access request including an authentication identifier for the device including an identity for the device and a realm comprising a network identifying portion; determining a re-write rule for the realm by querying a database based on an identity type of the device and the network identifying portion of the realm, the database including a plurality of re-write rules for a plurality of networks and a plurality of identity types; re-writing the realm based on the re-write rule using the identity for the device to generate a re-written realm; obtaining, based on the re-written realm, an address for an authentication server of an identity provider associated with the device; and performing an authentication with the authentication server using the authentication identifier to authenticate the device for the visited access network.
US11956621B2
An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an executing unit that associates a head-related transfer function corresponding to a user with an identifier that identifies equipment that is used by the user and a providing unit that provides the head-related transfer function and the identifier associated with the head-related transfer function to a providing destination to which the head-related transfer function corresponding to the user is provided.
US11956620B2
A method of presenting audio comprises: identifying a first ear listener position and a second ear listener position in a mixed reality environment; identifying a first virtual sound source in the mixed reality environment; identifying a first object in the mixed reality environment; determining a first audio signal in the mixed reality environment, wherein the first audio signal originates at the first virtual sound source and intersects the first ear listener position; determining a second audio signal in the mixed reality environment, wherein the second audio signal originates at the first virtual sound source, intersects the first object, and intersects the second ear listener position; determining a third audio signal based on the second audio signal and the first object; presenting, to a first ear of a user, the first audio signal; and presenting, to a second ear of the user, the third audio signal.
US11956616B2
An apparatus comprises a receiver (201) receiving a multi-channel audio signal representing audio for a scene. An extractor (203) extracts at least one directional audio component by applying a spatial filtering to the multi-channel signal where the spatial filtering is dependent on the multi-channel audio signal. A feature processor (205) determines a set of features for the first directional audio component and a categorizer (207) determines a first audio source category out of a plurality of audio source categories for the directional audio signal in response to the set of features. An assigner (209) assigns a first audio source property to the first directional audio component from a set of audio source properties for the first audio source category. The apparatus may provide very advantageous categorization and characterization of individual audio sources/components present in a multi-channel signal. This may be advantageous e.g. for visualization of audio events.
US11956608B2
A device, system, and a method for adjusting audio parameters for a user are disclosed. The method comprises performing a hearing test of the user. The hearing test comprises playing an audio and capturing an auditory response of the user towards the audio. A hearing profile of the user is generated based on one or more results of the hearing test. A playing speed of the audio is adjusted based on the hearing profile, thereby adjusting the audio parameters for the user.
US11956606B2
An audio signal processing method includes receiving an audio signal corresponding to a voice of a talker, obtaining an image of the talker, estimating posture information of the talker using the image of the talker, generating a correction filter according to the estimated posture information, performing filter processing on the audio signal using the generated correction filter, and outputting the audio signal on which the filter processing has been performed.
US11956603B2
The present application discloses a sound-output device, including a vibration speaker configured to generate a bone-conducted sound wave; and an air-conducted speaker configured to generate an air-conducted sound wave. The sound-output device further comprises a signal processing module configured to generate a control signal, wherein, the vibration speaker includes a vibration assembly electrically connected to the signal processing module to receive the control signal, and generate the bone-conducted sound wave based on the control signal, and the air-conducted speaker includes a housing coupled to the vibration assembly to generate the air-conducted sound wave based on the bone-conducted sound wave.
US11956601B2
An interferometric microphone calibrator for comparison calibrating a microphone, the interferometric microphone calibrator comprising: an interferometer in optical communication with a microphone and that produces an interferometer measurement light, communicates the interferometer measurement light to the microphone, and receives an interferometer backscattered light from the microphone, such that a sensitivity of a test microphone is interferometrically calibrated to a reference microphone from the interferometer backscattered light; a preamplifier-controller in electrical communication with the microphone, and that receives a driver signal from a microphone driver and drives the microphone driver; the microphone driver in electrical communication with the preamplifier-controller and that receives a driver control signal from a calibration controller and produces the driver signal based on the driver control signal; and a calibration controller in electrical communication with the microphone driver and that produces the driver control signal and communicates the driver control signal to the microphone driver.
US11956592B2
The present disclosure provides an underwater speaker. The underwater speaker includes an outer shell, with a circuit board arranged inside, a speaker, and a lampshade with a first opening at the top. The speaker is electrically connected to the circuit board. The luminescent body is arranged on the circuit board. The luminescent body is oriented towards the interior of the lampshade, and a graphic mapping unit is formed on the lampshade. This embodiment uses the speaker to play audio and achieve the function of an underwater speaker. When the luminescent body emits light, the light can be mapped onto the water. This improves the multiplicity and effect of light and shadow, and meets users' needs for complex and multi-element light and shadow effects.
US11956588B2
An electronic device may include one or more terminals configured to provide a voltage signal to an actuator. The electronic device may detect a current associated with the voltage signal provided by the terminal to the actuator. The electronic device may determine an impedance across associated with the actuator based on the voltage signal and the electrical current. The electronic device may compare the impedance to a threshold impedance to determine whether there is sufficient skin contact with the actuator. The electronic device may provide audio via cartilage conduction if there is sufficient contact based on comparing the impedance to the threshold impedance, or may output a notification to the user to adjust placement of the electronic device to improve contact.
US11956579B2
In an embodiment a lid includes a top section and a side section arranged below the top section. A vertical height of the top section is calculated by ITS*HB, ITS being a first multiple integer and HB being a basic height, and a vertical height of the side section is calculated by Iss* HB, Iss being a second multiple integer and HB being the basic height HB.
US11956572B2
A system for monitoring and recording and processing an activity includes one or more cameras for automatically recording video of the activity. A remote media system is located at the location of the activity. A network media processor and services is communicatively coupled with the remote media system. The remote media system includes one or more AI enabled cameras. The AI enabled camera is configured to record the activity. The network media processor is configured to receive an activation request of the AI enabled camera and the validate the record request. The system may automatically administer a skill-based competition.
US11956566B2
An audio-visual system may include a housing comprising an open upper end and a storage space, an audio-visual device installed inside the housing and exposable through the open upper end, and a lifting device configured to expose or store the audio-visual device inside the housing through the open upper end. The audio-visual device may include a display, a speaker, and a processor configured to control the audio-visual system to operate in a first mode for outputting media art content while the display is stored in the housing according to a first event, operate in a second mode for outputting audio content through the speaker while part of the display is exposed through the open upper end according to a second event, and operate in a third mode for outputting a visual content while the entire display is exposed through the open upper end according to a third event.
US11956565B2
A middle frame and a display device are provided. The middle frame includes a lamination surface, an outside face, and an inside face. A drainage trough is disposed on the lamination surface. A diversion groove and a sealant storage tank are disposed on the outside face. A width of the drainage trough is less than a width of the diversion groove. The width of the diversion groove is less than a width of the sealant storage tank. The above-described configuration can ensure a greatest degree of lamination area, ensuring reliability of lamination, preventing sealant from flowing into a display area, and increasing yield of a display panel.
US11956559B2
Imaging devices are disclosed. In one example, an imaging device includes a pixel array with light-receiving pixels that are separated pixel lines, and that accumulating electric charge in an accumulation period. An exposure controller sets time lengths of the accumulation such that the time lengths repeat in predetermined order. The accumulation period includes a first accumulation period and a second accumulation period each having a first time length, and a third accumulation period and a fourth accumulation period each having a second time length. A processor generates image data by adding pixel values based on the accumulation result in a first pixel line in the first accumulation period, the accumulation result in a second pixel line in the second accumulation period, the accumulation result in the first pixel line in the third accumulation period, and the accumulation result in the second pixel line in the fourth accumulation period.
US11956548B2
A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Here, generating the prediction image includes: checking, from the syntax information, prediction mode accuracy for a current block to be decoded; determining whether the checked prediction mode accuracy corresponds to most probable mode (MPM) information obtained from the syntax information; and when the checked prediction mode accuracy does not correspond to the MPM information, reconfiguring the MPM information according to the prediction mode accuracy for the current block.
US11956542B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an actuator control apparatus comprises: an actuator changing an optical path of a lens; and a controller controlling the actuator, wherein the actuator comprises a first driver and a second driver which are arranged on a first side of a lens support member, and a third driver and a fourth driver which are arranged on a second side of the lens support member. A first distance between the first driver and the second driver is different from a second distance between the first driver and the third driver, and the first driver and the fourth driver are located in a diagonal direction with respect to each other. The controller applies a first current to the second driver and the third driver and applies a second current to the first driver and the fourth driver. When the lens is moved in a diagonal direction, an absolute value of the first current is different from an absolute value of the second current.
US11956532B2
A displacement detection method, performed by a computer, includes: obtaining (i) a first three-dimensional (3D) model representing a region at a first timing by 3D points and including first objects and (ii) a second three-dimensional model representing the region at a second timing by 3D points and including second objects, the second timing being different from the first timing; detecting, by use of attribute information of the first objects and the second objects, (i) first 3D points included in the first 3D model and (ii) second 3D points included in the second 3D model and associated with the respective first 3D points; performing alignment of the first 3D model and the second 3D model by use of the first 3D points and the second 3D points; and detecting displacement between the first 3D model and the second 3D model after the alignment.
US11956520B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing a media item that includes multiple media item segments that are to be played back in a specific manner. The method may also include generating playgraphs for the media item, where the playgraphs define different playback paths between media item segments. The method may next include selecting a specific playgraph from the generated playgraphs, and then providing the selected playgraph to a playback device. Playback of the media item according to the selected playgraph may thereby provide a customized presentation of the media item. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11956514B2
Systems and methods for rewinding a video to a point before the video was first viewed. Video transmitted by a media source is cached by a remote server. Upon a trick-play request for the video, the server generates a rewind stream that includes the video that was transmitted by the media source before the user started to view the video. Upon receiving the rewind stream, the user's equipment may cache the rewind stream in a rewind buffer and rewind or play from the rewind buffer. The server may also generate and transmit a forward stream of the video that the media source has not yet transmitted. The user's equipment may cache the forward stream in a forward buffer. To perform trick-play operations with the video, the user's equipment may migrate the playback of the video to the rewind and forward buffers and rewind or fast-forward the video from the buffers.
US11956507B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that recommends media content based on activities recently performed by a user. For example, in response to determining that a user recently finished the laundry, the media guidance application may recommend a movie that other users accessed after finishing the laundry.
US11956505B2
Systems and methods of media devices are operable to receive appointment information from an electronic device, wherein the appointment information is defined by a time period for a scheduled appointment for a user, and wherein the scheduled appointment requires the user to be at a remote location that is remote from a location of the media device such that the user is unable to manually operate or use their media device. The media device is configured to automatically modify at least one operation of the media device based on the received appointment information that is associated with the scheduled appointment.
US11956503B2
Systems and methods are described herein for provisioning power to a power consumption device in a depowered state (e.g., a device not consuming current such as standby current). Aspects discussed herein relate to receiving a first portion of audio input via a tuning fork. A vibration amplitude of the tuning fork may be compared with a reference amplitude. Voice recognition may be performed to determine one or more voice commands in a second portion of the audio input and an appropriate action may be taken based on the voice commands. Aspects discussed herein also relate to receiving a plurality of signals that energize an energy accumulator, activating a decoder based on an accumulated energy in the energy accumulator, and processing the signals to activate a power consumption device.
US11956490B2
In accordance with the present invention, systems and methods that allow a television broadcast facility or a headend to insert in-band messages, where the inserted message allow receivers to switch to, insert, or otherwise show addressable advertisements to its viewers.
US11956489B2
In accordance with the present invention, systems and methods that allow a television broadcast facility or a headend to insert in-band messages, where the inserted message allow receivers to switch to, insert, or otherwise show addressable advertisements to its viewers.
US11956488B2
Providing controlled access to content on a client system by providing protected content on a client system where the content is accessible with a token and providing a media file at the client system with the token embedded in association with the media file. The protected content is accessed by releasing the token to the client system when it is determined that an action condition of the media file has been met and using the token to enable access to the protected content on the client system.
US11956482B2
Delay in delivery of a content asset to a user device may be reduced by fetching a portion of the content asset and storing it in a cache. From the cache, segments of the portion of the content asset may be sent to the user device. An indication of a trickplay command associated with playback of the content asset on the user device may be received, such as a fast forward command, a rewind command, or a play command. Based on a type of the trickplay command, the portion of the content asset in the cache may be adjusted, such as by adjusting a time to live (TTL) of a segment of the content asset in the cache, by evicting a segment of the content asset in the cache, or by predictively pre-fetching and storing other segments to the cache.
US11956472B2
Decoder retrieval timing information, ROI information and tile identification information are conveyed within a video data stream at a level which allows for an easy access by network entities such as MANEs or decoder. In order to reach such a level, information of such types are conveyed within a video data stream by way of packets interspersed into packets of access units of a video data stream. In accordance with an embodiment, the interspersed packets are of a removable packet type, i.e. the removal of these interspersed packets maintains the decoder's ability to completely recover the video content conveyed via the video data stream.
US11956469B2
Video processing methods and apparatuses implemented in a video encoding or decoding system with conditional secondary transform signaling. The video encoding system determines and applies a transform operation to residuals of a transform block to generate final transform coefficients, and adaptively signals a secondary transform index according to a position of a last significant coefficient in the transform block. A value of the secondary transform index is determined according to the transform operation. The video decoding system parses last significant coefficient position syntax of each transform block in the current block from a video bitstream to determine a position of a last significant coefficient for each transform block, and infers inverse secondary transform is not applied to the current block according to the positions of the last significant coefficients; otherwise, the video decoding system determines an inverse transform operation by parsing a secondary transform index from the video bitstream.
US11956467B2
An encoder, when sub-block encoding is to be performed, determines a plurality of sub-blocks in a first image block, the plurality of sub-blocks including a first sub-block, determines a first motion vector for the first sub-block by referring to a first candidate list, performs first inter prediction processing on the first sub-block using the first motion vector, and encodes the first image block using a result of the first inter prediction processing. When partition encoding is to be performed, the encoder, in operation, determines a plurality of partitions in a second image block, the plurality of partitions including a first partition, determines a second motion vector for the first partition by referring to a second candidate list, performs second inter prediction processing on the first partition using the second motion vector, and encodes the second image block using a result of the second inter prediction processing.
US11956455B2
A video decoding method, including: parsing a received bitstream to obtain prediction information of a coding unit (CU); obtaining a target transform mode of a residual transform unit (TU); parsing the received bitstream to obtain transform coefficients of the residual TU; applying an inverse quantization to the transform coefficients of the residual TU to obtain dequantized coefficients; applying, based on the target transform mode, an inverse transform to the dequantized coefficients to obtain a residual block of the residual TU; obtaining a prediction block of the CU based on the prediction information; obtaining a video block based on the residual block and the prediction block; and outputting a video sequence including a video frame that includes the video block.
US11956454B2
Embodiments for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream includes one or more pictures including one or more subpictures according to a rule, and wherein the rule specifies that, responsive to a condition, a rewriting operation is performed on referenced one or more sequence parameter sets during a subpicture sub-bitstream extraction process by which a target output sub-bitstream is extracted from the bitstream.
US11956449B2
Techniques for implementing video processing techniques are described. In one example implementation, a method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video coded using a combined inter and intra prediction (CIIP) coding technique and a bitstream representation of the video, an intra-prediction mode of the current block independently from an intra-prediction mode of a neighboring block. The CIIP coding technique uses an intermedia inter prediction value and an intermedia intra prediction value to derive a final prediction value of the current block. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
US11956446B2
Methods and apparatus for parsing friendly and error resilient merge flag coding in video coding are provided. In some methods, in contrast to merging candidate list size dependent coding of the merge flag in the prior art, a merge flag is always encoded in the encoded bit stream for each inter-predicted prediction unit (PU) that is not encoded using skip mode. In some methods, in contrast to the prior art that allowed the merging candidate list to be empty, one or more zero motion vector merging candidates formatted according to the prediction type of the slice containing a PU are added to the merging candidate list if needed to ensure that the list is not empty and/or to ensure that the list contains a maximum number of merging candidates.
US11956436B2
A method of performing intra prediction for encoding or decoding uses multiple layers of reference samples. The layers are formed into reference arrays that are used by a function, such as a weighted combination, to form a final prediction. The weights can be variable, chosen from among a number of number of sets of weights. The prediction is used in encoding or decoding a block of video data. The weights can be determined in a number of ways, and for a given prediction mode, the same weights, or different weights can be used for all pixels in a target block. If the weights are varied, they can depend on the distance of the target pixel from reference arrays. An index can be sent indicating which set of weights is to be used.
US11956430B2
Different implementations are described, particularly implementations for video encoding and decoding based on asymmetric binary partitioning of image blocks are presented. The encoding method comprises for a picture, wherein at least one component of the picture is divided into blocks of samples, partitioning a block into block partitions, wherein at least one block partition has a size equal to a positive integer different from a power of 2 in width and/or height, obtaining a residual based on a difference between a prediction of the block partitions and the block partitions, splitting the residual into at least two residual blocks with a size equal to a power of 2 in width and height and encoding the at least two residual blocks. Ohers embodiments are presented for a block partitioning on the border of the picture, for setting maximum and/or minimum block sizes and for corresponding decoding method.
US11956425B2
An image prediction method according to the present invention may comprise: identifying a reference pixel region designated for obtaining correlation information; determining a reference pixel processing configuration on the basis of determination of the availability of the reference pixel region; and performing intra prediction according to the determined reference pixel processing. As described above, performing intra prediction on the basis of the availability of a reference pixel according to the present invention can improve encoding performance.
US11956418B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving most probable mode (MPM) candidates on the basis of an intra-prediction mode of candidate blocks; determining whether the MPM candidate having the intra-prediction mode, which is the same as that of a current block, exists among MPM candidates; and deriving the intra-prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the determination, wherein the candidate block includes a neighboring block which is adjacent to the current block, and a non-neighboring block which is not adjacent to the current block.
US11956416B2
An image sensing device may include a plurality of test pixel blocks and a signal processing unit. The test pixel blocks may be simultaneously heated to different temperatures. The signal processing unit may be in communication with the test blocks and configured to obtain pixel signals for different colors, respectively, based on dark current information associated with the temperatures of the test pixel blocks.
US11956406B2
A system for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, the system including a first information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus includes a colorimetric setting for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, a transmission unit configured to transmit screen information of a screen for receiving a chart printing instruction, a receiving unit configured to receive the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction, and a generation unit configured to generate print data of a chart based on the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction.
US11956402B2
In an example, a method includes, by one or more processors, receiving a greyscale image having a plurality of pixels, each pixel being associated with a grey level, and the greyscale image having a first number of grey levels. An order of the pixels may be determined based on the grey level. A second number of grey levels may be determined, wherein the second number of grey levels is greater than the first number, and an indication of a target number of pixels per grey level of the second number of grey levels may be further be determined. Taking the pixels in order, and based on the target number of pixels per grey level, a new grey level may be allocated to each pixel to provide the second number of grey levels. The new grey levels may be converted to a threshold of a threshold halftone screen.
US11956399B2
A reading apparatus includes a communication unit, a scanner, and a processor. The communication unit communicates with a wireless tag provided on paper. The scanner scans the paper. The processor acquires data from the wireless tag through the communication unit, acquires an image from the paper by using the scanner, and generates a file in which the data is embedded in the image as hidden characters.
US11956397B2
An image reading device includes a lens array including lenses arranged in a main scanning direction and forming an erect unmagnified optical system to converge light from a reading target, a holder holding the lens array, a light receiver to receive the light converged by the lenses, and slit units. Each slit unit includes three or more light shielding plates each separating an optical path of one lens from an optical path of another lens between the lens array and the light receiver, and side plates disposed on two sides of the light shielding plates in a direction intersecting the main scanning direction and connecting two adjacent light shielding plates. The slit units are arranged in the main scanning direction, and each two adjacent slit units are arranged with a space therebetween for one optical path of one lens.
US11956393B2
A reading device includes a reading sensor, a platen on which a first original and a second original being longer in a first direction can be placed, and a controller. the controller moves the reading sensor from an initial position to a standby position, causes the reading sensor to detect edges of the original while moving by a predetermined distance in the first direction, detect edges of the original while moving toward the initial position when a first edge in the first direction and a second edge in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction are detected or when neither of the edges are detected, detect edges while moving in a direction away from the initial position when the first edge is not detected and the second edge is detected, and acquire a content of the original while moving toward the initial position when the first edge is detected.
US11956383B2
A method of providing blockchain wireless services in a controlled environment is provided. The method comprises a wireless communication device associated with an inmate of a controlled environment receiving one of a voice and video call from a device external to the controlled environment. The method further comprises the device placing the received call into a hold state and sending a request for validation of the call via a blockchain, the request identifying at least parties to the call. The method further comprises the device, upon receipt of validation, removing the call from the hold state; and enabling at least one of voice and video functionality for the parties. The method further comprises the wireless communication device sending the request for validation to a telecommunications server and the server conducting real time monitoring of the call. The method further comprises the device continuously recording the call.
US11956377B1
Systems and methods for a bifurcated self-executing program that wraps a first self-executing program (e.g., a first smart contract) on a blockchain within a second self-executing program (e.g., a second smart contract), in which the second self-executing program enforces the requirement for particular security credentials/certificates. The bifurcated self-executing program comprises a single compiled self-executing program that combines the first self-executing program and the second self-executing program.
US11956370B2
A method for verification at a computing device of a signed message received from a first party over a public communications channel, the method including extracting a message digest “a” belonging to a semigroup from the signed message; obtaining a public key [c,e] for the first party, including a fixed value checker “c” and an endpoint “e”, checker “c” and endpoint “e” belonging to the semigroup and the endpoint comprising a multiplication of a private key “b” for the first party and the checker “c”, multiplying the message digest “a” and the endpoint “e” to create an endmatter “ae”; extracting a signature “d” from the signed message, the signature “d” belonging to the semigroup and being a multiplication of message digest “a” and private key “b”; multiplying the signature “d” and the checker “c” to create a signcheck “dc”; and verifying that the endmatter “ae” matches the signcheck “dc”.
US11956366B1
The present invention comprises a computer-implemented zero-trust authentication method that utilizes the Bitcoin Lightning Network, which is the sole protocol offering immediate, immutable, and cost-free Bitcoin settlement. A user requests access to the resource of a service provider and the user provides authentication material necessary to securely access the service provider. The service provider initiates a Hold Invoice via a cryptographic function to generate a pre-image hash, instructing the user to authorize release of Bitcoin in an amount stipulated by the Hold Invoice. Bitcoin is held in the Hold Invoice until an authentication attempt is either successful or unsuccessful. If successful, the user is issued an access token to login into the resource, the Hold Invoice is canceled and Bitcoin is released to the user. If unsuccessful, the pre-image is revealed, the user is denied access, and Bitcoin is transferred to the service provider as a settled payment transaction.
US11956361B2
A network function service invocation method includes sending, by a first network function network element, a first request message to an authorization network element, wherein the first request message is used to request permission to invoke a first network function service provided by a second network function network element, performing, by the authorization network element, identity authentication on the first network function network element, generating, by the authorization network element, a token when determining that the identity authentication succeeds, wherein the token is used to indicate that the first network function network element has the permission to invoke the first network function service of the second network function network element, and sending, by the authorization network element, a token to the first network function network element.
US11956345B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a method and a system to support execution of the method to obtain a first N cryptographic key, receive a key diversification information comprising a first plurality of bits, obtain an expanded key diversification information (EKDI) comprising a second plurality of bits, wherein a number of bits in the second plurality of bits is greater than a number of bits in the first plurality of bits, and wherein a value of each bit of the second plurality of bits is deterministically obtained in view of values of the first plurality of bits, and apply, by the processing device, a key derivation function to the first cryptographic key and the EKDI to obtain a second cryptographic key.
US11956339B2
A process control system (PCS) includes a cable connection including physical cables including a first cable for connecting between a process controller and an I/O access device, and an independent second cable for connecting the process controller and a second node being the I/O access device or another device. The I/O access device is for coupling to I/O module(s) to receive an output of the I/O access device. An output of the I/O module is coupled to a field device coupled to processing equipment. The process controller and I/O access device each include a processor and memory that implement send and receive logic for communicating using any of multiple redundancy protocols including a first and a second redundant protocol. The cable connection is for supporting simultaneously communicating between the process controller and the second node utilizing both the first redundant protocol and the second redundant protocol.
US11956335B1
An application mapping procedure obtains and aggregates application mapping information from a plurality of machines in a distributed system. An application dependency map, including first layer of application mapping information, is initialized, and then a first query is sent to one or more of the machines. In response, information identifying entities that have participated in predefined communications with entities identified in an existing layer of application mapping information in the application dependency map are received, and a second layer of application mapping information is added to the application dependency map, based at least in part on the information received in response to the first query. After adding the second layer of application mapping information to the application dependency map, a second query is sent to one or more of the of the endpoint machines, the second query being based at least in part on the application dependency map.
US11956331B2
A cache management subsystem (CMS) for a network having network gateways logically organized into network gateway (NG) subsets, each NG subset comprising redundant network gateways and each network gateway comprising a local cache configured to store cache entries corresponding to information requests from network users. The subsystem includes (i) a cache manager configured to synchronize certain cache entries between the network gateways of an NG subset and (ii) a CMS cache configured to store, for the NG subset, other cache entries that are not synchronized between the network gateways of the NG subset. In certain implementations, the cache manager synchronizes within NG subsets recent cache entries having relatively frequent hits and the CMS cache stores recent cache entries having relatively infrequent hits, thereby increasing efficiencies if and when a redundant network gateway handles requests for a failed network gateway.
US11956325B2
A client device for use in a cellular network providing location-based publications using a publish/subscribe protocol. The client device determines a geographical location relevant to the client device, determines a subscription geohash, to identify an area including the geographical location relevant to the client device, and sends a subscription to a server, the subscription having a subscription name comprising the subscription geohash. Also described are a server and a method for use in a cellular network providing location-based publications using a publish/subscribe protocol.
US11956322B1
Systems and methods for determining locations of emergency callers in standalone non-public networks
A network device may receive, for an emergency call, a session initiation protocol (SIP) invite that includes a registered address of a user device that initiated the emergency call, and may determine whether the user device is associated with a private network based on the SIP invite. The network device may extract the registered address of the user device from the SIP invite and based on the user device being associated with the private network, and may provide the registered address to another network device. The other network device may determine a registered geographic location of the user device, based on the registered address, and may provide the registered geographic location to a public safety answering point associated with the emergency call.
