US11213815B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for growing and screening of plant samples, comprising a specialized multiwell plate system well-suited for housing granular media, for use in in vivo screening methods of uninterrupted plant tissue growth.
US11213811B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a preparation method for an olefin epoxidation catalyst and applications thereof. The method comprises: loading an auxiliary metal salt onto a silica gel carrier, and carrying out a drying treatment to the silica gel carrier; loading a titanium salt (preferably TiCl4) onto the silica gel carrier by a chemical vapor deposition method; calcining to obtain a silica gel on which the auxiliary metal oxide and Ti species are loaded; obtaining an catalyst precursor (Ti-MeO—SiO2 composite oxide) by water vapor washing; loading alkyl silicate (preferably tetraethyl orthosilicate) onto the surface of the catalyst precursor by a chemical vapor deposition method and calcining the catalyst precursor to obtain a Ti-MeO—SiO2 composite oxide with the surface coated with a SiO2 layer; and carrying out a silylanization treatment to obtain the catalyst. The catalyst can be applied to a chemical process of propylene epoxidation to prepare propylene oxide, and has an average selectivity to PO up to 96.7%, the method of the present invention and the applications thereof have industrial application prospects.
US11213807B2
The present disclosure is directed to novel germanosilicate compositions and methods of producing the same. In particular, this disclosure describes new silica-rich compositions of the germanosilicate designated CIT-13, with and without added metal oxides. The disclosure also describes methods of preparing and using these new germanosilicate compositions as well as the compositions themselves.
US11213806B1
A catalyst support comprising at least 95% silicon carbide, having surface areas of ≤10 m2/g and pore volumes of ≤1 cc/g. A method of producing a catalyst support, the method including mixing SiC particles of 0.1-20 microns, SiO2 and carbonaceous materials to form an extrusion, under inert atmospheres, heating the extrusion at temperatures of greater than 1400° C., and removing residual carbon from the heated support under temperatures below 1000° C. A catalyst on a carrier, comprising a carrier support having at least about 95% SiC, with a silver solution impregnated thereon comprising silver oxide, ethylenediamine, oxalic acid, monoethanolamine and cesium hydroxide. A process for oxidation reactions (e.g., for the production of ethylene oxide, or oxidation reactions using propane or methane), or for endothermic reactions (e.g., dehydrogenation of paraffins, of ethyl benzene, or cracking and hydrocracking hydrocarbons).
US11213802B2
A mesoporous mixed oxide catalyst that comprises silicon and at least one metal M that is selected from the group that consists of the elements of groups 4 and 5 of the periodic table and mixtures thereof, with the mass of metal M being between 0.1 and 20% of the mixed oxide mass.
US11213793B2
A cavitation device is supplied by a disc pump with fluids for mixing. A cavitation rotor, having an array of cavities on its cylindrical surface, is fixed to a shaft for rotation by a motor. The disc pump and the cavitation device are beneficially in the same housing. At least one disc is spaced from and attached to the rotor near the inlet end of the cylindrical housing, so it will rotate with the rotor. A central hole in the (at least one) disc permits fluid to enter the space between the disc and the rotor; it is flung toward the peripheral space between the rotor and the cylindrical housing, where it is subjected to cavitation, and then passed to an outlet. The shaft may pass through one or both of the end walls of the cylindrical housing. The cavitation pump is especially useful for mixing oil field fluids.
US11213790B2
Water is separated into deuterium-depleted water having a low deuterium concentration and deuterium-enriched water having a high deuterium concentration easily and at low cost. A method for separating water into deuterium-depleted water and deuterium-enriched water, the method including: adsorbing water vapor on an adsorbent including a pore body having pores 6 while supplying water vapor to and allowing the water vapor to pass through the adsorbent for a predetermined period of time; recovering deuterium-enriched water containing a large amount of heavy water 8 from the water vapor not adsorbed on the adsorbent; and then recovering deuterium-depleted water containing a large amount of light water 7 from the water vapor adsorbed on the adsorbent.
US11213789B2
A catalyst containing a washcoat including copper or iron on a small pore molecular sieve material having a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms physically mixed with platinum and rhodium on a refractory metal oxide support including alumina, silica, zirconia, titania, and a physical mixture or a chemical combination or an atomically doped combination thereof is described. A catalyst containing a first washcoat zone substantially free of platinum group metal and including copper or iron on a small pore molecular sieve material having a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms; and a second washcoat zone including copper or iron on a small pore molecular sieve material having a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms physically mixed with platinum or platinum and rhodium on a refractory metal oxide support including alumina, silica, zirconia, titania, and a physical mixture or a chemical combination or an atomically doped combination thereof is provided. A method and a system for treating emissions using the catalyst are also described.
US11213788B2
A method for flue gas denotation includes the step of, in the presence of ammonia, enabling flue gas in a denitration reactor to pass through a plurality of catalyst beds from the bottom to the top to participate in a denitration reaction. Each catalyst bed contains a catalyst support component and a granular denitration catalyst stacked on the catalyst support component, and, in every single catalyst bed, the granular denitration catalyst moves along a same direction on the catalyst support component. Between every two adjacent catalyst beds, the granular denitration catalyst falls from the tail of a previous catalyst support component to the head of a next catalyst support component, making the granular denitration catalyst travel along the catalyst support components reciprocatively.
US11213781B2
A honeycomb body having intersecting porous walls which includes first through fourth cells, wherein the cells extend from inlet to outlet face and are plugged to define a repeating structural unit with three inlets and one outlet channel. Repeating structural unit includes a first channel including length L1, width W2, and area A1, a second channel including length L2, the width W2, and area A2, a third channel including the length L1, width W1, and area A3, and a fourth channel including the length L2, the width W1, and A4, wherein the first through third channels are inlets and the fourth channel is a rectangular outlet and at least one of W1≥W2 and L1≠L2, i.e. W1≥W2, or L1≠L2, or W1≥W2 and L1≠L2. Repeating structural unit has a quadrilateral outer perimeter. Particulate filters including the honeycomb body, honeycomb extrusion dies, and methods of manufacturing the honeycomb body are provided.
US11213775B2
A filter assembly includes a housing having an outer cavity and an inner cavity, and a gasket disposed within the housing. The gasket includes an inner surface, an outer surface, and a vent passage. The gasket forms a first seal with a central tube at the inner surface. The central tube extends into the inner cavity and includes an opening. A filter element is positioned within the housing and includes a filter media configured to filter a fluid and an endcap including an annular tab portion that forms a second seal with the outer surface of the gasket when the filter element is positioned in an operating position within the housing. The vent passage circumvents the first seal and the second seal, allowing air to flow from the inner cavity of the housing to the opening in the central tube.
US11213774B2
An integrated process and system for the cleaning of any body of water in need of periodic cleaning, including but not limited to a swimming pool or spa. A submersible water filtration apparatus comprises a housing unit, an impeller driven by an electric motor powered by batteries, an inlet where fluid, such as water, is drawn inwards into the submersible water filtration apparatus, an outlet for returning filtered water into the body of water, and at least one filter zone.
US11213768B2
A system for automatically discharging sand from a sand separator. The system includes a first and second valves and a choke valve disposed in a discharge line from a sand separator. A pressure transducer measures pressure in the line between the first and second valves. A control panel operates the valves to initiate and terminate the discharge sequence. An emergency shutdown valve is positioned upstream of the sand separator and is operative to shut down the system if the pressure reading by the transducer exceeds a predetermined amount.
US11213767B2
A fitting for providing a fluid connection between a capillary and a fluidic conduit of a fluidic component, the fitting comprising a male piece and a female piece for connection with the male piece, wherein the male piece comprises a housing with a capillary reception configured for receiving the capillary, wherein a part of the capillary being received in the capillary reception is circumferentially covered by a sleeve, an elastic biasing mechanism being arranged at least partially within the housing, being configured for biasing the capillary against the female piece and being supported by the sleeve, and a locking mechanism being arranged at least partially within the housing and being configured for locking the capillary to the fitting.
US11213761B2
A comforting device for soothing and comforting a user includes a shell, which defines an interior space. The shell is pliable and can be grasped by the user. A filler, which is resiliently compressible, is positioned in and substantially occupies the interior space. An audio module, which is positioned in the interior space, selectively emits a first sound, which mimics a heartbeat, and a second sound, which mimics a respiratory sound, such as breath sounds and snoring. The audio module broadcasts the first sound and the second sound to comfort the user.
US11213755B2
Techniques are described for automatically reducing cheating in an interactive execution environment, such as to perform automated operations to detect and stop use of cheat software in an online game environment, and to restrict subsequent access to the online game environment for users who are identified as using cheat software. The techniques may include using deep learning techniques to train one or more models to classify particular types of gameplay actions as being unauthorized if cheat software use is detected, including to determine a likelihood of whether a separate cheat detection decision system would decide that particular gameplay actions are authorized or not authorized if the additional cheat detection decision system assesses those gameplay actions, and then using the trained model(s) and in some cases the additional cheat detection decision system for the cheat software detection and prevention.
US11213744B2
A method is provided, including: receiving a request from a client device to initiate gameplay of a cloud video game; assigning the client device to a first data center from which to stream the gameplay of the cloud video game, and initiating transfer of user save data from a second data center to the first data center; loading the cloud video game on a cloud gaming machine at the first data center, including loading of generic save data and a first portion of the user save data; initiating interactive gameplay of the cloud video game with the generic save data and the first portion of the user save data; during the interactive gameplay, transferring a second portion of the user save data to the first data center; applying the second portion of the user save data to update the execution of the cloud video game.
US11213743B2
The present disclosure provides a method for remote control of computer game by a gamepad, including: remotely accessing, by the client-side, the virtual cloud desktop provided by the server-side, and sending message to the server-side when detecting gamepads; creating or enabling by the virtual cloud desktop server-side, a corresponding number of virtual game devices; capturing, by the client-side, the operation instruction data of the gamepads, and sending the operation instruction data to the server-side; causing each virtual game device to output a KeyCode value corresponding to each operation instruction data by the server-side, such that the virtual cloud desktop server runs the computer game according to each KeyCode value and the relative movement value of the joystick; sending the data of the running results of the computer game on the virtual cloud desktop to the client-side for display.
US11213742B2
An application enabling a player to utilize a portable computing device, such as a Smartphone, to function as a game controller for a gaming machine. The user would receive and return an associating link code to initiate a communication link between the gaming machine and the portable computing device by way of tapping, manually entering the code, or scanning an image of the code. The portable computing device enables manual user input or use of motion controllers for controlling skill based games in a casino environment. The application can receive a configuration from the gaming machine to replicate or mimic the controls and the gaming images, thus enabling the player to play the game at a short distance from the machine. The gaming machine can suspend play or terminate play when the portable computing device becomes distant or disconnected from the gaming machine.
US11213739B2
A rotation powered vehicle drive mechanism includes an elongated chassis slot disposed within a respective lateral exterior portion of a chassis assembly. An elongated platform slot is disposed within a respective lateral portion of a platform assembly, and is configured such that it is substantially opposed to the chassis slot. The platform assembly is pivotally secured to the chassis assembly thereby allowing for rotation through a platform rotation angle of the platform assembly with respect to the chassis assembly about a rotation axis. The rotation of the platform assembly results in an increase or decrease of a variable slot height which is measured between the chassis slot and the platform slot. A cart assembly is disposed between the chassis assembly and the platform assembly, and is operatively coupled to the chassis slot and to the platform slot.
US11213732B2
An omnidirectional treadmill platform includes a splicing floor, an omnidirectional driving base and a floor removing/splicing actuator. A plurality of omnidirectional wheels are arranged in the driving base. The splicing floor is placed on the omnidirectional wheels. A user moves on the splicing floor, and the omnidirectional wheels of the driving base cause the splicing floor to move in a direction Opposite to the movement direction of the user thus enabling the user to experience unlimited free movement, while in reality remaining in place. The splicing floor is formed by splicing a plurality of splicing blocks. The floor removing/splicing actuator removes and splices the splicing blocks at right positions, recycling splicing blocks and achieving the unlimited extension of the splicing floor. The new platform provides unrestricted movement and variable ground surface simulation irrespective of turn radius with near-negligible inertia force without the use of special footwear.
US11213725B2
A golf club head includes a crown surface having an apex at a highest point and extending between the face, the rear, the heel and the toe of the golf club head. The golf club head also includes a plurality of crown turbulators projecting from the surface of the crown and located between the face and the apex, wherein each adjacent pair of crown turbulators is separate and spaced apart to define a space between the adjacent pair of crown turbulators.
US11213723B2
An apparatus that displays an athletic activity notification user interface having a first display level, populating the user interface with activity notifications and determining the activity notifications include a threshold number of cumulative positive responses for users planning to attend a scheduled event, and displaying icons on the user interface representing the user that submitted the positive responses.
US11213722B2
An apparatus and method for measuring a swimmer's speed and conveying the speed to the swimmer in real time includes a plurality of ultrasonic beacons each having a transducer configured to emit ultrasonic signals in a pool or other body of water within which the swimmer is swimming. A wearable, waterproof, ultrasonic receiver worn by the swimmer, receives the ultrasonic signals and generates corresponding signal data. The receiver's microcontroller captures and uses the signal data to calculate the swimmer's position and speed in real time, and conveys this information to a wearable, waterproof, user interface device worn by the swimmer, the user interface device including a near-eye display disposed on the swimmer's goggles.
US11213720B2
A posture training device is provided. The posture training device can include a belt with a body contacting portion having a body contact surface extending between a first edge and a second edge, an adjustable and releasable securing mechanism adapted to secure the posture training device around a midsection of a wearer. The posture training device can also include a vertebrae contact portion having a concave surface extending between a first end and a second end, and the concave surface can have a predetermined depth, such that the concave surface is configured to contact and support at least one vertebrae. A method of utilizing the posture training device to train the posture in a person is also provided.
US11213719B1
A system and method of using two exercise machines for performing a wide range of exercise movements that utilize both of the exercise machines in concert. The system and method of using two exercise machines generally includes first exercise machine and a second exercise machine which are used in concert to perform a wide range of exercise movements. The first exercise machine may include a track, a carriage movably connected to the track, and an end platform. The second exercise machine may include its own separate track, a carriage movably connected to the track, and an end platform. The exercise machines may be positioned side-to-side in parallel orientation such that an exerciser may perform various exercise moves by positioning different limbs on the respective carriages, end platforms, and/or tracks of the exercise machines, in addition to the surface underlying the exercise machines.
US11213717B2
A power rowing machine that combines the seat of a rowing machine with a weight arm for resistance training. The power rowing machine avoids the flywheel of a conventional rowing machine and instead uses a weight arm. The weight arm serves two purposes. First, weight can be added to the arm for progressive resistance training. Second, the pivoting action varies the resistance through the movement. As a slow controlled resistance exercise the back and the arms of the rowing stroke cannot move the same resistance as the legs. Similarly, a user at the beginning of the rowing motion, with the legs compressed, cannot move as much resistance as with knees at a 90-degree angle.
US11213710B2
A system and method for a yoga block having molding on the outer surfaces of the block to fit the hand of a user and support the hand in a neutral wrist position so as to prevent pain and discomfort in the wrist, in particular, when the user is performing yoga exercises.
US11213706B2
A fire extinguishing device comprising liquid nitrogen filled canister-tank attached to a device to release the LN contents; wherein, the release mechanism comprises a small explosive to tear open the canister and rapidly disperse the LN. The bombs are opened at desired locations and are delivered by any means comprising the aerial, vehicle, drone, robotic systems and hand operated by firemen. The device is used for the purpose of extinguishing forest fires or structure fires.
US11213699B2
Methods and systems are described for determining particle treatment information. An example method may comprise determining a segment-averaged dose-averaged restricted linear energy transfer. The linear energy transfer may be determined by accounting for variations in segment length of paths of particles in a site.
US11213698B2
Techniques are described herein for delivering a particle beam from a continuously rotating gantry towards a target according to a determined patient state. The determined patient state and an identified gantry angle of a gantry may be used to deliver a set of beamlets (e.g., a pattern of radiation dose) to the target. The particle beam may rotate through a range of gantry angles. The set of beamlets may be delivered continuously while the gantry rotates.
US11213691B2
Systems, devices, and techniques that enable medical devices to integrate and interoperate with one another are provided. In some examples, a wearable cardiac defibrillator (WCD) advantageously interoperates with an implanted pacemaker to provide a variety of benefits. For instance, in some examples, the WCD oversees execution of an antitachycardia (ATP) protocol by the implanted pacemaker and intervenes as needed. In other examples, the WCD drives an ATP protocol in which internal pacing pulses are provided by the implanted pacemaker under the control of the WCD. In other examples, the WCD monitors the activity of the implanted pacemaker to identify potential maintenance issues affecting the implanted pacemaker. The WCD and the implanted pacemaker may also interoperate to classify and act upon particular arrhythmia conditions.
US11213687B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for delivering a neural stimulation pulse. A neural implant device can include an energy harvesting circuit configured to receive an input signal and generate an electrical signal based on the received input signal. A diode rectifier in series with the energy harvesting circuit can rectify the electrical signal. The energy harvesting circuit and the diode rectifier can be encapsulated within a biocompatible electrically insulating material. A neural electrode can be exposed through the biocompatible electrically insulating material. The neural electrode can be configured to deliver a neural stimulation pulse. The neural implant device can have a volume that is less than about 1.0 cubic millimeter.
US11213684B2
A device is configured to transmit tissue conductance communication (TCC) signals by generating multiple TCC signals by a TCC transmitter of the IMD. The generated TCC signals are coupled to a transmitting electrode vector via a coupling capacitor to transmit the plurality of TCC signals to a receiving medical device via a conductive tissue pathway. A voltage holding circuit holds the coupling capacitor at a DC voltage for a time interval between two consecutively transmitted TCC signals.
US11213679B2
A portable electronic device includes a battery, a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) circuit, a power management circuit, a first output unit, and a second output unit. The TENS circuit provides a TENS electrical current. The power management circuit is coupled to the battery and the TENS circuit for managing a power distribution of the portable electronic device. The first output unit receives the TENS electrical current from the TENS circuit and outputs the TENS electrical current to a user. The second output unit receives a power signal from the battery and outputs the power signal to an external electronic device.
US11213678B2
Catheter apparatuses, systems, and methods for achieving neuromodulation by intravascular access are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed to a treatment device having a therapeutic assembly that includes an elongated tubular shaft having a pre-formed spiral shape when in a deployed state (e.g., a radially expanded, generally spiral/helical shape) and a thermocouple assembly helically wrapped about the shaft. In one embodiment, the thermocouple assembly comprises first and second wires composed of dissimilar metals with the first wire including a plurality of exposed and insulated regions along the distal portion of the treatment device. The exposed regions of the first wire define a plurality of energy delivery portions positioned to deliver electrical energy (e.g., RF energy, pulsed energy, etc.) to target tissue adjacent a wall of an artery (e.g., a renal artery) to heat or otherwise electrically modulate neural fibers that contribute to physiological function (e.g., renal function).
US11213677B2
A shield located within an implantable medical lead may be terminated in various ways at a metal connector. The shield may be terminated by various joints including butt, scarf, lap, or other joints between insulation layers surrounding the lead and an insulation extension. The shield may terminate with a physical and electrical connection to a single metal connector. The shield may terminate with a physical and electrical connection by passing between an overlapping pair of inner and outer metal connectors. The metal connectors may include features such as teeth or threads that penetrate the insulation layers of the lead. The shield may terminate with a physical and electrical connection by exiting a jacket of a lead adjacent to a metal connector and lapping onto the metal connector.
US11213670B2
A medical device system includes a cardiac electrical stimulation device and a ventricular assist device (VAD). The cardiac stimulation device and the VAD are capable of communication with each other to confirm detection of cardiac events.
US11213653B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that generally involve CED devices with various features for reducing or preventing backflow. In some embodiments, CED devices include a tissue-receiving space disposed proximal to a distal fluid outlet. Tissue can be compressed into or pinched/pinned by the tissue-receiving space as the device is inserted into a target region of a patient, thereby forming a seal that reduces or prevents proximal backflow of fluid ejected from the outlet beyond the tissue-receiving space. In some embodiments, CED devices include a bullet-shaped nose proximal to a distal fluid outlet. The bullet-shaped nose forms a good seal with surrounding tissue and helps reduce or prevent backflow of infused fluid.
US11213643B2
Systems and method for conducting respiratory therapy in a respiratory system can adjust a flow of respiratory gases to a patient based upon a detected patient breath cycle. The respiratory system can include a non-sealed patient interface. The respiratory system can be configured to deliver a high flow therapy. A patient breath cycle may be determined using one or more measured parameters, such as a flow rate, a blower motor speed, and/or a system pressure. A flow source may be adjusted to have a phase matching that of the patient's breath cycle, such that flow in increased in response to the patient inhaling, and decreased in response to the patient exhaling.
US11213642B2
A therapeutic device for treating one or more conditions associated with a user's nasal cavities, sinuses, and/or ear canals includes a vibration generator having an acoustic device operable to provide a sound; a seal configured to cover a nose, but not a mouth, of the user to form an air-tight chamber around the nose of the user; the vibration generator disposed in a housing connected to the seal; and a stand extending from the housing and including a ball bearing and a seat on which the ball bearing may rest, the stand including a hollow member and an orifice, the orifice disposed in the seat. The vibration generator provides the sound directly to the nose of the user. A positive pressure is created in the air-tight chamber when the user exhales, the positive pressure generating a lift force to lift the ball bearing from the seat.
US11213641B2
A therapeutic device for treating conditions of a user's nasal cavities, sinuses, and/or ear canals includes a housing which the user may hold to apply the therapeutic device to the user, the housing including an inlet that allows air to enter the therapeutic device. An acoustic vibrator located within the housing provides an acoustic vibration to the user, and a power supply located within the housing provides power to the acoustic vibrator. A mask is connected to the housing and includes a nasal interface that is appliable around the nose of the user. A valve of the mask opens to allow the user to breathe through the inlet and closes to prevent the user from exhaling through the inlet. The mask further includes a diaphragm and a nasal cavity in which a user's nostrils are located when the nasal interface is applied to the user.
US11213639B2
A respiratory system is configured to pressurize and deliver a flow of respiratory gas to a patient's airways. The respiratory system includes a cushion configured to sealingly engage the patient's face and a blower mounted to the cushion and configured to pressurize a flow of respiratory gas. An interface structure is attached to an outlet of the blower and an aperture in the cushion. The interface structure forms a gas flow path between the cushion and the blower. The gas flow path is configured to deliver the pressurized respiratory gas from the blower through the aperture in the cushion. The gas flow path is also configured to vent exhaled gas from the aperture in the cushion to atmosphere. The respiratory system also includes headgear configured to support the cushion and the blower on the patient's face.
US11213635B2
A receptacle section for an aerosol provision article is described. The aerosol provision article is for generating a flow of aerosol in use. The receptacle section is arranged for having installed therein an activatable element for modifying, once activated, a property of the flow of aerosol. The receptacle section is arranged to apply, on installation of the activatable element in the receptacle section by a user, a force to the activatable element to activate the activatable element.
US11213632B2
The present invention discloses a safety syringe and a safety mechanism for use in the safety syringe. In one example, the safety syringe comprises: a barrel having a proximal end, a distal end and a cavity being between the proximal end and the distal end and defining a longitudinal axis, a needle holder extending distally from the distal end; a plunger having a distal portion inserted inside the barrel from the proximal end of barrel and a proximal portion located outside the barrel; a needle having a proximal portion inserted into a needle passage of the needle holder from the distal side of the needle holder and a distal portion located outside the needle holder, the needle being hollow and in fluid communication with the cavity of the barrel; and a safety mechanism mounted at least partially around the needle holder; at an unactuated position of the safety mechanism, the distal portion of the needle is not covered by the safety mechanism; at an actuated position of the safety mechanism, at least distal tip end of the needle is covered by the safety mechanism to prevent accidental contact with the distal tip end of the needle. According to the present disclosure, it is feasible to, upon assembling the syringe, first duly mount the safety mechanism, and then mount the needle. As such, the needle needs to be calibrated only once, and furthermore, the safety mechanism, before being actuated, does not interfere with the needle.
US11213628B2
The bearing component comprises a contact surface inside a periphery, which surrounds a centre, and a coupling feature arranged inside the periphery for rotatably engaging a component of a piston rod perpendicular to the contact surface. The coupling feature includes at least one flexible feature extending from the periphery towards the centre, and the flexible feature is arranged to be deflected towards the periphery by a force exerted on the flexible feature in a direction towards the contact surface and deflected towards the centre by a force exerted on the flexible feature in the opposite direction. The flexible feature may have a sloping surface facilitating assembly and preventing disassembly in combination with a further component of the piston rod. The component of the piston rod may be a lead screw, and the piston rod may be used in a drug delivery device.
US11213627B2
A medicament injection device comprising a main body arranged to receive a medicament cartridge; a needle carrier carrying a needle, wherein the needle carrier is axially movable with respect to the main body; and a rotatable cap at a distal end of the device, wherein the cap is removably coupled to the needle carrier, a releasable arrangement between the main body and the cap comprising a guide element and a slotted link, wherein the slotted link is arranged to cause the guide element to follow a predefined path at least partly in an axial direction during rotational movement of the cap, thereby causing the needle carrier to move axially towards a proximal end of the device as the cap is rotated up to a predefined point, wherein the main body comprises a medicament cartridge holder comprising the guide element depending therefrom for engagement with the cap.
US11213616B2
The invention relates to devices, systems, and methods for mixing one or more solutions to generate a recharge solution having specified concentrations of a sodium salt and acid for recharging and disinfecting zirconium phosphate in reusable sorbent modules. The devices, systems, and methods can generate a recharge solution by a sorbent recharger that is introduced through the sorbent module to recharge and to disinfect the zirconium phosphate.
US11213610B2
Compositions and blends of biopolymers and bio-acceptable polymers are described, along with the use of benign solvent systems to prepare biocompatible scaffolds and surgically implantable devices for use in supporting and facilitating the repair of soft tissue injuries.
US11213609B2
A spherical particle comprising decellularized omentum being between 1 nM-300 μM in diameter is disclosed. In some embodiments, the particle comprises biological cells. In other embodiments, the particle comprises a biomolecule. Uses of the particles are also disclosed.
US11213599B1
Far-Ultra-Violet C (Far-UVC) jewelry article with components thereof and other accessories is provided to protect wearer from intrusion of viruses and micro-organisms. The jewelry article is integrated with Far-UVC photons that project wavelengths of about 222 nanometers to protect against viruses. The jewelry article would be a type of necklace, bracelet, or ankle bracelet comprised of Far-UVC diodes attached on the jewelry projecting sterilizing rays on surfaces at a safe distance protecting skin and eyes.
US11213595B2
The present invention relates to an antibody-fluorescent dye conjugate capable of cancer cell-specific fluorescence imaging diagnosis. The fluorescent dye comprises a covalently labeled antibody and is quenched by interaction with an amino acid residue such as tryptophan, tyrosine, histidine, and methionine in the antibody and upon binding of the antibody to an antigen present on a cell surface to emit fluorescence, whereby cells having a target antigen thereon can be imaged for diagnosis. When using the antibody-fluorescent dye conjugate according to the present invention during in vitro cell assays, high-throughput screening of cells, and cytodiagnosis based on microfluidics, the presence of cancer cells having a specific antigen expressed thereon can be detected at high specificity and sensitivity without a washing process, and the position of primary and metastatic cancer cells can be detected at high contrast within a short time.
US11213584B2
This invention relates methods of using a non-fucosylated anti-CD40 antibody for treatment of cancer and chronic infectious diseases.
US11213581B2
The present disclosure provides recombinantly manufactured fusion proteins comprising a SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain (SARS-CoV-2-RBD) fragment or an analog thereof linked to a human Fc fragment for use in relation to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Embodiments include the administration of the fusion proteins to patients that have recovered from COVID-19 as a booster vaccination, to antibody naïve patients to produce antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enable the patients to become convalescent plasma donors, to patients who have been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and have contracted COVID-19 in order to limit the scope of the infection and ameliorate the disease, and as a prophylactic COVID-19 vaccine. Exemplary Fc fusion proteins and pharmaceutical formulations of exemplary Fc fusion proteins are provided, in addition to methods of use and preparation.
US11213579B2
Field of application: the invention relates to veterinary medicine and, in particular, to vaccinology and pharmacy, and is intended for the prevention and treatment of infectious and other diseases of humans and animals, where low allergenic low reactogenic vaccination is used. The essence of the invention: developed vaccines with increased immunogenicity, low allergenicity and reactogenicity, containing antigen/toxin and adjuvant, wherein that they contain vaccine antigen/toxin inactivated by electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and visible regions of the spectrum in the presence of a solution of photosensitizer and salts of divalent metals, and then covalently modified according to the residues of amino groups and hydroxyls groups of antigen/toxin available for modification, at least two modifying agents at the same time in terms of 0.01-10.0% of the mass concentration of the antigen/toxin protein, and as an adjuvant it contains hydrosol hydroxide ferric chloride.
US11213578B2
The disclosure relates to polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions comprising polypeptides that find use in the prevention or treatment of cancer, in particular breast cancer, ovarian cancer and colorectal cancer. The disclosure also relates to methods of inducing a cytotoxic T cell response in a subject or treating cancer by administering pharmaceutical compositions comprising the peptides, and companion diagnostic methods of identifying subjects for treatment. The peptides comprise T cell epitopes that are immunogenic in a high percentage of patients.
US11213572B2
Provided is a method of regenerating cartilage tissues by treatment with hyaluronan and proteoglycan link protein 1 (HAPLN1), and a composition for regenerating cartilage, the composition including HAPLN1 as an active ingredient. According to the present disclosure, the HAPLN1 protein may have cartilage formation-stimulating ability and articular cartilage regeneration ability, may increase an expression level of TGF-β receptor I of chondrocytes to increase a component ratio of cells having cartilage formation ability, and to induce regeneration of cartilage tissues. Accordingly, the HAPLN1 protein of the present disclosure, which is a novel composition regulating TGF-β signaling, may be usefully applied as a pharmaceutical composition for regenerating cartilage, a health food composition for regenerating cartilage, or a reagent composition for regenerating cartilage.
US11213567B2
A zinc-alpha-2-glycoprotein (ZAG) protein-derived peptide according to the present invention shows an expression reducing effect of various immune factors shown in acute or chronic atopic dermatitis, and has a decreased immune response and decreased IgE expression and thus may be used to prevent, treat or improve xeroderma or an abnormal skin barrier function such as atopic dermatitis, an allergic disease or inflammation.
