US11139857B2
Systems and methods for efficiently allocating beacon slot among multiple nodes on multiple levels within a power line communication network are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, by a communications device, assigning beacon transmission times to nodes within the communication device's network. The assigned beacon transmission times comprise a beacon slot and frame pattern. The beacon slot and frame pattern ensure that each node does not transmit a beacon in a beacon slot that is adjacent to a beacon slot assigned to a parent or child node. A beacon transmission slot is reserved for a base node in every frame. The frames may be organized into thirty-two-frame superframes, wherein each frame comprises a base node beacon slot and four switch node beacon slots.
US11139856B2
The invention relates to the field of transmitting series of data between electronic circuits, and more specifically a method and a system for transmitting series of data, from a first electronic circuit to at least one second electronic circuit, via an electrical connection line between the first circuit and the second circuit, in reference to a ground line common to the circuits, of at least one series of data pulses. Each data pulse makes it possible to both electrically supply the second circuit and to transmit an item of data which can be interpreted by the second circuit. The supplying of the second circuit by the first circuit is cut between two successive pulses. For each data pulse and before the second circuit is switched off, because of failure in supply, the item of data transmitted by the pulse is stored on a non-volatile memory support of the second circuit.
US11139854B2
A method for spread spectrum communication, a user equipment and a base station are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The method for spread spectrum communication applied to a user equipment includes: selecting spreading sequences for a plurality of symbols of data to be transmitted in a set of spreading sequences, respectively, wherein spreading sequences selected for at least two symbols are different; spreading the data by using the selected spreading sequences; transmitting the spread data.
US11139851B2
An apparatus includes parallel delay lines, each exhibiting a delay; a first set of switches for each port of a first set of ports, each of which is to selectively couple a port of the first set of ports to first ends of the delay lines; a second set of switches for each port of a second set of ports, each of which to selectively couple a port of the second set of ports to second ends of the delay lines. A signal source generates a series of clock signals that are sequentially time delayed between the first set of switches and the second set of switches, where an input signal at one of the first or second sets of ports travels back and forth across the first and second sets of delay lines according to activation of the first set and second set of switches until being output.
US11139850B2
Disclosed herein is a case for a tablet shaped device, a method for removing a stylus therefrom, and a method for making a case for a tablet shaped device.
US11139848B2
A communication system including a transmission device and a reception device which wirelessly communicate with each other. The transmission device includes a transmission circuit that performs: cyclical transmission of a wake-up signal including a specific pattern; and transmission of data. The reception device includes: a standby circuit that receives a signal, and outputs a detection signal indicating reception of the wake up signal when detecting that the specific pattern is cyclically included in the signal received; and a reception circuit that receives the data from the transmission device after the detection signal is output from the standby circuit.
US11139846B2
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, obtaining uplink information associated with a plurality of communication devices transmitting wireless signals on a plurality of uplink paths, performing, based on the uplink information, a plurality of measurements of the plurality of uplink paths, identifying a measurement from the plurality of measurements that is below a threshold, and initiating a corrective action to improve a measurement of an affected uplink path of the plurality of uplink paths based on the identifying. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11139836B2
In a wireless communication system, a transmission device generates (K+J) bits by adding J cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits to K information bits, and interleaves the (K+J) bits according to a seed value-based interleaving pattern. The transmission device encodes the bits interleaved according to the interleaving pattern, using a polar code. The seed value permutates the CRC bits, and a value previously determined according to K is used as the seed value.
US11139821B2
An analog-to-digital converter for an adiabatic logic circuit, including at least one variable-capacitance cell, the cell including first and second main terminals and at least one control terminal insulated from its first and second main terminals and capable of receiving a control voltage to vary the capacitance between its first and second main terminals between a low value and a high value, wherein: the cell has its first main terminal coupled to a node of application of a variable periodic converter power supply voltage; the cell has its second main terminal coupled to a node for supplying a binary output signal of the converter; and the cell receives on its first control terminal an analog input voltage of the converter.
US11139812B2
A gate driver system includes a gate driver having a first input for receiving a digital input signal, a second input for receiving a short circuit protection signal, and output for driving a power device; a current reconstruction circuit having a first input for receiving a voltage across an inductance associated with the power device, a second input for receiving a current associated with the power device, a third input for receiving the digital input signal, and an output for providing a sensed power device current; and a comparator having a first input coupled to the output of the current reconstruction circuit, a second input coupled to a reference, and an output coupled to the second input of the gate driver.
US11139811B2
A drive circuit for airbag systems, for instance includes a differential transconductance amplifier having a first input node, a second input node, an output node coupled to the second input node via a feedback line; a transistor coupled between a drive node and a supply node configured to be coupled to a power supply source; a control node coupled to the control electrode of the transistor and the output node; a Zener diode arrangement having cathode and anode terminals coupled to the supply node and the first input node, respectively; a pull-up component arranged in parallel with the Zener diode arrangement; and an enable switch coupled to the first input node and referred to ground and switchable between a conductive state and a non-conductive state with the differential transconductance amplifier providing controlled current discharging/charging of the control node to make the transistor conductive/non-conductive, respectively.
US11139810B2
Support circuitry for a power transistor includes a feedback switching element and switching control circuitry. The feedback switching element is coupled between a Kelvin connection node and a second power switching node. The switching control circuitry is configured to cause the feedback switching element to couple the Kelvin connection node to the second power switching node after the power transistor is switched from a blocking mode of operation to a conduction mode of operation and cause the feedback switching element to isolate the Kelvin connection node from the second power switching node before the power transistor is switched from the conduction mode of operation to the blocking mode of operation.
US11139809B2
A driving apparatus includes a current output unit, a reference voltage output unit, a comparator, and a drive control unit. The current output unit is switchable to either a first ON resistance or a second ON resistance that is N times (N>1) the first ON resistance. The reference voltage output unit outputs a fist reference voltage during a large current time period, and outputs a second reference voltage that is M times (M>1) the first reference voltage during a small current time period. The drive control unit performs control to perform switching to the first ON resistance during the large current time period, and to perform switching to the second ON resistance during the small current time period.
US11139807B2
A circuit that includes a first diode, a second diode, a comparator having a comparator first arm and a comparator second arm, and an inverter. The first diode has a first terminal coupled to a first node and a second terminal. The second diode is coupled in series between the second terminal of the first diode and a second node. The comparator first arm includes a first plurality of transistor devices and is coupled to a third node. The comparator second arm includes a second plurality of transistor devices and is coupled to the second node, wherein the second plurality of transistor devices is greater in number than the first plurality of transistor devices. The inverter has an input coupled to the comparator and an output coupled to a fourth node.
US11139802B1
A ring oscillator is disclosed according to certain aspects of the present disclosure. The ring oscillator include N flip-flops, each of the N flip-flops having a data input, a clock input, and an output, wherein N is an integer greater than 1. In certain aspects, the output of each of the N flip-flops is coupled to the clock input of an adjacent other one of the N flip-flops, the output of each of the N flip-flops is coupled to a reset input or a preset input of a non-adjacent other one of the N flip-flops, and the data input of each of the N flip-flops is coupled to a voltage line or a ground line.
US11139800B1
A receiver circuit is disclosed. The receiver circuit includes a multi-PAM input circuit to receive a multi-PAM input symbol. The input symbol exhibits one of multiple threshold levels during a sampling period. The threshold levels correspond to a set of M-bit two's-complement values within a defined set of threshold values. An adaptive filtering circuit includes a first transcoder to transcode the set of M-bit two's-complement values to a set of N-bit values, where N
US11139798B2
A filter includes: a series-arm circuit; a first parallel-arm circuit connected to a ground and a node; and a second parallel-arm circuit connected to the ground and a node. The first parallel-arm circuit includes a parallel-arm resonator, and a first switch circuit. The second parallel-arm circuit includes a parallel-arm resonator, and a second switch circuit. The first switch circuit includes a first switch. The second switch circuit includes a second switch. A voltage across the first switch is lower than a voltage across the second switch. A stack count of the first switch is lower than a stack count of the second switch.
US11139790B2
A distributed amplifier with low supply voltage and low power consumption is provided. The distributed amplifier includes an input terminal inputting an input signal; an output terminal outputting an output signal; an amplifier unit; a gate line circuit connected to the input terminal, a first load circuit and the amplifier unit; a second load circuit; a drain line circuit connected to the second load circuit, the amplifier unit and the output terminal; and a bias voltage circuit connected between the drain line circuit and the output terminal, wherein the bias voltage circuit includes a voltage source; an inductor connected to the voltage source and a terminal of the drain line circuit; and a capacitor multiplier connected to the inductor, the drain line circuit and the output terminal.
US11139781B2
Disclosed is a method of reducing the Instantaneous to Average Power Ratio, IAR, of a transmitter system, comprising the steps of: receiving an input digital signal comprising a plurality of samples; extracting magnitude information for each of the plurality of samples; selecting a plurality of samples whose magnitude exceeds a predefined threshold; sorting, by magnitude, the selected plurality of samples; selecting from the sorted plurality of samples, only those samples having a spacing more than a first pre-defined spacing and filtering those samples, using an FIR filter; subtracting the output of the FIR filter from a delayed version of the input digital signal to produce an output signal.
US11139778B1
Apparatus, circuits and methods for clock generation are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a first transistor pair electrically coupled to a pair of output nodes; a second transistor pair electrically coupled to the pair of output nodes; and an inductive unit electrically coupled between the output nodes and electrically coupled between gates of the first transistor pair. The inductive unit comprises: a first inductive element electrically coupled to one gate of the first transistor pair; and a second inductive element electrically coupled to one of the output nodes. The first inductive element and the second inductive element are configured to be magnetically coupled to each other.
US11139775B1
A system is provided. The system includes a tracker configured to collect solar irradiance and attached to a rotational mechanism for changing a plane of the tracker and a controller in communication with the rotational mechanism. The controller is programmed to store a plurality of positional information and a shadow model for determining placement of shadows based on positions of objects relative to the sun, determine a position of the sun at a first specific point in time, retrieve height information for the tracker and at least one adjacent tracker, execute the shadow model based on the retrieved height information and the position of the sun, determine a first angle for the tracker based on the executed shadow model, and transmit instructions to the rotational mechanism to change the plane of the tracker to the first angle.
US11139764B2
A system includes an excitation system. The excitation system includes a memory that may store an adaptive power system stabilizer (PSS) system that may dynamically stabilize an operation of a generator system. The excitation system also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the memory that may selectively utilize the adaptive PSS system based upon a determination of whether one or more operational parameters of the generator system has met or exceeded a threshold value.
US11139763B2
A motor drive control device has a controller and a driver. The controller generates a control signal for controlling driving of a two-phase stepping motor so as to alternately repeat one-phase excitation in which a coil of one phase in coils of two phases of the two-phase stepping motor is excited and two-phase excitation in which the coils of two phases in the coils of the two phases are excited. The driver drives the coils of the two phases, based on the control signal. The controller determines, based on a back electromotive force generated in the coil that was not excited during the one-phase excitation, a period of performing the one-phase excitation, and determines, based on the period of the one-phase excitation performed before the two-phase excitation, a period of performing the two-phase excitation.
US11139755B2
A variable stiffening device that includes a flexible envelope having a fluid chamber, a dielectric fluid housed within the fluid chamber, and an electrode stack that includes a plurality of electrodes and one or more abrasive strips. The electrode stack is housed within the fluid chamber and is configured to receive voltage. In addition, the one or more abrasive strips are each positioned between adjacent electrodes, such that when voltage is applied to the electrode stack thereby electrostatically drawing adjacent electrodes together, the one or more abrasive strips generate frictional engagement between adjacent electrodes to actuate the variable stiffening device from a relaxed state to a rigid state.
US11139754B1
An inverter circuit for realizing high-efficiency control of single-phase power of a single-phase three-wire power supply includes a bridge inverter circuit connected to an output end of a DC power supply, a freewheeling circuit connected to an output end of the bridge inverter circuit for providing freewheeling during switching of the bridge inverter circuit, and a control unit connected with the bridge inverter circuit and the freewheeling circuit. When the switching units in the high-frequency operating state are switched to an off state, the freewheeling circuit is controlled to operate continuously to output power to the U-phase line or the W-phase line, so that the switching units only participate in high-frequency operations in nearly half of the whole mains cycle, thereby switching loss and conduction loss of the switching units Q1 to Q6 can be reduced by nearly half, and the efficiency of the whole inverter circuit is greatly improved.
US11139745B2
A flyback converter is disclosed that times a detection time for each cycle of a power switch transistor. The detection time ends when a sense resistor voltage exceeds a threshold voltage. Over a half cycle of an AC input voltage to the flyback converter measures a series of detection time and determines a minimum detection time from the series of detection times. If the minimum detection time exceeds a brownout delay, a brownout condition exists. If the minimum detection time is less than an overvoltage delay, an overvoltage condition exists.
US11139738B2
A converter circuit is disclosed. The converter circuit includes a controller configured to operate a pull up component and a pull down component so as to deliver power to a load through an inductor. The controller is configured to operate in either of first and second operational modes based on average current delivered to the load. The converter circuit also includes a mode control circuit configured to change operational modes in response to an indication of current flowing from the inductor to the switch node, and in response to an indication that the average current delivered to the load is greater than the current threshold.
US11139735B2
A drive circuit for a switch capacitor converter having first, second, third, and fourth power switches connected in series, can include: first, second, third, and fourth drivers configured to respectively drive the first, second, third power, and fourth power switches according to control signals; a bootstrap power supply circuit comprising a bootstrap capacitor configured to supply power to the first, second, and third drivers in a time-sharing manner; and a power supply configured to supply power to the fourth driver and charge the bootstrap capacitor, where the fourth power switch is grounded.
US11139734B2
A DC-DC power converter including: input terminals for receiving an input voltage; a pulse wave generator for generating a pulse wave; a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding and a magnetizing inductance; a DC blocking capacitor; a rectifier; a filter capacitor; at least one resonant inductor connected in series with the transformer; a resonant capacitor connected to the rectifier; output terminals; and a control unit for controlling operation of the pulse wave generator such when the duty cycle of the pulse wave voltage varies, high efficiency is maintained.
US11139733B2
Disclosed is a modular multilevel converter sub-module, including: a normal circuit which includes a first switching element and a second switching element connected in series and a first diode and a second diode respectively connected to be parallel to the first switching element and the second switching element to offset a counter electromotive force generated in the first switching element and the second switching element, a fault DC current blocking circuit which includes a capacitor connected to the normal circuit in parallel and applies a capacitor voltage to a DC fault path as a reverse voltage with respect to a fault voltage, and a bypass circuit which includes a third switch element, is connected to the fault DC current blocking circuit in parallel, and determines an output voltage and a direction of an arm current to provide a DC fault current bypass path when a DC fault current occurs.
US11139725B2
The electric machine includes a plurality of rotors drivingly coupled to a common shaft defining a shaft axis about which the common shaft is rotatable, and a common stator for the plurality of rotors, the common stator extending circumferentially about the common shaft. The rotors are rotatable about respective rotor axes which are substantially perpendicular to the shaft axis.
US11139715B2
A rotary electric machine includes: a floored cylindrical case in which an opening at a first end of a cylindrical portion is closed by a floor portion; a stator that includes: an annular stator core that is held inside the case by being fitted together with and fixed to the cylindrical portion; and coils that are mounted to the stator core; a frame that closes an opening at a second end of the cylindrical portion; and a rotor that is fixed to a rotating shaft, and that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the stator, wherein: a first stress relieving indented portion is formed around an entire circumference at a first end of an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion such that a gap is formed between a first end portion of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core and the cylindrical portion.
US11139714B2
A conventional axial gap rotary electric machine does not consider winding movement caused by resin molding in the vicinity of a lead-out part provided to a housing. In order to solve the problem, the axial gap rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes a stator which is formed by circularly arranging a plurality of core units having coils about a rotation shaft and which has a connecting wire that fastens, for each layer, coil rising wires from the plurality of core units, and the axial gap rotary electric machine has a configuration in which: the housing has a lead-out part through which the connecting wire is taken out to the outside of the housing; and the stator is arranged such that the region where the coil rising wire from the core unit is fastened with the connecting wire is located so as to avoid the region opposed to the lead-out part, the stator being integrally molded.
US11139703B2
An arrangement for mounting a coil winding on a stator tooth, the arrangement comprising a mounting element having a first mounting arm for receiving a first stator tooth and a second mounting arm for receiving a second stator tooth, wherein the first mounting arm is movable relative to the second mounting arm between a first position and a second position; means for mounting an electrical conductor on the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth when the first mounting arm is in the first position relative to the second mounting arm to form a coil winding on the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth; and means for placing the first mounting arm in the second position relative to the second mounting arm when the conductor has been mounted on the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth to allow the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth to be removed from the first mounting arm and the second mounting arm respectively.
US11139696B2
A wireless power supply device includes: a power transmitting antenna; a power supply circuit configured to supply a microwave to the power transmitting antenna; a power receiving antenna; a power receiving circuit configured to receive supply of power of the microwave via the power receiving antenna; a load configured to operate using the power supplied by the power receiving circuit; and an electrically-conductive case surrounded by an electrically-conductive plate in which the power transmitting antenna and the power receiving antenna are accommodated. In the electrically-conductive case, a microwave radiated from the power transmitting antenna is received by the power receiving antenna, and power of the microwave is supplied to the load from the power receiving circuit.
US11139695B2
A flat panel substrate with integrated antennas and wireless power transmission system for delivering power to a receiving device is presented herein. A method can comprise depositing, onto a flat panel substrate, an antenna layer comprising multiple adaptively phased antennas elements; and depositing, onto the flat panel substrate, respective thin film transistor (TFT)-based antenna management circuits for the multiple adaptively phased antenna elements—the respective TFT-based antenna management circuits being operable to measure respective first phases at which first signals are received at the multiple adaptively phased antenna elements, and based on the respective first phases, control respective second phases at which second signals are transmitted from the multiple adaptively phased antenna elements to facilitate delivery, via the second signals, of power to the receiving device. Further, the method comprises forming traces communicatively coupling the multiple adaptively phased antenna elements to the respective TFT-based antenna management circuits.
US11139692B2
A system includes a switch network coupled to a power source, wherein the switch network comprises a plurality of power switches, a transmitter resonant tank coupled to the plurality of power switches, wherein the transmitter resonant tank comprises a first variable capacitance network, a transmitter coil coupled to the transmitter resonant tank, and a first receiver comprising a first receiver coil configured to be magnetically coupled to the transmitter coil, and a first receiver resonant tank coupled to the first receiver coil, wherein the first receiver resonant tank comprises a second variable capacitance network.
US11139685B2
A method of determining one or more direct voltage reduction (DVR) factors at a point of load (POL) in a power grid voltage environment. An energy processing unit (EPU) is installed at each individual POL; each EPU includes at least one AC-AC series voltage regulator. An EPU-regulated output voltage is increased under specific controlled conditions. One or more independent DVR factors for each individual POL are determined during the increased and decreased EPU-regulated output voltage.
US11139673B2
A vehicle includes an engine having a throttle body, a battery, e.g., a 12-volt battery, and a battery-charging system electrically connected to the battery and configured to convert mechanical motion of the engine into electricity to charge the battery. A controller of the vehicle is programmed to, in response to an opening of the throttle body being less than an opening threshold and a state of charge of the battery (battery SOC) being less than a first charge threshold, set the battery-charging system to output a first power, wherein the charge threshold is based on a measured capacity of the battery and a measured key-off load. The controller is further programmed to, in response to the opening being less than the opening threshold and the battery SOC exceeding the first charge threshold but being less than a second charge threshold, set the battery-charging system to output a second power that is less than the first power.
US11139670B2
A charger circuit with temperature compensation function includes: a power converter, an input voltage sense circuit, an output adjustment circuit and a charging control circuit. The power converter converts an input voltage supplied from a photovoltaic power module to an output voltage. The input voltage sense circuit generates a signal related to the input voltage according to the input voltage. The output adjustment circuit generates an output adjustment signal according to the signal related to the input voltage. The charging control circuit generates a control signal according to the output adjustment signal, thereby adjusting a level of an output current supplied from the power converter. When a level of the input voltage is smaller than a predetermined voltage threshold, the power converter decreases the output current.
US11139668B2
Disclosed is a charging method and apparatus which is optimized based on an electrochemical model, the charging method includes estimating an internal state of a battery, determining a charging limitation condition corresponding to a plurality of charging areas based on the internal state, and charging the battery based on the charging limitation condition.
US11139667B2
An electric power demand/supply management device includes: a state information acquisition unit that obtains state information indicating the current state of a battery which is mounted on, for example, a vehicle; a performance calculation unit that calculates a performance index indicating the consumption degree of the battery from the state information; and an incentive imparting unit that imparts an incentive according to a value of the performance index to a provider who provides the battery as electric power demand/supply adjustment means of an electric power transmission/distribution system.
US11139666B2
Energy harvesting and propulsion assistance techniques for a patient support apparatus are provided. The patient support apparatus comprises a base, a patient support surface supported by the base, and a powered device (e.g., propulsion device). An energy harvest and release system includes a harvesting device for harvesting energy, a storage device for storing and releasing the harvested energy, and a controller coupled to the harvesting device, the storage device, and the powered device. The controller is automated to selectively instruct the harvesting device to harvest energy and to selectively instruct release of the harvested energy from the storage device for consumption by the powered device (e.g., to assist in movement of the patient support apparatus).
US11139665B2
A wireless electronic device is provided which comprises a rechargeable power supply and a power capacity indicator unit. The power capacity indicator unit comprises one or more sensors configured to detect that the wireless electronic device is out of a base charger and is in an idle state for a predetermined idle threshold. The one or more sensors are further configured to detect when a power level of the rechargeable power supply is within at least one predetermined power threshold range. The control unit is configured to activate at least one power status indicator corresponding to the at least one predetermined power threshold range when the wireless electronic device is detected to be out of the base charger and in the idle state for the predetermined idle threshold, and the detection of the power level of the rechargeable power supply is within at least one predetermined power threshold range.
US11139664B2
A battery protector includes analog frontend circuitry coupled to a hibernate mode input terminal that is one of configured to couple to a high voltage connector terminal when the system is connected to an external load or charger to define an active mode and configured to float when the system is disconnected from the external load or charger to define a hibernate mode. The analog frontend circuitry is configured to provide a signal at an output thereof to distinguish, in the absence of an external ground connection, between connected and floating conditions for the hibernate mode input terminal. Digital logic is coupled with the output of the analog frontend circuitry, the digital logic providing a digital signal to control whether the battery protector is operating in the active mode or the hibernate mode based on the signal at the output of the analog frontend circuitry.
US11139657B2
This power conversion system is composed of a DC power supply circuit and a power conditioner which are connected to each other. The power conditioner includes: a first DC/DC converter provided between the DC power supply circuit and a DC bus; and an inverter provided between the DC bus and an AC electric path and configured to perform switching operation in such a manner that the inverter and the first DC/DC converter alternately have stop periods in an AC half cycle. The DC power supply circuit includes: a storage battery; and a second DC/DC converter of a bidirectional type, provided between the storage battery and the first DC/DC converter and including a DC reactor. The power conversion system includes a control unit configured to control current flowing through the DC reactor of the second DC/DC converter to have a constant value.
US11139653B2
A system power supply circuit receives an input voltage VIN, and supplies a power supply voltage to multiple load circuits including a microcomputer. Multiple power supply circuits support the multiple load circuits. An abnormality detection circuit generates an abnormality detection signal that is negated when the input voltage VIN is within, and asserted when it deviates from, the first voltage range, and outputs this signal to the microcomputer. The interface circuit can communicate with the microcomputer. The interface circuit receives a control signal generated by the microcomputer in response to abnormality detection signal assertion, and suspends power supply circuit operation of a channel indicated by the control signal. When the input voltage VIN deviates from a second voltage range defined to be wider than the first voltage range, an internal protection circuit suspends at least one power supply circuit of a predetermined channel.
US11139648B2
An integrated circuit (IC) provides an improved fail-safe signal to a circuit sharing a fail-safe pin at which the voltage can be greater than the voltage of an upper rail. The IC includes a first circuit segment that receives a first fail-safe signal and a first power-down signal and provides an intermediate signal, wherein the first fail-safe signal indicates when the voltage at the fail-safe pin is greater than the upper rail and the first power-down signal indicates when the module is powered down, and a second circuit segment connected to receive the intermediate signal and to provide the improved fail-safe signal to the module.
US11139644B2
A passive-intermodulation-mitigating mounting assembly for a fixture, such as can be affixed to a utility or communications monopole can include a first bracket and a second bracket respectively defining a first through hole and a second through hole. In some examples, a mounting plate supports an antenna or a radio. A fastener can extend through the first through hole and the second through hole, for instance to couple the first bracket with the second bracket to attach the mounting assembly to a fixture. The passive-intermodulation-mitigating mounting assembly can include a bushing that can be inserted into a through hole, and the bushing can physically and electrically isolate the fastener from one or more of the brackets. The isolation of the bushing helps inhibit the passive-intermodulation of the mounting assembly when the fastener extends, via the first bushing, through at least one of the through holes.
US11139643B1
Apparatus for a drill powered wire puller are disclosed. In an embodiment the drill powered wire puller includes a center plate, a cradle plate, a housing, a support, the support including a receiver, and a capstan. The center plate is coupled with the cradle plate at a proximal end. The cradle plate includes a U-shaped notch and two hooks or catches which are configured to couple the cradle plate with a powered rotary tool, such as a drill. The right side of the center plate is coupled with a housing, the left side of the center plate is coupled with a support. The left side of the support is coupled with a capstan. The outer perimeter of the capstan includes notches that define at least one “cleat” shape in the outer perimeter.
US11139631B2
Disclosed is a laser system that includes a femtosecond oscillator, a regenerative amplifier for chirped pulse amplification of femtosecond laser pulses, and a compressor. The regenerative amplifier includes a plurality of positive Group Delay Dispersion (GDD) mirrors disposed within a cavity of the regenerative amplifier. The compressor receives amplified laser pulses from the regenerative amplifier.
US11139628B2
An electrical connector and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A connecting member is embedded in an insulating body between a side edge of the insulating body and an outer side of a first terminal or a last terminal in a first terminal group, and a gap exists between the connecting member and the first terminal or the last terminal. In other words, the connecting member is not in contact with the first terminal or the last terminal adjacent to the connecting member. Thus, the width of the first terminal or the last terminal is not increased, ensuring the high-frequency transmission rate of the first terminal group, and thereby forming an electrical connector which is capable of facilitating machining without affecting the transmission quality of the terminals, and having a stable structure and high-frequency transmission performance.
US11139624B2
A joint connector includes high and low potential wire terminals (10H, 10L), a plurality of sub-housings (20A, . . . ) corresponding to the respective twisted pair cables and configured to hold the high and low potential wire terminals (10H, 10L), a main housing (30) configured to accommodate the sub-housings (20A, . . . ) in a stacked state, high and low potential connection conductors (40H, 40L) configured to connect the high potential wire terminals (10H) to each other and connect the low potential wire terminals (10L) to each other, and a holding member (50) including housing restraining portions (54) and to be mounted into the main housing (30) such that the housing restraining portions cross the sub-housings (20A, . . . ). The housing restraining portions (54) restrain restrained portions of the sub-housings (20A, . . . ) to impede the withdrawal of the sub-housings (20A, . . . ) in a direction opposite to a housing insertion direction.
US11139623B2
A splice connector assembly includes a housing and a flat bus plate. The housing has openings on opposed end walls defining an axis being generally perpendicular to the opposed end walls. The flat bus plate is disposed within the housing, including a connecting strip extending generally perpendicular to the axis, a first set of male terminals extending outwardly from the connecting strip generally parallel to the axis, and a second set of male terminals extending outward from the connecting strip generally parallel to the axis and in an opposite direction from the first set of male terminals, wherein a free end of each of the male terminals are configured to receive and electrically connect with female flat terminals, and wherein the female flat terminals extend into the housing to connect to the male terminals through the openings on the opposed end walls.
US11139618B2
An electrical module is electrically conducted with an electronic component, and includes multiple conductors having a first row of conductors arranged in a left-right direction and an insulating body fixing the first row of conductors. Each conductor has a contact portion in contact with the electronic component. A distance between each two adjacent contact portions of the conductors in the left-right direction is defined as a contact interval. The first row of conductors have at least one pair of signal conductors and at least two ground conductors. Each two adjacent sides of the pair of signal conductors has one ground conductor. The contact interval from one signal conductor to its adjacent ground conductor is defined as a first contact interval. The contact interval from the other signal conductor to its adjacent ground conductor is defined as a second contact interval. The first and second contact intervals are not equal.
US11139604B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body and multiple terminals accommodated in the insulating body. Each terminal has a base portion, a strip connecting portion extending upward from the base portion to be connected to a strip, and an elastic arm extending from the base portion. The elastic arm has a first tearing edge torn from the strip connecting portion, a second tearing edge torn from the strip, and a blanking edge blanked from the strip. The second tearing edge or the blanking edge has a dividing point. When each terminal is connected to the strip and expanded in a same vertical plane, the dividing point and a top point of the first tearing edge are vertically aligned. After the elastic arm is formed by bending, the dividing point and the first tearing edge are both located at a back side of the strip connecting portion.
US11139597B2
A connector assembly includes a wire end connector for electrically connecting to a board end connector. The wire end connector includes a main body portion and an insertion portion. The insertion portion is connected to the main body portion, and the insertion portion is configured to couple to the board end connector. The main body portion is provided with a plurality of elastic claws extending outward from the main body portion to press on the board end connector when the insertion portion is coupled to the board end connector so as to stably connect the wire end connector to the board end connector.
US11139596B2
A quick change battery clamp includes a first clamp body, a second clamp body, and a handle assembly. The second clamp body is coupled to the first clamp body. The handle assembly is selectively disposed through each of the first clamp body and the second clamp body. Each of the first clamp body and the second clamp body define an aperture having a substantially polygonal cross-section configured to receive a battery post. Each of the first clamp body and the second clamp body have an internal wall with a plurality of ridges configured to selectively abut the battery post. The first clamp body and the second clamp body are hingedly connected.
US11139594B2
A connector for an electro-optic display comprising: a non-conductive sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface; a first layer of conductive material applied to at least a portion of the bottom surface; a second layer of conductive material applied to a first portion of the top surface; a third layer of conductive material applied to a second portion of the top surface, the third layer of conductive material being electrically isolated from the second layer of conductive material; and a conductive via electrically connecting the first layer of conductive material and the second layer of conductive material.
