US11267010B2
A system having a material sensor system coupled to a material tank is provided. The material tank is configured to receive a quantity of the material and output a flow of the material. The material sensor system includes a float system coupled to an inner surface of the material tank. The float system includes a float configured float within a float cavity. The material sensor system includes a switch coupled to an outer surface of the material tank. The switch is communicatively coupled to the float system through a wall of the material tank, and the switch is configured to send one or more signals to a control system when the float engages the switch.
US11267007B2
A cosmetic vessel may include a vessel body including an inner case configured to accommodate cosmetics and having an inlet, and an outer case configured to accommodate the inner case therein and having an opening in a top thereof, a cap part coupled to the open top of the outer case, a discharge means coupled to the inlet and configured to discharge the cosmetics to an outside through a suction pipe extending to a bottom surface of the inner case, and a discharge part moving downwards to operate the discharge means and configured to transmit the cosmetics discharged from the discharge means to the outside.
US11266995B2
Ore rock is disintegrated into extremely fine rock fraction in a slurry by subjecting the slurry in selective orders of application of excitation forces and energy to cause spontaneous cavitation to occur in the slurry. The excitation forces and energy are provided by electrodynamic discharges, hydrostatic force, hydrodynamic energy, and sonic vibrations.
US11266975B2
Methods of producing and isolating 68Ga, 89Zr, 64Cu, 63Zn, 86Y, 61Cu, 99mTc, 45Ti, 13N, 52Mn, or 44Sc and solution targets for use in the methods are disclosed. The methods of producing 68Ga, 89Zr, 64Cu, 63Zn, 86Y, 61Cu, 99mTc, 45Ti, 13N, 52Mn, or 44Sc include irradiating a closed target system with a proton beam. The system can include a solution target. The methods of producing isolated 68Ga, 89Zr, 64Cu, 63Zn, 86Y, 61Cu, 99mTc, 45Ti, 52Mn, or 44Sc further include isolating 68Ga, 89Zr, 64Cu, 63Zn, 86Y, 61Cu, 99mTc, 45Ti, 52Mn, or 44Sc by ion exchange chromatography. An example target includes a target body including a target cavity for receiving the target material; a housing defining a passageway for directing a particle beam at the target cavity; a target window for covering an opening of the target cavity; and a coolant gas flow path disposed in the passageway upstream of the target window.
US11266970B2
Apparatus, computer program products, and methods for using a flow cell array are provided herein. A computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to determine placement of one or more reaction sites on a first component; provide a material for the reaction sites in one or more surface channels of the first component; connect the first component to a second component to form an array, wherein the surface channels of the first component connect the reaction sites with one or more vias, and wherein the second component comprises the vias connected to multiple sub-surface channels; and align the surface channels of the first component with the vias of the second component to form a connection between the first component and the second component.
US11266959B2
A low pressure fluctuation control apparatus comprises a liquid recirculation loop comprising a dip tube, a diaphragm or bellows type pump, a first regulator, a first flow meter, a junction, and a return tube. A back pressure controller is located in the return tube. In addition, the apparatus comprises a material supply line fluidly connected the liquid recirculation loop via the junction. A flow control system is located in the material supply line. The recirculation loop draws liquid from a supply container by the dip tube, and returns a portion of the liquid to the supply container by the return tube. The backpressure flow controller regulates the flow rate of the liquid, thereby steadying fluctuations in the liquid being supplied.
US11266957B2
Discharge device for liquid material containing solid particles, discharge method and coating device
Problem: To supply a device and a method for accurately discharging a fixed amount of a liquid, the liquid containing solid particles, in a state that the solid particles are dispersed in the liquid material. Solution: A discharge device for a liquid material containing solid particles includes a first reservoir, a first air pressure supply pipe, a metering portion having a metering hole, a plunger moving back and forth in the metering hole, a nozzle, a switching valve having a first position and a second position, a plunger driver, and a switching valve driver. The discharge device further includes a second reservoir, a second air pressure supply pipe, a branch portion provided in an upper portion of the metering hole and having a branch flow path, and an opening/closing mechanism that establishes or cuts off communication between the second reservoir and the metering hole. In the discharge device, the liquid material inside the first reservoir can be transferred to the second reservoir, and the liquid material inside the second reservoir can be transferred to the first reservoir. A discharge method is carried out using the discharge device.
US11266952B2
First and second laser beams having respective first and second wavelengths respectively excite palladium isotopes at a ground level to a first excited level then to a second excited level. At first and second excitation steps, palladium isotopes having an odd mass number are selectively excited to the second excited level, with the identity of the ion core state of each of the palladium isotopes retained between the first excited level and the second excited level. The first wavelength and the second wavelength are selected to allow the second excited level to be an autoionization level or, in a case where the second excited level is not the autoionization level, the first wavelength, the second wavelength, and a third wavelength are selected to excite the palladium isotopes at the second excited level to the autoionization level with a third laser beam having the third wavelength at a third excitation step.
US11266948B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of sorption of H2O from an environment by associating the environment with a porous material such that the association results in the sorption of H2O to the porous material. The porous material includes a (M)-2,4-pyridinedicarboxylic acid coordination polymer, where M is a divalent metal ion selected from the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mg, and combinations thereof. The coordination polymer has a one-dimensional pore structure and shows reversible soft-crystal behavior. The porous material may be a Mg(II) 2,4-pyridinedicarboxylic acid coordination polymer (i.e., Mg-CUK-1). The methods of the present disclosure may also include one or more steps of releasing the sorbed H2O from the porous material and reusing the porous material after the releasing step for sorption of additional H2O from the environment.
US11266943B1
Systems and methods for an atmospheric carbon dioxide removal system that includes a plurality of carbon capture containers, a plurality of fans, an air diverter, and a velocity stack. Each of the carbon capture containers has an outwardly facing side and an inwardly facing side with the inwardly facing side facing an enclosed space. The fans are disposed adjacent to the carbon capture containers. The fans are arranged to move air through the carbon capture containers in a first direction from the outwardly facing side into the enclosed space. The air diverter is disposed within the enclosed space and receives the air flowing in the first direction and redirects the air to flow in a second direction that is angled upwardly from the first direction. The velocity stack is disposed on top of the enclosed space and is configured to accelerate the flow of the air in the second direction.
US11266942B2
An outer periphery coating material being coated onto an outer peripheral surface of a ceramic honeycomb structure to form an outer periphery coated layer. The outer periphery coating material comprises: a particle mixture containing cordierite particles and amorphous silica particles in a mass ratio of from 40:60 to 80:20; and from 10 to 30% by mass of crystalline inorganic fibers in an outer percentage relative to the particle mixture. An average particle diameter of the cordierite particles is different from an average particle diameter of the amorphous silica particles.
US11266941B2
Surface modified filter media, including surface modified filter media having enhanced performance characteristics, are provided. In some embodiments, a filter media may comprise two or more layers designed to enhance fluid separation efficiency. One or more of the layers may have at least a portion of a surface that is modified to alter and/or enhance the wettability of the surface with respect to a particular fluid. In certain embodiments involving a filter media including more than one surface modified layer, at least one surface modified layer may have a greater air permeability and/or mean flow pore size than that of another surface modified layer. Such a configuration of layers may result in the media having enhanced fluid separation properties compared to filter media that do not include such modified layers or configuration of layers, all other factors being equal. The filter media may be well-suited for a variety of applications, including filtering fuel, air, and lube oil.
US11266940B2
One illustrative system disclosed herein includes an upper filter, a lower filter positioned vertically below the upper filter, at least one incoming air inlet positioned vertically above the upper filter, and a vacuum pump positioned vertically below the lower filter, the vacuum pump including an outlet, wherein an incoming air stream is adapted to flow downwardly through the at least one incoming air inlet, then through the upper filter, then through the lower filter and then out of the outlet of the vacuum pump where it exits as a cleaned air stream.
US11266937B2
In an example, an air filtration apparatus includes a cyclonic particle separation chamber having a first inlet to draw air from a first region, second inlet to draw air from a second region, and an exhaust port. The air filtration apparatus may further include a pressure sensor to sense a pressure of the first region, and a cyclonic air flow controller. The cyclonic air flow controller may control an air inflow received via the second inlet in response to an output from the pressure sensor to maintain a total air flow rate via the exhaust port.
US11266932B2
A water filtration apparatus comprises a housing having a housing outlet and a housing inlet, the housing outlet configured to allow filtered water to exit therefrom, the housing inlet includes a valve stem, where the housing has latch arms disposed adjacent to the valve stem. At least one filter is disposed in the interior portion of the housing, and the at least one filter is in fluid communication with the housing outlet and the housing inlet. A valve assembly includes a valve body releasably coupled with the valve stem, where the valve body has a faucet interface component, and the valve body configured to fluidly couple with a faucet via the faucet interface component. The valve assembly has a valve body release coupled with the valve body, and the valve body release is slidable relative to the valve body and the one or more latch arms.
US11266930B2
A filter element for filtering a fluid is provided with a first end disc and a second end disc. An annularly arranged filter medium is held between the first and second end discs. The filter medium can be flowed through by a fluid to be filtered in a radial direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the filter element from an exterior of the filter element to an interior of the filter element. A fluid outlet socket is connected to the filter medium and extends away from the filter medium in an axial direction past the first end disc. The fluid outlet socket is provided with a wall and at least one vent hole extending through the wall in the radial direction. A fluid filter is provided with a filter housing and with the afore described filter element that is arranged in the filter housing.
US11266925B2
A gas purifying apparatus has: a compressing unit for corn pressing a gas in which an atmosphere or inert gas and a substance vaporized by heating have been mixed; and an expanding unit for liquefying the substance by expanding the gas compressed by the compressing unit, wherein the gas in which the substance has been reduced is obtained.
US11266921B1
An air amplifier utilizes a high-pressure input stream of air to accelerate a low-velocity input stream of air to provide a high-velocity, high-volume output stream of air. A coupled air amplifier array includes multiple air amplifiers which couple their respective output streams of air to one another to form a single collective output stream of air. Multiple coupled air amplifier arrays can be utilized to form coupled air amplifier array systems to provide multiple collective output streams of air which can be focused toward to an audience within a venue. The coupled air amplifier array system can be implemented within atmospheric effects systems to provide atmospheric effects, such as wind, scent, and/or temperature to provide some examples, relating to an event. These atmospheric effects systems can present these atmospheric effects to the audience to enhance the immersion of the audience as they are viewing the event. These atmospheric effects systems can include multiple portable mobile effects pods that are situated within different locations within the venue to present these atmospheric effects to different locations with the venue.
US11266919B2
Locomotion-based motion sickness has long been a complaint amongst virtual reality gamers and drone pilots. Traditional head-mounted display experiences require a handheld controller (e.g. thumb stick, touchpad, gamepad, keyboard, etc.) for locomotion. Teleportation compromises immersive presence and smooth navigation leads to sensory imbalances that can cause dizziness and nausea (even when using room-scale sensor systems). Designers have therefore had to choose between comfort and immersion. The invention is a hands-free, body-based navigation technology that puts the participant's body in direct control of movement through virtual space. Participants lean forward to advance in space; lean back to reverse; tip left or right to strafe/sidestep; and rotate to look around. In some embodiments, the more a participant leans, the faster they go. Because the interactions were designed to respond to natural bearing and balancing instincts, movement coordination is intuitive and vection-based cybersickness is reduced.
US11266913B2
The present application discloses a method for synchronously displaying game content at a terminal device. The method includes: detecting a first operation instruction on a first client of a game application when a round of the game application is run on the first client, accounts participating in the round of game including a first account and a second account, and determining, a first operation that corresponds to the first operation instruction and is performed by a first operation object corresponding to the first account in the round of game; determining first content that needs to be displayed on the first client when the first operation object performs the first operation, and obtaining second content to be simultaneously displayed with the first content, the second content being content that needs to be displayed on the second client; and simultaneously displaying the first content and the second content on the first client.
US11266906B2
A system and method are described for combining multiple views of a video game or application into a single video stream (or set of video streams). For example, a system according to one embodiment comprises: a plurality of application/video game instances executed for a particular multi-player video game or application on a hosting service, the application/video game instances being executed in response to control signals received from a plurality of clients; compositing logic executed at the hosting service to combine video streams generated by each of the application/video game instances into a single video stream for a first one of the clients; and compression logic to compress the single video stream with low latency such that the user of the first one of the clients has the perception that the video game or application is being executed locally.
US11266903B2
The present invention provides an electronic playing card reading device, a system and method thereof for scanning and reading playing cards in a deck. The device recognizes sequence of every card in a deck by scanning a unique barcode which is inscribed on each playing card. The barcode represents characteristics of the playing cards, including value, suit, color, orientation, and the like. The device uses an IR camera to scan the barcodes of the playing cards; uses a processor to analyze and decode the encoded information in the barcodes and determine the characteristics of the playing cards. This further determines the sequence of the playing cards in the deck. Hence, the card reading device allows a performer a myriad of magic tricks. Also, the device communicates with a user device installed with a scanning application that executes instructions to control the device for scanning and perform various effects.
US11266894B2
A punching bag training comprises a flexible housing adapted to be wrapped around a punching bag. The housing supports a strike pad array. Each strike pad in the array comprises a force sensor to detect strikes, together with a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that are positioned around the force sensor and that are lit when the user strikes the pad accurately (e.g., within a predetermined strike zone, and within a predetermined time). In addition, each strike pad has associated therewith an extension (or connecting) portion that couples the strike pad to the center portion. The connecting portion advantageously includes a set of LEDs that are selectively lit to telegraph a hit point to the user, namely, the strike pad associated with the connecting portion. The LEDs arranged on the connecting portion serve as a runway with the LEDs being lit progressively from the center portion and outward toward the strike pad to be hit next in a programmed hit sequence. As the user interacts with the system, speed, timing and accuracy preferably are measured to determine a score. The lighting elements are controlled using a controller unit that may be integral with the housing, attached thereto, or coupled to the housing wirelessly. The controller unit outputs one or more programmed hit sequences (i.e., to provide the control signals that activate the LEDs), and to detect and record electrical signals generated by the force sensors as the user strikes the pads.
US11266891B2
A target for sport goal is configured to attach to a cross member of a goal, such as a hockey goal, a soccer goal, lacrosse goal, and other such goals. The target includes a sleeve member that has an interior radius corresponding to that of the intended goal to which it is mounted. Attachment slots receive an attachment strap to secure the sleeve to the cross member. Suspension slots are disposed to receive a suspension strap that secures a target in a desired orientation relative to the length of the sleeve. The target is configured such that the target provides an audible or visual indication when the target is struck by a game object, such as a puck, a ball, or the like.
US11266888B2
Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, and a bottom portion. The front portion may have a face portion. A rear surface of the face portion may have a plurality of face regions arranged in a plurality of rows and columns forming a grid. The plurality of face regions may have differing thicknesses to control characteristic time (CT) across the face portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11266885B2
A golf club head includes a body defining an interior cavity. The body includes a sole positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown positioned at a top portion, and a skirt positioned around a periphery between the sole and crown. The body has a forward portion and a rearward portion. The club head includes a face positioned at the forward portion of the body. In some embodiments, the crown includes a lattice-like structure having thin regions surrounded by a web of relatively thicker regions. In some embodiments, the club head includes one or more stiffening tubes attached between the sole and the crown to improve the acoustic performance of the golf club head.
US11266880B2
Disclosed are foldable swimming goggles. The swimming goggles include a left frame body and a right frame body, wherein the left frame body is provided with a supporting block and a limiting block, the supporting block is internally provided with an accommodating groove, a pressing shaft is clamped in the accommodating groove, the lower portion of the pressing shaft is fixedly provided with a positioning rotary wheel, and the right frame body is provided with a steering block. Firm connection of the product is completed through the pressing shaft and the positioning rotary wheel. When the swimming goggles need to be folded, the pressing shaft is pressed to separate the positioning rotary wheel from the steering block, so that the right frame body rotates to make the product folded.
US11266878B2
A device mountable on a shaft of exercise equipment is provided. The device comprises: a housing with a hole therethrough to receive an end of the shaft; a load sensor configured to generate an indication of weight of a load attached to the shaft; a motion sensor configured to generate an indication of motion of the load over time; and an interface configured to transmit, to an external device, (i) the indication of weight of the load and (ii) a time series descriptive of a trajectory of the load over a period of time. The external device is configured to apply a set of one or more processing rules to the indication of the weight and to the time series to generate a metric of forces applied to move the load along the trajectory and provide the metric via a user interface of a client device.
US11266857B2
The inventive approach positionally determines a periodically moving structure of a patient's anatomy by acquiring one or more images of a periodically moving anatomical structure of interest. The exposure time of each image covers at least one whole motion cycle of the structure, such that each acquired image depicts at least one whole motion cycle.
US11266856B2
A radiation therapy system includes a treatment couch positioning assembly that is directly coupled to a fixed structure supporting the linear accelerator of the radiation therapy system. The radiation therapy system can be installed in a radiation therapy facility without the floor of the facility being excavated and a sub-floor structure, such as a base frame, being installed. To laterally position a patient relative to the linear accelerator, the treatment couch positioning assembly of the radiation therapy system is laterally translated via a linear motor, and laterally translates with the treatment couch, rather than cantilevering the treatment couch to either side of the couch positioning assembly.
US11266847B2
A multi-function portable automated external defibrillator (referred to herein as “multi-function AED”) comprises a housing and AED cables. The housing includes a power source that delivers a defibrillation of a set number of joules via monophasic or biphasic options. The housing may be lightweight and compact. The housing further comprises a plurality of ports, such as a charging port, a plurality of USB ports, a cable output port, a 12V port, and an AC in port. The housing also comprises a power button and a flashlight. A user may use a phone application and connect to the multi-function AED through connecting physically via the user's own phone cord or via a wireless connection to recognize and treat ventricular fibrillation.
US11266837B2
An implantable neurostimulator (INS) and method of use, the INS including an electrical lead having formed thereon at least a pair of bi-polar electrodes, wherein the electrical lead is configured for placement of the pair of bi-polar electrodes proximate protrusor muscles of a patient, a pulse generator electrically connected to the electrical lead and configured to deliver electrical energy to the pair of bi-polar electrodes, the pulse generator having mounted therein a sensor and a control circuit, and the sensor is configured to generate signals representative of an orientation of the pulse generator and communicate the signals to the control circuit and the control circuit is configured to determine the orientation of the pulse generator and deliver electrical energy to the bi-polar electrodes when the determined orientation correlates to a pre-determined orientation.
US11266833B2
A functional electrical stimulation (FES) device includes electrodes arranged to apply functional electrical stimulation to a body part of the user. FES stimulation is performed by: receiving values of a set of user metrics for the user; receiving a target position of the body part represented as values for a set of body part position measurements; determining a user-specific energization pattern for producing the target position based on the received target position and the received values of the set of user metrics for the user; and energizing the electrodes of the FES device in accordance with the determined user-specific energization pattern. The determination may utilize an FES calibration database with records having fields containing: values of the set of user metrics for reference users; energization patterns; and values of the set of body part position metrics for positions assumed by the body part in response to applying the energization patterns.
US11266830B2
The present disclosure describes an implantable lead device that includes an internal support comb. The support comb can include one or more faces that enable the alignment, routing, and holding of the lead device's internal wires. The support comb can enable the interconnection of the wires with to the microelectrode film that includes the lead device's electrodes.
US11266820B1
A system includes a platform configured for insertion into a user's nostril and a catheter. The platform includes a board having first and second major surfaces and a support extending from the board. The support includes an aperture therethrough. The catheter includes an inflatable tube and a lumen having first and second ends, the first end connected to the tube and the second end connected to a pressurized fluid source for inflating the tube. The tube is configured for insertion through the aperture. A method includes inserting a platform into a user's nostril, inserting a catheter through an aperture of the platform, and inflating a tube of the catheter. Inflating the tube is accomplished by introducing a pressurized fluid through a lumen of the catheter, to thereby cause the tube to conform to a passage of the user's nasal or pharyngeal region.
US11266817B2
In some examples, a catheter includes an elongated member including at least one balloon connected to the elongated member, the at least one balloon being configured to inflate to an expanded state. In the expanded state, the at least one balloon forms at least a portion of a cavity with a wall of a vessel of the patient. The catheter including at least one electrode carried by the elongated member and having at least one surface exposed to the cavity formed by the at least one balloon. The electrode is configured to connect to an energy source that is configured to deliver, via the electrode, an electrical signal to a fluid contained in the cavity and in contact with the electrode to cause the fluid to undergo cavitation to generate a pressure pulse wave within the fluid.
US11266816B2
Inflation devices configured to communicate with remote displays are disclosed herein. Kits including such inflation devices with portable display devices are also disclosed herein. Methods of remotely displaying pressure data from a medical device are also disclosed herein. Devices, kits, and methods of connecting medical devices to remote displays and transferring information to or from linked computers are also disclosed.
US11266812B2
A smoke evacuation tubing assembly includes a base sheet having an adhesive disposed on a top side thereof. An elongate tubing member is operably coupled with a top side of the base sheet and includes a cross-section with first and second opposing rounded sidewalls and first and second generally planar sidewalls disposed between the first and second opposing rounded sidewalls. A plurality of apertures are defined through the first rounded sidewall. A central axis of each aperture is directed downwardly toward the top side of the base sheet. A cover sheet is operably coupled with the top side of the base sheet and is configured to engage the first generally planar sidewall of the elongate tubing member.
US11266811B2
A hydraulically driven surgical apparatus may be a tube enclosing a first channel filled with a first fluid. Changing a fluid pressure in the first channel may trigger a deformation of the tube. The deformation of the tube may perform an action associated with a surgical procedure. Related methods for steering a hydraulically driven surgical apparatus are also provided.
US11266810B2
Systems and methods are provided for navigating within the heart and attaching to the wall of the heart for performing injection of one or more agents into tissue. The system includes an outer catheter, a mid catheter slidably disposed within a lumen of the outer catheter, and a needle catheter slidably disposed within a lumen of the mid catheter. The mid catheter includes a vacuum hood attached to a mid catheter distal end such that a radiopaque distal tip of the mid catheter extends into the vacuum hood. The vacuum hood includes at least two radiopaque features, the spatial relationship of which visibly changes under fluoroscopy when the vacuum hood is under sealed vacuum.
US11266803B2
A tubing assembly for use with a patient interface device includes a manifold portion structured to be coupled to a conduit carrying a flow of breathing gas and a number of tubular portions. Each tubular portion extends from the manifold portion to a distal end which is structured to be coupled to the patient interface device. Each tubular portion is structured to communicate the flow of breathing gas from the manifold portion to the patient interface device. Each tubular portion comprises an adjustment element which provides for a characteristic of the tubular portion to be selectively varied.
US11266792B2
A Hypodermic Needle Safety Guard intended for sharps prevention and safer hypodermic needle use during all stages of an injection process. The Safety Guard may include two symmetrically positioned multi-featured arms that include spring tension, multiple hinges and needle locks. These arms may connect a proximal Luer body and a distal alignment tip thereby enabling the guard to open, close and lock on a needle when manual pressure is applied. The Guard position during hypodermic needle use tends to prevent sharps injury by adjusting the exposure of the Needle tip.
US11266788B2
Sensing systems, devices and methods are disclosed for determining the relative movement of first and second members of a medication delivery device which are proportional to the amount of a dose set and/or delivered by operation of the medication delivery device. A sensor is coupled with the first member. A pair of targets is coupled with the second member. Each target comprises an array of teeth which move through an area sensed by the sensor. The sensor thereby detects characteristic values of a sensed parameter corresponding to the combined relative positions of the first and second members. The sensing system outputs this information to a processor which determines the amount of the dose set and/or delivered. Related medication delivery devices and methods are also disclosed.
US11266787B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe drug delivery with a reusable pen injector. In particular, several embodiments are directed to motor-driven delivery of cartridge-based medicaments with an electronic pen injector device and associated pen cap device.
US11266775B1
A device for evacuating a surgical site of a patient includes a container that defines a first end having a tapered surgical site engaging surface and a second end having a pressure source engaging surface. The first end defines a tapered cross-section configured for being engageably received within an opening at the surgical site. In operation, vacuum pressure is applied to the second end in order to create a vacuum within the container to evacuate fluids from the surgical site.
US11266774B2
A fluid collection apparatus for use in negative pressure wound therapy. The fluid collection apparatus includes a flexible bag having a first opening and a second opening. The bag includes a structure defining a fluid pathway connecting the first opening and the second opening. The pathway is circulative and contributes to orientation independence of the bag in use. The bag further includes a load-bearing component.
US11266771B2
To provide a concentration calculating module configured to measure the concentrations of two constituents simultaneously with higher accuracy. The concentration measuring module includes a light source configured to emit light into a housing; a first light receiving unit configured to have sensitivity to a wavelength of output light of the light source and receive light radiated from inside the housing; and a second light receiving unit configured to have sensitivity to a longer wavelength than the first light receiving unit and receive light radiated from inside the housing. The light source, the first light receiving unit, and the second light receiving unit are arranged to have a positional relationship in which a light emitting surface of the light source faces a light receiving surface of the first light receiving unit, and a normal to a light receiving surface of the second light receiving unit is orthogonal to, of a line through the light source and the first light receiving unit, a line segment corresponding to the inside of the housing, and a length X of, of the line through the light source and the first light receiving unit, the line segment corresponding to the inside of the housing and then a length Y of, of a line including the normal to the light receiving surface of the second light receiving unit, a line segment corresponding to the inside of the housing satisfy Y/X>1. The concentration measuring module calculates the concentrations of two constituents simultaneously on the basis of first and second signals output from the first and second light receiving units.
US11266765B2
Provided herein are constructs of micro-aggregate multicellular, minimally polarized grafts containing Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein coupled Receptor (LGR) expressing cells for wound therapy applications, tissue engineering, cell therapy applications, regenerative medicine applications, medical/therapeutic applications, tissue healing applications, immune therapy applications, and tissue transplant therapy applications which preferably are associated with a delivery vector/substrate/support/scaffold for direct application.
US11266764B2
The invention relates to methods for producing a polymeric scaffold for use in tissue engineering applications or soft tissue surgery, as well as to the produced scaffolds and an associated kit. The method features a first fast drying step of applying a mechanical compression on a polymeric gel layer and a second slow drying step of the gel up to reach a polymer mass fraction of at least 60% w/w in the final scaffold. The method allows the production of scaffolds with high regeneration and healing properties of a grafted tissue via host cell invasion and colonization, and a good suturability. These goals are achieved through the formation within the scaffold of a non-uniform architecture creating softer and stiffer areas, which is maintained even upon re-swelling of the scaffold upon hydration of the final dried product.
US11266761B2
The system invention describes a support and improved method of application and removal. The support, comprised of a network of flexible, non-porous, multi-lumen tubing interlaces at a plurality of junctions to form a lattice structure. Apertures designed to accommodate boney prominences also permit air or water to reach the skin underneath and encourage rapid fluid flow internally through the lattice. A hydrophobic, thermal-resistant, flowable padding layer is injected within a secondary lumen to the lattice structure, spanning its complete surface area. As a result, the breathability of the support is not affected by this padding layer because it mirrors the apertures of the lattice. At least one liquid is injected into the structure and configured to transform into a solid when acted on by an external mechanical stimulus.
US11266756B2
A system for bacteria irradiation from an occupant zone of a vehicle is provided. The system comprises an interior portion disposed in the occupant zone. The interior portion has one of a predetermined surface porosity and a predetermined surface roughness. The interior portion has phosphorescent paint for visual indication. The system further comprises a high energy visible (HEV) light source integrated within the interior portion. The HEV light source has an emission wavelength of between about 375 nm and about 425 nm. The HEV light source further provides a cumulative energy of between about 1 J/cm2 and about 50 J/cm2. The system further comprises a vehicle processor in communication with the HEV light source. The vehicle processor is configured to enable the HEV light source. The system further comprises a sensor in communication with the vehicle processor and configured to provide input on when to enable light source.
US11266749B2
Provided herein are improved methods for preparing phospholipid formulations including phospholipid UCA formulations.
US11266747B2
The present invention relates to a nanoparticle for oral gene delivery, which is a novel oral gene delivery system capable of regulating blood glucose levels in biological systems and insulin secretion in response to ingested meals. More specifically, the present invention relates to a nanoparticle for gene delivery, comprising: an ionic polymer conjugated with bile acid or a bile acid derivative; and a gene; and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same.
US11266746B2
Methods of treating cancer or reducing the incidence of relapse of a cancer in a subject comprising co-administration of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 ligand, such as an HMGN1 protein, and a TLR 7 or 8 ligand, and optionally an immune checkpoint inhibitor, to the subject in need of such therapy. The TLR4-mediated immune-stimulating effect is synergistically enhanced by ligands of TLR7 or 8, and the immune checkpoint inhibitor. Also described here is a nanoparticle delivery platform for the co-administration of the TLR 4 ligand and the TLR 7 or 8 ligand.
US11266745B2
Provided herein are diabodies that comprise extension sequences and antigen binding constructs that comprise extension sequences.
US11266743B2
Described herein are membrane permeabilizing peptides and antimicrobial peptides, polynucleotides encoding the peptides, and compositions containing the peptides. Furthermore, described herein are methods for using the peptides, polynucleotides, and compositions for research, diagnosis, and therapy.
US11266737B2
The present invention relates generally to an immunotherapeutic composition. More particularly, the present invention relates to an immunotherapeutic composition which interacts immunologically with T lymphocytes in subjects having peanut allergy or allergy to other tree nuts. This composition is preferably immunointeractive with T cells in subjects having an allergy to the Ara h 1 and/or Ara h 2 allergens. The composition of the present invention is useful in the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of conditions characterised by an aberrant, inappropriate or otherwise unwanted immune response to peanut, Ara h 1 and/or Ara h 2 or derivative or homologue thereof.
US11266726B2
Recombinant adenoviruses expressing the extracellular (EC) and transmembrane (TM) domains of human HER2 (HER2ECTM) are described. The recombinant adenoviruses express a chimeric fiber protein having the adenovirus type 35 (Ad5) shaft and knob domains, which facilitates transduction of human dendritic cells by the recombinant HER2ECTM expressing adenovirus. Compositions that include dendritic cells transduced by the recombinant adenovirus and their use for treating HER-positive tumors is described.