US11213566B2
Provided herein is a pharmaceutical or oral care product for treating or preventing oral diseases that is prepared with proteoglycan 4 (PRG4) as an active ingredient, the preparing method thereof and the use thereof in manufacturing medicaments or oral care products for treating or preventing oral diseases and maintenance of oral health. PRG4 may have efficacy in maintaining oral health and treating or preventing oral disease. This secreted glycoprotein, which is also called lubricin and superficial zone protein, is known to protect against frictional forces, cell adhesion and protein deposition.
US11213565B2
The present invention relates to a protein derived from lactic acid bacteria and a method for producing the same. The lactic acid bacteria-derived protein of the present invention is a purified protein isolated from lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus rhamnosus) having an excellent therapeutic effect against colorectal cancer. It has been demonstrated to have a remarkable effect against colorectal diseases, and thus is expected to be widely used as a natural protein therapeutic agent against colorectal diseases in the medical field.
US11213563B2
Provided are a polypeptide and nucleic acid for encoding the polypeptide, a nucleic-acid construct, an expression vector, and a host cell containing the nucleic acid, an antigen-presenting cell presenting the polypeptide on the surface of the cell, and immune effector cell thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing the polypeptide, a vaccine containing the nucleic acid, the nucleic acid construct, the expression vector, the host cell, the antigen-presenting cell, and the immune effector cell, and an antibody recognizing the polypeptide. Also provided is a therapeutic method using the polypeptide, the nucleic acid, the pharmaceutical composition, the vaccine, and the antibody. Also provided are a diagnosis method and diagnosis apparatus for detecting the described polypeptide. Also provided is an application of the polypeptide in preparing a vaccine, a tumor diagnosis kit, or a pharmaceutical composition, and an application of the polypeptide or the nucleic acid as a test target in tumor diagnosis.
US11213559B2
The present invention relates to an effective formulation for the treatment or the prevention of irritable bowel syndrome, a method for treating irritable bowel syndrome, and processes for preparing such formulations.
US11213555B2
An intravenous injection for enhancing immune function is provided, belonging to the field of biomedicine. The main ingredient of the drug is inactivated lactic acid bacteria, which is prepared by inactivating living lactic acid bacteria.
US11213554B2
A method for the prevention or treatment of infections contracted by newborns of livestock mammals, which includes applying a composition that includes a mixture of bacterial strains to the perineum and/or the teat(s) of female livestock mammal that is going to give birth or has given birth to the newborn livestock mammals. Also, a kit for preventing digestive, respiratory or other infections in newborn livestock mammals, which includes at least one composition and at least one application element for applying the composition to the perineum and/or to the teats of the female livestock mammals.
US11213548B2
The disclosed methods are generally directed to preventing, treating, suppressing, controlling or otherwise mitigating side effects of T-cell therapy, the T-cell therapy designed to accelerate immune reconstitution, induce a GVM effect, and/or target tumor cells.
US11213543B2
A formulation to increase the ratio of gastrointestinal microbiota in phylum Bacteroidetes to microbiota of Firmicutes phylum preferably includes about 20-60 mg/kg of body weight of fermentable fiber, about 10-30 mg/kg of body weight of beta glucan and about 20-60 mg/kg of body weight of blueberry extracts or any fruit or berry ingredient preparation containing similar phenolics. This formulation is preferably used to control body weight, body composition, and blood glucose regulation, preferably in humans, and is preferably administered orally, preferably twice per day.
US11213541B2
The present invention relates to antisense-oligonucleotides having a length of at least 10 nucleotides, wherein at least two of the nucleotides are LNAs, their use as inhibitors of TGF-R signaling, pharmaceutical compositions containing such antisense-oligonucleotides and the use for prophylaxis and treatment of neurological, neurodegenerative, fibrotic and hyperproliferative diseases.
US11213534B2
Expression of a phosphatase inhibitor in heart cells can be used to treat cardiac disorders, e.g., heart failure. Decreasing phosphatase activity can improve β-adrenergic responsiveness.
US11213533B2
This invention relates to combination products comprising an amidine selected from dibromopropamidine and diminazene or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof; and a tetracycline anti-bacterial agent. The combination products are suitable for use in the treatment of bacterial infections or diseases.
US11213521B2
Dosage forms, drug delivery systems, and methods related to sustained release of dextromethorphan or improved therapeutic effects are disclosed. Typically, bupropion or a related compound is orally administered to a human being to be treated with, or being treated with, dextromethorphan.
US11213510B2
Disclosed herein inter alia are compositions and methods for treating cancer using thioindirubin derivatives.
US11213504B2
The present invention relates to, inter alia, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a polyunsaturated fatty acid and to methods of using the same to treat or prevent cardiovascular-related diseases.
US11213503B2
The invention concerns antimicrobial compositions comprising free fatty acids emulsified with membrane lipids or hydrolysed derivatives thereof, and pharmaceutical formulations comprising same. The compositions can be used in the treatment of prophylaxis of microbial infections. They can also regulate the rate of blood clotting rendering them suitable for incorporation in catheter locking solutions and for use in wound care.
US11213488B2
The present invention is directed to a method of preparing dehydrated blood products, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a hydrated blood product; (b) spray-drying the hydrated blood product to produce a dehydrated blood product, as well as dehydrated blood products made by the method. The present invention is directed to a method of treating a patient suffering from a blood-related disorder, comprising the steps of: (a) rehydrating a therapeutic amount of the dehydrated blood products to produce a rehydrated therapeutic composition; and (b) administering the rehydrated therapeutic composition to the patient. The present invention is directed to a bandage or surgical aid comprising the dehydrated blood products described above.
US11213479B2
The present invention relates to a novel cosmetic or dermatological composition for topical or oral use, comprising at least one passionflower extract, at least edelweiss callus cells, and at least one physiologically acceptable support, to a non-therapeutic cosmetic skin treatment process using such a cosmetic composition, and also to the non-therapeutic use of such a cosmetic composition for protecting the skin against environmental attack, preventing, retarding and/or combating the signs of ageing of the skin.
US11213475B2
A method and system for a multi-layer peelable nail cosmetic compositions are disclosed. The multi-layer system includes a water-washable, non-UV curable nail basecoat composition in a hand-held, non-pressurized container. The basecoat composition includes a hydrophilic poly(N-vinyl)lactam polymer, at least one alcohol, and at least one plasticizer. The multi-layer system also includes a colored non-UV curable nail colorcoat composition that includes a primary film former, a secondary film former, a plasticizer, and a colorant.
US11213472B2
The purpose of this invention is to find a novel fragrance component effective for prevention or control of swelling, lymphedema, skin aging or obesity from the viewpoint of activation of lymph vessel function by promotion of the expression of VEGFC. This invention provides a swelling improving agent, lymph vessel activator and VEGFC production promoter characterized by containing one or a plurality of components selected from the group consisting of rose oxide, citronellyl acetate and niaouli oil.
US11213467B2
Provided herein are compositions for delivering one or more cannabinoids to the skin of a subject and methods of using the compositions to deliver the one or more cannabinoids to the skin of a subject. The compositions contain a carrier that facilitates the delivery and permeation of cannabinoids to and through the skin. The carriers of the compositions contain squalane or mixtures of squalane and hemisqualane. The compositions described herein may serve as the base for the preparation of various cosmetics or various pharmaceuticals. The cosmetics or pharmaceuticals may be used to reduce inflammation, control pain, or prevent aging of the skin of a subject.
US11213464B2
A solid temporal colorimetric hydrogel cosmetic composition includes 15 to 99.90 wt % of the water phase part and 0.10 to 85 wt % of the oil phase part, having a refractive index difference of 0 to 0.02 therebetween, and having a color change according to variations in a refractive index difference between the water phase part and the oil phase difference when applied to the skin. The cosmetic composition not only has flexibility through irradiation of gamma-rays, but also enables an optimal application time of the cosmetic composition to be visually confirmed through a color change from transparency to ivory white due to a change in the refractive index difference caused by absorbency and volatilization of water when applying the composition to the skin. The cosmetic composition is capable of improving quality of a product although a preservative irritating to the skin is not added.
US11213443B2
A patient support apparatus includes a support structure having a base and further includes an indication system having one or more clearance sensors configured to detect clearance within a clearance zone between the patient support surface and a floor surface and are also configured to generate one or more clearance signals corresponding to the detected clearance. The indication system also includes a controller coupled to the clearance sensors that is configured to receive the one or more clearance signals and generate an output based upon the received clearance signals. A display coupled to the controller is configured to receive the generated output and generate a visual clearance indication corresponding to the detected clearance within the clearance zone, or in specific predefined portions of the clearance zone, that is viewable in a viewing area of the display.
US11213441B2
A wheelchair suspension comprises a frame, at least one pivot arm, at least one front caster, at least one rear caster, a stabilizing system, and a sensor. The pivot arm is coupled to the frame. The front caster is coupled to the pivot arm. The rear caster is coupled to the frame. The stabilizing system is coupled to the frame and the pivot arm. The sensor is arranged such that tipping of the frame causes actuation of the stabilizing system to at least partially resist further movement of the frame.
US11213438B2
A disposable wearable absorbent article comprises a chassis having an absorbent core and first and second side panels extending transversally outwards towards respective outer edges. Each of the first and second side panels comprises a mechanical fastening material affixed to an outer end portion of the panel whereby, in use, the first and second side panels can extend around a user's waist to couple the first and second side panels to the chassis. Each of the side panels is gathered in a longitudinal direction to form at least one pleat extending in the transverse direction, and comprises a binding material affixed to respective side panels to maintain each of the first and second side panels in a gathered configuration. A method for forming disposable wearable absorbent articles is also disclosed.
US11213429B1
An eyewear apparatus may comprise an inner lens, an outer lens coupled to the inner lens, a liquid crystal film positioned between the inner lens and the outer lens, and a controller connected with the liquid crystal film and configured to provide a voltage to the liquid crystal film. The outer lens has a three-dimensional (3D) curvature characterized by a curvature along a first direction and a curvature along a second direction different from the first direction. The inner lens has a two-dimensional (2D) curvature characterized by a curvature along the first direction and substantially no curvature along the second direction.
US11213425B2
Provided herein are vitrectomy instruments and related systems and methods in which example vitrectomy instruments have multiple rotating cutting edges for severing vitreous fibers. An example vitrectomy instrument may include a handle; an outer tube; and an inner tube configured to be rotated within the outer tube in multiple oscillating rotational cycles. The outer tube may include a port disposed at a distal end thereof. The inner tube may include at least first and second forward cutting edges, so that rotation in a first rotational direction results in both the first and second forward cutting edges cutting vitreous fibers drawn into the port. The inner tube may also include one or more backward cutting edges, so that rotation in a second rotational direction results in one or more backward cutting edges cutting vitreous fibers drawn into the port. Additional forward and/or backward cutting edges may be provided.
US11213424B2
An aid for dispensing eye drops to improve adherence. The aid, which may be integrated into an eye drop bottle (10) or be separately attached, aligns the eye drop container to better dispense eye drops, while resting the engagement surface (55) of an alignment structure (50) upon the bridge of a user's nose (80), supporting the eye drop container and not intruding upon the temporal half of the field of view of the user's eye.
US11213418B2
An exercise and stretching device is shown and described. The exercise and stretching device includes a connection cable located through a rigid tube. The rigid tube has a curvature. There are connectors at each end of the connection cable. The connectors are connected to resistance bars. The resistance bars have an aperture located at each end of the bar, wherein an aperture of each bar accepts the connectors. A handle is connected to the aperture opposite the connector.
US11213413B2
A stent is disclosed, which includes a stent body (2) and a single-radiopaque component (1) disposed at one or each of a proximal end and a distal end of the stent body (2). The stent body (2) is composed of rings and struts, and one part of the single-radiopaque component (1) is received in a receptacle (3) of the stent body (2) and another part of the single-radiopaque component (1) protrudes out of a surface of the stent body (2). The area of the protruding part (11) of the single-radiopaque component (1) is larger than an area of the embedded part (10), the presence of the protruding part (11) allowing the single-radiopaque component (1) to appear wider and thicker in a radiologic image, enhancing the radiopacity of the stent during surgery.
US11213406B2
This disclosure relates to a graft preparation station and methods for repairing bone defects. The station described herein may be utilized for dimensioning a graft prior to positioning the shaped graft at a surgical site.
US11213404B2
A device includes a first endplate having an engagement surface and first and second extensions. The first extension has a first ramp and the second extension has a first slot. A second endplate includes a second engagement surface and third and fourth extensions. The third extension has a second ramp and the fourth extension has a second slot. A wedge is positioned between the endplates and includes a first inclined portion that engages the first ramp and a second inclined portion that engages the second ramp. The wedge has first and second apertures. A first pin extends through the first aperture and the first slot. A second pin extends through the second aperture and the second slot. The wedge is movable relative to the endplates to move the device from a first height to an increased second height. Methods of use are disclosed.
US11213398B2
Hard-tissue implants are provided that include a bulk implant, a face, pillars, slots, and at least one support member. The pillars are for contacting a hard tissue. The slots are to be occupied by the hard tissue. The at least one support member is for contacting the hard tissue. The hard-tissue implant has a Young's modulus of elasticity of at least 3 GPa, and has a ratio of the sum of (i) the volumes of the slots to (ii) the sum of the volumes of the pillars and the volumes of the slots of 0.40:1 to 0.90:1. Methods of making and using hard-tissue implants are also provided.
US11213394B2
A graft scaffold geometry is provided for use in the repair of segmental large bone defect. The scaffold geometry has a first (central) conduit with one or several hook-shaped chamber, which form a second conduit, integrated to the lateral side of the scaffold. The purpose of the hook-shaped chamber(s) is three-fold: 1) to facilitate the insertion and containment of biological augmentation constructs, such as growth factor-impregnated carrier devices; 2) stabilize the local surrounding soft tissue envelope to allow ingrowth of new blood vessels; and 3) to improve the manipulation of the composite bone free flap during implantation. Whether one or all of these mechanisms are active in a given situation, the overall result is that the hook chamber enables enhanced containment of graft-augmenting synthetic osteoinductive constructs, prevents their displacement, and maintains their proximity to the scaffold, thus improving the chances of success of the graft.
US11213385B2
Methods for the conditioning of bioprosthetic material employ bovine pericardial membrane. A laser directed at the fibrous surface of the membrane and moved relative thereto reduces the thickness of the membrane to a specific uniform thickness and smoothes the surface. The wavelength, power and pulse rate of the laser are selected which will smooth the fibrous surface as well as ablate the surface to the appropriate thickness. Alternatively, a dermatome is used to remove a layer of material from the fibrous surface of the membrane. Thinning may also employ compression. Stepwise compression with cross-linking to stabilize the membrane is used to avoid damaging the membrane through inelastic compression. Rather, the membrane is bound in the elastic compressed state through addition cross-linking. The foregoing several thinning techniques may be employed together to achieve strong thin membranes.
US11213381B2
A prosthetic capsular device configured to be inserted in an eye includes a housing structure and a ring structure. The housing structure includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a third side, a fourth side opposite the third side, a posterior side including a refractive surface, an anterior side opposite the posterior side, and a longitudinal axis. The first side, the second side, the third side, the fourth side, the posterior side, and the anterior side at least partially define a cavity configured to contain an intraocular device (e.g., an IOL). The anterior side includes an opening. The ring structure includes a ring structure portion extending radially outward from proximate one of an end of the first side and an end of the second side.
US11213363B2
This disclosure covers various concepts to use for obtaining measurement of tension in catheter pullwires to improve controllability of a robotic surgical system.
US11213347B2
Methods and systems treat abnormal cardiac electrical activity employing a probe having first and second ablation electrodes disposed on a distal portion of the probe and a sensing electrode disposed between the first and second ablation electrodes, bringing the probe into contact with cardiac tissue, and applying energy through the first and second ablation electrodes to ablate target tissue along an ablation path, monitoring cardiac electrical activity using the sensing electrode to detect the cardiac electrical activity. After making an observation that the cardiac electrical activity is no longer detectable by the sensing electrode, energy application is terminated.
US11213340B2
In some examples, the disclosure describes devices, systems, and techniques for treating pain and/or pelvic floor dysfunction of a patient. For example, a method for treating pelvic floor dysfunction in a patient may include delivering, via a medical device, a therapy to one or more nerve fibers, wherein the therapy is configured to at least temporarily deactivate the one or more nerve fibers; and determining that the one or more nerve fibers was at least temporarily deactivated by delivering the therapy.
US11213333B2
Methods for temporarily fixing an orientation of a bone or bones. Methods of correcting a bunion deformity. Bone positioning devices. Methods of using a bone positioning device. Bone preparation guides. Methods of using a bone preparation guide.
US11213331B2
Disclosed is an implant through which a liquid or pasty material can be injected in a targeted manner. This implant is composed of: a main implant with a lumen extending along its entire length, the body of the main implant being of hexagonal cross section, with the plane faces drilled with internally threaded holes which open into the lumen and are intended to remain open or to be plugged by one or more micro screws of the complementary implants, the distal end and proximal end of the implant being threaded; one or more complementary implants, for each of which the micro screw thereof, intended to cooperate with the internally threaded holes of the main implant, is connected to its insertion sleeve by way of a separable zone. The implant is intended in particular for surgical interventions.
US11213322B2
A dynamic fixation medical implant having at least two bone anchors includes a longitudinal connecting member assembly having at least one transition portion and cooperating outer sleeve, both the transition portion and sleeve being disposed between the two bone anchors. In a first embodiment, the transition portion includes a rigid length or rod having apertures therein for tying or otherwise attaching the rigid length to a second rigid length or to a flexible cord. Slender ties or cords extend through a plurality of apertures in the rigid lengths or are threaded, tied or plaited to the larger flexible cord or cable. In a second embodiment, a transition portion includes slender ties of a cord that are imbedded in a molded plastic of a more rigid member. The outer sleeve may include compression grooves. The sleeve surrounds the transition portion and extends between the pair of bone anchors, the sleeve being compressible in a longitudinal direction between the bone anchors.
US11213316B2
A gasket for creating a fluid seal in a medical device includes a flexible base, a flexible hollow body, and a multi-leaflet valve. The flexible hollow body extends along an axis from a hole defined in the flexible base. The flexible hollow body is configured to have a relaxed state in which a cross section of the flexible hollow body has a first shape and a compressed state in which the cross section of the flexible hollow body has a second shape. The multi-leaflet valve is disposed in the flexible hollow body. The compressed state causes the multi-leaflet valve to close to increase (a) a first threshold force or a first threshold pressure differential needed to open the multi-leaflet valve in a distal direction and (b) a second threshold force or a second threshold pressure differential needed to open the multi-leaflet valve in a proximal direction.
US11213310B2
A remote operation-type surgery system is disclosed, which includes a multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a first operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm to make a movement of a medical instrument; a second operation interface configured to receive an operational instruction for the multiple-degree freedom slave arm and different from the first operation interface; and a controller configured to control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm, wherein the controller is configured to: determine whether or not in-operation signal is turned on; until the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multiple-degree freedom slave arm performs a movement based on the operational instruction via the second operation interface; and while the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multi-degree-of-freedom slave arm follows the movement of the first operation interface.
US11213301B2
The invention provides a reamer handle comprising: a shank having a distal tool coupling end adapted to releasably couple to a part of a surgical tool and a proximal end; a retractable catch which is linearly displaceable along the shank between a non-retracted position in which the catch captures the surgical tool within the distal tool coupling end of the tool holder and a retracted position in which the catch enables the tool to be released from the distal tool coupling end; a biasing member configured to bias the catch in the non-retracted position; and a sleeve extending along the shank. The sleeve comprises: a distally located catch contacting portion and a proximally located handle portion for manually displacing the sleeve relative to the shank such that displacement of the catch contacting portion moves the retractable catch between the non-retracted position and the retracted position to enable capture and release of the tool from the tool holder.
US11213300B2
A system for treating tissue includes an applicator including a catheter and a control member extending therethrough, the control member longitudinally movable relative to the catheter and including an abutment structure proximate a distal end thereof, and a clip assembly releasably coupleable to a distal end of the applicator, the clip assembly including a pair of clip arms, a proximal end of each of the clip arms slidably received within a channel of a capsule and configured to be releasably coupled to the distal end of the control member so that the clip arms are movable relative to the capsule between a tissue receiving configuration and a tissue clipping configuration, the capsule including proximal tabs movable between a biased non-engaging and an engaging configuration, in which the proximal tabs engage an engaging portion of the lumen of the catheter, when the abutment structure is received within the capsule.
US11213292B2
A device for inserting a medical apparatus into a living body includes a handle and an elongated sheath extending from the handle to a distal end configured for insertion to a target location in the living body in combination with a clasp positioned within a distal portion of the elongated sheath and configured to temporarily attach to an endoscopic device and a spring retention mechanism movable from a first resting configuration maintaining a first closed position of the clasp to a second compressed configuration moving the clasp to an open position. A withdrawal mechanism is movable from a first resting configuration in which the distal end of the elongated sheath extends distally over a distal end of the endoscopic device to a second retracted configuration in which the distal end of the elongated sheath is moved proximally of the distal end of the endoscopic device.
US11213291B2
A dural repair device operable with a single hand. The device comprises a handle and an outer arm having an end opening and a mechanism for holding a needle within the outer arm. The device also comprises an inner arm including a heel, a platform, an end opening, and a mechanism for catching a needle. The handle is activatable such that the inner and outer arms couple, the needle is caught by the mechanism for catching a needle within the inner arm, and when the inner and outer arms are uncoupled, the needle is transferred from the outer arm to the inner arm.
US11213287B2
A support apparatus for a medical device includes a first sleeve, a second sleeve, and a flexible contact member. The first sleeve is configured to be coupled to a first tool member of an end effector assembly that includes the first tool member, a second tool member, and a clevis, in which the first and second tool members are each rotatably coupled to the clevis such that second tool member can be moved relative to the first tool member between a first and a second orientation. The second sleeve is configured to be coupled to the second tool member. The flexible contact member is coupled to the first sleeve and the second sleeve, and is configured be moved between a collapsed configuration when the second tool member is in the first orientation and an expanded configuration when the second tool member is in the second orientation.
US11213281B2
Arterial system navigation methods and devices and systems to perform the same. In an exemplary embodiment of a method of the present disclosure, the method comprises the steps of inserting at least part of an impedance device into an artery of a patient, the artery selected from the group consisting of a femoral artery and a radial artery, obtaining at least one conductance measurement while navigating a distal end of the impedance device through an arterial vasculature of the patient until the distal end is at or near a left ventricle, and performing at least one medical procedure at a location within the arterial vasculature.
US11213272B2
The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for monitoring a medical device. The medical device may include a tube configured to generate radiation rays and a detector configured to receive radiation rays emitted from the tube. The tube may include an anode target and a filament. The detector may include a plurality of detecting units. The method may include obtaining imaging data acquired by the detector via detecting radiation rays emitted from the tube. The method may also include determining a first feature parameter associated with the radiation rays based on the imaging data. The method may further include monitoring the medical device based on the first feature parameter associated with the radiation rays.
US11213268B2
An x-ray system includes an x-ray source, at least one partially transparent x-ray filter, an x-ray detector, a monitor to display x-ray images detected by the detector and image processing. The display includes a dynamic range. The system is configured to generate at least one x-ray image and modify at least one of the at least one image for display by: using the at least one filter to filter x-ray so as to reduce x-ray intensity in at least one part of the image; maintaining at least one part of the image unfiltered by the at least one filter; determining a range in the dynamic range of the display; and modifying at least one pixel in the at least one filtered part of the image based on the determined range of the dynamic range of the display.
US11213258B2
Methods are disclosed for determining a prognosis of a test patient following or during a surgical procedure. In some embodiments, the disclosed methods comprise forming a test data vector characterizing concurrent measures of mean arterial pressure (MAP), bispectral index (BIS), and standard minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of the test patient from sequential time intervals during the surgical procedure. A K-means clustering procedure is performed on the test data vector and a plurality of reference data vectors characterizing concurrent MAP, BIS, and MAC measures for sequential time intervals during surgical procedures from reference patients with known clinical outcome. A prognosis of one or more post-surgical outcomes of the test patient is determined based on the known surgical outcome of reference patients in the cluster including the test data vector.
US11213254B2
An implantable sensor is proposed including a ring shaped element and a coil. The ring shaped element is made of a silicone and is electrically conductive. The coil may be formed by a wire with a number of windings, wherein at least the free ends of the wire are enclosed by the silicone of the ring shaped element, wherein an electrical resistance of the ring shaped element varies upon a deformation of the ring shaped element.
US11213229B2
An apparatus for insertion of a medical device in the skin of a subject is provided.
US11213223B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first plurality of circumference measurements, each of the first plurality of circumference measurements corresponding to a first circumference around a limb of a person at a respective one of a plurality of locations of the limb, each of the first plurality of circumference measurements being obtained from a respective one of a plurality of elastic measurement elements that is positioned at a respective one of the locations; determining, based upon the first plurality of circumference measurements, a first geometric profile along a length of the limb; and outputting data representing the first geometric profile. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11213221B2
A method for pulmonary testing includes, while a patient inspires through the testing device, injecting a test gas at a selected flowrate toward an open end of the testing device. The method also includes measuring a flow rate of the inspired gas, which comprises the test gas. The method further includes measuring a concentration of a selected test gas component in the inspired gas.
US11213220B2
A method for determining MRI biomarkers for in vivo issue includes the steps of obtaining raw data concerning the in vivo tissue from a MRI machine; processing the raw data to obtain parameter maps; when applicable, registering images such that the exact same tissue at serial points can be analyzed; applying a grid over a region of interest to create sub-regions of interest (SROIs); inserting parameter measures for each SROI into a spreadsheet program to create a large 3D data matrix; applying standard big-data analytics including data mining and statistics of matrix measures to find patterns of measurement values or measure changes (which may include established biomarkers). A medical imaging software program is used to obtain the parameter maps from the raw data and place multiple grids over the SROIs. 3D matrix measures may be data mined and analyzed using standard big-data analytics.
US11213219B2
Example methods, apparatus/systems and articles of manufacture for determining intensity of a biological response to a presentation are disclosed. An example method includes accessing galvanic skin response (GSR) data obtained from a subject while exposed to a presentation. The GSR data includes a plurality of trough-to-peak instances. The example method includes generating a GSR intensity profile by assigning trough-to-peak scores to corresponding ones of the trough-to-peak instances, defining a plurality of time windows, and assigning window scores to corresponding ones of the time windows based on the trough-to-peaks scores of the trough-to-peak instances occurring within the corresponding time windows. The example method also includes determining an effectiveness of the presentation based on the window scores of the GSR intensity profile.
US11213215B2
Systems and methods for clinical neuronavigation in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for generating a brain stimulation target, including obtaining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) image data of a patient's brain, where brain imaging data describes neuronal activations within the patient's brain, determining a brain stimulation target by mapping at least one region of interest to the patient's brain, locating functional subregions within the at least one region of interest based on the fMRI image data, determining functional relationships between at least two brain regions of interest, generating parameters for each functional subregion, generating a target quality score for each functional subregion based on the parameters and selecting a brain stimulation target based on its target quality score and the patient's neurological condition.
US11213208B2
A multispectral imaging device in accordance with one embodiment comprises: an illumination unit for emitting LED lighting to the skin for skin illumination; and a detection unit for causing light reflected from the skin to be incident on a camera, wherein the illumination unit is arranged on the outer side of the detection unit, so that a path of the LED lighting emitted from the illumination unit is formed on the outer side of the detection unit, and a path of the light reflected from the skin is formed on the inner side of the detection unit.
US11213203B2
Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness in the global world. It is a multifactorial disease with several risk factors, of which intraocular pressure (IOP) is the most important. IOP measurements are used for glaucoma diagnosis and patient monitoring. IOP has wide diurnal fluctuation, and is dependent on body posture, so the occasional measurements done by the eye care expert in clinic can be misleading. We provide an implantable sensor, based on microfluidic principles, which in one example has 1 mmHg limit of detection, high sensitivity and excellent reproducibility. This sensor has an optical interface, which enables IOP to be read with, for example, a cell phone camera. The design, fabrication, along with the option of self-monitoring are promising steps toward better patient care and treatment for this devastating disease.
US11213202B2
An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an SLO system, a projection system, a first image former, a second image former, a displacement processor, and a controller. The SLO system is configured to scan a target eye with first light deflected by an first optical scanner. The projection system is configured to project second light deflected by an second optical scanner onto the target eye. The first image former is configured to form a first image of the target eye based on a scan result of a first scan region using the first optical scanner. The second image former is configured to form a second image of the target eye based on a scan result of a second scan region using the first optical scanner, the second scan region being narrower than the first scan region. The displacement processor is configured to calculate a displacement between a partial image in the first image and the second image, the partial image corresponding to the second image. The controller is configured to control the second optical scanner based on the displacement.
US11213199B2
A method of analyzing the degree of abnormality in the eye is provided, and in the method at least some portion of the functional evaluation of the eye's visual function is performed by presenting visual stimuli in mesopic conditions. A visual function examination device is provided, and in the device the spectral composition of the stimuli is generated by a projection or display device, and the said projection or display device can be adjusted so that individual receptor types can be excited by the said stimuli.
US11213195B2
A device for visualization of internal tissue of a patient's uterus having a hand-held control unit, an elongated member, and an image capturing tip. To increase the manoeuvrability of the image capturing tip, the elongated member forms a straight portion extending along a straight axis and a curved portion forming a curvature away from the straight axis, the curved portion being between the image capturing tip and the straight portion. By rotation of an inner tube in an outer tube, the image capturing structure will move along a circular path without being rotated about the centre axis of the elongated member.
US11213192B2
An optical scope includes a body and an elongated shaft. The shaft distal end holds an optical assembly including an imaging lens with a field of view of at least 90 degrees. An LED is coupled to the body and has an output numerical aperture (NA) providing a critical angle larger than the field of view. A first pair of fiber bundles have proximal ends receiving light from the LED with distal ends presented at the shaft distal face, and an NA providing a critical angle less than the field of view. A second pair of fiber bundles also receive light from the LED with distal ends having at the shaft distal face, and have an NA providing a critical angle at least as large as the field of view. The bundles are positioned around imaging lens such that they create a light having a desired intensity profile and properties.
US11213183B2
A portable device for receiving a liquid from a floor via a squeegee or another scraping implement includes a container having a bottom and an opening that is distanced from the bottom, a ramp that extends from the opening of the container to a position generally levelled with the bottom, the ramp being adapted to receive the squeegee in a scraping movement thereon, and a handle portion that is more distanced from the bottom of the container than the opening thereof. The handle portion is adapted to receive a blade portion of the squeegee in order to move the device therewith.