US11956318B2
A system and method for managing a user equipment (UE) device coupled to a network serviced by a service provider in which standard Internet Protocol (IP) traffic, that is not LTE traffic, is received from a network serviced by a service provider that was generated by the UE device having an IP address that causes the standard IP traffic to be routed to an evolved packet core (EPC) proxy unit. The EPC proxy unit identifies the IMSI for the UE device, requests a standard session from an EPC system based on the IMSI, and initiates a tunnel connection to a serving gateway for advanced processing by the EPC system. After advance processing has been performed, usage management and policy enforcement may be performed on the standard IP traffic prior to allowing the UE device to access a public data network.
US11956316B2
Vehicle-mounted apparatus, vehicle-mounted communication system, and communication management method
A vehicle-mounted apparatus is a vehicle-mounted apparatus mounted in a vehicle, and includes a measuring unit that measures characteristics of a transmission line in a vehicle-mounted network mounted in the vehicle, and an identifying unit that identifies the transmission line based on the characteristics measured by the measuring unit.
US11956308B2
A distributed computing system uses dynamically calculates a subset size for each of a plurality of load balancers. Each of a plurality of load balancers logs requests from client devices for connections to back-end servers and periodically sends a request report to a traffic aggregator, which aggregates the report requests from the load balancers in the corresponding zone. Each traffic aggregator sends the aggregated request data to a traffic controller, which aggregates the request data to determine a total number of requests received at the system. The total request data is transmitted through each traffic aggregator to each load balancer instance, which calculates a percentage of the total number of requests produced by the load balancer and determines a subset size based on the calculated percentage.
US11956306B1
Systems and techniques for performing multicast-reduction operations. In at least one embodiment, a network device receives first network data associated with a multicast operation to be collectively performed by at least a plurality of endpoints. The network device reserves resources to process second network data to be received from the endpoints, and sends the first network data to a plurality of additional network devices. The network device receives the second network data, and processes the second network data using the reserved resources.
US11956301B2
A transmission management system includes a destination name data managing unit which manages a plurality of destination name data items which indicate a plurality of names of a destination in communications between transmission terminals, a destination name data reading unit which reads a destination name data item from the plurality of destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit, and a destination name data transmitting unit which transmits the destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to a transmission terminal capable of communicating with the destination.
US11956294B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing different media to determine if the media originated from the same source. A two-part analysis is provided. During the first part, target data streams are analyzed to determine a template for the data stream or file, based upon the encoder used to encode the media transmitted in the data stream or stored in a file. After generating templates for the different streams, the templates are compared to determine which streams have matching templates. The second part of the analysis includes monitoring streams with matching templates to identify the same piece of media content in each of the streams. Upon identifying the same content, the content of each stream is synchronized and then compared to determine if the compared pieces of content were generated using the same encoder.
US11956292B2
Systems and methods for streaming data in a legacy mainframe environment. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, at a KAFKA streaming platform abstraction layer interface, production data from a first publisher application; selecting a producer instance to receive the production data; and configuring the selected producer instance with a first set of configuration parameters from at least one producer library. The method may further include communicating the first publication data to the selected producer instance; and forwarding the first publication data to a KAFKA streaming platform cluster in operable communication with a consumer instance.
US11956289B2
Systems and techniques are provided for a digital collaborative workspace system. The system includes a server network node having a processor and a database accessible thereto. The server network node can include logic to register a first display identification code (DIC) with a first network node, a second DIC with a second network node and a third DIC with a third network node. The server network node can detect an input from a second user identifying the shared workspace and the registered phone number or other identifier of the first user. The server network node can transmit this data to the third network node and in dependence upon receiving a selection of one or more of the first DIC, the second DIC, and the third DIC from the third network node, start a collaboration by sending the shared digital workspace to the network nodes registered with the selected DICs.
US11956287B2
A method and a system for automated switchover timer's tuning on network systems or Next Generation Emergency Systems configured so that the sending, by a master node, of a heartbeat and/or ARP ping to one or more backup nodes and/or a surveillance unit according to preconfigured switchover timer values can occur to check if the master node is still active. One or more backup nodes and/or a surveillance unit, can use an additional first Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) OPTION message to the master node after receiving the heartbeat and/or the ARP ping or if the heartbeat and/or ARP ping fails to be received according to the switchover timer values. An administrator or an administrative unit of the network can perform a switchover or failover to a backup node in case the first SIP OPTION message is not answered with a suitable response by the master node.
US11956285B2
An information processing method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes performing communication based on a communication group, and obtaining a first sharing operation of a target identification (ID) for data corresponding to a first hardware resource, where the first hardware resource belongs to an electronic device corresponding to the target ID, and the target ID belongs to the communication group; based on the first sharing operation, determining at least one sharing ID from the communication group, where the at least one sharing ID is a part of IDs in the communication group; and in response to the first sharing operation and in a process of performing the communication based on the communication group, sharing the data corresponding to the first hardware resource with a terminal device corresponding to the at least one sharing ID in real time.
US11956278B2
A document management system manages documents of an entity. The document management system monitors for entries in a document that are suspicious. Entries in the document are classified by the document management system as a “suspicious entry” or a “non-suspicious entry.” In one embodiment, a suspicious entry is indicative of potentially suspicious activity at the entity.
US11956276B2
A system for switching between communication platforms using a secure healthcare communication system the system comprising: a healthcare provider server device. Transmitting a communication switch request to a first communication platform and establish a first communication channel between the user device and the healthcare provider server device to communicate one or more messages to the first communication platform. Transmit an encoded message over the first communication channel to the first communication platform in response to receiving the communication switch initiation request, the encoded message including an identifier associated with a second communication platform. Switch to an encrypted second communication channel from the first communication channel in response to receiving an encrypted communication initiation request. Encrypted communication initiation request is generated based on the identifier.
US11956268B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for AI based privacy amplification. A data security system allows for data transmitted between devices to be secured using varying levels of data security that are adjusted dynamically based on the determined sensitivity level of the data. The data security system uses AI (e.g., machine learning models) to predict the sensitivity level of data being transmitted between the devices in real-time and applies an appropriate level of data security based on the predicted sensitivity level. Dynamically adjusting the level of data security that is used based on the sensitivity level of the data provides for heightened levels of data security to protect highly sensitive data, and lower levels of data security to conserve computing resources when protecting less sensitive data.
US11956264B2
A validity verification method may include receiving an event to be analyzed from a security information & event management (SIEM) server, the event to be analyzed selected by the SIEM server from a plurality of events detected by different security devices based on a desired correlation rule; registering the event to be analyzed; collecting raw data associated with the registered event from a security device corresponding to the registered event among the different security devices; acquiring location information of an intended network location associated with an attack based on the collected raw data; determining a validity status of the registered event based on the acquired location information; generating an exceptional processing message of the registered event; and transmitting the generated exceptional processing message to the SIEM server based on results of the determining the validity status of the registered event.
US11956261B2
A detection method for a malicious domain name in a domain name system (DNS) and a detection device are provided. The method includes: obtaining network connection data of an electronic device; capturing log data related to at least one domain name from the network connection data; analyzing the log data to generate at least one numerical feature related to the at least one domain name; inputting the at least one numerical feature into a multi-type prediction model, which includes a first data model and a second data model; and predicting whether a malicious domain name related to a malware or a phishing website exists in the at least one domain name by the multi-type prediction model according to the at least one numerical feature.
US11956259B2
Systems and methods for side-channel monitoring a local network are disclosed. The methods involve generating a program trace signal from at least one of power consumption, electromagnetic emission, or acoustic emanation of a control processor connected to the local network and operating a monitoring processor to detect a communication of a message on the local network; identify at least one purported control processor related to the communication; analyze the program trace signal of the at least one purported control processor relative to the communication; and at least one of an authenticate or verify one or more purported control processors of the at least one purported control processor based on the program trace signal of the at least one purported control processor.
US11956256B2
In a priority determination apparatus (10), a dissimilarity index calculation unit (11) calculates a dissimilarity index between a transmission/reception performance record of a first traffic flow related to a first security alert notified from a network-type intrusion detection apparatus and a transmission/reception performance record of a second traffic flow related to a second security alert notified from the network-type intrusion detection apparatus in the past, the network-type intrusion detection apparatus being configured to detect an attack on an apparatus in a network. A priority determination unit (12) determines a priority of the first security alert based on the dissimilarity index calculated by the dissimilarity index calculation unit (11).
US11956254B1
Generating a cybersecurity risk model using sparse data is disclosed, including: obtaining signals associated with a cybersecurity risk, wherein the obtained signals include technographic signals and query derived signals obtained from queries; generating pseudo signals based at least in part on a priori factors relating to the cybersecurity risk; and combining the pseudo signals and the obtained signals into a Bayesian model indicating the cybersecurity risk.
US11956252B2
A system and method for resolving contradictory device profiling data. The method includes: determining a set of non-contradicting values and a set of contradicting values in device profiling data related to a device based on a plurality of conflict rules; merging values of the set of non-contradicting values in device profiling data into at least one first value; selecting at least one second value from the set of contradicting values, wherein selecting one of the at least one second value from each set of contradicting values further includes generating a certainty score corresponding to each value of the set of contradicting values, wherein each certainty score indicates a likelihood that the corresponding value is accurate, wherein the at least one second value is selected based on the certainty scores; and creating a device profile based on the at least one first value and the at least one second value.
US11956250B2
A method including transmitting, by a transmitting device, verification information including a current fingerprint associated with a first instance of a source application stored on the transmitting device; determining, by a responding device based at least in part on the verification information, a verification fingerprint associated with a second instance of the source application stored on the responding device; comparing, by the responding device, the verification fingerprint with the current fingerprint; and selectively transmitting, by the transmitting device, transmission data utilizing the first instance of the source application based at least in part on a result of the comparing. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11956249B2
A method including receiving, by a responding device, verification information including a current fingerprint associated with a first instance of a source application stored on a transmitting device; determining, by the responding device based at least in part on the verification information, a verification fingerprint associated with a second instance of the source application stored on the responding device; comparing, by the responding device, the verification fingerprint with the current fingerprint; and transmitting, by the responding device based at least in part on the comparing, a result indicating whether a transmission packet to be transmitted utilizing the first instance of the source application potentially includes malicious content. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11956248B2
An electronic device includes a communication interface and at least one processor configured for: transmitting to or receiving from a second electronic device over proximity-based communication channel an introduction message including a first encryption key; receiving, from a server via the at least one communication interface, a challenge notification providing notification of a challenge to be completed to initiate a data process, the challenge notification including or providing access to at least one data field associated with a verification challenge; identifying, from the at least one data field, an encrypted challenge response value; decrypting the encrypted challenge response value with a key corresponding to the first encryption key; and transmitting the decrypted challenge response value to the server to complete the challenge to initiate the data process.
US11956247B2
Disclosed is a system and method for providing secure access control to an electronic network or device. By limiting the ability of a single administrator to act unilaterally without the agreement and/or notification of further system administrators, the data integrity and security of stored data, such as email accounts, may be enhanced and risk of compromise ameliorated. By permitting multiple administrators acting in a concert of action to access stored data, such as without notification of the email account holder, potential misconduct by email account holders may be audited.
US11956245B1
A technological approach can be employed to protect data. Datasets from distinct computing environments of an organization can be scanned to identify data elements subject to protection, such as sensitive data. The identified elements can be automatically protected such as by masking, encryption, or tokenization. Data lineage including relationships amongst data and linkages between computing environments can be determined along with data access patterns to facilitate understanding of data. Further, personas and exceptions can be determined and employed as bases for access recommendations.
US11956244B2
A server comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to authenticate a user via a first authentication channel; receive, via the communications module and from a computing device associated with the user, a signal representing a request to transfer a first quantity of resources; determine that the first quantity of resources is less than a first threshold associated with the first authentication channel; obtain identity data associated with the request to transfer the first quantity of resources; determine, based on the identity data, that a request to transfer a second quantity of resources has been previously initiated by the user via a second authentication channel that is different than the first authentication channel; and determine that the sum of the first quantity of resources and the second quantity of resources is less than the first threshold, and in response to determining that the sum of the first quantity of resources and the second quantity of resources is less than the first threshold, initiate the transfer of the first quantity of resources.
US11956240B2
One example method includes providing temporary access to a computing system and to providing temporary access as a service. The features of a temporary access can be defined by an entity and a user may be able to obtain a token that includes these features, which may be embedded in the token as claims. The user's access is then controlled in accordance with the embedded claims. The temporary access as a service can be federated. The token may include trust levels and tolerance limits. Further, aspects of the temporary access can be monitored and/or changed. Adjustments to trust levels can be automated or manually performed. Further trust for specific users can be gained or lost over time based on at least previous accesses.
US11956239B2
Technologies are shown for detection of identity misconfiguration that involve collecting identity/role binding and role/access rules data from multiple clusters supported by a computing resource system. Access rules for identities are extracted from the collected data and an access rule prediction model created to predict access rules for identities. An identity definition request for a tenant is received having a requested identity and a role assigned to the identity. A set of access rules is obtained for the role assigned to the identity and a predicted set of access rules is obtained for the requested identity from the prediction model. The access rules for the requested role are compared to the predicted set of access rules and a misconfiguration alert generated when there is a difference between the set of access rules for the requested role and the predicted set of access rules for the requested identity.
US11956238B2
[Problem] Provided is an authorization system capable of reducing a load on a host regarding an invitation procedure in a case where there is a large number of guests or guests are frequently invited, and preventing identity theft or invitation of an unwanted third party. [Solution] In an authorization system 1X, a representative guest terminal 10A acquires information about non-representative guest terminals 10B and 10C from the non-representative guest terminal 10B and 10C, a host terminal 10H acquires and verifies signed information about the terminals 10A, 10B, and 10C from the representative guest terminal 10A, and a management server 20 acquires and verifies the information about the host terminal 10H and the signed information about the terminals 10A, 10B, and 10C from the host terminal 10H, performs authentication based on information about the host terminal 10H registered in advance, registers the information about the terminals 10A, 10B, and 10C, when the authentication is successful, acquires and performs authentication on information about the terminals 10A, 10B, and 10C from a smart lock 30, and unlocks the smart lock 30 based on a result of the authentication.
US11956223B2
The techniques herein are directed generally to a “zero-knowledge” data management network. Users are able to share verifiable proof of data and/or identity information, and businesses are able to request, consume, and act on the data—all without a data storage server or those businesses ever seeing or having access to the raw sensitive information (where server-stored data is viewable only by the intended recipients, which may even be selected after storage). In one embodiment, source data is encrypted with a source encryption key (e.g., source public key), with a rekeying key being an encrypting combination of a source decryption key (e.g., source private key) and a recipient's public key. Without being able to decrypt the data, the storage server can use the rekeying key to re-encrypt the source data with the recipient's public key, to then be decrypted only by the corresponding recipient using its private key, accordingly.
US11956210B2
A method for transmitting an application programming interface API request includes receiving, by a first API gateway, a first API request; obtaining, by the first API gateway, a first forwarding label corresponding to the first API request, where the first forwarding label includes a first target security domain identifier, and a security domain identifier of the first API gateway is different from the first target security domain identifier. The method also includes determining an address of a second API gateway according to a mapping relationship between the first target security domain identifier and the address of the second API gateway. The method additionally includes sending the first API request to the second API gateway based on the address which is a next-hop API gateway of the first API gateway that sends the first API request to an API gateway corresponding to the first target security domain identifier.
US11956204B1
A method, implemented in a router in a Communication Service Provider (CSP) network, includes connecting to a device via at least two connections where a first connection includes a first Wide Area Network (WAN) interface and a second connection includes a second WAN interface; receiving an encapsulated packet from one of the at least two connections where the encapsulated packet is destined for an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address on the Internet; and creating an IPv4 packet from the encapsulated packet by de-encapsulating the encapsulated packet and including an IPv4 public address in an IPv4 packet, wherein the IPv4 public address is associated with the router.
US11956203B2
A method by a software defined networking (SDN) controller to configure a switch to perform translation module bypass in a container orchestration system. The method includes receiving a translation rule for a flow from a load balancer, sending translation module bypass instructions to a switch in response to receiving the translation rule for the flow, where the translation module bypass instructions include instructions for the switch to stop sending packets belonging to the flow to the translation module and to apply a network address translation specified by the translation rule for the flow to the packets belonging to the flow, and send an indication to the load balancer that the packets belonging to the flow are to bypass the translation module to cause the load balancer to disable timeout processing for the flow in the translation module.
US11956201B2
One embodiment of the present invention facilitates address resolution protocol (ARP) resolution in an extended subnet. A gateway of a first segment of the extended subnet can determine that a layer-2 address corresponding to a layer-3 destination address of a packet is locally unavailable. The gateway can then determine whether a respective egress interface of an ARP request for the layer-3 destination address is associated with a layer-2 subnet extension from the first segment to a second segment of the extended subnet. The extension can provide a common layer-2 broadcast domain comprising the first and second segments with a same default gateway layer-3 address. If the egress interface is associated with the extension, the gateway can insert a layer-3 address of a first endpoint associated with the extension as a source protocol address in the ARP request. The gateway can send the modified ARP request via the egress interface.
US11956199B2
In some embodiments, a server may associate a channel identifier a software development kit (SDK). The channel identifier represents an in-application messaging channel of a software application that imports the SDK as part of the software application. The server may associate the channel identifier with an end user identifier. The server may receive a two-way messaging series from the message publisher. The server may receive, from a message publisher, a command to launch the two-way messaging series. The server may determine that the end user to be an intended recipient of the two-way messaging series. The server may transmit a message to the SDK via the in-application messaging channel. The server may receive a response from the SDK. The server may perform an action based on the response.
US11956191B2
A method for audio-based social media messaging for a wearable device includes generating a first audio message using a wearable device, the wearable device having at least one microphone and at least one speaker and conveying the first audio message from the wearable device to an audio-based social media platform using a wireless radio transceiver within the wearable device.
US11956181B2
Provided in the present disclosure are a method and apparatus for sending a signal, a method and apparatus for receiving a signal, and a storage medium. The method for sending the signal includes: configuring or appointing multiple sending manners or conflict processing manners for a first signal; when there is a second signal conflicting with the first selecting a sending manner or a conflict processing manner for the first signal according to determination information; and sending the first signal according to the sending manner or the conflict processing manner.
US11956175B1
In one aspect, an example method includes monitoring, by a hub station, a first channel activity level associated with a first channel of a plurality of channels within a particular frequency range. The hub station communicates with a low-energy device using the first channel. The method includes determining that the first channel activity level satisfies a threshold activity level and switching to a second channel of the plurality of channels to communicate with the low-energy device. The method includes notifying the low-energy device that the hub station switched to the second channel by sending an acknowledgement message to the low-energy device on the second channel in response to receiving a message from the low-energy device on the second channel. The message is sent to the hub station on the second channel after at least one unsuccessful attempt to send the message to the hub station on the first channel.
US11956169B2
Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to communicate over an anchor channel for Unlicensed Internet of Things (U-IoT) is disclosed. The gNB can encode control information for transmission on two discovery reference signal (DRS) subframes to a user equipment (UE). The control information can be transmitted on an anchor channel having a set frequency for U-IoT in an adaptive frequency hopping system. The control information can include: a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission, and a system information block for MulteFire bandwidth reduced (SIB-MF-BR).
US11956168B2
A method, network node and wireless device for position reference signal (PRS) design by extending a base signal are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a wireless device (WD) includes obtaining extended reference signal, RS, configurations from the network node. The method also includes determining a waveform associated with the extended RS. The method also includes detecting a RS and estimate an associated time of arrival. The method further includes sending a measurement report to the network node based on the estimated time of arrival.
US11956153B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a first network component, a sender shaper drop value based on the following: a maximum sequence number; a minimum sequence number; and a sender sequence counter number associated with the first network component. The method also includes determining, by the first network component, a wide area network (WAN) link drop value based on the sender sequence counter number associated with the first network component and a receiver sequence counter number associated with a second network component. The method further includes determining, by the first network component, whether to adjust a sender shaper rate based on the sender shaper drop value and the WAN link drop value.
US11956150B1
Programmable networking devices configured to perform various packet processing functions for packet filtration, control and user plane separation (CUPS), user plane function (UPF), pipeline processing, etc. IPsec is utilized to secure control and data packets traversing the programmable networking device. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are configured with one or more host servers and software-based network interfaces (softMAC).
US11956148B2
A packet transmission method includes: receiving, by a first network device, a first packet sent by a previous-hop device of the first network device, where the first packet includes an SR header; generating, by the first network device, cache index information of the SR header, and storing the cache index information and the SR header; generating, by the first network device, a second packet based on the first packet, where the second packet includes the cache index information but does not include the SR header; and sending, by the first network device, the second packet to a second network device.
US11956132B2
A consumer of an analytics output receives control and/or knowledge about a set of parameters that is used for generating the analytics output. A set of baseline parameters is used for generating the analytics output, which (a) is associated with a set of analytics consumers and/or with a set of analytics types, and (b) is related to at least one of a statistical property and/or process and/or an output strategy for providing an analytics output. Network entities and corresponding methods for analytics generation and for consuming analytics may be used for generating an analytics output based on the set of baseline parameters.
US11956130B1
The cause of a failure to satisfy a high priority service level objective of a storage object or storage group is localized within a storage array. Storage objects that have been assigned low priority service level objectives are analyzed to determine whether their performance paths overlap with the performance path of the high priority service level objective storage object or storage group at the location of the cause of the failure. The low priority service level objective storage objects having performance paths that overlap with the performance path of the high priority service level objective storage object or storage group at the location of the cause of the failure are targeted for IO data rate reduction in order to free resources to restore compliance with the high priority service level objective. The other low priority service level objective storage objects are not targeted.
US11956120B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a first message identifying a set of UEs comprising one or more other UEs with which the UE is engaging in sidelink communication. The UE may transmit a second message, based at least in part on a determination of a loss of a sidelink connection to a previously-connected UE of the set of UEs, identifying a subset of the set of UEs and indicating the loss of the sidelink connection. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11956113B2
Methods and an apparatus for performing synchronization in New Radio (NR) systems are disclosed. A frequency band may be determined and may correspond to a WTRU. On a condition that the operational frequency band is a lower frequency, a synchronization signal block (SSB) index may be implicitly. On a condition that the operational frequency band is a higher frequency, an SSB index may be determined based on a hybrid method which includes determining the SSB index using both an implicit and an explicit method. A configuration of actually transmitted SSBs may be determined using a multi-level two stage compressed indication where SSB groups are determined based on a coarse indicator and actually transmitted SSBs with the SSB groups are determined based on a fine indicator.
US11956109B2
A low-computation underwater acoustic wake-up method based on a multi-carrier signal is provided. A multi-carrier signal corresponding to communication nodes is constructed, absolute values of the multi-carrier signal in a window at a receiver are summed for signal arrival detection, and then frequency points of the multi-carrier signal are detected many times by using the real fast Fourier transform to realize wake-up detection. The method is suitable for accurate wake-up at any distance within a maximum communication distance of two underwater acoustic nodes, has a small amount of calculation, and is suitable for low-power single-chip microcomputers. The modem can be in a low-power sleep state for a long time.
US11956093B2
A field device adapter for wireless data transfer, comprises at least: an adapter housing; an adapter electronics unit arranged in the adapter housing, the adapter electronics unit comprising a first supply circuit, which is introduced into the first connection line, for providing a first supply voltage from a loop current flowing in the first connection line, and a second supply circuit, which is introduced into the second connection line, for providing a second supply voltage from the loop current flowing in the second connection line, wherein the adapter electronics unit further comprises a HART modem and a wireless module with an antenna for transmitting and/or receiving, and the adapter electronics unit is configured such that the first supply circuit supplies the HART modem with the first supply voltage, and the second supply circuit supplies the wireless module with the second supply voltage.
US11956089B2
The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method that can achieve communication that has high reliability and low delay. Provided is a communication device that constitutes a base station, the communication device including a control unit that performs a control that generates redundancy information regarding a provision of redundancy for transmission data transmitted by a terminal station or the base station, and multiplexing information regarding multiplexing of the transmission data, and transmits the redundancy information and the multiplexing information that have been generated to the terminal station.
US11956084B2
A communication protocol provides improved bidirectional communication performance between a wireless stereo headset (12) and a host device (19). The communication protocol provides communication paths between the host device (19) and each ear piece (12a, 12b) of the wireless stereo headset (12), as well as a communication path (17) between the two ear pieces (12a, 12b). In addition to receiving audio information from the host device (19), each ear piece (12a, 12b) may request audio information from the other ear piece (12b, 12a), thus obtaining path diversity in the downlink. One ear piece (12a, 12b) may acknowledge the host device (10) for a correctly received packet, which the other ear piece (12a, 12b) missed, avoiding retransmissions. The ear pieces (12a, 12b) may exchange picked-up voice content to send to the host device (19), providing for path diversity in the uplink.
US11956066B2
A high throughput fractionated satellite (HTFS) system and method where the functional capabilities of a conventional monolithic spacecraft are distributed across many small or very small satellites and a central command and relay satellite, the satellites are separated and flight in carefully design formations that allows the creation of very large aperture or apertures in space drastically reducing cost and weight and enabling high throughput capabilities by spatially reuse spectrum.
US11956065B2
A method, device and computer readable medium are used to support satellite access. The registration management entity of the network determines information regarding which beam covering the location of the terminal device and the corresponding timing; the terminal device triggers a registration update based on the information determined by the registration management entity. Thus, the method, device and computer readable medium can introduce less modification to the network and have good compatibility.
US11956058B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include an adaptive antenna system with beamforming and signal polarization adjusting capabilities that improve or enhance signal to noise ratio in relation to various user effects, including specific anthropomorphic mannequin (SAM) head and personal digital assistants (PDA) hand (talk mode), PDA hand (data mode), and dual hands (read mode). Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11956051B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for tracking multiple beams between a first radio node and one or more other radio nodes. In this regard, embodiments of a method performed by a first radio node for mitigating interference between two or more three-dimensional (3D) beams between the first radio node and the one or more other radio nodes are provided. According to one embodiment, the method comprises determining that a particular 3D beam from among two or more 3D beams results in interference to at least one other 3D beam from among the two or more 3D beams, wherein both the particular 3D beam and the at least one other 3D beam are both operated on a first frequency. The method further comprises selecting a new frequency to which to switch the particular 3D beam, and switching the particular 3D beam from the first frequency to the new frequency.