US11139589B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for a polarization uniqueness manipulation apparatus (PUMA) are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, an antenna apparatus (e.g., a PUMA) comprises a receive antenna to receive a signal with a first polarization. In one or more embodiments, the antenna apparatus is configured to passively modify the first polarization of the signal to a second polarization. The antenna apparatus further comprises a transmit antenna to transmit the signal with the second polarization. In at least one embodiment, the receive antenna is communicatively coupled to the transmit antenna. In one or more embodiments, the receive antenna and the transmit antenna are each separate patch antennas that are mounted on a substrate of the antenna apparatus at different orientations from one another. In at least one embodiment, the second polarization is dependent upon the different orientations of the receive antenna and the transmit antenna.
US11139588B2
An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover layer, a dielectric substrate, and a phased antenna array on the dielectric substrate for conveying millimeter wave signals through the dielectric cover layer. The array may include conductive traces mounted against the dielectric layer. The conductive traces may form patch elements or parasitic elements for the phased antenna array. The dielectric layer may have a dielectric constant and a thickness selected to form a quarter wave impedance transformer for the array at a wavelength of operation of the array. The substrate may include fences of conductive vias that laterally surround each of the antennas within the array. When configured in this way, signal attenuation, destructive interference, and surface wave generation associated with the presence of the dielectric layer over the phased antenna array may be minimized.
US11139582B2
The present invention includes a method of making a slotted waveguide antenna structure with a matched ground plane comprising: forming in a photosensitive glass substrate a coaxial-to-coplanar waveguide (CPW) section connected to a power divider, an emission cavity area for the slotted antenna and one or more vias; depositing a metal ground plane to a first surface of the photosensitive glass substrate; depositing a copper layer on the photosensitive glass substrate with a pattern of slots that form a slot antenna above the emission cavity; forming one or more glass pillars in the emission cavity under the slot antenna; etching away the photosensitive glass in the emission cavity while retaining the one or more glass pillars; connecting a micro coaxial connector to the coaxial-to-coplanar waveguide (CPW) section; and one or more solder bumps at the vias that connect to the ground plane, to form a slotted antenna.
US11139570B2
An ultra-wideband (UWB) beam forming system is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the UWB beam forming system includes a plurality of radiating elements forming a circular, cylindrical, conical, spherical, or multi-faceted array and a beamformer coupled to the radiating elements. The beamformer includes one or more transformable reconfigurable integrated units (TRIUNs) configured to independently control individual radiating elements or groups of radiating elements of the plurality of radiating elements.
US11139569B2
Antenna system comprising processor/s in data communication with receiving segment/s in motion on ground and computer memory accessible to processor which stores a computer representation indicative of desirable polarization behavior parameter/s of the airborne transmitting segment, for each relative location of the airborne and ground segments, the processor providing a current relative location of the airborne transmitting and receiving segment/s on the ground, accessing a desirable polarization behavior parameter associated with the current relative location of the airborne and receiving segment/s on ground from the computer representation, accessing a current polarization behavior parameter of the receiving segment/s' antenna, computing a real time adjustment of the polarization's axial ratio which, if applied to the receiving segment antenna, will change the receiving segment antenna's polarization behavior parameter from the current polarization behavior parameter to the stored one, and feeding the real time adjustment to the receiving segment antenna.
US11139562B2
An antenna device is provided. The antenna device includes a first substrate, a first conductive layer, a first insulating structure, a second substrate, a second conductive layer and a liquid-crystal layer. The first conductive layer is disposed on the first substrate. The first insulating structure is disposed on the first conductive layer, and the first insulating structure includes a first region and a second region. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The second conductive layer is disposed on the second substrate. The liquid-crystal layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The thickness of the first region is less than the thickness of the second region, and at least a portion of the first region is disposed in an overlapping region of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.
US11139560B2
The present invention relates to an end cover assembly for a base station antenna, comprising: an end cover (3) having a bottom plate, wherein the bottom plate has a through hole (7); an electrical connector (4) having a flange (10), wherein the electrical connector is configured to be received in the through hole. The geometry of the through hole and the geometry of the flange are configured such that the flange can be inserted from an exterior of the end cover and through the through hole, and the flange is capable of abutting against an inner surface of the bottom plate adjacent an inner edge of the through hole inside the end cover, wherein the flange is securable to the bottom plate at a predetermined position of the flange relative to the through hole when the flange abuts against the inner surface. The present invention further relates to a base station antenna comprising the end cover assembly, as well as an assembling method and a disassembling method for the end cover assembly. The risk of falling off of the electrical connector may be reduced, and the electrical connector can be removed more easily.
US11139549B2
Perimeter truss reflector includes a perimeter truss assembly (PTA) comprised of a plurality of battens, each having an length which traverses a PTA thickness as defined along a direction aligned with a reflector central axis. A collapsible mesh reflector surface is secured to the PTA such that when the PTA is in a collapsed configuration, the reflector surface is collapsed for compact stowage and when the PTA is in the expanded configuration, the reflector surface is expanded to a shape that is configured to concentrate RF energy in a predetermined pattern. Each of the one or more longerons extend around at least a portion of a periphery of the PTA. These longerons each comprise a storable extendible member (SEM) which can be flattened and rolled around a spool, but exhibits beam-like structural characteristics when unspooled.
US11139547B2
A tunable bandpass filter (1A) includes a waveguide (11); a plurality of resonators (12) housed in the waveguide (11) and arranged in the lengthwise direction of the waveguide (11); a coupling member (13) disposed between two adjacent resonators (12); a ridge member (14) extending in the lengthwise direction of the waveguide (11) and connected to one end of the coupling member (13); and a dielectric plate (17) extending in the lengthwise direction of the waveguide (11), disposed adjacent to the plurality of resonators (12) in a direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of the waveguide (11), and movable in the direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of the waveguide (11).
US11139544B2
An electrically controllable RF-circuit element that includes at least one layer of an electrochromic material sandwiched between two corresponding layers of a solid-electrolyte material and placed adjacent and along a length of RF transmission line. In one example embodiment, the electrically controllable RF-circuit element operates as a tunable band-stop (e.g., notch) filter whose stop band can be spectrally moved by changing one or more dc-bias voltages applied across the corresponding layer stack(s). In another example embodiment, the electrically controllable RF-circuit element operates as a tunable phase shifter whose phase-shifting characteristics can be changed by changing one or more dc-bias voltages applied across the corresponding layer stack(s).
US11139537B2
The present disclosure provides a battery module. The battery module includes a plurality of secondary batteries stacked along a thickness direction, a top of each secondary battery being provided with an electrode terminal; and a connecting component provided at the top of the secondary battery, the connecting component being connected to at least two electrode terminals for electrically connecting at least two secondary batteries. The connecting component includes a first fixed connecting piece and a second fixed connecting piece, and along an extending direction of the connecting component, the first fixed connecting piece matches and is engaged with the second fixed connecting piece. The present disclosure solves the problem of the unreliable connection between the connecting component and the electrode terminal.
US11139530B2
An example power module includes an energy storage device, an energy storage carrier, and an electrical connector. The energy storage carrier houses the energy storage device and is removably insertable into a modular data storage slot of a computing device. The modular data storage slot has a data path and a first power path to removably couple to a data storage module. The electrical connector is to transfer energy from the energy storage device to a second power path associated with the modular data storage slot.
US11139529B2
A cylindrical battery cell assembly which includes a plurality of cylindrical battery cells arranged so that the cylindrical battery cells having the same polarity face in the same direction, a cell holder configured to confine the cylindrical battery cells as a bundle unit, a first electrode connection member located at an upper portion of the cell holder and a second electrode connection member located at the bottom ends of the cylindrical battery cells. The second electrode connection member includes a second connection portion located at a lower portion of the cell holder and disposed to contact the second electrode terminals. A rod-shaped second terminal portion extends vertically from the second connection portion through an empty space formed inside the cell holder so that one end of the rod-shaped second terminal portion is disposed above the cell holder.
US11139517B2
The present disclosure provides a battery pack including a plurality of cylindrical battery cells forming a clamping part by coupling a cap assembly on one opened surface of a cylindrical can and forming a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal on a top surface of the clamping part and a top end central portion of the cap assembly, respectively, and a first electrode terminal connecting plate simultaneously coupled to upper end surfaces of the clamping parts of the battery cells in a state in which cylindrical battery cells are laterally arranged so that the cap assemblies of the cylindrical battery cells head in the same direction. The first electrode terminal connecting plate includes a welding plate having a relatively thin thickness to be welded on the upper end surface of the clamping part of the cap assembly, and a conductive plate coupled to a top surface of the welding plate, which is opposite to the cap assembly, and having a relatively thick thickness in comparison with that of the welding plate for smooth current flow between first electrode terminals of the upper end surface of the clamping part.
US11139512B2
An apparatus includes: a first temperature sensor; a second temperature sensor; a circuit board adjacent to one or more battery cells; and a controller to calculate a temperature of the one or more battery cells based on signals output from the first and second temperature sensors. The first temperature sensor may be closer to the one or more battery cells than the second temperature sensor, and the second temperature sensor may be closer to at least one circuit of the circuit board than the first temperature sensor.
US11139511B2
A control circuit for controlling a battery core includes a power input terminal electrically connected to the battery core, a ferromagnetic random access memory having a dynamic mode and a non-volatile mode, and a control unit electrically connected with the ferromagnetic random access memory and the power input terminal. The control unit is configured to acquire state information of the battery core and store the state information to the ferromagnetic random access memory, and switch on or off an electrical connection between the power input terminal and the battery core to switch the ferromagnetic random access memory to the dynamic mode or the non-volatile mode.
US11139494B2
A controller of a fuel cell system performs cathode gas supply control to raise an average cell voltage of a fuel cell stack by increasing supply of cathode gas to the fuel cell stack, when electric power required to be generated by the fuel cell stack is equal to zero, and the average cell voltage is lower than a predetermined target voltage. Under the cathode gas supply control, the controller sets the target voltage when a predetermined condition indicating that crossleak is likely to occur is satisfied, to a value higher than a reference target voltage as the target voltage in the case where the condition is not satisfied.
US11139488B2
A system for sterilizing a physical space, such as a hotel room. The system generates and distributes heated air to the physical space to elevate the temperature of the space to a level sufficient to achieve a desired sterilization effect of eradicating insects and microoganisms. The system is portable and self-contained. The system includes a hydrogen fuel cell that generates electrical power. An electrical system conditions and stores the electrical power and supplies stored electrical power to the system components and peripherals. System components include a source of hydrogen, a heater, an air distributor, and a filter. Peripherals include a UV light source and an aerosol dispenser. The combination of heat, UV light and aerosol disinfectant effectively eradicates insects, microorganisms, allergens, and odors in the physical space.
US11139484B2
Provided are a method of forming a gas diffusion layer on carbon paper, the method being capable of balancing smoothness with air permeability and water drainage ability in the gas diffusion layer as an underlayer, as well as the carbon paper having the gas diffusion layer formed thereon used in fuel cells. The method of forming a gas diffusion layer (L2) on carbon paper (CP) used in fuel cells includes the steps of: forming a water-repellent layer (L1) on the surface of the carbon paper (CP), forming a crack (CR) in the water-repellent layer (L1), and forming the gas diffusion layer (L2) on the water-repellent layer (L1) having the crack (CR) formed therein.
US11139479B2
The present invention provides an energy storage device comprising a cathode region or other element. The device has a major active region comprising a plurality of first active regions spatially disposed within the cathode region. The major active region expands or contracts from a first volume to a second volume during a period of a charge and discharge. The device has a catholyte material spatially confined within a spatial region of the cathode region and spatially disposed within spatial regions not occupied by the first active regions. In an example, the catholyte material comprises a lithium, germanium, phosphorous, and sulfur (“LGPS”) containing material configured in a polycrystalline state. The device has an oxygen species configured within the LGPS containing material, the oxygen species having a ratio to the sulfur species of 1:2 and less to form a LGPSO material. The device has a protective material formed overlying exposed regions of the cathode material to substantially maintain the sulfur species within the catholyte material. Also included is a novel dopant configuration of the LiaMPbSc (LMPS) [M=Si,Ge, and/or Sn] containing material.
US11139475B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery with improved t electrochemical characteristics through improvement of the structural stability by including a cathode active material doped with molybdenum (Mo). The lithium secondary battery includes a cathode; an anode; a separator positioned between the cathode and the anode; and an electrolyte. In particular, the cathode active material includes molybdenum (Mo) doped on a composite oxide of lithium and metal including manganese (Mn) and titanium (Ti).
US11139463B2
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode including titanium oxide particles, and an aqueous electrolyte. The surfaces of the titanium oxide particles are partially covered with an alkyl-based silane compound. The ratio IB/IA of the intensity IB of the second peak PB to the intensity IA of the first peak PA is within a range of 4 to 10. The first peak PA is a maximum peak present within a range of 3200 cm−1 to 3600 cm−1 in an infrared absorption spectrum of the titanium oxide particles. The second peak PB is a maximum peak present within a range of 565 cm−1 to 570 cm−1 in the infrared absorption spectrum of the titanium oxide particles.
US11139452B2
The present disclosure provides an OLED device, including a substrate, a light-emitting unit arranged on the substrate, and an encapsulation structure arranged on a surface of the light-emitting unit distal to the substrate, the encapsulation structure includes a deoxygenation layer made of an active metal, used to react with oxygen, the active metal is a metal with an activity of reacting with oxygen being between those of aluminum and copper.
US11139447B2
The present invention provides a light emitting layer structure and a display device, the light emitting layer structure includes a first charge injection layer disposed on the substrate and located in the pixel opening region; a metal reflective layer disposed on the first charge injection layer; the beneficial effects of the present invention is that in the light-emitting layer structure and display device of the present invention, the lengthwise direction of the metal reflective layer is longer than the lengthwise direction of the pixel opening region, can perform secondary irradiation to decompose the organic impurities remaining at the short arc-shape side and improve spreadability of the ink.
US11139446B2
The present invention is directed to an organic light emitting diode (100) comprising: at least one anode electrode (120); at least one emission layer (150), wherein the emission layer comprises at least one emitter dopant that emits visible light at operation of the OLED (100); an electron transport layer stack (160) of at least two electron transport layers (161/162), and wherein a) the first electron transport layer (161) comprises i) a first organic aromatic matrix compound having a MW of about ≥400 to about ≤1000 and a dipole moment of about ≥0 Debye and about ≤2.5 Debye, wherein the first electron transport layer (161) is free of a polar organic aromatic phosphine compound; and b) the second electron transport layer (162) comprises two organic aromatic matrix compounds, which are a mixture of: i) the first organic aromatic matrix compound; and ii) a polar organic aromatic phosphine compound having a MW of about ≥400 to about ≤1000, and a dipole moment of about >2.5 Debye and about ≤10 Debye; and at least one cathode electrode layer (190); wherein the electron transport layer stack (160) is arranged between the emission layer (150) and the cathode electrode layer (190), the first electron transport layer (161) is in direct contact with the second electron transport layer (162), and wherein the first electron transport layer (161) is arranged nearer to the emission layer (150) and the second electron transport layer (162) is arranged nearer to the cathode electrode layer (190).
US11139424B2
High-saturation power Josephson ring modulators and fabrication of the same are provided. A Josephson ring modulator can comprise a plurality of matrix junctions. Matrix junctions of the plurality of matrix junctions can comprise respective superconducting parallel branches that can comprise a plurality of Josephson junctions operatively coupled in a series configuration. A method can comprise forming a first matrix junction comprising arranging a first group of Josephson junctions as first parallel branches. The method can also comprise forming a second matrix junction comprising arranging a second group of Josephson junctions as second parallel branches. Further, the method can comprise forming a third matrix junction comprising arranging a third group of Josephson junctions as third parallel branches. In addition, the method can comprise forming a fourth matrix junction comprising arranging a fourth group of Josephson junctions as fourth parallel branches.
US11139414B2
The invention relates to an AlInGaN alloy based superluminescent diode, comprising a gallium nitride bulk substrate, a lower cladding layer with n-type electrical conductivity. Further it includes a lower light-guiding layer with n-type electrical conductivity, a light emitting layer, an electron blocking layer with p-type electrical conductivity, an upper light-guiding layer, an upper cladding layer with p-type electrical conductivity, and a subcontact layer with p-type electrical conductivity. The gallium nitride bulk substrate has a spatially varying surface misorientation in the relation to the crystallographic plane M in range of 0° to 10°.
US11139403B2
A high efficiency configuration for a solar cell module comprises solar cells arranged in an overlapping shingled manner and conductively bonded to each other in their overlapping regions to form super cells, which may be arranged to efficiently use the area of the solar module.
US11139400B2
Non-planar semiconductor devices having hybrid geometry-based active regions are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a hybrid channel region including a nanowire portion disposed above an omega-FET portion disposed above a fin-FET portion. A gate stack is disposed on exposed surfaces of the hybrid channel region. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode disposed on the gate dielectric layer. Source and drain regions are disposed on either side of the hybrid channel region.
US11139399B2
A method of forming a vertical transistor is provided. The method includes forming a first set of vertical fins in a first row on a first bottom source/drain layer, and a second set of vertical fins in a second row on a second bottom source/drain layer, wherein the vertical fins in the same row are separated by a spacing with a sidewall-to-sidewall distance, SD, and the vertical fins in the same column of adjacent rows are separated by a gap having a gap distance, GD. The method further includes forming a gate metal layer on the first set of vertical fins and the second set of vertical fins, wherein the gate metal layer does not fill in the gap between vertical fins in the same column, and forming a cover layer plug in the remaining gap after forming the gate metal layer.
US11139396B2
A device comprises a first conductive line and a vertical transistor over the first conductive line. The vertical transistor comprises a gate electrode, a gate dielectric material overlying sides of the gate electrode, and a channel region on sides of the gate dielectric material, the gate dielectric material located between the channel region and the gate electrode. The device further comprises a second conductive line overlying a conductive contact of the at least one vertical transistor. Related devices and methods of forming the devices are also disclosed.
US11139395B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a semiconductor layer including a first trench, a second trench intersecting the first trench, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, and a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type; a gate electrode located in the first trench; a field plate electrode; a metal region located in the second trench and electrically connected to the second semiconductor region; a gate insulating layer located between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer; a field plate insulating layer located between the field plate electrode and the semiconductor layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the third semiconductor region and the metal region; and a second electrode.
US11139393B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first to third nitride regions, and first and second insulating films. The first nitride region includes Alx1Ga1-x1N, and includes first and second partial regions, a third partial region between the first and second partial regions, a fourth partial region between the first and third partial regions, and a fifth partial region between the third and second partial regions. The first nitride region includes first to fifth partial regions. The second nitride region includes Alx2Ga1-x2N, and sixth and seventh partial regions. At least a portion of the third electrode is between the sixth and seventh partial regions. The first insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes first and second insulating regions. The third nitride region includes Alx3Ga1-x3N, and first to seventh portions. The second insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes third to seventh insulating regions.
US11139391B2
An IGBT device comprises a super-junction structure arranged in a drift region and formed by a plurality of N-type pillars and a plurality of P-type pillars which are alternately arrayed. Device cell structures of the IGBT device are formed in an N-type epitaxial layer at the tops of super-junction cells. Each device cell structure comprises a body region, a gate structure and an emitter region. N-type isolation layers having a doping concentration greater than that of the N-type epitaxial layer are formed between the bottom surfaces of the body regions and the top surfaces of the P-type pillars and are used for isolating the body regions from the P-type pillars. The super-junction structure and the N-type isolation layers can increase the current density of the device, decrease the on-state voltage drop of the device and reduce the turn-off loss of the device.
US11139390B2
An emitter mesa and a base electrode are arranged on a base mesa on a substrate. A base wiring line on the base electrode is connected to the base electrode via base openings. The emitter mesa includes a plurality of emitter fingers having a planar shape that is long in one direction. The emitter fingers include first and second emitter fingers. The base openings are arranged so as to be spaced apart in a longitudinal direction from first end portions of the first emitter fingers and are not arranged in a region obtained by extending the second emitter finger in the longitudinal direction. An end portion of the second emitter finger that is near the base openings protrudes in the longitudinal direction beyond the end portions of the first emitter fingers that are near the base openings.
US11139389B2
Described is an apparatus, for spin state element device, which comprises: a variable resistive magnetic (VRM) device to receive a magnetic control signal to adjust resistance of the VRM device; and a magnetic logic gating (MLG) device, coupled to the VRM device, to receive a magnetic logic input and perform logic operation on the magnetic logic input and to drive an output magnetic signal based on the resistance of the VRM device. Described is a magnetic de-multiplexer which comprises: a first VRM device to receive a magnetic control signal to adjust resistance of the first VRM; a second VRM device to receive the magnetic control signal to adjust resistance of the second VRM device; and an MLG device, coupled to the first and second VRM devices, the MLG device having at least two output magnets to output magnetic signals based on the resistances of the first and second VRM devices.
US11139384B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first region, a second region, a third region, and a fourth region; forming a tuning layer on the second region; forming a first work function metal layer on the first region and the tuning layer of the second region; forming a second work function metal layer on the first region, the second region, and the fourth region; and forming a top barrier metal (TBM) layer on the first region, the second region, the third region, and the fourth region.
US11139374B2
Field-effect transistors (FETs) are described that comprise a semiconducting gate (SG) layer, referred to herein as SG-FETs. In one or more embodiments, the FETs can include a channel layer and a SG layer capacitively coupled to the channel layer. The SG layer has an embedded voltage-clamping function that provides internal gate over voltage protection without an additional protection circuit. The embedded voltage-clamping function is based on the SG layer having a maximum effective gate voltage that is clamped to the depletion threshold of the SG layer.
US11139369B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in a semiconductor body; at least partially filling the trench with a filling material, the filling material; introducing dopants into a portion of the filling material, where the dopants have a first diffusion coefficient relative to the filling material and have a second diffusion coefficient relative to the semiconductor body, where the first diffusion coefficient is greater than the second diffusion coefficient, and where a ratio of the first diffusion coefficient to the second diffusion coefficient is greater than 10; and applying thermal processing to the semiconductor body configured to spread the dopants in the filling material along a vertical direction between a bottom side and a top side of the filling material by a diffusion process.
US11139365B2
An integrated circuit comprising: a source comprising an output port; a set of serially-connected resistors electrically coupled to the output port of the source; a comparator comprising a first input port, a second input port, and an output port; a set of switches, each switch in the set of switches comprising a first terminal electrically coupled to the first input port of the comparator, and a second terminal electrically coupled to the set of serially-connected resistors; a current source comprising an output port electrically coupled to the second input port of the comparator; and a pin electrically coupled to the output port of the current source.
US11139364B2
A display panel and a method of producing the display panel are disclosed. A pixel unit and an auxiliary power supply unit are disposed at a portion of the display panel corresponding to the display sub-areas, the auxiliary power supply unit is configured to supply a power to a cathode layer so that an voltage of each of the display sub-areas applied by the cathode layer is equal to or substantially equal to each other. The cathode layer has a first cathode and a second cathode. The auxiliary power supply unit has a power line and an auxiliary power supply electrode. The display panel has an improved display quality in this disclosure.
US11139341B2
In some embodiments, the present application provides a memory device. The memory device includes a chip that includes a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell. A magnetic-field-shielding structure comprised of conductive or magnetic material at least partially surrounds the chip. The magnetic-field-shielding structure comprises a sidewall region that laterally surrounds the chip, an upper region extending upward from the sidewall region, and a lower region extending downward from the sidewall region. At least one of the upper region and/or lower region terminate at an opening over the chip.
US11139334B2
A solid-state image pickup device is provided which can inhibit degradation of image quality which may occur when a global electronic shutter operation is performed. A gate drive line for a first transistor of gate drive lines for pixel transistors is positioned in proximity to a converting unit.
US11139333B2
A photodetector sensor array device as usable for camera chips comprises upper and lower contact layers of n+ and p+ semiconductor material either side of a light absorbing region made of either one layer, or two oppositely doped layers, of semiconductor material. Insulating trenches of dielectric material extending through the layers to form the individual pixels. Respective contacts are connected to the upper and lower contact layers so that each pixel can be reverse biased or forward biased. In operation, the device is reset with a reverse bias, and then switched to forward bias for sensing. After switching, carriers generated in response to photon absorption accumulate in potential wells in the light absorbing region and so reduce the potential barriers to the contact layers, which causes current to start to flow between the contacts after a time delay which is inversely proportional to the incident light intensity.
US11139331B2
It is possible to reduce resistance variations of a member connecting a through-silicon via to a line and improve wiring reliability. A hole through which the through-silicon via is to be stretched is created and an over-etching process is carried out on a wiring layer including the line. Then, by embedding copper in the hole, the through-silicon via made of the copper can be created. After the through-silicon via has been connected to the line made of aluminum through the member which is a connection area, the connection area is alloyed in a thermal treatment in order to electrically connect the through-silicon via to the line. Thus, it is possible to reduce variations of a resistance between the through-silicon via and the line and also improve wiring reliability as well. The present technology can be applied to a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device.
US11139330B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus that includes a pixel region having photoelectric conversion elements includes a semiconductor layer having first and second surfaces, and the photoelectric conversion elements are disposed between the first and second surfaces. With a virtual plane extending along the second surface between the first and second surfaces being a third plane, the pixel region includes an element isolating portion constituted by an insulator disposed closer to the first surface than the third plane, and first and second isolating portions constituted by grooves provided in the semiconductor layer to pass through the third plane. The first isolating portion overlaps the element isolating portion in a normal direction to the third plane. An end of the second isolating portion on a side on the first surface is closer to the second surface than an end of the first isolating portion on a side on the first surface is.
US11139326B2
A photodetector includes a first cell converting incident light into electric charges; and a second cell converting incident light into electric charges; wherein the first cell includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer provided to be closer to a light incident side than the first semiconductor layer, wherein the second cell includes a third semiconductor layer and a fourth semiconductor layer provided to be closer to a light incident side than the third semiconductor layer, wherein a first interface between the third semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer is located to be closer to the light incident side than a second interface between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer.
US11139324B2
A method of manufacturing array substrate and a display panel, wherein, the method of manufacturing array substrate includes: depositing a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, a semiconductor layer, a metal layer and a photoresist; forming an non-exposure area, a partial exposure area and a full exposure area through exposure and developing; then, performing a first ashing treatment and a wet etching to form a metal layer recess, and performing a second ashing treatment to etch off residual photoresist which remains in the metal layer recess after the first ashing treatment; and finally performing a dry etching to form a pattern of a channel region.
US11139320B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a bent area therebetween, an inner wiring disposed in the first area, an outer wiring disposed in the second area, an inter-insulating layer which covers the inner wiring and the outer wiring and in which an opening corresponding to the bent area is defined, a first organic insulating layer, where a portion thereof is located in the opening, a connection wiring disposed on the first organic insulating layer and connecting the inner wiring to the outer wiring, a conductive layer disposed between the inter-insulating layer and the first organic insulating layer and electrically connected to one of the inner wiring and the outer wiring, and an inorganic protective layer which covers the conductive layer and in which an opening corresponding to the bent area is defined.
US11139317B2
An array substrate, a touch panel and a manufacturing method of an array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a common electrode layer and a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array disposed on the base substrate. Each of the pixel units includes a plurality of sub-pixel units defined by gate lines and data lines disposed to intersect each other laterally and vertically. The common electrode layer includes a plurality of common electrode blocks that double as self-capacitance electrodes, each of the common electrode blocks is connected with at least one wire, and the wires are in the middle of sub-pixel units of a same column. The array substrate is configured to increase aperture ratio of pixel units.
US11139316B2
The present disclosure provides an LTPS array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes forming a polysilicon pattern by a first mask process; performing a doping treatment on the polysilicon pattern and forming a gate electrode by a second mask process; forming a source electrode through-hole and a drain electrode through-hole and a pixel electrode by a third mask process; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode and a touch control signal line by a fourth mask process; forming a touch control electrode through-hole by a fifth mask process; and forming a touch control electrode by a sixth mask process.
US11139310B2
To provide a semiconductor memory device that avoids a voltage drop caused by an oxide film formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and appropriately operates even in a case where a memory cell array is formed. A semiconductor memory device including a first transistor, a capacitor provided with a pair of capacitor electrodes opposed to each other via an insulator, one of the capacitor electrodes being electrically coupled to a gate electrode of the first transistor, a second transistor in which one of a source or a drain is electrically coupled to one of a source or a drain of the first transistor and to another of the capacitor electrodes, and a plate line electrically coupled to the gate electrode of the first transistor and to the one of the capacitor electrodes.
US11139308B2
A method for forming a V-NAND device is disclosed. Specifically, the method involves deposition of at least one of semiconductive material, conductive material, or dielectric material to form a channel for the V-NAND device. In addition, the method may involve a pretreatment step where ALD, CVD, or other cyclical deposition processes may be used to improve adhesion of the material in the channel.
US11139306B2
A memory device including a substrate, a non-doped semiconductor layer, a plurality of contact portions and a metal-stacking layer is provided. The substrate includes a plurality of word lines and a plurality of isolation structures. The non-doped semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The contact portions are adjacent to the non-doped semiconductor layer and in direct contact with the substrate. The metal-stacking layer is disposed on the substrate. A portion of the metal-stacking layer is disposed on the non-doped semiconductor layer and in direct contact with the contact portions.
US11139303B2
A capacitive element includes a trench extending vertically into a well from a first side. The trench is filled with a conductive central section clad with an insulating cladding. The capacitive element further includes a first conductive layer covering a first insulating layer that is located on the first side and a second conductive layer covering a second insulating layer that is located on the first conductive layer. The conductive central section and the first conductive layer are electrically connected to form a first electrode of the capacitive element. The second conductive layer and the well are electrically connected to form a second electrode of the capacitive element. The insulating cladding, the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer form a dielectric region of the capacitive element.
US11139301B2
The memory capacity of a DRAM is enhanced. A semiconductor memory device includes a driver circuit including part of a single crystal semiconductor substrate, a multilayer wiring layer provided over the driver circuit, and a memory cell array layer provided over the multilayer wiring layer. That is, the memory cell array overlaps with the driver circuit. Accordingly, the integration degree of the semiconductor memory device can be increased as compared to the case where a driver circuit and a memory cell array are provided in the same plane of a substrate containing a singe crystal semiconductor material.
US11139274B2
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a connection structure, a first package body and a first electronic component. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The connection structure is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The first package body is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The first package body covers the connection structure and exposes a portion of the connection structure. The first electronic component is disposed on the first package body and in contact with the portion of the connection structure exposed from the first package body.
US11139271B2
A device includes a lower semiconductor substrate, a lower gate structure on the lower semiconductor substrate, the lower gate structure comprises a lower gate electrode, a lower interlayer insulating film on the lower semiconductor substrate, an upper semiconductor substrate on the lower interlayer insulating film, an upper gate structure on the upper semiconductor substrate, and an upper interlayer insulating film on the lower interlayer insulating film, the upper interlayer insulating film covers sidewalls of the upper semiconductor substrate The upper gate structure comprises an upper gate electrode extending in a first direction and gate spacers along sidewalls of the upper gate electrode. The upper gate electrode comprises long sidewalls extending in the first direction and short sidewalls in a second direction The gate spacers are on the long sidewalls of the upper gate electrode and are not disposed on the short sidewalls of the upper gate electrode.
