US11997928B2
An integrated combustor-thermoelectric generator and method for producing electrical power and/or for operating a pneumatic or electric device. The apparatus includes a burner tube, a tubular heat exchanger extending along and around the burner tube, a plurality of thermoelectric generators disposed along sides of the heat exchanger, and a heat sink on an opposite side of the thermoelectric generators from the burner and heat exchanger. The thermoelectric generators can be paired with an electric valve or a DC air compressor for operating a pneumatic device by directing heated gases from the combustor through the heat exchanger to thermoelectric couples and/or modules for powering the air compressor. The thermoelectric generator and DC compressor can be installed to a natural gas source at a well pad for operating a pneumatic device at the well pad.
US11997926B2
Provided is a heterocyclic compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein X1 is CR1 or N, X2 is CR2 or N, X3 is CR3 or N, X4 is CR4 or N, Y1 is CR5 or N, Y2 is CR6 or N, Y3 is CR7 or N, Y4 is CR8 or N, Z1 is CR9 or N, Z2 is CR10 or N, Z3 is CR11 or N, and Z4 is CR12 or N, wherein X1 to X4, Y1 to Y4 and Z1 to Z4 are not N at the same time; and at least one of R1 to R12 is Chemical Formula 2: wherein A1 is O, S or Se; L1 is a direct bond, or a substituted or unsubstituted arylene or heteroarylene group; at least one of Ar1 and Ar2 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and the rest is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl group; and the rest are the same as or different from each other, and each independently is hydrogen, deuterium, halogen, cyano, nitro, hydroxyl, carbonyl, ester, imide, amide, or a substituted or unsubstituted: alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylthioxy, arylthioxy, alkylsulfoxy, arylsulfoxy, alkenyl, silyl, boron, amine, arylphosphine oxide, aryl, or heteroaryl group; or adjacent groups bond to each other to form a substituted or unsubstituted ring, and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US11997923B2
Provided are a compound of Formula 7 improving the luminous efficiency, stability and life span of an organic electronic element employing the compound, the organic electronic element, and an electronic device thereof.
US11997920B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes: an anode; a cathode; a first emitting unit including a first emitting layer and a first hole transporting zone; a first charge generating layer; and a second emitting unit including a second emitting layer, in which the first emitting unit, the first charge generating layer, and the second emitting unit are provided between the anode and the cathode in this order from the anode, the first hole transporting zone is provided between the anode and the first emitting layer, the first emitting layer contains a compound represented by a formula (1) below, and a thickness d1 of the first hole transporting zone is 60 nm or less. In the formula (1): at least one of R1 to R8 is -L13-Ar13; L11 to L13 are each independently a single bond, an arylene group or the like; and R1 to R8 not being -L13-Ar13 are each independently a hydrogen atom or the like.
US11997915B2
A display substrate, including: a main display area, including a main display surface; and a bending portion, disposed around a periphery of the main display area, the bending portion is connected to the periphery of the main display area and is bent in a direction away from the main display surface, the bending portion includes: a plurality of side display areas, each of which is connected to a side edge of the main display area, and each side display area includes a side display surface; and a plurality of corner portions, each corner portion is connected to a turning of the main display area and is located between two adjacent side display areas, and wherein the main display surface and the side display surfaces constitute a display area, the corner portions constitute a non-display area, and the plurality of side display areas and the plurality of corner portions extend continuously.
US11997914B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device is provided. The method includes: forming a lower electrode pattern on a substrate, which includes a transistor area and a capacitor area, to correspond to the transistor area and forming a buffer layer on the substrate including the lower electrode pattern; forming a thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer on the buffer layer; forming an interlayer insulating film on the thin-film transistor; forming a photoresist film pattern including first and second holes, which have different depths, on the interlayer insulating film; and forming a first contact hole, which exposes the lower electrode pattern, and second contact holes, which expose the oxide semiconductor layer, at the same time using the photoresist film pattern.
US11997911B2
The present application discloses a method for preparing quantum dots light-emitting diode, including the following step: providing a base plate, placing the base plate into an inert atmosphere containing active gas, and printing quantum dots ink on a surface of the base plate to prepare a quantum dots light-emitting layer. The method for preparing the quantum dots light-emitting diode provided in the present application changes the film-forming atmosphere of inkjet printing, and prepares the quantum dots light-emitting layer in the inert atmosphere containing active gas, which can improve the device efficiency of the quantum dots light-emitting diode while ensuring the printability of quantum dots ink.
US11997910B2
A flexible semiconductor device including a light-emitting element and a sensor element is provided. The semiconductor device includes a sensor device, a processor, and a communication device. The sensor device includes a first pixel and a second pixel formed over a flexible substrate. The first pixel includes a light-emitting element and a first transistor. The second pixel includes a sensor element having a photoelectric conversion function and a second transistor. Light emitted from the light-emitting element has a peak wavelength. A range of wavelength sensed by the sensor element includes the peak wavelength. A semiconductor layer of the first transistor and a semiconductor layer of the second transistor include the same element. A pixel electrode of the light-emitting element has a function of being electrically connected to the first transistor and a function of blocking diffusion light to the sensor element.
US11997909B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device including an optical device, more specifically, it relates to a display device in which the optical device is positioned under the display panel so that the optical device is not exposed in the front direction. Even if the optical device is located under the display panel, the display device can normally perform the function of the optical device related to the front direction of the display panel and have a structure for this.
US11997904B2
A display panel or a display device with high display quality is provided. The display panel includes a light-emitting element, an insulating layer, a protective layer, and a conductive layer. The light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode. The light-emitting element emits light to the protective layer side. The insulating layer includes a first opening overlapping with the first electrode. The insulating layer covers an end portion of the first electrode. The light-emitting layer overlaps with the first electrode through the first opening. The second electrode is positioned over the light-emitting layer. The protective layer is over and in contact with the second electrode. The protective layer functions as a protective layer of the light-emitting element. The protective layer includes a second opening overlapping with the insulating layer. The conductive layer is connected to the second electrode through the second opening. The conductive layer functions as an auxiliary wiring of the second electrode.
US11997902B2
A display panel includes pixels and a driver IC pad area; a driver IC on the driver IC pad area of the display panel; first input pads and first output pads that overlap the driver IC pad area; a flexible printed circuit adjacent to the driver IC pad area on the display panel; first output test pads that overlap the flexible printed circuit, and are respectively extended to the first output pads; and first input extending wires that overlap the flexible printed circuit, are respectively extended to the first input pads, and are between the first output test pads.
US11997898B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a pixel unit, including a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a threshold compensation transistor; a first power line configured to supply a first power supply voltage to the pixel circuit; a blocker, electrically connected with the first power line; and a first conductive structure, connected with the gate electrode of the driving transistor, the first channel and the second channel of the threshold compensation transistor are connected by a conductive connection portion; an area of an orthographic projection of a portion of the blocker overlapping with the first conductive structure on the base substrate is larger than an area of an orthographic projection of a portion of the blocker overlapping with the conductive connection portion on the base substrate.
US11997896B2
The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus with a reduced resistance of wirings configured to transfer electric signals to pixels, the display apparatus including: a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate; a first scan line arranged on the substrate and including a first extension portion and a plurality of first branches, the first extension portion extending in a first direction in a plan view and connected to pixels in a same row from among the plurality of pixels, and the plurality of first branches extending in a second direction from the first extension portion; a second scan line arranged on the substrate, extending in the first direction in a plan view, and being spaced apart from the first extension portion in the second direction; and a plurality of first contact plugs connecting the plurality of first branches to the second scan line.
US11997888B2
A semiconductor device package includes a display device, an electronic module and a conductive adhesion layer. The display device includes a first substrate and a TFT layer. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The TFT layer is disposed on the first surface of the first substrate. The electronic module includes a second substrate and an electronic component. The second substrate has a first surface facing the second surface of the first substrate and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The electronic component is disposed on the second surface of the second substrate. The conductive adhesion layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11997887B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate and that includes an inorganic insulating material; an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer and that includes an inorganic insulating material; and a third insulating layer disposed on a gate electrode disposed on the second insulating layer and that includes an inorganic insulating material. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a first conductive region, a second conductive region, and a channel region located between the first conductive region and the second conductive region, and a value in the channel region of the oxide semiconductor layer of HC according to equation (1) is less than 30%.
US11997882B2
A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a drive circuit array substrate including drive circuits arranged in an array pattern on a semiconductor substrate; and light emitting elements arranged in an array pattern over the drive circuits and driven by the drive circuits, in which in a drive circuit group including a plurality of the drive circuits that are adjacent to each other, a well tap is provided in a part of the drive circuits of the plurality of the drive circuits included in the drive circuit group.
US11997859B2
An object of the invention is to improve the reliability of a light-emitting device. Another object of the invention is to provide flexibility to a light-emitting device having a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film. A light-emitting device has, over one flexible substrate, a driving circuit portion including a thin film transistor for a driving circuit and a pixel portion including a thin film transistor for a pixel. The thin film transistor for a driving circuit and the thin film transistor for a pixel are inverted staggered thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer which is in contact with a part of an oxide insulating layer.
US11997853B1
A configuration for efficiently placing a group of capacitors with one terminal connected to a common node is described. The capacitors are stacked and folded along the common node. In a stack and fold configuration, devices are stacked vertically (directly or with a horizontal offset) with one terminal of the devices being shared to a common node, and further the capacitors are placed along both sides of the common node. The common node is a point of fold. In one example, the devices are capacitors. N number of capacitors can be divided in L number of stack layers such that there are N/L capacitors in each stacked layer. The N/L capacitors are shorted together with an electrode (e.g., bottom electrode). The electrode can be metal, a conducting oxide, or a combination of a conducting oxide and a barrier material. The capacitors can be planar, non-planar or replaced by memory elements.
US11997844B2
Integrated circuit (“IC”) layouts are disclosed for improving performance of memory arrays, such as static random access memory (“SRAM”). An exemplary IC device includes an SRAM cell and an interconnect structure electrically coupled to the SRAM cell. The interconnect structure includes a first metal layer electrically coupled to the SRAM cell that includes a bit line, a first voltage line having a first voltage, a word line landing pad, and a second voltage line having a second voltage that is different than the first voltage. The first voltage line is adjacent the bit line. The word line landing pad is adjacent the first voltage line. The second voltage line is adjacent the word line landing pad. A second metal layer is disposed over the first metal layer. The second metal layer includes a word line that is electrically coupled to the word line landing pad.
US11997842B2
A fan-out package includes a redistribution structure having redistribution-side bonding structures, a plurality of semiconductor dies including a respective set of die-side bonding structures that is attached to a respective subset of the redistribution-side bonding structures through a respective set of solder material portions, and an underfill material portion laterally surrounding the redistribution-side bonding structures and the die-side bonding structures of the plurality of semiconductor dies. A subset of the redistribution-side bonding structures is not bonded to any of the die-side bonding structures of the plurality of semiconductor dies and is laterally surrounded by the underfill material portion, and is used to provide uniform distribution of the underfill material during formation of the underfill material portion.
US11997836B1
An electronic device can include a wireless power transfer coil, an inverter having an input coupled to an input power source and an output coupled to the wireless power transfer coil, control circuitry that operates the inverter to deliver power from the input power source to a wireless power receiver coupled to the wireless power transfer coil, communication circuitry that allows communication with the wireless power receiver, and an auxiliary cooler and associated control circuitry that operates the auxiliary cooler, responsive to one or more temperature measurements, to transfer heat from the electronic device to an ambient environment.
US11997833B2
According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, an information-technology-design system is provided comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive information-technology-device information indicative of a plurality of information-technology devices in a space, the information-technology-device information including information-technology-device-location information, temperature information, and capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device information, a containment type of the plurality of information-technology devices, select, based on the containment type, at least a portion of the capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device-location information, the temperature information, and the at least the portion of the capture-index information, a respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of information-technology devices, and display an indicator of the respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of information-technology devices in the space.
US11997822B2
A chassis assembly includes a rack chassis and a block assembly. The rack chassis includes a left side panel and a right side panel that are made from one continuous single material. The left side panel includes a left rail guide, and the right side panel includes a right rail guide. The block assembly is adapted to slide into the rack chassis and includes a top cover, a left sidewall, and a right sidewall that are interconnected. The left sidewall of the block assembly includes a left rail adapted to slide into the left rail guide when the block assembly is located leftmost of the rack chassis. The right sidewall of the block assembly includes a right rail that is adapted to slide into the right rail guide when the block assembly is located rightmost of the rack chassis.
US11997816B2
A substrate magazine for a substrate insertion system, having a frame in which several drawers for receiving in each case at least one flat substrate are arranged one above the other. Each drawer is formed by two guide rails, arranged in parallel and at a distance from one another at the same height as that of the frame, each with a sliding surface on which a substrate lying on the edge can be displaced. At least one elastically displaceable latching element is assigned to each drawer. In a first, unloaded state, the at least one latching element extends at least partially over the sliding surface of one of the guide rails of the drawer and, in a second, elastically deformed state, releases the sliding surface.
US11997814B2
Cable organizers including a body, a clamp, and a cleat. The body defines a channel complementarily configured with a cable. The clamp and the cleat are mounted to the body proximate the channel. The clamp and the cleat are configured to selectively secure the cable to the body in the channel. The cleat is configured to selectively secure the cable to the body in the channel. In some examples, the cable organizer includes an adhesive layer and/or a sled mechanism.
US11997811B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing which forms an accommodation space, a front cover coupled to one side of the housing, a back cover coupled to the housing at an opposite side of the front cover, and a camera device disposed in one area of the accommodation space. The back cover includes a plate which covers the other area of the accommodation space and a camera cover which covers the camera device, the camera cover having a first edge coupled to the housing and a second edge coupled to the plate.
US11997808B2
Display assemblies are provided. One or more electronic display subassemblies are mounted to a framework at an elevated position. An unobstructed zone is located below each of the electronic display subassemblies and within said framework. Electric vehicle chargers are provided with the display assemblies, such as within recessed compartments with cable management devices.
US11997799B2
The present application provides a method for manufacturing a printed circuit board and a printed circuit board. The method for manufacturing a printed circuit board includes: providing a core board, wherein the core board includes an insulating baseplate, and a first surface and/or a second surface opposite to the first surface of the insulating baseplate is provided with a plurality of pads; and laminating a medium layer on a side of the insulating baseplate provided with the plurality of pads to form a laminated layer at least partially embedded among the plurality of pads.
US11997797B2
A setup change task setting device includes a number-of-feeders acquisition section configured to acquire the number of feeders required to be replaced in a wheeled table on which multiple feeders supplying components are installed to be replaceable during a setup change in which a board on which the components are mounted is changed from a current board type to a next board type in a component mounter in which the wheeled table is provided to be exchangeable, a task comparing section configured to compare relative merits of multiple types of setup change tasks in the wheeled table provided in the component mounter based on an acquisition result from the number-of-feeders acquisition section, and a task setting section configured to set any of the multiple types of setup change tasks for the wheeled table based on a comparison result from the task comparing section.
US11997785B2
A circuit board includes an insulation part, a support layer disposed on the insulation part, a metal case disposed in the insulation part, a heat-exchanging fluid distributed within the enclosed space, and a first porous material distributed within the enclosed space. The metal case is thermally coupled to the support layer and includes a first inner surface, a second inner surface opposite to the first inner surface and positioned between the first inner surface and the support layer, a third inner surface connecting the first inner surface and the second inner surface, and an enclosed space surrounded by the first inner surface, the second inner surface and the third inner surface. The first porous material is disposed on the first inner surface.
US11997784B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a frame, which is a part of a main assembly frame, extending along a predetermined plane, a cover provided outside of the frame and extending along the predetermined plane and a circuit board, provided between the frame and the cover with in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined plane and extending along the predetermined plane. An opening portion penetrating the circuit board is formed in the circuit board. The frame includes a first abutting portion protruding toward the circuit board and the cover includes a second abutting portion protruding toward the circuit board. The first and second abutting portions are opposite to each other via the circuit board and positioned in an area where the opening portion of the circuit board is sandwiched therebetween in the direction perpendicular to the predetermined plane.
US11997777B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) robust design for an input device such as a stylus is disclosed. The input device can include one or more components, such as one or more Schottky diodes, that can be damaged by ESD events. To reduce the likelihood of damage to sensitive components, the parasitic capacitance between sensitive conductive paths and reference ground paths of the input device that could otherwise provide electrostatic discharge paths can be reduced (arranging current limiting resistance at specific locations among sensitive components, creating physical separation between sensitive conductive paths and reference ground paths), shielding can be added to shield the sensitive electronics from ESD pulses, and high dielectric breakdown material can be added to prevent ESD pulse entry or exit of not otherwise protected circuit parts.
US11997771B2
Disclosed is a plurality of LED packages that are connected in a parallel array. A plurality of parallel arrays can also be connected in series to form a series connected parallel array. The LED packages include backup LEDs to provide reliability and continued operation of the LED packages. The LED packages present a standardized impedance in which the resistive values of a series resistor and a parallel resistor are selected to moderate the flow of current when the LEDs become either shorted or open circuited.
US11997764B2
The present invention involves calibrating a control system to enable resistance-based control of a heat tracing circuit, that includes characterizing a piece of heat trace to determine a relationship between resistance and temperature, allowing for more precise control. Also described are different methods for practical resistance-based control of a heat trace system. Further described are several methods to monitor heat trace: including methods to enhance monitoring capabilities using a system operating model; comparison to historical operating data; and inclusion of information from external sources. Also provided is a method by which a piece of heat trace of unknown length and power factor can be controlled using the resistance-based method when other system information is available.
US11997753B2
Electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIM) can be more susceptible to hackers and more vulnerable than physical subscriber identity modules. The current disclosure discusses systems and methods to facilitate eSIM security by utilizing a management software application (MSA) hosted on a mobile device. This MSA can cross-reference eSIM registration data with mobile device signature data to determine if the correct user identity is associated with mobile device prior to an eSIM being issued to the mobile device. Additionally, various degrees of data flagging can be utilized to allow an end user to properly address an indication of mobile device vulnerability.
US11997752B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE) with a first Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) and a second USIM, the UE establishes a connection associated with the first USIM, wherein a UE state corresponding to the first USIM enters connected state. The UE stops monitoring paging in a serving cell for the second USIM based on a time domain pattern derived using a second UE Identifier (UE ID) associated with the second USIM, wherein the stopping monitoring paging is performed when the UE state corresponding to the first USIM is connected state and a UE state corresponding to the second USIM is idle state or inactive state. The UE receives, in a serving cell for the first USIM from a network node, an indication associated with activity for the second USIM via the connection associated with the first USIM.
US11997749B2
A wireless communication device (100) according to the present disclosure includes a control unit (140). The control unit (140) acquires a first PLMN list (40) on the basis of information stored in a first subscriber identity module (30A), selects a home PLMN from the first PLMN list (40), acquires a second PLMN ID on the basis of information stored in a second subscriber identity module (30B), performs a first registration request to a first management device (10A) which belongs to the home PLMN and manages registration of the wireless communication device (100) in a case where the second PLMN ID is not included in the first PLMN list (40), and performs, to the first management device (10A), a second registration request with information regarding the second PLMN included therein in a case where the second PLMN ID is included in the first PLMN list (40).
US11997747B2
A communication device shortening a scanning time of a communication terminal is provided. A communication device functioning as an access point includes: a first signal processing unit generating a first signal of which a subordinate communication terminal is notified; a second signal processing unit generating a second signal which includes information regarding the first signal and of which a communication terminal before connection is notified; and a communication unit simultaneously transmitting the first and second signals. The second signal includes information regarding a channel to be used to transmit the first signal and further includes at least one piece of information among a transmission length of the second signal, a transmission length of the first signal, and the number of times the second signal is repeated.
US11997740B2
This application provides a radio resource control (RRC) message sending method and an apparatus. According to the method, a distributed unit (DU) determines not to start an RLC polling mechanism when sending an RRC message to a terminal device, so that when sending the RRC message to UE, the DU sets a polling bit in a header of an RLC PDU carrying the RRC message to be in an inactive state. Therefore, after receiving the RRC message, the terminal device does not feed back an RLC status report to the DU. Therefore, the terminal device does not need to initiate a random access procedure to obtain an uplink transmission resource for sending the RLC status report to the DU, thereby saving random access resources.
US11997739B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and device for RRC idle mode uplink transmission. The method may include: receiving a parameter and resource configuration for RRC idle mode uplink transmission; and, transmitting, in a RRC idle mode, uplink data according to preconfigured at least one of a parameter or a resource. The method can improve system transmission efficiency and reduce user equipment power consumption.
US11997735B2
Proposed are a method and a device for receiving significant update information regarding a specific AP via a management frame in a WLAN system. Specifically, a reception MLD receives a management frame from a transmission MLD via a first link. The reception MLD decodes the management frame. The management frame includes a notification method mode field. If a significant update on a second transmission STA occurs, a value of the notification method mode field is set to 1, and the management frame includes significant update information of the second transmission STA.
US11997734B2
Provided are a pairing method and apparatus for a wireless earbud, a terminal and a charging box. The method includes: detecting identification information of a charging box, and establishing a communication connection with the charging box based on the identification information; acquiring pairing information of two wireless earbuds in the charging box transmitted from the charging box, where each of the two wireless earbuds is in a communication connection with the charging box; and sending a pairing instruction to the charging box based on the pairing information, and activating a pairing state, so that the charging box controls a corresponding wireless earbud to be paired with and connected with the terminal based on the pairing instruction. In this way, the terminal can be quickly and accurately paired with and connected with the two wireless earbuds in the charging box, which avoids error operations or complicated operations, thereby improving user experience.
US11997733B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, an access point (AP) communicates with at least one wireless station (STA) and supporting a plurality of communication devices and communication modes on a communication medium, establishes a single-link communication mode with the at least one wireless STA and at least one communication device of the plurality of communication devices over a single-link, establishes a multi-link communication mode with the at least one wireless STA and the at least one communication device over a multi-link, and dynamically transitions between the single-link communication mode and the multi-link communication mode based upon a determination related to a best mode of delivery for a next period.
US11997713B2
To appropriately control transmission of a channel when listening is performed for each given band in a carrier. A transmission apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that controls transmission of the channel in at least one of a plurality of contiguous bands provided in a carrier based on a result of listening for each band provided in the carrier.
US11997707B2
A method performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) including prioritizing channel state information (CSI) and selecting one or more CSI for transmission based on the prioritization of the CSI. The WTRU may receive RRC configuration information from a base station and determine identifier cell values for each of a plurality of cells, based on the configuration information. The WTRU determines whether to drop uplink control information (UCI) for a first of the plurality of cells by comparing a first value based on the identifier value of a first cell of the plurality of cells and a second value based on the identifier value of a second cell of the plurality of cells. The dropped UCI includes channel state information (CSI) and UCI of the second cell includes CSI which is transmitted to the base station.
US11997703B2
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a network node for remote interference identification is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to cause transmission of at least one reference signal, RS, based at least in part on at least one RS sequence and at least one time occasion. An identifier of the network node is mapped to the at least one RS sequence and the at least one time occasion.
US11997701B2
A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives a master information block (MIB) in a cell, and a control section that determines the MIB or cell-specific configuration information about a downlink control channel to configure a control resource set for a common search space, based on a frequency range of the cell and a value determined based on a first parameter in the MIB.
US11997699B2
The present application provides a sidelink communication method and apparatus. The method includes: performing, by a terminal device, channel monitoring on shared spectrum; and if the result of the channel monitoring is that a channel is idle, starting, by the terminal device, transmission of a first sidelink channel at a first time domain position, where the first time domain position is one or more of the following: a time domain position indicated by first indication information; and a time domain position determined based on a first time unit, the first time unit being smaller than one slot.
US11997698B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a base station may indicate in system information, or a user equipment (UE) may determine based on system information, which reference signal resources may be used for channel estimation for a given broadcast control channel. In some examples, a base station may configure and transmit reference signals having the same numerology as a broadcast control channel according to a first reference signal pattern during the same subframe in which the broadcast control channel is configured. The first reference signal pattern may be more dense than a second reference signal pattern used for reference signals having a different numerology than the broadcast control channel. The more dense first reference signal pattern may provide sufficient reference signals for successful single-symbol channel estimation, resulting in a successful decoding of the broadcast control channel.
US11997697B2
A method, device and system for creating resources during a user equipment (UE) hands over from a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (non-3GPP) system to a 3GPP system are provided. A serving gateway (Serving GW) receives a first resource request message, such as Create Default Bearer Request message, including handover indication information indicating the handover from a mobility management network device, e.g., a MME. As the received resource request message includes the handover indication information, the Serving GW includes the handover indication information in a second resource request message and then sends the second resource request message to a PDN GW. After receiving the second resource request message, the PDN GW policy and charging control (PCC) rules to be used by the UE in the 3GPP access system so as to create the resources used by the UE in the 3GPP system.
US11997688B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems for indicating resources for uplink transmissions related to various services in a wireless communication. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node includes: transmitting indication information to a first wireless communication device, wherein the indication information indicates to the first wireless communication device a resource set of resources configured for uplink transmissions related to at least one type of service by at least one second wireless communication device.
US11997686B2
A transmission apparatus and method of feedback information. A user equipment receives or generates sidelink feedback information and transmit the sidelink feedback information to a network device, thereby providing a feedback mechanism of sidelink transmission, and improving reliability of data transmission of a sidelink.
US11997685B2
There is provided a method including determining that a first resource is to be designated as being used in accordance with a first communications protocol; forming an indication for a second apparatus operating in accordance with a second communications protocol, the indication indicating that the first resource is to be blanked; and transmitting, using dedicated signaling, the formed indication to the second apparatus.
US11997684B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method by which a terminal, during uplink signal transmission: receives, from a base station, first information for indicating transmission of uplink control information and/or data in a specific subframe; receives, from the base station, second information for indicating transmission of the uplink control information and/or the data in the specific subframe; and determines the uplink control information and/or the data to be transmitted in the specific subframe on the basis of a capability of the terminal and transmits the determined uplink control information and/or data in the specific subframe.
US11997682B2
The present specification relates to a device and method for transmitting an uplink control channel in a wireless communication system. Disclosed in the present specification is a method for transmitting a physical uplink control channel by means of a UE, the method including: a step for generating a first HARQ-ACK codebook related to a first PUCCH; a step for generating a second HARQ-ACK codebook related to a second PUCCH; and a step for transmitting simultaneously the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH or one PUCCH among the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH to a base station in one slot on the basis of a plurality of indicators. According to the present embodiments, the sequence for transmitting a plurality of PUCCHs including respectively different HARQ-ACKs in one slot is clarified, and thus the targeted performance of a 5G wireless communication system intended to simultaneously provide various types of traffic (eURLLC, eMBB) can be achieved.
US11997679B2
Disclosed is a base station which transmits and retransmits to a terminal first and second downlink data in first and second component carriers, respectively, wherein a first configuration pattern of UL (uplink) and DL (downlink) subframes is set for the first component carrier and a second configuration pattern of UL and DL subframes is set for the second component carrier. The base station receives from the terminal in the first component carrier an ACK/NACK for the first and second downlink data received by the terminal, which stores retransmission data of the first and second downlink data in a soft buffer, wherein the soft buffer for the second downlink data is sized according to a maximum number of downlink HARQ retransmission processes executable in a reference configuration pattern of UL and DL subframes, and the reference configuration pattern is determined according to the first and second configuration patterns.
US11997677B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may monitor a first control resource pool associated with sidelink control signaling during a first sensing window and monitor a portion of a second resource pool associated with sidelink data signaling during a second sensing window. The UE may perform joint resource selection on the first resource pool and the second resource pool based on the monitoring during the first and second sensing windows. The UE may transmit a sidelink control information message including resource indication fields to reserve the selected sidelink control channel resources and selected sidelink shared channel resources. The UE may transmit the sidelink data message on one or more of the reserved sidelink shared channel resources.
US11997675B2
One aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiving section that receives downlink control information that is common between groups including one or more user terminals from at least one of a plurality of Transmission/Reception Points (TRPs) that transmit downlink shared channels; and a control section that determines a TRP that becomes an application target of the downlink control information. Consequently, it is possible to appropriately perform a UE-group common signalling even when multiple TRPs are used.
US11997665B2
A beam failure recovery procedure in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), at least one beam failure detection reference signal (RS) and at least one new candidate beam RS over a downlink channel; identifying a set of RS resources including an index for the at least one beam failure detection RS; identifying a set of RS resources including an index for the at least one new candidate beam RS; identifying a dedicated control-resource set (CORESET) received from the BS for a beam failure recovery request; transmitting, to the BS, the beam failure recovery request associated with a quality measurement of the at least one beam failure detection RS over a physical random access channel (PRACH); and receiving, from the BS, a beam failure response in response to the beam failure recovery request based on the dedicated CORESET indicated to the UE.
US11997658B2
A method for information transmission includes that: a network device determines a first time-domain resource available on a first carrier, where the first carrier is an unlicensed carrier and the first time-domain resource is in a first downlink transmission burst; and the network device sends first information to a terminal device through the first time-domain resource on the first carrier, where the first information is used to indicate time-domain resource information of a first transmission burst according to a first subcarrier spacing.
US11997652B2
A base station (BS) is configured to transmit information including a plurality of first values and queue limit information to a user equipment (UE), wherein each of the plurality of first values is associated with at least one radio bearer. Further, the BS is configured to receive a plurality of buffer occupancy indicators, wherein each buffer occupancy indicator is associated with at least one queue, wherein each queue is associated with the at least one radio bearer. In response to the plurality of buffer occupancy indicators received, the BS allocates uplink resources to the UE, including data provided by a limited number of queues in the allocated uplink resources, wherein an amount of data received from each of the limited number of queues is limited based on the first values.
US11997651B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit first information specifying at least one communication resource requested to be allocated; and a receiver configured to receive second information specifying at least one communication resource allocated depending on the first information. The transmitter is configured to transmit a signal via the allocated communication resource and the receiver is configured to receive a signal via the allocated communication resource.
US11997649B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may estimate one or more channel availability parameter values. The UE may then select, based on a co-channel configuration indicating a relationship between channel availability parameter values and patterns of sidelink resources, a pattern of sidelink resources (e.g., LTE resources) on which to transmit NR packets. In some examples, a special UE may receive individual or aggregated reports of channel availability parameter values. The special UE may select a pattern of sidelink resources (e.g., LTE resources) on which one of the reporting UEs is permitted to transmit NR packets, and may transmit a message activating the pattern of sidelink resources to the reporting UE. The reporting UE may then use the activated sidelink LTE resources for transmitting NR packets according to the indicated pattern.
US11997639B2
This disclosure describes techniques that enable a Communication Privilege Control (CPC) system to determine whether a real-time communication session is to be restricted. The CPC system may be configured to detect a real-time communication session between a Secondary Account Holder (SAH) device of a client account and a third-party device, and in doing so, determine with the real-time communication session is to be restricted by a set of communication privilege rules. If the real-time communication session is to be restricted, the CPC system may transmit notification data to a trusted device associated with the client account.