US11213177B2
In general, the present disclosure is directed to a hand-held surface cleaning device that includes a relatively compact form-factor to allow users to store the same in a nearby location (e.g., in a drawer, in an associated charging dock, on a table top) for easy access to perform relatively small cleaning tasks that would otherwise require retrieving a full-size vacuum from storage. A hand-held surface cleaning device consistent with aspects of the present disclosure includes a body (or body portion) with a motor, power source and dust cup disposed therein. The body portion also functions as a handgrip to allow the hand-held surface cleaning device to be operated by one hand, for example.
US11213166B2
A barbecue grill includes a bowl and a support structure. The bowl includes two connectors and two couplers. Each of the connectors includes an aperture. Each of the couplers includes a latch movable between an extended position and a withdrawn position. The support structure includes two positioning elements and two restraining elements. Each of the positioning elements includes a hook for insertion in the aperture of a corresponding one of the connectors. Each of the restraining elements includes an engagement fin formed with an aperture for receiving the latch of a corresponding one of the couplers in the extended position when the engagement fin is located parallel to the corresponding coupler.
US11213156B2
A drone package drop adapter has a first chute section, a second chute section, an inlet, and a shaft. The first chute section has a first ramp and a first drop. The second chute section has a second ramp, a second connector, and a second drop. The first ramp has a plurality of first openings, a first ramp top edge, and a first ramp bottom edge. The first drop has a first drop top edge and a first drop bottom edge. The second ramp has a plurality of second openings, a second ramp top edge, and a second ramp bottom edge. The second connector has a second connector top edge and a second connector bottom edge. The second drop has a second drop top edge and a second drop bottom edge.
US11213152B2
An example disposable food service tray that can withstand high heat is disclosed. The disposable food tray includes a first layer comprising paper board, and a second layer comprising polyethylene terephthalate (PET) affixed to the first layer, wherein an adhesion between the first layer and the second layer is configured to withstand a temperature of up to 525 degrees Fahrenheit for up to six minutes without blistering.
US11213146B1
A lid assembly may include a lid member having a base wall with a drinking opening. A top surface of the base wall may include a groove portion forming a groove on the top of the lid member and a central protruding portion located adjacent to the groove portion. A blocking member may removably rest on the top surface of the lid member and be movable in rotational movement between a blocked position characterized by the blocking member blocking the drinking opening and an unblocked position characterized by the blocking member unblocking the drinking opening. Positioning holding structure may be provided to resist movement of the blocking member out of each of the blocked and unblocked positions, and thereby releasably hold the blocking member in each of the blocked and unblocked positions.
US11213142B2
A stand for positioning a mobile device comprises a quick attach mount configured to receive a mobile device and a height-adjustable upright member connected to support the quick attach mount and adjustable to position the quick attach mount within a desired height range for users.
US11213140B2
Disclosed is a system for correcting a passenger's posture in an autonomous vehicle, wherein the system includes a camera configured to measure a distance between a headrest and a head of the passenger, a plurality of body pressure sensors configured to be uniformly embedded across an entire area of the seat and sense body pressures of the passenger, a pressurizing device configured to be expandably installed inside a seatback and press between T10 and T12 of a thoracic spine of the passenger, and a controller configured to control an operation of the pressurizing device on the basis of the distance measured by the camera and a scapular pressure of the passenger, which is sensed by the plurality of body pressure sensors.
US11213133B2
A dielectric elastomer driving sensor system includes: a dielectric elastomer transducer portion including a dielectric elastomer layer and a pair of electrode layers that sandwich the dielectric elastomer layer, where the pair of electrode layers include a driving region and a sensor region that are partitioned from each other; a power supply unit that applies a voltage to the driving region; a detection unit that detects a change in capacitance in the sensor region; and a control unit that controls the power supply unit and the detection unit. With this configuration, both the driving function and the sensor function can be performed.
US11213127B2
A compact recliner mechanism for use in theater seating units is provided that allows the seat to move linearly as the seating unit moves from the closed position to the reclined position. The mechanism has a back bracket coupled to the seat plate and base plate with a linkage that moves a projected point representing the top of the back of the seating unit downwardly in vertical plane as the seating unit moves from the closed position to the reclined position. In other aspects, the seating unit has an armrest linkage coupled between the seat plate and the back that maintains an armrest lever at a horizontal orientation. Additionally, in some aspects, the base plate of the seating unit may have an adjustment feature that limits recline of the seating unit, to accommodate theater seating with different riser dimensions, and/or legs with an adjustment feature to level the seating unit on existing theater floors.
US11213123B2
A slide rail assembly includes a rail member and a mounting structure. The rail member has an installation feature arranged in a transverse direction relative to a longitudinal direction of the rail member. The mounting structure is mounted to the installation feature of the rail member. The rail member and the mounting structure are transversely movable relative to each other.
US11213121B2
An ice cream toothbrush apparatus includes an edible ice cream segment and a toothbrush segment. The toothbrush segment includes a handle and a brush head, while the ice cream segment includes a handle and an edible ice cream head. The ice cream handle and toothbrush handle are configured to couple together so that the ice cream handle and toothbrush handle form a continuous handle between the ice cream head and the toothbrush head.
US11213095B2
An article of footwear has a sole structure with multiple components. The sole structure includes a midsole member, an outsole member and an exterior support member. The midsole member and the outsole member have corresponding grooves. The exterior support member provides reinforcement for the midsole member. The outsole member includes a plurality of bristle members.
US11213091B2
The present disclosure, in general, provides for a layered material that can be incorporated in to textiles (e.g., footwear, apparel, sporting equipment, or components of each). In an aspect, the layered material includes an externally facing layer and a thermoplastic hot melt adhesive layer and optionally one or more inner layers between the externally facing layer and the thermoplastic hot melt adhesive layer. The present disclosure provides for articles including the layered material such as footwear, apparel, sporting equipment, a component of an article of sporting equipment, apparel or footwear, including a outsole structure for footwear.
US11213086B2
The invention relates to a protective helmet, in particular a protective motorcycle helmet, comprising an outer shell (1) for distributing impact forces, a battery socket (2), which is firmly connected to the outer shell (1), for detachably accommodating a battery (3), and a line assembly (4), which is electrically connected to the battery socket (2), for supplying electricity by means of the accommodated battery (3) to an electric apparatus (5) which is mechanically coupled to the outer shell (1).
US11213081B2
A disposable glove and system are provided that has features and characteristic that enable a cuff opening of the glove to more easily open, thereby assisting in donning the glove. The disposable glove system includes stacked glove configurations for mounting and storage. The disposable glove system also includes features that make the disposable gloves easier to dispense from a dispenser with minimal user contact with the outer surface of the disposable gloves.
US11213078B2
A support garment that provides upper and lower support for the breasts of a wearer through the use of alternating struts and openings to create a webbed configuration is provided. The first support area comprises an upper support portion made up of a first structural configuration comprising a plurality of alternating struts and openings. The upper support portion is located above breast cup portions of the support garment. The second support area comprises a lower support portion located below the breast cup portions. The lower support portion includes a second structural configuration comprising a plurality of alternating struts of openings.
US11213071B2
An electronic cigarette includes a sensor, an atomizing assembly and a liquid storage unit, which are disposed in a housing. The atomizing assembly is provided with a first airflow passage. A second airflow passage is provided in the housing, and the sensor is disposed in the second airflow passage. The housing is defined with a first air inlet and a second air inlet. The first air inlet is in fluid communication with the first airflow passage. The second air inlet is in fluid communication with the second airflow passage. The first airflow passage and the second airflow passage are isolated from each other by a partition member. Since the first airflow passage is isolated from the second airflow passage by the partition member, the sensor is unaffected when a user inhales smoke from the smoke passage, the sensitivity of the sensor is not reduced, the smoking experience for the user is improved.
US11213070B2
A columnar lump body includes a first lump body end face that forms an air inflow end, a second lump body end face that forms an air outflow end, and a lump body side face that continues into an outer periphery of the first lump body end face and an outer periphery of the second lump body end face. The columnar lump body is disposed in such a way as to block an inside space of the cylindrical body side wall by the lump body side face contacting any portion of an inner surface of the cylindrical body side wall. A first space is provided at least either between the first cylindrical body end face and the first lump body end face or between the second cylindrical body end face and the second lump body end face.
US11213065B2
The object of the application is a transferring apparatus (1) for transferring of a stream of rod-like articles (40) from an apparatus (100) feeding rod-like articles to an apparatus (200) receiving the rod-like articles in the machines of the tobacco industry, whereas in the feeding apparatus (100) the rod-like articles (40) are conveyed in a first stream (S1) of rod-like articles in which the rod-like articles are arranged in a first configuration, and in the receiving apparatus (200) the rod-like articles (40) are conveyed in a second stream (S2) of rod-like articles in which the rod-like articles (40) are arranged in a second configuration, comprising: a transferring wheel (30); non-slidable lugs (33) situated on the circumference of the transferring wheel (30); a guiding surface (34) to guide the rod-like article, the rod-like articles being conveyed axially, tangentially to the guiding surface (34); characterised by having a slidable lug (22) being slidable relative to the circumference of the transferring wheel (30) by means of a drive mechanism (10) so that the said slidable lug (22) varies its position relative to an adjacent non-slidable lug (33).
US11213063B2
A method and an apparatus (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E) for axial centering of a rod-like article (3) or a group of rod-like articles wherein the rod-like article (3) or the group of rod-like articles is conveyed in a flute (4) situated on the circumference of a drum conveyor (5), moreover, the rod-like article (3) or the group of rod-like articles in the successive flutes (4) have the same or varying length, with the apparatus (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E) being provided with pusher elements (10, 13, 20, 23, 30, 33, 40, 43) of a shifting mechanism axially acting on the rod-like article (3) or the group of rod-like articles so as to change the position of the rod-like article (3) or the groups of articles in the flute (4), characterized in that the coupled pusher elements (10, 13, 20, 23, 30, 33, 40, 43) make swinging movements having opposite senses, moreover, the pusher elements (10, 13, 20, 23, 30, 33, 40, 43) have contact surfaces (10A, 13A, 20A, 23A, 30A, 33A, 40A, 43A) adapted to axially act on the rod-like article (3) or the group of rod-like articles, the contact surfaces (10A, 13A, 20A, 23A, 30A, 33A, 40A, 43A) of the pusher elements (10, 13, 20, 23, 30, 33, 40, 43) being convergently positioned in the direction of movement (T) of the rod-like articles, at least one pusher element (10, 13, 20, 23, 30, 33, 40, 43) being connected with a dynamic element (6, 26, 37, 47) placing the pusher elements (10, 13, 20, 23, 30, 33, 40, 43) in a position enabling them to axially act on the rod-like articles (3, 3L, 3R) or the groups of rod-like articles conveyed on the drum conveyor (5) so that the centers of the rod-like articles (3) or the groups of rod-like articles are positioned principally in a common plane (S, SL, SR).
US11213060B2
To provide a rolled food product manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method capable of improving productivity. A rolled food product manufacturing apparatus includes an outlet from which an air stream flows, a conveyor section having a loading member provided with openings through which the air stream flowing from the outlet toward a loading surface passes and conveying a sheet-like base material put on the loading surface in one direction, and a holding part holding one part of the base material floated from the loading surface by the air stream in a floated state.
US11213057B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a water-soluble polysaccharide which is less expensive and enables the production of an acidic protein food or drink, said acidic protein food or drink being stable in an acidic pH range at the isoelectric point of protein or higher, even by using a starting material such as a root vegetable. A water-soluble polysaccharide, which is extracted from a starting material derived from a root vegetable in a wet state with hot water under acidic conditions of pH 2.7-3.7, can well stabilize an acidic protein food or drink in a pH range at the isoelectric point of protein or higher.
US11213050B2
The present invention relates to a Siphoviridae bacteriophage Esc-COP-9 (Accession number: KCTC 13131BP) isolated from nature, which has the ability to specifically kill Escherichia coli and which includes a genome expressed by SEQ. ID. NO: 1, and to a method of preventing and treating a pathogenic Escherichia coli infection using a composition including the same as an active ingredient.
US11213044B2
The present invention, in some embodiments thereof, relates to low calorie, and nutritious sweeteners and confectioneries. The sweeteners and confectioneries of the invention are enriched with at least one type of soluble fibers and with proteins and include limited amounts of sweetening agents. The present invention further relates to methods of manufacturing the herein disclosed sweeteners and confectioneries.
US11213042B2
The present invention relates to the use of cocoa particles as the emulsifier system for the stabilization of a water-in-oil or oil-in-water emulsion. In another aspect there is now provided a confectionery product comprising cocoa particles as the emulsifying agent that does not contain any synthetic or artificial emulsifiers.
US11213040B2
Systems and methods for automated monitoring and control of food processing systems are disclosed. Data from one or more controllers of a food processing system is received during operation of the food processing system at a remote food processing facility. Values of one or more operating parameters of the food processing system are monitored, based on the received data. At least one event of interest occurring during the operation of the food processing system is detected, based on the monitored values of the one or more operating parameters. Control signals for adjusting a configuration of the food processing system are transmitted to the one or more controllers, based on the detected event.
US11213036B2
The present invention relates to a system for transferring sausage-shaped products, containing a flowable filling material in a tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing from a discharge device of a processing machine for processing the sausage-shaped products to a handling device for the sausage-shaped products. The system comprises a belt conveyor device for subsequently receiving sausage-shaped products discharged from the discharge device in a discharge direction and for conveying the sausage-shaped products in a feeding direction to a releasing position in which the sausage-shaped products can be removed from the belt conveyor device, a drive assembly for driving said belt conveyor device in the feeding direction being at least substantially parallel to the discharge direction of the discharge device, a guiding assembly for guiding the sausage-shaped products when conveyed by the belt conveyor device in the feeding direction and at least one shaping box for subsequently receiving a sausage-shaped product released from the belt conveyor device in the releasing position, wherein the at least one shaping box is provided at least substantially underneath the belt conveyor device in a receiving position for receiving the sausage-shaped product released in a release direction substantially perpendicular to the feeding direction.
US11213029B2
The present invention relates to a composition for controlling plant diseases containing a limonene derivative as an active ingredient. In the present invention, the limonene derivatives have an effect of inhibiting the growth of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. Oryzae (Xoo), which is a pathogen mediating bacterial leaf blight, and Magnaporthe oryzae, which is a pathogen mediating rice blast, and it was confirmed in an experiment with respect to inhibition using volatility (i.e., in a state not being in direct contact with Xoo or M. oryzae) that the limonene derivatives have a growth inhibitory effect. Accordingly, the limonene derivatives have an inhibitory effect against the growth of Xoo and thus they can be effectively used as a composition for controlling plant diseases.
US11213027B2
Disclosed is a method of enhancing bud break in plants, comprising administering a combination of an amine polymer delivery agent and a sulfur containing compound to said plants. Disclosed also is a formulation comprising an amine polymer delivery agent and a sulfur containing compound. In addition, the use of such a formulation for enhancing bud break in plants is also disclosed.
US11213022B2
A transmission mechanism of a spinning fishing reel includes a transmission shaft having a shaft body with an axial hole and a cut slit communicating with the axial hole, a gear disc having a tube portion, through which the shaft body is inserted such that the gear disc is drivenable by the transmission shaft to rotate, and a bolt having a head and a shank. The shank is screwingly threaded into the axial hole in a way that the head of the blot is abutted against an end of the tube portion of the gear disc, such that the outer periphery of the shaft body is expanded to firmly abut against the inner periphery of the tube portion. As such, the operational smoothness and stability of the product are enhanced by the transmission mechanism. Further, the transmission mechanism can be easily assembled with low manufacturing cost.
US11213020B2
An atopic dermatitis model non-human animal, containing a gene mutation in which a complex containing dedicator of cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) protein, mammalian STE20-like kinase 1 (MST1) protein, and endothelial PAS domain protein 1 (EPAS1) protein is not formed in CD4+ T cells.
US11213005B1
A portable pet carrier is configured to allow the user to carry pet during travel, is disclosed. The pet carrier or carrier device comprises a sturdy handle at its top for easy carrying by the user while travelling. The carrier is having a cage door at its front for entry and exit of the pet. The pet container is provided with detachable food and water chamber. Further, a detachable base unit is incorporated in the pet carrier for easy cleaning of pet waste. The pads or blankets incorporated on the pet carrier could be customized with one or more base colors and printed images for the user, for example, sports fans to show off their favorite team color and spirit. The carrier device could be manufactured in different sizes such that the components are arranged to provide safety and comfort to the pet.
US11213003B2
The cotton variety ST 4550GLTP is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 4550GLTP with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 4550GLTP and to plants of ST 4550GLTP reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 4550GLTP.
US11212989B2
Inbred corn line, designated BV10, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line BV10, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line BV10 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line BV10 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line BV10 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line BV10.
US11212984B2
A wheat variety designated 6PEQT15B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PEQT15B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PEQT15B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PEQT15B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PEQT15B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PEQT15B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
US11212977B1
A novel sorghum variety designated 2PDVH43 and seed, plants, plant parts and plant cells thereof are provided. Methods for producing a sorghum plant comprise crossing sorghum variety 2PDVH43 with another sorghum plant. Sorghum variety 2PDVH43, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of sorghum variety 2PDVH43 are provided. Methods for producing a sorghum plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into sorghum variety 2PDVH43 include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation. The sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced thereby are described.
US11212976B1
A novel canola variety designated N00644FC and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety N00644FC with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into N00644FC through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety N00644FC or a locus conversion of N00644FC with another canola variety.
US11212973B2
One embodiment relates to seed and plants of inbred pepper line PPL1511. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of inbred pepper line PPL1511, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants. Further embodiments relate to hybrid produced by using inbred pepper line PPL1511 as a parent, said hybrids including XPP2617, XPP2618, SPP2622, SPP2628, XP2657, XPP2658, XPP2659, XPP2660, and XPP2663.
US11212967B2
A light emitting structure includes a plurality of structural members forming a framework, wherein the framework has a plurality of spaces between the plurality of structural members; a lighting circuit integrally connected to one or more of the plurality of structural members; and a plurality of light emitting diodes electrically connected to the lighting circuit, wherein the plurality of light emitting diodes are integrally connected to the plurality of structural members via the lighting circuit; wherein the plurality of structural members are constructed to support one or more plants.
US11212966B2
The invention relates to a reusable floral bouquet arranging fixture having a 3D substantially conic section frame, with apertures arranged thereon for the insertion of plant stems, such that the plant stems converge substantially to a common point; wherein the frame attaches to an adjustable support apparatus, including an associated spindle, and a bracket having a lower arm with a slotted portion that adjusts the location of the spindle, and an upper arm slotted portion that adjusts the location of a holding device, including a clamp that attaches to a base; and wherein said frame is removable for use at an event, as a gift, or as a household or business decoration.
US11212952B2
A drive over mower deck automatic locking mechanism includes a lift frame engaging a drive over mower deck, and a pair of locking plates pivotably connected to the lift frame. The locking plates lock the drive over mower deck to the lift frame when the lift frame raises the drive over mower deck to a mowing or transport position, and unlock the drive over mower deck from the lift frame when the lift frame lowers the drive over mower deck to an installation position.
US11219148B2
A production system includes: a substrate counter configured to count the number of substrates existing in a production line including a mounting device; a mark pattern acquisition unit configured to acquire a mark pattern indicating a pattern of a mark that is provided to each of the plurality of substrates counted by the substrate counter; a determination unit configured to determine whether the respective mark patterns of the plurality of substrates acquired by the mark pattern acquisition unit are the same as each other; and a detection controller configured to control a detection process of the mark pattern by the mounting device based upon a determination result of the determination unit.
US11219147B2
Systems, apparatus, methods, and techniques of assembly of discrete modules of a control panel are disclosed. The modules can be independently wired, tested, and installed into a control panel. Module definitions are defined specifying components to perform the electrical function, a mechanical arrangement of the components, electrical connections, and logical interactions of the module. A bill of materials can be generated based on a designation of a set of modules for a control panel and the module definitions. Modularly assembled control panels are disclosed. An assembly frame is described herein for temporarily mounting components of a module for independent assembly of a control module and for eventual removal and installation into a control panel frame. The assembly frame may include a faceplate frame and side frames and temporary mounting features.
US11219145B2
The present disclosure relates to a self-wrap electromagnetic wave shield tube and a braid member, which are capable of improving workability of cable connection or cable shielding work and minimizing weight and costs while securing sufficient electromagnetic wave shielding performance in an electrical component space of a vehicle.
US11219144B2
Electromagnetic shields for sub-modules of electronic modules are disclosed. Electronic modules may include multiple sub-modules arranged on a substrate with an electromagnetic shield arranged to conformally cover the sub-modules as well as portions of the substrate that are uncovered by the sub-modules. Electromagnetic shields are disclosed that are configured to extend between sub-modules to form one or more divider walls. The one or more divider walls may be configured to extend below mounting surfaces of electronic components in the sub-modules to provide improved reduction of electromagnetic interference (EMI) or crosstalk between various sub-modules. Electromagnetic shields are also disclosed that form perimeter sidewalls that extend below mounting surfaces of electronic components of sub-modules to provide improved reduction of EMI from other modules or other external sources.
US11219132B2
The present disclosure relates to a flexible display device including a first body; a second body configured to be relatively movable with respect to the first body; a flexible display disposed on a front surface of the first body and a rear surface of the second body, respectively, and configured to vary in size of areas that are exposed to the front surface of the first body and to the rear surface of the second body as the first body and the second body are relatively moved; and a rotating bending bar disposed in at least one of the first body and the second body, and rotated while the first body and the second body are moved to couple the first body and the second body.
US11219125B2
Provided are a transparent conductor and a display device including the same, the transparent conductor including: a substrate layer; and a transparent conductive pattern layer formed on the substrate layer, and the transparent conductive pattern layer includes a plurality of conductive areas and non-conductive areas, the non-conductive areas are formed every between neighboring conductive areas, the non-conductive area in the transparent conductive pattern layer has a deviation as calculated by Equation 1 herein, which has a value larger than about 1 and equal to or smaller than about 1.25, and the non-conductive areas have a minimum line width of 40 μm or less.
US11219121B2
A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board, an electronic surface mount device (SMD), and a spacer that attaches the SMD to the circuit board. A coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the spacer is closer to a CTE of the SMD than a CTE of the circuit board. The circuit board assembly also includes a flexible electrical lead that extends between and that is electrically connected to the SMD and the electrical node of the circuit board. Methods of manufacturing the circuit board assembly include selectively heating joining material at a predetermined heating rate and selectively cooling the joining material at a predetermined cooling rate to attach the flexible electrical leads to the SMD and the circuit board.
US11219118B2
Applications of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) based atmospheric pressure plasma jets are often limited by the relatively small area of treatment due to their 1D configuration. This system generates 2D plasma jets permitting fast treatment of larger targets. DBD evolution starts with formation of transient anode glow, and continues with development of cathode-directed streamers. The anode glow can propagate as an ionization wave along the dielectric surface through and outside of the discharge gap. Plasma propagation is not limited to 1D geometry such as tubes, and can be organized in a form of a rectangular plasma jet, or other 2D or 3D shapes. Also described are a method for generating 2D plasma jets and use of the 2D plasma jets for cancer therapy.
US11219110B2
A method for managing a lighting of a zone of interest including at least one object liable to be manipulated by a user, the lighting being carried out by a main lighting device and a secondary lighting device both provided with electroluminescent elements, the method including identifying the user and/or the object; configuring the lighting of the zone of interest according to the profile of the identified user relative to vision and/or at least one characteristic of the identified object, the step including generating an instruction for controlling the lighting properties of the main lighting device and/or of the secondary lighting device according to criteria of visual perception of the object by the user; controlling the main lighting device and/or the secondary lighting device according to the instruction for controlling the lighting properties.
US11219101B2
An induction cooking appliance is provided herein. The induction cooking appliance may include an upper cooking surface, a power source, and a heating assembly in electrical communication with the power source. The power source may be configured to supply a power signal during heating operations. The heating assembly may include a first induction heating coil and a second induction heating coil. The first induction heating coil may be positioned below the upper cooking surface in electrical communication with the power source. The second induction heating coil may be positioned coaxial with the first induction heating coil below the upper cooking surface. The second induction heating coil may be disposed in electrical communication with the power source in non-series communication with the first induction heating coil.
US11219098B2
A power supply section for an e-vapor device includes a power supply section housing including a power supply portion and a heater assembly portion. The power supply portion includes a power supply, and the heater assembly portion includes a heating element and a support. The power supply is configured to selectively supply power to the heating element. The heating element includes a planar portion and first and second lead portions. The planar portion includes at least one filament. The first and second lead portions extend away from the planar portion. The support may support the heating element in the power supply section housing. The support includes a first slot and a second slot, and the first lead portion extends through the first slot, and the second lead portion extends through the second slot.
US11219097B2
A subsea direct electrical heating power supply system includes at least one input device adapted to couple the direct electrical heating power supply system to a power supply and a subsea variable speed drive, for receiving electrical power from the at least one input device and for providing an AC output, including a plurality of series-connected power cells. Each power cell includes an inverter and a bypass device to selectively bypass the power cell. The system further includes an adjustable subsea capacitor connected to the AC output of the subsea variable speed drive; an output device adapted to couple the direct electrical heating power supply system to a subsea pipeline section; and a controller, adapted to adjust the capacitance of the adjustable subsea capacitor such that upon the system output voltage being reduced, the current output by the direct electrical heating power supply system is increased.
US11219092B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining V2X resources based on interest indications for V2X communications on more than one radio access technology. One method includes determining a change in a vehicle-to-everything preference for a vehicle-to-everything application for a remote unit. The method includes transmitting to a network device, a remote unit interest indication in response to determining the change in the vehicle-to-everything preference. The method includes determining vehicle-to-everything resources for the remote unit based on a network vehicle-to-everything support type for the network device selected from a plurality of network vehicle-to-everything support types including at least one network vehicle-to-everything support type that supports simultaneous communications on more than one radio access technology.
US11219090B2
A method and device for processing data are provided. The method comprises: a terminal device controlling the current state of a copied data transfer function according to first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether the copied data transfer function is enabled; and the terminal device processing, according to the current state of the copy data transfer function, each RLC service data unit (SDU) in a first radio link control (RLC) cache and a second RLC cache, wherein the first RLC cache corresponds to a first RLC entity, and the second RLC cache corresponds to a second RLC entity.
US11219088B2
Provided is a method for configuring a release cause by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method may include: receiving a configuration of inactivity timer, from a base station (BS); when the data inactivity timer is expired, configuring the release cause for leaving connected state, wherein the configured release cause prevents the UE from initiating a random access procedure.
US11219086B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques to enable enhanced machine type communication (s) (eMTC) and/or narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) devices to transition to idle mode after releasing a connection, such as a radio resource control (RRC) connection, more quickly than with previously known techniques. An example method includes determining, based on an indication received in a narrowband signal on a narrowband region of a bandwidth comprising a plurality of narrowband regions, whether to wait for a delay period, determined based on a configuration received from a network entity, before releasing a radio resource control (RRC) connection and releasing the RRC connection at a time in accordance with the determination.
US11219083B2
A wireless communication device identifies an access point for a wireless network. The device initiates a connection procedure to establish a wireless connection between the wireless communication device and the access point, and the connection procedure includes: (i) selecting a degraded set of uplink transmission quality parameters that correspond to a higher signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio than a baseline set of uplink transmission quality parameters, and (ii) transmitting messages from the wireless communication device to the access point during the connection procedure according to the degraded set of uplink transmission quality parameters. The wireless network connection can be established between the wireless communication device and the access point as a result of completion of the connection procedure, despite the wireless communication device transmitting messages to the access point during the connection procedure according to the degraded set of uplink transmission quality parameters.
US11219080B2
User equipment (UE) can select a connection type for a retry of a failed call based on system information blocks (SIBs) received from a serving base station of a first radio access layer of a telecommunication network. When the UE experiences a call setup failure of a call attempted through the serving base station of the first radio access layer, the UE can determine whether neighbor information within the SIBs includes information about a neighboring base station of a second radio access layer. If it does, the UE can select a retry connection type as a connection to the neighboring base station of the second radio access layer. If it does not, the UE can select the retry connection type as a connection to an alternate network. The UE can then retry the call through the selected retry connection type.
US11219078B2
Some embodiments include utilizing a multilink media access control (MAC) address structure to support multilink devices (MLDs) that can operate concurrently in more than one link such as extremely high throughput (EHT) access points (APs) and EHT stations (STA), where the multilink MAC address structure is compatible with legacy devices. An EHT AP can utilize a multilink basic service set (BSS) identification (BSSID) MAC address to communicate with an EHT STA identified by a multilink MAC address. Values of the multilink BSSID and the multilink MAC address of the EHT STA are independent of which of the multiple links are used in the communication. In addition, to utilizing a multilink BSSID, the EHT AP can also support unique link-specific MAC addresses to concurrently support legacy and MLD stations. The EHT STA can also utilize unique link-specific MAC addresses that can be different than the EHT AP's link-specific MAC addresses.
US11219069B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for receiving system information (SI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), first type SI associated with SI which is essential for communication with the BS, transmitting, to the BS, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble based on the first type SI, receiving, from the BS, a random access response (RAR) message, and receiving, from the BS, second type SI associated with at least one SI which the UE needs.
US11219051B2
In a 5G network, a pre-emptive scheduling request (SR) and a pre-emptive buffer status report (BSR) can be used to reduce the latency of data transmissions on the upstream of a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network from the user equipment UE to the IAB-donor node. A centralized unit (CU) can uniformly ensure that the pre-emptive SR/BSR feature is turned on or off across the entire IAB network regardless of which vendor provides the IAB nodes. Additionally, a message can be sent from a gNodeB to the CU to the IAB node to indicate whether the pre-emptive SR/BSR triggering feature is turned on or off.
US11219050B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a dropping rule relating to: a first triggering communication, of a first transmit receive point (TRP), that triggers a first timeline for a first subsequent communication of the first TRP, and a second triggering communication, of a second TRP, that triggers a second timeline for a second subsequent communication of the second TRP, wherein the dropping rule indicates one or more communications to be dropped when the first triggering communication starts after a start of the second triggering communication and the first subsequent communication starts before a start of the second subsequent communication; and drop the one or more communications based at least in part on the dropping rule. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11219028B1
Millimeter wave access system and method for device-to-device communications (D2D) are described. A method includes registering, by one or more Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) devices (CBSDs) with a millimeter wave spectrum access system (MAS), establishing, by mobile devices, connections with a CBSD, receiving D2D communication mode capability from the mobile devices, receiving millimeter wave spectrum allocation requests for D2D communication from a number of the plurality of mobile devices, determining, by the MAS, millimeter wave spectrum allocation for the requests, sending, by the MAS and the CBSD, appropriate millimeter wave spectrum allocations to each of requesting mobile device and enabling D2D communication mode, establishing D2D communication links with other mobile devices to exchange data, monitoring idle time percentage on the D2D communication links, informing when D2D communication is not needed based on the idle time percentage, and releasing allocated millimeter wave spectrum when D2D communication is not needed.