US11139267B2
Packaging structure and method of forming a packaging structure are provided. A substrate is provided, and an adhesive layer is formed on the substrate. An improvement layer is formed on the adhesive layer. The improvement layer contains openings exposing surface portions of the adhesive layer at bottoms of the openings. A plurality of chips is provided and includes functional surfaces. The plurality of chips is mounted on the substrate such that the functional surfaces are bonded to the adhesive layer at the bottoms of the openings.
US11139265B2
Anisotropic conductive films, each including an insulating adhesive layer and conductive particles insulating adhesive layer in a lattice-like manner. Among center distances between an arbitrary conductive particle and conductive particles adjacent to the conductive particle, the shortest distance to the conductive particle is a first center distance; the next shortest distance is a second center distance. These center distances are 1.5 to 5 times the conductive particles' diameter. The arbitrary conductive particle, conductive particle spaced apart from the conductive particle by the first center distance, conductive particle spaced apart from the conductive particle by first center distance or second center distance form an acute triangle. Regarding this acute triangle, an acute angle formed between a straight line orthogonal to a first array direction passing through the conductive particles and second array direction passing through conductive particles being 18 to 35°. These anisotropic conductive films have stable connection reliability in COG connection.
US11139262B2
A semiconductor device assembly has a first substrate, a second substrate, and an anisotropic conductive film. The first substrate includes a first plurality of connectors. The second substrate includes a second plurality of connectors. The anisotropic conductive film is positioned between the first plurality of connectors and the second plurality of connectors. The anisotropic conductive film has an electrically insulative material and a plurality of interconnects laterally separated by the electrically insulative material. The plurality of interconnects forms electrically conductive channels extending from the first plurality of connectors to the second plurality of connectors. A method includes connecting the plurality of interconnects to the first plurality of connectors and the second plurality of connectors, such that the electrically conductive channels are operable to conduct electricity from the first substrate to the second substrate. The method may include passing electrical current through the plurality of interconnects.
US11139255B2
A first integrated circuit chip is assembled to a second integrated circuit chip with a back-to-back surface relationship. The back surfaces of the integrated circuit chips are attached to each other using one or more of an adhesive, solder or molecular bonding. The back surface of at least one the integrated circuit chips is processed to include at least one of a trench, a cavity or a saw cut.
US11139253B2
A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package comprises a first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, a first semiconductor chip disposed on the second substrate, and a stiffener extending from an upper surface of the first substrate to an upper surface of the second substrate, the stiffener not being in contact with the first semiconductor chip, wherein a first height from the upper surface of the first substrate to an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip is greater than a second height from the upper surface of the first substrate to an uppermost surface of the stiffener.
US11139241B2
Integrated circuit (IC) cell architectures including a crenellated interconnect trace layout. A crenellated trace layout may be employed where an IC cell includes transistor having a source/drain terminal interconnected through a back-side (3D) routing scheme that reduces front-side routing density for a given transistor footprint. In the crenellated layout, adjacent interconnect traces or tracks may have their ends staggered according to a crenellation phase for the cell. Crenellated tracks may intersect one cell boundary with adjacent tracks intersecting an opposite cell boundary. Track ends may be offset by at least the width of an underlying orthogonal interconnect trace. Crenellated track ends may be offset by the width of an underlying orthogonal interconnect trace and half a spacing between adjacent orthogonal interconnect traces.
US11139240B2
A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor chip including wiring formed over a semiconductor element such as a MISFET, a sealing resin part MR covering the semiconductor chip such that the wiring is exposed, and an inductor formed in redistribution wiring. The inductor overlaps with the sealing resin part covering at least a side surface of the semiconductor chip in plan view.
US11139236B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes providing a workpiece including a metal feature in a first dielectric layer, an etch stop layer (ESL) over the metal feature, a second dielectric layer over the ESL, a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer, a patterned hard mask having a trench. The method further includes forming a via opening through the trench in the patterned hard mask, the second dielectric layer, the third dielectric layer, and the ESL to expose the metal feature, depositing a metal layer in the trench and the via opening to form a metal line and a metal contact via, respectively, and over the workpiece, removing the patterned hard mask between the metal line and the metal contact via, and depositing a fourth dielectric layer between the metal line and the metal contact via.
US11139227B2
An isolator device includes a laminate die having a dielectric laminate material with a metal laminate layer on one side of the dielectric laminate material, the metal laminate layer being a patterned layer providing at least a first plate, including a dielectric layer over the first plate that includes an aperture exposing a portion of the first plate. An integrated circuit (IC) including a substrate having a semiconductor surface includes circuitry including a transmitter and/or a receiver, the IC including a top metal layer providing at least a second plate coupled to a node in the circuitry, with at least one passivation layer on the top metal layer. A non-conductive die attach (NCDA) material for attaching a side of the dielectric laminate material is opposite the metal laminate layer to the IC so that the first plate is at least partially over the second plate to provide a capacitor.
US11139212B2
A semiconductor arrangement is provided. The semiconductor arrangement includes a first conductive element over a substrate and a second conductive element over the substrate. A dielectric region is over a top surface of the substrate and between the first conductive element and the second conductive element. An electrically conductive structure is over the first conductive element, the second conductive element, and the dielectric region.
US11139210B2
In some embodiments, a method for bonding semiconductor wafers is provided. The method includes forming a first integrated circuit (IC) over a central region of a first semiconductor wafer. A first ring-shaped bonding support structure is formed over a ring-shaped peripheral region of the first semiconductor wafer, where the ring-shaped peripheral region of the first semiconductor wafer encircles the central region of the first semiconductor wafer. A second semiconductor wafer is bonded to the first semiconductor wafer, such that a second IC arranged on the second semiconductor wafer is electrically coupled to the first IC.
US11139200B2
An embodiment is a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes depositing a hard mask. A multi-layer structure is deposited over the hard mark. The multi-layer structure includes a bottom layer, a first middle layer over the bottom layer, a second middle layer over the first middle layer, and a top layer over the second middle layer. The first middle layer comprises a SiCxHyOz material in which the SiCxHyOz material has a silicon-to-silicon bond content in a range from about 0.5% to about 5%. The multi-layer structure is patterned to form a patterned first middle layer having openings. The hard mask is etched through the openings in the patterned first middle layer.
US11139198B2
A semiconductor on insulator multilayer structure is provided. The multilayer comprises a high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle substrate, an optionally relaxed semiconductor layer comprising silicon, germanium, or silicon germanium, an optional polycrystalline silicon layer, a dielectric layer, and a single crystal semiconductor device layer.
US11139192B2
Disclosed are a substrate treating apparatus and a substrate transporting method. A first ID block takes a substrate from a carrier placed on a carrier platform and sends the taken substrate to one of six treatment layers. Moreover, a second ID block returns the substrate, sent from the treatment layer, for example, to a carrier placed on a platform. This allows the first ID block to transport many substrates to the six treatment layers arranged in an upward/downward direction more rapidly. Moreover, this simultaneously allows the second ID block to transport many substrates, having been sent from the six treatment layers arranged in the upward/downward direction, to the carrier more rapidly. As a result, a throughput of a substrate treating apparatus can be enhanced.
US11139190B2
An equipment front end module may include an equipment front end module body forming an equipment front end module chamber. The equipment front end module body may include plurality of walls. One or more load locks or process chambers may be coupled to one or more first walls. One or more load ports may be provided in one or more second walls, wherein each of the one or more load ports are configured to dock a substrate carrier. A plurality of alignment pedestals may be housed within the equipment front end module chamber. A load/unload robot may be at least partially housed within the equipment front end module chamber, wherein the load/unload robot may include a plurality of blades. Other apparatus and methods are disclosed.
US11139187B2
An adsorption device includes a substrate, a plurality of magnetic films, and a plurality of magnets. The substrate defines a plurality of receiving grooves spaced apart from each other. Each receiving groove defines a bottom wall and a side wall. Each magnetic film is in one receiving groove and covers the bottom wall and the side wall. The magnetic films are made of magnetic material. Each magnet is in one receiving groove. Each magnetic film is between the substrate and one magnet, a large number of magnetized LEDs of very small size are attracted on a one-to-one basis to the receiving grooves for transfer and placement of the LEDs onto a display panel which is in the course of being manufactured.
US11139184B2
The inventive concept provides an apparatus and a method for heat-treating a substrate. The method includes a first treatment operation of spacing a substrate apart from a support plate provided with a heater to a first height in a state in which a treatment space, in which the substrate is treated, is closed and heating the substrate, a second treatment operation of, after the first treatment operation, lowering the substrate such that the substrate is located at a second height and heating the substrate, a third treatment operation of, after the second treatment operation, lifting the substrate such that the substrate is spaced apart from the support plate to be located at a third height and heating the substrate, and a fourth treatment operation of, after the third treatment operation, lowering the substrate such that the substrate is located at a fourth height and heating the substrate.
US11139183B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a first robotic arm configured to transport a wafer into a cleaning chamber, wherein the first robotic arm comprises a first hood that substantially covers the wafer when transported on the first robotic arm; the cleaning chamber configured to clean the wafer; a second robotic arm configured to transport the wafer out of the cleaning chamber, wherein the second robotic arm comprises a second hood that substantially covers the wafer when transported on the second robotic arm, wherein the second robotic arm is different than the first robotic arm.
US11139181B2
A substrate processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a transport block and a plurality of processing blocks. In the transport block, a transport device for transporting a substrate is disposed. The plurality of processing blocks are disposed adjacent to the transport block and process the substrate transported by the transport device. Each processing block includes one liquid processing unit and one drying unit. The liquid processing unit performs a liquid film forming processing so as to form a liquid film on the top surface of the substrate. The drying unit performs a supercritical drying processing in which the substrate is dried by bringing the substrate into contact with the processing fluid in a supercritical state. The liquid processing unit and the drying unit included in the same processing block are disposed on the same side with respect to the movement direction of the transport device of the transport block.
US11139177B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor package structure is provided. The method includes applying a plurality of first adhesive portions onto a carrier; applying a second adhesive portion onto the carrier; disposing a plurality of micro pins respectively in the first adhesive portions, such that each of the micro pins has a first portion embedded in a corresponding one of the first adhesive portions and a second portion protruding from said corresponding one of the first adhesive portions; bonding a die to the second adhesive portion; forming a molding compound surrounding the micro pins and the die; and removing the carrier from the molding compound after forming the molding compound.
US11139170B2
A device and method is described for producing an electrically conductive direct bond between a bonding side of a first substrate and a bonding side of a second substrate. A workspace is included that can be closed, gas-tight, against the environment and can be supplied with a vacuum. The workspace includes a) at least one plasma chamber for modifying at least one of the bonding sides and at least one bonding chamber for bonding the bonding sides, and/or b) at least one combined bonding/plasma chamber for modifying at least one of the bonding sides and for bonding the bonding sides.
US11139168B2
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include depositing a material on a substrate seated on a substrate support housed in a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The processing region may be at least partially defined by the substrate support and a faceplate. The substrate support may be at a first position within the processing region relative to the faceplate. The methods may include translating the substrate support to a second position relative to the faceplate. The methods may include forming a plasma of an etchant precursor within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include etching an edge region of the substrate.
US11139166B2
A method for manufacturing a sputtering target with which an oxide semiconductor film with a small amount of defects can be formed is provided. Alternatively, an oxide semiconductor film with a small amount of defects is formed. A method for manufacturing a sputtering target is provided, which includes the steps of: forming a polycrystalline In-M-Zn oxide (M represents a metal chosen among aluminum, titanium, gallium, yttrium, zirconium, lanthanum, cesium, neodymium, and hafnium) powder by mixing, sintering, and grinding indium oxide, an oxide of the metal, and zinc oxide; forming a mixture by mixing the polycrystalline In-M-Zn oxide powder and a zinc oxide powder; forming a compact by compacting the mixture; and sintering the compact.
US11139163B2
Methods for selectively depositing silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) thin films on a dielectric surface of a substrate relative to a metal surface without generating significant overhangs of SiOC on the metal surface are provided. The methods can include at least one plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) cycle including alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a silicon precursor, a first Ar and H2 plasma, a second Ar plasma and an etchant.
US11139154B2
The invention provides a matrix observation device where a location to be irradiated with a laser beam that provides high efficiency of the ionization can be found from among sample spots arranged on a sample plate. The device is formed of: a stage 31 on which a sample plate 20 on which a sample is to be arranged is to be placed; a light source unit 40 that emits ultraviolet rays for observation with which the sample plate 20 is irradiated; and an image acquisition unit 50 for detecting light from the sample plate 20 so as to create an optical image, and the sample contains a matrix that absorbs the ultraviolet rays for observation.
US11139144B2
The present invention provides a charged particle beam apparatus that covers a wide range of detection angles of charged particles emitted from a sample. Accordingly, the present invention proposes a charged particle beam apparatus that is provided with an objective lens for converging charged particle beams emitted from a charged particle source, and a detector for detecting charged particles emitted from a sample, wherein: the objective lens includes an inner magnetic path and an outer magnetic path which are formed so as to enclose a coil; the inner magnetic path comprises a first inner magnetic path disposed at a position opposite to an optical axis of the charged particle beams and a second inner magnetic path which is formed at a slant with respect to the optical axis of the charged particle beams and which includes a leading end of the magnetic path; and a detection surface of the detector is disposed at the outer side from a virtual straight line that passes through the leading end of the magnetic path and that is parallel to the optical axis of the charged particle beams.
US11139143B2
A spin polarimeter includes: a particle beam source or a photon beam source that is a probe for a sample; a sample chamber in which the sample is accommodated; a spin detector that includes a target to be irradiated with an electron generated from the sample by a particle beam or a photon beam from the probe, and a target chamber in which the target is accommodated, and is configured to detect a spin of the sample by detecting an electron scattered on the target; a first exhaust system that is configured to exhaust the sample chamber; a second exhaust system that is configured to exhaust the target chamber; and an orifice that is disposed between the target chamber and the sample chamber.
US11139142B2
A plurality of energy filter values are obtained using a model that simulates potential distribution within a 3D feature when an electron beam of an SEM impinges on a selected area that includes the 3D feature. A correspondence is extracted between the plurality of energy filter values and respective depths of the 3D feature along a longitudinal direction by analyzing the simulated potential distribution. A plurality of SEM images of the 3D feature corresponding to the plurality of energy filter values are obtained. The plurality of SEM images are associated with their respective depths based on the extracted correspondence between the plurality of energy filter values and the respective depths. A composite 3D profile of the 3D feature is generated from the plurality of SEM images obtained from various depths of the 3D feature.
US11139141B2
An improved particle beam inspection apparatus, and more particularly, a particle beam inspection apparatus including a thermal conditioning station for preconditioning a temperature of a wafer is disclosed. The charged particle beam apparatus may scan the wafer to measure one or more characteristics of the structures on the wafer and analyze the one or more characteristics. The charged particle beam apparatus may further determine a temperature characteristic of the wafer based on the analysis of the one or more characteristics of the structure and adjust the thermal conditioning station based on the temperature characteristic.
US11139136B1
A fuse holder that includes a housing, which has a rotating fuse carrier that rotates about a pivot point between open and closed positions. The fuse carrier is configured to accept insertion of a fuse when in the open position, and configured to bring the fuse into electrical contact with a first and a second fuse clip when in the closed position. Additionally, the fuse carrier, when in the closed position, is further configured to orient the fuse so that the fuse is positioned more vertically than horizontally. In particular embodiments of the invention, the fuse carrier rotates about a pivot located in the housing.
US11139129B2
Keyboards and other input devices are provided with at least one flexible layer that extends over or under the keycaps. The flexible layer spans interkey spaces and lies between inner and outer keycaps. The flexible layer prevents intrusion of invasive material to the keyboard mechanisms and simplifies the appearance of the keyboard area. Some flexible layers help align keycaps by connecting inner and outer keycaps or by providing a mechanical connection interface for the keycaps. Some membranes used in the flexible layer have a layered or composite construction that increases durability and tear resistance by attaching or infusing a mesh material or other tough material to a less durable, elastic material.
US11139123B2
A residual load disconnector switch (1) includes a rotary switch body (23), which includes a contact blade (24, 25, 26, 27), that is rotatable about an axis (A) and is arranged between a feed line connection (20) and a discharge line connection (21), and includes end-side contact surfaces (28, 29, 30, 31) protruding in a radial direction. The contact surfaces, in a closed rotary position (S1) of the rotary switch body (23), are in touching contact with the feed line connection (20) and with the discharge line connection (21). In an open rotary position (S2) of the rotary switch body (23), the contact surfaces are each spaced with respect to the feed line connection (20) and with the discharge line connection (21). The residual load disconnector switch (1) is rotationally limited in one rotational direction for performing switching movements and can be actuated unidirectionally and cyclically.
US11139122B2
A very high capacity capacitor or energy storage comprising a two-layer electrode structure with a separator and an electrolytic fluid, where the electrodes are parallel and connected to one of two terminals. The electrodes are connected to the terminal along a large length so that the connection to the terminal has a low resistance and so that charging may take place faster and with less heat generation.
US11139121B2
To provide a flexible, highly reliable power storage device or light-emitting device. The device includes a battery unit or a light-emitting unit and a member with rubber elasticity. The battery unit includes a secondary battery. The light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting element. The member with rubber elasticity is provided with a first projection and a second projection. The first projection and the second projection are arranged on a first surface of the battery unit or the light-emitting unit. The first projection and the second projection come in contact with each other when the power storage device is bent such that the first surface of the battery unit faces inward.
US11139115B2
The present invention is directed to a surface mount coupling capacitor and a circuit board containing a surface mount coupling capacitor. The coupling capacitor includes a main body containing at least two sets of alternating dielectric layers and internal electrode layers. The coupling capacitor includes external terminals electrically connected to the internal electrode layers wherein the external terminals are formed on a top surface of the coupling capacitor and a bottom surface of the coupling capacitor opposing the top surface of the coupling capacitor.
US11139098B2
An electromagnetic actuator comprising a moving armature (41) comprising a pin (43) and a permanent magnet arrangement (45) arranged coaxially with the pin (43) and secured to it, and an excitation coil arrangement (42) arranged coaxially with the pin (43). The coil arrangement (42) is suppliable with a current to cause a movement of the movable armature (41). The actuator further comprises a surface (51) of ferromagnetic material. The permanent magnet arrangement (45) is axially interposed between the surface (51) of ferromagnetic material and the excitation coil arrangement (42). The permanent magnet arrangement (45) comprises a plurality of permanent magnet regions (45a) arranged around the pin (43) of the moving armature (41), wherein each permanent magnet region (45a) has a polarity opposite to the polarities of the permanent magnet regions (45a) angularly adjacent thereto. The excitation coil arrangement (42) comprises a coil having a lobed shape.
US11139081B2
A device includes a sensor coupled to a processor; and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor. Blockchain smart contracts can be used with the device to facilitate secure operation.
US11139066B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and tools for enhancing cognition in an individual. The methods involve presenting to the individual multiple sets of stimuli. Each set of the multiple set contains two or more stimuli and at least one set of the multiple sets contains a target stimulus. The method then receives an input from the individual, and informs the individual as to whether the input is a correct response. The methods encompass iterations of stimuli presentation, receiving of the input, and lastly, generation of feedback to the individual until the individual learns and retains what the target stimulus is.
US11139060B2
A computer-implemented system may include a treatment device configured to be manipulated by a user while the user is performing a treatment plan, a patient interface. and a computing device configured to: receive treatment data pertaining to the user who uses the treatment device to perform the treatment plan; identify at least one enhanced component using the treatment data; generate an enhanced environment using the at least one enhanced component and the treatment plan; output at least one aspect of the enhanced environment to at least one of the patient interface and another interface; receive subsequent treatment data pertaining to the user; and selectively modify at least one of the enhanced environment and at least one of the at least one aspect of the treatment plan and any other aspect of the treatment plan using the subsequent treatment data.
US11139046B2
Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing genomic data. Aspects include receiving genomic data for an organism, sample phenotypes, and a plurality of gene sets. Aspects include, for each of the gene sets, determining a set of genes G corresponding to genes in the gene set and a set of genes G′ corresponding to genes outside the gene set for the phenotypes R and R′. Aspects also include determining a set of mutated genes M and a set of non-mutated genes M′ for R and R′ and a mutation enrichment score. Aspects also include determining a set of differentiated genes D a set of non-differentiated genes D′ for R and R′. Aspects also include identifying an enriched gene set GE based at least in part upon the mutation enrichment score and the differentiation enrichment score.
US11139037B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first memory cell and a second memory cell capable of storing data and coupled in parallel to a bit line; a first word line coupled to the first memory cell; a second word line coupled to the second memory cell and being different from the first word line; and a control circuit. The first memory cell and the second memory cell share a first well region and are opposed to each other, with the first well region interposed. The control circuit is configured, in a first operation, to repeat application of a first voltage to the first word line and the second word line a plurality of times while increasing the first voltage.
US11139033B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory banks including a first memory bank group including a computation circuit and a second memory bank group without a computation circuit; and a control circuit configured to control a PIM operation by the first memory bank group to be performed together with processing of memory requests for the plurality of memory banks while satisfying a maximum power consumption condition of the semiconductor memory device.
US11139031B1
A storage device is disclosed herein. The storage device comprises a block including a plurality of memory cells and a circuit coupled to the plurality of memory cells of the block. The circuit is configured to determine data states for a first set of memory cells of a neighboring word line of the set of word lines, determine a bit line voltage bias and a sense time for a memory cell of a second set of memory cells of the selected word line based on a data state determined for a memory cell for each memory cell of the second set of memory cells, and perform a verify operation on the selected word line using the bit line voltage bias and the sense time determined for each memory cell of the second set of memory cells.
US11139025B2
A multi-level cell (MLC) one-selector-one-resistor (1S1R) three-dimensional (3D) cross-point memory system includes at least one MLC 1S1R structure including a stacked arrangement of a phase change memory (PCM) cell and a threshold switch selector. An electrically conductive bit line is in electrical communication with the OTS selector, and an electrically conductive word line is in electrical communication with the PCM cell. A controller is in electrical communication with the bit line and the word line. The controller is configured to select at least one voltage pulse from a group of different voltage pulses comprising a read pulse, a partial set pulse, a set pulse, a partial reset pulse, and a reset pulse, and configured to deliver the selected at least one voltage pulse to the at least one MLC 1S1R structure.
US11139021B2
A memory device includes a first page buffer supplying a first bias voltage to a selected bitline in a bitline precharge phase; and a second page buffer supplying a second bias voltage to an unselected bitline, adjacent to the selected bitline, in the bitline precharge phase, wherein the first page buffer includes a first bitline precharge circuit supplying the first bias voltage to the selected bitline, the second page buffer includes a second bitline precharge circuit supplying the second bias voltage to the unselected bitline, wherein the second page buffer floats the unselected bitline in a sensing phase for detecting data of a selected memory cell connected to the selected to bitline.
US11139010B2
Provided is a method for operating an interface circuit of a memory device. The method includes receiving a command from a controller; determining whether the command is for a semiconductor memory or the interface circuit, the semiconductor memory operatively coupled to the interface circuit; and when it is determined that the command is for the interface circuit, performing a blocking operation to block transfer of the command between the interface circuit and the semiconductor memory and performing an internal operation of the interface circuit. The internal operation includes a signal controlling operation, a training operation, a read operation, an on-die termination operation, a ZQ calibration operation, or a driving force control operation.
US11139001B2
A semiconductor device comprises a stack structure comprising decks each comprising a memory element level comprising memory elements, and a control logic level in electrical communication with the memory element level and comprising control logic devices. At least one of the control logic devices of the control logic level of one or more of the decks comprises at least one device exhibiting a gate electrode shared by neighboring vertical transistors thereof. A control logic assembly, a control logic device, an electronic system, a method of forming a control logic device, and a method of operating a semiconductor device are also described.
US11138997B2
A multilayer exchange spring recording media consist of a magnetically hard magnetic storage layer strongly exchange coupled to a softer nucleation host. The strong exchange coupling can be through a coupling layer or direct. The hard magnetic storage layer has a strong perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation host consists of one or more ferromagnetic coupled layers. For a multilayer nucleation host the anisotropy increases from layer to layer. The anisotropy in the softest layer of the nucleation host can be two times smaller than that of the hard magnetic storage layer. The lateral exchange between the grains is small. The nucleation host decreases the coercive field significantly while keeping the energy barrier of the hard layer almost unchanged. The coercive field of the total structure depends on one over number of layers in the nucleation host. The invention proposes a recording media that overcomes the writeability problem of perpendicular recording media.
US11138994B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a shield, a magnetic pole, a first magnetic layer provided between the shield and the magnetic pole, a second magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the magnetic pole, a third magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic layer and the magnetic pole, a first nonmagnetic layer provided between the shield and the first magnetic layer, a second nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, a third nonmagnetic layer provided between the second magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer, and a fourth nonmagnetic layer provided between the third magnetic layer and the magnetic pole. The first and third nonmagnetic layers include one of Cu, Ag, Au, Al, and Ti. The second and fourth nonmagnetic layers include one of Ta, Pt, Ir, W, Mo, Cr, Tb, Rh, Pd, and Ru.
US11138993B1
One or more write efficiency metrics are determined. The one or more write efficiency metrics are associated with a tape storage drive while the tape storage drive is operating on one or more tape storage media cartridges to write data sets to the one or more tape storage media cartridges. It is predicted whether the tape storage drive would be able to write an entire set of data sets to a current tape storage media cartridge based on the one or more write efficiency metrics. It is determined whether a different tape storage drive is to be utilized to complete writing of the entire set of data sets to the current tape storage media cartridge based on the prediction.
US11138983B2
In general, techniques are described for signaling layers for scalable coding of higher order ambisonic audio data. A device comprising a memory and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may be configured to store the bitstream. The processor may be configured to obtain, from the bitstream, an indication of a number of layers specified in the bitstream, and obtain the layers of the bitstream based on the indication of the number of layers.
US11138967B2
A speech recognition and processing method, a device and a non-volatile computer storage medium are provided. The method comprises: performing training on a pre-set processing model according to speech sample data from all areas of a country to generate a general acoustic model for common speech (S110); and performing self-adaptive training on the general acoustic model according to speech sample data of respective province to generate an acoustic model for common speech with dialectal accent corresponding to the respective province (S120).
US11138962B2
A display apparatus includes a display module including a display panel configured to display an image and a first sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel, the first sound generating device including a first vibration generating device and a second vibration generating device adjacent to the first vibration generating device, the first vibration generating device is configured to vibrate a center region of the first sound generating device based on a signal applied to the first sound generating device, and the second vibration generating device is configured to vibrate a periphery of the display panel based on the applied signal.
US11138961B2
A sound output device comprising a data storage device storing a first sound signal, a second sound signal, and a third sound signal and a controller including a processor that implements instructions stored in a memory to execute a plurality of tasks, including a sound signal output tasks that reads the first and second sound signals or the first and third sound signals from the data storage device based on first information included in an instruction signal that instructs outputting of sound, the first information designating a magnitude of the sound and outputs the read sound signals.
US11138957B2
A main body fixing member is disclosed. The main body fixing member fixes an endpin including a shaft portion having a first end housed in a musical instrument main body and a second end stood on a floor. The shaft portion is provided with a recess. The main body fixing member includes a fitting portion, a through hole through which the shaft portion of the endpin extends, an opening disposed orthogonal to the through hole and having a bottom surface, a columnar member, a biasing portion, and a pressing portion. The columnar member is provided with a hole through which the shaft portion extends, and an engagement protrusion engaged with the recess of the shaft portion. The engagement protrusion is formed on an inner surface of the hole. The pressing portion presses the shaft portion inserted into the through hole and the hole via the columnar member.
US11138953B1
A method for performing dynamic peak brightness control in a display module and an associated timing controller are provided. The method includes: calculating a maximum value and a minimum value of a previous image to determine a contrast ratio (CR) of the previous image; calculating a maximum level quantity (MLQ) of the previous image, wherein the MLQ represents a number of pixels corresponding to the maximum value; performing pixel data mapping on original pixel data of a current image according to a first gain corresponding to the MLQ, to generate intermediate pixel data of the current image; and performing selective pixel data adjustment on the intermediate pixel data according to a second gain corresponding to the CR and the MLQ, to generate updated pixel data of the current image, for being displayed on a display panel of the display module, wherein the updated pixel data replaces the original pixel data.
US11138941B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a display area including a pixel for receiving an emitting signal and emitting light, and first and second emitting signal generators provided on respective sides of the display area. Each of the first and second emitting signal generators includes a plurality of emitting signal stages. Each of the plurality of emitting signal stages are respectively connected to n-numbered pixel rows, and two adjacent emitting signal stages to which the n-numbered adjacent pixel rows are connected are in a same one of the first and second emitting signal generators.
US11138940B2
A display device includes a scan driver which includes a first stage including a first output terminal connected to a first carry line, a second output terminal connected to a first scan line, and a third output terminal connected to a first sensing line, and a second stage including a first input terminal connected to the first carry line, a fourth output terminal connected to a second scan line, and a fifth output terminal connected to a second sensing line. In a sensing period, signals having a turn-on level are respectively output from the first output terminal, the second output terminal, and the third output terminal during a predetermined delay period before signals having a turn-on level are respectively output from the fourth output terminal and the fifth output terminal.
US11138932B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel current detection circuit, a pixel current detection method, and a display device. The pixel current detection circuit includes: a pixel current conversion circuit which obtains a first pixel current, a second pixel current and a third pixel current according to an input pixel current to be detected, wherein a ratio of the first pixel current to the second pixel current and a ratio of the second pixel current to the third pixel current are predetermined values; and a current detection circuit which is connected to the pixel current conversion circuit, converts the first pixel current into a first detection voltage, the second pixel current into a second detection voltage, and the third pixel current into a third detection voltage, and determines the pixel current according to the first detection voltage, the second detection voltage and the third detection voltage.
US11138929B2
A display device includes a pixel including a light emitting element connected to a scan line and a data line; a driving transistor that controls a driving current supplied to the light emitting element according to a data voltage applied from the data line. The driving transistor includes a first semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode disposed on the first semiconductor layer. The display device includes a switching transistor that applies the data voltage to the driving transistor according to a scan signal applied to the scan line. The switching transistor includes a second semiconductor layer, and a second gate electrode disposed on the second semiconductor layer. The display device includes a light blocking layer and a first buffer layer disposed at a lower portion of the driving transistor. The light blocking layer and the first buffer layer do not overlap the switching transistor.
US11138919B2
A display apparatus includes a first signal pad and a second signal pad on a substrate. The first signal pad receives a first voltage. The second signal pad receives a second voltage less than the first voltage. The at least one conductive pad is between the first signal pad and the second signal pad and receives an alternating current voltage.