US11997627B2
Disclosed is a method comprising obtaining a plurality of previous clock skews, a reported temperature and a reported time, based on the plurality of previous clock skews, the reported temperature and the reported time, obtaining a prediction of the current clock skew, determining a current clock offset based on the predicted current clock skew, determining a clock adjustment based on the current clock offset and the reported time, and determining a corrected time based on the clock adjustment.
US11997625B2
A method and apparatus for synchronization in sidelink communications is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for performing sidelink communications, includes: receiving, by a first wireless communication device, a first message from a first wireless communication node; determining, by the first wireless communication device, at least one first synchronization reference according to the first message; selecting, by the first wireless communication device, one of the at least one first synchronization reference as a second synchronization reference for receiving a sidelink communication signal; and performing the sidelink communications with the second wireless communication device according to the second synchronization reference, wherein the first message comprises configuration information for the sidelink communication.
US11997624B2
This disclosure provides a search space configuration method and apparatus, and a communications device, and relates to the field of wireless communications technologies. The search space configuration method is applied to user equipment and includes: monitoring at least one synchronization signal block; obtaining configuration information of a search space corresponding to a detected synchronization signal block, where the configuration information includes QCL modulus information and/or information about a discovery reference signal transmission window; and determining a position of a search space for a physical downlink control channel PDCCH based on time synchronization information of the detected synchronization signal block and the configuration information.
US11997623B2
An information transmission method and device are provided, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that signaling overheads are relatively high in a resource scheduling process in a related technology. The method includes: sending first target information on a first target resource of a first sending device, where the first target resource is related to at least one of the following: M first modes of the first sending device, N first synchronization sources found by the first sending device, and indication information, the M first modes include at least one of the following: a second mode supported by the first sending device, and a current third mode of the first sending device, the indication information is used to indicate that the first sending device is within or outside coverage of a first target synchronization source, the first target synchronization source is at least one of the N first synchronization sources, and M and N are positive integers.
US11997621B2
Provided is a method for performing synchronization of a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: receiving synchronization information from a specific terminal, wherein the synchronization information informs a specific synchronization source; and performing synchronization, on the basis of the synchronization information, with the specific synchronization source, wherein the specific synchronization source is a synchronization source in a synchronization relationship with the specific terminal.
US11997613B2
A communication method includes determining, by a terminal device, first in-device coexistence (IDC) interference adjustment information, where the first IDC interference adjustment information includes frequency bandwidth information, and sending, by the terminal device, the first IDC interference adjustment information to a network device to adjust IDC interference based on the first IDC interference adjustment information.
US11997602B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatic detection whether a wirelessly connected network device with a non-network role was powered on/power cycled in a normal manner, such as using a legacy (wall) switch, or after recovery of a power failure. Based on the result of the detection, an expected behavior for end users is selected, so that the connected network device can behave accordingly.
US11997585B2
A method may be disclosed in accordance with some embodiments, comprising: receiving, at a virtualizing gateway, a first service request from a first user equipment (UE) via a first eNodeB; creating, at the virtualizing gateway, an association from each of a plurality of UE identifiers to a desired core network; applying, at the virtualizing gateway, a first filter using a first UE identifier of the first UE, based on the association; forwarding, at the virtualizing gateway, based on the applied first filter, the first service request from the first UE to the first core network; receiving, at the virtualizing gateway, via a second eNodeB, a second service request from a second user equipment (UE); applying, at the virtualizing gateway, a second filter using a second UE identifier of the second UE, based on the association; and forwarding, at the virtualizing gateway, based on the applied second filter, the second service request from the second UE to the second core network.
US11997583B2
A software defined network (SDN) can add network repository functions (NRF) into a configurations database to enable NF discovery. The SDN can subscribe to NRF notifications to receive new cloud native functions (CNF), registrations, or any other update to the CNF status in 5G system. In addition to listening to NRF notifications, the SDN can implement CNF pooling processes to periodically retrieve CNF from an NRF repository and stay in sync with 5G systems. Thus, a deep service path discovery can be developed from network service configurations and container call flows to enable an accurate alarm correlation and troubleshooting for the operations. This service path deep discovery can be designed and implemented as a standalone system or in an SDN framework with integration of a container management framework such as K8 kubernetes.
US11997579B2
A method is provided for relaying Public Warning System (PWS) messages. The method includes a communications device receiving a PWS message over a first communication technology. The method also includes the communications device relaying all or part of the PWS message over a second communication technology, wherein the second communication technology is different than the first communication technology.
US11997571B2
A vehicle wireless communication device includes: an electric wave transmission portion that has a function of transmitting an electric wave; an electric wave reception portion that has a function of receiving an electric wave; a positioning portion that has a positioning function; a temperature acquisition portion that acquires a temperature of the vehicle wireless communication device; and a function controller that represses multiple functions or restitutes a repressed function.
US11997567B2
An evolved multimedia broadcast multicast services (eMBMS) core may map sensor data or telemetry data from a central repository server (e.g., tag it with an area code from where the data is being generated) to a service area. The eMBMS core may inform the radio access network to create a service area for the specific area code, which may be part of or an entire city, county, or the like. Then the radio access network may broadcast the data to the vehicles or devices in the specific area code.
US11997562B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for tracking proximities of devices and/or objects. In one embodiment, the system operates by determining whether a plurality of devices of a tethered segment are inside or outside a predefined area. The system also operates by determining that a first device of the plurality of devices is outside of the predefined area based at least partially on the determination of whether the plurality of devices are inside or outside the predefined area. The system further operates by transmitting at least one alert notification to at least one device based at least partially on the determination that the first device is outside the predefined area, wherein the alert notification identifies the first device outside the predefined area.
US11997560B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for location tracking. In one embodiment, an apparatus receives a message sent to a user of a mobile device in a wireless network, and a processor determines at least one location parameter. Data is extracted from the message, and initiation of a computing function (e.g., transmission of a communication to the mobile device) is triggered by a match between the location and the data from the message.
US11997559B2
Provided are a location measurement device and a location measurement method thereof, wherein the location measurement device receives an uplink signal from at least one target terminal which is subject to measuring a location or determining existence or nonexistence, and variably sets an uplink search time window of the uplink signal received from the target terminal according to at least one or two of a location of the location measurement device, a location of a base station, a cell radius of the base station, a distance from the base station, a range of location at which the target terminal is predicted to exist, and a signal detection range in which the uplink signal is detected from the target terminal.
US11997555B2
A method for cell selection and/or cell reselection handling includes: performing, by a user equipment, a cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure wherein both a first radio cell and a second radio cell fulfill a cell selection criterion with the first radio cell being prioritized relative to the second radio cell; attempting, by the user equipment, to connect to a public land mobile network using a random access channel of a first base station entity, and failing to connect to the public land mobile network using the random access channel of the first base station entity; and performing, by the user equipment, a modified cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure, under unchanged radio conditions, whereby the user equipment attempts to connect to the public land mobile network using a random access channel of the second base station entity.
US11997552B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to mobility techniques that allow for mobility of a user equipment (UE) between a set of cells. A method that may be performed by a UE includes receiving signaling configuring the UE with a set of cells that support physical (PHY) layer or medium access control (MAC) layer mobility signaling and with a measurement configuration for the set of cells, reporting, to a network entity, measurements for at least some of the set of cells in accordance with the measurement configuration, and receiving, from the network entity, PHY layer or MAC layer mobility signaling to move the UE to one of the cells in the set, wherein the mobility signaling is based, at least in part, on the reported measurements.
US11997548B2
The present disclosure relates to a source base station. The source base station comprises a processing circuitry that generates a user equipment packet duplication status. The user equipment packet duplication status includes information on the status of uplink packet duplication performed by a user equipment with the source base station and at least one further base station. The information on the status of uplink packet duplication is per uplink radio bearer, one or more uplink radio bearers being established between the user equipment and the source base station. The source base station further comprises a transmitter that transmits the user equipment packet duplication status to a target base station which is the target of a handover from the source base station performed for the user equipment.
US11997547B2
Systems and methods of handover in an information-centric network are described. The ICN-CF receives an update request from an ICN ICN-AMF indicating handover of a UE from a source NG-RAN to a target NG-RAN. The ICN-CF transmits, to an ICN router, an update request to update a PIT and/or FIB table to enable data communications with the UE after handover. The request includes the UE and target NG-RAN, and if the source and target ICN-PoA are different, the source and target ICN-PoA and the ICN-GW.
US11997546B2
Techniques to configure a user equipment (UE) for radio link failure (RLF) handling during a multi-connectivity handover with a source base station (SBS) and a target base station (TBS) include encoding a measurement report for transmission to the SBS via a first communication link. The measurement report is triggered based on a measurement event configured by the SBS. RRC signaling is received from the SBS, the RRC signaling including a handover command in response to the measurement report. The handover command includes an indication for multi-connectivity support by the SBS and the TBS during the handover. A random access channel (RACH) procedure with the TBS is performed using a second communication link between the UE and the TBS. Radio link monitoring (RLM) on the first communication link and the second communication link is performed during the handover.
US11997545B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. In addition, the present disclosure relates to a method for adding or changing a cell, and a device for performing same.
US11997534B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multi-link aggregation in wireless communications. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a multi-link operation device configured to generate and output for transmission a message indicating a mapping of each of a plurality of traffic identifiers (TIDs) to one or more parameters associated with each of a plurality of wireless links. In some aspects, another apparatus may obtain a message via at least one of a plurality of wireless links indicating a mapping of each of a plurality of TIDs to one or more parameters associated with each the plurality of wireless links, obtain a sequence of packets associated with at least one of the plurality of TIDs via one or more of the plurality of wireless links, and process the sequence of packets based on the mapping indicated via the message.
US11997527B2
A method and system for controlling the use of dormant capacity for distributing data includes communicating data as part of a regular traffic load through a network having an overall network capacity, determining a dormant capacity of the network based on regular network traffic load, delivering content to a plurality of devices through the network, receiving the data at the plurality of devices, based on receiving the data, measuring an efficiency metric at each of the plurality of devices, communicating the efficiency metric of the devices to a service provider, receiving the efficiency metric at the service provider from the devices, receiving a resource usage report from the network, determining a target throughput for each of the plurality of devices based on the resource usage report and communicating second data to the plurality of devices from a content delivery service based on the target throughput using the dormant capacity.
US11997526B2
Systems and methods for network device management are described. An indication of a failed network connection between a first user device and a second network device can be received. Using data from the first network device, the first user device, at least one second network device, and/or at least one second user device, one or more characteristics of the first network device and/or the at least one second network device can be determined. Modification of the determined one or more characteristics can be caused.
US11997522B2
An apparatus (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) may experience cross-link interference from uplink signal beams from interfering UEs. To mitigate the cross-link interference, the apparatus receives an interference resource information message indicating resources allocated to one or more interfering UEs for transmission of reference signal beams, measures the reference signal beams from the one or more interfering UEs based on the resources to obtain a plurality of reference signal beam measurements; and transmits a report indicating a set of the reference signal beams from the one or more interfering UEs based on the plurality of reference signal beam measurements.
US11997520B2
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node and a wireless device configured to communicate in a communication system are provided. The communication system having narrowband multi-carrier operation. The network node including processing circuitry configured to receive in an uplink control information field an indication of a downlink channel quality for at least one of a plurality of carriers used by the wireless device in a radio resource control, RRC, connected mode. The wireless device including processing circuitry configured to trigger an indication of a downlink channel quality in an uplink control information field and cause transmission of the indication to a network node.
US11997515B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more specifically, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, as a part of an RRC connection procedure, CORESET configuration information relating to a BWP, the CORESET configuration information including information relating to a frequency resource configuring a CORESET; monitoring PDCCH candidates in one or more CORESETs in the BWP; and detecting a PDCCH on the basis of the monitoring, wherein the same CORESET is configured for each of subbands in the BWP according to the frequency resource, on the basis of (i) the BWP including a plurality of subbands, and (ii) the frequency resource confined within one subband.
US11997513B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for monitoring a QoS parameter. One UPF apparatus includes a network interface that receives a request to monitor a QoS parameter for a data connection of a remote unit and a processor that modifies a downlink packet to include an indication for a QoS monitoring report. Via the network interface, the processor receives a QoS monitoring result from the access network node in response to the modified downlink packet and determines a value of the QoS parameter based on delivery information of the downlink packet.
US11997512B2
A system, method, and apparatus is provided for performing testing using arrival of angles (AOA). The system, method, and apparatus can receive a first test signal from a first cell; receive a second test signal from a second cell; and perform a test based on AOA of the first test signal and the second test signal. At least one of the first test signal and the second test signal can include a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) signal or a synchronization signal block (SSB) signal. The first test signal can include a different number of SSBs transmitted during an Measurement Timing Configuration (MTC) window when compared to the second test signal. The system, method, and apparatus can receive the first test signal and the second test signal in a time division multiple access (TDMA) manner. The first cell can include a serving cell and the second cell can include a neighboring cell of the serving cell. The system, method, and apparatus can receive the first test signal using a main lobe of an antenna and the second test signal using a side lobe of the antenna.
US11997510B2
A wireless network controller selects a network slice for a User Equipment (UE). The wireless network controller selects a functionality split for the UE based on the selected network slice and indicates the selected functionality split to a Centralized Unit (CU). The CU indicates the selected functionality split to a Distributed Unit (DU). The DU exchanges user communications with the UE. The DU processes the user communications with the network applications allocated to the DU in the selected functionality split for the UE. The DU exchanges the user communications with the CU. The CU processes the user communications with the network applications allocated to the CU in the selected functionality split for the UE.
US11997509B2
Methods and systems to activate beams for beam switching based on measurements of a downlink reference signal that is QCL Type-D with a downlink pathloss reference signal are disclosed. A UE may measure and report to a base station the RSRP of the reference signal that is QCL Type-D with a target downlink pathloss reference signal. Based on the reported RSRP measurements, the base station may activate the target pathloss reference signal to command the UE to update the pathloss measurements of the target pathloss reference signal for uplink power control of a beam corresponding to the target pathloss reference signal. The UE may determine whether the target pathloss reference signal is considered known for uplink power control based on the timing relationship among the reception of the reference signal from the base station, the transmission of the RSRP measurement of the reference signal, and reception of the activation command.
US11997506B2
There is provided an area construction method for providing a 5G mobile wireless communication network service (hereinafter, referred to as a 5G service) using a millimeter wave, in which a wireless communication area is constructed by using line-of-sight propagation of a radio wave which is emitted by using a beam-forming technology from a base station, and rough surface scattering of the radio wave by a road surface, rather than by using a diffraction phenomenon of the radio wave which causes a large loss, and by using a U-shaped UE relay or CPE.
US11997501B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11997499B2
Embodiments of communications apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided in this disclosure. In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises: at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions for execution by the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: sending, to a network node, a first message comprising a first network slice identifier corresponding to a network slice in a first network slice set, wherein the network slice is accessed by a terminal device to a first access-network node, wherein the network node is a first core-network node or a second access-network node to be accessed by the terminal device, and wherein the first core-network node and the first access-network node are comprised in a first communications system; and receiving, from the network node, a first response message comprising a second network slice identifier corresponding to a network slice in a second network slice set.
US11997494B2
A method for classifying incoming events includes intercepting an incoming event received by a mobile device. The content of the intercepted event is analyzed to determine one or more attributes of the intercepted event. The intercepted event is compared to a plurality of previously collected and classified events, stored in an event repository, based on the one or more determined attributes to identify one or more similar events. A rating of each of the one or more similar events is determined. The rating characterizes probability that the corresponding event belongs to a particular class. The intercepted event is classified as undesirable on the mobile device if the rating value of the one or more similar events is less than a predetermined threshold value.
US11997470B2
A method for processing a sound effect is provided. The method includes obtaining relative orientation information of a first electronic device worn by a first user relative to at least one sound source object in a preset virtual environment, obtaining a processed sound source signal by performing sound effect processing on a sound source signal of the at least one sound source object based on the relative orientation information, and providing the processed sound source signal to the first user through the first electronic device.
US11997462B2
A method for manufacturing a transducer unit for converting electrical signals into deflections and/or deflections into electrical signals, in which a transducer element is arranged on a support element, which is coupled to a diaphragm unit, which is deflectable along a stroke axis, includes the step of casting a fluid and curable diaphragm material onto a reinforcing element of the diaphragm unit to form a flexible diaphragm element. The diaphragm unit is coupled or coupleable to the transducer element. The diaphragm element, together with the reinforcing element, at least partially form the diaphragm unit. A transducer unit includes a diaphragm unit having a reinforcing element and a flexible diaphragm element formed of a fluid and curable diaphragm material that has been cast onto the reinforcing element.
US11997455B2
In an example, the present technique provides a method for processing signals from a human user in connection with a sleep state. Preferably, the method includes using information from the signals for digital cognitive behavioral therapy to improve a sleep state of the human user. In an example, the method generally includes sensing of human activities, processing information from such sensing, outputting a task to the user, monitoring a reaction from the user, and adjusting any one of the aforementioned, to improve a sleep state of the user.
US11997448B2
A voice-controlled device includes a microphone to receive a set of sound waves that includes speech uttered by a user and other sound, and to output a first audio signal that includes a contribution from the speech uttered by the user and a contribution from the other sound. The device also includes a receiver to receive an electromagnetic signal and to output a second audio signal obtained from the electromagnetic signal. An audio pre-processor of the device processes the first audio signal using the second audio signal to reduce the contribution from the other sound in a processed audio signal. The voice-controlled device then provides the processed audio signal to a speech recognition module to determine a voice command issued by the user.
US11997441B2
In an embodiment a wireless earphone includes an earbud portion having a speaker module, a stalk portion having a battery, wherein the earbud portion is connected to one end of the stalk portion, a circuit board and a first antenna being a slot antenna, wherein the circuit board extends from the earbud portion to an end of the stalk portion away from the earbud portion, wherein the circuit board is connected to the speaker module and the battery, wherein the circuit board comprises a reference ground, the reference ground extending from one end of the circuit board to another end of the circuit board, and wherein a slot is disposed on the reference ground forming a radiator of the slot antenna, the slot being located in the stalk portion and extending along a length direction of the stalk portion.
US11997433B2
A projection device and a projecting method are provided. The projection device includes a controller, a light engine, and a storage device. The storage device stores gamma correction curves and a predetermined amount. The controller receives display information of an image. The display information includes pixel information. The controller is configured to: set gray level regions and determine which gray level region does each pixel information fall into according to a gray level of the pixel information; calculate a pixel amount of the pixel information fallen into each gray level region; and when one of the pixel amount exceeds the predetermined amount, select a selected gamma correction curve from the gamma correction curves and adjust the display information according to the selected gamma correction curve to generate adjusted display information. The light engine is electrically coupled to the controller, receives the adjusted display information, and projects an adjusted image accordingly.
US11997417B2
Video conversion technology, in which a first stream of video content is accessed and multiple, different layers are extracted from the first stream of the video content. Each of the multiple, different layers are separately processed to convert the multiple, different layers into modified layers that each have a higher resolution. The modified layers are reassembled into a second stream of the video content that has a higher resolution than the first stream of the video content.
US11997416B2
The various embodiments described herein provide systems, devices and/or processes to improve the deinterlacing of interlaced video content. Specifically, the various embodiments described herein facilitate the deinterlacing of video content by using both intraframe and interframe pixel prediction values to generate replacement pixel values to be used in the resulting progressive scan video. Specifically, the embodiments described herein generate both intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values for each pixel in the interlaced video that is to be replaced. The intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values are then blended together to generate the replacement pixel values that are used in the progressive scan video. In one embodiment, the blending of intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values is based at least in part by estimations of motion in the video about the pixel being replaced.
US11997412B2
An imaging device includes: a sensor to detect a first target spectrum, the first target spectrum corresponding to a thermal imaging region of an infrared (IR) spectrum; and an optical device to transmit external light to the sensor, the optical device including: a substrate; and a plurality of nanostructures on the substrate, and to collimate at least the first target spectrum in the external light on the sensor. The plurality of nanostructures are spaced apart from each other, and at least one of the plurality of nanostructures has a different geometric size from that of another.
US11997410B2
A method for transmitting at least one image content to at least one viewer. The image contents in the method may be represented by a plurality of individual images. The method may also have a display periodically showing the plurality of individual images one after the other, and a camera outputting a plurality of pictures of a scenery at least partially containing the display. The camera outputting at least one of the shown individual images for each picture and the individual images of at least one of the image contents being transmitted to at least one viewer.
US11997403B2
An image sensor including: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels and a row driver configured to drive the pixel array, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes at least one photodiode, a transmission transistor, a selection transistor, a device isolation structure, and a bulk area, and the row driver is configured to adjust, for each of preset periods, sizes and application timings of a negative voltage applied to the device isolation structure and a bulk control voltage applied to the bulk area while a first pixel is driven.
US11997399B1
A camera device may capture a high-resolution image of a frame and store the high-resolution image in memory. The camera device may down-sample the high-resolution image to a low-resolution image of the frame. The camera device may transmit, to an external compute node, the low-resolution image. The camera device may receive, from the external compute node, a request for a region of interest from the high-resolution image. The camera device may transmit, to the external compute node, the region of interest from the high-resolution image. The camera device may have a captured frame rate at which high-resolution images are captured. The camera device may also have an external frame rate based upon which all, or only some, of the high-resolution images may be down-sampled to low-resolution images that are transmitted to the external compute node. The external frame rate may be decoupled from the captured frame rate.
US11997396B2
An apparatus includes at least one processor configured to execute a plurality of tasks including a first normal acquiring task configured to acquire first normal information of an object, a designated area acquiring task configured to acquire a designated portion in the object, the designated area being designated by a user, a second normal acquiring task configured to acquire second normal information of the object, the second normal information being normal information having a lower frequency than a frequency of the first normal information, a virtual light source determining task configured to determine a virtual light source condition based on the second normal information corresponding to the designated portion, and a rendering task configured to generate a rendering image using the first normal information and the virtual light source condition.
US11997389B2
A control apparatus for an imaging unit configured to change an imaging region by controlling at least one of pan, tilt, and zoom is provided whereby the control apparatus is configured to perform control for sequentially changing an image quality setting of an imaging unit based on a current imaging region, an imaging region associated with a preset setting, an image quality setting associated with the preset setting, and a current image quality setting.
US11997383B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a camera module comprising: a light output unit for outputting an optical signal to an object; a sensor for receiving an optical signal reflected from the object; and a control unit for acquiring distance information about the object by using the phase difference of the received optical signal, wherein the sensor includes a non-extraction area from which the phase different is not extracted and an extraction area from which the phase difference is extracted and the control unit stops timing control for the received optical signal in the non-extraction area.
US11997381B2
An imaging system (1) includes an imaging unit (2) configured to capture an eye of a target person, and a mode control unit (4) configured to select one of imaging modes including a first imaging mode that sets a capture volume for which a greatest distance from the imaging unit (2) in an optical axis direction of the imaging unit (2) is a first distance, and a second imaging mode that sets the capture volume for which the greatest distance from the imaging unit is a second distance, in which the second distance is greater than the first distance. With the imaging system (1), a balance between an image quality matching a purpose of use and a capturing time may be easily achieved.
US11997380B2
Methods and systems for displaying and recording multiple video feeds using a single, unified window
A method of simultaneously displaying a first video feed, a second video feed, and a map overlay within a single window that is generated by a mobile application includes identifying, using the mobile application that is stored in a mobile device, the first video feed that is generated by a front-facing camera; identifying, using the mobile application, the second video feed that is generated by a rear-facing camera; generating, using the mobile application, the map overlay using location data of the mobile device; creating, using the mobile application and a GPU of the mobile device, the single window that includes the first video feed, the second video feed, and the map overlay; displaying, on UI and using the mobile application, the single window; recording, using the mobile application, the displayed single window; and storing the recording of the displayed single window as a single video file.
US11997377B2
An imaging system is provided with: a first imaging apparatus (2) that captures an image of an imaging target (T, TP) that is located at a first point (P1); a second imaging apparatus (3) a focus position of which is set at a second point (P2) that is located at a forward side along a moving direction of the imaging target than the first point; and a control apparatus (6) that controls the second imaging apparatus to capture an image of the imaging target that is located at the second point on the basis of the image (200) captured by the first imaging apparatus.
US11997370B2
This application is directed to a doorbell camera for illuminating and capturing scenes. The doorbell camera includes at least a subset of processors for operating a camera module, an image sensor having a field of view of a scene and configured to capture video of a portion of the scene, one or more infrared (IR) illuminators for providing illumination, a waterproof button assembly, and a microphone and a speaker for enabling a real-time conversation between a visitor located at the doorbell camera and a user of a remote client device. The waterproof button assembly is configured to receive a user press on a button top, block water from entering the electronic device, and display a visual pattern uniformly at a peripheral region of the button assembly using LEDs and light guide component that are disposed under the button top.
US11997356B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a video page display method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable medium. A specific implementation of the method includes: displaying a video page, the video page including a video playback view and a dialog box, and a progress adjustment control being displayed in the dialog box, wherein the view hierarchy of the dialog box is higher than the view hierarchy of the video playback view and the remaining controls in the video page; and in response to detecting a first user operation on the progress adjustment control, adjusting the progress of a video currently being played back in the video page, and updating the progress displayed in the progress adjustment control. The described implementation achieves the reuse of a progress adjustment control between different pages.
US11997353B2
Methods and systems for managing content are disclosed. An example method can comprise monitoring a number of users accessing content, and recording a first segment of the content if the number of users accessing the content reaches a threshold value. A second segment of the content can be recorded based on a request to record the second segment of the content, and at least a portion of the recording of the first segment of the content can be associated with the recording of the second segment of the content.
US11997352B2
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 controlling a detector, switches, and/or an outlet such as a smart outlet. In some examples, a message may be sent to a powered controller. The controller may be configured to send a signal to activate a detector, which may be sent via a wireless signal and/or via generation of a resonance frequency via a tuned circuit (e.g., via resonant coupling). The signal may include “bootstrap” power that enables the detector to activate a switch to receive power from an additional or alternative power source. The detector may further receive and decode the signal to operate one or more outlets or switches, gates, relays, thyristors, transistors, or so on to provide power to a power-consumption device.
US11997347B2
A current geographical location of a portable device is used to facilitate selection of channel lineup that is appropriate for a Multi-System Operator (MSO) provider and the current geographical location of the portable device. A program guide GUI of the portable device is then configured using the selected channel lineup. The configured GUI is displayable to a user of the portable device whereupon the configured GUI is available for use in commanding tuning operations of a set-top box.
US11997335B2
More flexible planning is suitably realized. A cost calculation system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an obtaining section that obtains information for identifying an effective zone including an advertisement slot in which a spot Commercial Message (CM) is desired to be intensively broadcast; and a control section that calculates cost per Gross Rating Point (GRP) in a case where the spot CM is intensively allocated to the effective zone.
US11997329B2
A media processing engine selectively transcodes only a portion of the media clips to be included in a personalized media program and generates playback data that allows seamless playback of the personalized media program. The media processing engine analyzes initial playback data associated with the media program that indicates the media clips needed to generate the personalized media program. The media processing engine identifies one or more transitions between media clips in the personalized media program and determines specific segments of those media clips that are associated with the identified transition(s). The media processing engine performs transcoding operations with the determined segments of the media clips to generate one or more transition clips. The media processing engine then updates the initial playback data to indicate that the transition clip(s) should be played during the corresponding transition(s) between the associated media clips.
US11997322B2
An information display method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium are provided. The information display method includes: when a first trigger operation for a target live broadcast room is detected, displaying a video playing page of a target live broadcast room, where a comment area is set on the video playing interface; displaying live broadcast room introduction information of the target live broadcast room at a first information display position of the comment area; and where a display duration of the live broadcast room introduction information reaches a target duration, hiding the live broadcast room introduction information. Thus, the effective permeability of video live broadcast content of a live broadcast room can be improved, thereby improving the user experience.
US11997316B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that can curb deterioration in coding efficiency. An inverse orthogonal transform of chrominance is performed using information regarding the inverse orthogonal transform of chrominance derived on the basis of information regarding an inverse orthogonal transform of luminance. For example, information regarding the orthogonal transform includes an adaptive primary transform flag indicating whether an adaptive primary transform of adaptively selecting one from a plurality of different orthogonal transforms and using the selected transform as a primary transform is to be applied to a transform block to be processed. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, or the like.
US11997315B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving a first variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a region excluding a DC region from a current block; deriving a second variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a second region excluding a first region formed at the upper left end of the current block; when the first variable indicates that the valid coefficient exists in the region excluding the DC region, and the second variable indicates that the valid coefficient does not exist in the second region, parsing an LFNST index from the bitstream; and applying an LFNST matrix derived on the basis of the LFNST index to transform coefficients in the first region, to derive the modified transform coefficients.
US11997303B2
Devices, systems and methods for sample refinement and filtering method for video coding are described. In an exemplary aspect, a method for video processing includes modifying for a conversion between a block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a refinement value for a prediction sample in the block by applying a clipping operation to refinement value. The refinement value is derived based on a gradient value of an optical flow coding process. An output of the clipping operation is within a range. The method also includes refining the prediction sample based on the refinement value and performing the conversion based on the refined prediction sample.
US11997299B2
A method of video decoding includes determining reconstructed samples of a first color component in a filter support region of a current picture that is a part of a coded video sequence, and performing a cross-component sample offset (CCSO) filter process on the reconstructed samples of the first color component in the filter support region to generate an output offset value. The method also includes scaling the output offset value based on the reconstructed samples of the first color component in the filter support region, and reconstructing samples of a second color component in the filter support region based on the scaled output offset value. The second color component is different from the first color component.
US11997296B2
A method for deriving motion information for a current block includes: determining whether the current block and a top neighboring block of the current block are in a same coding tree unit (CTU) or not; obtaining a position of a spatial motion information candidate for the current block; obtaining motion information corresponding to the position of the spatial motion information candidate, depending on the result of whether the current block and top neighboring block of the current block are in the same CTU; adding the obtained motion information to a motion information candidate list for the current block; obtaining a value of a first index of a motion information candidate; and deriving motion information of the current block based on the motion information candidate list and the value of the first index.
US11997295B2
An image compression method includes: obtaining a grayscale pixel information of an original image, wherein the grayscale pixel information comprises a plurality of sub-grayscale pixel information; scanning the plurality of sub-grayscale pixel information according to a preset first scanning sequence to obtain a first target grayscale pixel information; dividing the first target grayscale pixel information into a plurality of first grayscale areas according to a preset first grayscale difference threshold to generate a first area information; and compressing the sub-grayscale pixel information of each first grayscale area according to the first minimum grayscale pixel value, the first area label, and the plurality of sub-grayscale pixel information, to obtain a first compressed data of the original image. An image compression device, a computer device, and a computer readable storage medium are also provided.
