US11273112B2
The present invention relates to a process for treating keratin fibers, especially human keratin fibers such as the hair, using i) at least one triarylmethane or sulfonophthalein direct dye of formula (I) or (I′) as defined below, ii) an alkaline revealer, iii) an eraser at acidic pH. A subject of the invention is also a composition comprising at least one triarylmethane direct dye of formula (I) or (I′) as defined below and at least one thickener and/or at least one hydrotropic solvent, and a multi-compartment kit comprising i), ii) and iii) in three separate compartments. The present invention makes it possible in particular to obtain keratin fiber coloring with intense and persistent tints which can be modified, erased and reformed several times without any loss of color.
US11273104B2
Provided is a photocurable composition that contains a polymerizable monomer (A), a spherical filler (B) having an average particle size within the range of 230-1000 nm, and a polymerization initiator (C), the photocurable composition being such that: 90% or more of the individual particles that constitute the spherical filler (B) are within a range of ±5% of the average particle size; the polymerizable monomer (A) and the spherical filler (B) satisfy condition (X1) represented by formula (1): nP
US11273101B2
A system includes a vial access device including a vial access housing having a wall defining an elongate opening between an opening proximal end and an opening distal end, the vial access housing including a spike and a vial connection element attachable to a first vial defining a first vial size to secure the vial access device to the first vial, and an adapter movable within the elongate opening of the vial access housing. The adapter is transitionable between a first position where the adapter is adjacent the opening distal end of the vial access housing and the adapter is attachable to a second vial defining a second vial size and a second position where the adapter is adjacent the opening proximal end of the vial access housing and the vial connection element of the vial access device is attachable to the first vial.
US11273097B2
Provided is an inductive therapeutical instrument generating electric current and a skin care method, which relates to the field of skin care apparatuses. The above inductive therapeutical instrument is mainly used for applying a material body to the skin and massaging and maintaining the skin. The inductive therapeutical instrument mainly includes a material storage container and a massage head. The material body is stored in the material storage container, and the material body is squeezed into the massage head by squeezing the material storage container, and is applied to the skin through a material discharging hole on the massage head. Moreover, during use, the inductive therapeutical instrument can generate a microcurrent that acts on the skin so as to improve the skin condition.
US11273095B2
A heel protector (100) includes a leg engaging section (101) and a foot engaging section (102) intersecting at a heel receiver (103). The leg engaging section (101) and the foot engaging section (102) define a leg insertion aperture (104). The leg engaging section (101) defines at least one aperture (203) disposed in an ankle region (205) to permit a connection tube (1002) extending from an inflatable bladder (901) of a compression device (800) to pass therethrough. The heel protector (100) and compression device (800) work together as a rehabilitation system (1300).
US11273094B2
A cupsole, that a user wears and is fixed to a foot sole plate of a walking assistance apparatus that assists a motion of a leg part of the user, includes: a main body part on which the user's foot is placed; and an index member that is fixed to the main body part and is configured to determine an attachment position with respect to a reference index provided in the foot sole plate, the attachment position varying for each user, in which the index member can be attached to or detached from the main body part.
US11273087B1
There is provided a reconfigurable autonomous and user-input proning bed. The proning bed includes controllers and at least one of: a head position system (HPS) to detect a position of the head of the patient configurable and reconfigurable to be automatically positioned; an arms position system (APS) to detect the presence of the arms of the patient and change a level and inclination of APS upper sections and APS lower sections; a legs position system (LPS) to detect the presence of the legs of the patient and change a level and inclination of LPS upper sections and LPS lower sections; and a body position system (BPS) to detect the presence of the torso of the patient and change a level and inclination of a BPS upper section and a BPS lower section. The proning bed can include an integrated entertainment position system and side rail position system.
US11273086B2
An absorbent article for personal hygiene comprising a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, an absorbent core and a fibrous layer. The absorbent core comprises a core wrap and an absorbent material with superabsorbent polymers. The core wrap comprises a top side and a bottom side bonded to one other through one or more areas substantially free of absorbent material. The fibrous layer is at least partially bonded to one of the sides of the core wrap in the area substantially free of absorbent material. When the absorbent material swells, the core wrap forms one or more channels along the area substantially free of absorbent material. The formation of the channel in the absorbent core causes the formation of one or more corresponding ditches in the fibrous layer.
US11273079B2
A sleeve for use with a foot, the sleeve including a compression portion operable to apply compression to the midfoot region of the foot. The foot sleeve further includes a raised heel support portion for abutment with the base of the heel region of the foot, and a ball portion for abutment with the ball region of the foot. The thickness of the raised heel support portion is greater than the thickness of the ball portion. The foot sleeve can be used for the treatment of plantar fasciitis.
US11273070B2
A foot prosthetic having a pressure relieving, weight distribution pad having a convex surface and a concave surface. The pad includes a central portion having a maximum thickness, the pad gradually tapering from the central portion to an outer peripheral edge thereof, the pad providing a cushioning for the foot. An adhesive layer is formed on the concave surface. During use, the concave surface is affixed to a selected portion of the user's foot thus conforming to the unique shape of the selected portion of the user's foot. The gradual tapering provides a smooth transition being formed between the pad and the user's foot at the outer peripheral edge.
US11273069B2
A wearable neck brace uses, for example, only three actuators but provides natural motion of the head and neck. This is achieved despite the fact that the head has six degrees of freedom including 3 translation and 3 rotation. In embodiments, a wearable neck brace actively controls the head of the wearer responsively to commands from a user interface such as an eye tracking input device. In further embodiments, a force-field is generated by actuators to provide assistance and/or training for weak muscles. Spring compensation may be provided for a passive support with flexibility. Encoders may be provided to generate treatment logs to support analysis of a patient's condition or progress or to provide therapy-facilitating (or athletic training-facilitating) feedback to the user.
US11273066B2
A frame includes a front segment extending across an anterior side of a human and a back segment extending across a posterior side of the human in a fixed spatial relationship. A clamp bar extends between the front segment and the back segment to interface with a first lateral side of the human at a location between an ilium bone structure and a thoracic cage of the human. A lateral restraint is positioned between the front segment and the back segment and is configured to interface with a second lateral side of the human over an engagement area corresponding to a portion of the thoracic cage of the human. A downward treatment force is applied to the frame at a location opposite the clamp bar from the lateral restraint. The human works to laterally translate their spinal column toward the lateral restraint to maintain the frame in a near-level orientation.
US11273065B2
A posture control system includes a brace to which an inflatable bladder is removably coupled. The bladder, when inflated, causes pressure to be applied to a wearer if the wearer does not have proper posture. The pressure irritates the wearer into improving their posture. The brace includes strap systems that are adjustable for size and fit. In embodiments, the strap systems include an upper strap portion that includes an elastic component that also assists the user in improving their posture.
US11273062B2
An expandable sheath is disclosed herein, which has a first polymeric layer and a braided layer positioned radially outward of the first polymeric layer. The braided layer includes a plurality of filaments braided together. The expandable sheaths further include a resilient elastic layer positioned radially outward of the braided layer. The elastic layer is configured to apply radial force to the braided layer and the first polymeric layer. The expandable sheath further includes a second polymeric layer positioned radially outward of the elastic layer and bonded to the first polymeric layer such that the braided layer and the elastic layer are encapsulated between the first and second polymeric layers. Methods of making and using the devices disclosed herein are also disclosed, as are crimping devices that may be used in methods of making the devices disclosed herein.
US11273060B2
An artificial foot and ankle joint consists of a curved leaf spring foot member having a heel extremity and a toe extremity, and a flexible elastic ankle member that connects the foot member for rotation at the ankle joint. An actuator motor applies torque to the ankle joint to orient the foot when it is not in contact with the support surface and to store energy in a catapult spring that is released along with the energy stored in the leaf spring to propel the wearer forward. A ribbon clutch prevents the foot member from rotating in one direction beyond a predetermined limit position. A controllable damper is employed to lock the ankle joint or to absorb mechanical energy as needed. The controller and sensing mechanisms control both the actuator motor and the controllable damper at different times during the walking cycle for level walking, stair ascent, and stair descent.
US11273059B2
A hinged connecting device comprising a damping mechanism intended to counter a predetermined resistance at least during bending of the prosthesis (1), by replacing the muscle groups usually used for this purpose. The damping mechanism (200) is capable of being switched between a first operating mode (M1), selected by default, in which the value of the resistance corresponds to a first maximum value (Vmax), and a second operating mode (M2), that can be actuated only in a hyperextension position (P0) of the prosthesis (1), in which the resistance value corresponds to a second minimum value (Vmin); and the hinged connecting device (2) moreover comprises a fully mechanical locking system (3), arranged in order to allow the second operating mode (M2) to be activated only when the inclination of the tibial part (102) exceeds a first predetermined oriented angle (X1) relative to the vertical.
US11273057B2
An insertion assembly may include a flexible tool and a DTS guide configured to engage an intervertebral spacer having a fastener channel oriented at a first angle. The DTS guide may include a DTS guide channel oriented at the first angle which may be aligned with the fastener channel. The flexible tool may include a flexible shaft and a working member disposed at a distal end of the flexible shaft. The working member may be received through the DTS guide channel at the first angle. At least a portion of the flexible shaft adjacent the DTS guide member may flex while the working member is received through the DTS guide channel, such that a distal portion of the flexible shaft may be at a greater absolute angle relative to a DTS guide shaft than a proximal portion of the flexible shaft.
US11273046B2
A spinal implant includes a chassis extending along a first axis and including a first thread. A first member extends along a second axis and is pivotably coupled to the chassis. A second member extends along a third axis between and is pivotably coupled to the chassis. A rack includes opposite top and bottom surfaces. A first spur is coupled to the first member such that the first spur engages the top surface. A second spur is coupled to the second member such that the second spur engages the bottom surface. An actuator includes second thread that engages the first thread such that rotation of the actuator move the implant between a first orientation in which the second and third axes extend parallel to the first axis and a second orientation in which the second and third axes extends at an acute angle relative to the first axis.
US11273043B1
A system for performing a minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion. The system may be in the form of a disposable kit, with the components streamlined so that the procedure can be performed in a few minutes. The screw components are self-drilling and self-tapping. The system may deploy blades through the walls of the primary screw which cut away material as the primary screw is set, for denuding the sacroiliac joint. The primary screw is designed bore through and internalize bone tissue in an autografting process. The implant system may include components for packing bone grafting material into the screw to supplement autograft bone tissue internalized in the primary screw during placement. At least one side screw is passed through a head of the primary screw to anchor the head and prevent it from backing out after implantation.
US11273042B2
Configurations are described for conducting minimally invasive medical interventions utilizing elongate instruments and assemblies thereof to stabilize and/or fixate a sacro-iliac joint. In one embodiment, a tool assembly may be advanced from a posterior approach into the SI junction and configured to create a defect defined at least in part by portions of both the sacrum and the ilium, the defect having a three dimensional shape defined in part by at least one noncircular cross sectional shape in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tool assembly. After a defect is created, the tool assembly may be retracted and a prosthesis deployed into the defect.
US11273041B2
The present invention relates to a system for producing artificial osseous tissue comprising: a client computer acquiring an image information of a subject bone tissue from an imaging unit that picks up an image of a subject bone tissue of a patient to generate a 3D image information; a server computer identifying the subject bone tissue based on the image information of the subject bone tissue received from the client computer, generating a 3D image information of at least one therapeutic bone tissue model corresponding to the subject bone tissue, and transmitting the 3D image information of the at least one therapeutic bone tissue model to the client computer; and a machining unit for fabricating an artificial bone tissue based on the 3D image information of the therapeutic bone tissue model determined from the server computer.
US11273033B2
The invention relates to a transcatheter heart valve replacement (A61F2/2412), and in particular a side delivered transcatheter prosthetic valve having a tubular frame with a flow control component mounted within the tubular frame and configured to permit blood flow in a first direction through an inflow end of the valve and block blood flow in a second direction, opposite the first direction, through an outflow end of the valve, wherein the valve is compressible to a compressed configuration for introduction into the body using a delivery catheter for implanting at a desired location in the body, said compressed configuration having a long-axis oriented at an intersecting angle of between 45-135 degrees to the first direction, and expandable to an expanded configuration having a long-axis oriented at an intersecting angle of between 45-135 degrees to the first direction, wherein the long-axis of the compressed configuration of the valve is substantially parallel to a length-wise cylindrical axis of the delivery catheter, and wherein the valve has a height of about 5-60 mm and a diameter of about 25-80 mm.
US11273028B2
A system includes a scleral prosthesis and an insert. The scleral prosthesis includes a first end configured to be pulled through a scleral tunnel in an eye and a second end. Each end is wider than a middle portion of the scleral prosthesis. Two portions form the first end of the scleral prosthesis, and the portions are separated along at least half of a length of the scleral prosthesis. The scleral prosthesis is formed from a single integrated piece of material. The second end is undivided. The insert is configured to be placeable between the two portions. The two portions may be separated from one another without external interference, and the two portions may be configured to be pushed towards each other in order to reduce a width of the first end and then separate after release.
US11273025B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to a method for locating an expandable implant for treating BPH within the prostatic urethra of a patient. The delivery device comprises an inner tube and an outer sleeve moveable relative to the inner tube between a stored position and a deployed position. The outer sleeve surrounds the inner tube to define an annulus therebetween and the expandable implant is retained within the annulus when the outer sleeve is in the stored position.
US11273024B2
In a particular embodiment, the present disclosure provides a prosthetic valve delivery assembly that includes a storage tube. A prosthetic valve having a frame is at least partially disposed within the storage tube. A nose cone is disposed about an elongated shaft. A stylet having at least a first bent portion extends through a lumen of the nose cone. The at least a first bent portion is disposed within the lumen of the nose cone and restricts axial movement of the elongated shaft relative to the prosthetic valve.
US11273023B2
An implantable medical device obtained by means of two-photon laser polymerisation of a resin to form a three-dimensional matrix, wherein: said three-dimensional matrix comprises a number of levels distributed in height; and said three-dimensional matrix comprises reference means designed to uniquely identify the height of each level from a pre-set reference, by means of a multi-photon fluorescence-excitation microscope; said implantable medical device being characterised in that said reference means comprise a solid having a cross section that varies with height.
US11273021B2
A dental curing light includes a device body that efficiently conducts heat away from the light emitting diode (LED) portion of the curing light. The device body is one-piece body formed from a continuous seamless piece of thermally conductive material extending between a proximal end and a distal end. The one-piece body includes a gripping handle portion extending to the proximal end and a light-emitting head portion extending to the distal end. The one-piece thermally conductive body acts as a heat sink to efficiently conduct heat away from the LED dies during use. The one-piece body eliminates problems of multi-segmented curing lights that include one or more joints between adjacent segments. Eliminating joints increases thermal conductivity of the body, eliminates crevices where microbes can grow, and eliminates the risk of accidental separation if the curing light is dropped.
US11273018B2
Dental blank for the production of a dental prosthetic restoration, in particular of a multi-coloured dental prosthetic restoration, by processing removing the outer region of the blank, comprising (i) an inner connecting element having an preferably peg-shaped scaffold region in the direction of the coronal region of the dental blank and an implant connection geometry in the radicular direction of the dental blank, (ii) wherein the scaffold region of the connecting element is connected to a dentin scaffold region in the direction of the coronal region of the blank, and wherein (iii) the dentin scaffold region is connected to an (iv) outer region of the blank in the region of enamel in the direction of the coronal region of the blank, and wherein (v) the dental blank has an inner elongated lumen for fastening of the produced dental prosthetic restoration on an implant or abutment by means of a connecting screw or a bolt. Moreover, a subject matter of the invention is a system for the production of a dental blank as well as the method for the production of the blank.
US11273015B2
A dental implant for supporting periodontal tissue and the supporting bone is provided. The dental implant includes an implant member with inner canal for insertion into a periodontal bone socket, and an anchoring assembly. The anchoring assembly includes a first fastening element and radially equidistant cylindrical members. The first fastening element engages the implant member within the hollow axial cavity. The root section includes through-holes for radially and forcibly sliding the cylindrical members through them. When the first fastening element apically advances within the hollow axial cavity, the cylindrical members generate an anchoring force to anchor the dental implant.
US11273014B2
A dental implant that facilitate insertion and can be used in all bone types. The implant includes a body having a coronal end, and an apical end opposite the coronal end. A tapered region may be adjacent the apical end. On the apical part one or more taps are provided so the tap is cutting when rotating clockwise and counter-clockwise. The implant can have at least one variable profile helical thread that extends along the tapered region. The implant can have also micro-threads below the main threads, a gradual compressing tapered core, a self drilling apical end and a narrow coronal region.
US11273004B2
Systems, devices and methods for advanced electrode management in neurological monitoring applications include receiving sockets configured to receive connectors having groups of electrodes. The physician is not required to manually map each electrode with its corresponding input channel. Electrodes are coupled to the corresponding input channels in groups through connectors having a unique identification (ID). The system is configured to read the unique ID of each connector and establish its identity. Based on the ID, the system configures itself to automatically correlate or associate each electrode with its corresponding input channel when the connectors are first inserted into the receiving sockets, and again if the connectors are removed and re-inserted into different positions in the receiving sockets, to insure the electrodes are always mapped to the same input channels.
US11272993B2
A computer-assisted medical system includes manipulators, a user input system, a user output system comprising a display device, and a controller configured to execute instructions to perform operations. The operations include, in a pairing mode and in response to a first set of signals generated by the user input system, causing a virtual selector shown on the display device to move relative to an imagery shown on the display device. The operations further include, in the pairing mode, associating a first manipulator with a portion of the user input system based on movement of the virtual selector relative to a represented location of the first instrument, and, in a following mode, controlling motion of the first instrument in accordance to a second set of signals generated by the user input system in response to operation of the portion of the user input system by a user.
US11272991B2
A method facilitates touchless control of medical equipment devices in an OR. The method involves: providing a three-dimensional control menu, which comprises a plurality of menu items selectable by the practitioner by one or more gestures made in a volumetric spatial region corresponding to the menu item; displaying an interaction display unit (IDU) image corresponding to the three-dimensional control menu to provide indicia of any selected menu items; estimating a line of sight of a practitioner; and when the estimated line of sight is directed within a first spatial range around a first medical equipment device, determining that the practitioner is looking at the first medical equipment device. Then the method involves providing a first device-specific three-dimensional control menu displaying a first device-specific IDU image.
US11272986B2
A device and a method for producing control data, which are designed to control a laser machining device to surgically correct ametropia of an eye in which, in order to define a space in the cornea, defines a front cutting surface, a rear cutting surface and an edge section, which are to be produced as cutting surfaces in the cornea. The rear cutting surface has a non-circular, oval edge lying in a plane, the edge section connecting the edge to the front cutting surface and the edge section being designed as a non-rotationally symmetrical cylinder or truncated cone, the base of which is the edge.
US11272984B2
Systems and methods are provided in which devices that are employed during a medical procedure are adaptively configured during the medical procedure, based on input or feedback that is associated with the current state, phase or context of the medical procedure. In some example embodiments, the input is obtained via the identification of one or more medical instruments present within a region of interest, and this input may be employed to determine configuration parameters for configuring the device. In other example embodiments, the input may be based on the image-based detection of a measure associated with the phase or context of the medical procedure, and this input may be employed to adaptively control the device based on the inferred context or phase of the medical procedure. In other embodiments, images from one imaging modality may be employed to adaptively switch to another imaging modality.
US11272982B2
The present invention provides devices and methods for decalcifying an aortic valve. The methods and devices of the present invention break up or obliterate calcific deposits in and around the aortic valve through application or removal of heat energy from the calcific deposits.
US11272970B2
A medical apparatus including a bar with a first attachment loop, a second attachment and a plurality of hooks, wherein the medical apparatus is an arch bar.
US11272968B2
A bone plate comprises a body including an elongated opening extending therethrough, the opening being open at a distal end of the body and including a distal portion and a proximal portion, the distal portion having a width smaller than a width of the proximal portion, the width being a dimension between two longitudinal sides of the opening extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the body, the body further including an insert including a head portion and a base portion, the base portion being shaped to be slidably mounted within the proximal portion of the opening, a diameter of the base portion being larger than a width of the distal portion of the opening such that the base portion is prevented from exiting the opening through the distal portion thereof, the insert further including a central fixation element receiving hole configured to receive a bone fixation element therethrough.
US11272965B2
Disclosed is a device for total wrist fusion that includes (a) a first section, which is preferably a plate, that is positioned under the skin on top of the forearm, wrist and potentially part of the hand and connected to one or more of the radius or carpal bones, (b) a second section, which is preferably in the shape of an awl and is received in the cannula of the third metacarpal bone. Optionally, an anti-rotational third section may be included, which can connect to the top of the third metacarpal bone.
US11272959B2
A bone anchoring device for anchoring a rod to a bone or vertebra includes a receiving part having two legs defining a channel for the rod, and a rod receiving member positionable in the channel, the rod receiving member including an upper surface and a lower surface defining a longitudinally extending passage for receiving the rod and respectively configured to restrict upward and downward movement of a rod received in the passage. The rod receiving member is adjustable from a first configuration where the passage is unobstructed and the rod is movable longitudinally through the passage, to a second configuration where an engagement surface attached to other portions of the rod receiving member is advanced axially into the passage to engage the rod while a rotational orientation of the engagement surface remains constant to restrict movement of the rod in the passage.
US11272956B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for insertion tools for implanting electrode leads. In one embodiment, an insertion tool comprises a shaft having an outer cannula and an inner cannula. An actuator may be configured to transition the insertion tool between at least three configurations. In a first configuration, the inner cannula and the outer cannula are configured to receive the lead in the shaft. In a second configuration, the inner cannula and the outer cannula are configured to secure the lead in the shaft. In a third configuration, the inner cannula and the outer cannula are configured to cause the lead to separate from the insertion tool and implant in adjacent tissue.
US11272946B2
An apparatus includes an elongate shaft, a dilation balloon, and a fitting member. The elongate shaft includes an inflation lumen, an irrigation lumen, and at least one irrigation opening. The at least one irrigation opening is in fluid communication with the irrigation lumen. The dilation balloon is at the distal portion of the shaft. The dilation balloon is in fluid communication with the inflation lumen. The fitting member is at the proximal end of the shaft. The fitting member includes an inflation fluid port, an irrigation fluid port, and a blocking structure. The inflation fluid port is in fluid communication with the inflation lumen. The irrigation fluid port is in fluid communication with the irrigation lumen. The blocking structure is adjacent to the irrigation fluid port and defines a gap around the irrigation fluid port.
US11272943B2
The invention is a drill guide assembly for a superelastic bone staple having a bridge member and opposing open legs and the drill guide assembly has a pair of legs that can be moved toward or away from each other and accepts a drill guide cartridge for the holes for the staple legs.
US11272941B1
A device that holds a radial sheath, catheter or similar structure in place during surgical procedures. The device has a strap configured to fit around a patient's wrist and a two-part section that includes a sheath holder or clamp. The clamp is configured to accept a free end of the sheath or other device and to allow the physician access to the open end of that sheath so that they can insert instruments through it. The second section contains a compression device that, when positioned over the puncture site, can be expanded such that it provides pressure and patent hemostasis to the site to stop bleeding. Adhesive surfaces with peel away releasable liners on one or more surfaces of the device allow the flap featuring the compression balloon to be folded over onto the flap containing the sheath clamp and hold it in place.
US11272938B2
A surgical instrument comprising a housing, an elongate shaft, an end effector for performing a surgical operation, a firing drive, an advancement assembly, and a retraction assembly is disclosed. The end effector operably supports a firing member that is movable from a proximal position to a fired position during a firing stroke in response to a longitudinal firing motion applied thereto. The firing drive is configured to transmit the longitudinal firing motion to the firing member upon actuation of a firing control actuator. The advancement assembly is supported by the housing and configured to transmit a rotary motion which is exclusively dedicated to the advancement of the firing member through the firing stroke. The retraction assembly is configured for manual rotary actuation about a longitudinal retraction axis. The retraction assembly is exclusively dedicated to the retraction of the firing member from the fired position to the proximal position.
US11272934B2
A powered handle for a surgical stapler can have a drive system including an electric motor. The powered handle can include a manual articulation mechanism to articulate a jaw assembly coupled to a reload shaft connected to the handle. The manual articulation mechanism can include a ball screw mechanism that translates an articulation member responsive to rotation of an articulation knob. The articulation mechanism includes a release function that allows the jaw assembly to return to a longitudinally centered orientation. The powered handle includes a battery pack serving as a power supply for the drive system. A control system can control actuation of the motor based on user inputs and operating parameters of the stapler. The powered handle can include a manual return mechanism.
US11272927B2
A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical instrument including features which can aid a surgeon in properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various embodiments, a piece of buttress material can include retention features which can be engaged with portions of an end-effector to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to at least a portion of the end-effector. Similarly, an end-effector can include features configured to engage portions of a piece of buttress material to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In at least one embodiment, more than one piece of buttress material can be releasably retained to an end-effector.
US11272926B2
Tissue fasteners carried on a tissue piercing deployment wire fasten tissue layers of a mammalian body together include a first member, a second member, and a connecting member extending between the first and second members. One of the first and second members has an elongated slot permitting fastener deployment while avoiding excessive tissue compression.
US11272925B2
A method for impacting a suture anchor into bone comprises providing an implantable suture anchor and providing an impactor device for impacting the suture anchor into the bone. The suture anchor is coupled to a distal portion of the impactor device. Positioning the suture anchor engages the anchor with the bone at an implantation site, and powering the impactor device impacts the suture anchor thereby implanting the suture anchor into the bone. The frequency of impaction is less than 20 KHz. The impactor device is then decoupled from the suture anchor, and the impactor device may be removed from the implantation site.
US11272924B2
Surgical suturing constructs, suture anchor assemblies, and methods of tissue fixation are disclosed. The suturing construct includes a bumpy suture. A suturing construct may include one or more small loops on a distal end. A suturing construct may include a splice terminating into a tapered portion/region at a proximal end. A bumpy suture of a suturing construct may form a knotless, closed, self-locking loop around tissue.
US11272923B2
Systems, devices and methods for securing sutures to surgical needles made of superelastic materials
A needle and suture assembly includes a needle made of a superelastic alloy, such as Nitinol, including an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end with a sharpened tip, a suture having a free end juxtaposed with the proximal end of the elongated body of the needle, and a connector disposed between the needle and the suture. The connector includes a first end attached to the proximal end of the elongated body of the needle and a second end attached to the free end of the suture. The connector is made of a material, such as stainless steel, having less elasticity and greater plasticity than the superelastic alloy of the needle.
US11272919B2
The invention provides a plantar plate repair device to facilitate the appropriate placement of sutures during a plantar plate repair. The device comprises a shaft terminating in a footprint projecting angularly from the shaft, the footprint further defining an opening through which a needle is threadable. The shaft further includes a guide slidable on the shaft to operatively clamp the plantar plate between the guide and footprint. A needle receiving guide hole is provided on the guide to operatively guide a needle through the opening in the footprint to pass a length of suture from the needle through the plantar plate.
US11272914B2
A tissue retention system to assist in maintaining adipose tissue on a patient in a displaced position during a medical procedure to provide access to a body region of the patient includes an anchor pad having a pad length and a pad width. The anchor pad may include a pad body with an adhesive surface thereon, the adhesive being configured to adhere to a patient's skin. The anchor pad also may include an opposing first attachment surface facing away from the adhesive surface. The tissue retention system also may include a tension member having a second attachment surface.
US11272909B2
A surgical system which may include a controller, a data entry device, a powered surgical handpiece and a surgical tool adapted to couple to the surgical handpiece. The surgical handpiece can include motor direction control and feedback, safety stop features, stimulation and nerve integrity monitoring, a tool connector assembly configured to retain a variety of surgical tools and optional navigation and/or electric ratcheting features.
US11272904B2
A system for delivering ultrasound energy to an internal anatomical target includes an ultrasound transducer having multiple transducer elements collectively operable as a phased array; multiple driver circuits, each being connected to at least one of the transducer elements; multiple phase circuits; a switch matrix selectably coupling the driver circuits to the phase circuits; and a controller configured for (i) receiving as input a target average intensity level and/or an energy level energy to be applied to the target and/or a temperature level in target, (ii) identifying multiple sets of the transducer elements, each of the sets corresponding to multiple transducer elements for shaping and/or focusing, as a phased array, ultrasound energy at the target across tissue intervening between the target and the ultrasound transducer, and (iii) sequentially operating the transducer-element sets to apply and maintain the target average energy level at the target. In various embodiments, the controller operates each of the transducer element sets in accordance with a pulse-width modulation pattern having a duty cycle selected to achieve the target average intensity level, energy level, and/or temperature level at the target in accordance with a time constant of the target tissue.
US11272901B2
A system for monitoring blood flow in a patient comprises a first unit having an ultrasound transducer and a fastener for fastening the unit to the patient. A controller subsystem comprises the first unit and a separate second unit. The controller subsystem is configured to: control the ultrasound transducer to transmit plane-wave pulses into the patient in a propagation direction; sample reflections of the plane-wave pulses, received at the ultrasound transducer, from a region within the patient, to generate pulse-Doppler response signals; and process the pulse-Doppler response signals to estimate a series of values, over time, of a measure proportional, but not equal, to the total blood volume flow passing through the region. A monitoring subsystem is configured to monitor the series of values over time and to generate a signal if a set of one or more of the values satisfies a predetermined criterion.
US11272892B2
Provided is a curved intraoral sensor including a scintillator configured to convert, to an optical signal, an X-ray received by penetrating a subject and to output the optical signal; an image sensor configured to convert the optical signal output from the scintillator to an electrical signal; and a controller configured to receive the electrical signal output from the image sensor, to convert the electrical signal to digital data, and to display an X-ray image of the subject on a screen using the converted digital data. The image sensor includes a first base having a curved surface formed on one surface and a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) formed to correspond to the curved surface on one surface of the first base.
US11272888B1
Devices and systems that measure, quantify, compare, package, and capture human content in databases
Human biological change information in data form is obtained by one or more computer processing devices that utilize human biological change data from event data stream(s) and allows for ranking one or more changes in the biological change data. The data then correlates biological change data with ranking statistics from an event such that the correlation identifies and measures a magnitude of change of human biological responses from data acquired from event data stream(s). The correlation of human biological change data with ranking statistics creates one or more objects for storage and analysis within in one or more databases, wherein the objects possess time synchronized temporal human biological responses before, during or after an event. These objects also possess biological change data that utilizes correlation of biological change data with ranking statistics and results in objects that also contain one or more ranked values of the human biological responses.
US11272882B2
An electrode for a user wearable apparatus; the electrode comprising: a conductive part comprising conductive material, wherein the conductive part is configured to provide electrical connection to electronic components of the user wearable device, and an opening configured to provide an optical connection to electronic components of the user wearable apparatus through the electrode.