US11219023B2
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving radio signals in a wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of transmitting and receiving a radio signal and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises the steps of receiving data in a time unit #n of a first frequency band and transmitting A/N in a time unit #m+k of a second frequency band in response to the data. In this case, the first frequency band and the second frequency band have different subcarrier spacing and a time unit #m of the second frequency band indicates the last time unit among a plurality of time units of the second frequency band corresponding to the time unit #n of the first frequency band.
US11219021B2
Disclosed herein is a method for receiving remaining minimum system information (RMSI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving an synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block including an SS and a PBCH in a half-frame, obtaining, via the PBCH, information related to a monitoring window for receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for the RMSI, receiving the PDCCH within the monitoring window, and receiving the RMSI based on the PDCCH, wherein monitoring windows related to SS/PBCH blocks having consecutive indexes among SS/PBCH blocks receivable in the half-frame are at least partially overlapped each other.
US11219014B2
In some aspects, an evolved universal terrestrial radio access base station generates a capability enquiry message for requesting radio access capabilities of a user equipment. At times, the evolved universal terrestrial radio access base station configures a capability enquiry information element included in the capability enquiry message to request eutra-nr-only radio access capabilities of the user equipment. The evolved universal terrestrial radio access base station then transmits the capability enquiry message to the user equipment. Afterwards, the evolved universal terrestrial radio access base station receives, from the user equipment, a capability information message that includes at least some radio access capabilities for new radio that are supported by the user equipment.
US11219013B2
Provided are a method of transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus supporting the same.
US11219008B2
A base station and a terminal that perform communication using an unlicensed band may divide a bandwidth part into a plurality of subbands and may perform a channel access procedure for the respective subbands. The terminal receives, from the base station, configuration information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling. The terminal identifies whether information on a guardband is included in the configuration information. The base station transmits control information including bitmap information indicating an available resource block (RB) set among RB sets, wherein the RB sets are determined based on the information on the guardband based on the information on the guardband is included in the configuration information. The base station also transmits data based on the bitmap information.
US11218998B2
To appropriately perform communication even when transmission timings and/or transmission durations of a data channel and/or uplink control information are flexibly (variably) controlled, one aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a transmission section that transmits uplink control information; and a control section that controls the transmission of the uplink control information that uses an uplink shared channel, and at least one of a transmission timing and/or a transmission duration of the uplink shared channel, and a transmission timing and/or a transmission duration of the uplink control information are able to be configured differently per transmission, and, when the transmission duration of the uplink shared channel and at least part of the transmission duration of the uplink control information overlap, the control section transmits the uplink control information by using the uplink shared channel.
US11218987B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for determining a position of a terminal, and a storage medium. The method comprises: sending first DCI or a paging message to a terminal, wherein the first DCI or the paging message is used for triggering the terminal to send a signal and the transmission of the first DCI is started at a paging moment of the terminal; and determining a position of the terminal according to the signal sent by the terminal. The technical solution solves the problem in the related art that a position of a terminal is determined only depending on an uplink signal sent by the terminal device in a connected state, and can easily determine the position of the terminal, thereby avoiding unnecessary power consumption of the terminal and helping saving power of a terminal device.
US11218984B1
In various time-transfer systems, one or more fixed-position time beacons broadcast radio-frequency (RF) time-transfer messages to time-keeping modules disposed in remote radio heads and other strategic locations to achieve highly reliable and accurate synchronized time, phase, and frequency transfer over a metropolitan or other wide-field area.
US11218973B2
The present disclosure relates to a transmission apparatus and a transmission method, a reception apparatus and a reception method, and a communication system that make it possible to implement stabilized communication irrespective of a fluctuation of a communication environment in a WLAN (Wireless LAN, WaveLAN). When a transmission apparatus transmits a data signal to a reception apparatus, the reception apparatus returns a response signal including a feedback parameter (FP) to the transmission apparatus. In a case where a reception situation of the reception apparatus is poor and improvement of it is necessitated on the basis of the FP, the transmission apparatus adjusts transmission power or the like to improve the reception situation of the reception apparatus. The present disclosure can be applied to a communication system in a WLAN.
US11218968B2
A battery-powered infusion pump for delivery of insulin or other medicament may collect and store data related to the pump. The infusion pump can communicate some or all of the stored data to another device, and control the timing and amount of data communicated in order to conserve battery life.
US11218962B2
A wireless communication method and a wireless communications device includes an access point that sends a downlink control signal to a station associated with the access point, and the station receives the downlink control signal from the access point associated with the station, where the downlink control signal includes data of maximum allowable sleep duration corresponding to the station, and a wake-up receiver wakes up the station when sleep duration of the station reaches the maximum allowable sleep duration.
US11218954B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for performing an operation related to changing of a radio access technology (RAT), by a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: checking mapping information by a first UE; selecting a first RAT according to the mapping information; and transmitting a message including one of information indicating that the first RAT has been selected and information indicating a switch to the first RAT to all UEs belonging to a group, wherein, in the mapping information, one or more RATs are mapped to each V2X service with respect to a geographical area.
US11218952B2
Provided are a method and device for configuring a network slice. A master base station generates joint network slice information according to network slice information of the master base station and network slice information of a secondary base station, and sends the joint network slice information to a core network element.
US11218943B2
An electronic device (12) in a cluster (10) that has the potential to serve as a new cluster head (36) receives cluster head assistance data from a current cluster head (36) device. The cluster head assistance data includes at least one data item related to establishment of operative communication with the wireless communications network (28) over a network communications interface (26) of the electronic device. If the electronic device is assigned to be the new cluster head, it injects the at least one data item into a process related to operation of the network communications interface and establishment of the operative communication with the wireless communications network; establishes the operative communication with the wireless communications network; and carries out cluster head functions on behalf of the cluster.
US11218940B2
The present disclosure relates to a cell reselection method and device, and a storage medium in the field of communication technology. The cell reselection method includes: a terminal acquires cell reselection parameters carried in a system message of a target cell. Since the cell reselection parameters of the target cell are set according to terminal speeds, the terminal takes its own speed into account when determining the signal quality of the target cell according to the cell reselection parameters. That is, the terminal selects one cell from a serving cell and at least one neighbor cell for residence after considering its own speed.
US11218938B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device and a communication method thereof. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a first plate and a second plate facing a direction opposite the first plate; a first transceiver disposed in the housing; a second transceiver disposed in the housing and to having a data throughput lower than that of the first transceiver; at least one processor operatively connected to the first transceiver and to the second transceiver; and a memory operative connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: determining whether the data throughput of the first transceiver is equal to or greater than a designated reference value, monitoring a temperature of the first transceiver when the data throughput is equal to or greater than the designated reference value, and determining whether to perform a handover from the first transceiver to the second transceiver based at least in part on whether the monitored temperature is equal to or higher than a first designated reference temperature.
US11218930B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for V2X communication over multiple radio access types. One method includes configuring a remote unit with information indicating a plurality of mobile networks and a radio access type of a plurality of radio access types for direct vehicle-to-everything communication corresponding to each mobile network of the plurality of mobile networks. The method includes supporting a plurality of vehicle-to-everything applications. Each vehicle-to-everything application of the plurality of vehicle-to-everything applications communicates via a direct vehicle-to-everything communication using a corresponding radio access type of the plurality of radio access types.
US11218921B2
A central entity determines a physical cell identifier (PCI) change of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node from a first PCI to a second PCI and sends the second PCI to the IAB node. In response to receiving the second PCI from the central entity, the IAB node changes from using the first PCI to using the second PCI for the IAB node.
US11218918B2
Techniques for efficient roaming of clients between access points (APs) of a wireless data communications network are described. A first AP receives a request for a first client device to join the network. The request specifies at least a unique identifier for the first client device. An identifier for a second AP is identified by processing the unique identifier using a predefined hash function. The second AP is one of at least two APs configured to each redundantly store network state information relating to the first client device. A network address of the second AP is determined. A first request to is transmitted to the network address, for network state information including a pairwise master key (PMK) and profile information. The PMK and the profile information are received. The first client device is authenticated and a connection is established between the first client device and the network.
US11218917B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE establishes a connection with a base station on a cell of the base station. The UE connects, through the cell, to a packet data network (PDN) gateway to access a PDN. The UE communicates with a security gateway via the PDN gateway and the PDN. The UE transfers, using a first source IP address, a secure tunnel between the UE and the security gateway initiated over a wireless access network to the PDN accessed through the cell.
US11218915B2
The embodiment of the present invention provides a switching method and device and a computer storage medium. The method is applied to a base station capable of supporting access to an LTE core network and a 5G core network; on the premise that the base station does not trigger switching, the method comprises: releasing a first context and a first connection configuration for user equipment (UE) with a network element of a source core network; establishing a second context and a second connection for the UE with a network element of a target core network after receiving a switching command sent from the network element of the target core network; and configuring a new radio bearer with the UE.
US11218909B2
This document discloses a solution for selecting a transmission direction in a cell. A method comprises: determining, by a controller associated with a cell of a cellular communication system, a traffic asymmetry metric for the cell, the traffic asymmetry metric representing asymmetry between uplink and downlink traffic in the cell; comparing, by the controller, the traffic asymmetry metric with a threshold; upon determining, by the controller on the basis of the comparison, that the traffic asymmetry metric is one of greater and lower than the threshold, selecting a first transmission direction for a time interval; upon determining, by the controller on the basis of the comparison, that the traffic asymmetry metric is the other one of greater and lower than the threshold, selecting for the time interval a second transmission direction different from the first transmission direction, wherein the second transmission direction is a nominal transmission direction determined as common to a cell cluster comprising the cell and a set of neighboring cells, and wherein the controller determines the nominal transmission direction on the basis of traffic condition metrics acquired for the cell and for the set of neighboring cells; and causing data communication to the selected transmission direction in the cell during the time interval.
US11218902B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for configuring a QoS flow in a mobile communication system.
US11218888B2
Aspects include determining whether a utilization of wireless spectrum associated with a guaranteed class of traffic in a network is greater than a first threshold, responsive to the determining indicating that the utilization of the wireless spectrum associated with the guaranteed class of traffic is greater than the first threshold, causing an upgrade of a capacity in the network, and responsive to the determining indicating that the utilization of the wireless spectrum associated with the guaranteed class of traffic is not greater than the first threshold: determining a throughput for a non-guaranteed class of traffic for each cell of a plurality of cells of the network, and responsive to determining that the throughput for the non-guaranteed class of traffic for at least one cell of the plurality of cells is less than a second threshold, causing the upgrade of the capacity in the network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11218882B2
The present invention relates to 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after 4G communication system such as LTE. The present invention provides a method for transmitting data on the basis of a measurement of a channel of an unlicensed band in a mobile communication system, the method comprising the procedures of: selecting a random number for backoff counting; determining whether to decrement the random number by 1; decrementing the random number by 1 on the basis of the determining; determining whether the channel is idle by measuring the channel; completing the backoff counting if the random number becomes 0; and transmitting data by means of the channel if the backoff counting is completed.
US11218877B2
A provisioning device may be shipped to a client and used to automatically provision an IoT device to join a local network to communicate with a remote service provider. In response to a trigger input, the provisioning device creates a wireless hotspot that is recognizable by an IoT device as a provisioning hotspot. The provisioning device receives a signal from the IoT device indicating that the IoT device is available to be provisioned. The provisioning device obtains provisioning data and transmits the provisioning data to the IoT device. The IoT device uses the provisioning data to connect to a local wireless network and to establish a connection to the remote service provider. The IoT device may then use one or more IoT services of the service provider.
US11218871B2
A portable wireless communications adapter includes a wireless receiver, a wireless transmitter, an electronic interface connector, and a location sensing module. The wireless receiver is configured to receive wireless data over a Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication (WAIC) frequency range between 4.2 gigahertz (GHz) and 4.4 GHz. The wireless transmitter is configured to send wireless data over the WAIC frequency range between 4.2 GHz and 4.4 GHz. The electronic interface connector is configured to mate with a portable electronic device for communication of the wireless data with the portable electronic device. The location sensing module is configured to determine a location of the portable wireless communications adapter relative to an interior of an aircraft based on WAIC communications received at the wireless receiver and selectively enable and disable the wireless transmitter based on the determined location.
US11218870B2
A communication technique for convergence of the 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate after the 4G system with IoT technologies and a system thereof. Certain embodiments may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technologies and the IoT-associated technologies (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail services, security and safe-associated services, etc.). A method and an apparatus which can substitute reporting UE capabilities by use of an identifier of the UE, without reporting the overall UE capabilities in a method of reporting UE's own capability.
US11218869B2
A method for sending and receiving multi-carrier information in a communication system supporting a multi-carrier includes sending by a base station system information to the terminal via a broadcast message, the system information regarding multi-carriers that the base station is able to support; receiving a unicast message from the terminal, the unicast message including information related to carriers that the terminal is able to support or prefers in the multi-carrier list included in the system information; and sending multi-carrier allocation information including a primary carrier and a second carrier that the terminal will use, to the terminal via a unicast message.
US11218868B1
Employing beacon messages to restart an application on a mobile device. In some embodiments, a method may include subscribing, at the secondary mobile device, to a beacon publisher of the primary mobile device. The method may also include determining, based on historical location data, that the primary mobile device is likely within range of the secondary mobile device for beacon communication therebetween. The method may further include activating, at the primary mobile device, the beacon publisher. The method may also include publishing, at the primary mobile device, a beacon message configured to cause a secondary mobile application on the secondary mobile device to restart. The method may further include receiving, at the secondary mobile device, the beacon message. The method may also include, in response to receiving the beacon message, restarting, at the secondary mobile device, the secondary mobile application of the secondary mobile device.
US11218866B2
A system for publishing digital content is described which, in one embodiment, includes a beacon device associated with a first user configured to transmit identification information and information indicating its current position. A browsing device includes a display configured and adapted to display to a second user a representation of a local geographical area, and to selectively display to the second user content information associated with the first user, based at least in part on whether the location of the beacon device is within the local geographical area.
US11218863B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle may include a flight system, a wireless communication system, a processor, and a power system having a battery and a battery charging port. The power system may be operable to power the flight system, the wireless communication system, and the processor. The processor may be configured to operate the flight system to fly the unmanned aerial vehicle from a ground position to an in-air position while the battery charging port is attached to an air-to-ground tether, trigger a release of the air-to-ground tether from the battery charging port after determining the unmanned aerial vehicle has reached the in-air position and the battery is charged, and operate the flight system to execute a flight pattern while operating the wireless communication system to search for a wireless communication device.
US11218857B2
A method for phase ranging of a personal area network device includes receiving an initial personal area network packet and storing header information contained in the initial personal area network packet. A phase shift is measured utilizing information transmitted in place of the stored header information in at least one incoming personal area network packet. A range of the personal area network device is calculated based on the phase shift of the information transmitted in place of the stored header information in an incoming personal area network packet.
US11218847B2
A method may comprise downloading a message client on a first mobile wireless device and authenticating, via the message client and the first mobile wireless device, a first mobile phone number of the first mobile wireless device to a service for transmitting and receiving packet switched messages. The authenticating may be performed via an SMS protocol. The method may further comprise transmitting, after the authenticating, a request including at least information corresponding to a second mobile phone number of a second mobile wireless device, to determine whether the second mobile wireless device corresponds to a subscriber of the service. A response to the request may be received indicating that the second mobile wireless device corresponds to a subscriber of the service. A message format of the service may not be an SMS message format, a MMS message format or an EMS message format.
US11218845B2
A method of transmitting a spatial stream for multi user (MU)-multiple input multiple output (MIMO) in a wireless local area network system and a transmitter for performing the method are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a receiver, a management frame including group information to assign or change a position of a plurality of spatial streams corresponding to each of a plurality of groups, and transmitting, to the receiver, a frame including at least one spatial stream, wherein the group information includes a plurality of group indicators and a plurality of spatial stream (SS) indicators, each of the plurality of group indicators indicating whether the receiver is a member of each of the plurality of groups, each of the plurality of SS indicators indicating a position of the plurality of spatial streams corresponding to each of the plurality of groups.
US11218843B1
Systems and methods for vehicle-target localization, identification and indication. The system includes a vehicle module operating onboard a vehicle and configured to receive a request for a tether and send the tether responsive thereto, and a target module operating on a target external to the vehicle. The target module can generate target profile data (TPD) comprising location information for the target, such as, a first component that is a function of a detected first WiFi signal having a first signal strength. The request for the tether including the TPD is transmitted to the vehicle module; a tether of secured communications is established between the vehicle module and target module. Real-time TPD is exchanged during the tether and the vehicle module performs the V-T localization as a function of the RT TPD, and commands the vehicle based on V-T localization data.
US11218829B2
A camera input can be used by the computer to support audio spatialization or to improve audio spatialization of an application that already supports it. A computer system may to support audio spatialization, for example, by modifying the relative latency or relative amplitude of the rendered audio packets. If a sound is intended, for example, to be located on the left side of the user, then the audio channel that is rendered on the headset speaker located on the user's left ear may have a somewhat decreased latency and increased amplitude compared to the other audio channel.
US11218827B2
An audio playback device comprises a microphone, a speaker, and a processor. The processor is arranged to output by the speaker first audio content and receive by the microphone an indication of the first audio content. A first acoustic response of a room in which the audio playback device is located is determined based on the received indication of first audio content. A mapping is applied to the first acoustic response to determine a second acoustic response. The second acoustic response is indicative of an approximated acoustic response of the room at a spatial location different from a spatial location of the microphone. The second audio content output by the speaker is adjusted based on the second response.
US11218826B2
A loudspeaker system including a loudspeaker array, an audio controller, and one or more insertable columns are provided. The loudspeaker array is configured to playback an audio output in a listening environment. The audio controller is configured to provide the audio output to the loudspeaker array. The one or more insertable columns is positioned between the audio controller and the loudspeaker to adjust a height of the loudspeaker array relative to the audio controller.
US11218820B2
A hearing system comprising a hearing device and at least two controllers connected to the hearing device for changing a state of the hearing device, wherein the hearing device is configured to maintain a transaction token having a present value associated with at least one present state parameter value of the hearing device. Each controller is configured to acquire, prior to changing the state of the hearing device, the present transaction token value and the present at least one state parameter value of the hearing device, to change the acquired parameter value, and to send back to the hearing device, as a state change request, the new at least one state parameter value together with the acquired transaction token value.
US11218817B1
According to some embodiments, there is provided a method for personalized hearing aid adjustment, the method including receiving a user-initiated input regarding a perceived deficiency in the user's hearing experience, providing to the user, using a detection algorithm, a suggestion regarding an issue potentially related to the perceived deficiency in the user's hearing experience, receiving from the user a second user input regarding the relevancy of the suggested issue; wherein when the second user input is indicative of the suggested issue being relevant to the perceived deficiency in the user's hearing experience, providing a suggested solution to the perceived deficiency utilizing a solution algorithm, wherein the suggested solution comprises adjusting one or more parameters of the hearing aid.
US11218815B2
The present subject matter relates to the wireless stereo reception of first and second audio information by wireless hearing communication devices. One type of device which may employ the present subject matter is a hearing assistance device, such as a hearing aid. Various forms and protocols of signal transmission are employed in varying embodiments. The present subject matter includes various communication modes such as eavesdropping modes and relaying modes.
US11218810B2
An electric motor including a driven element, a magnet assembly and a driving element. The driven element being driven in a direction of movement. The magnet assembly is includes first and second magnets each having first and second magnetic poles. The first magnetic pole of the first magnet and the first magnetic pole of the second magnet being proximate to each other and facing each other thereby defining a first magnetic zone therebetween. The first magnetic poles all being similar, and the second magnetic poles all being similar. The driving element is proximate to the magnet assembly, producing a magnetic field within the driving element that is primarily orthogonal to the direction of movement.
US11218805B2
Embodiments included herein generally relate to managing low frequencies of an output signal. For example, a method may include: measuring a sound pressure level (SPL) of a speaker; dynamically selecting a cutoff frequency for operating a first filter configured to provide a first bass component of a bass element of an output signal and a second filter configured to provide a second bass component of the bass element; providing the cutoff frequency to the first filter to configure the first filter to generate the first bass component based on the cutoff frequency; providing the cutoff frequency to the second filter to configure the second filter to generate the second bass component based on the cutoff frequency; and generating an output signal based on at least one of the first and second bass components.
US11218802B1
A mobile device capable of capturing voice commands includes a beamformer for determining audio data corresponding to one or more directions and a beam selector for selecting in which direction a source of target audio lies. The device determines, based on data from one or more sensors, an angle through which the device has rotated. Based on the angle and one or more rotation-compensation functions, the device interpolates audio data corresponding to the one or more directions to compensate for the rotation such that the direction corresponding to the source of target audio remains selected.
US11218799B2
Provided herein is a built-in speaker module. The built-in speaker module is installed in a housing of an electronic device having a first bottom surface spaced apart from a ground and a second bottom surface installed above the first bottom surface, and includes a speaker installed above the second bottom surface, a first vibration absorbing member interposed between the speaker and the second bottom surface, and a second vibration absorbing member interposed between the first bottom surface and the second bottom surface, wherein sound is emitted from the speaker through openings formed in the first bottom surface and the second bottom surface.
US11218793B2
An earphone includes a housing, a speaker unit disposed in the housing, a cover coupled with the housing and including a nozzle, a first space portion disposed in front of the speaker unit, and a second space portion disposed in the rear of the speaker unit and partitioned off from the first space portion. Here, the speaker unit includes a cylindrical yoke with an open top, a magnet fixed to a bottom surface of an inside of the yoke, a plate fixed to a top surface of the magnet, a voice coil disposed between an inner circumference of the yoke and outer circumferences of the magnet and the plate, a vibration plate disposed above the plate and to which the voice coil is fixed, a cap coupled with the yoke, and a frame coupled with the yoke and the cap.
US11218782B2
A receiving apparatus comprises a recorder of the received digital contents and commercial messages. Commercial message retrieved from the recorder is interposed into a digital content or between a pair of digital contents in accordance with the type of commercial message. Interposition of commercial message is controlled by internal information, such as history of actually displaying the same commercial message, or history of skipping the same commercial message. The receiving apparatus controls the repetition time of displaying the same commercial message, or decision whether or not actually displaying a specific commercial message, or the order of displaying commercial messages. Skip of commercial message is prevented unless display has been repeated over a minimum requirement, or user agrees with a compensation for the skip. Repetition of the same commercial message ceases with skip repeated over a limit. Notice of interposing commercial message or of compensation for skip is made in advance.
US11218781B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a bid request that indicates a television channel associated with a video stream requested by an end user device and that includes ad space information associated with an ad space of the video stream, where the video stream being requested is an Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming service that provides scheduled content. Context information can be accessed according to the television channel and according to a time associated with the ad space, where the context information describes the video stream and is generated by a context server. An auction is performed to obtain bid responses, where the auction provides bidders with context data that is representative of at least a portion of the context information, and where selection of the candidate bid responses enables a determination of a creative for the ad space of the video stream. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11218779B2
A method, apparatus and computer program products are provided for facilitating coordinated content delivery in multicast/broadcast networks. One example method includes receiving content from a service provider during a content service period, identifying a content service break period, the content service break period characterized by a break in transmission of content from the service provider intended for user devices, fetching localized content, and causing delivery of the localized content during the content service break period, the delivery of the localized content being performed via Xcast to determine a most radio resource efficient delivery mechanism.
US11218774B2
Systems and methods for identifying and correlating an advertised object with a plurality of interconnected computing devices embedded in a living environment of the user. For example, a media guidance application implemented at a set-top box with a television may receive a signal from a printer indicating that cartridge ink is low. When the user is watching a television show and an advertisement relating to printer cartridges is being played, the media guidance application may identify that the advertised printer cartridges may be something that the user needs, and may then send a notification to a user of the advertisement. In this way, the media guidance application correlates advertisements from a media asset with a user's actual needs, which may improve the advertisement conversion rate for advertisers.
US11218770B2
Devices, systems, and processes are described for seamless use of timers across multiple user devices on a LAN. A system may include a first user device, communicatively coupled to the LAN, having at least one first tuner and a first hardware processor configured for facilitating a first timer manager. A second user device communicatively coupled to the LAN may include at least one second tuner and a second hardware processor configured for facilitating a second timer manager. Each of the first timer manager and the second timer manager may be configured to populate a universal timer schedule that identifies at least one of a future availability and a future use for each of the at least one first tuner and the at least one second tuner. The universal timer schedule is populated based upon a request type, such as an auto-tune, PPV, original content, rerun, and a Joey request type.
US11218766B1
A data stream, such as a video stream, may comprise one or more event trigger messages indicating an upcoming event in the stream. The time (e.g., pre-roll time) between the event trigger message and its corresponding event may be modified, based on rules, to provide a network operator, service provider or downstream recipient more (or less) time to prepare for the event. This may be accomplished by moving the event trigger to an earlier (or later) location in the stream, and/or editing the event trigger to indicate the different pre-roll time.
US11218764B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display unit configured to display an image corresponding to contents; a processor configured to extract feature information from the contents; and a communicator configured to transmit, to an external server, the extracted feature information and search range information corresponding to the extracted feature information, and receive, from the external server, additional information corresponding to the feature information matching the extracted feature information in a search field corresponding to the search range information among a plurality of search fields, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display unit to display the received additional information.
US11218762B2
An archive model can be used for managing networked storage of recorded content, such as network DVR (digital video recorder) content. Content may be initially recorded to an active storage device, with individual duplicate copies recorded for each requesting user, and subsequently archived to an archive storage device. For playback, the content can be reconstituted into the active storage device prior to delivery to the requesting user. Content can be predictively reconstituted in anticipation of user needs, and the reconstitution capacity of the system can be dynamically reallocated for load balancing.
US11218748B2
Provided is a method of supporting a random access of MPEG data, the method including: obtaining at least one access unit including media data coded through processing including an encapsulation and a packetization; generating at least one media processing unit (MPU) by grouping at least one access unit; determining an initialization flag indicating whether the at least one access unit includes all of data required for initialization of a decoding process, in the at least one MPU; and inserting the initialization flag into a header of the at least one MPU.
US11218743B1
Techniques for a fast approximation of linear light scaling for inputs of non-linear light values are described. As one example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to downscale a plurality of pixels of a single frame of a video file performing, in response to the request to downscale, a lookup in a lookup table for a first input of a first non-linear light value of luminance for a first pixel of the plurality of pixels and a second input of a second non-linear light value of luminance for a second pixel of the plurality of pixels to generate an output of a third single non-linear light value of luminance for a linear light scaling for the first pixel and the second pixel, generating a scaled frame based at least in part on the third single non-linear light value of luminance for the linear light scaling, receiving a request for a manifest for the video file from a client device, generating the manifest for the client device that identifies a scaled video representation that comprises the scaled frame, and sending the manifest to the client device.
US11218732B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for improved entropy encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (200) for encoding at least a block in a picture by transforming a residue of the block to obtain transform coefficients, quantizing the transform coefficients to obtain quantized transform coefficients, and entropy coding the quantized transform coefficients. The quantized transform coefficients are encoded using a flag to indicate that a current one of the quantized transform coefficients being processed is a last non-zero coefficient for the block having a value greater than or equal to a specified value.
US11218727B2
A method of video decoding includes receiving a coded video bitstream including a current picture. The method includes determining a predetermined condition associated with signaling data included in the coded video bitstream. The method includes determining, based on the predetermined condition, a size of an index included in the signaling data for a candidate list of vector predictors based on a number of merge mode candidates and a number of intra block copy (IBC) candidates. The method includes constructing the candidate list with vector predictors. The method includes retrieving a vector predictor from the candidate list in accordance with the index that has a value that does not exceed the determined size of the index. The method further includes decoding the current block in accordance with the retrieved vector predictor.
US11218725B2
The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique for a high-definition video compression method and device for an omnidirectional security camera, and more specifically, to a method and a device whereby a differential motion vector is effectively transmitted, and an actual motion vector is calculated using the transmitted differential motion vector, and thus motion compensation is performed.
US11218721B2
A method and apparatus of Inter prediction for video coding using Multi-hypothesis (MH) are disclosed. If an MH mode is used for the current block: at least one MH candidate is derived using reduced reference data by adjusting at least one coding-control setting; an Inter candidate list is generated, where the Inter candidate list comprises said at least one MH candidate; and current motion information associated with the current block is encoded using the Inter candidate list at the video encoder side or the current motion information associated with the current block is decoded at the video decoder side using the Merge candidate list. The coding control setting may correspond to prediction direction setting, filter tap setting, block size of reference block to be fetched, reference picture setting or motion limitation setting.
US11218714B2
An image decoding apparatus decodes a bit stream generated by coding an image and decodes coded data included in the bit stream and corresponding to a target block to be decoded in the image. The apparatus includes a first determining unit configured to determine whether the target block is prediction-coded or palette-coded; a second determining unit configured to determine whether or not a pixel in the target block is escape-coded if the first determining unit determines that the target block is palette-coded; and a first decoding unit configured to decode the target block by using a second quantization parameter different from a first quantization parameter if the second determining unit determines that the pixel is escape-coded. The first quantization parameter is used to decode the coded data in a case where the first determining unit determines that the target block is prediction-coded.
US11218700B2
A video encoder derives a minimum allowed base quantization parameter for video data based on an input bitdepth of the video data, determines a base quantization parameter for a block of the video data based on the minimum allowed base quantization parameter, and quantizes the block of video data based on the base quantization parameter. In a reciprocal fashion, a video decoder derives a minimum allowed base quantization parameter for the video data based on an input bitdepth of the video data, determines a base quantization parameter for a block of the video data based on the minimum allowed base quantization parameter, and inverse quantizes the block of video data based on the base quantization parameter.
US11218686B2
A three-dimensional image-capturing device includes a first camera, a second camera, a driving member and a sensing member. The second camera is at one side of the first camera and is capable of being moved laterally by the driving member. After depth-sensing and establishing orientations in an image, the driving member is able to drive the second camera to move relative to the first camera, to change a distance between the first camera and the second camera. Such relative movement allows a greater range of three dimensionality for face recognition and other purposes.