US11138914B2
A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels formed over the substrate and a plurality of signal lines formed over the substrate and connected to the pixels. The signal lines include a plurality of data lines formed over the substrate and a first crack sensing line connected to a first data line. The first crack sensing line is divided into first and second sections and the first section has a width that is greater than that of the second section.
US11138909B2
An apparatus, system and method for mounting and removing electronic shelf label (ESL) modules includes a channel having a first portion for receiving an ESL module and a second portion for receiving a display holder. A tool aids in removal of the ESL from the first portion and aids in removal of the display holder from the second portion. The display holder has an engagement edge that fits into the second channel and a sign gripper with a movable portion connected to a fixed portion. A peg on the movable portion extends through the sign and into a hole in the fixed portion.
US11138889B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reserving airspace for UAV operations. In some implementations, a flight planning system can reserve and allocate airspace for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. For example, a UAV operator device can submit a flight plan to the flight planning system. The flight planning system can submit a flight authorization request to an airspace management system to reserve airspace necessary for the flight plan. The flight planning system can receive approval and/or a reservation of the airspace for the flight plan from the airspace management system, generate a flight data package, and send the flight data package to the operator's device.
US11138878B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a system comprising a processor, a driver profile according to a driver identity for a driver of a vehicle, selecting a driver-specific enforcement scenario for the vehicle according to the driver profile and traffic enforcement information that is associated with a vehicle location, and presenting an in-vehicle alert to convey the driver-specific enforcement scenario to the driver. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11138874B2
A timing control method and a timing control apparatus for a signal light, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: determining an optimal passing-through duration of a signal light corresponding to each passing-through direction at a target intersection according to traffic in the passing-through direction; determining a range of values for each variable in a calibration function corresponding to the target intersection according to a constraint to each passing-through direction at the target intersection, wherein the calibration function comprises the optimal passing-through duration corresponding to each passing-through direction and a variable corresponding to a final passing-through duration in each passing-through direction; and calculating the final passing-through duration in each passing-through direction in a case where the calibration function meets a preset condition, according to the range of values for each variable.
US11138865B1
An emergency alert system and method of operation are provided. The system includes an emergency alert pad configured to detect a pad activation by a service animal and communicate a pad alert in response. An emergency alert vest is worn by the service animal and is configured to detect a vest activation by a person in proximity and communicate a vest alert in response. A user mobile device is in communication with the emergency alert pad and vest and is configured to record a pre-recorded message. At least one affiliated mobile device is configured to receive the pre-recorded message during the pad activation and the vest activation. An emergency response center is in communication with the emergency alert pad and the emergency alert vest and is configured to receive at least one of the pad alert and the vest alert and provide emergency services accordingly.
US11138864B2
An early alert system and a method for livestock disease detection are disclosed. An activity measurement zone (AMZ) is defined near an incentive device (e.g. a livestock feeder) with an RFID tag reader and a uniquely-designed feedlot fence crossbar-embedded RFID antenna, which amplifies multiple signal wavelengths in a single dipole antenna. The early alert system is configured to detect and count an animal's access into the AMZ with an RFID tag attached to the animal. If the animals' activity relative to the AMZ drops to an alarmingly low level (e.g. dropping below an alert trigger point) over time, then a user of the early alert system is informed of a potential health problem of the animal and may also be encouraged to inspect the animal in person for further determination of its current health and potential medical issues.
US11138863B2
A vehicle condition reminding method includes the following steps: detecting the vehicle condition of the vehicle; and when the user leaves the vehicle by at least a predetermined distance and the vehicle condition is abnormal, the user is reminded of the abnormal vehicle condition. When the user leaves the vehicle a certain distance, the vehicle condition reminding system can give her/him a reminding device, so that the user can know the abnormal vehicle conditions in the vehicle in time, and can return to the vehicle within a short time to process and resolve these abnormal vehicle conditions.
US11138862B2
In one aspect, a first device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine, based on input from at least one sensor, whether a conference room is in use. The instructions are also executable to, based on the determination, provide an electronic notification to a second device regarding whether the conference room is in use.
US11138861B2
A virtual care system. The system identifies movement and status (e.g., location, time duration in a location, direction of movement, last activity) of an inhabitant of a premises, and takes actions based on the identified movement and status. The system includes an activity plan comprising a plurality of activity primitives. Each activity primitive comprises a time window, and classifies movements and/or activities of the inhabitant as, for example, expected or unexpected or abnormal patterns of behavior, based on occurrence and/or absence of output from a single sensor or paired sensors at the premises in the time window. The system is configured to notify caregivers with different levels of urgency (e.g., informational or warning to critical) based on the classifications of the detected movements and/or activities, and/or to take other actions such as turning off the lights and locking the door.
US11138850B2
Systems and methods for coupling a tag to an item. The methods comprise: dispensing the tag from a tag feeder of a tag applicator; performing first operations by the tag applicator to mechanically move the tag into a nest of the tag applicator; determining if a given criteria is met based on feedback information received from at least one of a user of the tag applicator and a sensor provided with the tag applicator; and performing second operations by the tag applicator to couple the tag to the item, when a determination is made that the given criteria is met.
US11138849B2
A security tag including: a housing and circuitry which detects a locked state, the circuitry configured to execute a signal transfer function responsive to interchanging a pin and a lanyard in the circuitry, and/or the housing including a replaceable battery compartment locked by inserting either the pin or the lanyard into a lock mechanism which differently secures the pin and the lanyard; and an alarm, in communication with the circuitry, triggered by an undisarmed breach of the locked state.
US11138841B2
A reading apparatus for reading a wireless tag attached to a commodity includes a wireless tag reader configured to emit a radio wave and read information in a radio wave returned from a wireless tag, and a processor configured to control the wireless tag reader to emit the radio wave, upon detection of radio waves returned from one or more wireless tags, determine one or more commodity codes based on information contained in the radio waves, and upon detection of at least one commodity placed in a predetermined area, register the one or more commodity codes determined within a predetermined time prior to the placement of said at least one commodity in the predetermined area.
US11138836B2
A method of providing a multi-player wagering game includes displaying, on at least one primary display device to at least one primary player, a primary game interface for the wagering game comprising a first plurality of game elements for facilitating play of the wagering game by the at least one primary player. The method also includes displaying, on at least one secondary display device to at least one secondary player, a secondary game interface for the wagering game comprising a second plurality of game elements for facilitating play of the wagering game by the at least one secondary player, wherein play of the wagering game by the at least one secondary player includes wagering on at least one outcome associated with play of the wagering game by the at least one primary player.
US11138830B2
A gaming system and method where at least two player terminals, each including a seat, a display, inputs/outputs, a reader system, and an electro-mechanical component that provides a first gaming event unique to the terminal on which wagers can be placed and resolved based on a random event outcome. The system and method also includes a communal gaming system connected to terminals and including a processor and memory for storing code that executes a second gaming event that is common to each terminal and displayed on a display visible to each player of the terminals. The first gaming events are carried out on the terminals during or between each second gaming event.
US11138829B2
Roulette game cycle optimization and methods for synchronizing game cycles of double roulette wheels
A roulette wagering system is described that includes a roulette machine configured to operate live roulette games in which a roulette ball is launched into an angled annular track encircling a roulette wheel. A controller associated with the roulette machine may regulate one or more inertial values associated with the roulette ball. A bet close time of a betting window associated with the live roulette games may be determined based on the one or more inertial values associated. A rotation velocity of the roulette wheel may be adjusted subsequent to a bet close time of a live roulette games. Game cycle events may be detected using audio associated with the live roulette games and audible and/or visual effects may be generated based on the audio. A controller associated with the roulette machine may synchronizes the live roulette games operated by the roulette machine with live roulette games operated by one or more additional roulette machines. Bets may be placed based on a player selected betting risk level.
US11138825B2
In one aspect, an electronic gaming system is described. The electronic gaming system includes a display device, a random number generator (RNG), a player input interface, and a game controller configured to execute instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium. When executed by the game controller, the instructions cause the game controller to at least determine, during play of a base game, that an enhancement trigger condition is satisfied and convert the symbol displayed on each position having one of the first frame and the second frame displayed thereon into a wild symbol. The instructions further cause the game controller to determine that a bonus game trigger condition is satisfied and convert a plurality of positions on each reel with at least one position having the second frame displayed thereon, into a bonus reel. The instructions also cause the game controller to generate a bonus game outcome.
US11138824B1
An electronic gaming machine for playing a wagering dice game. A player terminal of the electronic gaming machine has a display device having three display areas. The first display area displays a plurality of user-selectable wagering options associated with the wagering dice game. The second display area displays a first plurality of colored die images, each die image displaying a predicted die outcome. The third display area displays a second plurality of colored die images, each die image displaying an actual die outcome. If the predicted die outcomes displayed on the first plurality of colored die images at least partially match the actual die outcomes displayed on the second plurality of respectively colored die images, a user wins a reward in a bonus game. The reward enables the user to repeat eligible user-placed wagers in a bonus round of the wagering game, without requiring user funding for the repeated wagers.
US11138801B2
An augmented reality system includes a first scene and a second scene. Further, the augmented reality system includes a partially reflective surface positioned relative to the first scene, the second scene, and an audience to facilitate viewing of one of the first scene or the second scene through the partially reflective surface and to facilitate reflection of the other of the first scene or the second scene toward the audience as augmented reality imagery. A sensor of the augmented reality system is designed to detect and generate data indicative of a characteristic of the first scene, and a correlative effect system is operable to receive the data and adjust the second scene based thereon.
US11138798B2
An electronic device displays an environment that includes a virtual object that is associated with a first action that is triggered based on satisfaction of a first set of criteria. In response to a first input detected while the environment is displayed: the first action is performed in accordance with a determination that the first input satisfies the first set of criteria, and, in accordance with a determination that the first input does not satisfy the first set of criteria but instead satisfies a second set of criteria, the first action is not performed and instead a first visual indication of one or more inputs that if performed would cause the first set of criteria to be satisfied is displayed.
US11138794B2
An apparatus for generating a virtual reality environment comprising: controller circuitry configured to: insert a captured image of an object in the virtual reality environment; move the captured image within the virtual reality environment; pause the movement of the captured image in the virtual reality environment; generate a rendered representation of at least part of the captured image; replace the at least part of the captured image with the rendered representation in the virtual reality environment; and move the rendered representation within the virtual reality environment.
US11138789B1
Approaches described and suggested herein relate to generating an enhanced point cloud representation of an objection and generating a surface mesh from the enhanced point cloud. The surface mesh can be used to render three-dimensional representations of objects on personal devices such as smartphones and personal computers, for example. Generating an enhanced point cloud of an object includes capturing a plurality of images of the object from a plurality of viewpoints about the object, generating an initial point cloud representation of the object from the plurality of images, generating a preliminary surface mesh from the point cloud using a Delauney-based meshing algorithm, and sampling points from the preliminary surface mesh. The sampled points are then added to the point cloud to form the enhanced point cloud. A final surface mesh can then be generated from the enhanced point cloud using a Poisson-based meshing algorithm.
US11138786B1
A method of operating a graphics processor comprises snapping a position of a vertex to an array of vertex positions to produce one or more first representations of the position of the vertex, and converting each of one or more of the first representations of the position of the vertex into a second representation of the position of the vertex. At least one bit of the second representation of the position of the vertex is unused to represent the position of the vertex. The method comprises using the at least one bit of the second representation of the position of the vertex to represent the one or more other vertex attributes to form a representation of both the position of the vertex and the one or more other vertex attributes, and storing a representation of both the position of the vertex and the one or more other vertex attributes.
US11138773B2
Optimization of a process having multidimensional independent and dependent variables includes receiving multidimensional variables, preparing axis sets, each axis of the axis sets having an assigned independent variable, and receiving an innermost or base color plot having values of a selected dependent variable plotted along respective at least first and second axes at initial discrete incremental values. Based on the innermost color plot, the value of the selected dependent variable is computed as a function of at least third and fourth respective independent variables assigned to axes of a second axis set for respective discrete incremental values of each of the respective third and fourth independent variables. Using the computed values, a color plot is plotted along each of the respective third and fourth independent axes at each of the respective discrete incremental values, wherein a stage plot includes the plotted color plots.
US11138772B2
Provided are a search system and a search method capable of searching an unknown combination of material property parameters having a significant relationship based on already known relationships from among multiple arbitrary combinations of material property parameters. The search system includes a database, a graph generator, and a graph searcher, and is configured as follows: the database stores the plurality of pairs of material property parameters having mutual relationships, and the graph generator generates a graph in which material property parameters stored in the database are nodes, and an inter-node corresponding to the pairs of material property parameters stored to have mutual relationships is an edge. The graph searcher searches the graph generated by the graph generator based on a given search condition and outputs a search result.
US11138766B2
The method of the invention expresses an image with colors by creating a color expression drawing that corresponds to the image to be visualized, wherein: in a first step, n subject(s) each select(s), from among a color sample group that includes color samples including A×B types of color samples, S types of color samples that correspond to the image, and assign(s) a contribution degree for each of the selected color samples; in a second step, an expression chart of each of the n subject(s) is created using the contribution degrees assigned and the color samples of the color sample group; in a third step, for each samples, the contribution degree(s) included in the expression chart(s) of the n subject(s) are summed, thereby obtaining the sums of the contribution degrees of the n subject(s) for the respective color samples, where A, B, S≥2, and n≥1.
US11138753B2
A method for localizing a sensor in a vehicle includes using a first sensor mounted on a vehicle to capture at least one image of a moveable element of the vehicle, the moveable element having a predetermined spatial relationship to a second sensor mounted on the vehicle, the moveable element being moveable relative to the first sensor; determining spatial information on the moveable element on the basis of the at least one image; and localizing the second sensor on the basis of the spatial information by a transformation rule representing the predetermined spatial relationship between the moveable element and the second sensor.
US11138745B2
Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices for associating objects are provided. For example, the disclosed technology can receive sensor data associated with the detection of objects over time. An association dataset can be generated and can include information associated with object detections of the objects at a most recent time interval and object tracks of the objects at time intervals in the past. A subset of the association dataset including the object detections that satisfy some association subset criteria can be determined. Association scores for the object detections in the subset of the association dataset can be determined. Further, the object detections can be associated with the object tracks based on the association scores for each of the object detections in the subset of the association dataset that satisfy some association criteria.
US11138740B2
The present disclosure provides an image processing method, an image processing apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The image processing method of the embodiment of the present disclosure is for an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring a depth image of a current user, and acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) background image of a scene populated by the current user; performing edge extraction on the 3D background image to acquire depth data, in the 3D background image, of edge pixels of a target object in the 3D background image; determining whether the current user collides with the target object in the scene based on the depth image of the current user and the depth data of the edge pixels of the target object; and performing a predetermined operation on the electronic device in response to that the current user collides with the target object.
US11138737B2
Disclosed herein are methods for predicting the reprogramming process of cells from a microscopic image of one or more cells. According to some embodiments, the method includes capturing an image of region of interest (ROI) of every pixel of the microscopic image, followed by processing the ROI image with a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) model and a trained long short-term memory (LSTM) network so as to obtain predicted probability maps. Also disclosed herein are a storage medium and a system for executing the present methods.
US11138727B2
A system for inspecting a customized dental device associated with a dental application for manufacturing defects is disclosed. The system obtains images of the customized device and identifies an identifier of the customized device. The system determines a digital file associated with the customized device based on the identifier, the digital file including a first digital model of the customized device and/or a second digital model of a mold used during manufacture of the customized device. The system determines an intended property for the customized device based on at least one of the first digital model or the second digital model, determines an actual property of the customized device from the images, determines whether there is a manufacturing defect in the customized device by comparing the intended property for the customized device with the actual property of the customized device, and outputs an output associated with the determination.
US11138721B2
Briefly, a method for verifying the visual perceptibility of a display is provided. An intended message is written to a bistable display. Pixels that comprise portions of the message are measured and evaluated to determine if the message actually displayed on the bistable display was perceptible by a human or a machine. In some cases, information regarding the message actually perceivable from the display may be stored for later use. Responsive to determining that a message is perceivable or not perceivable, alarms may be set, one or more third parties notified, or additional display features may be set.
US11138715B2
A method for determining experience quality of virtual reality (VR) multimedia includes, in a process of playing VR multimedia, obtaining a first sensory parameter, a second sensory parameter, and a third sensory parameter of the VR multimedia, where the first sensory parameter, the second sensory parameter, and the third sensory parameter are obtained by performing sampling separately according to at least two same perceptual dimensions, and are respectively parameters that affect fidelity experience, enjoyment experience, and interaction experience, and determining a mean opinion score (MOS) of the VR multimedia based on the first sensory parameter, the second sensory parameter, and the third sensory parameter of the VR multimedia. Because the third sensory parameter is a parameter that affects the interaction experience, an interaction feature of the VR multimedia is considered.
US11138709B2
Embodiments relate to fusion processing between two images captured with two different exposure times to generate a fused image with a higher dynamic range. An unscaled single color version of a first image is blended with another unscaled single color version of a second image to generate an unscaled single color version of the fused image. A downscaled multi-color version of the first image is blended with a downscaled multi-color version of the second image to generate a downscaled multi-color version of the fused image of a plurality of downscaled versions of the fused image. A first downscaled multi-color version of the fused image is generated by upscaling and accumulating the plurality of downscaled versions of the fused image. The first downscaled multi-color version of the fused image has a pixel resolution lower than a pixel resolution of the unscaled single color version of the fused image.
US11138704B2
An intelligent police car loudspeaker includes a loudspeaker mechanism composed of a dust cover, a paper cone, a yoke ring, a centering piece, a magnet, a voice coil, and a soft iron core. The voice coil is disposed around the soft iron core. The magnet is disposed around the voice coil. The paper cone is disposed above the magnet. The centering piece is disposed above the magnet and located inside the paper cone. The yoke ring is disposed above the centering piece and located inside the paper cone. The dust cover is configured to cover an opening of the paper cone. With the present invention, the level of intelligence of the loudspeaker can be improved.
US11138698B2
A method and device for correcting image artifacts. Pixel quotient values of camera images are computed in a first direction by comparing intensity differences between neighboring pixels. Median values of pixel quotient values are computed with respect to time and attenuation factors of pixel lations are computed. Corrected pixel intensities can then be derived by dividing observed pixel intensities by attenuation factors of the respective pixel locations.
US11138694B2
A method of video decoding performed in a video decoder includes receiving compressed geometric data corresponding to a three dimensional (3D) space. The method further includes receiving a low resolution occupancy map associated with the data cloud. The method further includes converting the low resolution occupancy map to a high resolution occupancy map. The method further includes reconstructing a point cloud using the compressed geometric data and the high resolution occupancy map. The method further includes performing a smoothing operation on one of the (i) reconstructed point cloud and (ii) the high resolution occupancy map.
US11138688B2
Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting point cloud data. The method may include acquiring point cloud data, encoding geometry information including positions of points in the point cloud data, encoding attribute information including attribute values of points in the point cloud data based on the geometry information, and transmitting the encoded geometry information, the encoded attribute information and signaling information.
US11138686B2
Embodiments described herein provide a graphics processor that can perform a variety of mixed and multiple precision instructions and operations. One embodiment provides a streaming multiprocessor that can concurrently execute multiple thread groups, wherein the streaming multiprocessor includes a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture and the streaming multiprocessor is to execute multiple threads for each of multiple instructions. The streaming multiprocessor can perform concurrent integer and floating-point operations and includes a mixed precision core to perform operations at multiple precisions.
US11138685B2
Methods and apparatuses for watermark embedding and extracting are provided. A method for watermark embedding includes obtaining a carrier object and watermark information to be embedded in the carrier object; generating at least one encoding region including the watermark information according to the watermark information, the at least one encoding region including a plurality of template lattices; obtaining a watermark image according to the at least one encoding region; and embedding the watermark image in the carrier object.
US11138679B2
A management method includes a step A of estimating, for each of the plurality of entities, an error pattern related to a prediction error occurring when a power consumption amount in a future period is predicted; and a step B of determining a group of entities from among the plurality of entities based on the error pattern, wherein the group is a destination of a power reduction request for reducing the power consumption amount. The step A includes a step of estimating whether the prediction error is a positive error or a negative error. The step B includes a step of determining the group such that a total prediction error of the group is minimized, by combining an entity of which the prediction error is estimated to be a positive error and an entity of which the prediction error is estimated to be a negative error.
US11138673B1
Intelligent micro devices on a vehicle can be scanned or read using a reading device. A map or data indicative of the micro devices on the vehicle can be generated by scanning the vehicle. The data or map may be used to determine loss or transfer of one or more micro devices on the vehicle. An accident associated with the vehicle can be determined based on loss or transfer of one or more the micro devices. The micro devices can store data associated with the vehicle, including an identity of the vehicle and a history of the vehicle. The micro devices can be read to determine the identity of the vehicle or another vehicle involved in the accident.
US11138668B2
A data processing implemented sales and activation system is used to distribute insurance products and services. A two stage operation is facilitated by the selectively arranged retail packaging used in conjunction with an on-line activation process to permit enhanced marketing of insurance and other insured products and services.
US11138666B2
Embodiments include systems and methods for evaluating the integrity of a model portfolio designed to have substantially the same values, returns, or risk characteristics as a financial instrument. Embodiments include operating a first computer to perform a statistical comparison between said model portfolio and the financial instrument, wherein said statistical comparison compares at least one of the periodic values, returns, and risk characteristics of the model portfolio and the financial instrument over some period of time. The results of the statistical comparison are periodically published throughout a trading day for use by a trader to at least one (i) price and (ii) hedge an investment in the financial instrument. According to embodiments, the model portfolio does not reveal the holdings of a reference asset for the financial instrument.
US11138653B1
The core inventive points of this patent are the verification of a purchasing activity for a crowdsourcing based system and/or platform. There are two main aspects, the verification of purchasing certification from two sources and the verification of the implemented purchasing actions. The system respectively obtains the purchase proof from the implementing user and the purchase certification from the corresponding business owner. A comparison process is implemented to verify whether these two sources of purchase certification can be matched with each other. Furthermore, an address obtaining process is triggered when pre-defined user responses and/or actions were received to generate one or multiple obtained address associated with timestamp. And one or multiple extracted purchase addresses is obtained by respectively extract purchase address from the two sources of purchase certificate. The verification of the implemented purchasing action is implemented by comparing the obtained purchasing address with the extracted purchase address.
US11138642B2
A system and method for transmitting real-time messages within a supply chain financing (SCF) network using a using a customized and improved messaging protocol is provided. A computing device receives a SCF request message having an SCF messaging protocol including a plurality of data fields including SCF request data related to a request for supply chain financing including an early payment identifier, parses the SCF request message based upon the SCF messaging protocol, selects a financing entity for receiving the request, stores within the memory device the SCF request data, transmits an early payment message having the same messaging protocol to the selected financing entity, receives a confirmation message having the same SCF messaging protocol from the financing entity including a plurality of data fields including SCF confirmation data, and stores within the memory device the SCF confirmation data with the SCF request data.
US11138632B2
A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign includes identifying at least one customer of a financial institution via at least one cookie associated with the at least one customer; matching a prospective unique customer identification code with at least one key lifestyle indicator, which describe customer attributes, associated with the at least one customer; delivering online a pre-advertisement to at least one selected customer that is matched with the key lifestyle indicators; receiving an authentication of at least one selected customer from the financial institution; and delivering a financial application form associated with the pre-advertisement to the at least one authenticated customer who accepts the pre-advertisement.
US11138631B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for predictive user segmentation modeling and browsing interaction analysis for digital advertising. In one embodiment, an example method may include identifying a target consumer segment, generating a predictive user behavior model for the target consumer segment based at least in part on selected user data, and receiving an indication that a user is browsing a website. Example methods may include generating a first customer score for the user using the predictive user behavior model in real-time, and determining that the first customer score meets a consumer segment modification threshold for the target consumer segment.
US11138628B2
Methods and apparatus for implementing a promotion offer language architecture for representing offer. The promotion offer language architecture includes at least an offer type field and an offer expression field. The offer type field pertains to the type of offer. The offer expression field pertains to identification of items that the offer applies to and/or the condition required to receive the benefits of the offer type. The item is identified by a quantity and a product identification.
US11138626B2
Product vendors are provided with a system for performing a marketing campaign to mobile communication device users, providing offers as instruments, such as digital coupons, to a selected group of users of the mobile communication devices and validating the integrity of the instruments. The invention has two phases: the selection of the components of the instrument from a menu provided by a social networking organization; and validating the instrument upon redemption from the product vendor. In the first phase, the product vendor selects elements from the menu relevant to the campaign, such as timing, nature of the offer, targeting of the recipients, etc. In the second phase, the instrument is encoded as to the marketing campaign and an arbitrary designation which initiates a pattern as the instrument is redeemed. The product vendor inspects the instrument to ensure that the encoding is correct during the redemption process.
US11138611B2
A system for managing and transferring a virtual shopping cart. The system includes a product identification system that is programmed to identify products from a product identification tag, a cart identification system that is configured to generate a cart identifier that uniquely identifies the virtual shopping cart, and a cart management engine. The cart management engine is configured to receive products to add to the virtual shopping cart from the product identification system, associate the products with the cart identifier, and transfer access to the virtual shopping cart from a first device to a second device.
US11138608B2
An example operation may include one or more of creating a proposed transaction including one or more assets, transmitting the proposed transaction to a user device for authorization, receiving authorization from the user device via an asynchronous one-time password to authorize the proposed transaction, and creating a blockchain transaction including the asynchronous one-time password and content of the proposed transaction responsive to receiving the authorization.
US11138601B2
A computer-based method for managing a profile for a cardholder is provided. The cardholder having an account associated with a payment card. The method includes electronically receiving, at the computer, transaction information for a cardholder for transactions with at least a first business entity and a second business entity, the transaction information including data representing each transaction initiated by the cardholder using the payment card and at least one subdivision within the first business entity, the transaction information further including data representing each transaction initiated by the cardholder using the payment card and the second business entity. The method also includes electronically storing the transaction information within the database, generating a profile of the stored transaction information for the cardholder, the profile including a type, a recency and a frequency of transactions initiated by the cardholder using the payment card and the at least one subdivision, grouping the cardholder into a single cluster with other cardholders registered within the payment card network based on the profile of the cardholder and the other cardholders, and outputting marketing information based on the cluster.
US11138597B2
A computer-implemented method for improving security of smart contract comprises: obtaining a first and a second transactions both invoking a smart contract, wherein the first transaction is associated with a protection condition; executing the second transaction and updating a current state of the smart contract; determining whether the updated current state of the smart contract satisfies the protection condition; in response to determining that the updated current state satisfies the protection condition, executing the first transaction, and recording the second and the first transactions into a data block for adding to a blockchain; and in response to determining that the updated current state does not satisfy the protection condition, recording the second transaction into another data block for adding to the blockchain, without executing the first transaction.
US11138595B2
A method for maintaining transaction integrity for transactions performed over a public network includes: receiving a transaction message corresponding to an original transaction, the transaction message including a unique, client-assigned, first identifier; in response to receiving the transaction message, assigning a unique, second identifier to the original transaction; generating a request to process the original transaction including at least a portion of the transaction message and the second identifier; transmitting the request to an issuer server to process the original transaction; receiving a first response from the issuer server in connection with the original transaction; in response to the first response, generating a second response corresponding to the original transaction including the first identifier and the second identifier; and transmitting the second response to the client. A system and computer program product for maintaining transaction integrity for transactions performed over a public network is also disclosed.
US11138592B1
Methods and systems are provided for making a pre-payment. In some embodiments, a user is provided with a mobile wallet; information populating at least one payment instrument to the mobile wallet is received; information that the mobile wallet is usable with respect to the vehicle is received; information that the mobile wallet has been presented by the vehicle to a payment location is received; an authorized pre-payment corresponding to items or an amount associated with the payment location is received; a token is received from the user at the payment location; and the pre-payment is settled using the payment instrument.
US11138590B2
A machine has a network interface circuit to provide connectivity to a network. The machine also has a processor and a bus connecting the processor and the network interface circuit. A memory is connected to the bus. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to form a wallet for a message sending client, open a placeholder container for a future cryptographic transaction to be recorded in the wallet, and form a network link to the placeholder container.
US11138580B1
Systems and methods for facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges of digital assets that are usable within an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: execute an instance of a game; receive an inventory request for information regarding a first user inventory; access a blockchain to obtain asset information; transfer the asset information in response to the inventory request; receive a transfer request to transfer ownership of a first digital asset from a first user to a second user; transfer the ownership of the first digital asset as requested.
US11138577B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for automatically managing periodic debt payments and savings contributions are constructed to determine an allocation structure for each periodic payment between a debt obligation and a savings fund via a non-transitory computer-readable medium including a payment management program, a benefit management processor, and a data storage device in operable arrangement therewith. The payment management program includes a payment allocation module having a computer executable allocation code segment configured to apportion the payment election into a debt portion and a savings portion and a fund disbursement module having a computer executable disbursement code segment configured to electronically disburse the debt portion of the payment election to the lender in a periodic manner according to a loan repayment schedule and to electronically disburse the savings portion to the savings account of the lendee in a periodic manner according to a savings contribution schedule.
US11138576B2
A method for minimizing inter-bank settlement through incremental updates stored via blockchains includes storing three blockchains: a balance blockchain updated periodically that includes an available balance for a plurality of blockchain wallets, a credit blockchain that includes credits made to a blockchain wallet, and a debit blockchain that includes payments made from the blockchain wallet. Holds are placed on related transaction accounts to enable the blockchain wallets to utilize payments made thereto without the need for a transaction account, where the holds are only updated when necessary based on periodic updates to the balance blockchain, thus minimizing settlements performed by the issuing institutions, thus reducing inter-bank settlements and enabling payees to receive payments from a transaction account without their own.
US11138574B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for protecting digital media. An exemplary method includes receiving digital media, encrypting the digital media using an encrypted file format to generate an encrypted file, displaying a context menu when the encrypted file is accessed, the context menu including a licensing screen, enabling a user to obtain a license to the digital media using the licensing screen of the context menu, and configuring the encrypted file to enable access to the digital media based on a term of the license.
US11138571B2
A bicycle repair system comprises an intelligent bicycle locking device, an intelligent toolbox, and a central processing unit. The intelligent bicycle locking device is connected to the central processing unit, and the intelligent toolbox is connected to the central processing unit. The intelligent bicycle locking device is configured to send an obtained first user information to the central processing unit. The intelligent toolbox is configured to send an obtained second user information to the central processing unit. The central processing unit is configured to determine whether the second user information is the same as the first user information and, if yes, send an opening instruction to the intelligent toolbox sending the second user information, so as to help a user to repair a damaged bicycle by using the intelligent toolbox, so that the bicycle can be repaired without depending on a repair person, thereby improving the repair efficiency.
