US11027098B2
A clip for medical tubing is a device for releasably and removably securing medical tubing, such as nasogastric tubes, surgical drainage tubes and the like, to a garment, such as a hospital gown or the like. The clip for medical tubing includes an elongated flexible member having longitudinally opposed first and second ends, and first and second clamps extending from the first and second ends, respectively, of the elongated flexible member. Each of the first and second clamps includes a yoke having first and second laterally opposed arms, at least two first resilient fingers extending in parallel from the first arm of the yoke, and at least one second resilient finger extending from the second arm of the yoke. The at least one second finger is resiliently compressible.
US11027095B2
A midline catheter is provided. The midline catheter includes a shaft defining a lumen, the shaft having a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end includes two or more opposing notches thereon, each of the notches having an open notch distal end and an opposing notch proximal end formed as an arch. The catheter may also include written indicia thereon to indicate that it is a midline catheter and/or is power injectable or non-power-injectable.
US11027094B2
A catheter having excellent flexibility in order to follow a guidewire, and that is not easily kinked even when the catheter is bent strongly. The catheter includes a catheter shaft having a hollow resin body and a coil body within the hollow resin body. The coil body is formed of a spirally wound wire, which is slidable with respect to the hollow resin body.
US11027093B2
The present disclosure provides a catheter system and methods for use that includes (a) a first catheter having a first end and a second end, where the first catheter has a first diameter, (b) a second catheter having a first end and a second end, where the second catheter has a second diameter that is less than the first diameter of the first catheter, and where the second catheter is positioned at least partially within a lumen of the first catheter and is moveable relative to the first catheter, and (c) a wire having a first end and a second end, where the first end of the wire is coupled to the second catheter.
US11027084B2
A patient ventilating (23) and aspirating system (8) is disclosed that has a suction tube (9) and connector (6) for connecting to a catheter mount that has a sealed passageway (15). The catheter mount passageway (15) is sealed with an elastomeric seal (16) including a perforation or slit (17). A connector (12) with a piercing member is associated with the suction tube (9). When the connector is attached to the catheter mount the piercing member (20) pierces the seal (16) such that the suction tube (9) can pass through the connector (6) and catheter mount.
US11027083B2
A pressure regulator includes a container defining a variable volume chamber having a least one first orifice to be connected to an auxiliary hose such that, in use, the variable volume chamber of the pressure regulator and a sealing cuff are in communication. The regulator includes a pressure means acting on the container for exerting a certain force by means of a weight that can move along an articulated rod for adjusting the air pressure contained in the variable volume chamber. A system for locking the weight is provided for preventing unexpected movement of the weight. The invention is applicable to endotracheal tubes, tracheotomy tube or similar instruments for the ventilation of a patient.
US11027079B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a data processing unit of a ventilation device, and also to a ventilation device. Therapy data are registered and stored in a memory unit and at least a part of the therapy data is transmitted with a transmission unit to a network. At least one available radio network is determined with the transmission unit and at least one parameter for a network quality of the network is defined. At least one processing of the therapy data prior to their transmission into the radio network is carried out dynamically with the data processing unit depending on the parameter.
US11027072B2
Described herein are syringe devices comprising a syringe including a therapeutic dose of at least one drug to be used in a drug or substance overdose. Also provided herein are compositions and methods of treating opioid overdose using high dose naloxone.
US11027066B2
The present invention relates to a three-chambered autoinjector as well as to the methods of administering medicaments to a human using the three-chambered autoinjector. In certain embodiments, the autoinjector includes a first medicament in liquid form, a second medicament preferably in solid form, and a liquid composition for diluting the second medicament, and utilizes a three-chambered design so as to administer the first medicament and a solution comprising the second medicament and the liquid composition at different injection depths into the body of a human. In an alternative embodiment an autoinjector is provided that delivers medicaments at the same injection depth.
US11027064B2
Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of providing site rotation feedback pertaining to a sensing arrangement providing sensed measurements of a physiological condition in a body of a user involves obtaining one or more reference measurements of the physiological condition in the body of the user, determining a lag associated with the sensing arrangement based on a relationship between the one or more reference measurements and one or more of the sensed measurements, identifying a current site location on the body of the user associated with the sensing arrangement from among a plurality of site locations based on the lag, determining one or more performance metrics associated with the current site location, and providing sensor site feedback in a manner that is influenced by the one or more performance metrics.
US11027057B2
An intravenous (IV) tube organization apparatus includes at least one identification placard configured to couple to an IV tube. The identification placard includes a first tube capture portion configured to couple the identification placard to the IV tube, and a data portion to receive and display information regarding the IV tube. The IV tube organization apparatus also includes at least one arrangement clip configured to couple to the IV tube. The IV tube organization apparatus also includes a distinguishing characteristic to differentiate the apparatus from another apparatus.
US11027054B2
A dialysis machine (e.g., a peritoneal dialysis (PD) machine) can include a pressure sensor mounted at a proximal end of a patient line that provides PD solution to a patient through a catheter. During treatment, an occlusion can occur at different locations in the patient line and/or the catheter. Elastic waves may be generated at a pump that introduces (e.g., for fill cycles) or withdraws (e.g., for drain cycles) the solution into/out of the patient line. For example, when the solution is introduced or withdrawn suddenly, elastic waves travel distally down the patient line until they encounter the occlusion, and are then reflected back (e.g., toward the pressure sensor).
US11027044B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a sheet-like cell structure having excellent strength and shape-maintaining performance, and a sheet-like cell structure having excellent strength and shape-maintaining performance. According to the present invention, there is provided a method for producing a sheet-like cell structure, including: a step of adding a biocompatible macromolecular block, a cell, and a liquid medium onto a culture support body having a plurality of recessed portions on a culture surface, and immersing the biocompatible macromolecular block and the cell in uppermost portions of the recessed portions; and a step of culturing the cell to obtain a sheet-like cell structure.
US11027038B1
A fan is for improving air quality, such as in an indoor environment. The fan includes a motor and a rotatable hub coupled to the motor. At least one fan blade includes a first end portion coupled to the rotatable hub and a second end portion radially distant from the rotatable hub. At least one ion generator is carried by the second end portion of the at least one fan blade, such as by a winglet associated therewith. A stationary tube passes through the rotatable hub including a conduit for transmitting power. A rotary coupling is also provided for transmitting power from the conduit to the at least one ion generator.
US11027036B2
An electronic scented candle is described that includes a movable flame-shaped component, a shell including an installation chamber, a fragrance container that is removably positioned inside the installation chamber and a scent chamber. An electric fan is positioned within the shell to drive the air into the scent chamber and a scent outlet coupled to the scent chamber to allow the fragrance material to leave the scent chamber and to reach an external environment of the electronic scented candle. The electronic candle also includes a receptacle for connecting a power cord on a bottom surface of the electronic candle. The bottom surface includes a plurality of protruding stands that provide a space to allow the power cord to be connected to the receptacle and be routed below the bottom surface.
US11027032B2
A method for sterilizing an antiseptic solution includes providing a container containing the antiseptic solution, the antiseptic solution having an initial purity, selecting a sterilization temperature from about 85° C. to about 135° C. and an sterilization time from about 1 minute to about 19 hours, heating the antiseptic solution to the selected sterilization temperature, maintaining the temperature for the selected sterilization time, and terminating the heating of the antiseptic solution when the sterilization time expires. After terminating the heating, the antiseptic solution has a post-sterilization purity. The sterilization temperature and the sterilization time are selected such that after terminating the heating, the antiseptic solution is sterile and has a post-sterilization purity of at least about 92% and the percentage point change in purity from the initial purity to the post-sterilization purity is at most about 5%.
US11027027B2
Embodiments of the invention include a novel synthesis of the translocator protein (TSPO) ligands, and methods of imaging a molecular events. Also disclosed are compounds for treatment of diseases, including cancer.
US11027018B2
The present invention is directed to methods for treating diarrhea, both chronic or acute forms, by the administration of a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for CGRP. In particular the methods prevent or reduce diarrhea in conditions or treatments resulting in elevated CGRP levels, e.g., in the GI tract (colon) that are associated with diarrhea and/or improper electrolyte and fluid excretion from the bowel or urinary system. More specifically, this invention relates to treatments using the anti-CGRP antibodies and fragments described herein, and binding fragments thereof.
US11027015B2
The present invention relates to MASP-3 inhibitory antibodies and compositions comprising such antibodies for use in inhibiting the adverse effects of MASP-3 dependent complement activation.
US11027013B2
The present invention concerns a pharmaceutical composition where a checkpoint inhibitor is combined with an oncolytic virus and the use of said combination for the treatment of cancer.
US11027011B2
Disclosed herein is a vaccine comprising an antigen and one or more bimolecular adjuvant. Also disclosed herein are methods for increasing an immune response in a subject. The methods may comprise administering the vaccine to the subject in need thereof.
US11027010B2
The invention relates to grass pollen extracts containing reduced amount of flavonoid glycosides in order to minimize the risks of genotoxicity of the grass pollen extracts. The invention also relates to a method of preparing grass pollen extracts containing reduced amount of flavonoid glycosides by ultrafiltration. Flavonoid glycosides are naturally present in grass pollen extracts and they have been identified as being responsible for the formation of flavonoid aglycones, which are genotoxic in vitro, under the influence of enzymes contained in the grass pollen extracts.
US11027009B2
Compositions, recombinant vaccines and live attenuated pathogens comprising one or more isolated nucleic acid molecules that encode an immunogen in combination with an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes IL-28 or a functional fragment thereof are disclosed. Methods of inducing an immune response in an individual against an immunogen, using such compositions are disclosed.
US11027007B2
Metapneumovirus (MPV) F proteins stabilized in a prefusion conformation, nucleic acid molecules and vectors encoding these proteins, and methods of their use and production are disclosed. In several embodiments, the MPV F proteins and/or nucleic acid molecules can be used to generate an immune response to MPV in a subject. In additional embodiments, the therapeutically effective amount of the MPV F ectodomain trimers and/or nucleic acid molecules can be administered to a subject in a method of treating or preventing MPV infection.
US11027003B2
The present invention provides a WT1-derived HLA-DRB1*0405-binding antigen peptide, a polynucleotide encoding said peptide, a helper T cell inducer comprising said peptide or polynucleotide, and the like. It is related to a partial peptide consisting of 10-25 contiguous amino acids in the amino acid sequence of human WT1 shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, which binds to HLA-DRB1*0405 and induces helper T cells, a polynucleotide encoding said peptide, or a helper T cell inducer comprising said peptide or polynucleotide.
US11027000B2
The disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of polynucleotides encoding AADC for the treatment of Parkinson's Disease.
US11026996B2
This invention provides a fusion protein, the sequence of which, commencing at the N-terminus of the fusion protein, is identical to the sequence of amino acids in: (a) an extracellular domain of a human Notch1 receptor protein, followed by (b) an Fc portion of an antibody, wherein the extracellular domain of the human Notch1 receptor protein (i) commences with the amino acid present at the N-terminus of EGF-like repeat 10 and (ii) extends to and includes the C-terminal amino acid of EGF-like repeat 18 or 20. Also provided is a composition comprising the any of the fusion proteins of this invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, a method of treating a subject suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, or cancer which comprises administering to the subject any of the compositions of this invention in an amount effective to treat the subject's cancer.
US11026980B1
A flowable birth tissue composition fabricated from birth tissue is provided. Methods of processing a mammal's placental tissue to form a flowable birth tissue composition are provided. Various methods of treatment and uses are also provided.
US11026961B2
An object is to provide a novel means for ameliorating mastitis or improving milk production. An ameliorating or therapeutic agent for mastitis that contains a biosurfactant, or a milk production promoting agent that contains a biosurfactant, is provided.
US11026960B2
Compounds and methods of using the same to inhibit glycolysis and treat cancer and other diseases are disclosed.
US11026957B2
This invention is related to the field of PCSK9 biology and the composition and methods of use of small molecule ligands for modulation of PCSK9 biological activity. In particular, the invention provides compositions of small molecule compounds that modulate circulating levels of low density lipoproteins by altering the conformation of the protein PCSK9. Binding these small molecule ligands to PCSK9 alters the conformation of the protein, modifying the interaction between PCSK9 and an endogenous low density lipoprotein receptor, and can lead to reduced or increased levels of circulating LDL-cholesterol. High LDL-cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk for heart disease. Low LDL-cholesterol levels may be problematic in other conditions, such as liver dysfunction; thus, there is also utility for small molecule ligands that can raise LDL levels.
US11026951B2
The disclosure provides the use of particular substituted heterocycle fused gamma-carboline compounds as pharmaceuticals for the treatment of residual symptoms of psychosis or schizophrenia. The disclosure also provides novel long acting injectable formulations of particular substituted heterocycle fused gamma-carboline compounds and use of such long acting injectable formulations for the treatment of residual symptoms of psychosis or schizophrenia.
US11026947B2
The present invention provides small-molecule inhibitors of BMP signaling and compositions and methods for inhibiting BMP signaling. These compounds and compositions may be used to modulate cell growth, differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis, and thus may be useful for treating diseases or conditions associated with BMP signaling, including inflammation, cardiovascular disease, hematological disease, cancer, and bone disorders, as well as for modulating cellular differentiation and/or proliferation. These compounds and compositions may also be used to treat subjects with Sjögren's syndrome, or diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).
US11026946B2
The present invention relates to new pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, biologically active metabolites, pro-drugs, racemates, enantiomers, diastereomers, solvates and hydrates thereof that serve as GABAB receptor positive allosteric modulators. The invention al so relates to the process for producing such compounds. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds optionally in combination with two or more different therapeutic agents and the use of such compounds in methods for treating diseases and conditions mediated and modulated by the GABAB receptor positive allosteric mechanism. The invention al so provides a method for manufacture of medicaments useful in the treatment of such disorders.
US11026941B2
A concentrated inhalable formulation of an antibiotic drug such as ciprofloxacin is disclosed. The antibiotic is formulated with sodium acetate and liposome which incorporate antibiotic. The formulation is aerosolized and inhaled for treatment of respiratory tract infections and other medical conditions.
US11026938B2
A pharmaceutical composition contains apomorphine as the active pharmaceutical ingredient, a water-miscible co-solvent, an antioxidant, and water. The solution has a pH greater than 4. The pharmaceutical composition is suitable for parenteral administration for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. The process for the manufacture of the pharmaceutical composition includes weighing the apomorphine and introducing it into a container with the co-solvent and the antioxidant under agitation until complete dissolution takes place.
US11026930B1
Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating cancers, inflammatory diseases, rasopathies, and fibrotic disease involving aberrant Ras superfamily signaling through the binding of compounds to the GTP binding domain of Ras superfamily proteins including, in certain cases, K-Ras and mutants thereof, and a novel method for assaying such compositions.
US11026928B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating conditions, which may be associated with elevated levels of eosinophils and/or basophils, with a therapeutically effective amount of dexpramipexole or pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof.
US11026927B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical combination comprising a first active ingredient which is (R)-5-[3-chloro-4-(2,3-dihydroxy-propoxy)-benz[Z]ylidene]-2-([Z]propylimino)-3-o-tolyl-thiazolidin-4-one or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a second active ingredient which is selected from the group consisting of methyl fumarate, dimethyl fumarate, (N,N-diethylcarbamoyl)methyl methyl (2E)but-2-ene-1,4-dioate, and 2-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)ethyl methyl (2E)but-2-ene-1,4-dioate, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11026924B2
The present invention provides 1H-pyrazolo[4,3-b]pyridin-7-amines of formula (1) as PDE1 inhibitors and their use as a medicament, in particular for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and psychiatric disorders.
US11026919B2
Topical formulations comprising soft glycopyrrolates are useful for treating excessive sweating conditions in subjects, such as humans suffering from hyperhidrosis. Preferably, at least one soft anticholinergic agent is provided in an effective amount or concentration in an anhydrous formulation that can inhibit excessive perspiration resulting from a condition such as hyperhidrosis.
US11026917B2
Antioxidative stress compositions, methods of using antioxidative stress composition and methods of preparing antioxidative stress composition compositions are described. The antioxidative stress compositions may be chemopreventive and/or immunomodulatory. Resveratrol, genistein, ellagic acid, curcumin and quercetin may be included in the antioxidative stress composition compositions individually or in any combination.
US11026916B2
Mixtures of vitamin E and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are provided as agents for the prevention, control and/or treatment of conditions associated with excessive fat accumulation in the liver which is not caused by alcohol abuse, including control and/or treatment of non-alcoholic steatosis in the liver—known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—and/or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in a subject in need thereof.
US11026914B2
Methods and compositions suitable for the treatment of malignancies such as recurrent glioma and progressive secondary brain tumor are disclosed. These methods employ a hexitol derivative such as dianhydrogalactitol, a derivative or analog of dianhydrogalactitol, diacetyldianhydrogalactitol, or a derivative or analog of diacetyldianhydrogalactitol. The compositions can include such hexitol derivatives.
US11026903B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for treatment of pain, such as joint pain, using capsaicin in a procedure that attenuates transient burning sensation experienced by patients due to capsaicin administration. The methods desirably provide relief from joint pain, such as osteoarthritic knee joint pain, for an extended duration, such as at least about 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, or 1 year. To attenuate the adverse side effect of a transient burning sensation caused by capsaicin-induced neuronal excitation, the methods utilize a cooling article, such as a material wrap cooled via a circulating fluid, to reduce the temperature of tissue to be exposed to capsaicin to within a certain range for certain durations of time, optionally in combination with administering a local anesthetic agent, resulting in the substantial reduction or even elimination of transient burning sensation caused by capsaicin.
US11026890B2
This invention generally relates to cationic oil-in-water emulsions that can be used to deliver nucleic acid molecules, such as an RNA molecule. The emulsion particles comprise an oil core and a cationic lipid. The emulsion particles have an average diameter of about 80 nm to about 180 nm, and the emulsion have an N/P ratio of at least 1.1:1.
US11026889B2
Provided are compositions and nanoparticle formulations that may be used, e.g., to deliver a therapeutic compound to a subject. In some embodiments, the nanoparticles may be used to deliver one or more chemotherapeutic agents to treat a cancer such, e.g., as a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
US11026886B2
Disclosed is a dry powder oral formulation that includes an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), a lecithin powder, a galactomannan, one or more sweetening agents, one or more flavoring agents and an organic acid in a pharmaceutically acceptable preparation. Also disclosed are an excipient composition in absence of an API and methods of making and using the formulations and compositions. Also disclosed is a chewable, swallowable, and/or orally disintegrating tablet comprising an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), a lecithin powder, a galactomannan, one or more sweetening agents, one or more flavoring agents and an organic acid in a pharmaceutically acceptable preparation.
US11026883B2
Disclosed herein is a solid lyophilized vaginal dosage form that can have an effective amount of at least one active ingredient, a crystalline structure forming agent in an amount of about 5 wt. % to about 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of the lyophilized dosage form, and at least one polymeric mucoadhesive matrix forming agent. The dosage form can have a pH of about 4.0 to 5.0, and can disintegrate within 120 seconds after being contacted with a vaginal mucosa. A method of delivering an active ingredient to the vaginal mucosa using the disclosed solid dosage form is also described.
US11026879B2
The invention deals with a dispersion of drops of a first phase in a second phase substantially immiscible with the first phase, the solubility of the first phase in the second phase being less than 5% by mass. Each drop includes a core formed with a first phase and a shell formed with a coacervate layer interposed between the first phase and the second phase. The coacervate layer comprises a first precursor polymer of the coacervate and a second precursor polymer of the coacervate, one of the first phase and of the second phase is aqueous, and the other of the first phase and of the second phase is oily.
US11026874B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, compositions, methods, and kits for coloring hair. The systems comprise at least two compositions: (i) a first composition comprising at least one pigment, and (ii) a second color changing composition comprising at least one color changing agent. The methods comprise changing the color of the hair by applying the first composition (i) onto the hair to change the hair from an initial hair color to a first hair color, and subsequently applying the second composition (ii) onto the hair to change the color of the hair from the first hair color to a second hair color.
US11026871B2
An oral care composition is disclosed. The composition comprises zinc phosphate and a silicate compound comprising a metallic element that in cationic form is capable of reducing tooth enamel erosion. The zinc phosphate is added to the oral care composition as a preformed salt. Methods of administering the oral care compositions to subjects in need thereof are also disclosed.
US11026865B2
A method of drying soft capsules including steps of: a) supplying a flow of air to said soft capsules at a velocity of the air across the soft capsules of from about 0.15 m/s to about 13 m/s; b) increasing, over time, a drying temperature to which said soft capsules are exposed while ensuring that the drying temperature remains below a melting temperature of a capsule shell of the soft capsules; c) exposing said soft capsules to an initial relative humidity of from about 49% RH to about 79% RH; d) decreasing the relative humidity to which the soft capsules are exposed as the capsules dry until an equilibrium relative humidity of the soft capsules reaches a desired relative humidity; and e) exposing the soft capsules from step d) to a temperature of from 20-25° C. Also disclosed is a drying system for carrying out the method.
US11026862B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to improved devices, systems, kits, products and methods related to topical medicament application of measured dosages. The kits and devices can single use and/or disposable for example.
US11026839B2
A method is described of improving adhesion of an ocular implant to corneal tissue by forming an implant adhesive layer on the ocular implant, the implant adhesive layer having greater adhesive strength than a rest of the implant or by forming a corneal adhesive layer on a posterior surface of a posterior portion of the corneal tissue, the corneal adhesive layer having greater adhesive strength than a rest of the corneal tissue.
US11026826B2
The present invention provides gastrointestinal devices for limiting transfer and contact of material across luminal walls along a segment of the gastrointestinal tract (e.g., at the duodenum and/or upper jejunum). Devices of the invention include a gastrointestinal sleeve, an anchor, and a flange for attachment to a luminal wall proximal to the pyloric orifice. The invention also provides methods of use associated with such gastrointestinal devices, including methods for delivery, removal, and treatment of metabolic disorders, such as type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, and related comorbidities thereof by implanting gastrointestinal devices.
US11026825B2
In one aspect, an obesity treatment device includes multiple inflatable space-filling compartments and a valve system for introducing fluid into each compartment, where the device forms, upon filing the compartments, to a curved shape conforming to a natural three-dimensional kidney shape of the stomach. In one aspect, a method for deploying a gastric balloon structure in a gastric cavity includes determining dimensions of the gastric cavity in a feeding state, selecting a fill volume for each of a number of isolated chambers of the balloon structure, and filling each chamber while the balloon structure is in the gastric cavity. In one aspect, a system for treating obesity includes a means for conforming a flexible, space-filling structure to a natural kidney shape of the gastric cavity, a means for maintaining at least two isolated inflatable regions of the flexible, space-filling structure, and a means for introducing fluid into each inflatable region.
US11026821B2
A stent delivery device includes a sheath covering a compressed stent and a housing. The housing includes a mover reel coupled to an actuator that rotates the mover reel in a winding direction when actuated. A sheath pull wire is coupled to the mover reel and the sheath. Rotation of the mover reel in the winding direction winds the sheath pull wire on the mover reel and moves the sheath in a proximal direction. A pre-mover is provided separate from the actuator, the pre-mover including an arm having a proximal end engaged with the mover reel to prevent rotation in the locked position. The pre-mover includes a pre-mover actuator coupled to the arm and having a portion projecting outside of the housing, wherein movement of the pre-mover actuator disengages the arm from the mover reel and rotates the mover reel a predetermined amount in the winding direction.
US11026819B2
Provided are a vascular stent, a conveying balloon thereof, and an implanting system. The vascular stent comprises a flexible light-transmitting body. The flexible light-transmitting body is provided with a hardenable channel. The hardenable channel is arranged in the circumferential direction and the axial direction of the flexible light-transmitting body. The hardenable channel is used for filling a liquid photocuring supporting material, and the liquid photocuring supporting material is cured after being illuminated so as to radially support the flexible light-transmitting body.
US11026817B2
An endovascularly deployed prosthetic includes a portion for being positioned within an ascending aorta. The prosthesis includes a replacement aortic valve on a proximal end thereof. The prosthesis includes an increased diameter portion that seals against the aorta at a more distal portion, and a pair of conduits extend from the increased diameter portion to the coronaries for fluidly coupling the coronaries to the prosthesis.
US11026809B2
A system and method for improving installation of a prosthesis, particularly an acetabular cup. The system and method may include implementation of a constant velocity relative motion between a prosthesis and an installation site. For example, an installation system may be fixed relative to the installation site, with the prosthesis fixed into an initial position. The prosthesis is moved at constant speed (i.e., with minimal if any acceleration or applied impulses) relative to the installation site. That is, one or both of the prosthesis or the installation site may be in motion. Resistive forces to installation of a prosthesis may thus be reduced by maintaining the prosthesis constantly in motion relative to the installation site. Securing a processing/implanting tool directly to the installation site may offer advantages.
US11026785B2
In one embodiment, a prosthetic valve can comprise a radially expandable and compressible frame, which can include a plurality of struts which are pivotally joined together without requiring individual rivets. In some embodiments, the struts are interwoven, and can be joined using integral hinges formed in the struts, such as by performing alternate cuts on the struts, bending the struts to form stopper tabs adjacent to joints and/or drilling holes in the struts to facilitate interconnecting struts at joints, or otherwise forming integral hinges and corresponding holes at junction points between the struts. In another embodiment, the frame comprises a plurality of inner struts and outer struts which are connected by a plurality of chains of interconnected rivets, avoiding the need to provide individual rivets at each junction between struts. In still another embodiment, separate hinges or flanged rivets are provided to interconnect the struts.
US11026780B2
The present invention relates to a cartridge for an injector system, including a folding body for implanting an intraocular lens into an eye. The cartridge comprises a receiving region for at least one lens and at least one movable haptic slider for sliding a lens haptic onto or to an optical portion of the lens. The haptics can thus be brought into a defined position such that, when folding and ejecting the lens from the injector, they can be rolled in a defined manner into the optical portion of the lens so as to guarantee insertion and unfolding of the lens in the eye in the most reproducible manner possible.
US11026778B2
The present disclosure relates to keratoprosthesis apparatuses comprising a flexible backplate and methods of manufacturing and implanting the new keratoprosthesis apparatuses. The keratoprosthesis apparatuses include a circular backplate composed, at least in part, of a titanium alloy. The circular backplate includes an annular rim portion having a central aperture extending therethrough. A plurality of tabs is positioned along the annular rim portion and extend radially inwardly into the aperture. A plurality of flexible appendages extends radially outwardly from the annular rim portion and is positioned along the annular rim portion at locations corresponding to the plurality of tabs.
US11026771B2
An interdental cleaning instrument is equipped with a base part and a cleaning part. The base part has a shaft part and a grip part. At least the shape of the base part is set in a manner such that a first pressing force required to press a portion spaced 2.5 mm apart from a tip of the cleaning part in 10 mm is 0.3 N or more and 1.4 N or less in a state in which a portion spaced 10 mm apart from the tip of the cleaning part is fixed, and a second pressing force required to press a portion spaced 8.0 mm apart from the tip of the cleaning part in 10 mm is 0.5 N or more and 2.5 N or less in a state in which a portion spaced 35 mm apart from the tip of the cleaning part is fixed.
US11026770B2
A method of providing an accurate three-dimensional scan of a dental arch area is disclosed. The arch area has two segments and a connecting area between the two segments. The connecting area has homogeneous features. A connecting-geometry tool with at least one definable feature is affixed to the arch area. The definable feature overlays at least part of the connecting area. The arch area is scanned to produce a scanned dataset of the arch area. The definable feature of the connecting-geometry tool on the connection area is determined based on the scanned dataset. The dimensions of the arch area are determined based on the data relating to the definable features from the scanned dataset.
US11026769B2
A dental insert consists of a spherical body of a medical grade elastomer. The body has a circumference with a plurality of outwardly extending projections of uniform size and shape distributed evenly about the circumference. The body is not more than 10 mm in diameter, as measured from an outer extremity of the projections. This dental insert has application in implant dentistry and endodontics.
US11026762B2
Provided is a medical observation device which includes a detection unit configured to detect a pressing operation based on an operation signal according to the pressing operation which is output from an external operation device equipped with a switch pressed by a mouth, and a processing unit configured to perform a process corresponding to the detected pressing operation. The process corresponding to the pressing operation includes some or all of a process related to an imaging operation of an imaging device, a process related to a display of a medical captured image which is captured in the imaging device, and an identification process of identifying a user's input indicating the process related to the imaging operation or the process related to the display of the medical captured image.
US11026759B2
An apparatus includes a housing, a cable guide, a first cable, and a second cable. The housing is coupled to a shaft of a medical instrument. The cable guide is coupled to the housing, and defines a shaft opening into a passageway defined by the shaft. A first guide groove and a second guide groove are defined by the cable guide, with each of the first guide groove and the second guide groove being splayed outward from the shaft opening. The first cable is routed within the first guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the first guide groove. The second cable is routed within the second guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the second guide groove.
US11026758B2
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for medical robotic systems that leverage a versatile, open kinematic chain together with a set of medical-procedure-specific software-controlled actuation constraints in order to perform a variety of medical procedures. The robotic system can be operated in a first mode by identifying a remote center and constraining the actuation of motorized joints to maintain intersection of at least an insertion axis with the remote center. The robotic system can be operated in a second mode by identifying a virtual rail position and constraining the actuation of motorized joints to maintain alignment of the insertion axis along the virtual rail.
US11026754B2
A method of surgical robot operation includes moving a surgical instrument through a medium using the surgical robot, where the surgical robot attempts to move the surgical instrument to a desired position. The method further includes measuring an actual position of the surgical instrument, and calculating a difference between the actual position and the desired position. The actual position of the surgical instrument is adjusted to the desired position using the surgical robot.
US11026748B2
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for navigation path tracing. In one aspect, a system displays a preoperative model of a luminal network is displayed. The system determines a position of an instrument within the luminal network relative to the preoperative model. Based on the position of the instrument relative to the preoperative model, the system determines whether to enter a path tracing mode. In path tracing mode the system displays visual indicia indicative of a path of the instrument with respect to the displayed preoperative model. The visual indicia may be used to visual the navigation path of the instrument and/or to extend the preoperative model.