US11266724B2
Provided herein are modified FVII polypetides, and modified FVIIa polypeptides, and methods of treatment of acute and episodic bleeding with modified FactorVIIa polypeptides. To effect treatment and use, in some embodiments, the modified polypeptides are subcutaneously administered to provide on-demand treatment. In some embodiments, the on-demand treatment is provided in a multiple dosing regimen over a twenty-four hour period. The subcutaneous administration of the modified polypeptides of the disclosure exhibit increased coagulant activity, potency, bioavailablilty and prolonged duration.
US11266709B2
The disclosure provides methods of reducing MMP-9 expression and/or MMP-9 activity in a mammalian subject. The disclosure also provides methods of increasing TIMP-1 expression and/or TIMP-1 activity in a mammalian subject. The methods comprise administering a therapeutically effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide to a subject in need thereof.
US11266701B2
The present invention provides a therapeutic composition comprising a synergistic combination of caffeine, Ginkgo biloba, and β-phenylethylamine (PEA) or its salt. The invention is also directed to oral dosage forms containing said composition, and to a method of treatment of a psychological, psychiatric, behavioral and/or neurodevelopmental disorder comprising the administration of said compositions and dosage forms to a patient in need thereof.
US11266699B2
Provided are therapeutic compositions containing microbial populations for prevention, treatment and reduction of symptoms associated with a dysbiosis of a mammalian subject such as a human.
US11266690B2
The invention provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which can specifically bind to a BCMA protein comprising a BCMA binding structural domain, a transmembrane domain, a costimulatory domain, and an intracellular signaling domain. The invention also provides uses of the CAR in treating diseases or conditions linked to the expression of BCMA.
US11266689B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions for producing NKT cells effective for immunotherapy and also methods and compositions for providing an effective amount of NKT cells to an individual in need of immunotherapy. In specific embodiments, the NKT cells are CD62L+ and have been exposed to one or more costimulatory agents to maintain CD62L expression. The NKT cells may be modified to incorporate a chimeric antigen receptor, in some cases.
US11266688B2
The present invention provides a glycosylated CEA-specific single-chain antibody, and a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting a glycosylated CEA, which can be used in manufacture of an agent or a medicament for diagnosis or treatment of a tumor overexpressing glycosylated CEA.
US11266684B2
The present disclosure provides, inter alia, pharmaceutical compositions for and methods of treating an animal, including a human, and methods of preparing such compositions. In certain embodiments, the pharmaceutical compositions contain nonabsorbable pharmaceutical composition and may be used, for example, to treat eubicarbonatemic metabolic acidosis.
US11266682B2
The invention concerns medical applications and can be used in oncology, as well as in neurosurgery, traumatology, neurology, rehabilitation. The aim of the inventions claimed is the creation of a new method of local exposure on biological tissues and a new tissue-substitute applicator that benefits to both destruction and replacement of tumor tissue by restored biological tissue with no external exposure applied (alternating magnetic field, heating, etc.) The aim set is solved by using porous polytetrafluoroethylene as a cytostatic material. The aim set is also achieved by using porous polytetrafluoroethylene in production of a tissue-substitute applicator for treating or replacing tumor tissues. The aim set for the method of local exposure to biological tissues, including the placement of a tissue-substitute polymeric applicator in direct contact with the biological tissue to be exposed, is solved by using porous polytetrafluoroethylene for the constituent polymeric material.
US11266669B2
Disclosed are prodrugs of anthracyclines (such as doxorubicin) and derivatives thereof that are selectively cleaved and activated by fibroblast activating protein (FAP). The prodrugs are useful for targeted delivery of “warhead” anthracycline or anthracycline derivative to FAP-expressing tissues, including cancer (e.g., solid tumors). Also provided are pharmaceutical compounds comprising the prodrugs, as well as methods of using the prodrugs to treat a disorder characterized by FAP upregulation, e.g., cancer, undesirable fibrosis, and undesirable inflammation.
US11266667B2
The compound ABX196 and pharmaceutical compositions including ABX196 are used in the treatment of bladder cancer.
US11266662B2
Uses of ganaxolone in prophylaxis and treatment of postpartum depression are described. A dose of ganaxolone is administered to a female suffering from postpartum depression or at risk of developing postpartum depression in an amount and at a rate sufficient to alleviate at least one symptom of postpartum depression in the female.
US11266661B2
Disclosed herein is, among other things, a soft gel vaginal pharmaceutical composition and dosage form containing solubilized estradiol for the treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) and female sexual dysfunction (FSD).
US11266650B2
A pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating liver disease is provided. The pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by formula 1 below or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound as an active ingredient: where A is S, R is a linear or branched C1-C5 alkyl which is non-substituted or is independently or selectively substituted with one or more C6-C10 aryl groups, a benzyl which is non-substituted or is independently or selectively substituted with halogen or one or more linear or branched C1-C4 alkoxy groups, or a hydroxycarbonyl-substituted benzyl, and Y is H or a halogen atom.
US11266647B2
Method for increasing cell proliferation in pancreatic beta cells, treatment method, and composition
The present invention relates to a method of increasing cell proliferation in a population of pancreatic beta cells and a method of treating a subject for a condition associated with an insufficient level of insulin secretion. Also disclosed is a composition. The composition includes a dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1 A) inhibitor and a transforming growth factor beta (TGFP) superfamily signaling pathway inhibitor.
US11266638B2
The present disclosure relates to choline salts, and crystalline forms thereof, of a compound which is N—((S-1-(3-(4-chloro-3-(methylsulfonamido)-1-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)-1H-indazol-7-yl)-6-(3-methyl-3-(methylsulfonyl)but-1-yn-1-yl)pyridin-2-yl)-2-(3,5-difluorophenyl)ethyl)-2-((3bS,4aR)-5,5-difluoro-3- (trifluoromethyl)-3b,4,4a,5-tetrahydro-1H-cyclopropa[3,4]cyclopenta[1,2-c]pyrazol-1-yl)acetamide, which is useful in the treatment and prevention of a Retroviridae viral infection including an infection caused by the HIV virus.
US11266637B2
Formulations of tegavivint and related compounds, methods of making such formulations and methods of treating various conditions utilizing such formulations.
US11266636B2
The present invention relates to the field of anti-viral active agents, particularly to salts, more particularly to a maleate salt of the free base of N-[5-(aminosulfonyl)-4-methyl-1,3-thiazol-2-yl]-N-methyl-2-[4-(2-pyridinyl)-phenyl]-acetamide, to pharmaceutical formulations thereof as well as to methods for the production of these salts. The present invention also relates to the use of theses salts and of respective pharmaceutical formulations thereof in methods of treatment and/or prevention of human herpes simplex virus infections, particularly infections caused by HSV-1 and HSV-2.
US11266634B2
Human therapeutic treatment compositions comprise at least two of a curcumin component, a harmine component, and an isovanillin component, and preferably all three in combination. The agents are effective for the treatment of human conditions, especially human cancers.
US11266631B2
There is provided a compound of formula I or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof for use in a method of treating Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of said compound of formula I or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: a combination of said compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof with Brentuximab Vedotin and said combination for use in a method of treating Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of said combination.
US11266629B2
Disclosed are melanin compositions and devices, and methods of use thereof, to protect internal tissues and organs from radiation damage and to prevent or alleviate negative side effects associated with radiation exposure.
US11266628B2
The present invention relates to a disintegrant free pharmaceutical composition comprising apremilast or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. Particularly the present invention relates to disintegrant free immediate release dosage form comprising apremilast or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. It further relates to process of preparing such composition and its use in psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis.
US11266624B2
The present invention includes a method and compositions for preventing primary or acquired resistance of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) inhibitors in a cancer with deregulated EGFR comprising: identifying a subject suspected of needing treatment for primary or acquired resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors of the cancer with deregulated EGFR; and providing the subject with a therapeutically effective amount of a chromosome region maintenance 1 (CRM1) inhibitor and an inhibitor of EGFR in an amount sufficient to reduce or eliminate the cancer.
US11266623B2
Pharmaceutical compositions in which isolated cannabinoid receptor modulators are optionally combined with terpene blends in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Methods for treating or preventing a disease, disorder, dysfunction or condition caused by exposure to an organophosphate or carbamate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor with the inventive compositions are also disclosed.
US11266613B2
A pharmaceutical composition comprising lidocaine N-oxide (LNO), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in a method of treatment, said method being a prophylactic treatment to prevent, or decrease the likelihood of, sudden cardiac death associated with ventricular fibrillation (VF) in a subject, whereby the composition is provided to the subject's bloodstream via the oral mucous membrane or via pulmonary absorption in the lungs or by IV administration.
US11266608B2
A hydrogel delivery composition and method, including degradable microcapsules suspended in a degradable thermo-responsive hydrogel. The hydrogel is thermo-responsive at a physiological temperature and changes after application to a more solid state due to body temperatures. The composition includes one or more treatment agents to be released over time as the composition degrades. The composition can be varied to modify the structure and/or release of the treatment agent. The degradable microcapsules include one or more of magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2), bovine serum albumin (BSA), polyethylene glycol (PEG), and sucrose to improve release duration.
US11266605B2
The present invention relates to a modified release coated capsule and a process to obtain that capsule.
US11266602B2
Provided herein are PEGylated liposomes, and methods of making and using thereof. The PEGylated liposomes comprise at least a cholesterol, a non-PEGylated neutral lipid, and a PEGylated lipid, wherein the average molecular weight of the PEG component in the PEGylated lipid is about 5000 Daltons or less. The PEGylated liposomes are stable and capable of delivery of an agent for the generation of an immune response, for example an agent for vaccine, therapeutic, or diagnostic uses. Compositions and methods related to making the PEGylated liposomes and using the PEGylated liposomes for stimulating an immune response are also provided.
US11266601B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to liposomes comprising: a lipid bilayer having an internal cavity; a therapeutic agent within the internal cavity configured to modify expression or degradation of WASp in a cell; and a targeting moiety external to the lipid bilayer configured to target an extracellular domain of a cell. Embodiments of the invention relate to methods of treatment of disease comprising administering the liposomes. Novel pharmaceutical compositions are also disclosed.
US11266594B2
A method of treating a skin condition resulting from exposure to pollution or free radicals is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to skin having the skin condition a composition comprising an effective amount of an extract of Diospyros mespiliformis leaf to reduce oxidative damage in the skin having the skin condition.
US11266593B2
The present invention relates to the use of a cosmetic composition intended for dyeing keratin fibres, especially human hair, said cosmetic composition comprising as active principle a Gardenia extract.
US11266591B2
An oil-in-water-type emulsion cosmetic contains an ultraviolet ray scattering agent and which has preparation stability in a system where a water-soluble alkyl-substituted polysaccharide derivative and another emulsifying agent coexist is further improved. The oil-in-water-type emulsion cosmetic containing (A) a water-soluble alkyl-substituted polysaccharide derivative, (B) a nonionic surfactant and (C) an ultraviolet ray scattering agent, wherein the blend ratio [(A)/(B)] of the water-soluble alkyl-substituted polysaccharide derivative (A) to the nonionic surfactant (B) is 1.54 or less, and the blend ratio [(A)/(C)] of the water-soluble alkyl-substituted polysaccharide derivative (A) to the ultraviolet ray scattering agent (C) is 0.02 or less.
US11266589B2
The disclosure relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibers, in particular human keratin fibers such as hair, comprising one or more oxidation dyes, one or more scleroglucan gums in a total weight content greater than or equal to 0.5% relative to the total weight of the composition, and one or more and optionally one or more additional surfactants, preferably cationic surfactants. The disclosure also relates to a method for dyeing keratin fibers using said composition and to a multi-compartment device suitable for implementing said composition.
US11266587B2
The invention relates inter alia to cosmetic compositions comprising an oligoester ammonium salt (OAS) and a cosmetically component (F), where the OAS is obtained by: (i) heating a mixture of the following components (a) to (d) under continuously removing of reaction water: (a) a certain a diethanolamine compound; (b) a certain dicarboxylic acid; (c) a certain organic triol; and a monocarboxylic acid of formula R1—COOH (d), wherein R1 is linear or branched C12-C24-alkyl; (ii) reacting the oligoester of step (i) with a quarternization agent.
US11266585B2
Cosmetic lipophilic composition comprising less than 20% by weight of an aqueous component and an oily component characterized in that the oily component comprises at least one ester selected from neopentylglycol dipelargonate, glycerol tripelargonate, pentaerythritol tetrapelargonate or mixtures thereof.
US11266584B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising, at least: (i) at least one composite pigment comprising at least one small particle with a mean particle size of more than 100 nm and less than 1 μm, preferably less than 600 nm, and more preferably less than 400 nm, wherein the surface of the small particle is at least in part covered with at least one coating layer comprising at least one inorganic or organic particulate solid UV filter; (ii) at least one organopolysiloxane elastomer; and (iii) at least one oil absorbing agent with oil absorption capability of 1 ml/1 g or more in an amount of more than 1% by weight relative to the total weight of composition.
US11266581B2
An multi-phase oral composition and electromagnetic radiation source for whitening teeth.
US11266568B2
A medical component is provided which includes a first portion formed of a first elastomeric material having at least one taggant embedded or incorporated therein, and a second portion formed of a second elastomeric material. The at least one taggant has a first diffusivity relative to the first elastomeric material and a second diffusivity relative to the second elastomeric material. The second diffusivity is less than the first diffusivity.
US11266566B2
A system for assisting with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) treatment being administered to a patient. In one aspect, the system includes electrodes to provide an ECG signal of the patient, one or more sensors configured to measure an intrinsic myocardial wall movement of the patient, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to perform operations including: during the CPR treatment being administered to the patient, receiving an input from the sensor(s), processing the input from the sensor(s) and the ECG signal, determining, based on processing, whether the intrinsic myocardial wall movement is indicative of a perfusion movement of the patient's heart, and providing an indication to a user of the system based on the determination.
US11266561B2
A method of performing a fit test on an actuator unit coupled to a user. The method includes actuating the actuator unit; determining a first configuration of the actuator unit generated during the actuating the actuator unit; determining a second configuration of the actuator unit generated during the actuating the actuator unit; determining a change in configuration of the actuator unit based at least in part on the difference between the first and second configuration; and determining that the change in configuration corresponds to an improper fit of the actuator unit to the user.
US11266560B2
A hand rehabilitation device, a rehabilitation training device, and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, and the hand rehabilitation device includes a hand rehabilitation component including: a glove; a hand pneumatic muscle group including at least one finger pneumatic muscle component, wherein a back of each finger sleeve in the glove is installed with at least one of the at least one finger pneumatic muscle component; and a stopper which is connected with each finger sleeve and a side of each of the at least one finger pneumatic muscle component facing a corresponding finger sleeve.
US11266554B2
A bed base frame assembly of a bed generally comprises a base frame, a plurality of steerable and lockable casters, a lateral support assembly at the first and second sides of the base frame assembly, and an in-line support assembly at the foot end of the base frame assembly. The lateral support assembly may further include: a base frame; a first leg and a second leg rotatably connected to the base frame; a first actuator connected to the first leg and the second leg, wherein the first leg and the second leg rotate from the retracted position to the extended position; a third leg and a fourth leg rotatably connected to the base frame; and a second actuator connected to the third leg and the fourth leg, wherein the third leg and the fourth leg rotate from the retracted position to the extended position.
US11266536B2
The present invention relates to a device for applying graduated pressure to an underlying surface. An exemplary device is a graduated compression device or a graduated pressure bandage, that is able to apply graduated pressure to a limb, with higher pressure being applied at one end of the device, e.g. near the ankle in use, and gradually applying less pressure at the other end of the device, e.g. such that the lowest pressure is applied to the end of the stocking closest to the thigh in use.
US11266513B2
The present disclosure provides a device and method for measuring or distracting an intervertebral distance of an intervertebral space between a first vertebral body and a second vertebral body. The device includes a displacement unit having first and second engagement members. Displacement of the engagement members is caused by actuating an actuator on the device. In response to actuation, a force transfer carrier drives the displacement between the engagement members. The force transfer carrier is connected to the engagement members by a plurality of linkages. The distance between the engagement members is indicated by a gauge having an indicator rotatable about a pivot point. The distance between the engagement members varies in a nonlinear relationship to the movement of the force transfer carrier.
US11266502B1
A cardiac valve repair implant, wherein the implant includes a central occluder, and frame and a thin sheet. The central occluder includes a central longitudinal axis. The frame extends proximally from the central occluder and is centered about and forms a circumference around the central longitudinal axis of the central occluder. The frame self-biases from a collapsed state to an expanded state. A proximal end of the frame projects proximally when the frame is in the collapsed state. The proximal end of the frame projects radially outward away from the central longitudinal axis of the central occluder when the frame is in the expanded state. The thin sheet is supported on a proximal portion of the frame. When the frame is in the expanded state, the thin sheet forms an annular surface defining an inner circular opening centered about the central longitudinal axis of the central occluder.
US11266500B2
A method of delivering a prosthetic heart valve to the aortic valve annulus while a patient's heart is beating is disclosed. The method includes accessing the left ventricle through an intercostal incision and forming a puncture in the left ventricle. A guidewire is advanced into the left ventricle and through the native aortic valve. An introducer is passed over the guidewire and into the left ventricle. A valve delivery device is advanced over the guidewire and through the introducer until a prosthetic heart valve positioned thereon is located within the native aortic valve. The prosthetic heart valve is then radially expanded within the aortic valve annulus for replacing the function of the native aortic valve.
US11266498B2
The present invention provides a method of making a leaflet assembly, the leaflet assembly thus made and a prosthetic valve. The leaflet assembly can take a first form wherein the valve is open and a second form wherein the valve is closed, the valve comprising a leaflet assembly having at least one leaflet attached to a supporting element, the leaflet having a free margin that can move between a first position wherein the valve takes the first form and a second position wherein the valve takes the second form, the method comprising providing a textile structure, and forming the leaflet assembly from the textile structure, such that a selvedge of the textile structure forms the free margin of the leaflet, wherein the textile structure is made by weaving warp and fill threads into a two-layer woven fabric having two stacked and interconnected layers, the two layers having selvedges at one longitudinal edge, and wherein forming the leaflet assembly comprises connecting two lateral edges of a single piece of the fabric to make a substantially tubular structure wherein the inner layer forms the leaflet and the outer layer forms the supporting element. With this method a prosthetic valve can be made with little process variability and errors, and resulting in a valve with high reliability and durability.
US11266495B2
Embodiments of a modulable absorption light adjustable lens (MALAL) comprise a light adjustable lens that is capable of changing its optical properties upon an adjusting irradiation, including a photo-modifiable material; and a modulable absorption front protection layer, including a modulable absorption compound whose absorption properties can be modulated with a modulating stimulus. Other embodiments include a method of adjusting an optical property of a modulable absorption light adjustable lens, the method comprising: reducing an absorption of a modulable absorption compound of a modulable absorption front protection layer of the MALAL by a modulating stimulus, the MALAL having been previously implanted into an eye; and changing an optical property of a light adjustable lens of the MALAL by applying an adjusting irradiation.
US11266489B2
The present invention relates to a prosthetic knit based on at least a first yarn of biocompatible polymer material defining first and second opposite and openwork faces, and on at least a second biocompatible and heat-fusible monofilament yarn, forming barbs that protrude outwards from at least said first face and are obtained by melting loops generated by said second yarn, the chart followed for the knitting of said first and second yarns on a warp knitting machine having three guide bars B1, B2, B3 being the following, according to the ISO 11676 standard: —Bar B1: 1.0/0.1//—Bar B2: 1.0/7.7/6.6/7.7//—Bar B3: 2.1/5.5/3.4/0.0// said second yarn following the chart of bar B3. The present invention also relates to a process for manufacturing such a knit.
US11266487B2
According to an aspect, a medical device includes an elongate member, a first arm extending from the elongate member, a second arm extending from the elongate member, the second arm being configured to move with respect to the first arm, and a needle coupled to the elongate member, the needle being configured to move with respect to the elongate member.
US11266482B2
A balance mechanism comprises a working device, a connecting arm assembly having a variable length, a torque-balancing assembly, a weighting member, and a connecting member. The connecting arm assembly couples to the working device. The connecting arm assembly is pivoted to the torque-balancing assembly by a pivot. The weighting member couples to the torque-balancing assembly. The connecting member connects the connecting arm assembly and the torque-balancing assembly. As the distance between the working device and the pivot changes, the distance between the weighting member and the pivot changes accordingly, so that a dynamic balance can be achieved.
US11266479B2
An illuminated medical system comprises a medical instrument and a light transmitting waveguide. The waveguide projects lights from a distal portion of the waveguide toward a target area. The waveguide is formed primarily of a cyclic olefin copolymer or a cyclic olefin polymer.
US11266463B2
Systems for nerve and tissue modulation are disclosed. An illustrative system may include an intravascular nerve modulation system including a catheter shaft, an expandable basket and one or more electrode assemblies affixed to the expandable basket. The one or more electrode assemblies may be affixed to the expandable basket using one or more covers or coatings.
US11266461B2
A medical system for delivering treatment or therapy to a patient has a kill switch for interrupting the delivery. The kill switch, which can disrupt the delivery directly or can cause an error message to be generated that disrupts the delivery, can be activated by the operator or remotely. In an ablation catheter system, a kill switch mechanism immediately and abruptly terminates delivery of ablation treatment or therapy.
US11266453B2
A method of shaping a bone screw with an automated device having a CNC unit includes rotating a blank coupled to a spindle about an axis defined by a coordinate system of the CNC unit, advancing a cutting tool proximally through an exterior of the blank at a speed to form a helical thread along a shaft, and reducing the speed to provide a variable, proximally decreasing pitch along at least a portion of the shaft. A first cutting tool is automatically transitioned toward disengagement from the blank when 1) a relative axial position between the first cutting tool and the blank coincides with a first coordinate of a predetermined location, and 2) a relative rotational position between the first cutting tool and the blank coincides with a second coordinate of the predetermined location. The first coordinate is along the axis, the second coordinate is an angular position about the axis, and the first and second coordinates are defined by the coordinate system. A second cutting tool is moved into engagement with the exterior of the blank so that the second cutting tool engages the blank substantially at the predetermined location, in a manner enabling continuation of the thread.
US11266448B2
An intramedullary (IM) nail system for the fixation of fractured bones in a patient comprising a nail and compression screws. The length of the body is divided into a distal section and a proximal section with the distal section containing multiple interference sections having a diameter less or greater than that of the body. The threads adjacent the nail head have an apex generally greater than the diameter of the body. The compression screws are dimensioned to be inserted through the bone and contact the nail, pressing it against the bone canal. The nail, once inserted, lies below the surface of the bone.
US11266446B2
Provided herein is a clip type cranial flap closing and anchoring device having a single structure including first part in contact with top surface of the flap and second part in contact with bottom surface of said flap maintaining a gap therebetween to accommodate the flap, wherein the first part is fixedly secured to third part for fastening the device to the skull.
US11266444B2
The present invention provides an external fixation device and method thereof. The device includes at least an insert for inserting into a patient's tissue such as a bone. The insert is fastened to a fastening assembly which comprises at least a RF heat source member during MRI scanning of the patient. At least a part of the RF heat source member's surface is covered with an absorption material to reduce the direct or indirect transfer of RF induced heat from the member to the insert. The absorption material has an electric conductivity greater than 10−4 S/m.
US11266442B1
A Veress needle is modified to receive a forward-looking miniature videoscope through the cannula of an insufflation tube of the Veress needle. The modified instrument enables direct viewing of progress of the instrument through tissue to the peritoneal cavity of a patient, for proper location of the needle and insufflation of the cavity via the needle. The videoscope has an elongated shaft of smaller diameter than the cannula of the insufflation tube for passage of insufflation gas with the scope in place. In another embodiment a needle is fitted with a miniature videoscope to provide the same function, with the needle's cannula serving as an insufflation tube.
US11266432B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes an elongated assembly releasably engagable with an ultrasonic transducer and including a waveguide having a blade at a distal end and a torque adapter towards a proximal end. Fixed and movable sleeves are disposed about the waveguide and support and operably couple to a jaw member at the respective distal ends thereof. A drive tube is fixed to the movable sleeve such that translation of the drive tube pivots the jaw member relative to the blade. A torque housing is slidably disposed about the drive tube, longitudinally fixed about the fixed sleeve, and fixedly about the torque adapter. A rotation knob is longitudinally fixed about the torque housing and operably coupled to the torque housing such that the torque housing and the rotation knob cooperate to define a torque wrench inhibit application of additional torque to the waveguide above a torque limit.
US11266430B2
Methods and apparatus for end effector control and calibration are described. The method may include detecting a signal in response to movement of a first tube relative to a second tube, the first tube driving movement of a clamp arm of the end effector. The method may further include determining a clamp arm position of the end effector relative to a ultrasonic blade of the end effector based on the signal. The method may also include adjusting a power output to the ultrasonic blade of the end effector based on the clamp arm position.
US11266415B2
A lung volume reduction elastic implant (500) and a lung volume reduction instrument are provided. The lung volume reduction elastic implant (500) has an elastic deformation part (51), and a flexible guide (53, 53a) connected to the distal end of the elastic deformation part (51). The flexible guide (53, 53a) is provided with a first flexible part (531). The first flexible part (531) has an insert part (5312) and a distal part (5311). The insert part (5312) is connected to the distal end of the elastic deformation part (51). The distal end of the distal part (5311) of the first flexible part (531) is the distal end of the lung volume reduction elastic implant (500). The first flexible part (531) is internally provided with a radiograph component (56). The lung volume reduction elastic implant (500) and the lung volume reduction instrument use the implant (500) to provide a sufficient bending force while maintaining better flexibility, reducing the risk of bronchus contusion when the implant (500) is bent after the implant (500) is implanted into a bronchial tube, and enhancing the safety of lung volume reduction surgery.
US11266414B2
An occlusion apparatus comprises inner and outer sheaths and an expandable flexible tubular sleeve. The occlusion apparatus is advanced to a target site in the blood vessel. A dilator having a soft, compressible tip may be advanced through a lumen of the inner sheath to facilitate the advancement of the occlusion apparatus. The sheaths are translated relative to one another to expand the flexible tubular sleeve to a funnel shape with a distal flush portion contacting the blood vessel inner wall and a proximal tapered portion. The proximal portion is fluid permeable so that blood can pass through to apply pressure on the vessel wall through the distal portion. A capture or traction device can be advanced out of the inner sheath lumen and retracted back therein to capture thrombus. The distal portion of the device may comprise an expandable mesh braid with a memory characteristic to limit expansion.
US11266413B2
An occlusion clip comprising: (a) a spring; (b) a first runner including a first open top and a first open end adjacent the first open top, the first runner including a first interior camming surface partially delineating a first interior cavity that is open by way of the first open top and the first open end; (c) a second runner including a second open top and a second open end adjacent the second open top, the second runner including a second interior camming surface partially delineating a second interior cavity that is open by way of the second open top and the second open end, where the spring is configured to be coupled to the first runner and the second runner, where the first interior cavity is configured to receive a first portion of the spring, where the second interior cavity is configured to receive a second portion of the spring, where the first camming surface is configured to engage a first cam of the spring, and where the second camming surface is configured to engage a second cam of the spring.
US11266411B2
An implantable medical device for connecting tissue layers, such as connecting tubular tissues to create an anastomosis, includes a single elongate member and a covering material. The devices provided may also be used for other purposes including, but not limited to, partially or fully occluding openings in tissue, temporarily or permanently holding generally planar layers of tissue together, aneurysm repair, and the like.
US11266404B2
The present disclosure relates to adapter assemblies for use with and to electrically and mechanically interconnect electromechanical surgical devices and surgical loading units, and to surgical systems including hand held electromechanical surgical devices and adapter assemblies for connecting surgical loading units to the hand held electromechanical surgical devices.
US11266401B2
An endoscopic surgical device includes a handle assembly including a drive mechanism actuatable by a trigger; and an endoscopic assembly including a proximal end portion extending from the handle assembly; a distal end portion pivotably connected to the proximal end portion of the endoscopic assembly; and a rotatable inner actuation shaft extending from the handle assembly and into the distal end portion of the endoscopic assembly, the inner actuation shaft including a flexible portion extending across the pivot connection. The surgical device includes an end effector selectively connectable to the distal end portion of the endoscopic assembly and to a distal portion of the rotatable inner actuation shaft. The end effector includes a splined inner tube rotatably supported in an outer tube; and a plurality of surgical anchors loaded in the inner tube. A timing system allows removal of the end effector at a defined trigger position.
US11266400B2
A knotless self-cinching suture construct device includes a shuttling suture, a continuous loop and a self-cinching suture member. The shuttling suture is configured for insertion into a passage hole in injured soft tissue, such as a torn or damaged meniscus in the knee. The shuttling suture and continuous loop are passed entirely through the passage hole in the tissue, and the self-cinching suture member is inserted through the continuous loop to form a hitch using the continuous loop around the tissue. The self-cinching suture member is then pulled tight, allowing a first strand to slide through both the hitched continuous loop and a self-cinching sleeve on the suture member. When tension is applied, the sleeve tightens around the strand much like a finger trap, preventing inadvertent release of the applied suture tension. The suture construct is configured for use through a transosseous tunnel with a suture button in some embodiments.
US11266399B2
A surgical suturing instrument includes first and second jaw members each defining a hole for detachable receipt of opposite ends of a curved needle. The first jaw member is rotatable relative to the second jaw member to move and transfer the curved needle between the jaw members. A first elongate locking element is slidable within the first jaw member between non-locking and locking positions. When the first elongate locking element is in the locking position and the curved needle is disposed within the hole of the first jaw member, a portion of the first elongate locking element is received in a notch defined in an end of the curved needle to selectively secure the curved needle to the first jaw member.
US11266390B2
An improved system for attaching devices to the distal end of endoscopic instruments is described. An attachment adapter comprises a distal stop, such as a complete or partial loop or cylinder, which limits the penetration of an endoscope into the adapter. The adapter has at least one flange protruding proximally along the endoscope. The adapter is secured on the endoscope by a securing means, which compresses the flange or flanges sufficiently to provide a friction fit. The flexibility of the inventive adapter system allows the adapter to work reliably with endoscopes that are used, damaged or repaired. The adapter may further provide a slit or window allowing viewing of the vessel wall by a lens on an endoscope, thereby improving the operator's ability to understand the location of the endoscope during operation. The adapter may carry any of a variety of devices, including devices for closing a surgical incision, or treating or manipulating tissue. Improvements are described in a number of areas to allow more flexible pairing of particular endoscopes or endoscopic instruments with devices to be carried on their exteriors, while maintaining a tightly locked position of the external device on the carrier.