US11956044B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a number of channel state information (CSI) reports for a CSI reporting procedure as part of a beam management procedure. The UE may transmit a first number of CSI reports of the CSI reporting procedure to the base station using a first set of transmission parameters associated with a first reliability level. The base station may transmit a control message to the UE indicating a second set of transmission parameters associated with a second reliability level and the UE may transmit a second number of CSI reports of the CSI reporting procedure to the base station using the second set of transmission parameters.
US11956027B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data regarding interference detected in a received communication signal, and performing phase adjusting for one or more radiating elements of an antenna system such that an impact of the interference on the antenna system is minimized. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11956025B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for automatic signal detection in a radio-frequency (RF) environment are disclosed. At least one node device is in a fixed nodal network. The at least one node device is operable to measure and learn the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The at least one node device is operable to create a spectrum map based on the learning data. The at least one node device is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the RF environment in real time or near real time, including a first derivative and a second derivative of fast Fourier transform (FFT) data of the RF environment. The at least one node device is operable to identify at least one signal based on the first derivative and the second derivative of FFT data.
US11956017B2
A spectrally multiplexed quantum repeater (SMuQR) based on spatially arrayed nodes of frequency-multiplexed multi-qubit registers uses the natural inhomogeneous distribution of optical transition frequencies in solid state defect centers. This distribution enables spectrally selective, individual addressing of large numbers of defect centers within an optical diffraction limited spot along a long cavity or waveguide. The spectral selection relies on frequency shifting an incident optical field at a rate as fast as once per defect center lifetime. The defect centers are resonant at visible frequencies and emit visible single photons which are down-converted to a wavelength compatible with long-distance transmission via conventional optical fiber. The down-converted photons are all at the same telecommunications wavelength, with the different spectral bins mapped to different temporal bins to preserve the multiplexing in the time domain, for distribution to other nodes in the quantum network.
US11956012B2
The present invention relates to a fiber branch structure for spatial optical communication for transmitting information by emitting communication light. The fiber branch structure is provided with: a light emitter configured to emit communication light; a light emission controller configured to control the light emitter; an optical fiber configured to transmit the light emitted from the light emitter; a distributor configured to distribute the light, the distributer being optically coupled to an output terminal of the optical fiber; and an optical fiber group optically coupled to a plurality of output terminals of the distributor. According to the present invention, a communication area can be established without blind spots. That is, the fiber branch structure for spatial optical communication according to the present invention includes an optical fiber group optically coupled to a plurality of output terminals of the distributor. A communication area can be established more assuredly by such an optical fiber group, which prevents the optical communication from being interrupted.
US11956009B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical communication system and an optical communication method capable of achieving a long transmission distance with a passive element and obtaining redundancy of a ring topology. The optical communication system according to the present invention is a PON system having a ring configuration, in which an unequal branch optical splitter having a left-right symmetrical configuration is disposed in a trunk fiber wired in a loop shape. An OLT and an ONU have a configuration in which two sets of Tx (transmitter) and Rx (receiver) are mounted. Two sets of Tx (transmitters) and Rx (receivers) in each of a plurality of ONUs are respectively connected to left and right symmetrical ports of one unequally branched light beam SP.
US11956007B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise a communication processor; an intermediate frequency integrated circuit (IFIC) to convert a baseband signal received from the communication processor into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal; a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) convert the received IF signal into a first radio frequency (RF) signal; an ultra-wideband (UWB) integrated circuit (IC) generating a UWB signal corresponding to a first frequency; at least one UWB antenna to transmit/receive the UWB signal corresponding to the first frequency; and at least one first switch connected between the UWB IC and the UWB antenna. The at least one first switch may be controlled so that the UWB signal corresponding to the first frequency, generated by the UWB IC, is transmitted to the RFIC in a state in which a communication operation, for a signal transmitted/received from the communication processor, by the RFIC is inactivated.
US11956006B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing wireless communication using digital post distortion, for example, with a large antenna array where the number of transmit antennas may be greater than a number of spatial streams. A transmitting device and a receiving device determine a perturbed precoding matrix based on a precoding perturbation rule. The transmitting device precodes a signal using the perturbed precoding matrix and transmits via the number of antennas greater than the number of spatial streams. The receiving device receives the signal and subtracts non-linearities from the received signal based on a channel estimation using the perturbed precoding matrix over one or more iterations.
US11956004B2
A terminal apparatus includes: a communication interface that acquires data output from a data output apparatus and supplies power to the data output apparatus; a storage that writes the data to a medium; a controller that controls the storage; a power supply that supplies power to the storage; and a power receiver that receives power from an external power source and supplies power to the communication interface and the power supply. In response to detecting a power outage and/or a voltage drop of the external power source, the controller controls the communication interface to stop supplying power to the data output apparatus.
US11956002B2
Disclosed is an electronic device includes a flexible circuit board passing via a first through-hole included in a first housing and a second through-hole included in a second housing, a first support bracket disposed to support the flexible circuit board while covering the first through-hole, a second support bracket disposed to support the flexible circuit board while covering the second through-hole, a first waterproof member disposed to face a partial area of the first through-hole from the first support bracket and inserted into the partial area of the first through-hole, a second waterproof member inserted into the remaining areas of the first through-hole, a third waterproof member disposed to face a partial area of the second through-hole from the second support bracket and inserted into the partial area of the second through-hole, a fourth waterproof member inserted into the remaining areas of the second through-hole.
US11955998B2
A protective and cooling case for an electronic device is able to reduce the temperature of the electronic device while protecting said electronic device. The protective and cooling case includes a case body, a securing mechanism, and at least one cooling module. The case body is a structure that is wrapped around the electronic device in order to protect the electronic device from shock forces when or if accidentally dropped. The case body can be any shape and size to protect various types of electronic devices such as, but not limited to, mobile phones or electronic tablets. The securing mechanism is a means to securely attach the at least one cooling module to the case body. The at least one cooling module is used to reduce the temperature of the electronic device.
US11955996B2
A signal processing chip includes: a receiving module, configured to receive a WLAN analog baseband signal from a baseband chip; an analog-to-digital conversion module, configured to convert the WLAN analog baseband signal into a WLAN digital baseband signal; a processing module, configured to process the WLAN digital baseband signal into a WLAN analog intermediate frequency signal; and a sending module, configured to send the WLAN analog intermediate frequency signal to a radio frequency processing apparatus.
US11955984B2
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes: a set of comparators configured to provide comparison results based on an analog signal and respective reference thresholds for comparators of the set of comparators; digitization circuitry configured to provide a digital output code based on the comparison results and a mapping; and calibration circuitry. The calibration circuitry is configured to: receive the comparison results; determine if the analog signal is proximate to one of the respective reference thresholds based on the comparison results; in response to determining the analog signal is proximate to one of the respective reference thresholds, receive ADC values based on different pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) values being applied to the analog signal; determine an offset error based on the ADC values; and provide a comparator input offset calibration signal at a calibration circuitry output if the estimated offset error is greater than an offset error threshold.
US11955983B2
Analog to digital conversion circuitry has an input sampling buffer, which has an input sampling capacitor for sampling an analog signal. The conversion circuitry also has a successive-approximation-register analog to digital converter (SAR-ADC) which converts the sampled analog signal to a digital signal. The input sampling buffer has an amplifier and a gain-control capacitor, and has an amplification configuration and an error-feedback configuration. In the amplification configuration, the input sampling capacitor is coupled to the amplifier and gain-control capacitor, with the gain-control capacitor connected in feedback with the amplifier, for applying gain to the sampled analog signal. In the error-feedback configuration, the gain-control capacitor is decoupled from the input sampling capacitor and receives a residue voltage from the SAR-ADC, such that the level of the analog signal determined in the amplification configuration varies depending on the residue voltage received onto the gain-control capacitor in the error-feedback configuration.
US11955976B2
A quadrant alternate switching phase interpolator includes first and second multiplexer circuits, a phase interpolator circuitry, and a controller circuitry. The first multiplexer circuit outputs one of first and second clock signals to be a first signal in response to first and third bits in a quadrant control code. The second multiplexer circuit outputs one of third and fourth clock signals to be a second signal in response to second and fourth bits in the quadrant control code, and the first, the third, the second, and fourth clock signals are sequentially different in phase by 90 degrees. The phase interpolator circuitry generates an output clock signal in response to the first and the second signals and phase control bits. The controller circuitry performs a bit-shift operation on the phase control bits to adjust a phase of the output clock signal.
US11955971B2
An integrated circuit comprises a signal transmitter and a sampling circuit coupled to the signal transmitter, wherein the sampling circuit is to sample output voltage levels of an output of the signal transmitter at different respective times. The integrated circuit further comprises a measurement circuit coupled to the sampling circuit, wherein the measurement circuit is to compare the output voltage levels of the output of the signal transmitter to corresponding reference voltages to identify a first time when a first output voltage level equals a first reference voltage and a second time when a second output voltage level equals a second reference voltage. A time difference between the first time and the second time is used to configure a slew rate adjustment control of the signal transmitter.
US11955970B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to a device having an input-output pad configured to receive and supply an input-output pad voltage. The device may include gate tracking circuitry that receives a first voltage, receives a second voltage different than the first voltage, receives node voltages and provides a first tracking voltage and a second tracking voltage based on the first voltage, the second voltage and the node voltages. The device may include output circuitry that receives the first tracking voltage and the second tracking voltage from the gate tracking circuitry and provides the input-output pad voltage to the input-output pad based on the first tracking voltage and the second tracking voltage.
US11955967B2
Disclosed is an assembly of a non-magnetic and metallic target for an inductive sensor and its support, the target being flexible under pressure and under the release of the pressure in a reciprocating movement toward and away from the support. The target includes a central portion surrounded by flexible fixing tabs, a first end of which is secured to the central portion and a second end of which is fixed to the support, the fixing tabs being evenly distributed around the central portion, a first portion of each fixing tab closest to the central portion being stiffer relative to a portion of the fixing tab farthest away from the central portion.
US11955966B2
An analog input device including at least one mounting panel and a matrix of analog push button assemblies mounted thereon. Each analog push button assembly including an analog pressure sensor including a pressure reception arrangement having an optical sensing sub-arrangement configured to measure an amount of light varied according to a pressure sensed at the pressure reception arrangement and an output terminal for outputting an analog signal corresponding to the amount of light measured, and a plunger element configured to exert the pressure on the pressure reception arrangement. The analog input device may include a multiplexer including an input side coupled to the push button assemblies and an output side; an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the output side of the multiplexer; a processor coupled to the analog-to-digital converter and configured to output a data packet; and a communication interface configured to transmit the data packet to a host computing device.
US11955962B2
A circuit for driving the voltage of a capacitive element between two voltage levels has at least one driver cell with a first pair of switches connected in series between a first terminal of a voltage source and the capacitive element, and a second pair of switches connected in series between a second terminal of the voltage source and the capacitive element. A plurality of non-dissipative elements may be connected in parallel or in series between the first pair of switches and the second pair of switches. Combinations of switches from the driver cells may be activated and deactivated in a defined sequence to provide step-wise transfer of energy to the capacitive element. The defined sequence may have a switching pattern with a voltage change portion arranged to cause a change in an output voltage of the capacitive element driver during application thereof on the capacitive element driver.
US11955960B2
The invention uses the control circuit formed on the silicon wafer to detect the leakage current of transistor formed on the depletion mode GaN wafer and then adjust the gate voltage of the depletion mode GaN transistor according to the detected leakage current. Essentially, the gate voltage is reduced or viewed as made more negative when the detected leakage current is larger a specific value. Thus, the gate voltage can be gradually adjusted to approach a specific threshold voltage that right block the leakage current. In other words, by making the gate voltage more negative when non-zero leakage current is detected and even by making the gate voltage more positive when zero leakage current is detected, the depletion mode GaN transistor can be adjusted to have an acceptable or even zero leakage current, a high reaction rate and an optimized efficiency.
US11955955B2
A circuit includes power supply and reference nodes, a protection circuit including a first output terminal and first and second series of n-type HEMTs coupled between the power supply and reference nodes, and a gate driver including a second output terminal and third through fifth series of n-type HEMTs coupled between the power supply and reference nodes. The first HEMT series controls a first node voltage responsive to a power supply node voltage, the second HEMT series controls a first output terminal voltage responsive to the first node voltage, the third HEMT series controls an internal signal on a second node responsive to the first output terminal voltage and to an input signal, the fourth HEMT series controls a third node voltage responsive to the internal signal, and the fifth HEMT series controls a signal at the second output terminal responsive to the internal signal and the third node voltage.
US11955951B2
There are disclosed matrix filters having an input port and sub-filters connected between the input port and respective output ports. Each of the sub-filters includes a ladder circuit with n transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator (XBAR) series elements and n−1 capacitor shunt elements, where n, the order of the sub-filter, is an integer greater than 2. Each sub-filter further has a first switch in parallel with a first capacitor shunt element and a second switch in parallel with a last capacitor shunt element.
US11955945B2
An electronic component capable of obtaining higher attenuation characteristics. The electronic component includes a substrate, a first inductor and a second inductor disposed on a main surface of the substrate, and a transmission line provided on the substrate and connecting the first inductor and the second inductor in series. A first central axis of the first inductor and a second central axis of the second inductor are parallel to a main surface of the substrate and are not located on the same linear line when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the main surface of the substrate. The first inductor and the second inductor are arranged at a distance for magnetic coupling.
US11955941B2
A connector including a first body, a second body, a dielectric film and one or more conductive traces. The first body has first and second opposite sides and includes an elastomeric absorber material with ferrite or iron powder dispersed therein. The second body includes the elastomeric absorber material with ferrite or iron powder dispersed therein. The dielectric film is disposed on surfaces of the first body to extend along and between the first and second opposite sides. The one or more conductive traces are sandwiched between the second body and the dielectric film to extend along and between the first and second opposite sides. The connector can be installed into a conductive aperture, to channel RF energy through it and thus effecting an absorptive RF filter for a signal.
US11955936B2
The technology described in this document can be embodied in an apparatus that includes an amplifier that includes a first Zeta converter connected to a power supply and a load. The amplifier also includes a second Zeta converter connected to the power supply and the load. The second Zeta converter is driven by a complementary duty cycle relative to the first Zeta converter. The amplifier also includes a controller to provide an audio signal to the first Zeta converter and the second Zeta converter for delivery to the load.
US11955932B2
Bias circuits and methods for silicon-based amplifier architectures that are tolerant of supply and bias voltage variations, bias current variations, and transistor stack height, and compensate for poor output resistance characteristics. Embodiments include power amplifiers and low-noise amplifiers that utilize a cascode reference circuit to bias the final stages of a cascode amplifier under the control of a closed loop bias control circuit. The closed loop bias control circuit ensures that the current in the cascode reference circuit is approximately equal to a selected multiple of a known current value by adjusting the gate bias voltage to the final stage of the cascode amplifier. The final current through the cascode amplifier is a multiple of the current in the cascode reference circuit, based on a device scaling factor representing the relative sizes of the transistor devices in the cascode amplifier and in the cascode reference circuit.
US11955929B2
An oscillation apparatus includes: an oscillator including a resonator and a magnetic-field generating unit, the resonator including a loop circuit and a capacitor, the loop circuit including a first superconducting line, a first Josephson junction, a second superconducting line, and a second Josephson junction connected in a ring shape, the magnetic-field generating unit being configured to apply a magnetic field to the loop circuit, and the oscillator being configured to perform parametric oscillation; a read-out unit for reading out an internal state of the oscillator; and a filter configured to restrict transmission of a signal in a predetermined frequency band. A circuit in which the capacitor and the loop circuit are connected in a ring shape is connected to the read-out unit through the filter.
US11955928B1
A solar power generating system includes a solar power generating device (10), a microbubble cleaning device (20) mounted on the solar power generating device, a temperature adjustment device (30) mounted on the solar power generating device, and a controller (40) electrically connected with the solar power generating device, the microbubble cleaning device, and the temperature adjustment device. The microbubble cleaning device produces a liquid containing microbubbles and is controlled by the controller to inject the liquid outward to clean a surface of the solar power generating device. The temperature adjustment device is used to regulate an ambient temperature of the solar power generating device. The controller receives data of power generation from the solar power generating device, and controls on/off operation of the microbubble cleaning device and the temperature adjustment device.
US11955925B2
A control system for a solar tracker assembly installation including a plurality of solar tracker assemblies, each of the plurality of solar tracker assemblies including a table supporting photovoltaic modules and rotatable through an angle of inclination. The solar tracker control system includes: a plurality of solar tracker controllers periodically outputting table angle of inclination data and solar tracker assembly operating data for the associated solar tracker assembly; a plurality of weather sensors, each outputting weather condition data; and an array controller in direct, wireless communications with each solar tracker controller and each weather sensor. The array controller analyzing communicated table angle of inclination data, the tracker operating data and the weather condition data and, as required, wirelessly communicating control signals to one or more solar tracker controllers of the plurality of solar tracker controllers to change a table angle of inclination of the one or more solar tracker assemblies.
US11955919B2
An electric motor system includes a battery, an inverter, an electric motor, a zero-phase switching arm and a control unit. The inverter converts DC power output from the battery into three-phase AC power and outputs the three-phase AC power to the electric motor. A rotor of the electric motor rotates by the three-phase AC power output from the inverter. A neural point of the electric motor is connected to the zero-phase switching arm. A zero-phase current flowing through respective windings of the electric motor is adjusted by switching of the zero-phase switching arm. By this means, in the electric motor system, torque is generated at the rotor also using the zero-phase current as well as a three-phase AC current flowing through the respective windings.
US11955915B2
The present disclosure provides a variable-frequency compressor with adaptive heating power control and a method for operating the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the variable-frequency compressor includes: a compression unit, for compressing a medium entering the variable-frequency compressor; a motor, including a stator and a rotor, for driving the compression unit; and a controller, configured to adaptively control a heating power of a winding of the stator according to information of the variable-frequency compressor.
US11955897B2
Resonant DC-DC converter control circuitry includes a feedback input, a differential integrator, a resonant voltage input, a first comparator, and a second comparator. The differential integrator includes a first input, a second input, a first output, and a second output. The first input is coupled to the feedback input. The second input is coupled to a ground terminal. The first comparator includes a first input coupled to the resonant voltage input, and a second input coupled to the first output of the differential integrator. The second comparator includes a first input coupled to the resonant voltage input, and a second input coupled to the second output of the differential integrator.
US11955893B2
A switching power supply, a power adapter and a charger are provided. The switching power supply comprises a current-mode PWM control unit, a transformer, and a DC power supply circuit connected in series to a power compensation auxiliary circuit. The current-mode PWM control unit comprises a current detection terminal. An input of the DC power supply circuit is connected to an auxiliary voltage output. The auxiliary voltage output outputs an auxiliary voltage related to output voltage of the switching power supply. The power compensation auxiliary circuit is used to compare the output voltage and a threshold voltage. When the current output voltage of the switching power supply is not greater than the threshold voltage, the power compensation auxiliary circuit generates a DC voltage, thus providing a compensation voltage to the current detection terminal, otherwise no compensation voltage is provided.
US11955881B2
A secondary-side protection and sense circuit for a power converter has a sensing component, an adder amplifying circuit, an electronic switch, and a charge/discharge circuit. The sensing component is connected to an output connecting terminal of the power converter. The adder amplifying circuit has an operational amplifier, a first resistor, and a second resistor. The operational amplifier has an input terminal connected to the sensing component, an output terminal connected to a primary-side control component, and a power terminal. The first resistor and the second resistor are connected in series and between the input terminal and the power terminal of the operational amplifier. The electronic switch is connected between a ground terminal and a connection node between the first resistor and the second resistor. The charge/discharge circuit is connected to the electronic switch and the power terminal of the operational amplifier.
US11955865B2
A three-axis voice coil motor including a base, a spherical bearing, a magnetic component, an X-coil group, a Y-coil group, and at least one Z-coil group is provided. The base has a supporting pole. The spherical bearing is rotatably sleeved around the supporting pole. The magnetic component is securely sleeved around the spherical bearing and the magnetic component rotates along with the spherical bearing. The X-coil group is disposed around the magnetic component along an X-axial direction passing through the spherical bearing, and the X-coil group has first gaps. The Y-coil group is disposed around the magnetic component along a Y-axial direction passing through the spherical bearing, and the Y-coil group has second gaps. The Z-coil group is disposed around the magnetic component along a Z-axial direction passing through the spherical bearing.
US11955863B2
A motor assembly includes a stator having a stator core, stator windings, and a routing insulator configured to electrically insulate the stator core from the stator windings; a rotor rotatably received within the stator; and a bearing bridge received at least partially within the routing insulator and including a main body forming a center pocket arranged to support a bearing of the rotor shaft. A circuit board is provided including a circuit board, and an overmold structure forming an annular body on a surface of the circuit board arranged to mate with the main body of the bearing bridge to substantially seal the center pocket from ingress of debris particles.
US11955859B2
The present disclosure relates to a busbar unit for a motor, the busbar unit including: a first terminal; a second terminal provided to be spaced apart from the first terminal in a first direction; a third terminal stacked on the first terminal in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a fourth terminal stacked on the second terminal in the second direction; and a holder configured to support the first terminal, the second terminal, the third terminal, and the fourth terminal, thereby obtaining an advantageous effect of simplifying a structure and improving a degree of design freedom and spatial utilization.
US11955856B2
A rotary electric machine includes: a stator; and a rotor that face the stator and that rotates together with a rotation shaft, the rotor including: a rotor core including rotor salient poles and a slot formed between adjacent rotor salient poles, and a rotor coil wound around each of the rotor salient poles via an insulating member through the slot. Further, the rotor coil includes: a slot coil portion; and a coil end portion protruding from an end surface of the rotor core in an axial direction, the insulating member includes: a slot insulating portion; and an end insulating portion, and the slot insulating portion and the end insulating portion are integrated.
US11955854B2
In this stator armature, a first leg portion has a first surface side part that has a thickness in a radial direction smaller than a thickness of a first leg portion body portion in the radial direction, a second leg portion has a second surface side part that has a thickness in the radial direction smaller than a thickness of a second leg portion body portion in the radial direction, and in the radial direction, a thickness of a joint portion is equal to or more than a thickness of a part other than the joint portion.
US11955849B2
A wedge for use in an electric machine includes a central portion comprising at least a first material, a first wing integrally attached to the central portion, and a second wing integrally attached to the central portion opposite the first wing, wherein the first wing, and the second wing include a second material.
US11955847B2
An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor which is rotatably mounted relative to the stator about a motor axis. The electric motor further includes an inclination measuring unit at least one sensor and one sensor electronics, said at least one sensor being arranged in a fixed position and orientation relative to the stator, said sensor electronics controlling said at least one sensor, and said at least one sensor being configured for generating measured values, which allow conclusions to be drawn about the spatial orientation of the sensor and thus conclusions about the spatial orientation of the electric motor. The electric motor can be part of a fan. Furthermore, there is disclosed a corresponding motor electronics configured for controlling such an electric motor.
US11955844B2
A rotor is provided with: a rotor core (32); a plurality of permanent magnets (33); a substantially tubular magnet cover (71); and a load reception block (70). The rotor core (32) rotates integrally with a rotary shaft of a motor. The permanent magnets (33) are arranged on the outer peripheral part of the rotor core (32). The magnet cover (71) covers the exterior of the plurality of permanent magnets (33) and the rotor core (32), and has a flange part which is bent radially inward at the end along a rotation axis. The load reception block (70) is disposed between the flange part and the end surface of the rotor core (32) in a direction along the rotation axis, and abuts against the flange part and the rotor core (32).
US11955841B2
The present invention provides a stator and a motor assembly including the same. The stator includes: a stator core disposed outside a rotor core and having an inner surface inclined with respect to a rotation axis of a rotor; a plurality of coil-wound teeth extending from the inner surface of the stator core towards the rotation axis, wherein a coil is wound around each of the plurality of coil-wound teeth; and openings formed by sidewalls of the plurality of coil-wound teeth and the inner surface of the stator core, wherein a cross-sectional area of the openings changes along a direction of the rotation axis.
US11955839B2
Disclosed is a dual-input circuit, adopting a contactor as a switching device, and being more suitable for medium and high-power applications. In addition, the adopted contactor is a single double-pole double-throw contactor with an interlocking function. In this way, the circuit is safe, simple, and easily controllable, and space utilization can be further improved. In addition, the adopted contactor further is of a magnetic attraction type, with lower power consumption for long-term work. In the present invention, either one of two inputs is set as a main input and the other is set to a backup input by default, so that the present invention can be more flexibly applied and is more applicable. To enable switching when both or only either one of the two inputs has an input voltage, the present invention further adopts a single dual-input auxiliary power supply to reduce a required space and further reduce costs.
US11955835B2
A system includes: a ring bus; a plurality of static uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), each static UPS of the plurality of static UPSs including: at least one battery; an input that is electrically connected to a first external electrical power source; and an output that is electrically connected to a load, and, via a first corresponding choke, to the ring bus; at least one fuel-cell interface converter (FIC) that converts direct current (DC) electrical power to alternating current (AC) electrical power, each FIC of the at least one FIC being electrically connected to the ring bus via a second corresponding choke; and a fuel cell module corresponding to and electrically connected to each FIC, the fuel cell module including a fuel cell.
US11955832B2
A control circuit, a power supply structure and an electronic cigarette are disclosed. The power supply structure includes a battery receiving casing, and at least two battery cells are received in the battery receiving casing. The power supply structure further includes a bottom plate provided with contacts, and the bottom plate is disposed in the battery receiving casing. When the at least two battery cells are connected to a first group of contacts on the bottom plate, the at least two battery cells form a serial connection relationship. When the at least two battery cells are connected to a second group of contacts on the bottom plate, the at least two battery cells form a parallel connection relationship.
US11955827B2
Smart battery charging solutions are disclosed. The smart charging solutions of the disclosure enable a user to configure a mobile device with individualized battery charging settings. The user specific settings may be combined with system settings to generate rules on battery charging. Context awareness is achieved through various sensors and through information sharing within and among the systems of the mobile device. The battery charging rules and the context awareness information are used together in controlling the charging of a battery.