US11026745B2
An open-irrigated ablation catheter system includes a catheter body, and an electrode tip body mounted on a distal portion of the catheter body. The electrode tip body includes a proximal end configured for connection to the catheter body and a wall defining an open interior region and including one or more irrigation ports. The wall is conductive for delivering radio frequency (RF) energy. The catheter system further includes a proximal insert positioned partially within the catheter body and at least partially within the proximal end of the electrode tip body. The proximal insert includes a fluid inlet for receiving a cooling fluid delivered via the catheter body. The proximal insert forms a flow path configured to direct the cooling fluid from the fluid inlet to cool the distal portion of the catheter body and to cool a junction of the catheter body and the electrode tip body.
US11026737B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to cryogenic systems and methods useful to cool objects, including living tissue, to freezing or cryogenic temperatures by placing the object in thermal communication with sub-cooled supercritical nitrogen.
US11026733B2
A surgical instrument includes a first member defining a passageway. The first member includes a first lock and a second lock. A second member is positioned in the passageway. A third member is coupled to the second member. The second member is movable relative to the first member to move the third member between a first position in which the first lock is spaced a first distance apart from the second lock, and a second position in which the first lock is spaced a reduced second distance apart from the second lock. Systems, spinal implants and methods are disclosed.
US11026711B2
A specimen retrieval device is provided. The specimen retrieval device includes a housing including an outer shaft extending distally therefrom. An inner shaft is disposed within the outer shaft and includes at least one tissue engaging device configured to engage tissue and at least one spring. A pouch is coupled to the inner shaft and the at least one spring. The pouch includes an open proximal end and a closed distal end and is movable from a first configuration for deployment from the outer shaft to a second configuration for receiving tissue therein. The at least one tissue engaging device is positionable within the pouch and movable along the inner shaft for engaging tissue and pulling the tissue within the pouch.
US11026709B2
Methods and apparatuses for mechanically removing objects from a body. In particular, described herein are thrombectomy methods and mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses for removal of blood clots from within a lumen of a blood vessel.
US11026705B2
A filter device is capable of reliably capturing emboli and air bubbles and reliably removing the captured emboli out of the body. The filter device includes: a first tube; a second tube protruding from the first tube; a filter arranged such that the distal end side of the filter in the longitudinal direction forms an opening; a ring fixed to the opening; first wires protruding from the distal end side of the first tube in the longitudinal direction thereof; and second wires protruding from holes in the first tube and fixed to the ring; wherein the opening can be opened and closed in the form of a bag when the proximal end side of the filter in the longitudinal direction is defined as the bottom, and the opening can be closed by pulling the second tube towards the proximal end side in the longitudinal direction.
US11026704B2
Methods of declotting vascular access technologies, such as vascular access assemblies that facilitate hemodialysis, are provided. The methods can include disposing a catheter within a patient to access a vascular access assembly within the heart of the patient. The catheter can be coupled to the vascular access assembly such that a clot can be evacuated from within the vascular access assembly via the catheter.
US11026702B2
An arthrodesis surgical method and apparatus. After a guide pin is inserted into the joint to be fused, a core saw creates a cored-out cavity in the joint to be fixated. An autograft bone core is harvested with a core saw and is inserted into the cored-out cavity. The joint is then immobilized for the healing process.
US11026695B2
Devices and methods are described for occluding the left atrial appendage (LAA). The device excludes the LAA from blood flow to prevent blood from clotting within the LAA and subsequently embolizing, particularly in patients with atrial fibrillation. The implantable device is delivered via transcatheter delivery into the LAA and secured within the LAA. The implant comprises an expandable and compliant frame and an expandable and conformable tubular foam body carried by the frame. The device may have a thromboresistant cover at a proximal end and a thromboresistant coating on the foam body. The frame may have recapture struts inclining radially outwardly in the distal direction from a central hub. The frame may have axially extending side wall struts, with adjacent pairs of side wall struts joined at one or more apexes. Anchors extend from the frame to engage tissue. The anchors can also be reversible to allow retraction of the anchors and repositioning or retrieval of the device.
US11026694B2
A left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder is provided. The LAA occluder includes a sealing disc and an anchoring device, both of which are mutually connected; a part where an LAA cooperates with the anchoring device is an anchoring net, and the anchoring net is of a backboneless structure. The whole anchoring device is of the backboneless structure. The anchoring device is formed by weaving super elastic metal wires or shape memory alloy wires, a distal end of the anchoring device is opened, and a proximal end of the anchoring device is constricted and is connected with the sealing disc to form a conical net. The distal end of the anchoring device is opened and is rolled towards the proximal end to form the anchoring net, and the anchoring net surrounds the conical net. The anchoring net is connected with the conical net through an arc transition area.
US11026692B2
Provided is a device and system for restricting fluid flow in physiological vessels of humans or animals, the device being configurable in a first mode to be passively propellable by fluid flow within a physiological vessel and in a second mode to at least partially occlude a physiological vessel, the device having a first cross-sectional size in the first mode and a second cross-sectional size in the second mode, wherein the second cross-sectional size is greater than the first cross-sectional size. The system has a plurality of the devices described above, a power source for powering the devices; and a controller having one or more processors for controlling the devices.
US11026689B2
A surgical anvil assembly for use with a circular stapling instrument includes an anvil center rod defining a longitudinal axis and an anvil head pivotally coupled to the anvil center rod and movable between a first operative condition and a second tilted condition. The anvil assembly further includes a locking assembly configured to selectively lock the anvil head in each of the first and second conditions.
US11026686B2
An end effector of a surgical stapler includes first and second jaw members and a buttress releasably secured to the first jaw member. The first jaw member defines a first projection and a second projection distal of the first projection. The buttress defines a first slot and a first aperture distal of the first slot. The first slot is dimensioned to receive the first projection of the first jaw member, and the first aperture is dimensioned to receive the second projection of the first jaw member.
US11026676B2
A surgical closure apparatus for facilitating closure of a wound includes an outer member dimensioned for positioning within a wound opening and defining a central longitudinal axis, and having a first longitudinal passage and a second longitudinal passage, a needle assembly at least partially disposed within the first longitudinal passage of the outer member, and a suture configured for at least partially closing the wound opening and extending at least partially through the second longitudinal passage of the outer member. The needle assembly includes a needle drive and a suture needle mounted to the needle drive and coupled to the suture. The suture needle is adapted for rotational movement relative to the central longitudinal axis between an unarmed condition and an armed condition through manipulation of the needle drive. The suture needle is positioned for passage through tissue adjacent the wound opening when in the armed condition.
US11026672B2
Described herein are methods and apparatus for approximating targeted tissue by intertwining two or more sutures together. The sutures are attached to the targeted tissue and routed to a twister device. The twister device secures end portions of the sutures and twists them to intertwine the sutures. Controlling the number of twists provides control over the forces applied to the targeted tissue. In conjunction with visualization feedback, real-time adjustments can be made to achieved targeted results, such as elimination of mitral regurgitation when the disclosed methods and apparatus are applied to mitral valve repair.
US11026666B2
An articulated tool positioning apparatus comprising a base member, an intermediate member, an end member and a first tool holder arranged in succession, each of the base member, intermediate member, end member and tool holder having a respective central opening. A first plurality of coupled guides id positioned between the base member and the intermediate member and a second plurality of coupled guides is positioned between the intermediate member and the end member. A third plurality of coupled guides is diposed between the end member and the tool holder. The base member, intermediate member, end member, first tool holder and first second and third pluralities of coupled guides all have a central opening and guide openings or securing points for securing pluralities of flexible control links to the base member or to an object separated from the base member. Pushing or pulling control links of a first plurality of control links causes the base member, the first plurality of coupled guides, the intermediate member, the second plurality of coupled guides and the end member to selectively define a continuous curve. A second plurality of control links causes the end member to maintain an orientation generally the same as the base member, when any of the other flexible control links is pushed or pulled. Pushing or pulling control links of a third plurality of control links causes the tool holder to be selectively moved into any of a plurality of orientations, such that the third plurality of coupled guides between the end member and the tool holder defines a continuous curve from the end member to the tool holder. At least one mechanism for pushing and pulling the flexible control links is described and a use of the apparatus for positioning a tool for laparoscopic surgery applications is described.
US11026654B2
Electronic stethoscopes may have various accessories, modular components, and various configurations for powering the various components and accessories of the electronic stethoscope. In one embodiment, an electronic stethoscope apparatus includes a microphone configured to generate an electrical signal in response to received sound from a living subject; amplification circuitry; a speaker operably coupled to the amplification circuitry to output the electric signal after amplification; and a power supply configured to power the amplification circuitry. Circuitry for advanced signal processing may also be included, such as noise cancelling circuitry. The electronic stethoscope may also include removable electronic modules for wired or wireless headphones, battery packs, lights, and/or an electronic device for implementing the percussive method. An electronic stethoscope may also include components for implementing a laser enhanced stethoscope that can be used to pick up sounds from the surface of a living subject without making direct contact with the living subject.
US11026648B2
Visualization of a region of interest and planning a location of at least one injection point for a medical procedure is provided. At least one volume of imaging data for a region of interest is received. At least one virtual injection point is obtained. The at least one injection point indicates a location in a network of blood vessels for at least one injection. First and second rendering modules are controlled to construct a combined volume presentation including a first volume region rendered by a first rendering module at a relatively low level of detail and a second volume region is rendered at a higher level of detail by a second rendering module. The first and second volume regions are designated based on the at least one virtual injection point.
US11026646B2
X-ray detectors for generating digital images are disclosed. An example digital X-ray detector includes: a scintillation screen; a reflector configured to reflect light generated by the scintillation screen; and a digital imaging sensor configured to generate a digital image of the light reflected by the reflector.
US11026644B2
Methods and systems for navigating to a target through a patient's bronchial tree are disclosed including a bronchoscope, a probe insertable into a working channel of the bronchoscope and including a location sensor, and a workstation in operative communication with the probe and the bronchoscope, the workstation including a user interface that guides a user through a navigation plan and is configured to present a central navigation view including a plurality of views configured for assisting the user in navigating the bronchoscope through central airways of the patient's bronchial tree toward the target, a peripheral navigation view including a plurality of views configured for assisting the user in navigating the probe through peripheral airways of the patient's bronchial tree to the target, and a target alignment view including a plurality of views configured for assisting the user in aligning a distal tip of the probe with the target.
US11026631B2
An initial set of parameters for operating one or more detection tools is automatically derived and subsequently adjusted so that each detection tool is more or less sensitive to signal characteristics in a region of interest. Detection tool(s) may be applied to physiological signals sensed from a patient (such as EEG signals) and may be configured to run in an implanted medical device that is programmable with the parameters to look for rhythmic activity, spiking, and power changes in the sensed signals, etc. A detection tool may be selected and parameter values derived in a logical sequence and/or in pairs based on a graphical representation of an activity type which may be selected by a user, for example, by clicking and dragging on the graphic via a GUI. Displayed simulations allow a user to assess what will be detected with a derived parameter set and then to adjust the sensitivity of the set or start over as desired.
US11026630B2
A connector interface configured to enable component interconnection with a location sensor of a catheter placement system is disclosed. The catheter placement system is configured to assist a clinician in positioning a catheter in a desired location within a body of a patient. In one embodiment, the location sensor assembly comprises a location sensor body for temporary placement on a portion of the patient body, and a connector interface. The connector interface is configured to removably attach to the location sensor and provide a plurality of electrically conductive pathways between the location sensor and additional components of the catheter placement system to enable the additional components to operably connect with the location sensor. The connector interface further includes a first connector configured to operably connect with a second connector of one of the additional components of the catheter placement system through a drape interposed between the first and second connectors.
US11026624B2
Kits, diagnostic systems and methods are provided, which measure the distribution of colors of skin features by comparison to calibrated colors which are co-imaged with the skin feature. The colors on the calibration template (calibrator) are selected to represent the expected range of feature colors under various illumination and capturing conditions. The calibrator may also comprise features with different forms and size for calibrating geometric parameters of the skin features in the captured images. Measurements may be enhanced by monitoring over time changes in the distribution of colors, by measuring two and three dimensional geometrical parameters of the skin feature and by associating the data with medical diagnostic parameters. Thus, simple means for skin diagnosis and monitoring are provided which simplify and improve current dermatologic diagnostic procedures.
US11026619B2
A cardiac rhythm management system includes at least one sensing component configured to obtain a first physiological parameter signal, an indication of a cardiac response to a stimulation therapy, and temporal information corresponding to the first physiological parameter signal and the cardiac response; and at least one processor configured to: receive the first physiological parameter signal, the indication of the cardiac response, and the temporal information; and to classify the cardiac response into a first cardiac response class to generate a classified cardiac response. The at least one processor also is configured to determine a correlation, based on the temporal information, between the first physiological parameter signal and the classified cardiac response.
US11026616B2
A headset for detecting brain electrical activity may include a flexible substrate having first and second ends each configured to engage an ear of a subject and dimensioned to fit across the forehead of a subject. The headset may also include a plurality of electrodes disposed on the substrate and configured to contact the subject when the headset is positioned on the subject. First and second electrodes may contact top center and lower center regions of the forehead, respectively, third and fourth electrodes may contact front right and front left regions of the forehead, respectively, fifth and sixth electrodes may contact right side and left side regions of the forehead, respectively, and electrodes included within the securing devices may contact the ear regions. The third and fourth electrodes may be moveable in at least a vertical direction relative to the other electrodes.
US11026611B2
A sample collection device for a fluid includes: a substantially disk-shaped body having a periphery; a capillary channel extending through the body and bounded by the periphery, having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is adapted to draw the fluid into the channel by capillary action; a sample collection well located in the vicinity of the second end and in fluid communication with the capillary channel; and an axis of rotation extending through the center of the disk and which is substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the disk-shaped body. In a preferred embodiment, the sample collection device is adapted to rotate about the axis of rotation within a cartridge having a housing comprising an air vent in fluid communication with the capillary channel when the disk is rotated in a first position.
US11026609B2
Example biosensor devices having wake-up batteries and associated methods are disclosed. One example device includes a biosensor that has a first electrode for insertion into a subcutaneous layer beneath a patient's skin, and a second electrode coupled to the first electrode for insertion into the subcutaneous layer, and a first battery to apply a voltage across the first and second electrodes, the first battery at least partially electrically decoupled from the electrodes. The device also includes a second battery having an anode material coupled to the first electrode for insertion into the subcutaneous layer, and a portion of the second electrode. The second battery is activatable upon immersion in an electrolytic fluid. The device also includes a wake-up circuit to receive a signal from the second battery and, in response, to electrically couple the first battery to the first and second electrodes to activate the biosensor.
US11026592B2
An aspect of the disclosure pertains to finger blood pressure cuff. The finger blood pressure cuff may include a housing having an opening sized to receive a human finger and an inflatable elastic bladder disposed about an inward-facing surface of the opening. The inflatable elastic bladder may be inflated to pressurize a user's finger and temporarily occlude blood flow in the user's finger. The finger blood pressure cuff may include a pressure sensor for obtaining blood pressure measurements.
US11026585B2
A monitoring method and system for providing visual enhancements during a medical procedure is described. The method includes capturing current visual information of a site during the medical procedure in real time, storing at least a portion of the captured visual information as stored visual information, identifying a feature of interest in at least one of the current visual information and the stored visual information; generating feedback data associated with the feature of interest, and displaying a virtual representation of the feedback data overlaid on the current visual information.
US11026580B2
An OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) handheld device is provided comprising: a housing configured for handheld OCT scanning during a surgical procedure, the housing comprising an OCT scanning end and a proximal end opposite the OCT scanning end; an OCT scanning device inside the housing, the OCT scanning device configured for one or more of OCT polarized scanning and Doppler OCT scanning from the OCT scanning end, the OCT scanning device further configured to receive and convey OCT light between the proximal end and an OCT analysing system; and a tip extending from the OCT scanning end, the tip being removably attached to the OCT scanning end, the tip configured to receive and collect the OCT light therethrough. The OCT handheld device is configured to be removably draped around the tip, for use in the surgical procedure.
US11026572B2
In an ophthalmic examination system of one embodiment, an internal examiner terminal is used by an internal examiner in a facility where an ophthalmic examination apparatus is installed. An external examiner terminal is used by an external examiner outside the facility. A management apparatus includes a communication establishment unit, and an information transfer unit. The communication establishment unit is capable of establishing communication between at least two apparatuses selected from the ophthalmic examination apparatus, the internal examiner terminal, and the external examiner terminal. The information transfer unit is configured to transfer information sent from one of the at least two apparatuses whose communication has been established by the communication establishment unit. Each of the ophthalmic examination apparatus, the internal examiner terminal, and the external examiner terminal includes an output unit configured to output information transferred by the information transfer unit.
US11026571B2
A method for processing pupil tracking images, comprising the steps of: 1) acquiring eye images multiple times; 2) processing each acquired eye image, and determining whether a pupil can be positioned in the acquired image; and 3) determining that pupil tracking is completed when the pupil can be positioned in consecutive n pieces of eye images. Image processing efficiency is improved by searching a potential bright spot area and carrying out Blob analysis smearing images caused by pupil movement can be eliminated, the pupil edge is accurately positioned by adopting a line drawing method in collaboration with a support vector machine when determining the pupil edge, and finally a weighted least square method is adopted to fit a circle/ellipse (pupil). Therefore, real-time tracking and analysis of the pupil under a complex background are realized, and reliable data are provided for subsequent steps to obtain the refractive parameters of the eye.
US11026568B2
Presented is a method and apparatus for aiding medical procedures. An apparatus includes a housing defining a first opening, a second opening, and a interior, and a first cleaning element maintained within the interior relative to the first opening, the first cleaning element comprising at least one cleaning agent operable to remove extraneous debris from an object. The apparatus further includes a second cleaning element maintained with the interior relative to the second opening, the second cleaning element comprising at least one cleaning material and at least one white reference material, the at least one cleaning material operable to remove debris from an object. The apparatus also includes a conduit defining a passage from a first end of the housing to a second end of the housing.
US11026561B2
Embodiments described herein provide various examples of displaying video images of a surgical video captured at a first resolution on a screen of a surgical system having a second resolution lower than the first resolution. In one aspect, a process begins by receiving the surgical video and selecting a first portion of the video images having the same or substantially the same resolution as the second resolution. The process subsequently displays the first portion of the video images on the screen. While displaying the first portion of the video images, the process monitors a second portion of the video images not being displayed on the screen for a set of predetermined events, wherein the second portion is not visible to the user. When a predetermined event in the set of predetermined events is detected in the second portion, the process generates an alert to notify the user.
US11026554B2
A leg-driven cleaning system embodying cleaning footwear device fluidly connected to cleaning solution is provided. The cleaning footwear includes cleaning bristles along an underside thereof, as well as a nozzle adjacent to the underside for selectively applying the cleaning solution while a wearer of the cleaning footwear device utilizes their leg strength to wipe their feet to scrub their carpet clean. The leg-driven cleaning system does not take up much room, is easy to store, is very cost effective, and anyone from the ages seven to ninety can operate.
US11026552B2
A scrubbing article including a substrate, a stain release coating and a texture layer. The stain release coating is applied to the substrate and is present over a at least a major surface of the substrate, and the texture layer is formed over the stain release coating opposite the substrate. In some embodiments, the texture layer is printed on to the stain release coating. The substrate can assume various forms, such as nonwoven, fabric (e.g., woven or knitted), foam, film and sponge material or combinations thereof.
US11026544B2
A vacuum blender can crush foods, such as vegetables and fruits, in a vacuum state and preserve the foods in the vacuum state. Noise can be reduced because foods are put into an accommodation member and the foods accommodated in the accommodation member are blended in a state in which the accommodation member is covered by a cover member. Further, because a first chamber part is formed in the interior of the accommodation member and a first check valve is mounted and a second chamber part that is an empty space is formed between the accommodation member and the cover member, the first chamber part, in which the foods are accommodated, is vacuumed while the first check valve is automatically opened if the second chamber part is vacuumed without using a separate hose connected to the first chamber part.
US11026535B2
An oven may include a cooking chamber configured to receive a food product, an EM heating system configured to provide EM energy into the cooking chamber using solid state electronic components, and control electronics configured to control the EM heating system. The control electronics are configured to enable user selection of a cooking program associated with cooking the food product. The control electronics select a first algorithm to direct application of the EM energy to the food product. The control electronics perform a learning process to receive feedback on execution of the cooking program during execution of the cooking program according to the first algorithm. Responsive to detecting a trigger event during the learning process, the control electronics are configured to select a second algorithm that is different from the first algorithm to direct application of the EM energy to the food product during execution of the cooking program.
US11026532B2
A temperature controlled delivery appliance and a method of operating the same are provided. The temperature controlled delivery appliance includes a storage container, a climate control system for regulating the temperature within the storage container, and a controller for implementing a pre-conditioning method, which includes maintaining the storage container at a preconditioning temperature until a delivery notification is received, and operating the climate control system to regulate the container temperature to a target temperature upon receiving the delivery notification.
US11026518B2
A device for transporting and protecting a mattress via a cover containing straps and buckles, which allow the mattress to optionally be secured in a folded position. The cover may be made of a durable, water-impermeable fabric or other material, such as Cordura®, which both protects the mattress and its surroundings from damage. The cover may include, an end opening, such as a zipper, which allows the cover to slide over the mattress and then be enclosed therein. A strap or straps may be attached to the mattress, and the mattress may be folded in half and buckled in order for it to be transported. An additional strap and buckle may be located in the center of the cover to add additional support if necessary. The cover further may contain eight handles that may be used to pick up and transport the mattress.
US11026511B1
A furniture leg cap assembly for protecting furniture legs from damage includes a plate that has a plurality of fold lines integrated therein to define a plurality of wings each extending away from a central portion of the plate. The central portion is positionable against a bottom end of a furniture leg and each of the wings is folded along the fold lines such that each of the wings extends upwardly along respective sides of the furniture leg. Moreover, the plate is comprised of a resilient material to inhibit deterioration of the furniture leg resulting from sliding on a surface. Each of the wings has fasteners extended therethrough for attaching the plate to the furniture leg.
US11026504B2
A blow-molded structural panel has a stiffening rib structure in which the height and width of the rib structure varies over its length. For example, the rib structure may have three tall portions separated by two short portions, with a gradual slope in height between the various portions. The rib structure is preferably wider in the short portions than it is in the tall portions. The lower height of the rib structure in some portions enhances the stiffness of the panel, while also using less material because the plastic does not have to be drawn so deeply into the mold in the short portions.
US11026496B2
A mascara comb allows a user to quickly apply mascara liquid to the eyelashes without forming clumps. On the upper surface of the mascara comb a plurality of protrusion elements are disposed so as to form a plurality of rhombus structures; the rhombus structures are configured so as to form a predetermined gap for applying the mascara liquid to the eyelashes while combing the eyelashes, wherein a diagonal line in the axial direction of the comb portion forms a rhombus longer than a diagonal line in the orthogonal direction orthogonal thereto; further, the rhombus structures function as a velocity adjustment mechanism for making the velocity with which the mascara liquid flows in the axial direction slower than the velocity with which the mascara liquid flows in the orthogonal direction; and the inside of the rhombus structures are a holding portion having a function of holding the mascara liquid.
US11026495B2
Various embodiments of devices for retrieving and applying product from within a container are provided. In one embodiment the device comprises a flexible shaft having a proximal and distal end; a rod having a proximal and distal end, the rod positioned within the flexible shaft; and a tip coupled to the distal end of the rod by a living hinge. Pressure applied between the proximal and distal end of the flexible shaft bends the living hinge which rotates the tip from a first position to a second position.
US11026494B2
A lipstick vessel includes: a cylindrical upper cover, the upper part of which is closed and the lower part thereof is opened; a shoulder of a cylindrical member, the upper and lower parts of which are opened, which is inserted into the lower opening of the upper cover; a lower cover of a cylindrical member, the upper part of which is opened and the lower part thereof is closed, and the upper opening portion thereof is inserted into the lower outer circumference of a circumferential protrusion protruding outward at a center of the shoulder; a rotating body of a cylindrical member, which is inserted into the lower cover to rotate integrally with the lower cover; and a lipstick holding member for holding a lipstick at the upper part thereof.
US11026493B2
An eco-friendly brush is disclosed. The present disclosure relates to an eco-friendly brush in which the brush may be biodegraded at disposal, thereby preventing environmental pollution, even solving harmful problems caused by the adhesive, and enabling various types of bristle bundles to be interchangeably installed. As an exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure is provided to include: a handle made of biodegradable resin; a neck part made of the biodegradable resin, and having the rear end part thereof to which the front end part of the handle is detachably coupled; a brush fixing ring made of the biodegradable resin, and having the rear end thereof to which the front end part of the neck part is detachably coupled; and a head part inserted into a rear end part of the brush fixing ring and fixed therein, and having a bristle bundle integrally implanted on the front surface thereof.
US11026491B2
A hair dryer, including: a housing provided with an air intake and an air outlet, and having an air passage communicating the air intake with the air outlet; a fan installed in the air passage for discharging air from the air intake to the air outlet; and a water particle generator installed in the housing for providing water particles in a direction towards the air outlet; where an installing cavity for installing the water particle generator is provided in the housing, the installing cavity has a cold air passage connected to the air intake and a particle outlet for releasing the water particles, and when in operation of the hair dryer, cold air flowing through the cold air passage that carries the water particles generated by the water particle generator is blown out of the particle outlet.
US11026486B2
The invention relates to a pole handle (1) for walking poles, trekking poles, alpine ski poles, cross-country ski poles or Nordic walking poles, comprising a length-adjustable hand strap (2), wherein the strap length is fixed using a blocking element arranged in the handle body. A first end of the hand strap is secured in a top section (4a) of the handle body (4), wherein a mid-section (2d) of the strap is introduced into a recess (6) of the handle body (4), is deflected about a deflection element (11) in the recess (6), and passes downwards out of the handle body as the free second end (2b). The blocking element is pressed onto a lower strap section (2e) in order to block the adjustability of the length of the hand strap.
US11026485B2
A wrist-worn device clasp that secures a strap of the wrist-worn device. A first mechanical part of the wrist worn device interlocks with a second mechanical part by motion in a first plane in order to resist motion perpendicular to said first plane. The first mechanical part also inhibits a first securing part and a second securing part being separated by tension along the strap substantially perpendicular to the first plane when the first mechanical part and second mechanical part are engaged with each other. The first securing part and the second securing part inhibit separation of the first mechanical part and the second mechanical part by motion parallel to the first plane when they are engaged with each other by motion perpendicular to the first plane.
US11026481B2
A foot presence sensor system for an active article of footwear can include a sensor housing configured to be disposed at or in an insole of the article, and a controller circuit, disposed within the sensor housing, configured to trigger one or more automated functions of the footwear based on a foot presence indication. In an example, the sensor system includes a capacitive sensor, and the sensor is configured to sense changes in a foot proximity to the sensor in footwear. Information about the sensed proximity can be used to determine a foot velocity characteristic, which in turn can be used to update an automated footwear function, such as an automatic lacing function, or can be used to determine a step count, foot strike force, a rate of travel, or other information about a foot, about an activity, or about the footwear.
US11026470B2
This flip flop accessory holds a flip flop more securely to the foot when the wearer wants to run, jump, walk backwards, or dangle their feet—activities where flip flops often dislodge. It is comprised of two anchoring points screws on either side of the sole and an elastic cord that attaches to the screws and wraps around the ankle. The wearer screws anchoring screws into the sides of the sole, wraps the cord around the ankle looping the ends around the anchor screws, and then adjusts the length of the cord to maximize comfort and functionality.
US11026469B2
An article of footwear includes an upper member and a sole structure, with a sensor system connected to the sole structure. The sensor system includes a plurality of sensors that are configured for detecting forces exerted by a user's foot on the sensor. The sensor system also includes a port that is configured to receive a module to place the module in communication with the sensors. The port includes a housing with a chamber configured to receive the module and an interface engaged with the housing and having at least one electrical contact exposed to the chamber. Additional retaining structure and interface structure may be included.
US11026466B2
A sports helmet has composite helmet liner to improve and customize the fit of the helmet to the wearer. The composite liner consists of a base liner and a selected group of fit elements, for example, fit pods, removably attached to the inner surface of the base liner (i.e., the surface of the base liner facing the wearer's head). The fit pods are selected from a set of fit pods having different properties, for example, different sizes, thicknesses, densities, and cross-sections. The selection of fit pods from the set may be aided by taking anatomical measurements of the wearer's head and analyzing the measurements with respect to the geometry of the helmet to produce a pressure map. The measurements may be taken by physical contact or by non-contact means. The fit pods may be selected to optimize a pressure map, and thus optimize the fit, for a given wearer of the helmet.
US11026465B2
A helmet for receiving a head of a hockey or lacrosse player, the helmet comprising a front shell; a rear shell, the rear shell comprising inner and outer surfaces and an elongated slot extending along a longitudinal axis of the helmet; a rear inner pad for facing the back and left and right side regions of the head, the rear inner pad being mounted to the rear shell; an occipital inner pad located below the rear inner pad for facing the occipital region of the head; a central member extending along the longitudinal axis of the helmet, the central member comprising an upper part hingedly mounted with respect to the rear shell and a lower part mounted to the occipital inner pad; and a single wedging member located between the rear shell and the central member, the single wedging member being movable along the longitudinal axis of the helmet from a first position to a second position wherein, in use, in the first position, the occipital inner pad applies a first pressure upon the occipital region of the head, and in the second position, the occipital inner pad applies a second pressure upon the occipital region of the head, the second pressure being greater than the first pressure.
US11026463B2
A hat brim technology for framing one or more brim opening in a hat brim. A brim clip which engages at least a portion of a brim opening and which can optionally secure a number of brim material layers when in an installed state. A method for creating a framed brim opening in a hat brim. A cap including at least one panel and a brim having an opening in a shape of at least one of an advertisement, a logo, a design, a statement, a phrase, an emblem of a sports team, company, or organization.