US11997285B2
A method of inter-predicting a current block using any one of a plurality of bi-prediction modes is disclosed. The method comprises decoding, from a bitstream, mode information indicating whether a first mode included in the plurality of bi-prediction modes is applied to the current block. When the mode information indicates that the first mode is applied to the current block, the method further comprises: decoding, from the bitstream, first motion information including differential motion vector information and predicted motion vector information for a first motion vector and second motion information not including at least a portion of predicted motion vector information and differential motion vector information for a second motion vector; and deriving the first motion vector based on the first motion information and deriving the second motion vector based on both at least a portion of the first motion information and the second motion information.
US11997277B2
The application relates to refined quantization steps in video coding. A method for video processing includes: determining, during a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of a video including the current video block, two-level quantization parameters comprising a first level quantization parameter QP1 and a second level quantization parameter QP2 for the current video block; and performing, at least based on the two-level quantization parameters, a first level quantization and/or a second level quantization during the conversion, wherein the two-level quantization parameters correspond to different quantization precisions respectively.
US11997273B2
A method of partitioning in video coding for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT structure that can have quadtree or binary partitioning of the root node and quadtree or binary trees branching from each of the leaf nodes. The partitioning at any depth can use asymmetric binary partitioning to split a child node represented by a leaf node into two child coding units of unequal size, representing the two child coding units as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the parent leaf node and coding the child coding units represented by final leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET. Disclosed is a generalized method of partitioning a block, either square or rectangular, which leads to more flexible block sizes with possible higher coding efficiency.
US11997271B2
An encoder partitions into blocks using a set of block partition modes. The set of block partition modes includes a first partition mode for partitioning a first block, and a second block partition mode for partitioning a second block which is one of blocks obtained after the first block is partitioned. When the number of partitions of the first block partition mode is three, the second block is a center block among the blocks obtained after partitioning the first block, and the partition direction of the second block partition mode is same as the partition direction of the first block partition mode, the second block partition mode indicates that the number of partitions is only three. A parameter for identifying the second block partition mode includes a first flag indicating a horizontal or vertical partition direction, and does not include a second flag indicating the number of partitions.
US11997268B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for subband-coding a frequency conversion unit and a video encoding/decoding method a video encoding/decoding apparatus using the same. The method and the apparatus for subband-coding the frequency conversion unit include generating an encoding stream by splitting the frequency conversion unit into one or more frequency domains, generating frequency domain encoding information according to whether there is a non-zero frequency coefficient in each frequency domain, scanning the frequency coefficient of each frequency domain to generate a frequency domain frequency coefficient stream, and binarizing and encoding the frequency domain encoding information and the scanned frequency domain frequency coefficient stream.
US11997260B2
A method by which a decoding apparatus performs image decoding, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining motion prediction information about a current block from a bitstream; generating an affine MVP candidate list for the current block; deriving CPMVPs for CPs of the current block on the basis of the affine MVP candidate list; deriving CPMVDs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of the motion prediction information; deriving CPMVs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of the CPMVPs and the CPMVDs; and deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the CPMVs.
US11997256B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: obtaining intra prediction information including at least one of MPM flag information, MRL index information, and planner flag information from a bitstream; checking the MPM flag information; checking the MRL index information on the basis of a case where the MPM flag information indicates that the MRL index information is checked; checking the planner flag information on the basis of a case where a value of the MRL index information is 0; deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block on the basis of the check for the planner flag information; deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode for the current block; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction samples.
US11997251B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of automobile maintenance and device calibration, and discloses a device for calibrating a vehicle mounted night-vision video recording apparatus, the device for calibrating the vehicle-mounted night-vision video recording apparatus including a holder assembly and a calibration member. The calibration member is mounted on the holder assembly, the calibration member may move relative to the holder assembly to adjust a height of the calibration member, and the calibration member includes a calibration rod, the calibration rod being disposed horizontally for calibrating the vehicle-mounted night-vision video recording apparatus. In the device for calibrating the vehicle-mounted night-vision video recording apparatus of the present invention, the height of the calibration member is adjustable, and the calibration member includes the horizontally disposed calibration rod. Through observation of an vehicle-mounted night-vision display screen interface and adjustment of depression and elevation angles of the vehicle-mounted night-vision video recording apparatus, a horizontal line of an vehicle-mounted screen and the calibration rod overlap, so that calibration of the vehicle-mounted night-vision video recording apparatus is completed. The device for calibrating the vehicle-mounted night-vision video recording apparatus may calibrate different types of vehicle-mounted night-vision video recording apparatuses with simple calibration operations.
US11997250B2
A device for providing augmented reality (AR) that can accurately detect an object or a text at which a user gazes, and can display an image associated with the detected object or text, and a system for providing AR using the same, and may include at least one display module configured to display an AR content image through a transparent lens, a sensing module configured to generate signals indicative of movement in left, right, up, and down directions, and to generate image data corresponding to a user's gaze direction, a biosensor configured to detect a user's pupil to output a pupil sensing signal, and a control module configured to detect gaze coordinate information based on the pupil sensing signal, and to extract an object or a text corresponding to the gaze coordinate information from the image data to generate AR content data including the extracted object or text.
US11997246B2
An image processor comprising a plurality of processing modules configured to transform a raw image into an output image. The plurality of processing modules comprise a first module and a second module, each of which implements a respective trained artificial intelligence model. The first module is configured to implement an image transformation operation that recovers luminance from the raw image. The second module is configured to implement an image transformation operation that recovers chrominance from the raw image.
US11997234B2
An inspection device includes a processor configured to perform a first inspection of using original image data as first reference image data and collating the first reference image data with at least one of plural pieces of read image data obtained by reading image-formed matters obtained by forming the first reference image data on plural recording media, and register read image data satisfying a predetermined criterion among the plural pieces of read image data as a result of the first inspection, as second reference image data for a second inspection different from the first inspection.
US11997232B2
A method and a system for routing an emergency call to a PSAP [322]. Upon receiving an emergency call request from at least one user device [302] at an eNodeB [304], an ESMLC [310] computes a current location information of the at least one user device [302]. Further, a GMLC [312] identifies a serving cell identifier for the at least one user device [302] based on the current location. Furthermore, an emergency location platform [314] identifies at least one PSAP [322] in a cell site master database [316] based on the serving cell identifier and extracts one or more parameters for the at least one user device [302] from a subscriber information database [318]. Lastly, the emergency location platform [314] provides at least one of the current location information and the one or more parameters to the identified at least one PSAP [322] on an access network channel.
US11997227B2
An electronic device including a casing, a circuit board, a bracket, an antenna, and a protective member is provided. The casing has an accommodating space and a hole communicating with the accommodating space. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodating space. The bracket is disposed above the circuit board, and at least part of the bracket is located in the accommodating space and the hole. At least part of the antenna is disposed on a portion of the bracket extending out of the accommodating space. The protective member is disposed on at least one surface of the casing and covers the hole, the bracket, and the antenna.
US11997219B1
To protect corporate information technology (IT) networks, corporations or organizations can design their networks with secure technology. For example, before an employee can remotely access his or her company's network via a user device, a server associated with the company's network can setup an exemplary secure digital certificate for the user device. The secure digital certificate includes a public Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with a router used by the user device to access the Internet. When employee attempts to remotely access his or her company's network, the user device or a router associated with the user device can send the secure digital certificate along with a current public IP address of the router used by the user device to access the Internet. In some embodiments, if the public IP address included in the digital certificate matches the current public IP address, the user device can access the company's network.
US11997216B2
Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating blockchain operations in decentralized applications by offering enhanced efficient when conducting blockchain operations using cryptography-based, digital ledgers through the use of specialized indexing. For example, as opposed to relying on raw blockchain data to power decentralized applications, the methods and systems use a blockchain indexer. The blockchain indexer provides a queryable record of a subset of blockchain operations.
US11997197B1
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for securely providing secrets. Techniques include receiving, from an entity, trigger information indicative of an action to be performed by at least one service based on the trigger information; identifying at least one secret expected to be used by the at least one service to perform the action, the at least one secret being identified based on information correlating the trigger information to the at least one secret; and causing the at least one secret to be provided to the at least one service, wherein the at least one secret is provided to the at least one service independent of any request for the at least one secret.
US11997192B2
Technologies for establishing device locality are disclosed. A processor in a computing device generates an identifier distinct to the computing device. The processor transmits the identifier to a management controller via a hardware bus in the computing device. The processor generates a key and encrypts the key with the identifier to generate a wrapped key. The processor transmits the wrapped key to the management controller. In turn, the management controller unwraps the key using the identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11997179B2
An Encrypted Transport (ET) proxy module is configured to receive incoming ET proxy packets from an ET proxy backbone module and transmit outgoing ET proxy packets to the ET proxy backbone module. The ET proxy module is also configured to set up an HTTP tunnel with an ET proxy client of the client device or with an ET proxy at a web server for receiving incoming UDP payloads from the client device or web server and transmitting outgoing UDP payloads to the client device or web server. The ET proxy module is also configured to receive prioritization preferences from client devices or web servers pertaining to the UDP payloads indicating preferred quality-of-service (QoS) classes for the UDP payloads, and to schedule transmission of the outgoing UDP payloads via the HTTP tunnel based on QoS classes of the outgoing UPD payloads.
US11997176B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a symbol with a plurality of interpretations. Each candidate interpretation for the symbol is identified and compared to an attribute of a user profile. The meaning of the symbol is determined and the user profile is updated with the meaning of the symbol. This meaning may be used to provide relevant information to the user.
US11997174B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for supplying localized weather information to a user. This may be accomplished by a system receiving a request to generate a weather report for a location. The system may identify weather information sources within a threshold distance of the location, wherein one or more of the weather information sources is a mobile weather information source. The device may generate a weather report for the location based on the weather information received from the weather information sources.
US11997173B2
A method performed by a communication device in a network comprising mobile networks operated by mobile network operators, MNOs, is provided. The method includes signaling to a first server to discover a second server having information about a public land mobile network identifier and a network service of a MNO. The second server has a first fully qualified domain name, FQDN, pointing to a provider domain. The method further includes receiving a response including a resolution or a redirection of the FQDN; signaling to discover the information about the network service; and receiving a response from the second server including a first identification of the information about the network service of the MNO or a second identification that the network service is not available. Corresponding methods performed by a first server and a second server are also provided.
US11997171B2
A communication device in a communication system in which functions that are converted to software are configured as a plurality of components, and the functions are realized as a result of the components being respectively executed by a plurality of communication devices that are connected to a network, the communication device including a sorting unit configured to acquire a signal that is transmitted by a first component and transmit the signal to a second component indicated by destination information that is added to the signal by the first component.
US11997168B2
Connecting devices for communication sessions is provided. A system can receive, from a client device, a first query comprising text. The system can determine, responsive to the first query and via a machine learning model, confidence scores corresponding to the expert identifiers. The system selects a first subset of expert identifiers based on a threshold confidence score or a ranking technique. The system transmits a second query based on the first query to client devices corresponding to the first subset of expert identifiers. The system identifies, based on responses to the second query, a second subset of expert identifiers. The system provides, to the client device, an indication of the second subset of expert identifiers to cause the client device to establish a communication session with at least one client device of at least one of the second subset of expert identifiers.
US11997167B2
In a method for data communication between a server system (3) and a front-end computing device (2) in a healthcare environment the front-end computing device (2) transmits a request for a data connection to a primary interface (30) of the server system (3). The server system (3) processes the request, and a data connection between the server system (3) and the front-end computing device (2) is established as a result of the processing. Herein, said processing includes creating a secondary interface (32) on the server system (3) dedicated to the request and transmitting information to access said secondary interface (32) to the front-end computing device (2), wherein said establishing includes connecting, by the front-end-computing device (2), to said secondary interface (32) using information received from the server system (3).
US11997166B2
A vehicular arbitration system includes: a main manager configured to receive one or more requests from a plurality of first application execution units and to determine a request for operating a predetermined on-vehicle device based on the received one or more requests and a predetermined rule; and a plurality of sub-managers respectively configured to arbitrate the request determined by the main manager and a request input from at least one second application execution unit that is different from the plurality of first application execution units and to control the on-vehicle device based on an arbitration result.
US11997165B2
The present subject matter discloses a system and method for optimizing data communication of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The system comprises a collection of IoT devices, an IoT server, a management console, third party IoT gateways and user devices. The IoT device is connected to a sensor or an actuator. The IoT device identifies attributes of the sensor or the actuator. Further, the IoT device receives raw data generated by the sensor or the actuator. Subsequently, the IoT device defines data types for the raw data based on the attributes and define bit stream storage for the data types. The IoT device may optimize data-transmission size of the data types and bit stream storage using a communication protocol and transmit the raw data to the IoT server. The IoT server may transcode the raw data into a desired format and relay transcoded data to a management console.
US11997162B1
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for exposing data from blockchain nodes and orchestrating requests to blockchain nodes. The system mainly includes a client application, a load balancer, and blockchain nodes connected to the blockchain network. The system receives a request from the client application. The load balancer is configured with an upstream selection logic and configured with custom metadata specific to blockchain nodes. Based upon the upstream selection logic, the load balancer generates a proxy request to the selected blockchain node. The load balancer of the system is a general-purpose load balancer having built-in plugins, such as an authentication service unit and a tracking unit. Based on the selection logic and the upstream metadata, the general-purpose load balancer is extended with custom plugins.
US11997158B2
This application provides a data sharing method and apparatus relating to the field of data communications technologies. In the method, a cloud device may select a target device from a first device group through screening based on a data sharing policy and received status information of at least one device in the first device group. Then, the cloud device may indicate the target device to send data associated with the data sharing policy for a first cloud account to at least one device in a second device group. The first cloud account is used to log in to a device in the first device group, a second cloud account is used to log in to a device in the second device group, and the cloud device stores the data sharing policy for the first cloud account and an association relationship between the first cloud account and the second cloud account.
US11997155B2
A first computing system is configured to (i) decide to execute a file transfer of at least one file from the first computing system to a second computing system, where the at least one file comprises data content that is related to a distributed transaction and is stored at the first computing system, (ii) before the file transfer is executed, determine at least one global context identifier for association with the file transfer, (iii) associate the at least one file with a data element that is isolated from the data content and contains the determined global context identifier, and (iv) execute the file transfer by transmitting the at least one file and the associated data element for receipt by the second computing system.
US11997148B1
In one or more examples, a method uses a system including data server, a processing circuit, and a data-communications server, with the server being used to route calls in the form of data communications to and from a plurality of telecommunication devices associated with respective user accounts. The server may store data generated by the plurality of telecommunication devices on the data server. The user accounts each have a settings file associated with the user account. In response to a set of criteria indicated in the settings file of one of the user accounts being satisfied, the processing circuit logs into a data server remote to the server may use login credentials included in the settings file. In further response to the set of criteria being satisfied, the processing circuit may copy one or more data files associated with the user account from the data server to the remote data server.
US11997145B1
Various embodiments of the present invention describe techniques that perform account registration management operations with respect to an account registration session based on a real-time registration processing output that is generated based on an earlier-generated preliminary risk category, such as a preliminary risk category that is generated before the account registration session is completed. In some embodiments, by generating a component of the real-time registration processing output during the account registration session, the disclosed techniques enable reducing the data processing time associated with generating the real-time registration processing output, thus increasing the speed and operational reliability of an electronic data management system that is configured to perform account registration management operations.
US11997142B1
A system including a network interface and a processing circuit is provided. The processing circuit includes one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory. The processing circuit is structured to receive a request for a multiple custody linkage between user devices. The multiple custody linkage includes a digital connection between the user devices that allows shared access to a resource. The resource includes at least one of a physical object or information. The processing circuit is further structured to perform a validation process based on information in the request for the multiple custody linkage to determine if a violation of a security protocol exists. The security protocol is associated with security of the resource. The processing circuit is further structured to, in response to determining no violation of the security protocol exists, activate the multiple custody linkage between the user devices to allow the shared access to the resource.
US11997135B2
A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to protect against theft of user credentials. The at least one processor is further configured to recognize a uniform resource locator (URL) to which a web browser is navigating, as a URL for which protection is to be provided. The recognition is based on an absence of the URL from a history of visited URLs for which a password has been entered. The at least one processor is further configured to extract a character sequence of selected length that is entered into a field of a website associated with the recognized URL; compare an encryption of the character sequence to entries in a list of encrypted partial passwords of the same selected length; and perform a security action in response to a match resulting from the comparison.
US11997131B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprise an analytic server, which detects and defends against malware in-flight regardless of the specific nature and methodology of the underlying attack. The analytic server learns the system's normal behavior during testing and evaluation phase and trains a machine-learning model based on the normal behavior. The analytic server monitors the system behavior during runtime comprising the runtime behavior of each sub-system of the system. The analytic server executes the machine-learning model and compares the system runtime behavior with the normal behavior to identify anomalous behavior. The analytic server executes one or more mitigation instructions to mitigate malware. Based on multiple available options for mitigating malware, the analytic server makes an intelligent decision and takes the least impactful action that have the least impact on the system to maintain mission assurance.
US11997128B2
Collecting the topology and asset information of the virtual generated computer network, converting the topology and asset information into a training data set for training the neural network model, training the neural network model based on the training data set, and training A method and apparatus for predicting an attack vulnerability of a computer network through the step of inferring an attack vulnerability of a target computer network using a neural network model are provided.
US11997126B1
Dynamic Software Defined Networking (DSDN) systems and methods provide secure and isolated subnetworks within a larger network. Each subnetwork may be formed with varied policies and communication restrictions based on at least device type, device grouping, and risk level. The DSDN systems and methods may also be applied to form a network, with or without subnetworks, of devices that are spatially separated, thereby reducing the attack surface of the DSDN-formed network.
US11997125B2
Systems and methods for providing automated actions in handling security threats are disclosed. The method includes receiving input data comprising one or more entities and one or more intents. The method further includes extracting the entities and the intents from the input data. In response to determining that there exists at least one actionable entity from the extracted entities, the method further includes presenting a plurality of available security actions to a user to resolve one or more security threats associated with the input data, the available security actions being respectively selectable by the user.
US11997123B1
A system and method perform assessments of technical systems or institutions by applying one or more standards of practice to one or more entities. The system and method may apply those one or more standards of practice in a distributed piece-meal fashion allowing less trained personnel to accomplish more assessments with lower cost and in less time.
US11997121B2
A detection device includes processing circuitry configured to identify candidate bots using flow data, use the flow data to count a number of the candidate bots communicating with servers, for each of the servers, and determine servers communicating with a predetermined number or more of the candidate bots among the servers to be malicious servers, and detect candidate bots communicating with the malicious servers that are determined among the candidate bots to be malicious bots.
US11997118B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for Scripting attack detection and mitigation. A method generally includes receiving a first report indicating a first violation for a first security policy applied to a first web application; identifying a first plurality of features associated with the first violation; classifying the first violation as a first JavaScript attack based on the first plurality of features; and taking action to mitigate the first JavaScript attack on the first web application.
US11997111B1
A cloud-based system is design with multi-tenancy controls for conducting analytics performed on objects submitted by a subscriber. This system features an analysis monitoring service and an analysis selection services. The analysis monitoring service, operating as a first cloud service, includes logic that is configured to collect metadata associated with an operating state for each of a plurality of clusters and generate cluster selection information. The analysis selection service, operating as a second cloud service and communicatively coupled to the analysis monitoring service, is configured to select a cluster of the plurality of clusters to analyze the object for malware based, at least in part, on the cluster selection information provided from the analysis monitoring service.
US11997106B2
A communication method implemented by a communications apparatus that is configured with a control rule parameter, where the control rule parameter includes a signature verification rule parameter, a message aggregation rule parameter, and a reporting control rule parameter, and the method includes receiving a first message, performing signature verification processing on the first message based on the signature verification rule parameter, performing, based on the message aggregation rule parameter, message aggregation processing on the first message after performing the signature verification processing to obtain a second message, and sending the second message to a server based on the reporting control rule parameter.
US11997085B2
A method of authenticating a user that includes initializing the multi-factor authentication system based on an input; presenting a challenge requesting the user to enter a specific authenticator of a sequence of authenticators stored in the multi-factor authentication system, where the stored sequence of authenticators represents a combination of a plurality of authentication factors; receiving an authenticator from the user in response to the challenge; verifying identity of the user by determining whether the received authenticator matches the specific authenticator requested by the challenge; and granting the access based on a determination that the received authenticator matches the specific authenticator requested, or denying the access based on a determination that the received authenticator does not match the specific authenticator requested.
US11997082B2
Systems and methods of anti-vishing OTP protection via machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: receiving a permission indicator identifying a permission by the user to detect OTPs and calls being received by a computing device; receiving an indication of an OTP data item being received; processing the OTP data item to determine a time duration during which a particular OTP included therein is valid; utilizing a trained OTP protection machine learning model to determine phone number(s) as presenting a security risk with respect to the OTP data item; and instructing the computing device to commence at least one security measure based at least in part on a contact list updated with an indication that the phone number(s) present a security risk with regard to the particular OTP during the time duration of the particular OTP.
US11997072B2
A communication monitoring and coping apparatus includes: a processor; a memory; an unauthorized communication detection unit that detects unauthorized communication in a network in which a plurality of devices are connected to communicate with each other and identifies a device involved in the detected unauthorized communication; a coping process determination unit that searches for another device that substitutes for the identified device and generates coping information, which is information of a process performed in place of the identified device, based on information on the network and information on each of processes performed by the plurality of devices; and a coping information transmission unit that transmits the generated coping information to an information processing apparatus that causes the other device to execute the process indicated by the coping information.
US11997070B2
A technique for collecting information relating to a flow routed in a communication network. This network includes, in a data plane, packet-processing devices that are configured so as to process packets on the basis of flow-processing rules and, in a control plane, at least one control device that is configured so as to control packet-processing devices and to manage the flow-processing rules. An analysis device identifies at least one flow-processing rule configured so as to process a flow including a first characteristic associated with a first endpoint device of a flow to be sought in the communication network and applied by a processing device. Based on the identified processing rule, the control device determines a second characteristic associated with a second endpoint device.
US11997064B2
A computing environment, such as a cloud computing environment, may include nodes performing NAT for a plurality of workloads. An active node performs NAT for the workloads, including maintaining a NAT table. The active node may create sub-interfaces for the workloads and function as a DHCP server. The NAT table and sub-interfaces may be recreated on a standby node. Upon detecting failure, a routing table is updated to direct workloads to connect to the standby node and traffic may continue to be processed by the standby node without disrupting network or application sessions.
US11997060B1
Technologies and techniques for providing third party notifications within a workspace on a processing device in medical computer system. The third party notifications are effectuated using a third party information manager that monitors inputs or changes to system information, such as the information that is pertinent to a currently displayed workspace, and then obtain third party messaging related to these inputs or changes. Additionally, a display decision manager is used to then determine the manner of displaying the third party messaging in the workspace based on either a determined priority of the messaging or the current content of the workspace. This selective managing of the third party messaging affords customization to the system that mitigates user alert fatigue caused by simply allowing all messages to be displayed.
US11997059B1
A computer-implemented method, according to one implementation, includes: monitoring requests received for an AI interface prompt in real-time, and determining whether one or more of the requests violate compliance metrics. Risk scores are calculated for requests determined as violating the compliance metrics. The requests determined as violating the compliance metrics are updated by implementing protective measures correlated with the calculated risk scores. Moreover, the updated requests are sent to the AI interface prompt.
US11997048B2
A terminal apparatus and a method are provided. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive at least a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) in a bandwidth part (BWP), a measurer configured to measure and evaluate one or more values of a channel quality indicator (CQI) by using at least the CSI-RS, the CQI including a wideband CQI or a subband CQI, and to measure and update a value of the wideband CQI in a case that an indicator, corresponding to the BWP, indicates the wideband CQI, and at least one of a first condition and a second condition is not satisfied, and a transmitter configured to transmit a CSI report including the value of the wideband CQI.
US11997044B2
A node (100) of a wireless communication network manages sending of control information to a radio device (10). For a first frequency band, the control information indicates a first start position for transmission of a data channel. For a second frequency band, the control information indicates a second start position for transmission of the data channel. Based on the first start position and the second start position, the node (100) controls transmission of data on the data channel.
US11997032B2
In a Wireless Local Area Network system, an STA may receive a trigger frame from an AP. The trigger frame may include a common information field and user information fields. Each of the user information fields may include a first field related to an association identifier (AID) and a second field including information for the STA related to the AID. The second field may include special information for every STA receiving the trigger frame on the basis that the first field has a specific value. The common information field may include a present field related to whether a user information field in which the first field has the specific value is present among the user information fields.
US11997030B2
A non-coherent communication system in which a transmitting device does not transmit a pilot/DMRS, such that the receiving device may be configured to determine or decode the information received from the transmitting device without performing any channel estimation. An apparatus for wireless communication at a receiving device receives, from a transmitting device, a non-coherent signal having data. The apparatus may determine data from the received signal without performing a channel estimation. In another aspect, an apparatus at a transmitting device divides an information payload including a set of bits into multiple subsets of bits, maps each of the multiple subsets of bits into a respective sequence of complex symbols, generates a non-coherent transmission signal based on the respective sequences, and transmits the non-coherent transmission signal to a receiving device.
US11997027B2
A signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: A network device generates a first sequence, where the network device maps the first sequence to the last 11 orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM symbols in a first subframe, and maps, to the first M OFDM symbols in the first subframe sequentially, a second sequence that belongs to the first sequence, where the second sequence is a sequence that is mapped to M OFDM symbols in a last N OFDM symbols of the first subframe, N is greater than or equal to M, N is an integer greater than 0 and less than 12, and M is an integer greater than 0 and less than 4; and the network device sends the first subframe.
US11997020B2
A multipath capable communication device includes: a first communication path and a second communication path configured to provide data traffic to be transmitted; at least one control unit; a multipath scheduler configured to distribute data traffic to the first communication path and/or to the second communication path based on a first path metric; a first traffic shaper configured to limit the total bandwidth allocated to the communication device to a first adjustable bandwidth limiting value; and a second traffic shaper configured to limit the bandwidth allocated to the first communication path to a second adjustable bandwidth limiting value and/or a third traffic shaper configured to limit the bandwidth allocated to the second communication path to a third adjustable bandwidth limiting value. The at least one control unit is configured to control the multipath scheduler, the first traffic shaper, and the second traffic shaper and/or third traffic shaper.
US11997012B2
In accordance with one or more aspects, service requesters (e.g., advertisers) and/or affiliates (e.g., providing data traffic) may be set up for operation on a performance exchange. In accordance with other aspects, performance and monitoring may be carried out for such advertisers and/or affiliates. In some embodiments, a quality assessment module monitors resource distribution by affiliates (including user response characteristics), and assesses quality characteristics of the distribution and related responses based on the monitored performance and stored affiliate data. Affiliate performance metrics are generated based on the quality characteristics. A router establishes routing criteria for service requesters, which may include information for selecting data traffic resources to be routed and served by the affiliates for providing traffic. An exchange module operates with the router to serve requests from the service requesters by routing resources to affiliates based on data corresponding to the service requesters, the routing criteria, and the metrics.
US11997007B2
A network system that facilitates financial transactions. A software defined network may operate to provide a variety of trading related services to a variety of customers with a low latency. Core or processor affinity for routing processes may improve speeds of routing. Data capture through a shared memory space may allow for a variety of analytics without introducing unacceptable delay.
US11997006B2
This application is applicable to a multi-link group addressed traffic transmission method and an apparatus. A first access point (AP) of an AP multi-link device (MLD) sends group addressed traffic indication information indicating whether each AP of other APs of the AP MLD has a group addressed traffic, so that a station (STA) can learn whether the multiple APs have a group addressed traffic. In this way, each STA of the STA MLD does not need to listen to each AP whether each AP has a group addressed traffic. This reduces power consumption of the STA MLD. This application may be applied to a wireless local area network system that supports an IEEE 802.11ax next-generation Wi-Fi EHT protocol, for example, 802.11 series protocols such as 802.11be.
US11997004B2
A reverse path forwarding (RPF) check method includes, after receiving a multicast data packet from a head node, a tail node may obtain a multicast source address, a multicast group address and encapsulation information that are carried in the multicast data packet. The tail node obtains, based on the multicast source address, the multicast group address, and a first correspondence, a first identifier identifying an upstream multicast hop (UMH) node corresponding to the multicast data packet. The tail node may further obtain, based on the encapsulation information of the multicast data packet and a second correspondence, a second identifier identifying the head node corresponding to the multicast data packet. After obtaining the first identifier and the second identifier, the tail node may perform an RPF check based on the first identifier and the second identifier.
US11997002B2
A method of conducting a network stress test includes providing a first client in communication with a first server via a client-server relationship. The method also includes setting a first frequency as a set frequency. The method further includes sending a first request from the first client to the first server at the set frequency. Additionally, the method includes sending a first response from the first server to the first client. The method also includes measuring a first elapsed time between the first request and the first response, and comparing the first elapsed time to a communication threshold.
US11996996B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: entering a data center management mode, the data center management mode enabling a data center administrator user to selectively provide access to a subset of information available for use by the administrator user; determining whether to provide a designated user access to the subset of information; creating a monitoring console instance, the monitoring console instance providing the designated user access to the subset of information; and, enabling the designated user to access the monitoring console instance.
US11996986B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for reducing storage space used in tracking behavior of a plurality of network endpoints by modeling the behavior with a behavior model. To this end, control circuitry may determine a respective network endpoint, of a plurality of network endpoints, to which each respective record of a plurality of received records corresponds. The control circuitry then may assign a dedicated queue for each respective network endpoint, and transmit, to each dedicated queue, each record that corresponds to the respective network endpoint to which the respective dedicated queue is assigned. The control circuitry may then determine, for each respective network endpoint, a respective behavior model, and may store each respective behavior model to memory.
US11996983B1
Systems and methods are provided for a network appliance comprising a plurality of virtual private network nodes operating on the network appliance, each virtual private network node being configurable to connect to selectable virtual private network end points in an on-demand computing network. A web interface is configured to connect a client device to the network appliance and to identify a selected virtual private network end point, where the client device is connected to a particular one of the virtual private network nodes and the particular virtual private network node is connected to the selected virtual private network end point based on interactions with the web interface. The on-demand computing network includes a first provisioned resource assigned as a hub device; and one or more second provisioned resources assigned as rim devices, where a particular rim device comprises a bridge device, wherein the bridge device repackages data received from the on-demand computing network prior to forwarding that data such that the data received from the on-demand computing network appears to terminate at the bridge device to an observer viewing the data between the hub device and the bridge device.
US11996981B2
Techniques for improving options templates for network traffic monitoring and analysis, using pull mode by a network collector device, and sending an acknowledgement, by the network collector device that the download was successfully received are described. The techniques may include transmitting, by a network collector device and to a network edge device, a request to download a full options template, receiving, by the network collector device, responses from the network edge device, each response including a segment of the full options template and each segment including a last segment flag indicating whether the segment is a last segment, and in response to receiving a segment having the last segment flag set, transmitting, by the network collector device and to the network edge device, an acknowledgement that the full options template has been received.