US11955825B2
Systems, methods, and articles for a portable power case are disclosed. The portable power case is comprised of at least one battery and at least one PCB. The portable power case has at least one USB port and at least two access ports, at least two leads, or at least one access port and at least one lead. The portable power case is operable to supply power to an amplifier, a radio, a wearable battery, a mobile phone, and a tablet. The portable power case is operable to be charged using solar panels, vehicle batteries, AC adapters, non-rechargeable batteries, and generators. The portable power case provides for modularity that allows the user to disassemble and selectively remove the batteries installed within the portable power case housing.
US11955823B2
In a portable device, a load module includes a discharge switch for discharging a battery pack, and a detection circuit that detects a protection signal to control the discharge switch. A charge module includes a charge switch for charging the battery pack, and a detection circuit that detects the protection signal to control the charge switch. The battery pack includes a protection terminal that provides the protection signal, and protection circuitry that sets the protection signal to a state according to the battery pack's status. The protection signal turns the charge switch on and the discharge switch off if the protection signal is in a first state, turns the charge switch off and the discharge switch on if it's in a second state, turns the charge and discharge switches off if it's in a third state, and turns the charge and discharge switches on if it's in a fourth state.
US11955819B2
A wireless power receiver system includes a receiver antenna including a plurality of receiver coils, each of the plurality of receiver coils configured to receive alternating current (AC) wireless power signals from a wireless power transmission system. The system further includes a receiver controller configured to generate communications signals. The system further includes a plurality of modulation circuits, each of the plurality of modulation circuits operatively associated with one of the plurality of receiver coils and the receiver controller, each of the plurality of modulation circuits configured to partially dampen a magnetic field, coupling the wireless power receiver system with the wireless power transmission system, based on the communication signals provided to each of the plurality of modulation circuits by the receiver controller.
US11955818B2
Disclosed is a method (310) for providing operational feedback during power transfer in a wireless power transfer system. The wireless power transfer system comprises a power transmit device arranged to transfer power over an inductive wireless power transfer interface operating at a transmit frequency to a power receive device. The wireless power transfer system is adapted to transfer information at half duplex using Frequency Shift Keying, FSK, in one direction and Amplitude Shift Keying, ASK, in the other direction. The method comprises transferring (308), at the transmit frequency by the power transmit device, power to the power receive device. During the transferring (308), the method further comprises transmitting (311), at the transmit frequency by one of the power transmit device or the power receive device, a first data packet to the other of the power transmit device or the power receive device using one of two modulation types being FSK or ASK. The method (310) further comprises receiving (311), by the other of the devices, the first data packet and, during the receiving (312) and if a signaling condition is determined (313) to be fulfilled, transmitting (314), at the transmit frequency, by the other of the devices to said one of the devices, operational information using the other of said modulation types. In addition to this, a power receive device, a power transmit device and a test system are introduced.
US11955814B2
A wireless Internet of things (IoT) tag and a method for measuring energy-charging rate of the energy harvester is provided. The wireless IoT includes at least one antenna configured to harvest an ambient energy; an energy harvester coupled to the at least one antenna; an energy storage coupled to the energy harvester and configured to store harvested energy; and an energy detector configured to the energy storage, wherein the energy detector is configured to measure an energy-charging rate of the energy harvester.
US11955799B2
Provided is a supply-and-demand management apparatus including: a result management unit that manages a power supply result indicating a result of power supplied among a plurality of customers of a community; and a deriving unit that derives, based on power supply results from a first customer to other customers from among the plurality of customers, an incentive to supply power from the first customer to a second customer from among the other customers.
US11955794B2
A surge protection system includes a receptacle body, at least one power output jack, a power obtaining device, at least one surge protection module, a microcontroller unit, and a surge detection circuit. The at least one surge protection module includes a housing, a memory element, and a surge protection circuit that includes a surge absorption element and a thermal fuse connected in series and parallel. The surge absorption element absorbs a surge inputted from an external power supply, and the memory element records a number of surges carried by the surge absorption element. When the surge enters the surge protection system from the external power supply, the surge absorption element absorbs the surge, and the surge detection circuit outputs a signal to the microcontroller unit that writes the number of surges carried by the surge absorption element into the memory element.
US11955790B2
An electronic fuse circuit for safeguarding a multi-channel electronic power distributor includes a driver circuit for each channel of the power distributor configured to control an electronic switch of a corresponding channel to assume a certain state, and a microcontroller interface configured to receive from a microcontroller a command for setting the state of the electronic switch of a corresponding channel. The driver circuit of the corresponding channel is configured to set the state of the electronic switch of the corresponding channel according to the command from the microcontroller. The electronic fuse circuit further includes a safety circuit for detecting a malfunction in the microcontroller and/or the power distributor. In the event of a detected malfunction in the microcontroller and/or the power distributor, the driver circuit of each channel is configured to set the state of the electronic switch of the corresponding channel according to a channel-specific preconfigured safety state.
US11955783B2
An automated cable runner (ACR) for a cabling tray. The ACR includes a pathway, a carriage operable to travel along the pathway, a plurality of supports connectable to the pathway and connectable to the tray and configured to support the pathway over the tray, and a cable holder attached to the carriage. The carriage is operable to autonomously travel along the pathway from a desired start point to a desired end point to deploy cabling into the tray from the start point to the end point.
US11955780B2
Motor control centers have units or buckets with an extendable/retractable power connection (stab) assembly and one or more operating lever interlocks that include a unit latch to latch to a cabinet and a power connection position interlock that blocks the handle of the units or buckets based on position of the power connection assembly, optionally also including a shutter cam that slides a shutter right and left.
US11955777B2
An optical combiner includes: a plurality of first input optical fibers that each include a core; a bridge fiber that includes a bridge input surface connected to the cores of the plurality of first input optical fibers, a diameter reduction portion having a diameter that decreases away from the bridge input surface along an optical axis of the optical combiner, and a bridge output surface located opposite to the bridge input surface along the optical axis; an intermediate optical fiber that includes a core connected to the bridge output surface of the bridge fiber; a second input optical fiber that includes a core; and an output optical fiber that includes a first optical waveguide connected to the core of the intermediate optical fiber, and a second optical waveguide connected to the core of the second input optical fiber.
US11955767B2
In an embodiment a radiation-emitting component includes a first semiconductor chip configured to generate first primary electromagnetic radiation, a second semiconductor chip configured to generate second primary electromagnetic radiation, a first conversion element configured to partially convert the first and/or the second primary electromagnetic radiation into a first secondary radiation, wherein the first semiconductor chip is a first semiconductor laser diode, wherein the first primary electromagnetic radiation is blue primary radiation and wherein the first secondary radiation is green secondary radiation and a first optical element arranged between radiation emitting surfaces of the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, wherein the first optical element is reflective for the first primary radiation and the second primary radiation.
US11955766B2
Disclosed is a system and a method for generating high-power laser pulses with very high repetition rate. The laser system includes an oscillator capable of generating a source laser beam including a series of sources pulses with femtosecond or picosecond duration at a first repetition frequency no lower than 800 megahertz and an optical amplifier system suitable for receiving and amplifying the series of source pulses at a second repetition frequency that is equal to or a multiple of the first repetition frequency, the multiple being a non-negative integer greater than or equal to two, so as to generate a series of laser pulses with very high repetition frequency.
US11955765B2
Techniques are provided for controlling an output laser pulse signal of a medical device. A control device defines a time duration of capacitive discharge to a laser device. The time duration corresponds to an intended energy of the output laser pulse signal. The control device generates a plurality of sub-pulse control signals. The sub-pulse control signals define a series of capacitive discharge events of the capacitor bank. The control device modulates one or more of a sub-pulse control signal period or a sub-pulse time duration of the sub-pulse control signals to modify the capacitive discharge of the capacitor bank to the laser device during the time duration.
US11955764B2
Disclosed is a submarine network device, comprising a fiber set, a pump laser set, an erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) set, a primary fiber coupler (CPL) set and a secondary CPL set, wherein the primary CPL set comprises N primary CPLs, the secondary CPL set comprises N secondary CPLs, with N being an integer greater than or equal to 3. The fiber set is configured to connect the pump laser set, the primary CPL set, the secondary CPL set and the EDFA set. An input port of each primary CPL in the primary CPL set is at least connected with a pump laser. An output port of each secondary CPL in the secondary CPL set is at least connected with an EDFA. Output ports of each primary CPL in the primary CPL set are respectively connected with two different secondary CPLs that are spaced by a secondary CPL, and input ports of each secondary CPL in the secondary CPL set are respectively connected with two different primary CPLs that are spaced by a primary CPL.
US11955753B2
An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows.
US11955748B2
Embodiments herein include a connector coupling arranged to mate and/or unmate first and second connectors. The connector coupling includes a first collar having one or more locking members, a second collar arranged to receive the first collar, the second collar being rotatable relative to the first collar, and a locking mechanism. The connector coupling is moveable in a mating direction to mate the first and second connectors and an unmating direction to unmate the connectors. The locking mechanism is disengaged when the connector coupling is moved in a mating direction. For example, the locking mechanism may be moveable from a first engaged position to a first disengaged position when the connector coupling is moved in the mating direction. As another example, the locking mechanism may remain disengaged until the connectors are fully mated.
US11955743B2
A connection module is disposed in a main circuit board and includes a card edge connector, a hard circuit board and two connectors. The card edge connector is fixedly disposed on the main circuit board. The hard circuit board has a board body and a connecting tongue for correspondingly plugging with the card edge connector. The board body is configured with a disconnecting notch, and the board body is separated by the disconnecting notch into two floating plates arranged side by side at an interval and floatable using the disconnecting notch. The connectors are respectively fixed to the floating plates. Thus, without needing an additional guide frame, the connectors are enabled to float in any desired direction, thereby achieving effects of reducing an overall height and satisfying current thinning requirements.
US11955739B2
A connection structure between a printed circuit board and a terminal block includes: an insertion portion at one end of the printed circuit board with a pattern disposed thereon; a terminal-block main body including a receiving port that receives the insertion portion; a nut held in the terminal-block main body; and a screw tightened into the nut. The pattern is interposed between the screw and the nut when the insertion portion is inserted into the receiving port.
US11955719B1
The technology disclosed relates to an antenna system comprising two oppositely directed antennas integrated in a structure including two layers of resistivity switching material, and methods for controlling transmission of radiation through the layers of resistivity switching material to thereby allow for simultaneous and switchable transmission of antenna radiation in two opposite directions.
US11955715B2
A satellite system can include one or more satellites that orbit the Earth. The one or more satellites may have satellite buses that support antenna arrays. The antenna arrays may include space fed arrays. Each space fed array may have an antenna feed array and an inner array that is coupled to a direct radiating array. The direct radiating array may operate in the same satellite band as the space fed array, or upconversion and downconversion circuitry may be used to communicatively couple a direct radiating array that operates in a different satellite band to the space fed array. The satellites may have peripheral walls with corner fittings that can be selected to provide the satellite bus with particular leg strengths. This can reduce overall mass of the satellites in a payload fairing while accommodating different types of antenna arrays.
US11955708B2
Provided, according to the present invention, is an electronic device equipped with a transparent antenna for 5G communication. The electronic device comprises: an antenna embedded and operating in a display, and composed of first metal mesh lines formed in a first direction; a substrate on which the antenna is disposed and which is configured to operate dielectrically with respect to the antenna; and a ground layer disposed on the bottom portion of the substrate and configured to operate on the ground with respect to the antenna. Here, an inner area of the ground layer corresponding to an area in which the antenna is disposed is composed of second metal mesh lines formed in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein a moiré effect is mitigated in the transparent antenna structure by means of the metal mesh lines overlapping in the antenna area and the ground area, thereby improving visibility.
US11955705B2
A multi-input multi-output antenna system capable of being disposed in an electronic device and the electronic device including the antenna system have a low-frequency antenna assembly and a high-frequency antenna assembly. The low-frequency antenna assembly includes multiple low-frequency antennas that are spaced apart from each other by a distance. The high-frequency antenna assembly includes multiple high-frequency antennas that are spaced apart from each other by a distance. One of the high-frequency antennas is structured as a low-profile dish antenna and is located between the low-frequency antennas, so that the antenna system has smaller volume and height, and better isolation and radiation patterns.
US11955704B2
An antenna device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a dielectric layer, an antenna unit disposed on a top surface of the dielectric layer, the antenna unit including a radiator and a transmission line connected to the radiator, a dummy electrode separated from the antenna unit on the top surface of the dielectric layer, the dummy electrode at least partially surrounding the antenna unit, and a blocking pattern arranged around the antenna unit in the dummy electrode. Radiation interruption from the dummy electrode is prevented by the blocking pattern to improve radiation reliability.
US11955692B2
A described example includes: a semiconductor die mounted to a die pad of a package substrate, the semiconductor die having bond pads on a device side surface facing away from the die pad; bond wires coupling the bond pads of the semiconductor die to leads of the package substrate, the leads spaced from the die pad; an antenna positioned over the device side surface of the semiconductor die and having a feed line coupled between the antenna and a device side surface of the semiconductor die; and mold compound covering the semiconductor die, the bond wires, a portion of the leads, and the die side surface of the die pad, a portion of the antenna exposed from the mold compound.
US11955681B2
A band-pass filter includes a first input/output port, a second input/output port, a plurality of resonators, and a multilayer stack. The multilayer stack includes a plurality of stacked dielectric layers. Each of the resonators is an open-ended resonator formed of a conductor line in the multilayer stack. Each of the resonators includes a resonator conductor portion including a first line part and a second line part located away from each other in a direction orthogonal to a stacking direction of the plurality of dielectric layers, and a third line part connecting the first line part and the second line part. The first to third line parts extend to surround a space between the first line part and the second line part.
US11955664B2
A battery module includes an insulating base, a pair of electrodes and multiple battery packs. Each electrode is installed to the insulating base and has a bridge portion and a wire connecting part exposed from the insulating base, and a pair of lugs is extended smoothly from each battery pack, and an end of at least a part of the lugs is attached to each bridge portion correspondingly. Therefore, the lug is not being twisted or deformed easily, and the battery module may have good conductive efficiency, long service life, and convenience of changing the battery pack.
US11955645B2
Catalysts comprising a Ta layer having an outer layer with a layer comprising Pt directly thereon, wherein the Ta layer has an average thickness in a range from 0.04 to 30 nanometers, wherein the layer comprising Pt has an average thickness in a range from 0.04 to 50 nanometers, and wherein the Pt and Ta are present in an atomic ratio in a range from 0.01:1 to 10:1. Catalyst described herein are useful, for example, in fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies.
US11955641B2
A binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery contains water-soluble macromolecules, water, and a particulate polymer formed of a polymer that includes a block region formed of an aromatic vinyl monomer unit. Surface acid content A of the particulate polymer is 0.05 mmol/g or more, acid content B in an aqueous phase of the binder composition per 1 g of the particulate polymer is not less than 0.03 mmol/g and not more than 0.80 mmol/g, and a ratio (A/B) of the surface acid content A of the particulate polymer and the acid content B in the aqueous phase of the binder composition is not less than 0.5 and not more than 5.0.
US11955637B2
To provide an electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte batteries, which traps hydrogen sulfide gas, generated from the inside thereof for some reason, in the electrode, and suppresses the outflow of hydrogen sulfide gas to the outside of the battery. An electrode for lithium ion batteries includes a coating material which contains a silanol group and is present on at least a surface of an active material layer. The active material layer contains a sulfur-based material and a resin-based binder. The sulfur-based material is an active material capable of alloying with lithium metal or an active material capable of occluding lithium ions. The coating material containing the silanol group is a silicate having a siloxane bond or a silica fine particle aggregate having a siloxane bond as a component.
US11955630B2
A positive electrode active material according to the present disclosure includes: a lithium composite oxide which includes Mn and at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, and N, and S. The lithium composite oxide has a crystalline structure which belongs to the space group Fd-3m, and a relationship 1.40≤intensity ratio IMn1/IMn2≤1.90 is satisfied. The intensity ratio IMn1/IMn2 is a ratio of an intensity IMn1 to an intensity IMn2. The intensity IMn1 and the intensity IMn2 are intensities of a first proximity peak and a second proximity peak, respectively, of the Mn in a radial distribution function of the Mn included in the lithium composite oxide.
US11955626B2
The present disclosure relates to mixed ionically and electronically conducting solid-state phases for their application in electrochemical devices, such as lithium-metal or lithium ion batteries. The solid-state mixed phase comprises of active cathode and carbon-based structures functionalized by a heteropolyacid (HPA) or a metal salt of a heteropolyacid (Me-HPA) to form a solid-state architecture with incorporated ceramic or glass-ceramic electrolyte for enhanced ionic and electronic conductivity pathways. Combining the solid-state phase components in melted solid-state electrolyte results in perfect distribution, improved adhesion between particles, and improved characteristics of the electrochemical device, such as high charge rates, long-term performance, and broad voltage window.
US11955622B2
A positive electrode active material according to the present disclosure includes a lithium composite oxide. The lithium composite oxide is a multiphase mixture including a first phase having a crystal structure belonging to space group C2/m and a second phase having a crystal structure belonging to space group R-3m and includes at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, N, and S. In an XRD pattern of the lithium composite oxide, the integrated intensity ratio I(20°-23°)/I(18°-20°) of a second maximum peak present in a diffraction angle 2θ range of greater than or equal to 20° and less than or equal to 23° to a first maximum peak present in a diffraction angle 2θ range of greater than or equal to 18° and less than or equal to 20° satisfies 0.05≤I(20°-23°)/I(18°-20°)≤0.26.
US11955617B2
A vehicle battery pack includes a first battery module and a second battery module, a fan which includes a blade body configured to rotate about a rotary shaft, the fan being configured to supply air to the first battery module and the second battery module, and a housing configured to accommodate the first battery module, the second battery module, and the fan. The first battery module and the second battery module are arranged side by side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. In the first battery module, the plurality of cells are bound in the first direction by a binding member. The binding member is a plate-like member which is made of metal. The fan is arranged in such a manner that the rotary shaft faces the binding member.
US11955616B2
An electric energy storage system includes: an electric energy storage device; and a control device configured to perform charge and discharge control and temperature adjustment control of the electric energy storage device. The electric energy storage device is configured to be electrically connected to a power network. The control device is configured such that execution of the temperature adjustment control of the electric energy storage device is restricted when the control device performs the charge and discharge control so as to alleviate power shortage on the power network according to a request from a management computer for the power network.
US11955615B2
A battery-powered portable tool includes: a battery pack containing at least one all-solid-state battery cell; a tool main body, on which and/or inside which the battery pack is mountable and from which the battery pack is demountable; and a plurality of components contained in the battery pack and/or in the tool main body. The plurality of components is disposed in a first layout or physical configuration when the temperature is low and is disposed in a second layout or physical configuration when the temperature is high. The first layout or physical configuration differs from the second layout or physical configuration.
US11955612B2
A power storage system with excellent characteristics is provided. A power storage system with a high degree of safety is provided. A power storage system with less deterioration is provided. A storage battery with excellent characteristics is provided. The power storage system includes a neural network and a storage battery. The neural network includes an input layer, an output layer, and one or more hidden layers between the input layer and the output layer. The predetermined hidden layer is connected to the previous hidden layer or the previous input layer by a predetermined weight coefficient, and connected to the next hidden layer or the next output layer by a predetermined weight coefficient. In the storage battery, voltage and time at which the voltage is obtained are measured as one of sets of data. The sets of data measured at different times are input to the input layer and the operational condition of the storage battery is changed in accordance with a signal output from the output layer.
US11955607B2
The invention relates to an energy storage comprising a plurality of series connectable energy modules connected to a string via a plurality of switches. Wherein a string controller controls which of the energy modules that are part of a current path through the string by control of the status of the switches. An energy storage monitoring system is monitoring an energy storage element operating parameter of an energy module, the energy storage monitoring system comprises: a current sensor and a plurality of energy module print. The plurality of energy module prints establishes an energy module operating parameter of the associated energy module. The current sensor establishes the current in the current path. The string controller is configured for by-passing an energy module based on information of status of the switches, the measured current in the current path and the battery operating parameter measured at the energy modules.
US11955606B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method in a battery pack and a master BMS for providing the method. The master BMS according to the present invention, as a master BMS for performing wireless communication with a slave BMS according to a frequency hopping method in a battery pack, may include: a communicator for receiving first channel scan information generated by scanning a plurality of channels belonging to a frequency bandwidth used in the wireless communication by a device disposed outside the battery pack; a channel analyzer for generating second channel scan information by scanning the channels belonging to the frequency bandwidth; a storage unit for storing a reference signal to noise ratio (SNR) value on the wireless communication; and a control unit for selecting a hopping channel used in the frequency hopping method based on the first channel scan information, and calculating signal intensity of the selected hopping channel based on the second channel scan information and the reference SNR value.
US11955602B2
A solid electrolyte for an all-solid secondary battery, the solid electrolyte including: Li, S, P, an M1 element, and an M2 element, wherein the M1 element is at least one element selected from Na, K, Rb, Sc, Fr, and the M2 element is at least one element selected from F, Cl, Br, I, molar amounts of lithium and the M1 element satisfy 0
US11955598B2
A solid electrolyte material according to the present disclosure is represented by the chemical formula Li6−4b+ab(Zr1−aMa)bX6 (I). M denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, Bi, Sc, Sm, and Sb, X denotes at least one halogen element, and the two mathematical formulae 0
US11955594B2
The electrode comprises: a plurality of unit electrodes formed by connecting a plurality of electrodes made of an electrode mixture having a solid shape to each other; a separator interposed between the plurality of unit electrodes; and an electrode tab attached to the unit electrode, wherein the electrode tab comprises first and second electrode tabs, which are respectively attached to the unit electrodes and have different specific resistance.
US11955590B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a method for making the display panel. The method for making the display panel includes: providing a substrate; preparing a driving circuit layer on one side of the substrate; the driving circuit layer includes a binding layer, a display base and an array circuit layer which are stacked, and the binding layer is located between the display base and the substrate. Removing the substrate and the binding layer is exposed; binding the external control unit on the binding layer.
US11955586B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) lamp having high color-rendering property includes a lamp housing, a light source board, a plurality of white LEDs and a plurality of purple LEDs. The light source board is disposed in the lamp housing. The white LEDs are disposed on the light source board. The purple LEDs are disposed on the light source board. The wavelength range of the lights emitted by the purple LEDs is within the ultraviolet A (UVA) band.
US11955585B2
A method for coating chips resting, by a rear face opposite to a front face, on a main face of a support substrate, and separated from each other by an inter-chip space, includes a step of forming a photosensitive coating film covering the front faces and the inter-chip spaces. The method further includes a first photolithographic sequence which comprises an insolation sub-step, and a dissolution sub-step. The sequence leads to a partial removal of the photosensitive coating film so as to maintain the film exclusively at the inter-chip spaces and, advantageously recessed relative to the front faces.
US11955575B2
A system for providing a solar harvesting building envelope is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of solar harvesting apparatus configured to be installed as or on a building envelope in a manner like that of traditional shingles or siding. The apparatus includes a frame having a photovoltaic end wall, and reflective base and side walls. A translucent, wedge-shaped body layer is positioned on the frame. A luminescent species film is positioned at and substantially parallel to a base of the wedge-shaped body layer, such that the luminescent species film is positioned at an angle relative to the photovoltaic end wall. Light incident on the wedge-shaped body layer is concentrated towards the photovoltaic end wall, such as through absorption and re-emission along with scattering by the luminescent species film and internal reflection by the wedge-shaped body layer and the reflective base and side walls of the frame. A plurality of apparatus may be wired together to create the building envelope, which has the added advantage of substantially eliminating shading losses of traditional solar harvesting systems.
US11955568B2
A capacitor structure that includes a silicon substrate having a trench structure formed therein; a dielectric disposed over a surface of the trench structure, conformal to the surface of the trench structure; and a filling layer disposed over the dielectric layer and into the trench structure, the filling layer including a conductive layer and a polymer layer.
US11955567B2
A wide-band gap semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The wide-band gap semiconductor device of the disclosure includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer, an array of merged PN junction Schottky (MPS) diode, and an edge termination area surrounding the array of MPS diode. The epitaxial layer includes a first plane, a second plane, and trenches between the first plane and the second plane. The array of MPS diode is formed in the first plane of the epitaxial layer. The edge termination area includes a floating ring region having floating rings formed in the second plane of the epitaxial layer, and a transition region between the floating ring region and the array of MPS diode. The transition region includes a PIN diode formed in the plurality of trenches and on the epitaxial layer between the trenches.
US11955565B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate; a control gate disposed on the substrate; a source diffusion region disposed in the substrate and on a first side of the control gate; a select gate disposed on the source diffusion region, wherein the select gate has a recessed top surface; a charge storage structure disposed under the control gate; a first spacer disposed between the select gate and the control gate and between the charge storage structure and the select gate; a wordline gate disposed on a second side of the control gate opposite to the select gate; a second spacer between the wordline gate and the control gate; and a drain diffusion region disposed in the substrate and adjacent to the wordline gate.
US11955564B2
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with an oxidized intervention layer. The method includes providing a substrate; forming a tunneling insulating layer over the substrate; forming a floating gate over the tunnel oxide layer; forming a dielectric layer over the floating gate; forming a control gate over the dielectric layer; and performing a lateral oxidation process over the substrate, wherein a process temperature of the lateral oxidation process is between about 300° C. and about 600° C.
US11955557B2
A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer covering the oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, and a gate electrode over the gate insulating layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode include an oxide region formed by oxidizing a side surface thereof. Note that the oxide region of the source electrode and the drain electrode is preferably formed by plasma treatment with a high frequency power of 300 MHz to 300 GHz and a mixed gas of oxygen and argon.
US11955548B2
The present disclosure relates a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) device. In some embodiments, the FeFET device includes a ferroelectric layer having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side and a gate electrode disposed along the first side of the ferroelectric layer. The FeFET device further includes an OS channel layer disposed along the second side of the ferroelectric layer opposite to the first side and a pair of source/drain regions disposed on opposite sides of the OS channel layer. The FeFET device further includes a 2D contacting layer disposed along the OS channel layer. The OS channel layer has a first doping type, and the 2D contacting layer has a second doping type different than the first doping type.