US11026456B2
Embodiments are provided for a one-piece clothing garment that forms an integrated headband and scarf. Additionally, the headband and scarf are formed in a way that the headband is sewn at an upward angle forming an indent at the connection point that provides neck protection without air leakage. Also, a method of forming a one-piece clothing garment that has a scarf portion and a headband portion is disclosed.
US11026455B2
An article of clothing having at least one conductive wire suitable for transmitting an electric current and at least one flat seam is disclosed. The seam includes at least two substantially parallel edging wires; at least one connecting wire disposed in a flat and serpentine manner between said edging wires; the connecting wire having bends connected alternately to the edging wires; the connecting wire corresponding to the at least one metal wire; and at least one other connecting wire extending in a separate plane from the connecting wire disposed in a flat manner.
US11026454B2
Shapewear enhances the appearance of areas of a wearer's body, including the abdominal region. Typical shapewear that targets the abdominal area is often uncomfortable, because it uses methods to provide additional control to the area that also decrease the flexibility of the fabric. The shapewear garment disclosed herein includes a region configured to cover the abdominal region of a wearer. The abdominal region of the shapewear garment includes at least one dart provided in the fabric. The fabric of the shapewear garment is a high-elasticity fabric containing from about 20% to about 60% elastane. The darts in the abdominal region increase the control in the targeted abdominal area without significantly decreasing the flexibility and comfort of the high-elasticity fabric.
US11026452B2
A vaporizer is provided, including a body, a concentrate chamber provided within the body and including at least one chamber aperture, a concentrate pusher configured to push material through the concentrate chamber, a heating element having at least one element aperture, the heating element positioned proximate the at least one chamber aperture and configured to heat material pushed through the concentrate chamber, and a power source configured to apply power to the heating element.
US11026442B2
An animal feed product disclosed herein has a feed mixture disposed in a container, where the feed mixture has a plurality of animal feed particles and seed butter coating each of the animal feed particles. A removable cover is coupled to the container over the cavity to encase the feed mixture. A method disclosed herein relates to heating a seed butter to reduce its viscosity. Animal feed particles are translated through a spraying region and each of the animal feed particles are coated with the heated seed butter to form a seed mixture. The seed mixture is deposited in a container defining a cavity and the feed mixture is compressed in the cavity. Other embodiments are described.
US11026439B2
In some examples, a system may be configured to generating flour having a uniform particle size of less than 100 Microns from whole insects. For example, the may include generating a slurry from whole insects by adding water while blending the whole insects using one or more mixers to generate an insect slurry. In some cases, the water is added to the insect parts to reduce the viscosity and to assist in separating the whole insects into parts. In some cases, the insect slurry may be filtered.
US11026430B2
A cooking utensil includes a sheet metal tray of a substantially uniform thickness. The sheet metal tray includes a repeating pattern of depressed groove channels, each groove channel including in section raised channel sides and a depressed channel center. The repeating pattern includes a raised channel side of each of the depressed groove channels connecting with at least one raised channel side of a neighboring one of the depressed groove channels. The depressed channel center is configured to hold a bread product to be baked, and the raised channel sides are configured to keep the bread product in each of the depressed groove channels from contacting the bread product in neighboring depressed groove channels.
US11026429B2
A polymeric tubular conduit including a polymeric tubular conduit wall having an outer tubular layer coaxially overlaying an inner tubular layer which defines a continuous tubular passage along a polymeric tubular conduit length of the polymeric tubular conduit; whereby the outer tubular layer, the inner tubular layer, or combinations thereof, include an amount of antimicrobial agent. The amount of antimicrobial agent can be sufficient to kill or inhibit growth of microorganisms in contact with a corresponding polymeric tubular conduit wall external surface, polymeric tubular conduit wall internal surface, or combinations thereof, of the polymeric tubular conduit wall.
US11026426B2
Compounds of formula I and II are described. In formulae I and II, X is —NH— or —S— and Y is —CH═ or —N═. In formula I, Z is C1-C6 alkylene, C2-C6 alkenylene, C6-C10 arylene, or C3-C6 cycloalkylene, or Z is absent. In formula I, R is hydrogen, halogen, —OH, —NO2, C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C6-C10aryl, —O(C1-C6 alkyl), or —O(C6-C10 aryl), wherein each hydrogen atom in C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C6-C10 aryl, —O(C1-C6 alkyl), and —O(C6-C10 aryl) is independently optionally substituted by halogen, —OH, or —NO2. In formula II, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, —OH, —NO2, C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, or C6-C10 aryl, wherein each hydrogen atom in C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, and C6-C10 aryl is independently optionally substituted by halogen, —OH, or —NO2. Methods of inhibiting bacteria are also described.
US11026420B2
Peroxyformic acid compositions for treatment and removal of biofilm growth and mineral deposits on membranes for energy services applications are disclosed. In particular, peroxyformic acid compositions are generated in situ or on site generation for the reduction and prevention, of biofilms and the mitigation of mineral buildup on the membranes. The compositions according to the invention are compatible with the membranes under application of use conditions.
US11026419B2
Disclosed are methods of antimicrobial treatment using ionic liquids (ILs), IL complexes, polymers comprising ILs, and polymers comprising neutral ethylene diamine compounds. Also disclosed are novel IL complexes, polymers comprising ILs, and polymers comprising neutral ethylene diamine compounds.
US11026411B2
A thin material that is in a single planar which has a front and back and is circular in shape. There is a radius in the periphery that travels from the periphery inward, creating a cut that is interior to the peripheral edge and follows the circumference of the circular shape. Where this cut ends there is an opening or change in its direction. A fishing line passes through a hole in the material that is interior to the cut. When the device is in use being pulled through the water, the material between the interior cut and the device's peripheral edge deflects back causing the device to rotate which creates the needed action and flash to attract the fish. This planar deflection is not permanent and the material will return to its single planar when at rest.
US11026410B2
The present invention provides a new energy-driven in-situ plankton collecting device, comprising a solar photovoltaic cell and wind power generation system, a buoyancy support system, a power supply and control system, a plankton suction and collection system, and an anchoring system. The device has the center of gravity on the lower part and vertically floats in water like a tumbler. The plankton suction and collection system is composed of a suction axial-flow pump and a collecting cod end. The bag-shaped plankton collecting cod end has the mesh aperture of less than 0.8 time the average body length of the target plankton, and can be used on both sides. The devices provided by the present invention can be used simultaneously and arranged in an array for collection and utilization of plankton as well as governance and remediation of water area environment, and thus have a favorable application prospect.
US11026409B2
The present invention in general relates to the field of biological crop protection by use of phytoseiid predatory mites. More particularly the present invention relates to a system for releasing a phytoseiid predatory mite in a crop and novel uses of host mites in such phytoseiid predatory mite releasing system. The phytoseiid predatory mite releasing system according to the invention and the uses according to the invention are characterised by the selection a host mite species having an intrinsic growth rate (rm) of <0.28.
US11026407B2
A genetically modified mouse is provided, wherein the mouse expresses an immunoglobulin light chain repertoire characterized by a limited number of light chain variable domains. Mice are provided that present a choice of two human light chain variable gene segments such that the immunoglobulin light chains expresses by the mouse comprise one of the two human light chain variable gene segments. Methods for making bispecific antibodies having universal light chains using mice as described herein, including human light chain variable regions, are provided. Methods for making human variable regions suitable for use in multispecific binding proteins, e.g., bispecific antibodies, and host cells are provided.
US11026399B2
Disclosed herein are various aspects of animal feeders and animal feeding systems. In one aspect, the animal feeding system includes: (1) a container for receiving feed therein, (2) a sensor, (3) a controller, (4) a communications module coupled with the controller and configured for both short-range and long-range communication with at least one user interface and the at least one sensor, (5) a dispenser for dispensing feed, and (6) a gate connected with a motor, the gate for controlling the flow of food from the container to the dispenser, the gate controlled by a motor, wherein the controller is configured to automatically regulate feeding times according to the location of the animal feeding system and the corresponding sunrise and sunset times of the location.
US11026398B1
A pet food and water bowl apparatus includes a first bowl which is configured to contain water for a pet to drink, and the completely surround a support structure on which a second bowl for food in mounted. Surrounding the support structure with water prevent crawling insects from getting to the food in the second bowl. The second bowl is also configured to prevent food from falling into the water in the first bowl through changes in orientation of the second bowl.
US11026395B2
A milking apparatus is described that includes a longitudinally extending liner made from a resiliently deformable material. The liner is mounted on a rigid support shell. The liner comprises an outer hood configured to lie over an outer surface of the rigid support shell, and an inner barrel configured to be disposed within the rigid support shell and to define an internal volume. The inner barrel extends in the longitudinal direction away from an opening at a first end of the liner, through which opening an animal teat is insertable into the internal volume. The inner barrel is connected to the outer hood at a plurality of longitudinally extending connection regions on an inner surface of the outer hood. These connections define boundary conditions that limit the deformation of the barrel that encloses the teat can be set by the configuration of the liner itself.
US11026391B2
A soybean cultivar designated 82152612 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 82152612, to the plants of soybean cultivar 82152612, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 82152612, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 82152612. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 82152612. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 82152612, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 82152612 with another soybean cultivar.
US11026390B2
A soybean cultivar designated 82201737 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 82201737, to the plants of soybean cultivar 82201737, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 82201737, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 82201737. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 82201737. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 82201737, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 82201737 with another soybean cultivar.
US11026388B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073060. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073060. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073060 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073060 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11026387B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073016. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073016. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073016 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073016 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11026385B2
New watermelon variety designated ‘Red Garnet’ is described. ‘Red Garnet’ is a watermelon variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US11026384B2
The invention provides barley grain comprising a reduced level or activity of starch synthase IIa protein and a starch content of at least 41% (w/w) and methods of producing, identifying and using same. The grain may comprise an amylase content of at least 50%, a β-glucan content of 5-9% (w/w) or greater than 9% (w/w), and/or a fructan content of 3-11% (w/w). The fructan may comprise a degree of polymerization from about 3 to about 12. For example, the plant and grain comprises a sex6-292 allele and/or an amo1 mutation. A food or beverage product, and methods of producing a food or beverage product, comprising obtaining or producing the subject grain and processing the grain to produce the product. Also contemplated are methods of improving one or more indicators of health in a mammal comprising administering a composition comprising the subject barley grain or a product comprising same.
US11026377B2
An inexpensive wick watering system for potted plants and flowers is disclosed. An inner grower pot containing a plant/flower and soil has holes in its bottom surface along with a central indentation. The outer decorative pot into which the inner pot is inserted has a central protrusion which accepts the central indentation of the inner grower pot and a hole inserted into the center. A Wicking insert is inserted into the bottom of the outer decorative pot before inserting the inner grower pot with holes in its bottom surface. This wicking insert works to transfer water sitting in the volume created between the inner grower pot and the outer decorative pot when the inner grower pot is placed inside the outer decorative pot due to the soil's natural ability to be infiltrated and naturally hydrated by the water. Water that rises up to the hole in the center portion of the outer pot central protrusion drains from the outer pot.
US11026373B2
A method for pressurizing an assembly line grow pod system is provided. The method includes arranging a dual wall including an outer wall and an inner wall, controlling, with an air pressure controller, first air pressure in the first sealed area and second air pressure in the second sealed area, and controlling, with a master controller, operations of the air pressure controller. The first air pressure of the first sealed area is controlled to be higher than pressure of an exterior area to the outer wall by a predetermined amount.
US11026372B2
A system and related method for monitoring plant growth conditions is provided, comprising a plurality of detectors (7) and central detector data processing means (1103); each detector (7) being arranged to measure properties indicative of a temperature, a water content, and a nutrient content, of a plant growth substrate; each detector (7) being further arranged to transmit the measured property or properties over a communications link to the central detector data processing means (1103); the central detector data processing means (1103) being arranged to store predefined irrigation data, defining a relationship between plural values for temperature, water content, pH level and/or nutrient content of the plant growth substrate; and plural desired irrigation output values; process the measured properties from each detector (7) to determine calculated properties of the substrate; and provide an output indicative of a desired irrigation input for the growth substrate, based upon measured properties received from the detectors (7) and the predefined irrigation data. A portable detector communications device (1105) for communicating configuration data relating to the detectors (7) may be included in the system.
US11026366B2
Walk-behind power equipment includes: a main body provided with at least one front wheel and left and right rear wheels and a work unit; travel motors provided for the respective rear wheels; a handle extending from the main body rearward and upward; at least one of a tilt angle detector that detects a tilt angle of the main body and a load detector that detects a downward load applied to the handle; a yaw rate detector that detects a yaw rate; and a control unit that drive-controls the travel motors. The control unit determines whether the main body is in a rearward tilted state based on the tilt angle or the downward load, and if it is determined that the main body is not in the rearward tilted state, performs straight-line travel control to set a rotational speed difference between the travel motors to reduce the yaw rate.
US11032946B1
An electrical connector cage assembly includes a connector casing, a heat-dissipating structure, and a light-guiding part. The heat-dissipating structure is disposed on an outer side wall of the connector casing and includes a base portion and a plurality of fins protruding from the base portion and extending parallel to each other and the base portion. One of the fins protrudes relative to the base portion longer than another one, so that an accommodating space is formed above the shorter fin and extends parallel to the fins. The light-guiding part is disposed above the heat-dissipating structure. A light-guiding rod body of the light-guiding part is accommodated in the accommodating space. An electrical connector uses the electrical connector cage assembly. An electronic apparatus includes the electrical connector and an apparatus casing. A light-output portion of the light-guiding part is disposed toward a light-permeable structure of a panel of the apparatus casing.
US11032943B2
A heat dissipation apparatus for a plurality of heat-generating electrical devices dissipates heat of the heat-generating electrical devices by using heat-absorbing liquid. The apparatus includes a container. The container contains coolant liquid and the plurality of heat-generating electrical devices, the container includes a bottom plate, two first side plates, and two second side plates; the first side plate is fixedly connected to the bottom plate by plastic welding, the second side plate is fixedly connected to the bottom plate by plastic welding, and the first side plate is fixedly connected to the second side plate by plastic welding.
US11032941B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are presented for managing an apparatus for thermal energy management including a first container. The first container includes a first cavity, and is configured to hold a first liquid coolant within the first cavity to at least partially surround a second container. The second container includes a second cavity configured to hold one or more heat sources, and a second liquid coolant to at least partially surround the one or more heat sources. The second container is sealed to separate the first liquid coolant from the second liquid coolant. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11032935B1
A support structure for a flexible interconnect of a superconducting system can include a support member that is formed of thermally conductive material. The support member can include a plurality of parallel slots. Each slot can extend from a first surface of a base of the support member to a second surface of the base. The first and second surfaces of the base can be positioned on parallel planes and each slot can be shaped to allow relative movement of a fastener that allows a respective connector assembly to be affixed to the support member. Moreover, the respective connector assembly can provide mechanical support for the flexible interconnect of the superconducting system and establish a heat path between the flexible interconnect and the support member. The support member can also include a wall extending transverse from the first surface of the base, the wall comprising a plurality of through-holes.
US11032934B1
A configurable storage-system drawer may include (1) a chassis, (2) a slide assembly coupled to a side of the chassis that is configured to enable the chassis to be temporarily pulled out of a data-center rack, and (3) a passive drive-plane board housed within the chassis and configured to enable storage-system modules that differ between two or more storage-system configurations of the storage-system drawer to be interchanged. In some examples, the passive drive-plane board may include (1) storage-drive connectors that are each configured to detachably mate with a storage drive, (2) a storage-system-module connector configured to detachably mate with a storage-system module that includes one or more components necessary for one of the two or more storage-system configurations, and (3) electrical interconnects that electrically couple the storage-drive connectors to the storage-system-module connector. Various other apparatus, systems, and methods for enabling multiple storage-system configurations are also disclosed.
US11032933B2
A storage device includes a casing, a bracket and a stopper. The casing includes a receiving recess and a guiding slot. The casing includes two partition units and a guiding slot. The guiding slot is formed on one of the partition units, and provided with a detaching hole, and a receiving recess is formed between the partition units. The bracket includes a rack and a hanging portion. The rack is received within the receiving recess for fixedly holding a loaded object. The hanging portion is fixedly connected to the rack, slidably engaged with the guiding slot, and releasable from the guiding slot through the detaching hole. The stopper is removably located in the detaching hole for stopping the hanging portion from moving into the detaching hole.
US11032930B2
This application relates to a method for forming an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a metal substrate having a first b* value. The method includes forming an anodized layer that overlays and is formed from the metal substrate, wherein the anodized layer has a second b* value that is no greater than 0.3 of the first b* value and no less than 0.3 less than the first *b value.
US11032929B2
An example electronic device may comprise a first housing including a first surface and a second surface facing in a direction opposite the first surface, a second housing including a third surface and a fourth surface facing in a direction opposite the third surface, a hinge disposed between the first housing and the second housing configured to provide rotational motion between the first housing and the second housing, and a flexible display disposed from the first surface of the first housing across the hinge to the third surface of the second housing, at least part of the flexible display configured to form a curved surface as the hinge structure is folded, wherein the hinge may include dual-axis hinges configured to provide a first rotational axis allowing the first housing to rotate about the second housing and a second rotational axis allowing the second housing to rotate about the first housing and slides coupled with the first housing and the second housing and configured to provide sliding motion perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the first housing and the second housing.
US11032928B2
A system is provided for releaseably connecting a first device housing with a second device housing. The system includes at least three connection units, wherein each of which includes a headed bolt and a corresponding keyhole-shaped recess. The keyhole-shaped recess is configured for receiving the headed bolt such that the headed bolt can be inserted into the recess in a first section and held in the recess in a second section. At least one of the connection units includes a locking mechanism configured for locking the bolt in the second section of the recess. The locking mechanism includes a movable locking element which is movable with respect to the headed bolt and configured to hold the headed bolt in the second section of the recess in a locking position. Another configuration uses a corresponding connection arrangement includes such a system.
US11032926B2
The present invention discloses a transmission device used for expanding monitors, comprising the body, and a combination of at least a first monitor, a second monitor and an actuation module that can be installed thereon. The actuation module can drive the second monitor to move reciprocally on a reference axis X; and the second monitor is provided with a drive module to drive the second monitor to move reciprocally on a reference axis Y perpendicular to the reference axis X, which jointly provide a mechanism, under which an expansion and combination of the screen of the first monitor and the screen of the second monitor (in the same planimetric position) and/or retraction thereof are enabled.
US11032924B2
A display device, and a method and apparatus for manufacturing the display device, are provided. The display device includes a cover window including a curved portion, and a display panel smaller in at least one of length or width than the cover window and laminated on a flat portion of the cover window.
US11032923B2
A first and second display assembly are moveably mounted to a frame. At least one of the display assemblies includes a cover, an electronic display located behind the cover, and a first and second channel. A fixed plate is attached to the frame and positioned entirely within a cavity located between the display assemblies and the frame. The cavity and the first channel are part of a closed loop pathway, while the second channel is part of an open loop pathway. The closed loop is sealed when the display assemblies are in a closed position, and the fixed plate is accessible when the display assemblies are in an open position.
US11032922B2
A foldable device includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion, and a hinge structure joined therebetween to permit the foldable device to be folded along an axis between an open mode and a closed mode. Touch sensors are disposed along one or more of the first housing portion or the second housing portion. The device includes a module implemented at least partially in hardware and configured to: determine touch sensor physical proximity; responsive to the touch sensor physical proximity not being less than a threshold, determine that the foldable device is in the open mode and cause the foldable device to be operated in a single sensor mode; and responsive to the touch sensor physical proximity being less than the threshold, determine that the foldable device is in a closed mode and cause the foldable device to be operated in a cumulative sensor mode.
US11032906B2
Provided are a control device for unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The control device for unmanned aerial vehicle includes a shell, an inertial measurement device fixed in the shell, a main flight control circuit board electrically connected to the inertial measurement device, and a flexible interface board electrically connected to the main flight control circuit board and appressed against the inwall of the shell. At least one external device is connected to two opposite sides of the flexible interface board through the shell.
US11032900B2
Disclosed is a plasma torch with a structure capable of performing reversed polarity/straight polarity operation, wherein the plasma torch is coupled to a melter and melts a waste material such as radioactive waste or industrial waste by generating and sustaining a plasma arc between electrodes, the plasma torch including: a rear electrode provided inside a torch pipe and electrically connected to become one of an anode and a cathode; and a front electrode provided at a front end of the torch pipe at a position adjacent to a front end of the rear electrode and electrically connected to become a remaining one of the anode and the cathode, wherein electrical connections of the rear and front electrodes are switchable with each other so that the plasma torch operates as a reversed polarity plasma torch or a straight polarity plasma torch.
US11032892B2
In determining luminance, a location of human presence is referred. An infrared sensor detects the human presence in its proximity. The infrared sensor's effective detecting region includes a first region and a second region. The first region is farther from the infrared sensor than the second region is. And the first region surrounds the second region. Second, a first luminance is set for human presence within the first region; a second luminance is set for human presence within the second region; and a third luminance is set for nonoccurrence of human presence within both the first region and the second region. In addition, the second luminance is higher than the first illuminance, and the first illuminance is higher than the third illuminance. Third, an illuminating device is activated by applying the first luminance, the second luminance, or the third luminance, in response to a location of the detected human presence.
US11032890B1
The invention is a dimmable lamp switch control device, including: a rectifier bridge module is connected to the conductive pin sets and can enter at least one voltage signal. A filter circuit module has a circuit guard unit connects to a backflow prevention steady voltage filter circuit module, which can play a role in surge voltage absorption and prevent damage from excessive surge voltage connected to the output of a backflow prevention steady voltage filter circuit module. A PWM dimming control unit of a buck-boost constant current module is connected to the dimming signal identification and control circuit module for dimming control. An anti-electricity shock detection control circuit module based on the output signal of the rectifier bridge module to reduce the PWM signal of the buck-boost constant current module to avoid a greater electric shock currents.
US11032883B2
Various embodiments may include a dimmer system for controlling the power consumption of a load that can be connected with parallel-connected galvanically isolated dimming channels. The dimmer system may include a plurality of dimming channels, each dimming channel including a sensor for monitoring a temperature of associated switch elements; and a control unit for each dimming channel, the control units configured to shift a respective dimming edge based at least in part on the temperature to distribute power dissipation of the connected load substantially equally across the plurality of dimming channels.
US11032873B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure session continuity within mobile systems using user plane functions with uplink classifiers. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11032872B2
A method and an apparatus for deleting a session context are provided, to resolve a technical problem of how to delete an SM context from an SMF after abnormal network disconnection. The method includes: receiving, by a session management function entity, a packet data unit PDU session release request; and deleting, by the session management function entity based on the PDU session release request, a PDU session context that is stored in the session management function entity and that is of a terminal, where the PDU session context is a PDU session context that is not deleted after the terminal is abnormally deregistered.
US11032870B2
Current wireless networks do not allow machine type communication (MTC) devices to have long discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles or sleep lengths. A long DRX cycle may allow MTC systems and devices to operate with much longer DRX/Sleep cycles/periods. This may facilitate the MTC operations for infrequent system access or infrequent system reaching (e.g. paged once in a week) with no or low mobility and may allow MTC devices to sleep for a long time with low power consumption.
US11032865B2
Configurations are described for maintaining a continuity and quality of wireless signal connection between a mobile device and systems accessible through the internet. In particular, configurations are disclosed to address the challenge of a mobile device that moves through a physical environment wherein the best wireless connectivity performance is achieved by switching between available connection sources and constantly evaluating a primary connection with other available connections that may be switched in to become a new primary connection. The mobile device may be self-propelled or carried by some other mobilizing means.
US11032860B2
Methods and apparatuses for communication include: after a data source device discovers a first device in a device group based on a group identifier, pairing the first device with the data source device based on the group identifier to obtain pairing information; transmitting a notification message from the first device to one or more other devices in the device group, the notification message including an instruction to update a status of each of the one or more other devices in the device group to be invisible to a device outside the device group; and providing the pairing information to a second device in the device group, the pairing information being used for establishing a connection between the second device and the data source device.
US11032856B2
A method includes determining configuration information of a preset data bearer, where the preset data bearer is used to transmit data, and the configuration information comprises a data transmission mode of data transmitted over a radio interface through the preset data bearer. The method also includes sending the configuration information of the preset data bearer to a mobile terminal before establishment of a radio resource control (RRC) connection to the mobile terminal is completed, where the configuration information of the preset data bearer is used by the mobile terminal to transmit data through the preset data bearer.
US11032855B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In this regard, in embodiments, a mobile includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The mobile device includes circuitry operatively coupled to the transceiver. The mobile device also includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to the circuitry and storing instructions that, when executed, cause the mobile device to perform a number of operations. One such operation is to obtain a derivative of a first signal received via a first link. Another such operation is to obtain a derivative of a second signal received via a second link; and. Yet another such operation is to generate a selection for connection to an analyte sensor system, based on a comparison of the derivative of the first signal and the derivative of the second signal.
US11032847B2
The disclosure relates to a communication protocol method and device which enables, for example, the live feed of data from sensor nodes in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) to a centralized node, in particular for low-power long-range communications, further in particular with frequency chirp modulations. The disclosure provides long range communication with very low power consumption, preferably with a refresh rate of a few seconds per node while operating in the Licensed-Free Industrial/Scientific/Medical (ISM) frequency band, defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The method and device protocol include Medium Access Control (MAC) and Host functionalities that make the best use a LoRa radio, while keeping a reliable live feed of data from peripheral nodes to a central node, that is capable of managing multiple links, configured to comply with directives from Conformité Européenne (CE) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the license-free radio frequency ISM bands.
US11032841B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an active set management scheme implemented by a scheduler in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network that minimizes capacity and interference issues. For example, the scheduler can initially group each base station into a separate active set. The scheduler can then analyze each active set to determine whether the active set is a good or bad based on the level of interference in and the number of MIMO transmit dimensions available in the respective active set. If the scheduler determines that an active set is a bad, the scheduler can determine a set of metrics that each represent a capacity and link quality that would result if the bad active set is combined with another active set. Based on the set of metrics, the scheduler can combine the bad active set with another active set, and repeat this process until no bad active sets remain.
US11032822B2
A base station may maintain multiple beam pair links, with one being actively used for communication. The active beam pair may become blocked. Accordingly, it may be necessary to switch to another beam pair. The apparatus may be an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus for wireless communication may include a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to determine a set of active beam pairs including at least a first beam pair and a second beam pair and select the first beam pair. The at least one processor is also configured to predict that the first beam pair is blocked, the prediction based on an expiration of a timer and sweep through the set of active beam pairs based on predicting that the first beam pair is blocked.
US11032818B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to channel reservations and channel monitoring in a channel shared by multiple network operating entities are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits a first configuration indicating a first set of channel monitoring occasions for a channel. Each channel monitoring occasion of the first set of channel monitoring occasions is aligned to a start of a transmission slot. The first wireless communication device transmits, based on a first listen-before-talk (LBT) in the channel, a first channel reservation signal to reserve a first transmission opportunity (TXOP) in the channel, the first channel reservation signal transmitted during a first channel monitoring occasion of the first set of channel monitoring occasions that is within the first TXOP. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a first communication signal in the channel during the first TXOP.
US11032816B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine at least one of a granularity or range of a timing adjustment value based at least in part on at least one of a timing adjustment command indicating the granularity, configuration information indicating the granularity, information regarding a communication, carrier, or band associated with the user equipment, or a combination thereof; and/or perform timing adjustment based at least in part on at least one of the granularity or the range of the timing adjustment value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11032815B2
A wireless communication method and a wireless communications apparatus, the method including sending a resource request message to a second base station, where the resource request message is used to request the second base station to allocate a time-frequency resource to the first base station, receiving resource configuration information from the second base station, where the resource configuration information is used to indicate a first time-frequency resource, and the first time-frequency resource belongs to the second frequency domain resource in frequency domain, determining the first time-frequency resource based on the resource configuration information, and communicating with a terminal device by using the first time-frequency resource.
US11032814B2
A User Equipment (UE) monitors a set of Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) candidates for control information received from a base station at subframe k. The set of PDCCH candidates to monitor are defined in terms of search spaces. The UE monitors a UE-specific search space, among the search spaces, at each of aggregation levels (L) of 1, 2, 4 and 8 control channel elements (CCEs), the CCE being a resource unit comprising a specific number of resource elements and used for transmission of the control information. The L CCEs correspond to a first PDCCH candidate among the set of PDCCH candidates of the search space at a subframe k are located at positions given by: L*{(Yk)mod(floor(C))}+i, wherein i−0, . . . , L−1, where Yk is defined by: Yk−(A*Yk−1+B) mod D. The variable C is determined based on the number of CCEs (NCCE) divided by the aggregation level (L), and A, B, and D are predetermined constant values predetermined regardless of the aggregation levels L. The UE decodes the control information of the PDCCH.
US11032809B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting or receiving a signal between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting the same. More particularly, disclosed are a configuration for receiving a downlink control signal and corresponding data from a base station by a terminal when diverse numerologies are applied, and a corresponding operation configuration of the base station.
US11032808B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may identify control information to be transmitted, in a slot, to a user equipment (UE). The base station may determine a configuration for splitting a control resource set for the control information into a first component control resource set and a second component control resource set within a supported bandwidth of the UE. The first component control resource set may be frequency diverse and time diverse from the second component control resource set. The base station may transmit the configuration to the UE.
US11032807B2
Various embodiments provide a communication method. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, first uplink control information and second uplink control information. In those embodiments, a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information is less than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information. The first uplink control information or the second uplink control information comprises at least one of hybrid automatic repeat request information, channel state information, and scheduling request information. When the time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information overlaps with the time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information, the terminal device is configured to transmit third uplink control information on the overlapping time domain resource.
US11032792B2
Methods and systems for wireless communication are provided. In one example, a method comprises: receiving, by a mobile device, a radio beam, the radio beam being a directional beam that propagates along an angle of departure with respect to an antenna that transmits the radio beam; identifying, by the mobile device, at least one of: the radio beam or a base station that operates the antenna; determining, by the mobile device, a position of the mobile device based on identifying at least one of the radio beam or the antenna of the base station; and outputting, by the mobile device, the position of the mobile device.