US11218681B2
An apparatus for generating an image comprises a receiver (101) which receives 3D image data providing an incomplete representation of a scene. A receiver (107) receives a target view vector indicative of a target viewpoint in the scene for the image and a reference source (109) provides a reference view vector indicative of a reference viewpoint for the scene. A modifier (111) generates a rendering view vector indicative of a rendering viewpoint as a function of the target viewpoint and the reference viewpoint for the scene. An image generator (105) generates the image in response to the rendering view vector and the 3D image data.
US11218680B2
A system for generating three-dimensional (3D) images from captured images of a target when executing digital magnification. A controller executes a digital magnification on the first image of the target captured by the first image sensor and on the second image captured by the second image sensor of the target. The controller crops the first image and the second image to overlap a first portion of the target captured by the first image sensor with a second portion of the target captured by the second image sensor. The controller adjusts the cropping of the first image and the second image to provide binocular overlap of the first portion of the target with the second portion of target. The displayed cropped first image and the cropped second image display the 3D image at the digital magnification to the user.
US11218667B2
An intelligent conference projection system includes a on-site master control system, and a conference system and an auxiliary system connected with the on-site master control system by signal connection. The conference system has a conference initiation module, a video communication module and an automatic incoming call projection awaking module. The auxiliary system includes a wireless transmission screen subsystem, a voice receiving and recognizing subsystem and a dual-mode touchpad subsystem.
US11218666B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for audio and video capture and presentation. A method may include receiving, by a first device, images of a user, identifying, in a first image of the images, a first expression of the user, and identifying, in a second image of the images, a second expression of the user. The method may include determining that the first expression is associated with a first phoneme and that the second expression is associated with a second phoneme. The method may include generating audio including the first phoneme and the second phoneme, and sending the audio to a second device for presentation.
US11218661B2
A signal processing apparatus includes an analog-to-digital conversion unit, a determination unit including a comparator, and a data calculation unit that performs calculation. The data calculation unit generates a first calculation result by performing calculation including processing for averaging a first digital signal and a second digital signal or processing for adding the first and second digital signals. The data calculation unit generates a second calculation result based on a difference between the first digital signal and first noise digital data. The data calculation unit switches whether to output the first calculation result or output the second calculation result, based on a comparison result of the comparator.
US11218660B1
An apparatus comprises a first photodiode, a second photodiode, a charge sensing unit, a quantizer, a memory, and a controller configured to: set a first exposure period in which the first photodiode generates a first charge; set a second exposure period in which the second photodiode generates a second charge, the second exposure period being set based on the first exposure period and at least one of: a first time associated with a read out operation of the memory to a second apparatus, or a second time associated with a quantization operation by the quantizer; perform, using the quantizer, the first quantization operation of the first charge to generate a first digital output; store the first digital output in the memory; perform, using the quantizer, a second quantization operation of the second charge to generate a second digital output; and store the second digital output in the memory.
US11218657B2
A pixel included in an image sensor may include: a first control node and a second control node, each configured to receive control signals and generate a hole current in a substrate; and a first detection node and a second detection node, configured to capture electrons which are generated by incident light in the substrate and move by the hole current. Each of the first and second control nodes has a shape including a first surface and second surfaces connected to the first surface and the first surfaces of the first control node and the second control node are disposed to face each other, and an area of the first surface is larger than an area of any one of the second surfaces.
US11218644B2
The present disclosure relates to an image-based component measurement system using a light unit that outputs a variable wavelength, a method thereof, and a plant cultivation method using the same. More specifically, the present disclosure provides an image-based component measurement system using a light unit that outputs a variable wavelength, a method thereof, and a plant cultivation method using the same, which collect and analyze data based on image information acquired by emitting light having a specific wavelength using a sheet on which a plurality of quantum dots which can be controlled to have a wavelength necessary for measuring a configuration component of a target object are arranged. Thus, the system and methods are able to measure component content contained in the target object using a low cost and miniaturized device, and cultivate a plant by adjusting content of nutrients of the plant using the measured component content.
US11218639B1
A system and method for providing a mobile interface for marking and organizing images is described herein. In some instances, the system may present, on a display device, an image region that displays a capturable image that is capturable by an image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device and a preview region including a series of one or more annotatable image previews. The system may receive an input instructing the wireless mobile electronic device to capture a second image using the image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device, generate a second image preview representing the second image, and update the graphical user interface to include the second image preview at the preview region. The system may receive an input including an annotation using an input device of the wireless mobile electronic device and update the graphical user interface to represent the annotation at the preview region.
US11218633B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may determine, on a per camera basis, an interest level with respect to panoramic video content, identify a subset of cameras in a plurality of cameras for which the interest level is below a threshold, and reduce power consumption in the subset of cameras. Additionally, technology may determine a projection format associated with panoramic video content, identify one or more discontinuous boundaries in the projection format, and modify an encoding scheme associated with the panoramic video content based on the discontinuous boundaries. Moreover, an encoded frame may be assigned to a temporal scalability layer that has a higher priority than a layer to which an asynchronous space warp frame is assigned. Additionally, technology may reduce the encoding complexity of a boundary between an active region and an inactive region in fisheye content.
US11218632B2
A mobile device includes a camera module that can alternate between a retracted state and an extended state. In the retracted state, the camera module is retracted into a recess in a housing of the mobile device. In the extended state, the camera module extends from the housing. While in the extended state, one or more cameras of the camera module capture images. A processor of the mobile device stitches the images into a panoramic image that optionally provides a 360 degree view. While in the extended state, the camera module may optionally rotate or fold.
US11218621B2
A heating device for a camera module comprises: a resistance heating film formed on a lens through which external light is introduced for generating heat by electric current; a power applying member for supplying the electric current to the resistance heating film; and a connecting member for electrically connecting the resistance heating film and the power applying member in close contact with each other.
US11218614B2
An image reading apparatus includes a main body including a posture switching unit configured to switch the main body between a plurality of holding postures, a mode switching unit configured to switch between a plurality of modes corresponding to respective types of the document, display unit configured to display a first screen indicating a first combination of the holding posture and the mode, where the first combination is permitted, and a second screen indicating a second combination of the holding posture and the mode, where the second combination is prohibited, and a controller. The controller displays the first screen on the display unit when a state is switched to a state of the first combination, and displays the second screen on the display unit after a Predetermined time elapses since a state was switched to a state of the second combination.
US11218610B2
A reading apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a document along a transport path, a multi feed detection unit that detects multi feed for a transport document that is the document being transported by the transport unit, a reading unit that reads the transported document, and a controller that controls the transport unit, wherein the controller acquires a multi feed length that is a length of a range in which multi feed occurs in the transported document according to a detection result of multi feed by the multi feed detection unit, causes the transport unit to stop transport of a document following the transport document by when the multi feed length is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value for the multi feed length, and causes the transport unit to perform transport of the following document when the multi feed length is less than the threshold value.
US11218608B2
A state of a user operation performed on a mobile terminal is registered in a Web server that can be accessed from the mobile terminal and a multifunction peripheral (MFP) in association with information about the user, and the state of the user operation is handed over to the MFP based on the registered information by the user simply logging into the MFP.
US11218594B1
A system and method are presented for creating bots for automating first party touchpoints with contact centers. Software bots created using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) are integrated with a contact center's different customer touch points (e.g. chatbots, emails and SMS, websites, IVR application, mobile applications, agent workstation). Artificial intelligence behind the touch points finds the intent of an interaction and the respective RPAs to be triggered using a fulfillment engine that finds and executes the appropriate fulfillment for each interaction intent. A REST API Request is sent to an RPA execution server, which runs the selected RPA and sends the result to the respective touch point that triggered it.
US11218593B2
A method of communicating between an operator server and a user device for recording audio and/or video data includes the operator server receiving video data and/or audio data from the user device; the operator server initiating a session with an operator interface, wherein the session is initially in a pre-interaction mode and in response to receiving an instruction from the operator interface to change the session to an interaction mode, control the operator interface in order to change the session to an interaction mode, wherein, when in the interaction mode, a user of the user device and an operator of the operator interface are enabled to communicate with one another. The operator server is configured to begin recording of the video data and/or audio data before controlling the operator interface to change to the interaction mode and to continue recording received video data and/or audio data after said change.
US11218590B2
Systems and methods for providing call verification to prevent voice phishing, comprising: receiving a first API call, wherein the first API call is a call request from a service provider to establish a call with a client device associated with a client of the service provider; verifying an identity of the service provider, wherein verifying the identity of the service provider comprises: generating a second API call; transmitting the second API to a verification system; and receiving verification of the service provider from the verification system; transmitting a notification to the client device that includes an indication that an incoming call is from a verified service provider; verifying the identity of the client; and establishing the call between the service provider and the client after both the identity of the service provider and the identity of the client are verified.
US11218587B2
In an aspect, a method of preventing tampering of a mobile device lock, wherein the method comprises: a client application executed in a mobile device monitoring the reception of presence messages transmitted, e.g. broadcast, by a user-detecting device in the vehicle, the user-detecting device comprising a radio interface configured to wirelessly transmit presence messages when the vehicle is moving, preferably the presence message comprising an identification code, preferably a MAC address, of the user detecting device. The client application repeatedly, for example periodically or regularly, wirelessly transmitting notification messages to a server in a network, the notification messages signaling the server that the client application is being executed on the mobile device. The client application determines if the user is inside the vehicle; monitors the velocity of the vehicle and locks the mobile device; and monitors user interaction with the mobile device.
US11218584B2
Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for facilitating emergency communications by an emergency management system. In one embodiment, a method for facilitating emergency communications comprises: identifying a user potentially affected by an emergency; providing an emergency response message to a communication device associated with the user; receiving confirmation of the emergency; in response to receiving confirmation of the emergency, initiating an autonomous communication session with the user through the communication device; extracting emergency information from the autonomous communication session; and providing the emergency information to an emergency service provider (ESP).
US11218571B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a storage medium for transmitting a message. The method includes: sending a current message transmission packet to an output device, the current message transmission packet including current message data and transmission progress information; obtaining an acknowledgement packet from the output device; and sending transmission progress information in the acknowledgement packet to a persistent storage system, such that the persistent storage system stores the transmission progress information in the acknowledgement packet as input progress information of the current message data.
US11218568B2
The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for displaying information about entities in a structured way. In one aspect, a method is performed at a server system comprising memory and processors. The server receives a request from a client device for an information page associated with an entity. The server identifies automatically information and information types associated with the entity. The server generates and formats automatically a structured information page having regions for the entity, including a dynamically determined location-based information type associated with the entity. The server populates the regions of the structured information page with information of the entity for the identified information types, and with location information associated with the client device transmits the generated and formatted page to the client device for display.
US11218564B2
A method performed by a first node in a communication network, the first node being a first end-point of signaling with a second node in the communication network, the second node being a second end-point in the signaling. The method comprises receiving signals from the second node, the received signals comprising instructions for the first node to perform a plurality of actions as well as an indication for in which order the actions should be performed. The method also comprises performing the actions in order. The method also comprises sending signals to the second node, the sent signals comprising an acknowledgement that the plurality of actions have been performed.
US11218557B2
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a transmission controller. The receiving unit receives a notification to inquire about a state of a user of the information processing apparatus, which is portable, from a different information processing apparatus. If the notification is received by the receiving unit, the determining unit determines whether communication from the other information processing apparatus is acceptable in the state of the user. If the determination unit determines that the communication from the other information processing apparatus is not acceptable in the state of the user, the transmission controller controls transmission so as not to transmit the state of the user.
US11218550B2
Disclosed is a method for setting up a communication session to a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a registration request from the terminal device, the registration request including a unique transaction identifier for the terminal device; assigning a network slice; assigning a charging and policy scheme; and in response to an assignment of the network slice and an assignment of the charging and policy scheme for the communication session generating an acknowledgement to the terminal device. Also disclosed is a network node, to a communication system and a computer program product.
US11218546B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, an apparatus, and a computer-implemented method to select respective physical infrastructure devices of an edge computing system to implement services requested by respective service-requesting clients. The computer-readable storage medium includes computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to perform operations comprising, for each candidate physical infrastructure device, calculating a utility score corresponding to each of the services requested, wherein: the utility score corresponds to one of each of the respective service-requesting clients or each subgroup of a plurality of subgroups of the respective service-requesting clients. The utility score is based on location-related attributes and resource-related attributes of said each candidate physical infrastructure device, resource-related attributes of said each of the services requested, and location-related attributes and movement-related attributes of one of said each of the respective service-requesting clients or said each subgroup of the plurality of subgroups of the respective service-requesting clients.
US11218537B2
Techniques for facilitating load balancing in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a destination server, a request packet from a load balancer via the computer network requesting a remote direct memory access (“RDMA”) connection between an originating server and one or more other servers selectable by the load balancer. The method can also include configuring, at the destination server, a rule for processing additional packets transmittable to the originating server via the RDMA connection based on the received reply packet. The rule is configured to encapsulate an outgoing packet transmittable to the originating server with an outer header having a destination field containing a network address of the originating server and a source field containing another network address of the destination server.
US11218529B2
Systems and methods of controlling transmissions of a media stream are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method performed by a media client for controlling a transmission of a media stream from a media server to the media client may include obtaining a media description of the media stream. The media description may indicate an initial stream element of the consecutive stream elements. Further, the method may include sending a request for the initial stream element. In addition, the method may include requesting, towards a control entity for a session, an establishment of the session or a modification of the session, for associating the media stream with the session. After sending the request for the initial stream element, the method may include receiving a result of the session establishment or session modification request.
US11218518B2
A system for managing clouds of edge devices as an Infrastructure as a Service clouds includes an application server, a location based situational awareness subsystem and a cloud management subsystem. The cloud management subsystem includes a first API through which the application server makes request to the location based situational awareness subsystem and a conductor that searches for the optimal deployment of cloud resources that meet a set of constraints. A second API for managing and deploying applications on a selected set of the plurality of network connected devices. The system also includes a compute node that can interact with the selected set of the plurality of network connected devices to launch and manage containers on the selected set of the plurality of network connected devices.
US11218516B1
A method and system for responding to a processing failure of an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). An example method includes a computing system detecting the processing failure of the IMS and responsively causing one or more user equipment devices (UEs) to forgo using the IMS for voice over IP (VoIP) call placement and to instead use an alternate VoIP calling service for VoIP call placement. For instance, a given UE may be configured by default to use the IMS for VoIP call placement, but the UE may detect an IMS processing failure and may responsively instead make a next VoIP call placement attempt using an alternate VoIP calling service, such as a third party VoIP calling application running on the UE.
US11218514B2
Embodiments of the invention include a User Equipment UE, configured to: support access, via a serving network referred to as local network including an IMS network accessed by a PS domain, without user authentication, to services referred to as Local Services, including non-emergency services.
US11218510B2
A system and method for comprehensive cybersecurity threat assessment of software applications based on the totality of vulnerabilities from all levels of the software supply chain. The system and method comprising analyzing the code and/or operation of a software application to determine components comprising the software, identifying the source of such components, determining vulnerabilities associated with those components, compiling a list of such components, creating a directed graph of relationships between the components and their sources, and evaluating the overall threat associated with the software application based its software supply chain vulnerabilities.
US11218509B2
A system and method for facilitating supervisory control of localized meeting groups is provided. A method includes the steps of generating a master meeting group based on input received from a master organizer, generating a plurality of authentication tickets based on input received from the master organizer of the master meeting group identifying a local organizer for each authentication ticket of the plurality of authentication tickets, transmitting the plurality of authentication tickets to each of the local organizers, authenticating a plurality of local organizers based at least partially on an authentication ticket for each local organizer, and generating a plurality of meeting subgroups associated with the master meeting group based at least partially on the at least one meeting parameter. Each meeting subgroup is associated with at least one local organizer and is generated based at least partially on input received from the at least one local organizer.
US11218508B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for assurance of rules in a network. An example method can include creating a compliance requirement including a first endpoint group (EPG) selector, a second EPG selector, a traffic selector, and a communication operator, the first and second EPG selectors representing sets of EPGs and the communication operator defining a communication condition for traffic associated with the first and second EPG selectors and the traffic selector. The method can include creating, for each distinct pair of EPGs, a first respective data structure representing the distinct pair of EPGs, the communication operator, and the traffic selector; creating a second respective data structure representing a logical model of the network; determining whether the first respective data structure is contained in the second respective data structure to yield a containment check; and determining whether policies on the network comply with the compliance requirement based on the containment check.
US11218500B2
A method and system for parsing and identifying security log message data, which can include receiving system generated unstructured or partially semi-structured security log data from a plurality of source systems and devices, including a variety of different source systems and/or devices. The message data is received from the various sources in the form of raw log message data, as a stream of bytes received by a parsing system that identifies and extracts character features of the incoming raw messages. The extracted character features are compiled into data structures that are evaluated by a model(s) to determine segmentation boundaries thereof and generate message tokens, which are further classified as including variable data field(s) or as a template text string. Template categorized message tokens are used to provide message fingerprint information for characterizing the overall form of the message, and for comparison to a collection of previously stored/evaluated message fingerprints by a classifier. If the message fingerprint is determined to match a stored fingerprint with or above a selected confidence level, the parsed message can be stored. Unidentified message forms/fingerprints can be routed to a labeling system for further analysis, the results of which are used to train and update the character identification and classification engines/models.
US11218499B2
A security system detects and attributes anomalous activity in a network. The system logs user network activity, which can include ports used, IP addresses, commands typed, etc., and may detect anomalous activity by comparing users to find similar users, sorting similar users into cohorts, and comparing new user activity to logged behavior of the cohort. The comparison can include a divergence calculation. Origins of user activity can also be used to determine anomalous network activity. The hostname, username, IP address, and timestamp can be used to calculate aggregate scores and convoluted scores. The system extracts features from the logged anomalous network activity, and determines whether the activity is attributable to an actor profile by comparing the extracted features and attributes associated with the actor profile based upon previous activity attributed to the actor.
US11218495B2
A method for resisting spread of unwanted code and data without scanning incoming electronic files for unwanted code and data, the method comprising the steps, performed by a computer system, includes receiving, at the computer system, an incoming electronic file containing content data encoded and arranged in accordance with a predetermined file type corresponding to a set of rules, determining a purported predetermined file type of the incoming electronic file by analysing the encoded and arranged content data, the purported predetermined file type and the associated set of rules specifying allowable content data for the purported predetermined file type, parsing the content data by dividing the content data into separate parts in accordance with a predetermined data format identified by the associated set of rules corresponding to the purported predetermined file type and determining nonconforming data in the content data by identifying content data that does not conform to the purported predetermined file format, and if the separate parts of the content data do conform to the predetermined data format, regenerating the allowable parsed content data to create a substitute regenerated electronic file in the purported predetermined file type by extracting the separate parts that do conform and putting them into the substitute regenerated electronic file.
US11218488B2
A first set of access rules is received from an access configuration service. The first set of access rules specifies addresses of devices authorized for a first user. A second set of access rules is received from the access configuration service. The second set of the access rules specifies addresses of devices authorized for a second user. At a wireless access point, a network packet associated with the first user is received. The first set of access rules is applied to filter the network packet.
US11218480B2
Provided is a method for authenticating a user communicating with an enterprise via a network. The method includes receiving, via the network, authenticators for a user from a first user device associated with the user, and storing the received authenticators. A first authenticator from the stored authenticators is selected to be used for authenticating the user based on an authentication policy received from the enterprise. An authentication request is transmitted to a user device requesting the first authenticator and the user is authentication by comparing the received authenticator with the stored first authenticator.
US11218478B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for interconnecting devices. One of the methods includes authenticating, by a security platform, a user. The method includes generating, by the security platform, an authentication token for the user. The method includes receiving a selection of an IoT application by the user, the IoT application configured to control an IoT device. The method includes providing, by the security platform, the authentication token to the IoT application to authenticate the user with the selected application. The method also includes providing, by the selected application, control of the IoT device to the user.
US11218477B2
In an aspect, a wireless communication between a transmitter and a receiver involves determining updated keys according to a key management process for MAC layer encryption. Such key is propagated to a transmitter MAC and though a receiver key management process to a receiver MAC. After a delay, transmitter MAC device begins using the updated key, instead of a prior key, for payload encryption. Receiver MAC continues to use the prior key until a packet that was accurately received fails a message integrity/authentication check. Then, the receiver MAC swaps in the updated key and continues to process received packets. The packet data that failed the message integrity check is discarded. Transmitter MAC retries the failed packet at a later time, and if the packet was accurately received and was encrypted by the transmitter MAC using the updated key, then the receiver will determine that the message is authentic and will receive it and acknowledge it.
US11218473B2
A system for identifying suspicious logins. The system may include a memory storing executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a first user login from an electronic device, the first user login comprising login credentials; receiving a second user login from an electronic device, the second user login comprising login credentials; analyzing a plurality of device history characteristics, wherein at least one device history characteristic comprises a determination of a last financial transaction performed by an electronic device; determining, based on the analysis, that the first and second user logins originate from different electronic devices; identifying, based on the determination and the analysis, the second user login as a suspicious login; sending, to a user, a notification of the identified suspicious login; and modifying, based on the notification, security settings on an account of the user.
US11218471B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for quantum entanglement authentication (QEA). An example method includes transmitting a first number and a second electronic identification of a second subset of the first set of entangled quantum particles to a second computing device, transmitting a second number and a first electronic identification of a first subset of a first set of entangled quantum particles to a first computing device, wherein each entangled quantum particle in the first set of entangled quantum particles is entangled with a respective entangled quantum particle in a second set of entangled quantum particles, receiving, from the first computing device, a first session key, receiving, from the second computing device, a second session key and in an instance in which the first session key corresponds to the second session key, authenticating a session between the first computing device and the second computing device.
US11218468B2
Techniques are described for delivering subscriber information of a subscriber of a wireless carrier network to an authorized partner. The techniques include receiving, from a requesting entity device, a request for subscriber information of a subscriber, the request comprising a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of a user device associated with the subscriber, determining whether the requesting entity device is associated with an authorized partner based at least on one or more credentials associated with the requesting entity device, in response to determining that the requesting entity device is associated with the authorized partner, routing the request to at least one subscriber database of a plurality of subscriber databases to obtain the subscriber information using the public IP address of the user device, and transmitting the subscriber information of the subscriber to the requesting entity device.
US11218467B2
A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to store a data in the data repository. The server is further configured to receive a first authentication information, the first authentication information comprising a login and a password for an entity, and to receive a second authentication information, the second authentication information comprising at least one identifying information generated by a hardware authentication device. The server is further configured to execute a hardware-based authentication as a service process, the authentication as a service process configured to use the first and the second authentication information as input to authenticate the entity, and to provide computing resources to the entity if the entity is successfully authenticated.
US11218464B2
The present application discloses methods and devices for information registration and authentication. The registration method may comprise: sending a request for registering standard information to an authentication server; receiving first authentication information fed back by the authentication server; generating a standard information acquisition request, sending the standard information acquisition request and the first authentication information to a first application, and acquiring signed standard information and an identity identifier of the standard information that are returned by the first application after the first application approves authentication of the first authentication information, wherein the signed standard information is signed by the first application using second authentication information; and sending the signed standard information, the identity identifier of the standard information, and the first authentication information to the authentication server.
US11218453B2
A messaging system interacts with the messaging applications of customer, admin, and agent clients to support encrypted communications among customers and businesses. To register as an agent of the business, an agent client sends registration information to the messaging system and receives a barcode in response. The messaging system validates information about the barcode received from the admin client and sends a validation code to the admin client. The admin client displays the validation code, and the validation code is entered into the agent client. The admin client generates a membership list including an agent client identifier, digitally signs the membership list, and provides the signed membership list to the messaging system. When a customer messages the business, the messaging system forms a customer group using the signed membership list and distributes the message to the agent clients in the group.
US11218450B2
Systems described herein may dynamically add one or more proxy data protection agents to a cloud data storage system to process a data protection job. Upon completion of the job or at some other appropriate interval, the system can power down and decommission the proxy data protection agents and/or the virtual machines on which the data protection proxies reside according to a cleanup schedule (e.g., at hourly or minute intervals). In order to improve the allocation of computing resources, the system takes into account currently existing proxies or virtual machines when processing a backup request to determine the need for new proxies to service the backup request. In this manner the system can save costs and computing resources through efficient virtual machine deployment and retirement.
US11218442B2
Method for determining device addresses in response to name resolution queries within a communication network, wherein communication devices each calculate a target value from the associated device name of the communication device in question by means of a predefined function, where the communication devices each determine a multicast address from at least part of the calculated target value and from a selected multicast address stem and receive multicast datagrams addressed to the determined multicast address, where a name resolution query is addressed in accordance with the determined multicast address in question, and where a communication device receiving the name resolution query responds to the name resolution query with the device address of the communication device if the device name of the communication device matches the selected device name.
US11218438B2
A communication system includes a user plane function (UPF) configured to receive a domain name system (DNS) query from a user equipment (UE). The DNS query includes a first destination address of a first DNS server. The DNS query is for determining an address of a data server in proximity to the UE. According to the first destination address of the first DNS server, the UPF obtains, from a session management function (SMF), a second destination address of a second DNS server for providing the address of the data server. The SMF is configured to provide, to the UPF, the second destination address of a second DNS server.
US11218437B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of data processing technology, and more particularly, relates to a method for network traffic forwarding, request sending, and communication acceleration, a forwarding server and a node server. The network traffic forwarding method includes: receiving a first access request carrying an acceleration domain name from a user terminal and determining whether an origin site domain name corresponding to the acceleration domain name exists; if the origin site domain name exists, obtaining the origin site domain name corresponding to the acceleration domain name according to a first pre-set rule; and sending a second access request carrying the origin site domain name and corresponding origin site address information to an Internet acceleration platform to perform an accelerated transmission process in response to the second access request.
US11218436B2
A method of displaying an interface for providing a social networking service (SNS) through an anonymous profile, performed by a user terminal, includes displaying a first list of at least one anonymous chatroom created by a user account for an instant messaging service (IMS) using a first region on a first page in an interface for the IMS, displaying a second list of at least one anonymous profile created to be interlinked with the user account using a first region on a second page in the interface for the IMS, and displaying, in response to an input of selecting any one anonymous profile in the second list, an interface for providing the SNS through the selected anonymous profile.
US11218434B2
Systems and methods to determine the status of transmitted audio packets. The audio packets can include digital components that are presented by a client computing device. Based on presentation variables and determinations of presentation status, the system can generate a predictive model that can be used to dynamically determines presentation values of audio packets prior to their transmission to a client computing device.
US11218430B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a plurality of graphical user interfaces to display conversations including a message queue, and re-configuring the plurality of graphical user interfaces to display a first visual indication for a first group of conversations in response to a timer determining that a pre-determined time period has elapsed from the previous timestamp for the first group of conversations. Messages are received and associated with a timestamp, which may update the timestamp of a conversation. These messages are added to a conversation in the message queue and may be prioritized along with the other conversations. Further visual indications may be added to the plurality of graphical user interfaces based on actions of operator accounts.
US11218426B2
A packet processing system and method for enabling real-time packet processing while preventing an unnecessary delay increase are provided. A terminal 10-1 and a terminal 10-2 that transmit different types of packets in real time, a communication device 30 that processes packets transmitted by the terminal 10-1, and a packet processing device 100 disposed in a communication path of the packet from the terminal 10-1 and the terminal 10-2 to the communication device. The packet processing device 100 determines a processing method for the packets received from the terminal 10-1 based on the packets received from the terminal 10-2, creates a processing method determination table, and creates a processing method list. The terminal information packet processing unit 124 processes the packets received from the terminal 10-1 per packet unit based on the processing method list.
US11218421B1
Methods and systems for migrating resources of a virtual private cloud across public cloud environments are described. The method performed by server system includes discovering a plurality of resources associated with a source cloud via an application programming interface (API) of the source cloud and generating resource models associated with the plurality of resources based, at least in part, on the discovered resources of the source cloud. The resource models include information of the plurality of resources and relationships between the plurality of resources. The method includes storing the resource models associated with the source cloud in a database and migrating the plurality of resources of the source cloud to a different region of the source cloud or a target cloud based, at least in part, on the resource models associated with the plurality of resources.
US11218420B2
Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage virtual network interface objects. A system may include resource instances and a network interface virtualization coordinator. Responsive to a record creation request, the coordinator creates an interface records that may include an IP address, subnet information and security properties. The coordinator may, in response to a request to attach the record to a resource instance, enable traffic directed to the IP address to flow to the resource instance. In response to a subsequent detach request, the traffic to the IP address may be disabled at the resource instance. The same interface record may be attached to another resource instance in response to another attach request, enabling traffic directed to the IP address to flow to the second resource instance.
US11218401B2
A computer network device that includes a plurality of computer network ports for connecting to a plurality of computer network nodes is disclosed. The computer network device includes switching circuitry that communicates each of a plurality of messages received by more than one of the plurality of computer network ports to at least one other computer network port for transmission. The computer network device also includes a management processor that includes a plurality of management processor communication ports that include at least one externally accessible communication port and at least one externally inaccessible communication port. The at least one externally inaccessible communication port is in communication with the switching circuitry, and the management processor sends switching circuitry configuration instructions via the at least one externally inaccessible communication port to configure the switching circuitry.
US11218385B2
In a mobile communication system being configured to comprise network slice instances and network subnet slice instances, a network entity performs identifier mapping in connection with services provided. In the identifier mapping operation, the network device receives a first identifier of a first network service. It then generates a second identifier of a second network service, and maps the second identifier to the first identifier. One of the first identifier and the second identifier is a network slice instance ID (NSI-ID).
US11218382B2
Quality of service monitoring method, device and system are provided. The method includes receiving a data packet of a service. The data packet is generated during a service interaction between a first device and at least one second device. The method also includes determining a service type of the data packet based on an application layer message and/or a transmission layer message of the data packet. The method also includes determining a quality of service indicator according to the service type, and acquiring analysis data in the data packet according to the quality of service indicator. The method also includes determining the quality of service of the service based on the analysis data.
US11218371B2
The present disclosure provides a method performed in a server for communication in Internet of Things, including: receiving, from an application, an object definition schema including an attribute that indicates storing a latest operation message for an operation-related resource item in a client; checking if a queue exists for the operation-related resource item, upon receiving a request for an operation on the operation-related resource item from the application; and if the queue exists, storing the latest operation message in the queue in place of a previous operation message when the client is offline. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus performed in a server for communication in Internet of Things.
US11218368B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to partially reconfiguring a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) of a wireless communication device to provide time-slicing of modem and application functionality. In this manner, a low-cost, small size, and low power consumption implementation of the FPGA and thus the wireless communication device is provided.