US11955547B2
An integrated circuit device includes a gate stack disposed over a substrate. A first L-shaped spacer is disposed along a first sidewall of the gate stack and a second L-shaped spacer is disposed along a second sidewall of the gate stack. The first L-shaped spacer and the second L-shaped spacer include silicon and carbon. A first source/drain epitaxy region and a second source/drain epitaxy region are disposed over the substrate. The gate stack is disposed between the first source/drain epitaxy region and the second source/drain epitaxy region. An interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer disposed over the substrate. The ILD layer is disposed between the first source/drain epitaxy region and a portion of the first L-shaped spacer disposed along the first sidewall of the gate stack and between the second source/drain epitaxy region and a portion of the second L-shaped spacer disposed along the second sidewall of the gate stack.
US11955545B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, and a first semiconductor layer provided on the substrate and including a first crystal grain. The device further includes a first film provided on a surface of the first semiconductor layer. The device further includes a second semiconductor layer provided on a surface of the first film, provided on the surface of the first semiconductor layer via an opening in the first film, including a second crystal grain, and included in a memory cell. Furthermore, a grain size of the second crystal grain is larger than a maximum value of a width of the second semiconductor layer in the opening.
US11955544B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer that has a transistor structure including a p type source region, a p type drain region, an n type body region between the p type source region and the p type drain region, and a gate electrode facing the n type body region and a voltage-regulator diode that is disposed at the semiconductor layer and that has an n type portion connected to the p type source region and a p type portion connected to the gate electrode, in which the transistor structure and the voltage-regulator diode are unified into a single-chip configuration.
US11955541B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buffer layer disposed on the substrate, a channel layer disposed on the buffer layer, a barrier layer disposed on the buffer layer, and a passivation layer disposed on the barrier layer. The semiconductor device further includes a device isolation region that extends through the passivation layer, the barrier layer, and at least a portion of the channel layer, and encloses a first device region of the semiconductor device. A damage concentration of the device isolation region varies along a depth direction, and is highest near a junction between the barrier layer and the channel layer.
US11955540B2
Provided is a semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor substrate; and an emitter electrode provided above an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate; wherein the semiconductor substrate has: a first conductive type drift region; a second conductive type base region provided between the drift region and the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate; a second conductive type contact region with a higher doping concentration than the base region, which is provided between the base region and the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate; a trench contact of a conductive material provided to connect to the emitter electrode and penetrate the contact region; and a second conductive type high-concentration plug region with a higher doping concentration than the contact region, which is provided in contact with a bottom portion of the trench contact.
US11955537B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an insulating surface; a light-transmitting first electrode provided over the substrate; a light-transmitting second electrode provided over the substrate; a light-transmitting semiconductor layer provided so as to be electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; a first wiring electrically connected to the first electrode; an insulating layer provided so as to cover at least the semiconductor layer; a light-transmitting third electrode provided over the insulating layer in a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer; and a second wiring electrically connected to the third electrode.
US11955529B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure disposed over the substrate. The gate structure includes gate electrode layers and interlayer insulation structures that are alternately stacked with each other. The semiconductor device includes a dielectric structure disposed over the substrate to contact a sidewall surface of the gate structure, and a channel layer disposed on a sidewall surface of the dielectric structure over the substrate. Each of the interlayer insulation structure includes an insulation layer and a metal-organic framework layer that are disposed on the same plane.
US11955528B2
Semiconductor devices, FinFET devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. One of the semiconductor devices includes a substrate and a gate strip disposed over the substrate. The gate strip includes a high-k layer disposed over the substrate, an N-type work function metal layer disposed over the high-k layer, and a barrier layer disposed over the N-type work function metal layer. The barrier layer includes at least one first film containing TiAlN, TaAlN or AlN.
US11955520B2
According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor includes a nitride member. The nitride member includes a first nitride region including Alx1Ga1-x1N (0
US11955516B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second active patterns, a field insulating film between the first and second active patterns, a first gate structure intersecting the first active pattern and including a first gate electrode and a first gate spacer, a second gate structure intersecting the second active pattern and including a second gate electrode and a second gate spacer, a gate separation structure on the field insulating film between the first and second gate structures, the gate separation structure including a gate separation filling film on a gate separation liner, and a connecting spacer between the gate separation structure and the field insulating film, the connecting spacer protruding from a top surface of the field insulating film, and the gate separation liner contacting the connecting spacer and extending along a top surface and sidewalls of the connecting spacer and along the top surface of the field insulating film.
US11955514B2
The embodiments herein relate to field-effect transistors (FETs) with a gate structure in a dual-depth trench isolation structure and methods of forming the same. The FET includes a substrate having an upper surface, a trench isolation structure, and a gate structure adjacent to the trench isolation structure. The trench isolation structure has a first portion having a lower surface and a second portion having a lower surface in the substrate; the lower surface of the first portion is above the lower surface of the second portion.
US11955505B2
A micro multi-color LED device includes two or more LED structures for emitting a range of colors. The two or more LED structures are vertically stacked to combine light from the two more LED structures. In some embodiments, each LED structure is connected to a pixel driver and a shared P-electrode. The LED structures are bonded together through bonding layers. In some embodiments, reflection layers are implemented in the device to improve the LED emission efficiency. A display panel comprising an array of the micro tri-color LED devices has a high resolution and a high illumination brightness.
US11955504B2
Microbolometer systems and methods are provided herein. For example, an infrared imaging device includes a substrate having contacts and a surface. The surface defines a plane. The infrared imaging device further includes a microbolometer array coupled to the substrate. Each microbolometer of the microbolometer array includes a cross-section having a first section, a second section substantially parallel to the first section, and a third section joining the first section and the second section.
US11955495B2
The present disclosure provides an image sensing module including a main board and an image sensor. The main board has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The image sensor is disposed on the first surface of the main board and includes a plurality of isolation structures and a photoelectric conversion element between the plurality of isolation structures. A first angle is provided between a light incident surface of the photoelectric conversion element and the first surface of the main board, and a second angle is provided between a light beam incident to the light incident surface of the photoelectric conversion element and a normal vector of the light incident surface. The second angle is about equal to the Brewster angle at the interface of the light beam incident to the light incident surface.
US11955493B2
An image sensor includes pixel electrodes, a control electrode, a photoelectric conversion film arranged on the pixel electrodes, a transparent electrode arranged on the photoelectric conversion film, an insulating layer arranged on at least a portion of a top surface of the transparent electrode, and a connection layer that electrically connects the control electrode to the transparent electrode. The connection layer is in contact with at least one side surface of the transparent electrode. A side surface of the insulating layer, the at least one side surface of the transparent electrode, and a side surface of the photoelectric conversion film are aligned with each other.
US11955492B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area for displaying an image, and the display panel includes an insulating substrate, a first electrode, a first organic insulating layer, an inorganic insulating layer, a pixel electrode, a second organic insulating layer, and a pad portion. The inorganic insulating layer includes a first opening for electrically connecting the first electrode to the pixel electrode. The second organic insulating layer includes a second opening for electrically connecting the pixel electrode to the pad portion. The pixel electrode is formed of a transparent conductive material.
US11955491B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a motherboard and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate has a display region and a non-display region, and includes a base substrate, and a plurality of signal lines and at least one transfer electrode that are on the base substrate. The plurality of signal lines extend from the display region to the non-display region along a first direction, at least one of the plurality of signal lines includes a first trace in the display region and a second trace in the non-display region, the second trace includes at least two sub-traces disconnected from each other, a sub-trace, close to the display region, of the at least two sub-traces of the second trace is directly connected with the first trace, and every two adjacent sub-traces of the second trace are electrically connected with each other.
US11955473B2
To prevent an electrostatic damage on a display device formed with a driving circuit. Protective circuits are provided not only at input terminal parts, but also at intermediate parts of a circuit or at the ends of wiring lines. Otherwise, the protective circuits are provided at the ends of the wiring lines and at the places immediately before and after the input terminals, respectively, and then the circuit is interposed therebetween. Further, the protective circuits are provided around a circuit with a large current consumption.
US11955467B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate and a first light sensitive material formed over the substrate. A plurality of first conductive posts is formed over the substrate by patterning the first light sensitive material and filling the pattern with a conductive material. A plurality of electrical contacts is formed over the substrate and the conductive posts are formed over the electrical contacts. A first electric component is disposed over the substrate between the first conductive posts. A plurality of second conductive posts is formed over the first electrical component by patterning a second light sensitive material and filling the pattern with conductive material. A first encapsulant is deposited over the first electrical component and conductive posts. A portion of the first encapsulant is removed to expose the first conductive posts. A second electrical component is disposed over the first electrical component and covered with a second encapsulant.
US11955465B2
A device includes: a first chip including a qubit; and a second chip bonded to the first chip, the second chip including a substrate including first and second opposing surfaces, the first surface facing the first chip, wherein the second chip includes a single layer of superconductor material on the first surface of the substrate, the single layer of superconductor material including a first circuit element. The second chip further includes a second layer on the second surface of the substrate, the second layer including a second circuit element. The second chip further includes a through connector that extends from the first surface of the substrate to the second surface of the substrate and electrically connects a portion of the single layer of superconducting material to the second circuit element.
US11955463B2
Direct bonded stack structures for increased reliability and improved yields in microelectronics are provided. Structural features and stack configurations are provided for memory modules and 3DICs to reduce defects in vertically stacked dies. Example processes alleviate warpage stresses between a thicker top die and direct bonded dies beneath it, for example. An etched surface on the top die may relieve warpage stresses. An example stack may include a compliant layer between dies. Another stack configuration replaces the top die with a layer of molding material to circumvent warpage stresses. An array of cavities on a bonding surface can alleviate stress forces. One or more stress balancing layers may also be created on a side of the top die or between other dies to alleviate or counter warpage. Rounding of edges can prevent stresses and pressure forces from being destructively transmitted through die and substrate layers. These measures may be applied together or in combinations in a single package.
US11955461B2
Semiconductor device assemblies having features that are used to align semiconductor dies, and associated systems and methods, are disclose herein. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device assembly includes substrate that has a top surface and an alignment structure at the top surface. A first die is disposed over the top surface of the substrate, and the first die has a first channel that extends between a top side and a bottom side of the first die. The first channel is vertically aligned with and exposes the alignment structure at the top surface of the substrate.
US11955459B2
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a first die and a second die, a dielectric layer, a bridge, an encapsulant, and a redistribution layer structure. The dielectric layer is disposed on the first die and the second die. The bridge is electrically connected to the first die and the second die, wherein the dielectric layer is spaced apart from the bridge. The encapsulant is disposed on the dielectric layer and laterally encapsulating the bridge. The redistribution layer structure is disposed over the encapsulant and the bridge. A top surface of the bridge is in contact with the RDL structure.
US11955457B2
Semiconductor assemblies and packages using edge stacking and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A semiconductor package may include (1) a base substrate having a base surface, (2) one or more dies attached over the base surface, and (3) a mold material encapsulating the base substrate and the one or more dies. The package may further include connectors on a side surface thereof, wherein the connectors are electrically coupled to the base substrate and/or the one or more dies. The connectors may be further configured to electrically couple the package to one or more neighboring semiconductor packages and/or electrical circuits.
US11955456B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes: a first package substrate having a die mount surface; a semiconductor die flip chip mounted to the first package substrate on the die mount surface, the semiconductor die having post connects having proximate ends on bond pads on an active surface of the semiconductor die, and extending to distal ends away from the semiconductor die having solder bumps, wherein the solder bumps form solder joints to the package substrate; a second package substrate having a thermal pad positioned with the thermal pad over a backside surface of the semiconductor die, the thermal pad comprising a thermally conductive material; and a mold compound covering a portion of the first package substrate, a portion of the second package substrate, the semiconductor die, and the post connects, thermal pad having a surface exposed from the mold compound.
US11955449B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a first semiconductor chip disposed on the substrate, and a second semiconductor chip disposed on a top surface of the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a conductive pattern disposed on the top surface of the first semiconductor chip and a first protective layer covering the top surface of the first semiconductor chip and at least partially surrounds the conductive pattern. The second semiconductor chip includes a first pad that contacts a first through electrode on a bottom surface of the second semiconductor chip. A second protective layer surrounds the first pad and covers the bottom surface of the second semiconductor chip. A third protection layer fills a first recess defined in the second protective layer to face the inside of the second protective layer. The first protective layer and the third protective layer contact each other.
US11955447B2
In an implementation, a semiconductor chip includes a device layer, an interconnect layer fabricated on the device layer, the interconnect layer including a conductive pad, and a conductive pillar coupled to the conductive pad. The conductive pillar includes at least a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width, the first portion being disposed between the second portion and the conductive pad, wherein the first width of the first portion is greater than the second width of the second portion.
US11955443B2
A manufacturing method of a flip chip package structure is provided and has following steps: providing at least one silicon substrate having a connecting surface and at least one conductive base attached to the connecting surface; arranging a graphene copper layer covering the conductive base; laminating a photoresist layer on the connecting surface, etching the photoresist layer to form a cavity corresponding to the conductive base, and a portion of the graphene copper layer corresponding to the conductive base being exposed on a bottom of the cavity; electroplating a copper material on the graphene copper layer, and the copper material being accumulated in the cavity to form a copper pillar; removing the photoresist layer and the graphene copper layer covered by the photoresist layer.
US11955442B2
In an embodiment, a structure includes a core substrate, a redistribution structure coupled, the redistribution structure including a plurality of redistribution layers, the plurality of redistribution layers comprising a dielectric layer and a metallization layer, a first local interconnect component embedded in a first redistribution layer of the plurality of redistribution layers, the first local interconnect component comprising conductive connectors, the conductive connectors being bonded to a metallization pattern of the first redistribution layer, the dielectric layer of the first redistribution layer encapsulating the first local interconnect component, a first integrated circuit die coupled to the redistribution structure, a second integrated circuit die coupled to the redistribution structure, an interconnect structure of the first local interconnect component electrically coupling the first integrated circuit die to the second integrated circuit die, and a set of conductive connectors coupled to a second side of the core substrate.
US11955439B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die, a redistribution structure and connective terminals. The redistribution structure is disposed on the semiconductor die and includes a first metallization tier disposed in between a pair of dielectric layers. The first metallization tier includes routing conductive traces electrically connected to the semiconductor die and a shielding plate electrically insulated from the semiconductor die. The connective terminals include dummy connective terminals and active connective terminals. The dummy connective terminals are disposed on the redistribution structure and are electrically connected to the shielding plate. The active connective terminals are disposed on the redistribution structure and are electrically connected to the routing conductive traces. Vertical projections of the dummy connective terminals fall on the shielding plate.
US11955437B2
Techniques are provided for containing magnetic fields generated by an integrated switching package and for reducing electromagnetic interference generated from an integrated switching package.
US11955435B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die and an encapsulant layer. A mark is formed on a surface of the encapsulant layer. A damage barrier layer is disposed between the mark and the semiconductor die. The damage barrier layer blocks the propagation of laser light used to form the mark from reaching the semiconductor die.
US11955422B2
Embodiments of semiconductor devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes at least one dielectric layer pair including a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer different from the first dielectric layer, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer in contact with the at least one dielectric layer pair, and one or more capacitors each extending vertically through the ILD layer and in contact with the at least one dielectric layer pair.
US11955418B2
Systems, methods, and devices for a ball grid array with non-linear conductive routing are described herein. Such a ball grid array may include a plurality of solder balls that are electrically coupled by a non-linear conductive routing. The non-linear conductive routing may include a plurality of routing sections where each of the plurality of routing sections is disposed at an angle to adjacent routing sections.
US11955417B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, an upper conductive layer, and a lower conductive layer. The substrate has a plurality of inner vias and has an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper conductive layer includes an upper ground trace and an upper signal pad disposed on the upper surface. The upper ground trace is electrically connected to the ground vias and has an upper hollow portion exposing a part of the upper surface. The upper signal pad is disposed on the part of the upper surface exposed by the upper hollow portion and electrically connected to the signal via. The lower conductive layer includes a lower ground trace and a lower signal pad disposed on the lower surface. The lower conductive trace is electrically connected to the ground vias and has a lower hollow portion exposing a part of the lower surface. The lower signal pad is disposed on the part of the lower surface exposed by the lower hollow portion and electrically connected to the signal via.
US11955413B2
A semiconductor module includes a conductive substrate, a semiconductor element, a control terminal, and a sealing resin. The conductive substrate has an obverse surface and a reverse surface that are spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction. The semiconductor element is electrically bonded to the obverse surface and has a switching function. The control terminal is configured to control the semiconductor element. The sealing resin has a resin obverse surface and a resin reverse surface, and covers the conductive substrate, the semiconductor element, and a part of the control terminal. The control terminal protrudes from the resin obverse surface, and extends along the thickness direction.
US11955410B2
An electronic component includes: a first lead frame; a second lead frame that is provided on the first lead frame; a first electronic component that is provided between the first lead frame and the second lead frame; a connection member that is provided between the first lead frame and the second lead frame; and an insulating resin that is filled between the first lead frame and the second lead frame so as to cover the first electronic component and the connection member. A first oxide film is provided on a surface of the first lead frame. A second oxide film is provided on a surface of the second lead frame. The first lead frame and the second lead frame are electrically connected to each other by the connection member.
US11955408B2
An integrated circuit semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a trench in the substrate, the trench extending from the first surface of the substrate toward the second surface of the substrate, a through silicon via (TSV) landing part in the trench, the TSV landing part having a first portion spaced apart from the first surface of the substrate, and a second portion between the first portion and the first surface of the substrate, the first portion being wider than the second portion, a TSV hole in the substrate, the TSV hole extending from the second surface of the substrate and aligned with a bottom surface of the TSV landing part, and a TSV in the TSV hole and in contact with the bottom surface of the TSV landing part.
US11955404B2
An electronic package includes an electronic component and a heat dissipation structure, wherein the heat dissipation structure has a plurality of bonding pillars, and a metal layer is formed on the bonding pillars, so as to stably dispose the heat dissipation structure on the electronic component via the bonding pillars and the metal layer.
US11955398B2
A semiconductor device includes: an insulating circuit substrate; a semiconductor element including a first main electrode bonded to a first conductor layer of the insulating circuit substrate via a first bonding material, a semiconductor substrate deposited on the first main electrode, and a second main electrode deposited on the semiconductor substrate; and a resistive element including a bottom surface electrode bonded to a second conductor layer of the insulating circuit substrate via a second bonding material, a resistive layer with one end electrically connected to the bottom surface electrode, and a top surface electrode electrically connected to another end of the resistive layer, wherein the first main electrode includes a first bonded layer bonded to the first bonding material, the bottom surface electrode includes a second bonded layer bonded to the second bonding material, and the first bonded layer and the second bonded layer have a common structure.
US11955386B2
This embodiment comprises: a step for preparing a sample wafer; a step for forming a first oxide film on the sample wafer at a temperature of 700-800° C.; a step for forming a second oxide film on the first oxide film at a temperature of 800-1000° C.; a step for forming a third oxide film on the second oxide film at a temperature of 1000-1100° C.; a step for forming a fourth oxide film on the third oxide film at a temperature of 1100-1200° C.; a step for removing the first to fourth oxide films; a step for forming a haze on the surface of the sample wafer by etching the sample wafer from which the first to fourth oxide films have been removed; and a step for evaluating a defective region of the sample wafer on the basis of the haze.
US11955378B2
A bonding method of package components and a bonding apparatus are provided. The method includes: providing at least one first package component and a second package component, wherein the at least one first package component has first electrical connectors and a first dielectric layer at a bonding surface of the at least one first package component, and the second package component has second electrical connectors and a second dielectric layer at a bonding surface of the second package component; bringing the at least one first package component and the second package component in contact, such that the first electrical connectors approximate or contact the second electrical connectors; and selectively heating the first electrical connectors and the second electrical connectors by electromagnetic induction, in order to bond the first electrical connectors with the second electrical connectors.
US11955377B2
Approaches based on differential hardmasks for modulation of electrobucket sensitivity for semiconductor structure fabrication, and the resulting structures, are described. In an example, a method of fabricating an interconnect structure for an integrated circuit includes forming a hardmask layer above an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer formed above a substrate. A plurality of dielectric spacers is formed on the hardmask layer. The hardmask layer is patterned to form a plurality of first hardmask portions. A plurality of second hardmask portions is formed alternating with the first hardmask portions. A plurality of electrobuckets is formed on the alternating first and second hardmask portions and in openings between the plurality of dielectric spacers. Select ones of the plurality of electrobuckets are exposed to a lithographic exposure and removed to define a set of via locations.
US11955373B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a gallium oxide semiconductor structure and a gallium oxide semiconductor structure obtained thereby. The method comprises: providing a gallium oxide single-crystal wafer (1) having an implantation surface (1a) (S1); performing an ion implantation from the implantation surface (1a) into the gallium oxide single-crystal wafer (1), such that implanted ions reach a preset depth and an implantation defect layer (11) is formed at the preset depth (S2); bonding the implantation surface (1a) to a high thermal conductivity substrate (2) to obtain a first composite structure (S3); performing an annealing treatment on the first composite structure such that the gallium oxide single-crystal wafer (1) in the first composite structure is peeled off along the implantation defect layer (11), thereby obtaining a second composite structure and a third composite structure (S4); and performing a surface treatment on the second composite structure to remove a first damaged layer (111), so as to obtain a gallium oxide semiconductor structure comprising a first gallium oxide layer (12) and the high thermal conductivity substrate (2) (S5). In the gallium oxide semiconductor structure formed using the above method, the first gallium oxide layer (12) is integrated with the high thermal conductivity substrate (2) to effectively improve the thermal conductivity of the first gallium oxide layer (12).
US11955372B2
A semiconductor storage device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of circuit regions; and an element isolation region having a trench shape formed between the circuit regions. In the element isolation region including a thermal oxide film and a silicon oxide film, a sub-trench is formed in a bottom corner portion, and the thermal oxide film covers at least an inner wall of the sub-trench.
US11955370B2
A system and methods of forming a dielectric material within a trench are described herein. In an embodiment of the method, the method includes introducing a first precursor into a trench of a dielectric layer, such that portions of the first precursor react with the dielectric layer and attach on sidewalls of the trench. The method further includes partially etching portions of the first precursor on the sidewalls of the trench to expose upper portions of the sidewalls of the trench. The method further includes introducing a second precursor into the trench, such that portions of the second precursor react with the remaining portions of the first precursor to form the dielectric material at the bottom of the trench.
US11955366B2
An assembly used in a process chamber for depositing a film on a wafer. A pedestal assembly includes a pedestal movably mounted to a main frame. A lift pad rests upon the pedestal and moves with the pedestal assembly. A raising mechanism separates the lift pad from the pedestal, and includes a hard stop fixed to the main frame, a roller attached to the pedestal assembly, a slide moveably attached to the pedestal assembly, a lift pad bracket interconnected to the slide and a pad shaft extending from the lift pad, and a lever rotatably attached to the lift pad bracket. The lever rests on the roller when not engaged with the upper hard stop. When the pedestal assembly moves upwards, the lever rotates about a pin when engaging the upper hard stop and roller, and separates the lift pad from the pedestal by a process rotation displacement.
US11955364B2
A telescoping linear extension robot includes a base configured to support the telescoping linear extension robot, a first driven platform, drivingly coupled to the base, a second driven platform, drivingly coupled to the first driven platform, and a floating intermediate platform. The intermediate platform is configured to increase the extendable range of the driven extensions by facilitating additional extension using force generated by the driven platforms of the robot. This, in turn, allows for long-reach robot solutions with reduced physical footprint, complexity and cost.
US11955360B2
A Johnsen-Rahbek force type electrostatic chuck including: a metal substrate; an electrode for electrostatic attraction provided on the metal substrate with an insulating layer interposed between the metal substrate and the electrode for electrostatic attraction; and a dielectric layer constituting an electrostatic attraction surface in contact with a workpiece. The dielectric layer includes a ceramic spray coating and a sealing component with which pores of the ceramic spray coating are filled, and the sealing component contains a metal organic salt containing a rare earth element.
US11955358B2
A method of detecting failure causes in semiconductor processing systems may include receiving an indication of a failure in a semiconductor processing system and providing the indication of the failure as a query to a network representing the semiconductor processing system. The network may include nodes representing on-wafer effects and component functions, and relationships between the nodes that represent causal dependencies between the component functions and the on-wafer effects. The method may also include calculating a change in probabilities assigned to nodes representing the component functions resulting from the query, and generating an output indicating a probability of at least one of the component functions as a cause of the failure.
US11955352B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a temperature raising part for raising a temperature of a first sulfuric acid; a mixing part for mixing the first sulfuric acid where the temperature is raised by the temperature raising part with a moisture-containing liquid to generate a mixed solution; and a discharging part for discharging the mixed solution onto a substrate inside a substrate processing part. The mixing part includes: a joining portion where a sulfuric acid supply line through which the first sulfuric acid where the temperature is raised by the temperature raising part flows and a liquid supply line through which the first sulfuric acid where the temperature is raised by the temperature raising part and the moisture-containing liquid flows are joined; and a reaction suppression mechanism for suppressing a reaction between the first sulfuric acid and the moisture-containing liquid in the joining portion.
US11955351B2
Disclosed is a by-product collection apparatus which collects a by-product generated during a manufacturing process of manufacturing a semiconductor or a semiconductor-like product. The apparatus includes: a by-product collection module connected to a pipeline in series and configured to collect a by-product from a by-product gas, wherein the by-product gas flows in the pipeline having an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe provided at upper and lower portions of a first casing; and a cooling water supply module including a cooling water tank and a cooling water pump in a second casing and configured to supply and recover cooling water to and from the by-product collection module through a cooling pipe.
US11955348B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, a thermally conductive film, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. The thermally conductive film, which has a thermal conductivity greater than 10 W/m·K and an electrical resistivity greater than 1E5 Ohm-cm, resides between the active layer and the first mold compound. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die.
US11955347B2
One or more electronic devices that are mounted on a substrate, including at least one cooling plate in contact with the one or more electronic devices, are encapsulated. The substrate is clamped between a first mold half and a second mold half which define a molding cavity for molding the one or more electronic devices. A cavity insert movably located in the first mold half is projected into the cavity in order to contact and apply a sealing pressure onto the at least one cooling plate. After introducing a molding compound into the cavity at a first fill pressure, the molding compound in the cavity is packed by applying a second fill pressure which is higher than the first fill pressure. During this time, the sealing pressure is maintained at values that are higher than the first fill pressure and the second fill pressure.