US11032790B2
A wireless communications system including a base station and a terminal, the wireless communications system capable of communications between terminals through a first path and communications between terminals through a second path which different the first path, the wireless communications system includes: a plurality of terminals; and the base station including to: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to process related to proximity-based communications between a plurality of terminals; obtain identifiers of the terminal and information enables determination of whether to use the second path.
US11032787B2
A communication device determines an identifier of a wireless network with which the communication device is not associated. While the communication device is not associated with the wireless network, the communication device participates in a ranging procedure with an access point (AP) of the wireless network. The ranging procedure is for estimating a distance between the communication device and the AP based on measuring times of flight of transmissions between the communication device and the AP. Participating in the ranging procedure includes: the communication device transmitting a packet to the AP as part of the ranging procedure. The packet includes a PHY preamble, and the PHY preamble includes a signal field. The signal field includes a wireless network identifier subfield set to the identifier of the wireless network.
US11032782B2
In a wireless communication system, SINR data are obtained from power measurements data, as follows: gathering first power measurements data of total power received during communications; gathering second power measurements data of in-transmission interference power; computing third power measurements data of useful power, from the first and second power measurements data; gathering fourth power measurements data of out-transmission interference power; merging the second and fourth power measurements data so as to form a set of fifth interference power data; computing a first characteristic function from the third power measurements data, and computing a second characteristic function from the fifth power measurements data; building a third characteristic function relating to the SINR data related to the transmission channel, by performing a term-by-term product of the first and second characteristic functions; computing a probability mass function from the third characteristic function.
US11032773B2
Provided is a method for managing a mobile computing device in an emergency condition that includes receiving an emergency message indicative of the emergency condition being distributed from a management computing system to any mobile computing devices in an emergency area corresponding to the emergency condition. The method includes collecting one or more involvement parameters depending on an involvement of a person associated with the mobile computing device in the emergency condition. The method includes determining an involvement indicator representative of the involvement of the person according to the involvement parameters. The method includes sending the involvement indicator to the management computing system. The method includes controlling one or more resources thereof according to the involvement indicator.
US11032767B1
Embodiments for a module for scheduling sleep/wake intervals for a first one or more communication devices are disclosed. The module includes a computer readable medium having instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to obtain a coverage prediction for the first one or more communication devices. The coverage prediction indicates intervals during which a second one or more communication devices are predicted to be within range of the first one or more communication devices. The instructions also cause the one or more processing devices to generate sleep intervals and wake intervals for the first one or more communication devices based on the coverage predictions.
US11032753B2
A cellular communication system comprising a population of cellular communication network nodes comprising a stationary core, a plurality of base stations, and at least one node having mobile station functionality; and a client tunneling functionality co-located with the node having mobile station functionality which is operative to use network topology information obtained via the mobile station functionality to initiate generation of a tunnel having a first end at the node and a second far end at the stationary core.
US11032736B2
A transmission method, apparatus and system for feedback acknowledge information are provided. The method includes: receiving by a terminal device downlink control information sent by an access network device, the downlink control information comprising a first information field and a second information field, wherein the first information field is used for indicating a timing relationship of a feedback acknowledge information corresponding to the downlink control information and the second information field is used to indicate a downlink allocation index; and determining, according to the first information field and the second information field, the number of first bits of the feedback acknowledge information transmitted in a target transmission unit.
US11032723B2
A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to select a communication session associated with a wireless communication device; determine a service requirement for the selected communication session; determine an end-to-end latency for the selected communication session; and compute a repeat requests adjustment based on the determined service requirement and the determined end-to-end latency. The processor may be further configured to instruct a base station device associated with the communication session to adjust the maximum number of repeat requests transmissions based on the determined repeat requests adjustment.
US11032717B2
A method of operating a base station (BS) for a coexistence operation in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises performing a first measurement of first signals received from neighbor BSs over channels that are shared with the neighbor BSs before receipt of a spectrum access grant from a network entity; generating a registration request comprising a first measurement report based on the first measurement of the first signals; transmitting, to the network entity, the registration request comprising the first measurement report of the first signals; receiving the spectrum access grant from the network entity; and performing a second measurement of second signals received from the neighbor BSs over the channels that are shared with the neighbor BSs after receiving the spectrum access grant from the network entity.
US11032716B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to improve the security for machine to machine communications. In some aspects, a method is disclosed comprising: receiving, at a vehicle, a connection request from an electronic device; receiving, at the vehicle, security posture information from the electronic device, wherein the security posture information comprises at least one of operating system update information or antivirus status information; and determining, by the vehicle, whether to connect to the electronic device based on the security posture information of the electronic device.
US11032713B2
Provided is methods and device for providing a communication service. The method according to an embodiment includes generating a logical channel for communication between an electronic component included in a terminal and a local profile assistant (LPA) that is another electronic component in the terminal, generating a secure channel between the electronic component and the LPA when a secure area of the electronic device is selected by the LPA, and receiving profile data for providing the communication service from the LPA through the generated secure channel. An electronic device includes a processor configured to generate a logical channel for communication between one electronic component included in a terminal and a LPA that is another electronic component in the terminal, generate a secure channel between the electronic component and the LPA when a secure area of the electronic device is selected by the LPA, and receive profile data from the LPA.
US11032710B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure include methods, network servers or components and user equipment devices configured to authorize network slices that are associated with services provided by external providers. Various aspects enable access and use of network slices by user equipment devices connected to a network (e.g., 5G or New Radio network) via network components associated with a service provider by generating an allowed network slice selection assistance information (Allowed NSSAI) and an Unauthorized NSSAI, and sending the Allowed NSSAI and Unauthorized NSSAI to a user equipment device.
US11032708B2
Securing public hotspot communications by: generating a public-private key pair, deriving an SSID using the generated public key, creating a network using the SSID, specifying a network security setting, and providing a Client the SSID and network security settings. Further, by: receiving a network connection request from the Client, establishing a connection with the Client, receiving a probe request from a network access point, sending an authentication message, receiving SSID configuration information from the network access point, associating the SSID network and the network access point, and receiving Client data.
US11032705B2
A passive authenticating system includes a mobile device in communication with at least one of a multiple of access controls, the mobile device operable to determine a path trajectory of a user to authenticate the user based at least in part on the path trajectory then permit passive access to a particular access control.
US11032701B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of security context setup. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to techniques of supporting security context setup in a wireless communication network. A method embodiment relates to supporting security context setup in a wireless communication network, the method comprising initiating (S304), by a radio access network (RAN) element of the wireless communication network, Access Stratum (AS) security context setup for a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and a second RAT in a common signaling procedure.
US11032698B2
An aspect includes detecting a user gesture at a sender device, the user gesture indicating a direction relative to the sender device. One or more candidate receiver devices in the indicated direction and in a line-of-sight of the sender device are located. The data to be transferred by the sender device and an action to be performed on the data are identified. It is determined whether any of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action. The data is transferred to a selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices based on determining that the selected candidate receiver device is configured to accept the data and to perform the action.
US11032696B2
A Virtual Global Title Translation (V-GTT) Service implemented in a Signaling Connection Control Part (SCCP) Gateway using a single American National Standards Institute (ANSI) SS7 Point Code and a single International Telecommunications Union (ITU) SS7 Point Code for access to destination hubs on ITU and ANSI SS7 side of the SS7 network. The V-GTT enables ANSI SS7 and ITU SS7 operators to send their destination SS7 hub-specific traffic to a single hub-specific protocol for either the ANSI or ITU SS7 Point Code of V-GTT. The V-GTT Service application manages the traffic between ANSI/ITU SS7 operator and destination SS7 hub operators and performs ANSI SS7 to ITU SS7 (or ITU SS7 to ANSI SS7) protocol conversion if the destination hub is on a different SS7 protocol, thereby enabling an originating operator to send traffic to a single V-GTT Service hub-specific point code using the protocol that the originating operator currently employs.
US11032695B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for transferring management of one or more wireless devices from being managed by a first core network node, to instead be managed by a second core network node. The method comprises obtaining information identifying the one or more wireless devices, wherein the information comprises a first group identifier identifying a first group associated with the one or more wireless devices; and transferring context data from the first core network node to the second core network node, wherein the context data relates to the one or more wireless devices for use in managing the one or more wireless devices.
US11032694B2
Methods and systems for providing optimized communications links between at least two network nodes. Configuration data may be generated and exchanged between the two network nodes. Based on the configuration data, at least one signaling channel may be created by one of the two network nodes, via one of the available network interfaces between the two network nodes, and at least one data channel may be created, via one of the available network interfaces. The data channel may then be changed from one available network interface to another available network interface, based on monitoring of the plurality of available network interfaces and assessment of at least one performance related parameter of the available network interfaces.
US11032693B2
Techniques for use by a mobile device configured to operate in a wireless network for the communication of data messages with a server are described. When the mobile device does not have an open session with the server, the mobile device receives from a service node via the wireless network a message which informs the mobile device that a data message has arrived at the server and needs to be retrieved. The message includes an identifier which identifies the data message at the server. In response to opening an application at the mobile device, the mobile device communicates directly with the server via the wireless network for retrieving the data message. This involves commencing an open session with the server, sending to the server a command for retrieving the data message, and receiving from the server the data message in response to sending the command. The mobile device may use the identifier for retrieving the data message from the server.
US11032682B2
An inter-vehicle communication method and an apparatus for performing the same. The inter-vehicle communication method may include a reception node receiving at least one vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) message from at least one transmission node and the reception node transmitting a relay V2V message on the basis of the at least one V2V message, wherein the at least one V2V message may include information about adjacent vehicles discovered by the at least one transmission node.
US11032680B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system that combine the 5G communication system and the IoT technology to support a higher data rate after the 4G system. Based on the 5G communication technology and IoT technology, the disclosure can be applied to various intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, and security and safety service). The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for terminating a cellular network connection to a terminal without authentication. The disclosure relates to a method and system for providing a vehicle communication service in the 3GPP system.
US11032672B2
A method for acquiring location information, a terminal, a storage medium and an electronic device are disclosed. The method may include[s]: detecting, after a positioning module of the terminal is woken up, whether there is a functional module causing signal interference to the positioning module; closing the functional module in a time-division manner, in response to there being the functional module, and acquiring collected first location information, in response to the positioning module meeting a pre-determined condition.
US11032665B1
The described technology is generally directed towards user equipment (UE) geolocation. A machine learning model can be trained to estimate UE locations based on historical network communication data associated with the UEs. In order to train the machine learning model, known previous UE locations and corresponding historical network communication data can be provided to the machine learning model. A variety of other information, such as topographical information, can also be provided to the machine learning model. The machine learning model can be trained to predict the known previous UE locations based on the corresponding historical network communication data and any other provided information. Once it is trained, the machine learning model can be deployed to estimate real-time UE locations based on historical network communication data associated with the UEs.
US11032664B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to modifying audio content using location specific spatial impulse responses.
US11032660B2
A system for rotating sound provides for the ability of the apparent direction of sound sources in a listening environment to remain in consistent orientations in space despite rotations of the microphones used to capture the sound and despite rotations of the head of the listener, even when wearing headphones. Modules are provided in the system to distinguish the sound sources and their apparent directions, as well as to rotate the sound sources in response to detected rotations of the listener's head and/or detected rotations of the microphones.
US11032659B2
Providing a user with an augmented sound experience include receiving an identification an object within an environment proximate a user; determining a location of the object within the environment; determining a current location of the user within the environment; and causing a speaker array to produce a sound based on the current location of the object and the current location of the user such that the sound appears, relative to the current location of the user, to originate from the current location of the object.
US11032657B2
A method and system for calibrating an integrated volume acceleration sensor of a loudspeaker, wherein the method includes driving the loudspeaker with a calibration signal and meanwhile generating a sensor output signal by the integrated volume acceleration sensor measuring a volume acceleration over time of a motion element fixed to a moving part of the loudspeaker and/or of the moving part while the loudspeaker is driven with the calibration signal as well as generating a reference output signal by a reference sensor measuring the volume acceleration over time of the motion element and/or of the moving part of the loudspeaker while the loudspeaker is driven with the calibration signal, and additionally includes calculating a calibration value for the integrated volume acceleration sensor based on a ratio of the sensor output signal and the reference output signal and based on a predetermined reference calibration value of the reference sensor.
US11032656B2
A hearing system includes a hearing device, the hearing device comprising: an input module for providing a first input signal, the input module comprising a first microphone; a processor for processing the first input signal and providing a processor output signal based on the first input signal; and a receiver for providing an audio output signal based on the processor output signal; wherein the hearing system is configured to obtain a user input indicative of a change from a first primary setting to a first secondary setting of the hearing device, and wherein the hearing device, upon a detection of the change from the first primary setting to the first secondary setting, is configured to output a secondary audio output signal according to the first secondary setting.
US11032653B2
Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the sensory outcome of a recipient of a sensory prosthesis in an ambient environment that includes one or more controllable network connected devices. The sensory outcome of the recipient in the environment is used to make operational changes to the one or more controllable network connected devices in order to create an improved environment for recipient.
US11032646B2
An audio processor configured for generating, for each of a set of one or more loudspeakers, a set of one or more parameters, which determine a derivation of a loudspeaker signal to be reproduced by the respective loudspeaker from an audio signal, based on a listener position and loudspeaker position of the set of one or more loudspeakers. The audio processor is configured to base the generation of the set of one or more parameters for the set of one or more loudspeakers on a loudspeaker characteristic of at least one of the set of one or more loudspeakers.
US11032644B2
A system processes an audio signal using spectrally orthogonal sound components. The system includes a circuitry that generates a mid component and a side component from a left channel and a right channel of the audio signal. The circuitry generates a hyper mid component including spectral energy of the side component removed from spectral energy of the mid component, and generate a residual mid component including spectral energy of the hyper mid component removed from the spectral energy of the mid component. The circuitry filters subbands of the residual mid component, such as to apply a subband spatial processing. The circuitry generates a left output channel and a right output channel using the filtered subbands of the residual mid component.
US11032625B2
Watermarking of a content stream is accomplished in a session-based manner to provide watermarking based on a uniquely generated manifest that will result in a stream that allows for unique identification of information. The manifest specifies a sequence of watermarks for successive segments of a content stream designated for a specific receiver. The system and method leverages existing content distribution infrastructure and has many of the benefits of conventional head-end watermarking, allows unique identification of small segments of the data stream and reduces content distribution network storage requirements. Groups of nodes can be provided with unique watermark patterns and detection and watermark pattern reconfiguration can be accomplished in an iterative manner to find a specific node without the need to create unique watermark patterns for each node.
US11032623B1
The present invention discloses a subtitled image generation apparatus that includes a subtitle generation circuit, an image delay circuit and an overlaying circuit. The subtitle generation circuit receives audio data to generate a subtitle image pattern. The image delay circuit includes a first delay path having delay buffer circuit, a second delay path having a data amount decreasing circuit, the delay buffer circuit and a data amount restoring circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls the first delay path to store and delay the image data when a data amount of the image data matches a direct-writing condition, and controls the second delay path to decrease the data amount of the image data, to store and delay the image data and to restore the data amount of the image data when the data amount fails to match the direct-writing condition. The overlaying circuit overlays the subtitle image pattern on the image data having a corresponding timing to generate an output subtitled image.
US11032618B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of processing content from a plurality of external content sources and a content processing device performing the method. Contents of the plurality of external content sources are analysed by an external content analyser, while one or more source modes of the content processing device are analysed by a source mode analyser. Accordingly, the contents of the plurality of external content sources are mapped by a content mapping engine to a content listing in the one or more source modes of the content processing device, based on at least one content parameter.
US11032615B2
A content platform can receive information identifying a plurality of exit times, in an on-demand content element, associated with respective user-initiated exit events. The plurality of exit times can be based on a time duration of the on-demand content element. The content platform can generate an exit time distribution based on the plurality of exit times, and can identify a maximum exit time density in the exit time distribution and a maximum exit time density gradient in the exit time distribution. The content platform can determine, using a machine-learning regression model, an end screen time in the on-demand content element based on the maximum exit time density and the maximum exit time density gradient. The content platform can generate an instruction to display an end screen user interface at the end screen time during playback of the on-demand content element.
US11032604B2
Control techniques are disclosed for devices that are members of ad hoc rendering networks. A first network device may receive a data record representing state of the network. The data record may contain data identifying device(s) that are members of the network, any grouping(s) of the device(s) defined for the network, and a play state of the device(s). When the first network device receives the data record, it may store the data record locally at the first player device. The first player device may determine whether the data record possesses a command altering a play state of a device. If so and if the command is addressed to the first player device, the first player device may execute the command at the first player device. The data record may be relayed among all devices in the ad hoc rendering network, and each device may perform this same process. In this manner, state updates propagate to all devices that are members of the rendering network, and all such devices store state data of all other devices.
US11032588B2
An apparatus and method for delivering a spatially enhanced live streaming experience for virtual reality or 360 degree live streaming of video is disclosed. A live streaming video signal is encoded into multiple streams at varying resolutions. A portion of the high resolution video stream, corresponding to a field of view within the entire 360 degree view, is merged with a low resolution video stream. The resulting video stream is referred to as a spatial adaptive video stream. Multiple spatial adaptive video streams are generated to provide a high resolution field of view across the entire 360 degrees. As the viewer looks in different directions, the video player plays back one of the spatial adaptive video streams according to the direction in which the viewer is looking.
US11032578B2
Residual vectors are compressed in a lossless compression scheme suitable for cloud DVR video content applications. Thus, a cloud DVR service provider can take many copies of the same file stored in the cloud and save storage space by compressing those copies while still maintaining their status as distinct copies, one per user. Vector quantization is used for compressing already-compressed video streams (e.g., MPEG streams). As vector quantization is a lossy compression scheme, the residual vector has to be stored to regenerate the original video stream at the decoding (playback) node. Entropy coding schemes like Arithmetic or Huffman coding can be used to compress the residual vectors. Additional strategies can be implemented to further optimize this residual compression. In some embodiments, the techniques operate to provide a 25-50% improvement in compression. Storage space is thus more efficiently used and video transmission may be faster in some cases.
US11032571B2
An image processing method includes performing horizontal division and vertical division on a longitude-latitude map or a sphere map of a to-be-processed image to obtain sub-areas of the longitude-latitude map or the sphere map, where a division location of the horizontal division is a preset latitude, a division location of the vertical division is determined by a latitude, there are at least two types of vertical division intervals in an area formed by adjacent division locations of the horizontal division, and a vertical division interval is a distance between adjacent division locations of the vertical division, and encoding images of the sub-areas.
US11032568B2
A method of signaling of coding modes including an IntraBC mode (Intra-block copy mode) to improve the coding efficiency is disclosed. In one embodiment, the partition mode associated with IntraBC mode and the corresponding partition mode for Inter mode use the same binarization process and the same context modelling. In another embodiment, the displacement vector of IntraBC prediction for the chroma block is derived from the displacement vectors of the corresponding luma block. In yet another embodiment, a non-square PU is partitioned into multiple TUs (transform units) and IntraBC prediction is performed TU by TU.
US11032560B2
A method for video decoding at a video decoder is described. A merge sharing region including a plurality of coding blocks can be received. A shared merge candidate list is constructed for the merge sharing region. The merge sharing region is decoded based on the shared merge candidate list. At least one inter coded coding block within the merge sharing region is processed without updating a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) table with motion information of the at least one inter coded coding block.
US11032558B2
A method and an apparatus for performing a Superposition Coded Modulation (SCM) scheme in a broadcasting or communication system including a controller are provided. The method includes controlling an SCM coefficient by the controller. The SCM coefficient is controlled according to a channel capacity of each layer of one or more layers in which information included in a signal is encoded.
US11032548B2
A method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including obtaining a coded picture from the encoded video bitstream; decoding the coded picture to generate a decoded picture; obtaining a first flag indicating whether reference picture resampling is enabled; obtaining a second flag indicating whether reference pictures have a constant reference picture size; obtaining a third flag indicating whether output pictures have a constant output picture size indicated in the encoded video bitstream; generating a reference picture by resampling the decoded picture to have the constant reference picture size, and storing the reference picture in a decoded picture buffer; and generating an output picture by resampling the decoded picture to have the constant output picture size, and outputting the output picture.
US11032545B2
Provided are systems and methods for processing 360-degree video data by obtaining at least one 360-degree rectangular formatted projected picture; detecting a projection boundary in the at least one 360-degree rectangular formatted projected picture; disabling at least one of an in-loop filtering, an intra-prediction, or an inter-prediction, based on detecting the at least one 360-degree rectangular formatted projected picture comprises the projection boundary; and generating an encoded video bitstream.
US11032537B2
There is disclosed a system for viewing augmented, virtual, mixed, and combined reality environments. The system calculates the position and orientation of a movable display within physical space and translated those into an appropriate rendering of the content on the movable display also taking into account a head location for a viewer. The motion and location data for the movable display device and a viewer's head may be generated using trackers of various types.
US11032529B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for generating a selective color image. The method includes capturing a color image data within a current scene. The method further includes retrieving image color values from the color image data. The method further includes receiving a selection of at least one location within the color image data. The method further includes generating a color mask, including at least one unmasked area identified within a depth map of the current scene, and applying the color mask to the color image data to generate a color masked image data. The method further includes combining the color masked image data with monochromatic image data of the current scene to create a selective color image that includes the monochromatic image data with the at least one portion, and then the method includes providing the selective color image to at least one output device.
US11032509B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a display area configured to display an image, and a non-display area, at least one first sound generator in the display area, and at least one second sound generator in the non-display area, wherein each of the at least one first sound generator and the at least one second sound generator is configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound toward a front of the display panel.
US11032503B2
A seed value of a random number is generated in a more preferable manner by utilizing characteristics of a solid-state imaging device. A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is arrayed, and a processing unit that generates a seed value of a random number on the basis of each pixel value of predetermined one or more target pixels of the plurality of pixels, in which the pixel array unit is arranged on a first substrate, the processing unit is arranged on a second substrate, and a plurality of substrates including at least the first substrate and the second substrate is stacked so that the second substrate is located in a lower layer than the first substrate.
US11032498B2
A quantitative pulse count (event detection) algorithm with linearity to high count rates is accomplished by combining a high-speed, high frame rate camera with simple logic code run on a massively parallel processor such as a GPU. The parallel processor elements examine frames from the camera pixel by pixel to find and tag events or count pulses. The tagged events are combined to form a combined quantitative event image.
US11032494B2
This invention describes a technique to enhance pixel resolution of high-speed laser scanning imaging by the means of sub-pixel sampling, applicable to one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional (3D) imaging.
US11032493B2
Embodiments describe an approach for locating one or more light emitters proximate to a location of a physical display area. Embodiments further describe transmitting information of a target content to an augmented reality device using light generated by the one or more light emitters, wherein the information includes a light-based data stream of the target content and the target content is not pre-loaded; and responsive to a reception of the information of the target content by the augmented reality device, determining a portion of the target content for displaying on the physical display area. Embodiments also describe overlaying target contents on a physical display area using projected light grid or a grid of light emitters. Information on the target contents is transmitted from the emitters using light to an augmented reality device. The information includes light-based data stream of the target contents and physical coordinates of a frame.
US11032483B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imager, and a processor configured to perform a dynamic range expansion process by generating one composite image from a plurality of captured images, perform the dynamic range expansion process by correcting an output value of a signal of one captured image, and execute the process by the dynamic range expansion process by generating one composite image from the plurality of captured images or the dynamic range expansion process by correcting the output value of the signal of the one captured image based on a time of one frame period and a total exposure time in a case of capturing the plurality of captured images.
US11032480B2
In some examples, information is sensed by an optical sensor responsive to light from a marker arranged to indicate a boundary of a physical user collaborative area to receive user-input marks during a video conference session, where the marker is distinct from the physical user collaborative area. Based on the received information, the boundary of the physical user collaborative area is determined. Based on the determined boundary, a video zoom into the physical user collaborative area during the video conference session is controlled.
US11032476B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array that includes a plurality of pixels, a first interface directly connected to an external gyro sensor and that receives gyro data output by the gyro sensor in response to motion, and a control logic that generates image data by exposing the plurality of pixels for a predetermined exposure period, generates valid data that correspond to the exposure period using the gyro data, and generates, based on the valid data, compensation information that represents a movement path of the motion.
US11032465B2
An imaging element of an imaging apparatus has a configuration in which a plurality of pixels provided with a plurality of photoelectric conversion units for receiving light fluxes transmitting each of different pupil partial regions of an image forming optical system are arrayed. A CPU performs control to acquire a plurality of viewpoint images corresponding to different pupil partial regions from the imaging element and to generate output images using an image processing unit. The CPU and the image processing unit sets a detection range of an image shift amount using a photographing condition of an input image and a conversion coefficient for a conversion an image shift amount to a defocus amount, generates an image shift amount distribution of the detection range on the basis of a plurality of viewpoint images, and generates an image shift difference amount distribution. Image processing in accordance with the image shift amount distribution is performed to generate refocused images as output images.
US11032452B2
A camera module (12) for a motor vehicle having a lens assembly (20), a housing (22) with a back plate (32) and a lens holder (53). The back plate (32) carries an image sensor (24) within the housing (22). The lens holder (53) is mounted to the back plate (32) and holds the lens objective (20) such that the image sensor (24) is arranged in or close to an image plane (A) of the lens objective (20). The back plate (32) is formed of at least one bi-material element (31) holding the image sensor (24). The bi-material element (31) having at least two layers (33, 34) of materials having significantly different thermal properties and being joined together such that the bi-material element (31) is adapted to bend with changing temperature.
US11032451B2
An enclosure having: a base face that is opaque or translucent to human eyes viewing from outside of the enclosure and transparent to infrared radiation; and at least two flat, orthogonal mounting faces configured to be overlaid respectively on at least two surfaces of walls and ceiling of a room. A thermal imaging apparatus configured to image based on infrared radiation and mounted within the enclosure with a predetermined orientation relative to the base face to have a designed imaging direction with respect to the room when the enclosure is mounted in the room to have the at least two orthogonal mounting faces overlaid respectively on the at least two surfaces.
US11032449B2
The invention proposes a glove-like device which has a carrier structure, a camera and a switching arrangement. The camera is designed to record an image or series of images when it receives a contact signal. The carrier structure is designed, in the manner of a glove or of a cuff, to be readily fastened on a user's hand and/or wrist such that, in a state in which it has been drawn over the hand, at least some parts of the carrier structure enclose the user's hand. The camera and the switching arrangement are fastened on the carrier structure. The switching arrangement has an actuable component which is specifically arranged, and designed, such that it can be actuated by virtue of the user's thumb executing an actuating movement in the direction of a finger of the same hand and/or in the direction of a finger joint of the same hand, and which thus activates the contact signal and passes the latter on to the camera. In particular for activities such as, for example, many types of sport in which a user protects his hands in any case in gloves, the glove-like device described can make it possible for the user to record images in a straightforward and ergonomically intuitive manner.
US11032445B2
An information processing apparatus includes an instructing unit, a response obtaining unit, and an execution unit. The instructing unit provides an instruction to display an approval request screen to a terminal apparatus operated by a second user. The approval request screen is used for making a request to approve execution of setting changing processing for changing a setting of the information processing apparatus operated by a first user. The first and second users are authenticated by an authenticating unit. The response obtaining unit obtains a response made on the approval request screen from the second user. The execution unit executes the setting changing processing in accordance with the response obtained by the response obtaining unit.
US11032441B2
A marking color of a marking material (e.g., ink, toner, etc.) within a printer has a marking spectral reflectance property. Print media that has a media color approximately matching the marking color, but a different media spectral reflectance property, is identified (to form a geometric metameric pair). Differently colored calibration patches of the marking material are printed on a test sheet of the print media. A calibration patch, in which the printed color of the marking material most closely visually matches the media color, is used to identify a revised marking color. A watermark is printed on the print media using the revised marking color. The difference between the marking spectral reflectance property and the media spectral reflectance property causes the watermark to be visibly observable on the print media from one angle but prevents the watermark from being visibly observable from a different angle.
US11032434B2
Devices, systems, and methods are described for visually indicating an occurrence of an event. A visual indicator device is described for connection to a video communication device, the visual indicator device comprises a transparent housing, a printed circuit board having a plurality of light sources mounted thereon, and a light pipe positioned within the transparent housing between a back surface of the transparent housing and the printed circuit board, the light pipe having a flat surface and an angled surface having a range between 30° to 45° relative to the flat surface.
US11032429B2
A device controller connected to a communication terminal and a plurality of devices via a network includes an acquisition unit configured to receive first control information for controlling a plurality of devices of predetermined type from the communication terminal, the first control information including specific information for identifying a control target device selected from the plurality of devices, a device identification unit configured to identify the control target device on the basis of the specific information included in the first control information, a generation unit configured to generate second control information for causing the control target device to execute control details indicated by the first control information, the second control information being different from the first control information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the second control information.
US11032424B2
A system and method for hybrid callback management and failure recovery, utilizing a callback cloud and an on-premise callback system, allowing brands to utilize a hybrid system that protects against any premise outages or cloud service faults and failures by introducing redundancies and co-maintenance of data key to callback execution.
US11032423B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that facilitate a commercial data platform that enhances the interaction between a dialer and receiver during a voice call by simultaneously delivering and tracking data content that promotes ongoing commerce and interactions between these parties. One such system includes first and second interaction managers on a dialer device and a receiver device that transmit first and second sets of interaction data to a database during a call. A server obtains receiver content data from the database using the receiver identifier, transmits the receiver content data to the dialer device, obtains dialer content data from the database using the dialer identifier, transmits the dialer content data to the receiver device, and stores data from both the first set of ID and the second set of ID in the database in association with both the receiver identifier and the dialer identifier.
US11032422B1
A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set, such as a agent sales transaction record, and generate an agent training suggestion for subsequent action. Providing the heuristic engine with relevant data sets and a current context may allow determination of predicted future customer contexts and subsequent actions. The heuristic engine may learn from past data transactions and appropriate correlations with events and available data.