US11218357B1
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance incident response for an information technology (IT) environment. In one implementation, an incident service identifies an incident in the IT environment and determines a correlation between the incident and other incidents in the IT environment. Once correlated, the incident service aggregates incident data of the incident with incident data of the other incidents and generates a summary using the aggregated incident data.
US11218348B2
Device, system and method of securely transmitting information from a mobile device or application or a user device to a mobile phone or other acoustic aware devices using audio frequency encoded data and security token transmission.
US11218347B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a wireless power receiver that ramps an ASK impedance is presented. A method of amplitude shift key (ASK) modulation in a wireless power receiver includes initiating transition of an ASK impedance from a first state to a second state, the ASK impedance being coupled to a resonant circuit that includes a wireless power receive coil that receives a time-varying magnetic field; transitioning the ASK impedance from the first state to the second state according to the transition over a plurality of switching cycles of the time-varying magnetic field; and holding the second state.
US11218339B2
A gateway device selection method is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a message from a gateway device, where the message includes identification information of the gateway device, and the identification information of the gateway device indicates information about the gateway device; determining, by the terminal device, that the identification information of the gateway device is consistent with preset identification information of a gateway device on the terminal device, and using the gateway device as a selected gateway device; and sending, by the terminal device, a data packet to the selected gateway device. This helps the terminal device correctly identify the gateway device to which the terminal device is to send data.
US11218337B1
The instant solution includes at least one element or action described or depicted herein.
US11218336B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology address limitations relating to packet replication for multi-destination traffic, by providing methods for performing hardware-based replication in network infrastructure devices, such as switches. In some aspects, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) resident in physical devices can be used to perform packet replication. Depending on implementation, a hardware-based replication process can include steps for receiving a first packet that includes a first outer header containing first address information, receiving a second packet including a second outer header containing a hardware replication flag, forwarding the first packet to all virtual tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) connected with the TOR switch, and performing hardware replication for the second packet based on the hardware replication flag to generate one or more unicast packets. Systems and machine readable media are also provided.
US11218333B2
Methods of providing building performance data include receiving building performance data from multiple different building performance data sources each comprising one of multiple different system programming languages and configured to provide building performance data at different time intervals, aggregating the received building performance data from the different building performance data sources into a single data stream, generating graphical data that represents data in the single data stream and providing the data in the single data stream and/or the graphical data to be displayed data to a user.
US11218318B2
A data management process in a storage system comprises a two-step deletion process with a confirmation hold. Data identified in a service request for deletion is encrypted using a one-time use public key to render the data inaccessible to users and system processes. The data is decrypted using a corresponding private key and verified that the data corresponds to the data and is quarantined to prevent access by changing permissions. The quarantined data is further analyzed using a set of criteria that to determine whether access to the data by system users or process is still needed. If not, the data is permanently deleted by securely deleting the encryption and decryption keys.
US11218299B2
A software decryption key is injected into a computing device 2 having a secure execution environment 20 and a less secure execution environment 22. The key 38 is for decryption of software to be run on the computing device. A key injection software component 36 executed within the secure execution environment 20 is used to control storage of the software decryption key 38 in a protected state in which the software decryption key is unreadable in the clear from the key storage location by an external device or by program code executed in the less secure execution environment 22 of the computing device. Software provided to the device is decrypted based on the injected software decryption key 38.
US11218293B2
Systems and methods are provided for implementing swarm learning while using blockchain technology and election/voting mechanisms to ensure data privacy. Nodes may train local instances of a machine learning model using local data, from which parameters are derived or extracted. Those parameters may be encrypted and persisted until a merge leader is elected that can merge the parameters using a public key generated by an external key manager. A decryptor that is not the merge leader can be elected to decrypt the merged parameter using a corresponding private key, and the decrypted merged parameter can then be shared amongst the nodes, and applied to their local models. This process can be repeated until a desired level of learning has been achieved. The public and private keys are never revealed to the same node, and may be permanently discarded after use to further ensure privacy.
US11218281B2
Embodiments herein disclose e.g. a method performed by a wireless device (10) for handling communication for the wireless device in a second wireless communication network. The second wireless communication network coexists with a first wireless communication network on a same bandwidth in frequency, wherein the first wireless communication network applies a first shift in frequency in uplink transmissions. The wireless device receives from a radio network node (12,13), an indication indicating application of a second shift in frequency to uplink transmissions in case the second wireless communication network uses Frequency Division Duplex (FDD). The wireless device further applies the second shift in frequency to uplink transmissions, wherein the second shift defines a shift in frequency to a subcarrier relative to a subcarrier grid of the second wireless communication network or a shift in frequency to the subcarrier grid of the second wireless communication network.
US11218277B2
Provided in the embodiments of the present application are a channel state indication (CSI) information reporting and receiving method and a communication device, which are used to provide for a terminal in an NR system a solution for mapping CSI information to an uplink channel and transmitting the same. The method comprises: a terminal receives an uplink channel resource configuration signaling and/or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) configuration signaling sent by a base station, and determines a mapping symbol set, wherein the DMRS configuration signaling is used to indicate the number of DMRSes configured by a system for an uplink channel and the time-frequency location of an occupied OFDM symbol, the uplink channel resource configuration signaling represents the time-frequency resource of the uplink channel, and the mapping symbol set is a set of symbols adjacent to the OFDM symbol; and the terminal measures a downlink channel, calculates CSI information, encodes the CSI information, and maps an information part comprising rank indication (RI) information onto an RE of at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in the mapping symbol set to carry out transmission.
US11218271B2
Embodiments of dynamic multiplexing are described, including the transmission of preemption indication (PI) to indicate preemption of time-frequency resources. In some embodiments, a next Generation NodeB (gNB) is configured to transmit PIs in signaling to preempt an enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) communications transmission with an ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLCC) transmission. In some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) is configured to monitor a region of time-frequency resources, within a bandwidth part (BWP), for a PI. The PI indicates to the UE a portion of time-frequency resources that omit transmissions intended for the UE. In some embodiments, the gNB transmits the PI to the UE within preemption indication downlink control information (PI-DCI) in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a control resource set (CORESET). In some embodiments, the BWP is defined according to a frequency domain location, a bandwidth, and a subcarrier spacing for a given numerology.
US11218264B2
A secondary cell activation method and apparatus relating to the communications field are described herein. The method may include sending, by an access network device, an activation command to a terminal device, where the activation command indicates activating a secondary cell. The method may also include sending, by the access network device, first configuration information of a first reference signal to the terminal device. Furthermore, the method may include sending, by the access network device, the first reference signal to the terminal device according to the first configuration information, where the first reference signal is used to obtain a channel measurement result of the secondary cell. According to secondary cell activation methods described herein, a flexible and efficient secondary cell activation mechanism can be provided, so as to improve secondary cell activation efficiency.
US11218259B2
A communication apparatus operable to communicate with a terminal station capable of operating in a Doze state and Awake state in an IEEE 802.11 ba, decides, based on a congestion degree in a channel for communicating with the terminal station in the Awake state, a waiting time for waiting for a response to a Wake-up frame for causing the terminal station to transit from the Doze state to the Awake state from when the Wake-up frame is transmitted, transmits the Wake-up frame while the terminal station is in the Doze state, and retransmits the Wake-up frame when the waiting time has elapsed after the Wake-up frame is transmitted without receiving the response from the terminal station.
US11218255B2
A wireless data communication system and method are illustrated. The wireless data communication system has a central communication device and multiple communication devices, wherein the communication devices are able to communicate with the central communication device. The central communication device requests one of the communication devices to transmit one or more packets to the central communication device; if the central communication device determines at least one of the packets of the communication device is lost during transmission, and another one of the communication devices receives the one or more lost packets of the communication device, the other one communication device retransmits the one or more lost packets of the communication device to the central communication device after being requested by the central communication device. Thereby, the retransmission efficiency of packet loss can be enhanced and the transmission efficiency of radio frequency can be improved.
US11218240B2
A code generation apparatus (100) generates a plurality of spreading code sequences, using block encryption processing of outputting a plurality of blocks as a spreading code sequence (D). A parameter selection unit (130) acquires a sequence parameter (KP) uniquely corresponding to each spreading code sequence (D) of the of the plurality of spreading code sequences. A secret key acquisition unit (150) acquires a secret key (K). A code sequence generation unit (140) changes output data that is output from each of process elements, using the sequence parameter (KP), when the code sequence generation unit (140) generates each spreading code sequence (D) of the plurality of spreading code sequences by the block encryption processing using the sequence parameter (KP) and the secret key (K).
US11218235B2
A system for generating, transmitting, providing and/or receiving broadcast service signaling.
US11218234B2
Components may modify an audio input signal to produce an output audio signal. The audio input signal is firstly rectified and sent to the peak detector as an input control signal. The peak detector produces a peak value which correlates to the level of the input control signal. The control signal is then sent from the peak detector to a dynamic curve module, which has two user selectable inputs: a threshold level and a knee/dynamic angle. The control signal is then sent from the dynamic curve module to the signal dynamics processor. This processor is then configurable to modify the control signal by applying an attack and release phase waveform to elements of the signal which exceed the threshold set by the user. The user will have selected the release time and the release phase shape prior to use of the processor. The release shape is selected by the user.
US11218231B2
A test system comprises a device under test and a testing device. The device under test comprises a first initiation unit, wherein the first initiation unit is configured to generate a first wireless initiation signal. The initiation signal consists of at least one of electromagnetic waves and sound waves, wherein the initiation signal comprises a first test command. The testing device comprises a first sensor unit, wherein the first sensor unit is configured to receive the initiation signal via the first sensor unit. The testing device is configured to generate a first electromagnetic test signal based on the first test command.
US11218228B2
Devices, systems, and methods for ambient-temperature quantum information buffering, storage, and communication are provided enabling receiving a quantum communication (for example, photons holding quantum information, e.g., qubits), storing the qubits in a room-temperature scalable quantum memory device, selectively retrieving the qubits, performing filtering, and extracting the quantum communication with a controllable delay.
US11218225B1
The present invention is directed to communication method and techniques. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a receiver that interleaves data signal n-ways for n slices. Each of the n slices includes feedforward equalizer and decision feedback equalizers that are coupled to other slices. Each of the n slices also includes an analog-to-digital converter section that includes data and error slicers. There are other embodiments as well.
US11218212B1
Provided are a method and apparatus for performing wireless communication through channel state prediction using a local dynamic map. The method may include (a) receiving probe node data (PND) of a base station node and a mobile node, (b) generating local dynamic map (LDM) information including communication network information between the base station node and the mobile node using the probe node data, and (c) transmitting the LDM information to the base station node and the mobile node, wherein the LDM information may be used to select a transmission beam of the base station node and a reception beam of the mobile node corresponding to the transmission beam or a reception beam of the base station node and a transmission beam of the mobile node corresponding to the reception beam.
US11218210B2
A technique for transmitting reference signals (RS), from a first station using a transmit antenna (400) with a number of antenna ports to a second station for determining channel state information (CSI), of a radio channel between the first station and the second station is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, a first set of precoders (502) is defined for the number of antenna ports. Based on the first set, a second set of precoders (702) is derived for the number of antenna ports. A second rank of the second set of precoders (502) is different from a first rank of the first set of precoders (702). The second rank of the second set is less than the number of antenna ports (402). Each of the antenna ports is associated with non-zero energy by at least one of the precoders (702) of the second set. The RS are transmitted using each of the precoders (702) of the second set.
US11218202B2
Provided are a beam configuration method, a mobile station and a base station. The beam configuration method performed by a base station according to embodiments of the present invention includes: determining a beam transmission scheme for a mobile station according to performance of the mobile station; and transmitting information to the mobile station according to the beam transmission scheme.
US11218200B2
Disclosed is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals that are transmitted in the same frequency bandwidth at the same time. According to the precoding method, one matrix is selected from among matrices defining a precoding process that is performed on the plurality of baseband signals by hopping between the matrices. A first baseband signal and a second baseband signal relating to a first coded block and a second coded block generated by using a predetermined error correction block coding scheme satisfy a given condition.
US11218199B2
A design method for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided terahertz secure communication system is provided. The IRS aided terahertz multi-input single-output (MISO) system includes a base station (BS) equipped with NBS antennas, an IRS equipped with NIRS reflecting elements, a single-antenna user and a single-antenna eavesdropper. The BS transmits signals by the active hybrid beamforming to the relay of the IRS, and the IRS adjusts the signals and reflects the signals to the mobile user, which suppresses the received signal of the eavesdropper. The present invention maximizes the downlink secrecy rate by establishing a joint optimization function and maximizes the system data transmission rate by a cross-entropy based search method.
US11218197B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that related to Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction in a (e.g., massive) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter system. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a MIMO OFDM transmitter system comprises, for each carrier of two or more carriers, performing precoding of a plurality of frequency-domain input signals for the carrier to provide a plurality of frequency-domain precoded signals for the carrier, the plurality of frequency-domain input signals for the carrier being for a plurality of transmit layers for the carrier, respectively. The method further comprises processing the frequency-domain precoded signals for the two or more carriers in accordance with a multi-carrier Convex Reduction of Amplitudes (CRAM) processing scheme to provide a plurality of multi-carrier time-domain transmit signals for a plurality of antenna branches, respectively, of the MIMO OFDM transmitter system.
US11218193B2
A method and a device are provided in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling and transmits a first radio signal. The first signaling includes K first field(s) and K second field(s), the K first field(s) is(are) used for determining K first-type vector(s) respectively, and the K first-type vector(s) is(are) one-to-one corresponding to K second-type vector group(s) or K second field(s); a correlation between any one second-type vector in each second-type vector group(s) and a corresponding first-type vector is related to a corresponding second field; the first radio signal includes a second radio signal and a third radio signal; the K first-type vector(s) and the K second-type vector group(s) are used for determining multi-antenna related transmissions of the second radio signal and the third radio signal respectively; the second radio signal and the third radio signal occupy orthogonal frequency-domain resources.
US11218192B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an active set management scheme implemented by a scheduler in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network that minimizes capacity and interference issues. For example, the scheduler can initially group each base station into a separate active set. The scheduler can then analyze each active set to determine whether the active set is a good or bad based on the level of interference in and the number of MIMO receive dimensions available in the respective active set. If the scheduler determines that an active set is a bad, the scheduler can determine a set of metrics that each represent a capacity and link quality that would result if the bad active set is combined with another active set. Based on the set of metrics, the scheduler can combine the bad active set with another active set, and repeat this process until no bad active sets remain.
US11218186B2
Novel cable designs and methods for mass-manufacturing long, 100 Gbps cables suitable for large communication centers. One illustrative cable embodiment includes: at least eight pairs of electrical conductors connected between a first connector and a second connector, each of said electrical conductors being 30 AWG or smaller in cross-section and about 10 meters or longer in length, each of the first and second connectors being adapted to fit into an Ethernet port of a corresponding host device, each of the first and second connectors including a respective transceiver that performs clock and data recovery on the electrical input signal to extract and re-modulate the outbound data stream for transit via at least four of the pairs of electrical conductors as differential NRZ (non-return to zero) electrical transit signals each having a signaling rate of at least 25 GBd to convey a total of at least 100 GBd in each direction.
US11218183B2
A transmit receive switch (TRSW) system is disclosed. The system has a transmission line, a transformer based matching network, a shunt switch, an amplifier and circuitry. The transmission line is connected to an antenna port. The transformer based matching network is connected to the transmission line and has a first coil and a second coil, wherein the second coil is connected to the transmission line. The amplifier can be configured as a shunt switch when inactive. The shunt switch, including the amplifier configured as the shunt switch, can be connected to the first coil of the transformer based matching network. The circuitry is configured to cause the shunt switch to be ON during an inactive mode and create a short across the first coil. Combined, the length of transmission line needed to complete the impedance transformation is reduced, thereby lowering the overall insertion loss of the transmit/receive switch.
US11218182B2
The present embodiments are directed to a device for generating radio frequency signals, including high power radio frequency signals. In certain embodiments, the device comprises multiple transmission lines driven in parallel at their input and connected in series at their output. The electromagnetic transit lengths of the transmission lines may be unequal. A series connection of the transmission lines at the output may produce an output signal from each transmission line driving the same polarity signal to the load. The series connection of transmission lines at the output may produce a bipolar output signal. One section of the device may convert a unipolar input signal into a bipolar signal. One section of the device may duplicate the input signal. Multiple sections may be arranged to convert a unipolar input signal into multiple radio frequency oscillations.
US11218181B2
A wireless communication device (UE) may conduct wireless communications using one or more antennas according to multiple radio access technologies (RAT) associated with corresponding operating frequency bands. The UE may perform adaptive antenna tuning, for example, application-based antenna tuning for increasing the operating efficiency of the UE, which may improve user experience. The UE may periodically identify one or more applications running on the UE, the respective RATs that support the (running) applications, and which of the corresponding frequency bands are used by the (running) applications. The UE may determine the tuner device settings for tuning the one or more antenna(s) based on the (running) applications or the type and/or priority of the (running) applications, which RATs support the running applications, which of the corresponding frequency bands are used by the (running) applications, and operating conditions associated with the frequency bands used by the (running) applications.
US11218168B2
A method for generating an LDPC (low-density parity check) code with a required error floor, comprising: using a parity generation circuit to generate an LDPC code; using a detection circuit to detect the LDPC code according to a plurality of trapping set cores in a database and to generate at least one piece of trapping-set-core information; using a verification circuit to perform an important sampling simulation according to the LDPC code and each trapping-set-core information separately to obtain an estimated error floor for each trapping-set-core information; using the verification circuit to separately compare each of the estimated error floors with an expected error floor; and when all of the estimated error floors are lower than or equal to the expected error floor, using the verification circuit to output the LDPC code.
US11218155B2
Described is a digital fractional phase locked loop (DFPLL) with a current mode low pass filter. The DFPLL includes a binary phase frequency detector (BPFD) configured to output a directional pulse based on comparison of a reference clock and a feedback clock, a current mode low pass filter connected to the BPFD, and a current controlled oscillator (CCO) connected to the current mode low pass filter. The current mode low pass filter configured to output a control current based on at least the directional pulse when a current steering switch directly controlled by the directional pulse switches to the CCO. The CCO configured to adjust a frequency of the CCO based on the control current to generate an output clock. The feedback clock based on the output clock and the reference clock aligned with the feedback clock by adjusting the frequency of the output clock until frequency and phase lock.
US11218154B2
An integrated circuit according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include a plurality of function blocks, a spread spectrum clock (SSC) generator that generates a spread spectrum clock based on a frequency modulation rate value, a clock distribution circuit that distributes the generated spread spectrum clock into the plurality of function blocks, a memory that stores predetermined frequency modulation rate values respectively corresponding to the plurality of function blocks, and a control circuit, and the control circuit may be configured to generate the spread spectrum clock based on a smaller frequency modulation rate value among a first frequency modulation rate value and a second frequency modulation rate value respectively corresponding to a first function block and a second function block, which are operating, from among the plurality of function blocks. Moreover, various embodiment found through the present disclosure are possible.
US11218147B2
A circuit protective system. The system includes an output controlling enablement of a transistor and an input sensing an operational parameter associated with the transistor. The system also includes detection circuitry providing an event fault indicator if the operational parameter violates a condition. The system also includes protective circuitry disabling the transistor in response to the event fault indicator and subsequently selectively applying an enabling bias to the transistor; the enabling bias is selected from at least two different bias levels and in response to a number of event fault indications from the detection circuitry.
US11218146B2
A device includes: a capacitor having first and second terminals; a first switch; a second switch coupled to the second terminal; a first multiplier coupled between the first and second terminals; a second multiplier coupled between the first and second terminals; and a buffer having an input terminal and an output terminal. The first switch is coupled between the output terminal and the first terminal.
US11218129B2
An impedance matching device 1 includes multiple capacitance elements and a control unit that controls on or off of semiconductor switches. The capacitance elements and respectively include a first capacitance element group and a second capacitance element group. The control unit updates the state of the first semiconductor switch included in the first capacitance element group with a first cycle until a predetermined time period elapses during which the state of the first semiconductor switch included in the first capacitance element group is maintained while the control unit updates the states of the semiconductor switch and respectively included in the first capacitance element group and the second capacitance element group with a second cycle longer than the first cycle after the predetermined time period elapses during which the state of the first semiconductor switch included in the first capacitance element group is maintained.
US11218128B2
The invention relates to an interference suppressor for a direct current circuit, a vehicle component, a high-voltage intermediate circuit and a vehicle. The interference suppressor for a direct current circuit, which comprises two conductors, is characterized in that the interference suppressor comprises a first connection for connecting the interference suppressor to a first conductor of the direct current circuit; a second connection for connecting the interference suppressor to a second conductor of the direct current circuit; a sensor, wherein the sensor can be coupled in noncontact manner to the direct current circuit and is designed to detect the passing of a predetermined limit value of a superimposed alternating voltage in the first conductor of the direct current circuit; and is designed, by impressing a current in the first connection, to reduce the alternating voltage in the first conductor of the direct current circuit substantially to the predetermined limit value.
US11218120B2
A programmable transimpedance amplifier (TIA) includes a plurality of signal paths between an output of a common emitter amplifier and the output of the TIA. The TIA is programmed by selecting one of the signal paths, because the paths have different parameters (e.g. different bandwidth). Thus, the bandwidth or other parameter can be programmed by selecting the appropriate path. The common emitter amplifier's output is coupled to the inputs of common base amplifiers in each path. The inputs have low impedance. Also, each path has a separate buffer amplifying the common base amplifier output in the path. Therefore, having multiple paths does not significantly degrade the amplifier performance. High bandwidth can be provided.
US11218118B2
An example apparatus includes a power amplifier (PA) and a linearity optimizer. The optimizer includes a PA actuator and a linearity adaptation circuit. The actuator is configured to generate an actuator output based on an actuator input and a vector of complex gains computed by the linearity adaptation circuit based on a feedback signal indicative of PA's output. The adaptation circuit is configured to compute the vector of complex gains in a manner that maximizes the power of the actuator output while ensuring that the deviation of PA's behavior from a linear behavior (e.g., in terms of one or more linearity parameters) is below a threshold. Controlling actuator output in a manner that maximizes its power while taking into consideration one or more linearity parameters to ensure that target linearity is achieved controls drive signals for the PA and, thus, may help in terms of PA linearity and efficiency.
US11218117B2
An amplifier circuit includes: a plurality of amplifiers; a plurality of monitor elements provided for each of the plurality of amplifiers and disposed on a same chip with the corresponding amplifier; and a processor configured to: measure characteristics of each of the plurality of monitor elements; reduce a difference in distortion between a plurality of signals output from the plurality of amplifiers based on the measured characteristics; and compensate for the distortion.
US11218114B2
A vibrator device includes a semiconductor substrate, a vibrator unit, a cover, and an insulating film. The vibrator unit is disposed at a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and includes a vibrator element, and an excitation electrode disposed at the vibrator element and having a portion facing the semiconductor substrate. The cover is bonded to the first surface in a joint portion surrounding the vibrator unit. The insulating film is disposed at the first surface. The insulating film overlaps the portion of the excitation electrode in plan view, and is absent at the joint portion of the semiconductor substrate and the cover.
US11218112B2
The disclosure provides a silicon photovoltaic cell scanning eddy current thermography detection platform and a defect classification method. The technical solution adopted by the disclosure is: firstly, fixing the position of the electromagnetic inductive coil and the thermal imager, and using the main conveyor belt to carry the silicon photovoltaic cell to move forward on the production line to form a scanning eddy current heating of the silicon photovoltaic cell. Secondly, the defect temperature information is obtained through the thermal imager in terms of thermal image sequences. Thirdly, the feature extraction algorithms are used to extract the silicon photovoltaic cell defect features. Finally, the image classification algorithms are used to classify the silicon photovoltaic cell defects, and the sorting conveyor belts are used to realize the automatic sorting of silicon photovoltaic cells with different types of defects on the production line.
US11218106B2
An electric motor driving system controls driving of an electric motor having windings of two or more phases each having open ends by using a pair of inverters. A control unit includes a first inverter control circuit that generates a first voltage instruction output to the first inverter based on a torque instruction and a second inverter control circuit that generates a second voltage instruction output to the second inverter based on the torque instruction. At least one of the inverter control circuits includes an electric power controller that controls allocation of electrical power supplied from a pair of power supplies to the pair of inverters, respectively, by either advancing or delaying an angle of a phase of each of vectors of voltage instructions in accordance with the target electric power instruction during execution of torque feedback control.
US11218104B2
A control method for controlling a three-phase dynamoelectric machine that has phase coils arranged in groups includes setting values of a time phase difference of electric currents to be supplied to the in-phase coils of respective groups and a time phase difference of carrier frequencies with which three-phase inverters are PWM-controlled to satisfy a predetermined relationship among the time phase difference of electric currents, the time phase difference of carrier frequencies, and a space phase difference of in-phase coils of the respective groups. The predetermined relationship is based on a result of a comparison between a current amplitude of a primary component and a current amplitude of a secondary component of a carrier harmonic current.
US11218102B2
In a method for determining the rotor position of a three-phase machine without using a rotary encoder, and a device for controlling a three-phase motor without using a rotary encoder, the three-phase machine is fed by a converter that can be operated by pulse-width modulation, and the converter has model variables for the rotor angle and the current indicator of the three-phase machine, and the converter has device(s) by using which, in control operation, at least two values are measured which represent a measure of the local inductances of the machine which represent a measure of the local inductances of the machine, the error of the model rotor angle is determined in that, depending on the model rotor angle and the model current indicator, at least two weighting factors are determined, and in that a weighted sum is formed from the at least two measured values and the at least two weighting factors, and in that a further offset value is subtracted from the sum, which is likewise determined on the basis of the model rotor angle and the model current indicator.
US11218096B2
Systems and methods, for controlling an output torque of a permanent magnet direct current (PMDC) machine includes a PMDC motor that includes a plurality of winding sets and a controller. The PMDC motor is configured to generate the output torque. The controller is configured to: determine, for a first winding set of the PMDC motor, a first voltage command based on a first input torque command signal and a back-EMF drop voltage of the first winding set; determine, for a second winding set of the PMDC motor, a second voltage command based on a second input torque command signal; and selectively control the PMDC motor according to the first voltage command and the second voltage command.
US11218092B2
A power supply device includes connector from a power source, a rectifying module, a power supply module, and a bulk capacitor. The capacitor stores and smoothes the rectified power, and outputs the smoothed power to the power supply module. The connector is capable of connecting to the power source through a Delta connection and a Wye connection.
US11218091B2
Provided are: a power generator including a dielectric elastomer element with an elastomer layer and electrodes sandwiching the layer; an intermediate power storage including a specific number of capacitors to receive output power from the power generator; a storage unit to receive output power from the intermediate power storage; and a controller for setting control by switching a mode between an input mode and an output mode. In the input mode, some number of the capacitors of the intermediate power storage are connected to the power generator such that a series number is an input series number of less than or equal to the specific number. In the output mode, some number of the capacitors are connected to the storage unit such that the series number is an output series number which is smaller than the input series number.
US11218089B2
A rotary ultrasonic motor includes an ultrasonic actuator, a driven element, an inner casing member and an outer casing member. A piezoelectric or electrostrictive or magnetostrictive material is arranged between an excitation electrode and at least one general electrode. The ultrasonic actuator is between the inner and outer casing members of a casing, and is directly or indirectly in contact with the element to be driven, so that periodic deformations generated in the ultrasonic actuator by electrical excitation are transferable to the drive element. The ultrasonic actuator is mounted by a retaining device arranged on the casing with at least one retaining section which engages in a recess associated with a respective retaining section.
US11218088B2
An oscillation actuator of the present disclosure includes an oscillation body, a contact body configured to be in contact with the oscillation body, a holding member configured to hold the oscillation body, the holding member having a through hole, a pressing member configured to press the oscillation body through the through hole, and an oscillation damping member configured to be in contact with the holding member and the pressing member between the holding member and the pressing member.
US11218086B2
A power conversion system includes a hybrid power converter phase unit including three voltage inputs, a voltage output, a pair of outer switches between the voltage inputs and voltage output, and a pair of inner switches between the voltage inputs and the outer switches. The power conversion system includes a controller in electrical communication with the inner and outer switches. The controller is configured to selectively disable or enable the inner switches by switching the inner switches OFF or ON. A method includes selectively disabling or enabling inner switches in a hybrid power converter phase unit with a controller such that the hybrid power converter phase unit is a 3-level converter when the inner switches are ON and enabled in a 3-level mode and a 2-level converter when the inner switches are OFF and disabled in a 2-level mode.
US11218081B2
A power converter includes: a plurality of power modules that houses semiconductor elements for electric power conversion; a pair of holding plates sandwiching a stacked body of the plurality of power modules in the first direction; a pair of connecting beams that connects the pair of holding plates respectively on both side ends of the stacked body in the second direction intersecting the first direction; and a substrate connected to control terminals of the power modules. At least one of the pair of holding plates is provided with a positioner to position the substrate.
US11218075B2
A switching regulator has a voltage reduction module, a first acquisition module, a second acquisition module, a third acquisition module, a comparison module and a pulse width modulation module, wherein the comparison module compares a superposed signal of a flat-wave signal or a ramp signal and a feedback signal with an acquisition signal, and outputs a comparison signal; the second acquisition module outputs the ramp signal when the acquired output signal is greater than a preset value, otherwise outputs the flat-wave signal; or when the working current obtained from the main circuit is greater than a preset value, a ratio of the feedback signal output from the third acquisition module to the working current of the main circuit is 1, otherwise the ratio is less than 1. The switching regulator has the advantages of excellent transient response, quick response, and high reliability.
US11218070B2
A snubber module is provided, which constitutes a snubber apparatus attachable to a terminal of a semiconductor module. The snubber module includes: a positive-side capacitor, a first diode and a negative-side capacitor sequentially connected between a positive-side snubber terminal and a negative-side snubber terminal, the positive-side snubber terminal connectable to a positive-side terminal of the semiconductor module, and the negative-side snubber terminal connectable to a negative-side terminal of the semiconductor module; a first coupling terminal directly or indirectly connected to one node of either a first node between the positive-side capacitor and the first diode or a second node between the negative-side capacitor and the first diode; and a housing accommodating the positive-side capacitor, the negative-side capacitor and the first diode, and having provided therein the positive-side snubber terminal, the negative-side snubber terminal and the first coupling terminal in a manner enabling external connection.