US11266382B2
A flag, or marker for identifying the locations of a plurality of tissue cassettes containing mounted Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) tissue specimens once removed from a tissue cassette/block storage system. The invention comprises a rectangular cuboid body member having front, rear, left, right, top, and bottom surfaces which substantially approximates the shape of a predefined number of tissue cassette/blocks, with a recessed area with grooves to accept one tissue index marker card for recording the patient's case information, or other relevant information. When multiples of the present invention are used within a tissue cassette/block storage system, they point to locations where pluralities of tissue cassette/blocks should be returned, and provides a support structure for neighboring tissue cassette/blocks within the storage location from becoming askew or damaged within the tissue cassette/block storage system.
US11266376B2
Systems and methods of predicting future medical events are based on the processing of medical image. The prediction of premature birth and estimation of gestational age based on ultrasound images are presented as illustrative examples. The new abilities to estimate the probability of future medical events, before they otherwise could be predicted, provides new avenues for the development of preventative treatments.
US11266364B2
Systems and methods for reducing X-ray scatter during breast imaging, and more specifically during tomosynthesis imaging. In one embodiment, an anti-scatter grid having a plurality of septa may be configured to be positioned relative to an X-ray imaging device such that each septum of the plurality of septa extends along a direction substantially parallel to a coronal plane of a subject during imaging of the subject using the X-ray imaging device. The X-ray imaging device may be operable in a tomosynthesis mode for imaging of a breast of the subject and may include the anti-scatter grid disposed between a breast platform and the X-ray detector. The anti-scatter grid may be configured to move in a direction substantially parallel to a sagittal plane of the subject during tomosynthesis imaging.
US11266359B2
The present invention relates to a device for determining a volume of projection of a dual-axis computed tomography system with at least one shutter, the device (1) comprising: an interface unit (2); a projection module (3); and a position determination module (4); wherein the interface unit (2) is configured to receive a volume of interest (44) for a computed tomography image showing an object (22); wherein the projection module (3) is configured to determine a volume of projection (41, 42, 46) of a detector (16) based on different simulated positions of the detector (16) on a trajectory around the object (22) and based on a variable simulated position of at least one shutter (15); and wherein the position determination module (4) is configured to determine the simulated position of the at least one shutter (15) for each determined simulated position of the detector (16) such that the volume of projection (41, 42, 46) corresponds to the volume of interest (44). The present invention avoids that parts of an object of interest are unintentionally not imaged in dual-axis computed tomography imaging whilst reducing x-ray absorption to parts of the object outside the volume of interest (44) and provides improved insight in the volume of projection (41, 42, 46) of a dual-axis trajectory acquisition.
US11266356B2
A method and system for acquiring data for assessment of cardiovascular disease, the method comprising one or more of: manipulating one or more hardware aspects of the photoplethysmography data acquisition system(s) implementing the method; manipulating or providing user experience/user interface (UX/UI) aspects of the system(s) implementing the method; acquiring, processing, and deriving insights population specific data; accounting for or controlling sampling site variability; and using other suitable sources of data in order to generate high quality data for characterization, assessment, and management of cardiovascular disease.
US11266345B2
A tissue imaging system comprising a computing device, tissue visualization application, image capturing unit, and an illumination unit, is configured to capture measurement data. The visualization application extracts visualizations of tissue health indicators from the measurement data. The application generates an interface with one or more interface elements corresponding to the visualization of tissue health indicators.
US11266339B2
Provided herein relates to implantable devices and systems with dynamic silk coatings. In some embodiments, the dynamic silk coatings can be formed in situ or in vivo.
US11266337B2
Herein, systems and methods are disclosed including a sample acquisition component (SAC) for user-friendly sample collection, a separation component for optional separation of plasma, and one or more stabilization components for stabilizing analytes. In a particular embodiment, the system and methods are directed towards sample collection and stabilization with optional sample separation. Other embodiments can perform any combination of collection, separation, stabilization or detection.
US11266336B2
An attachment mechanism is used to attach a component to a particular location on a tube in a blood sampling-blood pressure monitoring system by a user. The attachment mechanism may include a piercing feature. The piercing feature may be used to pierce the tube to attach the component to the particular location on the tube of the blood sampling-blood pressure monitoring system selected by the user.
US11266331B2
The present technology relates to an optical apparatus and an information processing method capable of more easily obtaining an indicator value. In the optical apparatus according to the present technology, irradiation light including a predetermined irradiation wavelength band is emitted, first reflected light being a reflected light in a first wavelength band obtained by reflection of the emitted irradiation light on a predetermined object and second reflected light being reflected light in a second wavelength band obtained by reflection of the irradiation light on the object are received at a plurality of pixels; and a value of a predetermined indicator relating to a region in a predetermined range of the object is obtained on the basis of a received light amount of each of the received first reflected light and the received second reflected light. For example, the present technology can be applied to optical apparatuses, electronic apparatuses, imaging apparatuses, and information processing apparatuses.
US11266318B2
A blood pressure monitor includes a processor configured to control a cuff pressure and calculate blood pressure information of a subject based on a cuff pressure signal representing the cuff pressure and a pulse wave signal superimposed on the cuff pressure signal. The processor calculates first blood pressure information of the subject who has maintained a recumbent position for a prescribed time period, maintains the cuff pressure at a first pressure lower by a prescribed value than a systolic blood pressure included in the first blood pressure information, determines if an amplitude of the pulse wave signal is equal to or greater than a threshold value when the cuff pressure is maintained at the first pressure and the subject is in an upright position, assesses an autonomic nerve function of the subject based on a result of the determination, and outputs a result of the assessment.
US11266316B2
Systems and methods for diurnal curve generations, tracking, and analysis are provided. Based on a user's demographic, or a user's baseline diurnal curve, insights into a user's temperature reading can be produced. Such insights can be used to, for example, assess the probability that the user is experiencing a fever, which can be used in screening for medical diagnostic testing.
US11266310B2
Devices, systems, and methods to treat hypertension. In at least one embodiment of a method of the present disclosure, the method comprises the step of obtaining data indicative of a renal artery of a patient with hypertension; and if the data indicates that the renal artery is stiff, relatively stiff, noncompliant, or relatively noncompliant, the method further comprises the step of performing a renal ablation procedure on the renal artery to treat the hypertension.
US11266291B1
A dishwasher appliance includes a user interface panel positioned on a door at a top edge of the door. A circuit board is positioned within the door. A user touch input and a side-fire light emitting diode are mounted to the circuit board. A lightguide is positioned within the door. An inlet of the lightguide is positioned proximate the side-fire light emitting diode, and an outlet of the lightguide positioned below the circuit board. The side-fire light emitting diode is operable to emit light, and the lightguide is configured such that the light from the side-fire light emitting diode is reflected within the lightguide from the inlet of the lightguide to the outlet of the lightguide in order to illuminate an indicator at the outlet of the lightguide with the light from the side-fire light emitting diode.
US11266289B2
The invention relates to a method of automatic dishwashing of dishware using wash water, in which, in a first step, a first composition, which comprises an oxygen bleach but substantially no enzyme, is supplied to the wash water, and the dishware is washed in a washing zone with the oxygen bleach-containing wash water; and, in a second step which occurs after the first step, a second composition, which comprises an enzyme but substantially no bleach, is supplied to the wash water, and the dishware is washed in said washing zone with the enzyme-containing wash water. The invention also relates to an automatic dishwasher and a cartridge suitable for use in this method.
US11266287B2
An autonomous mobile robot includes a drive system to support the robot above a surface, a sensor system configured to generate a signal indicative of a location of the robot on the surface, and a controller operably connected to the drive system and the sensor system. The drive system is operable to navigate the robot about the surface. The controller is configured to execute instructions to perform operations including establishing a behavior control zone on the surface, controlling the drive system, in response to establishing the behavior control zone on the surface, to maneuver the robot to a location of the behavior control zone on the surface, and maneuvering, using the drive system, the robot about the surface and initiating a behavior in response to determining, based on the signal indicative of the location of the robot, that the robot is proximate the behavior control zone.
US11266284B2
A cleaner includes a housing including a suction opening, a cyclone part configured to separate air and dust, and a dust bin configured to store dust separated from air in the cyclone part and a frame disposed to surround an axis of a cyclone flow of the cyclone part in the housing and configured to be movable between a first position and a second position in the housing, wherein the frame includes a first body disposed to face the suction opening at the first position and disposed to be inclined with respect to the axis of the cyclone flow, and an upper end of the first body is located to be the same as or higher than an upper end of the suction opening.
US11266283B2
A replacement head for a vacuum device includes a plastic tray, a filter and a pad. The plastic tray includes a dust chamber that has a sealing surface and at least one opening. The opening is provided to allow air, dust and debris to be drawn into the dust chamber during use. The sealing surface defines a sealing surface plane and the opening defines an opening place. The relative angle between the sealing surface plane and the opening plane is preferably between about −20 degrees and +150 degrees. The pad is attached to the lower side of the plastic tray and is in contact with the floor during cleaning. The filter is connected to the plastic tray such that the filter substantially covers a top opening in the dust chamber.
US11266281B2
Methods and apparatus for cleaning a surface with a cleaning device having a body with a handle, a connector, and one or more cleaning heads that are removably attached to the cleaning device. Each cleaning head include a lower surface arranged to contact a surface to be cleaned and a dirt collection chamber permanently attached to the cleaning head. The cleaning head may include a support structure to support the dirt collection chamber and a cleaning sheet. The cleaning head also may include a suction nozzle. At least a portion of the dirt collection chamber may be made of a filter material.
US11266278B1
A locking assembly for facilitating disassembly and assembly of a toilet cover plate on a mounting hole, comprising a bolt, a shaft sleeve in which a nut and a washer are fitted; two sides of the shaft sleeve are respectively provided with a upper guide groove and a lower guide groove, which are all parallel to an axial direction of the shaft sleeve, and bottoms of the upper guide grooves are narrowed to be steps and connect to tops of the lower guide grooves; the washer slidingly engages with the upper guide grooves by a rotating shaft, the nut slidingly engages with the lower guide grooves by guide ribs; the steps shelves the rotating shafts so that the washer is overhanging. The structure is compact and simple, it is convenient for assembly or disassembly, and has a high assembly and disassembly efficiency.
US11266273B2
The present disclosure relates to an appliance. In one embodiment, the appliance has an enclosed structure which includes a first portion configured to receive one or more meal cartridges, and store and preserve the meal cartridges at a selected temperature range; a second portion; and transfer mechanism configured to transfer at least one meal cartridge in the first portion to the second portion within the enclosed structure in response to a command input for cooking the at least one meal cartridge. The second portion is configured to accept the at least one meal cartridge, receive a cooking instruction command including a cooking duration and temperature determined for the at least one meal cartridge, and cook the at least one meal cartridge based upon the cooking duration and temperature.
US11266259B2
A garment hanger and a sizer that can be removably mounted to the hanger are provided. The sizer includes a pair of inwardly extending fingers for mounting the sizer to a hook or a body of the hanger. The sizer can be manually or automatically removed from the sizer by a tool, by inserting the tool into a space between the hanger and a respective inwardly extending finger. The hanger and the sizer enable a method of reusing hangers and sizers, by automatically removing the sizers from the hangers, processing the removed hangers and sizers to provide reusable hangers and sizers. The reusable hangers and sizers are distributed to remote garment manufacturers for providing garment-on-hanger products.
US11266252B2
A storage container (100) has a base (102) defining at least one storage compartment (202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212), a top (104) movable between closed and opened positions, latching and locking assemblies. The latching assembly (500) has a latching actuator (110) movable between first and second positions. The latching assembly (500) locks the top (104) to the base (102) when the top (104) is in the closed position and the latching actuator (110) is in the first position and releases the top (104) from the base (102) when the latching actuator (110) is in the second position. The locking assembly has a lock actuator (801) having actuated and released positions. The top (104) is movable when the lock actuator (801) is in the actuated position. The locking assembly locking the top (104) in the open, closed, or an intermediate position when the lock actuator (801) is in the released position. The latching actuator (110) and the lock actuator (801) are operatively connected to the top (104) and move with the top (104) between the closed and the opened position.
US11266251B2
An assistive device for standing tasks allows for a reduction of effort on the part of a user while engaged in tasks or activities that are stationary or nearly stationary that lessens the strain on the bones, joints, and muscles normally used for standing while ensuring a proper alignment of the pelvis and spine.
US11266250B2
The invention provides an inflatable pillow or cushion that is configured to transition between a deflated state in which the pillow conforms to a substantially planar profile within at least one plane, and an inflated state in which the pillow conforms to a non-planar profile within the at least one plane.
US11266249B2
An orientable seating device includes a seat, the orientation of which can be controlled to dynamically affect a desired of yaw, pitch and roll. The seating device can be used to reorient and/or to simulate motion for a seated person for use with video games, virtual reality headsets or goggles, land, water, air or space vehicle simulation, or wireless airborne drones, for example. The device includes a seat mounted on a carriage, which is received in a carriage pedestal. Within the pedestal, a drive wheel positioned under the carriage supports and rotates the carriage by driving an outer sphere-shaped surface of the carriage. The drive wheel can be reoriented around a vertical axis such that any combination of pitch and roll can be achieved by rotating the wheel against the sphere-shaped surface. Yaw can be controlled by a rotatable platform upon which the carriage pedestal can be mounted.
US11266248B2
An armrest according to the technology described herein includes a bracket, an armrest body, a device connecting port, an armrest-side connector, and a cable. The bracket is fixed to a seat frame. The armrest body is attached to the bracket to be rotatable. The device connecting port is exposed through an outer surface of the armrest body. The armrest-side connector is fixed to the seat frame at a position different from the bracket. The cable includes an end connected to the device connecting port and an end connected to an armrest-side connector. The armrest body includes a cable retaining portion through which the cable is passed and in which the cable is retained. Any one of the bracket and the armrest body includes a hole (an elongated hole) that allows movement of the cable along with rotation of the armrest body.
US11266246B2
An article of furniture includes a seat frame, first and second spaced apart seat connectors, a plurality of elongated seat panels, first and second spaced apart back post connectors, and a plurality of elongated back panels. The seat connectors and the back connectors include an upper bulbous member and a body. The panels include first and second spaced apart channels therein with cutouts extending from the channels and opening onto a surface of the seat panels. The channels of the seat panels are receivable on the upper bulbous members of the spaced apart seat connectors to form a seat, and the channels of the back panels are receivable on the front bulbous members of the spaced apart back connectors to form a back.
US11266245B2
A linkage for use in reclining furniture may include a back bracket supported by forward and rear back pivot links. The bottom of the rear back pivot link may be pivotably coupled to a rear lift link and the bottom of the forward back pivot link may be pivotably coupled to the rear lift link in a different location. A control link may be pivotably coupled on one end to one of the forward back pivot link and the rear back pivot link. The control link may pull the pivoting linkage of the back bracket and the forward and back pivot links as the overall linkage is moved from a closed to a TV to a full-recline position. The resulting pivot point for the back is projected upwardly and forwardly, to a point where an upholstered back and seat meet on a finished chair.
US11266241B2
A stabilizing device for a piece of furniture including a housing with a piston opening, and a piston element mounted movably within the housing and moveable at least partly out of the piston opening for engagement with a supporting surface. The stabilizing device further includes an actuator, including a motor, connected to the piston element for actuating a movement of the piston. A control unit connected to the actuator for control of the actuation of the piston element, and at least one first sensor capable of measuring the load on the motor. The at least one first sensor device is connected to the control unit such that the movement of the piston element can be controlled based on input from the first sensor.
US11266237B2
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, a contact structure and a locking device. The second rail is movable relative to the first rail. The contact structure is arranged on the second rail. The locking device is arranged on the first rail and includes a working member configured to be in a blocking state or an unblocking state relative to the first rail. When the second rail is located at a retracted position and when the working member is in the blocking state, the working member is configured to block the contact structure, in order to prevent the second rail from being moved relative to the first rail from the retracted position along an opening direction.
US11266235B2
The present invention provides an improved under cabinet mounted storage system with a one rotateable arm extending between a mounting anchor and a vertical support structure with an angled channel adapted for slidable receipt of at least one common kitchen, cooking or staging items.
US11266221B2
The present invention relates to a brush for applying a product to the eyelashes and/or eyebrows, that includes a core that extends along a longitudinal axis, and bristles held by the core, the core comprising a bristle-carrying portion with a proximal end, intended to be fixed to a stem, and a distal end, the bristles having free ends defining an envelope surface, the envelope surface having at least one cross section with a not entirely polygonal shape, the envelope surface defining at least one facet which extends longitudinally and is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of the core in the direction of the distal end, the facet having a width which increases in the direction towards the distal end of the bristle-carrying portion of the core, over at least a portion of the length of the facet.
US11266216B2
A removable storage pouch includes a pouch having a closeable opening providing access to an inner volume and three pouch attachment points coupled to an exterior side of the pouch. The removable storage pouch also includes a connector assembly comprising three corresponding pouch attachment points and two surface attachment points. Further, the removable storage pouch includes a removable light assembly operatively coupled to an inner surface of the pouch within the inner volume. Two of the three pouch attachment points of the pouch and two of the corresponding attachment points of the connector assembly are coupled together to complete an electrical circuit. The removable light assembly operatively coupled to an inner surface of the pouch includes electrical connectivity and removably coupling the light assembly to the inner surface of the pouch in order to light a light source of the light assembly.
US11266206B2
A fastening device including a case unit, a knob and an engaging unit is provided. The case unit includes a wall forming a receiving space and a plurality of mounting teeth. The knob covers on the case unit. The engaging unit is within the receiving space. The engaging unit corresponds to the mounting teeth and is selectively coupled to the knob. The knob is switched between a first position and a second position. When the knob is in the first position to couple to the engaging unit, the engaging unit is linked up with the knob and the engaging unit is engaged with the mounting teeth to prohibit the knob from rotating in a first direction, and when the knob is in the second position to disengage from the engaging unit, the engaging unit does not prohibit the knob from rotating in the first direction.
US11266193B2
The present disclosure provides an exemplary for a temperature control apparatus (TCA) that may be applied under variations of headwear to keep the head and overall body temperature cooler. In some implementations, the cooling material may be stored in a secondary temperature control system to keep the cooling materials as cool as possible and as durable as possible. In some embodiments, different TCA may exist for different types of headwear and usages by the user.
US11266191B2
An article of apparel includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a four way stretch material. The second layer, coupled to the first layer, includes an auxetic layer.
US11266184B2
A mask is worn to cover a mouth of a wearer, and includes a mask main body made of a cloth-like material, a microphone arranged on the mask main body, and configured to collect voice of the wearer, a cord connected to the microphone, and a support portion that supports the microphone. The support portion is joined to a peripheral portion of the mask main body and higher in rigidity than the mask main body.
US11266180B2
An electronic cigarette (“e-Cig”) may include functionality for monitoring and controlling the thermal properties of the e-Cig. The system and method described herein may monitor a temperature based on a resistor (i.e. hot wire) near the wick and model the thermal cycle of an e-Cig. The model can be used for controlling the temperature of the e-Cig and preventing burning. The temperature control may dictate optimal conditions for atomization and smoke generation in an e-Cig while avoiding hotspots and burning to the atomizer or cartomizer.
US11266177B1
A filter (10) for cigarettes having a wax tubular member (20) with at least one through opening (30) to allow the smoke to pass through. A second detachable tubular member (125) can be optionally added. Through opening (30) may have different shapes that determine how much the smoke temperature is reduced. Member (20) can be selectively depressed to further constrain the passage of smoke to reduce the smoke temperature and trap more gunk. The present was filter is biodegradable and may be used as a carrier for seeds that may bloom when the filter is discarded.
US11266175B2
There is provided a smoking article (10) comprising: a charge (12) of tobacco material; a wrapper (14) circumscribing the charge (12) of tobacco material; a filter (16) arranged downstream of the charge (12) of tobacco material; and a hollow tube (18) defining an inner cavity (20) and attaching the filter (16) to the wrapper (14). An affixing portion (22) of the wrapper (14) is received within the inner cavity (20) and permanently secured to the hollow tube (18). A downstream end of the charge (12) of tobacco material is secured to the wrapper (14) by means of a thermally deactivatable adhesive (28) provided on an outer surface of the charge (12) of tobacco material or on an inner surface of the wrapper (14) or on both such that, upon deactivation of the adhesive (28), at least a portion of the charge (12) of tobacco material becomes slidable within the wrapper (14) in relation to the filter (16).
US11266161B2
A machine for making and dispensing chocolate, comprising: at least one chocolate processing container; a chocolate dispenser tap connected to the processing container for allowing chocolate dispensing; at least a first mixer associated with the container for mixing the chocolate being processed; thermal treatment means associated with said at least one processing container and designed to heat and/or cool the walls of said processing container; an operating and control unit, designed to control said thermal treatment means so as to bring, in sequence in terms of time, the chocolate being processed in said at least one container; to a first, chocolate melting temperature; to a second temperature, which is lower than the first temperature; to a third temperature, which is between the second temperature and the first temperature.
US11266159B2
The present disclosure is directed to cannabinoids infused coffee beans, roasted nuts, and roasted seeds consumables and methods of producing the cannabinoid infused consumables. The consumables are infused in an overall two-step process, in which cannabinoids from a Cannabis species are first infused into coconut oil, which in turn is used to infuse a food or beverage of choice with cannabinoids to generate the cannabinoids infused consumables.
US11266145B2
This disclosure is directed to methods of using compositions comprising protocatechuic acid (PCA) to kill virus including a Covid-19 virus. The compositions generally comprise protocatechuic acid, a liquid vehicle, and a stabilizer. In embodiments, the liquid vehicle comprises an alcohol and/or water. In preferred embodiments, the oil is an essential oil. In embodiments, the compositions may comprise principally protocatechuic acid, liquid vehicle, and stabilizer as the main ingredients. The compositions may be sprayed onto various products and articles of manufacture, and mammalian and human skin, to kill virus including a Covid-19 virus and to further protect the product or human skin for a period of time up to 24 hours or more. In preferred embodiments, an alcohol component kills virus on contact, and after drying, the residual surface PCA coating provides a continuing anti-viral function.
US11266144B2
A biofilm targeting microcapsule, suitable for deposition onto a biofilm from an aqueous dispersion, comprising a solid microparticle with average diameter from 1 to 100 micron, the microparticle carrying a non-volatile functional material to be delivered to the biofilm after the microparticle has been deposited onto the biofilm, characterised in that the microparticle has attached to its outer surface from 0.5 to 5 wt %, based on the microparticle weight, of nonionic polysaccharide polymer.
US11266142B1
A Drip Edge Configuration (aka Rodent Proof Drip Edge System) is designed for residential use to cover the construction gap above the fascia to prevent rodent entry and to direct water into the gutters. The Drip Edge Configuration also comes with a Roof Return Configuration to seal the gap where the soffit meets the shingles. Finally, The Drip Edge Configuration also has the option for venting in the rare occasion where a house has no soffit or additional venting is required. An improved drip edge which includes holes in the fascia-facing face which allows the drip edge to be screwed from the face using screws with rubber washers for a water proof seal just as used on a metal roof for a rodent proof solution. An improved drip edge which includes also galvanized steel and is flexible enough to cut and bend for proper installation to have rodent proof inside and outside corners. A roof return configuration to seal the construction gap where the soffit meets the shingles.
US11266141B1
A pole mounted insect repellent system capable of being staked in the ground reduces and eliminates mosquitoes and insects by creating a perimeter zone of a plurality of insect repellent stake mounted devices such that mosquitos and other insects do not enter the zone.
US11266140B2
A weed electrocution system comprises a tool bar section comprising a central tool bar and one or more peripheral tool bars pivotable relative to the central tool bar. A mount is adapted to mount the tool bar section to a tractor. A first electrode is associated with the central tool bar, and a a second electrode is associated with the second tool bar. When an electric current is supplied to the first and second electrodes, the electrodes are able to electrocute weeds that come in contact with the electrodes. A ground wheel connected to a peripheral tool bar causes the peripheral tool bar and the second electrode to adjust to the contour of the land.
US11266130B2
In a housing (1), an internal space capable of housing an insect is formed, an opening (11) through which the internal space and an outside communicate with each other is formed, and a portion other than the opening (11) is closed so that the insect is incapable of passing through the portion. Rails (2) in a pair are disposed in parallel with each other on both sides of the opening (11) across the opening (11) on an outer surface of the housing (1), maintain a gap between a face, on which the opening (11) is formed, of the housing (1) and a cover (3) to have a size preventing the insect from passing through the gap, and slidably retain the cover (3) on the external side of the housing (1). A sample holder retains a sample, is slidably retained by the rails (2), and enables the sample to be exposed from the opening (11) to the internal space when being slidably retained by the rails (2) in the state of retaining the sample. The cover (3) and the sample holder retaining the sample can be slid between the rails (2) in the pair in a state in which one side of the cover (3) and one side of the sample holder come into contact with each other, whereby the cover (3) and the sample holder can be moved between a position at which the cover (3) covers the opening (11) and a position at which the sample covers the opening (11).
US11266128B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for controlling a camera to observe aquaculture feeding behavior. In some implementations, a method includes moving a camera to a first position, obtaining an image captured by the camera at the first position, determining a feeding observation mode, and based on the feeding observation mode and analysis of the image, determining a second position to move the camera.
US11266118B2
The present invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum seed designated 72-022 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant produced by growing the 72-022 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the tomato cultivar, represented by tomato variety 72-022 RZ.
US11266114B2
Petunia plants comprising spotted flower color patterns are disclosed. Petunia plants comprising spotted flower color patterns in combination with other flower patterns are also disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of breeding with the Petunia plants having the novel spotted flower color pattern to provide new, distinct and stable Petunia plants having flowers with a spotted flower color pattern.
US11266112B2
The disclosure relates to a cotton variety, designated PX3B09W3FE, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety PX3B09W3FE, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety PX3B09W3FE with itself or with another cotton plant, hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety PX3B09W3FE with another cotton variety or plan, methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes, and the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX3B09W3FE, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX3B09W3FE, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US11266106B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01081407. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01081407. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01081407 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01081407 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11266099B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011136. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011136, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011136 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011136.
US11266096B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV421301. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV421301, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV421301 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV421301 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV421301.
US11266091B2
Provided is a canola variety designated 4006562-02 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof produced from a cross of inbred varieties. Methods for producing a canola variety comprise crossing canola variety 4006562-02 with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 4006562-02 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Canola variety 4006562-02, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, plant parts and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety 4006562-02 are disclosed.
US11266064B2
A distribution and leveling system for a particulate material storage compartment includes an auger configured to be disposed within the particulate material storage compartment. The auger is configured to move particulate material across the particulate material storage compartment via rotation of the auger about a first rotational axis. The distribution and leveling system also includes an agitator positioned below the auger. The agitator is configured to agitate the particulate material via rotation of the agitator about a second rotational axis. In addition, the first rotational axis is substantially parallel to the second rotational axis, rotation of the auger and rotation of the agitator are independently controllable, and the first rotational axis and the second rotational axis are substantially aligned with one another along a longitudinal axis of the particulate material storage compartment.
US11266057B2
An implement includes a mechanical coupling component configured to removably couple the implement to a support machine, a hydraulic fluid supply line configured to receive a supply flow of hydraulic fluid under pressure from a hydraulic system associated with the support machine, and a hydraulically-powered component configured to be actuated using the hydraulic fluid. The implement also includes a hydraulic fluid recovery system comprising a hydraulic fluid return line configured to fluidically couple to the hydraulic system associated with the support machine and provide a return flow of hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic system. A hydraulic fluid reservoir is configured to, when the hydraulic fluid return line is decoupled from the hydraulic system associated with the support machine, receive a portion of the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid return line when a fluid pressure in the hydraulic fluid return line increases to a pressure threshold.
US11272648B2
A component mounting machine, includes a mounting base provided in a component mounting machine main body and movable at least in the horizontal direction; a mounting/demounting tool, detachably mounted on the mounting base and movable in the up-down direction while holding a component; a tool moving mechanism configured to move the mounting/demounting tool in the up-down direction; a mounting base moving mechanism configured to move the mounting base at least in the horizontal direction; and a control device configured to perform a seating improvement process for applying a force in a predetermined direction, including the horizontal direction, to the mounting base on which the mounting/demounting tool is mounted after the mounting/demounting tool is mounted on the mounting base and before the mounting/demounting tool holds the component, by a moving operation different from a moving operation for holding the component on the mounting/demounting tool in the mounting base moving mechanism.
US11272645B2
An electronic device and an electromagnetic shielding frame are provided. The electromagnetic shielding frame includes a ring-shaped portion and a plurality of soldering tabs that extend from the ring-shaped portion along a protruding direction. The soldering tabs are spaced apart from each other and are in a ring-shaped arrangement. At least one of the soldering tabs has a patterned slot layout so as to be defined as a patterned tab. A portion of the patterned slot layout of the patterned tab arranged away from the ring-shaped portion has a layout distance. The patterned slot layout is arranged along a first direction and a second direction. The first direction and the protruding direction have a first angle therebetween that is smaller than 90 degrees, and the second direction and the protruding direction have a second angle therebetween that is smaller than 90 degrees.
US11272642B2
An electronic rack liquid cooling system includes a rack manifold having a rack liquid supply line or channel and a rack liquid return line or channel. The liquid supply line is to receive first cooling liquid from a cooling liquid source and the liquid return line is to return first warmer liquid carrying the exchanged heat back to the cooling liquid source. The electronic rack further includes an array of server blades arranged in a stack therein. Each server blade includes one or more liquid cold plates associated with one or more information technology (IT) components. The electronic rack further includes a set of one or more liquid distribution units (LDUs) coupled between the rack liquid supply and return lines and the server blades. Each LDU includes a liquid supply port, a liquid return port, one or more pairs of supply sub-ports and return sub-ports, and a plate heat exchanger.
US11272641B2
Example embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to a mounting bracket for deployment in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a multilayer mounting bracket includes a first layer made of a dual-conductive polymer and a second layer made of a polymer that includes an endothermic blowing agent. The dual-conductive polymer includes carbon material that renders the first layer electrically conductive and also includes graphite material that renders the first layer thermally conductive. The endothermic blowing agent renders the second layer thermally insulative. An electronic module such as an engine controller can be mounted upon the first layer, which operates as a heat sink to dissipate heat generated by the electronic module and also operates as an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield. The second layer prevents heat from being transferred from the first layer into another electronic module that may be mounted upon the mounting bracket.