US11032420B2
A conventional call center includes a contact center (CC) and a customer relationship manager (CRM). The CC receives a communication and handles the initial voice communication tasks, which enables the CC to route the call to an appropriate agent. The CRM includes a data repository for the organization, including all the information relating to each client and their interactions with the organization. The CRM may also include an interface software for displaying the information from the data repository relevant to the caller on the agent's screen, and for enabling data entry and removal. To eliminate the need for the CC, an improved CRM system provides initial voice communication tasks with an automated chat session to establish call context, solve initial problems, and then route the call to a human agent, if necessary, based on information garnered.
US11032411B2
A control method for an electronic device, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. An electronic device includes a transparent display screen and an infrared sensor. The transparent display screen includes a display area. The infrared sensor is stacked below the display area. The infrared sensor is configured to emit infrared light and receive infrared light reflected by an object, to detect a distance between the object and the electronic device. The control method includes operations as follows. It is determined whether the electronic device is in an outgoing call state. Control is performed to reduce the brightness of the transparent display screen in a case that the electronic device is in the outgoing call state. Control is performed to turn on the infrared sensor to detect a distance between the object and the electronic device.
US11032400B2
A digital broadcast receiver for processing a broadcast signal, includes a tuner configured to receive the broadcast signal including Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs), wherein the PLPs carry link layer packets; and a controller coupled to the tuner, wherein the controller is configured to select and decode a specific PLP, detect and acquire first signaling information for supporting a channel scan and second signaling information for a robust header compression, wherein the second signaling information for the robust header compression includes a PLP identifier, profile information for representing a range of multiple protocols used to compress at least one stream, and a maximum value of a context identifier, select and decode another PLP to receive the at least one stream based on the second signaling information for the robust header compression, and decompress the at least one stream.
US11032397B2
Various embodiments improve the operation of computers by providing methods of transmitting data with low latency and high bandwidth. Data may be transmitted in a packet composed of data flits, the data flits having at least two different formats configured to implement different communication protocols. In some embodiments, a given flit may be transmitted using two different modulation methods, with a first part of the flit transmitted using a first modulation method, such as a binary method, and a second part of the flit using a higher-order modulation method.
US11032392B1
A network-based service may schedule requests received from clients according to information regarding prior requests from the client included the requests. When a request is received at a network-based service, information regarding the request, and possibly other prior requests, may be included in response for the request sent to the client. The client may then include that information in a subsequent request to the network-based service. An evaluation of the information may determine a scheduling decision for the request and the request may then be processed according to the scheduling decision.
US11032384B2
A method that includes providing a push notification from a system management appliance (SMA) to a user device. The push notification includes a one-time password for access to the SMA on a temporary alternate route to a normal route between the SMA and the user device to permit the user device to obtain additional information pertaining to the push notification.
US11032346B2
A client configured to retrieve a live-stream media content is shown. The client is configured to receive from a live-streaming server a media presentation description (MPD) describing live-stream media content composed of a sequence of segments and an information on a current segment of the sequence of segments. The client is further configured to commence retrieving the live-stream media content from the live-streaming server from a predetermined segment of the sequence of segments onwards, which the client determined based on the information.
US11032344B2
A system for delivering content at varying qualities from a server to multiple client across a network has a server side converter and a client side converter. The server side converter makes unicast requests to a server for representations of content and converts these to multiple representations to be delivered as multicast streams. The client side converter receives a request for content from clients, determines a representation of content to obtain and subscribes to an appropriate multicast stream. The client side then converts the multicast stream back into segments available to a client by unicast request. In this way, data is delivered efficiently across a network from a server side to a client side whilst maintaining compatibility that client devices can issue traditional unicast requests.
US11032331B2
In some aspects, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy server of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure is configured to process SIP registration requests. In operation, the SIP proxy server receives a single SIP registration request that includes a plurality of IMS Public User Identities (IMPUs). The SIP proxy server then authenticates the plurality of IMPUs to determine which of the plurality of IMPUs are authorized IMPUs. A plurality of SIP registrations are then performed by the SIP proxy server, wherein each SIP registration of the plurality of SIP registrations is a SIP registration of a respective authorized IMPU.
US11032330B2
A method for processing telephony sessions of a network including at least one application server and a call router, the method including the steps of assigning a primary Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and at least a secondary URI to an application; mapping a telephony session to the primary URI; communicating with the application server designated by the primary URI using an application layer protocol; receiving telephony instructions from the application server and processing the telephony instructions with the call router; detecting an application event; and upon detecting the application event, communicating with the application server designated by the secondary URI.
US11032328B1
Systems and methods for facilitating virtual collaboration between users within virtual environments are disclosed. A plurality of users access a collaborative virtual environment system using interface devices with varying capabilities to establish a virtual collaboration session in which users communicate via a bidirectional real-time communication channel and interact within a virtual environment. Annotations or other user interactions within the virtual environment are automatically propagated to each user in the virtual collaboration session in order to facilitate collaboration. Data from such virtual collaboration sessions may be captured for later use.
US11032314B2
In one embodiment, a security service classifies traffic telemetry data for traffic between an endpoint device and a server as potentially associated with a particular type of remote access Trojan (RAT). The security service constructs a scan message to elicit a type of server response associated with the particular type of RAT. The security service obtains a server response from the server, by sending the constructed scan message to the server. The security service determines whether the endpoint device is infected with the particular type of RAT, by validating whether the server response from the server matches the type of server response associated with the particular type of RAT.
US11032307B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a computer system. The method includes causing display of one or more graphical controls enabling a user to define attributes of a threat rule, the attributes including a type of computer network entity and an anomaly pattern associated with the type of computer network entity. The method further includes generating the threat rule based on interaction by a user with the one or more graphical controls, wherein the threat rule identifies a security threat to the computer network that satisfies the attributes of the threat rule based on one or more detected anomalies on the computer network.
US11032306B2
A security verification system and method that includes outputting a list of potential dataflow vulnerabilities as a first output from inputting a subject program and security specification, mapping candidate vulnerabilities to a user interface (UI) entry point and payload from the output of the list of potential dataflow vulnerabilities to provide a second output, and performing directed testing of the second output.
US11032304B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to implement an ontology based persistent attack campaign detection engine. In response to a security incident, the mechanism sends the security incident to an incident model microservice executing within the persistent attack campaign detection engine. The incident model microservice extracts artifacts from the incident, maps the artifacts to a graph topology data structure, and stores the graph topology data structure in a graph data storage. An ontology modeling suite executing within the persistent attack campaign detection engine collects security data from a document data storage, builds a security ontology data structure and storing the security ontology data structure in an ontology data storage, and maps concepts from the security ontology data structure to the graph topology data structure. A custom insight engine executing within the persistent attack campaign detection engine performs insights based on the graph topology data structure and outputs results of the insights to a user in human readable form.
US11032293B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for managing and securing a distributed ledger for a decentralized peer-to-peer (p2p) network. The method receives an encrypted block and a group key generated by at least one peer node on the p2p network, wherein each peer node is IoT device and determines a virtual device block in a device chain on verifying the unique device ID, and address of a corresponding event chain associated with the virtual device block. Further, the method generates a transaction ID for a new transaction using the unique ID of the virtual device block and determines a valid event block in the event chain associated with the virtual device block for storing the new transaction and associated transaction ID. Further, the method updates the distributed ledger with the valid event block upon verification by one or more peer IoT devices of the p2p network.
US11032289B2
Described herein is a method of processing location and level changes for managed devices, which includes a child device sensing a move to a new location and level in a tree structure including levels having different permissions and policies, and the child device receiving permissions and policies for the new location and level via a master clone file. Also described is a method of updating policies in a device in a fleet of image forming devices that includes identifying a setting in the device that should not be updated automatically, setting a respective flag associated with the identified setting, thereby indicating that the setting is not to be updated automatically, receiving a file with updated policy values, and updating settings of the device according to the updated policy values except for the identified setting. Also described is a method for processing exemption requests in a fleet of image forming devices.
US11032287B1
A method and system for generating permissions policies and permission boundary policies are described. The system receives a first request from a central administrator to create a delegated administrator, the first request specifying with one or more access permissions. The system generates a permission boundary policy that specifies the one or more access permissions and a first permissions policy that grants permissions to the delegated administrator to at least one of create an IAM principal with the permission boundary policy or attach a second permissions policy to the IAM principal. An effective permission given to the IAM principal is an intersection of access permissions specified in the first permissions policy and the one or more access permissions in the permission boundary policy. The system attaches the first permissions policy and the permission boundary policy to the delegated administrator.
US11032286B1
Techniques provided herein relate to registering secondary authentication information with a blockchain. A block chain is stored, having primary authentication information, secondary authentication information, or both that is used in authenticating one or more electronic data action requests provided by a client system to a backend system. The client system, a secondary device, or both registers the secondary device with blockchain node, such that secondary device data is stored as the primary authentication information, the secondary authentication information, or both in the blockchain node.
US11032270B1
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for securely validating access tokens. Techniques include receiving, at a token validation resource, a token provided from a network application, the token having an associated destination network address; wherein the token was dynamically created, and the token was provided to the network application; performing a validation process for the token, the validation process being based on at least the destination network address associated with the token; and determining, based on an outcome of the validation process, whether to permit the network application to assert the token to a destination network resource associated with the destination network address.
US11032269B2
Method and system for secure access from a security device at a local network location to a remote network location are disclosed. At the security device having a unique identifier (UID), processor, and memory, a security software is obtained from a remote network location, the security software obtaining a personal identification number (PIN) of a user, and the UID of the security device. The PIN, the UID and the private security software are forwarded to the remote network location for generating a credential code, including encrypting the credential code. At the security device, the credential code is obtained from the remote network location, and authenticity of the PIN and the UID is verified, without communicating over a network, including decrypting the credential code. Upon verifying the authenticity of the PIN and the UID, access credentials to the remote network location are retrieved.
US11032267B2
Systems and methods for securing configuration information for cloud-based services. A system comprises a data store and data sets including plant process information and configuration information. A memory device stores computer-executable instructions. When executed by a processor coupled to the cloud service, the instructions receive configuration information, store it in a data file, apply a generated certificate to the file, and deploy the resulting protected configuration data file to the cloud-based service. In addition, the protected configuration data file is made available by obtaining the file from the cloud-based service.
US11032266B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to identifying a digital certificate associated with data and assigning a reputation to the digital certificate, where the digital certificate is classified as trusted if the digital certificate is included in an entry in a whitelist and the digital certificate is classified as untrusted if the digital certificate is included in an entry in a blacklist.
US11032261B2
Techniques are provided for account recovery using an identity assurance scoring system. One method comprises providing multiple available identity assurance techniques, each assigned a corresponding identity assurance value indicating a level of assurance for the corresponding available identity assurance technique; in response to a user request to obtain access to a protected resource following a loss incident of a user authenticator: receiving, from the user, authentication information associated with the available identity assurance techniques; aggregating the corresponding assigned identity assurance values for the received available identity assurance techniques to determine an aggregate identity assurance value; determining if the aggregate identity assurance value satisfies a predefined identity assurance level criteria; and evaluating the user request to access the protected resource based on the determining. The corresponding assigned identity assurance value of a given available identity assurance technique is optionally modified based on the available identity assurance techniques that have already been performed.
US11032257B1
A method for covertly transmitting a packet of data over a network is provided. A datagram for transmission is fragmented. A portion of the data in the datagram is encrypted and stored within a fragment section of the datagram which is not a first fragmented section. Only the fragmented section that contains the encrypted data is transmitted. No other fragment of the fragmented datagram is transmitted such that the lone fragment transmission will appear as error.
US11032256B2
A computer implemented method of exchanging first valuable data at a first node for second valuable data from a second node, the method comprising the steps of: applying a first encryption to a first plurality of messages, at the first node, with a function having a commutative property, so as to create a blinded first plurality of messages; sending the blinded first plurality of messages from the first node to the second node, wherein the first valuable data is concealed in one message of the blinded first plurality of messages; receiving a blinded second plurality of messages at the first node, wherein the second valuable data is concealed in one message of the blinded second plurality of messages and the blinded second plurality of messages have been encrypted with a second encryption; in response to receiving the blinded second plurality of messages at the first node, applying a third encryption to the blinded second plurality of messages with a function having a commutative property so as to create double blinded second plurality messages which have been encrypted with at least the second encryption and the third encryption; sending the double blinded second plurality messages from the first node to the second node; subsequent to sending double blinded second plurality messages from the first node to the second node, receiving double blinded first plurality messages at the first node, wherein the double blinded first plurality of messages have been encrypted with at least the second encryption and a fourth encryption; in response to receiving double blinded first plurality messages at the first node, removing the first encryption of the second plurality of double blinded messages to provide partially decrypted blinded first plurality of messages which remain encrypted with the third encryption; after removing the first encryption, sending at least one message of the partially decrypted blinded first plurality of messages to the second node; subsequent to sending at least one message of partially decrypted blinded first plurality of messages to the second node, receiving at least one partially decrypted message which is one of the second plurality of messages with the second encryption removed; and in response to receiving at least one partially decrypted message, exchanging with the second node further partially decrypted messages of the first and second plurality of messages.
US11032251B2
A computer system trains an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to generate a key generated as a same key based on multiple different feature vectors, which are based on specified target environment attributes of a target environment domain. The computer system uses the key to encrypt concealed information as an encrypted payload and distributes the encrypted payload and the trained AI model to another computer system. The other computer system extracts environment attributes based on an environment domain accessible by the other computer system and decodes a candidate key by using the trained AI model that uses the extracted environment attributes of the environment domain as input. The trained AI model is trained to generate a key that is generated as a same key from multiple different feature vectors corresponding to specified target environment attributes of a target environment domain. The other computer system determines whether the candidate key is correct.
US11032248B2
A method to selectively encrypting packets includes filtering calls, at a virtual machine on a host, to connect sockets to server applications. When a call by a client application to connect a socket to a server application is detected, the method includes determining if the socket between the client and the server applications is to be encrypted based on identities of the client application, a user logged in on the virtual machine, or the client application and the user logged in on the virtual machine. The method includes filtering outbound packets in a protocol stack of the virtual machine. When the socket is to be encrypted and an outbound packet for the socket is detected, the method includes tagging the outbound packet for encryption by a hypervisor on the host and sending the outbound packet to a virtual network interface card (vNIC) emulated by the hypervisor.
US11032246B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel architecture for capturing contextual attributes on host computers that execute one or more machines, and for consuming the captured contextual attributes to perform services on the host computers. The machines are virtual machines (VMs) in some embodiments, containers in other embodiments, or a mix of VMs and containers in still other embodiments. Some embodiments execute a guest-introspection (GI) agent on each machine from which contextual attributes need to be captured. In addition to executing one or more machines on each host computer, these embodiments also execute a context engine and one or more attribute-based service engines on each host computer. One of these service engines is a firewall engine. Through the GI agents of the machines on a host, the context engine of that host in some embodiments collects contextual attributes associated with network events and/or process events on the machines. The context engine then provides the contextual attributes to the firewall engine, which, in turn, use these contextual attributes to identify firewall rules to enforce.
US11032234B2
Some embodiments provide an ARP-offload service node for several managed hardware forwarding elements (MHFEs) in a datacenter in order to offload ARP query processing by the MHFEs. The MHFEs are managed elements because one or more network controllers (e.g., one or more management servers) send configuration data to the MHFEs to configure their operations. In some of these embodiments, the network controllers configure the MHFEs to create logical forwarding elements (e.g., logical switches, logical routers, etc.) each of which can span two or more managed forwarding elements.
US11032230B2
A controller stores a new notification in a storage section when receiving a new notification to a user device. The controller checks, in the storage section, a use status of an application of the user device. The controller determines a notification method for outputting the notification stored in the storage section to an application display of the application when determining that the application is in use based on the use status.
US11032227B2
Disclosed is a method for automatic arrangement of communications for improved functionality. A client device presents a stacked set of conversation cells on a display of the client device. The stacked set of conversation cells is stacked such that a first conversation cell corresponding to a first chat conversation from the stacked set of conversation cells is a top conversation cell of the stacked set of conversation cells. While presenting the stacked set of conversation cells, the client device receives a first chat communication that is a part of a second chat conversation that is different than the first chat conversation. In response to the receiving of the first chat communication, the client device modifies the presentation of the stacked set of conversation cells such that a second conversation cell corresponding to the second chat conversation is presented as the top conversation cell of the stacked set of conversation cells.
US11032219B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and devices which perform automatic selection of an application-layer communication protocol based upon one or more communication characteristics of the sending application and one or more characteristics of the network connection between the sending device and the recipient. The selection of which protocol to use may be made on a message-by-message basis, periodically at various intervals (e.g., every predetermined time period), once upon application initialization, or the like. By dynamically selecting an application-layer communications protocol, an application may leverage the advantages of a specific protocol given the communication characteristics of the application and characteristics of the network connection at that time.
US11032209B2
A multimedia content cross screen synchronization apparatus and method, and a display device and a server are provided. The apparatus includes the display device and the server. The display device provides a plurality of stream channels to a user to select and watch. Each of the stream channels displays a multimedia content. The multimedia contents of at least two channels of the stream channels contain different prompt messages. These prompt messages prompt the user to perform different corresponding behaviors. The mobile device senses a behavior of the user and generates a feedback signal corresponding to the behavior to the server. The server selects a corresponding application service from a plurality of application services according to the feedback signal transmitted from the mobile device, and provides the corresponding application service to the mobile device.
US11032205B2
A flow control method includes: when congestion is detected, determining, by a first switching device, a key flow from a plurality of data flows; generating a back pressure message including a flow attribute value of the key flow; sending the back pressure message to an upstream device of the key flow; and pausing, by the upstream device of the key flow, sending of the key flow, where the back pressure message has no impact on sending of another data flow other than the key flow by the upstream device of the key flow. The present disclosure further provides a switching device that can implement the flow control method.
US11032194B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: a packet generator generating a packet including a header and a payload from an input stream including a plurality of input packets; and a signal processor signal-processing the packet, wherein the header includes a base header which includes: a first field indicating a packet type of the input packets; wherein when the first field is set to a value indicating that the packet type of the input packets is a TS packet, the base header comprises a second field indicating a number of TS packets included in the payload and a third field set to a first value indicating that the header of the packet does not comprises an additional header or a second value indicating that the header of the packet further comprises the additional header, and wherein the third field is set to the second value when TS header compression to remove at least one header of the TS packets is applied to generate the packet.
US11032191B2
An on-board communication system includes an on-board communication device and on-board devices. Each of the on-board devices includes a communication device controller configured to control data communication performed between the on-board communication device and a server and a priority setting portion configured to set priority ranks of the on-board devices for controlling the on-board communication device. When each of the on-board devices performs data communication with the server and if any one of the on-board devices is set to a higher priority rank, the on-board device is configured to transmit communication data to the on-board device that is set to a higher priority rank to perform data communication with the server via the on-board device that is set to a higher priority rank and the on-board communication device.
US11032190B2
The present disclosure relates to handling of packet flows between a pair of network security zones in a communications network. A packet that is sent from one of the network security zones toward the other of the network security zones is directed to a packet processing service chain, based on a packet handling classification of a packet flow of which the packet is a part. The service chain has multiple identical service chain instances to perform a service on packets, and the packet is directed to one of the service chain instances within the service chain. A packet that is processed by any of the service chain instances is transmitted to the other network security zone.
US11032182B2
At times, it may be desirable to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content. One manner of making the determination may include accessing presentation time information that indicates the time(s) at which one or more client systems present particular dynamic content and accessing event time information indicating the time(s) at which one or more auditable events occur in the dynamic particular content. Based on the presentation time information and the event time information, it may be possible to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content.
US11032175B2
A method for isolating packet loss on a hierarchical packet network, the method including: connecting a first network element (NE) to a second NE via a varying path traversing multiple network segments; discovering, with the first NE, a set of segment-demarcation expect-to-echo nodes along the varying path; ascertaining, with the first NE, a request-to-echo configuration for each node in the set; emitting a sample size of requests-to-echo in a respective request-to-echo configuration for each node in the set at a sample rate; receiving results of the sample size of requests-to-echo to generate a packet-loss sample; and calculating a rate-of-loss for the packet-loss sample.
US11032174B2
This application discloses a service chain fault detection method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a service forwarding entity (SFE), to communicate with a first service function (SF) node on a service chain after obtaining a first fault tracing detection request packet, wherein the first fault tracing detection request packet comprises a path identifier (ID), and the path ID is used to identify a path of the service chain; obtaining, by the SFE, an ID of the first SF node; and sending, by the SFE, a first fault tracing detection response packet to the device for initiating fault detection, wherein the first fault tracing detection response packet comprises the path ID and the ID of the first SF node.
US11032167B2
A precursor rejection filter is disclosed. A digital filter is coupled to receive packets from a data source. The filter may operate in one of a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, the filter may receive communications packets. When operating in the second mode, the filter may receive sensing packets. Furthermore, when operating in the second mode, the filter may cause a precursor of the equivalent impulse response of the transmitter to be attenuated without attenuating the main lobe of the equivalent impulse response of the transmitter.
US11032154B2
A selection of a first site indicator associated with a first tab is detected in a computer-generated graphical user interface. An expanded view of the first tab depicting nodes at a first physical site is presented. A first node is determined to be linked to a second node. The first node represents a first internetworking device at the first physical site and the second node represents a first building unit at the first physical site. A first communication link between the first node and the second node is presented in the expanded view of the first tab. The first node is determined to be linked to a second physical site external to the first physical site. A second communication link between the first node and the second physical site is presented in the expanded view of the first tab. The second physical site is displayed in a collapsed view of a second tab adjacent to the expanded view of the first tab.
US11032153B2
Systems and methods for managing resource distributions are disclosed herein. An example method includes: receiving, at a first server and from a first resource provider (e.g., an educational foundation), a first provision of resources for a resource recipient (e.g., a teacher) and at least one restriction that restricts the resource recipient's use of the first provision of resources. The method also includes segmenting the first provision of resources, within a repository of resources associated with the resource recipient, such that the first provision of resources is uniquely identified as associated with the first resource provider. The method further includes: receiving, from a second server distinct from the first server, information about available items; receiving, from the resource recipient, a request to use at least a portion of the first provision of resources to obtain one or more of the available items; and, in accordance with a determination that the request complies with the at least one restriction associated with the first provision of resources, processing the request and generating a report for the resource provider.
US11032150B2
The present disclosure provides a method for automatically predicting a topology of a network comprising a plurality of nodes. The method includes: selecting a path performance metric among a plurality of available metrics; obtaining path performance metrics of selected node pairs among the plurality of nodes; using the obtained path performance metrics to train a machine-learning model to predict the path performance metric for the remaining node pairs; and using the obtained and predicted path performance metrics to construct a topology of the network.
US11032143B2
A technique is configured to utilize frames generated by a first layer of a protocol stack for a first network to configure network parameters associated with a second layer of the protocol stack for a second network. The frames are illustratively beacon frames generated by a data link layer of a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack for a wireless network, and the network parameters are illustratively IP addresses associated with a network layer of the TCP/IP stack for a wired network. Notably, the beacon frames of the wireless network may be utilized for two-way communication exchange on a per node basis for each node in the wired network.
US11032136B2
A system for camera device discovery and enumeration detects a camera device connected to a computing device using a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol and generates a device object corresponding to the detected camera device with a user-mode camera driver. The user-mode camera driver associated with an operating system executing on the computing device. The system registers the generated device object with the operating system to provide a direct interface from the operating system to the camera device and to make the camera device available to a plurality of applications executing on the computing device and commands the camera device from at least one of the plurality of applications via the registered device object through the operating system, thereby improving the functioning of the computing device and the user experience.
US11032133B2
A method for universal scaling of software network functions involves receiving, at a switch of a network, a batch of data units during a first period. The network further includes one or more network function (NF) instances of an NF service, and a scaling controller. The switch transmits one or more units of data during the first period to an NF instance of the NF service. An estimated maximum safe data unit rate is determined for the NF instance, and a representative safe data unit rate is determined for the NF service. A total number of data units designated to be received by the NF service during the first period is determined, and a total number of NF instances of the NF service to be provisioned in the network is determined at the scaling controller using the estimated total number of data units and the representative safe data unit rate.
US11032130B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a troubleshooting method, apparatus, and system, and pertain to the field of troubleshooting. An embodiment of the method may include monitoring, by a virtualized network function (VNF), an operating status of at least one virtual machine (VM) inside the VNF. The method may also include determining, by the VNF according to a fault when the fault occurs on the VM, whether to perform VM rebuilding recovery. Furthermore the method may include sending, by the VNF, a rebuilding recovery request to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM) when determining to perform the VM rebuilding recovery. In this way, when the fault occurs on the VM, the VIM performs automatic rebuilding recovery for the VM by interactions between the VNFM and the VIM.
US11032125B2
Various medical devices and related systems, including robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and various robotic surgical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a robotic surgical system having a support beam positionable through an incision, and a robotic device having a device body, first and second rotating shoulder components coupled to the device body, and first and second robotic arms coupled to the first and second shoulder components, respectively.
US11032122B2
A multicast delay diagnosis method is provided, where the method includes sending, by a terminal device, a first domain name resolution request to a network node; receiving a first multicast test address returned by the network node; sending a first multicast test join request to the network node by using the first multicast test address, and recording a time point for sending the first multicast test join request; receiving a first packet returned by the network node, and recording a time point for receiving the first packet; calculating, according to the time point for sending the first multicast test join request and the time point for receiving the first packet, a first delay caused when the terminal device joins a multicast test group of the network node; and determining multicast network quality according to the first delay.
US11032114B2
A device for processing a broadcast signal, includes a tuner configured to receive the broadcast signal carrying a bootstrap prefixed to the beginning of a signal frame, the bootstrap including one or more bootstrap symbols, a last bootstrap symbol immediately followed by a preamble of the signal frame including bootstrap termination information, the bootstrap including first information for representing a structure of the preamble; a demodulator configured to demodulate the broadcast signal; a de-framer configured to de-frame the signal frame in the broadcast signal to output the preamble and PLP data, the preamble carrying Layer 1 (L1) signaling data for the signal frame; a signaling decoder configured to decode the L1 signaling data; and a decoder to decode the PLP data based on the L1 signaling data.
US11032108B2
Methods, systems, and software are disclosed herein for facilitating personas in communication exchange environments. Aspects of the disclosure include search requests to search for relevant personas. In response to each of the search requests, different contact sources are searched for any relevant contacts. Any relevant personas can then be returned having contact information assembled from the relevant contacts.
US11032107B2
A network node may receive a packet having an inner internet protocol (IP) header and an outer IP header. The inner IP header may be encrypted. The network node may generate a copy of the packet to obtain a copied packet. The network node may perform decryption on one of the packet or the copied packet to identify a recipient address of the inner IP header. The network node may update the outer IP header of the other of the packet or the copied packet to obtain an updated packet with an updated outer IP header. A destination address of the updated outer IP header may be updated to a tunnel endpoint of a receiving network node that is associated with the recipient address. The network node may route the updated packet according to the updated outer IP header.
US11032097B2
System and method for providing network support services and premises gateway support infrastructure
A service management system communicates via wide area network with gateway devices located at respective user premises. The service management system remotely manages delivery of application services, which can be voice controlled, by a gateway, e.g. by selectively activating/deactivating service logic modules in the gateway. The service management system also may selectively provide secure communications and exchange of information among gateway devices and among associated endpoint devices. An exemplary service management system includes a router connected to the network and one or more computer platforms, for implementing management functions. Examples of the functions include a connection manager for controlling system communications with the gateway devices, an authentication manager for authenticating each gateway device and controlling the connection manager and a subscription manager for managing applications services and/or features offered by the gateway devices. A service manager, controlled by the subscription manager, distributes service specific configuration data to authenticated gateway devices.
US11032091B2
Methods and systems for balanced conformity in chat conversations are disclosed. A method includes: collecting, by a computing device, data from an ongoing group chat; determining, by the computing device, a baseline tone for a plurality of participants in the ongoing group chat using the collected data; determining, by the computing device, a current tone for the plurality of participants in the ongoing group chat using the collected data; determining, by the computing device, a conformity risk score using the baseline tone and the current tone for the plurality of participants in the ongoing group chat; and in response to determining that the conformity risk score exceeds a first predetermined threshold, the computing device automatically inviting an additional participant to join the ongoing group chat.
US11032087B2
Examples associated with certificate analysis are disclosed. One example periodically analyzing a secure socket layer certificate chain between a client device and a server device. The client device may perform this periodic analysis. In response to detecting an unexpected certificate in the secure socket layer certificate chain, a responsive action is taken.
US11032086B2
An apparatus for use in a digital messaging system includes a storage device and a processor coupled to the storage device. The storage device storing software instructions for controlling the processor that when executed by the processor configured the processor to: generate a master private and public key pair; associate the master private and public key pair with a first certificate; and derive at least one domain-specific key from the one of the master private and public key pair. The first certificate is registered to a group comprising a plurality of domains. The domain-specific key is associated with one of the plurality of domains.
US11032075B2
Embodiments of the invention introduce efficient methods for securely generating a cryptogram by a user device, and validating the cryptogram by a server computer. A secure communication can be conducted whereby a user device provides a cryptogram without requiring the user device to persistently store an encryption key or other sensitive data used to generate the cryptogram. The user device and server computer can mutually authenticate and establish a shared secret. Using the shared secret, the server computer can derive a session key and transmit key derivation parameters encrypted using the session key to the user device. The user device can derive the session key using the shared secret, decrypt the encrypted key derivation parameters, and store the key derivation parameters. Key derivation parameters and the shared secret can be used to generate a single use cryptogram key, which can be used to generate a cryptogram for conducting secure communications.
US11032067B2
A hardware secure module includes a processing unit and a cryptographic coprocessor. The cryptographic coprocessor includes a key storage memory; a hardware key management circuit configured to store a first cryptographic key in the key storage memory; a first interface configured to receive source data to be processed; a second interface configured to receive the first cryptographic key from the processing unit for storing in the key storage memory; a hardware cryptographic engine configured to process the source data as a function of the first cryptographic key stored in the key storage memory; and a third interface configured to receive a second cryptographic key. The hardware secure module further includes a non-volatile memory configured to store the second cryptographic key; and a hardware configuration module configured to read the second cryptographic key from the non-volatile memory and send the second cryptographic key to the third interface.