US11138570B1
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for detecting a risk of fraud in a vehicle insurance claim by comparing the cost of repair from a treatment facility to a cost estimate for the repair. If the cost of repair from the treatment facility exceeds the cost estimate by a substantial amount, the cost of repair may be flagged as a risk of fraud and a suspicious loss indicator may be generated and transmitted to an insurance agent, a claims center, etc.
US11138563B2
There is provided a method and system for managing electronic messages in a closed network. Both the method and system include determining a quantity of credits to be expended for a transmission of each electronic message from a device in the closed network; and deducting the quantity of credits from a sender's account at a central credit repository. Preferably, the quantity of credits to be expended is dependent on an identity of a recipient of the electronic message. The identity of the recipient of the electronic message may preferably be associated with the recipient's position in an organizational hierarchy.
US11138554B2
Examples of the disclosure provide for an automated inspection system. The system includes an inspection component implemented on at least one computing device with at least one sensor configured to capture data about a good; and a communication component communicatively coupled to the computing device and configured to receive information regarding regulations and quality control standards associated with the good, and transmit the information regarding the acceptability of a good to an inventory system.
US11138553B2
A system that utilizes two different types of RFID data capture devices; at least one standard fixed RFID portal (e.g., one reader and two antennas) and at least one handheld or mobile RFID device in combination with passive RFID tags (i.e., transmitters). The system acquires, tracks, and reports asset location specific to a manufacturing plant and storage yard (i.e., the inventory), as well as production milestone events. GPS asset location data is tracked almost continuously and reported on demand.
US11138544B2
A parcel terminal system and method are provided to allow fast loading of parcels on storage space of a parcel terminal.
US11138543B2
Systems and methods for increasing productivity in a production activity are provided. A machine for accomplishing the production activity generates units of output, which are monitored by a data acquiring device. An expected earnings rate is generated by a processor based on expected production parameters and earnings data. An evaluated earnings rate is generated by the processor based upon the actual output and the earnings data. The evaluated earnings rate and expected earnings rate is displayed on a display.
US11138538B2
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for managing inventory for an organization. The computer system identifies human resources data regarding employees of organizations. The human resources data comprises geolocation data based at least partially on a geolocation of the organization and geolocations of the employees. The computer system determines a change in market dynamics relating to a set of geographic regions based at least partially on the human resources data. The computer system identifies transaction data for transactions involving a business merchant within a particular geographic region and a consumer. The computer system generates a suggested inventory for the business merchant. The suggested inventory is based at least partially on the determined change in market dynamics for the set of geographic regions in the transaction data for the business merchant.
US11138530B2
The present disclosure is related to a case management application that may be utilized by a user to open a service case associated with a service event. The case management application may receive information associated with the service case and/or the user to provide a recommended action to address the service event. In some embodiments, the case management application may access a recommendation tool that includes a trend model that may be used by the case management application to determine the recommended action. A designer may be able to modify the recommendation tool and/or the trend model accessed by the case management application to adjust how the case management application determines a recommended action to provide to the user.
US11138511B2
Quantum annealers as analog or quantum processors can find paths in problem graphs embedded in a hardware graph of the processor, for example finding valid paths, shortest paths or longest paths. A set of input, for example nucleic acid reads, can be used to set up a graph with edges between nodes denoting overlap (i.e., common base pairs) between the reads with constraints applied to perform sequence alignment or sequencing of a nucleic acid (e.g., DNA) strand or sequence, finding a solution that has a ground state energy. At least a portion of the described approaches can be applied to other problems, for instance resource allocations problems, e.g., job scheduling problems, traveling salesperson problems, and other NP-complete problems.
US11138510B2
A user expertise classifying method, system, and computer program product, include analyzing an input by a user based on at least one of vocabulary, orthography, and grammar of the user input, processing user background data obtained from a database, and calculating an expertise score of the user based on the analyzed user input and the processed background data.
US11138508B2
Embodiment of the present disclosure discloses method and device for obtaining at least one influencing causal factor based on expert subjective judgement. Initially, first relative weightage values of plurality of predefined causal factors associated with each of one or more decision trees of classification in decision-making model is determined. Decision space is determined for classification based on first relative weightage values and base hypothesis associated with classification. The decision space is mapped with expert subjective judgment provided by expert user for classification. Error value associated with classification is determined based on mapping. Base hypothesis of classification is optimized such that optimized base hypothesis corresponds to minimum value of error value. Influencing causal factor from plurality of predefined causal factors are obtained by performing ensemble technique using optimized base hypothesis.
US11138506B2
A computer-implemented method for building a semantic analysis model. In one embodiment, the computer-implemented method includes creating proxy tags comprising a set of surface form variants. The computer-implemented method creates training examples comprising a combination of terminal tokens and at least one of the proxy tags. The computer-implemented method builds the semantic analysis model using the training examples.
US11138501B2
A method for hardware-implemented training of a feedforward artificial neural network is provided. The method comprises: generating a first output signal by processing an input signal with the network, wherein a cost quantity assumes a first cost value; measuring the first cost value; defining a group of at least one synaptic weight of the network for variation; varying each weight of the group by a predefined weight difference; after the variation, generating a second output signal from the input signal to measure a second cost value; comparing the first and second cost values; and determining, based on the comparison, a desired weight change for each weight of the group such that the cost function does not increase if the respective desired weight changes are added to the weights of the group. The desired weight change is based on the weight difference times −1, 0, or +1.
US11138489B2
An endoscope includes: a connector to which a waterproof cap is detachably attachable; an RFID tag that is arranged in the connector; an RFID tag storing member that has an opening and is made of a conductive material, the RFID tag storing member being configured to store the RFID tag; an opening and closing member that is made of a conductive material shielding a radio wave, the opening and closing member being configured to open or close the opening; and a moving mechanism configured to move the opening and closing member to a position of releasing shielding of the radio wave in conjunction with attachment of the waterproof cap to the connector, and move the opening and closing member to a position of shielding the radio wave in conjunction with detachment of the waterproof cap from the connector.
US11138488B2
Aspects of the invention relate to components for constructing a payment instrument that includes enhanced electronic features. Apparatus may include an all-inclusive smart card that securely stores sensitive data. Such sensitive data may include credit card, driver's license or passport information. The smart card may generate disposable card numbers for online or offline onetime transactions.
US11138487B2
A method for manufacturing antenna pattern according to an embodiment includes an adhesive arranging step, a metal sheet arranging step, a cutting step, a removing step, and a pressurizing step. In the adhesive arranging step, an adhesive is arranged inside with respect to a perimeter line of the antenna pattern arranged on a continuous body while conveying the continuous body of a base material.
US11138480B2
Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for distributed intelligent pattern recognition. Embodiments include a cooperative multi-agent detection system that enables an array of disjunctive devices (e.g., cameras, sensors) to selectively cooperate to identify objects of interest over time and space, and to contribute an object of interest to a shared deep learning pattern recognition system based on a bidirectional feedback mechanism. Embodiments provide updated information and/or algorithms to one or more agencies for local system learning and pattern updating recognition models. Each of the multiple agencies may in turn, update devices (e.g., cameras, sensors) coupled to the local machine learning and pattern recognition models.
US11138479B2
A method for valuation of image dark data based on similarity hashing, the method including: (1) acquiring a dark dataset, and inputting the dark dataset into a trained deep self-taught hashing algorithm model to obtain a hash code of each image in the dark dataset; (2) constructing a hash map according to the hash code of each image in the dark dataset obtained in (1), where the hash map includes a plurality of nodes, each node represents the hash code of each image; (3) acquiring a significance score of each node in the hash map obtained in (2); and (4) sorting significance scores of the plurality of nodes obtained in (3) in a descending order, and outputting images corresponding to top k significance scores of the plurality of nodes to users, where k is a natural number.
US11138478B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for training a classification model, a mobile terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes that: a classification model is trained based on a preset data set until the accuracy of the classification model reaches a standard value, wherein data in the preset data set includes label information; data in the preset data set is identified based on the trained classification model to acquire category information of the data; when the category information of the data is not matched with the label information, the data is cleaned to acquire a cleaned target data set; and the classification model is trained again based on the target data set.
US11138477B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems to classify data. A set of classification modules may inspect received data and identify proposed classifications for confidence values for the received data. An aggregation module may receive and aggregate the proposed classifications and confidence values. Based on the aggregated proposed classifications and the confidence values, the aggregation module may generate a final classification for the received data. An external device may perform an action with respect to the received data based on the final classification associated with the data. The action performed may include maintaining the data such that the data may be retrieved upon receipt a request for the data. Any of the classification modules and the aggregation module may be based on training data that may be utilized in subsequent iterations of classifying data to increase classification accuracy.
US11138476B2
A method includes identifying images associated with a user, where the image is identified as at least one of captured by a user device associated with the user, stored on the user device associated with the user, and stored in cloud storage associated with the user. The method also includes for each of the images, determining one or more labels, wherein the one or more labels are based on at least one of metadata and a primary annotation. The method also includes generating a mapping of the one or more labels to one or more confidence scores, wherein the one or more confidence scores indicate an extent to which the one or more labels apply to corresponding images. The method also includes interacting with the user to obtain identifying information that is used to categorize one or more of the images.
US11138473B1
Systems and methods for expert-assisted classification are described herein. An example method for evaluating an expert-assisted classifier can include providing a cascade classifier including a plurality of classifier stages; and providing a simulated expert stage between at least two of the classifier stages. The simulated expert stage can be configured to validate or contradict an output of one of the at least two classifier stages. The method can also include classifying each of a plurality of records into one of a plurality of categories using the cascade classifier combined with the simulated expert stage; and determining whether the simulated expert stage improves performance of the cascade classifier.
US11138459B2
A listing of objects expected to be loaded into a container is received, and as an object is added to a container sensors monitoring an opening of the container detect the object. The added object is identified by object recognition techniques applied to received sensor data. Detection of a triggering event indicating completion of adding objects to the container is determined, and in response, the identity of the added object is compared to the received list of objects. In response to determining the object added to the container fails to match an object on the received list of objects, a notification of non-matching content is generated, and in response to determining the object added to the container matches an object on the received list of objects, a notification confirming the match of content in the container to the list of objects is generated.
US11138455B2
Disclosed is a liveness test method and apparatus. A liveness test apparatus determines a pre-liveness score based on a plurality of sub-images acquired from an input image, determines a post-liveness score based on a recognition model for recognizing an object included in the input image, and determines a liveness of the object based on any one or any combination of the pre-liveness score and the post-liveness score.
US11138450B2
An image processing device includes: an extraction unit configured to extract at least one edge line based on image data obtained by an imaging device configured to capture a surrounding of a vehicle; a giving unit configured to give a priority to each of the at least one edge line; a registration unit configured to register the at least one edge line in descending order of the priority while limiting a number of registration of the at least one edge line to an upper limit or smaller of the number of registration; and a detection unit configured to detect a parking space, based on the at least one edge line registered.
US11138442B2
Embodiments of a method and system described herein enable capture of video data streams from multiple, different video data source devices and the processing of the video data streams. The video data streams are merged such that various data protocols can all be processed with the same worker processors on different types of operating systems, which are typically distributed. In an embodiment the multiple video data sources comprises at least one mobile device executing a video sensing application that produces a video data stream for processing by video analysis worker processes. The processes include automatically detecting moving objects in a video data stream, and further tracking and analyzing the moving objects.
US11138435B1
Empowered by augmented reality (AR) technologies, the present disclosure allows a user to display virtual content in a physical reality and turn an AR-ready handheld mobile device into a dimension measuring tool. The present disclosure allows the user to first display a virtual container asset, with its actual size in physical reality, in any given configuration, and then create a virtual dimensional equivalent of an item-to-be-fit based on dimensional data captured by a 6-degree-of-freedom (6DoF) device or the like. Finally, the user can place the virtual item into the virtual container to evaluate the capacity and fit in the given configuration.
US11138426B2
According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided, comprising receiving a document at a template module; determining a pair of pixel coordinates for one or more data entry fields in the received document; determining whether the received document matches a stored template based on the determined pair of pixel coordinates; generating a first template when the received document does not match the stored template; applying one or more rules associated with one of the stored template and the first template to the received document; extracting one or more data elements from the received document based on the application of the one or more rules; and returning the extracted one or more data elements. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11138424B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for analyzing contextual symbol information for document processing. In an embodiment, a language model system may generate a vector grid that incorporates contextual document information. The language model system may receive a document file and identify symbols of the document file to generate a symbol grid. The language model system may also identify position parameters corresponding to each of the symbols. The language model system may then analyze the symbols using an embedding function and neighboring symbols to determine contextual vector values corresponding to each of the symbols. The language model system may then generate a vector grid mapping the contextual vector values using the position parameters. The contextual information from the vector grid may provide increase document processing accuracy as well as faster processing convergence.
US11138423B2
Arbitrary image data may be transformed into data suitable for optical character recognition (OCR) processing. A processor may generate a plurality of intermediate feature layers of an image using convolutional neural network (CNN) processing. For each intermediate feature layer, the processor may generate at least one text proposal using a region proposal network (RPN). The at least one text proposal may comprise a portion of the intermediate feature layer that is predicted to contain text. The processor may merge the text proposals with one another to form a patch of the image that is predicted to contain text. The processor may determine outer coordinates of the patch. The outer coordinates may comprise at least leftmost, rightmost, topmost, and bottommost coordinates. The processor may generate a quadrilateral of the image that is a smallest quadrilateral including the leftmost, rightmost, topmost, and bottommost coordinates.
US11138422B2
A method for detecting a posture, including: acquiring an image to be detected; and inputting the image to be detected into a pre-trained detection model, and detecting a posture category in the image to be detected. The detection model is acquired by training based on a positive sample image and a negative sample image, a basic posture categorization model is acquired by training based on the positive sample image with a marked preset posture category, and the negative sample image is determined based on the basic posture categorization model, and the negative sample image contains no posture of the preset posture category and the positive sample image is an image inputted by an user or an image stored at a preset storage location.
US11138420B2
A people stream analysis apparatus includes an image information capturer that captures an external appearance image of a person, a person recognizer that recognizes the person from the external appearance image, a store inferrer that identifies from the external appearance image a possession carried by the person, and infers from the identified possession a store from which the possession has been obtained, a memory that stores, in an associated form, person information indicating the recognized person, store information indicating the inferred store, and time information indicating time at which the external appearance image has been captured, and an arrival store order determiner that determines an order of stores in which the person has visited, based on a change in a time sequence of listing of stores indicated by the store information stored on the memory.
US11138406B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of determining that a finger is in stable contact with a surface covering a sensor area of a fingerprint sensor. The method comprises, by means of the fingerprint sensor, acquiring a time-sequence of images of the fingerprint of the received finger. The method also comprises, for each image of the time-sequence, dividing an image area of the image, corresponding to the sensor area of the fingerprint sensor, into a plurality of image regions (r), said regions partly overlapping each other and covering the whole image area. The method also comprises, based on image analysis of each of the plurality of image regions of each image of the time-sequence, determining that the finger is in stable contact with the surface covering the sensor area.
US11138402B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first imaging unit, a second imaging unit with a focal length different from a focal length of the first imaging unit, and a reading unit configured to read information from an optical code image included in a captured image, and a control unit configured to perform control so as to, in a case where information based on the optical code image has been read by the reading unit from an image captured by the first imaging unit, execute processing corresponding to the read information, and in a case where information based on the optical code image has not been read by the reading unit from an image captured by the first imaging unit, to cause the reading unit to read information based on the optical code image, from an image captured by the second imaging unit, and execute processing corresponding to the read information.
US11138401B1
A handheld barcode reader includes a reader enclosure constructed from a dielectric material and a screen engaging member operatively coupled with the reader enclosure. The reader enclosure includes a nose portion and a handle portion coupled with the nose portion and is adapted to accommodate a user's hand. The screen engaging member is constructed from a conductive material and includes an extension member coupled with the nose portion of the reader enclosure and at least one arm member extending from the nose portion of the reader enclosure to the handle portion of the reader enclosure.
US11138393B2
During hand-held operation, configuration of an NFC/RFID Reader/Writer peripheral device in a predefined mode named “Mobile Mode with Auto-Collection”, enables recognition of a long duration (e.g. 5 second) trigger press (AKA a “Long Press”) as an enabling event prompting a change of scan behavior between single-shot scan operation and continuous scan operation. In other defined Modes of the peripheral device, other predetermined enabling events, such as the presence or absence of a predetermined external power source, prompt the change between single-shot and continuous scan operations. The Long Press and the other intuitive features enable the general user to be able to switch between various modes and to do so without requiring acquisition or use of an additional dedicated scanner with its requisite expense or inconvenience, and without requiring advanced knowledge, special access, or special resources.
US11138387B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for recognizing a human emotion in a message. An embodiment operates by receiving a message from a user. The embodiment labels each word of the message with a part of speech (POS) thereby creating a POS set. The embodiment determines an incongruity score for a combination of words in the POS set using a knowledgebase. The embodiment determines a preliminary emotion detection score for an emotion for the message based on the POS set. Finally, the embodiment calculates a final emotion detection score for the emotion for the message based on the preliminary emotion detection score and the incongruity score.
US11138386B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to recommendation and translation of symbols. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving current text data from a sender, receiving a first set of historical text data for the sender, determining emoji use preference of the sender, analyzing the current text data for context that is representable by an emoji, selecting a first emoji based the context and the first set of historical text data, receiving a second set of historical text data for a recipient of the current text data, analyzing a contextual meaning of the selected emoji based on the first set of historical text data and the second set of historical text data, determining, based on the analyzing the contextual meaning of the selected emoji, that a second emoji would more closely match the context of the current text data, and sending the second emoji to the recipient.
US11138383B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for extracting meaning representation from text are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes performing a syntactic analysis on a fragment of text to derive a syntactic structure; selecting one or more predefined syntactic structure templates corresponding to the derived syntactic structure that define different combinations of semantic primes and semantic features corresponding to the semantic primes; detecting semantic information in the fragment of text, wherein the semantic information comprises at least one of the semantic primes and one or more of the corresponding semantic features; identifying one of the selected predefined syntactic structure templates that matches the derived syntactic structure and the detected semantic information in the fragment of text; generating a computable meaning representation of the fragment of text based at least in part on the identifying; and outputting the computable meaning representation to a natural language understanding application.
US11138371B2
Implementations generally relate to an editable table in a spreadsheet integrated with a web service. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining web service metadata from a web service. The method further includes determining one or more capabilities of the web service based on the web service metadata. The method further includes configuring a table component in a spreadsheet based on the one or more capabilities and the web service metadata. The method further includes retrieving data from the web service. The method further includes converting the data to a predetermined format. The method further includes tracking data changes in the spreadsheet based on user input. The method further includes sending the data changes from the spreadsheet to the web service.
US11138370B1
A method comprises retrieving a file comprising a parent worksheet comprising a first row comprising a first statement, a first data type identifier, and a first logic; in response to receiving a first rendering request from a client computing device, generating a child worksheet in the spreadsheet comprising a second row, wherein the second row inherits the first row; receiving a second request to modify at least one of the first statement in the second statement cell, the first data type identifier in the second data type cell, or the first logic in the second logic cell; and rendering a graphical user interface based on the modified child worksheet.
US11138369B2
An experiment information management system includes a first experiment apparatus configured to generate first experiment result information and first log data; a recording apparatus configured to record the first experiment result information and the first log data generated in the first experiment apparatus; and an experiment note generation apparatus configured to generate an experiment note being a record of an experiment, according to at least the first experiment result information and the first log data recorded in the recording apparats.
US11138367B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product for dynamic interaction behavior commentary are provided. The embodiment may include receiving, by a processor, a plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may also include analyzing the plurality of posted comments based on a semantic distance of the topic of discussion measured by content analysis of the plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may further include determining optimal frameworks for a plurality of users in response to a comment from a user within the plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may also include identifying interaction behavior responses containing statistically significant words or phrases that may improve a tone of the next comment when the user responds to a certain post. The embodiment may further include notifying the user when the next statement is generated based on a pre-identified or dynamically-learned interaction behavior comment. The embodiment may also include prompting the user, via a graphical user interface, with suggested timelines and places where a comment should be inserted.
US11138365B2
A method is provided for retrieving data stored in a data source at pages having a predetermining size. A computing system receives a page request for requesting a new page, within data that are selected in the data source according to a query and are then to be filtered according to one or more filtering criteria external to the data source. A pagination structure (comprising an end point in the selected data of a last previously requested page that has been previously requested) is associated with the page request; the pagination structure is used to retrieve the data following the end point of the last previously requested page and to filter them into the new page. A computer program product for performing the method and a corresponding system are also provided.
US11138363B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a process whereby markup text and/or graphics may be overlaid on top of an original document such that a user may view both the original document and the overlaid text and graphics together in an unobtrusive manner. Some aspects further discuss broader markup functionalities, such as modifying the content or appearance of text and graphics when a mark-up function is performed.
US11138358B2
A method includes receiving a circuit design including a plurality of components associated with a plurality of component parameters. The method further includes adjusting a value of a particular component parameter of the plurality of component parameters based on a tolerance to generate a modified plurality of component parameters. The method further includes determining, based on inputting the modified plurality of component parameters into a circuit calculator, that an operating value of the circuit design is sensitive to the particular component parameter. The method further includes selecting a simulation of the circuit design to perform based on the particular component parameter. The method further includes performing the simulation to determine whether the circuit design supports one or more design limits.
US11138346B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a non-volatile memory that may serve as both the main memory system and the backing store (or persistent storage). In some embodiments, the non-volatile memory is divided into a main memory portion and a persistent portion. Data in the main memory operation may be encrypted using one or more first keys, and data in the persistent portion may be encrypted using one or more second keys, in an embodiment. The volatile behavior of main memory may be implemented by discarding the one or more first keys in a power down event or other event that indicates a loss of main memory data, while the one or more second keys may be retained. In one embodiment, the physical address space of the non-volatile memory may be a mapping from a second physical address space that is used within the system.
US11138345B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. One of the methods include: obtaining a request for collecting information associated with an Internet address; obtaining, in response to the request, the information from the Internet address; encrypting the information to obtain a digest; storing the digest in a block on a blockchain and the information in a cloud storage space associated with an access address; and sending, to a sender of the request, the digest and the access address associated with the cloud storage space.
US11138340B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data clean room allowing secure data analysis across multiple accounts and across different regions and cloud providers. The data clean room may also restrict which data may be used in the analysis and may restrict the output. The overlap data may be anonymized to prevent sensitive information from being revealed. A version of a provider account can be created that is similar to a client account, such as in the same cloud type or the same region as the client database account. The client account can share data that is replicated to the provider account to complete client requests using an anonymized data and the cross reference table.
US11138335B2
Systems, methods, and software for data privacy annotation frameworks for user applications are provided herein. An exemplary method includes identifying content elements among user content in a user data file that contain sensitive data corresponding to one or more predetermined data schemes. During a content edit process for the user content in a user application, the method includes controlling presentation of annotation indicators for one or more of the content elements based at least in part on a quantity of the content elements that contain the sensitive data.
US11138334B1
A method includes removing sensitive information from an audio recording. The method includes receiving a digitally encoded audio recording; transcoding, if necessary, the audio recording to a pre-defined audio format; identifying periods of voice in/activity in the audio recording; segregating the audio recording into a sequence of separated utterances or words; streaming the sequence of separated utterances or words to an ASR server; receiving, for each streamed utterance or word, an associated ASR decoding; receiving, for each ASR decoding, an associated confidence score indicative of a probability that the associated ASR decoding is correct; identifying for redaction; any ASR decoding that contains sensitive information, and any ASR decoding with a confidence score less than a redaction threshold; and preparing a redacted audio recording by eliminating or masking those word(s) and/or utterance(s) for which an associated ASR decoding was identified for redaction.
US11138333B2
In one embodiment, a set of feature vectors can be derived from any biometric data, and then using a deep neural network (“DNN”) on those one-way homomorphic encryptions (i.e., each biometrics' feature vector) can determine matches or execute searches on encrypted data. Each biometrics' feature vector can then be stored and/or used in conjunction with respective classifications, for use in subsequent comparisons without fear of compromising the original biometric data. In various embodiments, the original biometric data is discarded responsive to generating the encrypted values. In another embodiment, the homomorphic encryption enables computations and comparisons on cypher text without decryption. This improves security over conventional approaches. Searching biometrics in the clear on any system, represents a significant security vulnerability. In various examples described herein, only the one-way encrypted biometric data is available on a given device. Various embodiments restrict execution to occur on encrypted biometrics for any matching or searching.
US11138332B2
A data synthesis system comprising a high side computing environment and a low side computing environment. Access to the high side computing environment may be restricted to a first one or more users. The high side computing environment may comprise a first one or more datasets and one or more specification computer programs. The one or more specification computer programs may be configured to generate a data synthesis specification based on the structure of the first one or more datasets. The low side computing environment may be accessible by a second a one or more users. The low side computing environment may comprise one or more data synthesizer computer programs. The one or more data synthesizer computer programs may be configured to synthesize a second one or more datasets based on the data synthesis specification.
US11138331B2
Presented here is a system that manages secured file system, and an authority to the secured file system, by granting access only to a user who is authorized to access the file system. The user within the system is identified using a unique key unique to each user. The user's authority is recorded in a linear sequence distributed among multiple devices each of which independently verifies the validity of each block in the linear sequence. The validity of the linear sequence is guaranteed by preventing certain operations from being performed on the linear sequence, such as branching of the linear sequence, deletion, and modification of the blocks within the linear sequence. Prior to adding a new block to the linear sequence, the validity of the block is independently computed by each of the devices.
US11138328B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling access to secure information resources using rotational datasets and dynamically configurable data containers. A computing platform may receive, from a first reader-writer system, a first data access request. Based on receiving the first data access request, the computing platform may authenticate the first reader-writer system using a first data container object. After authenticating the first reader-writer system, the computing platform may rotate a first data track comprising a plurality of datasets to align a first dataset of the plurality of datasets with the first data container object. After rotating the first data track, the computing platform may retrieve first information from the first dataset using the first data container object. Subsequently, the computing platform may send, to the first reader-writer system, the first information retrieved from the first dataset using the first data container object.
US11138299B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for automatically assessing the level of security and/or privacy risk associated with doing business with a particular vendor or other entity and for generating training material for such vendors. In various embodiments, the systems may automatically obtain and use any suitable information to assess such risk levels including, for example: (1) any security and/or privacy certifications held by the vendor; (2) the terms of one or more contracts between a particular entity and the vendor; (3) the results of one or more privacy impact assessments for the vendor; and/or (4) any other suitable data. The system may be configured to automatically approve or reject a particular vendor based on the assessed risk level associated with the vendor and this information may be automatically communicated to an entity considering doing business with the vendor and/or the vendor itself.
US11138298B2
A method for initiating a login of a user into a system, the login being passed by inputting a username into a username field, inputting a password into a password field, and verifying whether the inputted username is stored by the system and whether the inputted password is a stored password corresponding to the inputted username. The method can include the system requiring during inputting character by character of the username and/or the password in addition waiting a predefined delay and/or inputting at least one character at at least one position within a character sequence of the username and/or the password, respectively, wherein the at least one character differs from the character of the username at the at least one position when inputting the username and/or differs from the character of the password at the at least one position when inputting the password.
US11138297B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving an indication of a first selected instrument, where the first selected instrument is selected from a plurality of instruments. One or more first sequences of notes are received. One or more saved sound compositions are generated based on the first selected instrument and the one or more first sequences of notes. One or more current sound compositions are compared to the one or more saved sound compositions using sound analysis. A user is authenticated based on a similarity between the one or more current sound compositions and the one or more saved sound composition.
US11138295B2
The present disclosure provides a method for securely updating firmware components, which is used in connection with an electronic device including a universal serial bus human interface device interface. The method includes: downloading a deformed patch executable file by the electronic device, wherein the deformed patch executable file is deformed from a patch executable file including a plurality of binary files, and each of the binary files is configured with an address reference label; and executing the deformed patch executable file and verifying whether a digital signature of the deformed patch executable file is authorized or not. If the digital signature of the deformed patch executable file is authorized, providing an update tool for updating the corresponding firmware component. If the digital signature of the deformed patch executable file is not authorized, prompting that the digital signature is unauthorized.
US11138291B2
Techniques are described herein for performing efficient matrix multiplication in architectures with scratchpad memories or associative caches using asymmetric allocation of space for the different matrices. The system receives a left matrix and a right matrix. In an embodiment, the system allocates, in a scratchpad memory, asymmetric memory space for tiles for each of the two matrices as well as a dot product matrix. The system proceeds with then performing dot product matrix multiplication involving the tiles of the left and the right matrices, storing resulting dot product values in corresponding allocated dot product matrix tiles. The system then proceeds to write the stored dot product values from the scratchpad memory into main memory.
US11138285B2
A computer-implemented technique receives an input expression that a user submits with an intent to accomplish some objective. The technique then uses a machine-trained intent encoder component to map the input expression into an input expression intent vector (IEIV). The IEIV corresponds to a distributed representation of the intent associated with the input expression, within a vector intent vector space. The technique then leverages the intent vector to facilitate some downstream application task, such as the retrieval of information. Some application tasks also use a neighbor search component to find expressions that express an intent similar to that of the input expression. A training system trains the intent encoder component based on the nexus between queries and user clicks, as recorded in a search engine's search log.
US11138280B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that provides an optimized ranking methodology for query suggestion and auto-completion tasks that messaging systems can implement and embed into their functionality. The disclosed framework can leverage the mail query logs on a personal level or on the aggregate (e.g., across all or a set of users on a network), and the mailbox content of each user to produce a comprehensive ranking function that generates ranked search suggestions for a mail search query for both person and company entities.
US11138278B2
A method including parsing a query into a tree of operations, generating a query matrix and a transcript matrix, determining a cross-correlation of the query matrix and the transcript matrix, applying a softness map to the cross-correlation to determine one or more matches for each of the literals, and combining the one or more matches utilizing the tree of operations to generate an output, each of the operators corresponding to a combination operation for the matches.
US11138261B2
A media processor and method of customizing a media composition enables a user to compile a customized media file with selectable tracks and a primary track. Each of the selectable tracks includes a recording of a performer performing a part of a particular composition, such as an instrument or vocal part in a musical piece. The user is provided an option to select one or more of the tracks; and a customized media file is prepared based on the user selected tracks and including the primary track.
US11138249B1
Systems and methods for concept based searching or recommendation are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of a concept based approach to the search and analysis of data, including the creation, update or use of concept networks in searching and analyzing data are disclosed, including embodiments of the usage of such concept networks in artificial intelligence systems that are capable of utilizing concepts expressed by users to return or evaluate associated destinations.