US11955345B2
Encapsulation warpage reduction for semiconductor die assemblies, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly includes an interface die, a stack of semiconductor dies attached to a surface of the interface die, where the stack of semiconductor dies has a first height from the surface. The semiconductor die assembly also includes an encapsulant over the surface and surrounding the stack of semiconductor dies, where the encapsulant includes a sidewall with a first portion extending from the surface to a second height less than the first height and a second portion extending from the second height to the first height. Further, the first portion has a first texture and the second portion has a second texture different from the first texture.
US11955343B2
Two-stage bake photoresists with releasable quenchers for fabricating back end of line (BEOL) interconnects are described. In an example, a photolyzable composition includes an acid-deprotectable photoresist material having substantial transparency at a wavelength, a photo-acid-generating (PAG) component having substantial transparency at the wavelength, and a base-generating component having substantial absorptivity at the wavelength.
US11955334B2
A vapor phase epitaxy method of growing a III-V layer with a doping profile that changes from a p-doping to an n-doping on a surface of a substrate or a preceding layer from the vapor phase from an epitaxial gas flow, at least one first precursor for an element of main group III, and at least one second precursor for an element of main group V. When a first growth height is reached, a first initial doping level is set by means of a ratio of a first mass flow of the first precursor to a second mass flow of the second precursor in the epitaxial gas flow, and subsequently, by stepwise or continuously changing the ratio of the first mass flow to the second mass flow and by stepwise or continuously increasing a mass flow of a third precursor for an n-type dopant in the epitaxial gas flow.
US11955333B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, a method includes supplying a vaporized precursor into a processing volume, supplying activated elements including ions and radicals from a remote plasma source, energizing the activated elements using RF source power at a first duty cycle to react with the vaporized precursor to deposit an SiNHx film onto a substrate disposed in the processing volume, supplying a first process gas from the remote plasma source while providing RF bias power at a second duty cycle different from the first duty cycle to the substrate support to convert the SiNHx film to an SiOx film, supplying a process gas mixture formed from a second process gas supplied from the remote plasma source and a third process gas supplied from the gas supply while providing RF bias power at the second duty cycle to the substrate support, and annealing the substrate.
US11955330B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming openings in an interdeck region and a first deck structure, the first deck structure comprising alternating levels of a first insulative material and a second insulative material, forming a first sacrificial material in the openings, removing a portion of the first sacrificial material from the interdeck region to expose sidewalls of the first insulative material and the second insulative material in the interdeck region, removing a portion of the first insulative material and the second insulative material in the interdeck region to form tapered sidewalls in the interdeck region, removing remaining portions of the first sacrificial material from the openings, and forming at least a second sacrificial material in the openings. Related methods of forming a microelectronic devices and related microelectronic devices are disclosed.
US11955327B2
The present invention implements an ion detector with which it is possible to avoid direct collisions of negative ions with a scintillator, prevent degradation of the scintillator, prolong life of the scintillator, reduce the need for maintenance, and perform highly sensitive detection of both positive and negative ions. With respect to a reference line 65 connecting a central point 63 of a positive ion CD 52 and a central point 64 of a counter electrode 54, a central point 66 of a negative ion CD 53 is provided in a region of a side opposite to a region of a side of a central point 67 of a scintillator 56. Positive ions entering from an ion entrance 62 receive a deflection force and collide with the positive ion CD 52 to generate secondary electrons. The generated secondary electrons collide with the scintillator 56 to generate light. The generated light passes through a light guide 59 and is detected by a photomultiplier tube 58. A negative potential barrier is generated along the reference line 65. Negative ions entering form the ion entrance 62 are attracted to and collide with the negative ion CD 53 to generate positive ions. The generated positive ions collide with the positive ion CD 52 to generate secondary electrons. The generated secondary electrons collide with the scintillator 56 and are detected by the photomultiplier tube 58.
US11955321B2
An apparatus for plasma treatment of an implant prior to installing the implant in a live subject is provided. The apparatus comprises an activation device and a portable container detachable from the activation device. The portable container comprises a closed compartment containing the implant immersed in a fluid, and the activation device comprises a slot configured to receive the portable container. The activation device further comprises an electrical circuit configured to be electrically associated with at least one electrode and configured to provide to the at least one electrode electric power suitable for applying a plasma generating electric field in the closed compartment, when the portable container is disposed in the slot. A container suitable for providing plasma treatment to a silicone implant and a method for preparing an implant for implantation surgery are also provided.
US11955313B2
A control circuit for outputting a pulsed signal includes a switch circuit having a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a fourth terminal, a first control terminal, and a second control terminal, where the first terminal and the second terminal input the DC signal, the third terminal and the fourth terminal output the pulsed signal, the third terminal and the fourth terminal output the pulsed signal in response to the first control terminal and the second control terminal receiving the first signal, and stop outputting the pulsed signal in response to the first control terminal and the second control terminal receiving the second signal; and an energy storage circuit having two terminals connected to the first terminal and the second terminal of the switch circuit to store residual electric energy of the switch circuit when the switch circuit does not output the pulsed signal.
US11955311B2
An ion beam irradiation apparatus includes modules for generating an ion beam according to a recipe, and a control device. The control device receives the recipe including a processing condition for new processing, reads, from a monitored value storage, a monitored value that indicates a state of a module during a last processing immediately before the new processing, inputs the processing condition and the monitored value to a trained machine learning algorithm and receives, as an output from the trained machine learning algorithm, an initial value for the module, and outputs the initial value to the module to set up the module for generating the ion beam.
US11955302B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a first contact, and a second contact. The fixed terminal includes a first surface. The movable contact piece includes a second surface disposed to face the first surface. The first contact is embedded in one of the fixed terminal or the movable contact piece to be flush with one of the first surface or the second surface. The second contact is disposed on the other of the fixed terminal or the movable contact piece to face the first contact. The second contact protrudes from the other of the first surface or the second surface toward the first contact and include a contact surface smaller than the first contact when viewed from a direction facing the first contact.
US11955296B2
Electrical switch contact sets are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a movable platform having first and second contacts, where the first and second contacts electrically coupled via the movable platform, and a stationary portion having third and fourth contacts, where the movable platform is movable to bring the first and second contacts in contact with the third and fourth contacts, respectively, to simultaneously close a current path of an electrical circuit associated with the first, second, third and fourth contacts.
US11955292B2
A structure of capacitors connected in parallel includes a substrate. A trench embedded in the substrate. Numerous electrode layers respectively conformally fill in and cover the trench. The electrode layers are formed of numerous nth electrode layers, wherein n is a positive integer from 1 to M, and M is not less than 3. The nth electrode layer with smaller n is closer to the sidewall of the trench. When n equals to M, the Mth electrode layer fills in the center of the trench, and the top surface of the Mth electrode is aligned with the top surface of the substrate. A capacitor dielectric layer is disposed between the adjacent electrode layers. A first conductive plug contacts the nth electrode layer with odd-numbered n. A second conductive plug contacts the nth electrode layer with even-numbered n.
US11955287B2
A multilayer electronic component includes: a body including an active portion including internal electrodes disposed alternately with dielectric layers and cover portions disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the active portion; and external electrodes including an electrode layer disposed on the body, and an average thickness of the cover portion is 14 to 17 μm and a maximum thickness of the electrode layer is 5 to 20 μm.
US11955282B2
A capacitor component includes a body including a dielectric layer and internal electrode layers, with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and an external electrode disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrode layers. Each of the internal electrode layers has a capacitance formation portion disposed to overlap an adjacent internal electrode layer, and a lead-out portion extending from the capacitance formation portion and connected to the external electrode. A ratio (H2/H1) of a height difference H2 to a height difference H1 is 0.2 or less, where the height difference H2 is a height difference between the capacitance formation portion and the lead-out portion of a lowermost internal electrode layer the height difference H1 is a height difference between the capacitance formation portion and the lead-out portion of an uppermost internal electrode layer. An average thickness of the dielectric layer is 420 nm or less.
US11955280B2
Strong and flexible electrically conductive polymers comprising hydrogen-bondable moieties are described herein. The electrically conductive polymers are formed by polymerizing an electron donating aromatic monomer in the presence of an oxidant, solvent, and/or hydrogen-bondable additive, such as an additive comprising a hydroxyl group.
US11955275B2
A method for producing a multilayer coil component includes forming, on a main face of a substrate, a first coil conductor extending along the main face having conductivity, forming a second coil conductor and a third coil conductor apart from each other in a direction in which the first coil conductor extends and each extending from the first coil conductor in a first direction orthogonal to the main face, and forming a fourth coil conductor electrically connected to an end of the second coil conductor opposite to the first coil conductor and extending along the main face. The forming the first coil conductor includes forming, on the main face, a first insulator layer provided with a first penetration portion having a shape corresponding to the first coil conductor and exposing a part of the main face, and forming, by plating, the first coil conductor in the first penetration portion.
US11955270B2
A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface, opposing each other in one direction, and one end surface connecting the one surface and the other surface to each other, a support substrate embedded in the body, a coil portion disposed on the support substrate and including a lead-out pattern exposed from the one end surface, a first insulating layer disposed on the one end surface and having one region and the other regions spaced apart from each other in the other direction crossing the one direction, an external electrode having a connection portion, disposed between the one region and the other region to be connected to the lead-out pattern, and an extension portion extending from the connection portion to the one surface, and a second insulating layer disposed on the one end surface to cover the first insulating layer and the connection portion.
US11955262B2
An inductor includes a first magnetic body having a toroidal shape and having a ferrite; and a second magnetic body configured to be different from the first magnetic body and including a metal ribbon, wherein the second magnetic body includes an outer magnetic body disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the first magnetic body and an inner magnetic body disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the first magnetic body, and each of the outer magnetic body and inner magnetic body is wound in a plurality of layers in a circumferential direction of the first magnetic body.
US11955247B2
Methods and systems for mobile automation control of disease spread are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: determining, by a computing device, a health status of a person; determining, by the computing device, that the person is sick based on the health status; determining, by the computing device, facial and body movements of the person determined to be sick; determining, by the computing device, that the person determined to be sick performed a germ-transmitting activity based on the facial and body movements; and deploying, by the computing device, a cleaning robot to clean based on the determining that the person determined to be sick performed the germ-transmitting activity.
US11955237B2
An automated system and method for assisting in decision making for the treatment of stroke patients is provided, and specifically for assisting a physician whether the patient should be administered a drug or transferred to another hospital to undergo an endovascular thrombectomy procedure. A variety of factors are input into the system with limited human intervention and a tool automatically determines the probability of whether the patient will have a better outcome if transferred or not. The factors include clinical factors, imaging factors and time to transfer factors. The tool includes processes for automatically determining several imaging factors, including the determination of clot length, collateral blood flow, the presence of forward blood flow within and around the clot, and the clot permeability. The tool has capability to continuously update the treatment protocol and other output results using current clinical, health system or other relevant information or feedback.
US11955236B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for patient device management. In one implementation, interrogation data is received from a cardiac implantable electronic device corresponding to an interrogation for a patient. The interrogation data includes device data for the cardiac implantable electronic device and patient specific data for the patient. The interrogation data is normalized into manufacturer independent interrogation data. The manufacturer independent interrogation data is associated with a permitted user. A processing status is assigned to the interrogation using the manufacturer independent interrogation data. The interrogation is aggregated into a category based on the processing status, and the category is associated with an action by the permitted user.
US11955235B2
In a medication dispensing system, pills of different medications are stored in different chambers of a pill bottle. An assembly of a non-moving disc having holes corresponding to each chamber, a rotatable disc having a hole for dispensing pills therethrough, and a motor, dispenses the pills according to a prescribed schedule. The motor controls the rotations of the rotatable disc according to a user-specified schedule.
US11955234B2
Graphical user interfaces for use with extracorporeal blood treatment systems may include a plurality of mini settings cards corresponding to a plurality of settings cards. The mini settings cards may display one or more user-interactable settings, and may be selected to display the corresponding settings card. Further, each settings card may be accessed in other ways to selection of mini settings card such as, for example, by selection of a process feature graphical element corresponding the settings card.
US11955230B2
Described herein are database systems including one or more remote analytical instruments operably connected to one or more servers. The instruments can transmit rich data to the servers, and the one or more servers can compile a database of the rich data. One or more processors associated with the servers can be configured to execute a data analytics program on the database to identify a stochastic phenomenon or to process the data and present in real-time at a location of the one or more instruments comparison information about the instruments.
US11955227B2
An integrated system for processing and using images acquired of subjects in a research or clinical environment is provided. The integrated system includes an image and data bank, a workflow management module, a cloud storage module and a pre-processing module. The pre-processing engine is positioned between the workflow management module and the cloud storage module and is configured to receive raw images, data associated with the raw images and the data associated with the imaged subjects from the workflow management module and process this data and provide the processed data to be pushed into the cloud storage module. The pre-processing engine also anonymizes the data to provide de-identified images and data to the cloud storage module and creates a key that relates the raw images, data associated with the raw images and the data associated with the imaged subjects to the de-identified, processed images and data. The key remains separate and un-connected from the de-identified, processed images and data. The key allows the de-identified, processed images and data to maintain traceability to the imaged subjects and to all subsequent operations on the images and data.
US11955224B2
A system for generating a pulmonary dysfunction nourishment program includes a computing device configured to receive at least a respiratory volume collection relating to a user, produce at least a respiratory parameter of a plurality of respiratory parameters as a function of the at least a respiratory volume collection, identify a functional signature as a function of the at least a respiratory parameter, wherein identifying further comprises receiving a conduct indicator, and identifying the functional signature as a function of the conduct indicator, the at least a respiratory parameter, and a functional machine-learning model, and generate a functional program as a function of the functional signature.
US11955218B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented system includes a treatment apparatus configured to be manipulated by a user while performing an exercise session, patient interfaces associated with users, and a server computing device configured to receive treatment data pertaining to the user, determine whether at least one characteristic of the user matches at least one second characteristic of a second user, where the second user belonging to a cohort. Responsive to determining the at least one characteristic of the user matches the at least one second characteristic of the second user, the server computing device is configured to assign the user to the cohort and select, via a trained machine learning model, a treatment plan for the user. Responsive to transmitting a signal to the patient interfaces of users in the cohort, the server computing device enables the patient interfaces to establish the virtual shared session between the patient interfaces.
US11955216B2
A portable remote medication management system for automated and adaptive precision dosing is disclosed. The system includes a medication delivery station comprising a receptacle that stores a pre-filled replaceable medication storage and closure container. The pre-filled medication container can store oral solid medication in storage silos above a rotary release mechanism and contains a storage and communication chip that communicates with the delivery station. The medication delivery station includes a delivery housing, a drive and control mechanism, communication interfaces with the container closure and remote devices, and a removable medication receptacle within the delivery station. The medication delivery station and medication closure container connect mechanically through a drive interface under the control of the station. Dosing parameter adjustments can be controlled by an administration portal and uploaded to the medication delivery station, as commanded by the administrator. Also disclosed are method operating the system and devices.
US11955207B2
The disclosure provides systems and methods for data analysis of experimental data. The analysis can include reference data that are not directly generated from the present experiment, which reference data may be values of the experimental parameters that were either provided by a user, computed by the system with input from a user, or computed by the system without using any input from a user. Another example of such reference data may be information about the instrument, such as the calibration method of the instrument.
US11955206B2
The present invention provides a novel approach to matching personality traits, as determined through observational or self-assessment reporting in combination with specific loci and identifiable variations within an individual's nucleotide sequence in the form of SNPs. The present invention further utilizes an individual's cyber footprint, in combination with SNPs and traditional assessment and self-assessment techniques, to define a testing and reinforcement mechanism for strengthening the interdependence and accuracy of each type of reporting in order to bolster the reliability of each alone and in combination.
US11955205B2
A high-temperature bimetal capable of being inhibited from considerably shifting from an original position when the temperature has fallen to an ordinary temperature is provided. This high-temperature bimetal (1) includes a high thermal expansion layer (2) made of austenitic stainless steel and a low thermal expansion layer (3) made of a thermosensitive magnetic metal having a Curie point and bonded to the high thermal expansion layer. The high-temperature bimetal is employed over both a high temperature range of not less than the Curie point and a low temperature range of less than the Curie point, while an upper limit of operating temperatures in the high temperature range of not less than the Curie point is at least 500° C.
US11955201B2
A memory device includes a plurality of arrays coupled in parallel with each other. A first array of the plurality of arrays includes a first switch and a plurality of first memory cells that are arranged in a first column, a second switch and a plurality of second memory cells that are arranged in a second column, and at least one data line coupled to the plurality of first memory cells and the plurality of second memory cells. The second switch is configured to output a data signal from the at least one data line to a sense amplifier.
US11955195B2
According to various embodiments, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate that includes a memory cell region and a test region. The semiconductor memory device further includes an active pattern on the memory cell region, a source/drain pattern on the active pattern, a dummy pattern on the test region, a first gate electrode on the dummy pattern, a first common contact, and a first wiring layer. The first wiring layer includes a first test line electrically connected to the first common contact. The first common contact includes a first contact pattern in contact with the dummy pattern, and a first gate contact connected to the first gate electrode. The first gate contact includes a body and a protrusion part. A lowermost level of a top surface of the active pattern is lower than a lowermost level of a top surface of the dummy pattern.
US11955190B2
In some aspects of the present disclosure, a memory array includes: a plurality of memory cells; and a plurality of logic gates, each of the plurality of logic gates having a first input, a second input, and an output gating a corresponding one of the plurality of memory cells, wherein the first input of each of the plurality of logic gates of a first subset is coupled to a first bit select line.
US11955188B2
A semiconductor storage device of an embodiment includes a memory block, a resistance measurement circuit, and a control circuit. The memory block includes first to third control signal lines connected to gates of a first select gate transistor, a plurality of memory cell transistors, and a second select gate transistor. The resistance measurement circuit measures resistance of at least one control signal line among the first to third control signal lines. The control circuit performs erase, program, and read of data at the plurality of memory cell transistors included in the memory block. The control circuit determines, based on a measurement result of the resistance measurement by the resistance measurement circuit, whether to set a fail status to a result of erase verify that verifies the erase.
US11955185B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor; a first resistor; a second resistor; a first circuit configured to apply a first voltage to the first transistor. The first voltage is based on a difference between a reference voltage and an output voltage divided by the first and second resistors. A first current through the first circuit in a first mode is less than a second current through the first circuit in a second mode. The semiconductor device includes a capacitor connected to the output terminal; and a second circuit connected to the capacitor that: (a) disconnects the first circuit from the capacitor and apply a second voltage to the capacitor in a first mode, and (b) electrically connects the first circuit to the capacitor in the second mode.
US11955184B2
Technology is disclosed herein for a memory system that compensates for different programming speeds in two sets of memory cells when reading those two sets of memory cells. The memory system programs a group of the memory cells to one or more data states. In one aspect, the memory cells are not verified during programming. The group has a first set of memory cells that program at a first speed and a second set of memory cells that program at a second speed. The memory system reads the first set of the memory cells with a first set of read parameters and reads the second set of the memory cells with a second set of read parameters. The first set of read parameters are different from the second set of read parameters to compensate for the different programming speeds.
US11955182B2
Adaptive and dynamic control of the duration of a pre-program pulse based on a number of planes selected for the pre-program operation is disclosed. A value for a pre-program time increment parameter may be selected based on the number of planes for which the pre-program operation will be performed or determined based on a predefined association with the number of planes. A pre-program voltage pulse may then be applied for a duration that is equal to a default duration for a single-plane pre-program operation incremented by the time increment parameter value. This approach solves the technical problem of Vt downshift for multi-plane pre-program operations, and thus, ensures that the success rate of secure erase operations does not diminish as the number of planes increases. This, in turn, allows for pre-program operations to be consistently performed on a multi-plane basis, which produces the technical effect of improved system performance.
US11955174B2
A switching system includes a content-addressable memory (CAM) and several processing nodes. The CAM can be selectively connected to any one or more of the processing nodes during operation of the switching system, without having to power down or otherwise reboot the switching system. The CAM is selectively connected to a processing node in that electrical paths between the CAM and the processing nodes can be established, torn down, and re-established during operation of the switching system. The switching system can include a connection matrix to selectively establish electrical paths between the CAM and the processing nodes.
US11955168B2
A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a memory array of a plurality of memory elements, a plurality of word lines or word line pairs, a plurality of bit line pairs, and a plurality of common source lines. Each of the memory elements includes two memory cells. The memory device is configured for calculating an energy value based on a plurality of state signals and a plurality of coefficients, and the two memory cells of each of the memory elements are configured for performing an individual selection such that one of the two memory cells of each of the memory elements receives two corresponding state signals from a corresponding word line or a corresponding word line pair and a corresponding bit line pair and generates an output current into a corresponding common source line for calculating the energy value.
US11955167B2
Systems formed by a multi-bit three-transistor (3T) memory cell (i.e., dynamic-analog RAM) are provided. The 3T memory cell includes: a read-access transistor M1 in electrical communication with a read bitline; a switch transistor M2 in electrical communication with the read-access transistor M1; a write-access transistor M3 in electrical communication with the read-access transistor M1 and a write bitline; and a memory node MEM in electrical communication between the read-access transistor M1 and the write-access transistor M3, wherein the memory node MEM is configured to store a 4-bit weight WE. An array of the 3T memory cells (i.e., dynamic-analog RAMs) may form a computing-in-memory (CIM) macro, and further form a convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerator by communicating with an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) which communicates with a global weight static random access memory and an activation static random access memory.
US11955152B2
A semiconductor device includes a bottom electrode contact disposed over one or more of a plurality of conductive lines, magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) pillars constructed over the bottom electrode contact, an encapsulation layer section disposed between a pair of the MRAM pillars such that an aspect ratio of a tight pitch gap between the pair of the MRAM pillars is reduced, and a dielectric disposed within the encapsulation layer section, wherein the dielectric fills an entirety of a space defined within the encapsulation layer section. The MRAM pillars have a generally rectangular-shaped or cone-shaped configuration and the encapsulation layer section has a generally U-shaped or V-shaped configuration.
US11955151B2
A substrate for a magnetic disk includes a substrate main body having a disk shape and an alloy film. The substrate has a thickness (T+D) of 0.520 mm or less, which is the sum of a thickness T of the substrate main body and a thickness D of the film formed on main surfaces of the substrate main body. The disk shape has an outer diameter of 90 mm or more. A ratio D/T of the thickness D to the thickness T is 0.025 or more. The thickness of the film formed on an outer circumferential edge surface of the substrate main body is greater than the thickness of the film formed on each of the main surfaces, and the thickness of the film formed on each of the main surfaces is 80% or more of the thickness of the film formed on the outer circumferential edge surface.
US11955145B1
Video output is synchronized to the actions of a user by determining positions of the user's body based on acquired video of the user. The positions of the user's body are compared to the positions of a body shown in the video output to determine corresponding positions in the video output. The video output may then be synchronized so that the subsequent output that is shown corresponds to the subsequent position attempted by the user. The rate of movement of the user may be used to determine output characteristics for the video to cause the body shown in the video output to appear to move at a similar rate to that of the user. If the user moves at a rate less than a threshold or performs an activity erroneously, the video output may be slowed or portions of the video output may be repeated.
US11955144B2
A method of generating a modified video file via a user interface presented on a mobile device including a display is disclosed. The method comprises displaying media corresponding to a first video file on a display of the mobile video device. In response to receiving an initial user input, generation of a second video file corresponding to the displayed media commences. During the displaying of the media corresponding to the first video file, user inputs to manipulate the first video file are received. The second video file is then generated from the first video file as manipulated by the user inputs. A sequence of versions of the video file may be created in a similar manner, which are selectable via a video version stack.
US11955143B2
Provided are an automatic video editing method and a portable terminal, the method comprising: obtaining a video to be edited; extracting key frames of the video to be edited; inputting the key frames to a pre-trained scene classification method and a pre-trained target detection method, and respectively obtaining scene type markers and target object markers of the key frames; selecting multiple video segments from the video to be edited which satisfy preset editing criteria; respectively calculating average scores of the multiple video segments by means of a pre-trained image quality scoring method; respectively obtaining the video segment having the highest average score of each shot type for splicing.
US11955141B2
An electronic device and an operation method of an electronic device for video editing are provided. The electronic device include a processor electrically connected to display circuitry, wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain a video, classify, based on a designated condition, image frames included in the video into at least one first type interval and at least one second type interval, distinguish at least one main part, based on image frames corresponding to at least one element included in the designated condition in the at least one first type interval, set a play speed of the at least one main part to be different from a play speed of at least one different part, control the display circuitry to display an edited preview video including the at least one main part reflecting the set play speed, and store the edited preview video in the memory.
US11955137B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. For example, a first speech input directed to a digital assistant is received from a user. A first response is provided based on the first speech input. A session window is initiated, wherein the session window is associated with a variable speech threshold. A second speech input is received during the session window. In accordance with a determination that the second speech input includes speech directed to the digital assistant, a duration associated with the session window is increased. In accordance with a determination that the variable speech threshold does not exceed a predetermined speech threshold, the session window is ended.
US11955135B2
Eyewear having a speech to moving lips algorithm that receives and translates speech and utterances of a person viewed through the eyewear, and then displays an overlay of moving lips corresponding to the speech and utterances on a mask of the viewed person. A database having text to moving lips information is utilized to translate the speech and generate the moving lips in near-real time with little latency. This translation provides the deaf/hearing impaired users the ability to understand and communicate with the person viewed through the eyewear when they are wearing a mask. The translation may include automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) as a sound recognition engine.
US11955124B2
An example electronic device includes a housing; a touchscreen display; a microphone; at least one speaker; a button disposed on a portion of the housing or set to be displayed on the touchscreen display; a wireless communication circuit; a processor; and a memory. When a user interface is not displayed on the touchscreen display, the electronic device enables a user to receive a user input through the button, receives user speech through the microphone, and then provides data on the user speech to an external server. An instruction for performing a task is received from the server. When the user interface is displayed on the touchscreen display, the electronic device enables the user to receive the user input through the button, receives user speech through the microphone, and then provides data on the user speech to the external server.