US11032065B2
A verifiable, redactable log, which, in some embodiments, may contain multiple hash values per entry in order to sever confidentiality of a log from verifiability. Logs may be verified using recalculation of hashes and verification of trusted digital signatures. In some embodiments, the log may be divided into segments, each signed by a time server or self-signed using a system of ephemeral keys. In some embodiments, log messages regarding specific objects or events may be nested within the log to prevent reporting omission. The logging system may receive events or messages to enter into the log.
US11032062B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. Some systems may support data processing permits and cryptographic techniques tying user consent to data handling. By tying user consent to data handling, the systems may comply with data regulations on a technical level and efficiently update to handle changing data regulations and/or regulations across different jurisdictions. For example, the system may maintain a set of data processing permits indicating user consent for the system to use a user's data for particular data processes. The system may encrypt the user's data using a cryptographic key (e.g., a cryptographic nonce) and may encrypt the nonce using permit keys for any permits applicable to that data. In this way, to access a user's data for a data process, the system may first verify that a relevant permit indicates that the user complies with the requested process prior to decrypting the user's data.
US11032056B2
A first device may provide, to a second device, a first message that includes a first request for a first type of precision time protocol (PTP) message and a second request for a second type of PTP message. The first device may receive, from the second device, a second message based on the first message. The second message may identify whether the first request and the second request are granted. The first device may provide, to the second device, a third message that instructs the second device to provide a first set of messages, associated with the first type of PTP message, and a second set of messages associated with the second type of PTP message. The first device may synchronize a first clock of the first device with a second clock of the second device based on the first set of messages and the second set of messages.
US11032053B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a plurality of transport blocks over a plurality of configured carriers. The WTRU may generate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) feedback for the plurality of transport blocks, channel state information (CSI) feedback for at least one of the plurality of configured carriers, and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC). Further, the WTRU may generate a feedback message that includes a number of HARQ-ACK feedback bits for the HARQ-ACK feedback, a number of CSI feedback bits for the CSI feedback, and a number of CRC bits for the CRC. The WTRU may then determine a power to be used for a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission based on the number of HARQ-ACK feedback bits, the number of CSI feedback bits, and the number of CRC bits. Moreover, the WTRU may transmit the feedback message in the PUCCH transmission at the determined power.
US11032051B2
Various solutions for reducing uplink overhead with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may monitor a downlink channel. The apparatus may determining whether downlink control information (DCI) is received on the downlink channel. The apparatus may skip a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback transmission on an uplink channel in an event that no DCI is received on the downlink channel.
US11032049B2
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 present invention provides a method and device for vehicle to everything (V2X) communications. The method comprises: receiving configuration signaling transmitted by an eNB, and then determining, according to the configuration signaling, at least one of a search space corresponding to S-DCI_C, a transmission carrier of S-DCI_C, and the number of bits corresponding to S-DCI_C; or determining, according to the configuration signaling, at least one optional time position information for transmitting a Side Link Synchronization Signal (SLSS) and a Physical Sidelink Broadcast CHannel (PSBCH), and then, based on coverage state about whether a first UE is within cellular network coverage, according to the type of a reference synchronization source, determining time position information from the at least one optional time position information for transmitting the SLSS and the PSBCH, identity information of the SLSS to be transmitted, and the value of the inCoverage field in the PSBCH to be transmitted. The present application also provides a transmitting and receiving method in V2X communication, comprising the steps of: detecting, by a first-type UE, a PSCCH in format of SCI X transmitted by other UEs, and determining, according to the SCI X, whether to further measure PSSCH-RSRP of a PSSCH scheduled by the SCI X and whether to further decode the PSSCH scheduled by the SCI X. The method provided by the present application further comprises the steps of: detecting, by a second-type UE, a PSCCH in format of SCI X transmitted by other UEs, and determining, according to a modulation and coding bit field in the SCI X and a predefined TBS mapping rule, a TBS of a PSSCH scheduled by the SCI X. The method provided by the present application further comprises the step of: determining, by the second-type UE and according to a modulation scheme, the transmitting power of the PSCCH of the SCI X and the transmitting power of the PSSCH scheduled by the SCI X. By the above method, the coexistence of a first-type V2X UE and a second-type V2X UE can be better realized, and the transmission efficiency of the second-type V2X UE can be improved.
US11032040B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for utilizing uplink (UL) CoMP helper data are provided. One method includes setting, by a network node serving a user equipment, a priority for a helper data request of an uplink transmission of the user equipment. The setting may include setting the priority based on a specific history of the user equipment. The method may also include sending the helper data request to another network node and, optionally, sending the priority set for the helper data request to said another network node.
US11032036B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for handling carrier aggregation (CA) involving component carriers (CCs) having different numerologies.
US11032025B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique which fuses a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support higher data transmission rates after a 4G system, and system thereof. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security, and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A transmission method is provided, the method including: identifying at least one bit for polar coding, identifying a first sequence having a length of 2N that corresponds to a length of the at least one information bit, encoding the information bit through the polar coding, and transmitting the encoded information.
US11032020B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for clock synchronizing an optical system and multiple leaf systems. In some implementations, an apparatus includes a receiver comprising: a local oscillator laser providing a local oscillator signal, a detector circuit operable to receive a first optical signal and detect first data carried by the first optical signal based on the local oscillator signal, a reference clock circuit supplying a clock signal, a digital signal processor (DSP) operable to receive the first data and supply a control signal to the reference clock circuit based on the first data, the reference clock circuit being operable to adjust the clock signal based on the control signal; and a transmitter operable to output a second optical signal carrying second data, the second data having an associated rate that is based on the clock signal.
US11032018B1
There is set forth herein, in one embodiment, obtaining with a radiofrequency receiver a combined radiofrequency signal having a first stream combined with a second stream, wherein the first stream has a first power level, and wherein the second stream has a second power level, the first power level of the first stream being greater than the second power level of the second stream, wherein the radiofrequency receiver includes one or more antenna; processing the combined radiofrequency signal to recover a first digital bitstream associated to the first stream; and recovering a digital bitstream associated to the second stream using the first digital bitstream.
US11032015B2
A method of processing an emergency alert in a broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal including an emergency alert table, the emergency alert table including an emergency alert text related to an emergency alert message, information for identifying a viewing target for the emergency alert message and emergency-related broadcast service information for an emergency-related broadcast service, decoding the emergency alert table, displaying the emergency alert text in the decoded emergency alert table, and displaying an additional content related to the emergency alert message. The broadcast signal further includes wake-up information that includes 2 bits representing at least a first wake-up notification of a first emergency or a second wake-up notification of a second emergency different from the first wake-up notification of the first emergency.
US11032012B2
A radio frequency channel emulator system is provided. Said system comprises a box with at least one measurement antenna arranged at an input, a device under test, an interchangeable lid or wall with a basic arrangement of resistive and/or conductive materials, and an output being connectable to signal measurement equipment.
US11032010B1
A customer premises device including an optical modem including at least one upstream laser is power controlled to provide one or more reduced power levels of service in response to a detected AC input power failure, and/or in response to control commands, e.g., from an optical line terminal (OLT). The commands control the customer premises device to switch to a reduced power consumption mode of operation. During the reduced power mode one or a few lasers are powered, e.g., on an intermittent but predictable basis. During normal operation mode each of the upstream lasers are powered. One or more receiver circuits are also powered off during reduced power mode operation in some embodiments. A schedule is used in some embodiments to control when one or more upstream lasers and/or receivers are powered. In some embodiments the schedule is determined based on information provided by the OLT.
US11032007B1
Techniques are described for relaying of high-band radiofrequency communications through a window that would otherwise partially or completely block the communications. For example, embodiments include a pair of high-band-to-optical (HB2O) relays mounted on either side of a window. One of the relays receives a high-band radiofrequency (HB-RF) communication signal that is unable to pass through the window and converts the HB-RF communication signal to an optical communication signal. As the window is substantially transparent to visible-spectrum light, the optical communication signal can pass through the window. The optical communication signal is transmitted through the window to the other HB2O relay, and the other HB2O relay converts back to a HB-RF communication signal. Thus, HB-RF networks on either side of the window can be communicatively coupled via the optical communications provided by the pair of relays.
US11032001B2
Bandwidth part (BWP) switching may benefit a wireless communications system. Such BWP switching may include indication of one or more timing parameters used for time domain resource allocation. For example, the timing parameters may be indicated based on an index to a look-up table (e.g., a bit field in a control transmission). In some cases, one or more tables may be configured for a given BWP, and different tables may contain a different number of rows. The size of the bit field indexing the table may in turn depend on the number of rows. When switching from a first BWP to a second BWP, the size of the bit field may be based on the table of the first BWP, but the bit field may index the table of the second BWP. Techniques supporting improved timing parameter management during BWP switching are discussed herein.
US11031999B1
A satellite communication system includes a satellite, a satellite base station, and a user device. The satellite supports a number of satellite beams. Each satellite beam includes a number of cells. The satellite base station can communicate with the satellite via a feeder link. The user device is in communication with the satellite and the satellite base station. The user device can select a cell that covers a location of the user device based on a cell contour and a quality of a downlink signal received from the satellite base station. The satellite communication system can be operated by using LTE and/or NB-IoT standards, protocols, and/or waveforms.
US11031996B2
A method (10) of enhancing wireless communication coverage in a communications system is disclosed. The method (10) is performed in an unmanned aerial vehicle (1) comprising a signal amplification device (25) arranged to convey wireless signaling. The method (10) comprises: ascending (11) to an altitude at which signaling is received from an entity (3, 4) of the communications system, and conveying (12) signaling between the entity (3, 4) and a first communication device (2). An unmanned aerial vehicle (1), computer program and computer program product are also provided.
US11031993B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for performing device-to-device (D2D) relay communication according to various embodiments. Disclosed are the method and the apparatus for performing device-to-device (D2D) relay communication, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first signal that is beamformed and including counter information and a message, the counter information including at last one counter comparison value established for each direction and at least one counter value; and comparing the at least one counter comparison value established for mutually corresponding directions and the at least one counter value to determine at least one transmission direction, and beamforming a second signal for relaying the message for each of the at least one transmission direction and transmitting same, wherein the second signal includes the counter information in which a counter value corresponding to a transmission direction from among the at least one counter value is modified by a predetermined value, when transmitted in one direction among the at least one transmission direction.
US11031979B2
A transceiver apparatus for wireless communication includes components coupled to one another to form transmit chains for wireless communications. The components forming the transmit chains include power amplifiers (PA)s each coupled at a respective signal input to a corresponding one of the transmit chains for amplifying radio frequency (RF) signals of a wireless communication link and each power amplifier having a supply voltage input for powering the power amplifier, voltage sources having distinct voltage levels, and PA supply voltage detectors each coupled at an input to an associated one of the transmit chains to detect changes in an amplitude of the signal on each transmit chain. The transceiver apparatus includes a link power circuit coupled to the PA supply voltage detectors, the link power circuit to determine maximum voltage levels to be applied to the supply voltage inputs of the PAs.
US11031966B2
The disclosed technology provides a computing device with a slot antenna assembly including a slot formed in a metal exterior surface of a computing device case; an acoustic transceiver positioned to transmit an acoustic wave out through the slot and to receive a reflected portion of the acoustic wave in through the slot when the acoustic wave is reflected by an object; a proximity detector coupled to the acoustic transceiver that determines a physical separation between the object and the slot antenna based on a temporal separation between transmission of the acoustic wave and receipt of the reflected portion of the acoustic wave; and a transmission power controller that adjusts transmission power of the slot antenna based on the determined physical separation.
US11031963B2
A module connection structure includes a first module, a second module connected to the first module via connectors, and fixing members that fix the second module to the first module. The fixing members are movable between a fixed position at which the second module is inseparable from the first module and an unfixed position at which the second module is separable from the first module. At least one of the first module and the second module has fixing member holders that hold the fixing members located at least at the unfixed position.
US11031961B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which optimize one or more metrics of a communication system by intentionally changing symbols in a bitstream after encoding by an error correction coder, but prior to transmission. The symbols may be changed to meet a communication metric optimization goal, such as decreasing a high PAPR, reducing an error rate, reducing an average power level (to save battery), or altering some other communication metric. The symbol that is intentionally changed is then detected by the receiver as an error and corrected by the receiver utilizing the error correction coding.
US11031960B2
A method of producing a set of coded bits from a set of information bits for transmission between a first node (110, 115) and a second node (110, 115) in a wireless communications system (100), the method comprises generating (904) a codeword vector by encoding the set of information bits with a low-density parity-check code, wherein the codeword vector is composed of systematic bits and parity bits. The method comprises performing (908) circular buffer-based rate matching on the generated codeword vector to produce the coded bits for transmission, wherein the circular buffer-based rate matching comprises puncturing a first plurality of systematic bits.
US11031957B2
A decoder including a main memory, a flag memory and a decoding logic is provided. The flag memory is configured to store flag data and the decoding logic configured to perform an iteration. Further, the decoding logic is configured to: perform an ith operation using first data, wherein i is a natural number, flag-encode second data that is results obtained by performing the ith operation on the first data, store results obtained by performing the flag encoding on the second data in the flag memory as first flag data if the flag encoding succeeds, and store predetermined second flag data that is different from the first flag data of the second data in the flag memory if the flag encoding fails.
US11031953B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for puncturing of structured low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for a high-performance, flexible, and compact LDPC code. Certain aspects can enable LDPC code designs to support large ranges of rates, blocklengths, and granularity, while being capable of fine incremental redundancy hybrid automatic repeat request (IR-HARQ) extension while maintaining good floor performance, a high-level of parallelism to deliver high throughout performance, and a low description complexity.
US11031951B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a DEFLATE compression accelerator and to a method for verifying the correctness of the DEFLATE compression accelerator. The accelerator includes an input buffer and a Lempel-Ziv 77 (LZ77) compressor communicatively coupled to an output of the input buffer. A switch is communicatively coupled to the output of the input buffer and to the output of the LZ77 compressor. The switch is configured to bypass the LZ77 compressor during a compression test. The accelerator further includes a deflate Huffman encoder communicatively coupled to an output of the switch and an output buffer communicatively coupled to the deflate Huffman encoder. When the switch is not bypassed, the compressor can be modified to produce repeatable results.
US11031949B2
An analog-to-digital converter comprises a first integrator (40), a first converter input (19), a first reference voltage input (34), a capacitor array (68) comprising capacitor elements (171), and a rotation frequency control unit (37) providing a rotation signal (SRO) with at least two different values of a rotation frequency (fR). A first subset of capacitor elements (171) of the capacitor array (68) is coupled to the first converter input (19) and to an input side of the first integrator (40) in a first phase and is coupled to the first reference voltage input (34) and to the input side of the first integrator (40) in a second phase as a function of the rotation signal (SRO).
US11031931B2
A protective device for protection of a semiconductor switch against overvoltages during a deactivation process. A compensation signal is provided at an input of a driver stage for a semiconductor switch to be deactivated if the voltage at the output of the semiconductor switch exceeds a specified threshold, and simultaneously a request to open the semiconductor switch is detected at an input of the driver stage for the semiconductor switch. The compensation signal is limited to a specified duration. On the basis of the compensation signal provided in the aforementioned manner, the driver stage for the semiconductor switch partly controls the semiconductor switch in order to prevent an excessively quick opening of the semiconductor switch.
US11031923B1
An interface device and an interface method for interfacing between a master device and a slave device is provided. The master device generates command and the slave device generates data according to the command. The interface device includes a master interface and a slave interface. The master interface is coupled to the master device and configured to send the command to the slave device and/or receive the data from the slave device. The slave interface is coupled to the slave device and configured to receive the command from the master device and/or send the data to the master device. The master interface and the slave interface are driven by a clock generated by a clock generator. The master interface and the slave interface are electrically connected by one or plurality of bonds and/or TSVs.
US11031921B2
Acoustic wave filter device, duplexer, radio frequency front end circuit and communication apparatus
The acoustic wave filter (10A) includes a parallel-arm resonant circuit (12p). The parallel-arm resonant circuit (12p) includes a parallel-arm resonator (p1) and a frequency variable circuit (72p) that are connected in parallel. The frequency variable circuit (72p) includes a parallel-arm resonator (p2) that has a resonant frequency higher than that of the parallel-arm resonator (p1) and a switch (SW1) element. A frequency difference between a resonant frequency on a higher frequency side of the parallel-arm resonant circuit (12p) in a case where the switch (SW1) is OFF and a resonant frequency on a higher frequency side of the parallel-arm resonant circuit (12p) in a case where the switch (SW1) is ON is equal to or more than a frequency difference between a low frequency end frequency of the second attenuation band and a low frequency end frequency of the first attenuation band.
US11031918B2
An on-chip transformer circuit is disclosed. The on-chip transformer circuit comprises a primary winding circuit comprising at least one turn of a primary conductive winding arranged as a first N-sided polygon in a first dielectric layer of a substrate; and a secondary winding circuit comprising at least one turn of a secondary conductive winding arranged as a second N-sided polygon in a second, different, dielectric layer of the substrate. In some embodiments, the primary winding circuit and the secondary winding circuit are arranged to overlap one another at predetermined locations along the primary conductive winding and the secondary conductive winding, wherein the predetermined locations comprise a number of locations less than all locations along the primary conductive winding and the secondary conductive winding.
US11031908B2
A vibration device includes: a first substrate including a first surface and a second surface located at an opposite side of the first surface, and a first integrated circuit disposed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface; a second substrate including a third surface bonded to the second surface, a fourth surface located at an opposite side of the third surface, a recess that opens to the third surface, and a second integrated circuit disposed on the fourth surface; and a vibration element accommodated in a space defined by an opening of the recess being closed by the first substrate.
US11031906B2
An IV curve scan method for a photovoltaic module and an optimizer are provided. The optimizer receives an IV curve scan signal and controls an output voltage of the photovoltaic module corresponding to the IV curve scan signal to change from an open-circuit voltage to a preset minimum voltage according to a preset rule, while photovoltaic module connected to another optimizer can still operate normally, so that the system can operate normally. Then the optimizer uploads IV curve data of the photovoltaic module corresponding to the IV curve scan signal, to complete an IV curve scan on a single photovoltaic module.
US11031894B2
A motor system comprises a device having a plurality of conductors coupled to a plurality of isolated connection bars, wherein the plurality of conductors is divided symmetrically into a plurality of conductor groups, and all conductors in a conductor group are connected to a connection bar, a first power converter group connected between a first power source and a first conductor group, a second power converter group connected between a second power source and a second conductor group, wherein the first group of conductors and the second group of conductors are configured such that a charge balance between the first power source and a second power source is achieved and a rotor magnetically coupled to a stator.
US11031883B2
A method of manufacturing an actuator includes a first electrode layer forming step, a dielectric elastomer layer forming step, and a second electrode layer forming step, and obtains the actuator in which dielectric elastomer layers and electrode layers have been concentrically laminated. In the first electrode layer forming step, an electrode material is provided to an outer circumferential surface of a shaft section to form the electrode layer. In the dielectric elastomer layer forming step, a sheet-like or paste-like dielectric elastomer material is provided to an outer circumferential surface of the electrode layer to form the dielectric elastomer layer. In the second electrode layer forming step, the electrode material is provided to an outer circumferential surface of the dielectric elastomer layer to form the electrode layer.
US11031881B2
An output current synthesizer that synthesizes output currents output from a plurality of power inverter circuits converting direct current power to alternating current power and outputs the synthesized output currents as synthesized current having a predetermined frequency, the output current synthesizer includes a pair of conductors which is provided with each of the power inverter circuits and to which the output currents of the power inverter circuits flow, a reactor which is provided on each of the pairs of conductors and generates magnetic flux corresponding to a difference between values of currents flowing to the pairs of conductors to reduce the difference between the values of currents, a pair of conductive members to which the pairs of conductors are connected in parallel, and a pair of output terminals which is provided on the pair of conductive members and output the synthesized currents.
US11031876B1
An energy recycle circuit for a flyback circuit and method thereof. The energy recycle circuit has an auxiliary switch coupled in series to a clamp capacitor to form a branch, and the branch is coupled in parallel with the primary winding, or with the primary switch. The energy recycle circuit further has a recycle control circuit to generate an auxiliary switching signal. The auxiliary switch is turned on during a charging process of the clamp capacitor, and is turned off at an end of an immediate subsequent discharging process of the clamp capacitor. The charging process of the clamp capacitor is timed at a first length of time, and the immediate subsequent discharging process of the clamp capacitor is timed at a second length of time, based on an auxiliary switch current signal. The second length of time is adjustable to have an equal time length with the first length of time, or have a unequal time length with the first length of time.
US11031873B2
Embodiments include systems, methods, and apparatuses for controlling off-time during a burst mode in an LLC converter. In one embodiment, a circuit comprises an LLC converter having a primary side and a burst mode controller, the burst mode controller configured to monitor, on the primary side of the LLC converter, electrical current, and in response to a determination that the electrical current is below a first threshold, increase an off-time for switches in the LLC converter and in response to a determination that the electrical current is above a second threshold that is higher than the first threshold, decrease the off-time for the switches in the LLC converter.
US11031860B2
A converter with soft start includes a transformer; first and second switches connected to the transformer to supply power to the transformer; a controller connected to the first and second transistors and arranged to, during startup of the converter, switch the first switch with a variable duty cycle and switch the second switch with either a fixed duty cycle or a variable duty cycle with pulses larger than pulses of the variable duty cycle of the first switch; and a bleed device arranged to set initial conditions of the converter before startup of the converter by discharging a capacitor in the converter before startup.
US11031853B2
A permanent magnet motor (and associated rotor and stator) are described. The motor includes: a rotor having: an outer surface disposed radially from a central axis; and a plurality of permanent magnets located on the outer surface of or within pockets located between the outer surface and the central axis of the rotor; a stator having an inner surface in a spaced apart relationship to the outer surface or the plurality of permanent magnets with a gap there between that varies as a function of axial position along the central axis, and a first gap width at a first axial position is different from a second gap width at a second axial position, and the first and second gap widths are sized and configured to reduce the coping torque of the IPM motor as compared to an IPM motor having a constant gap width of the first or second width.
US11031850B2
An apparatus including a frame, an optical sensor connected to the frame, and an environment separation barrier. The frame is configured to be attached to a housing of a motor assembly proximate an aperture which extends through the housing. The optical sensor comprises a camera. The environment separation barrier is configured to be connected to the housing at the aperture, where the environment separation barrier is at least partially transparent and located relative to the camera to allow the camera to view an image inside the housing through the environment separation barrier and the aperture.
US11031845B2
A system for relieving pressure from within a generator casing can include a generator shaft defining a shaft channel therein and at least one rotating valve disposed within the shaft channel of the generator shaft and in fluid communication with an interior of the generator casing and the atmosphere. The rotating valve is configured to allow fluid within the generator casing to flow through the generator shaft to the atmosphere in an open state and while rotating. The rotating valve is configured to prevent fluid within the generator casing from flowing in a closed state.
US11031839B2
A motor includes a rotor including a rotation axis; a stator including coils; a cylindrical housing including an opening portion; busbars including busbar connecting portions; terminal pins including terminal connecting portions in a first direction orthogonal to an axial direction; a terminal support holding the terminal pins, wherein the housing has an insertion hole that opens towards an axial-direction one end side; the terminal support includes a protruding portion inserted into the insertion hole; one of the protruding portion and the insertion hole includes a fitting portion fitted to the other of the protruding portion and the insertion hole, and a guiding portion positioned on an insertion-end side of the fitting portion; and, in the guiding portion, a side surface on a side of the first direction is inclined in a direction opposite to the first direction with increasing distance from an open end of the insertion hole.
US11031838B2
A housing includes a first housing unit which includes a first bearing shield, a flange, a stator laminated core arranged between the first bearing shield and the flange, and a coating which is made of stainless steel and applied by an additive manufacturing method so as to cover the first bearing shield, the stator laminated core, and the flange and thereby form a unitary structure.
US11031835B2
An axial flux induction machine includes at least two stators and one rotor where the stators include an inner and outer ring of coils. The stator includes two mirrored structures constructed such as to secure wire coils, amplify magnetic characteristics, and provide a structure upon which to secure a rotary shaft. The structures supporting the outer ring of coils can be in contact between the two stators and the outer ring can be spaced further from the rotary shaft than the inner ring of coils and also further from the rotary shaft than an outer edge of the rotor.
US11031832B2
According to one embodiment, a stator includes spacing strips disposed to be interposed in the electromagnetic steel plates for each predetermined set of plates of the electromagnetic steel plates, each of the spacing strips extending in a radial direction of the stator iron core to form ventilation ducts, a spacing strip attachment plate which is disposed between the spacing strips and the set of plates of the electromagnetic steel plates to fix the spacing strips, and an insulating layer which covers the entirety of the spacing strip attachment plate and the spacing strips fixed to the spacing strip attachment plate.
US11031809B2
A lighting network (100) and methods therefore are disclosed. The lighting network (100) a plurality of lighting units (10) that can operate on AC power and DC back up power if the AC power is removed. A controller (15) is used to redistribute the DC power between the plurality of lighting units (10) in the event that DC power is low or exhausted in one of the plurality of lighting units (10).
US11031803B2
A start-up apparatus for a battery management circuit and a battery management system having the same are provided. The start-up apparatus for the battery management circuit includes a transformer, a switch circuit, a control circuit, and a rectifier circuit. The transformer includes a primary winding, an auxiliary winding, and a secondary winding. A first terminal of the primary winding is coupled to a first external power path. A first terminal of the switch circuit is coupled to a second terminal of the primary winding, and a second terminal of the switch circuit is coupled to a second external power path. The control circuit is coupled to the auxiliary winding for receiving power and controls a conduction state of the switch circuit. The rectifier circuit is coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer and supplies power to the battery management circuit.
US11031801B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply able to discharge a power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol source; a connector able to be electrically connected to an external power supply; and a control device. The power supply unit further includes: a conductor which electrically connects the connector and the control device; a capacitor provided between the connector and the control device so as to be connected in parallel with the control device; a first circuit board on which the connector is provided; a second circuit board which is apart from the first circuit board and on which the capacitor and the control device are provided; and a conductive member which electrically connects the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
US11031799B2
A communication amount and a processing load of an external circuit of a power supply management integrated circuit are reduced. The power supply management integrated circuit includes a state determination unit and a battery remaining quantity measurement unit. In the power supply management integrated circuit, the state determination unit determines which one of a plurality of states corresponding to different cycles a charge/discharge state of a battery falls under. Furthermore, in the power supply management integrated circuit, the battery remaining quantity measurement unit measures a battery remaining quantity of the battery each time when the cycle according to the state of charge/discharge state of the battery determined by the state determination unit elapses.
US11031796B2
A switching power converter is provided that communicates with a mobile device to receive a value of a load detection current. The switching power converter adjusts the cycling of a power switch until a constant current mode of operation is entered with a known output current driving the mobile device. The switching power converter subtracts the load current from the output current to measure a soft-short circuit current.
US11031792B2
There are provided control systems and methods for charging batteries. For instance, there is provided a system for charging at least two batteries. The system can include a set of hardware associated with the at least two batteries, and the at least two batteries can be connected in series. Each battery from the at least two batteries can be associated with a subset of the set of hardware, and one subset of the set of hardware can be configured to control an associated battery independently from another subset of the set of hardware and its associated battery.
US11031791B2
An electronic adjusting device (1) for an electric energy storing apparatus (100) of the type provided with batteries, said storing apparatus comprising a plurality of battery modules (10) electrically connectable with an electric load, said electronic adjusting device comprising a plurality of electronic adjusting units (2), each comprised in a corresponding battery module (10) to adjust the feeding current (IL) provided by the cells (11) of the said battery module to said electric load.
US11031774B2
A superconducting fault current limiter element, comprising: a plurality of tapes, arranged in electrical parallel fashion among one another, wherein at least one tape of the plurality of tapes comprises a superconductor tape, and wherein at least one tape of the plurality of tapes comprises a non-superconductor tape.
US11031771B2
A power supply control apparatus controls power supply via a semiconductor switch, by a driving circuit turning ON or OFF the semiconductor switch. A current circuit pulls in a current from the drain of the semiconductor switch via a resistance. The current value Ic of the current that is pulled in by the current circuit fluctuates in the same direction as a fluctuation direction of the ON resistance value of the semiconductor switch, depending on the ambient temperature of the semiconductor switch. If the source voltage of the semiconductor switch is lower than a voltage at the other end of the resistance, the driving circuit turns OFF the semiconductor switch.
US11031768B2
A device includes a current sensor, a first current monitor, and a second current monitor. The current sensor is to sense a current between an input node and an output node. The first current monitor is to disconnect the input node from the output node in response to the sensed current exceeding a first threshold current for a period exceeding a threshold period. The second current monitor is to disconnect the input node from the output node in response to the sensed current exceeding a second threshold current greater than the first threshold current.
US11031761B2
A resin structure includes a first resin body having an annular first side wall portion, a second resin body having a second side wall portion, and a third resin body having a bottom wall portion and an annular third side wall portion connected to the bottom wall portion. The second resin body is assembled to the first resin body, such that an upper edge of the second side wall portion and at least a portion of an annular lower edge of the first side wall portion in a circumferential direction are aligned. The third resin body is assembled to the second resin body, such that an annular upper edge of the third side wall portion and at least a lower edge of the second side wall portion are aligned.
US11031757B2
An underwater cable route planning technology is provided for automatically generating underwater cable routes using a model. In this regard, one or more processors may receive bathymetry data, and may also receive existing route data for a plurality of existing underwater cable routes. Based on the bathymetry data and the existing route data, a model for determining underwater cable routes may be generated. As such, when a request for an underwater cable route connecting a first location and a second location is received, the model may be used to generate one or more potential underwater cable routes based on the first location, the second location, and the bathymetry data.