US11138237B2
From social media content using a processor and a memory, a class model is constructed that is representative of a type and a level of toxicity associated with the content. A first social media message is analyzed, using a processor and a memory, to compute a first toxicity score associated with the first social media message and assign the first social media message to a first class of the class model. A second social media message is analyzed, using a processor and a memory, to compute a second toxicity score associated with the second social media message and assign the second social media message to a second class of the class model. Based on the first toxicity score, the first class, the second toxicity score, and the second class, a toxicity trend is forecasted. In response to the toxicity trend being forecasted to increase, a remedial measure is applied to reduce the toxicity trend.
US11138235B1
Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, and machine-readable media for improved information systems. These improved information systems provide a technical solution that includes a predictive learning system and improved data analysis. The data analysis processes multiple data input streams simultaneously, and applies digital signal processing to identify correlation between or among multiple data input streams. The user interface is used to present outputs according to personalized data profile characteristics. In some examples, the user interface includes multiple information cards that are formatted and prioritized based on relevance or urgency.
US11138234B2
According to some embodiments is disclosed a method for controlling and scheduling operation of at least one SQL operator on data chunk. The method comprising the step of: receiving SQL query, accessing data chunk blocks, receive meta data statistics and SQL query, analyzing the query selectivity, result size and Frequency moments calculation during the query execution run-time and choosing the right device to execute the each operator of the query according to analysis and predict results size.
US11138233B2
The systems and methods described here can reduce the storage space required (memory and/or disk) to store certain types of data, provide efficient (fast) creation, modification and retrieval of such data, and support such data within the framework of a multi-version database. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can store each field of a set of records as a vector of values, e.g., a data vector. A set of records can be represented using a vector id vector, or “vid” vector, wherein each element of the vid vector contains a reference to the memory location of a data vector. A header table can store associations between labels and “vid” vectors that pertain to those labels. Identical data vectors can be re-used between different record sets or vid vectors needing that vector, thus saving space.
US11138231B2
A control module configured to control transferring data between a first shard location and a second shard location, the control module comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the control module at least to: obtain a configuration mode indicator, the configuration mode indicator configured to identify a configuration mode phase from a series of phases; and control the transfer of data between the first shard location and the second shard location according to one of a series of control module behaviours based on the configuration mode phase, wherein at least one store module is configured to operate according to one of a series of defined store module behaviours also based on the configuration mode phase.
US11138230B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example partitioned computer database system includes a plurality of nodes, a data director to distribute a plurality of portions of database data across the plurality of nodes, queriers associated with respective ones of the plurality of nodes, the queriers to execute respective sub-queries of respective portions of the database data, and a coordinator to receive a request to query the database data, and merge results of the plurality of sub-queries to form a response to the request.
US11138225B2
A central database system allows users to access and use data stored in a relational database. In order to ensure that the stored data is not detrimentally impacted and that the security of the stored data is maintained, the central database system generates a sanitized copy of the database. The central database system stores and accesses annotation files associated with data tables of the database and a schema identifying the structure of the database. Based on the schema, for each data table, the central database system validates the annotation file. A copy of the data table is created and sanitized corresponding to the annotation file. The sanitized copies of the data tables are used to generate a sanitized copy of the database. The sanitized copy of the database may then be accessed and used by users of the central database system without impacting the relational database.
US11138223B2
According to some aspects, a system is providing including a first database, at least one processor configured to communicate with the first database and an external database, and at least one processor-readable storage medium including processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: receive a request from a user via a user interface, translate the request into at least one first operation on the first database and at least one second operation on the external database, and perform the at least one first operation and the at least one second operation.
US11138222B2
A system receives an object selection, and outputs the object. The system receives a first service selection, outputs the first service's object, receives a second service selection, and outputs the second service's object. The system receives selections of the object's first field and the first service object's field, and stores first metadata that maps between the object's first field and the first service object's field. The system receives selections of the object's second field and the second service object's field, and stores second metadata that maps between the object's second field and the second service object's field. The system updates an object instance by using the first metadata to send first request data to the first service and receive first response data from the first service, and by using the second metadata to send second request data to the second service and receive second response data from the second service.
US11138214B2
Resource provisioning systems and methods are described. In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of shared storage devices collectively storing database data, an execution platform, and a compute service manager. The compute service manager is configured to determine a task to be executed in response to a trigger event and determine a query plan for executing the task, wherein the query plan comprises a plurality of discrete subtasks. The compute service manager is further configured to assign the plurality of discrete subtasks to one or more nodes of a plurality of nodes of the execution platform, determine whether execution of the task is complete, and in response to determining the execution of the task is complete, store a record in the plurality of shared storage devices indicating the task was completed.
US11138210B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A query is received. Search results are identified that are responsive to the query. A content item is identified for presentation along with the search results. It is determined, based on one or more criteria, when the content item is to be augmented. When it is determined that the content item is to be augmented and after identifying the search results, the content item is augmented based at least in part on an entry in the search result. An augmented content item is created. The augmented content item is provided.
US11138193B2
The cost of data-mining is estimated where data-mining services are delivered via a distributed computing system environment. System requirements are estimated for a particular data-mining task for an input data set having specified properties. Estimating system requirements includes applying a partial learning tool to operate on sample data from the input data set.
US11138184B2
A method for maintaining data integrity and referential data integrity within an enterprise data registry is provided. The method may use a JSON API to structure incoming data such that the incoming data is only accepted at a central repository when the incoming data normalized and properly referenced. Ensuring the proper relationships within a JSON API may require the use of bridge tables and/or mapping schemes to correctly identify many to many relationships between entities and attributes within metadata elements.
US11138180B2
Techniques are provided for more efficient multi-row atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (ACID)-compliant transactions with snapshot isolation semantics (or just “multi-row transactions” for short). In some embodiments, the techniques are implemented in a computing system that includes a client application, a lightweight in-memory lease-based lock service, a multi-row transaction orchestrator, and an underlying database system. The transaction orchestrator implements a read protocol and a write protocol that provides support to the client application for carrying out multi-row transactions against the underlying database system irrespective of whether the database system itself supports multi-row transactions. The transaction orchestrator explicitly maintains transaction-level locks obtained from the lease-based lock service as part of the transaction protocol. Further, the transaction orchestrator is tolerant to lock service failure and unavailability without compromising ACID-compliance and snapshot isolation guarantees to the client application.
US11138168B2
A machine learning computing system for predicting a probability of success of an identified computing device error condition may include at least a first data repository storing a plurality of historic data records corresponding to one or more computing device error conditions and a second data repository storing a plurality of solutions to each of the computing device error conditions stored in the first data repository. A server is configured to receive a computing device error message from at least one computing center device and analyze the computing device error message to identify an associated error condition category. The server identifies at least two solutions to an associated error condition and predict a probability of success for each of the at least two solutions. The server then initiates at least one solution that has a greatest probability of success and updates the second data repository.
US11138167B2
A baseline run of a workload and a target run of the workload are compared to identify whether there is a performance regression in the target run, wherein the target run implements a feature that is not implemented in the baseline run. In response to identifying the performance regression, the target run is executed to identify whether the performance regression still exists. The performance regression is flagged as a false positive in response to identifying that the performance regression no longer exists when the target run is executed.
US11138165B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for executing a query. A query plan for execution of a query is generated. The query requires access to at least one table stored in a database system. The query includes one or more filter predicates. A filter predicate in the one or more filter predicates is selected. For the selected filter predicate, a plurality of cost function values associated executing a filter evaluation of the selected filter predicate are determined. Filter evaluation of the selected predicate is executed in accordance with at least one determined cost function value in the plurality of cost function values.
US11138158B2
Data file storage systems and methods that bind a local portable data storage device to remote data storage space with an emergent data file storage system. Data files and directory nodes are associated with data aspect pairs, each comprised of a series of interdependent blocks of characteristically high-entropy data. Blocks of data comprising a remote data aspect are transferred to remote data aspect storage locations. A single block of data comprising a local data aspect is transferred separately to the local portable data storage device. Neither a local data aspect nor a remote data aspect contains information about the corresponding data file or directory node.
US11138154B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for performing an entropy analysis on each of a plurality of candidate data chunks associated with a potential candidate to generate a plurality of candidate data chunk entropies; performing an entropy analysis on each of a plurality of target data chunks associated with a potential target to generate a plurality of target data chunk entropies; identifying a candidate data chunk entropy limit, chosen from the plurality of candidate data chunk entropies, and a target data chunk entropy limit, chosen from the plurality of candidate data chunk entropies; and comparing a specific candidate data chunk associated with the candidate data chunk entropy limit to a specific target data chunk associated with the target data chunk entropy limit to determine if the specific candidate data chunk and the specific target data chunk are identical.
US11138149B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing system is provided in which a web browser includes a re-display unit that acquires second image data based on information about an acquisition destination of a second conversion index file transmitted by a transmission unit, and displays the acquired second image data.
US11138147B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-CPU system, where the multi-CPU system includes: at least two Quick-Path Interconnect QPI domains, a first node controller NC group, and a second node controller NC group; according to a CPU route configuration, there is at least one CPU that can access a CPU in another QPI domain by using the first NC group; and there is at least one CPU that can access a CPU in another QPI domain by using the second NC group. According to this topology, hot swap of an NC can be implemented while the system is relatively slightly affected.
US11138142B2
Disclosed is an adaptive interface circuit for connecting a USB interface and a PCIe interface. The adaptive interface circuit includes a UAS protocol processing circuit, a data buffer, and an NVMe protocol processing circuit. The UAS protocol processing circuit receives a UAS command from a host via the USB interface and transmits a write-ready signal to the host according to the UAS command so that the host transmits host data to the data buffer according to the write-ready signal; the UAS protocol processing circuit also provides the UAS command to the NVMe protocol processing circuit. The NVMe protocol processing circuit generates X NVMe command(s) according to the UAS command; afterwards the NVMe protocol processing circuit starts transmitting X doorbell signal(s) to a storage device via the PCIe interface so as to let the storage device retrieve the host data from the data buffer according to the X NVMe command(s).
US11138140B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of subsystems, including a first subsystem and a second subsystem. The apparatus includes a master processor to, in response to a power on of the apparatus, execute first instructions to configure the first subsystem and provide second instructions. The apparatus further includes a slave processor to, prior to the boot of the apparatus, receive the second instructions from the master processor and execute the second instructions to configure the second subsystem.
US11138138B2
Control circuitry controls the operations of a central processing unit, CPU, which is associated with a nominal clock frequency. The CPU is further coupled to an I/O range and configured to deliver input to an application. The control circuitry controls the CPU to poll the I/O range for input to the application. The control circuitry also monitors whether or not each poll results in input to the application and adjusts a clock frequency at which the CPU operates to a clock frequency lower than the nominal clock frequency if a pre-defined number of polls resulting in no input is detected.
US11138129B2
An aspect of implementing globally optimized partial deduplication of storage objects includes gathering pages that share a common feature, dividing the pages into groups based on commonality with corresponding representative pages, where each is assigned as a representative dedupe page for the corresponding groups. For each group in the groups of pages, an aspect also includes writing the pages to a corresponding physical container.
US11138128B2
An apparatus comprises address translation circuitry to perform a translation of virtual addresses into physical addresses in dependence on stored page table mappings between the virtual addresses and the physical addresses. The stored page table mappings comprise tag-guard control information. The apparatus comprises memory access circuitry to perform a tag-guarded memory access in response to a target physical address, the tag-guarded memory access comprising a guard-tag check of comparing an address tag associated with the target physical address with a guard tag stored in association with a block of one or more memory locations comprising an addressed location identified by the target physical address. The memory access circuitry is arranged to perform a non-tag-guarded memory access to the addressed location in response to the target physical address without performing the guard-tag check in dependence on the tag-guard control information.
US11138127B2
Initializing a data structure for use in predicting table of contents (TOC) pointer values. A request to load a module is obtained. Based on the loaded module, a pointer value for a reference data structure is determined. The pointer value is stored in a reference data structure tracking structure, and used to access a variable value for a variable of the module.
US11138123B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: analyze input/output (I/O) operations received by a storage system; dynamically predict anticipated I/O operations of the storage system based on the analysis; and dynamically control a size of a local cache of the storage system based on the anticipated I/O operations.
US11138121B2
A data management method for a processor to which a first cache, a second cache, and a behavior history table are allocated, includes tracking reuse information learning cache lines stored in at least one of the first cache and the second cache; recording the reuse information in the behavior history table; and determining a placement policy with respect to future operations that are to be performed on a plurality of cache lines stored in the first cache and the second cache, based on the reuse information in the behavior history table.
US11138119B2
There is provided an apparatus that includes storage circuitry. The storage circuitry is made up from a plurality of sets, each of the sets having at least one storage location. Receiving circuitry receives an access request that includes an input address. Lookup circuitry obtains a plurality of candidate sets that correspond with an index part of the input address. The lookup circuitry determines a selected storage location from the candidate sets using an access policy. The access policy causes the lookup circuitry to iterate through the candidate sets to attempt to locate an appropriate storage location. The appropriate storage location is accessed in response to the appropriate storage location being found.
US11138118B2
The sizes of cache partitions, in a partitioned cache, are dynamically adjusted by determining, for each request, how many cache misses will occur in connection with implementing the request against the cache partition. The cache partition associated with the current request is increased in size by the number of cache misses and one or more other cache partitions is decreased in size causing cache evictions to occur from the other cache partitions rather than from the current cache partition. The other cache partitions, that are to be decreased in size, may be determined by ranking the cache partitions according to frequency of use and selecting the least frequently used cache partition to be reduced in size.
US11138113B2
A Set Table of Contents (TOC) Register instruction. An instruction to provide a pointer to a reference data structure, such as a TOC, is obtained by a processor and executed. The executing includes determining a value for the pointer to the reference data structure, and storing the value in a location (e.g., a register) specified by the instruction.
US11138106B1
Provided are integrated circuit devices and methods for operating integrated circuit devices. In various examples, the integrated circuit device can include a target port operable to receive transactions from a master port. The target port can be configured with a multicast address range that is associated with a plurality of indices corresponding to memory banks of the device. When the target port receives a write transaction that has an address that is within the multicast address range, the target port can determine an index from the plurality of indices, and can use the index to determine a second address, which combines the index and the offset value with the address. The target port can then use the second address to write the data to the memory.
US11138105B2
A method includes moving data in a defect range from a defective area of a data storage medium to a reserve area of the data storage medium, and identifying the defect range by an address of a start of the defect range and a defect length. A logical address table is updated with the address of the start of the defect range, the defect length and an offset to the reserve area.
US11138102B2
A method and apparatus to reduce read latency and improve read quality of service (Read QoS) for non-volatile memory, such as NAND array in a NAND device. For read commands that collide with an in-progress program array operation targeting the same program locations in a NAND array, the in-progress program is suspended and the controller allows the read command to read from the internal NAND buffer instead of waiting for the in-progress program to complete. For read commands queued during an in-progress program that is processing pre-reads in preparation for a program array operation, pre-read bypass allows the reads to be serviced between the pre-reads and before the program's array operation starts. In this manner, read commands can be serviced without suspending the in-progress program. Allowing internal NAND buffer reads and enabling pre-read bypass reduces read latency and improves Read QoS.
US11138101B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for detecting an issued request in a queue that is shared by a plurality of domains in a memory architecture, wherein the plurality of domains are associated with non-uniform access latencies. Additionally, a destination domain associated with the issued request may be determined. Moreover, a first set of additional requests may be prevented from being issued to the queue if the issued request satisfies an overrepresentation condition with respect to the destination domain and the first set of additional requests are associated with the destination domain. In one example, a second set of additional requests are permitted to be issued to the queue while the first set of additional requests are prevented from being issued to the queue, wherein the second set of additional requests are associated with one or more remaining domains in the plurality of domains.
US11138099B2
A method for testing software includes: determining influencing factors which influence implementation of a target function of the software; constructing a test case set for each of the influencing factors; inputting the test case set corresponding to each of the influencing factors to the software; enabling the software to run the test case set; calculating an accuracy of each of the influencing factors against implementation of the target function of the software according to a running result of the test case set run by the software; determining, according to the accuracy achieved each of the influencing factors, whether a predetermined qualification condition is satisfied; determining that the software is tested to be qualified if the predetermined qualification condition is satisfied; and determining that the software is tested to be unqualified if the predetermined qualification condition is not satisfied.
US11138097B2
Methods for generating and maintaining test scripts for automated web testing are provided. A method for generating test scripts includes: receiving a series of steps defining a procedure; linking keywords in the series of steps with functional objects; dynamically arranging the functional objects according to the series of steps; generating the test scripts from the arranged functional objects; and sending the test scripts to a testing manager. A method for maintaining test scripts includes: determining a change in steps of metadata; identifying a position within a test script affected by the change in steps; updating row(s) within the test script based on the change in steps; and providing the test script to the testing manager. Embodiments of the disclosure enable a codeless automated web-testing framework based on a non-recording approach, which avoids manual coding or recording of test scripts, thereby accelerating website system testing and reducing associated time and costs.
US11138092B2
A processor is configured to record a replay-able trace of execution of an execution entity. Based on detection of a cache miss during the execution of the execution entity, the processor records an influx of data imported into a processor cache in response to the cache miss, and sets a hardware bit on a cache line of the processor cache storing the influx of data. The hardware bit indicates that the cache line has been recorded into a trace. In addition, the processor records by recording at least one side effect of the access by the execution entity to the model-specific register.
US11138081B2
An error detecting system, comprising: a control circuit; and a first error detecting circuit, coupled to the control circuit, configure to detect error of input data. The control circuit controls the first error detecting circuit to use a first setting to detect the error in a first time period, controls the first error detecting circuit to use a second setting to detect the error in a second time period following the first time period, and controls the first error detecting circuit to generate a first detecting result corresponding to the first setting and the second setting after the detection corresponding to the first setting and the second setting are completed.
US11138072B2
There is disclosed in one example a processor, including: a protected runtime mode (PRM) module to receive a PRM interrupt and to: suspend operation of a software task executing on the processor; save processor state information; place the microprocessor into PRM; access a PRM handler in a designated PRM memory region, wherein the PRM handler comprises a platform specific task; restore the processor state; and resume operation of the software task.
US11138066B1
The A storage device comprises a controller comprising first random access memory (RAM1), second random access memory (RAM2), and a storage unit divided into a plurality of streams. A first command to write data to a first stream is received, first XOR data is generated in the RAM1, and the data of the first command is written to the first stream. When a second command to write data to a second stream is received, the generated first XOR data is copied from the RAM1 to the RAM2, and second XOR data for the second stream is copied from the RAM2 to the RAM1. The second XOR data is updated with the second command, and the data of the second command is written to the second stream. The updated second XOR data is copied from the RAM1 to the RAM2.
US11138063B1
Systems and methods are provided for generating faults and analyzing fault propagation and its effects. Starting from the ontologies of components, functions, flows, and faults, systems and methods are provided that describe, generate and track faults in a computer system across multiple domains throughout design and/or development. In order to construct the system and fault models, a series of concepts is introduced in the form of ontologies and their dependencies. An investigation is performed into the faults, including their type, cause, life-cycle aspects, and effect. Principles and rules are created to generate various faults based on system configurations. After the modeling process, a simulation engine is described to execute actions and simulate the process of fault generation and propagation. As a result, fault paths that impact components and functions can be obtained.
US11138059B2
The disclosed embodiments provide for identification of a remedial action based on analysis of a system log file. In some example embodiments, messages from the system log file are used as input to generate vectors within a vector space. Portions of the log messages may generate vectors that cluster into a region in the vector space. The region of vector space is associated with one or more remedial actions. The disclosed embodiments are configured, in some example embodiments, to perform the one or more remedial actions when activity in the log file maps to the region of vector space associated with the one or more remedial actions. In some example embodiments, a remedial action can include submitting a problem report to a problem tracking database.
US11138056B2
A system and method for unsupervised prediction of machine failures. The method includes monitoring sensory inputs related to at least one machine; analyzing, via at least unsupervised machine learning, the monitored sensory inputs, wherein the output of the unsupervised machine learning includes at least one indicator; identifying, based on the at least one indicator, at least one pattern; and determining, based on the at least one pattern and the monitored sensory inputs, at least one machine failure prediction.
US11138049B1
Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to provide users with machine-generated narratives that include human-intelligible, credible, and transparent recommendations and rationales for recommended VM instance types. The optimization service may gather various information or data about the workload, such as utilization characteristics of the underlying computing resources, and decompose the workloads through a number of dimensions that can be used to describe the workload. Further, the optimization service may analyze the utilization characteristics and/or other data to determine more optimized VM instance types for the workloads that are to be recommended to the users, and also rationales that describes why each recommendation is an appropriate fit for the workload being assessed. Using this information, the optimization service may generate narratives that include a description of the workload behaviors and utilization patterns, a set of recommendations, and supporting narrative or rationales for each of the recommendations.
US11138048B2
A work stealer apparatus includes a determination module. The determination module is to determine to steal work from a first hardware computation unit of a first type for a second hardware computation unit of a second type that is different than the first type. The work is to be queued in a first work queue, which is to correspond to the first hardware computation unit, and which is to be stored in a shared memory that is to be shared by the first and second hardware computation units. A synchronized work stealer module is to steal the work through a synchronized memory access to the first work queue. The synchronized memory access is to be synchronized relative to memory accesses to the first work queue from the first hardware computation unit.
US11138045B2
A method is used in managing an asynchronous and synchronous transmit priority mechanism. The method receives a plurality of replication requests in conjunction with a replication process, where the plurality of replication requests comprises at least one of a first replication request or a second replication request. A first storage system that comprises a plurality of storage devices is configured to participate in the replication process with a second storage system that comprises a plurality of storage devices. The method optimizes at least one second replication request to optimize processing of the plurality of replication requests.
US11138044B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods related to memory pooling between selected memory resources are described. A system using a memory pool formed as such may enable performance of functions, including automated functions critical for prevention of damage to a product, personnel safety, and/or reliable operation, based on increased access to data that may improve performance of a mission profile. For instance, one apparatus described herein includes a memory resource, a processing resource coupled to the memory resource, and a transceiver resource coupled to the processing resource. The memory resource, the processing resource, and the transceiver resource are configured to enable formation of a memory pool between the memory resource and another memory resource at another apparatus responsive to a request to access the other memory resource transmitted from the processing resource via the transceiver.
US11138040B2
Described is a system, method, and computer program product to perform monitoring for process-based OS resource utilization by individual database instances in a multi-database environment. This approach may be used to resolve numerous resource allocation and monitoring problems, such as the noisy neighbor problem.
US11138039B2
A memory system includes: a memory device that includes a plurality of ranks; and a memory controller suitable for deciding selection signals each of which selects one command set corresponding to each of combinations of the ranks and at least one program executed in the memory device among a plurality of command sets, and executing a program including the selected command set in the memory device.
US11138035B1
Technology is described for sending messages between device groups. A message may be generated at a first device group. The first device group may include a plurality of edge devices that is executing a first process. The message may be sent from the first edge device in the first device group to a source controller edge device in the first device group. A logical group address associated with the message may be added. The logical group address may identify a second device group that is to receive the message. The second device group may include a plurality of edge devices that is executing a second process. The message may be sent from the source controller edge device in the first device group to a destination controller edge device in the second device group over an overlay grouping network between the first device group and the second device group.
US11138033B1
Techniques are described for providing an application programming interface (API) that includes a bulk computing task operation. A bulk computing task operation enables users to request performance of any number of computing tasks using a single API request. To submit a bulk task request, a user generates or causes the generation of bulk task data describing a plurality of computing tasks to be executed by an application or service, and causes the bulk task data to be stored at an accessible storage location. A single bulk task API request can be generated that includes an identifier of the storage location at which the corresponding bulk task data is stored. The submission of a bulk task API request results in a synchronous response to the requesting client including an identifier of the request that can be used to request status updates, while processing the request can occur asynchronously using backend resources.
US11138029B2
A virtual machine hosting environment executing on a physical machine is operable to instantiate a virtual machine that is capable of initiating I/O operations directed to a remote storage. The virtual machine hosting environment is operable to determine when an unavailability condition exists with respect to the remote storage and when such unavailability condition no longer exists. The virtual machine hosting environment is further operable to suspend the virtual machine based at least on the determination that the unavailability condition exists and to resume the virtual machine based at least on the determination that the unavailability condition no longer exists. The virtual machine hosting environment may be still further operable to save one or more pending I/O requests generated by the virtual machine in conjunction with pausing the virtual machine and to send the pending I/O request(s) to the remote storage in conjunction with resuming the virtual machine.
US11138025B2
Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing an interactive developer interface of a group-based communication system. Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for consolidating application data associated with an application within a group-based communication interface. Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for indexing processing actions associated with a plurality of applications.
US11138015B2
A compute unit includes single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) lanes that implement a pipeline. The compute unit also includes a scheduler to schedule the SIMD lanes to apply a binary associative operation to pairs of elements associated with ordered sets of elements. Subsets of the SIMD lanes concurrently apply the binary associative operation to pairs of elements at different levels of upsweep trees associated with the ordered sets of elements. Application of the binary associative operation is used to perform a reduction operation or a scan operation on the ordered sets of elements. In the case of a scan operation, the scheduler schedules the SIMD lanes to concurrently apply the binary associative operation to pairs of elements at different levels of downsweep trees associated with the ordered sets of elements subsequent to applying the binary associative operation at different levels of the upsweep trees.
US11138012B2
A processor with fault generating circuitry responsive to detecting a processor write is to a stack location that is write protected, such as for storing a return address at the stack location.
US11138007B1
Disclosed is a method and a system for facilitating assessment on a pseudo coding platform. The method includes identifying a coding question and a program code answering the coding question. The method further includes identifying a logic in the program code. The method furthermore includes eliminating the logic from the program code to generate fillable blanks for a candidate to answer the coding question thereby creating a pseudo coding platform for assessment. Further, the method includes receiving an answer to the coding question from the candidate. The candidate enters the answer in the fillable blanks. Finally, the method includes assessing the answer using keyword matching techniques. It may be noted that the assessment includes at least an exact match assessment, a partial match assessment, and a keyword match assessment.
US11138002B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method comprises receiving, by an issue tracking system, a build update from a build system which includes build information in respect of one or more issues maintained by the issue tracking system. The method further comprises associating one or more issues maintained by the issue tracking system with build information by identifying the one or more issues to which the build information in the build update relates, extracting the build information from the build update, and associating the build information with each of the identified issues.
US11138001B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a customizable cloud-based software platform. A customizable cloud-based software platform provides functionality that enables a user (e.g., individual user, organization, etc., that has created an account with the customizable cloud-based software platform) to modify a base version of a cloud-based software application to the specific user's needs. For example, the customizable cloud-based software platform provides a base version of a cloud-based software application that includes a base set of functionalities, settings, user interfaces, etc., which a user may modify to meet the user's specific needs. A user may therefore use a client device to interact with the customizable cloud-based software platform to access their customized instance of the cloud-based application.
US11138000B2
Similarity between files nodes of two data tree may be classified based on file names, file paths, and file values. Similarity between directory nodes of two data trees. Responsive to similarity between a file node of a data tree being classified within a no match level: (1) a matching file node of the other data tree may be identified based fingerprints, and (2) a file-node delta may be determined between the file node and the matching file node. A delta between the two data trees may be generated based on the classification of similarity between the file nodes, the classification of similarity between the directory nodes, and the file-node delta.
US11137991B2
An indication is received from a user to initiate installation of an operating system onto a storage device of a computer. The storage device is partitioned into an original partition and a new partition. Installation software for the operating system is loaded onto the new partition. The computer is booted into the installation software on the new partition. The operating system is installed onto the original partition via the installation software on the new partition. The computer is then re-booted into the operating system on the original partition and the new partition is removed from the storage device.
US11137989B1
Technologies related to constructing a data flow graph are described herein, where the data flow graph indicates that personal data is passed from a first computer-executable module of an organization computing system to a second computer-executable module of the organization computing system. The data flow graph is constructed based upon static analysis data pertaining to source code of the organization computing system; the data flow graph is further constructed based upon infrastructure data that provides runtime information for the organization computing system.
US11137988B2
A branch element identification unit identifies a branch element being a program element for branching, from a model diagram representing a plurality of program elements and a relationship among the program elements. A group identification unit identifies a branch destination group, the branch destination group being a series of program elements constituting branch destination of the branch element, for each branch destination from the model diagram. A sequence determination unit determines a sequence of the branch destination groups in a program code. A code generation unit generates the program code based on the model diagram. The program code includes codes corresponding to the branch destination groups in accordance with the sequence of the branch destination groups.
US11137983B2
Configurable specialized processing blocks, such as DSP blocks, are described that implement fixed and floating-point functionality in a single mixed architecture on a programmable device. The described architecture reduces the need to construct floating-point functions outside the configurable specialized processing block, thereby minimizing hardware cost and area. The disclosed architecture also introduces pipelining into the DSP block in order to ensure the floating-point multiplication and addition functions remain in synchronicity, thereby increasing the maximum frequency at which the DSP block can operate. Moreover, the disclosed architecture includes logic circuitry to support floating-point exception handling.
US11137975B2
In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a first signal indicative of a current emotional state of a user, receiving a second signal corresponding to a desired emotional state of the user, and based on the first and second signals, generating a playlist of media content including a first item and an nth item. The first signal can be received from a wearable sensor. Generating the playlist can comprise selecting items of media content, and arranging the media content in a sequential order such that the playlist transitions from the first item toward the nth item. The method can further comprise playing back, via a playback device, at least the first item of the media content, and while playing back the first item, receiving a third signal indicative of an updated emotional state of the user.
US11137969B2
The present disclosure discloses an information interaction method, an information interaction system, and an application thereof, and belongs to the field of electronic whiteboards. In view of the problems in the prior art that an electronic whiteboard in a conference system has a large amount of data to be transmitted, requires a large interaction bandwidth, and has high network requirements, the present disclosure provides an information interaction method: When an image is annotated on the local device, the host serializes the annotation on the local device. The remote device combines the serialized data and corresponding coordinates and pressure sensing values, to calculate and draw an image for display from the data by using a GPU. The interaction method is applied to the electronic whiteboard in the conference system, thereby realizing multi-party real-time interactive whiteboard collaboration, which is supported in both local conferences and teleconferences.
US11137960B2
A control method includes transmitting, based on reception of a predetermined operation a first command to cause a communication apparatus to search for a predetermined access point using at least one communication channel including a communication channel used by the predetermined access point among a plurality of communication channels available for use by the communication apparatus and without using at least one other communication channel other than the at least one communication channel among the plurality of communication channels available for use by the communication apparatus, the predetermined access point being connected to an information processing apparatus at least when the predetermined operation is received.
US11137949B2
A controller of a printing apparatus is configured to, in a case where first print data is received from a first external device, determine whether the control mode is set to a continuous mode by a selection instruction from a second external device. In a case where it is determined that the control mode is set to the continuous mode, the controller stores the first print data in the memory without printing based on the received first print data, and determines whether a predetermined condition for performing processing under a usual mode is satisfied, after storing the first print data in the second processing. In a case where it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied, the controller controls the print head to print on a printing medium based on the first print data, and controls a cutter to cut the printed medium.