US11996972B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive or transmit constellation information that indicates a modulation constellation type associated with a wireless communication, the constellation information indicating, as the modulation constellation type, a uniform constellation (UC) type or a non-uniform constellation (NUC) type. The UE may transmit or receive the wireless communication based at least in part on the modulation constellation type. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11996970B2
Provided are a configuration method and a transmission method of a new reference signal for frequency offset estimation in a novel wireless communication system. The method may include configuring a synchronization signal to be transmitted through a first bandwidth part of one or more bandwidth parts configured by dividing an entire bandwidth into one or more parts, allocating the one or more reference signals for estimating the frequency offset on one or more resources other than a resource for configuring the synchronization signal, and transmitting the one or more reference signals for estimating the frequency offset.
US11996968B2
Various embodiments include methods for reducing peak to average power ratio of wireless transmission waveforms, performed in transmitter circuitry of a wireless communication. Various embodiments may include receiving frequency domain data tones, transforming the frequency domain data tones to time domain data signals, generating, using a set of peak reduction tone (PRT) neural networks, time domain PRTs using the time domain data signals in which the set of PRT neural networks have been trained in conjunction with an augmentation neural network, and a receiver neural network, generating an output of the augmentation neural network based on an input of final combined time domain signals including the time domain PRTs combined with previous combined time domain signals, and generating time domain wireless transmission waveforms that include the output of the augmentation neural network combined with the final combined time domain signals.
US11996965B2
Embodiments of this application provide a signal transmission method and a communication apparatus in a multi-waveform scenario, and are applied to a scenario in which a single-carrier waveform and a multi-carrier waveform coexist. In this method, a network device indicates, via first indication information, a terminal device to transmit a signal by using transmission parameters corresponding to the first indication information, so that the terminal device transmits the signal by using the specified transmission parameters. Transmission parameters includes at least two of a transmission bandwidth, an extended bandwidth, or a total bandwidth. According to the embodiments of this application, a transmit end may perform sending by using the single-carrier waveform, and a receive end may perform receiving by using the multi-carrier waveform; or a transmit end may perform sending by using the multi-carrier waveform, and a receive end may perform receiving by using the single-carrier waveform.
US11996959B2
The technology described herein relates to an SRS transmission method, an access network device, and a terminal device. The method includes sending channel sounding reference signal (SRS) time domain resource indication information to a terminal device, where the SRS time domain resource indication information indicates an SRS time domain resource, and the SRS time domain resource includes at least one of a first symbol to an eighth symbol in a first slot. The method further includes receiving an SRS from the terminal device on the SRS time domain resource.
US11996958B2
Identifying a coherence time associated with a user equipment (UE) and a coherence bandwidth associated with the UE, determining a coherence block based on the coherence time and the coherence bandwidth, determining whether the coherence block satisfies a threshold, based on a first determination that the coherence block satisfies the threshold, employing a plurality of modular antenna arrays in multi-user (Mu)-multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for the UE, and, based on a second determination that the coherence block does not satisfy the threshold, employing the plurality of modular antenna arrays in single-user (Su)-MIMO for the UE.
US11996954B2
A method for evaluating a signal that is, for example, transferred and/or receivable via a bus system. The method includes: ascertaining a first variable that characterizes a length of a bit sequence associated with the signal, for example, the bit sequence including n bits, where n is greater than or equal to one, and optionally ascertaining a second variable that characterizes a deviation of the length of the bit sequence from a reference bit sequence that includes n bits.
US11996950B2
A method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a network device from a server, first data associated with an application. The method further includes, during a first monitoring occasion associated with the application, transmitting, by the network device, the first data to a first group of multiple user equipment (UE) devices that execute the application. The method further includes transmitting a message to the first group after transmitting the first data. The message indicates completion of the first monitoring occasion.
US11996943B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer storage media for communication. A method comprises transmitting, from a network device to a terminal device, a set of repetitions of downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling data transmissions from the network device to the terminal device; performing, based on the set of repetitions of the DCI, the data transmissions from the network device to the terminal device; and receiving, from the terminal device, a single feedback signal for the data transmissions. Embodiments of the present disclosure can improve reliability and robustness for Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).
US11996932B2
A method for enabling enable use of multiple active paths for TDM traffic over a packet switched network, comprises: receiving at least two copies of a replicated packet including TDM information via at least two paths through the packet switched network, the at least two copies of the replicated packet including at least a first copy of the replicated packet received via a first of the at least two paths, and a second copy of the replicated packet received via a second of the at least two paths; selecting a copy of the replicated packet from among the at least two copies of the replicated packet; inputting the selected copy of the replicated packet to a jitter buffer; discarding unselected ones of the at least two copies of the replicated packet; and outputting the selected copy of the replicated packet from the jitter buffer to a TDM endpoint device.
US11996917B2
The present disclosure relates to precoding matrix determining methods, devices, and systems. In one example method, a receive end device obtains channel state information (CSI) of a first channel and information about P antenna port groups of a transmit end device. The receive end device determines V orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode groups based on the CSI of the first channel and first OAM modes, determines a first precoding matrix based on the P antenna port groups of the transmit end device and the V OAM mode groups, and sends, to the transmit end device, first indication information indicating the first precoding matrix. The transmit end device receives the first indication information, and determines the first precoding matrix based on the first indication information.
US11996898B2
A method for determining a pre-equalization matrix to be used for testing is provided. A radio communication tester is provided that has a base station emulator and a channel emulator. A device under test is provided that has at least two branches. A N×M multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) connection is established between the radio communication tester and the device under test. The N×M MIMO connection includes at least two channels. Reference signal received power per branch measurement values are continuously forwarded from the device under test to the radio communication tester. A pre-equalization matrix is determined by the radio communication tester, wherein the reference signal received power per branch measurement values and presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) are taken into account when calculating the pre-equalization matrix. The pre-equalization matrix compensates cross-talk between the at least two channels and balances the branches such that the device under test receives equal power at its reception antennas. Further, a test setup is described.
US11996888B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, causing, by a processing system including a processor, a first optical signal to be conveyed within a first communication device from a first component of the first communication device to a second component of the first communication device via a first fiber including a first hollow core fiber, and causing, by the processing system, the first optical signal to be transmitted from the first communication device to a second communication device via a second fiber. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11996887B1
Systems and methods are described for transmitting information optically in free space. For instance, a system may include an optical signal generator to generate an amplified beam of light. A telescope transmits the amplified beam through the medium and receives an inbound beam of light. A detector system may include one or more (or multiple) detectors and a routing system that transmits the inbound beam to a selected set of detectors. In some cases, the system can determine a re-configuration condition based on control parameters and perform a system re-configuration to direct the inbound beam to a different set of detectors. In some cases, the system includes a remote fiber head or wavelength division multiplexing.
US11996874B1
Systems and methods comprising: receiving a signal (S) having a first interfering signal component (FISC); generating a replicated SOI (RSOI); and iteratively performing a process to obtain residual errors for FISC. The process involves: modifying an amplitude of RSOI; obtaining a reference signal (RS) by removing RSOI with the modified amplitude from S; analyzing frequency of RS to obtain an estimated carrier frequency and an estimated symbol rate for FISC; generating a remaining signal by removing, from FRS, a signal having the estimated carrier frequency and symbol rate; and determining a residual error of the remaining signal. Parameters for FISC are then set equal to the estimated carrier frequency and symbol rate that are associated with a lowest residual error. The parameters may be further refined in accordance with another process which involves iteratively modifying a symbol rate of FISC. Yet another process may be performed to determine filter parameters.
US11996870B2
The present application relates to a terminal, including: a main board, a middle frame, a radio frequency circuit layer, a screen, and a plurality of antennas, where the middle frame is located between the main board and the radio frequency circuit layer, the radio frequency circuit layer is located between the screen and the middle frame, and the plurality of antennas are connected to the main board by using radio frequency lines in the radio frequency circuit layer.
US11996866B2
A feedback control system configured to drive a load is disclosed. The feedback control system includes an up-sampling circuit, configured to perform an un-sampling operation on a source signal and produce an up-sampled signal with an up-sampling frequency according to the up-sampled signal and a feedback signal from the load; a delta circuit, coupled to the up-sampling circuit and configured to produce a delta signal; a sigma circuit, configured to produce a density modulation signal according to the delta signal; and a driving device, configured to drive the load according to the density modulation signal with the up-sampling frequency.
US11996857B2
An analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) including a target analog-to-digital converter (ADC) providing second data samples, a first adjacent ADC providing first data samples, and a second adjacent ADC providing third data samples. The ADCs perform an analog-to-digital conversion using a time-interleaving approach in response to clock signals having different phases and including a reference clock signal. A timing calibration circuit includes a relative time skew generator generating a relative time skew and an absolute time skew generator generate an absolute time skew. A clock generator adjusts at least one phase of the clock signals based on the absolute time skew.
US11996846B2
A master latch circuit, including a first p-type transistor, a first n-type transistor, and a second n-type transistor connected in series; a first node connected to the first p-type transistor and the first n-type transistor, and a NAND circuit configured to receive a signal of the first node and a clock signal and output a result of a NAND operation to a second node, wherein a gate of the first p-type transistor is connected to the second node.
US11996833B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of electricity, and disclose a drive circuit. In some embodiments of this application, the drive circuit includes a high-side driver module and a delay module, the delay module is configured to output a delay signal of preset duration to the high-side driver module in a case that a control module is being reset; and the high-side driver module is configured to: according to the delay signal of preset duration, remain in a first state within the preset duration, the first state being the same as a second state; where the second state is a working state of the high-side driver module before the control module is reset, and the second state includes being on or off.
US11996819B2
A filter includes: an input terminal configured to receive a radio frequency signal, and an output terminal of the filter configured to output the radio frequency signal obtained after filtering. The filter further includes a first filter capacitor and a first ground via. The first filter capacitor is disposed in a substrate or on a surface of a substrate. A first terminal of the first filter capacitor is coupled to the input terminal or the output terminal of the filter, a second terminal of the first filter capacitor is coupled to a terminal of the first ground via disposed in the substrate, and another terminal of the first ground via is coupled to a ground.
US11996816B2
Methods and devices are described for reducing the audible effect of pre-responses in an audio signal. The pre-responses are effectively delayed by employing a digital non-minimum-phase filter, which includes a zero lying outside the unit circle in its z-transform response. This zero is not paired with another zero at a reciprocal position inside the unit circle, as this would linearise the phase modification. The filtering can introduce a greater group delay at the pre-response frequency than at a low frequency, such as 500 Hz or even 0 Hz. The technique can be used to reduce pre-responses in an existing audio signal and also to pre-empt pre-responses that would be introduced to the audio signal by subsequent processing.
US11996815B2
Disclosed examples include an apparatus. The apparatus may include a differential signal path portion, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The first circuit may be arranged at the differential signal path portion to set a differential impedance of the differential signal path portion. The second circuit may be arranged outside of the differential signal path portion to set a common-mode impedance of the differential signal path portion lower than the differential impedance.
US11996814B2
An active filter and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to suppress out-of-band peaking. An active filter may include an active device configured to provide a power gain to an input signal, a feedback network configured to connect an output of the active device to an input of the active device, and an input impedance network configured to couple the input signal to the input of the active device. A combination of the feedback network and the input impedance network is configured to provide frequency response properties of the active filter such that a frequency domain signal transfer function of the active filter has a constant in numerator.
US11996795B2
A motor drive system for use with a motor comprising a first high-side switch coupled to a high voltage bus and the motor. A first low-side switch coupled to the motor and a return, a turn ON and turn OFF of the first high-side switch and the first low-side switch provides a phase current for the motor. A system controller configured to receive a phase current sense signal representative of the phase current of the motor and configured to begin an alignment sequence to align the motor to a goal alignment position, wherein during the alignment sequence at least one of the first high-side switch or the first low-side switch is turned ON and OFF having an alignment duty ratio, and the system controller is configured to end the alignment sequence in response to a sensed decrease in the phase current sense signal or a first duration has elapsed.
US11996792B2
Described embodiments relate to motor control for synchronous motors, and more specifically, some embodiments relate to motor-current control for permanent-magnet synchronous motors. Embodiments of a current controller are described that include an adaptive controller configured to adapt to changing system dynamics of a PMSM. Embodiments of adaptive control techniques are described that involve estimating system parameters of a PMSM and adapting control actions to compensate for such estimated system parameters. Such adapted control actions may be expected to track an observed motor current to a desired motor current. Systems, methods and devices related to the above are also described.
US11996780B2
The present disclosure provides a power conversion circuit including positive and negative input terminals, a clamping branch circuit, a first primary switch, a transformer, a rectifier circuit, a resonant inductor, a resonant capacitor, and positive and negative output terminals. The clamping branch circuit includes a clamping capacitor and a second primary switch serially connected between the first and second terminals thereof. The first terminal is coupled to the positive input terminal. The first primary switch is connected between the second terminal and the negative input terminal. The primary winding of the transformer is connected to the clamping branch circuit in parallel. The rectifier circuit includes first and second bridge arms connected in parallel. Connection terminals in the first and second bridge arms are coupled to two terminals of the secondary winding of the transformer correspondingly. The first and second bridge arms are coupled between the positive and negative output terminals.
US11996778B2
A circuit for controlling a switching mode power supply having a power switch, having: a feedback pulse circuit, configured to receive a feedback signal, and to provide a feedback pulse signal; a load determining circuit, configured to receive the feedback signal, and to provide a load determining signal; a light load pulse circuit, configured to receive the load determining signal and a frequency regulating signal, and to provide a light load pulse signal; a frequency regulating circuit, configured to receive the load determining signal, the light load pulse signal and a normal load pulse signal, and to provide the frequency regulating signal; and a selecting circuit, configured to receive the load determining signal, the feedback pulse signal and the light load pulse signal, and to provide an on control signal and the normal load pulse signal; wherein the on control signal controls an on operation of the power switch.
US11996777B2
A control circuit for an electronic converter is generates a drive signal of the electronic converter by setting the drive signal to a first logic level in response to a switch-on signal, and to a second logic level in response to a switch-off signal. The control circuit comprises a valley detection circuit and a combinational logic circuit. The control circuit comprises a blanking circuit configured to generate the blanking signal by determining a blanking time, and asserting the blanking signal when the blanking time elapses since the start of the switch-on or the switch-off interval. The control circuit comprises a blanking time adaption circuit to adapt the blanking time as a function of a blanking time adaption signal based on the input voltage, and to increase the blanking time when the input voltage increases, and decrease the blanking time when the input voltage decreases.
US11996762B2
The invention relates to a voltage supply for a controller of a converter. In particular, a reliable and stable voltage supply for controlling the converter is facilitated, said voltage supply allowing a stable operation, wherein a changeover is allowed between a self-sufficient voltage supply by the inverter itself and a redundant voltage supply by means of an external source.
US11996757B2
A lubricant supported electric motor includes a stator and a rotor and a drive hub. The rotor is moveable relative to the stator and a gap is defined between the rotor and the stator. A lubricant is disposed within the gap to support the rotor relative to the stator and provide a bearing mechanism. The drive hub is coupled to the rotor such that rotation of the rotor causes rotation of the drive hub. The drive hub may be connected to the rotor via a coupler member that is torsionally stiff and axially and radially compliant. The stator may be fixed relative to a connection structure that extends radially within the stator. The connection member may support the drive hub for rotation. Lubricant is supplied via a passageway extending through the connection member into a chamber that includes the gap.
US11996744B2
A stator structure of a vehicle motor includes a stator core assembly and a plurality of coil assemblies composed of flat wires. The stator core assembly includes an annular portion and a plurality of tooth portions. The tooth portions extend from the annular portion in a radial direction toward a center of the stator core assembly. Each coil assembly is configured around a corresponding tooth portion. Each coil assembly includes a first flat wire and a plurality of second flat wires that are electrically connected in parallel. The first flat wire is radially stacked and wound around the corresponding tooth portion. The second flat wires are arranged radially adjacent to the first flat wire and are electrically connected in series to the first flat wire. The second flat wires are alternately stacked and radially wound around the corresponding tooth portion.
US11996740B2
A rotor includes a rotor core and a permanent magnet. The rotor core includes an outside slit provided between a permanent magnet insertion hole and an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, and inside slits provided between a magnetic pole center part and the outside slit. A minimum distance from a first inside slit to the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core is longer than a minimum distance from any other inside slit except the first inside slit to the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core.
US11996739B2
A multi-pole rotor of a variable-flux memory motor (VFMM) includes: a plurality of poles. Each pole includes: a curved soft magnet, wherein an outer periphery of the curved soft magnet is toward the rotational axis of the rotor; a first non-magnetic and non-conductive material disposed on the outer periphery of the curved soft magnet; and a second non-magnetic and non-conductive material disposed on an inner periphery of the curved soft magnet.
US11996737B2
A support structure for a stator of a generator, in particular of a wind turbine is provided, wherein the support structure includes a carrier element extending in an axial direction, wherein the carrier element includes a base section, a side section and a top section and wherein the base section of at least one carrier element of the plurality of carrier elements is connected to the base section of another one carrier element of the plurality of carrier elements. A plurality of circumferential connecting elements circumferentially protruding from the base section of one carrier element is connected to another plurality of connecting elements circumferentially protruding from the base section of another carrier element in order to provide a connection between the one and the other carrier element, a plurality of cooling pockets being formed between the connecting elements for cooling air to pass.
US11996735B2
A motor according to an embodiment includes a stator. The stator includes a plurality of connection cores. The connection core includes a plurality of pieces connected via connection portions. The plurality of pieces are arranged in a circular arc shape. The plurality of connection cores are arranged in an annular shape.
US11996732B2
A stator core of a fan motor comprises: a back yoke body; and a plurality of teeth which are spaced apart from each other inside the back yoke body, wherein each of the plurality of teeth comprises: a neck coupled to the back yoke body; and a shoe protruding from the neck and facing the outer circumference of a rotor, and each of a plurality of insulators of the fan motor comprises: a neck insulator surrounding the neck; a first barrier protruding from the neck insulator in an axial direction; and a pair of second barriers protruding from the neck insulator towards the inner circumference of the back yoke body.
US11996731B2
A core used in an axial-gap rotating electric device includes an annular back yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding in an axial direction that is perpendicular to a first flat surface of the back yoke. The plurality of teeth are provided on the first flat surface at intervals in a circumferential direction. The back yoke and the teeth are constituted of an integrally-molded powder compact. A first curved section that connects a peripheral surface of each tooth and the first flat surface of the back yoke is provided at a corner between the tooth and the back yoke. The first curved section has a curvature radius ranging between 0.2 mm and 1.5 mm inclusive.
US11996729B2
The present technology includes a power supply and a method of operating the same. The power supply includes a main power supply configured to receive external power and output a charge voltage and main power, and an auxiliary power supply including a capacitor array configured to charge auxiliary power using the charge voltage and output the auxiliary power. The auxiliary power supply is configured to periodically repeat a discharge operation and a sub charge operation on the capacitor array when the charging of the capacitor array is started.
US11996728B2
The present invention relates to an earphone charging case with adapter function, which comprises an AC/DC conversion circuit, a DC power output circuit and an earphone charging circuit. The DC power output circuit has a charging protocol circuit. The AC/DC conversion circuit is connected with the charging protocol circuit, the charging protocol circuit is connected with the earphone charging circuit, and the AC/DC conversion circuit is configured for accessing an alternating current and converting AC into DC. The earphone charging circuit is configured for charging a battery in the earphone charging case and earphones, and the DC power output circuit is configured for charging mobile terminals. Due to combination of two functions, the consumers will reduce purchase of single-function electronic products, and thus preventing more products from being idle; achieving optimization of product functions, playing a leading role in environmental protection.
US11996726B2
A battery pack is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a battery pack includes: a plurality of battery cells connected in series to each other; a fuse connected between two of the plurality of battery cells; and a primary protective circuit configured to measure voltages of the plurality of battery cells and control a protective operation of the fuse according to a highest voltage of the measured voltages.
US11996725B1
A system and method for providing electric power take-off from a high-voltage electric battery to a plurality of external devices includes: receiving a first request from a first external device having a first priority for a supply of power from an electric power take-off connector at a first voltage, a first current, and a first variance tolerance; receiving a second request from a second external device having a second priority for supply of power at a second voltage, a second current, and a second variance tolerance; and assigning available power from the high-voltage battery, via a high voltage (HV) variable direct-current to direct-current (DCDC) converter and a current regulator in electrical communication with the high-voltage battery, to the first and second external devices based upon their respective priorities and variance tolerances.
US11996722B2
An electrochemical apparatus includes a battery group, a main supply loop, a pre-charging circuit, and a control module. The pre-charging circuit includes a first switch and a thermo-sensitive element. The thermo-sensitive element is configured to electrically connect the first switch, and impedance of the thermo-sensitive element increases with a rise in temperature. The first switch is electrically connected to the control module and the main supply loop, the thermo-sensitive element is electrically connected to the first switch, and the control module is configured to control the first switch to close to turn on the pre-charging circuit. When the pre-charging circuit meets a preset condition, the control module controls the first switch to open to turn off the pre-charging circuit. This application further provides an electrical apparatus, an electric vehicle, and a power supply control method for an electrochemical apparatus.
US11996718B2
A battery harvesting device and methods are disclosed for powering a load with a plurality of standardised batteries of different battery chemistries, each of the standardised batteries having a battery output voltage lower than a nominal voltage. The harvester comprises a power bus for attachment to the load, at least one receptacle arranged into each of a plurality of clusters, each receptacle configured for receiving one of the standardised batteries, each cluster further comprising electronics comprising an input connected to the receptacle and an output connected to the power bus, and a DC-DC boost circuitry for raising a battery output voltage of a connected one of the standardised batteries, and a processor for controlling the electronics such that each of the outputs connected the power bus is maintained at the nominal voltage.
US11996709B2
The present invention includes an information acquirer (21) configured to acquire a property of a battery (22) installed in an electric vehicle (20) and transmit the property as battery property information and a battery identification device (100) configured to collect the battery property information transmitted by a plurality of electric vehicles, generate a battery model by modeling the property of the battery on the basis of the collected battery property information, create control information according to the property of the battery for controlling traveling of each electric vehicle on the basis of the generated battery model, and provide the control information suitable for each electric vehicle.
US11996702B2
Resonator control techniques for wireless power transmitting units are described. One or more novel parameters may be defined for use in conjunction with dominant PRU selection on the part of a PTU. In various embodiments, each of a plurality of PRUs may determine values for one or more such parameters, and may report those values to the PTU. In some embodiments, the PTU may identify a parameter to be used as a selection criterion, and may identify the dominant PRU based on the respective values reported for that parameter by the plurality of PRUs. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11996701B2
A hearing device has a battery module. The battery module has a secondary cell and a reception coil for contactless charging of the secondary cell. The battery module has a circuit board with a conductor track which forms the reception coil. The circuit board contains a plurality of layers. The conductor track extends over the plurality of layers while containing a conductor loop, which has at least one turn, in each of the plurality of layer. A corresponding circuit board is furthermore specified.
US11996696B2
A power supporting arrangement for a power grid includes a first and a second voltage source converter with an AC side and a DC side. A DC link interconnects the DC sides of the voltage source converters. A first switching arrangement includes a number of settable positions. The AC side of the second voltage source converter is connected to the power grid and the first switching arrangement is connected between a first synchronous machine. The AC side of the first voltage source converter and the power grid and operable to selectively connect the first synchronous machine to the power grid or to the AC side of the first voltage source converter.
US11996690B2
A system includes a transformer rectifier unit (TRU) including a backfeed sense module. A contactor is operatively connected to the TRU for selectively supplying DC power to a DC bus from the TRU with the contactor closed and isolating the DC bus from the TRU with the contactor opened. A contactor driver is operatively connected to receive a signal from the backfeed sense module and to control opening and closing of the contactor based on the signal. The contactor driver is configured to open the contactor upon receipt of the signal indicative of backfeed detected in the TRU.
US11996683B2
A condulet assembly for fabricating a rigid or intermediate metal conduit raceway of an electrical system is provided. The condulet assembly includes a gasket and a condulet including a condulet body and a mouth with an interior ridge positioned circumferentially along an interior of the mouth wall. The interior ridge includes a plurality of projections configured to form a plurality of indentations circumferentially around an exterior of the metal conduit and engage the metal conduit at the indentations when the mouth is compressed with the metal conduit received therein. The gasket is sized to circumscribe the conduit and includes a ring body and a first lip, wherein the ring body and the first lip deform and seal a gap between the interior of the mouth wall and the exterior of the metal conduit when the mouth is compressed with the metal conduit received therein.
US11996676B2
A pulsed laser diode array driver includes an inductor having a first terminal configured to receive a source voltage, a source capacitor coupled between the first terminal of the inductor and ground, a bypass capacitor connected between a second terminal of the inductor and ground, a bypass switch connected between the second terminal of the inductor and ground, a laser diode array with one or more rows of laser diodes, and one or more laser diode switches, each being connected between a respective row node of the laser diode array and ground. The laser diode switches and the bypass switch are configured to control a current flow through the inductor to produce respective high-current pulses through each row of the laser diode array, each of the high-current pulses corresponding to a peak current of a resonant waveform developed at that row of the laser diode array.
US11996655B2
A multipolar connector includes a first signal terminal, a first ground terminal, an insulating member that holds the first signal and ground terminals, and an external terminal along a periphery of the insulating member. The first signal and ground terminals are arranged side by side in a direction parallel to an X-axis, extend in a direction parallel to a Y-axis orthogonal to the X-axis, and each have a first end serving as a mount portion that connects to and mounts on a mount electrode on a circuit board. When viewed in a direction parallel to a Z-axis orthogonal to the directions parallel to the X and Y axes, a mount portion of the first signal terminal is within a layout area of the external terminal. When viewed in the direction parallel to the Z-axis, a mount portion of the first ground terminal is outward from the mount portion.
US11996653B2
A contact arrangement with a flat contact element with an upper side and an underside, the thickness of which decreases toward three of its edges from the upper side to the underside, and with a connecting element, which is electrically and mechanically connected to the contact element and is further away from the underside of the contact element than from its upper side. Also disclosed is a device with a base plate and a contact arrangement arranged thereon and a conductor track, which is formed on the contact element and a region of the base plate.
US11996643B2
A FPCB connector including a first main body to which a first FPCB is coupled, and a second main body to which a second FPCB is coupled, the second main body being coupled to and electrically connected to the first main body. At least one of the first main body and the second main body is coupled to the first FPCB or the second FPCB without soldering.
US11996640B2
A battery terminal connector includes a body portion with a first yoke and a second yoke extending forwardly of the body portion to form a terminal receiver hole. A power fastener extends from a rearward end of the body portion to receive one or more of an adapter, a primary cable adapter, and/or an auxiliary cable adapter. Each of the adapter, the primary cable adapter, and/or the auxiliary cable adapter extends rearwardly of the body portion. The adapter has at least a first aperture configured to be coupled to the power fastener and a second aperture configured to be coupled to the auxiliary cable adapter. The auxiliary cable adapter may be coupled to the second aperture with an auxiliary fastener. A cover is coupled over the battery terminal connector.
US11996629B2
A beam steering antenna structure comprising a printed circuit board and a conductive component, a first wall and a second wall of the printed circuit board being juxtaposed with a first surface of the conductive component, the second wall abutting and being galvanically connected to the first surface. A second surface of the conductive component extends at an angle from the first surface. A connecting surface extends between the first wall and the second wall such that a groove is formed, the groove being partially juxtaposed to the first surface. The groove comprises a first antenna array and a second antenna array transmitting or receiving, respectively, a first radiation beam and a second radiation beam having orthogonal polarizations. The second surface steers at least one of the first or second radiation beam in a direction away from or towards the connecting surface.
US11996610B2
The present disclosure provides an antenna and a manufacturing method thereof, and belongs to the field of communication technology. The antenna provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other, a dielectric layer provided therebetween, and a feed unit on a side of the second substrate away from the first substrate. The first substrate includes: a first base substrate; and a radiation unit on a side of the first base substrate close to the second substrate. The second substrate includes: a second base substrate; and a reference electrode layer on a side of the second base substrate away from the feed unit, the reference electrode layer has an opening, an orthographic projection of the opening on the second base substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the radiation unit on the second base substrate.
US11996603B2
An electronic communication device communicates a radiofrequency communication signal between wireless communication circuitry and an antenna structure. The antenna structure may be mounted on a first component support structure and configured to communicate wireless radiofrequency signals. A first connector may be connected to the antenna structure. A second component support structure may be mechanically coupled to the first component support structure and capable of movement with respect to the first component support structure. Wireless communication circuitry may be mounted on the second component support structure configured to communicate with the antenna structure using radiofrequency carrier signals. A second connector may be connected to the wireless communication circuitry. The first connector and the second connector may be mechanically connected and resiliently aligned by magnetic attraction therebetween and communicatively coupled to communicate the radiofrequency carrier signal between the wireless communication circuitry and the antenna structure.
US11996601B2
Aspects of coaxial to microstrip transitional housings are described. In one example, a transitional housing includes a channel comprising sidewalls formed into the housing, and an opening formed at an end of the channel. The transitional housing also includes a plug that is fitted into the opening at an end of the channel. The plug has a flat surface positioned at the end of the channel, extending between the sidewalls of the channel, and an undercut below the flat surface. The transitional housing also includes a coaxial conductor aperture that extends from outside the housing, into the housing, into the plug, through the flat surface and undercut of the plug, and into the channel. Use of the plug offers a manufacturing solution for the mechanical and electrical transition between a coaxial feedthrough to a PCB microstrip secured within the housing. The solution helps to eliminate unwanted mismatches of the transition.
US11996581B2
This application provides a battery, an electric apparatus, and a method and a device for preparing battery, relating to the field of battery technologies. The battery includes a battery cell having an electrode terminal; a fire prevention pipeline, configured to accommodate a fire prevention medium; and a fastener, configured to fasten the fire prevention pipeline. The fastener is connected to the electrode terminal.
US11996576B2
A high strength frame of a sealable containment system is provided for containing and protecting energy cells or batteries. The protection provided by the high strength frame provides impalement resistance, impact resistance, fire resistance, and fluid penetration prevention. The frame includes a shock structure/energy absorber to protect the battery from forces during potential impacts with other vehicles or objects. The frame of a battery containment system is further designed to resist impalements in order to protect the batteries. Furthermore, because vehicle batteries are prone to extreme fire in the event of an impact or impalement, the containment system provides a sealed battery environment to keep fluid and moisture out during normal operation and to limit oxygen in the event of a battery fire.