US11031749B2
The description relates to laser control. One example can include a laser that has a laser emitter configured to generate a laser beam for intervals of time (e.g., pixel times). The laser can have a compensation and control component configured to receive a predicted laser emitter temperature of the laser emitter, obtain a desired optical power for an interval, and compute a compensated electrical current for the interval utilizing multiple light to current look up tables. Individual light to current look up tables can relate to specific laser emitter temperatures.
US11031745B1
An X-ray laser has a target anode of a crystalline material that emits X-ray radiation in response to excitation and that is located on a thermally conductive substrate. An X-ray source provides an input X-ray beam that illuminates a predetermined volume of the target anode at a predefined angle relative to a surface of the anode so as to induce a Borrmann mode standing wave in the predetermined volume. An electron source outputs an electron beam that is incident on the Borrmann mode region so as to cause electron impact ionization of the crystalline material and thereby induce stimulated emission of a coherent output X-ray beam.
US11031740B2
A ground terminal is integrally formed with one ground coupling member extending in a width direction; a housing is integrally formed with a signal terminal, the ground terminal, and the ground coupling member by insert molding; the signal terminal has a contact portion that comes into contact with a counterpart signal terminal and a tail portion soldered to a core wire of a coaxial cable exposed from the housing; the ground coupling member includes a shield connecting portion that is exposed from the housing on a rear side of the tail portion of the signal terminal and soldered to a shield of the coaxial cable; and the ground terminal has a portion other than the contact portion embedded in the housing.
US11031738B1
A multi-socket panel device with an anti-crosstalk shielding structure mainly includes a main base body having an accommodation space inside, and a plurality of through slots are formed on the main base body and penetrate the main base plate. The device further includes a plurality of socket sets, which are correspondingly combined with the main base body. Each socket set further includes a base plate, and a plurality of prick type terminals are arranged on one surface of the base plate and pass through the base plate to another. On one surface of the substrate, a plurality of sockets are provided on the other surface of the substrate, and the corresponding sockets are inserted into the sockets. A plurality of wire terminals are provided at the bottom of the jack and extend to the outside of the sockets to form electrical connection with the prick type terminals. A shield sleeve base is connected to each socket. Each socket is protected by the shield sleeve to prevent crosstalk between the sockets.
US11031735B2
First terminals have a contact arm portion and second terminals have a convex contact point portion that is contactable with the intermediate portion of the contact arm portion of the first terminals in the direction of plugging and unplugging of the two connectors. The section of the contact arm portion of the first terminals that extends from the location of contact with the convex contact point portion of the second terminals to the free end portion of the contact arm portion in the direction of plugging and unplugging forms a stub portion. The sections of the first terminals other than the stub portion and the second terminals constitute a main transmission path. In a predetermined range that includes the location of contact in the main transmission path, the impedance of at least a partial range of said predetermined range is made smaller than the impedance of the stub portion.
US11031731B2
A breakaway coaxial cable connector includes a conductive body configured to engage a cable. The conductive body is configured to be selectively coupled to an interface port to maintain electrical connectivity between the cable and the interface during operation of the connector when a first tension force below a predetermined threshold level is applied between the cable and the interface port, and the conductive body is configured to be selectively de-coupled from the interface port so as to interrupt electrical connectivity between the cable and the interface port during operation of the connector when a second tension force above the predetermined threshold level is applied between the cable and the interface port.
US11031728B2
The present disclosure presents an electrical connector comprising a wire coupling portion, the wire coupling portion including a generally flat, plateau portion wherein the plateau portion includes a trough. The electrical connector wherein the trough is generally semi-cylindrical. The electrical connector further comprises an overlap portion that is positioned generally parallel to the plateau portion. The electrical connector wherein the overlap portion is positioned generally adjacent to an open side of the trough. The electrical connector further comprising an electrical device coupling portion at an end of the electrical connector opposite to the wire coupling portion.
US11031724B2
An object is to provide a technique by which a space in a vehicle in which a wire harness including a plurality of splice circuits is arranged can be reduced and good manufacturability at the time of manufacture can be achieved. A stacked connector is formed by joining a plurality of split connectors to each other. The split connectors each include a split connector housing provided with a plurality of terminal receiving chambers and a plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires that each include a terminal received in the terminal receiving chamber and an electric wire to which the terminal is connected. At least one of the split connector housings is provided with a locking portion having a protruding shape that protrudes outward to be capable of locking the terminal-equipped electric wire received in the split connector housing of a joining counterpart.
US11031723B2
Disclosed are apparatuses including a cable header block with apertures for floating inserts and a cover plate. The cable header block includes an aperture pattern that matches a pattern of connector terminals. The floating inserts fit in the apertures of the cable header block. The cover plate can also include a through-hole pattern that matches the aperture pattern. Also, each of the through-holes can include a first geometric shape larger than a cross-section of a cable terminal end and a second geometric shape adjacent to the first shape that is smaller than the cross-section of the cable terminal end. The cover plate retains the floating inserts within the apertures. Also, the cover plate aligns the first geometric shape over the floating inserts when the fastener is in a first position and aligns the second geometric shape over the floating inserts when the fastener is in a second position.
US11031718B2
It is aimed to prevent improper deformation of a locking lance. A connector (1) includes a housing (10) having an insertion space (11), an terminal module (27) insertable into the insertion space (11), a locking lance (16) formed in the housing (10) such that an outer surface (17S) is exposed to outside of the housing (10) and configured to be resiliently deformed toward the outer surface (17S) in the process of inserting the terminal module (27) into the insertion space (1) and resiliently return to retain the terminal module (27) when the terminal module (27) is properly inserted, and restricting portions (23) formed on the locking lance (16) and configured to restrict a displacement of the locking lance (16) toward the insertion space (11) by being locked to the housing (10).
US11031717B2
The disclosure includes a housing including a first plate, a second plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the first and second plates, a printed circuit board disposed in the space and including an opening, a first conductive structure disposed in the space, a second conductive structure disposed in the space, and a flexible conductive member located between the first and second conductive structures through the opening to construct an electrical path between the first and second conductive structures. The flexible conductive member may include a base, a first flexible portion having a first height from the base, protruding from the base toward the first plate, and in contact with the first conductive structure, and a second flexible portion having a second height from the base, protruding from the base toward the second plate, and in contact with the second conductive structure.
US11031713B2
A spring probe connector, a device and an assembly for interfacing a daughter card with a backplane. The spring probe connector includes a hollow barrel that defines a first opening and a second opening. The spring probe connector includes a plunger that is received by the first opening. The plunger includes a contact tip that protrudes from the first opening and makes electrical contact with the backplane. The spring probe connector includes one or more springs positioned within the hollow barrel and applies a load onto the plunger. The spring connector includes a contact end that protrudes from the second opening and connects with the printed circuit board of the modular connector assembly.
US11031696B2
An antenna-in-package system and a mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes a screen, a back covering, connected to, and fitting with the screen to form a receiving space, and a main board interposed between the screen and the back cover. The antenna-in-package system includes a substrate provided between the screen and the back cover, a metal antenna provided on a side of the substrate facing away from the main board. The metal antenna includes a first antenna and a second antenna that are stacked, and the first antenna is provided on a side of the second antenna facing away from the main board. A beam of the first antenna covers a space of Y>0, and a beam of the second antenna covers a space of Z>0.
US11031695B2
A loop antenna includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure. The PCB includes a first surface and a second surface relative to the first surface, and the PCB includes a clear region and a ground region, wherein the clear region is adjacent to the ground region. The first antenna structure is disposed in the clear region at the first surface. The first antenna structure includes a feed structure and a first ground end. The feed structure is coupled to a power feed end which is disposed in the ground region. The first ground end is coupled to the ground region. The second antenna structure is disposed relative to the first antenna structure at the second surface. The second antenna structure includes a second ground end. The second ground end is coupled to the ground region.
US11031694B2
In an antenna, the outer conductor is formed of a first linear conductor, the first linear conductor having a length corresponding to one wavelength of a right-handed circularly polarized wave and circularly extended from a first feed point to a second feed point. The inner conductor is disposed inside the outer conductor and formed of a second linear conductor, the second linear conductor being different from the first linear conductor and having a length determined based on one wavelength of a left-handed circularly polarized wave. The inner conductor has a starting point of the second linear conductor connected to the first feed point and has an end point of the second linear conductor kept free from connection at a location inside the outer conductor, and causes current to flow in a direction opposite to the current flow in the outer conductor.
US11031691B1
The present invention relates to an anchor point for e.g. lifting and/or lashing down an object. The anchor point comprises a base, which is configured for fixing to the object such that it is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The anchor point also comprises a retainer bracket held on two bearing points on the base such that it is tiltable about a tilt axis relative to the base. In order to prevent the retainer bracket from getting stuck when a force is applied thereto, which may lead to a sudden and jerky turnover of the retainer bracket or even to fracturing of the anchor point and crashing of the load, the tilt axis is movable relative to the base according to the present invention. Preferably, a motion link, for example, is provided on at least one bearing point.
US11031683B2
A rearview mirror assembly includes a main housing defining an interior surface, an interior cavity at least partially bounded by the interior surface, and an open side. The assembly further includes a control module coupled within the interior of the main housing, a mirror coupled over the open side of the main housing, and an antenna electrically coupled with the control module and positioned within the interior cavity of the main housing.
US11031677B2
A multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the multifunction wireless device including an upper body and a lower body, the upper body and the lower body being adapted to move relative to each other in at least one of a clamshell, a slide, and a twist manner. The multifunction wireless device further includes an antenna system disposed within at least one of the upper body and the lower body and having a shape with a level of complexity of an antenna contour defined by complexity factors F21 having a value of at least 1.05 and not greater than 1.80 and F 32 having a value of at least 1.10 and not greater than 1.90.
US11031675B2
An antenna module includes a connection member including at least one wiring layer and at least one insulating layer; an integrated circuit (IC) disposed on a first surface of the connection member and electrically connected to at least one wiring layer; and an antenna package disposed on a second surface of the connection member, and including a dielectric layer, a plurality of antenna members, and a plurality of feed vias, wherein the antenna package further includes a chip antenna including a dielectric body and first and second electrodes, respectively disposed on first and second surfaces of the dielectric body, wherein the chip antenna is disposed to be spaced apart from the plurality of feed vias within the dielectric layer so that at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode is electrically connected to a corresponding wire of the at least one wiring layer.
US11031663B2
A ceramic resonator radio frequency filter includes a printed circuit board, one or more first coaxial resonators disposed on the printed circuit board, and one or more second coaxial resonators disposed over the one or more first coaxial resonators so that the one or more first coaxial resonators and one or more second coaxial resonators are arranged in a stacked configuration. The one or more first coaxial resonators and second coaxial resonators electrically connected to the printed circuit board.
US11031659B2
Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a base plate; a plurality of battery cells disposed on the base plate; a plurality of sockets electrically connected to electrode leads of the battery cells; and a plurality of connecting bars configured to be inserted into a part of the plurality of sockets to allow the plurality of battery cells to be connected in a serial pattern or a combined serial and parallel pattern.
US11031656B2
The present disclosure relates to an invention directed to a composite separator having a porous coating layer, where the porous coating layer is prepared from a slurry by adjusting a particle diameter of an inorganic matter that is an ingredient of the slurry, so that a sinking rate of the inorganic particles may remarkably slow down and dispersibility may be dramatically improved, and as a result, the content of the inorganic particles may relatively increase and the inorganic particles may be uniformly distributed in the coating layer on a substrate, thereby preventing a reduction in battery performance.
US11031654B2
Disclosed in present invention are a high-wettability separator and a preparation method therefor. The separator comprises an ethylene copolymer, a grafting polyolefin, an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene having a molecular weight ranging from 1.0×106 to 10.0×106, and a high-density polyethylene having a density ranging from 0.940 g/cm3 to 0.976 g/cm3, the content of the ethylene copolymer is 1-5 parts by weight, and the content of the grafting polyolefin is 0-5 parts by weight, on the basis that the total weight of the ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene and the high-density polyethylene is 100 parts. The separator has a contact angle with lithium ion battery electrolyte of 20° to 40°.
US11031651B2
A battery pack and a method of assembling a battery pack. The battery pack may include an outer housing; a cell module supportable by the outer housing, the cell module including a module housing, a plurality of battery cells supported by the module housing, the battery cells having an energy of at least about 60 Watt-hours, a controller operable to control an operation of the battery pack, a conductive strap electrically connected to at least one of the battery cells, a weld strap connected between the controller and the conductive strap, and a terminal electrically connected to the battery cells and operable to connect the battery cells to an electrical device for power transfer; and a vapor-deposited, hydrophobic nano coating applied to at least a portion of the cell module.
US11031650B2
A battery module includes: a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; and a bus bar to which electrode leads provided at the respective plurality of battery cells are coupled, wherein the bus bar presses the electrode leads so that the bus bar and the electrode leads are electrically connected.
US11031638B2
The present disclosure relates to an algorithm for controlling an output specification of a charger according to a battery usage pattern, more particularly, to an algorithm for analyzing a usage pattern of a battery built in a user's system through a self-analysis and controlling a battery charging scheme suitable for the analyzed pattern, thereby extending the service life of the battery.
US11031636B2
An electronic device includes a housing having a mounting portion to which a battery is mountable; and the battery mounted to the mounting portion, wherein the battery includes: a battery pouch comprising at least one conductive terminal exposed to the outside; a circuit board electrically connected to the exposed at least one conductive terminal and having at least one circuit element mounted thereon to electrically protect the battery pouch; a case including a first plate and a lateral plate extended to be bent from the first plate, wherein the circuit board is disposed in a space surrounded by the first plate and the lateral plate, and the first plate protrudes further than the accommodated circuit board in an opposite direction of a lateral wall of the battery pouch.
US11031631B2
A semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same is disclosed. The structure incudes a silicon substrate having at least one trench disposed therein. An electrical and ionic insulating layer is disposed over at least a top surface of the substrate. A plurality of energy storage device layers is formed within the one trench. The plurality of layers includes at least a cathode-based active electrode having a thickness of, for example, at least 100 nm and an internal resistance of, for example, less than 50 Ohms/cm2. The method includes forming at least one trench in a silicon substrate. An electrical and ionic insulating layer(s) is formed and disposed over at least a top surface of the silicon substrate. A plurality of energy storage device layers is formed within the trench. Each layer of the plurality of energy storage device layers is independently processed and integrated into the trench.
US11031630B2
The present application provides an electrolyte and an electrochemical device. The electrolyte according to the present application comprises a carboxylate, a barbituric acid compound and a nitrile compound. Adding a barbituric acid compound and a nitrile compound of particular structure to an electrolyte containing a carboxylate solvent can significantly improve the rate performance of an electrochemical device, and mitigate capacity loss after storage at room temperature, and cycle fading and gas generation at high-temperature of the electrochemical device.
US11031627B2
Provided are an additive for an electrolyte for a lithium battery, an electrolyte for a lithium battery, the electrolyte including the additive, and a lithium battery using the electrolyte. The additive includes a compound represented by Formula 1: [P4O10]x.[B(OSiR1R2R3)3]y Formula 1 wherein R1, R2, R3, and the molar ratio of x to y (x/y) are as defined in the specification. By adding the compound to the electrolyte, the lifetime characteristics of the lithium battery at high temperature may be improved.
US11031625B2
The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery including a pyridine-boron-based compound as an additive and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and particularly, to a non-aqueous electrolyte including at least two types of lithium salts and a pyridine-boron-based compound and a lithium secondary battery which has an enhanced effect of suppressing an increase in resistance and generation of gas after being stored at high temperature by including both the non-aqueous electrolyte and a negative electrode including lithium titanium oxide (LTO) as a negative electrode active material.
US11031620B1
An osmotic energy conversion system includes a housing having a first inlet and a second inlet, an MXene lamellar membrane located inside the housing and configured to divide the housing into a first chamber and a second chamber, and first and second electrodes placed in the first and second chambers, respectively, and configured to collect electrical energy generated by a salinity-gradient formed by first and second liquids across the MXene lamellar membrane. The first chamber is configured to receive the first liquid at the first inlet and the second chamber is configured to receive the second liquid at the second inlet. The first liquid has a salinity lower than the second liquid, and the MXene lamellar membrane includes plural nanosheets of MXene stacked on top of each other.
US11031615B2
A method of operating a fuel cell stack is described. The fuel cell stack includes a cathode, an anode, a sump configured for collecting water from the anode, and a temporarily disabled drain valve that is otherwise configured to transition from a first position to a second position and thereby modulate water drained from the sump. The method includes increasing a first pressure in the anode via a controller. The method also includes, concurrent to increasing, decreasing a second pressure in the cathode via the controller and, concurrent to decreasing, maintaining a relative humidity of less than a threshold relative humidity in the cathode via the controller.
US11031612B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell system comprising a shut-off element arranged in each case in a supply path and exhaust path of the anode and/or cathode supply, and comprising a gas connection arranged in each case between a shut-off element and a fuel cell stack for connecting to an external test gas supply. The gas connections allow diagnosis and/or maintenance of the fuel cell stack in the installed state.
US11031610B2
A fuel cell stack includes a stack body formed by stacking a plurality of power generation cells. A first seal line of a first metal separator and a second seal line of a second metal separator protrude in a stacking direction of the stack body in a manner to contact a resin film. An insulator is provided with a first elastic seal member which contacts a second end seal line. The width of the first elastic seal member is larger than the maximum width of the second end seal line.
US11031606B2
An electrochemical cell includes an air electrode in flow communication with a storage tank containing an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide, a lithium electrode, a catalyst layer in contact with the air electrode or a gas diffusion layer associated with the air electrode, and a separator layer in contact with the lithium electrode and catalyst layer. The catalyst layer includes a catalyst for two electron reversible oxygen reduction. The catalyst comprises gold, and a cobalt coordination complex or polymer thereof. The cobalt coordination complex comprises a cobalt ion chelated by a tetradentate organic chelating ligand.
US11031604B2
Catalyst and electrode catalyst layer, membrane electrode assembly, and fuel cell using the catalyst
Provided is a catalyst having excellent gas transportability. Disclosed is a catalyst comprising a catalyst support and a catalyst metal supported on the catalyst support, wherein the catalyst includes pores having a radius of less than 1 nm and pores having a radius of 1 nm or more, wherein a pore volume of the pores having a radius of less than 1 nm is 0.3 cc/g support or more or a mode radius of a pore distribution of the pores having a radius of less than 1 nm is 0.3 nm or more and less than 1 nm, and wherein the catalyst metal is supported inside the pores having a radius of 1 nm or more.
US11031597B2
A negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery contains graphitic particles of which a standard deviation of circularity at a cumulative frequency ranging from 10% by particle to 90% by particle from the lower circularity, determined by a flow-type particle analyzer, is from 0.05 to 0.1.
US11031595B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a positive electrode active material in which a lithium cobalt oxide is doped with a doping element including a metallic element and a halide element, wherein the positive electrode active material is represented by Formula 1 and satisfies Equation 1, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery, either of which include the positive electrode active material: Li(Co1-x-y-zM1xM2yM3z)O2-aHa [Formula 1] (2x+3y+4z−a)/(x+y+z+a)<2.5. [Equation 1]
US11031586B2
Methods for manufacturing sulfur electrodes include providing an electrode, wherein the electrode includes a current collector having a first surface, and a sulfur-based host material applied to the first surface of the current collector, wherein the sulfur-based host material comprises one or more sulfur compounds, one or more electrically conductive carbon materials, and one or more binders. The methods further include forming a plurality of channels within the sulfur-based host material using a laser or electron beam, wherein the plurality of channels define a plurality of host material columns, each column having one or more exterior surfaces contiguous which one or more of the channels which extend outward from the first surface of the current collector. Each of the one or more exterior surfaces can define a heat affected zone comprising a higher concentration of sulfur than the host material column prior to forming the plurality of channels.
US11031581B1
A process of sputter deposition of both a cathode material and an anode material from a single target source. The process includes the steps of deposition sputtering on a porous substrate from a lithiated metal oxide target source to produce an anode. In addition, deposition sputtering on a porous substrate from the same lithiated metal oxide target source is utilized to produce a cathode. A nanostructured battery may be produced having a metal oxide anode and a lithiated metal oxide cathode, wherein the anode and the cathode are generated from a single target source.
US11031578B2
The present disclosure discloses a display substrate and a manufacturing thereof. The display substrate comprises a base substrate, a pixel defining layer formed on the base substrate, wherein the pixel defining layer is provided with an opening region comprising a bottom wall and at least one sidewall, wherein in the opening region, an edge of the bottom wall is provided with at least one hydrophilic inducing column, wherein at least one of the hydrophilic inducing column has a hydrophilic surface.
US11031577B1
A multimodal light-emitting OLED microcavity device, comprising: an opaque substrate; a layer with a reflective surface over the substrate; a first electrode over the reflective surface; organic layers for light-emission including a second blue light-emitting layer closer to the reflective surface and a first blue light-emitting layer further from the reflective layer than the second blue light-emitting layer, where the distance between the midpoints of the second and first blue-light emitting layers is L1, and at least one non-blue light-emitting layer; a semi-transparent second electrode with an innermost surface through which light is emitted; wherein the distance L0 between the reflective surface and the innermost surface of the semi-transparent second electrode is constant over the entire light-emitting area; and the ratio L1/L0 is in the range of 0.30-0.40. The multimodal microcavity OLED has increased blue emission and is particularly useful for use as the light source in a microdisplay.
US11031565B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing a display device are provided. A manufacturing method of a display device includes: forming a display module including a first area defined therein, the display module including a display panel including a lower surface and an upper surface opposite the lower surface, a first film under the lower surface of the display panel, a second film on the upper surface of the display panel, and an adhesive layer between the lower surface of the display panel and the first film; and irradiating a laser beam in an upper direction extending from the lower surface of the display panel to the upper surface of the display panel to cut the first film and the adhesive layer along an edge of the first area, the laser beam provided to the display panel having a laser power equal to or less than about 1 W.
US11031550B2
A memory cell includes a selection transistor having a control gate and a first conduction terminal connected to a variable-resistance element. The memory cell is formed in a wafer comprising a semiconductor substrate covered with a first insulating layer, the insulating layer being covered with an active layer made of a semiconductor. The gate is formed on the active layer and has a lateral flank covered with a second insulating layer. The variable-resistance element includes a first layer covering a lateral flank of the active layer in a trench formed through the active layer along the lateral flank of the gate and reaching the first insulating layer, and a second layer made of a variable-resistance material.
US11031544B2
In some embodiments, the present application provides a memory device. The memory device includes a ferromagnetic free layer; a non-magnetic barrier layer overlying the ferromagnetic free layer; and a superparamagnetic free layer overlying the non-magnetic barrier layer.
US11031538B2
An actuator device includes: an actuator including a first contact; and a wire member including a second contact connected to the first contact with a conductive adhesive including a conductive particle. One of the first contact and the second contact is a particular contact. The other of the first contact and the second contact is a specific contact. At least two protrusions and at least one recess are formed on and in the particular contact. The at least two protrusions are arranged in a first direction. The at least one recess is interposed between the at least two protrusions. The particular contact is joined to the specific contact with the conductive adhesive provided in the at least one recess, in a state in which each of the at least two protrusions is in contact with the specific contact.
US11031536B2
A cooling system for thermally conditioning a component which includes a battery and a heat spreader supporting the battery. Multiple thermoelectric devices are bonded to the heat spreader, for example, using solder or braze, which provides improved heat transfer. A cold plate assembly operatively thermally engages the thermoelectric devices.
US11031527B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) chip with reflective layers having high reflectivity. The LED chip may include an active LED structure including an active layer between an n-type layer and a p-type layer. A first reflective layer is adjacent the active LED structure and comprises a plurality of dielectric layers with varying optical thicknesses. The plurality of dielectric layers may include a plurality of first dielectric layers and a plurality of second dielectric layers of varying thicknesses and compositions. The LED chip may further include a second reflective layer that includes an electrically conductive path through the first reflective layer.
US11031524B2
An optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the optoelectronic component includes a layer structure having an active zone for producing electromagnetic radiation, wherein the active zone is arranged in a first plane, wherein a recess is introduced into the surface of the layer structure, wherein the recess adjoins an end surface of the component, wherein the end surface is arranged in a second plane, wherein the second plane is arranged substantially perpendicularly to the first plane, wherein the recess has a bottom surface and a lateral surface wherein the lateral surface is arranged substantially perpendicularly to the end surface, wherein the lateral surface is arranged tilted at an angle not equal to 90° to the first plane of the active zone, and wherein the bottom surface is arranged in the region of the first plane of the active zone.
US11031522B2
An optical semiconductor element comprises: an AlN substrate; an n-type semiconductor layer composed of an AlGaN layer, the AlGaN layer being grown on the AlN substrate and being pseudomorphic with the AlN substrate, an Al composition or the AlGaN layer being reduced with an increase in distance from the AlN substrate; an active layer which is grown on the n-type semiconductor layer; and a p-type semiconductor layer which is grown on the active layer.
US11031521B2
The present invention provides a transparent conductive thin film which is flexible for suiting substantially all kinds of electronic and optoelectronic devices or display panel. The present conductive thin film includes at least one transparent substrate formed by thermally curable or photo-curable polyermic resin layer, and a conductive network pattern having a high aspect ratio such that at least one surface of the conductive network being exposed out of the deformable layer or the transparent substrate for contacting with an external structure while a large proportion thereof stays firmly integrated into the substrate. The present invention also relates to methods of fabricating a transparent conductive thin film including the structural features of the transparent conductive thin film of the present invention. Various optimizations of the present methods are also provided in the present invention for facilitating large area thin film fabrication and large scale production.
US11031516B2
There is provided a photoelectric conversion element which can prevent the contact resistance between a non-crystalline semiconductor layer containing impurities and an electrode formed on the non-crystalline semiconductor layer from increasing, and can improve the element characteristics. A photoelectric conversion element (10) includes a semiconductor substrate (12), a first semiconductor layer (20n), a second semiconductor layer (20p), a first electrode (22n), and a second electrode (22p). The first semiconductor layer has a first conductive type. The second semiconductor layer has a second conductive type. The first electrode is formed on the first semiconductor layer. The second electrode is formed on the second semiconductor layer. The first electrode includes a first transparent conductive layer (26n) formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a first metal layer (28n) formed on the first transparent conductive layer. The first metal layer includes a plurality of metal crystal grains in which the average crystal grain size in the in-surface direction of the first metal layer is greater than the thickness of the first metal layer.
US11031504B2
A vacuum channel transistor having a vertical gate-all-around (GAA) architecture provides high performance for high-frequency applications, and features a small footprint compared with existing planar devices. The GAA vacuum channel transistor features stacked, tapered source and drain regions that are formed by notching a doped silicon pillar using a lateral oxidation process. A temporary support structure is provided for the pillar during formation of the vacuum channel. Performance of the GAA vacuum channel transistor can be tuned by replacing air in the channel with other gases such as helium, neon, or argon. A threshold voltage of the GAA vacuum channel transistor can be adjusted by altering dopant concentrations of the silicon pillar from which the source and drain regions are formed.
US11031501B2
A first FinFET device includes first fin structures that extend in a first direction in a top view. A second FinFET device includes second fin structures that extend in the first direction in the top view. The first FinFET device and the second FinFET device are different types of FinFET devices. A plurality of gate structures extend in a second direction in the top view. The second direction is different from the first direction. Each of the gate structures partially wraps around the first fin structures and the second fin structures. A dielectric structure is disposed between the first FinFET device and the second FinFET device. The dielectric structure cuts each of the gate structures into a first segment for the first FinFET device and a second segment for the second FinFET device. The dielectric structure is located closer to the first FinFET device than to the second FinFET device.
US11031499B2
An apparatus including a transistor device including a channel disposed on a substrate between a source and a drain, a gate electrode disposed on the channel, wherein the channel includes a length dimension between source and drain that is greater than a length dimension of the gate electrode such that there is a passivated underlap between an edge of the gate electrode and an edge of the channel relative to each of the source and the drain. A method including forming a channel of a transistor device on a substrate; forming first and second passivation layers on a surface of substrate on opposite sides of the channel; forming a gate stack on the channel between first and second passivation layers; and forming a source on the substrate between the channel and the first passivation layer and a drain on the substrate between the channel and the second passivation layer.
US11031490B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a sacrificial layer on sidewalls of gate spacers disposed over a semiconductor layer, forming a first hafnium-containing gate dielectric layer over the semiconductor layer in a first trench disposed between the gate spacers, removing the sacrificial layer to form a second trench between the gate spacers and the first hafnium-containing gate dielectric layer, forming a second hafnium-containing gate dielectric layer over the first hafnium-containing gate dielectric layer and on the sidewalls of the gate spacers, annealing the first and the second hafnium-containing gate dielectric layers while simultaneously applying an electric field, and subsequently forming a gate electrode over the annealed first and second hafnium-containing gate dielectric layers.
US11031488B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a transistor over a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric structure over the substrate and covering the transistor. The semiconductor device structure includes a contact structure passing through the dielectric structure and electrically connected to the transistor. The contact structure includes a contact layer, a first barrier layer, and a second barrier layer, the first barrier layer surrounds the contact layer, the second barrier layer surrounds a first upper portion of the first barrier layer, a first lower portion of the first barrier layer is in direct contact with the dielectric structure, and a thickness of the first lower portion increases toward the substrate.
US11031486B2
A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing are provided. In an embodiment a first nucleation layer is formed within an opening for a gate-last process. The first nucleation layer is treated in order to remove undesired oxygen by exposing the first nucleation layer to a precursor that reacts with the oxygen to form a gas. A second nucleation layer is then formed, and a remainder of the opening is filled with a bulk conductive material.
US11031483B2
A method includes providing a first layer of epitaxial silicon carbide supported by a silicon carbide substrate, providing a second layer of epitaxial silicon carbide on the first layer, forming a plurality of semiconductor devices in the second layer, and separating the substrate from the second layer at the first layer. The first layer includes a plurality of voids.