US11272881B2
The object of the invention is a tubular compression garment for monitoring the therapy and physiological activity of the wearer, which belongs to the field of medical devices and can be used, among other things, for the treatment or alleviation of symptoms of various diseases, preferably for the treatment or alleviation of symptoms of venous vasculature in the legs. A tubular compression garment for monitoring the therapy and physiological activity of the person comprises a classic tubular compression garment (20) with an attached stretch-measuring sensor (10) and a sensor-control unit (6) with contacts (4, 11, 12) for connection to the stretch-measuring sensor (10), wherein the sensor-control unit (6) further comprises a motion sensor, a photoplethysmographic sensor, a temperature sensor, and a processing unit with a clock; and wherein a sensor-control unit (6) is detachably secured to the compression garment (20). The sensor-control unit (6) processes the data obtained from the sensors or by real-time calculation, and saves it to the local memory or transmits it simultaneously or occasionally through the communication unit to an external device equipped with a dedicated application that enables the data to be monitored, stored, processed or forwarded.
US11272871B2
Systems and methods for enhancing diagnostic evoked potential recordings of a nerve or nerve pathway of interest. A grid array of stimulating electrodes are placed on, over, or through skin in a location beneath which a nerve or nerve pathway is suspected to lie. A stimulator controls the grid array, where each electrode is independently controllable as active or inactive, as a cathode or anode, etc. A plurality of recording electrodes may record Somato-Sensory Evoked Potentials (SSEPs) and/or Transcranial Electrical Motor Evoked Potentials (TCeMEP) in response to activation of the stimulating electrodes. A processor controls stimulating the stimulating electrodes, and receives responses from the recording electrodes, in a general search mode and a focused search mode in order to use a minimum stimulation intensity at which a maximum response amplitude is detected to continually stimulate the nerve or the nerve pathway.
US11272867B2
An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte. The analyte monitor may also be part of a drug delivery system to alter the level of the analyte based on the data obtained using the sensor.
US11272863B2
A concept for monitoring a subject employs: a first sensor output signal representative of detected air pressure; and a second sensor output signal representative of a detected property of at least one of: the subject; and the environment. A dressing activity of the subject is determined based on the first sensor output signal and the second sensor output signal. Information about a dressing activity of the subject may, for example, be useful for the purpose of assessing the subject's physical and/or mental abilities.
US11272853B2
To provide a bag-shaped structure that can suppress expansion of the side wall portion and improve the vascular compression property. A bag-shaped structure used in a cuff for a blood pressure monitor configured to be wrapped around a living body, inflate when a fluid is supplied to an internal space, and compress the living body includes: an inner wall portion provided on a living body side; an outer wall portion facing the inner wall portion; and a pair of side wall portions continuous with the inner wall portion and the outer wall portion and including a bent portion bent toward the internal space; and a reinforcing member provided on each of the pair of side wall portions, having a higher hardness than the side wall portion, and having shape followability in a direction of wrapping around the living body.
US11272848B2
Wearable apparatus for monitoring various physiological and environmental factors are provided. Real-time, noninvasive health and environmental monitors include a plurality of compact sensors integrated within small, low-profile devices, such as earpiece modules. Physiological and environmental data is collected and wirelessly transmitted into a wireless network, where the data is stored and/or processed.
US11272844B2
[Problem] To predict a remaining time during which a fluorescence image is observable. [Solution] An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a remaining time estimation unit that estimates, on the basis of a luminance limit value for observation of a fluorescence image and a change in luminance of a fluorescence image, a remaining time until the luminance of the fluorescence image reaches the luminance limit value. This configuration enables the time at which the luminance of a fluorescence image reaches the luminance limit value to be estimated according to a change in luminance of the fluorescence image, and it is possible to predict a remaining time during which a fluorescence image is observable.
US11272839B2
Medical patient monitoring sensor devices including a disposable sensor assembly and a reusable pairing device are disclosed. The disposable sensor assembly can collect patient physiological data and provide power for the reusable pairing device. The reusable pairing device can establish wireless communication with a monitoring device. Once the reusable pairing device receives patient physiological data from the disposable sensor assembly, the reusable pairing device can wirelessly transmit the data to the computing device via the wireless communication.
US11272838B2
The invention relates to a device and a method, by which the intraocular pressure in a patient's eye is changed by artificially applying a variable stimulation pressure causing, upon reaching specific intraocular pressure values, the presence of characteristic measurement criteria in the retina of the eye, which allow global and local retinal blood pressure values to be derived from the intraocular pressure value. Based on the retinal blood pressure values, which are determined online or preferably offline, local retinal perfusion pressure values (rPP) can be computed and represented in an image of the retina as a pressure mapping image.
US11272836B2
Exemplary embodiments of devices and method for affecting at least one anatomical tissue can be provided. A configuration can be provided that includes a structure which is expandable (i) having and/or (ii) forming at least one opening or a working space through which the anatomical tissue(s) is placed in the structure. For example, the structure, prior to being expanding, can have at least one partially rigid portion. In addition, or as an alternative, upon a partial or complete expansion thereof, the structure can be controllable to have a plurality of shapes. Further, the structure can be controllable to provide the working space with multiple shapes and/or multiple sizes.
US11272828B2
A dishwasher includes a tub defining a wash chamber, a spray body positioned within the wash chamber of the tub, and a wash rack positioned within the wash chamber of the tub above the spray body along the vertical direction. The wash rack includes an expanded metal basket comprising a base panel and a plurality of side panels extending upwardly from the base panel, the expanded metal basket defining a basket volume, the base panel comprising a plurality of strands, and a plurality of integral tines extending from the base panel, wherein each of the plurality of integral tines is bent at a junction of the plurality of strands. Methods of making and using the wash rack are also provided.
US11272826B2
An appliance door latch system is provided that automatically aligns latching components each time an appliance door is closed with a pre-latching catch alignment system. The pre-latching catch alignment system may include a floating catch carrier that is deflected by a door-mounted latch feature to passively reposition a catch to properly align with the striker assembly.
US11272825B2
A dishwasher may include a washing chamber and a wash arm arrangement having a wash arm rotatably arranged in the washing chamber, and a satellite spray device arranged on the wash arm. The dishwasher may include at least one sensor configured to sense a rotational position of the wash arm and a control unit configured to monitor consecutive sensed rotational positions of the wash arm. The control unit may be configured to calculate a rotational speed of the wash arm based on an elapsed time and a rotational distance between two sensed rotational positions, and may be configured to estimate a current rotational position of the wash arm based on an elapsed time since a previously sensed rotational position and the calculated rotational speed. The control unit may adapt the pumping intensity of a pump of the dishwasher based on the estimated current rotational position of the wash arm.
US11272815B2
Monitoring modules for hand hygiene product dispensers may be installed in existing manual or touch free hand hygiene product dispensers to provide wireless communication of dispenser data to or from a dispenser. In one example, a manual dispenser beacon module is configured to be used with a manually actuated hand hygiene product dispenser to monitor hand hygiene compliance events (such as dispense events) associated with the dispenser, and to wirelessly transmit dispenser data to or from the manual dispenser. In another example, a touch free dispenser beacon module is configured to be used with a touch free hand hygiene product dispenser to monitor hand hygiene compliance events (such as dispense events) associated with the dispenser, and to wirelessly transmit dispenser data to or from the touch free dispenser.
US11272813B2
A bathroom module includes a shower area that includes a shower head, a control valve assembly, and a drain. The module also includes a toilet area including a toilet assembly and a transition area disposed between the shower area and the toilet area. The module also includes a shower area front wall and a shower area side wall, the shower area disposed along a first side of the shower area front wall and a first side of the shower area side wall. The module also includes a toilet area front wall and a toilet area side wall, the toilet area disposed along a first side of the toilet area front wall and a first side of the toilet area side wall. A grooming area includes a sink assembly that comprises a faucet, and the grooming area is disposed along a second side of at least one of the shower area front wall, the shower area side wall, the toilet area front wall, and the toilet area side wall.
US11272809B2
An insulating container can be configured to retain a volume of liquid, and include a first inner wall having a first end having an opening extending into an internal reservoir, and a second outer wall forming an outer shell. The opening can be sealed by a closure, the closure having an upper portion with a handle that has a circular curvature equal to the cylindrical portion of the closure. The closure may also have a lower portion that is joined to the upper portion by an injection molded polymer element.
US11272807B2
A warming apparatus for warming contents of a foodstuff container includes an enclosure defining an interior space for receiving the foodstuff container and a reservoir separate from the interior space for receiving a warming liquid. A heating element is disposed within the enclosure for warming the warming liquid within the reservoir. A conduit is configured to extend between the interior space and the reservoir so that the reservoir is in fluid communication with the interior space. The heating element is adapted to move the warming liquid from the reservoir through the conduit into the interior space as the warming liquid within the reservoir is warmed.
US11272803B2
A steam cooking apparatus incorporates a steam cooking vessel for retaining water that is converted to steam. An interior food basket is configured to fit within the steam cooking vessel and retains the food to be steamed and has an insert basket lid that is adjustably coupled with the interior food basket to retain the food therein. The insert basket lid is adjustable in height within the interior food basket to accommodate different amounts of food in the interior food basket. Standoffs may be configured between the interior food basket and the base of the cooking vessel to prevent direct water contact with the food. A vessel lid may have lid aperture adjuster panel that enables changing the open area of apertures in the vessel lid.
US11272794B2
The present invention relates to a display cabinet (1) having an open face; an air circulation system comprising: an air inlet (9) located adjacent to a perimeter of the open front face; an air outlet (7) located adjacent to the perimeter of the open front face opposite the air inlet (9), and configured to blow air across the open front face toward the air inlet (9); an air conduit (11, 17) for conveying air from the air inlet (9) to the air outlet (7); and an air pump configured to draw air from the air inlet (9), move the air thus drawn through the air conduit (11, 17) to the air outlet (7); and at least one shelf (3) disposed within the display cabinet (1); wherein the air conduit (11, 17) is arranged such that at least a portion (19) of the air from the air inlet (9) follows a path that passes out from a wall of the display cabinet (1) through the at least one shelf (3), and back through said at least one shelf (3) to the wall of the display cabinet (1), before being passed to the air outlet (7).
US11272793B2
A changing table includes a wall assembly and a tray assembly. The wall assembly includes a transparent panel, a reflector, and a UV light source disposed in between. The tray assembly is pivotally attached to the wall assembly, forming a changeable angle α in between. The tray assembly includes a front panel and a cushion layer. The cushion layer forms a concaved surface that receives an infant. The concaved surface receives UV light generated by the UV light source.
US11272792B2
An infant playpen includes a support frame including a pivot connection, and an enclosure installable on the support frame, the enclosure comprising a flexible material including an expandable portion having multiple folds, the expandable portion covering the pivot connection when the enclosure is installed on the support frame. In some embodiments, the enclosure may have a sidewall including an inner layer and an outer layer, the support frame extending through a hollow interior between the inner layer and the outer layer when the enclosure is installed on the support frame.
US11272790B2
A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat base that has a first heating element. A seat back has a second heating element. A sensor is coupled to the seat base and is configured to obtain a weight data. A user-interface assembly is operably coupled to the first and second heating elements. A controller is in communication with the sensor to receive the weight data. The controller is configured to control the first and second heating elements in response to the weight data.
US11272788B2
A method is provided for enhancing comfort of a seat with a hip/thigh support and a back support. The method includes providing a seating pad assembly with a foam cushion made at least partly of a viscoelastic foam and having a cover formed from a dimensionally stable non-stretch material. An upper area of the seating pad assembly is attached to an upper area of the seat back. Pelvic and upper back areas of a person sitting on the seat deform the viscoelastic foam sufficiently to provide a comfortable support and to define anchors for the seating pad assembly. The non-stretch cover extends between those anchors for effectively supporting and cradling the lumbar back area of the person in the seat above and forward of the corner between the seat back and the hip/thigh support.
US11272786B2
The adjustment apparatus includes a first support, a second support and a first adjustment assembly. The second support is rotatably coupled to the first support. A fixed portion of the second support passes through first sliding groove of connecting piece of the first adjustment assembly. One end of a driving member of the first adjustment assembly is blocked by the connecting piece and rotates relative to the connecting piece. The other end of the driving member extends along a direction close to the fixed portion and is screwed to the fixed portion. The adjustment apparatus utilizes a threaded transmission relationship between the driving member and the fixed portion to drive the fastening piece to slide relative to the fixed portion of the second support, which cause the hook of the connecting piece slides relative to the fixed portion, thereby providing the adjustment apparatus with novel structure and convenient operations.
US11272781B2
A hair collector apparatus including a brush. The hair collector apparatus also can include a base portion comprising a housing and a motor configured to rotate the brush. The hair collector apparatus additionally can include a visor adjustably coupled to the base portion and covering the brush in a neutral position of the visor. Other embodiments are described.
US11272780B2
An application brush for a cosmetic formula comprising: i) a base having a central axis and including a top surface that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the central axis and a bottom that is spaced apart from the top surface along the central axis; and ii) a bundle of bristles that is mounted on the bottom of the base. Tips of bristles forming the bundle of bristles cooperate to define a virtual plane that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the central axis, and the virtual plane has an oval shape.
US11272770B2
A wearable radio support system has a shoulder strap connectable to a radio holder and an elongate strap extending therefrom. The shoulder strap has a shoulder-contact portion that includes a first set and a second set of attachment features. The elongate strap has a first end with a first fastener and a second fastener that are releasably attachable to either of the first set or the second set of attachment features of the shoulder strap. The first fastener connects to a first feature of either of the first or second set of attachment features and provides a point of rotation for the elongate strap relative to the shoulder strap and the second fastener connects to a second feature of the same set of attachment features to anchor the elongate strap to the shoulder strap, thereby the first end of the elongate strap no longer rotates about the first feature.
US11272768B1
In one example, a backpack chair includes a U-shaped frame to form a base for the backpack chair. The U-shaped frame has two sides connected to each other by a semicircular section. In a sitting mode where the backpack chair is for sitting, the two sides of the U-shaped frame extend in a horizontal plane and the semicircular section extends in a substantially vertical plane. In a backpack mode where the backpack chair is carried as a backpack, the two sides extend in a vertical plane and the semicircular section extends in a substantially horizontal plane. The backpack chair comprises a top member that includes a combined seat and back support for the U-shaped frame. In the sitting mode, the top member is attached to the U-shaped frame, and in the backpack mode, the top member is detached from the U-shaped frame.
US11272767B2
The present disclosure relates to a high-performance, portable, flexible, collapsible, inflatable, insulative container with increased carrying capacity and the portability of a backpack. The container of the present disclosure is both collapsible as well as inflatable via the use of a non-leaking, substantially waterproof valve that facilitates air flow into and out of an insulative space of the container.
US11272765B2
A jewelry clip has top and bottom non-marring gripping jaws and an adornment covering the top jaw. The jewelry clip is used to construct at least two different jewelry items such as a bracelet, a necklace, a belt, an anklet, or a choker from an elongate flexible item of at least eighteen inches in length such as a string of beads or pearls, a chain, or a piece of fabric by securing the item at two locations in a first format, and at two locations, including at least one different location in a second format.
US11272764B1
A buckle assembly has two buckle portions, each having a base body with a fastening hook and a fastening recess, and a magnet connected to the interior surface. The buckle portions are configured such that placing the interior surface of one buckle portion against the interior surface of the other buckle portion causes the magnets to engage each other and the fastening hook of each buckle portion to enter the fastening recess of the other buckle portion, to lock the two buckle portions together and prevent disengagement under tension in opposing directions parallel to a longitudinal extent of the buckle assembly. There is a fastening tenon connected to the base body and extending into the fastening recess on each of the buckle portions. The fastening hooks engage a respective one of the fastening tenons as the fastening hooks enter the fastening recesses to lock the two buckle portions together.
US11272758B2
A variety of plates for footwear are provided including a polyolefin resin. Sole structures and articles of footwear formed therefrom are also provided. Methods of making the polyolefin resin compositions, plates, sole structures, and articles of footwear are also provided. In some aspects, the polyolefin resin composition includes an effective amount of a polymeric resin modifier. The effective amount can be an amount effective to allow the resin composition to pass a flex test, and in particular to pass a flex test without significant change in abrasion loss. In some aspects, the resin composition also includes a clarifying agent to improve optical clarity of the plate. In some aspects, the plates include a textile disposed on one or both of a first side and the second side of the plate. The textile can provide for improved bonding of the plate to other components such as a chassis or an upper.
US11272757B2
Disclosed herein is a process for making a shoe using a stand-alone mouldable nonwoven fabric which has the ability of self-sustaining and shape maintenance and which is heated to become softened till molten. In the process of the invention, the shoe parts are moulded by a compression moulding process and the moulded parts are then heated and welded together by a plastic welding method.
US11272755B2
A sole for an article of footwear includes: an upper sole portion; and a pod assembly having a plurality of pods fluidly connected in series disposed below the upper sole portion, wherein the pod assembly extends from a lateral heel portion of the sole to a medial forefoot portion of the sole such that the plurality of pods compress substantially in sequence through a gait cycle of a wearer.
US11272753B2
A hardhat with a protected overhead cooling fan comprises: a main hardhat body component having an upper aperture through which air is drawn and pulled down into a battery powered cooling fan; a fan cover component spaced at least about ¼ inch from and permanently adhered to the main hardhat body with a plurality of linear ridges; a battery pack for the cooling fan; and a plurality of connecting wires. A method of use is also disclosed.
US11272750B2
A protective glove for use with a keyboard, keypad, touchscreen or other electrical or mechanical user interfaces is encompassed by the present disclosure. The protective glove can comprise a plurality of insulative layers and one or more nibs formed on or mounted to the protective glove, wherein the nib is in electrical communication with one or more of the layers of the glove body.
US11272749B2
Disclosed is a waterseal virus-killing mask, including a mask body, a liquid virus-killing assembly, and two elastic ear loops. A breather valve is disposed on an outer surface of the mask body. The two elastic ear loops are disposed on two sides of the mask body, respectively. The liquid virus-killing assembly includes a U-shaped tube within which disinfectant is provided. A disinfectant replenishing tube is vertically disposed at an upper end in the middle of the U-shaped tube. A first horizontal straight tube and a second horizontal straight tube are separately disposed at two ends of the U-shaped tube. A left end of the first horizontal straight tube is in communication with an opening of the breather valve. A first filter mesh used to separate water and air is disposed at a right end of the first horizontal straight tube.
US11272739B2
The invention relates to a vaporiser unit for an inhaler, comprising a vaporiser body which consists of an electrically conductive substrate with an inlet side, an outlet side, and a plurality of micro-channels each of which extend through said substrate from the inlet side to the outlet side, and a resistive heating element for vaporising liquid conveyed through said micro-channels. The resistive heating element is formed by the substrate.
US11272738B2
An electrically heated smoking system for receiving an aerosol forming substrate includes a heater for heating the substrate to form the aerosol. The heater includes a heating element. The electrically heated smoking system and the heating element are arranged such that, when the aerosol forming substrate is received in the electrically heated smoking system, the heating element extends a distance only partially along the length of the aerosol forming-substrate, and the heating element is positioned towards the downstream end of the aerosol forming substrate.
US11272728B2
Enteral tube feed for patients in an intensive care unit comprising a lipid component, a carbohydrate component and at least 30 EN % of a protein component based on the total energy content of the enteral tube feed, wherein the protein component comprises a peptide fraction consisting of di-, tri- and oligopeptides with a molecular weight of at most 1 kD, wherein the peptide fraction provides at least 10 EN % of the total energy content of the enteral composition and wherein the carbohydrate component predominantly consists of carbohydrates having a GI of ≤35 such as isomaltulose for use in treatment of ICU patients.
US11272721B2
Systems and methods for preparing and dispensing food contents, typically molten chocolate. In one aspect, a method for treating chocolate includes placing a quantity of chocolate in a pressure-controllable environment; heating the quantity of chocolate to a temperature of about 115 degrees Fahrenheit; decreasing the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment to about 5 Torr; and holding the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment at about 5 Torr for a predetermined period of time. Additional steps may include decreasing the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment to about 5 Torr at an average rate of about 8 Torr per minute; heating the quantity of chocolate to a temperature of about 115 degrees Fahrenheit may occur at a rate of about 2 degrees Fahrenheit per minute; and/or heating the quantity of chocolate to a temperature of about 115 degrees Fahrenheit may occur at a rate of no more than 1 degree Fahrenheit per minute.
US11272717B2
The invention relates to an edible water-in-oil emulsion comprising a fat-phase comprising a first hardstock and a second hardstock, wherein said fat-phase has a total amount of hardstock of from 2 to 60 wt. %, based on the total weight of the fat-phase, and a water-phase, wherein part of the water-phase is dispersed as droplets, wherein the droplets are stabilized by said first hardstock; and wherein part of the water-phase is dispersed as droplets, wherein the droplets are stabilized by said second hardstock, wherein said first hardstock comprises more than 25% of HHH-triglycerides, and a combined amount of H2U and H2M triglycerides of not more than 110% of the HHH-triglycerides of said first hardstock, wherein said second hardstock comprises less than 22% of HHH-triglycerides, and a combined amount of H2U and H2M triglycerides of more than 140% of the HHH-triglycerides of said second hardstock, wherein H denotes saturated chains with 16 or more carbon atoms or an elaidic acid residue, wherein U denotes unsaturated chains and wherein M denotes saturated chains with 14 or less carbon atoms. The invention further relates to a process for the manufacture of such edible water-in-oil emulsions.
US11272716B2
The present invention relates to a bacterial cell with texturizing property, starter cultures comprising the cell, and dairy products manufactured using the bacterial cell.
US11272715B2
An almond based dispersion including water; an almond butter base homogeneously dispersed in the water; and nisin derived from a non-dairy source of Lactococcus lactis that is homogeneously dissolved in the water. The dispersion has a shelf life of at least 28 days and up to 45 days when stored at 4° C., maintains a pH ranging from 6.1 to 7.0 while stored, and is satisfactory for human consumption.
US11272705B2
The present invention is directed to an aqueous herbicidal composition containing flumioxazin, pyroxasulfone, hydroxyethyl cellulose, and magnesium aluminum silicate. The present invention is further directed to a method of controlling weeds by applying compositions of the present invention.
US11272704B1
A scarecrow including a scarecrow body corresponding generally in shape to a body of a live animal; and a scarecrow head corresponding in shape to a head of a live animal; and an unstable mount disposed between the scarecrow body and the scarecrow head onto which the scarecrow head is rotatably mounted for 360-degree movement of the scarecrow head to the scarecrow body without interfering with free movement of the scarecrow head. The unstable mount includes a lower pivot assembly rigidly connected to the scarecrow body and an upper pivot assembly rigidly connected to the scarecrow head and balanced onto the lower pivot assembly, the lower pivot assembly being of two-piece molded plastic construction and including a foot and an upper member that press-fit together, with the foot configured to press-fit install into the scarecrow body.
US11272697B1
The fishing rod holder with strike indicator is a free-standing fishing strike indicating device. The fishing rod holder with strike indicator is a stand which holds the fishing rod. The fishing rod holder with strike indicator allows for the adjustment of the cant between the fishing rod and the ground. The adjustment of the cant allows for the adjustment of the angle of attack between the fishing line and the water. The fishing rod holder with strike indicator comprises a tripod, a pedestal, and a control circuit. The pedestal mounts on the tripod. The control circuit is contained within the tripod. The tripod is a supporting structure that adjusts the elevation of the pedestal relative to the ground. The fishing rod mounts on the pedestal. The control circuit detects when a fish has struck the fishing line and generates a visible alarm and an audible alarm.
US11272693B2
A feeding system for freely moving poultry or other small animals including a feeding pan with an outer distribution cone. An overlying horizontal transport channel for feed is provided above the distribution cone having a passage for regular feeding, and the feed passes through the opening at the top of the distribution cone to the inner side of the distribution cone. There is a passage for initial feeding out of the transport channel, arranged such that the feed passes out of the initial feeding passage and impinges on separate chutes externally on the distribution cone having a dividing line between the two chutes.
US11272690B2
A hollow, compressible or rigid hollow body has mechanical retaining devices such as sound generators, scent capsules, LED lights and vibrating mechanisms and identifying or responding detection elements held, secured and locked therein without the use of any solvents, glues, sonic welding, spin welding or other bonding materials. The hollow contaminant-free bodies are particularly useful for animals and recreation. Some of the above contain carcinogens harmful to animals if ingested.
US11272683B2
Consisting of a toilet (1) for dogs composed of a tray (2), in rigid material, with concentric indentations (3) running towards a central hole (4) from where a dogleg (5) originates with piping (6) into the sewer (E) where the urine of the animal is carried away with the water from the perimeter of said tray (2) that arrives through the hose (6′) connected to the tap (7) and/or the recycled water (8).
US11272677B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV821576. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV821576, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV821576 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 CV821576 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 CV821576.
US11272675B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 84-31 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 84-31 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 84-31 RZ.
US11272674B1
A flow control system for an irrigation sprinkler can include a service valve having an inlet, a first fluid port, a second fluid port, a third fluid port, and/or a valve piston having a valve piston inlet and a valve piston outlet. The system can include a pilot valve and a vent line. The system can include a filter in fluid communication with the inlet of the service valve. The valve piston can be configured to move vertically with respect to the first, second, and third fluid ports between first, second, and third valve positions.
US11272672B2
A grass treatment system includes a first ground engaging rolling element, a second ground engaging rolling element, a comb having a leading edge including a plurality of comb teeth spaced apart at intervals, the comb is mounted between the first and second rolling elements and transversely to a direction of travel, a substantially cylindrical brush positioned above the comb and configured to engage at least a portion of a top surface of the comb, wherein the brush rotates relative to the comb to propel debris lifted from an area of turf grass by the comb.
US11272671B2
A reciprocating blade apparatus includes a pair of reciprocating blades stacked on one another in a thickness direction, and a transmission case including a power train configured to reciprocate the pair of reciprocating blades. The power train includes a pair of eccentric cams, and a pair of reciprocating members including fitting holes in which the eccentric cams are fitted, respectively. The pair of reciprocating members is guided to be able to move along an axis line which is parallel to a moving direction of the pair of reciprocating blades and runs through a rotation axis of the eccentric cams.
US11272667B2
A scale controller system and method of using the system is disclosed. The scale controller is adapted for use with a grain cart or similar implement that includes a discharge opening and conveyor. The system includes a scale and a plurality of sensors that work together to automate numerous functions that are typically performed manually. For example, the present invention discloses a system that automatically records the amount of material loaded or unloaded by continuously monitoring the load on a scale and the RPMs of a power take-off shaft that drives a conveyor.
US11272661B2
An agricultural vehicle is operable in a first state for transport and in a second state for field work and includes a frame supported by a plurality of tires. A processor is operable to receive a signal generated as a result of the agricultural vehicle transitioning from the first state to the second state or from the second state to the first state. A gas system is operable to modify the tire pressure of the plurality of tires of the agricultural vehicle in response to the signal.
US11277942B2
Heat dissipation device for an electronic board comprising a support body connected to the electronic board, said electronic board being provided with an electric connection interface which can be inserted into/extracted from an electric connector provided in a direction orthogonal with respect to the lying plane of a support plate, having a heat dissipation surface configured to dissipate the heat transmitted to it by thermal conduction, wherein said heat dissipation device comprises at least one holding element and a leveling member, coordinated with respect to each other in order to position a surface of the support body in contact with the heat dissipation surface of the support plate.
US11277932B2
Provided is a power conversion device, including: a semiconductor module including a semiconductor switching element; a heat sink configured to cool the semiconductor module; a spring member configured to press the semiconductor module onto the heat sink; a casing configured to accommodate the semiconductor module and the spring member; and a bridge-like structure configured to press the semiconductor module onto the heat sink through intermediation of the spring member when the casing is mounted to the heat sink.
US11277926B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first submodule having a display panel, a second submodule having a cover member located on the display panel, and a first decoupling layer located between the first submodule and the second submodule, and each of the first submodule and the second submodule has a single neutral plane.
US11277915B2
An antenna device and an electronic device including the same are provided. The antenna device includes a housing that includes a first plate, a second plate facing a direction opposite to the first plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, a display viewable through at least a portion of the first plate, an antenna assembly disposed within the housing wherein the antenna assembly includes a first printed circuit board, a second printed circuit board, at least one structure interconnecting the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board and including conductive paths, a plurality of conductive patterns, and a wireless communication circuit, a flexible printed circuit board, and a third printed circuit board.
US11277910B2
A wiring substrate includes a multilayer core substrate including a core layer, core conductor layers, and core insulating layers, a first laminate formed on first surface of the substrate and including insulating layers and conductor layers such that each insulating layer includes resin without reinforcing material, and a second laminate formed on second surface of the substrate and including insulating layers and conductor layers such that each insulating layer includes resin without reinforcing material. The multilayer core substrate includes through-hole conductors penetrating through the core layer, and via conductors formed on the through-hole conductors and penetrating through the core insulating layers such that the through-hole conductors and via conductors connect outermost core conductor layers on the first and second surface sides, each of the core layer and core insulating layers includes insulating resin including reinforcing material, and the core layer has thickness greater than thickness of each core insulating layer.
US11277908B2
A ceramic circuit substrate having a metal plate bonded, by a bonding braze material, to at least one main surface of a ceramic substrate, wherein the bonding braze material contains, as metal components, 0.5 to 4.0 parts by mass of at least one active metal selected from among titanium, zirconium, hafnium, and niobium, with respect to 100 parts by mass, in total, of 93.0 to 99.4 parts by mass of Ag, 0.1 to 5.0 parts by mass of Cu, and 0.5 to 2.0 parts by mass of Sn; and Cu-rich phases in a bonding braze material layer structure between the ceramic substrate and the metal plate have an average size of 3.5 μm or less and a number density of 0.015/μm2 or higher. A method for producing a ceramic circuit substrate includes bonding at a temperature of 855 to 900° C. for a retention time of 10 to 60 minutes.
US11277893B2
A thermostat for a building includes a light emitting diode (LED) system including one or more LEDs configured to emit light to illuminate a floor area beneath the thermostat. The thermostat incorporates an occupancy sensor to sense the approach of a user based on changes in conditions in proximity to the thermostat and detect an ambient light level. The thermostat includes a processing circuit configured to receive data outputs from the occupancy sensor, determine whether the data outputs indicate the approach of a user, cause the one or more LEDs to emit the light towards the floor in response to an indication that a user is approaching the thermostat based on occupancy sensor data correlated with occupancy conditions, and record and store LED activations and deactivations for later retrieval as historic data. The one or more LEDs may be configured as an illumination module removably attachable to the thermostat.
US11277890B2
A microwave heating apparatus and a method of operating a microwave heating apparatus are provided. The microwave heating apparatus comprises a load receiving cavity, at least one microwave source, a plurality of feeding ports connected to the microwave source and the cavity for feeding microwaves to the cavity, a measuring unit and a control unit. The measuring unit measures, for at least one frequency or within a frequency range, the power of microwaves reflected back to the microwave source for at least part of the plurality of feeding ports. The control unit selects at least one of the feeding ports based on the measured powers of the reflected microwaves in order to feed microwaves to the cavity via the at least one selected feeding port during operation of the microwave heating apparatus at the at least one frequency or within the frequency range.