US11955123B2
A speech recognition system includes: a speech processor configured to identify an intention of a user included in an utterance of the user; a controller configured to identify whether a function corresponding to the intention of the utterance is performable, and if the function corresponding to the intention of the utterance is not performable, generate spoken text for requesting an other speech recognition system to perform the function corresponding to the intention of the user; and an utterance generator configured to convert the spoken text into a speech signal of an inaudible frequency band.
US11955122B1
Techniques for determining whether audio is machine-outputted or non-machine-outputted are described. A device may receive audio, may process the audio to determine audio data including audio features corresponding to the audio, and may process the audio data to determine audio embedding data. The device may process the audio embedding data to determine whether the audio is machine-outputted or non-machine-outputted. In response to determining that the audio is machine-outputted, then the audio may be discarded or not processed further. Alternatively, in response to determining that the audio is non-machine-outputted (e.g., live speech from a user), then the audio may be processed further (e.g., using ASR processing).
US11955114B1
Disclosed herein is a method for providing real-time trustworthiness analysis. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, by a speech data receiving module, speech data; delivering, by the speech data receiving module, the speech data to a speech analysis module; analyzing, by the speech analysis module, the speech data to identify one or more speech attributes; quantifying, by the speech analysis module, at least one of the speech attributes with an attribute score; and determining, by a trustworthiness determination module, a trustworthiness level based on the attribute score of the at least one of the speech attributes.
US11955111B2
To improve prediction accuracy of utterance types in a dialog. A learning data generation device (10) according to the present invention comprises: a sort unit (11) configured to perform, based on information appended to utterances in a dialog amongst more than one speaker and that is indicative of a dialogue scene that is a scene in which the utterances in the dialog were made, sorting regarding whether the utterances are to be targets for generation of the learning data, wherein the sorter (11) is configured to exclude utterances of a dialogue scene that includes utterances similar to utterance of the particular type from the targets for generation of learning data.
US11955109B2
Various techniques for driving phased array systems are described, specifically intended for acoustic phased arrays with applications to mid-air haptics, parametric audio, acoustic levitation and acoustic imaging, including a system: 1) that is capable of mitigating the effect of the changes in the air to provide a consistent haptic experience; 2) that produces trap points in air; 3) that defines phased-array optimization in terms of vectors for the production of more consistent haptic effects; 4) that defines one or more control points or regions in space via a controlled acoustic field; 5) that uses a reduced representation method for the construction of acoustic basis functions; 6) that performs efficient evaluation of complex-valued functions for a large quantity of throughput; 7) that generates a Krylov sub-space of a matrix; and 8) that maximizes an objective described by different control points and/or regions to those used to create the acoustic basis functions.
US11955103B2
The present specification relates to a sound-generating reed for a wind instrument which contains at least one thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer.
US11955102B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a surrounding display area, below which at least one panel driving circuit is positioned, and a main display area surrounded by the surrounding display area, the display panel including first pixels having a first pixel density and disposed in the surrounding display area and second pixels having a second pixel density greater than the first pixel density and disposed in the main display area; and a display panel driver to divide an input image to be displayed on the display panel in each frame into a first image to be displayed on the surrounding display area and a second image to be displayed on the main display area, calculate a luminance deviation of the first image, and determine whether to display the first image in the surrounding display area based on the luminance deviation of the first image.
US11955097B2
A shift register includes stages each constituted by a unit circuit provided with a thin-film transistor (separation transistor) that separates a control node into an output-side first control node and an input-side second control node and a capacitor whose first end is connected to the second control node. The thin-film transistor (separation transistor) has a control terminal that is supplied with a high-level DC power supply voltage. Typically, the channel width of a thin-film transistor (first output control transistor) that controls output from a unit circuit is ten or more times greater than the channel width of the thin-film transistor (separation transistor).
US11955091B2
A method of driving a display device, which includes a plurality of segments, each including a plurality of pixels, includes comparing grayscales of first image data of a first frame with respect to a segment among the plurality of segments and grayscales of a second image data of a second frame after the first frame with respect to the segment, modulating the second image data to generate first modulated data when the grayscales of the first image data are equal to the grayscales of the second image data, and providing data voltages to the segment based on the first modulated data.
US11955090B2
A buffer circuit according to an aspect of the inventive concepts include an operational amplifier configured to amplify an input voltage to generate an output voltage; a slew-rate compensating circuit configured to generate a compensation current based on a difference between a voltage level of the input voltage and a voltage level of the output voltage, and configured to provide the compensation current to the operational amplifier through a boosting transistor; and an offset blocking circuit configured to turn off the boosting transistor when the difference between the voltage level of the input voltage and the voltage level of the output voltage is less than a reference voltage level by providing a blocking current to the slew-rate compensating circuit.
US11955087B2
A display device includes scan lines, pixels electrically connected to the scan lines, and a scan driver including stages for supplying scan signals through the scan lines to the pixels. The stages include a stage that includes the following elements: a first node setting unit for setting a voltage of a first node; a second node setting unit for setting a voltage of a second node based on the voltage of the first node; a third node setting unit for setting a voltage of a third node based on the voltage of the second node; and an output unit for outputting a scan signal based on the voltage of the third node. Each of the first and third node setting units includes an N-type transistor. The scan driver further includes a first charge pump for supplying a first bias voltage to a back-gate electrode of the N-type transistor.
US11955084B2
A driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of gate driving units which are cascaded. An Nth stage gate driving unit includes a pull-down control module, a pull-down module, a pull-up control module, a first pull-up voltage stabilizing module, a pull-up module, a second pull-up voltage stabilizing module, and a pull-down voltage stabilizing module. Stability of the gate driver circuit can be improved by increasing stability of a voltage level at a fourth node via the first pull-up voltage stabilizing module and the second pull-up voltage stabilizing module.
US11955082B2
A pixel circuit is disposed in the display substrate, the display substrate includes a display stage and a non-display stage, the pixel circuit is configured to drive the light emitting element to emit light in the display stage, and includes a first control sub-circuit, a second control sub-circuit, a third control sub-circuit, a fourth control sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit and a driving sub-circuit; the third control sub-circuit is electrically connected with a third reset signal terminal, a control signal terminal and a third node respectively, and is configured to provide a first signal to the third node in the display stage and a second signal to the third node or acquire a signal of the third node in the non-display stage under control of the third reset signal terminal.
US11955059B2
Method, apparatuses, and systems are described to display image data to a sub-pixel within a micro-LED (mLED) display. A sub-pixel image data value is stored at the sub-pixel. The sub-pixel is turned to an ON state. A shared row counter value is provided to the sub-pixel. The shared row counter value and the sub-pixel image data value are compared at the sub-pixel. The sub-pixel is turned to an OFF state if the shared row counter value is equal to or greater than the sub-pixel image data value.
US11955051B2
A receiver of a display driver and an operating method of the receiver of the display driver are provided. The receiver of the display driver includes an input interface, an operational amplifier and a bias current control circuit. The input interface receives image data. The operational amplifier is coupled to the input interface and includes a bias current circuit. The bias current control circuit adjusts a bias current of the bias current circuit according to a data rate of the image data. The operating method is adapted to the receiver of the display driver.
US11955045B2
A display device includes a communicator; a memory; a display panel including a plurality of display modules; and one or more processors. The processor receives position information and corrected pixel value of a first area in a first display module; identifies a pixel corresponding to the first area based on the position information; obtains a correction coefficient corresponding to the identified pixel based on the corrected pixel value and an output pixel value of the identified pixel; obtains correction coefficients corresponding to each of a plurality of remaining pixels based on the correction coefficient and a distance between the identified pixel and each of the remaining pixels and stores same in a memory; processes an input image based on the correction coefficients, and controls the display panel to display the processed input image. The device thereby improves display uniformity between display modules more effectively.
US11955035B2
The present invention provides a display device, wherein by arranging reels at opposite ends of the flexible display screen, a difference in curling lengths between laminated films of the flexible display screen caused by an increase in a number of curling turns during curling can be effectively relieved. In addition, one end of the inner roll can reduce the stress generated at one end of the outer roll, thereby preventing the layers from falling off, which is beneficial to increase the service life of the flexible display screen.
US11955033B1
The present disclosure relates to a profile structure of the frame of an advertising poster. Said apparatus includes a profile assembly fixedly attached to the side of a compartment, said profile assembly includes a fixing profile fixedly attached to the compartment, said fixing profile is provided in an “I” shape in cross section, wherein a number of fastening bolts are inserted in a web segment of the fixing profile, wherein the free ends of said fastening bolts are provided towards the inside of the web segment, wherein a fastening profile is provided on the inside of the web segment of the fixing profile, wherein the free ends of the fixing bolts are threaded to the fastening profile, wherein the free end of the fastening profile located outside the fixing profile is provided with a fixing slot for engaging the side edges of the advertising cloth, wherein the outside of the web segment of the fixing profile is connected with a cover. Said apparatus utilizes the configuration of the profile assembly to tighten the four sides of the advertising cloth synchronously and individually, thereby preventing wrinkling phenomenon and edge lifting of the advertising cloth during installation. At the same time, said structure allows for arbitrary replacement of the advertising cloth, making said apparatus highly practical for industrial production.
US11955032B2
To achieve an improvement in security in encryption of an image signal obtained through imaging by an array sensor. A sensor device includes: an array sensor in which a plurality of pixels including light-receiving elements for visible light or invisible light are arrayed 1-dimensionally or 2-dimensionally; and an encryption unit configured to encrypt a read signal from the pixels of the array sensor. By encrypting a read signal, it is possible to achieve an improvement in security by enabling the image signal not to be stored in plain text in a memory.
US11955025B2
Disclosed herein is a method of facilitating creating of customizable tutorials for instruments specific to a particular facility, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the method may include a step of receiving, using a communication device, a facility blueprint of a facility from at least one user device. Further, the method may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, an instrument location of an instrument associated with the facility blueprint from the at least one user device. Further, the method may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, a plurality of tutorial information associated with the instrument corresponding to the instrument location from the at least one user device. Further, the method may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the plurality of tutorial information associated with the instrument corresponding to the instrument location.
US11955023B1
A bow hold training device includes a replica bow stick shaft, a replica bow stick frog extending from a bottom side of the replica bow stick shaft, and at least one landmark corresponding to a contact point of a finger or thumb with a proper bow hold on the bow hold training device. The device helps musicians learn and reproduce a proper bow hold for playing a stringed instrument, such as a violin, viola, cello, or bass.
US11955020B2
Systems and methods for operating done flights over public roadways are disclosed herein. An example method includes transmitting, by a first drone, a drone safety message, the drone safety message being received by a vehicle or a roadside infrastructure device located along a first planned flight path, determining an emergency condition for the first done, transmitting a warning message over a vehicle-to-everything communication that indicates that the first drone is experiencing the emergency condition. A connected vehicle or mobile device receives the warning message over the vehicle-to-everything communication. Determining drone operating evidence as the first drone traverses along the first planned flight path, and storing the drone operating evidence in a distributed ledger.
US11955018B2
Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.
US11955013B2
This electronic configuration assist device of a flight of an aircraft includes: an acquisition module configured to acquire a flight modality, previously selected by a user from a set of predefined flight modalities; a determination module configured to determine a group of avionics functional component(s) as a function of the acquired modality, each functional component having an elementary score for each predefined flight modality, an overall score being calculated for each possible group of components from the elementary score or scores of the components of the said group for the acquired modality, the determined group being the one having the best overall score among the calculated overall scores; a display module configured to display information relating to each component of the determined group of avionics functional component(s).
US11955005B2
A system for adaptively controlling traffic control devices having a traffic signal system, a computing network, and a communication system is configured to restrict traffic in one or more directions through a junction and to selectively allow traffic through the restricted directions based, in part, on an identity or action of certain traffic. The traffic signal system is configured to be in communication with the computing network through the communication system. The mobile device is also configured to be in communication with the computing network through the communication system. Then the computing network adaptively controls the traffic signal system using a location of the mobile device.
US11955004B2
The present disclosure provides a signal machine alarm method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, and relates to the field of intelligent transportation technologies. The signal machine alarm method, including: acquiring a light-state data stream of a signal machine; determining a target light-state data frame corresponding to a current time according to the light-state data stream; acquiring a timing scheme of the signal machine at the current time; extracting target light-state information of a target phase from the target light-state data frame; and obtaining a calculation countdown according to the timing scheme, the target light color state and the target cycle countdown, and sending alarm information if the calculation countdown is determined to be inconsistent with the target light color countdown. The present disclosure can achieve a purpose of detecting whether the acquired timing scheme is consistent with a timing scheme actually operating in the signal machine, to ensure timely alarm if inconsistency is detected.
US11955001B2
One or more devices may obtain traffic data, such as video from intersection cameras, point cloud data from Light Detection and Ranging (or “LiDAR”) sensors, and so on. Metrics may be calculated from the traffic data. For each frame, the metrics may be analyzed to detect whether a near miss/collision occurs between each object in the frame (such as motorized or non-motorized vehicles, pedestrians, and so on) and each of the other objects in the frame. These metrics may be analyzed to evaluate whether or not a group of conditions are met. If the group of conditions are met, a near miss/collision may be detected. This may be recorded in the metrics for the objects involved. In some implementations, one or more indicators may be added to the traffic data and/or to one or more visualizations generated using the metrics, the traffic data, the structured data, and so on.
US11954990B2
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring a physical location to determine and/or predict anomalous activities. One or more machine learning algorithms may be used to analyze inputs from one or more sensors, cameras, audio recording equipment, and/or any other types of sensors to detect anomalous measurements/patterns. Notifications may be sent one or more devices in a network based on the detection.
US11954989B2
An image recognition-based configuration/authorization method for video security systems is disclosed. The method includes detecting a code label within video captured by a security camera that is part of a security system. The method also includes carrying out image recognition on an image, within which is depicted the code label, and taken from the captured video. The carrying out image recognition includes extracting token identification data and an address for a network addressable authorization entity.
US11954980B2
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing game features. In a game of chance involving at least one outcome, a plurality of alternative outcomes can be derived for a gaming event, such as when one of the outcomes will provide a payout at or above a certain level. The player is presented with an opportunity to select among the alternative outcomes, without being aware of the particular characteristics or values associated with the outcomes. While the player will only select the outcome having the payout at/above the threshold level a certain percentage of the time, the opportunity can be presented to the player more often, while keeping the mathematical probabilities the same or similar if desired, thereby providing the player with the feeling of getting higher value opportunities more often.
US11954979B2
Systems and methods for live sporting event wagering with data security and integrity are disclosed. At least one input capture device and at least one user device are constructed and configured in network communication with at least one computing platform. The at least one input capture device is configured to transmit live input data relating to a live sporting event to the at least one computing platform in real time or near real time. The at least one computing platform is configured to aggregate and analyze the live input data, thereby creating analyzed data. The at least one computing platform is further configured to set odds for wagering in the live sporting event based on the analyzed data in real time or near real time. The at least one user device is configured to display the odds, receive bets, and transmit the bets to the at least one computing platform.
US11954976B2
A bonus providing element distinct from an underlying game enables bonus awards to players at two or more player positions of the underlying game based upon receipt of a predetermined triggering outcome in the underlying game by the bonus providing element providing an indication of at least three individual random indicators, such as: a) a first random indicator configured to provide an identification of a first award to be awarded to qualifying players of the players of the underlying game; b) a second random indicator configured to provide an identification of a single one of the two or more player positions; and c) a third random indicator configured to provide an identification of a second award to be awarded to the player at the single one of the two or more player positions indicated by the second random indictor.
US11954972B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables funds automatically transferred into the system from one or more funding sources in anticipation of such funds being used in association with various system components.
US11954969B2
Techniques for an analytics platform associated with gaming are described. According to certain aspects, systems and methods include ingesting data from a plurality of data sources into a database to support one or more tools. The tools may be configured to cause the analytics platform generate a temporary data table used to populate user interfaces associated with the tools. Additionally, systems and methods may include obtaining user-directed performance levels for one or more players. In response, the analytics platform executes a modeling algorithm based on the user-directed performances levels to generate a user-adjusted event outcome.
US11954964B2
A pedestal system including a pedestal is described. The pedestal includes a base, an access door, and a button deck. The access door is rotatably coupled to the pedestal between a first open position and a first closed position wherein the access door is configured to allow access to an interior portion of the pedestal. The button deck includes one or more of a display and a button panel including one or more buttons. The button deck is rotatably coupled to the pedestal between a second open position and a second closed position wherein the button deck is configured to allow access to the interior portion of the pedestal when the button deck is in the second open position.
US11954952B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by an accident processing node, an accident report from a transport, determining, by an accident processing node, a time and location parameters of the accident based on the report, querying, by an accident processing node, transport profiles on a storage based on the time and location parameters, and responsive to the transport profiles containing data corresponding to the time and location parameters, sending a request to access the transport profiles.
US11954944B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure physical object-based passwords by registering an object password including first object representations, first background scene representations, and a first presentation sequence from first image data. Receiving second image data and a second presentation sequence that is a second order in which the user has presented second physical objects to an image acquisition device, and detecting in the second image data second object representations of the second physical objects, and second background scene representations. Computing a probability that the user is a permissioned user by inputting the first image data and the second image data into a machine learning model configured to compute the probability based on comparing the object password and the second image data. Tagging the user as the permissioned user or non-permissioned user based on the probability.
US11954930B2
The present disclosure relates to advanced image signal processing technology including: i) rapid localization for machine-readable indicia including, e.g., 1-D and 2-D barcodes; and ii) barcode reading and decoders. One claim recites: an image processing method comprising: obtaining 2-dimensional (2D) image data representing a 1-dimensional (1D) barcode within a first image area; generating a plurality of scanlines across the first image area; for each of the plurality of scanlines, synchronizing the scanline, including decoding an initial set of numerical digits represented by the scanline, in which said synchronizing provides a scale estimate for the scanline; using a path decoder to decode remaining numerical digits within the scanline, the path decoder decoding multiple numerical digits in groups, in which the scale estimate is adapted as the remaining numerical digits are decoded; and providing decoded numerical digits as an identifier represented by the scanline. Of course, other combinations and claims are described within the present disclosure.
US11954927B2
An information processing system includes a processor configured to: make an attempt to acquire, from recording medium images obtained by reading a plurality of recording media, target content information recorded on each of the plurality of recording media; and among the plurality of recording media, output information about an erroneous recording medium, the erroneous recording medium being (a) a recording medium of which the attempted acquisition of the target content information has been unsuccessful or (b) a recording medium of which the target content information acquired by the attempted acquisition does not satisfy a predetermined condition.
US11954925B2
Automatic substance preparation and evaluation systems and methods are provided for preparing and evaluating a fluidic substance, such as e.g. a sample with bodily fluid, in a container and/or in a dispense tip. The systems and methods can detect volumes, evaluate integrities, and check particle concentrations in the container and/or the dispense tip.
US11954913B2
Methods and systems are provided that include obtaining first camera images of a parking location before a vehicle is parked at the parking location; obtaining second camera images of the parking location after the vehicle is parked at the parking location; and detecting, via a processor, a fluid leak for the vehicle based on a comparison of the first camera images and the second camera images.
US11954907B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for electric grid modeling using surfel data are enclosed. An electric grid wire identification method includes: obtaining a set of surface elements (surfels), wherein each surfel of the set of surfels represents a portion of a surface of an object in a geographic region; selecting, based on one or more surfel attributes, one or more surfels of the set of surfels that each represent a portion of a surface of an electric grid wire; generating a representation of the electric grid wire from the selected one or more surfels; and adding the representation of the electric grid wire to a virtual model of the electric grid. Obtaining the set of surfels can include obtaining ranging data of the geographic region; and generating the set of surfels from the ranging data.
US11954900B2
The invention pertains to methods for monitoring the operational status of a home automation system through extrinsic visual and audible means. Initial training periods involve capturing image and audio data representative of nominal operation, which is then processed to identify operational indicators. Unsupervised machine learning models are trained with these indicators to construct a model of normalcy and identify expectation violations in the system's operational pattern. After meeting specific stopping criteria, real-time monitoring is initiated. When an expectation violation is detected, contrastive collages or sequences are generated comprising nominal and anomalous data. These are then transmitted to an end user, effectively conveying the context of the detected anomalies. Further features include providing deep links to smartphone applications for home automation configuration and the use of auditory scene analysis techniques. The invention provides a multi-modal approach to home automation monitoring, leveraging machine learning for robust anomaly detection.
US11954896B2
A driving support device include an imaging device for capturing an image of at least a front of the vehicle, and a control device for, detecting that the vehicle is approaching a merging section where a first road on which the vehicle is traveling and a second road having a height difference with respect to the first road merge with each other, identifying an image of a road surface of the merging section from the image when it is detected that the vehicle is approaching the merging section, for detecting that the road surface is irradiated with light emitted from another vehicle traveling on the second road based on luminance in the image, and performing a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle when it is detected that the road surface is irradiated with the light emitted.
US11954885B2
A tracked device may be used in an extended reality system in coordination with a tracking device. The tracked device may be ordinarily difficult to track, for example due to changing appearances or relatively small surface areas of unchanging features, as may be the case with an electronic device with a relatively large display surrounded by a thin physical outer boundary. In these cases, the tracked device may periodically present an image to the tracking device that the tracking device stores as an indication to permit tracking of a known, unchanging feature despite the image not being presented continuously on the display of the tracked device. The image may include a static image, designated tracking data overlaid on an image frame otherwise scheduled for presentation, or extracted image features from the image frame otherwise scheduled for presentation. Additional power saving methods and known marker generation methods are also described.
US11954884B2
According to an embodiment, an optical apparatus includes an illumination unit, an imaging unit and a processing unit. The illumination unit emits a first ray having a first wavelength and a second ray having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength to an object. The imaging unit includes a first pixel which receives the first ray emitted to the object and a second pixel which receives the second ray emitted to the object to capture an image based on the first ray received by the first pixel and the second ray received by the second pixel. The processing unit calculates a first ray direction of the first ray and a second ray direction of the second ray based on the image captured by the imaging unit.
US11954881B2
In some implementations a neural network is trained to perform a main task using a clustering constraint, for example, using both a main task training loss and a clustering training loss. Training inputs are inputted into a main task neural network to produce output labels predicting locations of the parts of the objects in the training inputs. Data from pooled layers of the main task neural network is inputted into a clustering neural network. The main task neural network and the clustering neural network are trained based on a main task loss from the main task neural network and a clustering loss from the clustering neural network. The main task loss is determined by comparing differences between the output labels and the training labels. The clustering loss encourages the clustering network to learn to label the parts of the objects individually, e.g., to learn groups corresponding to the object parts.
US11954874B2
A method for localizing, in a space containing at least one determined object, an object element associated to a particular 2D representation element in a determined 2D image of the space, may have: deriving a range or interval of candidate spatial positions for the imaged object element on the basis of predefined positional relationships); restricting the range or interval of candidate spatial positions to at least one restricted range or interval of admissible candidate spatial positions, wherein restricting includes at least one of: limiting the range or interval of candidate spatial positions using at least one inclusive volume surrounding at least one determined object; and limiting the range or interval of candidate spatial positions using at least one exclusive volume surrounding non-admissible candidate spatial positions; and retrieving, among the admissible candidate spatial positions of the restricted range or interval, a most appropriate candidate spatial position on the basis of similarity metrics.
US11954851B2
A diagnostic system performs disease diagnostic tests using at least an optical property modifying device and a mobile device. A user provides a biological sample from a patient to the optical property modifying device that reacts with a reagent in one or more reaction chambers of the device. The user captures one or more images of the one or more reaction chambers using an optical sensor of the mobile device. The diagnostic system can determine a quality level of the images based on factors such as skew, scale, focusing, shadowing, or white-balancing. Based on an analysis of the captured image, the diagnostic system can determine a test result of a disease diagnostic test for the patient. The diagnostic system may communicate the test result, as well as instructions for the disease diagnostic test, to the user via the mobile device.
US11954845B2
To improve measurement or assessment of fatigue damage to parts, a computer-implemented method for measuring striation properties of fatigue striations on a sample surface of a part is disclosed. A sample surface is imaged using a scanning electron microscope to obtain a sample image potentially containing the fatigue striations. A sample image patch potentially containing fatigue striations is selected from the sample image. After normalizing the sample image patch and enhancing line-like regular structures contained in the sample image patch, the normalized image patch is autocorrelated, Radon transformed and spectrally analyzed. The resulting power spectrum of the transformed image patch contains information about striation properties of the fatigue striations contained in the sample image, if any fatigue striations are present. Furthermore, a system for performing the method is disclosed.
US11954842B2
The invention discloses a powder leakage monitoring device and a powder leakage monitoring method. The powder leakage monitoring device comprises light field camera, 3D PTZ (3-Dimensional Pan/Tilt/Zoom) and computer. Wherein, the light field camera records original light field images of monitored area; the 3D PTZ under the light field camera adjusts the shooting angle of the light field camera when it rotates according to the set direction; and the computer respectively connects to the light field camera and the 3D PTZ, which generates refocused images corresponding to the original light field images, and determines the spatial coordinates of the powder leakage point and the hazard range of the powder leakage in the monitored area according to the refocused images and the shooting angle. Therefore, the range and accuracy of powder leakage monitoring are both increased by using this invention.
US11954837B2
The present invention discloses system and method for enhancing an image based on non-local features. The invention includes an end-to-end trainable and guided method including feature extraction block, non-local feature generator and non-local feature enhancement block, to deal with low-level image problem by using the non-local feature concept. The invention also deploys a non-local feature merge block to rectify translated features and improve non-local feature further to finally reconstruct the rectified features to form an enhanced image.
US11954830B2
High dynamic range (HDR) support is provided for legacy application programs, such as games that are configured to display standard dynamic range (SDR) frames. HDR frames may be synthesized without modifying the legacy application program. The buffer creation process of the legacy application program is intercepted and modified before creation of the SDR format buffer so that the buffer is configured to use an HDR format. A location of an intermediate buffer storing HDR rendered data is determined by intercepting and analyzing graphics driver calls in a command stream produced by the legacy application program. The HDR rendered data is combined with user interface content extracted from the SDR frames. Additionally, any post processing effects used by the legacy application program to produce the SDR frames may be predicted and applied to the HDR rendered data to synthesize the HDR frames for display on a modern HDR display device.