US11031481B2
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a gate structure is formed over a channel layer and an isolation insulating layer. A first sidewall spacer layer is formed on a side surface of the gate structure. A sacrificial layer is formed so that an upper portion of the gate structure with the first sidewall spacer layer is exposed from the sacrificial layer and a bottom portion of the gate structure with the first sidewall spacer layer is embedded in the first sacrificial layer. A space is formed between the bottom portion of the gate structure and the sacrificial layer by removing at least part of the first sidewall spacer layer. After the first sidewall spacer layer is removed, an air gap is formed between the bottom portion of the gate structure and the sacrificial layer by forming a second sidewall spacer layer over the gate structure.
US11031477B2
A first dummy gate and a second dummy gate are formed on a substrate with a gap between the first and second dummy gates. The first dummy gate has a first sidewall. The second dummy gate has a second sidewall directly facing the first sidewall. A first sidewall spacer is disposed on the first sidewall. A second sidewall spacer is disposed on the second sidewall. A contact etch stop layer is deposited on the first and second dummy gates and on the first and second sidewall spacers. The contact etch stop layer is subjected to a tilt-angle plasma etching process to trim a corner portion of the contact etch stop layer. An inter-layer dielectric layer is then deposited on the contact etch stop layer and into the gap.
US11031476B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a silicon oxide layer, a titanium nitride layer, a metal layer, and a first silicon nitride layer. At least one trench is recessed inward from a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The silicon oxide layer is formed on an inner wall of the at least one trench. The titanium nitride layer is formed on a portion of the silicon oxide layer away from the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The metal layer is filled in a portion of each of the at least one trench. The metal layer is selectively deposited on the titanium nitride layer and comprises a material selected from ruthenium and cobalt. The first silicon nitride layer is filled in a remaining portion of each of the at least one trench to contact the metal layer, and is surrounded by the silicon oxide layer.
US11031473B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor wafer having a first main side surface and a second main side surface. The semiconductor wafer includes a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type and a plurality of columnar or plate-shaped first semiconductor regions extending in the first semiconductor layer between the first main side surface and the second main side surface in a vertical direction perpendicular to the first main side surface and the second main side surface. The first semiconductor regions have a second conductivity type, which is different from the first conductivity type. Therein, the first semiconductor is a layer of hexagonal silicon carbide. The first semiconductor regions are regions of 3C polytype silicon carbide.
US11031461B2
An embodiment relates to a device comprising SiC, the device having a p-shield region that is outside a junction gate field-effect transistor region, wherein a doping concentration in a p-well region within a MOSFET channel is non-uniform. Another embodiment relates to a device comprising SiC, the device having a p-shield region, wherein a doping concentration in a p-well region within a MOSFET channel is non-uniform, wherein at least a portion of the p-shield region is located within the p-well region.
US11031458B2
A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The MIM capacitor structure includes a substrate, and the substrate includes a capacitor region and a non-capacitor region. The MIM capacitor structure includes a first electrode layer formed over the substrate, and a first spacer formed on a sidewall of the first electrode layer. The MIM capacitor structure includes a first dielectric layer formed on the first spacers, and a second electrode layer formed on the first dielectric layer. The second electrode layer extends from the capacitor region to the non-capacitor region, and the second electrode layer extends beyond an outer sidewall of the first spacer.
US11031454B2
Provided is an electronic device including a display panel including a base substrate, pixels, a first insulation layer, and panel pads spaced along a first direction from pixels and each arranged along a second direction crossing the first direction, a circuit board disposed on the display panel and connected to panel pads, and an adhesive interconnect layer disposed between the display panel and the circuit board and electrically connecting the display panel and the circuit board. The circuit board includes a flexible substrate including a top surface facing the base substrate, output pads disposed on the flexible substrate and connected to panel pads, each obliquely extending in the first and second directions and arranged along the second direction, an alignment pad spaced along the second direction from output pads, and a stress relaxation pad disposed between output pads and alignment pads and electrically connected from panel pads.
US11031453B2
A flexible display apparatus includes a panel that includes a display area that displays images and a fan-out portion in which a plurality of wirings connected to the display area are located, and a driving chip connected to the fan-out portion and connected to the display area via the plurality of wirings. The plurality of wirings arranged in the fan-out portion may include first wirings at a first layer on the panel and second wirings at a second layer that is different from the first layer. The first wirings and the second wirings may be in an overlapping relationship above and below each other.
US11031439B2
A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is positioned to the electrode having a reflective property, the shorter the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.
US11031437B2
A display substrate and a fabrication method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes pixels. Each of the pixels includes sub-pixels that emit light of different colors, each of the sub-pixels includes a light emitting element, and at least one of the sub-pixels further includes a color filter. The color filter of the at least one of the sub-pixels covers a portion of a light emitting region of the light emitting element of the at least one of the sub-pixels, and a color of the color filter of the at least one of the sub-pixels is the same as a color of light emitted by the light emitting element of the at least one of the sub-pixels.
US11031429B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, a solid-state image pickup element, an image pickup device, and an electronic apparatus that are enabled to reduce restrictions on materials and restrictions on device configuration. A CSP imager and a mounting substrate are connected together with a connection portion other than a solder ball. With such a configuration, restrictions on materials and restrictions on device configuration are reduced, which has conventionally occurred because it is limited to a configuration in which solder balls are used for connection. The present disclosure can be applied to image pickup devices.
US11031422B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging element that is a wafer-level chip size package, that includes an optical sensor chip, a protective layer that is stacked on a light receiving surface of the optical sensor chip, and a rewiring layer that is stacked on a surface opposite to the light receiving surface of the optical sensor chip, in which a connection terminal of the rewiring layer is a copper flat pad without a solder ball, an alloy layer of tin and copper is not formed on a front surface of the flat pad, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the protective layer is substantially balanced with a thermal expansion coefficient of the rewiring layer.
US11031417B2
A method used in forming an array of elevationally-extending transistors comprises forming vertically-alternating tiers of insulating material and void space. Such method includes forming (a) individual longitudinally-aligned channel openings extending elevationally through the insulating-material tiers, and (b) horizontally-elongated trenches extending elevationally through the insulating-material tiers. The void-space tiers are filled with conductive material by flowing the conductive material or one or more precursors thereof through at least one of (a) and (b) to into the void-space tiers. After the filling, transistor channel material is formed in the individual channel openings along the insulating-material tiers and along the conductive material in the filled void-space tiers.
US11031405B2
Various embodiments comprise methods and related apparatuses formed from those methods for placing at least portions of peripheral circuits under a DRAM memory array, where the peripheral circuits are used to control an operation of the DRAM memory array. In an embodiment, a memory apparatus includes a DRAM memory array and at least one peripheral circuit formed under the DRAM memory array, where the at least one peripheral circuit includes at least one circuit type selected from sense amplifiers and sub-word line drivers. Additional apparatuses and methods are also disclosed.
US11031403B2
A semiconductor device that can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The first transistor includes an oxide over a first insulator, a second insulator over the oxide, a first conductor over the second insulator, a third insulator over the first conductor, a fourth insulator in contact with the second insulator, the first conductor, and the third insulator, and a fifth insulator in contact with the fourth insulator. The second transistor includes an oxide over the first insulator, a sixth insulator over the oxide, a second conductor over the sixth insulator, a seventh insulator over the second conductor, an eighth insulator in contact with the sixth insulator, the second conductor, and the seventh insulator, and a ninth insulator in contact with the eighth insulator. The first capacitor includes an oxide, a tenth insulator over the oxide, and a third conductor over the tenth insulator. The second capacitor includes an oxide, an eleventh insulator over the oxide, and a fourth conductor over the eleventh insulator.
US11031400B2
Integrated memory comprising secondary access devices between digit lines and primary access devices
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a primary access transistor. The primary access transistor has a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region. The first and second source/drain regions are coupled to one another when the primary access transistor is in an ON mode, and are not coupled to one another when the primary access transistor is in an OFF mode. A charge-storage device is coupled with the first source/drain region. A digit line is coupled with the second source/drain region through a secondary access device. The secondary access device has an ON mode and an OFF mode. The digit line is coupled with the charge-storage device only when both the primary access transistor and the secondary access device are in their respective ON modes.
US11031382B2
An electronic device includes: a first insulation layer and a first conductive pillar. The first insulation layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the first conductive pillar comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the first conductive pillar is surrounded by the first insulation layer. The second portion of the first conductive pillar is disposed on the first surface of the first insulation layer. A height of the second portion of the first conductive pillar is equal to or greater than 10% of a height of the first portion of the conductive pillar.
US11031381B2
An optical transceiver including a photonic integrated circuit component, an electric integrated circuit component and an insulating encapsulant is provided. The photonic integrated circuit component includes at least one optical input/output portion and at least one groove located in proximity of the at least one optical input/output portion. The electric integrated circuit component is disposed on and electrically connected to the photonic integrated circuit component. The insulating encapsulant is disposed on the photonic integrated circuit component and laterally encapsulating the electric integrated circuit component. The at least one groove of the photonic integrated circuit component is revealed by the insulating encapsulant and is adapted for insertion of a photonic device.
US11031376B2
A chip package including a first semiconductor die, conductive pillars, a dielectric structure, a second semiconductor die and insulating encapsulant is provided. The first semiconductor die includes a top surface having a first region and a second region. The conductive pillars are disposed over the second region of the first semiconductor die. The dielectric structure includes a first support portion disposed on the first region of the semiconductor die, and a second support portion physically separated from the first semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die is stacked over the first support portion and the second support portion, and is electrically connected to the first semiconductor die through the conductive pillars. The insulating encapsulant encapsulates the first semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die, the dielectric structure and the conductive pillars.
US11031370B2
A semiconductor device structure and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that comprises ordering and performing processing steps in a manner that prevents warpage deformation from occurring to a wafer and/or die due to mismatching thermal coefficients.
US11031366B2
An electronic component package includes a substrate and an electronic component mounted to the substrate, the electronic component including a bond pad. A first antenna terminal is electrically connected to the bond pad, the first antenna terminal being electrically connected to a second antenna terminal of the substrate. A package body encloses the electronic component, the package body having a principal surface. An antenna is formed on the principal surface by applying an electrically conductive coating. An embedded interconnect extends through the package body between the substrate and the principal surface and electrically connects the second antenna terminal to the antenna. Applying an electrically conductive coating to form the antenna is relatively simple thus minimizing the overall package manufacturing cost. Further, the antenna is relatively thin thus minimizing the overall package size.
US11031355B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate having a main surface, a semiconductor element, a case member, and a sealing resin as a sealing material. The case member includes a recess that is continuous with a connection portion of the case member connected to the insulating substrate, and that faces the internal region. The recess includes a facing surface as an inner wall portion facing the main surface of the insulating substrate. A distance from the main surface of the insulating substrate to the facing surface as the inner wall portion is greater than a distance from the main surface to an upper surface of the semiconductor element.
US11031346B2
An advanced security method for verifying that integrated circuit patterns being processed into one or more layers provided to a wafer are trusted patterns and that the wafer being used during processing is a trusted wafer is provided. The method includes separate steps of pattern verification and wafer verification. Notably, the method includes first verifying that a pattern printed on a wafer matches a pattern of a trusted reference. Next, a peak and valley profile present at a specific location on a backside surface of the wafer is measured. The method further includes second verify that the measured peak and valley profile matches an original peak and valley profile measured at the same location on the backside surface of the wafer.
US11031339B2
Interconnect structures and processes of fabricating the interconnect structures generally includes a recessed metal conductor and a discontinuous capping layer thereon. The discontinuous “capped” metal interconnect structure provides improved performance and reliability for the semiconductor industry.
US11031334B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, a first gate structure over a top surface of the substrate, a second gate structure over the top surface of the substrate, a pair of first spacers on each sidewall of the first gate structure, a pair of second spacers on each sidewall of the second gate structure, an insulating layer over at least the first gate structure, a first conductive feature over the active region and a second conductive feature over the substrate. Further, the second gate structure is adjacent to the first gate structure and a top surface of the first conductive feature is coplanar with a top surface of the second conductive feature.
US11031333B2
Embodiments of source structure of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device and method for forming the source structure of the 3D memory device are disclosed. In an example, a NAND memory device includes a substrate, an alternating conductor/dielectric stack, a NAND string, a source conductor layer, and a source contact. The alternating conductor/dielectric stack includes a plurality of conductor/dielectric pairs above the substrate. The NAND string extends vertically through the alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The source conductor layer is above the alternating conductor/dielectric stack and is in contact with an end of the NAND string. The source contact includes an end in contact with the source conductor layer. The NAND string is electrically connected to the source contact by the source conductor layer. In some embodiments, the source conductor layer includes one or more conduction regions each including one or more of a metal, a metal alloy, and a metal silicide.
US11031325B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a redistribution layer including a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature, a first contact feature disposed over and electrically coupled to the first conductive feature, a second contact feature disposed over and electrically coupled to the second conductive feature, and a passivation feature extending from between the first conductive feature and the second conductive feature between the first contact feature and the second contact feature. The passivation feature includes a dielectric feature and a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is disposed on a planar top surface of the dielectric feature and a composition of the dielectric feature is different from a composition of the dielectric layer.
US11031321B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a power transistor formed in the semiconductor substrate, the power transistor including an active area in which one or more power transistor cells are formed, a first metal pad formed above the semiconductor substrate and covering substantially all of the active area of the power transistor, the first metal pad being electrically connected to a source or emitter region in the active area of the power transistor, the first metal pad including an interior region laterally surrounded by a peripheral region, the peripheral region being thicker than the interior region, and a first interconnect plate or a semiconductor die attached to the interior region of the first metal pad by a die attach material. Corresponding methods of manufacture are also described.
US11031311B2
In a described example, a packaged semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor die with a component proximate to a surface of the semiconductor die; the semiconductor die mounted on a substrate. The component is covered with a first polymer layer with a first modulus and at least a portion of the first polymer layer is covered by at least one second polymer layer with a second modulus and the second modulus is greater than the first modulus. The semiconductor die and a portion of the substrate are covered with mold compound.
US11031304B2
To improve a reliability of a semiconductor device, a memory cell array is formed in a product region of an SOI substrate, and a test cell array is formed in a scribe region of the SOI substrate. A plurality of regions is formed in each of the memory cell array and the test cell array. The plurality of regions formed in the test cell array is the same configuration as the plurality of regions formed in the memory cell array. A plurality of plugs is formed in the plurality of regions, respectively. Also, it can determine whether or not a leak path is occurred in the memory cell array, by inspecting whether or not a conduction between the plurality of plugs is confirmed.
US11031303B1
A semiconductor structure can include a high voltage region, a first moat trench isolation structure electrically insulating the high voltage region from low voltage regions of the semiconductor structure, and a second moat trench isolation structure electrically insulating the high voltage region from the low voltage regions of the semiconductor structure. The first moat trench isolation structure can include dielectric sidewall spacers and a conductive fill material portion located between the dielectric sidewall spacers. The second moat trench isolation structure can include only at least one dielectric material, and can include a dielectric moat trench fill structure having a same material composition as the dielectric sidewall spacers and having a lateral thickness that is greater than a lateral thickness of the dielectric sidewall spacers and is less than twice the lateral thickness of the dielectric sidewall spacers.
US11031300B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes: receiving a substrate having a first epitaxy region in a first transistor of a first conductive type and a second epitaxy region in a second transistor of a second conductive type; introducing an agent onto the first epitaxy region and the second epitaxy region, wherein the agent is selectively deposited to the second epitaxy region; selectively depositing a first metal layer on the first epitaxy region; and depositing a second metal layer on the first epitaxy region and the second epitaxy region. A semiconductor structure according to the method is also provided.
US11031298B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: forming a first recess and a second recess in a substrate; growing a first epitaxial material stack in the first recess, the first epitaxial material stack including alternating layers of a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material, the layers of the first epitaxial material stack being undoped; growing a second epitaxial material stack in the second recess, the second epitaxial material stack including alternating layers of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, a first subset of the second epitaxial material stack being undoped, a second subset of the second epitaxial material stack being doped; patterning the first epitaxial material stack and the second epitaxial material stack to respectively form first nanowires and second nanowires; and forming a first gate structure around the first nanowires and a second gate structure around the second nanowires.
US11031293B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a fin extending along a first direction on a semiconductor substrate and forming a sacrificial gate electrode structure extending along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction over the fin. The sacrificial gate electrode structure comprises a sacrificial gate dielectric layer and a sacrificial gate electrode layer disposed over the sacrificial gate dielectric layer. Opposing gate sidewall spacers are formed extending along the second direction, on opposing sides of the sacrificial gate electrode layer. The sacrificial gate electrode layer is removed to form a gate space. Fluorine is implanted into the gate sidewall spacers after removing the gate electrode layer by performing a first fluorine implantation. The sacrificial gate dielectric layer is removed and a high-k gate dielectric layer is formed in the gate space. Fluorine is implanted into the gate sidewall spacers and the fin after forming the high-k gate dielectric layer by performing a second fluorine implantation.
US11031277B2
A processing apparatus includes a holding table. The holding table includes a frustoconical portion and a wafer holding portion formed on the upper surface of the frustoconical portion for holding the wafer. Light is applied from a light emitting member to the side surface of the frustoconical portion and next reflected on the side surface of the frustoconical portion. The light reflected is applied to the outer circumference of the wafer held on the wafer holding portion of the holding table to thereby image the outer circumference of the wafer by an imaging unit.
US11031274B2
A semiconductor device package includes a carrier, a patterned passivation layer and a first patterned conductive layer. The patterned passivation layer is disposed on the carrier. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed on the carrier and surrounded by the patterned passivation layer. The first patterned conductive layer has a first portion and a second portion electrically disconnected from the first portion. The first portion has a first surface adjacent to the carrier and exposed by the patterned passivation layer. The second portion has a first surface adjacent to the carrier exposed by the patterned passivation layer. The first surface of the first portion is in direct contact with an insulation medium.
US11031270B2
A substrate processing apparatus, includes: a substrate holder including at least one support column to which a mounting part on which a substrate is mounted is attached and at least one auxiliary support column to which the mounting part is not attached, wherein the substrate holder is configured such that a diameter of the auxiliary support column is smaller than a diameter of the support column, and wherein the substrate holder is configured such that when the substrate is held by the mounting part, an end portion of the substrate and each of the support column is spaced apart from each other by a predetermined length.
US11031264B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device manufacturing system. The semiconductor device manufacturing system includes a processing module and a transfer module. The processing module includes a processing chamber that is configured to process a semiconductor wafer and a gate valve that is configured to provide access to the processing chamber. The transfer module includes a transfer chamber that is coupled to the processing chamber and a liner that is coupled to an inner surface of the transfer chamber. The liner is configured to reduce a volume of the transfer chamber prior to or during a transfer chamber pressure adjustment operation of the transfer module.
US11031260B2
A hydrogen fluoride vapor phase corrosion method comprises: introducing a prescribed vaporized organic liquid into a reaction chamber after a vapor phase hydrogen fluoride containing water reacts, in the reaction chamber, with a wafer; the prescribed vaporized organic liquid, and the water remaining on a surface of the wafer form an azeotropic mixture; and evaporating or volatilizing the azeotropic mixture from the surface of the wafer to carry it out.
US11031258B2
Semiconductor device packages and associated methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the semiconductor device package includes (1) a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; (2) a semiconductor die positioned between the first and second surfaces; and (3) a pattern positioned in a designated area of the first surface. The pattern includes multiple bit areas. Each of the bit areas represents a first bit information or a second bit information. the pattern presents information for operating the semiconductor die. The pattern is configured to be read by a pattern scanner.
US11031250B2
A semiconductor device and method of formation thereof. The semiconductor device includes a portion of a first material that abuts a portion of a second material and surrounds at least a portion of a semiconductor component. The first material has a first composition and a first index of refraction and is of a same type of material as the second material. The second material has a second composition and a second index of refraction. An opening in the first material exposes a portion of the semiconductor component.
US11031244B2
A method for improving EUV lithographic patterning of SnO2 layers is provided. One method embodiment includes introducing a hydrophobic surface treatment compound into a processing chamber for modifying a surface of an SnO2 layer. The modification increases the hydrophobicity of the SnO2 layer. The method also provides for depositing a photoresist layer on the surface of the SnO2 layer via spin coating. The modification of the surface of the SnO2 layer enhances adhesion of contact between the photoresist and the SnO2 layer during and after spin coating.
US11031239B2
Devices comprising germanium nanosheets are described herein. Methods of forming such germanium nanosheets and devices including such germanium nanosheets are also described.
US11031238B2
In a silicon carbide stacked substrate, the efficiency of converting the basal plane dislocation (BPD) which is a fault to deteriorate the current-carrying reliability into a threading edge dislocation (TED) which is a harmless fault is improved, thereby improving the reliability of the silicon carbide stacked substrate. As means therefor, in a silicon carbide stacked substrate including a SiC substrate and a buffer layer and a drift layer which are epitaxial layers sequentially formed on the SiC substrate, a semiconductor layer having an impurity concentration lower than those of the SiC substrate and the buffer layer and higher than that of the drift layer is formed between the SiC substrate and the buffer layer so as to be in contact with an upper surface of the SiC substrate.
US11031235B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a driving magnet that is disposed correspondingly to a movable pin and that has a predetermined polar direction with respect to a radial direction of a rotary table, a pressing magnet that has a magnetic pole that gives an attractive magnetic force or a repulsive magnetic force between the driving magnet and the pressing magnet and that presses a support portion against a peripheral edge of a substrate by urging the support portion toward a contact position by means of the attractive magnetic force or the repulsive magnetic force, and a pressing-force changing unit that changes a magnitude of a pressing force against the peripheral edge of the substrate pressed by the support portion while keeping the magnitude higher than zero in response to rotation of the rotary table.
US11031229B2
The present disclosure provides a sample desorption ionization device and analysis method for a mass spectrometer. The device has a first gas pressure region and a second gas pressure region lower than the first gas pressure region. The device includes: a heating desorption device, carrying a sample and heating the sample, an analyte in the sample is desorbed from the sample under a heating action and then enters the first gas pressure region; a vacuum interface component, connected with the first gas pressure region and the second gas pressure region, and causing the analyte to enter the second gas pressure region from the first gas pressure region under the drive of a gas flow; and a soft ionization source, converting gas molecules in the second gas pressure region into activated gas molecules, the analyte entering the second gas pressure region realizes soft ionization after interacting with the activated gas molecules.
US11031224B2
An ion guiding device includes ring electrodes with a same size disposed in parallel; wherein a connection line of centers of the ring electrodes is defined as an axis, a normal of a plane where any of the ring electrodes is located and a tangent line of the axis at a center of the ring electrode form an included angle being a range of (0, 90) degrees; a radio-frequency voltage source, for applying an out-phase radio-frequency voltage on a neighboring ring electrode along the axis, so that ions are confined inside the ring electrode during a transmission process; and a direct-current voltage source, applying a direct-current voltage with an amplitude changing along the axis on the ring electrode, so that the ions are transmitted along the axis and focused to a position closer to an inner surface of the ring electrode along a direction of the normal.
US11031221B2
A method of mass spectrometry or ion mobility spectrometry is disclosed comprising: providing an analyte; supplying a matrix compound to said analyte such that said analyte dissolves in said matrix; forming first droplets of the dissolved analyte; and colliding said first droplets with a collision surface. The use of matrix improves the analyte ion signal.
US11031214B2
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes a tube configured to provide a processing space, a partition wall configured to provide a discharge space in which plasma is generated, a gas supply pipe configured to supply a process gas to the discharge space, and a plurality of electrodes configured to generate plasma in the discharge space. At least one of the plurality of electrodes is disposed outside the partition wall, and at least one of the plurality of electrodes is disposed inside the partition wall.
US11031212B2
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a first supply part configured to supply a gas including one or more group III elements on a substrate accommodated in a reaction chamber, a second supply part configured to supply a gas including one or more group V elements on the substrate, and a waveguide configured to irradiate a microwave to the gas including the one or more group V elements.
US11031211B2
A charged particle beam device capable of easily discriminating the energy of secondary charged particles is realized. The charged particle beam device includes a charged particle source, a sample stage on which a sample is placed, an objective lens that irradiates the sample with a charged particle beam from the charged particle source, a deflector that deflects secondary charged particles released by irradiating the sample with the charged particle beam, a detector that detects the secondary charged particles deflected by the deflector, a sample voltage control unit that applies a positive voltage to the sample or the sample stage, and a deflection intensity control unit that controls the intensity with which the deflector deflects the secondary charged particles.
US11031208B2
A cold cathode field-emission electron gun includes: an emitter; an extraction electrode which extracts electrons from the emitter; and a biased electrode which is disposed closer to the emitter than the extraction electrode. A voltage applied to the biased electrode is variable.
US11031198B2
An arrangement has an electrical device with two or more electrical contact points. A fluid-based reference potential connecting device is suitable for connecting the electrical contact points to a reference potential. The fluid-based reference potential connecting device has an annular fluid line which connects the contact points in series, and, when a fluid flows through the fluid line, the fluid successively wets the contact points, starting from a starting point, contact point by contact point, along a predefined flow direction.
US11031196B2
An electric switch of the normally open type includes a body, an actuator moveable between a high rest position and a low active contact position, and first second elastically deformable contact blades supported by the body. A first contact section of the first contact blade extends above a second contact section of the second contact blade. The contact sections are superposed and distanced from each other when the actuator is in high rest position, and they are in mutual electrical contact when the actuator is in low position to establish an electrical switching path. The first contact section includes a longitudinal rib that protrude downwards with respect to the plane of the underside of the first section and which is able to cooperate with the transversal contact edge of the central opening. The transversal contact edge comprises a transverse contact bend for cooperating with convexity of the longitudinal rib.
US11031190B2
A medium or high voltage switch including a moveable contact element and a stationary contact element is described. Therein, a moveable-contact guiding portion of the moveable contact element and a stationary-contact guiding portion of the stationary contact element are shaped for establishing a spherical-bearing-type mechanical connection between each other, thereby aligning a center of the moveable-contact guiding portion with a center of the stationary-contact guiding portion while allowing an angular flexion between the moveable and stationary contact elements. Furthermore, at least one of the stationary-contact guiding portion and the moveable-contact guiding portion is electrically insulating.
US11031188B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, an anode frame, a cathode frame, and an exterior body. The capacitor element includes an anode body, a dielectric body disposed on a surface of the anode body, and a cathode part. The anode frame is electrically connected to the anode body. The cathode frame is electrically connected to the cathode part. The exterior body seals the capacitor element in a state that a part of the anode frame and a part of the cathode frame are exposed from the exterior body. At least one of the anode frame and the cathode frame has at least one groove on a surface adhered to the exterior body. The at least one groove intersects with an extending direction in which the anode frame or the cathode frame extends from the capacitor element to outside of the exterior body.
US11031184B2
A capacitor component includes: a body including first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed in a first direction; first and second connection electrodes extending in the first direction in the body, respectively connected to the first and second internal electrodes, and opposing each other in a second direction; and first and second external electrodes disposed on one surface of the body and respectively connected to the first and second connection electrodes and each include an extended pattern disposed at one end portion on the one surface in the second direction and extending in a third direction, and a connection pattern extending, in the second direction, from a region spaced apart from both ends of the extended pattern in the third direction and connected to one of the first and second connection electrodes in a region spaced apart from opposite ends of the extended pattern in the third direction.
US11031173B2
A coil component includes an element body having a rectangular main surface; a coil provided within the element body, wherein the coil having a lower coil portion and an upper coil portion; terminal electrodes provided at positions corresponding to corners of the main surface; extracting conductors connected within the element body to both end portions of the coil, wherein the extracting conductors extending from the end portions of the coil to terminal electrodes provided on the main surface; and a dummy electrode provided on the main surface at a position different from those of the terminal electrodes, wherein the dummy electrode is conducted to neither of the extracting conductors.
US11031170B2
A coil device includes a coil, a core, and an electrode. The coil is formed by winding a wire. The core is provided with the coil. The electrode has a wire joint part configured to be connected with a wire end of the wire. A mount surface of the electrode is at least partially covered with a cover layer.
US11031168B2
To provide a new type of laminated coil component capable of providing a high inductance and excellent in insulation reliability. A laminated coil component according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with a laminate, a first external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate, a second external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate, and a coil conductor provided between the first external electrode and the second external electrode. In the coil conductor, a conductor pattern having a larger potential difference from the second external electrode is arranged farther from the second external electrode, and a conductor pattern having a larger potential difference from the first external electrode is arranged farther from the first external electrode.
US11031166B2
A switchable permanent magnetic unit is disclosed. The unit comprises: a housing, first and second permanent magnets, and a conductive coil. The first magnet is mounted within the housing and the second magnet is rotatable between first and second positions and mounted within the housing in a stacked relationship with the first magnet. The unit generates a first level of magnetic flux at a workpiece contact interface when the second magnet is in the first position and a second level of magnetic flux at the interface when the second magnet is in the second position, the second level being greater than the first level. The conductive coil is arranged about the second magnet and generates a magnetic field. A component of the conductive coil's magnetic field is directed from S to N along the second magnet's N-S pole pair when the second magnet is in the first position.
US11031165B2
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for determining the armature (1) position of an electromagnet. In the method the potential differences in the yoke (2) or in the armature (1), generated by a non-homogeneous eddy current distribution in the event of a deflection of the armature (1), are detected to determine the instantaneous armature (1) position relative to a reference position from these potential differences. For this purpose at least one voltage difference is measured between two measuring points on the yoke (2) or armature (1), or between one measuring point on the yoke (2) or armature (1) and a reference potential. The armature (1) position relative to a reference position on the electromagnet is then determined from this voltage difference. The method can be performed cost effectively, and can also easily be applied to existing electromagnets.
US11031160B2
The present invention relates to a method of actuating a shape changeable member of actuatable material. The invention further relates to a shape changeable member and to a system comprising such a shape changeable member and a magnetic field apparatus.
US11031157B1
A method according to the teachings of the present disclosure may include disposing a sheath around a conductor assembly, with an outer surface of the sheath defining spaced apart crowns and valleys. An outlet of at least one ink jet print head may be positioned adjacent the sheath at an angle of 60 degrees to 120 degrees with respect to a longitudinal axis of the sheath. The method may also include using at least one ink jet print head to print marking indicia on the sheath, the marking indicia indicating at least characteristic of the electrical cable assembly.