US11996573B1
A power storage cartridge for placement in a stack with other cartridges arranged along a stack axis. The cartridge is a a rack-mountable housing including an active battery module and a passive heat sink module having cooling air circulating throughout both modules. The active module includes battery cells and cell support systems disposed within an airtight compartment having two ducts. The passive environmental management module is sealed to the active module around said ducts. Cooling fans circulate air between the active module and the passive environmental management module through the two ducts.
US11996569B2
A high voltage battery protection pack according to one embodiment of the present invention includes an upper case including a coupling plate protruding along an outer circumferential surface of the upper case and a plurality of coupling holes formed in the coupling plate to be spaced apart from each other, a lower case in which a connecting plate having a shape corresponding to the coupling plate and including a weld groove formed by partial engraving is formed to protrude from an outer circumferential surface of the lower case, a weld nut which is disposed between the upper case and the lower case to maintain an axial force and is welded to the weld groove of the connecting plate, an assembly bolt which passes through the coupling hole of the upper case and is insertion-coupled to the weld nut, and a gasket which seals a space between the upper case and the lower case.
US11996563B2
Provided is a secondary battery which includes an electrode assembly having an electrode tab extended from an electrode current collector, wherein the electrode tab is provided with an insulation coating layer containing an inorganic filler and a binder, the binder has an electrolyte uptake more than 0% and less than 50%, and the electrolyte uptake is determined by a predetermined method. In the secondary battery according to the present disclosure, the insulation coating layer provided in the electrode tab includes a binder having a low electrolyte uptake, and thus the insulation coating layer has improved adhesion and is prevented from detachment from the electrode tab. As a result, it is possible to maintain an excellent insulation state and to minimize an internal short-circuit in a secondary battery, thereby ensuring safety.
US11996562B2
Provided is a binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery electrode that can inhibit electrode swelling associated with repeated charging and discharging while also causing a secondary battery to display excellent cycle characteristics. The binder composition contains a graft copolymer having a structure in which a branch polymer is bonded to a backbone polymer. The backbone polymer includes a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl monomer unit in a proportion of not less than 5 mass % and not more than 89 mass % and has a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 1.0×106 and not more than 2.0×107. The branch polymer includes a water-soluble monomer unit that is formed from a water-soluble monomer having a solubility of not less than 0.01 g/100 g-H2O and not more than 25 g/100 g-H2O at a temperature of 20° C.
US11996560B1
The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode material for a lithium ion battery and its preparation. The positive electrode material in accordance with the present disclosure has an intrinsic specific surface area of 5-13 m2/g. The positive electrode material in accordance with the present disclosure has an intrinsic specific surface area and an intrinsic pore size within the required ranges. In this regard, the positive electrode material in accordance with the present disclosure has excellent particle strength, excellent Li ion transference ability, and good resistance to electrolyte erosion. When used in lithium batteries, it may impart the batteries with excellent rate performance and cycle performance. The present disclosure also relates to a method for preparing the positive electrode material.
US11996541B2
A device for manufacturing a laminated electrode body comprises: a negative electrode cutting drum that forms a negative electrode sheet by cutting a negative electrode single sheet to a first width and conveys the negative electrode sheet; a negative electrode heating drum that heats the negative electrode sheet; a positive electrode cutting drum that forms a positive electrode sheet by cutting a positive electrode single sheet to a second width and conveys the positive electrode sheet; a positive electrode heating drum that heats the positive electrode sheet; and a bonding drum at which the negative electrode sheet is arranged on a first separator single sheet, a second separator single sheet is arranged on the negative electrode sheet, the positive electrode sheet is arranged on the second separator single sheet, and the sheets are bonded. The conveyance between drums is carried out by a belt conveyor which joins with two drums.
US11996539B2
A method for producing a secondary battery electrode, according to the present invention, comprises: a slicing step for producing an active material film by slicing an active material bulk; and a binding step for combining a current collector and the active material film. A method for producing a secondary battery electrode according to the present invention produces an active material film by slicing an active material bulk, which is a free-standing molded body or pellet, thus allowing binder-free active material film to be produced, and as no actual restrictions exist for the thickness of the active material film, thick active material film can be produced, and thus electrodes having high-loading and high composite density can be produced.
US11996537B2
Operating a machine includes supplying electric power from a fuel cell to a power bus connected to an electric motor and an energy storage device in a machine operated at a work site, and determining an expected efficiency gain condition based on at least one of terrain data of the work site or machine activity data of the machine. Operating a machine further includes prognostically limiting a power output of the fuel cell based on the determining an expected efficiency gain condition, and charging the energy storage device during occurrence of the expected efficiency gain condition using at least one of a regenerative energy device or the fuel cell. The energy storage device may be discharged during prognostically limiting a power output of the fuel cell so as to share a load demand of the power bus between the fuel cell and the energy storage device. Related apparatus and control logic is also disclosed.
US11996536B2
Provided is a battery module including a multilayered firewall capable of controlling a heat transfer phenomenon due to a battery fire. The battery module includes a plurality of secondary battery cells accommodated in a housing member, wherein a secondary battery cell among the plurality of battery cells includes an electrode assembly in which a plurality of negative electrodes and positive electrodes are alternately stacked with a separator interposed therebetween and a pouch case encasing the electrode assembly, wherein a multilayered firewall is interposed between the plurality of secondary battery cells, and the multilayered firewall includes a heat absorption layer and fireproof layers stacked on opposing surfaces of the heat absorption layer.
US11996527B2
A battery cell monitoring system comprises a flexible substrate able to conform to a surface of a battery cell to be monitored, and a plurality of first-level prediction units integrated onto the flexible substrate, where each first-level prediction unit is positioned at a different location on the flexible substrate to each other first-level prediction unit. Each first-level prediction unit comprises at least one sensor to generate sensor signals indicative of a physical state of the battery cell, and first-level prediction circuitry to generate a predicted battery cell status value in dependence on the sensor signals received from the at least one sensor of that first-level prediction unit. Second-level prediction circuitry is arranged to determine a prediction result in dependence on the predicted battery cell status values generated by the first-level prediction circuitry of each first-level prediction unit, and a communications device is used to output the prediction result at least when the prediction result indicates an occurrence of a critical event.
US11996521B2
The present invention relates to an electrochemical device, more particularly to an electrochemical device including a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and an electrolyte filled between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the electrolyte comprises a salt form of a carbon quantum dot anion and a metal cation having an average diameter in the range of 2 to 12 nanometers (nm) and a surface potential of −20 mV or less, the present invention provides an electrochemical device dramatically improving reliability, performance and durability by adopting an carbon quantum dot ion compound electrolyte having selective ion conductivity with a specific cation and suppressing side reactions caused by electrolyte as well as applicable in liquid, gel or solid phase.
US11996508B2
A winding shaft structure includes a winding shaft holder rotatable around an axial direction of the winding shaft structure, a first shaft group connected to one side of the winding shaft holder in the axial direction and configured to rotate together with the winding shaft holder, a second shaft group disposed on a side of the first shaft group in a radial direction of the winding shaft structure, a connecting member connected between the first shaft group and the second shaft group such that the second shaft group is movable with respect to the first shaft group in the radial direction via the connecting member, and a piezoelectric adjustment member disposed between the first shaft group and the second shaft group and deformable in the radial direction to adjust a distance between the first shaft group and the second shaft group.
US11996502B2
A method of producing a light-emitting device includes: providing a package having an upper surface and a recess including an opening located at the upper surface; disposing a light-emitting element on a surface defining a bottom of the recess of the package; disposing an uncured sealing member in the recess of the package; and curing the uncured sealing member while applying a centrifugal force to the package in which the uncured sealing member are disposed, such that the centrifugal force is applied in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface and toward the surface defining the bottom of the recess.
US11996496B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a conductive support substrate; a metal layer comprising a reflective metal provided on the conductive support substrate; a semiconductor laminate provided on the metal layer, the semiconductor laminate being a stack of a plurality of InGaAsP-based III-V group compound semiconductor layers containing at least In and P; an n-type InGaAs contact layer provided on the semiconductor laminate; and an n-side electrode provided on the n-type InGaAs contact layer. A center emission wavelength of light emitted from the semiconductor laminate is 1000 to 2200 nm.
US11996493B2
The present disclosure provides a light-emitting module and a display apparatus thereof. The light-emitting module includes a circuit substrate which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first surface includes a plurality of conductive channels, and the second surface includes a plurality of conductive pads. A plurality of light-emitting groups is arranged in a matrix on the first surface. Each of the light-emitting groups includes a red light-emitting diode chip, a green light-emitting diode chip, and a blue light-emitting diode chip. An electric component is disposed on the first surface and located in the light-emitting groups matrix. A translucent encapsulating component covers the plurality of light-emitting groups and the electric component. Wherein, the light-emitting groups matrix comprises m columns and n rows.
US11996487B2
In an example, the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a solar module. The method includes providing a substrate member having a surface region, the surface region comprising a spatial region, a first end strip comprising a first edge region and a first interior region, the first interior region comprising a first bus bar, a plurality of strips, a second end strip comprising a second edge region and a second interior region, the second edge region comprising a second bus bar, the first end strip, the plurality of strips, and the second end strip arranged in parallel to each other and occupying the spatial region such that the first end strip, the second end strip, and the plurality of strips consists of a total number of five (5) strips. The method includes separating each of the plurality of strips, arranging the plurality of strips in a string configuration, and using the string in the solar module.
US11996486B2
A crystalline silicon semiconductor layer includes a first channel region and a second conductor region. An oxide semiconductor layer includes a second channel region and a second conductor region. An lower metal layer includes a lower wire. The lower wire is in contact with a first conductor region in a first contact hole. The first conductor region and the second conductor region are electrically connected together through the lower wire.
US11996475B2
One object is to provide a semiconductor device capable of reducing loss during turn-on and degradation of forward voltage. A vertical MOSFET includes a semiconductor substrate 2 of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer 1 of the first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer 16 of a second conductivity type, first semiconductor regions 17 of the first conductivity type, first trenches 31 and a second trench 32, gate electrodes 20 provided in the first trenches 31 via a gate insulating film 19, and a Schottky electrode 29 provided in the second trench 32. The first trenches 31 are provided in a striped pattern, in a plan view and the second trench 32 surrounds the first trenches 31.
US11996470B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor fin. The semiconductor device includes first spacers over the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor device includes second spacers over the semiconductor fin. The second spacers vertically extend farther from the semiconductor fin than the first spacers. The semiconductor device includes a metal gate over the semiconductor fin, the metal gate is sandwiched by the first spacers. The metal gate includes a glue layer that contains tantalum nitride.
US11996461B2
Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor structure according to one embodiment includes first nanostructures, a first gate structure wrapping around each of the first nanostructures and disposed over an isolation structure, and a backside gate contact disposed below the first nanostructures and adjacent to the isolation structure. A bottom surface of the first gate structure is in direct contact with the backside gate contact.
US11996458B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor part; first and second electrodes respectively on back and front surfaces of the semiconductor part; and a control electrode between the semiconductor part and the second electrode. The control electrode is provided inside a trench of the semiconductor part. The control electrode is electrically insulated from the semiconductor part by a first insulating film and electrically insulated from the second electrode by a second insulating film. The control electrode includes an insulator at a position apart from the first insulating film and the second insulating film. The semiconductor part includes a first layer of a first conductivity type provided between the first and second electrodes, the second layer of a second conductivity type provided between the first layer and the second electrode and the third layer of the first conductivity type selectively provided between the second layer and the second electrode.
US11996455B2
Methods of forming and processing semiconductor devices are described. Certain embodiments related to electronic devices which comprise a dipole region having an interlayer dielectric, a high-κ dielectric material, and a dipole layer. The dipole layer comprises one or more of titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN), titanium tantalum nitride (TiTaN), titanium oxide (TiO), tantalum oxide (TaO), and titanium aluminum carbide (TiAlC).
US11996454B2
A gate-last ferroelectric field effect transistor includes a substrate, isolation regions, a gate structure, a side wall spacer, source and drain regions, a first metal silicide layer and an interlayer dielectric layer which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top; the present disclosure further provides a manufacturing method of a gate-last ferroelectric field effect transistor; according to structural characteristics of the gate-last ferroelectric field effect transistor and crystalline characteristics of a hafnium oxide-based ferroelectric film, a dummy gate is first introduced in a manufacturing process of the gate-last ferroelectric field effect transistor; afterwards, high-temperature annealing is performed to make sure that an unannealed hafnium oxide-based film is crystallized to form a ferroelectric phase; finally the dummy gate is removed and a gate electrode layer is deposited to meet performance requirements of the gate-last ferroelectric field effect transistor; and the gate-last ferroelectric field effect transistor has an excellent application prospect.
US11996451B2
Techniques in accordance with embodiments described herein are directed to semiconductor devices including a layer of aluminum nitride AlN or aluminum gallium nitride AlGaN as a ferroelectric layer and a method of making a thin film of AlN/AlGaN that possesses ferroelectric properties. In a ferroelectric transistor, a thin film of AlN/AlGaN that exhibits ferroelectric properties is formed between a gate electrode and a second semiconductor layer, e.g., of GaN.
US11996445B2
A carbon nanotube composite is described that can be accurately applied to a desired position by inkjet and a dispersion liquid using the same, where a main object is a carbon nanotube composite in which a conjugated polymer is attached to at least a part of the surface of a carbon nanotube, the conjugated polymer having a side chain represented by general formula (1): wherein R, X and A are defined as described.
US11996444B2
A semiconductor device includes a source region, a drain region, and a gate insulating film formed on a substrate, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, a first insulating film pattern formed to extend from the source region to a part of a top surface of the gate electrode, and a spacer formed on a side surface of the gate electrode in a direction of the drain region.
US11996435B2
An image sensor may include a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer that is subwavelength, hydrophobic, and/or antireflective. The PDMS layer may be fabricated to include a surface having a plurality of nanostructures (e.g., an array of convex protuberances and/or an array of concave recesses). The nanostructures may be formed through the use of a porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template that uses a plurality of nanopores to form the array of convex protuberances and/or the array of concave recesses. The nanostructures may each have a respective width that is less than the wavelength of incident light that is to be collected by the image sensor to increase light absorption by increasing the angle of incidence for which the image sensor is capable of collecting incident light. This may increase the quantum efficiency of the image sensor and may increase the sensitivity of the image sensor.
US11996431B2
The present disclosure relates to a CMOS image sensor. The image sensor comprises a pixel region comprising a photodiode disposed within a substrate. A deep trench isolation (DTI) ring encloses the photodiode from top view and extends from a back-side to a first position within the substrate from cross-sectional view. A pair of shallow trench isolation (STI) structures is respectively disposed at an inner periphery and an outer periphery sandwiching the DTI ring from top view and extends from a front-side to a second position within the substrate from cross-sectional view. A pixel device is disposed at the front-side of the substrate directly overlying the DTI ring. The pixel device comprises a gate electrode disposed over the substrate and a pair of source/drain (S/D) regions disposed within the substrate and reaching on a top surface of the DTI ring.
US11996429B2
A semiconductor device includes a device layer, a semiconductor layer, a sensor element, a dielectric layer, a color filter layer, and a micro-lens. The semiconductor layer is over the device layer. The semiconductor layer has a plurality of microstructures thereon. Each of the microstructures has a substantially triangular cross-section. The sensor element is under the microstructures of the semiconductor layer and is configured to sense incident light. The dielectric layer is over the microstructures of the semiconductor layer. The color filter layer is over the dielectric layer. The micro-lens is over the color filter layer.
US11996422B2
An electronic device includes: a capacitor; an insulating layer; at feast one trench provided in the insulating layer; and a first conductive plug, at least part of which is surrounded by the insulating layer. The capacitor includes: a first lower electrode provided along an inner wall of the at least one trench, a dielectric layer provided on the first lower electrode, and an upper electrode provided on the dielectric layer. At least part of the first conductive plug is positioned between an upper surface of the insulating layer and a lowermost portion of the at least one trench.
US11996421B2
Image sensor, mobile terminal, image capturing method are provided. Pixel array of image sensor includes preset quantity of pixel units, pixel unit includes first and second pixels that are dual pixel focusing pixels, first pixel includes red, green, and blue subpixels, second pixel includes green subpixel and infrared subpixel, and at least one of red and blue subpixels, and each subpixel is arranged in four-in-one manner; position of infrared subpixel in second pixel is same as position of red subpixel, green subpixel, blue subpixel, first combination of subpixels, or second combination of subpixels in first pixel; or position of half the infrared subpixel in second pixel is same as position of half the red subpixel, half the green subpixel, or half the blue subpixel in first pixel, and half an infrared subpixel in each of two adjacent second pixels is combined to form entire infrared subpixel.
US11996415B2
A display panel and a method of manufacturing the display panel are provided. The display panel includes a substrate and a transistor layer. The transistor array layer includes a first metal layer disposed above the substrate. The first metal layer includes a gate, a second metal layer disposed above the first metal layer. The second metal layer includes a source, a drain, and a metal trace, and at least one repair part disposed on both sides of the metal trace. The repair part and the metal trace are configured to form a signal trace.
US11996403B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor devices and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate and a source. The source has a first conductivity type and a first insulator separates the source from the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further comprises a drain. The drain has a second conductivity type that is opposite from the first conductivity type, and a second insulator separates the drain from the semiconductor substrate. In an embodiment, the semiconductor further comprises a semiconductor body between the source and the drain, where the semiconductor body is spaced away from the semiconductor substrate.
US11996402B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate that includes a cell region and a dummy region, a first metal layer on the substrate and including a dummy line on the dummy region, a power delivery network on a bottom surface of the substrate, and a first through via that penetrates the substrate and extends from the power delivery network toward the dummy line. The first through via is electrically connected to the dummy line. The power delivery network includes a plurality of lower lines and a pad line below the lower lines. The pad line is electrically connected through the lower lines to the first through via.
US11996393B2
The embodiment relates to an intelligent integrated assembly and transfer apparatus. The intelligent integrated assembly and transfer apparatus according to the embodiment can include a fluid chamber 300, a roller unit 200 and assembly inspection unit 500. The fluid chamber 300 can accommodate semiconductor light emitting devices 150. Semiconductor light emitting devices 150 can be assembled on an assembly substrate 210. The assembly substrate 210 can be mounted on the roller unit 200. The roller unit 200 can rotate the assembly substrate 210. The assembly inspection unit 500 can inspect the semiconductor light emitting devices 150 assembled on the assembly substrate 210. The roller unit 200 can include a roller rotated part 220 where the assembly substrate 210 is mounted and rotated, a roller driving part 230 for rotating the roller rotated part 220, and a magnet head unit 400 for applying magnetic force to the semiconductor light emitting devices 150 to be assembled on the assembly substrate 210.
US11996390B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with stacking structures. The semiconductor device includes a bottom die; a first stacking structure including a first controller die positioned on the bottom die, and a plurality of first storage dies stacked on the first controller die; and a second stacking structure including a second controller die positioned on the bottom die, and a plurality of second storage dies stacked on the second controller die. The plurality of first storage dies respectively include a plurality of first storage units configured as a floating array. The plurality of second storage dies include a plurality of second storage units respectively including an insulator-conductor-insulator structure.
US11996386B2
To protect against physical and side-channel attacks, circuit assemblies may mount a main processor opposite of a cryptographic processor such that traces between the two processors are hidden in a substrate. Another substrate defining a cavity may be mounted on the bottom of the substrate to enclose the cryptographic processor and prevent physical access without disrupting the cryptographic operations. Voltage converters with integrated inductors may also be included in the cavity to generate electromagnetic noise that will disrupt the sensitive equipment used in side-channel attacks. An electromagnetic shield may be sputtered on top of the main processor to block electromagnetic sniffing attacks while still allowing the processor to be coupled with a heat sink.
US11996384B2
An apparatus for debonding a wafer from a bonded wafer stack is disclosed. The apparatus includes a flashlamp, a flashlamp control unit, and a wafer debonding unit. A processed wafer can be debonded from a bonded wafer stack by applying light pulses from the flashlamp. The flashlamp is controlled by the flashlamp control unit that includes a capacitor bank, a power supply for charging the capacitor bank, an IGBT-based switching device, and a frequency controller. The wafer debonding unit includes a debonding vacuum table, a wafer feeding robot for conveying the bonded wafer stack to the debonding vacuum table, a set of suction cups for applying vacuum to the bonded wafer stack when light pulses are being emitted by the flashlamp to debond the processed wafer from the bonded wafer stack.
US11996381B2
A method of fabricating an integrated fan-out package is provided. The method includes the following steps. An integrated circuit component is provided on a substrate. An insulating encapsulation is formed on the substrate to encapsulate sidewalls of the integrated circuit component. A redistribution circuit structure is formed along a build-up direction on the integrated circuit component and the insulating encapsulation. The formation of the redistribution circuit structure includes the following steps. A dielectric layer and a plurality of conductive vias embedded in the dielectric layer are formed, wherein a lateral dimension of each of the conductive vias decreases along the build-up direction. A plurality of conductive wirings is formed on the plurality of conductive vias and the dielectric layer. An integrated fan-out package of the same is also provided.
US11996380B2
An article includes a solid circuit die on a first major surface of a substrate, wherein the solid circuit die includes an arrangement of contact pads, and wherein at least a portion of the contact pads in the arrangement of contact pads are at least partially exposed on the first major surface of the substrate to provide an arrangement of exposed contact pads; a guide layer including an arrangement of microchannels, wherein the guide layer contacts the first major surface of the substrate such that at least some microchannels in the arrangement of microchannels overlie the at least some exposed contact pads in the arrangement of exposed contact pads; and a conductive particle-containing liquid in at least some of the microchannels. Other articles and methods of manufacturing the articles are described.
US11996379B1
A filter package structure includes: a die substrate, a substrate, a solder resist layer, a package layer, and a conductive structure disposed; wherein the solder resist layer is disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of channels are formed in the solder resist layer, each of the channels being provided with a solder; the conductive structure includes a seal wall and a support electrode, the seal wall and one terminal of the support electrode being connected to the substrate via the solder; and the die substrate is provided with a filter, wherein the seal wall is disposed around a periphery of the filter, the die substrate, the substrate and the seal wall enclose to define an enclosed chamber, the support electrode is disposed in the enclosed chamber, and the package layer is disposed on a periphery, far away from the enclosed chamber, of the die substrate.
US11996371B2
Embodiments include packages and methods for forming packages which include interposers having a substrate made of a dielectric material. The interposers may also include a redistribution structure over the substrate which includes metallization patterns which are stitched together in a patterning process which includes multiple lateral overlapping patterning exposures.
US11996355B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element and a lead part. The semiconductor element is mounted on a circuit pattern provided on an insulating substrate. The lead part has a plate shape and is bonded to the semiconductor element with a first bonding material interposed therebetween. The lead part includes a lead body and a bonding component. The lead body includes an opening part provided corresponding to a mounting position of the semiconductor element. The bonding component is provided in the opening part and on the semiconductor element. The bonding component is bonded at a lower surface thereof to the semiconductor element by the first bonding material and bonded at an outer peripheral part thereof to an inner periphery of the opening part by a second bonding material.
US11996354B2
A semiconductor device provided with first and second semiconductor element each having an obverse and a reverse surface with a drain electrode, source electrode and gate electrode provided on the obverse surface. The semiconductor device is also provided with a control element electrically connected to the gate electrodes of the respective semiconductor elements, and with a plurality of leads, which include a first lead carrying the first semiconductor element, a second lead carrying the second semiconductor element, and a third lead carrying the control element. The first and second leads overlap with each other as viewed in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the semiconductor device, and the third lead overlaps with the first and second leads as viewed in a second direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and the first direction.
US11996353B2
Interconnects that facilitate reduced capacitance and/or resistance and corresponding techniques for forming the interconnects are disclosed herein. An exemplary interconnect is disposed in an insulating layer. The interconnect has a metal contact, a contact isolation layer surrounding sidewalls of the metal contact, and an air gap disposed between the contact isolation layer and the insulating layer. An air gap seal for the air gap has a first portion disposed over a top surface of the contact isolation layer, but not disposed on a top surface of the insulating layer, and a second portion disposed between the contact isolation layer and the insulating layer, such that the second portion surrounds a top portion of sidewalls of the metal contact. The air gap seal may include amorphous silicon and/or silicon oxide. The contact isolation layer may include silicon nitride. The insulating layer may include silicon oxide.
US11996347B2
A semiconductor device has a resistance element including a metal block, a resin layer disposed on the metal block, and a resistance film disposed on the resin layer and an insulated circuit board including an insulating plate and a circuit pattern disposed on the insulating plate and having a bonding area on a front surface thereof to which a back surface of the metal block of the resistance element is bonded. The area of the circuit pattern is larger in plan view than that of a front surface of the resistance element. The metal block has a thickness greater than that of the circuit pattern in a direction orthogonal to the back surface of the metal block. As a result, the metal block properly conducts heat generated by the resistance film of the resistance element to the circuit pattern.
US11996344B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element having a first main electrode and a second main electrode; a first heat dissipation member and a second heat dissipation member; and a lead frame including a first main terminal connected to the first heat dissipation member and a second main terminal connected to the second main electrode. The second main terminal includes a connection portion connected with the second main electrode, a facing portion extending from the connection portion and facing the first heat dissipation member, and a non-facing portion. The non-facing portion and the first main terminal are arranged in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction. A side surface of the first main terminal and a side surface of the non-facing portion of the second main terminal face each other.
US11996342B2
A semiconductor package includes a first heat dissipation plate, a second heat dissipation plate, a plurality of heat generating assemblies, and a plurality of fixture components. The first heat dissipation plate has a first upper surface and a first lower surface. The first heat dissipation plate includes first through holes extended from the first upper surface to the first lower surface. The second heat dissipation plate has a second upper surface and a second lower surface. The second heat dissipation plate includes second through holes extended from the second upper surface to the second lower surface. The heat generating assemblies are disposed between the first heat dissipation plate and the second heat dissipation plate. The fixture components include fix screws and nuts. The fix screws penetrate through the first heat dissipation plate and the second heat dissipation plate along the first through holes and the second through holes.
US11996339B2
An electronic element mounting substrate includes a substrate including, on a first upper surface, a mounting region in which an electronic element is mounted, a frame body located on the first upper surface of the substrate and surrounding the mounting region, a channel extending through the frame body outward from an inner wall of the frame body, and an electrode pad located on the first upper surface of the substrate or an inner surface of the frame body. The channel is located above or below the electrode pad.
US11996336B2
Methods, systems, and devices for electron beam probing techniques and related structures are described to enable inline testing of memory device structures. Conductive loops may be formed, some of which may be grounded and others of which may be electrically floating in accordance with a predetermined pattern. The loops may be scanned with an electron beam and image analysis techniques may be used to generate an optical pattern. The generated optical pattern may be compared to an expected optical pattern, which may be based on the predetermined pattern of grounded and floating loops. An electrical defect may be determined based on any difference between the generated optical pattern and the expected optical pattern. For example, if a second loop appears as having a brightness corresponding to a grounded loop, this may indicate that an unintended short exists. Fabrication techniques may be adjusted for subsequent devices to correct identified defects.
US11996332B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor stack, a second semiconductor stack, a first gate structure, and a second gate structure. The semiconductor substrate comprising a first device region and a second device region. The first semiconductor stack is located on the semiconductor substrate over the first device region, and has first channels. The second semiconductor stack is located on the semiconductor substrate over the second device region, and has second channels. A total number of the first channels is greater than a total number of the second channels. The first gate structure encloses the first semiconductor stack. The second gate structure encloses the second semiconductor stack.
US11996326B2
Methods for making semiconductor device having improve contact structures including the operations of depositing a first dielectric material, depositing a barrier material over the first dielectric material, depositing a second dielectric material over the barrier material, etching a two-slope contact opening with an upper sidewall angle of the opening through the second dielectric material that is less than a lower sidewall angle of the opening through the first dielectric material, and filling the two-slope contact opening with a conductive material, the conductive material.
US11996325B2
A device includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer over the substrate, a first conductive feature in the first dielectric layer, and an etch stop layer over the first dielectric layer. The etch stop layer includes metal-doped aluminum nitride. The device further includes a second dielectric layer over the etch stop layer, and a second conductive feature in the second dielectric layer. The second conductive feature extends into the etch stop layer and contacts the first conductive feature.
US11996318B2
The present disclosure relates to a fabricating procedure of a radio frequency device, in which a precursor wafer including active layers, SiGe layers, and a silicon handle substrate is firstly provided. Each active layer is formed from doped epitaxial silicon and underneath a corresponding SiGe layer. The silicon handle substrate is over each SiGe layer. Next, the silicon handle substrate is removed completely, and the SiGe layer is removed completely. An etch passivation film is then formed over each active layer. Herein, removing each SiGe layer and forming the etch passivation film over each active layer utilize a same reactive chemistry combination, which reacts differently to the SiGe layer and the active layer. The reactive chemistry combination is capable of producing a variable performance, which is an etching performance of the SiGe layer or a forming performance of the etch passivation film over the active layer.
US11996317B2
A method includes etching a semiconductor substrate to form a trench and a semiconductor strip. A sidewall of the semiconductor strip is exposed to the trench. The method further includes depositing a silicon-containing layer extending into the trench, wherein the silicon-containing layer extends on the sidewall of the semiconductor strip, filling the trench with a dielectric material, wherein the dielectric material is on a sidewall of the silicon-containing layer, and oxidizing the silicon-containing layer to form a liner. The liner comprises oxidized silicon. The liner and the dielectric material form parts of an isolation region. The isolation region is recessed, so that a portion of the semiconductor strip protrudes higher than a top surface of the isolation region and forms a semiconductor fin.
US11996309B2
A wafer boat handling device, configured to be positioned under a process chamber of a vertical batch furnace. The wafer boat handling device comprises a main housing having a wall defining and bounding a wafer boat handling space, and a boat transporter comprising a wafer boat support for supporting a wafer boat and configured to transport the wafer boat to a cooldown position within the wafer boat handling space. A part of the wall adjacent the cooldown position is a wall part with a heat radiation surface absorptance of at least 0.60 so as to withdraw heat from the wafer boat which is in the cooldown position by means of heat radiation absorption.
US11996303B2
A substrate cleaning device includes: a pressing member that cleans a substrate by contacting the substrate; a load measurement unit that measures a pressing load of the cleaning member; and a control unit that repeats an operation of comparing the measurement value of the load measurement unit with the setting load, changing the pressing amount of the cleaning member by a first movement amount so that a difference value decreases, when the difference value is larger than a first threshold value and equal to or smaller than a second threshold value, and changing the pressing amount of the cleaning member by a second movement amount larger than the first movement amount so that the difference value decreases, when the difference value is larger than the second threshold value, until the difference value becomes equal to or smaller than the first threshold value.
US11996301B2
In one embodiment, the disclosed apparatus is at least one gas-primitive substrate for use in a gas-delivery box. Each of the at least one gas-primitive substrates has at least one location on which a gas-delivery component is to be mounted. The at least one location has at least a gas-delivery component inlet port and a gas-delivery component outlet port formed within a body of the gas-primitive substrate. At least one first pair of bore holes comprising a gas-flow path is formed on an upstream side and a downstream side, respectively, of the location of the gas-delivery component. Other apparatuses and systems are disclosed.