US11277884B2
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including one or more DC power sources; a load network including an inductor and a capacitor connected in series; first drive circuitry connected to the DC power source(s) and across the network and being configured to provide a first voltage drop across the network; second drive circuitry connected to the DC power source(s) and across the network and being configured to provide a second voltage drop across the network, the second voltage drop being in an opposite direction to the first voltage drop; and a controller connected to the first and the second drive circuitry and being configured to control the first and the second drive circuitry so that both the first and the second voltage drops are provided across the network periodically and so that the second voltage drop is not provided across the network simultaneously with the first voltage drop.
US11277870B2
A terminal includes a receiver configured to receive from a base station a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in a synchronization signal block; and a transmitter configured to transmit a random access preamble based on the synchronization signal block in which the PSS, the SSS, and the PBCH are received. A mapping period for mapping synchronization signal blocks included in a synchronization signal block set to resources for transmitting the random access preamble is determined based on a period determined based on configuration information regarding a random access channel, a value of a period of the synchronization signal block set, and a value of a duration in which a process of mapping synchronization signal blocks used for transmission by the base station in the synchronization signal block set to the resources for transmitting the random access preamble is completed.
US11277869B2
A user equipment (UE) may initiate a random access (RACH) procedure using an uplink resource selected based on a corresponding received synchronization signal block. The UE may detect a random access procedure trigger. The UE may configure a selection threshold time. The selection threshold time may be based at least in part on a latency requirement of the UE. The UE may select a synchronization signal block having a corresponding uplink resource within the selection threshold time. The synchronization signal block and corresponding uplink resource satisfy one or more parameters or conditions. The UE may transmit a random access preamble on the corresponding uplink resource.
US11277861B2
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium for use with a user equipment in a radio communication system, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to control the user equipment to perform operations that include receiving control signalling that includes new data information and modulation and coding scheme information, and releasing a semi-persistent resource allocation when a predetermined combination of the new data information and the modulation and coding scheme information is received. The modulation and coding scheme information in the predetermined combination includes an index of 11111 in binary format that indicates no transport block size information.
US11277860B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a mechanism for rate-matching between overlapping resource block (RB) sets within a transmission time interval (TTI). A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) carrying downlink control information (DCI) including a downlink assignment for scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) may be received by a user equipment (UE) within the TTI. In some examples, the DCI may be included within control channel elements (CCEs) located within shared resource elements between two overlapping RB sets. If the CCEs forming a decoding candidate over which the DCI may be detected are entirely contained within the shared resource elements, the UE may perform rate-matching around the two overlapping RB sets.
US11277855B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive at least one bit indicating a particular set of control symbols, of a plurality of sets of control symbols, comprising a downlink control region identify a location of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), associated with a data channel, based at least in part on the at least one bit indicating the particular set of control symbols comprising the downlink control region; and communicate on the data channel based at least in part on the DMRS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11277837B2
A communication terminal capable of determining whether or not it can perform DC, a base station, and a communication method are provided. A communication terminal (30) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (31) that simultaneously communicates with a master base station (10) associated with a first radio access technology and a secondary base station (20) associated with a second radio access technology, and a control unit (32) that specifies, when it is notified by the master base station (10) that it can provide dual connectivity using the second radio access technology, at least one frequency band supported by the secondary base station (20), the secondary base station being configured to provide the dual connectivity in cooperation with the master base station (10).
US11277824B2
Provided is a method and device for determining resources and a storage medium. In the method, a user equipment (UE) receives a first message over a first cell. The first message is used for determining M first bandwidth parts (BWPs) in a second cell, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, each of the M first BWPs is smaller than or equal to a bandwidth of the second cell. One or more transmission resources for the UE in the second cell is within at least one of the M first BWPs.
US11277815B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described in relation to a Multiple Subscriber Identify Module (MSIM) user equipment (UE). The UE associated with multiple network subscriptions may determine a first timing of a first set of paging occasions associated with a first network subscription of the multiple network subscriptions, wherein the first network subscription is associated with a first network; determine a second timing of a second set of paging occasions associated with a second network subscription of the multiple network subscriptions, wherein the second network subscription is associated with a second network; compare the first timing and the second timing; detect a paging time adjustment condition based on the comparing; and transmit, based on detecting the paging time adjustment condition, a paging frame offset adjustment request to the first network, the second network or both.
US11277811B2
Present invention relates to network communication devices and to user communication devices arranged to support a determination of a position of a user communication device in a communication network. Particularly said devices support a position determination, in which many (more than one) surrounding user communication devices are utilized for obtaining accurate positioning. Further, present invention relates to corresponding methods, computer program products and computer-readable recording media.
US11277807B2
The present disclosure relates to delivery of data traffic over a wireless connection. In more particular, it relates to methods, a tunneling unit (208), and system for emulating wired connectivity between two or more robot devices (202, 204) and a controller (222). Buffering (212) of data frames, from two or more robot devices, received up-streams a wireless access network (206) is performed. Based on the time-stamps extracted (210) from data frames a relative time offset is determined for the two or more robot devices. Buffered uplink frames are forwarded (216) to the controller in a pre-define order, enabling using the relative time offset when forwarding downlink frames (232), being received over the wireless access network (206), to said two or more robot devices, such the that the downlink frames reach each one of two or more robot devices simultaneously. A deterministic delivery of data frames over a wireless connection is provided.
US11277806B2
The present application discloses a method for data transmission in a radio cell of a mobile terminal. The radio cell includes an auxiliary carrier in a low frequency band and at least one master carrier in a high frequency band, the method including: the mobile terminal achieving downlink synchronization with the radio cell through the auxiliary carrier in the low frequency band, and after achieving the downlink synchronization, obtaining configuration information of the radio cell, and transmitting data by using the master carrier and/or the auxiliary carrier according to the configuration information. The present application also provides a mobile terminal. By using the present application, radio cell coverage and transmission performance may be improved.
US11277802B2
Systems and methods for controlling uplink power in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). An NTN station transmits a reference signal at a first time having a defined transmission power and the reference signal is received by non-terrestrial user equipment. The user equipment evaluates the reference signal and determines a first downlink loss of the reference signal by calculating a difference between a measured power level of the received reference signal and the defined transmission power. The NTN station transmits a communication signal at a second time and is received by the user equipment, which estimates a second downlink loss of the communication signal based on the first downlink loss and a power level of the communication signal. A first uplink loss is estimated based on the second downlink loss, and the user equipment adjusts a transmission power of its transmitter based on the first uplink loss.
US11277799B2
A method includes: receiving, by a network device, first information, second information, and third information from a terminal using a first component carrier, where the first information includes a power headroom of the first component carrier, the second information indicates whether transmit power of the terminal is equal to maximum available transmit power of the terminal, the third information indicates a difference between the maximum available transmit power and transmit power of a second component carrier, and a subcarrier spacing of the first component carrier is greater than a subcarrier spacing of the second component carrier; and scheduling, by the network device, uplink transmission of the terminal based on the first information, the second information, and the third information, where uplink transmit power of the first component carrier does not exceed the difference.
US11277796B2
Disclosed is a method for communicating in a wireless LAN system performed by a first wireless terminal, the method including: generating a wake-up packet modulated by an On-Off Keying (OOK) technique wherein the wake-up packet comprises a plurality of identification information for a plurality of second wireless terminals, each of the plurality of identification information is generated based on a bit length unit having a fixed size, and the bit length unit having the fixed size is set to 12 bits; and transmitting the wakeup packet to the plurality of second wireless terminals.
US11277795B2
A method for communication in a wireless LAN system according to an embodiment includes: receiving, by a first wireless terminal including a main radio module and a WUR module for receiving a wake-up packet modulated based on OOK scheme, the wake-up packet from a second wireless terminal based on the WUR module, wherein the wake-up packet includes first information indicating that a broadcast scheme is applied to the wake-up packet and second information for indicating the presence of a group addressed frame buffered by the second wireless terminal; and controlling, by the first wireless terminal, the main radio module such that the main radio module remains in a doze state until a predetermined wake-up time after reception of the wake-up packet.
US11277790B2
A wireless User Equipment (UE) executes user applications that have user requirements. The wireless UE wirelessly receives network information that indicates wireless network slices and their individual slice characteristics. The wireless UE compares the user requirements to the slice characteristics and responsively selects one or more of the wireless network slices. The wireless UE generates network signaling that indicates the selected wireless network slices. The wireless UE wirelessly transfers the network signaling.
US11277779B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for applying wireless resources in order to control inter-cell interference in a heterogeneous network system. The method for applying wireless resources provided by the present invention generates an almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern on the basis of the type of data transmitted from at least one of a first base station and a second base station, applies a non-ABS or an ABS to wireless resources of the first base station according to the generated ABS pattern, and performs data communication by using the wireless resources to which the ABS has been applied.
US11277778B2
A method and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. The WTRU includes a receiver and a transmitter. The WTRU receives, from a primary downlink cell, a first scheduling assignment for a first uplink transmission and transmits first data in the first uplink transmission to at least a primary uplink cell using a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The WTRU receives, from the primary downlink cell, a second scheduling assignment, 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, determines whether to retransmit the first data based on the HARQ process identification, and retransmits the first data in a second uplink transmission using the first HARQ process, the MCS, and the transmission time opportunity.
US11277773B2
Disclosed in the present application are a handover method and apparatus, relating to the field of communications, and being used for reducing the interruption time of data transmission in a distributed unit DU handover process when the central unit control plane/central unit user plane CU-CP/CU-UP in a base station are separated, enhancing the user experience. In the handover method provided in the embodiments of the present application, a notification sent by the CU-CP to the CU-UP not only carries tunnel switching instruction information, but also comprises maintenance instruction information, the maintenance instruction information instructing the CU-UP to continue sending downlink data by means of the original downlink tunnel, such that downlink data can still be received when the user device is not yet connected to a target DU, thereby reducing the interruption time of data transmission during the DU handover process, and enhancing the user experience.
US11277772B2
An aspect of the disclosure provides a user equipment (UE) that includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry of the UE determines whether to transmit service data associated with a service to a receiving device through a primary link or a sidelink. When the service data is determined to be transmitted through the sidelink, the processing circuitry selects a radio access technology (RAT) for implementing the sidelink from a plurality of available RATs according to a set of configuration parameters received from a network, determines communication parameters for the selected RAT based on quality of service (QoS) or service requirement related parameters included in the set of configuration parameters, and transmits the service data through the sidelink implemented by the selected RAT according to the communication parameters. When the service data is determined to be transmitted through the primary link, the processing circuitry transmits the service data through the primary link.
US11277766B2
A terminal, including: a memory that stores a plurality of instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to: multiplex logical channel data of a logical channel group (LCG); and a transmitter configured to transmit a buffer status report (BSR) of a variable length to a network side, wherein the BSR of a variable length contains a first buffer size of the LCG after the logical channel data of the LCG are multiplexed, and the LCG has a second buffer size being greater than zero before the logical channel data of the LCG are multiplexed.
US11277761B2
A technique for determining signal quality of a radio access network, RAN, (502) comprising a plurality of transmission-reception points, TRxPs (504), is described. A method aspect of the technique comprises or initiates receiving a control message for determining the signal quality based on a measurement of a reference signal (516.21) from a second TRxP (504.4) at a radio resource. The control message is indicative of the radio resource for the reference signal relative to a synchronization signal (512.1) from a first TRxP (504.1; 504.2; 504.3) other than the second TRxP.
US11277760B2
[Overview] [Problem to be Solved] To provide a communication apparatus that allows a transmitting station to accurately determine whether or not a receiving station actually has interference. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control unit that controls a communication process in a cellular system. The communication control unit sets a plurality of reception beams on the basis of information of a direction, measures received power for each of the reception beams, and reports a result of the measurement to a base station. The information of the direction is set from the base station.
US11277757B2
In a terminal, a transmission power calculation unit calculates a transmission power of an uplink signal by using transmission power control information indicating one value from among a plurality of candidate values respectively associated with correction values that correct a control value to use in a closed loop control of the transmission power. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink signal with the above transmission power. A first correction value and a second correction value having a larger step size than the first correction value are associated with each of the plurality of candidate values.
US11277754B2
A method of managing wireless access to a network performed by an access point includes storing a programmable response time for defining a zone of operation around the access point, receiving from a client device a request to associate with the access point, transmitting a probe to the client device, when a response to the probe is received, measuring a round trip time between transmission of the probe and receipt of the response, determining whether the client device's request to associate with the access point should be granted or denied by comparing the round trip time to the programmable response time, granting the request to associate in response to determining that the round trip time is less than the programmable response time, and denying the request to associate with the access point in response to determining that the round trip time is longer than the programmable response time.
US11277744B2
This application provides a Wi-Fi hotspot connection method, which includes: displaying, by a terminal, a first screen that includes an SSID input box and a security selection box; receiving an SSID of a first Wi-Fi hotspot input by a user in the SSID input box; obtaining an encryption manner of the first Wi-Fi hotspot based on the SSID input by the user; displaying a second screen when the encryption manner of the first Wi-Fi hotspot is different from an encryption manner selected from the security selection box, where the second screen includes a password input box; receiving an access password of the first Wi-Fi hotspot input by the user on the second screen; and in response to a user's connection operation on the second screen, connecting to the first Wi-Fi hotspot based on the SSID, the access password, and the obtained encryption manner of the first Wi-Fi hotspot.
US11277743B2
A pass determination device includes: a receiving unit for receiving authentication information from an authentication device of a user; a determining unit for determining whether or not to permit the user to pass on the basis of the authentication information received by the receiving unit; and a display unit for displaying a position of an authentication area in a first display mode from before the user enters the authentication area, the authentication area being an area through which the user having the authentication device is to pass so that an authentication process based on the authentication information of the authentication device is performed.
US11277732B2
Systems and methods for providing online access to multiple mobile station international subscriber directory numbers (MSISDNs), or mobile numbers, with compatible internet-connected user equipment (UEs). The system can include a web portal through which users can send and receive voice calls, video calls, text messages, e-mails, and other communications via multiple authorized mobile numbers. The system can include a graphical user interface (GUI) to enable users to select a mobile number to place a call or send a text, for example, with the call or text appearing to be sent from the mobile number. The system can also route incoming calls and texts to both the UE associated with the mobile number and the web portal. Thus, an incoming call, for example, can ring on both the UE and a tablet or laptop computer substantially simultaneously.
US11277730B2
A communication apparatus operable to comply with a NAN (Neighbor Awareness Networking) standard, receives, from one or more other communication apparatuses, publish messages respectively indicating a plurality of services, and causes a display unit to display the one or more other communication apparatuses that transmitted the publish messages, wherein, if a plurality of services indicated by a plurality of received publish messages are services provided by the same other communication apparatus, the display unit is caused to display this one other communication apparatus.
US11277728B2
A system includes physiologic sensors and devices. The physiologic sensors sense human physiologic data and the system processes and transmits signals representing the physiologic data. The physiologic data represent at least one physiologic parameter, such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, body temperature, blood chemistry, other blood constituents, muscle contraction, movement, activity, speech, and brain waves. The system also determines that a device and an object are in proximity to each other, and secures physiologic data at times when the device and object are in proximity to each other, in order to correlate a person's physiologic state while in proximity with or while using the object.
US11277720B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby one or more computerized tools may be configured to discover, form, and analyze, for example, via one or more layered data files, interrelations among a system of networked collaborative datasets. In some examples, a method may include transforming of a set of data to an atomized format to form an atomized dataset that includes a derived dataset attribute. The method may also include presenting data representing an annotation at the user interface based on the derived dataset attribute. In some examples, the annotation may be associated with a layer file.
US11277716B2
An apparatus performs transmission and reception of messages via which a plurality of services coordinate with each other in a message control system. The apparatus integrates a plurality of messages into a first message, based on relationships between message transmission and message reception caused by the plurality of services, and transmits the first message to another information processing device in the message control system. The apparatus receives a second message integrated by another information processing device, and decompose the received second message into messages including a third message. The apparatus further integrates the decomposed third message and a fourth message into a fifth message, and transfers the integrated fifth message to another information processing device.
US11277709B2
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.
US11277708B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for providing an spatiotemporal auditory cue to a user. Methods may include: providing for generation of an auditory cue; determining a duration of the auditory cue; and providing for generation of a transition portion of the auditory cue having a dynamic virtual source location moving, relative to a user, from a first virtual source location along a trajectory and ending at a second virtual source location, where the transition portion of the auditory cue has a transition portion duration determined by the duration of the auditory cue and as a function of a predefined transition portion duration threshold.
US11277702B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for processing a multimedia signal. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a method comprising obtaining at least one video object from the multimedia signal and at least one audio object from the multimedia signal, extracting video feature information for the at least one video object and audio feature information for the at least one audio object, and determining a correlation between the at least one video object and the at least one audio object through an object matching engine based on the video feature information and the audio feature information, and an apparatus therefor.
US11277696B2
A hearing aid system is provided that facilitates adjustment of signal processing parameters θ of the hearing aid system with minimum user intervention, wherein the hearing aid system is capable of calculating signal processing parameters θ for evaluation of the user when the user has entered an input, e.g. using a smartwatch, to this effect. The evaluation takes place for a certain time period and in the event that the user has entered a consent input indicating that he or she is pleased with the set θ of signal processing parameters under evaluation, the hearing aid system continues processing with those signal processing parameters; and if the user is not pleased with the signal processing parameters θ under evaluation, the hearing aid system calculates another set {circumflex over (θ)} of signal processing parameters for evaluation of the user.
US11277682B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a communication device that includes a microphone configured to detect an acoustic signal from an acoustic environment, and a processor, configured to detect an acoustical dampening between the acoustic environment and the microphone, based on a change in a characteristic of the acoustic signal and, responsive to the acoustical dampening, apply a compensation filter to the acoustic signal to form a compensated acoustic signal that is reproduced. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11277670B2
A system, apparatus and method for automatically controlling the volume of a home entertainment device by an HVAC component. An HVAC component determines when it, or another HVAC, is active or not, and causes a home entertainment device to adjust its volume accordingly.
US11277665B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses are described for monitoring events in a plurality of different services. A system may monitor manifest files for one or more content items. Manifest files may contain manifest file tags indicating events and insertion opportunities. Events and/or insertion opportunities may be detected, and a switch from one content item to another content item, based on customized user priority preferences, may be caused.
US11277664B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling Internet users to schedule recordings of electronic programming content. One method includes displaying on a web page, over the Internet, a user interface element associated with an advertisement for electronic programming content; wherein selection of the user interface element, by a user of a web browsing device, initiates a recording device of the user, separate from the web browsing device, to schedule a recording of the electronic programming content. Another method for enabling Internet users to request television content includes displaying on a web page, over the Internet, a user interface element associated with an advertisement for television content; wherein a user's selection of the user interface element initiates a request for the advertised television content from a carrier that provides television service to the user.
US11277650B2
A contents receiving system can include a content receiver and a portable terminal storing ID information. The content receiver can further include: a receiving unit capable of receiving content and subsidiary content from at least one of a broadcast wave and a network; an output unit capable of outputting, as audio video content, a video and/or audio of the content received by the receiving unit; a transmission unit capable of transmitting the subsidiary content to the portable terminal, the transmission unit enabling information on a payment transaction corresponding to an ID information of the portable terminal to be transmitted to the portable terminal individually, the portable terminal including: a second transmission unit capable of receiving the subsidiary content and the information on the payment transaction transmitted from the transmission unit of the content receiver; and a processing unit for performing a processing regarding the payment transaction.
US11277647B2
A forward error correction (FEC) data generator has an input for at least two datastreams for which FEC data shall be generated in a joint manner, each datastream having a plurality of symbols. A FEC data symbol is based on a FEC source block possibly having a subset of symbols of the at least two data streams. The FEC data generator further has a signaling information generator configured to generate signaling information for the FEC data symbol regarding which symbols within the at least two datastreams belong to the corresponding source block by determining pointers to start symbols within a first and a second datastream, respectively, of the at least two datastreams and a number of symbols within the first datastream and second datastreams, respectively, that belong to the corresponding source block.
US11277645B2
A method for adaptive loop filtering of a reconstructed picture in a video encoder is provided that includes determining whether or not sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering is applied to the reconstructed picture, and using adaptive loop filtering with no offset for the reconstructed picture when the SAO filtering is determined to be applied to the reconstructed picture.
US11277638B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients through inverse quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficients for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) for the transform coefficients; and generating, on the basis of an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients, a restoration picture based on residual samples for the target block, wherein the modified transform coefficients derived according to the inverse RST are two-dimensionally arranged according to the order of a row priority direction or a column priority direction according to an intra prediction mode to be applied to the target block.
US11277636B2
Several improvements for use with Bidirectionally Predictive (B) pictures within a video sequence are provided. In certain improvements Direct Mode encoding and/or Motion Vector Prediction are enhanced using spatial prediction techniques. In other improvements Motion Vector prediction includes temporal distance and subblock information, for example, for more accurate prediction. Such improvements and other presented herein significantly improve the performance of any applicable video coding system/logic.
US11277634B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a video signal, which can increase the accuracy of the motion vector prediction through motion vector scaling which takes a difference in the temporal distance between reference pictures into consideration. To this end, the present invention provides a video signal processing method and a video signal processing apparatus using the same, and the method comprises the steps of: scaling at least one neighboring partition motion vector for a motion vector prediction of the current partition; scaling the neighboring partition motion vector, which has been selected, when the reference picture of the neighboring partition motion vector is different from the reference picture of the current partition; acquiring a motion vector prediction value of the current partition using the scaled motion vector; and acquiring a motion vector of the current partition using the motion vector prediction value.
US11277633B2
The invention pertains to a computer-implemented method for compensating motion for a digital holographic video stream, the method comprising: obtaining (1010) a sequence of frames representing consecutive holographic images of a scenery; obtaining (1020) translation and rotation vectors describing a relative motion of at least one object in said scenery between a pair of frames from among said sequence of frames; and applying (1030) an affine canonical transform to a first frame of said pair of frames so as to obtain a predicted frame, said affine canonical transform representing said translation and rotation vectors. The invention also pertains to a computer program product and to an apparatus for compensating motion for a digital holographic video stream.
US11277628B2
An example method includes obtaining values of control point motion vectors (CPMVs) for a current block of video data selected for coding using affine mode; determining whether a memory bandwidth needed for accessing samples of a plurality of reference blocks derived based on the values of the CPMVs satisfies a bandwidth threshold; selectively modifying, based on whether the determined memory bandwidth satisfies the bandwidth threshold, a motion compensation method used to predict samples of the current block of video data; and predicting, using the selectively modified motion compensation method, the samples of the current block of video data from the samples of the plurality of reference blocks.
US11277618B2
A method of decoding video data includes determining, by one or more processors implemented in circuitry, a picture size of a picture. The picture size applies a picture size restriction to set a width of the picture and a height of the picture to each be a respective multiple of a maximum of 8 and a minimum coding unit size for the picture. The method further includes determining, by the one or more processors, a partition of the picture into a plurality of blocks and generating, by the one or more processors, a prediction block for a block of the plurality of blocks. The method further includes decoding, by the one or more processors, a residual block for the block and combining, by the one or more processors, the prediction block and the residual block to decode the block.
US11277598B2
In an embodiment, a network-based media processing system includes a media control plane implementing a first network protocol. The media control plane includes a media origin server. The system further includes a network control plane implementing a second network protocol. The network control plane includes a network platform orchestrator, a network orchestration client, a network resource element, and a plurality of media processing elements. A system further includes a media data plane implementing a third network protocol. The media data plane includes a plurality of media resources. The system further includes a media interchange format configured to provide a unified data format for delivering media according to a format requested from a client device. The first network protocol is different from the second network protocol.
US11277593B2
A video signal transmitter or receiver for handling multiple video signals, including mainboard signal processing circuitry, one master fiber module, and one or more add-on fiber modules. Video data signal for the multiple videos are transmitted over the master and add-on fiber modules, but no video control signal is transmitted over any add-on fiber module. Video control signal for all of the multiple videos are transmitted on a first subset of channels of the master fiber module in a multiplexed manner. The mainboard signal processing circuitry cooperates with the signal processing chip of the master fiber module to process all video control signals, with the master fiber module processing video control signals for at least two videos. Non-video signals are processed by the mainboard circuitry and transmitted on a second subset of channels of the master fiber module (same as or different from the first subset of channels).
US11277592B2
A luggage management system includes: a locking/unlocking device mounted in a vehicle and configured to lock and unlock the vehicle in response to a request from a terminal, the terminal being used by a user who delivers luggage; an imaging device configured to capture an image of an inside of a predetermined area located in the vehicle, the predetermined area being used as a delivery place of the luggage; a control device configured to cause the imaging device to capture the image in the predetermined area when the locking/unlocking device locks or unlocks the vehicle in response to the request, and store the image; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a result of comparison between a reference image and a comparison image, whether the luggage has been carried away from the predetermined area.
US11277589B2
A travel status recording apparatus records an image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle, identifies personal information included in the captured image, and masks the personal information in the captured image. A server acquires a masked image corresponding to the captured image in which the personal information is masked from the travel status recording apparatus. The server determines, in response to a request from a third party, whether to restore the personal information included in the acquired masked image based on a preset restoration level. In a case where the server determines to restore the personal information, the server restores the personal information. In a case where the server determines not to restore the personal information, the server conceals the personal information.
US11277571B2
An image generation device includes: a voltage generator that generates a plurality of voltages each having a different voltage value; an image capturer that includes an organic photoconductive film, and performs imaging every time each of the plurality of voltages is applied; a luminance data obtainer that obtains a plurality of luminance data items corresponding to the plurality of voltages applied, each of the plurality of luminance data items being obtained from the imaging performed by the image capturer; and a color image generator that generates a color image based on the plurality of luminance data items.
US11277564B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for compensating for image quality of an optical system by means of a lens adjustment, applicable to a camera module comprising an adjustable lens or an adjustable lens set, the method comprising the following steps: (A) determining, based on imaging information of a to-be-adjusted optical system, parameters that need to be adjusted for compensating for the image quality; (B) establishing functions of relation between the parameters that need to be adjusted for compensating for the image quality and a to-be-adjusted lens factors; and (C) determining an adjustment mode and an adjustment amount for the to-be-adjusted lens based on the relation between the parameters that need to be adjusted for compensating for the image quality and the to-be-adjusted lens factors. Whereby, the present disclosure implements the accurate adjustment of the camera module by using an optical method during assembly and production, has high adjustment precision and high efficiency, can meet the production requirements such as high quality, low costs and high efficiency, and improves the image quality of the optical system.
US11277559B2
In one example, an image sensor module comprises one or more covers having at least a first opening and a second opening, a first lens mounted in the first opening and having a first field of view (FOV) centered at a first axis having a first orientation, a second lens mounted in the second opening and having a second FOV centered at a second axis having a second orientation different from the first orientation, a first image sensor housed within the one or more covers and configured to detect light via the first lens, and a second image sensor housed within the one or more covers and configured to detect light via the second lens. The first image sensor and the second image sensor are configured to provide, based on the detected light, image data of a combined FOV larger than each of the first FOV and the second FOV.
US11277555B2
Provided is an image pickup apparatus capable of selection of a first shot image taken in focus bracketing as a shot image at a user's desired focus position. A focus step is an amount of change in focus position between adjacent shot images. A focus lens is driven so as to achieve a focus change speed such that the amount of change in focus per unit time is constant. A vertical synchronization signal is issued to an image pickup device on the basis of a start focus position. A reference position at which a focus position comes to the start focus position in a first shot image generated in the focus bracketing is set. A focus position at the start of exposure is determined based on a time period required for one readout by the image pickup device, an exposure time period, the focus change speed, and the reference position.
US11277553B2
Techniques are described for automatically selecting between multiple image capture subsystems with overlapping fields of view but different optical properties. A selection may be made by estimating a plurality of operational characteristics of an image capture event, and, based on those estimates, selecting a primary image capture subsystem for the image capture event. For example, in a device such as a cellphone comprising two capture subsystems, each subsystem including a lens system and sensor system where each subsystem has a different fixed optical zoom parameter, a subsystem can be chosen based on a combination of desired zoom value, estimated focus distance, and estimated scene brightness.
US11277550B2
A camera module includes: a housing; a reflecting module; and a lens module disposed behind the reflecting module, wherein the moving holder is disposed to be movable in one axial direction, approximately perpendicular to the optical axial direction and the one axial direction with respect to the housing, the lens module includes a carrier supported by the housing to be linearly movable in approximately the optical axial direction, the lens module includes two or more lens barrels of which some are fixed, and the others are supported by the housing to be linearly movable in approximately the optical axial direction, and lenses are distributed and provided into the at least two lens barrels.
US11277534B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading controller, a data generating circuit unit, a document holder, an opening/closing sensor which provides an output of a first level when the document holder is open by an angle equal to or more than a predetermined angle, and a storage unit which stores an adjustment value. Where a return is made from a power saving mode to an active mode, when an output level of the opening/closing sensor is the first level, the reading controller makes a setting for an operation of the data generating circuit unit based on the adjustment value stored in the storage unit, and then makes the reading unit perform reading for document size detection.
US11277533B2
An image reading apparatus includes a rotatable feeding member, an image portion, a feeding guide, a first driven rolling member, and a second driven rolling member. The first driven rolling member and a second driven rolling member provided downstream of the first driven rolling member with respect to a sheet feeding direction are provided in overlapping directions as seen in an axial direction of the rotatable feeding member and are provided in non-overlapping directions as seen in the sheet feeding direction.
US11277528B2
A mobile type apparatus, that derives, from a distance to a delivery target and a time period required from a start of forming of an image until completion of discharge, a movement speed at which a recording medium becomes a deliverable state at a position at which the recording medium is deliverable to the delivery target, wherein at least a partial period overlaps between a period from a start of forming of the image on the recording medium until completion of discharge of the recording medium, and a period from a start of movement until completion of the movement, and wherein the movement is controlled in accordance with the derived movement speed.
US11277527B2
According to some embodiments, a system includes an apparatus, a server, and a terminal. The terminal obtains an identifier of an application executed on the terminal, and transmits the obtained identifier of the application to the server. The server includes a storage storing an identifier of an application and information indicating a predetermined process in association with each other, wherein the predetermined process is a process using a function included in the apparatus. The server receives the transmitted identifier of the application from the terminal, and transmits the information indicating the predetermined process which is associated with the received identifier of the application to the apparatus. The apparatus receives the transmitted information indicating the predetermined process from the server, and executes the predetermined process corresponding to the received information indicating the predetermined process.
US11277526B2
Systems and apparatus for sensing and video capture include at least one camera with an optical sensor that captures video image data of a first sampling rate. An auxiliary sensor captures auxiliary data at a second sample rate. A processor is communicatively connected to the optical sensor and auxiliary sensor. The processor transmits video image data captured at the first sample rate auxiliary sensor data captured at the second sampling rate across a data connection to a centralized computer that receives the video image data and the auxiliary sensor data and operate to present the video image data and the auxiliary sensor data on a graphical display.
US11277518B2
The disclosed teleconferencing methods involve detecting a howl state during a teleconference which involves two or more teleconference client locations and a teleconference server. The teleconference server is configured for providing full-duplex audio connectivity between the teleconference client locations. The howl state is a state of acoustic feedback involving two or more teleconference devices in a teleconference client location. Detecting the howl state involves an analysis of both spectral and temporal characteristics of teleconference audio data. The disclosed teleconferencing methods involve determining which client location is causing the howl state and involve mitigating the howl state or sending a howl state detection message.