US11218069B2
A power conversion device, including: a voltage detector that detects a common mode voltage generated upon a switching operation of a power semiconductor device; a voltage superimposer that superimposes the common mode voltage detected by the voltage detector onto an output of the power conversion device to cancel the common mode voltage having a frequency greater than or equal to a switching frequency generated upon the switching operation of the power semiconductor device; and a residual voltage detector that detects the common mode voltage of the power conversion device superimposed by the voltage superimposer. The voltage superimposer includes a feedback mechanism for adding and superimposing the common mode voltage detected by the residual voltage detector onto the output of the power conversion device. The voltage detector includes a first choke coil and a first capacitor.
US11218064B2
A rotor for an electric motor includes an even number n of pole pairs arranged on a rotor body with rotor windings connected in series between two electrical connections to supply or conduct away current through the rotor windings. The series circuit has a first section including n/2 rotor windings arranged first in the series circuit, and a second section including n/2 rotor windings and arranged upstream of the second electrical connection. During application of a direct-current voltage between the two connections in each of the rotor windings of the first section, the radial component of the direct-current flow in the series circuit extends through the entire respective rotor winding, from an outer side to an inner side of the rotor winding, and in each of the rotor windings of the second section, in reverse, from an outer side to an inner side of the rotor winding.
US11218063B2
The present disclosure relates to a transmission system having a transmission subsystem, a transmission housing for housing the transmission subsystem, and a rotor operably associated with the transmission subsystem. The rotor has a weight and dimension to act as a flywheel. At least one stator pole segment is housed within the transmission housing and has at least one stator winding thereon positioned in proximity to a surface of the rotor. An inverter communicates with the stator winding and electrically energizes the winding to cause rotation of the rotor.
US11218057B2
An electric machine is described herein. The electric machine includes a casing, a stator, a rotor generally coaxial with the stator, an enclosed cooling assembly circulating a first cooling fluid within the casing, and an open cooling assembly through which a second cooling assembly can flow; the open cooling assembly cooling both the stator and the first cooling fluid.
US11218055B2
A wind turbine is disclosed. The wind turbine includes a shaft rotatable about an axis, a plurality of hubs fixedly attached to the shaft, and a plurality of vanes. The vanes are releasably engaged with each of the plurality of hubs. The vanes disengage from the hubs once the shaft rotates about the axis at a cut-out speed of the wind turbine. In another embodiment, the vanes are releasably engaged with the shaft.
US11218046B2
This disclosure relates in general to a new and improved system for producing electric energy or mechanical power, and in particular to an improved system and method for producing rotary motion from an electro-magnetic motor or generating electrical power from a rotary motion input by concentrating magnetic forces due to electromagnetism or geometric configurations.
US11218045B2
An electric motor includes a case, a stator that includes end-windings, a rotor coupled to the case via at least one rotor bearing, at least one drive motor fluid pump, and drive motor electronics. The rotor includes a hollow cylindrical body, a first shaft portion, and a second shaft portion, a fluid feed tube having a fluid receive end and a fluid feed end, the fluid feed end extending into the hollow cylindrical body, and a plurality of fluid exit ports. The drive motor electronics power the stator with or without causing rotation of the rotor. The drive motor fluid pump pumps fluid into the hollow cylindrical body via the fluid feed tube, pumps the fluid out of the plurality of fluid ports, and onto the stator end-windings to collect heat from the rotor and the stator. The heated fluid may be used for heating a battery.
US11218031B2
A planar-type wireless power-receiving circuit module includes a planar ground conductor, a substrate, a power-receiving coil, and a magnetic sheet. The planar ground conductor has a cavity in the middle section thereof. The substrate is disposed on a first main surface of the planar ground conductor. The substrate includes dielectric layers stacked on top of each other in a manner so as to form electronic circuitry. The power-receiving coil is electrically connected to the electronic circuitry and is disposed in the cavity. The magnetic sheet overlaps the power-receiving coil when the planar ground conductor is viewed in plan. The magnetic sheet is part of a path of magnetic flux passing through the power-receiving coil and is disposed on a first main surface of the power-receiving coil.
US11218021B2
A load controller according to an embodiment includes a switching unit, a power source unit, and a control unit. The switching unit controls supply of power from an AC power supply to a load by selectively connecting or disconnecting the load to/from the AC power supply. The power source unit converts AC power supplied from the AC power supply into DC power. The control unit operates with the DC power supplied from the power source unit and controls the switching unit. The power source unit includes a constant-voltage source and a constant-current source. The constant-voltage source keeps a DC voltage to be output to the control unit a constant voltage. The constant-current source keeps a DC current to be supplied via the constant-voltage source to the control unit a constant current.
US11218020B2
The invention discloses a device for detecting load state of driving power supply, the present invention can detect the load state of the driving power supply by using the parasitic capacitance, the pull-down resistor module inside the main control unit and the level detecting module in the circuit, without adding peripheral circuit. In this way, the actual product volume of the present invention does not increase, nor does it need to increase the hardware cost.
US11217989B2
A drive device comprises a sensor for detecting a state of stress applied to a power transistor, a threshold voltage setting circuit for outputting a threshold voltage, an anomaly monitor circuit for determining whether or not a state of stress is abnormal by comparing a detected voltage of the sensor with the threshold voltage, and a control circuit for fixing the power transistor to either on or off when the state of stress is determined to be abnormal by the anomaly monitor circuit. When an operating mode is a test mode, the control circuit tests whether the anomaly monitor circuit determines the state of the stress is abnormal or not by switching a level of the threshold voltage set by the threshold voltage setting circuit so as to determine that a state of the stress applied to the power transistor is abnormal in the normally operating anomaly monitor circuit.
US11217988B2
A determination circuit including a detection circuitry, a switch controller, and a determination circuitry. The detection circuitry is configured to detect that an overvoltage has occurred in an electric power supply path. The switch controller is configured to turn off a switch when the detection circuitry has detected that the overvoltage has occurred. The determination circuitry is configured to perform a determination operation including determining whether the overvoltage that has occurred is attributed to an electric power conversion circuit or a load, on a basis of one of or both a first voltage of a first path and a second voltage of a second path that are in a period in which the switch is off, the first path coupling the switch and the electric power conversion circuit in the electric power supply path, the second path coupling the switch and the load in the electric power supply path.
US11217986B2
An object of the present invention is to stop the driving of a semiconductor element swiftly at a time of abnormality while sharing an output terminal between temperature information and an error signal in an IPM. In the intelligent power module of the present invention, each drive circuit includes an output control circuit configured to select the error signal while the error signal generation circuit outputs the error signal, to select the temperature signal while the error signal generation circuit does not output the error signal, and to output a selected signal as an alarm signal. The temperature signal generation circuit is configured to change the voltage value of the temperature signal in accordance with the element temperature of the specific semiconductor element within a voltage range different from the voltage value of the error signal.
US11217976B2
An electric wire fixing structure includes a first half hole part and a second half hole part formed by dividing an electric wire hole through which an electric wire is passed; an electric wire fixing part formed in a shape along the first half hole part when viewed in the axial direction of the electric wire hole, the electric wire fixing part extending from the first half hole part in the axial direction of the electric wire hole; and a fixing member wound around the electric wire and the electric wire fixing part together, so as to fix the electric wire to the electric wire fixing part.
US11217975B2
A protective tube connection structure includes a protective tube through which an electric wire is inserted and has alternately large diameter portions and small diameter portions; and a covering member where an end portion of the protective tube is fixed, the electric wire led out from the end portion being disposed inside the body portion. A wire support portion is provided on a bottom plate portion vertically below the covering member such that the electric wire led out from the end portion of the protective tube is placed on the wire support portion at first and the wire support portion is located vertically above an inner surface of the small-diameter portion on an endmost side.
US11217970B2
A busbar system includes a busbar with at least two parallel arranged phase conductors running between a first end and a second end of the busbar and at least two feeders connected onto the busbar, each feeder including contacts for at least some of the phase conductors of the busbar; a first supply line and a second supply line interconnecting the first feeder and the second feeder with a common power supply; wherein a first feeder of the at least two feeders is connected onto the first end of the busbar and a second feeder of the at least two feeders is connected onto the second end of the busbar; wherein each of the first supply line and the second supply line has a higher impedance than the busbar.
US11217969B2
A plasma generator composed of a body of electrically conductive, ionizable material connected to conduct a current pulse and to be converted into a plasma that occupies a large volume in the ionosphere. A plasma generating system composed of a source of a high intensity current pulse and the plasma generator.
US11217956B2
An electrical plug removal tool/implement comprising a nonconductive faceplate having a set of apertures contoured to receive the prongs of an electrical plug. The removal implement positions between the electrical outlet and the electrical plug, with the prongs traversing the same, and is adapted to pull the plug from the outlet when flexible strings are pulled which are affixed to the faceplate. The faceplate may comprise a plurality of sets of apertures in some embodiments.
US11217941B1
An electrical connector set includes a socket and two plugs. The socket includes a connector casing forming two adjacent insertion slots. The two insertion slots are arranged in an arrangement direction and extend parallel to an insertion direction. The connector casing includes a dividing wall, separating the two insertion slots. The dividing wall has an indentation at the insertion openings of the two insertion slots. The two plugs can be inserted into the two insertion slots in the insertion direction respectively. Each plug has two protrusions at two opposite sides thereof in the arrangement direction. The two protrusions are staggered in a vertical direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction and the insertion direction. When the two plugs are inserted into the two insertion slots, the two protrusions between the two plugs are located in the indentation and staggered in the vertical direction.
US11217928B2
An electrical connector comprising a plug arranged and designed to connect to a receptacle. The plug includes an electrically-insulating body, a conductor ring, and a conductive member connected to the plug conductor ring. The receptacle includes an electrically-insulating body, a conductor ring having an axial inner bore and an annular groove facing radially inward, a conductive member connected to the receptacle conductor ring, and an electrically-conductive contact having a generally annular profile, at least a portion of the electrically-conductive contact received in and contacting the annular groove and at least a portion of the electrically-conductive contact not received in the annular groove. Upon insertion of the plug into the receptacle and substantially radially aligning the plug and receptacle conductor rings, the electrically-conductive contact is elastically deformed and provides electrical contact between the plug conductor ring and the receptacle conductor ring.
US11217926B2
A contact element includes: an electrical contact portion for plug-in connection to an associated mating contact element; a contact body connected to the contact portion and forming an insertion space into which an electrical conductor is insertable in an insertion direction for electrical connection to the contact element; and a spring element which is arranged on the contact body and has a first spring leg for bearing on the contact body and a second spring leg for interacting with the electrical conductor inserted into the insertion space. The first spring leg is interlockingly connectable to the contact body by being placeable with an opening on a fastening device of the contact body.
US11217923B2
A plug-in structure includes a connector and a plug; wherein the connector is provided with a jack. The jack is provided with a first terminal and a first guide rail structure are arranged, the first terminal being configured to be electrically connected to a first flexible circuit board; and the plug is provided with a second terminal and a second guide rail structure, the second terminal being configured to be electrically connected to a second flexible circuit board, and the second guide rail structure of the plug being in cooperation with the first guide rail structure in the jack to guide the plug to move in the jack, such that the first terminal and the second terminal are electrically connected.
US11217921B2
A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes a contact positioner having contact support walls holding a contact array. The contact array includes signal contacts and ground contacts interspersed with the signal contacts. The signal contacts include mating ends configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector and mounting ends configured to be terminated to a host circuit board. The signal contacts include transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The ground contacts include mating ends, mounting ends, and transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The contract assembly includes a ground bus wire extending transversely across the contact array. The ground bus wire is electrically connected to each of the ground contacts. The ground bus wire is electrically isolated from each of the signal contacts.
US11217916B2
An automotive booster cable system includes a first battery clamp attached to a first battery a second battery clamp attached to a second battery; an optional electrical plug adapter with an adapter electrical connector for mating with the second battery clamp; and a booster cable assembly having a first polarized electrical booster connector for mating with the first battery clamp and a second polarized electrical booster connector for mating with either the electrical plug adapter or the second battery clamp.
US11217908B2
A bonding lug assembly includes a bonding lug and a set screw. The bonding lug includes a body that defines a first channel and a second channel. The first channel defines a first conductor path extending in a first direction, and the second channel defines a second conductor path extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction. The set screw is configured to selectively engage the bonding lug and retain a bonding conductor within at least one of the first channel or the second channel.
US11217900B2
An antenna structure suitable for 5G use in controlling direction of radio beams and in increasing antenna gain includes a substrate, an array of antennas, a main body, a lens array, a grounding plate, and a high-impedance surface (HIS) layer embedded into the substrate. The array of antenna units is positioned on the substrate surface under the protection of the main body. The lens array includes a lens units for each antenna unit, the lens units concentrate the beams generated by the antenna units. The grounding plate is underneath and grounds the antenna units. The HIS layer suppresses surface waves generated by the lens arrays and the substrate and increases a gain of the antenna structure in certain directions.
US11217894B2
A antenna structure including a reflector, a horizontally polarized antenna and a vertically polarized antenna on the front side of reflector, wherein the horizontally polarized antenna is made up of a pair of dipoles, each said dipole includes a positive ground member and a negative ground member overlapping each other, while the vertically polarized antenna is made of a upper ground member and a lower ground member overlapping each other, and the upper ground member is above the upper dipole and the lower ground member is below the lower dipole, and a first signal source and a second signal source extend from the back side of the reflector to the front side to excite the horizontally polarized antenna and the vertically polarized antenna, respectively.
US11217877B2
In aspects of managing antenna module heat and RF emissions, an antenna module includes antenna elements that emit radio frequency (RF) signals for wireless data communication. The antenna module also includes an integrated heat sink to dissipate heat generated by an amplifier on the antenna module, where the heat sink is formed as a metallic component having a surface approximately coplanar with the antenna elements. The antenna module also includes one or more grooves that are formed into the surface of the heat sink, where the one or more grooves are effective to allow the RF signals being emitted from the antenna elements without deformation of a radiation pattern of the RF signals.
US11217872B2
A radio-frequency (RF) heat shield for electronics includes a first and second outer skin formed of an insulating material, an insulating core layer arranged between the first and second outer skin, wherein the insulating core layer has a lower dielectric constant as compared with a higher dielectric constant of the first and second outer skin, and a frequency selective surface (FSS) layer including a reflective metallization pattern that is RF transparent and formed on an exterior surface of each of the first and second outer skin.
US11217852B2
A battery pack comprises a battery core pack that has a plurality of battery cells held in a cell holder, and a case that accommodates the battery core pack. The case has an outer shell case that covers the side surface of the battery core pack, and a bottom case that covers the bottom surface of the battery core pack. A lower-side battery core pack frame that supports the battery core pack is secured in a lower-side securing groove provided to an inner wall of the outer shell case. The lower-side securing groove is disposed above the upper-end part of the bottom case attached to the lower-end part of the outer shell case.
US11217847B2
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. Exemplary battery packs may include a polymer-based enclosure assembly having features for both retaining components and transferring loads inside the battery pack. The battery packs may include one or more snap-in features for retaining the components and one or more foam spacers for separating adjacent battery arrays and establishing a load transfer path inside the battery pack.
US11217843B2
The present disclosure provides an electrochemical device system including an electrochemical device and a controller. The electrochemical device includes a negative electrode capable of occluding and releasing lithium ion, a positive electrode using oxygen as a positive electrode active material and reducing oxygen during discharge, and a solid electrolyte disposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode and capable of conducting lithium ion. The controller performs current control during discharge of the electrochemical device.
US11217842B2
A power storage device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a casing including a bottom wall and a top wall opposite to the bottom wall; a storage battery; an electrical unit; and a cooling unit. The storage battery is disposed in the casing and separated from the bottom wall. The electrical unit is disposed in the casing and located closer to the top wall than the storage battery is. A first fan is disposed between the storage battery and the electrical unit and configured to direct air from the storage battery toward the electrical unit.
US11217837B2
An apparatus including a plurality of lithium-ion cells, a cell support structure having a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers has at least one open end and is configured to support a respective lithium-ion cell, a housing in which the cell support structure is received, and a thermal dissipation member disposed between the cell support and the housing, wherein the plurality of lithium-ion cells are thermally coupled to the thermal dissipation member through a respective open end of a respective chamber, and the thermal dissipation member is thermally coupled to the housing.
US11217834B2
An energy storage unit for a motor vehicle battery is provided, having an energy store, particularly configured as a battery cell module, for storing and delivering electric power. A measuring device measures electrical properties of the energy store. An evaluation unit, connected to the measuring device, ascertains the operational status of the energy store from the measurement results of the measuring device. An indicator unit is connected to the evaluation unit for depicting the operational status of the energy store. By ascertaining and depicting the operational status and not just the state of charge of the energy store, it is possible to dispense with separate complex measurements when fitting the energy store, so that an energy storage unit can be checked quickly and efficiently when fitted into a motor vehicle.
US11217830B2
The present disclosure provides a battery pack. The battery pack includes: a bare cell; a circuit module arranged in parallel to a terrace portion of the bare cell and connected to a tab of the bare cell; and a holder surrounding two surfaces of the circuit module and the terrace portion of the bare cell.
US11217827B2
A method for manufacturing a battery is provided. The method includes suctioning a part of a strip-shaped separator in a plurality of holes of a winding core in a peripheral surface of the winding core; preparing a wound body by winding strip-shaped positive and negative electrodes along with the strip-shaped separator around the winding core; and preparing an electrode body by releasing the suction in the holes and pulling out the winding core from the wound body, in which the battery includes a battery container configured to accommodate the electrode body, the holes are communicated inside with the winging core having a hollow structure, and the winding core has an outside diameter of 2 mm or less.
US11217823B2
The method for fabricating an electrochemical device includes the following successive steps: a first stack successively including a first electrode and an electrically insulating electrolyte having a first main surface in contact with the first electrode and an opposite second main surface; a polymerisation step of the electrolyte so as to define at least a first area presenting a first degree of cross-linking and a first cross-linking density and a second area presenting a second degree of cross-linking different from the first degree of cross-linking and/or a second cross-linking density different from the first cross-linking density, said at least first and second areas connecting the first main surface with the second main surface; and placing the second electrode in contact with the electrolyte.
US11217815B2
The present disclosure relates to a pouch casing material including two cups forming an electrode assembly receiving portion and formed integrally in one pouch film. The pouch casing material includes an upper pouch member and a lower pouch member formed integrally with each other, and the connection between the upper pouch member and the lower pouch member does not protrude toward the outside. Thus, the total length of a battery is reduced.
US11217814B2
A fuel battery stack is provided with: hole portions formed in a coolant supplying manifold; cylindrical collar members provided in the hole portions; and fastening bolts inserted in the cylindrical collar members and screwed in a second end plate. On the inner circumferential surface of each of the hole portions, a plurality of projections that support the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical collar member are provided so as to protrude radially inward.
US11217813B2
A fuel cell includes a fuel cell stack having a stacked body with a plurality of stacked unit cells, an end plate unit, and a gas manifold penetrating the stacked body and the end plate unit in a stacking direction for a flow of reaction gas. The fuel cell also includes a valve that is provided between the end plate unit and gas piping and includes an in-valve flow path for communicating the gas manifold and the gas piping and a valve element. The gas manifold includes a stacked body manifold and an end plate unit flow path. When the fuel cell stack is arranged so that a manifold bottom portion is horizontal, a bottom portion of an opening on the valve side in the end plate unit flow path is arranged above the manifold bottom portion.
US11217812B2
A cell taping apparatus includes a plate provided with an accommodation space, into which a plurality of unit cells are configured to be stacked and accommodated, on a top surface thereof; a guide which extends upward from the top surface of the plate to define the accommodation space therein and through which at least one pair of first slots are defined to pass downward from an upper end of the guide at opposing left and right sides of the guide that face each other; and a tape, which has a length equal to or greater than a width of the plate, of which opposing ends respectively pass through a pair of the at least one pair of first slots, and which is seated on the top surface of the plate so that an adhesion surface of the tape faces away from the top surface of the plate.
US11217811B2
A combination of redox active compounds is useful in connection with a rechargeable battery and includes a first redox active compound having a first solubility, and a second redox active compound having a second solubility, wherein the combination has a third solubility that is greater than one or both of the first solubility and the second solubility.
US11217805B1
This invention relates to a point of use Hydrogen production unit for use with a Hydrogen fuel cell. The unit uses energy compression to produce a high energy pulse which reacts with the plasma of a gas filled flashlamp to produce a very high pulse of power which is discharged into the water via the surface of the flashlamp to activate the photocatalyst's surface and water interface to produce Hydrogen gas in a water tank or vessel having a gas filled flashlamp or a side emitting fiber optic array. The Hydrogen gas is fed to a storage container and thence to a fuel cell whom it is converted into power to drive vehicles, ships, airplanes, underwater vehicles, boats, etc.
US11217804B2
A fuel cell system includes: first and second injectors; first and second ejectors; a first circulation passage configured to circulate anode gas that has passed the first ejector between the first fuel cell and the first ejector; a second circulation passage configured to circulate the anode gas that has passed the second ejector between the second fuel cell and the second ejector; a communication passage communicating with the first and second circulation passages; a switching valve configured to switch the communication passage to a communication state where the first and second circulation passages communicate with each other or to a cutoff state where the first and second circulation passages are cut off; and a controller configured to scavenge the first fuel cell by injecting the anode gas with the first injector, while the first fuel cell stops power generation in the communication state.
US11217802B2
A method of estimating available output of a fuel cell includes monitoring a current state of a fuel cell stack, determining a current performance of the fuel cell stack on the basis of the monitored current state, and estimating available output of the fuel cell stack under a specific voltage condition on the basis of the determined current performance of the fuel cell stack.
US11217794B2
The present invention relates to composite material comprising a matrix and a metallic layer located at at least one surface of said composite material, said matrix comprising at least one polymer and a first population of particles of at least one electronically conducting metal, said layer comprising a second population of particles of at least one electronically conducting metal, a method for preparing such composite material and applications thereof.
US11217793B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes the active material-containing layer formed on the current collector and including active material particles. The particle size distribution chart obtained by the laser diffraction scattering method for the active material particles includes the first region and the second region. The first particle group included in the first region includes the first active material particles, and the second particle group included in the second region includes second active material particles. The carbon coverage of the first particle group is higher than the carbon coverage of the second particle group.
US11217791B2
A sandwich-type graphene composite structure formed of carbon-coated silicon nanoparticles and graphene, and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The sandwich-type graphene composite structure is formed of a carbon-coated silicon graphene through an environmentally friendly filtration process. The formed sandwich-type graphene composite structure relieves the volume expansion of the silicon. In addition, the carbon coated on the silicon surface improves electrical conductivity and may be used as a high-capacity anode material.
US11217790B2
A positive electrode active material precursor for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided that includes a nickel-cobalt-manganese carbonate composite represented by general formula NixCoyMnzMtCO3 (where x+y+z+t=1, 0.05≤x≤0.3, 0.1≤y≤0.4, 0≤t≤0.1, and M denotes at least one additional element selected from a group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W) and a hydrogen-containing functional group. The ratio H/Me of the amount of hydrogen H to the amount of metal components Me included in the positive electrode active material precursor is less than 1.60. The positive electrode active material further includes a secondary particle formed by a plurality of primary particles that have been aggregated.
US11217780B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a secondary battery and a secondary battery using the same, which can improve the quality of a cut surface of an electrode plate and improve the reliability of the secondary battery. For example, disclosed is a method for manufacturing a secondary battery, the method comprising: an active material layer forming step of forming an active material layer by coating an active material on both surfaces of a collector plate; an active material layer removing step of removing a part of the active material layer by irradiating a laser beam to the both surfaces of the collector plate; and a cutting step of cutting the collector plate by irradiating a laser beam onto the collector plate from which the active material layer has been removed in the active material layer removing step.
US11217776B2
A light emitting display apparatus can include a substrate; an over coating layer disposed on the substrate; a plurality of structures on the over coating layer, each of the plurality of structures including a flat upper surface; a reflective layer disposed on the plurality of structures; and a light emitting element disposed on the plurality of structures and the reflective layer.
US11217763B2
To provide a light-emitting device that can obtain fluorescence having a narrow spectrum more efficiently, a light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting layer in which thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and quantum dots are dispersed; a first electrode in a lower layer than the light-emitting layer; and a second electrode in an upper layer than the light-emitting layer, wherein a light emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and an absorption spectrum of the quantum dots at least partially overlap each other.
US11217760B2
Techniques for growing, at least one of: (a) quantum dots and (b) nano-crystals, on a surface of a material are provided. One method comprises placing a precursor on the surface; adding an antisolvent to the precursor; and growing at least one of the quantum dots and the nanocrystals on the surface.
US11217757B2
Compounds useful as the host material in an EML suitable for red emitters having deep HOMO levels are disclosed.
US11217755B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling electronic devices using wired and wireless protocols are disclosed. The systems and apparatus may monitor their environment for signals from electronic devices. The systems and apparatus may take and disambiguate the signals that are received from the devices in their environment to identify the devices and associate control signals with the devices. The systems and apparatus may use communication means to send control signals to the identified electronic devices. Multiple apparatuses or systems may be connected together into networks, including mesh networks, to make for a more robust architecture.
US11217749B2
An active matrix organic light emitting diode shadow mask assembly includes a shadow mask frame, longitudinal supporting bars, transverse spacer plates, shadow mask plates. The longitudinal supporting bars are disposed on the shadow mask frame at intervals. The transverse spacer plates are disposed on circular rod portions of the longitudinal supporting bars, are supported by the longitudinal supporting bars, are arranged at intervals. The shadow mask plates are disposed on the transverse spacer plates, are supported by the longitudinal supporting bars, parallel the transverse spacer plates. Each transverse spacer plate is located under a gap between adjacent shadow mask plates, contacts the shadow mask plates, covers the gap. The transverse spacer plates directly contacting the shadow mask plates effectively cover the gaps between the shadow mask plates, effectively prevent organic material in a later process from leaking through the shadow mask plates, dropping on to a lower glass substrate.
US11217747B2
A memory device may be provided including one or more bottom electrodes, one or more mask elements, one or more top electrodes and a switching layer. The bottom electrode(s) may include a first bottom electrode, the mask element(s) may include a first mask element and the top electrode(s) may include a first top electrode. The first mask element may be arranged over a first part of the first bottom electrode. The first top electrode may be arranged over and in contact with the first mask element. The switching layer may be arranged to extend over a second part of the first bottom electrode, and along a first side surface of the first mask element and further along a first side surface of the first top electrode. The first side surfaces of the first mask element and the first top electrode may face a same direction.
US11217744B2
A magnetic memory device includes an MTJ element between a bottom electrode layer and a top electrode layer. The MTJ element comprises a reference layer, a tunnel barrier layer and a free layer. The reference layer comprises sub-layers that protrude beyond a sidewall of the tunnel barrier layer. The tunnel barrier layer protrudes beyond a sidewall of one of sub-layers of the free layer. Sidewall spacers are disposed to respectively cover a sidewall of the top electrode layer, sidewalls of the sub-layers of the free layer, a sidewall of the tunnel barrier layer, and sidewalls of the sub-layers of the reference layer. The etching of the MTJ stack and the formation of the sidewall spacers are carried out in the same HDPCVD chamber without breaking the vacuum.
US11217742B2
A structure and a method for fabricating a bottom electrode for an integrated circuit device are described. A first dielectric layer is provided over a substrate and the first dielectric layer has a recess. A bottom electrode is formed over the recess. The bottom electrode consists of a microstud layer disposed completely within the recess of the dielectric and conforming to the recess, a bottom pedestal disposed on a top surface of the microstud and a top pedestal on a top surface of the bottom pedestal. The material used for the bottom pedestal has a lower electrochemical voltage than a material used for the microstud. A conductive element of the integrated circuit device is formed on a top surface of the bottom electrode. A first portion of the bottom electrode is disposed in and conforms to the recess. A second portion of the bottom electrode and the conductive element are conical sections.
US11217736B2
A display panel formed by connecting a plurality of panels, includes a first substrate, a plurality of first light-emitting elements, a first patterned conductive layer and a first driving circuit device. The first substrate has a first light output surface and a first sidewall, wherein the first sidewall connects to the first light output surface, and forms a non-180° angle with the first light output surface. The first light-emitting elements are disposed on the first light output surface. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed on the first sidewall. The first driving circuit device is disposed on the first substrate, adjacent to an edge of the first substrate and electrically connected to one of the first light-emitting elements.
US11217726B2
To improve a wall plug efficiency in a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element for extracting ultraviolet light emitted from an active layer toward an n-type nitride semiconductor layer side to outside of the element. In the n-type AlGaN-based semiconductor layer 21 constituting the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element 1, a plurality of thin film-like Ga-rich layers that is a part of the n-type layer 21 having a locally high Ga composition ratio exists spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction that is orthogonal to the upper surface of the n-type layer 21, an extending direction of at least a part of the plurality of Ga-rich layers on a first plane parallel to the vertical direction is inclined with respect to an intersection line between the upper surface of the n-type layer and the first plane, the plurality of Ga-rich layers exists in stripes on the second plane parallel to the upper surface of the n-type layer 21 in an upper layer region having a thickness of 100 nm or less at lower side from the upper surface of the n-type layer 21, AlN molar fractions of the Ga-rich layers 21b are greater than AlN molar fraction of a well layer 22b in an active layer 22 constituting the light-emitting element 1.
US11217717B2
A method of forming a photovoltaic device that includes ion implanting a first conductivity type dopant into first regions of a semiconductor layer of an SOI substrate, wherein the first regions are separated by a first pitch; and ion implanting a second conductivity type dopant into second regions of the semiconductor layer of the SOI substrate. The second regions are separated by a second pitch. Each second conductivity type implanted region of the second regions is in direct contact with first conductivity type implanted region of the first regions to provide a plurality of p-n junctions, and adjacent p-n junctions are separated by an intrinsic portion of the semiconductor layer to provide P-I-N cells that are horizontally oriented.
US11217690B2
A semiconductor device includes: a trench formed in a surface of a semiconductor substrate and extending lengthwise in a direction parallel to the surface; a body region adjoining the trench; a source region adjoining the trench above the body region; a drift region adjoining the trench below the body region; a field electrode in a lower part of the trench and separated from the substrate; and a gate electrode in an upper part of the trench and separated from the substrate and the field electrode. A first section of the field electrode is buried below the gate electrode in the trench. A second section of the field electrode transitions upward from the first section in a direction toward the surface. The separation between the second section and the gate electrode is greater than or equal to the separation between the first section and the gate electrode.