US11137948B2
User equipment, the user equipment to receive data representing identity information broadcast by a rendering apparatus over a passive non-contact short proximity data transport mechanism when the user equipment is proximate the rendering apparatus, and push the gathered identity information to a workstation, to enable the workstation to connect with the rendering apparatus.
US11137946B2
In an image processing apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires relevant content related to a document included in a job inputted into the image processing apparatus, and a display control unit displays the acquired relevant content on a display unit of the image processing apparatus. An acceptance unit accepts a selection of one of a plurality of output forms from a user, as an output form for the relevant content displayed on the display unit. A control unit generates a job for outputting the accepted relevant content in the output form and controls execution of the generated job.
US11137934B2
A memory block type processing method includes: a state of each memory block in the electronic device is monitored; when it is monitored that a memory block is released, a type of the released memory block is detected; responsive to that it is detected that an original type of the released memory block is inconsistent with a present type of the released memory block, a released memory capacity of the released memory block is detected; and the present type of the released memory block is adjusted according to the detected released memory capacity. Therefore, sufficient regional ranges of memory partitions of the reclaimable and/or movable types can be ensured, and during memory compaction, a continuous memory that is sufficient for a user to use can be effectively provided by compaction to alleviate the memory fragmentation problem.
US11137932B2
Technology for detecting a capability set of a removable integrated circuit card, such as a removable memory card, is disclosed. The removable integrated circuit card has one or more capability pads that indicate a capability set of the removable integrated circuit card. The physical condition may be a physical configuration of one or more capability pads, such as size or location of a capability pad. A host device is able to determine the capability set of the removable integrated circuit card based on the physical condition of the capability pads. The host device may determine the capability set without the card being powered on, without reading a register in the card, or without exchanging commands with the card.
US11137920B1
A processing device in a memory system receives requests to perform a plurality of memory access operations at a memory device configured with a zone namespace having a plurality of zones. The memory device includes a plurality of planes, wherein each zone of the plurality of zones is associated with a separate plane of the plurality of planes. The processing device further concurrently performs a first memory access operation of the plurality of memory access operations on first data stored in a first zone of the plurality of zones and a second memory access operation of the plurality of memory access operations on second data stored in a second zone of the plurality of zones, wherein the first zone is associated with a first plane of the plurality of planes, and wherein the second zone is associated with a second plane of the plurality of planes.
US11137915B2
A method for dynamically altering logical storage capacity within multiple storage drives is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method monitors, within a storage environment, characteristics (e.g., age, wear, etc.) of multiple storage drives. Each storage drive has an amount of overprovisioning associated therewith. Based on the characteristics, the method periodically modifies a logical storage capacity of the storage drives in order to alter the amount of overprovisioning. The method then reorganizes the storage drives within various storage groups (e.g., RAID arrays, storage tiers, workloads, etc.) based on their logical storage capacity. For example, the method may place, as much as possible, storage drives of the same logical storage capacity within the same storage groups. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11137913B2
Examples may forward an input/output (IO) request with use of kernel-level instructions. Examples may receive the IO request via a port of a standby controller, generate an alternate version of the IO request using at least kernel-level instructions of the standby controller, and provide the alternate version of the IO request to physical memory of the active controller by providing the alternate version of the IO request to a designated region of physical memory of the standby controller that is mapped to a designated region of the physical memory of the active controller.
US11137908B2
The operation of a keyboard, another input device, and/or any surface can be enhanced by features of a head-mounted device, which can display feedback, outputs, or other features based on the user's actions. For example, the head-mounted device can display text generated by the user's operation of the keyboard. The text can be displayed in a manner that allows a user to readily see the keyboard, the user's hands, and the text that is generated by operation of the keyboard. The head-mounted device can further display features that facilitate the user's operation of the keyboard. For example, suggested text, keystrokes, or other features correlated with keys of the keyboard can be displayed for selection by a user. By further example, the keyboard can be displayed in a position and orientation that conforms to an arrangement of the user's hands within a field of view of the head-mounted device.
US11137903B2
Disclosed is a method and system for providing gesture-based transitions while using a digital whiteboard. The present disclosure relates to a method for gesture-based transitions for interacting with a digital whiteboard comprising the steps of receiving information relating to a first pointer down event; receiving information relating to a first pointer up event; comparing the information relating to the pointer down event to the information relating to the pointer up event; and transitioning from a first interactive mode to a second interactive mode based on the comparison. The present disclosure further relates to a digital whiteboard system comprising one or more processors and memory, communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, storing executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising identifying a pointer down event inputted by a user; identifying a pointer up event inputted by the user; comparing the pointer down event to the pointer up event; and transitioning from a first interactive mode to a second interactive mode based on the comparison.
US11137900B2
A touch interface comprising a first surface and n actuators designed to vibrate said first surface, n being an integer >1. A control unit is able to generate a control signal for each actuator, each control signal being a harmonic signal comprising a carrier signal at a non-radiative frequency.
US11137896B2
In at least one embodiment, a system is provided that includes a user interface, a plurality of proximity sensors, and at least one controller. The user interface is configured to enable selection of one or more operations for a vehicle. The plurality of proximity sensors is positioned about or within the user interface and is configured to transmit first signals indicative of a location of a user relative to the user interface as the user selects the one or more operations for the vehicle with the user interface. The at least one controller is configured to determine the location of the user relative to the user interface in response to the first signals and to transmit a vehicle control signal to a vehicle subsystem to perform the one or more operations based on the location of the user relative to the user interface.
US11137894B1
A foldable computing device with multiple display regions repositions UI components of an application. A repositioned UI component may be easier to access, discover, and manipulate. In some configurations, a UI component is repositioned to be closer to the thumbs of a user holding the device. In other configurations, a UI component is repositioned to avoid inter-region gestures. In other configurations, a UI component is repositioned to a location that is less likely to move or shift the device by the physical force of touching the component. A content optimization engine may determine whether to reposition a UI component based on a number of factors, including a posture of the device, a size of the component, a complexity of user interaction needed to use the component, how often the component is used, etc.
US11137884B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product modifies an appearance of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a user. One or more processors determine a user context and a cognitive state of a user and identify a preferred focal point for the user. The processor(s) adjust a visual style of an image according to the determined user context and cognitive state of the user and the identified focal point for the user, and then present a graphical user interface that displays the image to the user using the adjusted visual style.
US11137879B2
Described herein is a user interface that enables messages within a collaborative workspace environment to be propagated to different workspaces that are associated with different tabs in the collaborative workspace environment. Thus, a comment made in a workspace associated with a first tab is reflected in a workspace associated with a different tab and vice versa.
US11137869B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a cover feed interaction history from a device associated with a user of a social-networking system. An order for a plurality of content boards may be determined based on the cover feed interaction history (e.g., viewing history, download status, the current order of content boards in the cover feed, user interaction history, whether the user bookmarked or pinned a particular content board), user information related to the user, and device information about device-based events and device status. Finally, the order for the content boards may be sent to the device. The determination of the order for the content boards may be based on the cover feed interaction history, recency of content included in the content boards, popularity of the content, relevance of content to the user, or device-based events.
US11137868B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for a first platform to incorporate context of a post from a second platform into a first user interface of the first platform. A system includes a processor that receives, via a post displayed in a second user interface of the second platform, a request for a media content item referenced in the post in the second user interface, the second user interface comprising one or more user interface elements and one or more controls. The processor identifies the one or more user interface elements and one or more controls displayed in the second user interface of the second platform, and provides the one or more controls and at least one of the one or more user interface elements of the post displayed in the second user interface for presentation within the first user interface of the first platform. Further, upon election of one of the one or more controls, the processor causes a user to be presented with the post within the second user interface.
US11137867B2
A touch sensor is provided which includes one or more liquid metal wires and detection circuitry to detect a change in an electrical attribute of the one or more liquid metal cavities based on a depression of the one or more liquid metal cavities, and indicate a touch event corresponding to the depression of the one or more liquid metal cavities based on the change in the electrical attribute.
US11137863B2
Disclosed herein are optical stacks that are stable to light exposure by incorporating one or more UV-blocking layers.
US11137859B2
A method for determining a point report position of a touch point includes: predicting whether an action between an Nth frame and an (N+1)th frame of a touch signal is a jitter or slide of a touch object during stay, according to position change information of a touch point in at least two frames before the (N+1)th frame of the touch signal; determining a position of the touch point at the Nth frame as the point report position of the touch point at the (N+1)th frame, if the action is the jitter; and determining the position of the touch point at the (N+1)th frame or a position close to the position of the touch point at the (N+1)th frame as the point report position of the touch point at the (N+1)th frame, if the action is the slide.
US11137858B2
Location-based swing compensation for touch sensor panels can improve touch sensing performance. Due to differences in impedance characteristics of touch nodes at different locations in a touch sensor panel (due to differences in routing to touch nodes and due to differences in impedance with respect to ground (loading effects) of touch nodes), touch nodes can have non-uniform bandwidth characteristics which can manifest as non-uniform signal and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) across the touch sensor panel. Additionally, the non-uniform signal can reduce the effectiveness of bootstrapping. Swing compensated stimulation signals can be applied to various touch nodes based on location and/or impedance characteristics of the various touch nodes. For example, the stimulation voltage can be increased for touch nodes with longer and/or thinner routing traces so that the signal at the touch node can be uniform with other touch nodes whose routing may be shorter and/or thicker. In some examples, a touch sensing system can include a swing compensation memory including swing compensation parameters to select stimulation signal swing for transmit channels.
US11137852B2
A pressing operation detection device includes a pressing operation determination unit determining whether a pressing operation has been performed based on a touch on an operation unit and a pressing amount, an increase-and-decrease frequency detection unit detecting occurrence frequency of increase and decrease of a pressing amount every predetermined period of time, and a determination controller changing content of the determination process of the pressing operation determination unit based on the occurrence frequency detected while a touch on the operation unit is not detected. When a pressing amount is detected although the operation unit is not touched, assuming that increase and decrease of the pressing amount is caused by vibration, content of the determination process is changed such that influence of the vibration is reduced so that detection of a pressing operation which brings a feeling of strangeness to the user which is caused by the vibration may be avoided.
US11137846B2
According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix; a plurality of scanning signal lines; a drive electrode that faces the pixel electrodes; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes including a detection electrode pattern of a transparent conductive body that faces the drive electrode. The detection electrode pattern includes one or more slits each of which is a region where the transparent conductive body is not present. The slits of the detection electrode pattern of the touch detection electrodes extend in a direction different from an extending direction of the scanning signal lines with a slit pitch having a predetermined interval therebetween in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines. The slit pitch is multiples of a natural number of a predetermined pixel pitch in which the pixel electrodes are arranged.
US11137844B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems and, more particularly, to systems that incorporate digital downloading jukebox features and improved user interfaces. For instance, a smart search may be provided, e.g., where search results vary based on the popularity of songs within the venue, in dependence on songs being promoted, etc. As another example, a tile-based approach to organizing groupings of songs is provided. Groupings may involve self-populating collections of songs that combine centrally-promoted songs, songs in a given genre that are popular across an audiovisual distribution network, and songs that are locally popular and match up with the given genre (e.g., because of shared attributes such as same or similar genre, artist, etc.). Different tile visual presentations also are contemplated, as are different physical jukebox designs. In certain example embodiments, a sealed core unit with the “brains” of the jukebox is insertable into a docking station.
US11137843B2
A mouse device includes a mouse body, a stylus, and a power module. A long and narrow accommodating space is disposed at one side of the mouse body, and the long and narrow accommodating space has a first length. The stylus is detachably accommodated in the long and narrow accommodating space. When the stylus is accommodated in the long and narrow accommodating space, the stylus has a second length. When the stylus is detached from the mouse body, the stylus has a third length. The third length is longer than the second length and the first length. When the stylus is accommodated in the long and narrow accommodating space, a charging area of the stylus is electrically connected to the power module to charge the stylus.
US11137840B1
A stylus pen, a touch sensing system having the stylus pen, a touch sensing controller employed therein and a touch sensing method using the touch sensing system are disclosed. A stylus pen includes a conductive pen case made of a conductive material, a stylus tip connected to a first terminal of the conductive pen case, and a signal supply part supplying a pen driving signal to the stylus tip and providing the conductive pen case with a palm rejection signal. A palm rejection signal different from the pen driving signal applied to the stylus tip is applied to the conductive pen case, thereby achieving a palm rejection function.
US11137827B2
A system and method for aligning a screen protector to a cell phone comprises a screen protector with an alignment liner disposed over the screen protector; alignment indicia disposed on the alignment liner; and a display source configured to enable display of alignment indicia on the display screen of the cell phone. The alignment indicia of the display screen correspond to the alignment indicia of the alignment liner so that the alignment indicia of the alignment liner is capable of being aligned over the alignment indicia on the display screen to properly align the screen protector with the display screen when the screen protector is positioned above the display screen.
US11137823B1
The present disclosure describes methods and systems for data storage or other devices that are L1 sub-state capable, to be able to enter these sub-states while on the same network or bus as a device not enabled for transition to an L1 sub-state. In some embodiments, when an LTSSM circuit in a MAC of a PCIe device indicates an L1 idle state, an L1 sub-state (L1SS) timer is initiated in a CLKREQ on the device. Upon expiration of the timer, a CLKREQ_in emulator de-asserts its signal on the MAC, causing the MAC to enter an L1SS.
US11137819B2
A method and apparatus configured to reduce power consumption of a physical (PHY) interface of a digital memory device. In some configurations, the PHY interface is configured to modulate electrical characteristics of a transmitter and/or receiver on the PHY interface according to an idle state of one or more of the digital memory device or a host computing system.
US11137808B2
A processing device in a memory system receives a data access request identifying a memory cell in a first segment of the memory system comprising at least a portion of at least one memory device. The processing device determines a temperature difference between a current temperature associated with the memory cell and a baseline temperature of the memory system and identifies a temperature compensation value specific to the first segment of the memory system, the temperature compensation value corresponding to the temperature difference. The processing device adjusts, based on an amount represented by the temperature compensation value, an access control voltage applied to the memory cell.
US11137806B2
A system includes a programmable logic device (PLD) and a processor. The processor determines sets of power values associated with respective portions of a plurality of portions of the PLD. The processor also determines a temperature value for each portion of the plurality of portions based on the sets of power values and platform data associated with the PLD. Additionally, the processor generates a power map indicative of an expected amount of power for each portion of the plurality of portions based on the sets of power values. Furthermore, the processor generates a heat map indicative of an expected temperature value for each portion of the plurality of portions.
US11137804B2
An activity monitoring circuit enables power conservation for an activity monitoring system. The activity monitoring system includes a sensor device that generates activity data based on detected movement. An activity monitoring circuit receives the activity data as input from the sensor device, and processes the activity data. Based on the processing, the activity monitoring circuit signals the sensor device to change a duty cycle of its operation, by adjusting how long it is on and off. The activity monitoring circuit can include a sensor hub that determines an activity state indicated by the activity data and generates a prediction of stability of the determined activity state based on historical activity data. Based on activity state and stability, the sensor hub can determine a duty cycle for operation of the sensor device.
US11137799B2
A consumer electronic product includes at least a transparent housing and a flexible display assembly enclosed within the transparent housing. In the described embodiment, the flexible display assembly is configured to present visual content at any portion of the transparent housing.
US11137795B2
At least one touch sensitive zone detects user touch on or near a display. The touch sensitive zone triggers one or more electrical brake components that control friction of axial rotation about one or more display arm pivot points. At least one display arm pivot point is non-pivotally attached to at least one arm brake component, and at least one axial brake component is held such that it will not rotate about the axial movement of the display arm. At least one of the brake components will require electrical power to activate. At least one electric circuit is used to control power to the brake component. When the brake component is de-energized the display arm can pivot with reduced torsional resistance. When the brake component is energized it creates friction, thus adding torsional resistance to the display arm pivot point.
US11137794B2
Methods and systems for synchronization of multiple processing cores of an electronic control system are disclosed. The electronic control system is configured to monitor and control operation of a multicore architecture employing one or more processing cores to generate a time reference signal and/or to synchronize with the time reference signal. In some examples, the system employs a single master processor to generate the reference synchronization signal (e.g., a master sync signal). In examples, a rising edge of the partition time reference signal is used as the marker of reference time zero (e.g., the start of a new partition frame). If a core is out of sync with the master sync signal, that core adjusts one or more timing characteristics to align the associated signal with the reference signal.
US11137792B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a knob (100), a controllable device (200) and a combination (500) of a knob and a controllable device. In certain aspects of the disclosure, the controllable device (200) is embodied as a loudspeaker. The knob (100) may be used for controlling one or more functions of the controllable device (200). The knob (100) is a detachable knob configured for detachable attachment to the controllable device (200). Furthermore, the detachable knob (100) is configured to be communicatively coupled to the controllable device (200) to control the one or more functions of the controllable device (200).
US11137788B2
A sub-bandgap reference voltage generator includes a reference current generator generating a reference current (proportional to absolute temperature), a voltage generator generating an input voltage (proportional to absolute temperature) from the reference current, and a differential amplifier. The differential amplifier is biased by the reference current and has an input receiving the input voltage and a resistor generating a voltage proportional to absolute temperature summed with the input voltage to produce a temperature insensitive output reference voltage. The reference current generator may generate the reference current as a function of a difference between bias voltages of first and second transistors. The voltage generator may generate the input voltage by applying the current proportional to absolute temperature through a plurality of transistors coupled in series between the bias voltage of the second transistor and ground, and tapping a node between given adjacent ones of the plurality of transistors.
US11137786B2
An electronic device includes a starting circuit configured to compare a value representative of the power supply voltage with a threshold, wherein the circuit includes a generator of a current proportional to temperature.
US11137784B2
A linear regulator operates in the manner of a linear voltage regulator, but with the functionality of a switching converter. This concept enables DC voltage up-conversion with no switching, more efficient step down of large voltage steps, and requires no expensive and bulky additional components. An optocoupler device transfers power between light emitting and photovoltaic devices.
US11137777B2
Provided is a control apparatus for controlling a plurality of flying bodies including a first flying body having an antenna for forming a communication area by a beam irradiated toward the ground to provide wireless communication service for a user terminal in the communication area. The control apparatus comprises a selection unit configured to select a flying body of a combination target to be combined with the first flying body from the plurality of flying bodies; and a flying body control unit configured to control combination of the first flying body and the flying body of a combination target.
US11137769B2
An autonomous traveler 1 includes an information acquisition part 11, a map storage part 12 and a travel control part 7. The information acquisition part 11 acquires information on a traveling area. The map storage part 12 creates and stores a base map, by determining the traveling area on the basis of the information acquired by the information acquisition part 11 at a predetermined timing. The travel control part 7 controls traveling on the basis of a map stored in the map storage part 12. The travel control part 7 controls the traveling on the basis of the base map, even when a traveling obstacle stored in the base map is removed.
US11137756B2
A system for landing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at a destination includes a landing coordination control unit that is configured to switch the UAV from a normal operating mode to a landing mode in response to the UAV entering a regulated airspace in relation to the destination. The normal operating mode includes normal instructions for flying and navigating to the destination. The landing mode includes landing instructions for a landing sequence into a landing zone at the destination.
US11137749B2
The invention relates to a method for the harmonization of color in manufactured items, which allows color tolerances to be established based on pre-defined values and visual observations for the different parts that form the item and the operating conditions for the manufacture of said parts by which means the colors falling within said tolerances can be obtained as well as the acceptance of the color harmonization of the final product by means of the use of algorithms and visual examination by a person or a machine.
US11137748B2
A welding control system is provided for monitoring welding operations of a plurality of welding units within a production facility configured to provide weld data associated with the respective mechanical entities, including a determination unit configured to determine for each type of mechanical entity a corresponding welding error rate on the basis of weld data received from welding units of the production facility, a calculation unit configured to calculate for each type of mechanical entity the number of faulty mechanical entities of the respective entity type depending on the number of mechanical entities used and configured to weight the calculated number of faulty mechanical entities of the respective entity type with a predetermined manufacturing effort value.
US11137746B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods to coordinate a robot swarm include an analyzer to create a planning message based on data associated with a first bot and a second bot. The planning message is communicated to the swarm from a first source. In addition, a scheduler issues a first assignment of a first operation slot and a first role to the first bot based on the planning message, issues a second assignment of a second operation slot and a second role to the second bot based on the planning message, and creates a decision message including the first assignment and the second assignment. The decision message is communicated to the swarm from a second source different than the first source.
US11137744B1
A system receives operations data and determines operations indicator(s) from the operations data. An operator on a manufacturing line reports a downtime event via a human machine interface device. The system receives downtime event and uptime information. The system calculates an operations indicator, such as an overall equipment effectiveness indicator, from the downtime event and uptime information. A user interface of the system includes the operations indicator(s) and visualizations. Some visualizations include a timeline indicating downtime events and other operations events. Additional downtime and uptime information is received by the system in substantially real-time. The system dynamically calculates updated operations indicator(s) from the additional downtime and uptime information.
US11137739B2
The numerical control system includes: detecting circuitry to obtain cutting force generated in a machine tool; controlling circuitry to calculate a control amount according to a cutting condition and to control a feed drive mechanism of the machine tool; countermeasure determining circuitry to, when it is detected from the cutting force or a state of the feed drive mechanism of the machine tool that a machining defect has occurred, calculate a plurality of deviation degrees for possible causes of the machining defect, and compare the calculated deviation degrees and to thereby determine a cause of the machining defect whose occurrence has been detected; and correction-amount calculating circuitry to calculate, according to the cause of the machining defect determined by the countermeasure determining circuitry, a correction amount with respect to the control amount, and then output the correction amount to the controlling circuitry.
US11137737B2
A numerical control device according to the present invention includes: an upper limit value acquisition unit which acquires an upper limit value for a cutting speed that is a relative speed of the cutting tool to the workpiece; a reference speed calculation unit which calculates a revolution number of the spindle, and a feedrate; an oscillation speed calculation unit which calculates an oscillation speed that is superimposed on the feedrate; a cutting speed calculation unit which calculates the cutting speed based on the revolution number of the spindle, the feedrate and the oscillation speed; and a speed adjustment unit which adjusts at least either one of the revolution number of the spindle and the feedrate, so that a maximum value of the cutting speed calculated by the cutting speed calculation unit does not exceed the upper limit value acquired by the upper limit value acquisition unit.
US11137736B2
A motor drive controller is provided that includes a current source inverter. The current source inverter includes driver circuitry configured to generate switching commands; a variable current source configured to generate a variable current that regulates power in a motor; and motor commutation circuitry configured to receive the variable current and switching commands, and to commutate phase currents that are output to the motor.
US11137735B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a PLC using a PC program, wherein a source code of a PLC program includes a data section, the data section including data indicating services to be exposed by the PLC when running the PLC program, wherein a source code of the PC program is automatically generated using the data included in the data section and a PC program template, wherein the PLC is controlled using the PC program generated from the automatically generated source code of the PC program.
US11137731B2
An energy storage system for a building includes a battery asset configured to store electricity and discharge the stored electricity for use in satisfying a building electric load. The system includes a planning tool configured to identify one or more selected functionalities of the energy storage system and generate a cost function defining a cost of operating the energy storage system over an optimization period. The cost function includes a term for each of the selected functionalities. The planning tool is configured to generate optimization constraints based on the selected functionalities, attributes of the battery asset, and the electric energy load to be satisfied. The planning tool is configured to optimize the cost function to determine optimal power setpoints for the battery asset at each of a plurality of time steps of the optimization period.
US11137727B2
A validation device for a machinery safety system including a housing, an electrical processing circuit, at least one switch connected to the housing, at least one indicator, and a quick-connect interface for connecting in series to the machinery safety system. The electrical processing circuit is configured for inducing at least one fault in the machinery safety system, diagnosing the at least one fault, and indicating by the at least one indicator a status of the machinery safety system.
US11137723B2
A professionally customizable timepiece includes a primary casing including a movement and configured to operate independently as a timepiece, and a secondary casing having an interior space for receiving the primary casing and further design elements. The secondary casing completely encloses the interior space and can be opened without tool for placement of the primary casing and/or design elements into the interior space or to remove them from there. The secondary casing includes a sight glass and is configured to secure the primary casing at a selectable position in the interior space.
US11137720B2
A holographic display device includes a backlight unit for emitting light and a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixels and a color filter layer including a plurality of color filter groups. The pixels are arranged in a zigzag form and are configured to modulate at least one of the amplitude and phase of the light. Each of the color filter groups includes a first sub-group including a plurality of first color filters, a second sub-group including a plurality of second color filters, and a third sub-group including a plurality of third color filters, and each of the pixels is aligned with one of the first color filters, the second color filters, and the third color filters of the color filter layer.
US11137707B2
A fixing apparatus includes an endless belt, and a pressing member including a base body and an elastic layer formed on the base body. A plurality of pore portions connected to each other are provided in the elastic layer. In a case where a binary image is generated from a three-dimensional image of the elastic layer, a threshold value X μm corresponding to opening processing with which a number of pores derived from the pore portions takes a maximum value is obtained, and then pores derived from the pore portions in the elastic layer are extracted by performing opening processing with a threshold value of 2X μm, an average value of angles θ is 120° or larger and smaller than 150°.
US11137698B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a rotatable developer carrying member, a rotatable toner supplying member, and a toner accommodating unit. A developing unit including the developer carrying member and the toner accommodating unit are capable of being independently exchanged. The image forming apparatus further includes a current detector and a controller configured to execute a process for notifying information on a lifetime of the developing unit, on the basis of a detection result of the current detector at predetermined timing after use of a fresh toner accommodating unit is started.
US11137692B2
Metrology targets, design methods and measurement methods thereof are provided with periodic structure(s) which are oblique with respect to orthogonal production axes X and Y of the lithography tool—enabling more accurate overlay measurements of devices having diagonal (oblique, tilted) elements such as DRAM devices. One or more oblique periodic structure(s) may be used to provide one- or two-dimensional signals, with respect to one or more layers, possibly providing overlay measurements for multiple steps applied to one layer. The oblique periodic structure(s) may be used to modify current metrology target designs (e.g., imaging targets and/or scatterometry targets) or to design new targets, and measurement algorithms may be adjusted respectively to derive signals from the oblique periodic structure(s) and/or to provide pre-processed images thereof. The disclosed targets are process compatible and reflect more accurately the device overlays with respect to various process steps.
US11137690B2
A method to improve a lithographic process for imaging a portion of a patterning device pattern onto a substrate using a lithographic projection having an illumination system and projection optics, the method including: (1) obtaining a simulation model that models projection of radiation by the projection optics, wherein the simulation model models an effect of an obscuration in the projection optics, and configuring, based on the model, the portion of the patterning device pattern, and/or (2) obtaining a simulation model that models projection of radiation by the projection optics, wherein the simulation model models an anamorphic demagnification of radiation by the projection optics, and configuring, based on the model, the portion of the patterning device pattern taking into account an anamorphic manufacturing rule or anamorphic manufacturing rule ratio.
US11137685B2
The present disclosure provides a method that includes coating an edge portion of a wafer by a first chemical solution including a chemical mixture of an acid-labile group, a solubility control unit and a thermal acid generator; curing the first chemical solution to form a first protecting layer on the edge portion of the wafer; coating a resist layer on a front surface of the wafer; removing the first protecting layer by a first removing solution; and performing an exposing process to the resist layer.
US11137668B2
A multi-purpose component system for photography is described. The system includes motors having connection channels arranged to engage with T-shaped engagement portions located on photographic equipment components. Cam members located along the engagement portions act to fix the motors in position relative to the components.
US11137661B2
Provided are a multilayer thin-film structure and a phase shifting device using the same. The multilayer thin-film structure includes at least one crystallization preventing layer and at least one dielectric layer that are alternately stacked. The at least one crystallization preventing layer includes an amorphous material, and a thickness of the at least one crystallization preventing layer is less than a thickness of the at least one dielectric layer.
US11137660B2
An image capturing apparatus is provided. The image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing element configured to capture an object image formed by light that has passed through an optical member using an electrochromic element and capable of electrically controlling a transmittance of the light. The image capturing apparatus further comprises one or more processors that execute a program stored in a memory, wherein the program, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to function as: a distribution acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution characteristic of a transmittance of the electrochromic element based on a current value flowing to the electrochromic element; and an image processing unit configured to correct an image signal captured by the image capturing element in accordance with the distribution characteristic.
US11137655B2
A tunable liquid crystal (LC) device includes an LC layer between a pair of reflectors forming an optical cavity. The reflectors include conductive layers for applying an electrical signal to the LC layer. One of the conductive layers may include an array of conductive pixels for spatially selective control of the effective refractive index of the LC layer. The phase delay introduced by the LC layer may be greatly increased or magnified by placing the LC layer into the optical cavity. This enables a substantial reduction of the LC layer thickness, which in its turn enables very tight pitches of the LC pixels, with a reduced inter-pixel crosstalk caused by fringing electric fields, as well as faster switching times. A tight-pitch, fast LC device may be used as a configurable hologram or a spatial light modulator.
US11137643B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module and a display panel. The backlight module includes a back plate and an optical component fixed on the back plate. A fool-proof structure is disposed on the optical component. The fool-proof structure includes a bulge. The bulge is disposed on a surface of the optical component. The surface of the optical component is matched and fixed with the back plate. A Positioning structure matched and fixed with the fool-proof structure is disposed on the back plate.
US11137641B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) structure includes an LED substrate having a first side and a second side opposing the first side. One or more light-emitting diodes are disposed on the first side and arranged to emit light through the LED substrate. In certain embodiments, a wire-grid polarizer is disposed on the second side and arranged to polarize light emitted from the one or more light-emitting diodes. A plurality of different colored LEDs or an LED with one or more color-conversion materials can be provided on the LED substrate to provide white light. A spatially distributed plurality of the LED structures can be provided in a backlight for a liquid crystal display. A polarization-preserving transmissive diffuser can diffuse light emitted from the LED toward the liquid crystal layer and a polarization-preserving reflective diffuser can diffuse light emitted from the LED away from the liquid crystal layer.
US11137630B2
Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the light-shielding layer.
US11137620B2
In an example, the eyewear includes an optical element, electronic components, and a support structure configured to support the optical element and the electronic components. The support structure defines a region for receiving at least a portion of a head of a user. The eyewear also includes a biometric sensor coupled to the electronic components and supported by the support structure. The biometric sensor is attached to the support structure and positioned to detect, in the region, a biometric signal representative of a biometric of the user for processing by the electronic components.
US11137617B2
An array of optical resonators comprises at least a first type of optical resonators each having a resonant response to an optical field at a first wavelength, and a second type of optical resonators each having a resonant response to an optical field at a second wavelength, being different from the first wavelength. The resonant responses can be selected to reduce chromatic aberrations, or to shape a profile of a light beam, or to selectively switch a near field beam.