US11277516B2
Systems and methods include identifying sets of communications using AB testing based on a difference in metadata values between the sets for a first type of metadata, determining at least one similarity between communications in a first set based on metadata values of a second type of metadata, determining at least one similarity between the communications in the second set based on metadata values of the second type of metadata or a third type of metadata, comparing the at least one similarity from the first set to the at least one similarity of the second set to identify differences in metadata values or types of metadata, and determining, based on the differences, a suggested action for an agent for a future communication with respect to at least one of a desired script, a target phrase, or a desired acoustic characteristic.
US11277515B2
The present invention allows a CEC system to automatedly, and without human intervention, identify interactions that are likely in need of supervisor intervention. The system reviews all incoming and outgoing interactions for analysis by a metadata analytics service (MAS) software module. The MAS analyzes the interactions to generate interaction metadata, which is used by an interaction analysis engine (IAE) to score the quality of the interaction. If the quality of the interaction is not sufficient, the system marks the interaction as being a problem interaction and notifies a supervisor of the interaction. This ensures the intelligent and dynamic determination of interactions that require additional assistance and assures notification to a supervisor.
US11277511B2
A system and method for incoming and outgoing electronic messages with inmates includes a database including user records having user profiles and inmate profiles, and action event records. The system and method are programmed to associate at least one inmate account number with a specific SIM card or phone number, detect the triggering event, trigger the action event to be performed based on the triggering event, perform the action event data based on the action event. The action event data includes determining whether the user profile is a current user or a new user, receiving at least one inmate account number associated with the message, processing the message according to predetermined criteria, upon determining that the user profile is a current user pairing the message with the at least one inmate account number, and sending the message to the at least one inmate account number.
US11277510B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing prevention of foreign initiated fraudulent or unauthorized use of calling service. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a first user device associated with an originating party, a request to access a first account of a calling system and an access code. Based on a determination that the received access code is valid, the computing system might determine whether the first user device associated with the originating party is located in a foreign country. If so, the computing system might determine whether a database contains a configurable flag indicating that international access is not allowed for the first account. If so, the computing system might initiate one or more first actions. If not, the computing system might provide the first user device with access to the first account of the calling system.
US11277505B2
The present disclosure provides a foldable camera module and a mobile terminal including the same. The foldable camera module includes: a camera body housed in a groove on an outer surface of the mobile terminal; a flexible connecting line, an end of which is connected to the camera body; and a fixing member connected to the flexible connecting line and configured to fix the camera body. The camera body can be folded away from the groove in a predetermined direction by the flexible connecting line and fixed to a predetermined position by the fixing member. Therefore, shooting with different angles can be achieved with only one camera.
US11277492B2
A mobile universal device operator (MUDO) operates at least one device and includes a seamless interaction manager and an appliance manager. The seamless interaction manager transmits a resource discovery requests to a gateway over a local network and to a cloud server over an external network. The gateway stores a local resource directory listing at least one resource of each device and the cloud server stores an associated cloud resource directory. The manager receives responses from the resource directories, selects a local command path or a cloud command path and associates the selected command path with each discovered resource. The appliance manager transfers instructions received from a user about a selected resource to the seamless interaction manager. The interaction manager translates the instructions into a unified command to the selected discovered resource via its associated command path.
US11277488B2
An edge computing system comprises an application store, an edge server and a cloud computing system comprising a backend server. The edge server is configured to receive an application from the application store with additional information defining capabilities of the edge server that are required for the application to run on the edge server and/or capabilities of devices connected to the edge server. The edge server determines whether the application can run, and indicates the result to the application store. The edge server keeps a record of applications that can start to run and/or continue to run, when the edge server is or becomes disconnected from the cloud computing system. The application store keeps records of successful application downloads, and of edge servers that indicated they could not run applications.
US11277487B2
A method for utilizing a proxy server interface includes measuring at least one of physiological or neurological functions of a subject by a hardware sensor in a measurement system, the hardware sensor configured to generate a signal containing information of the at least one of physiological or neurological functions, manipulating the signal by a processor, the measurement system including a first memory configured to store the manipulated signal, outputting the signal to the proxy server interface, the proxy server interface configured to buffer the signal in a second memory, and polling the proxy server interface for the buffered signal by an Internet browser. Outputting the signal to the proxy server interface and polling the proxy server interface for the buffered signal occurs asynchronously.
US11277483B2
Systems and methods for assessing user activity using dynamic windowed forecasting on historical usage. The system includes a server including an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from a network server hosting at least one application for a plurality of users, a data stream including a plurality of historical activity indicators for the plurality of users, the plurality of historical activity indicators including a plurality of unique user identifiers and a plurality of timestamps. The electronic processor is configured to group the plurality of historical activity indicators into a plurality of historical windowed data points based on the plurality of timestamps. The electronic processor is configured to determine a forecasted quantity of users for a forecast time window based on the data points and the plurality of unique user identifiers. The electronic processor is configured to transmit the forecasted quantity of users to a user device.
US11277477B2
Provided is an on-vehicle communication device that includes a vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle speed information on a vehicle capable of performing self-driving and/or current location information on the vehicle. The on-vehicle communication device also includes a self-driving level acquiring unit that acquires self-driving level information indicating a self-driving level of the vehicle. Further, the on-vehicle communication device includes a controller that determines whether to enable or disable a connection to a high-confidential communication channel based on the self-driving level information and the vehicle speed information and/or the current location information.
US11277471B2
Techniques are described for providing managed computer networks, such as for managed virtual computer networks overlaid on one or more other underlying computer networks. In some situations, the techniques include facilitating replication of a primary computing node that is actively participating in a managed computer network, such as by maintaining one or more other computing nodes in the managed computer network as replicas, and using such replica computing nodes in various manners. For example, a particular managed virtual computer network may span multiple broadcast domains of an underlying computer network, and a particular primary computing node and a corresponding remote replica computing node of the managed virtual computer network may be implemented in distinct broadcast domains of the underlying computer network, with the replica computing node being used to transparently replace the primary computing node in the virtual computer network if the primary computing node becomes unavailable.
US11277459B2
Visual content to be displayed on a display of a user device is received. Obfuscation data for obscuring the visual content is generated and the obscured visual content is displayed on the display. A request to stop obscuring the visual content is transmitted from the user device to a remote device, in response to a drag gesture detected at the user device. As the drag gesture is performed, the obfuscation data is modified to reduce a level of obfuscation applied to the visual content before the request has been accepted, so that the visual content remains obscured but with a lower level of obfuscation. If the request is subsequently accepted at the remote device, the display is controlled to stop obscuring the visual content, thereby rendering the visual content fully visible on the display.
US11277453B2
Communication between a plurality of users on one or more media platforms is analyzed. A model of the communication that reflects trends of the communication is generated. Using the model, it is determined that a current communication between a first and second user of the media platform is relatively less efficient than a potential communication between the first user and a third user of the media platform. In response to determining that the current communication is relatively less efficient than the potential communication, the current communication is directed to the third person.
US11277448B2
A data transfer analysis system is disclosed that analyzes data transfer log entries to determine whether a data transfer is authorized. The system determines information about the data assets involved in the data transfer (e.g., network address, geographical location, etc.) and uses a data map to determine if data transfers are authorized between the two data assets. If not, the system may take one or more actions, such as generating a notification, terminating the data transfer, restricting the access of the user that initiated the transfer, modifying network communications capabilities between the assets to prevent future transfers, and storing metadata that can be used to prevent future such transfers.
US11277446B2
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for processing and managing information from a compliance and configuration control (“CCC”) tool and generating information for a security information and event management (“SIEM”) tool based on the information from the CCC tool. For example, in one exemplary embodiment, information from a CCC tool is transferred to a SIEM tool or logging tool by receiving the information from the CCC tool in a format that is not recognized by the SIEM tool or logging tool, and generating an output message in a message format that is recognized by the SIEM tool or logging tool. In particular embodiments, the message format is a customizable message format that is adaptable to multiple different SIEM tools or logging tools. In further embodiments, the data transferred to the SIEM tool comprises data indicative of compliance policy changes.
US11277444B2
Provided is a system-on-chip that may perform a message encryption operation based on a transport layer security (TLS) scheme. The system-on-chip may include an authentication unit configured for exchanging a key used for the message encryption operation and performing authentication for a subject to perform communication, an advanced encryption standard (AES) engine core configured for performing a function of encrypting a message using a key or decrypting the encrypted message and a function of encrypting the key or decrypting the encrypted key, and a controller configured for controlling the AES engine core and the authentication unit based on a real time operating system (RTOS) and firmware for performing the message encryption operation.
US11277435B2
Techniques described herein improve database security by reducing network attack surface area in conjunction with deep input validation. In an embodiment, a database session receives one or more network packets sent via a network, the database session including a database session state that specifies one or more database privileges. The database session reads said one or more network packets into one or more request-packet-buffers, wherein said one or more request-packet-buffers include an RPC op code for a database operation. Based on the one or more database privileges associated with the user associated with the database session, the database session determines whether the RPC op code may be executed. In response to determining that the RPC op code may be executed by said database session, the RPC op code is executed. In response to determining that the op code may not be executed by said database session, the execution of the RPC op code is prevented.
US11277429B2
A technology solution for remediating a cyberattack risk in a computing resource asset in a network system. The technology solution includes monitoring data traffic directed to the computing resource asset in the network system along with data traffic to one or more additional computing resource assets in the network system, generating network utilization data based on the monitored data traffic to the computing resource asset and the monitored data traffic to the one or more additional computing resource assets in the network system, receiving a common vulnerability score (CVSS) for a vulnerability in the computing resource asset, determining a network traffic adjustment (NTA) value for the common vulnerability score (CVSS) based on the network utilization data, adjusting the common vulnerability score (CVSS) by the network traffic adjustment (NTA) value to generate a prioritized common vulnerability score (PCVSS) for the computing resource asset, and remediating the computing resource asset to resolve the vulnerability based on the prioritized common vulnerability (PCVSS) score.
US11277416B2
An enterprise security system is improved by instrumenting endpoints to explicitly label network flows according to sources of network traffic. When a network message from an endpoint is received at a gateway, firewall, or other network device/service, the network message may be examined to determine the application on the endpoint that originated the request, and this source information may be used to control routing or other handling of the network message.
US11277407B2
Examples described relate to disabling of MAC address aging time for an IoT device on a network switch. In an example, in response to a device joining a network, a network switch in the network may determine a media access control (MAC) address of the device. The network switch may then send the MAC address to an authentication server. In response, the network switch may receive a Vendor Specific Attribute (VSA) associated with the MAC address from the authentication server. The VSA indicates that the MAC address relates to an IoT device. Based on the VSA, the network switch may recognize the MAC address of the device as a MAC address of the IoT device. In response to recognizing, the network switch may disable MAC address aging time for the MAC address of the IoT device on the network switch.
US11277404B2
A resource server verifies a first token received from a client terminal, performs processing to provide a second token used to access a stream reception system in accordance with a verification result, and obtains data held by a stream reception system and to perform processing using the data, and the client terminal transmits a request for the second token to the resource server by using the first token, and transmits data to be held by the stream reception system by using the second token obtained as a response to the request, and the client terminal transmits the data by including the first token in the data when the data is to be transmitted, and the resource server specifies the client terminal based on the information associated with the first token included in the data.
US11277403B2
Since such service providing systems are constructed through cooperation among cloud computers, communication networks, and device provides, they cannot be constructed easily. An interface module is provided, the interface module being configured to be disconnectably connected to an application module having at least one of a sensor, an actuator, an input port, an output port, an input/output port, and a user interface, and including: an interface module-side communication connector configured to be disconnectably connected to a communication connector provided to the application module; a network interface configured to be connected to a network; and a verification information storage unit that stores verification information for verifying the interface module connected to the network as an interface module for a preset particular tenant among a plurality of tenants of a server computing system configured to be connected to the network.
US11277398B2
A system includes a first computer system (FCS) configured to receive an authentication request of a user with respect to the first authentication system (FAS), and communicate an unsuccessful authentication attempt. In response, a bridge computer system (BCS), is configured to request a user ID and receive at least the user ID; identify an address of a second computer system (SCS) based on the user ID; and initiate the second authentication system (SAS) using the address. The SCS, if the user has been successfully authenticated with respect to the SAS, is configured to communicate successful authentication to the BCS; and in response, the BCS is configured to send the FAS a confirmation message, and the FCS is configured to treat the user as authenticated.
US11277396B2
The present invention relates to a method for authorization management in a community (106) of connected objects (103, 104, 105), a master object being determined in said community, the method comprising: receipt, by the master object (102), of a request (110, 123, 130) to carry out an action concerning: the community (106) of connected objects (103, 104, 105) or an internal object of the community (106), the internal object being distinct from the master object (102); receipt (119, 124, 137) of a list of attributes (101), by an authentication server (107) that is distinct from the master object (102); after the list of attributes is verified by the authentication server (107) and a capability of the requesting object (101) is determined based on said list of attributes, receipt (201, 211, 221) by the master object (102) of an authentication token comprising said capability; transfer (202, 212, 222) of said authentication token to said requesting object (101).
US11277395B2
The CLOUD-AUTHENTICATED SITE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DEVICES, APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CASRM”) transforms resource-use, weather, and user settings inputs into resource management schedule and control outputs. The CASRM achieves data transformation via using a building automation management device, comprising at least a processor a memory storing processor-executable instructions to receive, at a virtual cloud network controller, a data packet from a source building resource control device and to access a virtual routing table corresponding to a local virtual network associated with a control entity. The building automation management device may also determine a destination building resource control device based on the virtual routing table and at least one destination address in the data packet, and may send the data packet to the destination building resource control device.
US11277386B2
Systems and method for method for increasing security in online transfers by maintaining anonymity of transferors are described herein. In an embodiment, a label tracking system receives a request to generate labels for an account of an account holder. The system generates a plurality of labels in response to the request and send the plurality of labels to an account computing device which stores a mapping of labels to identification information. The system receives an allocation request from the account computing device and stores allocations for each of the generated labels. When the system receives a request to perform a transfer between two labels, without changing any items within the account and without receiving identification information corresponding to the labels, the system updates the labels by decrementing an amount allocated to the transferor label and incrementing an amount allocated to the transferee label.
US11277384B2
Systems and methods for implementing filters within computer networks include obtaining blocklist data that includes blocklist entries for a network. Each of the blocklist entries includes one or more network traffic attributes for identifying traffic to be blocked. In response to receiving the blocklist data, a filter based on a common network traffic attribute shared between at least two of the plurality of blocklist entries is generated. The filter is then deployed to a network device within the network such that the filter may be implemented at the network device to block corresponding traffic.
US11277383B2
Cloud-based Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) include receiving traffic associated with a user of a plurality of users, wherein each user is associated with a customer of a plurality of customers for a cloud-based security system, and wherein the traffic is between the user and the Internet; analyzing the traffic based on a set of signatures including stream-based signatures and security patterns; blocking the traffic responsive to a match of a signature of the set of signatures; and performing one or more of providing an alert based on the blocking and updating a log based on the blocking.
US11277379B2
Techniques are provided for modifying a list of Traversal Using Relays around Network Address Translators (TURN) servers within a host application. A custom-modified browser is configured to add and/or remove TURN servers underneath a variety of host applications, including, for example, JavaScript WebRTC applications. In some cases, certain applications are permitted and/or denied use of certain TURN servers, based on local administrative policy. In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, a host application can be configured or otherwise modified to use certain TURN servers on certain networks, for example, to prevent traffic from using a TURN server outside a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) region.
US11277368B1
The present invention relates to a messaging system configured to: receive a request to generate a message at a first client device; cause display of a message notification within an interface of a second client device, wherein the message was addressed to a recipient of the second client device; receive a request to un-send the message from the first client device; and remove the message notification from the interface at the second client device in response to the request to un-send the message, according to some example embodiments.
US11277362B2
The present disclosure relates to delaying content from being sent when it is determined to be inappropriate. Inappropriate content may be determined by keywords within the content, speed at which the content is entered in, facial expression of a sender who is entering in the content or the like. A sent message confirming that the content has been delivered to a receiver device may be provided to a sender device when the content has been held. This may provide a cool down period for the sender. After a period of time, the content may be provided back to the sender indicating that the content has not been sent. If approved or revised, the content may be sent to the receiver device. Otherwise, sending the content may be cancelled.
US11277359B2
An embodiment may involve persistent storage containing a predefined token and application state. The embodiment may also involve an application configured to communicate with a message bot and perform operations including: (i) receiving, by way of an interface associated with a unit of program code and from the message bot, a command, wherein the command identifies a bot token and a user of a chat session in which the message bot is engaged; (ii) verifying, by the unit of program code, that the bot token matches the predefined token; (iii) verifying, by the unit of program code, that the user is authorized to use the command; (iv) writing, to the persistent storage, an update to the application state, wherein the update is based on the command; and (v) transmitting, by way the interface and to the message bot, a response confirming that the command has been performed.
US11277354B2
The disclosure relates to a method, network node and service instance, the method being executed by a service provider, for optimizing resource allocation according to the needs of at least one client and according to an SLA between the client and the service provider. The method comprises obtaining a statistical behavior of a workload forecast function associated with a service of the client, obtaining a forecast value for a future workload from the workload forecast function associated with the service of the client, obtaining at least one service-level objective associated with the SLA between the client and the service provider, obtaining a modified forecast value based on the forecast value, the statistical behavior of the workload forecast function and service-level objective associated with the SLA, and adjusting resources allocated to the service based on the modified forecast thereby optimizing resource allocation for the at least one client.
US11277351B2
An electronic device (such as an access point or an eNodeB) that selectively provides prioritized communication is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive one or more packets or frames from a second electronic device using a communication protocol. Then, the electronic device may determine device-specific information based at least in part on a device profile associated with the communication protocol and/or a communication history of the second electronic device. Next, based on the determined device-specific information, the electronic device may assign additional data traffic associated with the second electronic device to a queue in a set of queues, where queues in the set of queues have different priorities, and where the queue provides a predefined latency of communication with the second electronic device corresponding to a priority of the queue.
US11277347B2
Inference server and environment control device for inferring an optimal wireless data transfer rate
Inference server and computing device for inferring an optimal wireless data transfer rate. The computing device determines parameters of a data transfer through a wireless communication interface of the computing device, and transmits the parameters of the data transfer to the inference server. The inference server receives the parameters of the data transfer, executes a neural network inference engine using a predictive model (generated by a neural network training engine) for inferring an optimal data transfer rate based on the parameters of the data transfer, and transmits the optimal data transfer rate to the computing device. The computing device receives the optimal data transfer rate, and configures its wireless communication interface to operate at the optimal data transfer rate. For example, the computing device consists of an environment control device (e.g. an environment controller, a sensor, a controlled appliance, and a relay).
US11277344B2
Systems, methods, computing platforms, and storage media for administering a distributed edge computing system utilizing an adaptive edge engine based on a finite state machine behavioral model are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: select a first workload from one or more workloads; access, for the selected workload, one or more location optimization strategies from a plurality of location optimization strategies; and optimize an objective function across a portion of the one or more endpoints; select one or more endpoints; deploy the workload on at least one selected endpoint; monitor the health of the endpoint-workload deployment; and direct network traffic to the appropriate endpoint.
US11277334B2
The same prefix segment identifier (SID) may be configured and/or used for either (A) more than one prefix within an interior gateway protocol (IGP) domain, or (B) one prefix with more than one path computation algorithm within the IGP domain by: (a) receiving, by a node in the IGP domain, an IGP advertisement including both (1) a prefix SID and a segment routing global block (SRGB) slice identifier; (b) determining whether or not the SRGB slice identified by the SRGB slice identifier is provisioned on the node; and (c) responsive to a determination that the SRGB slice identified by the SRGB slice identifier is not provisioned on the node, not processing the prefix SID included in the received IGP advertisement, and otherwise responsive to a determination that the SRGB slice identified by the SRGB slice identifier is provisioned on the node, (1) processing the prefix SID and SRGB slice to generate a unique, per SRGB slice, MPLS label for the prefix, and (2) updating a label forwarding information base (LFIB) for the node using the unique, per SRGB slice, label for the prefix and the prefix.
US11277329B2
A network node (N1) for handling IGP flooding topology (FT) inconsistency by obtaining a new FT and setting a FT flag field (FT field) in a data packet (DP) to indicate whether a link between N1 and a second node (N2) is on the new FT. N1 transmits the DP to N2. N1 receives a second DP from N2 that includes the FT field set by N2 to indicate whether the link between the network node and N2 is on the new FT as determined by N2. N1 sets a FT inconsistency field in a link state packet to indicate an inconsistency in the new FT when the FT field set by N2 and the FT field set by N1 are different for a given time. N1 distributes the LS to at least one node in the network.
US11277328B1
An autonomous system border router (ASBR) provided in a domain in which routers share an anycast address, may perform a method comprising: (a) receiving, from an exterior Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) peer, first reachability information for a first prefix, the first reachability information including a first next hop (NH) address; (b) communicating first link state information about the first prefix to another router in the domain, the first link state information associating the first prefix with the anycast address; (c) receiving, from an eBGP peer, second reachability information for a second prefix, the second reachability information including a second next hop (NH) address; and (d) communicating second link state information about the second prefix to the other router in the domain, the second link state information associating the second prefix with the anycast address. This effectively reduces the number of next hops related to a prefix learned by two or more ASBRs (e.g., one or more spine routers in a Clos of an aggregate spine) via eBGP, stored as forwarding information on a non-ASBR in an IGP domain (e.g., on a leaf node in a Clos of an aggregate spine).
US11277327B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining recommendations for actions based on analysis of a device. The method includes retrieving information associated with a device from one or more databases. The method further includes determining information relevant to device performance as a function of an analysis of the retrieved information associated with the device, where the information relevant to device performance includes one or more factors related to an expected device performance. The method further includes determining a frequency of repair and replacement of one or more components of the device. The method further includes determining a recommendation of an action based on a comparison of an expected frequency of replacement and repair of the components of the device to the determined replacement and repair of the components of the device.
US11277324B2
Embodiments of this application relate to a policy determining method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a policy control network element, policy information from a data analytics network element; and determining, by the policy control network element, an execution policy of a service based on the policy information. In the policy determining method in the embodiments of this application, dynamic adjustment and refined management on the execution policy can be implemented.
US11277313B2
This application provides example data transmission methods and corresponding example devices. One example method includes sending, by a first device, a first packet to a second device, where the first packet includes transmission policy negotiation information, and where the transmission policy negotiation information is used to negotiate a transmission policy used when the second device uses a multipath connection. The first device can then receive a second packet from the second device, where the second packet includes first policy information, and where the first policy information indicates a transmission policy used when the second device uses the multipath connection. The first device can then transmit data with the second device based on the first policy information by using a transmission policy corresponding to the first policy information.
US11277310B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a plurality of policies to be implemented within a system, aggregating the plurality of policies to create an aggregated policy, disseminating the aggregated policy within the system, receiving data collected according to the aggregated policy, and disaggregating the data.
US11277306B2
A network function information management method, where the method includes: obtaining, by a management network element, identification information of a network repository function (NRF) instance, where the NRF instance stores information about a network function (NF) instance, and the identification information is used to indicate the NRF instance associated with the NF instance; and sending, by the management network element, a first message to the NF instance or a management unit of the NF instance, where the first message includes the identification information of the NRF instance; or establishing, by the management network element, an association relationship between the NF instance and the NRF instance based on the identification information of the NRF instance. The method helps the NF instance register with the NRF instance, update the information about the NF instance to the NRF instance, or query information about another NF instance from the NRF instance.
US11277304B1
Systems and methods for a wireless data protocol are disclosed. For example, a sending device may generate data packets to be sent to a receiving device. The sending device may also generate packet representations to append to the data packets. For example, for a given packet, a representation of two other packets may be generated, such as by utilizing an exclusive or logical operation, and added to the content portion of the given packet. These packets may be sent to the receiving device, which may utilize the packet representations to reconstruct lost packets.
US11277301B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit downlink control information that may comprise an indication for an uplink beam management procedure or a downlink beam failure recovery procedure. A wireless device may receive the downlink control information and determine a type of procedure to perform based on the indication.
US11277295B2
An example of the present specification proposes a technique for decoding a plurality of wireless signals having different characteristics. For example, the plurality of wireless signals may have different CP lengths, be received in different frequency bands, or be configured by different channels. An example of the present specification proposes an example of performing of decoding by using a plurality of reception windows on the basis of a specific wireless signal. Another example of the present specification proposes an example of a proposal of feedback information to a transmission UE on the basis of a specific wireless signal.
US11277292B2
Provided is a received signal processing method. The method includes: determining a range of symbol data in a received signal in a time domain; conducting signal integrity evaluation on the received signal within the range of the symbol data; and extracting signal data from the range of the symbol data according to a result of the signal integrity evaluation. Also provided is an apparatus, receiving device and storage medium.
US11277281B2
Provided are a provider edge (PE) device and a method for Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN). A first PE device performs label assignment procedure with a second PE device such that the first and second PE devices share an Ethernet segment identifier (ESI)-excluded label and know a correspondence between the ESI-excluded label and a label combination of an ESI label and a VPN label. The first PE device encapsulates a packet of broadcast, unknown unicast or multicast (BUM) traffic, with the ESI-excluded label instead of the label combination. The first PE device sends the encapsulated packet to the second PE device.
US11277280B2
Methods, systems, and devices for Content-Centric Networking (CCN) are described. In some cases, a node may receive a CCN packet from an upstream node and communicate the CCN packet to one or more downstream nodes (e.g., that previously requested the CCN packet). In a first case, the node may establish a persistent internet protocol (IP) tunnel with the downstream node and communicate the CCN packet to the downstream node by the persistent IP tunnel. Here, a cable modem between the node and the downstream node may not decode the CCN packet. In a second case, the node may append an identifier to the CCN packet prior to communicating the CCN packet to the one or more downstream nodes. Here, the identifier may indicate to the downstream nodes which CCN packets are relevant to the downstream node.
US11277275B2
A computer implemented method for ranking devices according to compatibility with a collaboration service includes receiving a set of collaboration information and a set of device information, wherein the collaboration information includes a service through which the collaboration is available and the set of device information corresponds to one or more registered devices, determining contextual information corresponding to the collaboration, wherein the contextual information includes minimum device requirements for participation in the collaboration, calculating compatibility metrics for one or more participant devices according to the received set of device information and the determined contextual information corresponding to the collaboration, ranking the one or more registered devices according to the calculated compatibility metrics, and enabling a device to access the collaboration according to the device rankings.
US11277274B2
A computer implemented method for ranking devices according to compatibility with a collaboration service includes receiving a set of collaboration information and a set of device information, wherein the collaboration information includes a service through which the collaboration is available and the set of device information corresponds to one or more registered devices, determining contextual information corresponding to the collaboration, wherein the contextual information includes minimum device requirements for participation in the collaboration, calculating compatibility metrics for one or more participant devices according to the received set of device information and the determined contextual information corresponding to the collaboration, ranking the one or more registered devices according to the calculated compatibility metrics, and enabling a device to access the collaboration according to the device rankings.
US11277266B1
A process for rendering a user interface of a web portal providing access to content of a content management system (CMS) includes: providing, from a client system of the CMS, the user interface for rendering through a browser of a user device; receiving, by the client system from the user device via the user interface, a request for a content asset; sharing a server secret between the CMS and an edge node; using, by the CMS, the server secret to generate a signing key, transmitted to the client system, wherein the client system uses the signing key to generate a signed URL for the content asset, the user device being redirected to the signed URL; responsive to receiving and successful validation of the signed URL by the edge node, then providing the content asset from the edge node to the user device for presentation through the user interface.
US11277263B2
A method for accessing customer data includes receiving an access request requesting access to customer data stored on a storage abstraction. The access request includes a justification that specifies a purpose/reason for requesting access to the customer data. The method also includes validating the justification, and after validating the justification, transmitting the justification to an external key management service associated with a customer of the customer data. The external key management service is configured to grant or deny access to the customer data based on the justification. The method also includes receiving an approved access token from the external key management service when the external key management service grants access to the customer data and accessing the customer data stored on the storage abstraction using the approved access token received from the external key management service.
US11277258B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and media for privacy-protected user recognition. One of the methods comprising obtaining a biometric feature of a first user; performing homomorphic encryption on the biometric feature of the first user to obtain a first ciphertext feature; determining a candidate ciphertext feature from a predetermined ciphertext feature set based on the first ciphertext feature and a predetermined graph structure index, wherein the predetermined ciphertext feature set comprises a plurality of second ciphertext features obtained by performing the homomorphic encryption of a plurality of second biometric features of multiple second users, and wherein the predetermined graph structure index is generated based on similarity among at least some of the plurality of second ciphertext features in the predetermined ciphertext feature set; and determining a recognition result for the first user based on the candidate ciphertext feature.
US11277249B2
An assessment tool for assessing signaling ingress and small cell placement within a communication network is contemplated. The assessment tool may include capability sufficient for assessing signaling ingress associated with radio frequency (RF) signaling attenuating, influencing or otherwise interfering with other signaling being transmitted over a communication network.
US11277241B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for wireless communications. A transmission timing difference between a first cell group and a second cell group may be determined. If the transmission timing difference exceeds a threshold, one or more devices may stop transmitting uplink signals via one or more secondary cells and/or may not apply the timing adjustment for a cell group.
US11277238B2
Provided are phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) configuration, determination and information feedback methods and devices. The PTRS configuration method includes: transmitting, by a first node, the control information to a second node, where the control information is used for indicating a configuration parameter of the PTRS to the second node and the PTRS is transmitted by the first node or the second node. The second node determines the configuration parameter of the PTRS through the control information transmitted by the first node and/or an agreed implicit rule. A third node transmits control information to a fourth node, where the control information is used for feeding received power or quality information of the PTRS back to the fourth node.
US11277237B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a first terminal transmits a side link signal to a second terminal in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method for transmitting a side link signal comprises the steps of: transmitting, in a first number of transmission time units, a control signal, which includes resource allocation information of a data signal, and a first reference signal for the control signal; and transmitting, in a second number of transmission time units, the data signal and a second reference signal for the data signal, wherein the transmission time units have two or more symbols, the first reference signal is transmitted in fixed symbol indexes irrespective of the first number of transmission time units, and symbol indexes in which the second reference signal is transmitted are determined on the basis of the second number of transmission time units.
US11277236B2
Disclosed are a method for mutually transmitting or receiving a downlink signal by a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting the same. More particularly, disclosed are a method for transmitting or receiving a signal and a device for supporting the same, in which when a subcarrier interval rapidly changes in a continuous time area, such as a multi-media broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN), a receiver can more reliably receive a signal (for example: a data signal) transmitted in a resource area where the subcarrier interval has rapidly changed.
US11277232B2
Methods and devices, particularly radio base station and communication terminal, for controlling a feedback process in a communication between nodes of a communication system, comprising selectively employing one or both of a first feedback process which provides fast feedback and a second feedback process which provides reliable feedback, wherein the first and second feedback processes operate at least partly on the same transmission buffers or queues.