US11272639B2
A heat dissipation apparatus includes a heat dissipation panel built in the electronic device. The heat dissipation panel includes a first heat conducting layer, including a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is a surface exposed to the outside when the first heat conducting layer is bent. The second surface is a surface opposite to the first surface. A first region on the first heat conducting layer is used to absorb heat released by a heat emitting component, and conduct the heat to a second region on the first heat conducting layer, to dissipate the heat. The heat dissipation panel also includes first flexible layer, including a third region. The third region adheres to a position that is on the second surface of the first heat conducting layer and that corresponds to a bending region.
US11272635B2
A frame includes a first frame, a back case and a second frame. The first frame includes a first frame plate and a first frame wall, the back case includes a back case plate and a back case wall, the second frame includes a second frame plate and a second frame wall, and the second frame surrounds the first frame and the back case. The second frame plate is located on a side of the first frame plate facing away from the back case plate, and the first frame wall is protruded from a surface of the first frame plate facing towards the back case plate, the back case wall is protruded from a surface of the back case plate facing towards the first frame plate, and the second frame wall is protruded from a surface of the second frame plate facing towards the first frame plate.
US11272634B2
A modular system for producing an electronic device includes: a housing, which forms an accommodating space; a printed circuit board which is insertable along an insertion direction into the accommodating space of the housing and, in a mounting position, is accommodated in the accommodating space; and a plurality of attachment parts, which are connectable to the printed circuit board and which, when viewed along the insertion direction, each have a division corresponding to a predetermined smallest dividing unit or an integral multiple of the predetermined smallest dividing unit. Each attachment part has a first guide device for guiding on a second guide device of the housing and a combination of attachment parts is connectable to the printed circuit board in a manner arranged next to one another along the insertion direction such that when the printed circuit board is inserted into the accommodating space, the combination is guided.
US11272633B2
An electronic device includes: a housing which has two side walls which are spaced apart from one another along an apposition direction and form an accommodation space between them; a printed circuit board which is insertable into the accommodating space of the housing along an insertion direction pointing transversely to the apposition direction and, in a mounting position, is accommodated in the accommodating space in a position perpendicular to the apposition direction and has a side edge extending along the insertion direction; and at least one attachment part which has at least one engagement receptacle by which the at least one attachment part is attachable to the side edge of the printed circuit board and, in an attached position, is connected to the printed circuit board.
US11272626B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels. The display device further includes a roller to which the display panel is wound or unwound. The display device further includes a lifting unit configured to move the display panel in a vertical direction. The lifting unit lifting unit includes a plurality of unit blocks and a plate to which the plurality of unit blocks is fixed. Therefore, the structure of the lifting unit is simplified to improve the durability and the rocking.
US11272623B2
A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer having a front surface and a back surface and at least two wiring parts that are disposed at least on the front surface of the insulating layer and that are insulated from each other. At least one of the wiring parts is electrically isolated on the insulating layer. Each of the wiring parts includes a conductive base layer disposed on the front surface of the insulating layer, a conductive layer disposed on a front surface of the conductive base layer, and a conductive covering layer arranged to cover at least a portion of a front surface of the conductive layer, at least a portion of a side surface of the conductive base layer, and at least a portion of a side surface of the conductive layer. The conductive base layer and the conductive layer overlap and coincide with each other in plan view.
US11272620B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of circuit boards, and provides an embedded circuit board and a method for manufacturing the embedded circuit board. The embedded circuit board includes: a first outer wiring board, a base board, and a second outer wiring board. The base board has at least one groove, the first outer wiring board, the base board and the second outer wiring board define through holes to form a resonant chamber. A minimal distance between the side walls of the groove and the side walls of the adjacent through holes is 50 um-400 um. An electronic device is received in the groove.
US11272618B2
A component-on-package circuit may include a component for an electrical circuit and a circuit module attached to the component. The circuit module may have circuitry and at least one leadframe which connects the circuitry to the component both electrically and thermally. The leadframe may have a high degree of both electrical and thermal conductivity and a non-planar shape that provides spring-like cushioning of force applied to the component in the direction of the circuit module.
US11272596B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of LED light control, and in particular to an LED constant-current driver circuit. According to the LED constant-current driver circuit of the present disclosure, by connecting driver modules together in series, when a voltage is input, the input voltage is distributed to each driver module. Thus, different ranges of voltages can be input, and the attenuation of the input voltage is reduced, increasing the reliability of the system. Moreover, the overall structure is simple, reducing the cost of the product.
US11272573B2
A communication device performs direct communication between terminals. The system transmits and receives wireless signals and controls transmission of data using a predetermined resource pool and reception of feedback from a transmission destination terminal of the data. The system performs control to secure a resource for transmission of the data and a resource for the feedback for the transmission destination terminal of the data within the predetermined resource pool, and notifies the transmission destination terminal of information regarding the resource for the feedback by using SCI.
US11272570B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving data by a first node in a Bluetooth mesh network. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring, from a control device for controlling the Bluetooth mesh network, a command message instructing to start a procedure for acquiring specific information of all nodes included in the Bluetooth mesh network; broadcasting a request packet for discovering a node near a first node; receiving a response packet to the request packet, from each of a plurality of nodes which have received the request packet; registering the plurality of nodes as low near nodes for the first node; and receiving a specific packet including the specific information from each of the plurality of nodes belonging to the low near nodes.
US11272565B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving configuration information for an inactive state. One method includes receiving configuration information for a radio bearer. The method includes transitioning the radio bearer to an inactive state and configuring the radio bearer based on the configuration information. The configuration information configures the radio bearer with: a first configuration that transmits data in the inactive state in response to a data property being less than a predetermined threshold; a second configuration that initiates transition from the inactive state to a connected state before transmitting data; a third configuration that transmits data in the inactive state and initiates transition from the inactive state to the connected state after at least a portion of the data is transmitted; and/or a fourth configuration that inhibits data transmission in the inactive state and inhibits initiating transition from the inactive state to the connected state.
US11272562B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting downlink data to remote UE, the method for an eNB to transmit downlink data to a remote UE in a wireless communication system comprises a step in which the eNB receives out of coverage related information on the remote UE; a step in which the eNB determines that the relay UE of the remote UE and the remote UE are maintained in a connected mode after receiving the out of coverage related information on the remote UE; and a step of transmitting downlink data to the remote UE.
US11272559B2
A system and method to determine location information with respect to a plurality of portable devices, with potentially a large number of portable devices such as 40 or more portable devices in proximity to the system. The system may connect to and locate each of the plurality of portable devices in proximity to the system. The location information may be determined with respect to an object, such as a vehicle or building, and optionally within a larger system of objects, such as a mass transit system.
US11272544B2
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) are provided. The 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 communication method may include receiving, from a base station, a message including first information on a physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration period, identifying a set of association period which corresponds to the PRACH configuration period, identifying an association period from the set of association period, and transmitting, to the base station, a random access preamble in a random access occasion within the association period.
US11272543B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a physical layer (PHY) device that is compatible with the IEEE 802.3 standard and that utilizes carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) for media access control to a shared media is disclosed. The PHY device includes a physical coding sublayer transmitter (PCS-TX), a physical medium attachment transmitter (PMA-TX), a physical coding sublayer receiver (PCS-RX), a physical medium attachment receiver (PMA-RX), and a media access priority manager configured to initiate transmission of an indication of a priority of a frame that is to be transmitted onto the shared media.
US11272539B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a first bandwidth part and a second bandwidth part of an unlicensed cell. An active bandwidth part is switched from the first bandwidth part to the second bandwidth part. A first contention window size determined based on the switching. Based on the first contention window size, a listen before talk procedure is performed for transmission of a transport block in one or more subbands of the second bandwidth part. A transport block is transmitted based on a listen before talk procedure indicating a clear channel.
US11272536B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for simultaneous transmission and reception of data wirelessly using different wireless bands. The multi-link operations described herein can provide higher network throughput and improved network flexibility compared to traditional techniques to wireless communication. Embodiments of the present invention support joint or independent transmission of data over different links, and a full duplex connection can be enabled by independent multi-band operation e.g., a frequency division duplex mode.
US11272533B2
Provided are a random-access sending and receiving method and apparatus, transmitting end, receiving end, and storage medium. The random-access sending method includes: a preamble resource is acquired, and preamble information is generated; a pilot resource is determined according to the preamble resource and a user equipment identifier, and pilot information is generated; data information is acquired, and the data information is mapped to a time-frequency resource, the data information including user equipment identifier information; and a radio frame is formed from the preamble information, the pilot information and the data information, and the radio frame is sent.
US11272530B2
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. If a higher layer parameter altMCS-Table is configured, and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is assigned by a downlink control information (DCI) format 1, 1B, 1D, 2, 2A, 2B, 2C, or 2D, the UE may, for some subframe/frame configurations, determine a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) for the transport block as a maximum of: 1; and a floor function applied to a product of a total number of allocated PRBs, a parameter dependent on a special subframe configuration, and a scaling parameter. For other subframe/frame configurations, the UE may determine the number of PRBs for the transport block as a maximum of: 1; and the floor function applied to a product of the total number of allocated PRBs and the scaling parameter.
US11272525B2
This application discloses a resource location determining method and apparatus, and a resource determining method and apparatus, which are used by a terminal in 5G NR to determine an SR resource location. The resource location determining method includes: receiving, by the terminal. SR resource indication information from a base station, where the SR resource indication information is used to indicate an SR resource; and determining, by the terminal, an SR resource location on a first time domain resource based on the SR resource indication information and information about an OCC multiplexing multiple of the first time domain resource, where the SR resource includes a code domain resource and a frequency domain resource.
US11272523B1
A method and system to control air-interface-resource scheduling priority of a user equipment device (UE) served by an access node over an air interface, where the air interface defining air-interface resources such as physical resource blocks (PRBs) allocable by the access node. In an example method, the access node detects that both (i) the UE has threshold low remaining battery energy and (ii) the UE is served with non-standalone connectivity, such as EN-DC, rather than with standalone connectivity, such as 4G-only or 5G-only. And based at least on that detecting, the access node transitions from serving the UE with a baseline air-interface scheduling priority to serving the UE instead with an increased air-interface scheduling priority higher than the baseline scheduling priority.
US11272517B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of vehicle to vehicle communications technologies, and provide a resource energy determining method and apparatus. An example method includes: obtaining, by first user equipment (UE), time-frequency resource indication information and resource cycle reservation information of second UE in a sensing time window of the first UE; determining, by the first UE, energy of a first resource based on the time-frequency resource indication information of the second UE; and determining, by the first UE, where a time-frequency domain location of the first resource in a transmission period in which the first resource is located is the same as a time-frequency domain location of each of the at least one second resource in a transmission period in which the second resource is located.
US11272511B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may support efficient techniques for a capability based solution for handling an out-of-order operation for processing multiple downlink channels. In some cases, the UE may indicate, to a base station, a number of processing units needed to support a given priority class of communications with the base station, a maximum possible data rate per priority class of communications, or different numbers of component carriers (e.g., and a number of layers) that can be used for each priority class of communications. The base station may then configure the UE to receive and/or transmit channels of different priority classes based on the indication to not exceed the number of processing units, the maximum data rate, the number of component carriers, etc. for a corresponding priority class.
US11272505B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for performing fractional subframe transmission. The method may comprise: determining first temporal information that indicates when a channel becomes available; and determining, based on the first temporal information and transmission opportunity information, second temporal information that indicates an end of the fractional subframe transmission.
US11272501B2
Provided are a service transmission method and apparatus. The method comprises: a first mobile station acquiring N resource allocation parameter sets, wherein each of the resource allocation parameter sets comprises at least one resource allocation parameter, and N is greater than or equal to 2; the first mobile station determining a second resource allocation parameter set from the N resource allocation parameter sets, and the first mobile station determining a second target resource; the first mobile station sending to a second mobile station indication information about the second resource allocation parameter set and indication information about the second target resource; and the first mobile station transmitting, according to the second resource allocation parameter set, a second service with the second mobile station using the second target resource. The method can flexibly and rapidly cope with different requirements of different services on semi-persistent scheduling.
US11272500B2
Systems and methods for unified facility communications systems with device location are provided. One system embodiment comprises: a master unit and a plurality of remote antenna units defining a DAS. The master unit communicates with a base station to receive a base station downlink RF signal and to transmit a base station uplink RF signal. The remote antenna units radiate a remote downlink RF signal into a coverage area and receive a remote uplink RF signal from the coverage area. The master unit comprises uplink and downlink circuitry to transport user device communications, and a facility supervisory module to process facility device traffic associated with wireless facility assets in the coverage area. Facility device traffic is transported via the remote antenna units. Within the master unit, user device communications is routed via the uplink and downlink circuitry and facility device traffic is routed via the facility supervisory module.
US11272493B2
Disclosed by the present invention are a power indication method, a network device, a terminal device and a computer storage medium, the method comprising: in downlink data scheduling information, indicating to a terminal device second power allocation information for a downlink data channel.
US11272492B2
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. A radio frame may be configured for time-division duplexing (TDD) operation, and may comprise: one or more downlink subframes, one or more uplink subframes, and a special subframe that occurs immediately after one of the downlink subframes and immediately before one of the uplink subframes. The UE may receive a narrowband physical downlink shared channel (NPDSCH) sent at least partly in the special subframe. The UE may, if a number of repetitions of the NPDSCH is greater than one, decode the NPDSCH based on a de-puncture operation for the special subframe. The UE may, if the number of repetitions of the NPDSCH is equal to one, decode the NPDSCH based on a rate match operation for the special subframe.
US11272491B2
This application discloses a resource indication method, a network device, and a terminal device, to improve utilization of a resource mapped to a DMRS port. The method includes: sending, by a network device, configuration information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device determines, based on the configuration information, that a second resource in first resources is used to transmit first information or that a third resource in first resources is not used to transmit first information, where the first resources are resources mapped to a DMRS port. In this way, the terminal device can multiplex the resources mapped to the DMRS port. When some of the first resources are not used to transmit a DMRS, the resources may be indicated to determine whether the resources may be used to transmit the first information, for example, the first information may be data, control information, or other information different from DMRS information, thereby ensuring maximum use of the resources mapped to the DMRS port, and improving resource utilization.
US11272482B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods for wireless communication. A transmitting device transmits a first portion of a control message to a receiving device. The first portion includes information for decoding a second portion of the control message and for decoding data. The transmitting device then transmits the second portion to the receiving device, the second portion including additional information for decoding the data. Thereafter, the first device transmits the data to the receiving device. The receiving device receives the first portion and the second portion, and decodes the received second portion based on the information included in the first portion. The receiving device then receives the data from the second device if the received second portion is able to be decoded. The receiving device decodes the received data based on the information included in the first portion and the additional information included in the second portion.
US11272477B2
A method of determining a position of a paging message, a communication device, a network-side device, and a user equipment are provided. The method of determining a position of a paging message includes determining a position of a paging message on a communication resource, where the location causes paging occasions of two consecutive paging messages to use different communication resources, and the communication resource includes at least one of following: a time-domain resource, a frequency-domain resource, a spatial domain resource, a code-domain resource.
US11272473B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses timing advance adjustment. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving a timing advance command; determining a timing advance adjustment gap based on the received timing advance command, wherein the timing advance adjustment gap is k symbols, and k is a nature number larger than one; applying the corresponding adjustment of uplink transmission timing from k symbols later than the end of the physical channel carrying the timing advance command.
US11272470B2
Provided are 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), with a transmission and receipt processing method and device for time-frequency synchronization between V2X terminals. When a synchronization signal to be transmitted is identical to a synchronization signal of an existing D2D terminal, time-frequency resources configured for the D2D terminal in a cell are reused to transmit the synchronization signal. When synchronization signal to be transmitted is different from a synchronization signal of an existing D2D terminal, reconfigured time-frequency resources are used to transmit the synchronization signal. The synchronization signal transmitted by a V2X terminal indicates a corresponding synchronization source type by using a value of an SLSS sequence index and/or a value of a PSBCH specified field.
US11272463B2
Disclosed is a power sharing method, including: determining a transmit power of a UE on a first carrier and a transmit power of the UE on a second carrier; and receiving first uplink traffic transmitted by the UE on the first carrier according to the transmit power on the first carrier, and receiving second uplink traffic transmitted by the UE on the second carrier according to the transmit power on the second carrier. Further disclosed are a power sharing apparatus, a storage medium, and a processor.
US11272461B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for transmitting a plurality of packets by a sidelink terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting a first packet of a plurality of packets with a first period and a first transmission power value; and transmitting a second packet of the plurality of packets with a second period and a second transmission power value, wherein the first period is longer than the second period, and the first transmission power value is greater than the second transmission power value. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the BS or a network.
US11272460B2
A wireless communication device and method therein for improving its performance are disclosed. The wireless communication device obtains information on power consumption requirement and/or performance of certain carriers regarding at least one of path loss, load and interference. The wireless communication device determines an indication parameter associated with preferences of the wireless communication device based on the obtained information. The wireless communication device then sends the indication parameter to the network node and receives signals from the network node with allocated radio resources configured by the network node based on the indication parameter.
US11272455B2
Embodiments are directed to dynamic frequency selection (DFS) for wake up radio (WUR). An embodiment of a storage medium includes instructions to cause operations including select, by a primary access point (AP), a surrogate AP to communicate with a wake up radio of a station that is associated with the primary AP operating on a Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channel; provide, by the primary AP to the surrogate AP, wake up radio parameters negotiated between the station and the primary AP; cause, by the primary AP, the surrogate AP to send a wake up signal to the station, the wake up signal to cause the wake up radio of the station to enable a primary connectivity radio of the station; and exchange, by the primary AP, data with the station via the primary connectivity radio after the primary connectivity radio is enabled.
US11272454B1
One illustrative example includes wireless device having a first wake-up receiver and a second wake-up receiver. The first wake-up receiver can detect a first wake-up signal within a first group of wireless signals and responsively activate the second wake-up receiver. The second wake-up receiver can then detect a second wake-up signal within a second group of wireless signals and responsively activate a transceiver, where the transceiver is usable to engage in bidirectional communication with a remote device.
US11272448B2
An electronic device including circuitry configured to perform communications with a road side unit (RSU), a base station, and another electronic device mounted to a moving object; receive, from the base station or the RSU, parameters for performing intermittent device-to-device (D2D) communication with the another electronic device, the parameters including information indicating a resource pool used for performing the intermittent D2D communication with the another electronic device; and perform intermittent D2D communication with the another electronic device based on the parameters received from the base station or RSU.
US11272439B2
Embodiments provide a core network selection method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes the following steps: obtaining first dedicated core network (DCN) information from an access network device, where the first DCN information includes information about at least one DCN that can be accessed by the access network device. The method also includes selecting a to-be-accessed DCN from the at least one DCN according to the first DCN information, and sending information about the to-be-accessed DCN to the access network device, so that the access network device determines a core network device according to the information about the to-be-accessed DCN.
US11272434B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented in a base station, user equipment, and/or the like, to share information supportive of narrow beam transmissions. For example, a base station may be configured to access a neighbor cell list corresponding to a coverage area, determine a subset of the neighbor cell list corresponding to a first narrow beam to be transmitted, and transmit a message indicative of the subset of the neighbor cell list. In another example, a user equipment may be configured to receive a message indicative of a subset of a neighbor cell list for a portion of a coverage area of a base station corresponding to a first narrow beam, and search for one or more wireless signals based, at least in part, on the subset of the neighbor cell list.
US11272433B2
The disclosed technology provides a system for scanning frequency channels that reduces the number of frequency channels scanned from among all the possible frequency channels that a wireless communication device can operate on. The wireless communication device uses historical data on last successful connection together with device data metrics from the last successful connection to determine a probability of successful connection for each of the potential frequency channels. The wireless communication device then ranks the probability associated with each frequency channel to determine a frequency scanning order that results in fewer frequencies being scanned before an appropriate channel is identified.
US11272431B2
A system message transmission method includes: broadcasting a minimum system message, wherein the minimum system information includes first indication information, and the first indication information is configured to indicate a modification period of at least one of second indication information or third indication information. The second indication information is configured to indicate whether target other system information transmitted in an on-demand manner among other system information is in a to-be-transmitted state, and the third indication information is configured to indicate a transmission manner of the target other system information.
US11272430B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a method and apparatus for controlling a restricted UE capability, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a base station sends UE capability configuration information to a terminal, the UE capability configuration information being used for indicating whether the terminal can send, to the base station, a request message for using a restricted UE capability; and when the base station receives the request message for using a restricted UE capability, which is sent by the terminal, the base station sends, to the terminal, a reply message for confirming the use of the restricted UE capability.
US11272425B2
Provided is an electronic device comprising a wireless communication module, a memory for storing attribute information on a first cluster including the electronic device, and a processor electrically connected to the wireless communication module and the memory, wherein the processor is configured so as to perform synchronization with the first cluster in relation to the performance of neighbor awareness networking (NAN)-based communication, receive a first signal including attribute information on a second cluster from an external electronic device included in the second cluster through the wireless communication module, compare attribute information on the first cluster, which is stored in the memory, with attribute information on the second information, maintain the synchronization with the first cluster and perform synchronization with the second cluster when a condition designated between the attribute information on the first cluster and the attribute information on the second cluster is satisfied, and transmit, on the basis of at least part of the synchronization with the second cluster, a second signal including information on the first cluster to the external electronic device through the wireless communication module.
US11272421B2
A data transfer path calculation device includes: a travel plan acquisition section that acquires a travel plan composed of routes on which vehicles are estimated to travel and passage times at which the vehicles are estimated to pass through points on the routes; a communication environment acquisition section that, for each of wireless base stations, acquires communication environment information indicating a communication environment for communicating with the corresponding one of the wireless base stations at points; and a transfer path calculation section that searches for a data transfer path based on the travel plan and the communication environment information, the data transfer path being a path through which data sequentially passes, among the vehicles, from an acquisition vehicle through one or more relay vehicles by inter-vehicle communication and from a last relay vehicle among the relay vehicles, the data finally reaching a server via one of the wireless base stations.
US11272416B2
A method and a base station are disclosed. The base station includes a receiver and a transmitter. The base station transmits, to a primary downlink cell, a first scheduling assignment for a first uplink transmission and receives first data in the first uplink transmission to at least a primary uplink cell using a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The base station transmits, to the primary downlink cell, a second scheduling assignment indicating, the second scheduling assignment indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identification of the first HARQ process, a modulation and coding set (MCS), and a transmission time opportunity; and receives the first data in a second uplink transmission using the first HARQ process, the MCS, and the transmission time opportunity, wherein the first data is received in a transmission based on the HARQ process identification.
US11272415B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for handover of a UE (100) from a source node (20, 30) connected to a first core network (50, 60) to a target node (20, 30) connected to a second core network (50, 60). The UE (100) receives, from the source node (20, 30), a mobility command including an indication of the radio access technology (RAT) used by the target node (20, 30) and a message container containing configuration information for the target node (20, 30). The UE (100) further determines, based on the indication of the RAT used by the target node (20, 30), whether to treat the handover as an inter-RAT handover or as an intra-RAT handover with a core network change, and performs a radio resource control procedure for one of an inter-RAT handover or an intra-RAT handover with a core network change based on the determination.
US11272414B2
A brokering service apparatus (400) and method therein (150) for assisting a first node (111) to roam in multiple mesh networks (100) are disclosed. The multiple mesh networks (100) comprises a first network (110) comprising a first node (111) and a gateway node (113) and a second network (120) comprising a gateway node (123). The multiple mesh networks (100) further comprises a mesh node (140, 141) which may belong to either the first network (110), the second network (120) or a third network (130). The brokering service apparatus receives a connection request associated with the first node 111 and the first network (110), the connection request is sent by the first node (111) via the mesh node (140). The brokering service identifies the first network (110) and data requirements for the first node (111) and negotiates a roaming contract between a first NMS (160) associated with the first network (110) and at least a second NMS (170) associated with the second network (120). When the roaming contract is established, the brokering service transmits a roaming accept message to at least the second NMS (170) of the second network (120).
US11272411B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for determining a state of a terminal device. The method includes: the terminal device determines an amount of data to be sent; and the terminal device determines, according to the amount of data to be sent, a state in which the terminal device needs to be. According to the embodiments of the present application, unnecessary state switching can be avoided for the terminal device, signaling overhead can be reduced, and power consumption of the terminal device can be reduced, thereby improving system efficiency.
US11272407B2
In one example, a first base station entity provides, to a second base station entity, a first indication of a reference signal that is transmitted by a first user equipment that the first base station entity is serving. The first base station entity obtains, from the second base station entity, a second indication of whether the second base station entity has detected the reference signal. Based on the second indication, the first base station entity determines whether the second base station entity is within a range of the first user equipment.
US11272404B2
A method for reserving physical resource blocks of a mobile access network, implemented by a content server configured to send a data stream requested by a terminal connected to the mobile access network with a determined level of quality. The method includes: determining a value of a number of blocks to be reserved, as a function of parameters related to the data stream, and the determined level of quality; sending a first request for reserving resource blocks, including the determined value of the number of blocks to be reserved, to a control entity of the mobile access network; and receiving a response for allocating resource blocks originating from the control entity, including a value of a number of blocks allocated to the content server.
US11272398B2
A method and base station for distributing wireless device traffic load in a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations are provided. A method includes determining a wireless device traffic load on a serving base station of the plurality of base stations. The method also includes determining a priority for each of a plurality of target base stations of the plurality of base stations, the priority being based at least in part on a number of wireless devices being served by the serving base station that receive a signal from a corresponding target base station that exceeds a threshold. The method further includes determining whether to change the load of the serving base station and sending a load change request to a target base station having a highest priority based on a comparison of the load on the serving base station to a load change threshold.
US11272391B2
An apparatus of a cellular data communication device includes one or more memory devices configured to store data corresponding to a plurality of service data units (SDUs) from a protocol layer higher than a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of a cellular data network, and one or more processors operably coupled to the one or more memory devices and configured to concatenate the plurality of SDUs into a single protocol data unit (PDU) above the PDCP layer.
US11272388B2
Methods and related user equipment are described in which the UE receives a measurement configuration message via a radio network node, the measurement configuration message comprising location information associated with a measurement configuration file, and in which the UE retrieves the measurement configuration file from a server using the received location information.
US11272385B2
In a control device 22 constituting a communication terminal measurement apparatus 10, a display control unit 30d displays an NR connection confirmation/support screen 36a indicating a connection mode for connection between an NR measurement device 20 and a communication terminal 11a, and an LTE connection confirmation/support screen 36b indicating a connection mode for connection between a LTE measurement device 21 and the communication terminal 11a. Further, information on the signal of the NR communication standard is attached as a text to the image of the port through which the signal of the NR communication standard is input and output, and information on the signal of the LTE communication standard is attached as a text to an image of the port through which the signal of the LTE communication standard is input and output.
US11272379B2
A plurality of directional antennas are arranged between an inner barrier (e.g., ring, wall, fence, glass, etc encircling a field, court, rink, stage, etc) and an outer barrier (e.g., guardrail, wall, etc encircling a seating region, etc) of the venue. Each directional antenna produces a beam pattern that is oriented such that the beam pattern is directed at an angle off-normal from the inner or outer barrier. Further, at least some of the directional antennas are placed at the openings of pedestrian tunnels leading into the seating region of the venue, near the inner barrier of the venue seating region, or placed near a midpoint between the inner and outer barriers so as to provide wireless communication services to users in the seating region of the venue.
US11272371B2
This application provides an unmanned aerial vehicle authentication method and an apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a communications device after determining that a type of a terminal is a UAV, authentication information of the terminal to an authentication server, so that the authentication server can perform authentication on the terminal based on the authentication information of the terminal, and therefore, the authentication server completes authentication on the terminal. In addition, the unmanned aerial vehicle is allowed to fly only after authentication on the terminal succeeds. Therefore, flight security of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be improved.
US11272370B2
A communication device includes an integrated smart card and a software profile management module. The software profile management module is configured to store profiles in the smart card, receive an operation request that includes an indication of a requested operation and an identifier of the smart card, check whether the operation request corresponds to an identifier of the smart card that is available in a repository server, and perform the requested operation only if the operation request is available in the repository server.
US11272368B2
A technique controls access to a set of protected resources. The technique involves receiving a location signal which identifies a current geolocation of an endpoint device. The technique further involves, based on the current geolocation identified by the location signal, generating a heat map corresponding to a geographic region that includes the current geolocation of the endpoint device, the heat map defining one or more security zones within the geographic region. The technique further involves, selecting a particular security level from multiple security levels based on a security zone of the heat map associated with the current geolocation of the endpoint device, and communicating the selected security level to the endpoint device. The selected security level is associated with security requirements to be satisfied by the endpoint device in order for the endpoint device to access the set of protected resources.
US11272366B2
A method and system for determining a path of data traffic based on a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address, the destination IP address being either private or public and belonging to any one of multiple organizations. In the method and system, a VPN is activated at a telecommunication endpoint. In response to activating the VPN, a service device on a private network interconnects with a VPN gateway. A subscriber identifier associated with the telecommunication endpoint and the destination IP address of one of the multiple organizations is received at a managed service platform. If both the subscriber identifier and the destination IP address of the one of the multiple organizations are not registered in a predetermined policy database at the telecommunication endpoint, a subscriber identified by the subscriber identifier is prompted to register the subscriber identifier associated with the telecommunication endpoint. The subscriber identifier is then registered in the predetermined policy database, based on information received from the telecommunication endpoint in response to the prompting. If the subscriber identifier and the destination IP address of the one of the multiple organizations are registered in the predetermined policy database, the service device on the private network routes the data traffic to a private network resource of the one of the multiple organizations matching the destination IP address. If the subscriber identifier is registered in the predetermined policy database and the destination IP address of the one of the multiple organizations is not registered in the predetermined policy database, the service device on the private network routes the data traffic via an IP transit service to a public internet.
US11272363B2
A method is provided for authenticating one device to another device. In the method, a first device proves to a second device that a first credential comprising multiple first attributes is valid. The second device proves to the first device that a second credential comprising multiple second attributes is valid. The first device reveals a first attribute of the multiple first attributes to the second device. The second device verifies the first attribute and decides whether to continue revealing attributes. If continuing, the second device reveals to the first device a first attribute of the multiple second attributes. The first device verifies the first attribute of the multiple second attributes. The first device decides whether to continue revealing attributes. Attributes can be revealed until one of the first or second devices end the method or until no attributes of the multiple first and second attributes remain to be revealed.