US11996294B2
The present disclosure generally relates to substrate processing methods, such as etching methods with noble gases at low temperatures. In an aspect, the method includes exposing a substrate, a first layer comprising a gas, and a fluorine-containing layer to energy to form a passivation layer while maintaining the substrate at conditions encompassing a triple point temperature of the gas, the substrate positioned in a processing region of a processing chamber. The method further includes etching the substrate with ions.
US11996288B2
The disclosure provides a gallium oxide film based on sapphire substrate as well as a growth method and an application thereof. The gallium oxide film based on sapphire substrate is prepared by a method below, including: forming more than one α-(AlxGa1-x)2O3 strain buffering layers on the sapphire substrate by means of pulsed epitaxial growth, wherein 0.99≥x≥0.01; and forming gallium oxide epitaxial layers on the α-(AlxGa1-x)2O3 strain buffering layers. The growth method provided can not only avoid the technical difficulty of contradictory epitaxial temperatures of α-Ga2O3 and α-Al2O3, but also effectively reduce the defect density of α-Ga2O3 epitaxial film, thus further improving the crystal quality of the α-Ga2O3 epitaxial film materials.
US11996279B2
Disclosed are systems are methods for identifying the composition of single aerosol particles, particularly that of bioaerosol particles. A continuous timing laser tightly coupled with a pulse ionization laser is used to index aerosol particles, measure particle properties, and trigger the ionization laser to fire when each particle enters the beam of the trigger laser. Ionized fragments and optionally photons produced when each particle is struck by the ionization laser are analyzed using one or more detectors including a TOF-MS detector and an optical detector. Individual single particle spectra are aligned and denoised prior to averaging.
US11996278B2
A plasma generating device includes: a chamber which is equipped with a dielectric wall structure and into which sample gas to be measured flows; an RF supplying mechanism that generates plasma inside the chamber using an electric field and/or a magnetic field through the dielectric wall structure; and a floating potential supplying mechanism that includes a first electrode disposed along an inner surface of the chamber. The RF supplying mechanism may include an RF field forming unit disposed in a first direction with respect to the chamber and the first electrode may include an electrode disposed in a second direction with respect to the chamber.
US11996274B2
A controller for a plasma generation system includes a model evaluation module receives a sensed value that varies in accordance with a state of a plasma controlled by a RF power generator. The model evaluation module generates a plasma parameter that varies in accordance with the sensed value. A model integration module receives the plasma parameter, integrates the plasma parameter, and outputs an integrated model parameter. An IEDF evaluation module receives the integrated model parameter and generates an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) in accordance with the integrated model parameter. An IEDF controller module receives the IEDF and generates a signal for controlling a RF generator. A RF generator control module receives the signal and generates an RF generator control signal to control at least one of power, frequency, or phase of the RF power generator.
US11996273B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to semiconductor processing. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods for seasoning one or more components of a process chamber. In at least one embodiment, a method for seasoning a process chamber includes depositing a seasoning film onto a component of the process chamber at a chamber pressure of about 4 mTorr to about 20 mTorr and a temperature below about 200° C. or about 200° C. to about 400° C. The method includes depositing a deposition film onto the seasoning film. In at least one embodiment, a method includes introducing a nitrogen-containing gas to the seasoning film to form a nitrogen-treated seasoning film. Introducing the nitrogen-containing gas to the seasoning film is performed before depositing the deposition film onto the seasoning film.
US11996255B2
A fuse includes a case member that has a rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a space, a lid member that closes an upper opening of the case member and closely adheres to the case member, a fuse-element disposed in the space, and a pair of terminals, whose distal ends are exposed to outside, connected to both ends of the fuse-element. The case member includes a plurality of first engaging projections formed on a first side wall, and a plurality of second engaging projections formed on a second side wall. The lid member includes a plurality of first engagement recesses formed in a first contact wall and fitted respectively to the plurality of first engaging projections, and a plurality of second engagement recesses formed in a second contact wall and fitted respectively to the plurality of second engaging projections.
US11996249B2
A weatherproof switch cover includes a base plate, a rocker arm provided in the base plate and movable between a first position and a second position and a membrane provided below the rocker arm, the membrane providing a weatherproof seal.
US11996247B2
A multi-directional input device has: a manipulation knob for which a movement manipulation in a horizontal direction and a pressing-down manipulation in a perpendicular direction are possible; a manipulation direction detection switch that is switched to an on-state when the movement manipulation is performed on the manipulation knob; and a common switch that is pressed down both when the movement manipulation is performed on the manipulation knob and when the pressing-down manipulation is performed on the manipulation knob, by which the common switch generates a different manipulation feeling than the manipulation direction detection switch and is switched to an on-state.
US11996246B2
A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a multi-layer ceramic electronic component main body including a multi-layer body including stacked ceramic layers, stacked internal electrode layers, first and second main surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second end surfaces, first and second external electrodes respectively on sides where the first and second end surfaces are located, and first and second metallic terminals respectively connected to the first and second external electrodes. The multi-layer ceramic electronic component main body and at least portion of the first and second metallic terminals are covered with an external material. The second main surface is connected to the metallic terminals. The first and second external electrodes cover a portion of the second main surface. A gap is provided between the multi-layer body and tips of the first and second external electrodes. The external material is in the gap.
US11996239B2
In an embodiment a capacitor includes a dielectric layer including a polyamideimide, the dielectric layer being uniform and a first electrode disposed directly adjacent to the dielectric layer.
US11996234B2
The present disclosure is directed to a magnetic coupling system to improve stability at low magnetic docking forces, such as docking between a hand held device (102) and its base (104), where the hand held device and the base each contain a magnet (112, 108) with the same direction of polarity, arranged so that the two magnets attract each other when the hand held device is docked to the base. An auxiliary magnet (114) is included in the magnetic coupling system. In one example, the auxiliary magnet may be arranged within the hand held device at a predetermined distance from the other magnet within the hand held device and is arranged with polarity in the opposite directions as the other two magnets. In another example, the auxiliary magnet may be arranged within the base at a predetermined distance from the other magnet within the base and is arranged with polarity in the opposite direction as the other two magnets.
US11996233B2
A method of manufacturing a coil component includes providing an intermediate body including a conductor portion formed by bending a base material mainly composed of a metal having a lower ionization tendency than iron and a substrate body containing metal magnetic particles mainly composed of iron and surrounding at least part of the conductor portion, heating the intermediate body at a first temperature to form an oxide film containing an oxide of the metal that covers a surface of the conductor portion, and after the heating at the first temperature, heating the intermediate body at a higher second temperature to form an oxide coating film containing iron oxide on a surface of each metal magnetic particles so that the substrate body is formed into a magnetic base body, to form the oxide film into an insulating oxide layer containing iron oxide and the metal, and to anneal the conductor portion.
US11996232B2
Techniques are disclosed concerning applied magnetic field synthesis and processing of iron nitride magnetic materials. Some methods concern casting a material including iron in the presence of an applied magnetic field to form a workpiece including at least one iron-based phase domain including uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, wherein the applied magnetic field has a strength of at least about 0.01 Tesla (T). Also disclosed are workpieces made by such methods, apparatus for making such workpieces and bulk materials made by such methods.
US11996229B2
Disclosed is a series self-resonant coil structure for wireless power transfer that includes a top coil element that is configured in a spiral and planar arrangement and a bottom coil element that is configured in a spiral and planar arrangement that is substantially similar to the arrangement corresponding to the top coil element, wherein the top coil element and the bottom coil element are positioned in a stacked arrangement in relation to each other. The coil structure further includes a dielectric layer element that is planarly positioned in between the top coil element and the bottom coil element, wherein the top coil element, the bottom coil element, and the dielectric layer element are aligned to produce series-resonance in the coil structure.
US11996227B2
Coil structures and methods of forming are provided. The coil structure includes a substrate. A plurality of coils is disposed over the substrate, each coil comprising a conductive element that forms a continuous spiral having a hexagonal shape in a plan view of the coil structure. The plurality of coils is arranged in a honeycomb pattern, and each conductive element is electrically connected to an external electrical circuit.
US11996226B2
A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body including insulating layers and having a first end face and a second end face, a first main surface and a second main surface, and a first side surface and a second side surface; a coil provided inside the multilayer body; a first outer electrode spreading from part of the first end face over part of the first main surface; and a second outer electrode spreading from part of the second end face over part of the first main surface. The laminating direction of the insulating layers and a direction of a coil axis of the coil are parallel to the first main surface as a mount surface. The coil has a length in a length direction from 85% to 94% of the length of the multilayer body in the length direction.
US11996221B2
A coil component relating to one embodiment of the present invention includes a base body, a coil conductor provided in the base body, and first and second external electrodes electrically connected to the coil conductor. The base body contains a first group of metal magnetic particles having a first average particle size and a second group of metal magnetic particles having a second average particle size smaller than the first average particle size. The first group of metal magnetic particles includes first metal magnetic particles, and the second group of metal magnetic particles includes second metal magnetic particles, and each second metal magnetic particle has an insulating film formed on a surface thereof. Each first metal magnetic particle has a depression shaped to conform to a part of the surface of an adjacent one of the second metal magnetic particles.
US11996219B2
A magnetic material according to the present disclosure includes a main phase having an R2T14B type crystal structure (R is a rare earth element and T is a transition metal element). The main phase has a composition represented by ((Nd, Pr)(1-x-y)LaxR1y))2((Fe(1-z-w)(Co, Ni)zMw))14B (where, R1 is a rare earth element other than Nd, Pr, and La, M is an element other than Fe, Co, Ni, and a rare earth element, and the like, and 0.25≤x≤1.00, 0≤y≤0.10, 0.15≤z≤0.40, and 0≤w≤0.1 are satisfied). A manufacturing method of the magnetic material according to the present disclosure includes melting a raw material containing the elements constituting the main phase and solidifying the melted raw material.
US11996208B2
A nuclear power system includes a reactor vessel that includes a reactor core that includes nuclear fuel assemblies configured to generate a nuclear fission reaction. A representative nuclear power system further includes a riser positioned above there actor core and a primary coolant flow path that extends from a bottom portion of the reactor vessel, through the reactor core, and through an annulus between the riser and the reactor vessel. A primary coolant circulates through the primary coolant flow path to receive heat from the nuclear fission reaction and release the heat to a power generation system configured to generate electric power. The nuclear power system further includes a control rod assembly system positioned in the reactor vessel and configured to position control rods in only two discrete positions.
US11996202B2
The present disclosure provides methods for determining a probability that after any of a number of therapeutic interventions, an initial state of a subject, such as somatic cell mutational status of a subject with cancer, will develop a subsequent state. Such probabilities can be used to inform a health care provider as to particular courses of treatment to maximize probability of a desired outcome for the subject.
US11996201B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide technology that identifies minority class data and majority class data in patient-level data, wherein the minority class data corresponds to patients with a health failure and the majority class data corresponds to patients without the health failure, oversamples the minority class data to obtain synthetic class data and automatically reduces, via a machine learning classifier, a set of risk factor variables based on the majority class data, the minority class data and the synthetic class data.
US11996190B2
The present disclosure relates to aggregating and sharing wellness data. The wellness data can be received by a user device from any number of sensors external or internal to the user device, from a user manually entering the wellness data, or from other users or entities. The user device can securely store the wellness data on the user device and transmit the wellness data to be stored on a remote database. A user of the device can share some or all of the wellness data with friends, relatives, caregivers, healthcare providers, or the like. The user device can further display a user's wellness data in an aggregated view of different types of wellness data. Wellness data of other users can also be viewed if authorizations from those users have been received.
US11996189B2
A system for managing pharmacy kits comprises a reading station configured to read tag information from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with a pharmacy kit, and an information processing system operatively connected to the reading station and configured to receive the tag information from the reading station and determine a status of the pharmacy kit based on the tag information, a plurality of stored templates defining contents to be included in each of a plurality of pharmacy kits, and a plurality of kit records indicating the current contents of a plurality of pharmacy kits.
US11996188B2
A system and method for providing updates to medical devices is disclosed. In one example, the medical devices are configured to pull update files in response to the reception of an update message from a server. Once the update files are downloaded by a medical device, the update files can be installed. While the medical device pulls the update files, the medical device can continue with its normal operation. If desired, a user can select which medical devices should be updated, based on any desired factors, such as the physical location of the device, the model of the device, the type of device, and the way the device is being used.
US11996181B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for detecting the eruption state (e.g., tooth type and/or eruption status) of a target tooth. A patient's dentition may be scanned and/or segmented. A target tooth may be identified. Dental features, principal component analysis (PCA) features, and/or other features may be extracted and compared to those of other teeth, such as those obtained through automated machine learning systems. A detector can identify and/or output the eruption state of the target tooth, such as whether the target tooth is a fully erupted primary tooth, a permanent partially erupted/un-erupted tooth, or a fully erupted permanent tooth.
US11996172B2
A diagnostic imaging support system that enables confirmation of abnormalities in anatomical regions of a brain includes capturing images of the brain, specifying regions in the captured images that correspond to the anatomical regions, searching a medical database for similar cases based information associated with the specified regions, and displaying the results of the search.
US11996171B2
Provided is a method and system for helping a user reach a health goal. Various embodiments of the disclosure disclose receiving various data that relate to the user and comparing the received data to monitored user health data to provide recommendations on steps to take to achieve the health goal. The various embodiments also determine when the user has achieved the user's desired health goal.
US11996160B2
In a chip-to-chip signaling system includes at least one signaling link coupled between first and second ICs, the first IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a first interface timing signal. The second IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a second interface timing signal that is mesochronous with respect to the first interface timing signal. The second IC further has phase adjustment circuitry that adjusts a phase of the second interface timing signal using a digital counter implemented with Josephson-junction circuit elements.
US11996159B2
A semiconductor device includes: a charge pump circuit configured to generate an output voltage by pumping an input voltage according to first and second main clocks, a voltage detection circuit configured to generate a comparison signal by comparing the output voltage with a reference voltage, and a driving control circuit configured to selectively invert first and second external clocks at a start time of an activation period of the comparison signal to receive the inverted clocks as first and second internal clocks, to generate the first and second main clocks according to the first and second internal clocks during the activation period while controlling a transition order so that the second main clock transitions after the first main clock transitions, and to store logic levels of the first and second main clocks, respectively, at an end time of the activation period.
US11996140B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a frontside and a backside; a static random-access memory (SRAM) circuit having SRAM bit cells formed on the frontside of the substrate, wherein each of the SRAM bit cells including two inverters cross-coupled together, and a first and second pass gates coupled to the two inverters; a first bit-line disposed on the frontside of the substrate and connected to the first pass gate; and a second bit-line disposed on the backside of the substrate and connected to the second pass gate.
US11996129B2
A semiconductor device includes ferromagnetic, magnetostrictive layer that exhibits a biaxial magnetic anisotropy and an underlying structure exhibits a spin Hall effect to provide a conversion between electrical energy and magnetic energy with more than two distinctive magnetic states, wherein the underlying structure includes a piezoelectric material structure and a spin Hall metal layer.
US11996127B2
According to one embodiment, first, a frequency to be corrected by an MA additional filter is specified based on a head position error spectrum and a multi-rate sensitivity characteristic, in a state before the MA additional filter is added. Then, a candidate in which a peak of the multi-rate sensitivity characteristic is equal to or less than a threshold value and a head position error is minimized is determined as the MA additional filter to be used, in a state in which each of a plurality of candidates of the MA additional filter is added.
US11996120B2
The accuracy of unsupervised anomalous sound detection is improved. An anomalous sound generation unit 12 generates a pseudo-anomalous sound by associating a sound obtained from a predetermined device with a probability distribution followed by a sound obtained from a desired device group. A threshold value setting unit 13 sets a threshold value so that all anomaly scores calculated from the pseudo-anomalous sound are determined to be anomalous. A parameter update unit 14 uses an obtained normal sound and an obtained anomalous sound, or a threshold value and a value based on the obtained anomalous sound, to update a parameter so to reliably determine an anomalous sound as anomalous and minimize the probability of determining a normal sound as anomalous.
US11996114B2
Disclosed is a multi-task machine learning model such as a time-domain deep neural network (DNN) that jointly generate an enhanced target speech signal and target audio parameters from a mixed signal of target speech and interference signal. The DNN may encode the mixed signal, determine masks used to jointly estimate the target signal and the target audio parameters based on the encoded mixed signal, apply the mask to separate the target speech from the interference signal to jointly estimate the target signal and the target audio parameters, and decode the masked features to enhance the target speech signal and to estimate the target audio parameters. The target audio parameters may include a voice activity detection (VAD) flag of the target speech. The DNN may leverage multi-channel audio signal and multi-modal signals such as video signals of the target speaker to improve the robustness of the enhanced target speech signal.
US11996107B2
Provided is a technique according to which it is possible to obtain a decoded sound signal of high sound quality without significantly increasing the delay time compared to a configuration in which only a decoded sound signal of the minimum necessary sound quality is obtained. In a terminal apparatus connected to a first communication line and a second communication line with a lower priority level therethan, sound signals of multiple channels are obtained and output based on a monaural code included in a first code string input from the first communication line and an extended code included in a second code string with the closest frame number to that of the monaural code among extended codes included in the second code string input from the second communication line.
US11996101B2
A method for streaming action fulfillment receives audio data corresponding to an utterance where the utterance includes a query to perform an action that requires performance of a sequence of sub-actions in order to fulfill the action. While receiving the audio data, but before receiving an end of speech condition, the method processes the audio data to generate intermediate automated speech recognition (ASR) results, performs partial query interpretation on the intermediate ASR results to determine whether the intermediate ASR results identify an application type needed to perform the action and, when the intermediate ASR results identify a particular application type, performs a first sub-action in the sequence of sub-actions by launching a first application to execute on the user device where the first application is associated with the particular application type. The method, in response to receiving an end of speech condition, fulfills performance of the action.
US11996096B2
A computing system helps a user in an extended reality (XR) learning experience achieve mastery through personalized, programmable and conversational coaching. One aspect is that the XR learning experience may consist of a plurality of tasks associated with the user. A second aspect is that the XR learning experience can define different types of conversational interventions triggered by the computing system at various times. A third aspect is that some tasks or interventions can make use of a conversational assistant. A fourth aspect is that as the user is going through the XR learning experience, the system determines which, if any, interventions can be triggered based on the user's state.
US11996089B1
A disclosed method includes receiving at least an indication of audio data generated based on sound captured by a microphone of a monitoring device. A set of audio event labels are generated by processing the received audio data with a model that includes audio recognition patterns. Each audio event label is generated by matching an audio pattern in the received audio data with an audio pattern of the audio recognition patterns. The method further includes identifying a hazard event type occurring within a time window of the time period by processing the set of audio event labels with a hazard detection model. In response to detecting the hazard event type, a hazard alert is generated and at least an indication of the hazard alert is communicated to an electronic device other than the monitoring device, which is authorized to receive communications from the monitoring device.
US11996085B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving audio data including an utterance, obtaining context data that indicates one or more expected speech recognition results, determining an expected speech recognition result based on the context data, receiving an intermediate speech recognition result generated by a speech recognition engine, comparing the intermediate speech recognition result to the expected speech recognition result for the audio data based on the context data, determining whether the intermediate speech recognition result corresponds to the expected speech recognition result for the audio data based on the context data, and setting an end of speech condition and providing a final speech recognition result in response to determining the intermediate speech recognition result matches the expected speech recognition result, the final speech recognition result including the one or more expected speech recognition results indicated by the context data.
US11996084B2
The present disclosure discloses a speech synthesis method and apparatus, a device and a computer storage medium, and relates to speech and deep learning technologies in the field of artificial intelligence technologies. A specific implementation solution involves: acquiring to-be-synthesized text; acquiring a prosody feature extracted from the text; inputting the text and the prosody feature into a speech synthesis model to obtain a vocoder feature; and inputting the vocoder feature into a vocoder to obtain synthesized speech.
US11996076B2
An active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal input terminal that receives a reference signal outputted by a reference signal source and having a correlation with noise in a space in an automobile, the reference signal source being attached to the automobile; a test signal source that outputs a test signal to a loudspeaker attached to the automobile, the loudspeaker being used to output a canceling sound for reducing the noise; and an anomaly determiner that determines whether the reference signal source has an anomaly, based on the reference signal inputted from the reference signal source to the reference signal input terminal when the test signal is outputted to the loudspeaker.
US11996072B2
A novel wind chime, whereby deficiencies in the prior art, for example, it is necessary to drill holes in the wind chime tubes and grind the holes, which consumes time and manpower, affects beauty of the wind chime, deteriorates tone quality thereof and is liable to cause safety hazards, are addressed, and the wind chime, including a connection ring, a plurality of suspension cords passing the connection ring, a hanger connected at upper ends of the plurality of suspension cords, a striker connected at lower ends of the plurality of suspension cord and a plurality of wind chime tubes, jump rings are connected respectively at the lower ends of the plurality of suspension cords, limiting and connection structures are respectively provided between central positions of the jump rings and the plurality of suspension cords, and the jump rings are connected at inner sides of the plurality of wind chime tubes.
US11996070B1
An isolated guitar string audio capture and visual string indication and chord-finger number overlay process and system that provides a visual way to show what strings are being pressed and played during a guitar instruction video is disclosed. The isolated guitar string audio capture and visual string indication and chord-finger number overlay process and system visibly shows the student what strings are being pressed and played in a given chord by the guitar instructor in the video, all from one camera angle.
US11996061B2
A driver includes a data voltage output terminal, a capacitor drive circuit that outputs each of first to n-th capacitor drive voltages corresponding to gradation data to a respective one of first to n-th capacitor driving nodes, a capacitor circuit including first to n-th capacitors each provided between an output node and a respective one of the first to n-th capacitor driving nodes, a processing circuit that generates a correction signal for correcting a voltage difference between an output voltage and a target voltage corresponding to the gradation data, and a correction circuit that corrects the voltage difference with a correction voltage corresponding to the voltage difference by injecting a charge corresponding to the correction signal into the output node or discharging the charge from the output node by using the correction capacitor circuit.
US11996060B2
A display system includes a data processing unit and a liquid crystal panel. The data processing unit partitions display data pixels in one frame into, for example, blocks of four pixels in two rows×two columns, performs predetermined processing on display data of four display data pixels, and transmits processing data with an amount of data of ¼ pixels to the liquid crystal panel in four subframes. Panel pixels of the liquid crystal panel are partitioned into blocks of four pixels in two rows×two columns, data signals based on processing data are provided to four panel pixels included in one block in a subframe f1 among the four subframes, and of the four subframes, in subframes f2 to f4, data signals based on the processing data are provided in a predetermined order to three of the panel pixels included in the one block.
US11996054B2
Provided is a scan driver for applying a bias voltage comprising a kth stage that includes an inputter transmitting an input signal to a first node, a stress reliever disposed between the first node and a second node, a carry signal outputter receiving a high-power-supply voltage and a second clock signal and outputting the second clock signal, an output signal outputter receiving the high-power-supply voltage and a third clock signal and outputting the third clock signal, a maintainer transmitting the first clock signal to a third node, and a stabilizer applying a first low-power-supply voltage to the third node and the high-power-supply voltage to the first node. The first and second clock signals selectively toggle between the high-power-supply voltage and the first low-power-supply voltage, the third clock signal selectively toggles between the high-power-supply voltage and a second low-power-supply voltage, and the bias voltage is adjusted as the second low-power-supply voltage varies.
US11996053B2
There are provided a gate driver and a display device including the same. The gate driver includes: a first scan driver; a first sensing driver; a first scan clock line; and a first sensing clock line. The first scan clock line includes a first scan clock main line extending in one direction, and a first scan clock connection line connected to the first scan clock main line and the first scan driver. The first sensing clock line includes a first sensing clock main line extending in one direction, and a first sensing clock connection line connected to the first sensing clock main line and the first sensing driver. The first scan clock main line is closer to each of the first scan driver and the first sensing driver than the first sensing clock main line.
US11996050B2
A display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixels arrayed next to one another in a first direction and in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and a control circuit, wherein each of the pixels includes a light-emitting element configured to emit light by a current flowing therethrough, a drive transistor, a shut-off transistor, and a holding capacitance.
US11996048B2
A display device includes a display panel including pixels coupled to a first scan line and a data line, a power supply to supply voltages, a scan driver to provide a first scan signal to the first scan line a plurality of times for a first frame period (FFP), a data driver to supply a data signal to the data line, and a timing controller to control driving of components. The FFP includes: a first active period (FAP), in which the data signal is supplied; and a first blank period (FBP), in which the data signal is not supplied. The power supply provides on-bias power having a first voltage level (FVL) in the FAP, and provides on-bias power having a second voltage level (SVL) in the FBP. The FBP following the FAP includes a first dimming period in which the on-bias power gradually changes from the FVL to the SVL.
US11996046B2
A display panel is disclosed. The display panel including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub pixels, the respective sub pixels including a light-emitting device and a driving circuit. Driving circuits included in a display panel may be realized with six N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor thin film transistors (NMOS TFTs) and one Oxide TFT, or realized with five P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor thin film transistors (PMOS TFTs) and two Oxide TFTs making low frequency driving possible, and because the number of TFTs and scan drivers are reduced, manufacturing cost, bezel size and power consumption can be reduced.
US11996044B2
A display device includes a display control circuit configured to control a data-side drive circuit and a scanning-side drive circuit such that a drive period and a pause period alternate between one another. The display control circuit, in the pause period, such that voltage of corresponding data signal line is applied to first conduction terminal of drive transistor as bias voltage when light emission control transistor is in an off state and current corresponding to holding voltage of holding capacitor flows through display element when light emission control transistor is in an on state, causes the data-side drive circuit to output the bias voltage and apply the bias voltage to data signal lines and causes the scanning-side drive circuit to stop driving first scanning signal lines and selectively drive second scanning signal lines and selectively make light emission control lines inactive.
US11996043B2
Deterioration of an image is suppressed. A display device includes: pixels including a plurality of light emitting units that emits light of each of a plurality of colors; a pixel array in which the pixels are arranged in an array of pixel lines along a line in a first direction and pixel columns along a column in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a signal line connected to the pixels belonging to the pixel array in the second direction; and a selector circuit connected between a predetermined number of the pixel columns and the signal line. The signal line applies, via the selector circuit, a light emission signal provided in time series to the light emitting units of each color of the pixels, the selector circuit time-divides the light emission signal provided in time series from the signal line into the predetermined number of columns, the light emission signal is distributed to the pixels in the same order for each color in the same order in the same pixel line, and the light emission signal is distributed to the pixels in different orders for each line for each color in the same order in two adjacent pixel lines.
US11996036B2
A method includes transmitting a plurality of signal frames from a master device over a serial communication bus at a constant rate to a first slave device from a set of slave devices. The set of slave devices and the master device are connected in series within a master-slave communication ring. The first slave device is coupled to at least one light source. The method further includes transmitting the plurality of signal frames from the first slave device to a second slave device from the set of slave devices.
US11996031B2
A control method of a display module, a display module, and a display device. The display module comprises: a transparent display panel (11) comprising an active area and a peripheral area, wherein the transparent display panel (11) has a display side; a dimming panel (12) disposed at a side of the transparent display panel (11) away from the display side; a light-intensity detection unit comprising a photosensitive sensor (13), wherein the photosensitive sensor (13) is disposed at a side of the transparent display panel (11) away from the display side and disposed corresponding to the peripheral area, and the light-intensity detection unit is configured to detect an incident-light intensity of an incident light; and a control unit (14) connected to the light-intensity detection unit and the dimming panel (12), respectively, and configured to adjust a transmittance of the dimming panel (12) according to the incident-light intensity.
US11996027B2
A display device including a display panel having a display area. The display panel includes pixel circuits located in the display area. Each pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a voltage regulating module that is configured to adjust a node voltage of the driving transistor by a voltage provided by one voltage regulating signal line of voltage regulating signal lines. The pixel circuits have data refresh frequencies including first and second frequencies. The first frequency is greater than the second frequency. When one pixel circuit performs data refreshing at the first frequency, one voltage regulating signal line is configured to provide a first voltage, and when one pixel circuit performs data refreshing at the second frequency, one voltage regulating signal line is configured to provide a second voltage not equal to the first voltage.
US11996008B1
A method for determining a peak position of lower extremity injury in a crash test dummy includes: controlling the movement of the collision surface until the control point of the collision surface and the first designated collision point of the dummy's lower extremity form a line parallel to the direction of the vehicle acceleration, with a predetermined distance between the control point and the first designated collision point. A collision simulation calculation is performed to obtain the first tibial index curve, the first knee displacement curve, and the first thigh force curve. Similarly, the second designated collision point is used to obtain the second tibial index curve, the second knee displacement curve, and the second thigh force curve. Then, the injury values are calculated, and by comparing the injury values at different positions, the peak position is determined.
US11996002B2
A method for providing feedback to a skier includes: receiving, by a feedback computer, sensor data from a plurality of sensors located in a ski boot of the skier, the sensor data representing a movement of the skier during a ski run; receiving, by the feedback computer, video data representing a video recording of the skier during the ski run; after the ski run, synchronizing, by the feedback computer, the sensor data and the video data; and simultaneously displaying, on a display screen in electrical communication with the feedback computer, the video recording and the sensor data.
US11996001B2
A walking training apparatus is a motion support system that includes a walking assistance apparatus as an assistance apparatus, a selected assistance level setting unit, a load data acquisition unit, an angle sensor as a displacement sensor, and an overall control unit as a control unit. The assistance apparatus assists a motion of a joint performed by a user. The assistance level setting unit sets an assistance level that is a level of a force exerted by the assistance apparatus. The load data acquisition unit acquires load data related to a load of the assistance apparatus. The displacement sensor detects a displacement of the joint. The control unit determines a recommended assistance level, which is an assistance level to be recommended, based on the assistance level, the load data, and an output of the displacement sensor, and outputs information about the determined recommended assistance level.
US11996000B2
An apparatus and a method for inspecting navigation safety facilities by using a flight vehicle are disclosed. The method for inspecting navigation safety facilities by using a flight vehicle comprises the steps of: defining a three-dimensional flight path for a flight vehicle so that same passes through navigational safety facilities; receiving a navigation signal value from the navigation safety facilities and GPS data of the flight vehicle, the navigation signal value and the GPS data being measured by the flight vehicle automatically flying along the defined three-dimensional flight path; analyzing the navigation signal value so as to estimate the distance and the angle of the flight vehicle viewed from the navigation safety facilities; and inspecting the navigation safety facilities according to whether the coordinates of the flight vehicle identified by the GPS data are included in an area formed by the distance and the angle.