US11277231B2
This application discloses an information processing method, an apparatus, a communication device, and a communication system. The communication device is configured to determine a redundancy version transmission sequence, where the redundancy version transmission sequence is used to indicate a sending sequence of a plurality of redundancy versions; determine a transmission number; and obtain a redundancy version from a buffer sequence based on the redundancy version transmission sequence and the transmission number and send the redundancy version. The communication device may be applied to a communication system supporting a plurality of redundancy version transmission sequences, for example, a 5th generation (5G) communication system. Because the redundancy version transmission sequence is determined before data transmission, communication efficiency is improved, and HARQ performance is improved.
US11277229B2
A method and apparatus for flushing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) buffer in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives information on multiple resource pools from a network, selects a first resource pool among the multiple resource pools, and stores a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) in the HARQ buffer for transmission via the first resource pool. When the UE reselects a second resource pool among the multiple resource pools, the UE flushes the HARQ buffer.
US11277214B2
A synthetic reception strength value in a case of synthesizing indirect waves of radio waves generated due to an obstruction is calculated for each piece of receive antenna coordinate information in consideration of a phase of each indirect wave. Relation information indicating relation between input information and teaching information is generated. The input information is the synthetic reception strength value for each piece of the receive antenna coordinate information corresponding to transmit antenna coordinate information. The teaching information is information indicating a reception state of the radio waves being calculated using a method of actually measuring the radio waves output by the transmit antenna at a position of a receive antenna or a method other than the method of the actual measurement. Strength of the radio waves is estimated by calculating the information indicating the reception state of the radio waves by using the transmit antenna coordinate information for evaluation and the generated relation information.
US11277204B2
A packaged integrated white light source configured for illumination and communication or sensing comprises one or more laser diode devices. An output facet configured on the laser diode device outputs a laser beam of first electromagnetic radiation with a first peak wavelength. The first wavelength from the laser diode provides at least a first carrier channel for a data or sensing signal.
US11277182B2
The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a hybrid beam forming architecture-based calibration compensation method and apparatus for improving the accuracy and effectiveness of calibration compensation. The method comprises: a base station determining a preset calibration weight vector matrix W and a preset first calibration signal matrix S, then transmitting N times consecutively calibration signals through analog transmission channels, calculating, according to the calibration weight vector matrix W, the first calibration signal matrix S and a first received data vector matrix YTX, a transmission channel error matrix ETX, and then performing error compensation on the analog transmission channels based on ETX.
US11277181B2
This application provides a beam training method and apparatus. The method includes: generating and sending a set up frame, where the set up frame includes M pieces of time information, each piece of time information corresponds to one receiving device in the M receiving devices, each piece of time information is used to indicate a feedback information sending moment of the corresponding receiving device, each piece of time information is further used to indicate an acknowledgment information receiving moment of the corresponding receiving device; receiving a sector sweep SSW frame, generating feedback information based on the SSW frame; sending the feedback information at a feedback information sending moment indicated by corresponding time information; receiving, at an acknowledgment information receiving moment indicated by the corresponding time information, acknowledgment information. Therefore, a training time can be shortened and signaling overheads can be reduced.
US11277177B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a wireless communication method is disclosed for indicating a mapping between a set of reference signals and data streams so that a reference signal can be transmitted by one or more of multiple network nodes based on the mapping. The disclosed embodiments provide mapping and additional rules.
US11277176B2
This application provides an example communication method and apparatus. The communication method is performed in a communications system, where N antenna ports are configured for the terminal device, N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, the N antenna ports correspond to T antenna port combination modes, each antenna port combination mode corresponds to M antenna ports in the N antenna ports, and each antenna port combination mode set includes at least one antenna port combination mode. The communication method includes receiving, by the network device, first indication information from the terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a first antenna port combination mode set. The method also includes determining, by the network device, K antenna ports in the N antenna ports based on the first antenna port combination mode set and sending, by the network device, second indication information to the terminal device.
US11277159B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates receiving electromagnetic waves having polarized modes propagating along a transmission medium, detecting according to an analysis of the electromagnetic waves that the transmission medium is birefringent thereby causing a differential delay between the polarized modes, and adjusting a configuration of a receiver receiving the electromagnetic waves to mitigate the differential delay between the polarized modes. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11277149B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to bit string compression are described. A method for bit string compression can include determining that a particular operation is to be performed using a bit string formatted according to a universal number format or a posit format to alter a bit width associated with the bit string from a first bit width to a second bit width and performing a compression operation on a bit string formatted according to a universal number format or a posit format to alter a bit width associated with the bit string from a first bit width to a second bit width. The method can further include writing the bit string having the second bit width to a first register, performing an arithmetic operation or a logical operation, or both using the bit string having the second bit string width, and monitoring a quantity of bits of a result of the operation.
US11277136B2
Structures and methods for the co-optimization of core (logic) devices and SRAM devices include a semiconductor device having a logic portion and a memory portion. In some embodiments, a logic device is disposed within the logic portion. In some cases, the logic device includes a single fin N-type FinFET and a single fin P-type FinFET. In some examples, a static random-access memory (SRAM) device is disposed within the memory portion. The SRAM device includes an N-well region disposed between two P-well regions, where the two P-well regions include an N-type FinFET pass gate (PG) transistor and an N-type FinFET pull-down (PD) transistor, and where the N-well region includes a P-type FinFET pull-up (PU) transistor.
US11277127B1
An improved gate driver using a microcontroller (uC), a voltage selector (VS), an adjustable voltage regulator (AVR), and an auxiliary current sinking circuit (ACSC) to actively provide selectable drive signals either higher, lower or equal to the basic on voltage and off voltage drive signals for a selected semiconductor device thereby providing an active voltage-mode gate driver for actively speeding up or slowing both the on time and off time transitions of a semiconductor.
US11277126B2
A switching device includes: a lower switching element, an upper switching element having a source connected to a drain of the lower switching element; a control circuit including a first output part that supplies a driving signal to the lower switching element; a Zener diode having a cathode connected to the first output part; a parallel capacitor connected to the Zener diode in parallel; a resistor connected between an anode of the Zener diode and a gate of the lower switching element; and a gate-side capacitor provided separate from a parasitic capacitance of the lower switching element, having a larger capacitance than the parasitic capacitance of the lower switching element, and connected, outside the lower switching element, between the gate and a source of the lower switching element. The capacitance of the gate-side capacitor is smaller than a capacitance of the parallel capacitor.
US11277125B2
A drive circuit drives driven switches connected in parallel with one another. The driven switches each include first, second main, and main control terminals. When a potential difference of the main control terminal with respect to the second main terminal becomes greater than or equal to a threshold voltage, the flow of current between the first and second main terminals is permitted. At least two driven switches have different threshold voltages. The drive circuit includes, for each driven switch, an electrical path electrically connecting the second main terminal or a negative voltage supply, which is at a negative voltage lower than the potential of the second main terminal, to the main control terminal. The impedance of each of the electrical paths is set so the potential difference increased by electric charge flowing into the electrical path through a parasitic capacitance of the driven switch becomes less than the threshold voltage.
US11277119B2
Embodiments of a digital step attenuator are disclosed. In an embodiment, a digital step attenuator includes a radio frequency (RF) input, an RF output, an attenuation circuit connected between the RF input and the RF output, a shunt switching circuit connected to the attenuator circuit, and a bypass switching circuit connected between the RF input and the RF output. The bypass switching circuit includes a first bypass transistor, and a second bypass transistor, wherein the first bypass transistor and the second bypass transistor are series connected to each other between the RF input and the RF output, and a bypass shunt transistor connected between the first bypass transistor and the second bypass transistor.
US11277113B2
A bulk-acoustic wave resonator includes: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; a piezoelectric layer disposed to cover at least a portion of the first electrode; a second electrode disposed to cover at least a portion of the piezoelectric layer; a metal pad connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; and a connection member connected an upper surface of the metal pad. A lower end portion of the connection member includes a tapered portion decreasing in a diameter in a direction toward a lower end of the connection member, and an angle between an inclined surface of the tapered portion and the upper surface of the metal pad is 45° to 80°.
US11277109B1
Methods and devices to improve the insertion loss at the LNA input of RF receivers are disclosed. The described methods and devices make use of the band switches in OFF state to improve the layout design, insertion loss and NF. Exemplary embodiments incorporating the disclosed concept are also presented.
US11277105B2
An audio device is adapted to receive and process a digital audio signal and output an analog audio signal. The audio device includes an adder, a digital-to-analog conversion circuit, an amplifying circuit, a voltage detecting circuit and an offset compensating circuit. The voltage detecting circuit detects a supply voltage received by the amplifying circuit. The offset compensating circuit generates a DC offset compensation value according to the supply voltage. The adder adds the digital audio signal and the DC offset compensation value to output an added signal. The digital-to-analog conversion circuit converts the added signal into a converted analog audio signal. The amplifying circuit amplifies the converted analog signal to output an amplified analog signal. Accordingly, the audio device can reduce pop noise caused by a DC offset.
US11277104B2
A dynamically stabilizable amplifier drives an output current into an RLC load. A driver stage generates the output current, and a control circuit compares a current level of the amplifier output with a threshold and selectively enables a stabilizing resistor (to selectively shunt the load or dampen in series with the load, depending on RLC load type) at the driver stage output based on the comparison so that the amplifier is stable across a range of the output current level. The control circuit disables the resistor when the output current is above the highest threshold and enables it when below. The control circuit may control the resistor to have one of multiple resistance values based on a comparison with multiple thresholds. The output current level may be determined by replicating the output current level or by an input current level that sets the output current level independent of the load.
US11277093B2
A switching device has a cover including: a hollow content area housing a plurality of connectors; one or more openings designed to allow passage of one or more conductors; and one or more reflective agents mounted on the cover such that changing a physical location of an entirety of the cover with respect to an enclosure of an electronic device changes a location of the one or more reflective agents. A sensor is configured to sense the one or more reflective agents and output an electrical signal depending on the location of the sensed one or more reflective agents mounted on the cover. The sensor is positioned outside of the hollow content area of the cover. A controller is configured to change a state of the electronic device according to the output electrical signal of the sensor. The cover is mounted on an exterior surface of the enclosure.
US11277090B1
A thermophotovoltaic generator uses conveniently available liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The fuels are controllably heated and vaporized before ignition to avoid residue and deposits as a result of liquid fuel being prematurely exposed to high temperatures of combustion causing unwanted breakdowns, producing power robbing residues and deposits. Heating fuel and air to right temperatures for ignition is accomplished by drawing combustion air over an exhaust chamber, through a regenerator and through a passage surrounding an IR filter. A separate cooling fan drives air through photovoltaic cell array fins over the recuperator and the exhaust in counterflow to the combustion air.
US11277088B1
For high frequency injection (HFI) transition disturbance elimination, a processor directs an HFI transition for a motor. The processor determines compensation pulse voltages for an HFI compensation pulse. The processor further injects a sum of the HFI compensation pulse and an HFI voltage into a current regulator voltage output signal for a compensation Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) cycle. The HFI compensation pulse settles an HFI current to a steady state.
US11277080B2
In a vibration type motor, a vibrator unit including a vibrator configured to vibrate, and a friction member unit including a friction member which the vibrator contacts relatively moving in a first direction. The vibrator unit is displaceable relative to the friction member unit in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and presses the vibrator against the friction member in the second direction. The friction member unit includes a stopper that contacts the vibrator unit so as to restrict the vibration unit from displacing, by an amount exceeding a predetermined amount, in the second direction. The stopper extends in the first direction, a distance greater than a length, in the first direction, of an area of the friction member which the vibrator contacts, and the stopper projects from the friction member toward the vibrator in the second direction when viewed from the first direction.
US11277075B2
An electric power system is provided that includes a three-phase to ten-phase step-up transformer. The transformer includes primary winding groupings, secondary windings, and third windings. The primary winding groupings include sub windings. Primary winding groupings are coupled to form a delta configuration and coupled to secondary windings and third windings, which may also be coupled to each other. The outputs at second ends of secondary windings and third windings are greater than the outputs at the second ends of primary windings. Diode pairs are connected to each other, each diode pair having an inner connection connected to one of the outputs of the transformer and first and second ends respectively connected to a positive dc bus and a negative dc bus. An inverter is connected to the d busses. The diode pairs operatively rectify the transformer output voltage to form a DC voltage with a reduced common mode voltage.
US11277073B2
Electronic circuitry and method of operating the same to shape and reduce the circulating current through the active clamp in a flyback converter and to harvest most of the leakage inductance energy to provide the bias power. Methodologies for minimizing the circulating energy in the clamp circuit in order to improve efficiency of operation of the same. A method for using a portion of the leakage inductance energy in order to create zero voltage switching conditions at the main primary switch.
US11277064B2
An overvoltage protection circuit configured to prevent an overvoltage of an output voltage of a switching converter, can include: an output voltage simulation circuit configured to generate an output voltage simulation signal according to circuit parameters of the switching converter, where the output voltage simulation signal changes along with the output voltage; and an overvoltage signal generator configured to activate an overvoltage signal when a feedback voltage is less than a first threshold value and the output voltage simulation signal is greater than a second threshold value.
US11277061B2
A high rotor pole switched reluctance machine (HRSRM) employs an axial and radial mirroring concept and is represented by a first Multiple Rotor Pole (MRP) formula and second Multiple Stator Pole (MSP) formula. A multiple rotor HRSRM comprises at least two rotors each having a plurality of rotor poles and at least two stators having a plurality of stator poles. The at least two rotors and the at least two stators are positioned about a central axis with the stator placed between the rotors. In other embodiments, the number of stators equals the number of rotors and effectively operate as a single stator and rotor. In yet another embodiment, the effective single stator and rotor type high rotor pole switched reluctance machine is realized as single stator and rotor positioned concentrically around a central axis.
US11277049B2
A fire-spread prevention member is interposed between an electrical component and a combustible member. The fire-spread prevention member includes a bent portion that is disposed outside an outer edge of the electrical component and bent to a side on which the electrical component is disposed. The fire-spread prevention member is made of non-combustible material.
US11277039B2
An electronic device performing communication with a powerless sensor is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless charging module configured to wirelessly transmit power to a powerless sensor; and a communication module configured to receive data that is sensed in the powerless sensor using the wirelessly transmitted power.
US11277031B1
A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information superimposed on an AC wireless signal. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, apply automatic bias control and gain control to generate modified electrical information, detect a change in the modified electrical information and determine if the change in the modified electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold. If the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, an alert is generated. Alerts are decoded into the electrical information.
US11277022B2
A power supply device includes: a high voltage power system including a high-voltage battery; a low voltage power system including a low-voltage battery of which an output voltage is lower than that of the high-voltage battery; a DCDC converter configured to step down an output voltage from the high-voltage battery and supply the stepped-down voltage to the low voltage power system; and a control unit configured to control a voltage to be supplied to the low voltage power system by the DCDC converter, based on a request from the low voltage power system and information representing a charge/discharge power of the high-voltage battery.
US11276992B2
A method for electrical wiring of electronic components in switchgear construction, the method comprising the steps: a. providing a plurality of electronic components which are mounted on a shared workpiece, in particular on a mounting plate; b. wiring the electronic components according to a predetermined circuit diagram and in a predetermined order by at least one robot, wherein a cable sequence of pre-assembled cables is fed to the at least one robot and the cables are arranged in the predetermined order in the cable sequence; wherein the wiring comprises gripping a free cable end of the cable sequence by a multifunctional end effector of the robot, feeding the free cable end to an electrical connection of one of the electronic components by the multifunctional end effector, and detaching the cable from the cable sequence by a separation unit of the multifunctional end effector.
US11276987B2
Vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) includes a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser including a gain layer configured to generate light, a distributed Bragg reflector disposed on a first surface of the gain layer, and a nanostructure reflector disposed on a second surface of the gain layer opposite from the first surface, the nanostructure reflector including a plurality of nanostructures having a sub-wavelength dimension, wherein the plurality of nanostructures include a plurality of anisotropic nanoelements and are configured to emit a circularly polarized laser light through the nanostructure reflector based on distributions and arrangement directions of the plurality of anisotropic nanoelementss.
US11276982B2
A doped fiber amplifier is proposed that includes both a Ho-doped amplifier (used as a preamplifier) and a Tm-doped amplifier (used as a power amplifier). The Ho-doped preamplifier typically uses a single clad (SC) optical fiber as the gain element, with both the propagating signal and pump beam introduced into the Ho-doped core of the SC fiber. The Tm-doped power amplifier typically utilizes a double clad (DC) optical fiber as the gain element, which allows for a multimode pump to propagate within the Tm-doped core region and inner cladding, providing efficient high power amplification of the signal received at its input.
US11276969B2
A bidirectional intermediate modular adapter (500) can be installed from the front or the rear of a mounting panel. The body (502) of the modular adapter includes a front face (504), an opposing rear face (506), an opening (210) extending from the front face through the body to the opposing rear face, a first side surface (512) and an opposing second side surface (514), a flexible top surface (508) and an opposing lower surface (510). The flexible top surface has flexible beams (518A, 518B) and landings (528A, 528B), which define a deformable opening (520), and a first groove (526). The landings may have ramps (522A, 522B) at the sides thereof. The opposing lower surface has a second groove (540) extending at least partially lengthwise across thereof. The bidirectional intermediate modular adapter is preferably made of a nonconductive material with a conductive plating thereon.
US11276960B2
A connector system includes a header assembly, a receptacle and a connector position assurance (CPA) device. The CPA device has features which prevent the longitudinal movement of the CPA device relative to the receptacle until the receptacle is inserted into the header assembly. The CPA device includes a housing which has arms supported at both ends for increased strength. The CPA device, when assembled with the receptacle, provides a low-profile assembly.
US11276955B2
A pluggable-modules holder for a plurality of pluggable-modules of a rack-mounted unit is disclosed. The pluggable-modules holder includes a holder body and a plurality of holder ports. Each of the holder ports extends through the holder body and is sized to hold a portion of a respective pluggable-module. The holder body can be configured to connect to a rack-mounted unit before and/or after the plurality of pluggable-modules can be inserted into the plurality of holder ports.
US11276952B1
Disclosed is a quick conductive connector device for Christmas trees, which includes a male connector assembly and a female connector assembly matched with the male connector assembly. The male connector assembly includes a male connector main body. The female connector assembly includes a female connector main body which is sleeved on the male connector main body in a 360-degree rotatable manner. The male connector main body and the female connector main body are plastic insulative parts. The male connector main body is provided with male connector conductive parts, each of which including a circular-ring-shaped annular contact part, and the female connector main body is provided with female connector conductive parts that are in contact with circumferential faces of the annular contact parts of the male connector conductive parts.
US11276948B2
An integrated insulator having a body adapted for placement in proximity to a module connector, and at least one fin extending from the body so as to extend through a connector slot on the module connector and reside in a gap between a pair of contacts when the integrated insulator is engaged with the module connector.
US11276943B2
An omni-directional antenna including a plurality of stacked omni-directional antenna core assemblies. Each antenna core assembly comprises a conductive ground plane defining an axis normal to the ground plane and a plurality of conductive plates projecting orthogonally from the conductive ground plane and angularly spaced about the axis. Each of the plates defines an edge extending radially outboard from the central axis and diverging away from the conductive ground plane as the radial distance increases from the central axis. The edge defines a first region defining an acute angle relative to the conductive ground plane and a second region, radially outboard of the first region defining an arcuate shape.
US11276941B2
A single polarized radiator comprising a plurality of planar notch radiating elements arranged on a dielectric substrate. Each notch radiating element comprises: a metallized region on a first side of the dielectric substrate extending across the width of the notch radiating element from a forward edge of the notch radiating element to a rear edge of the notch radiating element, a tuning element in the metallized region adjacent to a feeding point of the notch radiating element, a notch extending from the tuning element to the forward edge of the notch radiating element thereby creating a notch profile, and a plurality of indentations in the metallized region along each side of the notch to extend the length of the notch profile.
US11276935B2
A dipole antenna apparatus, and method of manufacture of such an apparatus, are provided. The antenna apparatus has a conductive plate extending in a first plane, and a pair of conductive elements arranged to form a dipole antenna, where the pair of conductive elements are located in a second plane parallel to the first plane. Each conductive element forms a conductive ring in the second plane that surrounds a non-conductive inner area. The first conductive element in the pair of conductive elements has a conductive bridge extending across the conductive ring to divide the non-conductive inner area into at least two portions. A conductive connection then extends from the conductive bridge to the conductive plate. As a result, in normal use the conductive plate acts as a reflector for the dipole antenna, but in the event of a direct current event the presence of the conductive bridge and the conductive connection causes the conductive plate to operate as a ground plane for direct current within the first conductive element of the dipole antenna. It has been found that such an approach provides a particularly efficient, low cost, design for a dipole antenna.
US11276932B2
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of antenna assemblies configured for reception of television signals, such as high definition television (HDTV) signals. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna assembly generally includes a VHF antenna element and a UHF antenna element. The VHF antenna element and the UHF antenna element may be parasitically coupled without a direct ohmic connection between the VHF antenna element and the UHF antenna element. The antenna assembly may be configured to be operable for receiving VHF and UHF high definition television signals without using a diplexer and a VHF balun.
US11276925B2
An information handling system comprising a processor, a memory, and a wireless adapter with a first and second antenna feed operatively connected to the wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality of wireless links and disposed on a circuit board having a trench through one or more metallic layers with a perimeter edge dimension extending from an outer edge of the circuit board into the circuit board where the first antenna feed mounted adjacent to a first side of the trench of the circuit board and operatively connected to a first antenna and the second antenna feed mounted adjacent to a second side of the trench of the circuit board opposite to the first side and the second antenna feed operatively connected to a second antenna.
US11276920B2
Provided is an antenna structure that can be attached with ease and is likely to blend into environments. An antenna structure 1 includes: plural antenna elements 10 configured individually and arranged discretely; and a base 60 which adheres to at least side surfaces of the antenna elements 10, in which the plural antenna elements 10 are embedded and fixed, and which forms a plate-like outer shape.
US11276918B2
Embodiments of wireless antenna array systems to achieve three-dimensional beam coverage are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11276901B2
The present disclosure relates to a separator for a lithium ion secondary battery and a battery comprising the separator. The separator supplements the irreversible capacity of a negative electrode. The separator comprises composite particles (A), and the composite particles (A) include a core portion comprising lithium composite metal oxide particles and a shell portion comprising a carbonaceous material with which the core surface is coated at least partially; the composite particles (A) cause lithium deintercalation at 0.1 V to 2.5 V (vs. Li+/Li); the battery has a positive electrode potential of 3 V or more (vs. Li+/Li); and the battery has a driving voltage of 2.5 V to 4.5 V.
US11276896B2
A cap assembly of a power battery comprises: a cap plate, a first electrode terminal provided to the cap plate, and a resistance member electrically connected to the cap plate and the first electrode terminal. The resistance member comprises: a heat-resistant insulating base body positioned between the cap plate and the first electrode terminal; and a heat-resistant metal layer provided to a circumferential side of the heat-resistant insulating base body. The heat-resistant metal layer and the cap plate and the first electrode terminal are electrically connected to form a conductive path. The formed conductive path is a curved path, therefore the resistance value of the resistance member can be controlled by controlling the conductive path.
US11276893B2
A pouch secondary battery is disclosed. One aspect of the present invention provides a pouch secondary battery including a casing configured to accommodate an electrode assembly from which electrode tabs are led; and the casing includes a sealing portion formed on three sides of four sides of the pouch secondary battery and a close contact portion formed on the remaining one side; and an extending portion protruding perpendicularly with respect to the close contact portion is formed in a portion adjacent to the close contact portion in the sealing portion.
US11276887B2
A power supplier in one aspect of the present disclosure includes an outputter, a first pack parallel coupler, a second pack parallel coupler, an output voltage switch, and a controller. Each of the first pack parallel coupler and the second pack parallel coupler includes pack couplers. The pack couplers are configured to be coupled by battery packs. The output voltage switch is configured to switch an electrical coupling state between the second pack parallel coupler and the outputter. The controller is configured to determine an output mode of the outputter. The output mode corresponds to a magnitude of voltage to be outputted from outputter. The controller is configured to control the output voltage switch based on a result of determination.
US11276886B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to solid state battery structures, such as Li-ion batteries, methods of fabrication and tools for fabricating the batteries. One or more electrodes and the separator may each be cast using a green tape approach wherein a mixture of active material, conductive additive, polymer binder and/or solid electrolyte are molded or extruded in a roll to roll or segmented sheet/disk process to make green tape, green disks or green sheets. A method of fabricating a solid state battery may include: preparing and/or providing a green sheet of positive electrode material; preparing and/or providing a green sheet of separator material; laminating together the green sheet of positive electrode material and the green sheet of separator material to form a laminated green stack; and sintering the laminated green stack to form a sintered stack comprising a positive electrode and a separator.
US11276884B2
Described herein are fluoro-substituted ethers of Formula (I): wherein R1 is a fluoro-substituted C2-C6 alkyl group; R2 is a C2-C6 alkyl group or a fluoro-substituted C2-C6 alkyl group; each R3 independently is H, F, methyl, or fluoro-substituted methyl; and n is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4. The fluoro-substituted ether compounds are useful as solvents for lithium containing electrolytes in lithium batteries, particularly lithium-sulfur batteries.
US11276880B2
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing process of the solid-state glass-ceramic electrolytes, known in the art as antiperovskites. Specifically, the disclosure is focused on manufacturing of the solid-state electrolyte from the corresponding precursors directly on the active electrode surface of an electrochemical device, specifically anode or cathode of the lithium-ion or lithium metal batteries.
US11276875B2
A method for producing a button cell includes providing a cell cup, the cell cup having a flat bottom area and a cell cup casing; providing a cell top, the cell top having a flat top area and a cell top casing having a first height; and providing an electrode-separator assembly winding. The cell top casing and the cell cup casing form an overlap area extending in a direction parallel to the axis of the winding and having a second height, the second height being between 20% and 99% of the first height. The method includes applying, in a radial direction perpendicular to the axis of the winding, a pressure on the cell cup casing so as to seal the housing, wherein a portion of the cell top casing that is cylindrical forms at least a part of the overlap area.
US11276869B2
This disclosure relates to a hydrogen fuel cell stack with one or more hydrogen fuel cell (102) having in turn a proton exchange membrane (104), a hydrogen reaction layer (112) and an oxygen reaction layer (116) within a pair of bipolar plates (106). At least a bipolar plate (106) comprises a channel (108) inside for hydrogen inflow. Additionally, this disclosure relates to a method of upgrading a hydrogen fuel cell stack, said method comprising inserting a channel (108) for hydrogen inflow inside at least a bipolar plate (106).
US11276861B2
A positive electrode for an air battery includes a current collector and a porous layer including an electroconductive material. The current collector includes a base having a first major surface, and a plurality of projections disposed on at least the first major surface of the base. The first major surface of the base is a planar surface. The porous layer is disposed on the first major surface of the base and is in direct contact with the first major surface. The projections are in direct contact with the porous layer in the interior of the porous layer.
US11276860B2
A positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector based on aluminum, a positive electrode mixture layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector and including a lithium transition metal oxide, and a protective layer disposed between the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode mixture layer. The protective layer includes inorganic particles, a conductive agent and a binder, the inorganic particles being a major component of the protective layer. The protective layer includes a first region disposed on the positive electrode current collector over substantially the entirety of a section covered with the positive electrode mixture layer, and a second region disposed on the positive electrode current collector so as to extend from a periphery of the positive electrode mixture layer. The weight per unit area of the second region is not less than 1.5 times the weight per unit area of the first region.
US11276852B2
Provided is a lithium metal secondary battery comprising a cathode, an anode, and a non-solid state electrolyte without a porous separator disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises: (a) an anode active material layer containing a layer of lithium or lithium alloy, in a form of a foil, coating, or multiple particles aggregated together, as an anode active material; and (b) an anode-protecting layer in physical contact with the anode active material layer, having a thickness from 1 nm to 100 μm and comprising an elastomer having a fully recoverable tensile elastic strain from 2% to 1,000% and a lithium ion conductivity from 10−8 S/cm to 5×10−2 S/cm when measure at room temperature; wherein the lithium metal secondary battery does not include a lithium-sulfur battery or a lithium-selenium battery.
US11276841B2
The present invention relates to a light extraction substrate for an organic light emitting element and, more specifically, to a light extraction substrate for an organic light emitting element that can enhance the light extraction efficiency of the organic light emitting element by optimizing a stack structure that can maximize scattering efficiency, and an organic light emitting element comprising the same. To this end, the present invention provides a light extraction substrate for an organic light emitting element and an organic light emitting element comprising the same, the light extraction substrate comprising: a base substrate; a plurality of light scattering objects arranged on the base substrate; a matrix layer formed on the base substrate to cover the plurality of light scattering objects; and a planarization layer that is formed on the matrix layer and of which the surface makes contact with an organic light emitting element, wherein at least one of the cover matrix layer, the planarization layer, and the light scattering objects has a different index of refraction.
US11276836B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a hole transport region on the first electrode, an emission layer on the hole transport region, an electron transport region on the emission layer, and a second electrode on the electron transport region, wherein the emission layer includes a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1.
US11276830B2
Provided is a display apparatus that may minimize the occurrence of defects such as short-circuits during a manufacturing process. The display apparatus includes: a substrate having a bent region located between a first region and a second region and bent in the bent region about a bending axis; an organic material layer located on the substrate to correspond to the bent region and including a second opening or a second groove that extends in a direction that intersects the bending axis; and a first conductive layer extending from the first region through the bent region to the second region and located on the organic material layer.
US11276824B2
Provided is a novel compound or a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency. The provided novel compound includes a bicarbazole skeleton and a benzofuropyrimidine skeleton or a benzothienopyrimidine skeleton. The provided light-emitting element includes the compound.
US11276822B2
A method of depositing a lateral pattern of a deposition material onto a substrate. The method comprises fabricating a laterally patterned deposition surface on the substrate having one or more deposition regions and one or more non-deposition regions. The method comprises depositing deposition material onto the deposition regions of the deposition surface to form a deposition structure comprising deposited regions and non-deposited regions. Depositing deposition material comprises dissolving the deposition material in a solvent to form a solution, introducing the deposition surface into fluid contact with the solution, varying a temperature of the solution, varying a pressure of the solution; and selectively heating the deposition regions to temperatures greater than the temperature of the solution to cause the deposition material to precipitate from the solution and deposit onto the deposition regions.
US11276817B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetic tunnel junction device is provided. The method includes forming a conical insulator core, forming a conductor layer on the insulator core, forming a magnetic free layer on the conductor layer, forming a barrier layer on the magnetic free layer, and forming a magnetic fixed layer on the barrier layer.
US11276814B2
Methods and devices for a spintronic device of spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM) are provided. A unit cell of a device can comprise a ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic or antiferromagnetic) layer on the heavy metal layer, and a current source configured to transmit either non-collinear current pulses in the heavy-metal layer or two perpendicular currents in the heavy metal layer. The current pulses exhibit a phase difference, and the magnitude of a sum of the respective current pulses is constant (in its simplest form) and the flow direction of the pulses is time-dependent.