US11272362B2
A system for implicit authentication for a mobile device associated with a user, wherein the implicit authentication is behavioral, biometric and task-based and includes at least one authentication task selected so as to leverage the user's muscle memory. The mobile device comprises a touchscreen; a transaction authentication information unit; one or more sensors coupled to the transaction authentication information unit; and an anomaly detector coupled to the transaction authentication information unit. The sensors comprise one or more touchscreen sensors coupled to the touchscreen, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope, and are used to obtain and transmit one or more sets of data to the transaction authentication information unit. The sets of data are associated with one or more performances of the authentication task by the user. The anomaly detector generates an authentication model using the one or more data sets transmitted to the transaction authentication information unit.
US11272361B2
A technique for establishing connectivity between electronic devices is described. In particular, when an electronic device is first connected to a network, the electronic device may use a predefined location of a registrar device to request location information for a controller for the electronic device. The electronic device may provide a manufacturer certificate to the registrar device to confirm its identity. After receiving from the registrar device the location information and a registrar certificate that confirms its identity, the electronic device may use the location information to request the security information from a controller that allows the electronic device to establish connectivity with another electronic device. The electronic device may receive the security from the controller along with a controller certificate that confirms the identity of the controller. Moreover, the electronic device may establish a connection with the other electronic device based on the security information.
US11272360B2
A communication method and a related apparatus, where sending, by an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity, a request message to a session management function (SMF) entity, wherein the request message comprises a data network name (DNN) of a terminal device and an identifier of a slice of the terminal device; obtaining, by the SMF entity, a security policy based on the DNN of the terminal device and the identifier of the slice of the terminal device; sending, by the SMF entity, the security policy to a base station; and enabling, by the base station, user plane encryption protection when the security policy comprises first encryption protection indication information indicating the base station to enable the user plane encryption protection.
US11272356B2
A first mobile device is provided. The first mobile device includes at least one hardware processor and a first mobile device application, executed by the at least one hardware processor. The first mobile device application is configured to detect that the first mobile device is in physical contact with, or within a predetermined distance of, a second mobile device. The first mobile device is also configured to, in response to the detection, send a switch request to make a mobile phone line inactive for the first mobile device and active for the second mobile device.
US11272353B2
A unified device design is described. In an example, a user device can be designed to be permissibly operable with at least two different service providers such that the user device is associated with static features that are applicable for each of the at least two different service providers and the dynamic features that are applicable for individual ones of the at least two different service providers. In an example, a user device can be associated with a subscriber identity module (SIM) that is associated with a service provider. Based at least in part on using a permission to determine that the service provider is one of the at least two different service providers, a subset of dynamic features that are associated with the service provider can be accessed for configuring the user device with the subset of the dynamic features corresponding to the service provider.
US11272339B2
Methods for sharing and transferring music files using near field communication (NFC), which include receiving an NFC ID from an NFC chip using an NFC enabled device, authenticating the received NFC ID with a server system using the NFC enabled device, and upon authentication, permitting the NFC enabled device to temporarily stream or purchase music files.
US11272337B2
An object is to provide a network apparatus capable of performing a communication procedure suitable for accommodating an IoT device. A network apparatus (10) according to present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) configured to receive profile information of a communication terminal (20) transmitted from the communication terminal (20), and a determination unit (12) configured to determine, in a procedure for establishing a radio link between the network apparatus (10) and the communication terminal (20), whether or not to skip at least one of a procedure for configuring a radio resource used for communication of user data between the network apparatus (10) and the communication terminal (20) and a procedure for setting security between the network apparatus (10) and the communication terminal (20) according to the profile information, in which the communication unit (11) receives small data transmitted from the communication terminal (20) through the radio link.
US11272335B2
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for determining locations of an electronic device. In one aspect, a method is performed at a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes obtaining device identification information for the electronic device; broadcasting a request based on the device identification information that the electronic device be enabled to transmit or reflect location information using a radar technique; receiving a signal from the electronic device, the signal indicating a location of the electronic device using a radar technique; and determining the location of the electronic device based on the received signal.
US11272324B2
Provided are a method for transmitting a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) interest indication message by a terminal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving MBMS scheduling information from a base station; selecting at least one beam among a plurality of beams; on the basis of the MBMS scheduling information, determining whether an MBMS service of interest is provided via the at least one selected beam; and when the terminal determines that the MBMS service of interest is not provided via the at least one selected beam, transmitting, to the base station, an MBMS interest indication message including the MBMS service of interest and the at least one selected beam.
US11272319B2
A mobile device determines based on a signal strength threshold when tracking devices communicatively coupled to the mobile device are lost or left behind. The mobile device communicatively couples to a tracking device and receives a first signal transmitted by the tracking device with a signal strength greater than a signal strength threshold. The mobile device receives a second signal transmitted by the tracking device and determines a measure of signal strength based on the second signal. While the mobile device is still communicatively coupled to the tracking device, and responsive to determining that the measure of signal strength of the second signal is less than the signal strength threshold, the mobile device generates a notification that the tracking device may be lost or left behind to alert the user of the mobile device.
US11272317B1
A method of remotely configuring a banking application based on a detected location of a computing device running the banking application, the method comprising: receiving a beacon identifier relating to a location of the computing device; determining the location of the computing device based on the beacon identifier; transmitting information about the determined location associated with a second authentication level that does not require authentication information; receiving authentication information relating to the user; authenticating the user to access a graphical user interface associated with the determined location based on the received authentication information; transmitting an authentication decision to the computing device; and displaying the graphical user interface instead of the information about the determined location.
US11272315B2
The present disclosure relates to a method performed in a network server system of a service provider providing a service comprising media streaming. The method comprises receiving a detection message from a mobile radio device running the service for a user registered with the service provider, said message comprising an indication that said radio device has detected that it is within a predefined geographical area. The method also comprises determining that the predefined geographical area is registered with the service provider and associated with one or more actions. The method also comprises electing an action of the one or more actions. The method also comprises sending an instructions message to the radio device, said message comprising instructions to modify the service such that the radio device performs the elected action.
US11272313B2
A system and method for providing communication with a tracking device are disclosed. An example tracking device includes a location detector, a communication device, memory, a processor, and a configuration routine. The location detector is operative to determine locations of the tracking device. The communication device is operative to communicate with a remote system. The memory stores data and code, the data including location data determined by the location detector and configuration data. The processor is operative to execute the code to impart functionality to the tracking device. The functionality of the tracking device depends at least in part on the configuration data. The configuration routine is operative to modify the configuration data responsive to communications from the remote system. Thus, functional access to the tracking device is provided to the remote system.
US11272312B2
A headphone including right and left ear pieces and a connecting portion which connects the right and left ear pieces to each other. The headphone includes a control part which changes a position at which a sound image is localized in accordance with an orientation of a user's head, with respect to at least one of a first musical sound and a second musical sound different from the first musical sound, the first musical sound and the second musical sound being input to the headphone, and a speaker which is included in each of the right and left ear pieces and to which a signal of a mixed sound of the first musical sound and the second musical sound is connected in a case where the position at which at least one sound image is localized is changed by the control part.
US11272307B2
A method for controlling a recording volume, includes: determining an adjustment gain; and calibrating at least one voice interaction apparatus based on the adjustment gain, to make the at least one voice interaction apparatus have a same recording volume under a same sound pressure level.
US11272306B2
The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.
US11272302B2
An audio apparatus adaptable to a user position is provided. The audio apparatus may include a plurality of sub-modules placed at separate locations from one another, each sub-module of the plurality of sub-modules including a loudspeaker configured to generate sound and a communicator configured to perform communication. The first sub-module among the plurality of sub-modules may include a processor that processes an audio signal to be output as sound through the loudspeaker of the first sub-module, determines a user's position with respect to each of the plurality of sub-modules, and changes a state of the sound being output from the loudspeaker of the first sub-module in accordance with the determined position of the user.
US11272290B2
Provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure are a speaker module and an electronic device. The speaker module includes a speaker unit and a module housing, the speaker unit is mounted in an inner cavity that is encircled by the module housing, and a closed rear acoustic cavity is formed between the speaker unit and the module housing; the speaker unit is provided thereon with a unit leakage holes which is in communication with the rear acoustic cavity, and an air-permeable separation element is fixed on the unit leakage holes; at least one porous material frame is disposed in the rear acoustic cavity; a region other than the porous material frame disposed in the rear acoustic cavity is filled with sound-absorbing particles. The technical solution provided by the present disclosure may reduce the resonance frequency fluctuation range of the speaker, thereby improving the acoustic performance of the speaker module.
US11272280B1
This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that enhance user comfort and improve user control of the headphones are discussed. Various sensor configurations and electronic component positions are also discussed. User convenience features that include detachable cushions and automatically detecting the donning and doffing of headphones are also discussed.
US11272279B1
This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that enhance user comfort and improve user control of the headphones are discussed. Various sensor configurations and electronic component positions are also discussed. User convenience features that include detachable cushions and automatically detecting the donning and doffing of headphones are also discussed.
US11272278B2
The present disclosure relates to electronic components and glasses comprising an electronic component. The electronic component may include a component body, a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a first microphone element, and a second microphone element. The component body may include a cavity. The first circuit board and the second circuit board may be inclined to each arranged in the cavity. The first microphone element may be arranged on a sidewall, facing the component body, of the first circuit board. The second microphone element may be arranged on a sidewall, facing the component body, of the second circuit board. A first sound conducting hole may be arranged on a sidewall, opposite to the first microphone element, of the component body. The first sound conducting hole may be configured to conduct a sound to the first microphone element. A second sound conducting hole may be arranged on the sidewall, opposite to the first microphone element, of the component body. The second sound conducting hole may be configured to conduct a sound to the second microphone element. The present disclosure may make full use of a space of the electronic component. When the electronic component is applied to an electronic device, it is beneficial to the thinness and lightness of the electronic device.
US11272275B1
A magnetic recoil fastener assembly comprises a fastener with a head and a shank, and two annular magnets. When assembled, the annular magnets are arranged on the shank of the fastener to magnetically repel each other. At least the magnet arranged closer to the head of the fastener has a varying inner diameter of its axial opening, including a first diameter at one end which is larger than the width of the head, and a second diameter which is smaller than the width of the head. The end having the larger first diameter is arranged facing the head of the fastener. Also described are in-wall speaker assemblies including such magnetic recoil fastener assemblies for magnetically mounting speaker grilles in an adjustable manner, as well as methods for installing such in-wall speaker assemblies using such magnetic recoil fastener assemblies.
US11272269B1
Systems and methods for integrated band splitter for scaling a dual band Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM). A degree in a ROADM includes ROADM components including a line port and a plurality of connection ports; channel multiplexer/demultiplexer components including degree ports and local add/drop ports; and one or more band splitters in between the ROADM components and the channel multiplexer/demultiplexer components. The band splitter can be configured to split/combine C-band spectrum and L-band spectrum. The band splitter can be a passive fiber device.
US11272266B2
A method includes periodically sending an Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) beacon from a node at a first regular time interval, the AMR beacon containing a register identification (ID) and a reading detected by the node, and periodically listening, at the node, for a hail message such that instances of listening occur at a second regular time interval smaller than the first regular time interval. The node can also be configured to receive a mobile command from a mobile transceiver, as well as a Network System Status Request and a parent assignment command from a stationary transceiver.
US11272262B2
A system for retrieval of executable applications, comprising: a broadcast tele-vision receiver apparatus; and a server; wherein the broadcast television receiver apparatus includes a communication unit having an interface for bidirectional communication with a network and adapted to determine channel information from a currently decoded channel carried in a broadcast television signal, the channel information identifying the currently decoded channel, the communication unit being further adapted to send the channel information to a server over the network, and to receive application information from the server, the application information describing a set of applications which are available for execution, and to receive executable code components for the set of applications corresponding to the application information, and wherein the broadcast television receiver apparatus further includes a data processor adapted to execute the application whilst the channel is decoded; and wherein the server is adapted to receive the channel information over the network, to determine the application information by analyzing the channel information, and to send the application information to the communication unit.
US11272260B1
Systems and methods for an ephemeral digital story channel may include (1) determining that a particular time period coincides with a life event of a user of a social networking platform, (2) during the time period, maintaining an ephemeral celebratory story channel designated for digital story compositions relating to the life event, and (3) after the time period expires, discontinuing the ephemeral celebratory story channel. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11272251B2
A system and method are presented for sharing an audio-visual stream from a server system with a plurality of participant computer systems and for the automated generation of portions. Each participant computer system provides audio and visual data which is converted into the audio-visual stream by the server system. The server system then shares the audio-visual stream with the participant computer systems. During the audio-visual stream, a participant computer can request a portion at a time T. The server will automatically generate a portion audio-visual file using audio and visual data from the stream extending from before time T to after time T. After creation of the portion, the participant computer can modify the timing of the portion and can modify the visual presentation of the portion.
US11272245B2
A video output device has a first cable which connects an input terminal of a display and the input/output terminal of the video output device. A second cable connects the input/output terminal of an information device and the input/output terminal of the video output device. The input terminal of the display has an input terminal section which is connected to an embedded termination power source through a termination resistor. Each of the input/output terminals of the information device and video output device has an output terminal section connected through a capacitor. The input/output terminal of the video output device has functions of detecting whether the input/output terminal of the video output device is connected to the input terminal of the display apparatus through the first cable or the input/output terminal of the video output device is connected to the input/output terminal of the information device through the second cable.
US11272240B2
A method, apparatus as computer program is described comprising: obtaining or receiving content for presentation, wherein the content includes spatial audio data; rendering said content in a first direction; rendering said content in a second direction different to said first direction; and controlling the rendering of said content in said first direction and said second direction dependent, at least in part, on an angle between said first and second directions.
US11272235B2
Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.
US11272233B2
Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses.
US11272231B2
Provided is a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal, according to the present invention, can be a broadcast content transmitting method, comprising the steps of: generating, by a first module, a first media stream for broadcast content wherein the first media stream includes a plurality of packets, and at least one of the packets includes time information; generating, by a second module, a second media stream for the broadcast content; transmitting, by a third module, the first media stream through a broadcast network; receiving, by a fourth module, a request for the second media stream from a receiver; and transmitting, by the fourth module, the second media stream to the receiver through the Internet network.
US11272229B2
Systems and methods for providing an output manifest are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method of providing an output manifest representing a video channel includes: receiving, from a channel requester, a request for the output manifest; receiving input manifests including first and second input manifests; and creating the output manifest in response to receiving the request. Creating the output manifest includes: selecting at least one segment of the first input manifest, the at least one first input manifest segment bordered by a first marker; selecting at least one segment of the second input manifest, the at least one second input manifest segment bordered by a second marker common to the first marker; and creating the output manifest to include the at least one first input manifest segment followed by the at least one second input manifest segment. The output manifest is provided to the channel requester.
US11272214B2
Systems and methods for coding and decoding are provided. A method includes receiving a coded video stream including video data partitioned into a plurality of layers; and decoding the video data of the coded video stream, the decoding including: determining whether a first picture of the coded video stream is to be output based on a syntax element that indicates a mode of output layer set signaling.
US11272201B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for restricting block sizes for illumination compensation are described. An example method can include obtaining a block of a picture of video data; determining a size of the block; determining whether the size of the block is equal to or less than a first block size associated with a block size restriction that restricts bi-directional inter-prediction for blocks having a respective size that is equal to or less than the first block size associated with the block size restriction or whether the size of the block is greater than a second block size associated with a video coding pipeline structure; and disabling illumination compensation for the block based on a determination that the size of the block is equal to or less than the first block size or greater than the second block size.
US11272190B2
An integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit includes a first volatile memory, a second volatile memory, and a video decoder. In response to the video decoder starting video decoding on a current frame of a video stream, the video decoder reads an initial probability table for the current frame from a memory unit external to the integrated circuit, and stores the initial probability table in the first volatile memory. When a decoding phase of the current tile is completed, the video decoder complements the probability table corresponding to each row of the second volatile memory according to control flags corresponding to the rows of the first volatile memory and the second volatile memory to obtain a complete probability table, and writes the complete probability table to the memory unit.
US11272186B2
A method for picture decoding, a method for picture encoding, a decoder, and an encoder are provided. The method includes the following. A bitstream corresponding to a current picture is acquired. The bitstream is parsed to obtain a flag corresponding to the current picture. A cross-decoding function is disabled when a decoding manner indicated by the flag is independent decoding of colour components, where the cross-decoding function allows decoding based on dependency between colour components.
US11272185B2
A system and method for dynamically changing encode quality at a block level based on runtime pre-encoding analysis of content in a video stream. A video encoder continuously analyzes the content during runtime, and collects statistics and/or characteristics of the content before encoding it. This classifies the block among pre-defined categories of content, where every category has its own compression parameters.
US11272182B2
A method and apparatus for video coding using block partition are disclosed. According to the present invention, a partition structure corresponding to recursively partitioning a current block into smaller TU (transform unit) blocks until the partition structure reaches a maximum allowed split depth or until a block size of at least one of smaller TU blocks is a supported core transform size, where the current block is partitioned into final smaller TU blocks according to the partition structure. A transform coding process is applied to the current block according to the partition structure, where the transform coding process is skipped for at least one of the final smaller TU blocks. A flag can be signalled for the current block to indicate whether the current block is allowed to skip the transform coding process for said at least one of the final smaller TU blocks.
US11272180B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that can keep reduction in coding efficiency to a minimum. A scaling list is set that has values appropriate to a current block size for the current block to be quantized in an image to be coded, quantization is performed using the set scaling list, and coded data is generated by coding an acquired quantization coefficient. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image coding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, and so on.
US11272172B2
An image processing apparatus for execution of image processing on an input image is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to replace a partial image of a predetermined region within the input image with a test image, retain the partial image, detect presence or absence of a failure of the image processing apparatus based on the test image that has been subjected to the image processing, and replace the test image that has been subjected to the image processing with the retained partial image, after detecting the presence or absence of the failure.
US11272166B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, a first imaging optical system and a second imaging optical system that form respective input images from mutually different viewpoints onto the imaging device, and a first modulation mask and a second modulation mask that modulate the input images formed by the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system. The imaging device captures a superposed image composed of the two input images that have been formed by the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system, modulated by the first modulation mask and the second modulation mask, and optically superposed on each other, and the first modulation mask and the second modulation mask have mutually different optical transmittance distribution characteristics.
US11272165B2
An image processing method includes presetting an image processing model and performing the following processing based on the model when a first three-dimensional effect plane image is displayed in response to an operation of a user. The method further includes mapping the first three-dimensional effect plane image to the projection plane, determining, according to the three-dimensional position relationship among the viewpoint, the projection plane, and the view window and the size of the view window, a first visual area obtained by projection onto the projection plane through the viewpoint and the view window, and clipping a first image in the first visual area, and displaying the first image.
US11272162B2
Systems and methods for reducing or eliminating undesired effects of retro-reflections in imaging are disclosed. A system for reducing the undesired effects of retro-reflections may include an illuminator and an optical receiver. The illuminator is configured to emit an illumination signal for illuminating a scene. The optical receiver is configured to receive returned portions of the illumination signal scattered or reflected from the scene. Return signals from retroreflectors present in the scene may oversaturate or otherwise negatively affect sensors in the optical receiver. To limit return signals from retroreflectors that may be present in the scene, the illuminator and optical receiver are physically separated from each other by an offset distance that limits or prevents retro-reflections from the retroreflectors from being received by the optical receiver.
US11272159B2
The invention relates to a method for generating one or more media files, the method comprising: obtaining encoded stereoscopic media data comprising first view frames and second view frames, each first view frame being associated with a second view frame, generating a track comprising the encoded stereoscopic media data, generating descriptive metadata based on which the view frame corresponding to a left view is identified, and generating the one or more media files based on the generated track and the generated descriptive metadata. The invention also relates to a method for processing one or more media files, the method comprising: obtaining the one or more media files, processing the obtained one or more media files to obtain a track comprising encoded stereoscopic media data comprising first view frames and second view frames, each first view frame being associated with a second view frame, and processing the obtained one or more media files to obtain descriptive metadata based on which the view frame corresponding to a left view is identified.
US11272153B2
An information processing apparatus for determining a position of a virtual viewpoint for a virtual viewpoint image generated based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire position information indicating a position existing within a predetermined range from a field to be captured by the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and a determination unit configured to determine, as the position of the virtual viewpoint for the virtual viewpoint image, a position different from the position indicated by the position information, based on the position information acquired by the first acquisition unit.
US11272150B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting the capture of images of surfaces of an environment visible from a default viewing position and capturing images of surfaces not visible from the default viewing position, e.g., occluded surfaces, are described. Occluded and non-occluded image portions are packed into one or more frames and communicated to a playback device for use as textures which can be applied to a model of the environment where the images were captured. An environmental model includes a model of surfaces which are occluded from view from a default viewing position but which may be viewed is the user shifts the user's viewing location. Occluded image content can be incorporated directly into a frame that also includes non-occluded image data or sent in frames of a separate, e.g., auxiliary content stream that is multiplexed with the main content stream which communicates image data corresponding to non-occluded environmental portions.
US11272144B2
A large vehicle backup camera apparatus for assisting tractor trailer and RV drivers while backing up includes a camera and at least one wide-angle light coupled to the camera housing. A transmitter coupled within the camera housing transmits video from the camera to a personal electronic device. A ferrous plate is coupled within the camera housing adjacent a housing back side of the camera housing. A mounting bracket has a magnet coupled there within. The magnet is selectively engageable with the ferrous plate to selectively engage a trailer rear of a tractor-trailer or long-towed RV that use and operate a 5th wheel mechanism, a gooseneck hitch, or any other hitch prone to sharp turning or jackknifing during reverse when towing.
US11272134B2
A system is provided for generating a ramping signal. The system includes a plurality of storage circuits each including an input and an output. The output of a previous storage circuit is connected to the input of a next storage circuit. The storage circuits are configured to propagate a first enable signal based on a first control signal. The system also includes a plurality of first current generating circuits. Each first current generating circuit is coupled to the output of a corresponding storage circuit to receive the propagated first enable signal. The first current generating circuits are configured to generate a first current signal based on the propagated first enable signal.
US11272121B2
A two-dimensional flicker measurement device includes: a two-dimensional imaging device having a partial reading function for reading a part of an imaging region; a setting unit that sets a plurality of parts, which correspond to partial regions each of which includes two or more of measurement regions, in the imaging region; a control unit that acquires a photometric quantity of each of the plurality of partial regions corresponding to the plurality of parts by causing the two-dimensional imaging device to image the measurement target multiple times using the partial reading function with the number of set parts as the number of times of imaging; and a calculation unit that executes processing, which is for calculating flicker amounts of the two or more measurement regions included in the partial region based on the acquired photometric quantity of the partial region, for each of the plurality of partial regions.
US11272119B2
High dynamic range imaging includes first image data captured using a first image sensor and a first exposure time, using a rolling shutter such that different lines within the first image data are captured at different times. Two or more instances of second image data are captured using second image sensors and second exposure times that are shorter than the first exposure time. The second image data are captured using a rolling shutter, and overlap at least in part with the first image data. A line of the first image data has a corresponding line in each instance of second image data, and the corresponding instances of second image data are captured at different second capture times. For a line in the first image data, the corresponding line from the instance of second image data is selected to be merged with the line in the first image data.
US11272118B2
An image device has an array of pixels, each pixel having a photosensitive area, a first storage node and a second storage node. A pixel is illuminated for a first period of time, and charge accumulated on the photosensitive area of the pixel during the first period of time is stored on the first storage node of the pixel. The pixel of the array is illuminated for a second period of time, and charge accumulated on the photosensitive area during the second period of time is stored on the second storage node of the pixel. A first signal is generated based on the charge stored on the first storage node, and a second signal is generated based on the charge stored on the second storage node. The first and second signals are combined using at least one subtraction operation having the first and second signals as operands.
US11272114B2
A method of obtaining an image from an image sensor provided in a vehicle includes obtaining a vehicle speed of the vehicle; adjusting a shutter speed of the image sensor; adjusting either one or both of an international organization for standardization sensitivity (ISO) of the image sensor and an aperture of the image sensor based on the vehicle speed; and obtaining the image from the image sensor based on the adjusted shutter speed and the adjusted either one or both of the ISO and the aperture.
US11272112B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises: a first image sensor having a plurality of pixels each counts a number of entering photons and outputs a count value as a first image signal; a second image sensor having a plurality of pixels each outputs an electric signal corresponding to a charge amount obtained by performing photoelectric conversion on entering light as a second image signal; and a generator that generates an image by selecting one of the first image signal and the second image signal.
US11272109B2
An apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information related to as shake detected by a sensor, and a control unit configured to cause one correction device, out of a first correction device that is positioned in a lens and that can correct a blur based on the information related to the shake and a second correction device that is positioned in a capturing apparatus and that can correct image blur based on the information related to the shake, to perform a blur correction operation, and configured to cause the other correction device, out of the first correction device and the second correction device, to perform a periodic operation.
US11272108B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermal image monitoring apparatus and a distributing panel having the same. According to the present disclosure, a rotation-vibration reduction unit and a horizontal vibration reduction unit can prevent relative sliding between a base and a bracket and between the bracket and a thermal image camera, and also reduce vibration in a rotating direction or one direction by virtue of contact with each other.
US11272102B2
An image capturing apparatus having an image capturing unit comprises a storage control unit configured to store, in a memory, a single image captured by the image capturing unit, upon receiving a transition request to a standby state in which an image capturing function of the image capturing unit is deactivated, and a transmission unit configured to transmit an image stored in the memory, upon the image capturing apparatus in the standby state receiving an image acquisition request.
US11272101B2
A wide-angle camera comprises a spectroscopic module, a first imaging module, and a second imaging module. The spectroscopic module comprises a spectroscopic lens holder, a first optical prism, and a second optical prism. The first optical prism is disposed on a first sidewall of the spectroscopic lens holder. The second optical prism is disposed on a second sidewall of the spectroscopic lens holder. The first sidewall is opposite to the second sidewall. An external light is split into a first light and a second light correspondingly through the first optical prism and the second optical prism. The first imaging module corresponds to the first optical prism and receives the first light for generating a first image. The second imaging module corresponds to the second optical prism and receives the second light for generating a second image. The first image and the second image are synthesized into a wide-angle image.
US11272093B2
An image capture control apparatus comprises a touch detector being capable of detecting a touch operation, a tracking unit that tracks a tracking target in a live view image captured by an image capturing unit, and a display control unit that, in response to the touch detector detecting a movement operation of moving a touch position, carries out control to display an indicator at a position, in a display, that is based on a movement amount of the movement operation, and a control unit configured to, in response to a predetermined amount of time elapsing after the touch for making the movement operation has been released, carry out control such that a tracking target determined on the basis of the position of the indicator is tracked by the tracking unit.
US11272089B2
A system and method for the melding of information from tracking systems and surveillance camera systems uses the tracking information as a technique for indexing and organizing the image information from the surveillance camera systems. Video clips from surveillance cameras are accessed while tracking positions of user devices. This can enable the access of the image information using the tracked positions of the user devices.
US11272088B2
The present disclosure provides a camera module and a mobile terminal. The camera module includes: a first camera, a second camera, an optical image stabilization (OIS) chip and a bracket. The first camera and the second camera are embedded in the bracket. A height from a top surface of a lens of the first camera to a bottom surface of the first camera is greater than a height from a top surface of a lens of the second camera to a bottom surface of the second camera. One end of the first camera away from the lens is provided with a first printed circuit board, and the first printed circuit board extends to an outside of the first camera and faces the second camera. The OIS chip is disposed on the first printed circuit board and faces the bottom surface of the second camera; the OIS chip is electrically connected to the first printed circuit board.
US11272083B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a lens barrel unit including an imaging optical system, a first cylindrical member, a second cylindrical member movable relative to the first cylindrical member along a guide bar between a retracted position and a pop-up position, a diopter adjuster provided on the second cylindrical member, a first detector configured to detect that the second cylindrical member is located at the retracted position or the pop-up position, and a first display unit. The guide bar is formed inside a projection surface of the first display unit when viewed from an optical axis direction. The first detection unit is fixed onto the first cylindrical member, and the first detector is more distant from the lens barrel unit than a reference line that passes a center of the first cylindrical member when viewed from the optical axis direction.
US11272082B2
Various embodiments include a chassis for a multi-camera system and techniques for forming such a chassis. The chassis may comprise multiple chassis portions that define cavities for mounting cameras. Some embodiments include a chassis portion comprising an integrated shield can-chassis that may be formed as a single component. According to some embodiments, subtractive manufacturing may be used to form one or more features of the chassis.
US11272078B2
A display device includes a substrate and an active pattern positioned above the substrate and including a plurality of channel regions and a plurality of conductive regions. The display device includes a plurality of scan lines extending substantially in a first direction. The display device includes a data line and a driving voltage line crossing the plurality of scan lines. The display device includes a first transistor including a first channel region among the plurality of channel regions and a first gate electrode. The display device includes a first connector electrically connecting the first gate electrode of the first transistor and a first conductive region among the plurality of conductive regions to each other. The driving voltage line overlaps at least a portion of the first connector along a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the substrate.
US11272077B2
A method performs color control in a printing operation on a printing machine by use of a computer. The computer uses an input profile to transform print image data from a first color space to a device-independent color space, subsequently uses an output profile to transform the print image data into a second color space dependent on the printing machine. The computer compares measurement conditions of the used input profile and of the output profile to be generated, and, if there are differences between the respective measurement conditions, adapts the print image data in the device-independent color space to deviating measurement conditions of the output profile. The printing machine subsequently executes the printing operation using the print image data, and wherein UV light excitation is used for the measurement conditions of the output profile.
US11272073B2
An image processing apparatus recognizes a character string included in image data generated by a reading unit, displays the recognized character string, receives a selection, performed by a user, of the displayed character string. The image processing apparatus thereafter determines, as a storage destination for the image data, a folder named with the character string that is based on the received selection and thereby stores the image data in the determined storage destination. Additionally, the image processing apparatus, in response to a reading instruction being issued once, reads images of a plurality of documents to generate image data, receives a plurality of times selection, performed by the user, of the displayed character string, and determines, as storage destinations, a plurality of folders named with the respective character strings that are based on the selection received a plurality of times.