US11217680B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a fin over a substrate, forming a bottom source/drain over the substrate surrounding a first portion of sidewalls of the fin, and forming a bottom spacer over the bottom source/drain and surrounding a second portion of the sidewalls of the fin. The method also includes forming a T-shaped gate stack over the bottom spacer and surrounding a third portion of the sidewalls of the fin, forming a top spacer over the T-shaped gate stack and surrounding a fourth portion of the sidewalls of the fin, and forming a top source/drain over the top spacer and surrounding a fifth portion of the sidewalls and a top surface of the fin. The T-shaped gate stack includes a gate dielectric, a gate conductor, and a gate metal extending outward from a portion of sidewalls of the gate conductor between the bottom and top spacers.
US11217674B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a gate electrode buried in a gate trench of a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first conductivity-type source region, a second conductivity-type channel region, and a first conductivity-type drain region formed in the semiconductor layer, a second trench selectively formed in a source portion defined in a manner containing the source region in the surface of the semiconductor layer, a trench buried portion buried in the second trench, a second conductivity-type channel contact region selectively disposed at a position higher than that of a bottom portion of the second trench in the source portion, and electrically connected with the channel region, and a surface metal layer disposed on the source portion, and electrically connected to the source region and the channel contact region.
US11217672B2
Embodiments provide a way of treating source/drain recesses with a high heat treatment and an optional hydrogen plasma treatment. The high heat treatment smooths the surfaces inside the recesses and remove oxides and etching byproducts. The hydrogen plasma treatment enlarges the recesses vertically and horizontally and inhibits further oxidation of the surfaces in the recesses.
US11217665B2
A semiconductor device includes a bipolar junction transistor having a collector, a base, and an emitter. The collector includes a current collection region, a constriction region laterally adjacent to the current collection region, and a contact region laterally adjacent to the constriction region, located opposite from the current collection region. The current collection region, the constriction region laterally, and the contact region all have the same conductivity type. The base includes a current transmission region contacting the current collection region and a constricting well laterally adjacent to, and contacting, the current transmission region and contacting the constriction region. The current transmission region and the constricting well have an opposite conductivity type than the current collection region, the constriction region laterally, and the contact region.
US11217663B2
A process for fabricating a heterostructure made of semiconductor materials having a crystalline structure of wurtzite type, includes the following steps: structuring a surface of a zinc oxide monocrystalline substrate into mesas; depositing by epitaxy at least one layer of semiconductor materials having a crystalline structure of wurtzite type, forming the heterostructure, on top of the structured surface. Heterostructure obtained by such a process. A process for fabricating at least one electronic or optoelectronic device from such a heterostructure is also provided.
US11217661B2
A ferroelectric memory is provided. The ferroelectric memory includes a substrate, a first conductive layer disposed on the substrate, a patterned oxide layer disposed on the first conductive layer and the substrate, exposing a part of the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the exposed first conductive layer and the patterned oxide layer, an antiferroelectric layer disposed on the exposed first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, a ferroelectric layer disposed on the second conductive layer and located on the antiferroelectric layer, a conductive oxide layer disposed between the antiferroelectric layer, and a third conductive layer disposed on the conductive oxide layer and between the ferroelectric layer.
US11217655B2
An electronic device is provided and includes a first voltage trace, a second voltage trace, a first region electrode, a second region electrode, and a voltage source module. The second voltage trace is electrically insulated from the first voltage trace, the first region electrode is electrically connected to the first voltage trace, and the second region electrode is electrically connected to the second voltage trace. The voltage source module provides a first driving voltage to the first voltage trace and provides a second driving voltage to the second voltage trace, in which the first driving voltage is different from the second driving voltage.
US11217653B2
A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixel circuits at a display area, the display area having a non-quadrangular shape; a first signal line extending on the display area in a first direction, and electrically connected to a first pixel circuit from among the plurality of pixel circuits; a first voltage line extending on the display area in the first direction; a first load compensation capacitor adjacent to an end portion of the first signal line and an end portion of the first voltage line; a test circuit outside the display area; an output line electrically connected to the test circuit; and a connection portion configured to electrically connect the output line, the first signal line, and an electrode of the first load compensation capacitor to each other.
US11217651B2
A display device includes a display region including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first electrodes formed by wiring included in a first layer, and aligned in a first direction above the display region, a plurality of second electrodes formed by wiring included in the first layer, and aligned in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a connection wiring formed by wiring included in a second layer, and electrically connecting each of the plurality of first electrodes respectively, an insulating layer separating wiring included in the first layer and wiring included in the second layer, and a light shielding layer located at a different position to the connection wiring and overlapping a space between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes in the first layer, in a plan view.
US11217639B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display region which includes a first display region and a second display region, where the first display region includes a plurality of first pixels, and the second display region includes a plurality of second pixels and at least one light transmission region, where the light transmission region has light transmittance that is higher than light transmittance of the first pixel and light transmittance of the second pixel, and the second display region has light transmittance that is higher than light transmittance of the first display region.
US11217636B2
A display device includes a display module. An impact absorption layer is disposed under the display module and includes a first opening exposing a lower surface of the display module. A rigid plate is disposed under the impact absorption layer. A sensor is disposed between the display module and the rigid plate within the first opening and is coupled to an upper surface of the rigid plate. A support member is disposed between the impact absorption layer and the sensor within the first opening, and contacts the display module and the rigid plate.
US11217618B2
A solid-state image pickup device includes: a filter section including filters that are disposed corresponding to respective pixels, and each allowing light of a color that corresponds to corresponding one of the pixels to transmit therethrough, in which the pixels are each configured to receive the light of the predetermined color; and a microlens array section including a plurality of microlenses each configured to collect the light for corresponding one of the pixels, in which the microlenses are stacked with respect to the filter section, and are arranged in an array pattern corresponding to the respective pixels. The microlenses have two or more shapes that are different from one another corresponding to the respective colors of the light to be received by the pixels, and each having an end that is in contact with the end of adjacent one of the microlenses.
US11217612B2
The solid-state image sensing device includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge holding unit for holding charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a first transfer transistor for transferring charges from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge holding unit, and a light blocking part including a first light blocking part and a second light blocking part, in which the first light blocking part is arranged between a second surface opposite to a first surface as a light receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge holding unit, and covers the second surface, and is formed with a first opening, and the second light blocking part surrounds the side surface of the photoelectric conversion unit.
US11217608B2
The present invention provides an array substrate and a display panel. A second data line is disposed on the array substrate, so that a first data line is connected to the second data line. Therefore, after the first data line is disconnected, signals can be transmitted from the second data line, which solves a technical problem that current display panels cannot solve poor display caused by disconnection of the data lines.
US11217606B2
A device substrate comprising a substrate, a first pad, a second pad, a plurality of first power lines, a plurality of second power lines, and a plurality of control units is provided. The first pad is disposed on the first side of the device substrate. The second pad is disposed on the second side of the device substrate. The second side is opposite the first side. The first power lines are electrically connected to the first pad. The second power lines are electrically connected to the second pad. The control unit is electrically connected to at least one of the first power line and the second power line. The first pad does not overlap the second pad in a first direction perpendicular to the first side or in a second direction perpendicular to the second side. A display panel is also provided. A tiled display is also provided.
US11217604B2
An active region includes a body region in which first and second transistors are formed, a connection portion to which a potential of the body region is connected, and a lead portion that connects the body region and the connection portion. Source regions or drain regions of the first and second transistors formed in the body region are provided in a common region. Each of the lead portions extends from a corresponding channel region such that the lead portions are isolated from each other, and a gate electrode extends thereon. A width of the lead portion is narrower than a distance between corresponding ones of contact portions of the source regions and the drain regions of the first and second transistors. A width of the connection portion is equal to or narrower than a gate width of the gate electrode extending on the lead portion.
US11217603B2
A vertical memory device includes a substrate with a cell region, a through via region on opposite sides of the cell region, and a mold region surrounding the cell and through via regions, gate electrodes spaced apart from each other along a first direction vertical to an upper surface of the substrate, and extending in a second direction parallel to the upper surface of the substrate, a channel extending in the first direction on the cell region, and extending through at least a portion of the stacked gate electrodes, and a first mold including first and second layers alternately and repeatedly stacked along the first direction on the mold region, the first and second layers including different insulation materials from each other, and each of the second layers of the first mold being at the same height as and contact a corresponding one of the gate electrodes.
US11217598B2
A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel layer, a first tunneling layer disposed on the channel layer, a second tunneling layer disposed on the first tunneling layer, a third tunneling layer disposed on the second tunneling layer, a charge trap layer disposed on the third tunneling layer, a charge barrier layer disposed on the charge trap layer, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the charge barrier layer. The first tunneling layer includes a first insulative material. The second tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The third tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The resistance switching material is a material whose electric resistance varies reversibly between a high resistance state and a low resistance state depending on a magnitude of an applied electric field.
US11217595B2
An antifuse One-Time-Programmable memory cell includes a substrate, a select transistor formed on the substrate, and an antifuse capacitor formed on the substrate. The select transistor includes a first gate dielectric layer formed on the substrate, a first gate formed on the gate dielectric layer, a first low-voltage junction formed in the substrate, and a second low-voltage junction formed in the substrate. A source and a drain for the select transistor are formed by the first low-voltage junction and the second low-voltage junction. The antifuse capacitor includes a second gate dielectric layer formed on the substrate, a second gate formed on the gate dielectric layer, a third low-voltage junction formed in the substrate, and a fourth low-voltage junction formed in the substrate. A source and a drain for the antifuse capacitor are respectively formed by the third low-voltage junction and the fourth low-voltage junction.
US11217578B2
A resistor includes a substrate including an active region protruding from an upper surface of the substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction, a doped region extending in the first horizontal direction on the active region and comprising a semiconductor layer with n-type impurities, a plurality of channel layers spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction on the active region and connected to the doped region, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode extending in the second horizontal direction intersecting the first horizontal direction and surrounding the plurality of channel layers, a first contact plug and a second contact plug in contact with an upper surface of the doped region. The first contact plug is adjacent to the first gate electrode. The second contact plug is adjacent to the second gate electrode.
US11217577B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a main surface and a rear surface vertically spaced apart from the main surface, forming a switching device in an active region of the semiconductor substrate, the switching device having electrically conductive gate and field electrodes, forming an intermetal dielectric layer on the main surface over the active region and an inactive region that is laterally spaced apart from the active region, forming a source pad in the first metallization layer over the active region, forming a resistor trench in the inactive region, the resistor trench having a resistance section that is disposed below the main surface, and forming an electrical connection between the source pad and the field electrode that comprises the resistor. The resistor forms an exclusive current path between the source pad and the field electrode.
US11217576B1
Various embodiments described herein provide for printed circuit boards with one or more spaces for embedding components, which can be used to implement a memory sub-system.
US11217573B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages for optical to electrical switching. In an embodiment, an electronic package comprises a first package substrate and a second package substrate attached to the first package substrate. In an embodiment, a die is attached to the second package substrate. In an embodiment, a plurality of photonics engines are attached to a first surface and a second surface of the first package substrate. In an embodiment, the plurality of photonics engines are communicatively coupled to the die through the first package substrate and the second package substrate.
US11217563B2
Reconstructed 3DIC structures and methods of manufacture are described. In an embodiment, one or more dies in each package level of a 3DIC are both functional chips and/or stitching devices for two or more dies in an adjacent package level. Thus, each die can function as a communication bridge between two other dies/chiplets in addition to performing a separate chip core function.
US11217550B2
An integrated circuit interconnects are described herein that are suitable for forming integrated circuit chip packages. In one example, an integrated circuit interconnect is embodied in a wafer that includes a substrate having a plurality of integrated circuit (IC) dice formed thereon. The plurality of IC dice include a first IC die having first solid state circuitry and a second IC die having second solid state circuitry. A first contact pad is disposed on the substrate and is coupled to the first solid state circuitry. A first solder ball is disposed on the first contact pad. The first solder ball has a substantially uniform oxide coating formed thereon.
US11217549B2
A driving chip and a display device are provided herein. The driving chip includes a substrate, a plurality of connection bumps and a plurality of buffer bumps on the substrate. Each of the connection bumps and the buffer bumps is disposed on a first substrate of the substrate. The buffer bump includes a first end face with a height a, and the connection bump has a connection bump end face with a height b, a
US11217543B2
An antenna module includes a fan-out semiconductor package including an IC, an encapsulant encapsulating at least a portion of the IC, a core member having a first side surface facing the IC or the encapsulant, and a connection member including at least one wiring layer electrically connected to the IC and the core member and at least one insulating layer; and an antenna package including a plurality of first directional antenna members configured to transmit or receive a first RF signal. The fan-out semiconductor package further includes at least one second directional antenna member disposed on a second side surface of the core member opposing the first side surface of the core member, stood up from a position electrically connected to at least one wiring layer, and configured to transmit or receive a second RF signal.
US11217541B2
A transistor and method of manufacturing an electrically active chip seal ring surrounding the gate, gate insulator and source structure of the active core area of the transistor. The chip seal ring can be electrically coupled to the gate to seal the active core area from intrusions of contaminants, impurities, defects and or the like.
US11217540B2
A semiconductor package according to an aspect includes a package substrate, a first semiconductor chip disposed on the package substrate and including a first through electrode, a second semiconductor chip stacked on the first semiconductor chip and having a second through electrode, and a nonconductive film disposed in a bonding zone between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip. At an edge portion of the bonding zone, an edge portion of the first semiconductor chip is recessed in the lateral direction, based on an edge portion of the second semiconductor chip.
US11217537B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; and a first identification number (ID) pattern positioned on a first side surface of the first substrate.
US11217535B2
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate, a first die coupled to the package substrate with first interconnects, and a second die coupled to the first die with second interconnects, wherein the second die is coupled to the package substrate with third interconnects, a communication network is at least partially included in the first die and at least partially included in the second die, and the communication network includes a communication pathway between the first die and the second die.
US11217527B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a plurality of active regions, at least one dielectric layer formed on the substrate, and a plurality of contacts disposed in the dielectric layer and contacting with the active regions. The contact is a barrel-shaped structure with a middle portion, a head portion having a perimeter small than that of the middle portion, and an end portion having a perimeter small than that of the middle portion.
US11217526B2
A semiconductor device includes transistors and a resistor. The transistors are connected in series between a power terminal and a ground terminal, and gate terminals of the transistors being connected together. The resistor is overlaid above the transistors. The resistor is connected between a source terminal of the transistors and the ground terminal.
US11217524B1
The present disclosure provides an interconnect structure, including a first interlayer dielectric layer, a bottom metal line including a first metal in the first interlayer dielectric layer, a conductive via including a second metal over the bottom metal line, wherein the second metal is different from the first metal, and the first metal has a first type of primary crystalline structure, and the second metal has the first type of primary crystalline structure, a total area of a bottom surface of the conductive via is greater than a total cross sectional area of the conductive via, and a top metal line over the conductive via, wherein the top metal line comprises a third metal different from the second metal.
US11217523B2
A semiconductor device includes bit lines and a common source line connected to a memory cell array, wherein the bit lines and the common source line are spaced apart from each other in a first level; a pad pattern spaced apart from the bit lines and the common source line in the first level; a first insulating layer covering the bit lines, the common source line, and the pad pattern; a shielding pattern overlapping with the bit lines and disposed on the first insulating layer; a first upper line and a second upper line spaced apart from each other above the shielding pattern; a plurality of contact plugs extending from the first and second upper lines toward the bit lines, common source line, and pad pattern, wherein one or more of the plurality of contact plugs connect the shielding pattern to the second upper line.
US11217522B2
In described examples, a packaged semiconductor device includes a frame, a pre-fabricated interposer, and an integrated circuit die. The frame includes multiple conductive frame leads and multiple conductive connection points, as well as a hole in the frame surrounded by the frame leads and the conductive connection points. The pre-molded interposer has an external perimeter including multiple conductive interposer leads, and is for insertion into the hole. At least one of the interposer leads does not extend to the external perimeter of the interposer. The die is electrically coupled to selected ones of the frame leads and of the interposer leads. The interposer is inserted into the hole and coupled to the frame, and the frame, interposer, and die are together encapsulated by encapsulation material.
US11217521B2
The invention provides a display panel including a display area and a non-display area, wherein the non-display area is provided with a plurality of signal transmission lines, and the non-display area includes a bending region on a side of the display area. In the bending region, at least one hole is disposed at intervals on one of the signal transmission lines and the hole is filled with a high ductility metal.
US11217519B2
A flexible display panel and a display device are provided. The flexible display panel includes a bending region and a display region. The bending region includes a plurality of metal wirings; each metal wiring is in long strip shape and includes a metal strip; a plurality of openings are defined through the metal strip. In the width direction of the metal strip, a ratio of a minimum distance from a point of an edge of the one of the openings to a neighboring side of the metal strip to a minimum width of the metal strip ranges from 0.1 to 0.7. A wiring structure of the bending region can prevent a stress concentration of the bending region, enhance a strength during a bending process, and avoid a breakage of the metal wiring.
US11217518B2
A package structure and a method of forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a die, an encapsulant, a dielectric layer, a first redistribution layer (RDL) and a second RDL. The encapsulant laterally encapsulates the die. The dielectric layer is located on the encapsulant and the die. The first RDL penetrates through the dielectric layer to connect to the die. The second RDL is located on the first RDL and the dielectric layer. The second RDL and the first RDL share a common seed layer.
US11217517B2
A semiconductor package may include a substrate having an upper surface on which a plurality of first pads are disposed and a lower surface on which a plurality of second pads are disposed. The semiconductor package may further include a semiconductor chip disposed on the upper surface of the substrate on which connection electrodes connected to a first set of the plurality of first pads are disposed. The semiconductor package may include an interposer having an upper surface on which a plurality of first connection pads, connected to a second set of the plurality of first pads, and a plurality of second connection pads are disposed. The semiconductor package may further include a plurality of connection terminals disposed on a set of the plurality of second connection pads of the interposer, and a molding material disposed on the upper surface of the substrate.
US11217515B2
Methods of forming semiconductor packages include providing a lead frame having leads and no tie-bars. Tape is attached to the lead frame and one or more semiconductor die are coupled therewith. Electrical contacts of the die are interconnected with the leads using electrical connectors. An encapsulated assembly is formed by at least partially encapsulating the die and electrical connectors. The assembly is singulated to form a semiconductor package. The tape is detached from the package or encapsulated assembly. One or more die attach flags may be attached to the tape and the die may be attached thereto. Semiconductor packages formed using the methods include one or more semiconductor die at least partially encapsulated, pins exposed through the encapsulant, electrical connectors within the encapsulant and electrically interconnecting the pins with electrical contacts of the die, and no tie-bars coupling the die with the pins. Packages may also include die attach flags.
US11217509B2
Present disclosure provides a lead frame, including a die paddle and a plurality of leads surrounding the die paddle. Each of the leads including a finger portion proximal to the die paddle and a lead portion distal from the die paddle. The finger portion includes a main body and at least one support structure. The respective support structures on adjacent leads are mutually isolated, and a distance between the support structure and the die paddle is smaller than a distance between the lead portion and the die paddle. A semiconductor package structure including the lead frame described herein and a semiconductor package assembly including the semiconductor package structure described herein are also provided.
US11217505B2
An electronics heat exchanger including a fluid flow body having a first panel, a second panel, and at least one fluid flow guide connecting the first panel and the second panel, a plurality of pedestals extending from the second panel, the plurality of pedestals including at least a first pedestal having a first height and a second pedestal having a second height, distinct from the first height, and wherein each of the pedestals is integral with the second panel.
US11217499B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate; a first die on the substrate, wherein an active surface of the first die is facing away from the substrate; a second die on the active surface of the first die, electrically connected to the first die through a plurality of conductive terminals; and a sealing structure on the active surface of the first die, surrounding the plurality of conductive terminals and abutting the second die thereby forming a cavity between the first die and the second die. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor package structure is also provided.
US11217497B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first integrated circuit die having a first contact region and a first non-contact region; an encapsulant contacting sides of the first integrated circuit die; a dielectric layer contacting the encapsulant and the first integrated circuit die, the dielectric layer having a first portion over the first contact region, a second portion over the first non-contact region, and a third portion over a portion of the encapsulant; and a metallization pattern including: a first conductive via extending through the first portion of the dielectric layer to contact the first integrated circuit die; and a conductive line extending along the second portion and third portion of the dielectric layer, the conductive line having a straight portion along the second portion of the dielectric layer and a first meandering portion along the third portion of the dielectric layer.
US11217491B2
Methods herein may include forming a gate dielectric within a set of trenches in a stack of layers. A first work function (WF) metal may be formed atop the gate dielectric, and a capping layer may be formed over the first WF metal using an angled ion implant deposition, the capping layer extending across the trenches.
US11217486B2
A semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) with a cut metal gate (CMG) and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are described herein. The method includes forming a CMG protective helmet structure at a top portion of a CMG dummy gate plug formed within a semiconductor substrate. The CMG protective helmet structure prevents consumption and damage of a dummy filler material in a CMG region and prevents undesirable polymer/residue byproducts from forming on top surfaces of epitaxial regions of the FinFET during etching processes.
US11217477B2
Devices and methods that include for configuring a profile of a liner layer before filling an opening disposed over a semiconductor substrate. The liner layer has a first thickness at the bottom of the opening and a second thickness a top of the opening, the second thickness being smaller that the first thickness. In an embodiment, the filled opening provides a contact structure.
US11217474B2
A non-vacuum, non-contact spinner wafer chuck including: a basal member including; a fastener receiver that receives a fastener; a chuck collar including: an inner collar wall; and an outer collar wall; and an engagement surface that: receives and engages a wafer; a wafer engagement cam including: an engagement face that engages the wafer; an index cam disposed on the chuck collar and comprising: an index face that faces toward the fastener receiver and that engages the wafer; and a spinner engager disposed on the spinner-side surface of the basal member and comprising: a spinner arm receiver bounded by a wall and that receives a spinner of the wafer processing machine, wherein the wafer engagement cam and the index cam engage the wafer and maintains an orientation of the wafer with respect to the index cam in response to rotation of the wafer relative to the non-vacuum, non-contact spinner wafer chuck.
US11217473B1
A peeling device includes a rolling mechanism, a peeling mechanism, and a suction mechanism. The rolling mechanism includes a feeding wheel and a receiving wheel. At least one of the feeding wheel and the receiving wheel is configured to rotate. The peeling mechanism includes a peeling plate including a first surface and a side surface. The suction mechanism includes a support table and a rotary suction cup. A carrier tape is transmitted in sequence around the feeding wheel, the first surface, the side surface, and the receiving wheel. The peeling plate peels the material from the carrier tape at a junction of the first surface and the side surface. The support table holds the material peeled from the carrier tape. The rotary suction cup is used to suck the material from the support table and move the material to a next processing area.
US11217467B2
A transportation system for semiconductor substrates includes a tray, lid and packaging bag. The tray includes a bottom and circumferential sidewalls. The tray has an opening on a top side and is configured to receive semiconductor substrates through the opening, the substrates being stacked onto each other in the tray in parallel to the tray bottom. The lid includes a cover plate and at least two arms extending from the plate. The arms are configured to be inserted into the tray between the tray sidewalls and the semiconductor substrates. The cover plate is configured to cover the tray opening when the lid is fully mounted to the tray. The packaging bag is configured to enclose the tray with the substrates stacked therein and lid arranged thereon, and to be evacuated of air and sealed such that the tray and lid arranged in the bag are vacuum sealed inside the bag.
US11217463B2
The invention relates to a press for encapsulating electronic components mounted on a carrier, comprising: at least two press parts displaceable relative to each other, a drive system for the displacement of the press parts, and an intelligent control adapted to control the drive system of the press parts wherein the drive system comprises at least two individual controllable actuators, the intelligent control further connects to plural displacement sensors for detecting the relative displacement of the press parts, and wherein the intelligent control is adapted to control the actuators of the drive system dynamically over time based on the measured values detected with the displacement sensors. The invention also relates to an actuator set to convert a prior art press into a press according to the present invention as well as to a method for encapsulating electronic components mounted on a carrier.
US11217462B2
A workpiece holder includes a puck, first and second heating devices in thermal communication with respective inner and outer portions of the puck, and a thermal sink in thermal communication with the puck. The first and second heating devices are independently controllable, and the first and second heating devices are in greater thermal communication with the puck, than thermal communication of the thermal sink with the puck. A method of controlling temperature distribution of a workpiece includes flowing a heat exchange fluid through a thermal sink to establish a reference temperature to a puck, raising temperatures of radially inner and outer portions of the puck to first and second temperatures greater than the reference temperature, by activating respective first and second heating devices disposed in thermal communication with the radially inner and outer portions of the puck, and placing the workpiece on the puck.
US11217461B2
An object is to quickly regenerate metal ion removal capability of a substrate processing device. To achieve the object, a substrate processing device includes a processing unit, a supply tank and a collection tank. The processing unit performs etching processing on a substrate by using a treatment solution from a first circulation path. The used treatment solution is guided to the collection tank, and circulates in a second circulation path. The second circulation path includes a first partial pipe and a second partial pipe, and a metal removal coating including metal capturing groups for removing metal ions in the treatment solution is applied to an inner wall of the first partial pipe. An acid-based chemical solution is supplied to the first partial pipe from the acid-based chemical solution supply unit, so that metal adsorption force of the metal capturing groups is regenerated.
US11217458B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate and forming a bottom layer, a middle layer, and a top layer on the substrate. The method also includes patterning the top layer to form a patterned top layer and patterning the middle layer by a patterning process including a plasma process to form a patterned middle layer. The plasma process is performed by using a mixed gas including hydrogen gas (H2). The method further includes controlling a flow rate of the hydrogen gas (H2) to improve an etching selectivity of the middle layer to the top layer, and the patterned middle layer includes a first portion and a second portion parallel to the first portion, and a pitch is between the first portion and the second portion.
US11217452B2
It is an object to carry out a chemical treatment for a peripheral edge part of a substrate while suppressing an amount of consumption of a processing liquid and a time required for processing. In order to achieve the object, a substrate processing device injects heating steam to a peripheral edge part of a substrate to heat the peripheral edge part when carrying out a chemical treatment for the peripheral edge part of the substrate while rotating the substrate in a substantially horizontal posture. Moreover, the substrate processing device injects a gas from above the substrate toward a predetermined injection target region defined within a range surrounded by a rotating track of the peripheral edge part of the substrate in an upper surface of the substrate, thereby generating, on the substrate, a gas flow which flows from the injection target region toward the peripheral edge part of the substrate.
US11217442B2
A method of depositing a SiN film onto a flexible substrate includes providing the flexible substrate, and depositing the SiN film onto the flexible substrate in a plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) process using SiH4, N2 and H2, in which the temperature of the substrate is 200° C. or less and SiH4 is introduced into the PECVD process at a flow rate of greater than 100 sccm.
US11217439B2
A vacuum chamber 11 for forming a vacuum space has two side walls opposite to each other across an ion beam axis extending within the vacuum space. One of those side walls is openable and closeable. An ion optical element 21 is placed on a base 33, which is located on the bottom surface of the vacuum chamber. A fixation band 213 fixes the ion optical element on the base by holding the element between the base and the fixation band so as to press the element onto the base. A band-catching portion 10d, located on an inside face of a side wall of the vacuum chamber on the opposite side from the openable-and-closeable side wall, catches one end of the fixation band. A band-fixing portion 214, located on the base on the side where the openable-and-closeable side wall is present, fixes the other end of the fixation band to the base.
US11217433B2
Disclosed is a rotary union including an inner shaft, wherein the inner shaft is rotatable and includes an internal channel operable to deliver a cryogenic fluid to a platen. The rotary union may further include a rotary union shaft surrounding the inner shaft, and a seal assembly coupled to the rotary union shaft. The seal assembly may include a support, a metal bellows extending around an exterior of the support, and a seal support coupled to the metal bellows, wherein the seal support extends around the support. The seal assembly may further include a non-rotating seal component seated in the seal support, and a rotating seal component in abutment with the non-rotating seal component to create a mechanical seal therebetween.
US11217424B2
In APT systems and methods, a sample is analyzed by concurrently applying different types of energy to the tip of the sample, thereby causing atom evaporation from the end of the tip. Evaporated atoms are analyzed to determine chemical nature and original position information, which is used to generate a compositional profile. To ensure an accurate profile, the applied energy includes: a D.C. voltage, which lowers the critical energy level (Q) for atom evaporation; first laser pulses, which are applied to opposing first sides of the tip near the end to further lower Q and which are phase-shifted so resulting standing wave patterns of heat distribution have energy maxima that are offset and below a threshold to avoid damage to tip side surfaces; and second laser pulse(s), which is/are applied to second side(s) of the tip near the distal end to reach Q and cause atom evaporation from the end.
US11217416B2
A photocathode emitter includes a transparent substrate, a photocathode layer, and a plasmonic structure array disposed between the transparent substrate and the photocathode layer. The plasmonic structure array is configured to operate at a wavelength from 193 nm to 430 nm. The plasmonic structure array can be made of aluminum. An electron beam can be generated from a light beam directed at the plasmonic structure array of the photocathode emitter.
US11217407B2
A method for operating a medium voltage circuit breaker or recloser comprising at least one electric pole, each including a movable contact and a fixed contact, being in a closed or an open position after switching operations of the medium voltage circuit breaker or recloser, and an electromagnetic actuator, includes: monitoring a travel curve of the movable contact, the travel curve being derived by an evaluation of a shape of an applied current and a shape of an applied voltage using a mathematical representation of the electromagnetic actuator.
US11217405B2
A backlight module is adapted to an illuminated keyboard. The backlight module includes a light source assembly and a light guide film. The light guide film has a top surface, a bottom surface, a through hole, a light-incident pattern and a light-exit pattern. The light source assembly includes a light-emitting component configured to emit light toward the through hole. A size of the through hole is smaller than a size of the light-emitting component. The light-incident pattern is located on at least one of the top surface and the bottom surface. The light-exit pattern is located on the bottom surface. A distance from the through hole to the light-exit pattern is greater than a distance from the through hole to the light-incident pattern.
US11217403B2
A doorbell device including upper case, elastic component, and button module is provided. The upper case has an outer surface, first annular-holding surface disposed opposite to the outer surface, first opening and annular trench. The first annular-holding surface surrounds the first opening. The annular trench surrounds the first annular-holding surface. The elastic component has first fastening protrusion and flexible-carrier layer surrounded and connected by the first fastening protrusion. The button module has a second annular-holding surface, first bottom surface, and pressing surface disposed opposite to the first bottom surface. The first fastening protrusion is interference fit with the annular trench. The button module is disposed on the flexible-carrier layer. At least a part of the first bottom surface is facing the flexible-carrier layer. The button module surrounded by the second annular-holding surface corresponds to the first opening, and the second annular-holding surface is facing the first annular-holding surface.