US11276810B2
A method and/or apparatus of energy harvesting for wearable technology through a thin flexible thermoelectric device is disclosed. A lower conduction layer is formed on top of a lower dielectric layer. An active layer, comprising at least one thin film thermoelectric conduit and a thermal insulator, is formed above the lower conduction layer. An internal dielectric layer is formed above the active layer, and contact holes are drilled above each thermoelectric conduit. An upper conduction layer and upper dielectric layer are formed, connecting the thermoelectric conduits in series. The resulting flexible thermoelectric device generates a voltage when exposed to a temperature gradient.
US11276791B2
In an edge incident type semiconductor light receiving device that reflects light incident parallel to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate opaque to the incident light to the light receiving section on the main surface side, a light guide section is formed to expose the light receiving section along the light incident direction from the light incident side end of the semiconductor substrate, and in order to guide the light incident on the light guide section to the light receiving section, a light reflection section having a given crossing angle with the main surface is provided at the end of the light guide section in the light incident direction.
US11276789B2
A first wafer of semiconductor material has a surface. A second wafer of semiconductor material includes a substrate and a structural layer on the substrate. The structural layer integrates a detector device for detecting electromagnetic radiation. The structural layer of the second wafer is coupled to the surface of the first wafer. The substrate of the second wafer is shaped to form a stator, a rotor, and a mobile mass of a micromirror. The stator and the rotor form an assembly for capacitively driving the mobile mass.
US11276780B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body that includes a surface and a first region and a second region formed in the semiconductor body, where a channel region is located between the first region and the second region, and where the second region includes a sub-region that includes a blanket dopant; a first conductive contact on the surface of the semiconductor body above the first region; a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) at a bottom of the first region; and a pocket channel dopant (PCD) formed in the channel, where a first portion of the PCD is adjacent to a first portion of the SOI; and a second conductive contact on a bottom portion of the sub-region, where a first portion of the second conductive contact is adjacent to a second portion of the SOI, and a second portion of the second conductive contact is adjacent to a second portion of the PCD.
US11276753B2
A transistor and electronic apparatus are disclosed. In one example, a transistor includes a semiconductor substrate containing an electrically-conductive impurity. A device separation layer defines a device region. A buried insulation layer is provided in the device region, and a gate electrode crosses the device region. A drain region and a source region are opposed to each other with the gate electrode in between in the device region. A concentration or a polarity of the electrically-conductive impurity in the semiconductor substrate in an end region including at least an end portion of the gate electrode on drain region side is different from a concentration or a polarity of the electrically-conductive impurity in the semiconductor substrate in a middle region including a middle portion of the gate electrode.
US11276744B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate having a bending region between a first region and a second region, the bending region being configured to be bent about a bending axis that extends in one direction; a display unit on the substrate; a first wiring unit at the bending region, the first wiring unit including a first bending portion having a plurality of first holes; and a second wiring unit spaced apart from the first wiring unit and at the bending region, the second wiring unit including a second bending portion having a different shape from the first bending portion.
US11276740B2
The semiconductor device includes: a first conductor pattern disposed on an insulating surface; and a second conductor pattern disposed on the insulating surface and spaced apart from the first conductor pattern, wherein, in a planar view, a first side of the first conductor pattern and a second side of the second conductor pattern are each formed of a plurality of sides, the first side and the second side face each other, and each of a maximum length of a plurality of sides constituting the first side and a maximum length of a plurality of sides constituting the second side is shorter than the minimum distance between the first side and the second side.
US11276739B2
A display substrate is provided. The display substrate includes a substrate (1), a first transistor (2) and a second transistor (3) on the substrate (1), directions of intrinsic threshold voltage shifts of the first transistor (2) and the second transistor (3) being opposite; and a shift adjustment structure (4) on the substrate (1). The shift adjustment structure (4) may be configured to input adjustment signals to the first transistor (2) and the second transistor (3) respectively to make threshold voltages of the first transistor (2) and the second transistor (3) shift in directions opposite to the directions of their intrinsic threshold voltage shifts respectively.
US11276735B2
The present disclosure generally relates to display technologies, and in particular, to an array substrate, a method of fabricating array substrate, a display panel including the array substrate, and a display device including the display panel. The array substrate includes a substrate; a plurality of sub-pixel units provided on the substrate, each sub-pixel unit including a pair of sub-pixels; a first pixel defining portion provided between the pair of sub-pixels in a sub-pixel unit; a second pixel defining portion provided between a pair of adjacent sub-pixel units. The height of the first pixel defining portion is lower than the height of the second pixel defining portion.
US11276734B2
The invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material. Typically the semiconductor, which may be a perovskite, is disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material, so that it is supported on the surfaces of pores within the scaffold. In one embodiment, the optoelectronic device is an optoelectronic device which comprises a photoactive layer, wherein the photo-active layer comprises: (a) said porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) said semiconductor; and (c) a charge transporting material. The invention further provides the use, as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device, of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semi-conductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material. Further provided is the use of a layer comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device. In another aspect, the invention provides a photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device comprising (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; and (c) a charge transporting material.
US11276730B2
A perpendicular spin orbit memory device includes a first electrode having a magnetic material and platinum and a material layer stack on a portion of the first electrode. The material layer stack includes a free magnet, a fixed magnet above the first electrode, a tunnel barrier between the free magnet and the fixed magnet and a second electrode coupled with the fixed magnet.
US11276729B2
A magnetoresistive element includes: a first laminated structure body having a first surface and a second surface 20B facing the first surface; and a second laminated structure body formed by laminating a storage layer, an intermediate layer, and a magnetization fixed layer, the second laminated structure body having a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, the first surface being positioned facing the second surface of the first laminated structure body. The first laminated structure body has a laminated structure including, from the first surface side of the first laminated structure body, a first layer made of a metal nitride and a second layer made of ruthenium or a ruthenium compound.
US11276726B2
An imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit including a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode that are stacked, in which an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer is formed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer includes at least two types of elements selected from the group consisting of indium, tungsten, tin, and zinc. Alternatively, a LUMO value E1 of a material included in a part of the photoelectric conversion layer positioned near the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer and a LUMO value E2 of a material included in the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer satisfy E1-E2<0.2 eV. Alternatively, the mobility of a material included in the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer is equal to or greater than 10 cm2/V·s.
US11276724B2
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include: a semiconductor die having a first side and a second side and an active area on the second side of the die. The semiconductor packages may also include two or more bumps coupled to two or more die pads on a second side of the die. The semiconductor packages may include an optically transmissive lid coupled to the semiconductor die through an adhesive, two or more bumps, and a first redistribution layer (RDL). The semiconductor package may include a second redistribution layer (RDL) coupled with the first RDL on the second side of the semiconductor die. The second RDL may extend to the first side of the semiconductor die. The first RDL may extend to an edge of the semiconductor die.
US11276723B2
A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; a semiconductor layer; and a wiring structure section between the substrate and the semiconductor layer, the wiring structure section including a plurality of stacked wiring layers and a plurality of stacked insulating films, the wiring structure section including an electrode, wherein an opening for connecting a member to the electrode is formed in the semiconductor layer and the wiring structure section; the semiconductor layer has an isolation region in which an insulating film is embedded and which surrounds the opening; the wiring structure section has a ring which is formed of the plurality of wiring layers and surround the opening; and a distance between the opening and the ring closest to the opening is larger than a distance between the opening and the isolation region closest to the opening.
US11276720B2
An optical package includes a substrate, an image sensor, a microlens, an optical filter layer, a constraining layer, and a buffer layer. The image sensor is disposed on the substrate. The microlens having a first Young's modulus is disposed on the image sensor. The optical filter layer having a second Young's modulus disposed on the microlens. The constraining layer is disposed between the optical filter layer and the microlens. The buffer layer having a third Young's modulus disposed on the constraining layer. The third Young's modulus is greater than the first Young's modulus and smaller than the second Young's modulus.
US11276717B2
The present disclosure refers to a multispectral image sensor and a manufacturing method thereof. The multispectral image sensor comprises a front-end structure used for photoelectric conversion and processing, and a pixel layer provided on the front-end structure. The pixel layer comprises N pixel units, and N≥4, the pixel units are arranged in a plurality of arrays, a photosensitive wavelength of each pixel unit in each array is different. Whereby, multispectrals can be detected simultaneously, and therefore the efficiency is improved, costs are reduced, and miniaturization is achieved.
US11276714B2
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate that includes a first metal layer, an insulating layer, and a second metal layer. The first metal layer includes at least one first wire. The first wire has an overlapping section and a connecting section connected to both ends of the overlapping section, and an extending direction of the overlapping section is different from an extending direction of the connecting section. The insulating layer covers the first metal layer, and the region of the insulating layer corresponding to the first wire is a convex ridge protruding in a direction away from the first metal layer. The second metal layer is provided on a side of the insulating layer facing away from the first metal layer and includes at least one second wire that intersects the convex ridge in the area of the convex ridge corresponding to the overlapping section.
US11276708B2
A memory die including a three-dimensional array of memory elements and a logic die including a peripheral circuitry that support operation of the three-dimensional array of memory elements can be bonded by die-to-die bonding to provide a bonded assembly. External bonding pads for the bonded assembly can be provided by forming recess regions through the memory die or through the logic die to physically expose metal interconnect structures within interconnect-level dielectric layers. The external bonding pads can include, or can be formed upon, a physically exposed subset of the metal interconnect structures. Alternatively or additionally, laterally-insulated external connection via structures can be formed through the bonded assembly to multiple levels of the metal interconnect structures. Further, through-dielectric external connection via structures extending through a stepped dielectric material portion of the memory die can be physically exposed, and external bonding pads can be formed thereupon.
US11276695B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a fin in a first region of a substrate. The fin includes a plurality of a first type of epitaxial layers and a plurality of a second type of epitaxial layers. A portion of a layer of the second type of epitaxial layers in a channel region of the first fin is removed to form a first gap between a first layer of the first type of epitaxial layers and a second layer of the first type of epitaxial layers. A first portion of a first gate structure is formed within the first gap and extending from a first surface of the first layer of the first type of epitaxial layers to a second surface of the second layer of the first type of epitaxial layers. A first source/drain feature is formed abutting the first portion of the first gate structure.
US11276683B2
A semiconductor device has a configuration wherein a resistor that restricts overvoltage is inserted between an input terminal and the drain of JFETs, and the resistor is disposed on the JFETs. Also, the resistor is formed contiguously and integrally with a spiral form high breakdown voltage high resistance element that configures a resistive voltage divider circuit.
US11276682B1
A bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) device includes a MOS transistor including CMOS nickel silicided regions in a CMOS region, and a bipolar transistor in a bipolar region. The bipolar transistor includes a nickel silicided emitter, a collector, and a base including an intrinsic base, a link base, and a nickel silicided extrinsic base. The intrinsic base is situated between the nickel silicided emitter and the collector. A dielectric spacer separates the link base from the nickel silicided emitter. The nickel silicided extrinsic base provides an electrical connection to the link base and the intrinsic base. A nickel silicided collector sinker provides an electrical connection to the collector. The CMOS nickel silicided regions, nickel silicided emitter, nickel silicided extrinsic base, and nickel silicided collector sinker can include an additive of molybdenum (Mo) and/or platinum (Pt). A low temperature rapid thermal anneal can be performed so as to prevent deactivation of dopants.
US11276681B2
A modular concept for Silicon Carbide power devices is disclosed where a low voltage module (LVM) is designed separately from a high voltage module (HVM). The LVM having a repeating structure in at least a first direction, the repeating structure repeats with a regular distance in at least the first direction, the HVM comprising a buried grid with a repeating structure in at least a second direction, the repeating structure repeats with a regular distance in at least the second direction, along any possible defined direction. Advantages include faster easier design and manufacture at a lower cost.
US11276679B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; and a multilevel wiring structure over the semiconductor substrate, the multilevel wiring structure including a first insulating layer, a first conductive layer on the first insulating layer, a second conductive layer on the first insulating layer, a third conductive layer on the first and second conductive layer, a fourth conductive layer on the third conductive layer, and a second insulating layer on the fourth conductive layer. The multilevel wiring structure includes: a first gate electrode comprising first and second insulating films in the first and second insulating layers, respectively, and first, third and fourth conductive films in the first, third and fourth conductive layers, respectively; and a second gate electrode comprising first and second insulating films in the first and second insulating layers, respectively, and second, third and fourth conductive films in the second, third and fourth conductive layers, respectively.
US11276678B2
Techniques to determine whether the design of integrated circuit (IC) has been tampered with during wafer manufacturing by using an enhanced library and layout methodology. The enhanced library may include location sensitive cells networked together in a mesh architecture where paths through the mesh can be used to detect relative position of location sensitive cells. The techniques further include algorithms that fill any unused space on an IC with additional elements from the enhanced library to minimize the opportunity to modify the IC by including additional circuit function or manipulating the layout. By physically locking down the circuit placement such that there is no available area and gives improved ability to detect changes in the physical location behavior of the circuit, therefore reduces the risk that unauthorized circuit manipulation will go undetected.
US11276677B1
Disclosed is an approach to implement multi-die concurrent placement, routing, and/or optimization across multiple dies. This permits the multiple dies to be modeled as a single 3D space. Instead of being limited to a 2D plane, a cell can be placed to the area of any of the dies without splitting the netlist beforehand.
US11276672B1
A light emitting diode (LED) chip is bonded to a substrate. The LED chip includes one or more dummy electrodes that corresponds to one or more contacts on the substrate. The one or more dummy electrodes are exposed to a laser beam for coupling the one or more dummy electrodes to the one or more contacts. The one or more dummy electrodes may be positioned along edges of the LED chip that surround a display area of the LED chip and provide bonding strength between the LED chip and the substrate.
US11276665B2
Provided is a laser reflow apparatus for reflowing electronic components on a substrate disposed on a stage, the apparatus including: a laser emission unit comprised of a plurality of laser modules for emitting a laser beam having a flat top output profile in at least one section of the substrate on which the electronic components are disposed; a camera unit comprising at least one camera module for capturing a reflowing process of the electronic components performed by the laser beam; and a laser output control unit configured to generate a control signal for independently controlling the respective laser modules of the laser emission unit based on a signal output from the camera unit and apply the control signal to the laser emission unit.
US11276659B2
A microelectronic component comprises a substrate having at least one bond pad on a surface thereof and a metal pillar structure on the at least one bond pad, the metal pillar structure comprising a metal pillar on the at least one bond pad and a solder material having a portion within a reservoir within the metal pillar and another portion protruding from an end of the metal pillar opposite the at least one bond pad. Methods for forming the metal pillar structures, metal pillar structures, assemblies and systems incorporating the metal pillar structures are also disclosed.
US11276658B2
Methods of forming supports for 3D structures on semiconductor structures comprise forming the supports from photodefinable materials by deposition, selective exposure and curing. Semiconductor dice including 3D structures having associated supports, and semiconductor devices are also disclosed.
US11276657B2
A component includes a plurality of electrical connections on a process side opposed to a back side of the component. Each electrical connection includes an electrically conductive multi-layer connection post protruding from the process side. A printed structure includes a destination substrate and one or more components. The destination substrate has two or more electrical contacts and each connection post is in contact with, extends into, or extends through an electrical contact of the destination substrate to electrically connect the electrical contacts to the connection posts. The connection posts or electrical contacts are deformed. Two or more connection posts can be electrically connected to a common electrical contact.
US11276644B2
An aspect of the disclosure relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a first electrically conductive structure, a thin film crystal layer located on the first electrically conductive structure, and a second electrically conductive structure including metal e.g. copper. The second electrically conductive structure is located on the thin film crystal layer. The first electrically conductive structure is electrically connected to the second electrically conductive structure through the thin film crystal layer. The thin film crystal layer may be provided as a copper diffusion barrier.
US11276640B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first wires formed in a first layer, a plurality of second wires formed to intersect the plurality of first wires in a second layer stacked on the first layer, a plurality of first vias formed at intersections of the plurality of first wires and the plurality of second wires, and an inductor formed in a third layer stacked on the first layer and the second layer.
US11276622B2
A semiconductor arrangement and an inverter incorporating the semiconductor arrangement, in particular to an inverter for use with traction power units e.g. for on and off road vehicles and stationary power inversion, are described. In the arrangement, semiconductor devices are thermally and electrically coupled to a heatsink as a module. The heatsink is configured as a bus bar to electrically connect the one or more semiconductor devices together to transmit power between the one or more semiconductor devices. The semiconductor devices may be cooled using the structure to which they are attached, and also immersed in a cooling medium to further increase the cooling of the device.
US11276616B2
A semiconductor device package includes a supporting element, a transparent plate disposed on the supporting element, a semiconductor device disposed under the transparent plate, and a lid surrounding the transparent plate. The supporting element and the transparent plate define a channel.
US11276610B2
A wiring board includes a wiring layer; a diffusion suppressing layer that covers the wiring layer and suppresses diffusion of a metal component of the wiring layer; a base metal layer that covers the diffusion suppressing layer; and a passivation layer that covers the base metal layer.
US11276603B2
A transfer method of transferring an object to a target substrate by using a deformable film is provided. The method includes: a first process of forming an object on a source substrate, a second process of placing a deformable film on the source substrate on which the object is formed, a third process of embedding the object into the deformable film, a fourth process of separating an object, which is to be transferred, from the source substrate, integrating the transfer object in or on a surface of the deformable film, and separating deformable film, in which the transfer object is integrated, from the source substrate, and a fifth process of transferring the object integrated into the deformable film to a target substrate.
US11276601B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate positioned on a substrate support assembly are provided. For example, a substrate support assembly includes an electrostatic chuck having one or more chucking electrodes embedded therein for chucking a substrate to a substrate support surface of the electrostatic chuck; an edge ring disposed on the electrostatic chuck and surrounding the substrate support strike; two or more radio frequency (RF) power sources coupled to the edge ring and at least one of a baseplate disposed beneath the electrostatic chuck or an electrode disposed in the electrostatic chuck; a matching network coupling the edge ring to the two or more RF power sources; and an RF circuit coupling the edge ring to the two or more RF power sources, the RF circuit configured to simultaneously tune at least one of an RF amplitude or an RF phase of respective signals of the two or more RF power sources.
US11276596B2
A conveyance system includes a traveling area and a suspension traveling vehicle. The traveling area includes a grid area and a linear area. In the grid area, since first tracks are disposed side by side and second tracks are disposed side by side so that the first tracks and the second tracks intersect, the grid area includes unit blocks of the same shape or substantially the same shape surrounded by the first tracks and the second tracks. Both the first tracks and the second tracks surrounding the unit blocks are provided with an interstice that allows a supporting body to pass, and the interstice is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of each track. A traveling direction is the same or substantially the same as the first direction or the second direction in the linear area, and the interstice perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the traveling direction is not provided in the linear area.
US11276594B2
A method is for sealing a backplane component of a load port system to an equipment front end module (EFEM). The method includes mounting a leveling block to the EFEM. A conical hole adjustment assembly is coupled between a first distal end of the leveling block and the backplane component. The method further includes rotating a first leveling adjustment bolt in the conical hole adjustment assembly to align the backplane component with the EFEM.
US11276589B2
A device, a system and a method for bonding two substrates. A first substrate holder has a recess and an elevation.
US11276587B2
An apparatus for and a method of bonding a first substrate and a second substrate are provided. In an embodiment a first wafer chuck has a first curved surface and a second wafer chuck has a second curved surface. A first wafer is placed on the first wafer chuck and a second wafer is placed on a second wafer chuck, such that both the first wafer and the second wafer are pre-warped prior to bonding. Once the first wafer and the second wafer have been pre-warped, the first wafer and the second wafer are bonded together.
US11276583B2
Apparatus for use in preparing heterostructures having a reduced concentration of defects including apparatus for stressing semiconductor substrates to allow them to conform to a crystal having a different crystal lattice constant.
US11276580B2
A connecting structure of a conductive layer includes a first conductive layer, a first insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer and including a first opening overlapping the first conductive layer, a connecting conductor disposed on the first insulating layer and connected to the first conductive layer through the first opening, an insulator island disposed on the connecting conductor, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and including a second opening overlapping the connecting conductor and the insulator island, and a second conductive layer disposed on the second insulating layer and connected to a connecting electrode through the second opening. A sum of a thickness of the first insulating layer and a thickness of the second insulating layer is greater than or equal to 1 μm, and each of the thicknesses of the first and second insulating layers is less than 1 μm.
US11276577B2
The present subject matter discloses a longitudinal silicon ingot slicing apparatus for lateral slicing of cylindrical ingot to maximize resulting chips yield as compared to the conventional transverse slicing of ingot. The resulting rectangular wafers made from lateral slicing of ingot maximizes yield as by the lateral slicing of ingot, overall chips per wafer ratio gets increased as compared to transversal cutting while the said apparatus and method decreases waste due to conflict between chip and wafer geometry. The novel apparatus of longitudinal slicing of cylindrical ingot is comprising of a wire wounded around a wire reels and a plurality of grooved rollers to form a wire raw to slice the cylindrical silicon ingot. A motors are connected with the wire reels and with at least one grooved roller to slide the wire row back and forth to cut the cylindrical ingot. A work feed table is also configured along with the JIG fixture that holds the cylindrical ingot as well as align the wire raw during slicing.
US11276568B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, an underlying structure is formed. A surface grafting layer is formed on the underlying structure. A photo resist layer is formed on the surface grafting layer. The surface grafting layer includes a coating material including a backbone polymer, a surface grafting unit coupled to the backbone polymer and an adhesion unit coupled to the backbone polymer.
US11276551B2
An inspection device includes a charged particle optical system that includes a charged particle beam source emitting a charged particle beam and plural lenses focusing the charged particle beam on a sample, a detector that detects secondary charged particles emitted by an interaction of the charged particle beam and the sample, and a calculation unit that executes auto-focusing at a time a field of view of the charged particle optical system moves over plural inspection spots, the calculation unit irradiates the charged particle beam to the sample under an optical condition that is obtained by introducing astigmatism of a predetermined specification to an optical condition that is for observing a pattern by the charged particle optical system, and executes the auto-focusing using an image formed from a signal outputted by the detector in detecting the secondary charged particles.
US11276544B2
An ion source can include a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field in a direction parallel to a direction of the electron beam and coincident with the electron beam. However, this magnetic field can also influence the path of ionized sample constituents as they pass through and exit the ion source. An ion source can include an electric field generator to compensate for this effect. As an example, the electric field generator can be configured to generate an electric field within the ion source chamber, such that an additional force is imparted on the ionized sample constituents, opposite in direction and substantially equal in magnitude to the force imparted on the ionized sample constituents by the magnetic field.
US11276543B2
A terminal for an ion implantation system is provided, wherein the terminal has a terminal housing for supporting an ion source configured to form an ion beam. A gas box within the terminal housing has a hydrogen generator configured to produce hydrogen gas for the ion source. The gas box is electrically insulated from the terminal housing, and is further electrically coupled to the ion source. The ion source and gas box are electrically isolated from the terminal housing by a plurality of electrical insulators. A plurality of insulating standoffs electrically isolate the terminal housing from an earth ground. A terminal power supply electrically biases the terminal housing to a terminal potential with respect to the earth ground. An ion source power supply electrically biases the ion source to an ion source potential with respect to the terminal potential. Electrically conductive tubing electrically couples the gas box and ion source.
US11276535B2
Disclosed herein are passive triggering mechanisms for activation of pyrotechnic features within electrical switching devices, such as contactor devices and fuse devices. The activation of the pyrotechnic features is configured to change the configuration of the internal components of the switching device and prevent current flow through the device. In some embodiments, the triggering mechanisms comprise features that respond to a magnetic field, such as a reed switch. In some embodiments, the reed switch responds to elevated current flow and can then use the signal with the elevated current flow to activate the pyrotechnic feature. In other embodiments, the reed switch uses a power signal from a secondary power source to activate the pyrotechnic feature.
US11276532B2
An electronic component includes a capacitor array in which a plurality of multilayer capacitors are disposed in a row in a first direction connecting fifth and sixth surfaces, each of the plurality of multilayer capacitors including a capacitor body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes, and first and second external electrodes respectively including first and second connection portions and first and second band portions, respectively; a first bump terminal connected to the first band portions of the plurality of first external electrodes on a first surface of the capacitor array; and a second bump terminal spaced apart from the first bump terminal and connected to the second band portions of the plurality of second external electrodes on the first surface of the capacitor array.
US11276526B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a body, a plurality of internal electrodes, and external electrodes. The corners of the cover portions of the body include curved surfaces, a length of each of internal electrodes disposed in the cover portions among the plurality of internal electrodes is smaller than a length of an internal electrode disposed in a central portion, and when a distance from a surface of the body to a closest internal electrode among the plurality of internal electrodes is defined as a margin, a portion of the margin region, located directly above or below the internal electrodes disposed in the cover portions in the stacking direction, includes at least two layers including different densities of dielectric layers.
US11276520B2
A multilayer seed pattern inductor includes: a magnetic body containing a magnetic material; and an internal coil part encapsulated in the magnetic body, wherein the internal coil part includes a seed pattern and a surface plating layer disposed on the seed pattern, the seed pattern being formed as two or more layers.
US11276517B2
A permanent magnet in the form of a multi-pole magnet, comprising an isotropic magnetic material, having a central axis, magnetised such that the magnetic field, considered on a virtual circle lies substantially in a virtual plane tangential to the circle, and rotates inside that virtual plane, depending on the position on the circle. A method of producing a magnet comprising: a) providing a shaped body comprising an isotropic magnetic material; b) providing at least four electrical conductor segments; c) simultaneously make currents flow in each conductor segment. A magnet made in this way. Use of such a magnet for angular position sensing. An angular position sensor system comprising such a magnet.
US11276516B2
There is provided a magnetic powder for high frequency use including, in percent by mass, 0.2 to 5.0% C and at least one selected from Group IV to VI elements, Mn, and Ni in a total of 0.1 to 30%, the balance being Fe or/and Co, inclusive 0% for Co), and incidental impurities, wherein the saturation magnetization exceeds 1.0 T and satisfies Expression (1): Co%/(Co%+Fe%)≤0.50. According to the magnetic powder, there is provided a metal magnetic powder having a saturation magnetization exceeding 1.0 T and also having a high FR of 200 MHz or more and a magnetic resin composition including the metal magnetic powder.
US11276515B2
A varistor includes an effective layer having first and second surfaces opposite to each other, a first ineffective layer stacked on the first surface of the effective layer, a second ineffective layer stacked on the second surface of the effective layer, and an external electrode. The effective layer includes a ceramic layer having a polycrystalline structure including crystal particles exhibiting voltage nonlinear characteristics, and internal electrodes stacked alternately on the ceramic layer. The thickness of the second ineffective layer is equal to or more than 1.1 times a thickness of the first ineffective layer and equal to or smaller than 6 times the thickness of the first ineffective layer. This varistor has a small size and excellent surge resistance.
US11276497B2
The present invention relates to a diagnosis assistance system for assisting diagnosis for a plurality of diseases based on a fundus image, the diagnosis assistance system including: a fundus image obtaining unit configured to obtain a fundus image; a first processing unit configured to, for the fundus image, obtain a first result related to a first finding of a patient using a first neural network model, a second processing unit configured to, for the fundus image, obtain a second result related to a second finding of the patient using a second neural network model, a third processing unit configured to determine, on the basis of the first result and the second result, diagnostic information on the patient, and a diagnostic information output unit configured to provide the determined diagnostic information to a user.
US11276493B2
Device configuration based on predicting a health affliction. A process acquires measurements of conditions that a user is experiencing. The process predicts, based on the measurements, whether the user will experience a particular health affliction. Based on predicting that the user will experience the particular health affliction, the process configures devices of an environment in which the user is present to reduce effects of the devices on symptoms of the particular health affliction. The configuring includes adjusting a respective at least one state of each device of the devices.
US11276490B2
A learning-based lesion classification method performed by a computer is provided. The method includes obtaining a medical image including lesion regions, extracting at least one sample region from the lesion regions within the medical image, generating LINA patch data based on the at least one sample region, and classifying the lesion regions within the medical image by performing learning based on the LINA patch data.
US11276488B2
A system and method for training program generation and modification of that program based on assessed functional state and/or workload performance. User-interface logic preferably operating on a mobile device permits a user to record bio-signals indicative of functional state. Assessment-adjustment logic, that may be located at a distance, conducts body system assessments from the received bio-signal data and produces training session targets based on the current functional state of the user. User training objective data may be input through the user-interface logic. Workload performance may be monitored and the training session targets modified based on measured past performance to improve future performance. Various embodiments are disclosed.
US11276481B2
The present invention relates to a method for writing data comprising a sequence of bits, the data being written in a form of nucleic acid, by in-vitro enzymatically producing memory nucleic acid from a strand of memory writing substrate nucleic acid, wherein the strand of memory writing substrate nucleic acid comprises a plurality of spacer sections and memory writing sections sandwiched between the spacer sections. Each of the spacer sections comprises one or more nucleobases, and each of the memory writing sections comprises a nucleobase other than the nucleobases of an adjacent spacer section upstream of the memory writing section in a travel direction of an enzyme along the strand of memory writing substrate nucleic acid. The method comprising: repeating of: synthesising, in liquid medium comprising the strand of memory writing substrate nucleic acid contacted with the enzyme, a spacer portion of the memory nucleic acid from a spacer section by the enzyme by contacting with a solution of spacer nucleotides compatible with the nucleobases of the spacer section; halting the synthesising of the spacer portion in a position where the enzyme is reaching the memory writing section resulting from incompatibility between spacer nucleotides and nucleobases of the portion of the memory nucleic acid from the memory writing section; receiving a sub-sequence of the sequence of bits, said sub-sequence comprising at least one bit; selecting a memory nucleotide compatible with the nucleobase of the memory writing section, and comprising a first label or first modification, on a condition that said sub-sequence comprises a predetermined first sequence of bit-values, and selecting a memory nucleotide compatible with the nucleobase of the memory writing section, and comprising a second label or second modification, on a condition that said sub-sequence comprises a predetermined second sequence of bit-values; and subsequent to the halting, synthesising, in the liquid medium comprising the strand of memory writing substrate nucleic acid contacted with the enzyme, a memory portion of the memory nucleic acid from the memory writing section by the enzyme by contacting the enzyme with a solution of the selected memory nucleotide.
US11276471B2
A memory device can include a memory block operatively connected to a common source line and a plurality of bit lines, wherein the memory block includes first and second sub-blocks each having a respective position in the memory block relative to the common source line and the plurality of bit lines. The memory device can be operated by receiving a command and an address from outside the memory device and performing a precharge operation on the memory block in response to the command, using a first precharge path through the memory block or a second precharge path through the memory block based on the respective position of the first or second sub-block that includes a word line that is configured to activate responsive to the address.
US11276464B2
A method, includes: applying a read voltage at a first read voltage level to read a memory cell for detecting a resistance level of the memory cell; applying the read voltage at a second read voltage level, different from the first read voltage level, to read the memory cell for determining a waveform type has been utilized to program the memory cell; recognizing data bits stored in the memory cell. The data bits stored in the memory cell comprise a first data bit and at least one second data bit. The first data bit is recognized according to the waveform type and is irrelevant with the resistance level. The at least one second data bit is recognized according to the resistance level and is irrelevant with the waveform type. A device is also disclosed herein.