US11272069B2
A printing control apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a document to a reading unit, a detection unit that detects a size of the document before it begins to be conveyed, a detection unit that detects the size of the document after the document begins to be conveyed, and a control unit that performs a copy job using the reading unit and printing unit based on the size of the document detected before it is conveyed in a case where the printing unit starts to print the image data before the reading unit finishes generating image data for one page and performs a copy job based on the size of the document detected after it begins to be conveyed in a case where the printing unit starts to print the image data after the reading unit finishes generating image data for at least one page.
US11272067B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes according to particular protocols are disclosed. Certain embodiments may receive a fax from a sender and determine if the ability exists to send the fax over a computer based network according to a particular protocol. If there is no destination associated with the fax number for the protocol the fax may be sent according to the fax number. If, however, there is a destination for the protocol associated with the fax number an attempt is made to send the fax to the destination according to the protocol.
US11272066B2
An image forming apparatus includes a member having a certain function, a learned model, and an estimation unit. The learned model is obtained by learning of a self-organizing map model having an input layer and an output layer. The estimation unit gives multidimensional input data related to the member to the input layer, and estimates a state of the member on the basis of one of a plurality of nodes of the output layer.
US11272060B2
Implementations of the present specification provide a telecommunication traffic allocation method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining a customer service agent that meets a response need of a traffic request, including: in response to that the traffic request is an audio interaction request or a video interaction request and that a customer service agent is currently processing an audio interaction or a video interaction, determining that the customer service agent does not meet the response need of the traffic request; in response to that the customer service agent is currently processing neither an audio interaction nor a video interaction, and that a processing volume corresponding to a text interaction being processed by the customer service agent does not exceed a first processing volume upper limit, determining that the customer service agent meets the response need of the traffic request; and allocating telecommunication traffic corresponding to the traffic request to a customer service agent that meets the response need. In the method according to an implementation of the present specification, the unified allocation of audio interactions, video interactions, and text interactions can be implemented, thereby improving the efficiency of customer service traffic processing, reducing the amount of customer service human resources occupied by a remote customer service, and reducing operating costs of the remote customer service.
US11272058B2
A method for summarizing dialogs may include obtaining an agent text stream and a customer text stream, segmenting the agent text stream and customer text stream into sentences, and labeling sentences associated with the segmented agent text stream and the segmented customer text stream. The method may further include extracting sentences from the agent text stream and the customer text stream based upon frequencies of appearance of words and terms of interest; generating an agent summary paragraph based on the extracted sentences from the agent text stream, and generating a customer summary paragraph based on the extracted sentences from the customer text stream. The method may identify keywords associated with each of the agent summary paragraph and the customer summary paragraph.
US11272057B1
Techniques are described for generating metrics about an individual's experience. One of the method describes providing, by at least one processor, the session record as input to at least one computer-processable model that determines, based on the session record, at least one metric for the service session, the at least one model having been trained, using machine learning and based at least partly on survey data for previous service sessions, to provide the at least one metric associated with the individual's experience. The method includes associating, by at least one processor, the metric of the individual's experience with the individual. The method also includes communicating, by at least one processor, the at least one metric for presentation through a user interface of a computing device.
US11272037B2
In some embodiments, a method includes sending a first data unit, received from a source device, to a destination device via a first data unit path. The first data unit path includes (1) a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine that are included in a first network, and (2) a third virtual machine that is included in a second network. Furthermore, the first data unit path includes the first virtual machine, the second virtual machine, and the third virtual machine in a first order. The method includes sending a second data unit, received from the source device, to the destination device via a second data unit path from the source device to the destination device. The second data unit path includes each of the first virtual machine, the second virtual machine, and the third virtual machine in a second order different from the first order.
US11272030B2
Various examples for providing a dynamic runtime interface for device management are described. In one example, a computing environment can access metadata that describes a configuration of a user interface made in a profile template designer application. The computing environment can identify a request for a profile creator that provides at least one setting for a desired configuration of a client device enrolled with a management service, and, in response to the request being identified, dynamically generate the user interface using the metadata, where the user interface includes a configured to receive the at least one setting for the desired configuration of the client device. The computing environment can generate a configuration profile accessible by the client device that causes an agent application executable on the client device to configure the client device in accordance with the configuration profile.
US11272029B2
The present disclosure provides an access log processing method and an access log processing device. In some embodiments, a cache server divides virtual nodes to which each access server is mapped into groups according to domain name weight information of a first domain name, determines a first virtual node corresponding to the first domain name in each group, determines a first access server corresponding to each first virtual node according to node configuration information, and sends access logs of the first domain name to the first access server. This technical solution ensures effective processing of access logs in case of high traffic.
US11272026B2
A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.
US11272024B2
Persistent connections are provided between components in a container environment. A hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client may include a monitoring service and a proxy service. To obtain information regarding containers in the container environment, the monitoring service communicates a request to the proxy service. The proxy service in turn maintains a persistent connection for a session with a container management service using an authentication token, and communicates the request to the container management service during the session. The container management service obtains the requested information from the container(s) and returns the information in a response to the proxy service, which in turn returns the response to the monitoring service. The session is destroyed/ended only under certain error conditions—otherwise, the session between the proxy service and the container management system is kept persistent.
US11272009B1
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a storage network, a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations and functions. The computing device determines to execute maintenance operations on a set of memory devices, selects a subset of the set of memory devices for the maintenance operations and initiates execution of the maintenance operations on the subset of memory devices. When a read request is received for a set of encoded data slices (EDSs) associated with the subset of memory devices, the computing device is configured to identify a threshold number of EDSs not associated with the subset of memory devices, issue read requests to storage units storing the threshold number of EDSs and determine whether the subset of memory devices have completed executing the maintenance operations.
US11272007B2
Persistent storage may include a configuration management database (CMDB), the CMDB representing devices and software applications disposed within a managed network and relationships therebetween. A proxy server may be configured to relay discovery information between a plurality of endpoint devices associated with the managed network and the CMDB, wherein respective discovery agents are disposed within each of the endpoint devices, and wherein the proxy server contains one or more processors configured to execute program instructions that perform operations including: (i) receiving, from a discovery agent disposed within an endpoint device, a discovery payload, wherein the discovery payload includes: a configuration of the endpoint device and information regarding one or more software applications installed on the endpoint device, and wherein the proxy server did not request the discovery payload; and (ii) transmitting, by the proxy server, the discovery payload to the CMDB.
US11272001B1
A messaging server establishes a video chat between first and second endpoints through a first and second router. In parallel, the messaging server transmits instructions to the first endpoint causing the first endpoint to transmit packets through a plurality of ports of the first router to a designated port of the second router. In addition, the messaging server transmits instructions to the second endpoint causing the second endpoint to transmit packets through a plurality of ports of the second router to a corresponding plurality of ports of the first router. A P2P connection is established between the first and second endpoints in response to a first port of the plurality of ports of the first router receiving a data packet from the designated port of the second router. The video chat is seamlessly transferred from the connection established through the messaging server to the established P2P connection.
US11271992B2
Described herein are technologies directed to lazy lock queue reduction in computing clusters. The disclosed lazy lock queue reduction techniques can be performed in preparation for cluster group changes. Prior to a cluster group change operation, such as a merge or a split of a node with a group, a notification of a planned group change operation can be sent to the nodes of a group. In response to the notification, the nodes of the group can perform lazy lock queue reduction techniques disclosed herein. In one disclosed lazy lock queue reduction technique, a node can set a drain goal for a lazy lock queue, and the node can drain the lazy lock queue according to the drain goal. In another disclosed lazy lock queue reduction technique, a node can set an age limit for lazy lock queue entries, and the node can remove lazy lock queue entries which are expired or over the age limit.
US11271989B2
Mechanisms for identifying a component cluster among a plurality of components in a distributed computing environment are disclosed. Configuration information that corresponds to the plurality of components is accessed. The configuration information includes inter-component communication information. The inter-component communication information between the plurality of components is matched to determine a plurality of pairs of components that communicate with one another. Relationships between the components in the pairs of components are determined. A data structure that identifies the component cluster of the pairs of components and the relationships between the components in the pairs of components is generated.
US11271971B1
Disclosed herein is a device for facilitating managing cyber security health of a connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV). Accordingly, the device may include a communication interface configured for transmitting a request for updating an electronic control unit (ECU) to a connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) manufacturer server and receiving a security update and a security patch for the ECU from the CAV manufacturer server. Further, the device may include a processing device communicatively coupled with the communication interface. Further, the processing device may be configured for applying the security update and the security patch to the ECU for updating the ECU, determining an update status for each ECU, and generating a cyber security health status report of the CAV. Further, the device may include a storage device communicatively coupled with the processing device. Further, the storage device may be configured for storing the cyber security health status report.
US11271969B2
One embodiment provides declarative policy management in a multi-tenant cloud-based identity and access management (“IAM”) system. The embodiment receives at least one Application Programming Interface (“API”) request by a policy engine of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system from a tenant of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system. The embodiment configures a declarative policy for the tenant of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system based on the at least one API request. The embodiment then enforces the declarative policy in an IAM service performed for the tenant of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system.
US11271962B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for real-time generation and deployment of specific user information security vulnerability levels based on vulnerability assessments for the user. The invention utilizes a two-component system to detect security vulnerabilities for a user, generate a coherent vulnerability level for the user in real-time, and provides user specific mitigation actions depending on each user vulnerability assessment. The first component of the system is an information threat assessment engine, which identifies and/or receives external and internal data regarding users to determine information security threats. The second component is an analytics engine, which is configured to generate vulnerability levels and specific mitigation actions for the user based on threat patterning.
US11271938B1
A directive based access system and method manage access permissions in systems. In one embodiment, the directive based access system and method may be used to orchestrate effective secure access control and communications in multi-cloud distributed systems. In one implementation, the directive based access system and method may include a lineage traceability enforcement engine that uses a lineage traceability. The directive based access system and method may also be implemented using other mechanisms such as blockchain based Hyperledger based system.
US11271934B2
Systems and methods are described that allow users to continue utilizing their user accounts and user devices associated with a first authorization entity for transactions conducting with a second authorization entity. A processor server computer may translate a first data set including first account identifier and a first verification value associated with a first authorization entity during authorization processing into a second data set including a second account identifier and a second verification value that can be processed by a second authorization entity. The processor server computer may modify an authorization request message based on the translated data set. The processor server computer may also enable the authorization request message to be routed to an appropriate authorization entity during authorization processing.
US11271932B2
A method for integrating an authentication device and a website, the method comprising: a registration plug-in receiving user registration information from a website and a registration result identifier corresponding to the user registration information, and determining whether the user has registered successfully according to the registration result identifier; if yes, then sending registered information to the website and ending the registration process; otherwise, sending a request to obtain device registration, which comprises a user identifier, to an authentication server; receiving the device registration request from the authentication server; sending the device registration request to an authentication device by means of a browser; receiving device registration data, which is generated by the authentication device, by means of the browser; sending a first authentication request comprising the device registration data to the authentication server; receiving a first authentication result from the authentication server; sending the first authentication result to the website, for use in the website verifying whether the user is registered successfully. According to the present invention, the authentication device is integrated with a website that applies Joomla technology so as to register and authenticate a user on the website.
US11271928B2
User bioelectrical authentication is provided. A bioelectrical configuration signature of a user in physical contact with a hardware token is received, via a token reader, during a low range radio frequency user authentication process to permit a secure transaction by the user. The bioelectrical configuration signature of the user is utilized as part of the low range radio frequency user authentication process to authenticate the user to perform the secure transaction.
US11271924B1
A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for image capture to enforce remote agent adherence. The method comprises a first computer receiving an authentication request. The method also comprises a client component executing on the first computer detecting the authentication request and the client component, based on detecting the authentication request, causing a digital image to be captured. The method also comprises the first computer transmitting the digital image to a second computer, the second computer analyzing the digital image, and the second computer authenticating the digital image based on the analysis.
US11271921B2
This disclosure includes utilizing a token cryptogram with a browser to facilitate a transaction. A webpage of a website is configured to accept a token cryptogram in fields of the webpage. The webpage of the website may indicate that it is token-aware and is configured to accept the token cryptograms.
US11271916B2
A system that prevents accomplishment of unauthorized communication between a terminal and a communication peer is provided. The system includes a measurement unit and a process execution unit. The measurement unit is arranged on at least one of the terminal or the communication peer to obtain a measured value corresponding to a distance between the terminal and the communication peer. The process execution unit determines whether the measured value is appropriate and controls actuation for authentication of the terminal through wireless communication performed between the terminal and the communication peer based on the determination result. The measurement unit executes a process for obtaining the measured value in a time period during which the communication for the authentication is not performed.
US11271914B2
A high percentage of received communications are from external entities. In response to receiving a communication from a sender associated with an entity, the entity may be authenticated and contextualized by retrieving and processing contact information for people at the entity that are directly and/or indirectly associated with a recipient of the communication. For example, contact information for people at the entity who have previously communicated with and/or are connected to the recipient or users related to the recipient, for example, may be retrieved from one or more directory services, social networks, and/or professional networks. The contact information may be processed to create corresponding contact objects, and the contact objects may be processed to create an entity object for the entity that comprises one or more connections between the recipient and the people at the entity. The entity object may be provided to the recipient for display.
US11271913B2
A terminal device may execute a communication of authentication information with a communication device, the authentication information being prepared by the terminal device or the communication device without being inputted in the terminal device or the communication device by a user; send the authentication information to a first sever; and send specific information to the first server. The communication device may execute the communication of the authentication information with the terminal device; and send the authentication information to the first server. The first server may register the service information in the memory of the first server in a case where the authentication information is received from both of the terminal device and the communication device, and the specific information is received from the terminal device.
US11271912B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for providing an anonymous and obfuscated communication over a virtual, modular and distributed satellite communication network.
US11271911B2
A method is disclosed for securely transferring a private key from the user device to an operating device. A proximity-based communication interface is provided between the user and operating devices. The user device is operable to store a private key. The user device requests an identifying code from the operating device, which is then validated by the user device as a valid private key receiving device. The user device is operable to access a predetermined physical interface on the operating device and, in conjunction with access, activate the physical interface to initialize a transfer operation across the communication interface that is dependent upon accessing the physical interface. The stored private key is then transferred to the operating device across the communication interface for storage in a dedicated memory location on the operating device, the transfer operation being a one-way Write-only memory transfer operation. The transfer of information from the dedicated memory location across the communication interface is prohibited, such that any Read operation of the dedicated memory location on the operating device is prohibited across the communication interface.
US11271909B2
Methods and apparatus for ensuring the privacy of users and/or devices in a content delivery network from which data regarding the users' interaction with content is collected and distributed. In one embodiment, “tuning” records which describe the interaction of users with content or other activities of interest are collected. It is determined whether an opportunity for compromise of the user's privacy (e.g., by derivative association) is present. If it is determined that such an opportunity exists, at least portions of the data are modified (e.g., collapsed). The modification may comprise replacing a first explicit data value with a second descriptive data value, increasing a range for the value, generalizing the value, removing the value, or encoding the value. Further processing of the collected tuning records may include, validating the data, accounting for latency, and generating reports based thereon.
US11271905B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines comprises at least one public-cloud virtual machine (VM) that performs network address translation; and a plurality of second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines comprises one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the public-cloud VM is configured to receive, via a network tunnel from the private-cloud VM, one or more first packets to be sent to a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of a public network host, translate, using a NAT mapping, a source address of each first packet from a private IP address of the private-cloud VM to an IP address of the public-cloud VM, and send the first packet to the IP address of the public-cloud VM.
US11271901B2
In overview, an integrated circuit in accordance with the disclosure comprises first and second network interface processors which are separate processors and which are connected by a first unidirectional interconnect. The first unidirectional interconnect allows data transfer from the first network interface processor to the second network interface processor, while preventing data transfer in the reverse direction. The first network interface processor is for communication with a first network which may be a secure network and the second network interface processor is for communication with second network which may be a public network, for example an insecure public network. In this way, the processing of data received from each of the first and second networks is performed by separate processors and data can only be sent from the first network to the second network, thereby protecting the first network from the second network.
US11271897B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first translation table that stores information of a first address and a second address; a second translation table that, in response to a condition being satisfied, stores the information of the first address and the second address based on the first translation table; at least one processor configured to translate the first address of a first packet to the second address based on the first translation table; and a forwarding manager that, in response to a second packet including the first address being received and the information of the first address and the second address being stored in the second translation table, translates the first address of the second packet to the second address based on the second translation table, prior to allocating the second packet to the at least one processor.
US11271895B1
A KUBERNETES installation processes a script and invokes a scheduling agent in response to encountering an instruction to create a pod. The scheduling agent is an agent of an orchestrator and performs tasks such as identifying a selected node, creating multiple interface objects with multiple IP addresses, and creating storage volumes in coordination with the orchestrator. Upon creation, the pod may call a CNI that is an agent of the orchestrator in order to configure the pod to use the multiple interface objects. The pod may call a CSI that is an agent of the orchestrator in order to bind a storage volume to the pod. The scheduling agent may coordinate with the orchestrator to implement affinity and anti-affinity rules for placement of pods and storage volumes. The script may also be transformed by the orchestrator in order to insert instructions implementing affinity and ant-affinity rules.
US11271891B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication system that is configured to more efficiently manage resource sharing requests. In particular, in some embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to enable admin users to use an external service, such as an external approval provisioning service, that is separate and distinct from the group-based communication system to manage group-based communication resource sharing requests. In other embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to allow communication with external users and to trigger new user onboarding protocols through the ingestion of external user directories associated with a sponsor user.
US11271888B1
An online system selects information about entities for display to viewing users based on the relevance of the information to the viewing users. The online system maintains information describing one or more third parties. The online system receives a request from a client device to provide a content item of a third party for display to a viewing user. Responsive to the request, the online system accesses information describing the third party and selects a subset of information based on a likelihood that the viewing user will interact with the content item based on the subset of information. The online system generates a content item including the selected subset of information and an element selectable to initiate an interaction with the third party and provides the generated content item to the client device for display to the viewing user.
US11271887B2
Collaboration system, apparatus, method and program are provided which enable a user to use SNS with ease. The collaboration system includes a device 20 which recognizes a user to execute at least one of acquisition of sensing data related to the user and action based on a content contributed to SNS by another user; and a collaboration apparatus 10 which executes at least one of processing of transmitting a contribution content based on the sensing data to an SNS system which provides the SNS and processing of updating action of the device 20 based on a content contributed by another user and transmitting the updated content of the action to the device 20.
US11271877B2
A chat message from a user to a primary chat bot service is received. A secondary chat bot service is automatically evaluated and selected to handle the chat message, wherein the secondary chat bot service is selected from a plurality of candidate secondary chat bot services that includes at least one chat bot service provided by a third-party entity external to an entity providing the primary chat bot service. The chat message is forwarded to the selected secondary chat bot service.
US11271875B2
Methods and systems for contextually based fulfillment of communication requests are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for contextually based fulfillment of a communication request via a telephony platform, comprises receiving via a telephony-based communication, at a fulfillment center, a user request for a service; determining a service provider capable of fulfilling the user request; translating the user request into one or more user intents; creating a contextual framework based on the user intent; requesting additional information regarding details of the user intent based on the contextual framework; and fulfilling the user request using the user intents when the contextual framework is complete.
US11271871B2
In one embodiment, edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a multi-stage switch fabric and peripheral processing devices. The edge devices and the multi-stage switch fabric can collectively define a single logical entity. A first edge device from the edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a first peripheral processing device from the peripheral processing devices. The second edge device from the edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a second peripheral processing device from the peripheral processing devices. The first edge device can be configured such that virtual resources including a first virtual resource can be defined at the first peripheral processing device. A network management module coupled to the edge devices and configured to provision the virtual resources such that the first virtual resource can be migrated from the first peripheral processing device to the second peripheral processing device.
US11271860B1
An example cache-coherent packetized network system includes: a home agent; a snooped agent; and a request agent configured to send, to the home agent, a request message for a first address, the request message having a first transaction identifier of the request agent; where the home agent is configured to send, to the snooped agent, a snoop request message for the first address, the snoop request message having a second transaction identifier of the home agent; and where the snooped agent is configured to send a data message to the request agent, the data message including a first compressed tag generated using a function based on the first address.
US11271859B2
A method for network traffic scheduling includes determining a distribution of monitoring servers of an application server in one or more service network areas of the application server and in one or more network areas out of the one or more service network areas, in response to determining that the distribution satisfies a preset distribution condition, modifying a mapping relationship between the application server and the monitoring servers to obtain an updated mapping relationship according to the distribution, performing monitoring according to the updated mapping relationship, and modifying a service network area coverage scheme of the application server according to a result of the monitoring.
US11271855B2
A method of exposing a maximum segment identifier depth (MSD) value of the network device is described. The method comprises transmitting to a centralized controller an attribute Type Length Value (TLV). A type of the attribute TLV includes a type of a maximum segment identifier depth (MSD) indicating that the MSD is a link MSD, a length of the attribute TLV includes a length of the MSD, and a value of the attribute TLV includes the MSD, which is a maximum number of segment routing (SR) labels supported at a link of the network node. The centralized controller is to use the attribute TLV to compute an SR tunnel with one or more SR labels, a label stack depth of the SR tunnel does not exceed the MSD, and the SR labels are used for steering a packet through an SR network.
US11271843B1
A system is described. The system includes a processing resource and a non-transitory computer-readable medium, coupled to the processing resource, having stored therein instructions that when executed by the processing resource cause the processing resource to collect quality of service (QoS) data of a distributed storage system associated with a client device, generate a plurality of QoS diagnostic views to facilitate display of visual representations of the collected QoS data and transmit the visual representations for display at the client device, wherein the data comprises telemetry data, statistics and performance health scores for nodes associated with the client device.
US11271838B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for timing synchronization. Aspects include sending to a remote system a first base packet, the first base packet is sent at a first send event time and then recording the first send event time in a memory. Aspects also include sending to the remote system a second base packet, wherein the payload comprises instructions for the remote computing system and receiving a first remote packet, wherein a payload comprises a first received time indicating a time the first base packet was received. Aspects then include recording the first received time and recording a second received time, wherein the second received time indicates a time the first remote packet was received by the base system. Aspects include receiving a second remote packet, wherein a payload comprises a second sent time indicating a time the first remote packet was sent.
US11271836B2
The present invention acquires, from control data for an apparatus to be controlled in a normal operation, a relationship between a noise included in a reception signal from a cable and the apparatus to be controlled. An information processing device (13) is provided with a correlation derivation unit (13212, 13212d) for deriving a correlation value between a variation of a time-series data (1331) of a noise included in a signal input through a cable in a network and a variation of a time-series data (1332) of control data of an apparatus to be controlled (11, 16) in the network.
US11271835B2
A remote server monitors a network of computing devices through hierarchical composite indicators by obtaining telemetry data from a computing device in a network of computing devices. The telemetry data includes performance attributes of the computing device. The server generates a composite indicator associated with the computing device based on a combination of at least two performance attributes of the computing device. The server monitors the composite indicator and, responsive to a determination that the composite indicator meets an alert threshold, generates an alert associated with the computing device. Additionally, the server can monitor the health of the network of computing devices based on composite indicators from multiple computing devices in the network.
US11271824B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for providing network insights on a graphical user interface (“GUI”). The GUI can visualize network errors to help administrative or information technology users more quickly identify issues with an enterprise application. The enterprise application can report network request information to a server. Then the GUI can present visual overlays that compare error metrics between different time cycles of the application. The visual overlay can graphically display these errors on top of one another for immediate relative visualization. Additionally, a grouped list of host destinations can be simultaneously provided. The destination addresses can be abbreviated, and errors grouped accordingly in a manner that provides advantageous error visualization.
US11271823B2
Techniques for providing visualization and analysis of performance data are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for providing visualization and analysis of performance data. The system may comprise one or more processors communicatively coupled to a mobile communications network. The one or more processors may be configured to provide a user interface at a mobile device for a user to view network performance data associated with the mobile communications network. The one or more processors may further be configured provide one or more user-selectable options to a user at a mobile device to view the network performance data. The one or more processors may also be configured to dynamically filter the network performance data based on the one or more user-selectable options. The one or more processors may further be configured to provide a visualization to be displayed at the mobile device based on the dynamically filtered network performance data, where the visualization presents one or more views that identity potential problems associated with the mobile communications network to allow the user to improve customer experience assurance.
US11271822B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for operating multi-feed of log data in an AI-managed communication system. In use, an identification of at least one artificial intelligence (AI) system and an identification of at least one AI model of a plurality of AI models used by the AI system are obtained. Additionally, a stream of log data is received, and a log data feed adapted to the AI model is created. Further, the log data feed is communicated using a corresponding AI model of the plurality of AI models.
US11271817B2
A method for establishing end-to-end tunnels extending across multiple domains using a network element. The method includes receiving a request from a customer controller to implement a virtual network (VN) created by the customer controller, wherein the VN identifies the end-to-end tunnels extending across the multiple domains, mapping the VN to available resources based on network constraints in response to the request, and transmitting, after the VN has been mapped, a message to a network controller managing one of the domains that includes a network path used to form a portion of one of the end-to-end tunnels, wherein the message includes an association object having a Type-Length-Value (TLV) field containing a virtual network identifier binding the network path to the VN.
US11271813B2
A method may include identifying an update file for a plurality of nodes; selecting a first set of nodes of the plurality of nodes based on a set of node selection criteria; sending the update file to the first set of nodes via a software-defined network (SDN); receiving a first message from a first node of the first set of nodes indicating that the first node is ready to host the update file; identifying a second node that is connected to the first node responsive to receiving the first message from the first node; sending a first instruction to the second node for the second node to obtain the update file from the first node; receiving a second message from the second node indicating that the second node is ready to host the update file; and adding the second node to the first set of nodes.
US11271811B2
The present invention provides a profile editing system, including: a plurality of devices; a plurality of device control modules, configured to respectively control the devices; and a profile control module, configured to record control settings that are preset by the device control modules for the devices as a profile, so that a user may enable the profile to make the devices work by using the control settings recorded in the profile, to form environmental conditions preset by the user.
US11271810B1
This disclosure describes techniques for improving CSB platforms (or CSB applications) that manages cloud services for different clients and different environments. In one example, the CSB platforms may be interconnected and configured to act as a proxy for the cloud services. The interconnected CSB platforms may perform spontaneous updating of stored service instance addresses when a service instance is tracked to trigger a strong consistency in the interconnected CSB platforms. Alternatively, the interconnected CSB platforms may perform delayed updating of stored service instance addresses when a service instance is tracked to trigger a weak consistency in the interconnected CSB platforms. Regulation of a frequency and scope of updating may improve the use of power resources in the CSB platforms.
US11271797B2
A method for predicting cell accessibility issues for a mobile network. The method includes receiving a set of metrics from the mobile network, processing a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) derived from the set of metrics in an ensemble machine learning model, the ensemble machine learning model including an RRC model, an RACH model, an ERAB model, and an S1 signaling model to generate at least one cell accessibility degradation prediction and a confidence score, and applying a root cause mapping to the at least one cell accessibility degradation prediction and the confidence score to identify at least one recommended action to correct a correlated cell accessibility issue.
US11271791B2
A method for transmitting a broadcast signal is disclosed. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes link layer processing IP/UDP data to output a link layer packet, and physical layer processing the link layer packet based on a PLP.
US11271787B2
This application provides a method for generating a pilot signal, including: obtaining, by a terminal device, a correlation identifier and a port number; determining, by the terminal device, a pilot sequence based on the correlation identifier; and generating, by the terminal device, the pilot signal based on the pilot sequence and the port number. The correlation identifier indicates how a pilot sequence is determined and whether the pilot sequence is correlated with a time slot.
US11271784B2
A wireless communication device includes frequency hopping means for changing a radio frequency based on a temporarily defined pattern, and a frequency offset compensation unit. The frequency offset compensation unit includes a frequency offset calculator that calculates a frequency offset amount from a received signal, a hopping frequency value converter that uses the frequency offset amount, a radio frequency from which the frequency offset amount is calculated, and a transition destination radio frequency transitioned by the frequency hopping means to calculate an estimated frequency offset value for the transition destination radio frequency, and a rotator that uses the estimated frequency offset value for the transition destination radio frequency to perform phase rotation on the received signal.
US11271777B2
A node includes: a communication circuit; a processor operatively connected to the communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the processor and storing a target application and an access control application, wherein the memory stores instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the node to: detect a network access event of the target application to a destination network through the access control application, identify whether a tunnel corresponding to identification information of the target application and the destination network and authorized by an external server exists, transmit a data packet of the target application through the authorized tunnel using the communication circuit, when the authorized tunnel exists, and drop the data packet of the target application, when the authorized tunnel does not exist.
US11271769B2
A controller for building equipment that operate to provide heating or cooling for a building or campus. The controller includes a processing circuit configured to perform an optimization of an objective function subject to an override constraint to determine amounts of one or more resources to be produced by the building equipment and control the building equipment to produce the amounts of the one or more resources determined by performing the optimization subject to the override constraint. The override constraint overrides an output of the optimization by specifying an override amount of a first resource of the one or more resources to be produced by a first subset of the building equipment.
US11271762B2
Audio data associated with one of a plurality of users of a virtual meeting hosted by a virtual meeting application is received. The audio data is analyzed to identify another user of the virtual meeting. If another user is identified in the analyzed audio data, a setting of the virtual meeting application is adjusted to enable a client device for the identified user to receive audio input so as to facilitate a dialog among the users of the virtual meeting.
US11271752B2
One or more application forms can be hosted, which application forms are received from a service provider, the service provider having been authenticated by at least one data custodian of a set of data custodians. One or more application forms include at least form fields to be populated with information. A user selection of an application form to be automatically populated can be received, the user having been authenticated by at least one data custodian of the set of data custodians. Data request is sent to at least one data custodian of the set of data custodians for automatically populating at least some of the form fields. Received data from said at least one data custodian can be collated and used to populate one or more form fields. The populated form fields can be returned to the service provider, for instance, provided a minimum requirement is met.
US11271751B2
Embodiment create and validate a digital record that represents an asset. Embodiments obtain a first private key and a first public key that corresponds to a creator of the digital record and generates one or more parameters for the digital record, where a first parameter of the parameters is related to transactions of the digital record. Embodiments generate one or more rules for the digital record, where a first rule of the rules corresponds to the first parameter and constrains the transactions. Using the first private key, embodiments compute a first digital signature of all of the first public key, the parameters and the rules and creates a first digital record comprising the first public key, the parameters, the rules and the first digital signature.