US11995997B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for configuring a flight route, a flight method, a base station, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a computer readable storage medium. The method of configuring a flight route includes: obtaining flight route information of a UAV in a connected state which is served by the base station; and configuring the flight route information for the UAV through a radio resource control (RRC) signaling or a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) signaling.
US11995992B2
An artificially intelligent air traffic control system is provided. The system can include an artificially intelligent (AI) sensor configured to detect and remotely communicate with one or more flying vehicles and an AI local server communicatively coupled to the AI sensor. The artificially intelligent local server can send control instructions including authorization for the one or more flying vehicles to fly in an airspace and a flight path to fly through the airspace. The system can also include an AI cloud server communicatively coupled to the AI local server. The AI cloud server can receive data from the AI local server and the AI sensor associated with the one or more flying vehicles. The AI local server can send the authorization and the flight path to the one or more flying vehicles via the AI sensor based on the received data stored on the AI cloud server.
US11995991B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling two or more vehicles travelling in formation. Selected vehicles may be fully or partially autonomously controlled; at least one vehicle is partially controlled by a human driver. Information is collected at each vehicle and from the drivers and it is shared with other vehicles and drivers to create a shared world model. Aspects of the shared world model may be presented to the human driver, who may then respond with a control input. Autonomy systems and the drivers on the vehicles then collaborate to make a collective decision to act or not to act and execute any such action in a coordinated manner.
US11995990B2
A method includes receiving, from connected vehicles, first locations of a first set of vehicles in an initial vehicle configuration; receiving, from a roadside unit, second locations of a second set of vehicles in the initial vehicle configuration; determining locations of connected vehicles and non-connected vehicles in the initial vehicle configuration based on the first locations and the second locations; determining an optimal vehicle configuration comprising desired locations of the connected vehicles and the non-connected vehicles based on the locations of the connected vehicles and the non-connected vehicles in the initial vehicle configuration, and predetermined optimization criteria; determining driving maneuvers to be performed by the connected vehicles to achieve the optimal vehicle configuration; and transmitting the determined driving maneuvers to the connected vehicles.
US11995989B2
To visualize planned behavior of an autonomous vehicle (AV) traveling along a roadway, a user interface engine receives data describing a planned pathway of the AV along the roadway and object data describing an object having a predicted pathway crossing the planned pathway of the AV at a cross point. The user interface engine classifies the object either an asserting object or a yielding object based on a prediction of whether the object reaches the cross point before the AV or after the AV. The user interface engine generates an image that includes the planned pathway of the AV and the object in the environment of the AV. The image of the object indicates whether the object is classified as an asserting object or a yielding object.
US11995985B2
Methods and systems for managing traversals of one or more vehicles through a traffic intersection are proposed. In one example, a method comprises: receiving a first message including one or more motion characteristics of one or more vehicles approaching the traffic intersection; forming a motion group; grouping a subset of the one or more vehicles into the motion group based on the one or more motion characteristics; assigning a leader vehicle for the motion group; determining a group maneuver target for the motion group to traverse through the traffic intersection; and transmitting, to the leader vehicle of the motion group, a second message including the group maneuver target for the motion group, to enable the leader vehicle of the motion group to control a motion of each member vehicle of the motion group based on the group maneuver target.
US11995984B2
According to the disclosed approaches, a first processor receives location messages from second processors. Each location message specifies published geographical coordinates that indicate a geographical location. The first processor accesses subscriptions to location topics in response to the location messages. The first processor determines whether or not the published geographical coordinates match any of the subscribed-to geographical coordinates. Matching location messages are transmitted to one or more third processors identified by the subscriptions.
US11995983B2
A method of detecting overspeeding for a vehicle, the method including obtaining historical trajectory data of a fleet of geographical areas from an electronic database; determining, by a microprocessor of a server, a distribution of speed of the historical trajectory data for each geographical area; based on the distribution of speed, determining, by a microprocessor of an electronic device associated with the vehicle, that a current speed of the vehicle is above a threshold speed corresponding to a pre-determined percentile of the distribution. A system and a computer-readable medium storing computer executable code for the method.
US11995978B1
Emergency alert systems and methods for disabled and/or differently abled persons are disclosed. Upon receiving an alert message, the system translates the alert message to an audio message (text to speech) when the text to speech feature is enabled. In some implementations, the system waits fora threshold period of time (e.g., 30 seconds) to receive a user acknowledgment of the alert message, and translates the alert message to an audio message if no acknowledgment is received within this time. The user acknowledgment can be received via a selection of an option (e.g., by clicking an “OK” button) and/or via an audio option (e.g., by saying “Ok, received”) when the text to speech feature is enabled. The system then outputs (e.g., reads out loud) the translated message so that the disabled or differently abled persons can be informed of the emergency situation. After outputting the translated message, the system can further wait for a user acknowledgment of the translated audio message.
US11995977B2
A monitor circuit is configured to receive sensor data samples at a first bit rate. The monitor circuit includes a sensor data processing circuit that is coupled to a sensor node and is configured to generate a sensor data characteristic signal for each sensor data sample. The sensor data characteristic signal for a particular sensor data sample indicates a value of a monitored parameter of the particular sensor data sample. The monitor circuit also includes a fault trigger circuit configured to determine, based on the sensor data characteristic signal, whether the sensor data samples satisfy a fault trigger. The monitor circuit further includes a summarization circuit configured to generate a sensor data summary signal based on the sensor data characteristic signal. The sensor data summary signal is provided to a summary output node at a second bit rate that is less than the first bit rate.
US11995968B2
A presence of a person at a first location within the building is detected using a sensor. Whether the presence of the person at the first location is acceptable is determined in response to detecting the presence of the person at the first location. Then, in response to determining that the presence of the person at the first location is unacceptable, an output device is triggered to output an electronic lure signal to lure the person to a second location that is distant from the first location. The electronic lure signal is based on a category of the person.
US11995958B2
A wagering game operates according to a set of game rules including game flow rules that define a sequence of game events that are presented to a player in a course of operation of the wagering game, a math engine that governs probabilities of pseudorandom events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game, and a pay table that defines winning events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game and corresponding payouts that are made to the player upon occurrence of the wining events. The method determines a player game play preference of the player associated with playing the wagering game on the EGM, and adjusts the game flow rules in response to the determined player game play preference.
US11995946B2
A gaming system selects a plurality of base symbols for display. When a winning symbol combination exists in the base symbols selected, and the winning symbol combination includes a defined base symbol, the gaming system selects a bonus symbol for display that is disposed over the defined base symbol.
US11995943B2
A multi-level machine-readable code system and method deployed in an environment supported by a wireless access control system network. The multi-level machine-readable code system including multi-level codes including facility-level codes, site-level codes and device-level codes, that are scanned by mobile computing devices such as mobile smart phones to initiated web-based e-commerce-enabled transactions that allow guest users to select and rent the particular networked devices available for rental and use within a facility, such as, for example, storage lockers, strollers, EVCs, wheelchairs and the like at a site selected within the environment. The wireless access and control system network can automatically assign an available device to the guest user at the selected site. When the guest reads the device-level machine-readable code on a device available for rental at a site, the wireless control access network also enables the guest users to scan the code and rent the device at the selected site and automatically control access to the rented device at the selected site, for access and use in the environment.
US11995928B2
A control device (100) controls a locker that includes a storage unit that stores an article. Additionally, the control device (100) includes a forbidder (160) that forbids unlocking of the storage unit in at least one of a case in which content associated with the article has not been watched, a case in which the content has not been listened to, or a case in which the content has neither been watched nor listened to by a user that performs an operation for unlocking the storage unit.
US11995927B2
An on-vehicle recording control apparatus includes a video data acquiring unit to acquire video data of surroundings of a vehicle; a voice data acquiring unit to acquire outside-vehicle-cabin voice data from an outside-vehicle-cabin voice collecting unit; an event detecting unit to detect an event for the vehicle; a stop detecting unit to detect a stop of the vehicle; a person detecting unit to detect a person in a vicinity of the vehicle from the video data; and a recording control unit to store, when the event is detected, first event recording data based on the video data and to store, when the person is detected after the stop of the vehicle is detected within a predetermined time period after the event is detected, second event recording data based on the video data and the outside-vehicle-cabin voice data until a predetermine time period has elapsed after the person is detected.
US11995925B2
A vehicle has a prime mover to propel the vehicle, and a fluid circuit that defines a fluid passage and contains a coolant. The fluid circuit in thermal communication with the prime mover. A camera is positioned to image coolant within the fluid passage. A controller is configured to receive image data from the camera, process the image data to determine a state of the coolant in the fluid circuit, and output an indication to a user regarding the state of the coolant. A method of monitoring a fluid circuit in a vehicle is also provided.
US11995921B2
The present disclosure relates to a scanning method for an electronic control unit in a vehicle and a vehicle diagnostic device. The vehicle diagnostic device is communicatively connected to at least two vehicle buses in the vehicle, each of the vehicle buses is connected to at least one electronic control unit in the vehicle. The scanning method determines a scan list corresponding to each of the vehicle buses. The scan list includes a to-be-scanned electronic control unit. The vehicle diagnostic device transmitting a scan signal on the vehicle buses in parallel according to the scan list corresponding to each of the vehicle buses, to determine whether the to-be-scanned electronic control unit in the scan list exists in the vehicle. The parallel scanning in this way can effectively improve the efficiency of automatic scanning and significantly shorten a time required to complete the automatic scanning, and improves user experience.
US11995915B2
A video surveillance system and computer assisted method stores video streams of numerous video cameras installed throughout a facility (e.g., a school, an airport, etc.) and batch searches those video streams for relevant video frames that may show an individual with certain predetermined facial features. In some examples, the search range is limited by a specified time window, by certain designated cameras, and/or by certain predetermined areas of the facility. From those video streams, a collection of video clips containing the relevant video frames are identified and batch exported for later analysis by video surveillance personnel. In some examples, the collected video clips are compiled into a single composite video with the video clips being arranged by time for convenient and efficient viewing. In addition or alternatively, in some examples, the video clips are stored as separate files in a directory for viewing the video clips individually.
US11995908B2
An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.
US11995906B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for generating synthetic data with simulated handwriting, such as for training or evaluating a computer vision process, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to creating simulated handwriting based on input text. For example, attributes of various glyphs included in typefaces stored in a vectorized graphics format may be randomized to produce randomized glyphs. The randomized glyphs may then be used to replace glyphs in an input text to generate simulated handwriting for the input text. In some embodiments, simulated handwriting may be overlaid with a background image to produce a synthetic handwriting image. In some such embodiments, noise may be introduced into the synthetic handwriting image to generate synthetic data comprising the simulated handwriting. In one embodiment, the synthetic data may simulate a handwritten check that is used to train or evaluate an optical character recognition process.
US11995900B2
A method and system for performing indicia recognition includes obtaining, at an image sensor, an image of an object of interest and identifying at least one region of interest in the image. The region of interest contains one or more indicia indicative of the object of interest. The processor then determines positions of each region of interest and further determines a geometric shape based on the positions of each of the regions of interest. An orientation classification is identified for each region of interest is based on a respective position relative to the geometric shape for reach region of interest. The processor then identifies and performs one or more transformations for each region of interest, with each transformation determined by each regions respective orientation classification. The processor then performs indicia recognition on each of the one or more transformed regions of interest.
US11995897B2
The invention concerns a device for identifying a clothing family index (Clo), the index in particular representing the type and level of clothing of a passenger of a motor vehicle, comprising: —at least one camera (2) designed to capture at least one image of a part of the clothing of the passenger (P), —a processing unit (3) designed to determine at least one clothing family index (Clo) by using a recognition algorithm based on a neural network model, trained in particular on a library (5) of representative images captured by the camera, images preferably categorised beforehand by a human operator.
US11995887B2
A developed impact mark analysis apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit configured to obtain at least one first image by photographing impact marks that are developed, and to obtain a second image of impact marks at a crime scene that are developed from evidence at the crime scene; an outliner configured to outline the at least one first image to obtain at least one first outline image, and to outline the second image to obtain a second outline image; a database configured to store the first outline image corresponding to related tool characteristic information; a matching unit configured to search the database for the first outline image determined to be similar to the second outline image and match them with each other; a display unit; and a user input unit.
US11995886B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods of generating a complete and accurate geometrically optimized environment. Stereo pair images depicting an environment are selected from a plurality of images to generate a Digital Surface Model (DSM). Characteristics of objects in the environment are determined and identified. The geometry of the objects may be determined and fit with polygons and textured facades. By determining the objects, the geometry, and the material from original satellite imagery and from a DSM created from the matching stereo pair point clouds, a complete and accurate geometrically optimized environment is created.
US11995885B2
A spatial indexing system receives a video that is a sequence of frames depicting an environment, such as a floor of a construction site, and performs a spatial indexing process to automatically identify the spatial locations at which each of the images were captured. The spatial indexing system also generates an immersive model of the environment and provides a visualization interface that allows a user to view each of the images at its corresponding location within the model.
US11995884B1
A method includes identifying, within an image that represents a fingerprint, a plurality of keypoints. The method also includes determining a plurality of pixel vectors by transforming, for each respective keypoint, a corresponding two-dimensional (2D) array of pixel values associated with the respective keypoint into a corresponding pixel vector, and obtaining a plurality of filter vectors that represent, for each respective filter of a plurality of filters, a transformation of a corresponding 2D array of filter values of the respective filter into a corresponding filter vector. The method additionally includes convolving the plurality of keypoints with the plurality of filters by multiplying, using a tensor processing hardware, a pixel matrix formed by the plurality of pixel vectors and a filter matrix formed by the plurality of filter vectors, and determining, based on the convolving, a representation of the fingerprint.
US11995880B2
An Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) detection method performed by an OOD detection device is provided. The OOD detection method includes generating a noise filter using training data based on a target distribution and using a classification model pre-trained according to the target distribution, training the generated noise filter to reduce a loss function for a first output value obtained by applying the training data passed through the generated noise filter to the pre-trained classification model, and detecting Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) for new data using a second output value obtained by applying the new data passed through the trained noise filter to the pre-trained classification model.
US11995859B2
Implementations are described herein for performing sparse depth estimation in the agricultural domain. In various implementations, one or more spatial aspects of a first visual annotation of a first candidate plant trait instance depicted in a first stereo image may be compared to one or more spatial aspects of a second visual annotation of a second candidate plant trait instance depicted in a second stereo image. Based on the comparison, it may be determined that the first and second candidate plant trait instances are a match for the same plant trait instance across the first and second stereo images. A disparity may be determined between the first and second candidate plant trait instances. Based on the disparity, a depth associated with the same plant trait instance may be estimated and used for various purposes.
US11995853B2
A system and method for displaying augmented reality information for a real object. A transparent display displays the information for the real object within a field of view, such that the information and the real object are simultaneously viewable by a user. Data-gathering peripheral devices gather data of the field of view, including a camera gathering visual data for tracking the real object. An articulating arm moveably supports and facilitates repositioning the display and redirecting the data-gathering peripheral devices in a particular direction. A security interlock disables the data-gathering peripherals when the articulating arm is moved beyond a pre-established threshold, thereby preventing the data-gathering peripherals from gathering data of a real environment outside of a limit of the field of view as determined by the pre-established threshold. The security interlock may include an adjustable contact switch which adjustably defines the pre-established threshold in at least one direction.
US11995851B2
An apparatus to generate data relating to a specular surface of an object, the apparatus including a screen that is movable relative to the object, a graphic rendered on the screen' wherein the graphic is notionally divided into contiguous segments such that the graphic content in each segment allows that segment to be distinguished from a plurality of other segments, at least one camera for capturing successive frames of the object' illuminated by said graphic, during said relative movement of the screen, and a computing device that accepts data from pixels of the captured frames.
US11995845B2
An evaluation method for a computer to execute a process includes, acquiring a plurality of pieces of skeleton information in time series based on position information of joints of an object that executes a plurality of motions; specifying a transition period between a first motion and a second motion that follows the first motion, which are included in the plurality of motions based on the plurality of pieces of skeleton information; determining whether the transition period is related to a certain combination of motions by inputting skeleton information among the plurality of pieces of skeleton information that corresponds to the transition period into an evaluation model trained to evaluate a transition period between motions based on a plurality of pieces of skeleton information in time series; and outputting an evaluation result of the transition period by the evaluation model.
US11995843B2
In an example, a digital image comprising a representation of multiple physical objects is received at a client computer. The digital image is copied into a temporary canvas. The digital image is then analyzed to identify a plurality of potential object areas, each of the potential object areas having pixels with colors similar to the other pixels within the potential object area. A minimum bounding region for each of the identified potential object areas is identified, the minimum bounding region being a smallest region of a particular shape that bounds the corresponding potential object area. The pixels within a selected minimum bounding region are cropped from the digital image. The pixels within the selected minimum bounding region are then sent to an object recognition service on a server to identify an object represented by the pixels within the selected minimum bounding region.
US11995838B2
An image segmentation system and display is disclosed. The system may be operated or configured to generate a segmentation of a member from an image. The image and/or the segmentation may be displayed for viewing by a user.
US11995837B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for medical image visualization. The method may include obtaining original image data of a subject, the original image data including a first region of interest (ROI) and a second ROI. The method may also include generating first image data associated with the first ROI according to a first instruction, and causing the first ROI to be displayed on a display device as a first image based on the first image data. The method may further include generating, according to a second instruction, second image data corresponding to a target region that includes the second ROI, updating the first image data based on the second image data, and causing the second ROI to be displayed on the display device as a second image based on the updated first image data.
US11995834B2
One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for the automated determination of examination results in an image sequence from multiple chronologically consecutive frames, the method comprising determining diagnostic candidates in the form of contiguous image regions in the individual frames for a predefined diagnostic finding; and for a number of the diagnostic candidates, determining which candidate image regions in other frames correspond to the particular diagnostic candidate, determining whether the candidate image regions of the particular diagnostic candidate in the other frames overlap with other diagnostic candidates, generating a graph containing the determined diagnostic candidates of the frames as nodes and the determined overlaps as edges, and generating communities from nodes connected via edges.
US11995831B2
A method of establishing a quantitative measure of contrast enhancement in contrast medical imaging through computer analysis of baseline and enhanced images allows statistical comparison of protocols and imaging parameters from routine hospital operations to enhance and evaluate such protocols and parameters.
US11995829B2
Within the field of elastography, a new approach analyzes the limiting case of shear waves established as a reverberant field. In this framework, it is assumed that a distribution of shear waves exists, oriented across all directions in 3D (e.g. 2D space+time). The simultaneous multi-frequency application of reverberant shear wave fields can be accomplished by applying an array of external sources that can be excited by multiple frequencies within a bandwidth, for example 50, 100, 150, . . . 500 Hz, all contributing to the shear wave field produced in the liver or other target organ. This enables the analysis of the dispersion of shear wave speed as it increases with frequency, indicating the viscoelastic and lossy nature of the tissue under study. Furthermore, dispersion images can be created and displayed alongside the shear wave speed images. Studies on breast and liver tissues using the multi-frequency reverberant shear wave technique, employing frequencies up to 700 Hz in breast tissue, and robust reverberant patterns of shear waves across the entire liver and kidney in obese patients are reported. Dispersion images are shown to have contrast between tissue types and with quantitative values that align with previous studies.
US11995828B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for detection and discrimination of optical signals from a densely packed substrate. These have broad applications for biomolecule detection near or below the diffraction limit of optical systems, including in improving the efficiency and accuracy of polynucleotide sequencing applications.
US11995821B2
A medical image region screening method and apparatus and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a medical image of biological tissue, segmenting tissue regions of a plurality of tissue types from the medical image, selecting, from the tissue regions of the plurality of tissue types based on types of capturing positions of the medical image, a reserved region, obtaining a positional relationship between the reserved region and a predicted lesion region in the medical image; and screening for the predicted lesion region in the medical image based on the positional relationship, to obtain a target lesion region.
US11995809B2
The invention discloses a method to combine low-dynamic range images with different exposures to construct a high-dynamic range image. The method deals with the motions such that to minimize the chance of such “non-recoverable” occlusions and avoids the necessity of knowing or finding the response functions of the low-dynamic range images. Apart from that, the method is fast enough to be used in a mobile camera device and produce good user experience.
US11995804B2
A printer-equipped camera includes an instant film pack loading unit in which an instant film pack, a first displaying unit of which a displaying surface is arranged to face an exposure surface of an instant film in the instant film pack through the exposure opening with respect to the instant film pack loaded in the instant film pack loading unit, and that exposes the instant film by displaying an image, a light exit direction restriction member that is included on the displaying surface of the first displaying unit and restricts a light exit direction of light from each pixel of the first displaying unit to a constant range, an imaging unit that captures a subject image, a second displaying unit that displays an image to an outside, a print instruction unit that provides a print instruction for the image displayed on the second displaying unit, and a displaying control unit that exposes the exposure surface of the instant film by displaying the image on the first displaying unit.
US11995800B2
An image captured by an imaging device in low light conditions may cause the captured image to have poor contrast, blurring, and otherwise not display one or more objects in the image clearly. According to various aspects, systems and methods are provided for enhancing images that are captured in low light conditions.
US11995797B2
A super resolution image generating device capable of processing an image flexibly includes a scaling-up circuit, a front-end circuit, a first branch circuit, a second branch circuit, and an arithmetic circuit. The scaling-up circuit scales up the image to generate an enlarged image including N pixel values. The front-end circuit extracts features of the image to generate a front-end feature map. The first branch circuit extracts features of the front-end feature map to generate a first feature map, and scales up the first feature map to generate N first values. The second branch circuit processes the front-end feature map to generate a second feature map, scales up the second feature map to generate N second values, and processes the N second values to generate N processed values. The arithmetic circuit combines the N pixel values, the N first values, and the N processed values to generate a super resolution image.
US11995791B2
A system can receive downhole acquisition data relating to a wellbore. The system can pre-process the downhole acquisition data. The system can generate an incomplete borehole image using the downhole acquisition data. The system can determine a sparse representation based on the incomplete borehole image by performing an optimization with respect to the incomplete borehole image. The system can generate a complete borehole image based on an inverse of the sparse representation.
US11995790B1
The present invention provides a three-dimensional view-based fabricated building display method and system. In particular, a three-dimensional model is loaded, the three-dimensional model is rendered by a first rendering mode to obtain an average frame rate of automatic rotation. In a case that the average frame rate is less than a first threshold, the three-dimensional model is divided into two layers. the first layer is a model primitive layer, and the second layer is a reference primitive and view proprietary primitive layer. The first layer is rendered by the first rendering mode, and the second layer is rendered by a second rendering mode. In a case that the average frame rate is greater than a second threshold, the three-dimensional model is rendered by a third rendering mode.
US11995789B2
A system and a method of creating, hosting, and accessing a VR project is described. Media files are imported into a software application running on a system and details of interaction between the media files are provided. The media files are processed based on the details of interaction for creation of the VR project. The VR project may include multiple versions of media files prepared based on configurations of user devices requiring access to the VR project. A user device may place a request to a server hosting the VR project. The server may identify an optimal version of media files for the user device, based on configurations of the user device. The optimal version of the media files along with a corresponding VRXF file including details of interactions between the media files is transmitted to the user device, for delivering a best VR experience of the VR project.
US11995782B2
A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously stored maps and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. The cross reality system may include a cloud-based localization service that responds to requests from devices to localize with respect to a stored map. The request may include one or more sets of feature descriptors extracted from an image of the physical world around the device. Those features may be posed relative to a coordinate frame used by the local device. The localization service may identify one or more stored maps with a matching set of features. Based on a transformation required to align the features from the device with the matching set of features, the localization service may compute and return to the device a transformation to relate its local coordinate frame to a coordinate frame of the stored map.
US11995781B2
A messaging system performs neural network hair rendering for images provided by users of the messaging system. A method of neural network hair rendering includes processing a three-dimensional (3D) model of fake hair and a first real hair image depicting a first person to generate a fake hair structure, and encoding, using a fake hair encoder neural subnetwork, the fake hair structure to generate a coded fake hair structure. The method further includes processing, using a cross-domain structure embedding neural subnetwork, the coded fake hair structure to generate a fake and real hair structure, and encoding, using an appearance encoder neural subnetwork, a second real hair image depicting a second person having a second head to generate an appearance map. The method further includes processing, using a real appearance renderer neural subnetwork, the appearance map and the fake and real hair structure to generate a synthesized real image.
US11995777B2
A method for performing an augmented reality location operation. The augmented reality location operation includes: configuring an augmented reality device to perform a plurality of augmented reality tracking methods; identifying a unique augmented reality target via at least one of the plurality of augmented reality tracking methods; associating a position with the unique augmented reality target; and, determining a relative position of another augmented reality target from the unique augmented reality target.
US11995769B2
Methods, apparatus, devices, and systems for three-dimensional (3D) displaying objects are provided. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data including respective primitive data for primitives corresponding to an object, determining an electromagnetic (EM) field contribution to each element of a display for each of the primitives by calculating an EM field propagation from the primitive to the element, generating a sum of the EM field contributions from the primitives for each of the elements, transmitting to each of the elements a respective control signal for modulating at least one property of the element based on the sum of the EM field contributions, and transmitting a timing control signal to an illuminator to activate the illuminator to illuminate light on the display, such that the light is caused by the modulated elements of the display to form a volumetric light field corresponding to the object.
US11995768B2
A VR snapshot broadcasting distribution system, a distribution server, a control method for the distribution server, a program for the distribution server, and a data structure of a VR snapshot data, whereby a 3D space is kept in a 3D form and data of the 3D space is made compact are disclosed. An example distribution server includes: a shooting instruction input unit, to which unit a VR snapshot shooting instruction is input by a distributor or a viewer; an exterior appearance data constructor configured to construct exterior appearance data of the entire 3-dimensional space including the avatar, based on a VR snapshot shooting instruction; a VR snapshot data distribution unit configured to distribute, as VR snapshot data, the exterior appearance data of the entire 3-dimensional space including the avatar, which is constructed by the exterior appearance data constructor; and a display unit configured to display the VR snapshot.
US11995767B2
Apparatus and method for compression of acceleration structure build data in a ray tracing implementation. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: traversal hardware logic to traverse rays through a graphics scene comprising a plurality of primitives; and an acceleration data structure processing unit comprising: a bounding box compressor to compress a set of bounding boxes to generate a plurality of bounding box compression blocks, and an index compressor to compress a set of indices to generate a plurality of index compression blocks, and an acceleration data structure builder for constructing acceleration structures based on bounding box compression blocks and index compression blocks.
US11995764B2
Provided herein is a method, apparatus, and computer program product for identifying locations along a road segment as a tunnel based on point cloud data. Methods may include: receiving point cloud data representative of an environment of a trajectory along a road segment; generating, from the point cloud data, one or more two-dimensional images in one or more corresponding planes orthogonal to the trajectory; determining, for the one or more two-dimensional images, a probability as to whether a respective two-dimensional image is captured within a tunnel along the road segment; and classifying a point along the road segment at a position corresponding to a respective one of the one or more two-dimensional images as a tunnel point in response to the probability as to whether the respective two-dimensional image is captured within a tunnel along the road segment satisfying a predetermined value.
US11995758B2
Provided are systems and methods for portrait animation. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a scenario video, where the scenario video includes information concerning a first face, receiving, by the computing device, a target image, where the target image includes a second face, determining, by the computing device and based on the target image and the information concerning the first face, two-dimensional (2D) deformations of the second face in the target image, and applying, by the computing device, the 2D deformations to the target image to obtain at least one output frame of an output video.
US11995755B1
Systems and methods for continuously updating emotional states of artificial intelligence (AI) characters using emotional state models are provided. An example method includes providing an emotional state model trained to predict an emotional state of an AI character generated by an AI character model in a virtual environment; continuously monitoring a context of an interaction involving the AI character; generating, based on the context, an input for the emotional state model; providing the input to the emotional state model; obtaining, from the emotional state model, the emotional state of the AI character based on the input; and adjusting, based on the emotional state, parameters of the AI character model, thereby causing the AI character to act according to the emotional state.
US11995746B2
The invention relates to a system for reconstructing an image of an object. The system (100) comprises means (110) providing projection data acquired by an imaging unit, like a CT system, with an FOV, means (120) generating estimated image data indicative of a part of an object (20) located outside the FOV (210), means (130) estimating virtual projection data based on virtual settings of a virtual imaging unit comprising a virtual FOV, means (140) generating fused projection data by fusing the provided projection data with the virtual projection data, and means (150) reconstructing a final image. This allows basing the reconstruction on a complete set of projection information for the object and thus providing an image with a high image quality.
US11995744B2
An imaging method may include obtaining original imaging data of an object in a raw-data domain including original time of flight (TOF) information. The method may also include gating the original imaging data into a plurality of data sets in the raw-data domain. The method may also include determining a plurality of motion vector fields based on the plurality of data sets. The method may also include generating corrected imaging data in the raw-data domain by performing motion correction on at least one of the plurality of data sets based on the original TOF information and at least one corresponding MVF of the plurality of MVFs. The method may also include generating one or more target images of the object by performing, based on the corrected imaging data, image reconstruction.
US11995739B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about an augmented reality (AR) environment which includes a plurality of objects and a user participating in the AR environment, the user viewing the AR environment through a user equipment, receiving context information for the AR environment, identifying a diminished reality (DR) object of the plurality of objects, wherein the identifying is responsive to the context information, modifying the AR environment to render the DR object invisible to the user viewing the AR environment through user equipment, monitoring movement of one or more objects of the AR environment including the DR object, and modifying visibility of the DR object to the user viewing the AR environment through user equipment as a notification of a possible collision between the user and the DR object, wherein the modifying is responsive to detecting a risk of collision. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11995735B2
A delivery support apparatus includes: an individual detection unit that detects a registered individual based on an image transmitted from a camera, an information specifying unit that specifies a destination of the individual, a schedule at the destination, and a baggage to be received at the destination for the individual detected by the individual detection unit, a notification unit that notifies a terminal device at the destination that the specified baggage will be received by the individual according to the specified schedule.
US11995733B2
A process of linking newly submitted unsolicited electronic tips to public-safety data including public-safety cases and tips. An electronic tip processing system correlates a newly received unsolicited electronic tip with public-safety cases. A correlation score is assigned to each public-safety case. The system selects a public-safety case which has a correlation score greater than or equal to a threshold. The system then presents a notification to a case supervisor assigned to the selected public-safety case. The notification indicates availability of new tip information to the case supervisor and also requests the case supervisor to review and validate whether the new tip information including the unsolicited electronic tip is relevant to the public-safety case. When a response received from the case supervisor indicates that the electronic tip is validated by the case supervisor as being relevant to the public-safety case, the system links the unsolicited electronic tip to the public-safety case.
US11995726B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices, such as appliances, home systems, etc. are presented. The data may be used to determine whether operation of the home device is within an acceptable range. If not, the user associated with the home device may receive an alert identifying a potential issue. One or more potential modifications to improve the home device may be identified and transmitted to the user. In some examples, an insurance incentive to implement the recommended modifications may also be transmitted to the user.