US11276462B2
Examples may include techniques to implement a SET write operation to a selected memory cell include in a memory array. Examples include selecting the memory cell that includes phase change material and applying various currents over various periods of time during a nucleation stage and a crystal growth stage to cause the memory cell to be in a SET logical state.
US11276460B2
Structures for an optoelectronic memory and related fabrication methods. A metal oxide layer is located on an interlayer dielectric layer. A layer composed of a donor/acceptor dye is positioned on a portion of the first layer.
US11276459B2
A memory die includes a first bank including first memory cells; a second bank including second memory cells; a first local processor connected with first bank local input/output lines through which first local bank data of the first bank are transmitted, and configured to execute a first local calculation on the first local bank data; a second local processor connected with second bank local input/output lines through which second local bank data of the second bank are transmitted, and configured to execute a second local calculation on the second local bank data; and a global processor configured to control the first bank, the second bank, the first local processor, and the second local processor and to execute a global calculation on a first local calculation result of the first local calculation and a second local calculation result of the second local calculation.
US11276458B2
A memory and a signal processing method are provided. The memory includes a latch circuit, a decoding circuit, a storage array, a read circuit, and a write circuit. The storage array includes M rows and N columns of bitcells. The latch circuit is configured to receive a first address and a second address. The decoding circuit is configured to: determine a first bitcell based on the first address, and determine a second bitcell based on the second address. The write circuit is configured to: receive data, and write the data into the first bitcell through a first port of the first bitcell. The read circuit is configured to read, through the first port of the first bitcell, data stored in the first bitcell; and is further configured to read, through a second port of the second bitcell, data stored in the second bitcell. Implementing this application can implement 1R1RW.
US11276455B1
A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a memory bank configured to store data in one or more memory cells. The memory device further includes a sense amplifier and associated circuitry configured to detect a first threshold representative of a first external voltage ramping down during a power off of the memory device, and one or more switches triggered via the sense amplifier and associated circuitry to provide for a power off sequence for the memory bank based on using a second external voltage ramping down during the power off of the memory device.
US11276454B2
Memory devices and systems with partial array refresh control over memory regions in a memory array, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory array having a first memory region and a second memory region. The memory device is configured to write data to the memory array in accordance with a programming sequence by initially writing data to unutilized memory cells of the first memory region before initially writing data to unutilized memory cells of the second memory region. The memory device is further configured to determine that the data stored on the first and/or second memory regions is not consolidated, and to consolidate at least a portion of the data by rewriting the portion of the data to physically or logically contiguous memory cells of the first memory region and/or the second memory region.
US11276453B2
A memory device is described. The memory device includes logic circuitry to perform calibrations of resistive network terminations and data drivers of the memory device while the memory device is within a self refresh mode.
US11276447B2
A spin current magnetoresistance effect element includes a magnetoresistance effect element, a spin-orbit torque wiring that extends in a first direction intersecting a lamination direction of the magnetoresistance effect element and is positioned on a side of the magnetoresistance effect element with the second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a control unit configured to control a direction of a current during reading. The control unit is connected to at least one of a first and second point, which are positions with the magnetoresistance effect element interposed therebetween in the first direction in the spin-orbit torque wiring, and a third point on a side of the magnetoresistance effect element with the first ferromagnetic layer. The control unit shunts a read current during reading from the third point toward the first point and the second point or merges the read current toward the third point from the first point and the second point.
US11276444B2
An electronic device is provided. A buffer circuit, performing an optimized operation according to the present disclosure, includes a pause detector, a toggle detector, and an output signal controller. The pause detector receives an input signal and generates a pause signal which indicates whether the input signal is in a pause state. The toggle detector receives the input signal and the pause signal and generates a toggle signal which indicates whether the input signal is in a toggle state. The output signal controller generates an output signal which controls input buffer circuits according to the toggle signal.
US11276442B2
Apparatuses and methods for clock leveling in semiconductor memory are disclosed. In an example apparatus, a latency control circuit is configured to provide in first and second modes an active first control signal having a timing based on latency information and a system clock. A clock leveling control circuit is configured to provide in the first mode an active second control signal responsive to an active first control signal at a clock transition of a first clock and further configured to provide in the second mode clock leveling feedback responsive to the active first control signal at a transition of a second clock. A read clock circuit is configured to provide the multiphase clocks responsive to the active second control signal. A serializer circuit configured to serialize the data based on the multiphase clocks from the read clock circuit to provide the data in series.
US11276441B2
A memory device includes a data pad disposed in a first pad area and configured to receive data, a data strobe pad disposed in the first pad area and configured to receive a data strobe signal, a clock pad disposed in a second pad area adjacent to the first pad area and configured to receive a clock signal, a data conversion circuit disposed in the first pad area and configured to convert the data inputted through the data pad into parallel data based on the data strobe signal, and a data driving circuit disposed in the first pad area and configured to transmit the parallel data through a global input and output line based on the clock signal.
US11276438B2
The present disclosure describes a sensitivity amplifier in the field of storage technology. The sensitivity amplifier includes: a first inverter, a second inverter, a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a third switch unit, a fourth switch unit, a fifth switch unit, the sixth switch unit, the seventh switch unit, and the eighth switch unit. The sensitivity amplifier can control the fifth switch unit, the sixth switch unit, the seventh switch unit, and the eighth switch unit to turn on or off, so that the sensitivity amplifier works in two different power rails, to achieve reduction of the static operating point deviation of the sensitivity amplifier during the noise cancellation stage.
US11276429B2
The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder, in which the magnetic layer includes a compound having a salt structure, and the salt structure is an ammonium salt structure of an alkyl ester anion represented by the following Formula 1. In Formula 1, R represents an alkyl group having 7 or more carbon atoms or a fluorinated alkyl group having 7 or more carbon atoms, Z+ represents an ammonium cation, and a water contact angle on a surface of the magnetic layer is 80° or more and less than 100°. A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes the magnetic recording medium.
US11276427B2
A recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a magnetic head in which a servo band having a servo pattern and a data band having data tracks are alternately arranged along a width direction, the magnetic head including a recording and reproducing element that records or reproduces data with respect to the data track, and at least two servo reproducing elements that read servo patterns adjacent to each other in the width direction of the magnetic tape; a selection unit that selects a servo reproducing element from the servo reproducing elements according to a position of the data track, as a target of recording or reproducing of data in the data band, along the width direction; and a controller that controls positioning of the magnetic head along the width direction by using a result of reading of the servo patterns by the servo reproducing element selected by the selection unit.
US11276426B2
A PZT microactuator such as for a hard disk drive has a restraining layer bonded on its side that is opposite the side on which the PZT is mounted. The restraining layer comprises a stiff and resilient material such as stainless steel. The restraining layer can cover most or all of the top of the PZT, with an electrical connection being made to the PZT where it is not covered by the restraining layer. The restraining layer reduces bending of the PZT as mounted and hence increases effective stroke length, or reverses the sign of the bending which increases the effective stroke length of the PZT even further. The restraining layer can be one or more active layers of PZT material that act in the opposite direction as the main PZT layer. The restraining layer(s) may be thinner than the main PZT layer.
US11276409B2
In order to detect a replay attack on a voice biometrics system, a first signal from received sound is generated at a first microphone, and a second signal from the received sound is generated at a second microphone. The first and second signals are used to determine a location of an apparent source of the received sound. It is determined that the received sound may result from a replay attack if the apparent source of the received sound is diffuse.
US11276407B2
A method for audio processing includes receiving, in a computer, a recording of a teleconference among multiple participants over a network including an audio stream containing speech uttered by the participants and conference metadata for controlling a display on video screens viewed by the participants during the teleconference. The audio stream is processed by the computer to identify speech segments, in which one or more of the participants were speaking, interspersed with intervals of silence in the audio stream. The conference metadata are parsed so as to extract speaker identifications, which are indicative of the participants who spoke during successive periods of the teleconference. The teleconference is diarized by labeling the identified speech segments from the audio stream with the speaker identifications extracted from corresponding periods of the teleconference.
US11276397B2
A system and method for improving the performance of a hands-free voice user interface system while minimizing the computational complexity without sacrificing performance. Specifically, when estimating the location of the talker for the purpose of steering a directional beam in the direction of the active talker. A hands-free voice user interface system requires a clean signal to be streamed to the cloud for recognition. One way to improve the speech signal is to estimate where the talker is and steer a beam in the direction of the active talker. To locate the talker to a localized position, a direction of arrival estimator (DOA) algorithm is used. DoA generally requires noise and echo free signal for optimal estimation, but it is computationally expensive to run audio pre-processing such as an acoustic echo cancellation for each microphone in microphone array. To reduce computational complexity, the system and method extract certain range of frequency and operate pre-processing only on the selected frequency. By properly selecting the frequency range, it does not degrade DoA accuracy while significantly reducing computational complexity.
US11276389B1
A personalized text-to-speech system configured to perform speaker adaption is disclosed. The TTS system includes an acoustic model comprising a base neural network and a differential neural network. The base neural network is configured to generate acoustic parameters corresponding to a base speaker or voice actor, while the differential neural network is configured to generate acoustic parameters corresponding to differences between acoustic parameters of the base speaker and a particular target speaker. The output of the acoustic model is then a weighted linear combination of the output from the base neural network and differential neural network. The base neural network and differential neural network share a first input layer and first plurality of hidden layers. Thereafter, the base neural network further comprises a second plurality of hidden layers and output layer. In parallel, the differential neural network further comprises a third plurality of hidden layers and separate output layer.
US11276384B2
An audio system has an ambient sound enhancement function, in which an against-the-ear audio device having a speaker converts a digitally processed version of an input audio signal into sound. The audio system also has an acoustic noise cancellation (ANC) function that may be combined in various ways with the sound enhancement function, and that may be responsive to voice activity detection. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11276365B2
A display comprising a display substrate comprising a front side; a plurality of pixels located on the front side of the display substrate, the plurality of pixels defining a display area; and an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas located on the front side of the display substrate and within the display area.
US11276364B2
Provided are a shift register, a driving method thereof, a driving control circuit and a display device. A first reference signal of a first reference signal end may be provided to a first node through an input sub-circuit. A first node signal of the first node and a second node signal of a second node may be controlled through a driving control sub-circuit. The first reference signal of the first reference signal end may be provided to a signal output end and a second reference signal of a second reference signal end may be provided to the signal output end through an output sub-circuit. Through the arrangement of a first capacitor electrically connected between a second clock signal end and the first node, a level of the first node may be kept stable through the first capacitor. A second node signal of the second node and a third node signal of a third node may be controlled through a protection sub-circuit.
US11276363B2
A display driving control circuit, a display panel, and a driving control method are disclosed. A driving control sub-circuit in the display driving control circuit includes a first data selection sub-circuit, a second data selection sub-circuit, a third data selection sub-circuit, and a fourth data selection circuit. The first data selection sub-circuit, the second data selection sub-circuit, the third data selection sub-circuit, and the fourth data selection circuit are electrically connected to a first selection signal line respectively. The first data selection sub-circuit and the third data selection sub-circuit are electrically connected to a first data channel signal line, and the second data selection sub-circuit and the fourth data selection sub-circuit are electrically connected to a second data channel signal line. Each of the first data selection sub-circuit, the second data selection sub-circuit, the third data selection sub-circuit, and the fourth data selection circuit is also electrically connected to a display data line to transmit one of a first data channel signal or a second data channel signal to the connected display data line under control of a selection signal from a connected selection signal line.
US11276362B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) and a display panel are provided. In the TFT array substrate, a first TFT is correspondingly disposed in each pixel of a plurality of pixels. Each first TFT in an (N)th row of pixels of the pixels correspondingly has a gate electrically connected to an (N+1)th scan line of a plurality of scan lines, a drain electrically connected to an (N)th scan line of the scan lines, and a source receiving a negative supply voltage. Therefore, a scan signal received by each pixel is individually pulled down by each pixel, thereby significantly reducing a falling time of the scan signal, and facilitating ensuring display quality of the display panel.
US11276355B2
Disclosed is a timing controller including a coordinate data generation circuit configured to generate X coordinate emission data for acquiring X coordinates and Y coordinate emission data for acquiring Y coordinates, a selection circuit configured to time-divide 1 frame duration to output the X coordinate emission data to a display driving circuit during an X coordinate field and to output the Y coordinate emission data to the display driving circuit during a Y coordinate field, and a control data generation circuit configured to output control data for allowing pixels connected to one data line to emit light in units of 1 data line using the X coordinate emission data during the X coordinate field and allowing pixels connected to one gate line to emit light in units of 1 gate line using the Y coordinate emission data during the Y coordinate field, to the display driving circuit.
US11276353B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display and a non-display area, data lines, driving lines, power lines, and pixels connected to said lines being at the display area, a data driver for generating data signals supplied to the pixels, a power supply for generating a power signal supplied to the pixels, and a driving circuit at the non-display area and for generating driving signals supplied to the pixels, the driving circuit including stages for providing the driving signals to at least two of the driving lines, wherein data fan-out lines connected to the data driver are connected to the data lines, a power supply line connected to the power supply is connected to the power lines, and the driving circuit is connected to the driving lines, through a first connection line, a second connection line, a third connection line, and a fourth connection line.
US11276349B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels each coupled to a first scan line, a second scan line, and a data line; a scan driver configured to supply, to the display unit, a plurality of first scan pulses corresponding to a bias period and a second scan pulse corresponding to a data write period after the bias period through the respective first and second scan lines; an emission driver configured to supply an emission control signal to the display unit through emission control lines; a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the display unit through the data lines; and a power supply configured to commonly supply, to the pixels, an initialization voltage, the initialization voltage having a voltage level switching between a first voltage level and a second voltage level in a preset period.
US11276339B2
A display device includes sub-pixels in a display area and arranged along first to eighth columns; first to fourth wiring pads in a non-display area and arranged at one side of the display area; crack detection lines in the non-display area; first to fourth fan-out lines connecting the sub-pixels arranged along the first to eighth columns to the first to fourth wiring pads; and an inspection unit between the first to fourth wiring pads and the display area, the inspection unit being electrically connected to the crack detection lines and the first to fourth fan-out lines, the inspection unit to apply a test voltage to the first to fourth fan-out lines to inspect whether the first to fourth fan-out lines are shorted or open, and to apply the test voltage to the crack detection lines to inspect damage to the crack detection lines.
US11276329B2
There is described an artificial eye system comprising: a see-through display for displaying an image of an eye thereon; a light detector for detecting light propagating through the see-through display and coming from an external environment; and a controller for: generating the image of the eye using information about the light detected by the light detector; and displaying the generated image of the eye on the see-through display.
US11276324B2
A prediction device includes a data input assembly, a modelling unit, a resolution unit, an interpretation unit, and an information transmission unit. The data input assembly is configured to enter attacker data relating to attack models, and defender data relating to ground a zone to be defended and to available defense means. The modelling unit is configured to generate a game tree evaluated on the basis of input data, based on game theory. The resolution unit is configured to define a game balance based on game theory, the game balance defining an attacker strategy and defender strategy pair. The interpretation unit is configured to determine, on the basis of the game balance, an optimum attack solution, as well as an optimum defense solution that is best suited to the optimum attack solution.
US11276321B2
The present invention provides a method and system for training a user to use a complete sentence as a search query in a site level engine search. The user enters a keyword or partial keyword as a search query, then a list of sentences is found from a search history or online sources. The found sentences containing the keyword or partial keyword can be ordered by popularity of search and presented to the user along with a recommendation to use a sentence similar to a spoken sentence as a search query in order to obtain more accurate and detailed results.
US11276317B2
The System for Career Technical Education includes an education center that is interconnected through a server. Multiple user interface apparatuses communicate with the server through a data communication network. A computer database is connected to the server that stores gathered data from multiple users. A Learn phase module in which the education center presents online videos to the multiple user interface apparatuses via the data communication network to teach skills to the multiple users. An Apply phase module in which the education center enables the multiple users to apply the skills. A Create phase module in which the education center enables the multiple users to use the taught-and-applied skills to create a virtual reality experience within the server as proof of the user's mastery of the taught-and-applied skills. A certifying agency system connected to the server receives the proof of the user's mastery of the skills from the education center.
US11276316B1
A computer system configured to use train telematics data to reduce risk of accidents via a mobile device traveling within a vehicle may be provided. The mobile device may be configured to (1) receive train telematics data associated with a train that includes GPS location, speed, route, heading, acceleration, and/or track data; (2) determine when, or a time period of when, the train will pass through, be passing through, or be within a predetermined distance of a railroad crossing based upon the train telematics data; (3) determine an alternate route for the vehicle to take to avoid waiting at the railroad crossing; and (4) cause display of the alternate route on a display of the mobile device or a vehicle navigation system to allow the train to pass and to avoid train-vehicle collisions. Insurance discounts may be generated based upon the risk mitigation or prevention functionality.
US11276315B1
An electric aircraft configured to implement a layered data network is provided. The electric aircraft generally includes a first communication component, a second communication component and a third communication component. The first communication component is configured to communicate with a first layer providing radio communication between the electric aircraft and at least a first party at a first bandwidth. The second communication component is configured to communicate with a second layer providing mobile network communication between the electric aircraft and at least a second party at a second bandwidth. The third communication component is configured to communicate with a third layer providing satellite communication between the electric aircraft and at least a third party at a third bandwidth. A method to implement a layered data network in an electric aircraft is also provided.
US11276312B2
A vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle control method, and a program that can curb unnecessary driving control are provided. The vehicle control apparatus includes a pedestrian recognition unit configured to recognize a crossing pedestrian crossing a road on which a vehicle travels, a space recognition unit configured to recognize whether there is a space having a predetermined width or more between a lane on which the vehicle travels and an oncoming lane, and a driving control unit configured to execute avoidance support for avoiding contact between the vehicle and the crossing pedestrian recognized by the pedestrian recognition unit based on a behavior of the crossing pedestrian and a behavior of the vehicle, in which the driving control unit is configured to determine whether the crossing pedestrian recognized by the pedestrian recognition unit is moving from the oncoming lane side to a space recognized by the space recognition unit, and curb the avoidance support upon determination that the crossing pedestrian is moving to the space.
US11276308B2
Systems and methods for using radio frequency signals and sensors to monitor environments (e.g., indoor building and adjacent outdoor environments) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system for providing a wireless asymmetric network comprises a hub having one or more processing units and at least one antenna for transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) communications in the wireless asymmetric network and a plurality of sensor nodes each having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional RF communications with the hub in the wireless asymmetric network. The one or more processing units of the hub are configured to determine localization of the plurality of sensor nodes within the wireless asymmetric network, to monitor loading zones and adjacent regions within a building based on receiving information from at least two sensor nodes, and to determine for each loading zone whether a vehicle currently occupies the loading zone.
US11276307B2
Location information associated with a parking area is received. Information about a plurality of vehicles parked in the parking area is determined. A first space located between a first parked vehicle and a first non-movable object located in front of the first parked vehicle is determined. The first space is comprised of a first required space and a first non-required space. A second space located between the first parked vehicle and a second non-movable object located behind the first parked vehicle is determined. The second space is comprised of a second required space and a second non-required space. Responsive to determining that the first non-required space is greater than the second non-required space, the first parked vehicle is moved towards the first space. After moving the first parked vehicle, the first space is equivalent to the first required space.
US11276305B2
A system for predicting a road surface friction coefficient includes an external information acquisition part, a tire information acquisition part, and a friction coefficient prediction part. The external information acquisition part configured to acquire external information on a disturbance factor that affects a condition of a road surface on which a target vehicle travels. The tire information acquisition part configured to acquire tire information indicating a condition of a tire of the target vehicle. The friction coefficient prediction part configured to predict a friction coefficient between the tire and the road surface based on the tire information acquired by the tire information acquisition part and the external information acquired by the external information acquisition part. The friction coefficient prediction part predicts a friction coefficient of a road surface ahead of the target vehicle in a traveling direction.
US11276300B2
The present invention provides a method for learning latest data considering external influences in an early warning system, and the early warning system for same. The method for learning latest data considering external influences comprises the steps of: an early warning processing device categorizing device monitored variables according to external influences; and the early warning processing device differently applying a pattern learning method for each of the categorized monitored variables.
US11276290B2
In an example method, a mobile device obtains a signal indicating an acceleration measured by a sensor over a time period. The mobile device determines an impact experienced by the user based on the signal. The mobile device also determines, based on the signal, one or more first motion characteristics of the user during a time prior to the impact, and one or more second motion characteristics of the user during a time after the impact. The mobile device determines that the user has fallen based on the impact, the one or more first motion characteristics of the user, and the one or more second motion characteristics of the user, and in response, generates a notification indicating that the user has fallen.
US11276289B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for implementing intelligent seating for wellness monitoring. A system obtains data from a first sensor integrated in an intelligent seating apparatus at a property. The first data indicates a potential abnormal condition of a person at the property. The system determines that the person has an abnormal condition based on the first data corresponding to the person having used the seating apparatus. Based on the abnormal condition, the system provides an indication to a client device of the person to prompt the person to adjust their use of the seating apparatus. The system also obtains visual indications of the abnormal condition, determines the type of abnormal condition afflicting the person, and determines a wellness command with instructions for alleviating the abnormal condition. The wellness command is provided for display on the client device.
US11276276B2
An electronic gaming machine with a plurality of separate payment acceptors to keep funds received for different betting purposes separate.
US11276273B1
Processor-based systems and methods of recommending to a user which lottery ticket to play. Example embodiments of the methods include receiving a game structure, receiving an updated data, receiving a user risk/reward profile, determining a recommended lottery ticket for a user to play, and communicating the recommended lottery ticket to the user through a user interface. Example embodiments of lottery scratch ticket applications include a processor-based device executing an application that recommends which lottery ticket to play based on the game structure, updated data about the game and the user risk/reward profile of the user.
US11276265B2
A modular ATM system is disclosed herein and can include a safe with a first port, at least one currency cassette and dispenser both positioned in the safe, a recycler, and a plurality of linking transport assemblies. The dispenser can move banknotes between the cassette and the first port. The recycler can be positioned on the safe, have second and third ports, and move banknotes between the second and third ports. The recycler can be positionable in a plurality of different orientations and offsets relative to the safe. The plurality of linking transport assemblies can each be individually engageable with the recycler. Each of the linking transport assembly moves banknotes between the first port of the safe and the second port of the recycler. Each linking transport assembly is individually positionable between the safe and the recycler.
US11276262B2
A voting system comprises a ballot tabulation device that tabulates each of a plurality of paper ballots by determining one or more contest selections marked on the paper ballot and storing the contest selections within a cast vote record (CVR) for the paper ballot. One or more of the paper ballots comprises a provisional ballot on which is printed an identification code that represents or is associated with a voter code assigned to a voter who cast the provisional ballot. During the tabulation process, a direct or indirect link is provided between the CVR and the voter code for the provisional ballot. The voting system also comprises an election management system that identifies the CVR associated with each of one or more inputted voter codes, i.e., the voter codes assigned to voters who have had a change in eligibility status, and updates the total vote count to include or exclude the contest selections stored within that CVR as applicable. Preferably, the election management system is configured to prevent a user from accessing the contest selections stored in the CVR for the provisional ballot based on the voter code. For audit purposes, a ballot code may also be printed on each paper ballot, wherein the ballot code may optionally serve as the identification code for a provisional ballot.
US11276248B2
A mixed reality system is disclosed that displays 3D content in a container referred to as a “prism,” and also displays a related content item, such as an interactive menu for interacting with the 3D content. To maintain the content item accessible to the user, the system repositions the content item relative to the prism as the user moves relative to the prism. For example, in the context of an annotation toolbar, the system may move the toolbar from one surface of the prism to another in response to the user walking around the prism, entering the prism, or changing a head pose in the prism. In some embodiments, the content item is displayed in a reserved region in which the 3D content is not displayable, such that the 3D content does not interfere with the user's ability to view and access the content item.
US11276242B2
An application for use with a mobile computing device is described that enables group members of a group activity to view the positions of each member in one or more formations for the group activity. The application enables the user to select a formation for viewing and practicing in any location, whether indoors or outdoors and with or without other group members of the group activity. The application allows the user to toggle between a top-down view and an augmented reality view. The augmented reality view enables a user to view graphical indicators of each position of the user, whereby the graphical indicators are superimposed on a user's computing device in the real user environment. The augmented reality view provides a user with a better understanding of his or her positions in a real-world environment.
US11276236B1
An extended reality (XR) system includes an extended reality application executing on a processor within the XR system. The XR system receives, via a client device, a selection of a first extended reality (XR) object located within an XR environment. The XR system receives, via the client device, a request to move the selected first XR object within the XR environment. The XR system calculates a distance between a first feature of the first XR object and a first plane associated with a second XR object within the XR environment. The XR system determines that the distance is within a particular distance. In response to determining that the distance is within the particular distance, the XR system positions the first feature within the XR environment such that the first feature is coplanar with the first plane.
US11276233B2
A graphics system has a rendering space divided into a plurality of rectangular areas, each being sub-divided into a plurality of smaller rectangular areas of a plurality of pixels. Data is received representing a tiled set of polygons to be rendered in a selected one of the rectangular areas. For each polygon, a determination is made whether that polygon is located at least partially inside a selected one of the smaller rectangular areas in the selected rectangular area. If so, which pixels of the plurality of pixels in the selected smaller rectangular area are inside the polygon are identified. Or, if that polygon is not located at least partially inside the selected smaller rectangular area, no further processing of the polygon is performed at one or more of the plurality of pixels in the smaller rectangular area.
US11276227B2
This application discloses an object rendering method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes obtaining a target pixel point to be processed in a diffuse map and a normal map of a to-be-rendered object; determining a first rendering color of the target pixel point according to a pre-integration simulation module and a normal direction parameter corresponding to the target pixel point, the pre-integration simulation module being configured to simulate a pre-integration map, the pre-integration map representing a correspondence between curvature and a color band, and the normal direction parameter representing a normal direction of the target pixel point in a world space coordinate system; determining a target rendering color of the target pixel point according to the first rendering color; and rendering the target pixel point by using the target rendering color.
US11276223B2
Described herein is a merged data path unit that has elements that are configurable to switch between different instruction types. The merged data path unit is a pipelined unit that has multiple stages. Between different stages lie multiplexor layers that are configurable to route data from functional blocks of a prior stage to a subsequent stage. The manner in which the multiplexor layers are configured for a particular stage is based on the instruction type executed at that stage. In some implementations, the functional blocks in different stages are also configurable by the control unit to change the operations performed. Further, in some implementations, the control unit has sideband storage that stores data that “skips stages.” An example of a merged data path used for performing a ray-triangle intersection test and a ray-box intersection test is also described herein.
US11276221B1
Creating an animated pictogram includes: generating a set of images depicting a weather forecast for a first location at different times according to a set of depiction rules and combining the set of images in chronological order according to a set of transition rules.
US11276219B2
Various examples of cross-application systems and methods for authoring, transferring, and evaluating rigging control systems for virtual characters are disclosed. A first application, which implements a first rigging control protocol, can provide an input associated with a request for a behavior from the rig for the virtual character. The input can be converted to be compatible with a second rigging control protocol that is different from the first rigging control protocol. One or more control systems can be evaluated based on the input to determine an output to provide the requested behavior from the virtual character rig. The one or more control systems can be defined according to the second rigging control protocol. The output can be converted to be compatible with the first rigging control protocol and provided to the first application to manipulate the virtual character according to the requested behavior.
US11276216B2
Systems and methods for generating a customized virtual animal character are disclosed. A system may obtain video data or other media depicting a real animal, and then may provide the obtained media to one or more machine learning models configured to learn visual appearance and behavior information regarding the particular animal depicted in the video or other media. The system may then generate a custom visual appearance model and a custom behavior model corresponding to the real animal, which may subsequently be used to render, within a virtual environment of a video game, a virtual animal character that resembles the real animal in appearance and in-game behavior.
US11276212B2
Conservative rasterization hardware comprises hardware logic arranged to perform an edge test calculation for each edge of a primitive and for each corner of each pixel in a microtile. Outer coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an OR gate. Inner coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an AND gate. An overall outer coverage result for the pixel and the primitive is calculated by combining the outer coverage results for the pixel and each of the edges of the primitive in an AND gate. The overall inner coverage result for the pixel is calculated in a similar manner.
US11276210B2
The purpose of the present invention is to correct more accurate marketing information. A flow line display system of the present invention includes image-capturing unit, information operation device and display unit. The image-capturing unit captures an image. The information operation device detects an object from the image and identifies a flow line of the object, an orientation of the object, and a time related to the orientation. The display unit displays the orientation of the object and the time related to the orientation together with the flow line of the object.
US11276205B2
An image processing apparatus performs, in a case where an image targeted for processing is rotated, predetermined compression processing on a predetermined block targeted for processing by referring to a block which differs according to a rotational angle. Then, the image processing apparatus performs predetermined decompression processing on compressed data corresponding to the predetermined block by referring to a block referred to in the predetermined compression processing performed on the predetermined block.
US11276204B1
Described herein are computer-implemented methods for compressing sparse multidimensional ordered series data. In particular, these methods and apparatuses for performing them (including software) may be particularly well suited to efficiently compressing spectrographic data.
US11276201B1
Determining the position and orientation (or “pose”) of an augmented reality device includes capturing an image of a scene having a number of features and extracting descriptors of features of the scene represented in the image. The descriptors are matched to landmarks in a 3D model of the scene to generate sets of matches between the descriptors and the landmarks. Estimated poses are determined from at least some of the sets of matches between the descriptors and the landmarks. Estimated poses having deviations from an observed location measurement that are greater than a threshold value may be eliminated. Features used in the determination of estimated poses may also be weighted by the inverse of the distance between the feature and the device, so that closer features are accorded more weight.
US11276194B2
Provided are a method and a device that can efficiently generate a training dataset. Object information is associated with a visual marker, a training dataset generation jig that is configured from a base part and a marker is used, said base part being provided with an area that serves as a guide for positioning a target object and said marker being fixed on the base part, the target object is positioned using the area as a guide and in this condition an image group of the entire object including the marker is acquired, the object information that was associated with the visual marker is acquired from the acquired image group, a reconfigured image group is generated from this image group by performing a concealment process on a region corresponding to the visual marker or the training dataset generation jig, a bounding box is set in the reconfigured image group on the basis of the acquired object information, information relating to the bounding box, the object information, and estimated target object position information and posture information are associated with a captured image, and a training dataset for performing object recognition and position/posture estimation for the target object is generated.
US11276189B2
Disclosed are techniques for radar-aided single-image three-dimensional (3D) depth reconstruction. In an aspect, at least one processor of an on-board computer of an ego vehicle receives, from a radar sensor of the ego vehicle, at least one radar image of an environment of the ego vehicle, receives, from a camera sensor of the ego vehicle, at least one camera image of the environment of the ego vehicle, and generates, using a convolutional neural network (CNN), a depth image of the environment of the ego vehicle based on the at least one radar image and the at least one camera image.