US11271742B2
An example operation may include one or more of authenticating, by a first service node, to a first client node, receiving, by the first service node, a data access request from the first client node, comprising request parameters and a request token, generating, by the first service node, a receipt key corresponding to the data access request, and sharing data with a second client node based on the request token and the receipt key.
US11271734B2
The technology disclosed herein provides a proof-of-work key wrapping system for verifying device capabilities. An example method may include: receiving a wrapped key and a cryptographic attribute for the wrapped key, wherein the wrapped key encodes a cryptographic key; deriving, by a processing device, the cryptographic key in view of the wrapped key and the cryptographic attribute, wherein the deriving consumes computing resources for a duration of time; using the cryptographic key to access program data; executing, by the processing device, the program data, wherein the executed program data evaluates a condition related to the duration of time; and transmitting a message comprising an indication of the condition.
US11271732B2
Various embodiments relate to a method for generating a bit stream in a physical unclonable function (PUF) system, including: receiving a set of values from a plurality of physical devices in the PUF system in a first order; sorting the set of values into a second order; for each of the L highest values, setting a corresponding levelTag value to a first bit value and setting a corresponding usageTag value to a first usage value that indicates that the levelTag for the corresponding value is to be used to generate the bit stream, wherein L is a level setting; for each of the L lowest values, setting a corresponding levelTag value to a second bit value and setting a corresponding usageTag value to the first usage value, wherein the first bit value is different from the second bit value; setting the usageTag value for all other values that are not the highest L values or the lowest L values to a second usage value that indicates that the corresponding value is not to be used to generate the bit stream; generating the bitstream as the levelTag values that have an associated usageTag value of the first usage value, wherein the levelTag values are ordered according to the first order.
US11271729B2
Systems and methods described herein relate to techniques that allow for multiple parties to jointly generate or jointly agree upon the parameters for generation of a smart contract, such as a verification key. Execution of the smart contract may be performed by a third party, for example, a worker node on a blockchain network. Techniques described herein may be utilised as part of a protocol in which parties of a smart contract share powers of a secret in a manner that allows each party to determine an identical common reference string, agree on parameters for a smart contract agree and/or make proportionate contributions the smart contract, and combinations thereof. The smart contract may be published to a blockchain network (e.g., Bitcoin Cash). The protocol may be a zero-knowledge protocol.
US11271717B2
The present invention is direct a two-mode blockchain consensus protocol and a system implementing such a protocol. The system includes a plurality of node computers (and a communications network connecting the plurality of node computers. The plurality of node computers includes a first node computer, a collecting node computer, a committee of node computers, and one or more node computers that operate based on proof of work algorithms. Each node computer in the plurality includes a blockchain consensus software application running on the processor of the node computer. The blockchain consensus software application is adapted to connect to the plurality of node computers that are connected to the communications network. The blockchain consensus software application implements the two-mode blockchain consensus protocol. Through the software application, the plurality of node computers operate to reach a consensus on adding data to a public ledger.
US11271703B2
Aspects described herein relate to modulating control data in wireless communications. First control data for a first device can be modulated in an enhancement layer of a control data resource based at least in part on whether the control data resource includes second control data for a second device, and transmitted over the control data resource. A signal can be received from an access point comprising at least one control data resource. One of a plurality of modulation schemes utilized to modulate the at least one control data resource and an associated layer can be determined. The signal can be demodulated according to the one of the plurality of modulation schemes and the layer to obtain control data in the at least one control data resource.
US11271701B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to downlink (DL) control channel communications are provided. A wireless communication device identifies a search space set including a plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces for a downlink control channel. The wireless communication device determines that a first resource associated with a first PDCCH candidate search space of the plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces overlaps with a preconfigured resource. The wireless communication device monitors for a downlink control message over the downlink control channel by excluding monitoring in at least the first PDCCH candidate search space based on the determining.
US11271698B2
Provided are a method and a device for sending a reference signal, and a method and device for configuring a reference signal. The method for sending the reference signal includes: determining that a conflict occurs between at least two reference signals, and selecting a processing manner for solving the conflict between the at least two reference signals from multiple conflict processing manners; and sending at least one reference signal in the at least two reference signals to a terminal according to the selected processing manner to instruct the terminal to measure the at least one reference signal.
US11271688B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a terminal configured to have two or more processing times transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a downlink control channel for indicating a downlink data channel, and the downlink data channel in one or more downlink subframes; and transmitting, to the base station, HARQ-ACK information on the downlink data channel in an uplink subframe corresponding to the one or more downlink subframes, wherein the HARQ-ACK information transmitted in the uplink subframe includes HARQ-ACK information on a downlink data channel in accordance with only one processing time among the two or more processing times, and cannot include HARQ-ACK information on a downlink data channel in accordance with the rest processing times.
US11271687B2
In a method for soft buffer handling in a user equipment in a wireless communication system, performing the steps of receiving (S100) a transmission, identifying (S101) overlapping positions for non-zero soft values in a soft buffer and received transmission soft values, copying and storing (S102) identified overlapping non-zero soft values or received transmission soft values, and combining (S103) soft buffer with received transmission.
US11271681B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a transmission system, including: an encoder for encoding a set of information symbols into a set of encoded signals for transmission, wherein the encoder applies a full-diversity space-time block code (STBC) to the set of information symbols; and at least three antennas for transmitting the set of encoded signals over four epochs at a code rate of two.
US11271676B2
The disclosure relates to a mobile communication system including: a first transmission path configured to transmit a message according to a first radio access technology; a second transmission path configured to transmit the message according to a second radio access technology; and an encoder configured to encode the message by a code before transmission of the message over the first transmission path and the second transmission path, wherein the code comprises at least two subcodes, and wherein the encoder is configured to encode the message intended for transmission over the first transmission path with a first subcode of the at least two subcodes and to encode the message intended for transmission over the second transmission path with a second subcode of the at least two subcodes.
US11271668B2
A data transmission apparatus, a data transmission system, and a data transmission method for implementing flexible Ethernet (FlexE) data transmission in an upstream/downstream asymmetric manner includes obtaining a plurality of first data packets that come from different Media Access Control (MAC) clients, where the different MAC clients receive respective second data packets over respective second FlexE virtual links; and sending the plurality of first data packets to a transmit end of the second data packets over a first FlexE virtual link that corresponds to the different MAC clients.
US11271667B2
According an aspect of the present invention, a data receiving apparatus includes a calculator. The calculator (1) stores a date and time indicated by the clock unit in association with a first local date and time in the memory as a reference date and time, when the packet includes first date-and-time data indicating the first local date and time and information indicating that the first date-and-time data can be used for date and time association, and (2) calculates, when the packet includes sensor data and second date-and-time data indicating a second local date and time associated with the sensor data, a third date and time based on a difference between the first local date and time and the second local date and time, and on the reference date and time.
US11271664B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to generating a programmable differential threshold with a common mode signal derived from a received signal, and comparing a differential component of the received signal to the programmable differential threshold signal to improve signal loss detection accuracy in the presence of noise. In an illustrative example, the comparison may be performed in a signal loss detection circuit. The signal loss detection circuit may, for example, process a received input signal in an independent path in parallel with a main signal path. The programmable differential threshold may be set to a predetermined level as a function of an acceptable noise level. Based on the comparison, some implementations may advantageously respond to received signal loss, which may result from, for example, a signal path interruption.
US11271654B2
An optical repeater is disclosed, comprising: an optical input port for receiving an input optical signal; an optical output port for transmitting an output optical signal; electronics comprising an amplifier configured to increase a signal level of the optical signal between the input port and the output port; a voltage regulator configured to provide a variable voltage power supply to the electronics, and optionally comprising a local or external controller configured to determine a supply voltage in response to demand and to control the voltage regulator to provide the supply voltage.
US11271649B2
A system may include a first module at a far end, and an optical fiber coupled to the first module. The system may also include a second module at a near end that is configured to generate and transmit instructions to the first module to control operation of the first module.
US11271638B2
A method of and system for designing a satellite network includes selecting an optimal design for a backhaul network to be used as part of the satellite network, selecting a number of radio frequency (RF) gateways for the satellite network, selecting an optimal number of satellite network cores (SNCs) for the satellite network. The method may also include placing each SNC at a site that is geographically separate from locations of the RF gateways, selecting a number of data centers for the satellite network, connecting each SNC to one or more data centers in the satellite network, and connecting each data center to one or more of the RF gateways via the backhaul network.
US11271630B2
Disclosed herein are a method and a device for transmitting a message in an initial access procedure by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, a UE may transmit to a base station capability information associated with transmission power of the UE and the information may include a subset including at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE. The UE may receive first control information for transmitting a message associated with an initial access and the control information may include a TPMI used for the UE to transmit the message. Thereafter, the UE may transmit to the base station the message by using transmission power determined based on the TPMI and the transmission power may be determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.
US11271629B1
A system that can determine states of human activity and transitions between those states using wireless signal data. A machine learning model such as a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) may be trained to determine transitions between states of human activity (e.g., static, slow movement, fast movement) using information from wireless signal data, such as channel state information gathered from Wi-Fi signal beacons. Depending on the state of the human activity the system may then cause certain commands to be executed corresponding to the human activity such as turning on a certain configuration of lights, playing certain music, or the like.
US11271618B2
A wireless communication system comprises a base station and one or more relay docks and transmits directional wave signals between components using high frequency waves, such as millimeter waves. A beam forming decision engine utilizes position information collected from one or more position or motion sensors of a user device to determine a direction in which to form a directional wave signal being transmitted between components of the wireless communication system.
US11271613B2
An intelligent backhaul radio that has an advanced antenna system for use in PTP or PMP topologies. The advanced antenna system includes a plurality of directional antenna arrays, wherein each directional antenna array includes a plurality of directional antenna sub-arrays, and wherein each directional antenna sub-array includes a plurality of directional antenna elements. At least one of the plurality of directional antenna arrays includes at least one first directional antenna sub-array, said first directional antenna sub-array including a first number of directional antenna elements. At least one of the plurality of directional antenna arrays includes at least one second directional antenna sub-array, said second directional antenna sub-array including a second number of directional antenna elements. The first number is different than the second number.
US11271611B1
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include a wireless power transmission system and a wireless power receiver system. The wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna configured to couple with a receiver antenna to transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the receiver antenna. Antenna coupling may be inductive and may operate in conformance to a wireless power and data transfer protocol. A transmission controller drives the transmitter antenna at an operating frequency, and either the wireless power transmission system or the wireless power receiver system may damp the wireless power transmission to create a data signal containing a serial asynchronous data signal.
US11271608B2
A system made up of a first device which includes a communication interface and a processing device and a second device which includes a touch sensor assembly and a controller, where the controller uses the touch sensor assembly to communicate with the processing device through a capacitor that is jointly formed by the touch sensor assembly and a conductive portion of the communications interface.
US11271599B2
An envelope tracking system includes an envelope signal generator, a supply modulator coupled to the envelope signal generator, the supply modulator comprising a switching regulator path configured to provide an output voltage at an output node to a power amplifier when in an average power tracking (APT) mode, the switching regulator path configured to operate together with a linear path to provide the output voltage at the output node to the power amplifier when in an envelope tracking (ET) mode, a capacitor having a first and second terminal, the first terminal coupled to ground, a switch coupled between the output node and the second terminal of the capacitor, the switch being configured to selectively disconnect the capacitor from the output node, and a circuit coupled between the output node and the second terminal of the capacitor, the circuit comprising a bi-directional current-limiting switch, the circuit configured to charge or discharge the capacitor such that a voltage across the capacitor changes from a first voltage to a second voltage.
US11271594B2
A transmitting device is described for a communication system. The transmitting device obtains an information message comprising information bits addressed for a receiving device and encodes the information message to obtain a codeword. The transmitting device rate-matches the codeword to produce a rate-matched codeword comprising systematic bits and parity-check bits. Furthermore, the transmitting device jointly interleaves the systematic bits and parity-check bits of the rate-matched codeword to obtain an interleaved codeword. The systematic bits of the interleaved codeword are mapped to modulation label positions of a modulation constellation with first reliabilities, and the parity-check bits of the interleaved codeword are mapped to modulation label positions of the modulation constellation with second reliabilities.
US11271582B2
A digital-to-analog converter (“DAC”) converts digital image data into analog image signals. The DAC includes a stage outputting different voltages to a first output terminal and a second output terminal based on a voltage supplied to a first input terminal, a voltage supplied to a second input terminal, and a first input bit. The stage includes a switch circuit including switches that are alternately turned on by a control signal, and outputting an intermediate output voltage to a third output terminal based on a first input voltage supplied to the first input terminal and a second input voltage supplied to the second input terminal, and a selector outputting one of the first input voltage and the second input voltage, and the intermediate output voltage.
US11271577B1
An ADC circuit is provided. The ADC circuit may include an array of bit capacitors; a comparator electrically connected to the bit capacitors; a NOR gate electrically connected to the comparator; an AND gate to create an asynchronous clock (ACLK) based on a digital output from the NOR and a synchronous clock (CLKin); a delay control circuit to receive the asynchronous clock and to create a delayed asynchronous clock (ACLKd); and a SAR control circuit to receive a digital output from an output end of the comparator, to receive the delayed asynchronous clock, to transmit a bit control signal (B<9:1>) to the bit capacitors, and to transmit a delay control word (DL<7:1>) to the delay control circuit. The ADC circuit can create an asynchronous comparator clock (CKcmp) with a maximum delay value (Td_max), thus leading to an improved conversion linearity and a reduced power consumption.
US11271573B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that is configured to determine whether a phase locked loop (PLL) circuit is operating normally, thereby preventing component damage in the electronic device and preventing disconnection from a communication network.
US11271569B2
The present disclosure describes systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a logic gate circuit structure for operating one or more Boolean functions. Instead of stacking transistors in series to accommodate an increased number of inputs, a parallel configuration is presented that significantly reduces the cascaded number of transistors and the total number of transistors for the same functionality.
US11271566B2
An apparatus includes a device comprising a semiconductor junction configured to generate a reference voltage, a voltage divider circuit, a comparator circuit, and a first output circuit. The voltage divider circuit may be configured to generate a first predetermined threshold voltage in response to the reference voltage. The comparator circuit may be configured to generate a first intermediate signal in response to a comparison of the first predetermined threshold voltage and an input signal. The first output circuit may be configured to generate a first output signal in response to the first intermediate signal.
US11271565B2
A system for sensing touch or proximity include: a first number of input terminals configured to couple one or more capacitive sensors, a second number of transferring units configured to transfer charges from the one or more capacitive sensors through the first number of input terminals in transferring phases of cycles of the one or more capacitive sensor, wherein at least one of the first and second numbers is equal to or greater than two, and a first switching unit, coupled between the first number of input terminals and the second number of transferring units, configured to selectively electrically couple any one of the first number of input terminals to any one of the second number of transferring units in the transferring phases.
US11271564B2
A high-sensitivity capacitive sensor circuit having improved sensitivity by implementing a plurality of detection units using charging and discharging, has: an oscillation unit for generating a control clock; a first charge/discharge unit connected to a sensing unit electrode, which generates a sensing signal while being charged/discharged according to the control clock; a second charge/discharge unit connected in parallel to the first charge/discharge unit, which generates a reference signal while being charged/discharged according to the control clock; and a detection unit for detecting a change in the capacitance on the side of the sensing unit electrode by comparing the sensing signal from the first charge/discharge unit with the reference signal from the second charge/discharge unit. The first charge/discharge unit includes: a first capacitor connected at one end thereof to the sensing unit electrode, which is charged/discharged according to the control clock; a first constant-current source for supplying a predetermined amount of constant-current to the first capacitor, which charges the first capacitor; and a first switch for controlling the first capacitor such that, according to the control clock, the first capacitor is repetitively charged and discharged every half cycle of the clock. The second charge/discharge unit includes: a second capacitor which is charged/discharged according to the control clock; a second constant-current source for supplying a predetermined amount of constant-current to the second capacitor so as to charge the second capacitor; and a second switch for controlling the second capacitor such that, according to the control clock, the second capacitor is repetitively charged and discharged every half cycle of the clock.
US11271562B2
A solid-state relay circuit includes an isolator circuit, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, and an output switch. The output switch is coupled to the isolator circuit, and includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a diode. The first transistor is coupled to the first output terminal. The second transistor is coupled to the first transistor and the second output terminal. The diode is coupled to the first transistor, the second transistor, and ground, and is configured to block current flow from ground to the first transistor and the second transistor. The isolator circuit is coupled to the output switch and is configured to activate the first transistor and the second transistor.
US11271560B2
Provided is a gate drive device, including: a gate drive unit for driving a gate of a switching element; a measurement unit for measuring a parameter that changes according to a current flowing through the switching element; and a switching unit for switching a changing speed of a gate voltage of the switching element by the gate driving unit after a first reference period from a start of turning off the switching element based on the parameter.
US11271558B2
An integrated circuit that may be employed as a smart switch is described herein. The integrated circuit may include a first power transistor coupled between a supply pin and a first output pin and a second power transistor coupled between the supply pin and a second output pin. The first and the second power transistors each having an intrinsic body diode which allows reverse conduction. The integrated circuit further includes a control circuit that is configured to trigger a switch-on and switch-off of the first and the second power transistors based on a first input signal and a second input signal, respectively. Furthermore, the integrated circuit includes a protection circuit configured to detect, for the first and the second power transistors, a transition from a reverse conducting state into a forward conducting state, and vice versa, and to generate an error signal in response to certain detections.
US11271556B2
An example analog signal multiplexer includes two differential input signal ports for receiving a first and a second differential input signals, IN1 and IN2. The multiplexer further includes a differential output signal port with two output terminals OUT+ and OUT−, for outputting a signal based on one or more of the input signals IN1 and IN2. Furthermore, the multiplexer includes a pair of load elements, and an additional differential output signal port that has two output terminals TERM+ and TERM−. The load elements are not coupled directly to the output terminals OUT+ and OUT−, but, rather, are coupled to the output terminals of the additional output signal port, TERM+ and TERM−, enabling a modular approach where multiple instances of the multiplexer may be combined on an “as-needed” basis to realize multiplexing between a larger number of differential inputs that a single multiplexer would allow.
US11271542B2
An acoustic wave device includes: a mounting substrate; a first wiring layer located on an upper surface of the mounting substrate, the first wiring layer including a first bond region and a first connection region connecting with the first bond region and having a thickness substantially equal to a thickness of the first bond region; an element substrate mounted on the mounting substrate; an acoustic wave element located on a lower surface of the element substrate; and a second wiring layer located on the lower surface of the element substrate, the second wiring layer including a second bond region and a second connection region, the second bond region directly bonding with the first bond region of the first wiring layer, the second connection region connecting the acoustic wave element with the second bond region and having a thickness substantially equal to a thickness of the second bond region.
US11271541B2
A duplexer includes a duplexer package having a transmit terminal, an antenna terminal, a receive terminal and at least one package ground terminal, a transmit filter disposed within the duplexer package, and a receive filter disposed within the duplexer package. Coupled first and second inductors, the first inductor connected to the transmit filter and the second inductor connected to the receive filter, are configured to cancel, at least in part, RF signal leakage between the transmit filter and the receive filter.
US11271539B1
An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate. A first portion of the piezoelectric plate is attached to the substrate. A second portion of the piezoelectric forms a diaphragm suspended over a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric plate, the IDT including first and second busbars disposed on the first portion and interleaved IDT fingers disposed on the diaphragm. A plurality of tethers support the diaphragm over the cavity, each tether providing an electrical connection between a corresponding one of the interleaved IDT fingers and one of the first and second busbars.
US11271535B2
Improved performance of analog computers is obtained by utilizing a deliberate reduction in gain of the gain elements present in the analog computer. While a prior output of the circuit (if any) is present, the gain of the gain elements is reduced to a level that is low enough that the input signal cannot propagate through the circuit. The input signal is then changed to a new value, or set of values, while the gain of the gain elements remains reduced. Finally, the gain of the gain elements is increased to a level that is high enough to allow the input signal to propagate through the circuit, resulting in an output that is a solution to the problem represented by the analog computer.
US11271524B2
A resonant tank includes a first capacitor formed on a semiconductor substrate, a first inductor formed on the semiconductor substrate, a second capacitor formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a second inductor formed on the semiconductor substrate. The first capacitor, the first inductor, the second capacitor, and the second inductor are connected in a ring configuration, with each capacitor connected between a pair of the inductors and with each inductor connected between a pair of the capacitors. An amplifier circuit is coupled to the resonant tank and configured to amplify a signal in the resonant tank.
US11271520B2
Support platforms for one or more solar panels and systems and methods for securing support platforms are provided. In one embodiment, a frame of a support platform includes a plurality of support legs, each leg including a shoe plate. One or more toggle anchors with rod and/or cable are provided that include an anchor portion and a toggle portion pivotally coupled to the anchor portion, and a rod and/or cable is coupled to the toggle portion. Each anchor is driven into the ground with a driving rod such that an exposed end of the rod and/or cable extends from the ground. The driving rod is removed, and the rod and/or cable is pulled to deploy the anchor, and which the anchor is pull tested and measured in real time soil conditions whereupon the exposed end is coupled to the shoe plate of one of the support legs to apply a desired tensile force between the exposed end and the anchor to secure the support leg and, consequently, the support platform relative to the ground.
US11271512B2
A motor driving device includes: a first motor and a second motor; a first power line for supplying driving power to the first motor; a second power line for supplying driving power to the second motor; a first inverter circuit configured to supply the driving power to the first power line; a second inverter circuit configured to supply the driving power to the second power line; transmission lines including a pair of a U-phase line and a U′-phase line, a pair of a V-phase line and a V′-phase line, and a pair of a W-phase line and a W′-phase line; and an impedance circuit impedance-matched to the transmission lines. Each of the transmission lines is arranged via an insulator.
US11271509B2
The present embodiment is a high rotor pole switched reluctance machine (HRSRM) which provides a plurality of combinations of the number of rotor poles Rn and number of stator poles Sn utilizing a numerical relationship defined by a mathematical formula, Rn=2Sn−Fp, when Sn=m×Fp, wherein Fp is the maximum number of independent flux paths in the stator when stator and rotor poles are fully aligned, and m is the number of phases. The mathematical formulation provides an improved noise performance and design flexibility to the machine. The mathematical formulation further provides a specific number of stator and rotor poles for a chosen m and Fp. The HRSRM can be designed with varying number of phases. The HRSRM provides a smoother torque profile due to a high number of strokes per revolution.
US11271506B2
A control device and a control method for an induction motor. The control device comprises: a magnetizing current adjusting unit used for calculating a magnetizing voltage instruction; a torque current adjusting unit used for calculating a torque voltage instruction; a flux linkage instruction angle generating unit calculating a flux linkage instruction angle according to a lower limit ω1th of a preset stator frequency, a stator frequency ω1, and a flux linkage estimation angle; and a motor stator voltage instruction calculating unit calculating, according to the magnetizing voltage instruction, the torque voltage instruction, and the flux linkage instruction angle, a stator voltage instruction for controlling a stator of the motor. The control system can be run outside an unstable area, and the stability of control by the control device is improved.
US11271501B2
A system includes a gas turbine operational at a constant rated rotational speed, a speed sensor to measure an actual speed of the gas turbine, a turbine controller to control the gas turbine to the constant rated rotational speed, and a generator coupled with the gas turbine and rotatable to output electric power. The system also includes a DC to DC converter to output a load current on a load bus to supply a load. The DC to DC converter is supplied input electric power from the generator. The system also includes an energy storage device cooperative operable with the DC to DC converter to supply power on the load bus, and a controller to receive the actual speed and adjust an output electrical current set point of the DC to DC converter to compensate for deviation of the actual speed from the constant rated speed of the gas turbine.
US11271500B2
A rotating electric machine drive unit includes a first rotating electric machine; a second rotating electric machine; a rotating electric machine housing having a rotating electric machine accommodation portion; a power control unit having a power conversion unit which controls at least one of the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine; and a connecting member which electrically connects at least one of the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine to the power conversion unit of the power control unit. When viewed from a rotation axis direction of the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine, a part of the power control unit is disposed so as to overlap with at least one of the rotating electric machine housing and the first rotating electric machine in a radial direction of the first rotating electric machine.
US11271499B2
Provided is a Direct Circuit (DC) bus discharge control method, including that: an active discharge instruction is received; a motor current signal is acquired according to the active discharge instruction; the motor current signal is converted into a current signal in a stator coordinate system; a voltage control signal in the stator coordinate system is output based on the current signal in the stator coordinate system and a current reference instruction of a preset stator coordinate system, the current reference instruction of the preset stator coordinate system being a high-frequency alternating current; and the voltage control signal in the stator coordinate system is converted into a three-phase voltage control signal, and a working state of a switching device is controlled according to the three-phase voltage control signal.
US11271497B2
An energy harvester apparatus, system and method. A cantilevered beam resonator includes a cantilever beam and a base defined by the ends of the cantilever beam. The cantilevered beam resonator further includes a piezoelectric transducer composed of one or more piezoelectric components. The piezoelectric transducer is generally mounted beneath the base of the cantilevered beam resonator. In some example embodiments, the piezoelectric component can be configured in a split electrode configuration composed of a single split arrangement or more than one split (e.g., two splits, three splits, four splits, and so on).
US11271492B2
An inverter with a modular bus assembly is described. In various embodiments, the modular bus assembly includes a laminated motherboard and a plurality of capacitor daughtercards. The laminated motherboard can be configured to interface a plurality of phase-leg modules and a plurality of capacitor daughtercards through a plurality of terminals and connectors located on a bottom side or a top side of the laminated motherboard. The laminated motherboard includes a layer stack with a plurality of conductor layers. Each of the plurality of conductor layers is implemented with a net spacing from a neighboring plated through hole (PTH) based at least in part on differences in potential to be applied to each of the plurality of conductor layers as compared to a potential to be applied to the PTH. Embedded shield polygons can be implemented on the laminated motherboard to mitigate surface discharge at surface terminal (PTH/SMT) triple junctions.
US11271491B2
In an inverter module (10) including a plurality of switching elements (11), a positive-polarity bus bar (14), a negative-polarity bus bar (15), and a plurality of output bus bars (16, 17, and 18), the plurality of output bus bars (16, 17, and 18) are disposed in a first direction (D1) in which upper-stage-side switching elements (11U) and lower-stage-side switching elements (11L) are placed side by side, and the positive-polarity bus bar (14) and the negative-polarity bus bar (15) are disposed in a second direction (D2) intersecting the first direction (D1).
US11271488B2
A system and method using four switches connected in an H-bridge (full bridge) topology within a series-connected FACTS device is disclosed. System and method can be used to bypass a FACTS device. The switches in H-bridge are connected to an alternating current (AC) source allowing for various switching states, and enabling non-monitoring mode, local bypass monitoring mode, low-loss monitoring mode, and diagnostic mode of operation.
US11271486B2
A power supply device and a booster circuit for a power supply device. The booster circuit includes an access terminal configured to access a direct current voltage from a battery pack, a transformer group electrically connected to the access terminal so that the accessed direct current voltage is boosted to a predetermined voltage by the transformer group, and a rectifier bridge electrically connected to the transformer group to convert the predetermined voltage into a high-voltage direct current after pulse rectification. The transformer group includes a first transformer including a first primary side and a first secondary side and a second transformer including a second primary side and a second secondary side. The power supply device disclosed is compact in structure and convenient to carry and can output an alternating current.
US11271485B2
The anti-windup circuit generally has a voltage clamping device in series with a current limiting device operatively connectable to the output current path of a feedback compensator; the feedback compensator being part of a switch-mode power supply (SMPS) having an input voltage source and a load and generating constrained control values required to generate control on-off actions for tight power regulation. The inclusion of the disclosed anti-windup circuit in an SMPS may lead to hardware based overvoltage protection, reduced overall size and faster response to load changes.
US11271483B2
A system includes an isolated converter having a power transformer with a primary winding, a secondary winding, and an auxiliary winding. The system also includes: 1) a first switch coupled to the primary winding; 2) a switch controller coupled to the first switch; and 3) a bias power regulator circuit coupled to the auxiliary winding and the switch controller. The bias power regulator circuit includes a second switch. The bias power regulator circuit is configured to provide a bias supply output voltage to the switch controller based on a first set of modes that modulate a switching frequency of the second switch and based on a second mode in which the second switch stays off.
US11271460B2
A method of manufacturing a rotational electric machine rotor includes: forming a rotor shaft having a non-circular sectional outer shape; forming a rotor core by stacking a predetermined number of magnetic body thin plates each including a center hole having a non-circular shape corresponding to the non-circular sectional outer shape of the rotor shaft; and forming a protruding part for fixing the rotor core and the rotor shaft to each other by inserting the rotor shaft into the non-circular center hole of the rotor core and squashing the rotor shaft extending out of an axial-direction end face of the rotor core by using a predetermined swaging jig to expand the rotor shaft outward beyond an outer periphery of the non-circular section along the axial-direction end face of the rotor core.
US11271459B2
A rotor manufacturing method that includes stacking a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets; and welding the plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets by moving a welding head relative to the plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets that are stacked in a state in which the welding head is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a stacking surface of the electromagnetic steel sheets so that a molten portion passes through at least one of the electromagnetic steel sheets.
US11271452B2
A flywheel device that includes a housing that surrounds a vacuum chamber, a flywheel rotor within the vacuum chamber, which rotates during normal operation of the flywheel, thus agitating residual gasses, an exhaust chamber that receives the exhaust gases from the vacuum chamber, and an annular shaped stationary element, within the vacuum chamber that includes scroll channels where some of the scroll channels have an intake port on an inner diameter of the stationary element and some of the scroll channels have an intake port on an outer diameter of the stationary element, and the scroll channels enable gasses to flow from the vacuum chamber, through the scroll channels, into the exhaust chamber.
US11271449B2
The invention relates to an electric machine (10) and system kits for electric machines (10), in particular for adjusting movable parts in a motor vehicle, comprising a commutator (55) which is arranged on a rotor shaft (20) and which can be connected to a power source in an electrically conductive manner by means of electric brushes (26), said brushes (26) being secured to a brush support component (17) which is directly radially supported on an inner wall (77) of a pole housing (12). The electric machine also of comprises a plug module (16) which has electric conductors (51) for connecting to an outer connection plug (18). The plug module (16) has axial protrusions (82) which engage into corresponding axial recesses (80) in the brush support component (17), wherein the axial protrusions (82) are likewise directly radially supported on the inner wall (77) of the pole housing (12) and not radially on the brush support component (17).