US11995722B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
US11995720B1
Systems, methods, and program products for providing an exchange traded product holding digital math-based assets are disclosed. Shares based on digital math-based assets may be created using one or more computers by determining share price information based upon quantities of digital math-based assets held by a trust, electronically receiving a request from an authorized participant user device to purchase a quantity of shares, electronically transmitting a quantity of digital math-based assets to one or more destination digital asset accounts for receipt of digital math-based assets from the authorized participant based on the determined share price information and the requested quantity of shares, and electronically issuing shares to the authorized participant.
US11995716B2
A Monte Carlo simulation is disclosed to propagate model estimate and macroeconomic uncertainties through the calculation of lifetime loss or yield and their uncertainties using a classical computer or a quantum for the purposes of adjusting loan pricing for the uncertainty in the yield.
US11995711B2
Systems and methods for management of an account switch are disclosed. An account switch management system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive a list of transaction entries to be switched from a first account to a second account and account information associated with the first account and the second account. The one or more processors may also determine a recommendation relating to a customer action based on the transaction entries and the account information. The one or more processors may provide the list of transaction entries and account information and the recommendation to the client device. The one or more processors may also receive a request from the client device to complete an action and transmit a notification to a processing device to complete the action.
US11995709B2
Ring attributes may be predicted using a predictive model. A diamond selection system determines predicted ring attributes by obtaining and analyzing data related to a recipient, such as social media activity. The diamond selection system may determine search parameters based on predicted ring attributes and present a curated selection or list of candidate stones and/or settings that match the determined search parameters, for example, in a user interface of a mobile electronic device.
US11995705B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for an electronic commerce file system are provided. In example embodiments, a selection of an item contained in a folder of an electronic commerce file system is received. The item is offered for sale by an electronic commerce provider, and the electronic commerce file system resides locally on a client device. Based on a type of the folder, a set of actions are provided for selection, with the set of actions to be performed with respect to the item. A selection of an action to be performed with respect to the item is received. The action is performed with respect to the item, with the action being performed between the electronic commerce file system and the electronic commerce provider via a network.
US11995704B2
A system for categorizing, visualizing, and recommending cannabis products based on objective data of the chemical composition of products is described. This system allows cannabis products to be visualized and compared based on their chemical composition, even by laypeople with little or no knowledge of the underlying objective data. A recommendation system is built upon this which can recommend products for consumption, including a user interface for receiving user input, which includes at least one of demographic data, desired level of psychoactivity, or prior experience with the product, a merchant interface for receiving merchant input, including at least one of general data descriptive of the regulated product, lab data descriptive of the regulated products chemical composition, and user data descriptive of subjective effects of the regulated product on a user; and a decision engine making a recommendation of product according to correlation of the lab data with the user data.
US11995702B2
Methods and systems for generating item recommendations are disclosed. One method includes sampling from a weighted node-based graph to generate a sampled graph, wherein sampling includes selecting a plurality of nodes and, for each selected node, one or more node pairs. The selection of the node pairs is based at least in part based on a weight assigned to the node pair in the weighted node-based graph. The method further includes aggregating information from the one or more neighboring nodes into each corresponding node of the plurality of nodes in the sampled graph to generate a vector representation of the sampled graph. The method also includes applying a loss function to the vector representation of the sampled graph to generate a modified vector representation. The modified vector representation is used to generate, in response to identification of an item from an item collection, a selection of one or more recommended items from within the item collection.
US11995700B2
An online concierge system maintains a taxonomy associating one or more specific items offered by a warehouse with a generic item description. When the online concierge system receives a generic item description from a user for inclusion in an order, the online concierge system uses the taxonomy to select a set of items associated with the generic item description. Based on probabilities of the user purchasing various items of the set, the online concierge system selects an item of the set for inclusion in the order For example, the online concierge system selects an item of the set for which the user has a maximum probability of being purchased. Subsequently, the online concierge system displays an interface for the user that is prepopulated with information identifying the selected item of the set.
US11995694B2
Systems and methods are described for server-side contextual analysis of content available at a given uniform resource identifier (URI), which utilizes headless browser techniques to analyze a more complete and accurate version of page content than using existing techniques. For example, systems and methods are described for performing contextual analysis of content that would typically be displayed to a client device but is not included in an HTML file or other initial page source file available at the initially provided URI. The contextual analysis performed may include analyzing text using natural language processing and analyzing images using computer vision techniques.
US11995693B2
One method retrieves, by a connector engine, communication data between a user communication device and a decision engine in response to identifying communications between the user communication device and the decision engine, the decision engine configured to receive user communication device input and provide the user communication device with a set of decision options. The method then retrieves, by the connector engine, at least one vendor option from a marketing database based on the communications between the user communication device and the decision engine. The method then outputs, by the connector engine, the at least one vendor option.
US11995683B2
A messaging system comprising: a user device to: receive a beacon ID from a local beacon device when within a communication distance of the local beacon device; communicate information enabling a merchant database to identify a merchant profile associated with the local beacon device in response to receiving the beacon ID; and receive product message(s) for presentation via a user interface of the user device, the merchant database comprising merchant profile(s), each merchant profile comprising data entries associated with product(s), a user database comprising user profile(s), and a comparison server to: receive from the merchant database a merchant profile associated with a beacon ID obtained by the user device and a user profile associated with the user device from the user database; identify, based on the received merchant profile and user profile, product message(s) for communication to the user device; and communicate the product message(s) to the user device.
US11995678B2
Methods, systems and device for verifying a transaction in a loyalty or advertising system are described. One such method includes: receiving, at least one processor, transaction data associated with a transaction between a customer and a merchant; determining, at the at least one processor, from the transaction data whether the customer and the merchant are associated with the loyalty or advertising system; and upon determining from the transaction data whether the transaction corresponds to a reward or advertisement, triggering the redemption of the reward or advertisement.
US11995676B2
A machine and process for managing a connection with a portable terminal may include a detector for detecting a person. A transmitter may be configured to transmit a wireless signal in response to the detector detecting a person within a predetermined range of the machine. A receiver may be configured to receive a connection request signal from the portable terminal that has received the wireless signal. An identification unit may be configured to identify, in response to receiving the connection request signal, a portable terminal in communication with the machine, and establish a connection with the identified portable terminal. The machine may be a vending machine or a beverage dispenser.
US11995665B2
The present disclosure relates to improving recommendations for small shops on an ecommerce platform while maintaining accuracy for larger shops. The improvement is achieved by retraining a machine-learning recommendation model to reduce sample selection bias using a meta-learning process. The retraining process comprises identifying a sample subset of shops on the ecommerce platform, and then creating shop-specific versions of the recommendation model for each of the shops in the subset. A global parameter adjustment is calculated for the global model based on minimizing losses associated with the shop-specific models and increasing the probability of items being recommended from small shops. The latter is achieved by introducing regularizer terms for small shops during the meta-learning process. The regularizer terms serve to increase the probability that an item from a small shop will be recommended, thereby countering the sample selection bias faced by small-shop items.
US11995657B2
A method includes a computing entity interpreting digital records representing a multitude of contingent assets to produce a set of contingent asset sale requests. A first contingent asset of a first contingent asset sale request assigns a potential first liability of a first payer to a first seller. The method further includes interpreting a first authenticity indicator associated with the first contingent asset sale request to produce a first contingent asset risk level. When the first contingent asset risk level is greater than a contingency risk threshold level, the method further includes establishing first available terms for the first contingent asset based on the first contingent asset sale request, generating a first smart contract to indicate availability of the first contingent asset to include the first available terms, and causing generation of a non-fungible token to represent the first smart contract in an object distributed ledger.
US11995655B2
Systems and methods for verifying users in connection with transactions are disclosed. One exemplary method includes, based on the payment card device being presented at a terminal, initiating, by a security chip of the payment card device, a timer and then based on the timer being unexpired, capturing, by a biometric sensor of the payment card device, a biometric image and verifying, by the security chip, the captured biometric image against reference biometric data stored the payment card device. The method also includes, based on the captured biometric image being verified, cooperating, by the security chip, with the terminal, to initiate a transaction to an account using a first account number specific to a biometric application of the payment card device.
US11995642B1
A user is provided with a GUI that may allow the user to change functionality associated with a non-powered card, a powered card or other device (e.g., a mobile telephonic device). The functionality associated with the device may be displayed by the GUI as a list of third-party applications that may be executed when the user's card or other device is used to complete a purchase transaction. The GUI allows the user to receive and view notifications sent from the third-party application developer via a remote facility that may, for example, allow the third-party application developer to promote the third-party application.
US11995639B2
A system and method for a dynamic-link verification process between an electronic device and a transaction or event. The first step is engagement by a mobile electronic device with an initiator that is linked with a specific verification event that triggers a text message to auto-populate on a mobile electronic device. The message comprising metadata about the user and the event or transaction. The second step is for the electronic device to send the auto-populated message to a message gateway thus initiating the verification of the user. The message gateway works with a management service and one or more databases to verify the identify and other aspects of the user based on instructions provided by the event host. Approval or denial of the transaction or request to gain entry is sent to the mobile device and the event host.
US11995637B2
The present disclosure provides a system constructed by connecting a mobile terminal and a service providing device, and a service providing method, wherein the service providing device and the mobile terminal are directly connected via an interface of the mobile terminal; the service providing device provides a service independently or through collaboration between the service providing device and various parties such as the mobile terminal and/or the background server based on the service information parsed and extracted the code information, identification information of any one or more parties among the user, the first mobile terminal, and the service providing device, and/or information bound to the identification information. Through active code scanning or passive code scanning or a combination of the two, the present disclosure may conveniently and quickly implement sensing access and effectively enhance security for operations such as mobile payment, etc.
US11995626B2
A payment service may receive interaction data from a plurality of entities and analyze interactions to identify one or more interactions eligible for expedited payment. The expedited payment comprises a near real-time transfer of funds to a financial account of an entity. A user interface may be presented via an entity device that includes a representation of the eligible interaction(s). A pop-up window may be overlaid on the user interface that includes a display element selectable to request the expedited payment of at least one of the eligible interactions. Based on receipt of an indication that the entity has selected the display element, an expedited payment may be initiated for the at least one eligible interaction. After initiating the expedited payment in near real-time, a non- expedited payment may be initiated for remaining interaction(s).
US11995611B2
Systems and methods for facilitating user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment are presented herein. Implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information the work unit records including values of an approval state parameter; effectuate presentation of a user interface of the collaboration environment, the user interface displaying individual work unit pages for individual units of work that include a set of user interface elements available for selection by the users, individual user interface elements in the set corresponding to different ones of the values of the approval state parameter; obtain user input information conveying user input characterizing the selection of the individual user interface elements; update the work unit records based on the user input information; and/or other perform other operations.
US11995610B2
Systems and methods for analyzing documentation for assessing potential fraudulent user submissions are provided. According to certain aspects, a server computer may receive an initial set of documentation descriptive of damage to a property asset, and may analyze the initial set of documentation to determine whether additional documentation is needed. The server computer may initiate a communication channel with a user device via which the additional documentation may be submitted, and the server computer may similarly analyze the additional documentation to determine a likelihood of fraud. The server computer may process the user submission accordingly.
US11995609B2
In one embodiment, a processing device receives a first digital fingerprint of a media item along with a first content management rule. The processing device separately receives a second digital fingerprint of the media item along with a second content management rule. The processing device determines that the received digital fingerprints are for the same media item based upon a match between the first digital fingerprint and the second digital fingerprint. The processing device determines that all rights to the media item have been accounted for, and then determines a set of actions to be performed for hosted media items comprising the media item based at least in part upon the first content management rule and the second content management rule. Processing logic may also perform a conflict resolution process for conflicting rights claims to the media item.
US11995604B2
The present application describes a method of utilizing a mathematical model to determine appropriate locations for redistribution or drop-off of items with last mile delivery services at a consolidation point representing an intermediate sortation or warehousing in a retail enterprise's supply chain downstream of retail locations. Items may be brought from a consolidation point, such as a warehouse downstream of retail locations, to such a redistribution location (herein referred to as a “Transload” point). A last-mile delivery carrier may pick up items from the Transload point and deliver them to customer delivery locations in the geographical area served by the Transload point. In examples, relocation of selected deliveries from the consolidation point to a Transload point reduces the per-mile cost for last mile deliveries. A model uses candidate locations to assess optimal locations for such a Transload facility, for example, based on delivery locations and associated costs.
US11995603B2
The present technology pertains to utilizing an autonomous transportation service to deliver items offered for sale in a peer-to-peer marketplace. The peer-to-peer marketplace can include an integration that will offer autonomous transportation and direct a buyer and seller to enter locations for pick-up and drop-off, respectively. The autonomous transportation system can transport the item from the seller to the buyer.
US11995594B2
This disclosure relates to computer systems for managing technical process data. An input port receives technical process data from multiple technical process experts, wherein the technical process data relates to a technical impact of one or more physical events on a continuity of a technical operation. A database stores the technical process data. A processor validates the technical process data and initiates a bidding process. The processor further physically presents the technical process data in the bidding process, receives bidding data from multiple bidding client computer systems associated with multiple bids, selects one of multiple bids based on the bidding data, and stores an association between the bidding data associated with the one of the multiple bids and the technical process data on the database.
US11995591B2
The present disclosure describes computer systems and computer-implemented methods for managing an agricultural operation. Vehicle location information for at least one agricultural vehicle is received, and the vehicle location information is used to determine a vehicle path. Vehicle state information is received from the vehicle and is used to determine whether the vehicle is in a working or non-working state. The vehicle path is then rendered on a map display, with the map display visually distinguishing between sections of the vehicle path traversed while the vehicle is in the working state and sections of the vehicle path traversed while the vehicle is in the non-working state.
US11995586B2
The time required to modify order allocation rules is shortened in a production planning system. A performance rule is generated, in which a manufacturing condition is set as the input and a manufacturing facility is set as the output, based on allocation performance data representing a performance of allocating the manufacturing facility for the manufacturing condition. A comparison table is generated representing a difference between the performance rule and an existing rule in which the manufacturing condition is set as the input and the manufacturing facility is set as the output. A modification rule is generated in which the existing rule is modified according to a user operation on the comparison table; and an evaluation index is calculated for production plan data corresponding to each of the existing rule and the modification rule. The rule modification unit generates the comparison table including a modification plan for the existing rule.
US11995584B2
A facility for organizing worker records is configured to assist users in assigning training classes to the workers. The facility obtains new worker records identifying one or more workers and accesses existing worker records from a repository of worker records. The facility merges the new worker records and the existing worker records, and identifies duplicate records within the merged records. The facility removes the duplicate record from the merged records. The facility presents visual information describing one or more training classes which may be assigned to the one or more workers. The facility obtains user input specifying that at least one of the one or more training classes be assigned to at least one of the one or more workers.
US11995583B2
An example method includes receiving a first service procedure for servicing a vehicle, determining an expected pace of performance of the first service procedure, receiving at least one input signal during performance of the first service procedure, determining, based on the at least one input signal, a current pace of performance of the first service procedure, and providing for display of a first pace indicator on a display interface of the computing device, where the first pace indicator is representative of the current pace of performance of the first service procedure relative to the expected pace of performance of the first service procedure.
US11995574B2
Systems, methods, and computer products are described herein for explainable machine learning predictions. An application receives data including a specification that defines a trained machine learning (ML) model. The application parses a model description of the trained ML model. An engine factory creates an instance of an engine based on the model description. The application generates a user interface (UI) for requesting a prediction and an associated explanation using the engine. The UI receives user input data including a requested prediction having one or more influencers. The engine determines and provides the prediction and the associated explanation based on the user input data.
US11995572B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content recommendation based upon continuity and grouping information of attributes are provided herein. User interaction data specifying whether users interacted with content items, user attributes of the users, and content attributes of the content items is obtained. A data structure is populated with the user interaction data. The data structure is modified by inserting a set of sub-fields into the data structure for a user attribute. A sub-field is populated with a value representing an option of the user attribute. The set of sub-fields are an encoding of continuity information and grouping information representing options for the user attribute. The data structure is processed using machine learning functionality to generate a model. The model is utilized to generate a prediction as to whether a user will interact with a content item.
US11995568B2
A method and a system are provided for determining a likelihood of a metabolic pathway existing in an organism, including: calculating a feature vector for each metabolic pathway of metabolic pathways known to exist and not known to exist in the organism, wherein elements of the feature vectors are network properties of the metabolic pathways mapped to a metabolite concentration correlation network (CN); training a supervised machine learning model for classifying metabolic pathways as existing or not existing in the organism, according to the known and unknown feature vectors; determining, based on mapping to the CN, a feature vector of a proposed metabolic pathway, and feeding the feature vector of the proposed metabolic pathway to the trained SML model, to determine a likelihood of the proposed metabolic pathway existing in the organism.
US11995567B2
An image or a spectrum of a surface may be acquired by a computing device, which may be included in a mobile device in some examples. The computing device may extract a measured spectrum from the image and generate a corrected spectrum of the surface. In some examples, the corrected spectrum may be generated to compensate for ambient light influence. The corrected spectrum may be analyzed to provide a result, such as a diagnosis or a product recommendation. In some examples, the result is based, at least in part, on a comparison of the corrected spectrum to reference spectra. In some examples, the result is based, at least in part, on an inference of a machine learning model.
US11995566B2
A method for lifelong machine learning using boosting includes receiving a new task and a learning sample for the new task. A distribution of weights is learned over the learning sample using previously learned classifiers from old tasks. A set of task-specific classifiers are learned for the new task using a boosting algorithm and the distribution of weights over the learning sample, whereby the distribution of weights over the learning sample is updated using the task-specific classifiers for the new task.
US11995564B2
A recommendation method includes determining one or more aspects of a first item based on at least one descriptive text of the first item. The recommendation method also includes updating a knowledge graph containing nodes that represent multiple items, multiple users, and multiple aspects. Updating the knowledge graph includes linking one or more nodes representing the one or more aspects of the first item to a node representing the first item with one or more first edges. Each of the one or more first edges identifies weights associated with (i) user sentiment about the associated aspect of the first item and (ii) an importance of the associated aspect to the first item. In addition, the recommendation method includes recommending a second item for a user with an explanation based on at least one aspect linked to the second item in the knowledge graph.
US11995552B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of multi-phase pruning a neural network with multi-sparsity levels and an SIMD-based neural network pruning method, and the SIMD-based neural network pruning method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes GEMM-transforming an internode weight kernel applied to a layer in a neural network; and pruning the GEMM-transformed weight kernel with a predetermined SIMD width as a unit.
US11995550B2
A computer system is provided and programmed to assemble a plurality of synthetic datasets and blend those synthetic datasets into a synthesized dataset. An evaluation is then performed to determine whether an existing model should be associated with the synthesized dataset or a new model should be trained from an existing model using the synthesized dataset.
US11995547B2
Disclosed systems and methods predict and visualize outcomes based on past events. For example, an analysis application encodes a sequence of events into a feature vector that includes, for each event, a numerical representation of a respective category and a respective timestamp. The application applies a time-aware recurrent neural network to the feature vector, resulting in one or more of (i) a set of future events in which each event is associated with a probability and a predicted duration and (ii) a sequence embedding that contains information about predicted outcomes and temporal patterns observed in the sequence of events. The application applies a support vector model classifier to the sequence embedding. The support vector model classifier computes a likelihood of a categorical outcome for each of the events in the probability distribution. The application modifies interactive content according to the categorical outcomes and probability distribution.
US11995546B1
A vehicle device may execute one or more neural networks (and/or other artificial intelligence), based on input from one or more of the cameras and/or other sensors, to intelligently detect safety events in real-time. The one or more neural networks may be an ensemble neural network that includes neural networks for detecting a head and hand of a user, neural networks for detecting hand actions of the user, neural networks for detecting the head pose of the user, neural networks for predicting an occurrence of an event, and neural networks for predicting a start time and end time of the event. Further, the neural networks can be segmented into a modular neural network based on metadata. The segmentation of the neural network can define a thin layer of the modular neural network to enable independent tuning of the thin layer of the modular neural network.
US11995540B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer processing system are provided for online learning for a Dynamic Boltzmann Machine (DyBM) with hidden units. The method includes imposing, by a processor device, limited connections in the DyBM where (i) a current observation x[t] depends only on latest hidden units h[t-1/2] and all previous observations x[
US11995535B2
In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method may include training a machine learning model in a first database instance using a machine learning algorithm and a training dataset in response to receiving a request to train, serializing the trained machine learning model into a binary file in response to the training of the machine learning model, recreating the trained machine learning model in a second database instance using the binary file in response to receiving a request to apply the machine learning model, and generating an inference result by applying the recreated trained machine learning model on the inference dataset in the second database instance.
US11995530B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that provide feedback to a user of an image capture device that includes an artificial intelligence system that analyzes incoming image frames to, for example, determine whether to automatically capture and store the incoming frames. An example system can also, in the viewfinder portion of a user interface presented on a display, a graphical intelligence feedback indicator in association with a live video stream. The graphical intelligence feedback indicator can graphically indicate, for each of a plurality of image frames as such image frame is presented within the viewfinder portion of the user interface, a respective measure of one or more attributes of the respective scene depicted by the image frame output by the artificial intelligence system.
US11995527B2
A computer implemented technique for developing a behaviour tool to estimate a behaviour of a particular person in response to a given situation, comprises maintaining, in a storage device, digital memories and a record of associations between the digital memories, where a given digital memory is generated in response to a given event associated with the particular person and is determined from analysis of multiple items of data associated with the given event, including at least items of personal data derived from signals gathered from a plurality of sensors used to monitor the particular person. Processing circuitry is then employed to analyse the digital memories and the record of associations between the digital memories, in order to generate a digital twin of the particular person comprising one or more personalised cognitive models, each personalised cognitive model being arranged to emulate an associated cognitive skill of the particular person. At least one of the one or more personalised cognitive models forming the digital twin is then output for incorporation within the behaviour tool so as to cause the estimated behaviour of the particular person in response to the given situation to be influenced, at least in part, by model output data generated by the at least one of the one or more personalised cognitive models.
US11995525B2
Embodiments are directed to the tracking of data in a generative adversarial network (GAN) model using a distributed ledger system, such as a blockchain. A learning platform implementing a classification model receives, from a third party, a set of data examples generated by a generator model. The set of data examples are processed by the classification model, which outputs a prediction for each data example indicating whether each data example is true or false. The distributed ledger keeps a record of data examples submitted to the learning platform, as well as of predictions determined by the classification model on the learning platform. The learning platform analyzes the records of the distributed ledger, and pairs the records corresponding to the submitted data examples and the generated predictions determined by the classification model, and determines if the predictions were correct. The classification model may then be updated based upon the prediction results.
US11995509B2
A card processing device is structured to process a card having a plurality of information recording parts from which information is capable of being optically read. The card processing device includes a placing part which is formed with a placing face on which the card is placed, a reading part which is provided on an upper side with respect to the placing face and is capable of optically reading information from at least one information recording part of the plurality of information recording parts, and an attaching part for detachably attaching a cover member which covers the at least one information recording part of the plurality of information recording parts provided on the card which is placed on the placing face.
US11995495B2
The present invention provides a RFID device arranged on an object surface, comprising a substrate, a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer has a first connecting surface having a first adhering layer for adhering to the first surface of the substrate, wherein a RFID element is electrically connected to the first metal layer and a length of the first metal layer is larger than a length of the substrate such that the first metal layer has a first extending part extending outwardly from the lateral surface of the substrate. The second metal layer has a second connecting surface having a second adhering layer formed thereon for adhering the second metal layer on the second surface, wherein the first extending metal layer is attached onto but electrically insulated from the object surface or the second metal layer.
US11995491B1
A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine that a door of a vehicle is attached to the vehicle based on data from at least one of a camera of the vehicle or a radio receiver of the vehicle; upon determining that the door is attached to the vehicle, actuate a component of the vehicle based on data from a door sensor of the vehicle, the door sensor indicating whether the door is open or closed; determine that the door is detached from the vehicle based on the data from the at least one of the camera or the radio receiver; and upon determining that the door is detached from the vehicle, actuate the component without relying on the data from the door sensor.
US11995490B2
A smart card comprising rectification circuitry arranged to receive an alternating electrical signal from a near field RF communications antenna of the smart card, and convert it into DC electrical energy for powering an auxiliary circuit. The rectification circuitry comprises a first inductor arranged so that the alternating electrical signal flows through the first inductor and a second inductor arranged for inductive coupling with the first inductor to provide the alternating electrical signal to a near field RF communicator.
US11995487B2
An example operation method of an image forming apparatus includes forming a test image with respect to a pattern used for diagnosing an image-quality state of a printout output by the image forming apparatus, obtaining a test signal corresponding to the test image via a sensor of the image forming apparatus, obtaining image-quality state information indicating an image-quality state of the test image based on the test signal corresponding, identifying a type of a screen corresponding to halftone information indicating a resolution of the printout based on the image-quality state information, and performing a first image forming operation according to the type of the screen.
US11995485B2
One example described herein include a system that can detect an event associated with executing a software operation using a quantum service of a quantum computing system. Based on detecting the event, the system can identify a classical service (of a classical computing system) that corresponds to the quantum service. The system can then cause the software operation to be executed using the classical service.
US11995478B2
A deployment request is received for a plurality of clusters within a plurality cloud computing environments. The deployment request relates to one or more operational actions for computing devices associated with the plurality of clusters. The plurality of clusters is associated with a single application programming interface (API). A set of standards are received for the plurality of clusters from the API. The plurality of clusters is configured according to the set of standards to create a configured plurality of clusters. The configured plurality of clusters are deployed within the plurality of cloud computing environments.
US11995476B1
A post-task-completion retention period for which a computing resource is to be retained, without de-activating the resource, on behalf of a set of requesters of machine learning tasks is determined at a machine learning service. A first task, identified at the service prior to expiration of the retention period at a first computing resource at which a second task has completed, is initiated at the first computing resource. In response to obtaining an indication of a third task and determining that a threshold criterion associated with the retention period satisfies a criterion, the third task is initiated at an additional computing resource. The additional computing resource is de-activated after the third task completes, without waiting for the retention period to expire.
US11995469B2
A method and system for preemptive caching across content delivery networks. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail proactively seeding (or deploying) resources to edge nodes of a content delivery network based on prospective information sources such as, for example, travel itineraries, map route plans, calendar appointments, etc. Resource delivery deadlines and destinations may be derived from these prospective information sources in order to preemptively direct and cache resources near these resource delivery destinations (i.e., geo-locations) prior to or by the expected times (i.e., future point-in-times) during which a resource requestor and/or consumer is anticipated to be positioned at or within proximity to the resource delivery destinations. Through proactive seeding of resources, which may reflect content or service functionalities, reduced latency may be observed at least with respect to requesting the resources from the content delivery network.
US11995465B2
A computing system includes: a command fetch block configured to determine a host profile for representing a requesting host corresponding to a processing request; and a credit checker block, coupled to the command fetch block, configured to calculate an instance budget at a communication endpoint from an overall resource of the communication endpoint for controlling the processing request at the communication endpoint.
US11995464B2
The present invention extends configuring development and operations pipelines using drag and drop techniques. Through user interface gestures, users can form and manage pipelines that span any combination of: public cloud resources, private cloud resources, user on-premise resources, etc., in accordance with appropriate (cloud and/or on-premise) profile information. The user interface facilitates pipeline (re)configuration as appropriate to address alterations to workflows, upgrades to DevOps tools, removal of functionality from a workflow, etc. The user interface enables customers to build no-code pipelines for various use cases in a drag and drop manner. Users can integrate collaboration tools, notifications, and approval gates offering thresholds at each and every step. In addition, the pipeline framework captures logs and provides a summary via livestream and also upon completion of each pipeline activity and after each pipeline.
US11995457B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. Upon receiving a user input requesting that a digital assistant initiate a task, performance of the task is initiated, and a task response is provided. If the digital assistant determines that task is associated with a first user interface, such as a non-digital assistant-specific user interface, the task response is provided using the first user interface.
US11995443B2
Reuse of branch information queue entries for multiple instances of predicted control instructions in captured loops in a processor, and related methods and computer-readable media. The processor establishes and updates a branch entry in a branch information queue (BIQ) circuit with branch information in response to a speculative prediction made for a predicted control instruction. The branch information is used for making and tracking flow path predictions for predicted control instructions as well as verifying such predictions against its resolution for possible misprediction recovery. The processor is configured to reuse the same branch entry in the BIQ circuit for each instance of the predicted control instruction. This conserves space in the BIQ circuit, which allows for a smaller sized BIQ circuit to be used thus conserving area and power consumption. The branch information for each instance of a predicted control instruction within a loop remains consistent.
US11995440B2
A method for executing new instructions is provided. The method is used in a processor and includes: receiving an instruction; when the received instruction is an unknown instruction, executing a conversion program by an operating system, wherein the conversion program executes the following steps: determining whether the received instruction is a new instruction; converting the received instruction into at least one old instruction when the received instruction is a new instruction; and executing the at least one old instruction.
US11995438B2
The present invention provides a system and method for automation of the creation of a software application as a combination of microservices by extraction of discrete elements of software functionality from a monolithic architectures using dynamic and static analysis of code and non-code-related artefacts; forming them into microservices such that the software application is recreated as serverless hardware infrastructure while also validating the transformed code. In many cases, serverless microservices will significantly reduce the hardware requirement for software systems.
US11995434B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus provided with a module that holds identification information capable of specifying a subscriber who has entered a contract for specific mobile communication. The image processing apparatus provides, if software needs to be updated, a message indicating a predetermined time slot and that the image processing apparatus has to be in a state in which downloading software for updating using the specific mobile communication is possible, and downloads the software for updating in the predetermined time slot using the specific mobile communication. The predetermined time slot is at least a portion of a time slot which is determined depending on the contract for the specific mobile communication.
US11995425B2
Embodiments herein describe a deployment strategy where a vendor deployment system sends to each customer site the same binary that defines all the microservices offered by the vendor deployment system. That is, the vendor deployment system can build one binary image of its platform (which has all the microservices) that is deployed to every customer site. The vendor also provides a deployment descriptor that is used during runtime to activate the microservices intended for use at the customer site. In this manner, the vendor deployment system can generate a customized deployment without having to build a new binary by manipulating the data or flags in the deployment descriptor.
US11995422B2
An augmented reality (AR) development system includes computer hardware including an AR system and a development server. The development server is configured to perform identifying a plurality of microservices to be deployed into an architecture, at least one integration layer in the architecture, and at least one application programming interface (API) layer in the architecture. The AR system is configured to perform generating a first visualization of the architecture that includes: a plurality of representations respectively corresponding to the plurality of microservices to be deployed in the architecture and a plurality of distinct and visually identifiable locations that respectively correspond to a unique combination of a specific API layer and a specific integration layer; receiving an indication for modifying a placement of one of the plurality of microservices within the first visualization; and generating a second visualization of the architecture based upon the indication.