US11954823B2
A method and system for reconstructing magnetic resonance (MR) images, the method including the steps of: receiving an under-sampled MR image, the under-sampled MR image being transformed from under-sampled k-spaced data; classifying intensity of each pixel in the under-sampled MR image to one of a plurality of predetermined quantized values of intensity by using a neural network; and generating a reconstructed MR image based on the classified quantized value of the intensity for each pixel in the under-sampled MR image.
US11954821B1
An image has pixels arranged in perpendicular rows/columns. The size of the image is changed to produce a changed-size image and the changed-size image is output. The process of changing the size of the image adds at least one row/column as at least one inserted row/column. The inserted row/column is made up of data from generating adjacent rows/columns of the perpendicular rows/columns. Embodiments that reduce the size of the image remove the generating adjacent rows/columns that were used to form the inserted row/column and, in such reduction processing the inserted row/column is added where the (now removed) generating adjacent rows/columns were previously positioned. In embodiments that increase the size of the image, instead of removing the generating adjacent rows/columns, the inserted row/column is merely inserted between the adjacent rows/columns.
US11954818B2
A method for processing a 360-degree image includes determining a processing order of each of a plurality of segments constituting a 360-degree image, based on positions of the segments and parameters of a camera by which the 360-degree image is captured, obtaining distortion correction information according to distortion in the 360-degree image predicted based on parameters of an optical device via which at least a partial region of the 360-degree image is projected, and processing data of the at least a partial region of the 360-degree image according to the determined processing order and the obtained distortion correction information.
US11954806B1
A polar navigation window period assessment system based on three-dimensional visualization simulation of ship-ice interaction is provided in the present application, including a virtual reality interactive operation module for interacting with virtual reality scenes based on a virtual reality (VR) handle and a VR helmet; a three-dimensional virtual visualization integration module for observing the virtual reality scenes from a global perspective; a three-dimensional simulation module of the Arctic route environment for simulating a route environment scene; an Arctic navigation virtual scene module for establishing a navigation virtual scene; an Arctic navigation window period assessment module for assessing navigation window periods of the ship on different routes; a system storing and outputting module for storing interactive operation information, virtual reality scene information and window period assessment result information, and outputting them in form of curve diagrams and data tables.
US11954804B2
Provided is an information processing device that enables a virtual object to be displayed at an appropriate position in the real world. The information processing device includes a position estimation unit that estimates a current position in a first coordinate system, a display position setting unit that sets a display position of a virtual object in a third coordinate system on the basis of an environment database, virtual object information including the display position of the virtual object in a second coordinate system, and an observed image captured near the current position, a meta information generation unit that generates observation meta information, and an environment database management unit that compares observation data with environment data of the environment database to determine whether to add the observation data to the environment database.
US11954802B2
Generating polygon meshes that approximate surfaces using iteration for mesh vertex positions. In some implementations, a method includes receiving input data that represents a surface distinguishing a volume, where a voxel grid includes the surface. Particular voxels of the voxel grid are identified, which the surface intersects. A surface-approximating mesh is generated including polygons defined by vertices in the particular voxels. Generating the mesh includes determining approximate positions of a subset of the vertices in a subset of the particular voxels, based on interpolation of locations in the voxel subset where the surface intersects the voxel subset. Errors between approximate voxel values (based on the approximate positions) and assigned voxel values of the particular voxels (based on the input data) are determined, and the approximate position of at least one vertex of the subset of the vertices is adjusted using a successive over-relaxation technique to reduce the errors.
US11954801B2
A method for virtually representing human body poses includes receiving positioning data detailing parameters of one or more body parts of a human user based at least in part on input from one or more sensors. One or more mapping constraints are maintained that relate a model articulated representation to a target articulated representation. A model pose of the model articulated representation and a target pose of the target articulated representation are concurrently estimated based at least in part on the positioning data and the one or more mapping constraints. The previously-trained pose optimization machine is trained with training positioning data having ground truth labels for the model articulated representation. The target articulated representation is output for display with the target pose as a virtual representation of the human user.
US11954798B2
Automatic selection of region in 3D point cloud is provided. Neighbor points are determined for given seed point of seed points. Responsive to a color difference of a given neighbor point from given seed point being less than neighbor color distance threshold and responsive to an angle between a normal of given neighbor point and a normal of given seed point being less than neighbor normal angle threshold, given neighbor point is added to region in 3D point cloud. Responsive to curvature at given neighbor point being less than curvature threshold, responsive to color difference of given neighbor point from initial seed point being less than initial seed color distance threshold and responsive to an angle between a normal of given neighbor point and a normal of initial seed point being less than an initial seed normal angle, given neighbor point is added to seed points for processing.
US11954797B2
A feature mapping computer system configured to (i) receive a localized image including a photo depicting a driving environment and location data associated with the photo, (ii) identify, using an image recognition module, a roadway feature depicted in the photo, (iii) generate, using a photogrammetry module, a point cloud based upon the photo and the location data, wherein the point cloud comprises a set of data points representing the driving environment in a three dimensional (“3D”) space, (iv) localize the point cloud by assigning a location to the point cloud based upon the location data, and (v) generate an enhanced base map that includes a roadway feature.
US11954779B2
An animation generation method for tracking a facial expression and a neural network training method thereof are provided. The animation generation method for tracking a facial expression includes: driving a first role model according to an expression parameter set to obtain a virtual expression image corresponding to the expression parameter set; applying a plurality of real facial images to the virtual expression image corresponding to the facial expression respectively to generate a plurality of real expression images; training a tracking neural network according to the expression parameter set and the real expression images; inputting a target facial image to the trained tracking neural network to obtain a predicted expression parameter set; and using the predicted expression parameter set to control a second role model.
US11954774B2
Systems and methods enable users to build augmented reality (AR) experiences with Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The system includes an AR object studio that includes a list of IoT devices and control signals for the respective IoT devices and a list of AR objects (e.g., an AR lens). The AR object studio receives selections from users and correlates at least one IoT device to at least one AR object in response to the user selections. During use, a server receives an indication that an AR object has been activated and interacted with on a display of an AR camera device and, in response, sends a control signal to a correlated IoT device. Conversely, the server may receive a signal from an IoT device and, in response, present and control a correlated AR object on the display of the AR camera device.
US11954763B2
The disclosure relates to a motor vehicle that loads a motor vehicle movement dataset (KBD) indicative of accelerations of the motor vehicle, loads a passenger movement dataset (PBD) indicative of movements of a passenger of the motor vehicle, evaluate the motor vehicle movement dataset (KBD) and the passenger movement dataset (PBD) by means of a transfer function with a predetermined threshold value (SW) in order to generate an image dataset (BS) for an infotainment system of the motor vehicle, and outputs the image dataset (BS) by means of the infotainment system.
US11954749B2
A legal event booking interface that provides for selection of a legal service provider including between a court reporter digital reporter, stenographer, videographer, interpreter (not shown), or a combination thereof, and selection means for selecting and reserving a job location.
US11954741B2
Systems and methods for sharing billing information across at least two organizations in an integrated manner are described. A physical node may receive a request for authorization for a user in an organization to access an individual's information in another organization. The request may be logged. The physical node may determine whether the user is authorized to access the individual's information and, if it is, provide appropriate access. Also disclosed is an integrated web application and system which includes the core plan, budget, service authorizations, service documentation, claims, and communications of an individual under care and allows for calculated access and communication with external authorization and payment systems.
US11954740B2
Systems and methods are described which permit the state, the individual, the individual's case manager, and the individual's circle of support to have real time access to utilization data to monitor services and progress toward outcomes as part of a plan for achieving the individual's goals and maintain the individual's health and wellbeing, as well as to forecast future needs. Systems and methods for sharing billing information across at least two organizations in an integrated manner are also described. A physical node may receive a request for authorization for a user in an organization to access an individual's information in another organization. The request may be logged. The physical node may determine whether the user is authorized to access the individual's information and, if it is, provide appropriate access.
US11954737B1
A system may include a vehicle system configured to monitor one or more monitor variables related to a vehicle. The system may also include a processor that may receive a selection of the one or more monitor variables to monitor and receive data from the vehicle system. The data may be limited based on the selection of the one or more monitor variables. The processor may then determine a fixed rate premium for at least two years based on the data and display a visualization that may include the fixed rate premium on a display.
US11954730B2
A merchant system structures communications among merchants, partners, and customers. The merchant system may include a messaging component that organizes messages so that a manager can quickly navigate and understand the content of incoming messages. The messaging system also may categorize a user's profile so that a user may share profile information established at a first merchant with a second merchant.
US11954718B1
An embodiment of the present disclosure a system and method for extracting items of information, such as wine from a wine list of a commercial establishment.
US11954715B2
Methods of allowing a customer to access information related to an order of a commodity include gathering inspection information from a commodity lot, collecting grower, field, and packing information associated with the commodity lot, recording purchase orders associated with the commodity lot, assigning a trace code to each of the purchase orders, entering the inspection information; the grower, field, and packing information; the purchase orders; and the trace codes into a database maintained through online accounts. Many members of a supply chain are entitled to accounts that are linked, each account being given limited access to other accounts, thereby allowing the customer to access the inspection information, and the grower, field, and packing information, by entering one of the trace codes into the web-based application. According to one exemplary embodiment, each of the purchase orders associated with the commodity lot is linked within the web-based application.
US11954711B2
As a viewer views and scrolls down a web content page in a browser window of a web browser, ad content for a particular ad placement area of the web content page that has been rendered and has not yet appeared in a viewport of the browser window is moved to a fixed position in the viewport. The ad content remains in this fixed ad placement area for a predetermined time period, thereby lingering in the viewport despite any scrolling of the web content page.
US11954710B2
A media recommendation for a target item is provided while media information is displayed through an information display interface that includes detailed information of the target item when a display position of the media information meets a preset condition. A dynamic effect is displayed that the target item moves from the media information to a preset position in the detailed information while displaying the detailed information. The dynamic display of the target item enriches display of the target item to attract users' attention and focus, thereby improving the recommendation effect of the target item.
US11954709B2
The invention relates to a computer implemented campaign management system (CAMS), the system including a graphical user interface (GUI), the management system (CAMS) processing a plurality of participant records (PREC) according to a user-configured process structure (PS) of a plurality of configured logic templates (CLT); wherein the participant records (PREC) comprise participant attributes (PA), and wherein the processing of participant records involves processing or modification of one or more of the participant attributes (PA) of the participant record (PREC), wherein the management system reads, processes and/or modifies participant attributes (PA) of participant records (PREC) by a sequence of one of more executable program fragments (EPF) according to the process structure (PS) and wherein the execution of one of more executable program fragments (EPF) can be suspended in response to user action (UACT) and/or participant action (PACT) and wherein the execution of the process structure can be resumed in response to user action (UACT) and/or participant action (PACT).
US11954703B2
A computer implemented method includes allocating to an advertisement campaign, planned bookings for certain time periods and for certain digital displays from an Out Of Home inventory. The method also allocates, by a real-time bidding process, unplanned bookings to the time periods. Forecasts of unplanned bookings demand are taken into account in allocating planned bookings.
US11954699B2
A computer based system for remapping prime class seat bookings is disclosed. The system remaps prime class bookings a floor class, or if the floor class is closed, into a higher, displacement class. Via remapping, airline systems, such as inventory management systems, revenue management systems, and the like, may better account for the true value of prime class bookings.
US11954695B2
A farmed fish tracking and verification system involves introducing biomarkers into a batch of farmed fish, and storing biomarker information in a database. Other information is also stored in the database, such as production information and funding information. Funding information can include information regarding funders who have contributed funds for the production of the fish. The funding information can also include payment instructions for the funders. Once the fish is processed, and a fish product is delivered to a customer, the fish product can be scanned to detect the biomarker information for approval. The database can then be queried using the biomarker information to track and verify information about the fish. Once the fish product is approved and sold to a customer, a portion of the proceeds can be transferred directly to one or more funders accounts based on the payment instructions. In some embodiments the database stores information relating to the farmed fish in a blockchain, such that the data relating to the farmed fish can also be tracked and verified. Techniques for customized production of fish based on unique needs of an individual or group of people are also disclosed.
US11954690B2
The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing tokenized transaction accounts. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided that may include generating, by one or more processors, a first tokenized transaction account from a first transaction account associated with a first user. The method may also include providing the first tokenized transaction account to a client device associated with the first user for storage in the client device and use in transactions. The method may also include updating the first tokenized transaction account based on one or more conditions and providing the updated first tokenized transaction account to the client device for storage and use in a subsequent transaction.
US11954689B2
A device receives first transaction information associated with a first transaction, and a first transaction account utilized for the first transaction and associated with a first financial institution. The device determines, based on a fraud model, that the first transaction is to be denied due to potential fraud associated with the first transaction account and receives second transaction information associated with a second transaction, and a second transaction account utilized for the second transaction and associated with a second financial institution. The device processes the first transaction information and the second transaction information, with a matching model, to determine whether the first transaction information matches the second transaction information and determines that the first transaction was incorrectly denied when the first transaction information matches the second transaction information within a predetermined threshold. The device performs one or more actions based on determining that the first transaction was incorrectly denied.
US11954680B2
Various implementation described herein are directed to a method for providing access control. User information is received at a device. A request to provide access control is generated by the device based on the received user information. The request is transmitted via a network to an access manager. A response to the request is received from the access manager. Access control via the device is provided based on the response to the request.
US11954676B1
The present disclosure is generally directed to an apparatus and method for minting NFTs from user specific events. Minting NFTs from user specific events may include receiving user data and classifying the user data to a plurality of user specific events. Further, minting may include selecting a user specific event of the plurality of user specific events. Moreover, minting may include recording the selected user specific event of the plurality of user specific events to an immutable sequential listing, where recording the selected user specific event comprises minting the selected user specific event into an NFT for storage on the immutable sequential listing.
US11954671B2
A system and/or method may be provided to silently authenticate a user. An example method of silently authenticating a user includes receiving a request to complete a transaction associated with a merchant application. The request includes a data file including an identifier from the user device. The request is from a user device. The method also includes determining whether the data file includes a refresh token and determining whether the refresh token is valid if the data file includes the refresh token. The method further includes receiving an access token from the user device if the refresh token is valid. The access token includes an authorization scope. The method also includes determining whether the transaction is within the authorization scope. The method further includes authenticating a user if the transaction is within the authorization scope.
US11954667B2
Transaction cards, systems and methods involving an on-card display and an associated mobile computing device utilized for authenticating transactions are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary transaction card may comprise transaction circuitry configured to conduct purchase transactions involving a mobile computing device coupled to or associated with the transaction card, communication circuitry configured to communicate with a provider of the transaction card, an e-ink display configured to display a QR code on the transaction card for use in authentication, data storage configured to store the QR code, and computer readable media having instructions for initiating a second-factor authentication process and displaying the QR code on the e-ink display to be captured by the mobile computing device and transmitted to a system or server for validating the second-factor authentication process.
US11954665B2
Provided is a payment system including at least one processor configured to: reserve, before a payment request for first payment means is received, at least one second payment means associated with the first payment means; receive the payment request; and execute, when the payment request is received, payment based on the first payment means and the at least one second payment means.
US11954664B2
According to one embodiment, a reading device includes a communication interface for communication with a commodity registration device. A commodity reader of the reading device reads commodity information from a commodity and the commodity information can be used for identifying the commodity. An output device signals that the commodity reader has read commodity information. A controller causes the communication interface to transmit the commodity information read by commodity reader, initialize the communication interface when it is determined that transmission of the commodity information has failed, and signal a communication failure when transmission of the commodity information has failed.
US11954662B2
A method for originating a vending transaction via machine-readable code includes storing, in a memory of a computing device, an account identifier associated with a transaction account, reading, by an optical imaging device of the computing device, a machine-readable code displayed on a vending machine, wherein the machine-readable code is encoded with at least a device identifier, electronically transmitting, by a transmitting device of the computing device, at least the device identifier and an account identifier to a third party system, and receiving, by a receiving device of the computing device, a transaction confirmation indicating approval of a payment transaction involving the transaction account and the vending machine.
US11954659B1
A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US11954655B1
Methods and systems are provided for generating alerts in association with a request to open an account for an individual. For example, information identifying an individual may be received from a financial entity in association with the financial entity receiving a request to open an account for the individual from a requesting entity. The requesting entity may be a vendor or service provider associated with the financial entity. An electronic notification may then be sent to the individual, which may include a selectable option to indicate that the individual does not authorize opening of the account. In response to receiving an indication that the individual does not authorize opening of the account, notifications may be sent to both the financial entity and the requesting entity indicating that the individual has not authorized opening of the account.
US11954652B2
A robot is described. The robot includes a camera device, a memory device, and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory device. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive an input prompting the robot to navigate to a location in a venue for providing photo services with the camera device and cause the robot to navigate to the location. The instructions further cause the processor to capture, by the camera device, at least one photo at the location and provide access to a copy of the at least one photo to an authorized person.
US11954651B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for modifying a performance of a vehicle component whose performance is affected by a vehicle fluid that is contaminated by water. A method according to some embodiments generating a digital twin of a vehicle. The method includes receiving digital data recorded by a sensor and describing the vehicle as it exists in a real-world. The method includes updating the digital twin of the vehicle based on the digital data describing the vehicle so that the digital twin is consistent with a condition of the vehicle as it exists in the real-world.
US11954646B2
A system for management of networked collaboration comprising a process server communicatively coupled to a content server and a collaborative workspace server. The process server hosts a process configured to invoke a first collaborative workspace method that invokes a first class on the content server. The first class is configured to send, to the collaborative workspace server, a request to create a new collaborative object. The collaborative workspace server hosts a collaborative workspace accessible by a plurality of users. The collaborative workspace server creates the new collaboration object responsive to the request to create the new collaborative object. The process server creates first proxy object that points to the new collaboration object. The content server creates a first reference object that links to the new collaborative object. The collaborative workspace server receives, processes and responds to actions on the first proxy object.
US11954643B2
A production support system for generating a plant bill of process, PBoP, from a product bill of process, PdBoP, for a production plant, a corresponding method and a corresponding computer program product is provided. The production support system includes: (a) a reasoning component for determining possible cells; (b) a selection component for selecting all those cells that address operation capabilities used in the PdBoP; (c) an operation capabilities identifying component for identifying, additional operation capabilities for the selected cells which include at least two production entities, PET, based on the operation capabilities of the individual production entities, PET; and (d) a PBoP generating component for generating the PBoP from the PdBoP using the additional operation capabilities identified by the operations identifying component.
US11954642B1
Systems and methods for product imaging and provisioning include a mobile application (app) installed on an imaging device, where the mobile app activates the imaging device to generate an image of a product tag associated with an unavailable product at a first location. The mobile app determines, based on the image, a product indicator associated with the unavailable product. A provisioning app, executing on a remote device, receives the product indicator associated with the unavailable product. The provisioning app also receives a user indicator associated with a first user and executes one or more product provisioning rules that determine, based on a product availability database and the user indicator, an availability result. The availability result indicates whether the unavailable product will be available to the first user. The provisioning app is further operable to send the availability result to the imaging device for presentation by the imaging device.
US11954641B2
Automated storage and retrieval system for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility includes a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a conveying system that conveys the containers between the storage locations and a product picking station. A computing device analyzes one or more business rules to identify at least two containers that are eligible for the product merging therebetween and causes the conveying system to move these two containers from the storage structure toward a picking station selected by the control circuit. When the two containers identified as product merging eligible arrive at the picking station, these two containers are kept by the conveying system at the picking station until all of the products are removed from a first one of these two containers and merged together with the products stored in a second one of these two containers.
US11954636B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to programmatically updating the status of assets tracked in a supply chain environment. A system may be configured to obtain first sensor data collected from a first tracking device associated with a first asset, determine asset workflow information associated with the first asset, determine an intelligence engine configured to generate an inference of a status associated with the first asset, determine the status associated with the first asset, wherein the status is determined by the intelligence engine based on the first sensor data and the asset workflow information, and store the status of the first asset in an asset tracking database.
US11954632B1
Methods and apparatuses allow an insurance agency to track their current performance in managing existing customers and bringing in new customers. A tool may obtain information from a user regarding characteristics of the user's agency and/or agency goals. The tool may use this information to determine an agency's business efficiency. The tool may also provide advice regarding marketing spending and/or additional human resources needed. The tool may benchmark an insurance agency against other agencies in the market. The tool may also display how generated leads are converted to new business and/or income for an agency.
US11954627B2
The subject disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices corresponding to smart label devices. Furthermore, disclosed are smart label systems that include individualized medicine modules communicatively coupled with smart label devices. Furthermore, a method is disclosed that comprises receiving, by the smart label control system, detection data from the smart label device, wherein the detection data represents a geo-locational boundary signal. The method further comprises disabling, by the smart label control system, a rendering of content on a display of the smart label device.
US11954626B2
Disclosed are a refrigerator and a method for displaying a user interface on the refrigerator, a user terminal, and a method for performing a function in the user terminal. The refrigerator according to the present disclosure may include: a storage chamber storing food therein; a temperature detection unit configured to detect the internal temperature of the storage chamber; a cooling unit configured to supply cold air to the storage chamber; a camera configured to photograph food in the storage chamber; a communication unit configured to communicate with a user terminal; a display; at least one processor electrically connected to the temperature detection unit, the camera, the cooling unit, and the communication unit; and a memory electrically connected to the at least one processor.
US11954625B2
A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.
US11954603B1
There is a need for more effective and efficient predictive data analysis. Various embodiments of the present invention address one or more of the noted technical challenges. In one example, a method for generating a neutralized prediction model includes accessing an initial prediction model generated using an initial training data object, performing a randomized shuffling of the initial training data object to generate a shuffled training data object, generating randomized predictions by processing the shuffled training data object using the initial prediction model, performing a neutralization of the initial training data object to generate a neutralized training data object, and generating the neutralized prediction model based at least in part on the neutralized training data object and the randomized predictions.
US11954600B2
An image processing device including a storage unit configured to store an object detection neural network trained using a first K-channel image generated from a first M-channel image and a first N-channel image generated from the first M-channel image, a reception unit configured to receive, from a sensor, a second M-channel image and a second N-channel image that include an identical subject, and an image analysis unit configured to generate, using the object detection neural network trained using the first K-channel image, object detection result information with respect to a second K-channel image generated from the second M-channel image and the second N-channel image, and output the object detection result information.
US11954598B2
The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for data analysis for use in data classification via training of a recurrent neural network to identify features from limited reference sets. Based on a one-shot learning algorithm, the method includes selecting a subset of reference data and training a classifier with the selected data. This small subset of reference data can be iteratively tuned to enhance classification of the data according to the desired output of the method. The apparatus may be configured to allow a user to interactively select a subset of reference data which is used to train the classifier and to evaluate classifier performance.
US11954597B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using embedded function with a deep network. One of the methods includes receiving an input comprising a plurality of features, wherein each of the features is of a different feature type; processing each of the features using a respective embedding function to generate one or more numeric values, wherein each of the embedding functions operates independently of each other embedding function, and wherein each of the embedding functions is used for features of a respective feature type; processing the numeric values using a deep network to generate a first alternative representation of the input, wherein the deep network is a machine learning model composed of a plurality of levels of non-linear operations; and processing the first alternative representation of the input using a logistic regression classifier to predict a label for the input.
US11954583B2
In one example, a neural network accelerator can execute a set of instructions to: load a first weight data element from a memory into a systolic array, the first weight data element having first coordinates; extract, from the instructions, information indicating a first subset of input data elements to be obtained from the memory, the first subset being based on a stride of a transposed convolution operation and second coordinates of first weight data element in a rotated array of weight data elements; based on the information, obtain the first subset of input data elements from the memory; load the first subset of input data elements into the systolic array; and control the systolic array to perform first computations based on the first weight data element and the first subset of input data elements to generate output data elements of an array of output data elements.
US11954582B2
Disclosed is a neural network accelerator including a first bit operator generating a first multiplication result by performing multiplication on first feature bits of input feature data and first weight bits of weight data, a second bit operator generating a second multiplication result by performing multiplication on second feature bits of the input feature data and second weight bits of the weight data, an adder generating an addition result by performing addition based on the first multiplication result and the second multiplication result, a shifter shifting a number of digits of the addition result depending on a shift value to generate a shifted addition result, and an accumulator generating output feature data based on the shifted addition result.
US11954579B2
The present disclosure relates to a synaptic weight training method, a target identification method, an electronic device and a storage medium. The synaptic weight training method includes: inputting spike signals corresponding to training samples into a spiking neural network to be trained; learning a target synaptic weight in the spiking neural network with a back propagation rule to obtain a first branch weight; and learning the target synaptic weight with a synaptic plasticity rule to obtain a second branch weight; and updating the target synaptic weight according to the first branch weight and the second branch weight.
US11954570B2
Systems and methods for providing an interface for construction of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character model are provided. An example method includes receiving a description of a character from a user via a client-side computing device; generating, based on the description, parameters of the AI character model corresponding to the character; and providing, via the client-side computing device, the interface enabling the user to modify at least one of the parameters of the AI character model. The description includes a guideline for an actor describing how to play the character, an age, an ethnicity, an appearance, a motivation, a habit, knowledge of the character, and a dialog of the character with a further character. Values of entry fields for modifying the parameters of the AI character model are determined based on the description.
US11954563B2
Apparatus and method for error reduction in distributed quantum computing via fusing-and-decomposing gates. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a quantum module comprising a plurality of qubits; unitary generation logic to combine a group of quantum gates to form at least one unitary operation; decomposition logic to decompose the unitary operation into multiple alternative gate sequences comprising either exact gate sequences or approximate gate sequences; and selection logic to evaluate the multiple alternative gate sequences based on a cost function to identify at least one of the gate sequences.
US11954561B2
A system used to implement the method of exchanging information through a wireless brain-computer interface includes a specified brain and a quantum supercomputer. The quantum supercomputer is initially used to detect a plurality of compositional particles within the specified brain. A quantum entanglement is then induced in between each compositional particle and the quantum supercomputer. The quantum supercomputer is subsequently used to generate an eigenmatrix of the specified brain with the quantum supercomputer, wherein the eigenmatrix is a representation of each compositional particle. The method concludes by enabling two-way communication between the specified brain and the quantum supercomputer by modifying the eigenmatrix.