US11137614B2
A viewing apparatus includes a housing, an optical mechanism including a first lens barrel and a second lens barrel, and an adjustment mechanism including a driving assembly and a sliding assembly. The driving assembly includes a mounting base, a toggle wheel, and a rotating shaft inserted through the toggle wheel and rotatably mounted at the mounting base. The sliding assembly includes a first sliding component connected to the first lens barrel, and a second sliding component connected to the second lens barrel. In response to a rotation of the toggle wheel, the rotating shaft is driven to have a rotation. The rotation of the rotating shaft enables a relative movement between the first sliding component and the second sliding component, and adjusts a distance between a distance between the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel.
US11137609B2
A head-mounted display includes a display device configured to display an image, a diopter adjustment device configured to adjust a diopter, and a correction processing circuit serving as an image correction device configured to correct a display image in accordance with a degree of diopter adjustment. In the adjustments made on a left side and a right side, respectively, after diopter adjustment, the display image is corrected in accordance with the degree of diopter adjustment.
US11137608B2
A slim immersive display device, a slim visualization device, and a user eye-tracking device. The slim immersive display device includes a display panel, a super-proximity visualization optical unit formed of a pinhole array film or a micro-lens array and configured to form an image output via the display panel on a retina of an eyeball of a user located a very short distance from the super-proximity visualization optical unit, an environment information control unit configured to determine an image to be output in accordance with virtual reality environment information, and an image generation unit configured to generate the output image determined by the environment information control unit in a form of super-proximity unit images and output the super-proximity unit images to the display panel.
US11137601B2
Systems and methods according to present principles allow social distancing within themed attractions such as haunted attractions in order to allow the enjoyment of the same in various circumstances. These circumstances include times of pandemic, for customers that are afraid to congregate in large groups, for customers that desire to control aspects of the experience, and so on.
US11137599B2
In a display device, an irradiation unit includes an imaging optical system. The imaging optical system scans and irradiates a front surface of a screen with light to form an image. The light passing through the screen and output from the screen in a movement direction is incident on a projection unit as incident light. The projection unit irradiates a reflective member with the incident light to allow the reflective member to reflect the incident light to form a virtual image corresponding to the image in a target space. A locus of a focal position of the imaging optical system when the irradiation unit wholly scans the front surface of the screen is within a range between the front surface of the screen at a first position and the front surface of the screen at a second position.
US11137597B2
An image display apparatus including a first light source, a spherical lens configured to receive light output from the first light source, an aspherical lens configured to receive light output from the spherical lens, a first free curved mirror configured to receive light output from the aspherical lens is incident, a second free curved mirror configured to receive light output from the first free curved mirror, a third free curved mirror configured to receive light output from the second free curved mirror, and an image display panel configured to receive light output from the third free curved mirror and configured to display image information, wherein a light path of the light output from the first free curved mirror, a light path of the light output from the second free curved mirror, and a light path of the light output from the third free curved mirror intersect each other.
US11137583B2
A plurality of lens units of a zoom lens according to an aspect of the embodiments includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens group which includes one or more lens units and has a positive refractive power as a whole. The first lens unit consists of a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a positive lens which are disposed in order from an object side to an image side. A specific gravity of the first negative lens, a focal length of the second negative lens, and a focal length of the first lens unit are appropriately determined.
US11137580B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens made of a glass material; a second lens made of a plastic material; a third lens made of a plastic material; a fourth lens made of a plastic material; a fifth lens made of a plastic material; a sixth lens made of a glass material; and a seventh lens made of a plastic material. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.51 f1/f2.50; 1.70n12.20; 0.60f3/f42.00; 2.50(R13+R14)/(R13−R14)10.00; and 1.70n62.20. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11137572B2
A six-piece optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side along the optical axis, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element. A least one of the first lens element through the fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has negative refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface thereof is aspheric. At least one of the surfaces of the sixth lens element has an inflection point. The six lenses have refractive power. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the image quality for use in compact cameras.
US11137565B2
A system, apparatus and method for thermal treatment of surface bonding optical is provided. An optical patch cord is surface bonded via thermal treatment with a tracer optical fiber which provides patch cord tracing in a bonding apparatus. During the process, the optical patch cord is also thermally treated to have the mechanical stress contained in its jacket relieved by rollers in the bonding apparatus to solve the patch cord shrink-back problem.
US11137556B2
Apparatus for monitoring the output of an optical system. The apparatus comprises first and second fibre optic sections, a reflective coating, and a detector. The first fibre optic section has a first cladding and a first core, and is configured to receive light from the optical system at one end and has at the other end a first angled, polished face. The second fibre optic section has a second cladding and a second core, and has at one end a second angled, polished face. The first and second fibre optic sections are arranged such that the first and second angled, polished faces are substantially parallel and adjacent and the first and second cores are substantially aligned. The reflective coating is applied to the first or second angled, polished face, and is configured to reflect a portion of light transmitted through the first core. The detector is arranged to receive the reflected light.
US11137544B2
Methods and systems for grating couplers incorporating perturbed waveguides are disclosed and may include in a semiconductor photonics die, communicating optical signals into and/or out of the die utilizing a grating coupler on the die, where the grating coupler comprises perturbed waveguides. The perturbed waveguides may include rows of continuous waveguides with scatterers extending throughout a length of the perturbed waveguides a variable width along their length. The grating coupler may comprise a single polarization grating coupler comprising perturbed waveguides and a non-perturbed grating. The grating coupler may comprise a polarization splitting grating coupler (PSGC) that includes two sets of perturbed waveguides at a non-zero angle, or a plurality of non-linear rows of discrete shapes. The PSGC may comprise discrete scatterers at an intersection of the sets of perturbed waveguides. The grating coupler may comprise individual scatterers between the perturbed waveguides.
US11137538B2
A multicore optical fiber that includes a plurality of waveguiding cores disposed in a cladding. The plurality of cores are situated adjacent to at least one other core with a core center to core center spacing being not larger than 10 times the radius of the average core, such that the greater than 10% of the light will couple from one core to the adjacent core over a propagating distance of 1 cm, along the fiber length so as to provide coupling between the adjacent cores and to enable quantum walk. The plurality waveguiding cores are disposed in the cladding in a ring distribution or at least a portion of the ring distribution.
US11137535B2
Provided is a polarizing plate having high transmittance characteristics and high durability. A polarizing plate 1 with a wire grid structure includes a transparent substrate 10, and a grid-shaped projecting portion 11 which is arranged on the transparent substrate 10 at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a used bandwidth and extends in a predetermined direction. The grid-shaped projecting portion 11 includes a reflection layer 12, a dielectric layer 13, and an absorption layer 14 in this order from the side of the transparent substrate 10. A protection layer 15 is provided on a surface of the grid-shaped projecting portion 11, and covers all of an upper surface and a side surface of the absorption layer 14 and all of a side surface of the dielectric layer 13, and at least a part of a side surface of the reflection layer 12. The protection layer 15 on the side surface of the reflection layer 12 is thinner than the protection layer 15 on the side surface of the absorption layer 14.
US11137526B2
A head-mounted display includes an optical component. The optical component includes a plurality of micro lenses and a central lens. The micro lenses are connected to each other. The central lens is connected among and surrounded by the micro lenses. The central lens and the micro lenses are substantially arranged along a plane.
US11137523B2
Embodiments relate to a protective film for a polarizer, a polarizing plate, and a display device comprising the same. The protective film for a polarizer according to the embodiments is improved in mechanical strength and minimized in rainbow strains by minimizing the difference in the orientation angle between the center and the edge of the film while generating a difference in the strengths in the longitudinal/transverse directions of the film. Hence, it can be advantageously used as a protective film for a polarizer.
US11137521B2
Provided is an antireflective film-attached transparent substrate, including a transparent substrate having first and second principal surfaces and an antireflective film formed on the first principal surface of the transparent substrate, in which the antireflective film has a luminous reflectance being 1% or lower, and the antireflective film-attached transparent substrate has a transmittance being 85% or higher over the whole wavelength range of from 700 nm to 950 nm and has a reflectance being maximum in a wavelength range of from 750 nm to 900 nm in a reflection spectrum of a wavelength range of from 450 nm to 950 nm.
US11137508B2
The present invention describes a mechanical coupling microseismic monitoring system, which includes at least one microseismic sensor, push rods that are arranged at both ends of the microseismic sensor through a first connection mechanism to send the microseismic sensor into the monitoring hole, introduction mechanisms that are mounted on the push rods for introducing the microseismic sensor into the monitoring hole, and one microseismic monitoring computer that receives signals from the microseismic sensor; the microseismic sensor is a recoverable microseismic sensor; the first connection mechanism is a connection mechanism that can make the push rod swing relative to the microseismic sensor; the introduction mechanism is a three-roller introduction mechanism. The present invention meets the requirement of microseismic monitoring for different parts of deep monitoring hole using multiple microseismic sensors.
US11137499B2
A method, a system, and computer readable medium for detecting interference with a navigation system are provided. The method includes detecting a global positioning system (GPS) signal via the navigation system of a vehicle, determining a signal strength of the GPS signal, determining a location of the vehicle based on the GPS signal, and determining a first attribute and a second attribute. The first attribute is determined as a function of the signal strength. The second attribute is determined as a function of the location of the vehicle. The method further includes outputting an alert indicating an interference with the navigation system when the first attribute and the second attribute are true.
US11137492B2
The method includes a step of forming, with a radar, a number N of beams of equal angular width that irradiate a runway and a portion of the surroundings of the runway; a step of dividing the zone irradiated by the beams into distance-angle boxes, the beams delineating the boxes anglewise; a step of taking measurements of backscattered power received from distance-angle boxes, the measurements being carried out for a set of pairs of boxes, a pair being composed of two boxes of same distance one of which, called the right box, crosses the right edge (3D) of the runway, and the other of which, called the left box, crosses the left edge (3G); a step of computing, for each pair, the difference in backscattered power between the right box and the left box, the aircraft being aligned with the axis when the difference is zero for at least two pairs of distance-angle boxes.
US11137486B2
Programmable ultrasound probes and methods of operation are described. The ultrasound probe may include memory storing parameter data and may also include a parameter loader which loads the parameter data into programmable circuitry of the ultrasound probe. In some instances, the ultrasound probe may include circuitry grouped into modules which may be repeatable and which may be coupled together to allow data to be exchanged between the modules.
US11137483B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus suitable for light scanning. The apparatus comprises a light source and a photonic crystal. The light source is configured to direct a light beam along an optical axis toward the photonic crystal. The photonic crystal is configured to direct the light beam along a direction at an angle relative to the optical axis. The angle is a function of wavelength of the light beam. The apparatus may also comprise a partial toroid lens configured to diverge the light beam received from the photonic crystal. The light source of the apparatus may be configured to change the wavelength continuously across a range of wavelengths.
US11137463B2
MRI techniques provide robust imaging in the presence of inhomogeneity in the B1 (RF) and/or B0 magnetic fields. The techniques include using a magnetization prep sequence that includes an adiabatic half passage (AHP) followed by a spin-lock pulse, followed by a reverse AHP, after which a data acquisition sequence can be applied. The AHP and reverse AHP can have amplitude and frequency modulated to sweep through a region of frequency space. The RF amplitude of the AHP and reverse AHP can be designed to be equal to the spin-lock amplitude. Quantification of a magnetization relaxation parameter (e.g., T1rho) can use a modified relaxation model that accounts for relaxation effects during the reverse AHP. A dual-acquisition technique in which the reverse AHP of the second magnetization prep sequence has opposite frequency modulation to the reverse AHP of the first magnetization prep sequence can also be used.
US11137460B2
A gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging system (1) includes at least one gradient coil (2) and a cooling arangement for cooling the gradient coil (2). The gradient coil (2) includes a solid electrical conductor material forming one or more conductor lines (21, 31, 41) which are in direct contact with each other. The cooling arrangement includes a cooling channel (22, 32, 42) for guiding a cooling fluid (10). The cooling channel (22, 32, 42) is arranged outside along the one or more conductor lines (21, 31, 41) in such a way that in a cross-sectional view one single continuous interface line between the cooling channel (22, 32, 42) and the one or more conductor lines (21, 31, 41) is formed. In this way efficient cooling of the gradient coil (2) may be achieved.
US11137459B2
An RF antenna element with a detuning system in which the RF antenna element comprises a resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system comprising a switching element to (de)tune the resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system element includes an electroluminescent element coupled to the resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system includes a photo-electrical conversion element to detect an electro-luminescent signal from the electroluminescent element.
US11137455B2
A magnetic field measuring element includes a Superconducting QUantum Interference Device magnetic sensors, the first sensor disposed either on a second plane perpendicular to a first plane including a coil surface of the third sensor and which includes the center of the third sensor, or in the vicinity of the second plane, and a second sensor disposed either on a third plane perpendicular to the first plane and the second plane, or in the vicinity of the third plane. The center of the first sensor is present either on a straight line which passes through the center of the third sensor and is perpendicular to the first plane, or in the vicinity of said straight line, and the center of the second sensor is present in a position displaced from a line joining the center of the third sensor and the center of the first sensor.
US11137438B2
A method of testing a self-contained device under test having at least a circuit under test and a power source is provided. The method may include at least temporarily enabling power from the power source to the circuit under test, determining a first voltage across the circuit under test, determining a second voltage across the circuit under test after a test duration, and calculating an average current of the circuit under test based at least partially on the first voltage, the second voltage and the test duration.
US11137423B2
Contactless voltage transducer for measuring voltages between at least two conductors of an alternating voltage conductor system, the transducer including two or more capacitive current measurement units, each said capacitive current measurement unit comprising an electrode surrounding a passage for receiving therethrough a respective said conductor of the alternating voltage conductor system, an electrode shield surrounding the electrode, an electrode signal processing circuit portion connected to the electrode and electrode shield, configured to output an analog measurement signal, and a reference voltage signal generator connected to the electrode shield and configured to generate a reference voltage source signal, wherein the reference voltage signal generators of the two or more capacitive current measurement units are connected together at a common floating voltage connection point.
US11137416B2
A sensor module includes an X-axis angular velocity sensor device that outputs digital X-axis angular velocity data, a Y-axis angular velocity sensor device that outputs digital Y-axis angular velocity data, a Z-axis angular velocity sensor device that outputs digital Z-axis angular velocity data, an acceleration sensor device that outputs digital X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis acceleration data, a microcontroller, a first digital interface bus that electrically connects the X-axis angular velocity sensor device, the Y-axis angular velocity sensor device, and the Z-axis angular velocity sensor device to a first digital interface, and a second digital interface bus that electrically connects the acceleration sensor device to a second digital interface.
US11137415B2
A vibrating device includes: a base body containing mobile ions; a movable member disposed facing and spaced apart from the base body; and a conductor section disposed so as to cover at least a portion of the movable member. A first voltage whose potential periodically changes based on a reference potential is applied to the movable member. A second voltage that is at the reference potential when time-averaged is applied to the conductor section. The second voltage is constant at the reference potential.
US11137407B2
The invention provides a method of diagnosing arthritis or other joint degrading disease in a subject which comprises determining whether there is a presence or increase of lubricin having a joint tissue posttranslational modification, in a blood sample from the subject, the presence or increase of the lubricin having the joint tissue posttranslational modification indicating arthritis or other joint degrading disease in the subject. The invention further provides a kit or protocol for detecting arthritis or other joint degrading disease by detecting lubricin, the lubricin comprising a joint tissue posttranslational modification.
US11137376B2
A photoacoustic gas sensor includes a hermetically sealed housing filled with a reference gas. The photoacoustic gas sensor furthermore includes a microphone arranged in the housing and configured to generate a microphone signal as a function of a sound wave based on light incident in the housing. Furthermore, the photoacoustic gas sensor includes a controllable heat source arranged in the housing and configured to selectively thermoacoustically excite the reference gas in order to generate a thermoacoustic sound wave phase-shifted with respect to the sound wave.
US11137345B2
The present disclosure relates to a confocal imaging apparatus using a chromatic aberration lens, which is capable of quickly implementing multiple tomographic images by making it possible to quickly scan the entire object without moving the light source or the object. Since the present invention is configured to generate a three-dimensional image using multiple tomographic images by a chromatic aberration lens without moving the light source or the object up and down, there is an effect of remarkably shortening the time it takes to implement the multiple tomographic images.
US11137337B2
Flow cytometry investigation and flow cytometry result analysis to determine an optimized dilution factor range for flow cytometry investigation of a target sample fluid stock using a flow cytometer. The optimized dilution factor range may be determined using a screening assay module of a flow cytometry system to analyze flow cytometry results determined to fall within a dynamic range of a flow cytometer to determine the optimized dilution factor range for a given flow cytometer to investigate a given target sample fluid stock. In turn, a titer assay module may be executed to prepare particle titer results based on optimized target fluid samples provided within the optimized dilution factor range. The screening assay module and/or the titer assay module may provide automated data processing with data notifications and confirmations to provide robust data analysis.
US11137333B2
A soot sensor system and a method of sensing soot in a vehicle soot sensor system. The soot sensor system and method includes providing a soot sensor having at least one trace of conductive material in a continuous loop on a surface of a substrate, applying an alternating current (AC) input voltage to the at least one trace of conductive material to establish an AC sense current through the at least one trace of conductive material, and generating, using a peak detector, a peak detector output voltage representative of a peak value of the AC sense current and of an amount of soot accumulated on the soot sensor.
US11137324B1
A collection plate for a cascade impactor is provided that includes: a container; an absorbent layer including a bottom surface and a top surface, the absorbent layer residing within the container, the absorbent layer further including a liquid medium within the absorbent layer; and an impaction membrane placed on the top surface of the absorbent layer, such that the impaction membrane is in fluidic communication with the absorbent layer. The absorbent layer is configured to hydrate the impaction membrane for at least four hours in a temperature of about 78° F. at 37% RH. The collection plate may be utilized as a component in a cascade impactor and/or in a method of collecting a biological sample with a cascade impactor.
US11137317B2
An optical time domain reflectometer for determining properties of an optical transmission fiber, the optical time domain reflectometer comprising an electro-absorption modulator comprising a waveguide and two electrodes, wherein the waveguide is arranged between the electrodes, a light source configured for emitting sampling light into the waveguide, wherein the waveguide is connected or to be connected between the fiber and the light source, and a control unit for controlling the operation of the light source and a modulation voltage between the electrodes. The electro-absorption modulator is capable of assuming an absorption state, wherein the electro-absorption modulator is further configured for receiving reflected light pulses resulting from the reflection of the pulses of sampling light in the fiber, wherein the absorption of reflected light pulses in the electro-absorption modulator results in the creation of a photocurrent between the electrodes.
US11137316B2
A structure for detecting a leak, wherein the structure is supported upon a supporting surface, the structure including a leak detector; and a bottom-facing surface comprising an inverted depression in which the leak detector is disposed, the inverted depression is configured to be suitable for inducing capillary actions in a liquid collected on the supporting surface, wherein when the inverted depression comes in contact with the liquid at its periphery, the liquid is drawn to the leak detector to be detected.
US11137313B2
A system and method are provided related to replacing components of a fully assembled torque sensor system having been previously calibrated, whereby the new system with its new components, which may be installed in a larger system, can be recalibrated at the location where the component replacement or servicing occurs. Individual components are provided with individual characteristics information, either on or associated with the shipped component, so the end user may retrieve the information and enter it in the software, such as that associated with a control unit, which is used with the fully assembled torque sensor. A database storing information about each manufactured component and their respective characteristics information, and fully assembled systems and their collective characteristics information, may be maintained and accessible by end users.
US11137309B2
A pressure sensor apparatus for strain gauge pressure sensing includes a plurality of strain gauges including a first strain gauge and a second strain gauge. The pressure sensor apparatus also includes a diaphragm coupled between the plurality of strain gauges and an object configured to apply pressure to the diaphragm. The diaphragm has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first thickness between the object and the first strain gauge. The second portion has a second thickness between the object and the second strain gauge. In an uncompressed state, the second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
US11137308B2
A pressure sensing package includes a sensor chamber and an annular chamber extending about the sensor chamber. A primary diaphragm divides the sensor chamber into a first part receiving a first pressure and a second part including a differential pressure sensor approximately centered with respect to a sensor axis and a first transmission fluid. The first transmission fluid transmits the first pressure to a first differential pressure sensor face. A secondary diaphragm divides the annular chamber into a first part receiving a second pressure and a second part including a second transmission fluid. The second pressure is transmitted to a second pressure sensor face via the secondary diaphragm and the second transmission fluid. The primary and secondary diaphragms are positioned with respect to one another along the sensor axis direction such that pressures other than the first and second pressures acting on the pressure sensor sum to approximately zero.
US11137306B2
The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring the operation of a pressure measuring cell of a capacitive pressure sensor, wherein the pressure measuring cell comprises a pressure-dependent measuring capacitor and a pressure-dependent reference capacitor and the pressure measuring value is obtained as a measuring signal from the capacitance values of the measuring capacitor and the reference capacitor, wherein the measuring signal is supplied to an evaluation unit in the form of an alternating square-wave signal, the pulse height of the signal depending on quotients of the capacitance values of the reference capacitor and the measuring capacitor and the period of the signal being determined by the capacitance value of the measuring capacitor such that, in the nominal pressure range of the pressure sensor, there is a fixed correlation between the pulse height and the period, wherein the pairs of values of pulse height and period (h1, d1), . . . , (hn, dn) are stored as nominal values in an adjustment procedure for determined pressure values p1, . . . , pn, and wherein, for the currently measured pressure value px, with the pair of actual values (hx-IST, dx-IST), the pair of nominal values (hx-SOLL, dx-SOLL) is determined, and if there is significant deviation between the pair of actual values and the pair of nominal values, an error signal is generated.
US11137303B2
A torque detection device includes an inner ring, a middle ring, an outer ring, a first beam, a second beam, a magnetic target, and a magnetic sensor. The first beam is composed of an elastic member extending in a radial direction so as to couple the inner ring and the middle ring together. The second beam is composed of an elastic member extending in a radial direction so as to couple the middle ring to the outer ring together. The magnetic target is fixed to the inner ring and the magnetic sensor is fixed to the middle ring such that the magnetic target and the magnetic sensor face each other. Torque acting on the inner ring or the outer ring is calculated according to how an amount of magnetism sensed by the magnetic sensor changes.
US11137302B2
A compound sensor that is capable of being used with robotics is provided such that the compound sensor includes a distance measurement unit and a pressure measurement unit. Further, a contact detection unit, which is dedicated to performing a detection when a measurement target contacts with a surface of the sensor is included.
US11137300B2
Strain gages on a robotic force/torque sensor are individually temperature compensated prior to resolving the gage outputs to estimate force and torque loads on the sensor. Thermal sensors are mounted proximate each strain gage, and the initial gate and thermal sensor outputs at a known load and temperature are obtained. The force/torque sensor then undergoes warming, and strain gage and thermal sensor outputs are again obtained. These gage and thermal sensor outputs are processed to calculate coefficients to a temperature compensation equation, such as by using a least squares algorithm. Each strain gage output is compensated using the temperature compensation equation, and the temperature-compensated outputs of the strain gages are then combined to resolve temperature-compensated force and torque values.
US11137299B2
A microelectromechanical transducer includes a semiconductor body having first and second surfaces opposite to one another. A plurality of trenches extend in the semiconductor body from the first surface towards the second surface, including a first pair of trenches having a respective main direction of extension along a first axis, and a second pair of trenches having a respective main direction of extension along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. A first piezoresistive sensor and a second piezoresistive sensor extend at the first surface of the semiconductor body respectively arranged between the first and second pair of trenches. The first piezoresistive sensor, the second piezoresistive sensor and the plurality of trenches form an active region. A first structural body is mechanically coupled to the first surface of the semiconductor body to form a first sealed cavity which encloses the active region.
US11137298B2
An all-fabric iontronic supercapacitive pressure sensing device utilizing a novel iontronic nanofabric as the sensing element is disclosed. The sensing device can be applied in several various wearable health and biomedical applications on complex body topologies. As an alternative to conventional flexible sensors, the all-fabric iontronic pressure sensor provides an ultrahigh device sensitivity with a single Pascale resolution. The device also allows rapid mechanical responses (in the milliseconds range) for high-frequency biomechanical signals, e.g., blood pressure pulses and body movements. The fabrication process for the device is low-cost highly compatible with existing industrial manufacturing processes.
US11137288B2
A device may determine a calibration value for a spectrometer using light from a first light source; deactivate the first light source after determining the calibration value; perform measurement with regard to a sample based on the calibration value, wherein the measurement of the sample is performed using light from a second light source; determine that the calibration value is to be updated; and update the calibration value using the light from the first light source.
US11137284B2
Provided is a position detection sensor. In a first pixel part, as an incident position is closer to a first end of a first pixel pair group in a second direction, an intensity of a first electric signal decreases. In a second pixel part, as the incident position is closer to the first end, an intensity of a second electric signal increases. In a third pixel part, as the incident position is closer to a second end of a second pixel pair group in a first direction, an intensity of a third electric signal decreases. In a fourth pixel part, as the incident position is closer to the second end, an intensity of a fourth electric signal increases. A calculation unit calculates a second position on the basis of the first and second electric signals, and calculates a first position on the basis of the third and fourth electric signals.
US11137280B2
A weighing apparatus includes a rough-charge weigher and a combination weigher. The rough-charge weigher includes: a feeding device; a lower hopper configured to hold and discharge objects to be weighed that are fed from the feeding device; a feeding adjuster configured to feed the objects to be weighed from the feeding device to the lower hopper, and adjust an amount of the objects to be weighed that are fed to the lower hopper; and a weight sensor provided on either the feeding device or the lower hopper. A controller: continuously measures, by the weight sensor, a weight of the objects to be weighed that are fed by the feeding adjuster from the feeding device to the lower hopper; and at a point when the weight of the objects to be weighed that are fed to the lower hopper has reached the rough-charge weight, stops the feeding adjuster.
US11137265B2
An AMI management method, and an AMI management server and a recording medium applying the same are provided. According to the AMI management method, the AMI management server managing an AMI stores customer information including a customer ID and information regarding a meter corresponding to a corresponding customer, requests an AMI platform to generate a service, maps AMI platform information received from the AMI platform as a response to the request onto the customer information, and transmits mapping information including the mapped information to the AMI platform. Accordingly, remote metering can be performed by using IoT communications of various telecommunications operators by using the AMI platform.
US11137241B2
A compact strain gage including a deformable substrate, at least one conductive pattern formed on the deformable substrate, an electrically insulating layer formed over the conductive pattern, at least one electrical connection pad formed over the electrically insulating layer and at least partially overlying the conductive pattern and at least one via extending through the electrically insulating layer and electrically connecting the conductive pattern to the at least one electrical connection pad.
US11137234B2
A gas generator including, an igniter, a housing made of metal and including a gas discharge port and a combustion chamber for burning a solid gas generating agent, the solid gas generating agent being filled at a position where the solid gas generating agent can be burned by actuation of the igniter, and the housing being configured to accommodate the igniter and an isolating member including an isolating wall interposed, inside the housing, between the gas generating agent disposed in the combustion chamber and a bottom surface and a side surface of the combustion chamber, the isolating wall being made from a predetermined resin material and being in contact with the gas generating agent to apply a predetermined holding force to the gas generating agent.
US11137232B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods for indicating whether a target has been impacted by a projectile are disclosed. Embodiments may include a microcontroller, an impact sensor, and an impact indicator. Apparatus may include an acoustic sensor and a miss indicator. Acoustic information or impact information may be received by the sensors and sent to the microcontroller unit. A determination may be made regarding whether the target has been impacted. An indication of a hit or a miss may be made by the impact indicator based on the determination. A light redirection element, which may include a light pipe, may direct light from the impact indicator around the edge of a target to a viewer.
US11137231B2
A soft armor panel includes a first layer having a first outward facing surface and an opposite first inward facing surface. The soft armor panel also includes a second layer disposed adjacent to the first inward facing surface of the first layer, the second layer having a proximate end and a distal end. The soft armor panel further includes a third layer disposed adjacent to the second layer opposite the first layer. The third layer has a second outward facing surface and an opposite second inward facing surface, the second inward facing surface facing the second layer. The third layer includes a folded portion extending around at least one of the proximate end or the distal end of the second layer and tucking in between the first layer and the second layer.
US11137229B1
Muzzleloader systems including a pre-packaged propellant charge with a primer and receptacle. The muzzleloader system may include a propellant containment vessel separate from the primer and the projectile and that doesn't contact with the projectile until assembly. The muzzleloader may be rear loading, with a constriction portion forward of the breech chamber. The propellant containment vessel may include a body portion having a forward opening, with a propellant charge disposed therein and a cap portion that is crimp rolled within the mouth of the vessel to seal the forward opening. The closed end of the propellant containment vessel may define a primer receptacle configured to receive the primer. The receptacle may define a depth that is less than the primer height so that, when inserted into the receptacle, the primer extends rearwardly beyond the containment vessel. The muzzleloader system may be configured to fire only specifically configured propellant containment vessels.
US11137222B2
A firearm can have a bolt having a plurality of locking lugs that are configured to have a shear area that is larger than that of a standard M16/M4. A bolt carrier can have a bolt that has a double cut cam having an unlocking cam surface that has sufficient dwell increase to delay a start of unlocking when the bolt carrier is used in an M4 carbine. A stepped extractor pin may be provided that prevents disengagement of the extractor pin. A tube can be configured to provide gas from a barrel of the firearm to the piston via the carrier key. The tube can have a heat radiator formed from triangular shaped threads on at least a portion of the tube. A piston on the bolt and can have a plurality of rings including pairs of mating rings that are formed and maintained as a matched pair.
US11137221B2
A bolt may be provided for a bolt carrier. The bolt carrier may comprise a gas inlet, a gas expansion chamber, a bolt bore, and the bolt. The gas expansion chamber that may receive a pressurized gas from the gas inlet. The bolt may be disposed in the bolt bore in the bolt carrier. The bolt may comprise a gas ring groove, a gas ring assembly disposed in the gas ring groove, and at least one gas port. The gas ring assembly may be adjacent to the bolt bore. The at least one gas port may provide a pathway for the pressurized gas from the gas expansion chamber to a volume underneath the gas ring assembly to increase a radial sealing force between the gas ring assembly and the bolt bore.
US11137218B2
An intercooler includes a cooling tube having a first coolant passage through which a first coolant flows and a second coolant passage through which a second coolant flows. A pair of plate portions having a predetermined shape are bonded with each other by brazing such that the pair of plate portions are superposed on each other to define the first coolant passage and the second coolant passage between the pair of plate portions. The cooling tube includes a passage partition portion separating the first coolant passage from the second coolant passage at a part of the pair of plate portions between the first coolant passage and the second coolant passage, and at least one through-hole in the passage partition portion. At least one swaged portion that crimps the pair of plate portions is provided at a periphery of the through-hole.