US11271443B2
A rotor core for a rotary electric machine, includes: a shaft hole into which a shaft rotating about a rotation axis is inserted and fixed; an inner ring portion provided with the shaft hole therein and having an outer edge in a circular shape coaxial with the rotation axis; an outer ring portion coaxial with the rotation axis and disposed radially outward of the inner ring portion; a connection ring portion coaxial with the rotation axis and disposed between the inner and outer ring portions; inner ribs interconnecting the inner and connection ring portions and extending in a crossing direction to the rotation axis; and outer ribs interconnecting the connection and outer ring portions and extending in the crossing direction. The inner and outer ribs are disposed respectively in different phases in a peripheral direction of the connection ring portion.
US11271434B2
A rectenna device includes an antenna (210), a first rectifier (31) to rectify a radio frequency wave input in the antenna (210), an antenna (220), a second rectifier (32) to rectify a radio frequency wave input in the antenna (220), and a capacitive coupler (5) to form an open circuit in response to direct current and to form a short circuit in response to a fundamental wave. The first rectifier (31) includes a ground (GND) conductor (410) to be a reference potential, and the second rectifier (32) includes a GND conductor (420) to be a reference potential. The GND conductor (410) and the GND conductor (420) are connected with the capacitive coupler (5) in between. The first rectifier (31) and the second rectifier (32) are connected in series.
US11271402B2
The presence of injected DC has harmful consequences for a power grid system. A piecewise sinusoidal ripple voltage wave at the line-frequency that rides on the main capacitor bank of the power converter is observed. This observation leads to a new DC detection elimination method. Three DC elimination methods for this ripple component are disclosed to allow dissipation of DC energy through heat and/or electromagnetic wave, or to allow transformation of this energy into usable power that is fed back into the power grid.
US11271391B2
An apparatus for controlling a low-voltage DC-to-DC converter of a vehicle for converting high-voltage power into low-voltage power may include a signal selector for selecting and outputting one of a charging-oriented voltage command for charging the battery or a preset burst mode voltage command for operation of the low-voltage DC-to-DC converter in a burst mode in which the battery cannot be charged, a battery charge/discharge current limiter for generating a voltage command compensation value for limiting charge current of the battery when the signal selector outputs the charging-oriented voltage command and limiting discharge current of the battery when the signal selector outputs the burst mode voltage command, and a controller for controlling an output voltage of the low-voltage DC-to-DC converter to follow a compensated voltage command generated by applying the voltage command compensation value to the voltage command output by the signal selector.
US11271384B2
Load control interlocks are disclosed and described. The interlocks provide for coupling a power circuit to one or more load circuits once the one or more load circuits and the power circuit are both coupled to the interlock, and disconnects the power circuit from the one or more load circuits if the one or more load circuits or the power circuit are uncoupled form the interlock or an electrical connection between the power circuit and the one or more load circuits is broken.
US11271383B2
A field programmable circuit breaker receives a measurement of a displacement of a terminal spring element, from a detector associated with the terminal spring element, when a field wire is inserted into the terminal spring element. The terminal spring element provides a wire clamp force in a terminal configured to receive the inserted field wire. A trip current value is determined based on the wire size and a time interval is measured during which the current in the field wire is continuously greater than the trip current value. A trip curve is accessed corresponding to the trip current value to determine whether the measured time interval exceeds a maximum interval indicated by the trip curve. A tripping signal provided to a current monitoring unit interrupts the current when the measured interval exceeds the maximum interval for the measured current to be continuously greater than the trip current value.
US11271381B2
A subsea wiring apparatus includes a housing having a cavity extending from a first end to a second end. The apparatus also includes an electrical connector arranged within the cavity, the electrical connector receiving at least one conductor. The apparatus further includes a separator extending at least partially into the cavity, wherein the separator receives the at least one conductor and directs the at least one conductor into a passage. The apparatus also includes an isolating material within the cavity, the isolating material extending from the first end to the second end, wherein the isolating material surrounds at least a portion of the conductor to block fluid communication with the conductor.
US11271380B2
A protective cover to cover an opening of an electrical box having a threaded bore on inwardly projecting protrusions. In one approach the protective cover may have a back panel and four side panels together defining an interior cavity; a flange connected to a free edge of the side panels; wherein the flange has a pair of keyhole shaped bores defining a pair of openings along a center longitudinal axis of the flange; and wherein the keyhole openings are configured to allow a head of a screw to extend from the threaded bore and through a rounded portion of the keyhole opening and to allow a threaded shaft of the screw to slide along the length of an elongated narrow portion of the keyhole opening, the narrow portion being narrower than the diameter of the screw head.
US11271379B1
A ninety degree electrical fitting for connecting electrical cable to an electrical box. The ninety degree electrical fitting includes a connector body with a leading end and a trailing end, a snap ring connected to the leading end, and a clip member connected to the trailing end. A leading flange and a box engagement flange on the leading end of the connector body define a means for retaining the snap ring on the connector body. A clip member connected to the connector body provides a means for securing an electrical cable to the trailing end of the fitting. Internal walls on the connector body define an internal passageway having a wide turn radius, to enable wiring leads from an electrical cable to pass easily through the internal passageway of the connector body. The ninety degree snap fit electrical fitting provides good electrical continuity between the outer sheath of an electrical cable, the electrical box, and the fitting.
US11271377B1
A flexible, arc-shaped cord minder clip for securing power cords or float cords to piping or a float tree of a water, sewage, grinder or sump pump, wherein the degree measure of the arc of the clip is from about 55 to about 270 degrees, wherein the width of the clip is from about 0.5 inch to about 3 inches; and wherein secured to or a molded component of an outer surface of the clip around its circumference are one or more flexible, open c-shaped cord holders. Alternatively, the c-shaped cord holder may be formed as a component of the clip and may be structured to hold the cord against a surface of the piping or float tree.
US11271373B2
The present patent discloses a dust-proof switch cabinet in low-voltage comprises a low-voltage switchgear cabinet on which a plurality of unit drawers are arranged, wherein the unit drawers are provided with a drawer stop door located on the outside and a drawer side panel located on both sides, and a plurality of elastic tensioning members respectively matched with the corresponding unit drawers are provided in the low-voltage switchgear cabinet, wherein the elastic tensioning members are inserted into the inner cavity of the unit drawers and connected with the low-voltage switchgear cabinet, and the movable end of the elastic tensioning members are connected with the unit drawers. The present patent has the effect of effectively avoids the accumulation of particles and debris in the drawers caused by the unit drawers being opened for a long-time, thereby significantly improving the dustproof performance of the low-voltage switchgear cabinet.
US11271371B2
A light emitting device includes an edge emitting laser chip and a reflecting mirror. The edge emitting laser chip has light emitting ports arranged in parallel in a first direction. The light emitting ports emit light beams in a second direction. The reflecting mirror includes a reflecting surface used to reflect the light beams to a third direction. The first, second and third direction are perpendicular to each other. The light beams are emitted to the reflecting surface through the virtual incident plane and project first light spots on the reflecting surface. Each projected light spot has a first axis length in the first direction and a third axis length in the third direction. An interval between two immediately-adjacent light emitting ports is greater than the first axis length of one of the two projected light spots aligned with the two immediately-adjacent light emitting ports.
US11271370B2
Tensile strained semiconductor photon emission and detection devices and integrated photonics system
Tensile strained germanium is provided that can be sufficiently strained to provide a nearly direct band gap material or a direct band gap material. Compressively stressed or tensile stressed stressor materials in contact with germanium regions induce uniaxial or biaxial tensile strain in the germanium regions. Stressor materials may include silicon nitride or silicon germanium. The resulting strained germanium structure can be used to emit or detect photons including, for example, generating photons within a resonant cavity to provide a laser.
US11271369B2
What is provided are: an active-layer ridge which is composed of an n-type cladding layer, an active layer, a first p-type cladding layer and a second n-type blocking layer that are stacked in this order on an n-type InP substrate, and which is formed to project from a position lower than the active layer; burying layers by which both side portions of the active-layer ridge are buried up to a position higher than the active layer; first n-type blocking layers which are each stacked on a front-surface side of each of the burying layers, to be placed on the both sides of the ridge; and a second p-type cladding layer by which an end portion of the active-layer ridge and the first n-type blocking layers are buried thereunder; wherein a current narrowing window for allowing a hole current to pass therethrough is provided in and at a center of the second n-type blocking layer placed at a top of the active-layer ridge.
US11271365B2
A laser element includes a transparent substrate, a conductive layer on the transparent substrate, an adhesive layer, attached to the transparent substrate and having a first side surface, a laser unit, wherein the laser unit comprises a front conductive structure, attached to the adhesive layer and having a second side surface, a back conductive structure, which comprises a first detecting electrode and a second detecting electrode separated from the first detecting electrode, a passivation layer covering one of the first side surface and the second side surface, and first via holes extending from the back conductive structure to the conductive layer, wherein the first detecting electrode and the second detecting electrode are electrically connected to the conductive layer through the first via holes.
US11271363B1
A package structure for the multi-channel parallel transmission optical device includes a package base, a package cap which is used to form a package shell with the package base, and a plurality of laser generating units that are all mounted on the package base and arranged annularly relative to the axis of the package base. Each laser generating unit is equipped with an optical mirror group to convert the laser emitted by the laser generating unit into the laser beam parallel to the axis of the package base. A converging lens is also configured inside or outside the package shell, or the package cap uses the converging lens as an optical window, and to converge each laser beam into output beam. The optical path design can significantly reduce the device package volume, which correspondingly increases the channel density.
US11271353B2
An apparatus is provided relating to the insertion of one or more wires into a cavity of a fixture of a structure or component. The wire insertion apparatus includes a grommet, a gripper adapted to interface with the grommet, and at least a first vibrating element. The first vibrating element is connected to and vibrates one or more of the apparatus, the grommet, the gripper, the wire, and/or a component of the apparatus. Vibration, induced in any direction, enables the cavities to shift position during insertion relative to the contact, thus increasing the tolerance of the cavity, reducing the failure rate of wire insertion, and reducing total production time. The vibration breaks the static friction of the contact in the grommet or dielectric opening, creates the positive locating required to insert the contact in the grommet and/or dielectric, and/or pivots the contact.
US11271348B1
A high performance connector that provides heat dissipation sufficient to support operation of high power consuming QSFP-DD transceivers. The connector may be housed in a cage with a first channel to receive a transceiver. A connector port may be aligned with the first channel, and a heat transfer element comprising a compressible portion may make mechanical and thermal contact with a transceiver inside the first channel. The compressible portion may be urged to contact a transceiver by a biasing element. The heat transfer element may be thermally coupled to a heat dissipating element outside the cage. The cage may have multiple channels, and the heat transfer element may be installed in a channel between other channels, each receiving transceivers such that the heat transfer element may receive heat from multiple transceivers.
US11271346B2
A connector assembly includes a socket connector, and a plug connector with connector position assurance element inserted into the socket connector. The plug connector with connector position assurance element includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals, a plurality of cables and a connector position assurance element. The insulating body defines a plurality of terminal slots. The plurality of the terminals are assembled in the plurality of the terminal slots. Two opposite ends of each terminal have a connecting end and a fitting end. The connecting ends of the plurality of the terminals are connected to the plurality of the cables. The connector position assurance element is inserted to a top of the insulating body, and then a plug-in status between the plug connector with connector position assurance element, and the socket connector is maintained.
US11271341B2
A retaining frame for retaining plug-connector modules and/or plug connectors for installation in a plug connector housing, has two side parts each with at least one surface and at least one frame element designed to be fitted together to form the retaining frame. The surfaces of the side parts, once joined together, form a fastening surface having at least one recess for receiving a plug connector. The frame elements of the side parts of the retaining frame, once joined together, are spaced apart from one another and form at least one receiving region for receiving the plug-connector modules. On the fastening surface, at least one fixing element is provided, which can be fixed there in such a way that the side parts joined together to form the retaining frame are fixed, and that a plug connector accommodated in the recess is also axially fixed in the retaining frame.
US11271335B2
Embodiments include a carrier assembly, a method of forming the carrier assembly, and a semiconductor package. A carrier assembly includes a socket on a package substrate, and a carrier having a transparent material, a first opening, first alignment openings, and barbs. The carrier assembly also includes an electronic device embedded into the first opening of carrier and coupled to the carrier by barbs. The carrier assembly further includes a bolster plate on the package substrate, the bolster plate having a second opening, loading studs, and second alignment openings, and the second opening surrounds the socket. Each loading stud is positioned on a corner edge of the bolster plate. The carrier assembly may align the first alignment openings above the second alignment openings to couple the carrier onto the bolster plate. The carrier assembly may include a heat sink disposed on the electronic device, carrier, and bolster plate.
US11271333B2
A terminal module, comprising a first cover, a first insulator, a second insulator, and a second cover. The first insulator is installed on the first cover, comprising a plurality of terminal bases and a plurality of first accommodating grooves. The plurality of terminal bases is disposed at the bottom of the first insulator. A terminal group is disposed in each of the terminal bases. The second insulator is disposed on the first insulator, comprising a plurality of second accommodating grooves. The plurality of second accommodating grooves correspond to the plurality of first accommodating grooves. Each of the first accommodating grooves and the corresponding second accommodating groove accommodate a cable collectively. The cable is electrically connected to the corresponding terminal group. The second cover is installed on the first insulator, so that the first insulator and the second insulator are disposed between the first cover and the second cover.
US11271329B2
An electrical terminal includes a base portion having a base portion outer surface, a base portion inner surface, and two securing tabs extending from an edge of the base portion. The electrical terminal also an attachment portion having an attachment portion outer surface an attachment portion inner surface. The base portion inner surface is proximate the attachment portion inner surface and wherein the two securing tabs overlay the attachment portion outer surface. The electrical terminal may be especially well suited for making an electrical connection to components disposed on a glass surface. A method for forming such a terminal is also presented.
US11271326B2
An antenna system includes a dielectric substrate, a ground plane, and a first antenna array. The ground plane is disposed on a second surface of the dielectric substrate. The first antenna array is disposed on a first surface of the dielectric substrate. The first antenna array includes a first transmission line, a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a third antenna element, a fourth antenna element, a fifth antenna element, and a sixth antenna element. The first transmission line has a first feeding point and is coupled to the first antenna element, the second antenna element, the third antenna element, the fourth antenna element, the fifth antenna element, and the sixth antenna element. The first antenna element, the second antenna element, the third antenna element, the fourth antenna element, the fifth antenna element, and the sixth antenna element are all substantially arranged in a first straight line.
US11271322B2
A substrate integrated waveguide fed antenna. The antenna includes an electric dipole, a parasitic patch arrangement operably coupled with the electric dipole, and a feed structure. The feed structure includes a substrate integrated waveguide operably coupled with the electric dipole for exciting the electric dipole. A slotted conductive surface with a slot is arranged between the electric dipole and the feed structure for operably coupling the feed structure with the electric dipole.
US11271318B2
A waveguide antenna is disclosed, comprising: a first plurality of slots, for producing a beam having a first radiation pattern at a first resonant frequency; and a second plurality of slots, for producing a beam having a second radiation pattern at a second resonant frequency. A method of operation of the waveguide antenna is also disclosed, comprising: operating the transceiver at a first frequency to detect objects in a first field of view; and operating the transceiver at a second frequency to detect objects in a second field of view.
US11271312B2
A semiconductor device package includes a circuit layer and a first antenna structure. The circuit layer includes a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first antenna structure is disposed on the first surface and electrically connected to the circuit layer. The first antenna structure includes a first patch, a second patch, a third patch, a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer. The second patch is disposed on the first patch. The first dielectric layer has a first dielectric constant (Dk), and is disposed between the first patch and the second patch. The third patch is disposed on the second patch. The second dielectric layer has a second dielectric constant and is disposed between the second patch and the third patch. The first dielectric constant is smaller than the second dielectric constant.
US11271310B2
An antenna device includes a ground plate that is a conductive member having a plate shape, a patch section that is a conductive member having a plate shape and is disposed in parallel with the ground plate with a predetermined interval so as to face the ground plate, a plurality of first short-circuit vias each having an axial center disposed on a circumference of a via arrangement circle located in a center portion of the patch section and each having a first end connected with the patch section and a second end connected with the ground plate, and at least one second short-circuit via having an axial center disposed at a position different from the circumference of the via arrangement circle and having a first end connected with the patch section and a second end connected with the ground plate.
US11271309B2
An antenna system circuit board stack with feed vias and with non-feed vias is disclosed. An antenna system circuit board stack as disclosed herein can include a plurality of patches or radiating elements formed on a common plane comprising a first surface of a circuit board. Each radiating element is electrically connected to one or more feed vias. In addition non-feed vias extend through, but are electrically isolated from, the radiating elements. An antenna system as disclosed herein enables the costs associated with multiple beam antenna systems, including but not limited to 5G communication systems, to be reduced as compared to alternative techniques.
US11271307B2
Various embodiments relating to radio reception in an electronic device are disclosed. According to an embodiment, an earphone connector, an NFC antenna, a radio reception module, and a processor by which the radio reception module is configured to be electrically connected to the earphone connector or the NFC antenna depending on whether or not an earphone is connected to the earphone connector may be included. Additionally, other various embodiments are possible.
US11271298B2
A multi-antenna module includes, on or in the dielectric substrate, a first radiation element, a second radiation element that operates at a frequency band lower than that of the first radiation element, and a ground plane. A first feed line and a second feed line are provided on or in the dielectric substrate. A first switch element switches between a first state in which a signal is supplied to the second radiation element and a second state including at least one of a state in which the second radiation element is connected to the ground plane with terminal impedance interposed therebetween, a state in which the second radiation element is in a floating state with respect to the second feed line and the ground plane, and a state in which the second radiation element is short-circuited to the ground plane.
US11271286B2
Disclosed is a metal shielding cover slot antenna, which includes a metal shielding cover. The metal shielding cover includes a plurality of conductive surfaces, and the metal shielding cover further includes: a slot, an antenna feed terminal and an antenna ground portion. The slot is disposed in at least one of the plurality of conductive surfaces of the metal shielding cover; the antenna ground portion is formed by at least one of the plurality of conductive surfaces, formed by a cut in at least one of the plurality of conductive surfaces or connected to at least one of the plurality of conductive surfaces; the antenna feed terminal is formed by a cut in at least one of the plurality of conductive surfaces or connected to at least one of the plurality of conductive surfaces; and a conductive path starts from the antenna feed terminal and extends along the slot. Also disclosed is an electronic device.
US11271284B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include a loop antenna, a printed circuit board including a power wire and a ground wire, a first switch electrically connected between a first terminal of the loop antenna and the power wire, a second switch electrically connected between the first terminal and the ground wire, a third switch electrically connected between a second terminal of the loop antenna and the power wire, a fourth switch electrically connected between the second terminal and the ground wire, and a controller.
US11271277B2
The present invention relates to a dielectric waveguide filter, comprising a dielectric substrate, wherein the dielectric substrate comprises a plurality of resonators; the plurality of resonators are connected to each other; the dielectric substrate further comprises a negative coupling blind hole; the negative coupling blind hole is arranged at a joint between two adjacent resonators; the two adjacent resonators are respectively provided with a tuning blind hole; and the tuning blind hole of one of the two adjacent resonators is connected to the negative coupling blind hole by a first coupling structure. The present invention can effectively suppress parasitic coupling of the dielectric waveguide filter.
US11271276B2
A battery, a fixture for forming a battery plate, a kit, and a related method of manufacture are provided. The battery comprises a housing and a mechanically actuated valve. The housing defines a cell configured to receive battery plates. The mechanically actuated valve is in fluid communication with the cell and configured to control entry of electrolyte into the cell.
US11271269B2
A battery pack and a method for connecting a battery pack to an electronic device to power to the electronic device (e.g., a headlamp, a flashlight, a flood light, a drill, a driver, etc.). The battery pack includes a generally cylindrical housing defined by an arcuate sidewall extending between a first end surface and a second end surface and defining an interior cavity configured to support at least one battery cell (e.g., a lithium-ion battery cell). The battery pack includes a first insertion alignment member engageable with a first battery alignment member of the electronic device in order to facilitate insertion into a receiving portion of the electronic device in a first direction and a second insertion alignment member engageable with a second battery alignment member of another electronic device in order to facilitate insertion into a receiving portion of the other electronic device in a second direction.
US11271250B2
A lithium ion secondary battery that includes a winding-type electrode assembly in which a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound into a roll shape and have a charge cutoff voltage of 4.41 V to 4.47 V. In this lithium ion secondary battery, an area ratio of the entirety of the negative electrode active material layer to an area of a facing portion between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer is 100.5% to 104.0%. A gap between the positive electrode and the negative electrode is 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm in an axial direction of the winding. A discharge capacity per unit weight of a positive electrode active material in the positive electrode active material layer is 169.0 mAh/g to 178.0 mAh/g.
US11271247B1
Methods of forming an electrochemical cell using a non-inert gas are disclosed. Exemplary methods include providing a first gas before applying or more of current and voltage to the cell. The first (e.g., non-inert) gas can facilitate formation of a solid electrolyte interphase (SET). Further examples of the disclosure relate to methods of forming an electrochemical cell or portion thereof by electrospraying a solution including polymeric material. Such methods potentially eliminate a step of compressing the cell at a pressure beyond 100 MPa and prolong the cycle life while preventing a fire hazard.
US11271242B2
A lithium ion secondary battery having excellent durability is provided. The lithium ion secondary battery includes: a positive electrode including a current collector made from aluminum; a negative electrode; and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains an electrolyte including a lithium salt, and a linear carbonate represented by formula (2), the linear carbonate is contained at a mole ratio of 3 to 6 relative to the lithium salt, and the electrolyte includes a first lithium salt represented by formula (1) and a second alkali metal salt; (R1X1)(R2SO2)NLi: formula (1); and R20OCOOR21: formula (2).
US11271236B2
A electrochemical direct heat to electricity converter having a low temperature membrane electrode assembly array and a high temperature membrane electrode assembly array is provided. Additional cells are provided in the low temperature membrane electrode assembly array, which causes an additional amount of the working fluid, namely hydrogen, to be pumped to the high pressure side of the converter. The additional pumped hydrogen compensates for the molecular hydrogen diffusion that occurs through the membranes of the membrane electrode assembly arrays. The MEA cells may be actuated independently by a controller to compensate for hydrogen diffusion.
US11271234B2
A solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprises a membrane electrode assembly comprising a polymer electrolyte disposed between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, the anode and cathode electrodes each comprising a catalyst, a central region and a peripheral region, wherein the peripheral region of the cathode electrode comprises a cathode edge barrier layer; a fluid impermeable seal in contact with at least a portion of the anode and cathode peripheral regions and the cathode edge barrier layer; an anode flow field plate adjacent the anode electrode; and a cathode flow field plate adjacent the cathode electrode, wherein the cathode flow field separator plate comprises a cathode peripheral flow channel and at least one cathode central flow channel; wherein at least a portion of the cathode edge barrier layer traverses at least a portion of the cathode peripheral flow channel.
US11271228B2
A fuel cell system includes a gas-liquid separator, a circulation flow path, a connecting flow path, and a distribution flow path. The gas-liquid separator separates fuel exhaust gas, which flows therein via a fuel exhaust gas flow path, into gas and liquid. The circulation flow path causes a gas discharge port of the gas-liquid separator and the fuel gas supply flow path to communicate with each other. The connecting flow path causes a liquid discharge port of the gas-liquid separator to communicate with the oxygen-containing gas supply flow path, via a drain valve. The distribution flow path causes the circulation flow path or a portion of the fuel gas supply flow path that is on a downstream side of a connecting section connecting to the circulation flow path to communicate with a downstream side of the drain valve of the connecting flow path via an opening and closing valve.
US11271224B2
A method for manufacturing a membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell comprises the following steps: a first step during which a reinforcement (2) is deposited on a first face of an ion-exchanging membrane (1), the membrane being held on a support film; a second step during which the membrane is unglued from the support film; a third step during which the reinforcement (2′) is deposited on the second face of the ion-exchanging membrane; and a fourth step during which a chemical catalyst element is deposited on the parts left free of the first and second faces of the membrane.
US11271213B2
A negative electrode that enables resistance of a battery to be lowered is provided. The negative electrode disclosed herein includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture supported by the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode mixture contains a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode current collector is made of copper or a copper alloy. A surface of the negative electrode current collector is coated by chromium. A coating amount A of chromium with respect to the negative electrode current collector is 5 μg/dm2 or more and 60 μg/dm2 or less. Blackness B of the negative electrode mixture is 3 or higher and 30 or lower. The coating amount A and the blackness B satisfy 60≤A×B≤900. The blackness B is a value obtained according to the disclosed method.
US11271212B1
A method of forming anodes for electrochemical devices by laminating a metal foil to a current collector and creating anode-active-material patches, composed of the metal foil, that are spaced from one another by inter-patch regions, wherein each inter-patch region provides a location for forming one or more electrical tabs of the finished anodes. The method can further include applying conductive-coating patches to the current collector prior to laminating the metal foil to the current collector, wherein each conductive-coating patch corresponds to one of the anode-active-material patches. In some embodiments, the conductive-coating patches can assist with forming the anode-active-material patches and/or can improve the cycling performance of an electrochemical device made using anodes made therewith. Anodes containing anode-active material and conductive coatings applied to current collectors are also disclosed.
US11271210B2
A lithium battery cathode material comprises lithium transition metal-based material selected from lithium transition metal oxides and lithium transition metal phosphates, and crystalline silicon carbide residing at grain boundaries of the lithium transition metal-based material, forming conductive pathways along the grain boundaries, the crystalline silicon carbide being less than 10 wt. % of the cathode material.
US11271209B2
A preparation method of a crosslinking-type aqueous binder for lithium-ion batteries. An organic carboxylic group-, amino group- or hydroxyl group-containing hydrophilic polymer, and a hydroxyl group-, amine group- or carboxyl group-containing water-soluble small-molecule crosslinker, both serve as starting materials of the aqueous binder, and can be crosslinked by esterification or amidation under coating and drying conditions of lithium-ion battery electrode slurry. The preparation method of the crosslinking-type aqueous binder is simple, without the need of modifying the current process or conditions for lithium-ion battery manufacture. The obtained electrodes have excellent binding capacity, flexibility, and elasticity.
US11271198B2
This application describes electrode materials and methods of producing them, the materials containing particles having a core-shell structure, wherein the shell of the core-shell particles comprises a polymer, the polymer being grafted on the surface of the core particle by covalent bonds. Electrodes and electrochemical cells containing these electrode materials are also contemplated, as well as their use.
US11271194B2
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode formed from a cathode active material including a first cathode active material particle and a second cathode active material particle, an anode and a separation layer interposed between the cathode and the anode. The first cathode active material particle includes a lithium metal oxide including a concentration gradient and has a secondary particle structure formed from an assembly of primary particles. The second cathode active material particle includes a lithium metal oxide having a single particle structure. The first and second cathode active material particles each includes at least two metals except from lithium, and an amount of nickel is the largest among those of the metals in each of the first and second cathode active material particles.
US11271186B2
A flexible OLED display panel and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided. The flexible OLED display panel includes a display area, and a non-display area surrounding the display area and having a corner sub-area located at a corner of the flexible substrate. A dam surrounding the display area is formed within the non-display area of a TFT layer. At least one groove is disposed on at least one lateral side of the dam in the corner sub-area of the TFT layer, and an undercut structure is formed on an inner wall of the groove. The dam is located on the TFT layer and extended to a luminescent layer, and the groove adjacent to the dam extends into the flexible substrate. Thereby, buffering and releasing the bending stress of the OLED display panel.
US11271185B2
A display structure is provided. The display structure includes a substrate, a dam, a first film layer, a second film layer, and a third film layer. The third film layer has a first spread rate for the first film layer, the third film layer has a second spread rate for the second film layer, and the first spread rate is less than the second spread rate. The spread rates of the third film layer on the first and second film layers are different, so as to slow the spread rate of the third film layer near an area of the dam, thereby reducing the risk that the third film layer overflows the dam, so that the encapsulation reliability of the display structure can be improved.
US11271183B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate, drive circuits, a light-blocking layer, organic light-emitting units, and fingerprint recognition units. Via holes and imaging apertures are formed in the light-blocking layer. The via holes include first via holes in communication with the imaging apertures and second via holes. Each of the first organic light-emitting units includes a first anode, and each of the second organic light-emitting units includes a second anode. The first anode and the second anode are electrically connected to the drive circuits through the first via holes or through the second via holes. In a first direction, a distance between an edge of the first anode facing close to the imaging aperture and a center of the first via hole is smaller than a distance between an edge of the second anode and a center of the second via hole.
US11271181B1
An electronic display having pixels and control circuitry to drive the pixels to display image data even during relatively long presentation times without visual artifacts, such as flicker, are provided. The control circuitry may cause the pixel to perform a threshold voltage sampling and pixel programming phase to store image data for the pixel while accounting for a first threshold voltage of the first transistor. Afterward, an on-bias stress phase may cause a threshold voltage of the first transistor of the plurality of transistors to reach a second threshold voltage. Following the on-bias stress phase, a first emission phase may cause the light-emitting diode to emit light in accordance with the image data, and subsequent on-bias stress phases and subsequent emission phases for the duration of the presentation time may take place without a visible flicker artifact.
US11271176B2
A thermally activated delayed fluorescent material, a method of fabricating the same, and an electroluminescent device are provided. An electron donor and an electron acceptor of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent material are connected with each other by a hexatomic ring. Thus, luminous efficiency of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent material can be improved.
US11271172B2
Provided are a mixture of compounds used as a phosphorescent host material in an organic electronic element, an organic electronic element comprising the compounds to achieve high light-emitting efficiency, low driving voltage, and significantly improved lifespan, and an electronic device comprising the element.
US11271171B2
A biscarbazole derivative having a specific group, which is represented by formula (1); and an organic electroluminescence device in which a plurality of organic thin-film layers including a light emitting layer are disposed between a cathode and an anode, and at least one of the organic thin-film layers include the biscarbazole derivative. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits high emission efficiency and has a long lifetime. In formula (1), each of A1 and A2 independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms; each of Y1 to Y16 independently represents C(R) or a nitrogen atom; each of R groups independently represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; and each of L1 and L2 independently represents a single bond, etc.; provided that at least one of A1, A2 and R represents a substituted or unsubstituted fluoranthenyl group, etc.