US11276181B2
Systems and methods designed to detect a human being falling as opposed to an inanimate object. Generally, the systems and methods will utilize a depth camera, which will often image in the NIR spectrum to detect a falling object. The portion detected as a falling object will often be detected as separating from a point cloud indicative of one object in contact with another. Should such a separation be detected, the systems and methods will utilize a thermal sensor, often a camera imaging in the LWIR spectrum, to determine if the falling portion has a heat signature indicative of a human being.
US11276180B1
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for selecting encoding parameters for an electronic device. For instance, remote system(s) may receive, from the electronic device, video data representing a video. The remote system(s) may then analyze the video data to identify portions of the video that represented different areas located within the field of view (FOV) of the electronic device. The areas may include static areas, which do not include recurring motion, and/or dynamic areas, which include recurring motion. Additionally, the remote system(s) may analyze the video data to select encoding parameters for encoding the video data and/or for encoding the portions of the video data that represent the identified areas. The electronic device may then receive the encoding parameters from the remote system(s) and use the encoding parameters to encode additional video data that is generated by the electronic device.
US11276179B2
Techniques for determining predictions on a top-down representation of an environment based on object movement are discussed herein. Sensors of a first vehicle (such as an autonomous vehicle) may capture sensor data of an environment, which may include object(s) separate from the first vehicle (e.g., a vehicle, a pedestrian, a bicycle). A multi-channel image representing a top-down view of the object(s) and the environment may be generated based in part on the sensor data. Environmental data (object extents, velocities, lane positions, crosswalks, etc.) may also be encoded in the image. Multiple images may be generated representing the environment over time and input into a prediction system configured to output a trajectory template (e.g., general intent for future movement) and a predicted trajectory (e.g., more accurate predicted movement) associated with each object. The prediction system may include a machine learned model configured to output the trajectory template(s) and the predicted trajector(ies).
US11276173B1
A system and method for predicting a lung cancer risk based on a chest X-ray in which a nodule is detected in a chest of a patient based on an analysis of the chest X-ray using an image processing technique. A region of interest associated with the nodule is identified using the image processing technique. The region of interest is further analyzed using deep learning to determine a plurality of characteristics associated with the nodule. The plurality of characteristics comprises a size of the nodule, a calcification in the nodule, a homogeneity of the nodule and a spiculation of the nodule. Further, the plurality of characteristics is compared with a trained data model using deep learning. Based on the comparison, a risk score associated with the nodule is generated. Further, the lung cancer risk is predicted when the risk score exceeds a predefined threshold value.
US11276165B2
A method and a system for training a deep learning model to obtain histopathological information from images.
US11276161B2
Methods and systems for generating a reference image for use in a process performed for a specimen are provided. One system includes a virtual system configured to receive output generated by actual systems for specimens, each of which has device areas of the same type formed thereon. The virtual system is configured for identifying defective portions of the device areas based on the output generated for the specimens by at least two of the actual systems and eliminating the defective portions of the device areas from the device areas in which the defective portions were identified to thereby generate remaining portions of the device areas. In addition, the virtual system is configured for generating a reference image from the output generated for the remaining portions of at least one device area on a first of the specimens and at least one device area on a second of the specimens.
US11276158B2
A method and an apparatus for inspecting a corrosion defect of a ladle are provided. The method includes: acquiring images from various angles using an image acquisition apparatus inside a to-be-inspected ladle; and inputting the acquired images into a defect inspection system to obtain a label representing a defect category, the defect inspection system including: a deep convolutional neural network that predicts a category of a corrosion defect of the ladle included in the images based on the input images. This method has the advantages of high safety, high accuracy and high real-time performance in inspecting the ladle status.
US11276154B2
A method includes capturing a plurality of first images using a first image sensor and a plurality of second images using a second image sensor. The method also includes generating a short single view, short depth map, long single view, and long depth map from the first and second images. The method further includes generating a multi-frame depth map using the short single view, short depth map, long single view, and long depth map. The method also includes generating a gain map using the multi-frame depth map and lighting conditions, where the lighting conditions introduce a relighting effect into the gain map. The method further includes generating a relit short single view and a relit long single view by applying the gain map to the short and long single views. In addition, the method includes generating a relit image by fusing the relit short and long single views.
US11276152B2
Systems and methods may be provided that improve the application of Histogram Equalization (HE) transfer functions for converting image system source data to display compatible image frames. Histograms developed from source data may be measured and depending on their properties, the gain of the HE transfer function may be adaptively adjusted. In some embodiments the property measured is a histogram width.
US11276149B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for non-local means denoising of images. For example, methods may include receiving an image from an image sensor; determining a set of non-local means weights for the image; applying the set of non-local means weights to the image to obtain a first denoised image; applying the set of non-local means weights to the first denoised image to obtain a second denoised image; and storing, displaying, or transmitting an output image based on the second denoised image.
US11276143B2
In various implementations, a method includes obtaining a first frame that is characterized by a first resolution associated with a first memory allocation. In some implementations, the method includes down-converting the first frame from the first resolution to a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution initially defining the first frame in order to produce a reference frame. In some implementations, the second resolution is associated with a second memory allocation that is less than a target memory allocation derived from the first memory allocation. In some implementations, the method includes storing the reference frame in a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining a second frame that is characterized by the first resolution. In some implementations, the method includes performing an error correction operation on the second frame based on the reference frame stored in the non-transitory memory.
US11276140B2
Computer implemented method for digital image data, digital video data or digital audio data enhancement, and a computer implemented method for encoding or decoding this data in particular for transmission or storage, wherein an element representing a part of said digital data comprises an indication of a position of the element in an ordered input data of a plurality of data elements, wherein a plurality of elements is transformed to a representation depending on an invertible linear mapping, wherein the invertible linear mapping maps the input of the plurality of elements to the representation, wherein the invertible linear mapping comprises at least one autoregressive convolution.
US11276138B2
Systems, devices, and techniques are generally described to transmit image data. An image file including image data may be identified. The image data may be divided into a plurality of portions. The plurality of portions may include a first portion corresponding to a first position in the image data and a second portion corresponding to a second position in the image data. The image data may be modified to produce a shuffled image. The shuffled image may indicate that the first portion corresponds to a third position and the second portion corresponds to a fourth position. The shuffled image may be sent to a recipient computing device. The recipient computing device may render the first portion at the first position and the second portion at the second position to display the image data.
US11276135B2
Techniques for improving data transfer in a system having multiple accelerated processing devices (“APDs”) are described herein. In such a system, multiple APDs are coupled to a processor (e.g., a central processing unit (“CPU”)) via a general interconnect fabric and to each other via a high speed interconnect. The techniques herein increase the effective bandwidth for transfer of data between the CPU and the APD by transmitting data to both APDs through the portion of the interconnect fabric coupled to each respective APD. Then, one of the APDs transfers data to the other APD or to the processor via the high speed inter-APD interconnect. Although data transferred “indirectly” through the helper APD takes slightly more time to be transferred than a direct transfer, the total effective bandwidth to the target is increased due to the high-speed inter-APD interconnect.
US11276120B2
Systems and methods for matching subscribers with subscription providers include gathering, via a network from one or more remote computing systems, claims data, performance data, and service data regarding a number of providers; determining, by processing circuitry of a computing device based on the claims data, the performance data, and the p service data, one or more provider metrics for each provider of the number of providers; calculating, by the processing circuitry based on the one or more provider metrics, one or more relationships between a number of subscribers and each provider of the plurality of providers; and ranking, by the processing circuitry, the number of providers based at least on part on the one or more relationships.
US11276117B2
Operations include generating proposals for accounts payable and accounts receivable netting across multiple trading partners. A netting proposal system uses a machine learning model to generate netting proposals that are likely to be approved by the respective trading partners. The netting proposal system identifies characteristics of attributes of previously accepted netting proposals. Candidate attributes, with the same characteristics of attributes of previously accepted netting proposals, are selected for a new netting proposal. The netting proposal system further identifies characteristics of attributes of previously rejected netting proposals. Candidate attributes, without the same characteristics of attributes of previously rejected netting proposals, are selected for the new netting proposal. Furthermore, candidate attributes, with the same characteristics of attributes of previously rejected netting proposals, are not selected for the new netting proposal.
US11276112B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for predicting a transaction time based on user position data. In certain aspects, a method for predicting a transaction time based on user position data includes obtaining a transaction record and one or more user positions associated with a user. The method also includes obtaining one or more business records associated with each respective user position. The method further includes calculating one or more similarity scores, where each similarity score is based on a similarity between a respective business record and the transaction record. The method also includes associating the transaction record with a business record based on a maximum similarity score of the one or more similarity scores. The method further includes determining a predicted transaction time for the transaction record based on at least a timestamp of a user position associated with the business record associated with the transaction record.
US11276094B2
A server: receives from at least one provider system, at least one provider object that includes provider object data representing at least one item provided by the provider system(s); generates an intermediation object, corresponding to the at least one provider object, including an intermediation object identifier that identifies the intermediation object and intermediation object data populated with at least a subset of the provider object data, the intermediation object and the intermediation object identifier omitting: the provider object data, and any provider object identifier in an original form; and provides the intermediation object, in place of the at least one provider object, to a client device that requested the at least one item, the intermediation object provided. The intermediation object identifier may enable the server to intermediate between the client device and the provider system(s) without storing the provider object and/or any provider object identifier.
US11276083B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for converting mobile notifications to content using a local content exchange. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request for content from a mobile application; querying a data store of available content, the data store of available content populated with one or more notifications received by other mobile applications installed on the mobile device; identifying a responsive notification for the request for content based on the querying, the content item identified based on bid parameters associated with the one or more notifications; and transmitting the responsive notification to the mobile application.
US11276081B1
Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for performing targeted advertising of a product. A processor may identify a consumer demography of potential consumers for an advertising campaign of a product. The processer may identify an inventory node map of the product. The processor may analyze the consumer demography and node map to identify a geographical collection of consumers for the advertising campaign according to an inventory availability relative to the consumer demography. The processor may determine relative expenses and a risk of inventory outages associated with order fulfillments of the product from the node map to form a fulfillment assessment map. The processor may update the geographical collection of consumers according to an optimizing profit and minimizing inventory outages criteria derived from adjusting the inventory availability and inventory location using the fulfillment assessment map. The processor may target adverting based on the updated geographical collection of consumers.
US11276077B2
A system may generate a first transaction history from a plurality of records of charge. The system may select a plurality of merchants based on the plurality of records of charge, and generate a first user profile in response to the first transaction history and the plurality of merchants. The first user profile may comprise a merchant score for a merchant appearing in the first transaction history. The first transaction history may include transaction account issuer data. The system may receive a request for content that identifies a user account associated with the first user profile. The system may further generate the content based on the merchant score in response to the request for the content. The request may be automatically generated by the application or may be in response to an action by the first user.
US11276073B2
An example apparatus includes a matrix processor in circuit with a probability generator to determine a first matrix representative of element-wise multiplication between a constraint matrix and a first transpose matrix of the estimated demographic impression distribution, the constraint matrix based on the reference demographic impression distribution and determine a second matrix by multiplying the first matrix with a second transpose matrix of the constraint matrix. The apparatus further includes an error determiner in circuit with the matrix processor, the error determiner to determine an error indicator value based on the second matrix, the error indicator value indicative of an error associated with the estimated demographic impression distribution, and a probability generator to generate, in response to the error indicator value satisfying a threshold, an accuracy-improved demographic impression distribution.
US11276069B2
A payment processing method comprises: receiving, by a transaction platform, a payment request, wherein the payment request indicates that a protocol payment is performed for a current payment using a third-party payment account; initiating, by the transaction platform, if the third-party payment account is determined as having a risk, a security verification request to a third-party payment service party, to trigger the third-party payment service party to execute a security verification for the current payment to generate a security verification result; obtaining, by the transaction platform, the security verification result from the third-party payment service party; and executing, by the transaction platform, a current payment process for the current payment according to the security verification result. The risk is reduced in the payment process by an identity verification of a third-party payment service to ensure payment security and improve payment experience.
US11276068B2
Techniques for identifying fraudulent transactions are described. In one example method, an operation sequence and time difference information associated with a transaction are identified by a server. A probability that the transaction is a fraudulent transaction is predicted based on a result provided by a deep learning network, where the deep learning network is trained to predict fraudulent transactions based on operation sequences and time differences associated with a plurality of transaction samples, and where the deep learning network provides the result in response to input including the operation sequence and the time difference information associated with the transaction.
US11276066B2
A computer-implemented method of providing enriched transaction data for a transaction requiring an authorization is provided, the transaction performed using a computer system having a processor and a memory device. The method includes storing transaction data received from an input channel, the transaction data including a transaction identifier. An execution plan is retrieved based at least in part on the transaction identifier. The transaction data is processed across an enrichment processor based on the execution plan to generate at least one fraud score for the transaction. The transaction data is enriched to include at least one of the fraud score and an enriched data object. The enriched data is transmitted to an authorizing party for authorization.
US11276061B2
This disclosure relates to methods and systems for automatically securing and validating multi-server electronic communications over a plurality of networks, without requiring additional physical or programmatic infrastructure on the intermediary servers. A processor-executable component can be transmitted from a first server to a compute device, where it generates a pair of asymmetric cryptographic parameters. The first server uses one of those parameters to verify subsequent communications from the component and respond with tagged privacy communication strings, which the component can provide to a second server as part of a secure communication exchange. The first server can then receive secure communication exchange approval request from a third server and analyze the request to determine a validity metric. If the validity metric meets a specified threshold, the first server transmits a validation of the secure communication exchange approval request to verify and complete a secure data exchange between the compute device and the second server.
US11276053B2
Provided is an information processing system including: a detection means for detecting a position of a customer, a product, or a carrier used for carrying the product; an acquisition means for acquiring identification information from the product; a determination means for determining whether or not a position detected by the detection means is a position that enables acquisition of the identification information; and a notification information generation means for, when it is determined that the position detected by the detection means is not a position that enables acquisition of the identification information, generating notification information used for providing a notification to the customer.
US11276042B2
A secure electronic system for storing and managing receipt and releasing of electronic documents, such as cryptocurrencies, digital currencies, tokens, and smart contracts, includes a platform server, a secure computer, and a non-IP protocol for communication between the secure computer and the platform server. The secure computer includes a plurality of cold memory modules and at least one hot memory module. The secure computer powers up and makes hot one or more of the plurality of the cold memory modules upon detecting and empty condition or a full condition. The secure computer includes a rate limiter that restricts releasing of hot electronic documents, such as cryptocurrencies, digital currencies, tokens, and smart contracts, stored in the at least one hot memory module. The non-IP protocol is known only to authorized administrators or operators of the secure electronic system. The secure computer provides access to the platform server only through the non-IP protocol.
US11276040B2
Embodiments provide a computer implemented method in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions, which are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement the method of identifying negative communications from a plurality of electronic communications, including: extracting a plurality of terms from the plurality of electronic communications, wherein the plurality of terms include subjects, action verbs, adjectives and business objects; identifying variations of each term and grouping the variations for each term to form a dictionary; generating a co-occurrence graph to illustrate relationships between different terms in the plurality of terms; assigning each term with an entity type; identifying a negative intent for each business object using the co-occurrence graph; providing one or more semantic rules, and identifying one or more negative communications having the negative intent based on the one or more semantic rules.
US11276033B2
Based upon the transition information for all the retail stores, a determination is made of an average cluster retention score. The average cluster retention score is a measure of how many retail stores have moved from original to different existing sales clusters in the current sales period. When the average cluster retention score is below a predetermined threshold, a complete re-organization of the existing sales clusters is performed. When the average cluster retention score is above the predetermined threshold, a determination is made as to whether each retail store should be re-classified.
US11276032B2
A system and method for intelligent classification for product pedigree identification are presented. A transactional block may be dynamically created for recording both pedigree information for one or more supply ingredients at a time of origin and one or more parameters relating to the one or more supply ingredients at each temporal event. One or more transactional blocks may be linked via a shared ledger according to the one or more supply ingredients and the one or more parameters.
US11276019B2
A task scheduling system that can be used to improve task assignment for multiple satellites, and thereby improve resource allocation in the execution of a task. In some implementations, configuration data for one or more satellites is obtained. Multiple objectives corresponding to a task to be performed using the satellites, and resource parameters associated with executing the task to be performed using the satellites are identified. A score for each objective included in the multiple objectives is computed by the terrestrial scheduler based on the resource parameters and the configuration data for the one or more satellites. The multiple objectives are assigned to one or more of the satellites. Instructions are provided to the one or more satellites that cause the one or more satellites to execute the task according to the assignment of the objectives to the one or more satellites.
US11276007B2
To clear a blindspot in the way business leaders, analysts and investors make decisions about capital investments in various businesses, the present inventors devised, among other things, business model classification, search, and analysis systems and methods. One exemplary system automatically classifies businesses based on quantitative and qualitative business data according to a 4-class framework that spans traditional industry boundaries. This classification is based on a combination of spending patterns, financial metrics, and language to identify each firm's business model. The resulting business model is then utilized in conjunction with additional financial and non-financial metrics, securities analysis, leading and lagging indicators, and/or industry comparison to produce a score which can be used to compare business performance within and across classifications to generate superior performance and mitigate risks for business leaders and investment managers.
US11276006B2
A system and method includes: implementing an intelligence and insights service; identifying an anomalous observation output by a data processing pipeline based on streams of data sourced from a subscriber to the intelligence and insights service; recursively inputting into a subset of the data processing pipeline of the intelligence and insights service a plurality of dimensions of the streams of data based on attributes of the anomalous observation; automatically identifying one or more driving factors causing the output of the anomalous observation based on an analysis within the subset of the data processing pipeline of plurality of dimensions of the streams of data; generating a story component based on a conversion of the one or more driving factors; and augmenting the story component to a pre-existing story relating to the anomalous observation that is provided to the subscriber via a user interface.
US11276004B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring a system are provided. The method includes: acquiring a series of historical status index data of a monitored system during at least one data collection period; introducing the series of historical status index data into a pre-trained recommended feature extraction model to perform a matching operation, to obtain a feature extraction algorithm matching the series of historical status index data as a recommended feature extraction algorithm; determining a normal value range of feature values obtained by performing feature extraction on the series of status index data of the monitored system according to the recommended feature extraction algorithm; and monitoring the monitored system according to the recommended feature extraction algorithm and the normal value range.
US11276002B2
Hybrid training of deep networks includes a multi-layer neural network. The training includes setting a current learning algorithm for the multi-layer neural network to a first learning algorithm. The training further includes iteratively applying training data to the neural network, determining a gradient for parameters of the neural network based on the applying of the training data, updating the parameters based on the current learning algorithm, and determining whether the current learning algorithm should be switched to a second learning algorithm based on the updating. The training further includes, in response to the determining that the current learning algorithm should be switched to a second learning algorithm, changing the current learning algorithm to the second learning algorithm and initializing a learning rate of the second learning algorithm based on the gradient and a step used by the first learning algorithm to update the parameters of the neural network.
US11275995B2
An individual ising device connected to common buses includes neuron circuits, a memory, and a router. The memory holds connection destination information per neuron circuit. An individual item of connection destination information includes first address information identifying one of a plurality of connection destination neuron circuits of a neuron circuit and second address information identifying a first ising device including at least one of the connection destination neuron circuits, the first and second address information being correlated. The router supplies, when an output signal of a connection destination neuron circuit changes and when the router receives the first address information identifying this connection destination neuron circuit via a bus, an update signal based on the changed output signal to one of the neuron circuits in accordance with the received first address information, the previously specified second address information identifying the first ising device, and the connection destination information.
US11275989B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for predicting wildfires on the basis of biophysical indicators and spatiotemporal properties. A method includes receiving a request for a wildfire prediction for at least one geographical area. At least one biophysical indicator is identified. Each biophysical indicator provides biophysical data for the at least one geographical area. The at least one biophysical indicator is provided to a long short term memory (LSTM) network. The LSTM network includes a convolutional neural network (CNN) for each of multiple LSTM units. Each LSTM unit and each CNN are associated with a historical time period in a time series. The LSTM is used to generate at least one prediction for wildfire risk for the at least one geographical area for an upcoming time period. The at least one prediction is provided responsive to the request.
US11275983B2
An RFID tag board includes a circuit board and a radiation member. The circuit board includes a dielectric substrate, a radiation conductor, a ground conductor, a connection conductor, a first electrode and a second electrode. The dielectric substrate includes a first surface, a second surface and a recess. The second surface is opposite to the first surface, and is a mounting surface to be mounted on an article. The radiation conductor is on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. The ground conductor is on the second surface of the dielectric substrate. The connection conductor electrically connects the radiation conductor and the ground conductor. The first electrode and the second electrode are in the recess. The radiation member is fixed to the first surface of the circuit board.
US11275981B2
An object with an icon thereon encodes a bit sequence. The icon comprises a plurality of concentric rings, each of the plurality of concentric rings is divided into a plurality of data sectors. Each of the plurality of data sectors is associated with a corresponding bit in the bit sequence, and each of the plurality of data sectors encodes the corresponding bit based on the presence or absence of a line segment in the sector. The plurality of concentric rings further comprises at least three anchor sectors on one or more of the plurality of concentric rings, the at least three anchor sectors comprise an anchor mark. The plurality of concentric rings further comprises one or more error correction sectors, each of the one or more error correction sectors encodes a corresponding error correction bit based on the presence or absence of a line segment in the error correction sector.
US11275979B2
In an embodiment, a note for use as currency is provided. The note includes a base material having a first surface and a second surface opposite first surface. The note further includes identifying indicators printed on the first surface and the second surface providing an indication of a type and value of the note. The note also includes a first unique identifier printed on the note and a second unique identifier on the note. The note further includes a removable cover applied over the second unique identifier on one of the first surface and the second surface of the note. The note also includes an opaque backing applied over the second identifier on the note, the opaque backing applied to a surface of the note opposite the surface of the removable cover.
US11275953B2
A scalable tracking system processes video of a space to track the positions of people within a space. The tracking system determines local coordinates for the people within frames of the video and then assigns these coordinates to time windows based on when the frames were received. The tracking system then combines or clusters certain local coordinates that have been assigned to the same time window to determine a combined coordinate for a person during that time window.
US11275940B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprise an analytic server, which provides a terrain segmentation and classification tool for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The server accurately segments and classifies terrain types in SAR imagery and automatically adapts to new radar sensors data. The server receives a first SAR imagery and trains an autoencoder based on the first SAR imagery to generate learned representations of the first SAR imagery. The server trains a classifier based on labeled data of the first SAR imagery data to recognize terrain types from the learned representations of the first SAR imagery. The server receives a terrain query for a second SAR imagery. The server translates the second imagery data into the first imagery data and classifies the second SAR imagery terrain types using the classifier trained for the first SAR imagery. By reusing the original classifier, the server improves system efficiency.
US11275936B2
A system for classification of scholastic works includes a computing device configured to receive a first scholastic work, identify an author and a category of the first scholastic work, determine at least a work theme by receiving theme training data, the theme training data including a plurality of entries, each entry including a training textual element and a correlated theme, training a theme classifier as a function of the training data, and determining the at least a work theme as a function of the plurality of textual elements and the theme classifier, calculate a reliability quantifier as a function of the at least a theme, the author, and the category, select the scholastic work as a function of the reliability quantifier, derive, from the scholastic work, at least a correlation between a diagnostic element and a practice, and store the at least a correlation in an expert database.
US11275926B2
Disclosed is face tracking method and device. The method includes: acquiring an initial facial image in a to-be-tracked picture; performing binarization processing on the initial facial image according to a standard range of color parameter and an actual value of the color parameter of each pixel in the initial facial image, to obtain a binarized facial image; acquiring a position of a preset organ in the binarized facial image; and acquiring a position of a final facial image according to the position of the preset organ and a position of the initial facial image.
US11275922B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a fingerprint identification apparatus, which has a smaller thickness and a better imaging effect at the same time. The fingerprint identification apparatus includes: a light path directing structure disposed between a display screen and an optical fingerprint sensor for directing a light signal that is obliquely incident on a finger above the display screen at a preset angle and reflected by the finger to the optical fingerprint sensor; and the optical fingerprint sensor disposed below the light path directing structure for detecting the received light signal.
US11275921B2
A piezoelectric panel speaker and an electronic apparatus including the same are disclosed. The piezoelectric panel speaker may include a piezoelectric panel including at least one hole and configured to vibrate, and a fingerprint sensor accommodated into the one hole and configured to sense biometric information.
US11275915B2
Implementations of the present specification recite DOI scanning-based information apparatuses, methods, and devices. In one implementation, a method includes: scanning, by a user device, a digital object identifier (DOI); based on scanning the DOI, obtaining service information encoded in the DOI; caching the service information within memory of the user device; generating a first service request based on the service information cached within the memory of the user device; sending the first service request to a service server; determining non-receipt of a service response from the service server within a predetermined time duration following the sending of the first service request; responsive to determining the non-receipt of the service response from the service server within the predetermined time duration, generating a second service request based on the service information cached within the memory of the user device; and sending the second service request to the service server.
US11275910B2
The present invention relates to a tag for identifying an object image, including: a feature changing module, including multiple light sources and changing intensity and a wavelength of the light source according to a feature signal; and a communication module, receiving a feature signal generated from the feature changing module, and sending an output signal related to the feature signal. The present invention further relates to a device for identifying an object image, including: a communication module, where the communication module receives a feature signal, where the feature signal includes a command or related information for controlling multiple light sources; a processing unit, where the processing unit receives the feature signal and an image signal from an image sensor, and generates an image identification result according to the image signal and the feature signal; and a storage module, used for storing the image identification result. The present invention can precisely identify an object and provide features related to the object to be identified without using a complex image identification algorithm or a technology for improving resolution of an image.
US11275906B2
Multiple natural language training text strings are obtained. For example, text portions may be randomly selected and converted into natural language text based on one or more randomly selected rules. A formatted training text string is generated for each natural language training text string, for example using a context-free grammar parser. The formatted training text strings are inputted to a machine learning model. For each formatted training text string, using the machine learning model, a natural language text string is generated. The natural language text string is associated with one of the natural language training text strings. One or more parameters of the machine learning model are adjusted based on one or more differences between at least one of the natural language text strings and its associated natural language training text string.
US11275905B2
When performing semantic search for related clinical concepts based on their semantic meaning, a semantic search engine framework employs a client web interface (12) (e.g., a browser) that receives keyword search information (14), and a web server (16) that communicates with a semantic analysis engine (18). A natural language processing (NLP) engine (server) (22) receives and stores clinical notes and information (24), extracts clinical concepts from the clinical notes and stores them in a NoSQL database (26). The NLP engine converts unstructured free text notes into structured actionable data. The semantic analysis engine analyses user-entered keywords, maps them to a UMLS concept, and identifies related concepts based on one or more relational knowledge sources. The web server searches for the related concept IDs in the NoSQL database and returns a list (28) of relevant notes and concepts for display to, and selection by, the user.
US11275896B2
A method includes determining, by an electronic device, a skill from a first natural language (NL) input. Upon successful determination of the skill, the first NL input is transmitted to a custom skill parser for determination of a skill intent. The custom skill parser is trained based on data including at least a custom training data set. Upon unsuccessful determination of the skill, the first NL input is transmitted to a generic parser for determination of a general intent of the first NL input.
US11275892B2
A method, system, and computer program product for using a natural language processor to find nodes in a span include providing a parse tree including a trigger node, a first target node connected to the trigger node by a first edge, and a second target node connected to the first target node by a second edge, wherein first trigger node includes a first attribute and a second attribute, and wherein the target node includes a third attribute and a fourth attribute. Further included are recording the first, second, third, and fourth attributes in a first tree table; creating a first consideration table from the first tree table, the first consideration table including the first, second, third, and fourth attributes; and evaluating the first target node to determine whether the first node belongs in a first span that includes the first trigger node.
US11275891B2
A collaborative content management system allows multiple users to access and modify collaborative documents. When audio data is recorded by or uploaded to the system, the audio data may be transcribed or summarized to improve accessibility and user efficiency. Text transcriptions are associated with portions of the audio data representative of the text, and users can search the text transcription and access the portions of the audio data corresponding to search queries for playback. An outline can be automatically generated based on a text transcription of audio data and embedded as a modifiable object within a collaborative document. The system associates hot words with actions to modify the collaborative document upon identifying the hot words in the audio data. Collaborative content management systems can also generate custom lexicons for users based on documents associated with the user for use in transcribing audio data, ensuring that text transcription is more accurate.
US11275886B2
A multi-bit flip-flop includes a first flip-flop, a second flip-flop, a first inverter, and a second inverter. The first flip-flop has a first driving capability. The second flip-flop has a second driving capability different from the first driving capability. The first inverter is configured to receive a first clock signal on a first clock pin, and is configured to generate a second clock signal inverted from the first clock signal. The second inverter is coupled to the first inverter, is configured to receive the second clock signal, and is configured to generate a third clock signal inverted from the second clock signal. The first flip-flop and the second flip-flop are configured to share at least the first clock pin.
US11275881B1
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for electronic design is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, using at least one processor, an electronic design having one or more unoptimized nets. Embodiments may further include applying a genetic algorithm to the electronic design, wherein the genetic algorithm includes a multi-stage routing analysis. A first stage analysis may apply a device-level global routing analysis, a second stage analysis may include an intra-row routing analysis, a third stage may include an inter-row routing analysis, and a fourth stage may include a post-routing optimization analysis. Embodiments may also include generating an optimized routing of the one or more unoptimized nets and displaying the optimized routing at a graphical user interface.
US11275879B2
A simulation method and a corresponding medium storing processor-executable code for detecting a high impedance net within an electronic circuit comprising a plurality of transistors is presented. The simulation method includes the step of connecting programmable resistors between two terminals of each transistor. Subsequently, voltage fluctuations are determined at the first terminals of a first group of transistors, where the voltage fluctuations are caused by connecting the programmable resistors. By connecting current sources with the first terminals of the first group of transistors, a potentially hazardous high impedance net may be detected within the electronic circuit.
US11275871B2
A method of modifying CAD documents is provided, the method including use of a CAD modifying application that enables a user to modify a plurality of CAD documents outside of a native CAD environment. In another embodiment, the application may be integrated into a native CAD environment. The method includes using the CAD modifying application to build a workflow environment from existing CAD files, configure parameters and components of the workflow environment according to desired modification, and generating the modified CAD documents by instructing the CAD modifying application to communicate with existing CAD software.
US11275860B2
A system and a method for verification of a source code are provided. There as many techniques available that can be used for verification of software codes, however, it is difficult to determine appropriate technique that can be utilized for verification of a given software code. In an embodiment, the system receives a source code encoded with one or more specifications to be verified. A static analysis of the source code is performed to identify program features of the source code. The program features may include, but are not limited to, multiple return paths, loops with an unstructured control flow, loops with arrays, short ranges and numerical loops. Based on the identification of the program features, verification techniques are applied to the source code for the verification. Each verification technique of the one or more verification techniques is applied for a predetermined period of time and in a predefined order.
US11275857B2
A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access scanned documents on the server. A scanning device may capture a digital image of a document. The port monitor uploads data for a scanned document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.
